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If you’re certain of your call but question God’s faithfulness in the step-by-step process of living out your call, you’re absolutely not alone and we’ve got a word of encouragement for you. Join us in the gap between the call and the Promised Land as we look at the life of Joshua during harvest season and remember the faithfulness of God.

Glean insights:

• 3 shorelines of the journey between the call and the Promised Land and how to take the next step
• How to stand in the middle of what seems like an impossible task, so you can keep moving forward
• Follow the Lord out of the wilderness and into the vision of what He’s promised to you

About Andrew Gorter

Andrew Gorter, D.Min., PCC is the owner of Plus One Coaching, LLC and has more than 25 years experience working with people to help them clarify what’s next for themselves and to take action to fulfill their calling and achieve their goals.

He is trained and licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist and has practiced family therapy through a non-profit counseling practice he established in 2002. He is an expert in healthy interpersonal communication, and since establishing Plus One Coaching, LLC he has brought together his passion for coaching and his expertise in family therapy to establish a niche coaching family business leaders.

Throughout his career, Andrew has endeavored to lead and serve people and organizations as they face necessary challenges to move forward and to do that in healthy creative ways. From his early career in pastoral ministry to his development of a non-profit counseling ministry and, most recently, Plus One Coaching, Andrew has gained a wealth of experience joining with people to solve problems.

Andrew and his wife, Karen, live in Holland, MI, near the beaches of Lake Michigan. They have two married daughters and three grandsons. He enjoys hiking, watercolor painting, reading, and woodworking. He and Karen love just hanging out, especially in beach chairs with their toes in the sand. You can explore further at his website, www.plusonecoaching.com.

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Build a portfolio business, doing the things you love to do while serving with the strengths God has given you. In this episode, Jon Lokhorst will share his practical and profitable tips to help you move forward. Learn from his tried and true, whole-life view of offering up your giftings and talent while finding the support and information you need to keep building your business!

Open the front door to more clients through the:

• Integration of learning and doing so you can define what coaching success looks like for you and your business
• Knowledge of how to build a portfolio business and capitalize on direct outreach so you can diversify the services and solutions you provide
• Awareness of how to parse out your time and develop a schedule that serves you and your clients well

About Jon Lokhorst

Jon Lokhorst, CPA, ACC, is an executive leadership coach and consultant based in Minneapolis, Minnesota. He partners with CPAs, CFOs, and other leaders who face massive change in their industry and recognize the need for a new model of leadership to navigate those challenges. Prior to launching Lokhorst Consulting LLC, Jon enjoyed a 30-plus year career as a CPA, CFO, and organizational leader. He has a Master’s in Organizational Leadership and is recognized by the International Coach Federation as an Associate Certified Coach. Jon serves as adjunct faculty in the School of Business and Nonprofit Management at North Park University and writes and speaks regularly on a variety of topics.

You can contact Jon through LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jonlokhorst/

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Coaches have a tremendous opportunity to transform culture, as they transform leaders and provide coaching for marketplace impact. Today, we’ll discuss the power of collaboration and culture-shaping, so you can have a catalytic influence on leaders, organizations and the world.

Learn more about how to:

• Transform your Sunday prayers for change into Monday’s practical action steps that turn entropy into synergy
• Activate leaders so they can have a positive impact on their sphere of influence and add exponential value to outcome and impact
• Move away from the barriers created in silos toward creating abundance-focused mindsets that positively shape the canvas of the current and future marketplace

About Chad Merrill

Chad Merrill is the President & CEO of the Fellowship of Companies for Christ International (FCCI). Founded over 40 years ago, FCCI’s mission is to encourage & equip Christian CEOs to use their influence to grow the Kingdom. FCCIU operates throughout the US and in over 30 countries around the world.

Chad has a long history as a successful entrepreneur, having been involved in the creation and leadership of multiple businesses. Most recently Chad founded Impact 2:52, LLC which owns and operates multiple baseball & soccer academies in the southeast. The Impact 2:52 companies also operate a management company that offers management, consulting & leadership development services to entrepreneurial companies.

Prior to Impact 2:52, Chad was a Founding partner in Onepath Systems, LLC. Founded in 2006 it has grown to a $200 million dollar technology company with over 1,000 employees. His special strengths lie in leadership, strategy, strategic partnerships and out-of-the-box thinking that leverages partner skill sets to create Win-Win-Win relationships.

