Ready Set Coach: Recent Episodes
Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith
Meet Em & Lex - two imperfect six-figure business coaches, co-founders, and friends who decided to combine their superpowers to bring to market something they wish they had when they entered the world of coaching. A real, non-BS, intimate, and fun community built with integrity, intention, and a few glasses of wine. Tune in to hear Em & Lex get real - real about life, business, relationships, and what it really takes to find your version of success in the world of coaching.
This week’s episode focuses on high ticket sales and how to sell without feeling sleazy. Em and Lex discuss the psychological motivations behind purchases, emphasizing the importance of understanding clients' basic needs. They share insights on improving sales strategies for small business owners and coaches, including personalizing the approach and extending invitations rather than making assumptions or convincing.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Tips on how to sell your coaching offering if it’s not selling as hoped
- What role the logical and emotional sales mindsets have in selling your offering
- Tips on auditing yourself on how you buy and sell
- Tips on identifying your trigger moments when selling or buying and why you invested in something for your business
- Understanding how trigger moments play into the marketing and sales process
- The importance of call qualifiers
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Sign up for the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference/Learn More: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/clients
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
- Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR Inc.
This week’s episode focuses on navigating challenging client situations. Em and Lex discuss their experiences with difficult clients—aka the “Karents” of coaching—emphasizing the importance of handling these situations tactfully and professionally. They review common and less common challenges coaches may face with clients, including procrastination and lack of follow-through, and emphasize the importance of setting clear boundaries.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Strategies for managing argumentative and unprepared clients
- Tips on how to set expectations upfront and how to reset if needed
- Different moments that Em and Lex have had with difficult clients, and how they navigated them
- What they’ve learned from those moments
- Different ways to handle certain financial conversations with clients
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Sign up for the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference/Learn More: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/clients
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
- Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR Inc.
This week’s episode discusses reimagining your group coaching program. Em and Lex discuss the opportunity to co-create and evolve a group program at different stages of your coaching business and how to do so authentically and strategically. Em and Lex also introduced the Ready Set Coach (RSC) Accelerator group program. They discuss what it is, how they came up with the idea, who it is serving, and what it means for the future of their programs.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How group programs can evolve through different phases of your business and life
- Tips on figuring out when it’s time to reiterate a group program
- How RSC has evolved and changed with different cohorts
- What Em and Lex have learned from each cohort
- Tips on how to reimage your group program thoughtfully
- What the RSC Accelerator is
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Sign up for the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference/Learn More: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/clients
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
- Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s topic covers how to attract qualified leads for your coaching business. Em & Lex discuss how to define a qualified lead, how to set up parameters to weed out those who are unqualified, and what type of marketing is needed to find them in the first place.
Here’s What You’ll Learn:
- What a qualified lead is, and what factors make a lead qualified
- Tips on attracting the types of people who understand and need what you are selling
- Different considerations of what makes a lead qualified for your business
- Tips on identifying your qualifiers for your business
- How to set up lead qualifies throughout your business
- Tangible things that you can do to weed out the non-qualified leads
- Tips on making sure your branding is attracting the type of clients you want to have
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Sign up for the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference/Learn More: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/clients
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
- Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode is a wellness check-in for ALL coaches. Inspired by a recent personal health event, Em and Lex share their experiences identifying wellness red flags and how to navigate your business and life through different seasons of health.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Real talk on wellness as a business owner
- Tips on identifying red flags ahead of time and focusing on preventative care instead of reactive care
- What Em and Lex have started doing as they continue to get even busier with business and life.
- You can’t pour from an empty cup
- Tips on maintaining your wellness and self-care to be able to pour into your clients
- Ideas on finding solutions that allow you to avoid hitting rock bottom physically, mentally, and emotionally etc.
- Tips on creating a list of things that will support you holistically
- Having your business plan solidly in place so your team can help you if you have to take time for wellness
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Sign up for the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference/Learn More: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/clients
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
- Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode discusses managing client expectations in the coaching industry. Em and Lex discuss how to help set and manage expectations with potential and active clients from the sales call through the end of a coaching engagement.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Tools that Em and Lex use while they are working with clients to help set expectations
- Why it’s important to set expectations early on in the coach-client relationship
- Meeting your clients where they are and operating with a solution-driven mindset
- Your role as a coach
- The importance of boundaries as a coach
- How Em and Lex have set boundaries for themselves to maintain being able to show up for your clients
- How setting expectations at the get-go can help your clients appreciate and value your time together, coaching more
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Sign up for the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference/Learn More: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/clients
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
- Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode recaps the lessons Em and Lex learned after hosting their first conference for Ready Set Coach last week. They break down what went well, what didn’t go as well, and changes they would make in the future. For any coach interested in hosting a virtual conference, take a listen!
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What the conference was and how they pulled it off
- Reflections on the lessons they learned in putting on the conference
- How the conference worked being entirely virtual
- Reflections on how a smaller volume of attendees worked out better than a large volume
- What worked well for marketing, and what didn’t.
