Never work with a pain-in-the-butt client ever again
I have a very important rule when it comes to my coaching business: I don't work with pain-in-the-butt clients. (I have a "No A-hole/No b____" policy that's served me well) Life's too short to work with difficult people, and since I started enforcing it a few years...
Want to generate new coaching leads at will?
Would you like to generate new coaching clients online - without spending a cent on marketing or advertising? I've gotten to know Karl Bryan well from contributing to his magazine, The Six Figure Coach, and he's great at teaching this. A lot of people online throw the...
A remedy for the coaching yips
Professional athletes sometimes get the yips - a type of performance anxiety where they can't do simple things anymore. In baseball, catcher Mackey Sasser of the Mets couldn't throw the ball back to the pitcher just 60 feet away, and had to hit the ball into his glove...
What coaches can learn from “The Tinder Trap”
A woman in New York City recently tricked a couple hundred guys with a "Tinder Trap". She matched with 7500 men on Tinder, and outsourced messaging them to people who had a script for responses. The conversations led to an invitation to a 1:1 date with her at a local...
A brand spankin’ new podcast episode
A new episode of Natural Born Coaches was just released, with my guests Ilan and Guy Ferdman. In this episode, they talk about exploring your worthiness. You'll also learn: - The difference between attracting clients and using force and manipulation - Their take on...
A good push vs. a bad push
A crazy video went viral over the summer. A teenage girl in Washington State was standing on the edge of a bridge, looking down at the water 60 feet below ... She considered jumping off, but came to her senses and changed her mind. But then her "friend' (I use that...
Gary Vaynerchuk and Grant Cardone wouldn’t like this training
I like a lot of Gary Vaynerchuk and Grant Cardone's stuff. But I have to be careful, because if I consume too much of it I can find myself feeling guilty for not working on my business while I'm taking a shower (seriously, these guys sound like they bring their...
Float like a butterfly, sting like a bee
Champions think differently than the average person. When Muhammad Ali, then known as Cassius Clay, was preparing for the biggest fight of his young career (a shot at the world title held by the "unbeatable" Sonny Liston), the young challenger exuded total confidence...
Some of my favourite acronyms for coaches
Who doesn't love acronyms? You can save a precious second or so with each use (which adds up to minutes every year!) and sound cool while saying them. Here are some of my favourite acronyms in the coaching/online space: -> FOMO ("Fear Of Missing Out"): although I'm...
May The Force be with you …
Being a Star Wars fan, friends sometimes send me funny SW pictures and memes. Once, a friend texted me a picture of a Star Wars action figure box of "The Force", with nothing but air inside the plastic part that would usually hold the figure inside. It's a funny gag,...