Originally from Swainsboro, Georgia, Chad attended boarding school in NYC before completing his BBA in Finance at Georgia State University and Emory University in Atlanta. An entrepreneur at heart, he enjoys working with partners to create companies and opportunities for others to succeed.

Chad lives in Atlanta, Georgia with his wife, Robin, and their two sons. Chad sits on the Truett McConnell University Board of Visitors, and several other corporate & ministry boards. He enjoys spending time with his family, coaching entrepreneurs, traveling and living an active lifestyle.

“What I love most about my job is discovering new ways to leverage our relationships to create value for our customers and opportunity for our partners and employees.”

Learn more about FCCI and Chad Merrill at: https://fcci.org

About Greg Leith

Greg's life mission statement focuses on his life passion, which is “to strengthen the great leaders, ideas and organizations of our time so the kingdom causes of Christ can be exponentially accelerated”. He is the CEO of Convene, 

His career spans corporate Fortune 500 enterprises, franchise operations, non-profit and associations, and academic sectors. Greg has served the persecuted church with food, brought relief and created long-term jobs in Orissa, India, assisted faith-based mission agencies in China with mission and strategy, planted house churches in Nepal, helped envision and begin a School of Journalism in Haiti and crisscrossed Canada speaking on marriage with Family Life. Greg is married to the love of his life, best-selling author and life coach Shelley Leith.  They’ve managed to break a multi-generational chain of divorces and have been married for over 35 years.

Shelley and Greg love leading intentionally in their family and attempted to create a family and home that is a grace-filled safe refuge on most days as well as a place full of forgiveness when they miss God’s mark. Their currently empty nest is located in Southern California close to the canyons and foothills of south Orange County.

Learn more about Greg Leith and Convene at: www.convenenow.com

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Did you know there are 2.2 billion active monthly users on Facebook? That piece of information, coupled with other impactful statistics we have uncovered, can help you understand how to expand your reach as a coach by building and maintaining a business page on Facebook.

Get ready to bridge the gap between you and your next client as you discover:

• 3 distinctive roles and benefits of a Facebook Business
• 5 degrees of separation on Facebook and how your clients are closer than you think
• How to augment and amplify your meetings and messages so you can expand your reach and influence culture through coaching
• 5 key categories to consider in order to build and post valuable content on your Facebook Business Page

Join us for the Facebook Business Bootcamp, starting October 29th. This FREE 10-day guided experience will help you start or expand your Facebook impact.

You’ll walk away with:

• An easy FB Business Page template to use right away
• How to write a compelling, concise bio so you can connect more quickly
• Where to find and connect with your ideal clients
• Sources for free images so you can add curb appeal to your posts
• Confidence and connections that can grow your business

You’ll also receive 10 prewritten fill-in-the-blanks templates of post prompts to get you ready to start posting!

Our Facebook Business Bootcamp starts October 29th, and you can sign-up at www.KimAveryCoaching.com/facebook.

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Coaching clients often need support beyond working together one-on-one: they need a place to dream and incubate ideas with others. What better way to meet that need than hosting a small coaching retreat! Whether you’re building your own coaching business or already have an established, thriving practice, we’ve got strategies that will help you pick a theme and plan out the experience.

• 5 key benefits of hosting your own coaching retreat so you can create a small place of safety where ideas are birthed and launched
• Ideas for choosing a transformational theme
• How to design an experience that speaks to body, soul, and mind
• Ways to keep it relational as well as informational

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To transform culture, you need transformed people. Today’s guest, Guy Rodgers, President & CEO of Pinnacle Forum, unpacks the impact coaching can have on culture through transforming leaders who exist to help other thrive.

Tune in to learn:

• 3 primary elements you need to consider to unleash your leadership potential
• 7 mountains of culture that coaching can influence for kingdom advancement
• Ways to create buy-in and follow-through to promote the restoration of God’s original design for our world

About Guy Rodgers

The professional career of Guy Rodgers has spanned the education, small business, political and non-profit sectors. His various positions have included adjunct professor at the graduate level, Vice President of a polling company, and the founder of two political consulting and strategy firms. In executive leadership roles with state and national non-profit organizations, he has helped build highly successful grassroots networks comprising thousands of chapters. In 1998 he was named a “Rising Star” by Campaigns and Elections magazine.

