Are you a judger or a learner in the questions you ask? As coaches, we should always be refining our skills with a methodology that we bring forward for our clients, and no one exemplifies that better than my guest today. Join us to learn the importance of the questions we ask and the mindset behind them!

Marilee Adams, Ph.D., is an award-winning author and pioneer in the fields of inquiry-based coaching, leadership, and organizational effectiveness. She is also an executive coach, coach educator, keynote speaker, and the originator of the Question Thinking™ methodologies. She is the CEO/Founder of the Inquiry Institute, a consultant for organizations large and small, an affiliate instructor for Weatherhead Executive Education at Case-Western Reserve University, and served for ten years as an Adjunct Professor of Leadership at the School of Public Affairs at American University. Her bestselling book, Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 12 Powerful Tools for Leadership, Coaching, and Results, is a mainstay for coaches everywhere. 

Dr. Adams and her team at the Inquiry Institute provide training for coaches, leaders, and teams in the Question Thinking™ methodology, working with many high-powered organizations and leaders across the world. 

Show Highlights:

• How Marilee uses the Choice Map as a multipurpose tool–get your free copy today by taking a short survey at www.inquiryinstitute.com  
• The basics of Question Thinking™ 
• Why Marilee feels a responsibility to educate and empower clients far beyond coaching
• An exercise to understand the Question Thinking™ model of two mindsets, the judger and the learner
• How Marilee uses the tool in a session with a client to guide them with questions in a targeted way
• An example of the power of a question to shift perspective, possibility, and mood
• Why we can’t get stuck in the effort to ask “the perfect question”
• Why does asking, “What do I want this question to accomplish?” have a different impact and focus?
• Takeaways from Marilee in the form of impactful quotes from her book: “A question not asked is a door not opened. Every question missed is a potential opportunity lost. Every question missed is a potential crisis waiting to happen. Great results begin with great questions.” 

Resources:

Connect with Dr. Marilee Adams and the Inquiry Institute: Website

Get your copy of the free Choice Map here.

Get Dr. Adams’ bestselling book:  Change Your Questions, Change Your Life: 12 Powerful Tools for Leadership, Coaching, and Results

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Have you wondered how you can use paid advertising in your coaching business? Experts abound on this topic with a multitude of opinions about how to best grow your business. My goal is to give you valuable information to aid in making the best decisions for you, and running paid ads is, without a doubt, the best way to grow your business. Want to know more? Join us for today’s STaR Coach Show!

In 2013, Luke Charlton (aka The Aussie Hermit) decided to quit his comfortable six-figure-per-year government job, move halfway around the world, and start an online business as a coach. Thinking he knew enough about marketing to survive in one of the most expensive cities in the world (London), he quickly realized this online thing wasn’t as easy as it looked. Through years of trial and error that left him struggling and nearly going bankrupt, Luke finally discovered the formula for online success. Since then he has helped over 4,000 coaches grow their businesses online. In addition, he has been featured in The Six-Figure Coach Magazine, has spent over $16 million on advertising, has helped clients generate over $50 million in sales, and has written winning ads for world-leading experts such as Bob Proctor, Mike Dillard, Neil Patel, Grace Lever, and many more. Now he spends his days as a hermit living somewhere near Byron Bay as he runs his ad agency and teaches other coaches how to get consistently high-paying clients with paid advertising. 

Show Highlights:

• Luke’s advice about profitably scaling your ad campaigns:
• Start with your message. 
• Know your market.
• Link your program to what the market wants.
• Connect your message to the market.
• How Luke structures sales funnels to provide a solution for the market
• Luke’s example of sales ad success through addressing a market fear and providing a solution
• Tips on how to “go to the market”
• How to take a beginner mindset in starting to run paid ads
• How to assess your KPIs when running paid ads by tracking your cost per appointment, cost per click, and cost per opt-in
• What success looks like in running paid ads
• How to optimize your closing rate success

Resources:

Connect with Luke Charlton: Website and LinkedIn

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Are you living your truth in the way you show up for your coaching clients? As coaches, it is essential that we listen and communicate well to help others be the best they can be along their journey, and no matter what our level of experience, there are always more opportunities for learning and growth. Join us to learn how to show up as the best and truest version of yourself!

