Best Damn Coach Podcast: Conversations for coaches, mentors, and service providers to grow a profitable coaching business

You finish a session. The client seemed engaged, the conversation felt good, but you genuinely can't tell if anything shifted.

Sound familiar?

In this episode, I break down 6 signs of transformation in coaching that have nothing to do with tears, breakthroughs, or big emotional moments. These are the quiet, observable shifts that tell you your coaching is actually working, plus the story of a client whose biggest transformation was realizing she didn't want her original goal at all.

What you'll learn:⁣

• Why the "big emotional breakthrough" you were trained to look for is the wrong thing to watch for⁣
• The shift in how clients tell their own story that signals real change⁣
• Two different kinds of silence in a session, and what each one means⁣
• Why a client pushing back on your advice can be a sign of progress, not resistance⁣
• The exact language shift that shows a client's identity is changing⁣
• What to do when none of these signs are showing up⁣

Connect with Me:⁣

• How To Get Clients (limited series podcast): amanda-walker.com/limitedseries⁣
• 10 Powerful Questions: amanda-walker.com/questions⁣
• Coaching Session Blueprint: amanda-walker.com/blueprint⁣
• Instagram: @awalkmyway

Welcome to Friday Coaching Clinic Episodes. These are LIVE coaching session snippets where you have the opportunity to learn as both client and coach. I encourage you to think about how you might coach through this topic as a coach or how this situation may support you as a client. A reminder about these episodes: This snippet is just one way of coaching through this topic. Each coach has their own unique voice, personality and confidence to best support their clients and I invite you to find yours.

This week: How to Stop Overwhelming Your Clients

For More Info Go To: https://amanda-walker.com/best-damn-coach/

One episode from my How to Get Clients limited series stands above the rest. Episode four has a 110% average consumption rate, which means coaches aren't just finishing it. They're rewinding it and playing it again. To celebrate one year of the series, I'm bringing that episode to the Best Damn Coach feed.

Every client you'll ever sign comes through one of three doors: you build an audience, you borrow one, or you buy one. In this episode, I break down all three so you can stop guessing where your next client is coming from.

In this episode you'll learn:

• The three ways to get clients (build, borrow, buy) and what each looks like in practice

• Why less than 3% of your followers see your social posts, while email reaches 25-35% of your list

• Who your "passionate voyeurs" are and why quiet engagement still converts

• How to vet a borrowed audience before you spend energy on it

• The hidden risk behind "30K in 30 days" ad promises

Binge the full How to Get Clients limited series: https://amanda-walker.com/limitedseries

Join the summer training series: https://amanda-walker.com/summer

Grab the series workbook: https://amanda-walker.com/workbook/

Grab my 10 Powerful Questions every coach should know: https://amanda-walker.com/questions

Connect with me on Instagram: @awalkmyway

Four hundred episodes in, and I'm finally ready to say the things I didn't have the guts (or the proof) to say back on episode one.

In this milestone episode, I'm breaking down six coaching business lessons that took me a decade to learn the hard way, so you don't have to.

What you'll learn:

• Why "build it, and they will come" is a lie, and what actually gets your offer in front of people

• The real reason you're not selling (hint: it's not your strategy)

• Why comparing your chapter three to someone else's chapter twenty is quietly killing your progress

• How the most patient coaches end up the most profitable

• Why your best marketing material is already sitting inside your client sessions

• The one habit that predicts how you'll handle every hard month in your business

Connect with me on Instagram: @awalkmyway https://www.instagram.com/awalkmyway/

Grab my free resource, 10 Powerful Questions: amanda-walker.com/questions

Welcome to Friday Coaching Clinic Episodes. These are LIVE coaching session snippets where you have the opportunity to learn as both client and coach. I encourage you to think about how you might coach through this topic as a coach or how this situation may support you as a client. A reminder about these episodes: This snippet is just one way of coaching through this topic. Each coach has their own unique voice, personality and confidence to best support their clients and I invite you to find yours.