A graduate of the highly regarded Buckley School of Public Speaking, Rodgers has appeared on hundreds of TV and radio news and talk programs and has been a presenter at business, non-profit, educational and political conferences and training seminars in 48 states.

He has been listed in three “Who’s Who” organizations, including the National Register’s Who’s Who of Executives and Professionals and is currently the President & CEO of Pinnacle Forum.

Learn More:

Contact Guy Rodgers at [email protected]

Unleashing Your Leadership Podcast: https://pinnacleforum.com/blog-podcasts/

Pinnacle Forum: https://pinnacleforum.com/

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Asking powerful questions helps your client maximize discovery, gain clarity, create new possibilities, and shift paradigms.

In this episode, Dr. Andrew Gorter unpacks this key ICF competency with helpful definitions, great examples, and Biblical principles.

You’ll learn:

• The types of questions coaches ask and how they differ from those of counselors and consultants
• The role humility plays in the coaching relationship
• Scriptural principles that undergird powerful questions
• Practical ways to improve your questioning skills today

About Andrew Gorter

Andrew Gorter, D.Min., ACC is the owner of Plus One Coaching, LLC and has more than 25 years experience working with people to help them clarify what’s next for themselves and to take action to fulfill their calling and achieve their goals.

He is a trained and licensed as a Marriage and Family Therapist and has practiced family therapy through a non-profit counseling practice he established in 2002. He is an expert in healthy interpersonal communication, and since establishing Plus One Coaching, LLC he has brought together his passion for coaching and his expertise in family therapy to establish a niche coaching family business leaders.

Throughout his career, Andrew has endeavored to lead and serve people and organizations as they face the necessary challenges to move forward and to do that in healthy creative ways. From his early career in pastoral ministry to his development of a non-profit counseling ministry and, most recently, Plus One Coaching, Andrew has gained a wealth of experience joining with people to solve problems.

Andrew and his wife, Karen, live in Holland, MI, near the beaches of Lake Michigan. They have two married daughters and three grandsons. He enjoys hiking, watercolor painting, reading, and woodworking. He and Karen love just hanging out, especially in beach chairs with their toes in the sand. You can explore further at his website, www.plusonecoaching.com

You can pick up informative assessment, Strategies to Manage Your Energy here: Strategies to Manage Your Energy

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Do you wonder how you could make the switch from your current work to something more fulfilling? Does the thought of marketing overwhelm you? Do you wonder where Jesus is as you seek to live our your calling? If so, you’ll want to tune into part two of Kim Avery’s story.

Discover:

• The importance of coupling information with truth.
• The primary key to the game of life.
• The struggles and rewards of being a business owner.
• The satisfaction of letting God lead you out of your comfort zone.

About Kim Avery

Kim Avery MA, PCC, is Founder and President of Kim Avery Coaching, a coaching and mentoring firm that helps Christian coaches market successfully and coach masterfully.

She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, Professional Certified Coach, Board Certified Coach and trains coaches at the Professional Christian Coaching Institute and is the co-host of the popular podcast Professional Christian Coaching Today.

Kim’s mission is to help Christian coaches succeed so they can equip others to live Christ-saturated, joy-filled and purpose-driven lives. You can learn more about her endeavors at www.KimAveryCoaching.com.

Kim is happily married to her husband Ron, and they have two beautiful children, Bethany and Jonathan, two granddaughters, and a poodle named Bob. The Averys enjoy running, biking, hiking, and ministering to the community in which they live.

You can get her free report, What I Wish I’d Known About Marketing a Coaching Business at www.kimaverycoaching.com/business

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Who did God create you to be? How does He want the world to be different because you are here? What is His vision for your life? These are big questions for you and for your clients. And in today’s episode, we’ll answer the most common questions around creating a vision statement.

• What is a vision statement and how do I craft one?
• When is the best time to craft a vision statement?
• Why is it so important to do this work?

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As your coaching business grows, so does your to-do list. In today’s episode of Opening the Mailbox, Chris McCluskey answers this question: As I get more clients, how do I make sure I’m doing everything that needs to be done for each one?

In this episode, you'll learn to manage it all, including:

• Mindset – how to prepare spiritually and practically for each client
• Calendaring – how to structure your work day and week
• Opening a session
• Using a prep form
• Taking notes
• What do to after the session
• How to take care of billing

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