Mike Green is the author of Wandermust: A Hero’s Journey to Seven Truths. He is a global keynote speaker, facilitator, and Master Certified Coach with over 30 years and 11,000 hours of international human performance experience. As an “adventurer of leadership,” Mike has traveled to and worked with individuals and organizations in over 63 countries on all seven continents in a multicultural array of top corporations and outfits. From this depth of experience in living an adventurous outdoor life, Mike coaches his clients to identify their leadership truths, be more congruent leaders, and create better experiences for the people they lead. 

Show Highlights:

• What it means to live out “your coaching truth”
• Highlights of Mike’s own “hero’s journey” (Hint: It began in Aisle 4 of his hometown grocery store.)
• How a 14-day Outward Bound dog sledding program changed teenage Mike’s life and built momentum for the rest of his life
• How Mike learned to identify his self-limiting thoughts and change them as he took his next steps into criminal justice, teaching, and coaching
• What happened for Mike when he wrote his book, Wandermust 
• What Mike wants listeners to hear and understand about defining “your coaching truth”

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Books mentioned by Mike

The Rihla by Ibn Battuta

The War of Art by Steven Pressfield

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Today’s show will help your business-building perspective as we dive deep into marketing. My guest will move the dial for you whether you are building a coaching business or using your entrepreneurial skills in other ways. You’ll learn valuable information about building your marketing team to spur the future growth of your business. Join us!

Nikki Nash is a master marketer who is known for crafting mind-blowing strategies, assembling kick-butt marketing teams, and freeing visionary CEOs from the marketing grind. Her previous work was in helping Fortune 500 companies and tech startups create more money. Now, she spends her time helping business owners meet their goals and reach their dreams. She hosts the podcast, Market Your Genius, and has written a book by the same name. You’ll learn what to consider in building and hiring a rockstar marketing team as you hear Nikki’s innovative approach to filling your programs with dream clients.

Show Highlights:

• What it means to have a rock star marketing team
• Why YOU (the business owner) are the marketing conductor until you can hire one
• How marketing ties into the goal and vision of your company in the next 1-3 years
• How to get clear about the role marketing should play
• How to develop a crystal-clear vision for your business
• How to lead from a sense of accountability and vision alignment with the destination goal in mind
• What to consider in hiring and building your team
• Practical tips from Nikki about adding people to your team

Resources:

• Connect with Nikki Nash: Website, Market Your Genius book, and Market Your Genius podcast
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Leadership is one of our core topics here at the STaR Coach Show. Everyone encounters leadership opportunities at points along their journey, and we all need exemplary leadership ahead of us to forge the way forward. A pivotal concept we are exploring today is that what happened in childhood directly links to the way people exercise their leadership as adults. Join us to learn more!

Dr. Stephen Barden is an esteemed strategic, business, and operational partner to corporate leaders and organizations. He works globally coaching clients in the UK, US, Europe, and Asia, following his previous decades of experience at CEO and executive board levels across media, technology, and communication sectors. His thriving private practice began in 2001 with his approach to helping his clients achieve strategic zenith while maintaining ethical integrity. At an individual level, he empowers the leaders and managers he works with to wield their authority effectively. Dr. Barden’s book, How Successful Leaders Do Business With Their World, is a testament to his passion for fostering partnerships between leaders and stakeholders. You’ll hear what his years of research have taught him about how leaders recover, regenerate, and create collaborative and successful environments, along with barriers that leaders encounter. He shares the findings of his fascinating research with leaders about the assumptions they adopted in childhood around the world and their place in it. 

Show Highlights:

• How Stephen’s research began and played out with leaders in various sectors
• What the research showed about assumptions formed in childhood around a “friendly universe” and the “balance of power”
• How Stephen identified the sweet spot of leadership using the navigational stance, partnering stance, and oppositional stance
• Characteristics of those in a partnering stance: they don’t have huge egos, don’t compete, keep a balanced relationship with the world, and view their organization as an ecosystem
• Why the basis of all good leadership is curiosity
• How Stephen works with leaders to uncover their power relationship with the world
• Why childhood assumptions are not genetic but learned assumptions that can be unlearned and relearned
• How Stephen sees results with leaders in his work
• How leaders can be aware and responsive to their needs
• Why Stephen favors the term “partner leader” over “coach”

Resources:

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How Successful Leaders Do Business With Their World

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How are you getting in front of your audience? Today’s technology with social media and video opportunities opens doors that would have cost us thousands of dollars just a few years ago. Yet so many coaches have a real hesitancy about and resistance to getting in front of their audience with live video.

