The Thriving Coaches Podcast

Q: Would you like to join us?

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As well as 'unpacking' the programme and answering your questions, I'm going to be showing you...

- The 3 crucial distinctions behind principles-based coaching.

- The single most important factor for experiencing a genuine transformation in your own life.

- The secret to having a massive impact in the lives of others (the kind of impact clients are willing to pay top dollar for)

- The keys to thriving in the online 'transformation economy'

It's going to be an impactful and informative session, and I'll be joined by some of my graduates so you can get their perspective too.There's going to be live Q&A; you'll be able to get answers to your questions from me personally.

So whether you've been considering joining the programme, or you just want to have a nosey, it's going to be a great session.

MASTERCLASS: Clarity Certification Unpacked: www.jamiesmart.com/unpacked - go here to reserve your free place

We'll be starting at 7pm sharp UK time this Sunday evening, 27th June, and I'm going to be doing LIVE Q&A (and maybe even a coaching demo), so please make sure you've marked this in your calendar:

- Sunday, 27th June- 7pm UK time (11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern)

- Via Zoom from wherever you're located

I'm really looking forward to this.

In this episode, you're going to hear a Facebook live I did where I was asked a question I just loved from one of my clients, Johannes Metzler, and what it boiled down to was this:

If you were starting over as a coach, so you don't have an email list and you haven't written any books, how would you go about getting coaching clients and building a thriving practice?

I loved answering this question because, rather than having a pre-planned answer, I got the chance to *discover* what I'd do as I reflected on the question and wove in some of the other questions people asked.

By the way, this episode is brought to you by The Thriving Coaches Blueprint programme, my 90-day coaching intensive to help you get clients, grow your business and make the difference you're here to make. Doors close on Friday, March 12th, and you can learn more and register now at www.JamieSmart.com/thriving.

So without further ado, here's my answer to the question, "How would you get clients and grow a thriving practice if you were starting from scratch?"

PS. If you want to get clients and grow a thriving coaching business so you can have a big impact in the lives of the people you're here to serve, you could be a good fit for the Thriving Coaches Blueprint programme. We've helped over 400 coaches, therapists and change-workers to have a big impact on their clients, and on their income. The doors are open for the 2021 intake until this Friday, March 12th so if you want to learn how to get clients and grow your business in a way that feels great and fits who you are as a person, go to www.jamiesmart.com/thriving.

This episode features a coaching demo around weight-loss and fitness during lockdown that I did during a recent masterclass, "The Language of Insight & Transformational Change". I start by talking about the six 'languages of transformation' before diving into one of them, the language of connection.

You'll hear me coaching my client, Angela on her topic, weight-loss and staying fit and healthy while working on her online business. And as I work with her, you'll hear me demonstrating the language of connection to 'get her world' and find my way into a deeper connection with her. Angela's one of the people on my current Thriving Coaches Blueprint programme, so she's already had some breakthroughs in her coaching practice. So she decided to be particularly brave and dive into a topic that she's never discussed publicly before.

So here's the episode...

PS So a few days after we recorded this coaching demo, Angela sent me a Facebook message. Here's what she said:

My Experience Of The Coaching was that it felt easy and simple and the realisation re 'do what you love' was bloody obvious doh! But I heard and felt it deeply...as if I was listening underwater. TBC...

Other realisations I've had since are:

1) SELF CARE listen to my body, ie. listen to wisdom about my body... If I need rest, rest. If I want to go out with the dogs do that. Feeling tired isn't telling me about anything other than feeling tired.

2) it's OK to feel under par and still do stuff and be OK with that eg keep commitments then rest afterwards.

3) BREATHING: I've noticed I've started to breathe diaphragmatically, Which creates more room in your lungs and the long out-breath tightens the core!

4)overall I feel an underlying deep sense of love, peace and well being... I'm reminded of this by Louis de Bernieres...

"Love is not breathlessness, it is not excitement, it is not the promulgation of promises of eternal passion. That is just being in love, which any fool can do. Love itself is what

is left over when being in love has burned away, and this is both an art and a fortunate accident."

I know this is usually quoted about romantic love, but to me, I'm just seeing more and more deeply that to Love Life means to love and care for mySelf as well as others.

**re Louis de Bernieres... The similarity is with being in love with the principles, or the idea of them, now the 'Whoop whoop' has settled down and what I'm left with IS love.

And a more tangible difference... After 2 days of rest at home with my lovely other-half, open fires, and food that I enjoy, I had the energy to go to my paddock where I trained/played/ran around with the pup. It was easy and fun.

The way it seems to me is it's like a balloon has been popped... And all the air inside has been released into the world. The air is now light and free to move wherever the breeze takes it. And the balloon no longer exists.