- Objections that came up in the sales process
- Challenges and successes hosting day of
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Sign up for the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference/Learn More: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/clients
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
- Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode focuses on how to build and scale your coaching team. Em and Lex discuss their own experiences with building their team - from their hires to their first fires, and lessons learned. They explore the pros and cons of different hiring structures and how to know when you’re ready to expand your coaching team.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Tips on when to hire your first team member for your coaching business
- What indications come up that may alert you to needing to hire another team member
- Their tips on when to start the process of hiring and how to go about firing
- Best hiring practices and the importance of creating SOPs
- How to set expectations and communicate with your new hire
- The benefits and challenges of remote hires
- How you can strategically continue to build your team as you scale
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Grab your ticket for the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference on May 13th here: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/clients
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Sign up for the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference/Learn More: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/clients
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode focuses on 5 different reasons Em & Lex have seen other coaches fail. Drawing from real-world examples, they also share how these reflections can be reframed as an opportunity for growth. They emphasize the importance of mindset, self-awareness, time management, and marketing. They wrap things up by offering a way to audit your own business to ensure you’re not making one of these common mistakes.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What having a scarcity mindset means, and how it affects your coaching business
- How desperate energy is transferable onto sales calls
- Some of the main reasons businesses fail in a cyclical fashion
- Why time dictates whether a coach finds success, or not
- Tips on setting realistic time expectations
- The concept of trend hopping, how to avoid it, and what to do instead
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Grab your ticket for the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference on May 13th here: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/clients
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Sign up for the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference/Learn More: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/clients
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
- Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode focuses on what tools Em and Lex use in the Ready Set Coach community and what works and doesn’t. Em and Lex share their favorite types of business tools, including apps, software, extensions, programs, and more. They discuss what works well in each one and what they use within their businesses and workflows.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Types of apps and systems Em and Lex use for the Ready Set Coach Community
- What they like about apps, software and systems
- What elements worked and what didn’t
- Different solutions for specific systems they’ve both experimented with
- What systems they use for purchases of services
- Types of plug-ins and tools that work best for payments
- Ways they try to connect their community members and platforms that work for the type of community they want to have
- Tips on looking at what types of paid subscriptions of services would work best for your business
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Sign up for the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference/Learn More: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/clients
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
- Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode is a minisode with Lex. Lex breaks down tips and ways to develop a thought-leader mentality to support thought leadership efforts, an important and effective PR strategy for coaches. Lex talks about her B.A.R. method and the different elements of the acronym that help you create an action plan to support your thought leader journey.
Here’s What You’ll Learn:
- Tips on things you can do once a week to get uncomfortable and get bold
- Why you should Always be learning in your industry and niche
- Tips on furthering your education in your niche or business
- Tips on mindset practices to help build a thought leadership mentality
- Lessons learned from using the B.A.R Action plan
- Homework on writing down your action plan
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Sign up for the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference/Learn More: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/clients
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
- Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode is a special episode announcing the new era that Ready Set Coach is entering into… the conference era. Em and Lex announce the launch of the Ready Set CLIENTS conference, a virtual one-day lead generation summit for coaches only, packed with opportunities for learning and growth. Taking place on May 13th, this conference is for coaches with existing businesses who are looking for more clients. Em and Lex walk listeners through what this virtual coaching conference will offer and how the inception of this conference came to be.
Here’s What You’ll Learn:
- The inception of the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference, taking place on May 13th
- How Em and Lex decided to do a virtual conference
- Types of pain points that they’ve faced as coaches that they are going to touch on
- What other businesses and networking tips Em and Lex use to grow Ready Set Coach
- How they’re putting their skills together to create this intensive one-day conference to learn all of the networking tips, tricks, and social media strategies to help get more clients
- How this conference is a designated time to grow and learn
- How you will walk away with an event timeline
- The learning and doing of this conference
- The cadence of the day
- VIP Perks are offered with your ticket purchase
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Sign up for the Ready Set CLIENTS Conference/Learn More: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/clients
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
- Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode focuses on what it takes to scale your coaching business. Em and Lex share their experiences scaling their coaching businesses and the different obstacles they encountered. They talk about the importance of delegation in your business, and what it means to put on your CEO hat. As they both look to further scaling, they discuss the mindset shifts needed to create more room for you as the business owner or coach to continue growing.
Here’s What You’ll Learn:
- What it takes to scale a coaching business
- The importance of delegation when scaling
- Different tips and tricks for delegating different aspects of your business
- How to create more space for you as the boss to pay attention to growing the bottom line
- Mindset shifts that come up, and are needed as you look to scale your coaching business
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
- Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week, listeners will hear another guest episode with Colynn O’Brien, founding attorney at Iluma Law Firm and Business Coach. Colynn started her law firm for female founders in 2021 after identifying a gap in the industry for legal support for females. Colynn has been integrated with Ready Set Coach in many ways. Beyond completing the Ready Set Coach program herself, Em and Lex discuss how they, in turn, hired Colynn to help them get Ready Set Coach trademarked. They review different aspects of coaching where legal support is needed and where to get started if the category feels overwhelming.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How and why Colynn started her law firm specific to women founders
- Tips and legal advice for coaches
- What it takes to own your trademark and what the trademark process entails
- Different ideas to keep yourself accountable to be paying attention to the legal aspects of creating your business
- The benefits of business insurance and how to get it
- Types of business insurance that is helpful for coaches
- What types of general liability insurance should you have as coaching business
- And more!
Listener Links:
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colynn-o-brien-2551588a/
- Website: https://www.ilumalaw.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lawyercolynn/
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
- Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s guest episode features Lindsay Yellin of Yellin Coaching. Lindsay and Lex discuss possibility-driven leadership and how Lindsay got into the coaching world. She shares how listeners can identify and clarify their values, find career clarity, and adapt a game-changing mindset shift that can help leaders and coaches everywhere.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Career cliff notes on how Lindsay launched her coaching business.
- How she found her career clarity.
- How her burnout experience clarified her values and transitioned her into working full time as a coach.
- Lindsay and Lex reflect on the jobs and moments in their careers where they realized what type of life they wanted to live.
- Tips on doing the work to understand yourself and your values and how that translates into your career.
- What does Possibility-driven leadership mean, and how can it transform your life and career?
- Tips on identifying if coaching is the correct route for you depending on what you feel in reflective moments.
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Lindsay’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindsay-yellin-coaching/
- Website: https://www.yellincoaching.com/
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/lindsayyellin/
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode focuses on what to do when everyone has a price objection. Em and Lex speak to their own experiences of handling pricing objections and give tips on what to do when leads are pushing back against your pricing. They review how to navigate identifying if your pricing really is the problem, or if it’s another issue entirely.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How to determine if someone has a pricing objection, or if the real objection is masked.
