Coaching Clinic: scale your business, acquire high ticket clients & master coaching skills
About
Coaching Clinic is the go-to podcast for new and experienced professional coaches who want to grow a thriving, sustainable business and get better results with clients. Hosted by veteran coaches John Ball and Angela Besignano, this weekly show delivers actionable coaching strategies, business-building insights, and real-world tools to help you attract clients, master your craft, and scale with confidence. From powerful client conversations to group coaching design, sales, mindset, and marketing—this is your backstage pass to what really works in coaching today.
Episodes
- When Clients Want Answers: How To Handle Requests For Solutions
This episode discusses how coaches can manage client requests for solutions. It covers strategies for maintaining authority while empowering clients to make their own decisions.
- How Do You Know If Your Coaching Is Working? (Simple Metrics That Actually Help)
This episode of The Coaching Clinic discusses how to determine if coaching is effective by using simple metrics. It challenges the reliance on client satisfaction and explores how to introduce feedback systems without damaging trust.
- Optimise Coaching Sessions: Balancing Support and Challenge
Angie and John discuss strategies for optimizing coaching sessions. They explore the balance between support and challenge to ensure client transformation and impactful results.
- How to Use Client Feedback for Effective Coaching Check-Ins
This episode discusses how coaches can use client feedback and simple metrics for effective coaching check-ins. It covers strategies for empowering clients, improving coaching effectiveness, and ensuring clients feel heard throughout the c…
- The 7 Key Strategies to Fully Book Your Coaching Practice
In this episode, John and Angie discuss essential strategies for coaches and entrepreneurs to attract clients, build sustainable businesses, and avoid common pitfalls. They share personal experiences, practical tips, and insights on target…
- Energy in Coaching: Balancing Empathy and Professionalism
John and Angie explore how coaches can manage their energy and consistency across sessions. They discuss adapting to different clients while maintaining authority, handling challenging client behaviors, and balancing empathy with professio…
- Coaching Visibility: Boost Your Brand Recognition
This episode of Coaching Clinic discusses how coaches can increase their visibility and brand recognition. It covers strategic podcast guesting, speaking engagements, and content creation as key methods for coaches to become more known and…
- How to Manage Over-Talkative Clients in Coaching Sessions
This episode of Coaching Clinic features John and Angie discussing effective strategies for coaches to manage clients who tend to dominate conversations. They explore tactics for maintaining control of sessions, redirecting discussions, an…
- How to Start and Scale Your Coaching Business: Expert Tips from Angie and John
Angie and John share expert tips on starting and scaling a coaching business, emphasizing the importance of vision, strategy, and avoiding common pitfalls. They discuss growth stages, financial considerations, and the value of mentorship.
- The Power of Preparedness in Coaching Sessions
Angie and John discuss the importance of showing up prepared for coaching sessions, highlighting its impact on client outcomes, rapport, and trust. They explore strategies for effective preparation, including note-taking, energy management…
- My coaching calendar is fully booked! What can I do?
This episode discusses solutions for coaches whose calendars are fully booked, focusing on managing workload, setting boundaries, and sustainably scaling coaching businesses. It covers strategies such as handling client waitlists, transiti…
- Prioritising What Clients Need to Hear For Effective Coaching
This episode of Coaching Clinic with John and Angie explores effective client communication in coaching, including what to say, balancing coaching and consulting, and maintaining professional boundaries while avoiding judgment and overshar…
- Can You Coach Anyone on Anything? Boundaries, Credibility and Imposter Syndrome
This episode of The Coaching Clinic discusses the question of whether one can coach anyone on anything. It explores boundaries, credibility, ethics, and imposter syndrome in the coaching profession, differentiating between pure coaching, c…
- Feedback Dilemmas: Maintaining Healthy Client Relations
In this episode, Angie discusses the complexities of providing feedback in coaching. She shares strategies for balancing guidance and independence, and addressing clients' habitual need for approval.
- Planting the Seeds of Success: The Power of Branding in Coaching
This episode of The Coaching Clinic discusses the importance of branding in coaching businesses. It explores how intentional planting, strategic actions, and clear positioning are crucial for sustainable growth and client acquisition.
