Coffee With The Coaching Revolutionaries

Liz Smith left a corporate career more than six years ago and retrained as a counsellor. She became interested in coaching and started am accredited course. Then she found The Coaching Revolution.

George joined The Coaching Revolution to take our coaching diploma as well as to learn how to market his new coaching business.

Sarah and George chat about George's experience to date.

Sarah Clein joined The Coaching Revolution at the beginning of 2022 and has started successfully marketing her coaching business. 

She chats to Sarah Short about her journey to date - including the 2am panic she had once she'd committed to joining us!

Sam Harvey used to be a difficult, arrogant boss. He's worked around the world from New Zealand (where he was born), to Australia, from the USA to where he lives now in London, England.

Over the years he was managing teams, Sam struggled to understand why his team members wouldn't just 'do as they were told' and with the impact that their apparent lack of obedience had on profits and stakeholders.

As all good coaches do, Sam had a road to Damascus moment and dramatically changed the way he managed people. The results were outstanding and now Sam runs Braver Leaders to help other 'Jack the lad' managers have reality checks and move from being arrogant to becoming a braver leader.

Before he retired, John Gilbert was the CEO of a large local council. He had lots of 'delivery' skills but no marketing skills at all. He joined the The Coaching Revolution and fast-tracked his journey to running a successful coaching and consulting business. 

In this episode Sarah chats to John about that journey to success.

Amy is a coach who works with professionals in the food industry. She is making great progress with building her corporate coaching business.

In this episode, we chat about why she became a coach and why supporting people in the food industry is so important to her.

Nicola Semple came to us as someone with a lot of coaching experience, but no formal qualification. She joined up to take our coaching diploma as well as our marketing (and business) diploma.

Sarah Loddick had a stellar career in the pharma industry and came to us both to consolidate the learning she'd already undertaken in coaching, and to learn how to find coaching clients who pay a professional rate for coaching.

In this episode, we chat about her experience so far.

Helen Clare has a whole quiver full of skills, including coaching, teaching, mentoring and facilitating which she uses to great effect to help female teachers who are struggling with menopause and the schools who want to know how to best to support them.

Liz O'Neill has a technology background. She has worked for 20+ years in the finance sector as a technology leader. She joined The Coaching Revolution because she wanted to coach technology leaders.

Today, Liz coaches tech leaders in the corporate space. She needs only a few contracts a year as fees in this space are significantly higher than those in other spaces.

Sarah and Liz are talking about the new group programme that she and Liz have designed especially for coaches who want to work in corporations.

Louisa Pau delighted in owning and running her creative agency for many years, before stress and ill-health caused her to pause for thought.

After regaining her health, Louisa realised that agency owners tend to work themselves into the ground, without stopping to figure out how they could change what they do so that they can have a healthy business AND a healthy life.

In this episode, Sarah talks to Louisa about her work to date and about her experience with The Coaching Revolution. Louisa has taken the ICF Coaching Course with us and so we chat about that too.

Who says 2020 was a write off? Rebecca Amin joined The Coaching Revolution about a year ago, having taken a qualification in career coaching. This year she has grown her coaching business and quit the job she hated - all during the global pandemic!

Listen as Sarah and Rebecca chat about her journey and how she feels about it.

Scott joined us as a mentee in August 2019. Then, just as he ramped up his marketing efforts, coronavirus happened and the UK went into lockdown.

Despite this, Scott has still managed to not only create a coaching business, but grow it to a point that he has been able to give up his full-time job and coach for a living.

Listen while Scott and I chat about the work he's done and what's been happening for him this year.

Mila Komarova had a high-flying career as a management consultant when she started working with The Coaching Revolution.

She was struggling to understand how she could ever transition from her career into working for herself; apart from anything else, what about the income!?

Sarah chats to Mila about how she adapted The Coaching Revolution framework to create the coaching business of her dreams.

Samantha Thomas is an L&D professional with 25+ years' experience. She joined The Coaching Revolution to formalise her coaching experience into an internationally recognised qualification, and to get the support to grow her coaching business.

Samantha says that The Coaching Revolution has given her everything she hoped for - and more!

Damian had worked with a number of people who promised to show him how to get paying clients and they tried to make him fit into their business model. Trying to squeeze himself into someone else's shape was making him unwell, and then he found The Coaching Revolution!

Rachel Lauren Wade is magnificent!

Not only did she teach many of the mentors at The Coaching Revolution (Sarah, Josh, Paul, Kathryn) she is also an ICF MCC.  What the MCC bit means is that she has logged more than 2500 hours of coaching and that's extraordinary!

In today's podcast, Sarah interviews Rachel about why the ICF course that we offer is different.

Sarah Gilligan is based in Melbourne, Australia and she has spent quite some time in what she refers to as 'the killing fields'. 

What she means is that space where those people who say they can help coaches build businesses live....

In this episode, Sarah (Gilligan) and Sarah (Short) talk about Sarah's journey to finally having some focus as far as her business is concerned.

Successful coaching businesses are made up of equal amounts of 2 different skill sets. Coaching (the delivery half of your business) and the business of coaching (the business development skills that create the opportunities to do the delivery). 

Coaches need both.

Coaches tend to love the delivery half, but are fearful of the other skillset. This podcast looks at why you really, really don't need to be anxious about business development.

With a 30 year career in banking, followed by having a business in property investment, Jeff has joined us as a mentee, in order to become a coach.

Here, he talks to Sarah about what he needed to learn - and unlearn - in order to succeed.