- Tips on how to get people to buy in to your price point
- Indications and tips on when you might be pricing incorrectly
- Understanding how to navigate price objections
- Examples of price ranges based on different services and items
- How different people equate value in different ways
- Reminders on owning your worth and feeling confident in your rates
- And more!
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode features guest Emily Guerra, Founder of The Productivity Flow and personal productivity life coach. Emily discusses how she found the Ready Set Coach Community through the podcast and connecting with Em and Lex. While Lex is abroad across the ocean, both Emily’s discuss how Emily G. founded The Productivity Flow and what it means to find productivity as a coach. She breaks down some of her coaching tips and tricks for being productive in the day while working as your own boss and working on your coaching business. She talks about different things she does daily to keep herself working productively throughout the day.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Emily G.’s origin story in how she got connected with Em and Lex
- How being a community leader has been fulfilling for Emily
- The benefit of having a community around you as a coach working for yourself
- How Emily navigates being a solo entrepreneur and the only employee of her own company and the freedom and flexibility
- Tools and tips for productivity and staying on task as a coach working for yourself
- Tips on visualizing yourself being productive and working productively throughout the day
- Ideas on how to outline your tasks for the next workday
- Different software and planners she uses to outline work days and using time blocks to keep tasks going throughout the day
- And more!
Listener Links:
- Visit the Productivity Flow: https://linktr.ee/theproductivityflow
- Connect with Emily Guerra on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emily-guerra-the-productivity-flow/
- Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack:
- https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
- Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
- Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
- Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week's Ready Set Coach podcast episode delves into the world of podcasting from a coach's perspective. Join Em and Lex as they share their insights and experiences on starting and maintaining a podcast. They explore the growing popularity of podcasts, the dedication required to keep one running smoothly, and strategies for engaging your audience. Tune in as they also cover the essential pre-recording groundwork and launch tips for aspiring podcasters.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Tips on how to start a podcast in the coaching industry
- How Em and Lex started their podcasts
- What they enjoy about podcasting
- How a podcast can help boost your business
- How to keep your audience engaged
- Tips on networking to find guests for your podcast
- Tips on monetizing your podcast
- And more!
Listener Links:
Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack:
https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
Learn more about Second Degree Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode walks listeners through how to prepare for and embrace different seasons of your business. Em and Lex focus on coaching businesses, but the practical advice applies across industries. Gain wisdom on managing life's different seasons, both expected and unpredictable, and understand their impact on your business. The episode delves into the specific seasons of a coaching business, offering actionable tips for preparation and strategies to sustain momentum.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Strategies for navigating both predictable and unpredictable life moments in business planning.
- Unique approaches to preparation based on the different seasons your business may encounter.
- Tips for embracing and effectively handling various business seasons.
- Real-life examples from Em and Lex, showcasing how they've prepared for different seasons in their business.
- Practical advice for managing unexpected life events, allowing space for grace during challenging times.
- Exploration of different business-affecting seasons beyond the conventional understanding.
- Tips and ideas for considering the financial impact of seasonal coaching on your business.
- And more!
Listener Links:
Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack:
https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
In this week’s episode, Em and Lex break down the ins and outs of what to do after a failed launch in the coaching industry. Whether it be launching online courses or group programs and having no one sign up or failing to meet your goals, they walk listeners through the different steps of what to do post a failed launch. The hosts speak about their own experiences with failure and what they learned from them. They conduct a four-step mock post-mortem and coach the listener on what lessons to look for in the breakdown.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Tips from seasoned coaches’ experiences with failure
- Tips for what to do after a failed launch
- Tips on how to organize your process before a launch
- What elements of a failed launch to pay attention to
- How to break down what worked and what didn’t in any launch
- How to strategize next steps after failure
- How to track various metrics during the sales process
- And more!
Listener Links:
Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack:
https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
In this week’s episode, Em and Lex discuss how long it takes to actually grow a successful coaching business. They talk timelines and break down their own experiences with growing their respective businesses and recap some of their clients’ journeys to success. They review the factors that impact how fast a business can or will grow, and review the critical components that lead to quick success.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Factors that impact how fast your coaching business will grow
- Behind the scenes of how long it took Em & Lex to surpass six-figures
- What can help your coaching business grow faster
- How long it took some of Em & Lex’s clients at Ready Set Coach to achieve success
- How the market can impact the time it takes to grow a successful coaching business
- And more!
Listener Links:
Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack:
https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode answers the question, should you expand your niche? When a Ready Set Coach graduate has a topic request, Em and Lex start coaching. They ask the listeners the following questions: Should you expand your niche? When do you expand your niche? And if you should, how do you expand your niche? Em and Lex break down what a niche can consist of and what that means for your coaching business. Most coaching niches have several layers. Em and Lex talk through different scenarios and offer tips on how to best operate through each one.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What makes up a niche
- How to manage the nuances of a niche
- How to determine different niches within types of clients you’ve already coached
- How niches evolve through a business journey
- Tips on experimenting with niches for different clients
- Tips on how to niche down for your coaching business
- Tips on auditing past clients and analyzing data
- Tips on committing to expand your niche
- And more!
Listener Links:
Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack:
https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
Join the Ready Set Coach Community: www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
In this week’s episode, Em and Lex dive into what they learned being back in the buyer's seat as they shopped Ad Coaches and programs - a new skill they’re looking to learn and to leverage for the Ready Set Coach Community. They explain how their observations can be leveraged to help listeners get more clients.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How Em and Lex first got started in coaching
- What it was like being the buyer's seat when they first started their journey, and what they were looking for and cared about back then
- How (and why) they plan to leverage paid advertising
- What they’ve learned being back in the buyer’s seat at this point in their business
- What things they looked for and cared about when vetting different coaches and programs - and what factored into their final selection.
