by Kate Koronis | Mar 31, 2026 | Featured, Opinion
After years in coaching and training, I have noticed that successful mentors not only pick and choose students (they don’t take everyone who can pay), but they are also very strict with the criteria.
For a long time, I was trying my best to give everyone a chance, and I still do. Despite my sincere desire to help everyone, I had to admit: not everyone can be helped. Statistics show that whether you give the chance to everyone or to chosen ones.. the time will filter out people who are ready.
Firstly, it was a bit saddening. Sometimes even depressing. It took me time to understand that there are many called, and a few chosen. Chosen, like in the biblical parable, people filter themselves out by setting other priorities over time.
It takes people time to understand what priorities they have. And that is where a coach needs to have patience to let things happen.
I still believe that everyone should be given a chance, but at the same time, I put the system in place that will help those who are ready for the training to progress, and those who are not, discontinue.
Time will show whether students should be given mentorship or not. And there is no magic wand that will help you filter out people before they make a choice with their actions.
Going back to successful coaches and mentors who filter people before onboarding. It is one of the methods to influence training success metrics. At the same time, there is a risk of making a mistake and depriving people who deserve the assistance they need.
by Kate Koronis | Sep 7, 2025 | Thought
If I have taught 10 things in the last 2 years, then I have learned 1000 things.I keep being amazed by how much growth one can gain through teaching others.
by Kate Koronis | Jul 23, 2025 | Memoir
Do you know what discovery I have made?
I had some challenges!
For the last two years, I have been perfecting my 20-to-the-top training that helps people to become public figures from 0!
What was not working for me is that the training takes time.. like months and even more than a year. And I could not onboard people on it any time I wanted, because every step is connected with the previous one.
For example, you can’t run the YouTube channel successfully without understanding scripting.. You learn the basics of scripting in the section focusing on Social Media Content. You can’t record your course without understanding the problem solutions methodology, which is part of the Product Design course of the same program.. and it turned out to be a bottleneck for me, not allowing me to take in new students.
But now I have figured out: since any step is connected to another one, the program should run in a cycle.. so people can onboard at any stage.. For example, in September, we start book writing. Why not onboarding at this stage and learn the rest later?
Are you getting me? You can board with any new module every 2 or 3 months! I think this is genius, as usual 
by Kate Koronis | May 16, 2025 | Post
I come from a family with codependency dynamics. What it means: I tend to save.
I save people from their mistakes.
I save people from wasting time.
I save people from losing opportunities.
I save their business from perishing.
I save them from losing money.
I save, I worry too much about their success.
People who grew up in families where addicted people were usually adopting coping mechanisms to survive in an unhealthy environment. To keep your head above water, you have to fix the situation all the time.
This reaction to the circumstances is not a healthy one, because it doesn’t leave a choice to an addicted person to do what they please with their life. If they want to destroy their lives, they have to be free to do it. But.
But then the codependent family member comes and does not allow the addicted one to reach the bottom.
This way, people grow up and later try to save everyone outside of their family, too. It takes time to figure out that some people just don’t want your help.
In many cases, when people come to the coach, they are not ready for changes, they resist improvement, and they sabotage success.
As a person coming from a codependent relationship, I tend to forget that saving someone is a survival mechanism, it’s control. Sometimes you just have to let people destroy themselves. Even as a business coach, if this is what they want.
The art and experience of the coach is to allow them to do it. And I have learnt this art.