This week: How to Rewire Self-Doubt Out of Your Business

For More Info Go To: https://amanda-walker.com/best-damn-coach/

Rachel DeSonier is a registered dietitian, certified personal trainer, and mom of 5 who went six months without a single sales call booked. Then she changed one thing: her messaging. In this episode, Rachel and I break down what that shift actually looked like, why "client acquisition" language was working against her, and how two premium clients booked within weeks of the change.

In this episode:

• Why changing your offer almost never fixes a client drought
• What activation language is and exactly where to find it in your own audience
• Why trying to hit every pain point in one email means you hit none of them
• How Rachel's podcast downloads climbed after she rewrote her episode titles
• How to know who your premium client actually is, instead of who you'll settle for

Connect with Rachel: https://www.effectivefitnessforwomen.com/

Podcast: Effective Weight Loss for Moms https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/effective-weight-loss-for-moms-high-protein-strength/id1723754440

Instagram: @effectivefitnessforwomen https://www.instagram.com/effectivefitnessforwomen/

Ready to do what Rachel did? Get access to the Premium Client Activator: http://amanda-walker.com/smallbite

Grab my 10 Powerful Questions: amanda-walker.com/questions http://amanda-walker.com/questions

Welcome to Friday Coaching Clinic Episodes. These are LIVE coaching session snippets where you have the opportunity to learn as both client and coach. I encourage you to think about how you might coach through this topic as a coach or how this situation may support you as a client. A reminder about these episodes: This snippet is just one way of coaching through this topic. Each coach has their own unique voice, personality and confidence to best support their clients and I invite you to find yours.

This week: How to Silence Self-Doubt and Take Action Toward Your Revenue Goal

For More Info Go To: https://amanda-walker.com/best-damn-coach/

Your clients are having wins right now. They're sending you messages. Sharing breakthroughs. Telling you things that stopped you in your tracks. But if you're not capturing and using those moments, you're leaving money on the table, and leaving future clients without the proof they need to say yes.

In this episode I will break down my complete system for using testimonials to drive sales in my coaching business: how to collect them, where to repurpose them, and the three-part framework that makes selling feel effortless.

In this episode, you'll learn:

• The three moments in every coaching container that are prime for testimonial collection
• Why messy, unpolished testimonials often convert better than perfectly designed graphics
• Where to place client results so they answer objections before buyers even have them
• The story-bridge-invite framework that lets client win do your selling for you
• How to ask for testimonials without it feeling awkward (and why clients almost always say yes)

Resources mentioned:

• 10 Powerful Questions Every Coach Should Know: https://amanda-walker.com/home/questions/
• Instagram: @awalkmyway https://www.instagram.com/awalkmyway/

Welcome to Friday Coaching Clinic Episodes. These are LIVE coaching session snippets where you have the opportunity to learn as both client and coach. I encourage you to think about how you might coach through this topic as a coach or how this situation may support you as a client. A reminder about these episodes: This snippet is just one way of coaching through this topic. Each coach has their own unique voice, personality and confidence to best support their clients and I invite you to find yours.

This week: How to Stop Letting Busy Work Steal Your Focus From Revenue-Generating Task

For More Info Go To: https://amanda-walker.com/best-damn-coach/

Have you ever finished a session and quietly wondered: am I actually good at this?

This episode was inspired by a real moment with a client who asked that exact question. And it sat with me, because it's one every coach grapples with at some point.

Inside this episode, I'm walking you through five honest indicators, split into two categories, that will help you assess your coaching quality without relying on flattery or feel-good feedback.

You'll learn:

• The 3 external indicators you can point to in your client relationships right now
• Why clients loving you is not the same as clients changing because of you
• The 2 internal indicators that separate good coaches from great one
• What it really means when long-term clients are still bringing the same problems

Resources mentioned:

• 10 Powerful Questions Every Coach Should Know: https://amanda-walker.com/home/questions/
• Book a call with Amanda: amanda-walker.com/letstalk
• Instagram: @awalkmyway