- How their observations can be leveraged to help listeners rock the sales call and get more paying clients
- And more!
Listener Links:
Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack:
https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachprogram
Join the Ready Set Coach Community: readysetcoachcommunity.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode walks through Em and Lex’s predictions for the top coaching industry trends of 2024. One week into the new year, Em and Lex predict what 2024 will look like for coaching and the trends that the market supports. Tune in this week’s episode to stay ahead of the 2024 coaching trends.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Trends expected to appear in the coaching industry in 2024
- Trends that indicate more in-person events in 2024
- Trends they expect that the market will support based on market research
- Tips about future hybrid coaching models
- Tips on how to support neurodiversity in coaching
- Em and Lex’s thoughts on the health and wellness coaching space
- Em and Lex’s thoughts on shifts in entrepreneurship
- Tips on where to focus social efforts going into the next year
- Tips on getting out the comfort zones and making the jump
- And more!
Listener Links:
Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack:
https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachprogram
Join the Ready Set Coach Community: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/community
Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode lays out the blueprint for nailing sales calls every time. Em and Lex walk through their five step approach to sales calls in an effort to take the pressure off the idea of “making a sale” and instead offer a strategy that yields results. They take listeners through the evolution of a sales call, offering tips to change one’s mindset, tactics to change perspectives during a call, and the variety of ways to close on a sale. Em and Lex discuss everything from their preparation tips, like writing out a script beforehand, to the many ways listeners can succeed as a coach before the sales call ends. The skills needed to nail sales calls can take years to develop but luckily listeners of the Ready Set Coach podcast have Em and Lex to help grow their businesses.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Tips on how to naile sales calls every time
- How to successfully get clients from the sales funnel to the sales call
- How to overcome the intimidating aspects of selling
- Tips on the initial approach to a sales call
- Tips on overcoming imposter syndrome
- The five step blueprint to nail a sales calls
- Tips on mindset and preparation for sales calls
- How Em and Lex’s experience allowed for smoother sales calls for RSC
- And more!
Listener Links:
Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack:
https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachprogram
Join the Ready Set Coach Community: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/community
Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode focuses on two of the most powerful coaching and life skills.. Em and Lex discuss the importance of active listening and provide tips and best practices for listeners to be present at all times with clients and coworkers, and how to tune out distractions to better actively participate in discussions. Em and Lex also discuss an aspect of their coaching toolkit that includes asking open-ended questions to clients that can help fast-track finding solutions and seeing results.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Tips on how to be a good active listener
- Why turning off distractions is important
- How active listening helps in coaching and life overall
- Tips on taking effective notes during sales calls
- Their thoughts on listening barriers and different types of questions to ask clients
- The different types of questions that generate action, reflection or response
- And more!
Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack:
https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
Join the Ready Set Coach Community: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/community
Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
Nicole Hartwig Landau is the head of the community for Dreamers & Doers, an award-winning community and PR Hype Machine™ amplifying extraordinary women entrepreneurs, investors, and leaders. Nicole is a 2x founder and adjunct professor at Parsons School of Design. Em and Lex (in person from Denver, CO, together on screen) interview Nicole about how to create and grow a community, how to foster community engagement, and how to know whether or now you should build a community of your own.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- All about the Dreamers & Doers community
- Nicole Landau’s entrepreneurial journey and how she became the Head of Community at Dreamers & Doers
- The different strategies that Dreamers & Doers has utilized in growing and maintaining their membership
- Tips on how to foster engagement within community
- How to know if building a community is the right next step for you
- And more!
Connect with Nicole: https://www.instagram.com/nicolehartwiglandau/
Learn about Dreamers & Doers: https://www.instagram.com/dreamersdoers/
https://www.dreamersdoers.com/get-amplified
Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack:
https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
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In this week’s episode, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith break down the cycles of procrastination and how it can impact your goals. They break down the reasons for procrastination and offer strategies to overcome the cycle to stop procrastinating in your business and life.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Different examples of how procrastination appears in business and life
- How procrastination can impact your goals
- The root causes of procrastination
- Tips on how to realize you’re procrastinating
- Strategies to stop procrastinating in business and life
- Em & Lex’s self-reflections on how they operate or procrastinate
- And more!
Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack:
https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
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Join the Ready Set Coach Community: readysetcoachcommunity.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week Em & Lex chat with Reese Evans, Founder of Yes Supply. Reese is a Master Success + Abundance Coach, Trainer of NLP, Hypnosis, EFT, Energy Work, and Success Coaching, and founder of YES SUPPLY INC. Reese shares her story of how she got into the coaching space, what coaching certifications she completed, and why and how she ultimately created her own coaching certification program.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Reese’s founder, coaching and career journey
- How she developed her philosophies and skillsets as a coach
- Her journey with coaching certification and lessons learned
- Why and how she created her own coaching certification program through Yes Supply
- Things to think about if you’re considering going through or building a coaching certification program
- All about the Yes Supply Method
- And more!
Learn about YES SUPPLY: https://www.yessupply.co/
Connect with Reese: https://www.instagram.com/yessupply/
Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack:
https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
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Join the Ready Set Coach Community: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/community
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week’s episode is focused on starting and building your reputation in the coaching industry. Em and Lex break down their reputation-building strategies to establish authority and sign clients.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How Em and Lex got their start building their business reputations
- The importance of being aware of how you interact with people and clients
- Reputation-building strategies when you’re just starting out
- The different steps of building your reputation
- How your client’s success can directly impact your reputation
- And more!
Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
Join the Ready Set Coach Community: https://www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
In this episode, Em and Lex break down why they decided to turn their signature Ready Set Coach group program into a passive online course, the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack. They break exactly how they did it, and lessons learned along the way.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Suggested business models they have when starting out as a new coach
- They look back at the five cohorts that have gone through the Ready Set Coach Group Program
- How they fine-tuned their program as the world evolved
- Em and Lex’s plans for the Ready Set Coach online community and how to get their content out to the masses at an accessible price point
- When and how to know if you’re ready to launch a passive online course
- All about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack, and the steps they took to create it
- And more!
