

Natural Born Coaches
Marc Mawhinney
Marc Mawhinney is all about helping you grow a successful coaching business! Listen in as he interviews guests like John Lee Dumas, Rich Litvin and Steve Chandler (from "The Prosperous Coach"), Jill Stanton, Larry Winget and more who spill the beans on how to be the best coach you can be!
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Jul 21, 2025 • 25min
Episode #931: Chuck Anderson: Affiliate Partnership Strategies For Coaches
Chuck Anderson helps people develop partnerships, affiliates, and brand ambassadors that sends them clients on an on-going basis … and in this interview he explains how he does it! What You’ll Hear In This Episode: -The benefits of affiliate partnerships for coaches, particularly those needing immediate clients. -The importance of building relationships with your affiliates … -Strategies for clear offers, webinars, and one-on-one conversations, while highlighting the potential of ambassadors for high-quality referrals. -The three types of affiliates: joint venture partners, influencers, and ambassadors. -The need for clear offers, webinars, and partnerships to attract clients. -The potential risks and costs associated with paid advertising!

Jul 14, 2025 • 26min
Episode #930: Vicky Murgatroyd: All About Long-Term Coaching Relationships!
Vicky Murgatroyd is an experienced online coach, and in this episode, she discusses her journey and approach to building long-term client relationships through a combination of energetic and strategic work. What You’ll Hear In This Episode: - Burnout prevention, maintaining work-life balance, and the potential negative impacts of excessive AI and social media. -Creating scalable coaching services, focusing on a single core offer for business success, and the value of long-term client relationships over quick wealth. - How to avoid getting distracted by shiny objects or multiple offerings. - Why coaches should trust their instincts and enjoy their work!

Jul 7, 2025 • 29min
Episode #929: Darrin Bentley: How To Make More Money From Your Podcast
Darrin Bentley is a podcast coach and organic marketing pro who helps creators and experts generate more revenue with strategically designed podcasts! What You’ll Hear In This Episode: How to navigate conversations with your guests and manage your show's tone. Darrin’s recommended frequency for your episode releases. The challenges of monetizing podcasts, and how to get around that. Having a clear understanding of your target audience and providing value to them. Why going for sponsorships is the wrong approach … How to make your podcast stand out from others in your space!

Jun 30, 2025 • 29min
Episode #928: Samantha Riley: How To Structure and Run a Successful Virtual Summit!
Do you want to run a virtual summit? In this episode, Samantha Riley discusses the importance of virtual summits, and how you can structure and run a successful one! What You’ll Hear In This Episode: -The challenges and benefits of running a summit, nurturing both the audience and the backstage crew, and the need for more assistance to clients to achieve results. -Advice for how long your summit shoujld be, and how you should decide on speakers to invite to it. -Choosing a subject and title for the virtual summit that specifically addresses a major challenge for the target audience. -How to create a summit VIP upgrade. -The Diamond Factor, a methodology Samantha uses with her clients, which includes clarity of message, business model, branding, and the value of their intellectual property!

Jun 23, 2025 • 26min
Episode #927: David Vox: The Ayahuasca Experience
David Vox is a seasoned coach, integration trainer, and founder of the Ayahuasca Integration Alliance. With over 10 years of experience, David has worked with thousands of coaches, therapists, and facilitators—supporting them to deepen their practice and integrate transformational experiences into real-world impact. He has been a sought-after mentor and speaker in coaching certification programs with more than 5,000 participants, known for his ability to hold honest, grounded space where personal growth and professional clarity meet. David leads the Sacred Integration Facilitator Training, a 6-month journey for those ready to guide others through meaningful change—combining coaching skills, integration practices, and sacred spaceholding. What You’ll Hear In This Episode: - What Ayahuasca is, and how the process works. - David’s first experience in Madrid about 10 years ago. - Why it’s such a challenging and intense process. - Why David burned down his old business to pursue a new one based around his work with Ayahuasca. - How David is introducing the benefits of Ayahuasca to the world!

