Marc Mawhinney is a coach for coaches. Coming from a background in real estate and facing many ups and downs during his career including an eventual business closure, he refused to give up. After experiencing the power of business coaching first hand he launched the Natural Born Coaches podcast and began helping coaches build successful businesses. On top of the podcast Marc coaches one on one, offers online courses and runs a massive Facebook group called the Coaching Jungle.

 

Summary

 

Marc talks about his time in Real Estate and his first experience with a business coach.

Marc admits to not knowing everything about the industry before jumping head first into coaching.

He also talks about the importance of niching down.

Marc talks about self coaching and practicing what he preaches.

He also discusses being himself, and how it has helped him in his business, marketing and message.

Marc tells Alison about the Secret Coaching Club.

He discusses the types of clients he works with and the issues with giving out "free" things.

Marc finished by giving his past self a piece of advice.

 

Quotes

 

"I just jumped in and did it. I'm not the type to need a perfect business plan mapped out"

"Why am I trying to work with everyone when coaches are what resonates with me?"

"You have to play to your strengths"

"Nobody's perfect and it pays to have a second set of eyes a little further away from the situation"

"The world already has a Tony Robbins or a Brendan Burchard or a Les Brown. They don't need any more of those, but there's only one you."

"Don't get stuck in this trap where you have to have things worked out perfectly. That's impossible. Make sure you're trying lots of different things. you're going to fail lots of times, but even when you fail you're going to learn lessons and you're going to get a lot of new ideas going."

 

Links

www.naturalborncoaches.com

www.thecoachingjungle.com

www.secretcoachclub.com