Today’s episode covers how you can eliminate barriers, access resources, and optimize your impact on the world by tapping into live video. I’m sharing ten strategies to help you show up, shine, and step into the video space with more consistency, confidence, and flair. Join me to learn more!

Show Highlights:

Ten strategies to help you show up and shine with video:

• Know your audience. Understand their aspirations, pain points, and how your message can resonate with them.
• Think like a beginner. When creating content, build a foundation, and don’t assume what your audience already knows.
• Realize that it’s all about building relationships. It is not about you but about what your audience needs from you.
• Visualize your audience. When on video, see yourself having a conversation with one person who epitomizes your audience.
• Choose to be consistent. Consistency will build your know, like, and trust factor as people connect regularly with you.
• Find a partner to go online with. Bouncing ideas off one another will help the creative juices flow. 
• Do some investigating. Get curious about the resources and content you already have around you–and use it. 
• Look through the lens of everyday wonders. What can you notice in your life that can be the beginning of a post?
• Chunk it down. Use bite-sized nuggets of inspiration to offer consumable pieces of information. 
• Just do it. Your mind is your biggest asset AND your biggest barrier. 

Resources:

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One common failure of coaches is in the business arena. Many of us love our coaching work, but we make costly mistakes in running our businesses successfully. My guest today shares his journey to entrepreneurship and how he learned to love the business of business. Join us to learn more!

Tomas Keenan is best known for his humble beginnings and lengthy career as a custom car audio installer. He is the epitome of a technician-turned-COO and has turned his learning into a profession as a successful coach for other industry leaders and business owners. He works with entrepreneurs who don’t want to be average but want to crush seven-figure plus businesses. He has been featured in Forbes, Mobile Electronics Magazine, CE Outlook, CEO Blog Nation, Fit Small Business, The Startup Growth, The Goodmen Project, and numerous blogs and podcasts. Tomas is a sought-after public speaker, two-time bestselling author, and Step It Up Entrepreneur Podcast host. He states that the key to his success is making progress every day, regardless of how small it may be. His latest book is Unf*ck Your Business: Stop Business Self-Sabotage by Getting Clear on Your Core Values NOW. 

Show Highlights:

• How working with a coach changed everything for Tomas
• How Tomas’ first business failure led to his greatest business lesson
• Why “working harder” is NOT the path to business success
• How the birth of Tomas’ first child forced him to reassess his life and business goals
• How to focus on operations and time management to be more productive:
• “What am I worth per hour?” (yearly income divided by 2080)
• “What time am I spending on activities below that dollar amount?”
• What to do if your hourly worth is too low and needs to change
• How to decide what tasks you should hire others to do
• How Tomas has seen Aha moments for his clients
• Why it’s valuable to get clarity on your genius work–and the genius work of others
• How to take a big-picture view of which activities to do and which to delegate
• Common areas where small business owners fall short around hiring, vision, culture, and values
• A look at Tomas’ book and podcast

Resources:

Connect with Tomas Keenan: Website, LinkedIn, Facebook, Coaching, Book, and Podcast

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This BONUS episode is Part 2 of a special business-building series for coaches: The Why, What and How of Being a Wildly Successful Coach. In today’s show, you’ll learn the common problems that coaches face, what we need to do differently, and what we need to create as offers to give our clients the best value. Join us to learn more about developing your marketing mojo!

We wrap up this three-part series by inviting you to join us for a free, live webinar. Register today for the webinar on September 29 at 1 pm ET. 

Sue Schöning is a coach with over 30,000 hours of individual and group client hours. Her work is exclusively online and connects her with global clients, including business executives, sports stars, media personalities, and other coaches. Drawing on her business and professional experience, Sue works across a broad range of different life circumstances, coming into her coaching career after transitioning from a nursing career. In 2013, she partnered with her husband, Franz, to create Coach Automator, an online marketing and business automation management platform aimed specifically at the coaching, wellness, and healing industry. Coach Automator is the perfect blend of Sue’s many years in business and marketing and her vast experience in the coaching and healing arena. 