As you can imagine, that was a beautiful message to read. And if you want to increase your ability to have this sort of impact with people, it's one of the things we'll be exploring on The Language of Transformation, a six-week course I'm kicking off in December. We'll be diving into all six of the languages of transformation, all in the service of creating greater engagement, connection and impact. And it starts with the 2-day Conversational Transformation Bootcamp on 12 and 13 December, followed by six weeks of learning modules and group-coaching - we'll be focusing in on one of the six languages of transformation each week. And you can save £300 and get a bonus package worth over £1400 when you book your place before midnight on Monday, November 30th. Just go to www.JamieSmart.com/language to register now and save £300, that's www.JamieSmart.com/language.

The episode you're about to hear is a mentoring session on visibility & growing your audience that I did with Matt Fox. Matt's one of the coaches taking part in the Clarity Advanced Coach & Facilitator Programme, and he and I met just over a year ago when he joined the Thriving Coaches Blueprint. And one of the things he developed while he was on that programme was his podcast, "The Heart of Dad". Matt's a father himself, and he's passionate about supporting dads to really be there in their children's lives. In fact, many of his coaching clients are entrepreneurs who are also dads and want to experience more clarity and heart in their work and in their lives as a whole. So about a month ago, Matt mentioned that he was planning to do the 'Heart of Dad' summit, an event where he was going to interview coaches and teachers who have had an impact in Matt's life, and who are also fathers. Many of these people are dear friends and colleagues of mine, guys like Dicken Bettinger, Dr Bill Pettit, Amir Karkouti and Dr Mark Howard. If you want to register for the summit, go to https://www.heartofdad.com/summit Matt invited me to be one of the people he interviewed, and he happened to mention that he wanted to get more visibility and grow his audience for the summit, and that's when I had an idea. During my most recent Clarity Certification Training, I was talking to the students about the whole domain of business and the principles. We had a really great time, and everyone learned a lot, and it inspired me to start working on something new: the Clarity Pro Business Accelerator. I haven't formally launched it yet, but I'm starting to get a group of founder members together, and I had an idea… I invited Matt to have a one-hour conversation with me where we'd explore how he can grow his audience for his summit, and we'd stream it LIVE as an example of Clarity Pro Business Accelerator content. We did the session, and lots of people found it really useful, so I've decided to launch it on the podcast. So here's the episode! PS it's worth knowing that we've only got 2 places left on the 2021 Clarity Certification Training. There's an early booking price which expires at the end of this month, on November 30th, but it's likely that the programme will be sold out by then (we're limiting it to 36 places and the first 34 have already been taken), so if you want to find out more, go to www.JamieSmart.com/coach that's www.JamieSmart.com/coach

The episode you're about to hear is an excerpt from one of the private laser-coaching & Q&A sessions I do each month with my ClarityPro Members.

Just to give you a bit of background, I'd been telling my clients about something my team and I do called 'Project Gretsky', inspired by a quote from the phenomenal hockey player, Wayne Gretsky who famously said, "Skate to where the puck is going, not where it's been."

In Project Gretsky, my team and I look to the future, and make guesses about where the world's heading, how we can best guide our clients and how we can inspire and educate a generation to experience lives of clarity, resilience and wellbeing. It's how we ended up developing our state of the art live-streaming facility, as well as a number of other innovations we've got in the pipeline.

So during last night's Laser-coaching / Q&A session, one of our ClarityPro members (Andrea Bruno) asked a question that stopped me in my tracks.

Andrea said he was thinking about Project Gretsky, and thought it would be very cool and useful to do something like that, but he said that in the past, whenever he tried to predict the future, he got frustrated because he wanted to be right about it. If things didn't go his way he got increasingly worried, and in the end, he just stopped trying to make any predictions because it wasn't worth the anxiety factor. But something in Project Gretsky spoke to him, and he wanted to get some clarity about that.

So why did this stop me in my tracks? Because I'd never given much thought to how I relate to this whole domain of prediction and future trends.

What you're going to hear in this episode is this: first you'll hear Andrea's question, then you'll get my counter-intuitive answer, then finally you'll hear how it lands with Andrea.

So here's the episode:

• How to create a 'business profile' so people understand what it is you offer
• Should you stick to your guns charging high fees, or lower your prices to make it easier for clients to enrol
• Questions about cutting through all the 'noise' on social media
• How to break through an 'earning ceiling', from someone who had limiting beliefs about how much they could earn

• Demystifying the whole domain of 'niching'
• Setting your price
• Engagement and growing your audience
• The whole 'visibility' thing
• Getting clients and making a difference to them
• The question of 'coaching packages' vs 'hourly' vs 'retainer'
• The best so-called 'business model' for coaches
• How to talk about what you do
• and lots more

• Demystifying the whole domain of 'niching'
• Setting your price
• Engagement and growing your audience
• The whole 'visibility' thing
• Getting clients and making a difference to them
• The question of 'coaching packages' vs 'hourly' vs 'retainer'
• The best so-called 'business model' for coaches
• How to talk about what you do
• and lots more