- Brand Dilution: Why Coaches and Speakers Lose Authority by Trying to Be Everything
This episode discusses brand dilution in coaching and speaking businesses. John and Angie explain how coaches and speakers can lose authority and audience connection by lacking brand clarity and engaging in unstrategic collaborations.
- Goal Setting For The Year Ahead
Angie and John discuss goal setting for the year ahead, exploring the effectiveness of New Year's resolutions, the importance of consistency, and the need for reflection. They emphasize breaking down larger goals into smaller steps and the…
- How To Handle The Ups & Downs of Life as a Coach
This episode features Angie and John discussing the ups and downs of being a professional coach. They share insights on the importance of flexibility, mentorship, and continuous learning for navigating the coaching industry and personal de…
- Why Great Coaches Stay Broke
Angie and John discuss why many talented coaches struggle financially. They emphasize the importance of marketing, building credibility through testimonials, and adopting a business mindset for success in the coaching industry.
- Is AI a Better Coach Than Me?
In this episode, Angie and John discuss the role of AI in the coaching industry, exploring its potential as a tool versus a threat. They examine administrative benefits, ethical limitations, and emphasize the irreplaceable human elements i…
- Should I Become A Coach?
John and Angie discuss the realities of becoming a professional coach. They cover the challenges, rewards, expectations, and preparation needed for a successful coaching career.
- Trust and Transformation: The Trust Deficit in Personal Development
On the Coaching Clinic podcast, Johnny and Jules Wyman discuss the trust deficit in the coaching and personal development industry. They emphasize authenticity, critical thinking, and building genuine relationships with clients over quick…
- Getting Clients: Going From Clueless To Competent As Coaches
In this episode, John and Angie discuss the misconceptions of running a coaching business and the challenges faced by solopreneurs. They emphasize the importance of acquiring clients and adapting to the evolving coaching industry.
- Coaching Reality Check: Addressing Industry Slowdowns (That's Slow-business!)
In this episode, Angie and John discuss declining work availability in coaching firms. They examine factors like market saturation and economic shifts, and provide strategies for coaches to maintain stability and growth, including diversif…
- Expectations vs. Reality: An Inside Look at Building a Coaching Business
In this episode, John and Angie discuss the common challenges coaches face when building a business. They cover managing expectations, foundational work, persistence, identifying target clients, and effective marketing strategies.
- Why Every Coach Needs a Book: Amplify Your Influence
In this episode, John and Jordan Ring discuss why coaches should write books to amplify their influence and credibility. They cover the benefits of authorship, the writing process, challenges like time constraints, and the role of ghostwri…
- The Coaching Conundrum: Coaching Coaches in a Saturated Market
This episode of Coaching Clinic features Angie and John discussing the challenges within the coaching industry, including market saturation and the impact of COVID-19. They explore the distinctions between coaching, consulting, and mentori…
- The Secret to Engaging Long-Term Clients
In this episode, John and Angie discuss how to maintain impactful and dynamic coaching relationships with long-term clients. They cover strategies such as continuous growth as a coach, setting professional boundaries, and revitalising sess…
- Elevate Your Coaching Practice Through Self-Review
This episode discusses the importance of self-review for coaches, providing strategies for self-evaluation and growth without self-loathing. It covers balancing constructive criticism with self-compassion, using client and peer feedback, a…
- Mindful Coaching During Global Turbulence
In this episode, Angie and John discuss the complexities of coaching clients amidst global events and personal challenges. They explore how coaches can effectively hold space for clients, the importance of checking in on clients’ emotional…
- Coaching sensitive topics
This episode of Coaching Clinic features Angie and John discussing how to handle sensitive client revelations in coaching sessions. They cover maintaining professional boundaries, creating a safe space for clients, and the importance of se…
- How to Stop Feeling Ignored: Practical Strategies for Being Heard at Work and in Life - Professional Speaking: Known. Booked. Paid.