Learn More about the Ready Set Coach Launch Pack: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/launch
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
Join the Ready Set Coach Community: https://www.readysetcoachcommunity.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
In this episode, Em, Lex chat with Messaging & Storytelling Coach Carolyn Stine about the challenges of navigating controversy while being coaches. Carolyn offers tips on navigating those moments thoughtfully and looking within yourself and your own goals to help along the way.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Hear how Carolyn Stine started her own coaching business
- Em and Carolyn’s relationship and journey into coachingHow Carolyn’s life journey led down the path of being a coach
- The steps Carolyn took to honor the coach within herself
- Tips on navigating controversy as a coach while promoting your offer
- Tips on navigating controversy in the world of coaching overall and how that can impact a business
- And more!
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Join the Ready Set Coach Community: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/community
Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachcommunity.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
Engage with Carolyn Stine:
Website: https://www.carolynstineconsulting.com/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/carolynbstine/
In this week’s episode, Em and Lex walk through marketing and the client journey. They pull back the curtain and specifically review how they signed their last 9 high ticket clients and the unique marketing and sales funnel each of those individuals underwent signing. They offer homework to both new coaches and seasoned coaches on things to audit and work on to improve client close rates.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Learn Em and Lex’s thoughts on how to sign high-ticket clients
- Hear tips on the client journey and what it takes to get a client to sign
- Their tips and tricks for signing high-ticket clients
- Examples of the specific marketing tactics that brought them their last 9 paying clients.
- How to audit your own actions to better be able to sign more clients
- And more!
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachcommunity
Join the Ready Set Coach Community: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/community
Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachcommunity.com
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Em and Lex ARE BACK! This episode, the first episode of season 2, reviews what lies ahead in Season 2 of the Ready Set Coach Podcast and reflects on the lessons Emily and Lexie have learned thus far during the launch of the free Ready Set Coach community.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How Em and Lex decided to start the RSC Community
- Who the community is for
- Their plans for their community and how it will grow
- What’s in store for season 2
- Some of their guest experts they will interview
- What lessons they have learned in launching the Ready Set Coach Community
- And more!
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachprogram
Join the Ready Set Coach Community: https://www.readysetcoachprogram.com/community
Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachcommunity.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This special drop episode explains more about Ready Set Coach 2.0. Em and Lex talk about the Ready Set Coach Community and what’s inside the new community. They give an update on the upcoming new podcast season and talk about the new Ready Set Coach community launch. Hear who this community is for and how to apply to be a part of the new community platform where you can learn, develop, sound board and review as female coaches.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How the community runs
- How Em and Lex are entering into a season of impact
- How to apply for the new community
- Why Em and Lex decided to create this community
- Who this community is for
- Their visions for the future of the podcast and the program
- And more!
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachprogram
Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
The 60th episode of the Ready Set Coach Podcast wraps up the first season of the show. Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith update listeners on the current status of their cohort, and what listeners can expect for Ready Set Coach 2.0 (coming soon!)
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This week is a fun episode that has a lesson in the pun… Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith talk about how to enter into your Taylor Swift era of coaching. They talk about Taylor Swift’s different eras and their pivotal role in her journey to success. They relate the icon’s journey to different stages of launching, growing, and scaling a coaching business, discussing key takeaways.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How Taylor Swift’s eras compare to launching and growing a coaching business
- Tips on how to work through those transitional periods
- They compare the specific eras that Taylor was in and how those times can compare to what it’s like becoming and evolving as a coach
- Unspoken truths about coaching that Em and Lex have personally experienced
- How the different Taylor eras reflect different times in life and business
- Identifying what era you are in now and what era you want to get into next
- And more on all things Taylor Swift…
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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This week’s special minisode is about Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith discussing overcoming a funk and resetting your motivation. Em and Lex share valuable tips and strategies for handling difficult days when you feel down or lack motivation. They’ll emphasize the importance of validating your feelings and share helpful ways to cope when the hard days arise.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The overarching theme is that we are all human and going through the trials of life
- Tips for handling days when motivation is low
- The importance of validating your feelings
- How Em and Lex have helped each other through life and business woes
- Strategies for identifying solutions to handle your feelings
- The benefits of spending time outdoors and fueling your body
- Special stretches led by Em to increase blood flow and reset your mind
- And more!
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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This week, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith dive into time-saving hacks and strategies for coaches, sharing their personal approaches in their multi-business lives. They reflect on the evolving landscape of business promotion and the latest influence of technologies such as ChatGPT and AI. Beyond tech, Em and Lex share different techniques to help improve overall business productivity and efficiency.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The reality about having “not enough time”
- Reflections on the pros and cons of AI and ChatGPT
- What Em and Lex think about ChatGPT and its application in business
- Warnings about using ChatGPT in the coaching industry
- The importance of maintaining your unique point of view
- Tips on using new technologies for more effective time-saving strategies
- Time-saving strategies to apply to your business
- How to use AI to help prompt content ideas for promotion or social media
- Em and Lex’s approaches to juggling multiple projects and businesses while saving time
- How to use habit stacking and content blocking techniques to save time
- Scheduling tools and systems used by Em and Lex
- And more!
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachprogram
Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith discuss how to build and establish credibility as you begin your coaching journey and build your business. They talk through common perceptions (and misconceptions) of the title ‘coach’, and share valuable tips on how to build and establish credibility regardless of which phase you’re at in your coaching business. Additionally, they reflect on their journeys as coaches and tactics that have been helpful in developing their own credibility.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Perceptions (and misconceptions) of the title coach - and alternative words and titles to use
- Tips on establishing credibility as a coach
- Effective language that highlights your coaching expertise
- How to position your resume to highlight your credibility as a coach
- Ideas on how to build up a credible network to establish authority
- How Em and Lex started getting testimonials from their coaching clients
- The power of collaborations, speaking events, and case studies in building credibility
- And more!