Jun 16, 2025 • 30min
Episode #926: Dan Irvin: The S.P.E.A.K Framework For Speakers!
Dan Irvin from The Speaker Lab consistently books over 50 events per year as a speaker. In this episode we talk about the S.P.E.A.K. framework and how you can implement it to get more paid speaking gigs! What You’ll Hear In This Episode: - Dan’s journey from corporate America to building a successful speaking career. - The benefits of speaking, including increased impact, time efficiency, and the ability to attract selective clients. - Success strategies for niche-specific speaking … - Why free or low-paying gigs often lead to more free work and isn’t effective for building a professional speaking career. - How targeting organizations that hire speakers in a specific niche is crucial for success in professional speaking.

Jun 9, 2025 • 27min
Episode #925: Giuseppe Grammatico: All About Franchising!
Giuseppe Grammatico is a franchising expert, having owned a number of Master Franchise licenses and guiding over 200 individuals through business ownership, many for the first time! What You’ll Hear In This Episode: - Giuseppe’s journey from employee to franchise owner and coach. - The pros and cons of franchising versus owning a business outright. - The differences between franchising to licensing, and whether you should go with those options instead of starting a business from scratch! - The importance of communication between franchisors and franchisees, and regular feedback sessions and franchise advisory councils. - How to work with consumers who are skeptical after being disappointed by misleading practices by some coaches …

Jun 2, 2025 • 28min
Episode #924: Brigham Blackham: The Importance of Storytelling in Business
Brigham Blackham is a speaker, storyteller, success strategist, and the host of the Levelin’ Up podcast. In this episode, he shares how to use storytelling to get more clients! What You’ll Hear In This Episode: - The importance of storytelling in business, particularly for coaches, and the significance of alignment in your personal and professional life. - Brigham’s framework for storytelling, including identifying significant moments, translating those moments to the audience, setting an objective, reliving the story, and providing a clear call to action. - How his fear of losing his wife due to a cancer scare led him to prioritize his personal life and his career. - His experience of connecting with Sharon Lecter, highlighting the importance of heart-to-heart conversations and the potential for meaningful shifts in people's lives. - How storytelling is essential for making information memorable and impactful, rather than just organizing it.

May 26, 2025 • 31min
Episode #923: Karl Bryan: Less Distractions, More Profit!
Karl Bryan is the founder of Focused.com, a turnkey business coaching program that features Profit Acceleration Software ™, exclusive training, and support to help business coaches get (and keep) clients! What You’ll Hear In This Episode: - An example of a “Jedi Mind Trick” that Karl has used with coaches. - Why more profit solves all issues for business owners. - The 3 different types of coaches (and which one you want to be!) - Why Karl says “You don’t need more focus, you need less distractions” - What keeps Karl going after a 20-year-long business coaching career. - Why it’s not an exaggeration to say that coaches save lives … - The differences that Karl sees with business coaches since he was last a guest on the podcast in April 2020!

May 19, 2025 • 31min
Episode #922: Jeffrey T. Sooey: The Role of Certification in Coaching
For over two decades, Jeffrey T. Sooey has served coaches and leaders – beginning at 26 as a “results coach” for Tony Robbins, to today as the President of JTS Advisors. In this interview we cover lots of ground about the coaching world including what it takes to build a successful business, the various models, and Jeffrey’s opinion on coaching certifications! What You’ll Hear In This Episode: -Jeffrey shares his journey - his early interest in personal growth, his work with Tony Robbins, and his transition into coaching. - Jeffrey's extensive experience in the coaching world, his transition from informal coaching to formal coaching, and the role of certification in coaching. - The differences between a coaching practice and a coaching business, the various coaching models and delivery models, and the economic challenges of one-on-one coaching. - Three coaching models: accountability, strategy, and assessment. - The role of certification in coaching, the importance of continuous growth and development for coaches, and how certification isn’t enough!