Most coaching doesn’t look anything like Tony Robbins, so that’s an extreme and, as you stated manipulative example.

A coach should be able to discuss concrete outcomes when offering a coaching package, a retreat or online course. However, that’s only 50% of the equation. The coach can show up fully, provide everything they’ve promised and many clients will follow through, do the exercises, apply the concepts in their life, make changes and choices and be successful. But coaching is not a done for you proposition. Clients have to show up, do the work. If they don’t, the coach has already spent perhaps tens or hundreds of hours developing the resources, teaching the classes and we cannot make any client successful by ourselves. If this is an expectation a client comes in with, they are not the right fit for my practice.

It’s all about reasonable expectations…