In this episode, John and James discuss the experience of feeling ignored, its psychological impact, and practical strategies for being heard. They share personal stories and address how childhood experiences and gender influence being ove…
- Summer Haitus
The Coaching Clinic podcast is taking a summer break after over 60 episodes. They plan to return in late August or early September with more interviews, joint episodes, and individual content. Listeners are encouraged to share coaching-rel…
- Clients Ghosting: What It Means, How To Respond, And The Most Common Causes
This episode discusses the phenomenon of ghosting in the coaching industry, exploring reasons why clients might ghost, strategies for handling such situations, and the importance of professionalism. It covers managing payments, setting exp…
- Optimizing Client Engagement: Choosing the Right Medium for Coaching Sessions
Angie from the Coaching Clinic discusses various methods of conducting coaching sessions, including in-person, over the phone, and virtually face-to-face. She shares personal experiences and preferences, highlighting the pros and cons of e…
- Mastering Group Coaching – Energy, Engagement, and Real-World Tips
This episode of Coaching Clinic discusses mastering group coaching. It covers the differences between one-on-one and group coaching, managing distractions, and tips for elevating energy and maintaining group flow.
- Uncomplicated Self-Care: A Coach's Path to Wellbeing
This episode of the Coaching Clinic discusses three strategies for coaches' health: regular movement, hydration, and intermittent fasting. The host shares personal experiences and encourages integrating simple practices into daily routines.
- Am I a Bad Coach? Spotting the Signs & Fixing What’s Broken
This episode of The Coaching Clinic, with John Ball and Angela Besignano, addresses the signs of a bad coach and how to improve. It covers common pitfalls, imposter syndrome, and cultivating an individual coaching approach.
- Coaches Exploring AI: Tools, Challenges, and Opportunities
In this episode, Angie and John discuss their initial experiences and approaches to using AI tools in their coaching businesses. They explore various AI applications, including ChatGPT and Gemini, for improving efficiency in content creati…
- A Quick Announcement from John at The Coaching Clinic Podcast
The Coaching Clinic podcast announces the launch of its new YouTube channel, inviting listeners to engage with John and Angie. Future episodes and clips will be exclusively available on this new channel.
- AI Tools for Coaches: Insights with Dr. Lisa Turner
This episode features coaches Angie and John discussing AI tools in coaching with Dr. Lisa Turner. They explore the evolving effectiveness of AI, its applications in coaching, and the importance of human-AI collaboration for optimal result…
- Enhancing Connection in Coaching Sessions
This episode focuses on enhancing client connection in coaching sessions. Coach John shares techniques for building rapport, managing energy, and deepening client relationships through various communication strategies. The discussion also…
- When Life Happens: Knowing When to Postpone a Coaching Session
In this episode of the Coaching Clinic, Angie Besignano discusses managing personal energy for effective coaching. She emphasizes the importance of self-care and acknowledges the human aspect of coaches to ensure high-quality sessions.
- Mastering Growth: When and How to Scale Your Coaching Practice
Angie and John discuss the timing and strategy of scaling up a coaching business. They share personal experiences and challenges, emphasizing monitoring progress and strategic planning for expansion.
- Scaling Success: Transitioning from One-to-One to Group Coaching
This episode of the Coaching Clinic discusses how coaches can scale their businesses by transitioning from one-to-one to group coaching. It explores the benefits for both clients and coaches, addresses potential challenges, and offers prac…
- Diving Deeper With Long Term Clients
In this episode, The Coaching Clinic hosts Angie and John discuss maintaining depth and challenge with long-term coaching clients. They explore self-reflection for coaches, recognizing conversational sessions, and ensuring continued value.…
- Reclaiming Influence: Beyond the Superficial Social Media Stereotype
In this episode, Angie and John discuss the concept of "influencers," moving beyond superficial social media stereotypes to emphasize genuine professional expertise and authenticity. They explore the importance of intentional branding, rel…
- Conquer Sales Fear: Angie's Guide to Confidently Promoting Your Coaching Services
In this episode of Coaching Clinic, Angie addresses common sales aversion among coaches. She provides practical tips and mindset shifts for confidently promoting coaching services, emphasizing solutions over product pushing, effective comm…
- Toxic Positivity in Personal Development
This episode of the Coaching Clinic discusses toxic positivity and its potentially harmful effects. John explains how positivity can become detrimental when enforced as the only acceptable emotional state, drawing parallels with cult-like…
- Lead Generation for Coaches: Create & Promote An Effective Lead Magnet
This episode of Coaching Clinic discusses lead generation for coaches, focusing on the importance and creation of effective lead magnets. It covers examples such as quizzes, videos, and eBooks, and mentions tools like Kit and Scorecard app.