Show Highlights:

• Why it’s NOT a good thing that most coaches are experts in stealth marketing (Don’t be your own best-kept secret!)
• Why it’s a common problem for coaches to think like a businessperson
• Why we need to shift our mindset about how we engage with our clients on the coaching journey
• What we need to offer our clients to keep them in our ecosystem, extend their growth, and create touchpoints to build relationships with them (Sue shares many examples of simple ways to own your skillset and promote your strengths.)
• Sue’s candid thoughts about the value of online courses in a hybrid format, comprised as a combination of online work and some degree of live, personal interaction
• How your offerings can evolve into memberships and subscriptions to keep loyal clients in your community
• How to identify your USP (Unique Selling Proposition), the thing that makes you unique at what you do and helps you stand out above the crowd
• How to remember your CPR (Connection, Products, and Resources)

Resources:

Connect with Sue Schöning and Coach Automator: Website, LinkedIn, and Facebook

Catch our bonus series, (Episodes 356 and 358) The Why, What & How of Being a Wildly Successful Coach. Register for the FREE live webinar on September 29 at 1 pm ET that is the finale of the three-part series.  

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I hope you are enjoying the transition to fall like I am! Fall is the perfect time to prep for the coming year, and today’s topic fits perfectly into that concept. We are discussing the voices within us, the messages they give us, and how those messages impact our businesses and lives. Join us to learn more from today’s expert guest!

Jenn Beninger is the founder of Genius Unlocked and the CEO of the Genius Unlocked Institute, a board-certified company where she teaches coaches, leaders, and mentors to transform their personal and professional lives. Through her thousands of hours of executive experience, Jenn has refined the art of coaching others on how to delve into what’s holding them back and guiding them to successfully live in their purpose by calling on their intuition. “Achieving Mastery” is one of Jenn’s core values, and it’s been at the center of her education, training, and work with coaches of all types. 

Show Highlights:

• The four voices, the four I’s:
• Intuition: the inner guidance that holds your truth
• Inner ego: the identity you’ve developed from outside influences
• Inner critic: the judgment you have towards the identity you’re holding
• Inner child: the childlike aspect that includes all your learned experiences before you hit puberty (can include feeling hurt, sad, disappointed, and fearful)
• How to “give new jobs” to your voices as you integrate them
• Why your intuition becomes the translator for the other I’s
• Steps to develop your intuition: acknowledge it, understand how it communicates, trust it, and take action
• How to consider the patterns in your life that aren’t serving you
• How these steps to following your intuition can make your coaching business more impactful and profitable

Resources:

Connect with Jenn and Genius Unlocked: Linkedin, Facebook, and YouTube

*Take Jenn’s free quiz to find out why your coaching business isn’t working!

*Take Jenn’s Unlocking Your Intuition Meditation Challenge!

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Enroll More Clients: Clarity Sprint

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This BONUS episode is Part 1 of a special business-building series for coaches: The Why, What and How of Being a Wildly Successful Coach. In today’s show, you’ll learn why an online presence is critical to your coaching business. My guest explains what you need to be doing as a coach, what you need to stop doing, and the things that are a complete waste of your time. Join us for this opening session of our series and come back for next week’s Part 2. We wrap up the three-part series with a live webinar on September 29 at noon (central time). Don’t miss it!

Sue Schöning is a coach with over 30,000 hours of individual and group client hours. Her work is exclusively online and connects her with global clients, including business executives, sports stars, media personalities, and other coaches. Drawing on her business and professional experience, Sue works across a broad range of different life circumstances, coming into her coaching career after transitioning from a nursing career. In 2013, she partnered with her husband, Franz, to create Coach Automator, an online marketing and business automation management platform aimed specifically at the coaching, wellness, and healing industry. Coach Automator is the perfect blend of Sue’s many years in business and marketing and her vast experience in the coaching and healing arena. 

Show Highlights:

• How COVID changed the face of the online world and opened a new world of opportunities
• What to do: 
• Identify your target audience and be where they are. Ask, “Who is my niche audience, where are they, and what do they need to know?”
• Identify keywords associated with your chosen niche and your client’s pain points. 
• Have a simple, effective website and social media presence. Think of social media as free opportunities to connect with clients, provide value, and build relationships.
• Use email marketing to build your database. Newsletters and lead magnets can get target clients into your ecosystem.
• What not to do:
• Don’t ever build your business on a platform that someone else controls.
• Don’t watch what everyone else is doing.
• Don’t expect immediate reactions.
• Don’t neglect your offline activities.
• Why it is a waste of your time to go after every “shiny penny” out there
• Sue’s takeaways: Remember ACT (Audience, Connection, and Traction)

Resources:

Connect with Sue Schöning and Coach Automator: Website, LinkedIn, and Facebook

Join the STaR Coach Community and thrive as a coach! 

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Enroll More Clients: Clarity Sprint

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