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachprogram
Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith discuss different strategic partnership ideas that coaches can use to grow their businesses. They give personal examples, review campaigns that have worked for their clients, and share what it takes for a partnership to ultimately be deemed successful in and out of the coaching world.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Examples of what a strategic partnership can look like
- Tips on creating and leading in a partnership for your coaching business
- Strategic partnership ideas and campaigns that have been successful for Em and Lex’s businesses
- Different buckets of collaboration
- How to curate an email list that brings in people to your events and partnerships
- How collaborations can be mutually beneficial
- Tips on deciding what you want from a partnership and what you have to offer
- And more!
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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This week’s episode takes listeners behind the scenes of what is looks like when you’ve achieved “success” in life, entrepreneurship, and running a coaching business. Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith reflect on their transitions into entrepreneurship, the highs and lows involved in running a business, and how social media rarely ever shares the full story of someone’s journey.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Em and Lex reflect on their corporate journies and what went on “behind the resume”
- Behind the scenes of their lives in their early career years
- A reminder that it’s rare to know what’s going on “behind the curtain” in someone’s life
- Learnings from past failures and how they apply it to their businesses today
- What successful moments have looked like for Em and Lex
- What not-so-successful moments looked like for them as well
- Tips on cultivating your community for your own business and self
- And more
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith discuss the ‘should’s’ and shouldn’ts of adding a coaching offer to your existing business. They discuss their own experience in adding a coaching revenue stream, and how they evolved in their own businesses in doing so. Tune in to hear their tips on both what to consider and what to do to create more impact and revenue with coaching.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Tips on how to add a coaching offering to your existing business
- Em and Lex’s experience in how they created their own coaching offerings
- How to price your coaching offer
- Lexie breaks down her PR journey and evolution of her coaching business to now opening up an agency branch
- Tips on making sure your offering fits within your personality and your business model
- The shoulds and shouldn’ts of adding a coaching offering to an existing business
- And more!
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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In this week’s episode, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith are joined by executive functioning coach Corie Wightlin. Corie, Em, and Lex discuss overcoming overwhelm in life and business and taming your inner critic. Corie shares tangible practices to improve executive functioning that listeners can implement immediately and reveals how neurodiversity relates to coaching much more than you might think.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The science behind the pre-frontal cortex and how it allows us to think critically
- What an executive functioning coach is
- The difference between neurodiversity and executive functioning
- How what Corie teaches applies to coaches and their businesses
- Advice on taming your inner critic
- Tips on what to do when you are experiencing overwhelm in your business
- How to reduce stress to increase productivity
- And more!
Find Corie Wightlin on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/wightlincoachingservices/?hl=en
Explore her website: https://wightlincoachingservices.com/about-corie
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachprogram
Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
In this week’s episode, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith discuss whether or not pivoting your coaching business is strategic or if it’s an excuse masking a different issue. They break down what a successful, smart pivot looks like versus an unsuccessful, counter-productive pivot, and share how listeners can decipher where they fall between the two.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What it means to pivot in business
- How the coaching industry has changed post-pandemic
- Thoughts on how businesses have used pivoting to cover up something else that’s going wrong in their business
- Examples of successful pivots they have seen
- Examples of unsuccessful pivots they have seen clients make
- How pivots can be used to give business owners an easy out when they don’t want to stick to the “long game”
- Tips on being comfortable in and excited about what your selling
- How to know if your inclination to pivot is strategic or not
- And more!
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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In the 50th episode of the Ready Set Coach Podcast, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith discuss their experiences and insights from launching the podcast and program. They explore the strategies behind the podcast's launch and highlight commonalities among successful Ready Set Coach Program participants. They conclude by guiding maximizing personal and business growth through coaching investments.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Learn how the Ready Set Coach Podcast came to be
- Hear how Lexie and Emily started the Ready Set Coach Program
- Hear the challenges they faced when entering the coaching industry
- Common traits and actions they’ve seen their most successful clients take both in and out of the program.
- More about the upcoming Ready Set Coach Cohort
- How to maximize your coaching investments
- And more
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachprogram
Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith chat about choosing the right social media platform to market your coaching business. They talk about different social platforms they’ve utilized in their businesses, how they track growth metrics, and the main things to consider when selecting where to put your efforts when launching and growing your coaching business.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The different types of social media platforms that you can market your coaching business on
- How to know where your ideal clients are hanging out on social media
- How to measure your growth across different social platforms
- What to consider when deciding which social platforms to invest your time in
- Learn how to leverage your personal strengths to grow your coaching business authentically on social media
- And more!
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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In this episode, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith drop tips on how to step away from busyness as a coach. They break down what busyness might look like in different phases of your business life and share necessary mindset reframes they’ve utilized to find a healthier relationship with time and reduce overwhelm.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Em & Lex’s best time management tips for coaches
- What systems Em and Lex use to help with their busyness as coaches
- How elements of time and being busy ultimately become a choice
- Different tips on how to reframe busyness to regain control of your schedule and life
- The reality behind feeling overwhelmed with a never-ending to-do list
- And more!
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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Hear 7 things Lex loves and hates about being a coach. In this minisode, Lex breaks down the less obvious things to prepare for in your coaching business and reviews what she likes and dislikes about the industry and her job.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The 7 things Lex loves and hates about being a coach
- How holding space for others can be both exciting and exhausting - and how to protect yourself in the process
- How many coaches aren’t prepared for how much admin and operational work is involved in running a business
- Tips on dealing with inconsistent revenue and crafting your business model to become consistent
- The need to adjust and adapt to different learning styles as a coach
- Her experience building her offer suite to support her lifestyle and the flexibility that comes along with being a coach
- The highs and lows you may experience in the coaching industry
- The reality that hits when your clients do (and don’t) get or see results
- And more!
