Thursday, August 20, 2015

What Motivated Me to Write the last Review: My Story with the Quantum Success Coaching Academy

In my initial contact with the QSCA, before I joined it, I was very impressed with the QSCA's promotions, and won over by Christy's apparent warmth and apparent professionalism, as I assume that many people are. I joined the QSCA with the intention of setting up a successful coaching business, as the promotional videos promised that the program would help me to do.

And for the first two-and-a-third months of the program, I enjoyed it.

Each of the five modules contain seven classes that are spread out over the course of about two-and-a third-months, and for the duration of the first module, the teachings were fairly consistent. They contained the basics of coaching, and also taught the teachings of Abraham-Hicks, that says that if you really want something, you have to "bring yourself into emotional vibration with it" to get it, and if you do so, the Universe cannot not give it to you. No other efforts are necessary. At this point, I was exploring this novel philosophy, and I was enjoying the "coaching basics" that were being taught.

The problems started for me in the second module, where the QSCA suddenly reversed its message and started teaching that the only real way to achieve financial success is to take action and try to achieve success through your efforts. They said that using the Law of Attraction can only assist you in getting what you want, but cannot replace the need for you to put in lots of effort. This was a contradiction to what they had taught earlier, and it frustrated me, especially so, since they continued claiming that their teachings are consistent with the teachings of Abraham. This seemed intellectually shallow to me, and made me begin to wonder if they had ever really had any clear philosophy to begin with.

For me, this was the first crack in the iceberg. After this, I started to see in them inconsistency upon inconsistency. I discovered, from an inside source, that they hire new teachers from amongst their graduates to teach their program who had never, themselves, set up a coaching business. How can someone teach the business aspect of coaching, which is part of the curriculum, if they have never experienced it? To me this seemed like lack of integrity on the part of the QSCA.

The Business Building Module was also a major disappointment. My teacher did not sound like she really understood the script that she was reading (probably because she had never set up a coaching business). This wouldn't have been such a problem if, as the QSCA advertised, Christy had taught the Business Building Module, but she did not, and instead just gave us some old recordings of her teaching what she called "the first half of the business module" for us to listen to if we so chose. (See Item 9 in the previous post.)

As the course continued, it started becoming apparent to me that there weren't really any (or at least hardly any) people from the QSCA's hundreds of graduates who had gone on to create financially successful coaching businesses from what they had been taught. I was first queued onto this from talking with many graduates from the course, who all said that they were not making money (or, at least, hardly any money) with their life coaching, and that they didn't know anyone who had become a financially successful Law of Attraction Life Coach other than Christy and maybe one or two of her teachers.

Then I met another former QSCA student who I got to know well and trusted, and who had the following story: He had, at one point, inquired on the QSCA Facebook group about contacting financially successful graduates to interview them, and the only responses that he received from the Facebook group was that others in the group didn't know of anyone. So he asked Christy for some references of financially successful graduates, and she said that, for legal reasons, she couldn't reveal the names of such graduates. Undeterred, he asked someone else from the QSCA staff for the names of such graduates, and they forwarded his question to Christy, who said that if he continued to inquire about this question, he would be punished. Through the grapevine, I learned that there were other students, as well, who had asked the same question, and had gotten the same response.

This was shocking to me, as I had been part of other training courses that were happy to provide the names of financially successful graduates, which, as several online marketing and business experts told me, is standard practice for any legitimate professional training program to provide. Regarding the privacy of their graduates, the experts said that they simply ask for their permission, and it is virtually always given. I also checked with a lawyer about the QSCA's claim that they were legally bound to not give out the names of successful graduates, and he told me that was not true. If you look at the privacy policy on their website (http://quantumcoachingacademy.com/privacy.html), you will see that it says explicitly that they may do so: "However, we may disclose personal information about Visitors or Members ("Members" are defined on the privacy policy as people who have paid for their products, including students and graduates), or information regarding your use of the Services or Web sites accessible through our Services, for any reason if, in our sole discretion, we believe that it is reasonable to do so." It became apparent to me then that the QSCA was trying to hide the fact that they hadn't any (or hardly any) successful graduates. Since they advertise that their program will catapult their students to success, this, in my opinion, put them in the category of being a scam.

At this point, most of the remaining respect that I had for the QSCA started to fall apart. I began noticing how they were lacking in integrity in so many ways: in their program not being as advertised, in their claiming that the Law of Attraction helps one to get what one wants, and then contradicting that sentiment by using false pressure tactics to get people to buy their program (see Item 10 in the previous post), through soliciting testimonials from students less than half way through the program with the promise of a special free gift in return, (see Item 17 in the previous post), through hiding the fact that their teachers weren't necessarily successful coaches, and more, as I wrote in the longer review. I felt sickened by it. I knew that I needed to warn others of this deception, but I was afraid of the consequences, as the QSCA has said that they retain the right to kick students out of their program, or to revoke their certification, if they are no longer in "good standing" with the QSCA, and since I had paid for the program, and there were some benefits to being in it (for example, they refer free clients to their students) I did not want to be kicked out of the program against my will. After thinking about it though, I realized that not to warn others of this scam, when there is nothing else available on the internet to warn them of it, would be morally wrong, so, while it took some courage, I decided to go out on a limb and warn them. This is what brought me to write the last review. Please like it and share it on social networks, so that other people will be warned too.

Sincerely,
Joscelyn C.

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