How To Attract The Right Coaching Clients (Messaging Secrets)
I want to invite you on a journey beyond the surface-level marketing advice we so often hear. I often observe how many beautiful souls in the coaching space really struggle to communicate their work.
While many marketing experts tell you to “sell benefits, not features,” this advice often misses the crucial element of authentic alignment.
I get it; it is hard to put something that is not transactional or tangible in concrete words. Each client and their situation are so different that using something specific feels like we are excluding everyone else who you can potentially help.
But this is not entirely true, and I want to open your world to a new perspective so that you stop holding yourself back.
The thing that creates that resonance and connection is about emotions.
Often, telling a story about a specific client experience can still resonate with many because we get a familiar feeling (even if the circumstances and details may be different).
When it comes to describing what you do, especially describing your offers (let’s stick to those for the purpose of today’s point) – we tend to lead with what they get as a list of features. For example, weekly 1:1 sessions on Zoom or 5 days a week support via a private messenger app.
But those are so boring and dry. In fact, these things are kind of secondary to the desire to get more access to you (which is essentially what these features offer). So, to evoke that desire in the first place, we need to take a different approach.
Let me show you how to transform your offer’s features into soul-touching emotions while staying true to your energy (and Design).
I’ll use the example of one of my clients, who is an Energy Alignment Coach, but this framework applies to any heart-centered service.
So, imagine you are that coach describing your offer. Perhaps you mention:
– 90-minute deep-dive sessions
– Custom or regular energy readings
– Weekly voice message support
– Personalized alignment practices
These are your features. They’re important, but they don’t speak to the soul of your potential client. They don’t create that magnetic pull that makes someone think, “Yes, this is exactly what I’ve been searching for.”
The First Translation
Let’s transform these features into what they actually do for your client. This is where we start speaking to their experience:
Those 90-minute sessions become sacred spaces for deep understanding and breakthrough moments.
Your custom readings transform into personalized roadmaps for energy clearance.
Weekly voice messages evolve into consistent anchoring in their transformation journey.
Alignment practices become daily rituals of self-discovery and empowerment.
Those things already sound better; they describe what happens when clients work with you, but still not enough to sell.
Benefits That Breathe
The good news is that now, we’re getting closer to what your client truly seeks. This is where your offering starts to resonate with their desires:
– Finally, understanding their energy patterns and how to work with them, not against them
– Experiencing genuine clarity about their path forward
– Feeling supported and held throughout their transformation
– Creating sustainable changes that last beyond the coaching relationship
Sounds so much better, right? But here’s where most coaches stop. And this is precisely where the magic is waiting to unfold.
Touching Deep Emotions
This is where your message begins to sing to their soul. When we tap into the deep emotional landscape, we’re speaking to:
– The profound relief of finally feeling at home in their own energy
– The liberating joy of trusting their intuitive guidance
– The peaceful certainty that comes from living in alignment
– The empowering knowledge that they can navigate any energy shift
Creating Your Authentic Message
When you weave all these layers together while staying anchored in your authentic expression, something magical happens. Your marketing becomes a genuine reflection of the transformation you offer.
Instead of saying:
“I offer 90-minute energy alignment sessions with custom reports and ongoing support…”
You might express:
“Imagine stepping into a sacred space where you finally understand the language of your energy. Through our deep-dive sessions and personalized guidance, you’ll discover the profound relief of living in alignment with your true nature. No more fighting against yourself or feeling disconnected from your power. This is your journey to peaceful certainty and intuitive trust.”
A Note from My Heart to Yours
(And what your Human Design has to do with all this)
Remember, this isn’t about always following a rigid formula. It’s about finding the authentic way YOUR energy wants to express these transformations. Some of you will feel called to express this through stories, others through metaphors, and others through direct, grounded language.
The key is to stay connected to your own energy as you craft these messages. When you’re aligned, your perfect clients will feel it. They’ll recognize the resonance of truth in your words.
This is where I find having some Human Design insights about your energies can be extremely helpful. Inside Marketing Blueprint By Design™guides, I prepare for clients before our Visibility Castle Orientation call, I add so many juicy parts that are literally “littered” with the language for describing your work and your offers. The life theme, the channels, the dormant gates of your open centers. It is like a database for your inspiration.
But there is a key – you must choose the words and phrases that echo what you already know you are bringing to the table. You have to trust yourself and use your Blueprint to validate what wants to come out from within. And do not try to force whatever is in the report into your offers if you do not actually embody or practice it.
In our Design, we carry all energies. Some of them are more prominent at specific moments of our lives or even in specific areas. Some themes can be applicable to what you experience in your professional relationships and some only show in your romantic ones. That is my personal experience.
This is exactly why we cannot take something like a Human Design reading or a report that outlines all possible themes as a directive. This is where so many people fail; so many coaches get stuck, trying to “fit” into their type or explain their shortcomings by a certain channel or a gate.
I strongly disagree. Every part of the Design can be redefined in a way that feels empowering or explains a certain role you are here to play.
Personal insights: whether your Mind likes your Design or not is a very different conversation, as it can be rooted in so many aspects, bad and sometimes even good, but the truth is… it does not matter what you think of it. The mechanics of the energetic themes will play out regardless of your “choices.” I have already been burned by trying to control it, frankly. So, instead of controlling, I redefine those definitions so I can see beyond my Mind’s attitudes into the truth of why I was born the way I am.
Even though it required releasing so many beliefs and often was painful to face, this deep dive opened up a new level of confidence and empowerment by getting really grounded in this understanding of my role and how I am designed to experience this lifetime on Earth.
By the way, by deep dive, I did not mean learning the whole Human Design system, as many get so tempted to do. You do not need to do it at all. But mastering three top-level areas by self-awareness and observation over time is a game-changer!
Those three areas are:
- Your decision-making Authority
- Simply understanding the essence of your Energy Type
- And Profile Lines of your personality and subconscious traits and how they work together as your Human Design Profile (especially valuable for content creation and personal branding)
So, I think I gave you a very good outline of how you can start talking about your work and your offers in a way that conveys a much deeper emotion. When you give it a try, you will hopefully start noticing how different it feels when you communicate from this deep, aligned place.
This is just one piece of creating truly aligned marketing that honors your Design. If you’re ready to explore how to make all your marketing feel authentic and powerful, let’s connect for your Visibility Castle Orientation – click here.
Juliette Stapleton
Splenic Projector 1/3
YOUR VISIBILITY GUIDE
Juliette Stapleton is a Visibility Strategist for coaches and experts. She teaches how to attract clients online, creating your OWN marketing experience that feels good, easy and aligned with who you are and brings results.
Juliette has been featured in Forbes and several major business and marketing podcasts, like SocialChatter, 365Driven, Rising Tide, iHeart Radio, and Confident Live. She is an active contributor to world-leading online publications, such as Entrepreneur, Addicted2Success, Thrive Global, Good Men Project and many more.
She lives in Tallinn, Estonia.