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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This week’s episode is a solo episode from Emily Merrell! She breaks down different things she sees when people start their side hustles or coaching businesses. She breaks down the mindset behind promoting yourself on social media, sending newsletters, and other ways to show up when starting your business. She offers tips on getting over that mindset, making money, and promoting yourself in your business.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Examples of Em’s objections when she started Six Degrees Society on promoting herself and how she got over that
- How she started making money with her business
- Breaking down the mindsets with all of the things when starting their business
- How she separated herself from her business when promoting events
- Reframing being annoyed to providing value
- Her tips on sending newsletters about events
- And more on showing up for yourself and your business!
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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This week, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith talk about how to build sales funnels for your coaching business and have fun with funnels! They reveal their own personal sales funnels that are running behind the scenes at THEPRBAR, Six Degrees Society, and Ready Set Coach and review what types of sales funnels are the best fit based on your unique coaching model.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What a sales funnel is, and how it applies to your coaching business
- Lexie’s personal sales funnel for her 1:1 coaching offerings at THEPRBAR inc.
- Why Lexie chose to build the sales funnel, to help qualify leads
- Emily’s experience with automating funnels for her company, Six Degrees Society
- How Emily utilizes email sequences in her funnel and why this works for her offerings
- Different systems to have your funnels in place and examples of how Em and Lex have used the systems
- How to select and build the best sales funnel for your coaching business
- And More!
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith are event pros! In this episode, they share different ways to leverage events to grow your coaching business. They talk about different types of events, how to create and market events, and how to utilize them to grow your audience and attract new coaching leads to your business.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Examples of events Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith did in their early careers
- How events helped them establish their client bases
- How they use events to grow Ready Set Coach
- Types of events you can create as a coach
- How events are essential to PR
- How to think of yourself as a teacher when hosting an event
- How to leverage events to grow your coaching business and clientele
- Figuring out which type of event works best for your coaching business
- Some of the first events Em and Lex hosted for Ready Set Coach
- How different types of events can help you find your ideal clients
- And More!
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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This week, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith talk about how to conduct market research for your coaching business. They speak to the importance of conducting market research in your coaching area as well as overall in the industry. They review the important types of market research, how you can conduct such for your own practice, and how to use and apply market research findings in the overall development and growth of your coaching business.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What market research and how it is used for coaching businesses
- Two types of market research Em & Lex suggest you gather for your coaching practice
- Examples of how Ready Set Coach integrates market research in their module teachings
- What competitor research can do for your business
- Tips on how getting in front of your audience can help you audit your offering and figure out what customers actually want
- Examples of market research questions that you can use on a market research call
- How to use and apply market research to develop your offerings and grow your coaching business
- How to find people who are willing to participate in market research calls
- And more!
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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In this episode, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith break down the different ways to position yourself within the coaching industry. From messaging to pricing to sales and more, hear the duo talk through various positioning strategies that can make you stand out in the crowded coaching world.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Different ways you can be perceived in the coaching world
- Different elements that factor into your positioning, such as messaging
- How to position yourself on social media in an authentic way
- Different tiers of offerings you can provide based on how you want your coaching business to be perceived
- How the client experience is affected (or should be altered) by how you decide to position yourself as a coach
- How different levels of exclusivity affect your price point when curating your offering
- The importance of credibility when you are going after the luxury and high-ticket market as a coach
- Tips on positioning yourself as more accessible to a larger client base
- And More!
In this episode, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith dive into how to navigate being triggered while living and working in a digital world. They get personal and share their own experiences of getting triggered on social media and how they’ve navigated accordingly. They explore the root cause of triggers and discuss actional ways listeners and coaches can navigate in today’s digital landscape.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Examples of triggers they have seen and experienced in personal and business life
- How triggers can business triggers are often attached to something much more personal
- How to acknowledge triggers and explore the root cause
- Examples of the ‘shoulds’ they see come up in motherhood and business
- How triggers can be a positive motivator and help you to take action
- Strategies for dealing with people or places that trigger you
- The benefit of looking at things from an empathetic viewpoint
- How to set boundaries with yourself and your triggers
- And More!
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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How do you do it all?! Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith walk listeners through how to manage time to add a new coaching revenue stream or side hustle to your life. They review best practices and considerations for those working full-time, existing business owners diversifying their offerings, and multi-passionate entrepreneurs and business owners looking to get into the coaching world.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How Em and Lex personally time manage their multiple businesses - Ready Set Coach, Six Degrees Society, and THEPRBAR inc.
- How to manage launching a coaching side hustle while still working full-time.
- How to allocate time to start a coaching revenue stream in your existing business
- Examples of systems that Em and Lex use in managing their own businesses
- Mindset reframes on time management and tangible tips to try yourself
- The importance of making space in life outside of business
- And More
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
This week, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith walk through how to pick the best marketing strategy for your coaching business. They review various common marketing strategies on the market and discuss how to choose which will ultimately work best for you and your coaching practice.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Examples of different marketing strategies that exist for new coaches
- How to take inventory of what works for you as an individual in marketing
- How a strategy can only work if it aligns with your strengths
- Marketing strategies that Em & Lex have used personally - what worked, and what didn’t
- The key to activating an effective marketing strategy for your coaching business
- What to avoid when marketing your coaching practice
- And More!
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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This week, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith discuss the most common places they see coaches drop the ball when it comes to launching and growing a successful coaching business. They reframe ‘dropping the ball’ as opportunities for growth and improvement. Tune in to hear what common mistakes you can avoid when starting and running a coaching business.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The most common mistakes Em & Lex see coaches making in the sales process
- The importance (and opportunity) of follow ups
- Why it’s critical to never assume anything, and ways to reframe an assumption to your and your client’s benefit
- The marketing mistakes they see coaches routinely making - and how to avoid doing such yourself
- How to improve your sales close rate
- Other common places coaches drop the ball and homework on how to turn them into opportunities for your own coaching practice
- And More!
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How many clients can you really take on as a coach? In this episode, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith talk about how to set your client's capacity as a coach. They speak to how to determine such throughout different seasons of life, and the reality of how much time a single client truly takes. Reflecting on their experiences dealing with fluctuating workloads and capacity, they share tangible tips and homework on how listeners can avoid burnout or boredom.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The number one element that is key in determining and setting your capacity as a coach
- Tips on how to take inventory of your own energy levels
- How finding the time of the day that you work best in is critical
- The definition of a super-user and under-user is in coaching, and how each affect your capacity overall
- How much time it truly takes to service a coaching client or a group program
- That it’s OK to change your capacity throughout different seasons of your life and business
- And More!
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
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In this bonus episode, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith, co-founders of Ready Set Coach, break down what the Ready Set Coach Program actually is! Learn what’s involved, the nuts and bolts of the program, who it’s for, what topics are covered, what makes the program unique, and when doors are open to their next and upcoming cohorts.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- All about the Ready Set Coach Program
- The different iterations the program has gone through
- What the program looks like today
- Who this program is geared toward serving
- The nitty gritty details of how the program works
- What they dive into during bi-weekly meetings
- The types of modules they cover
- What makes the program unique
- And More!
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This week, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith outline different ways to monetize a coaching business. They speak to the importance of diversifying your revenue streams and exploring the various products and services that can seamlessly be added to a coaching business model.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Tips on how to diversify your coaching offering suite
- Ideas on how to create more revenue streams within your pre-existing business
- What affiliate marketing can do for your coaching business as an added revenue stream
- How to monetize partnerships and collaborations with other businesses
- What passive income and how can it be added to your coaching business
- Different things you can offer on an online store that makes sense for coaching
- How to create and monetize a membership for your coaching practice
- How speaking, events, writing, podcasts, and moderation can act as added revenue streams
- And More!
This week, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith dive into the world of Client Relations and break down how to deal with client red flags in the coaching industry. They share lessons learned the hard way, and how to ethically and professionally deal with a variety of challenging client issues in real-time - from clients wanting out of a contract to say no to the wrong fit, to payment issues, and beyond.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Tips on how to handle a client who wants to break the contract
- Different ways to productively decline working with a client if they’re the wrong fit.
- Em & Lex’s personal experiences dealing with different client red flags
- How to approach tough client conversations professionally
- What to do when you encounter billing problems with a client
- Best practices for seamless client billing
- What your job is as a coach and what it isn’t
- And more!
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In this episode, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith break down ways to avoid burnout when launching your coaching business, revenue stream, or side hustle. They provide personal tips that have enabled them to avoid burnout in their own businesses and share a variety of actionable strategies that will enable and empower coaches to put their health first (without their business paying the price.)
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Tips on taking inventory on how to best time block according to your personal energy levels
- Strategies on how to keep yourself accountable for prioritizing wellness
- Advice on how to create sustainable systems for your business to grow
- How Em & Lex have personally avoided burnout when launching and growing their own businesses
- Different systems the pair have utilized to schedule out content and recurring business activities
- Why it makes sense to prioritize wellness if you truly want to grow your coaching business in the long term
- And more!
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In this episode, your hosts talk about how to extend the lifecycle of working with coaching clients looking at the ladder of business offerings and how to get clients in the door, to continue working with them in different capacities throughout your offerings. They break down mindset hurdles for selling to clients that have already been sold.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The ladders Em and Lex offer in their own businesses
- Supporting clients through many phases of their lives and businesses
- Ways to come up with conversations to sell to clients you’ve already sold
- Continuing support for clients as you work with them with a different offering
- Tips on making sure the invite to continue working with them is in place
- What the ladder is and you present it to your clients
- And More!
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This week’s episode focuses on how much it costs to launch and grow a new coaching business or side hustle. From basic legal start-up costs to software to tech, creative services, and much more, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith share where they personally invested when launching and where they got scrappy, and provide insight on how others can do the same.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How they approached business costs when first starting out - where they got scrappy, and where they invested
- The various investment categories that go into starting a coaching business
- Different software and hidden business fees to keep on your radar
- Places they wish they had and hadn’t spent money on
- Actual costs for various software and areas needed to run a legal business
- Homework on how you can begin to budget launching a coaching business
- And More!
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This week’s episode focuses on finding your perfect coaching niche. Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith discuss common mistakes, how they found their own perfect coaching niche, and how they allowed their ideal client to evolve as their businesses grew. They give real-life examples, tangle tips, and much more.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Key points to keep in mind when finding and selecting a coaching niche
- How you can marry your passion with a problem to solve
- Unique coaches and niches they’ve seen over the years
- How they selected their first coaching niche, and how it evolved over time
- How to curate your language to attract whoever your ideal client is
- Tips on how to meet your clients where they’re at
- How to identify elements that create or evolve your niche into something else
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith break down the 4 Ms of a successful coaching business – Management, Mindset, Money & Messaging. They reflect on their own journey in their coaching businesses and how these 4 Ms have created successful businesses both for themselves and their clients.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The 4Ms of a successful coaching business
- How mindset comes into play in your business
- The importance of knowing your numbers
- Tips on management and how to create a successful business using such
- The importance of messaging - and tips
- The importance of positioning yourself as an expert in your field - and how to do so
- Ideas on what people aren’t taking advantage of when it comes to messaging
- How the 4 Ms come into play in the Ready Set Coach Program
- Organization and development tips to help uplevel your coaching business
- And More!
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Hosts Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith look back on the past year and walk through different exercises on how to reflect, reset, and refresh heading into the New Year. From personal growth to business achievements and more, this episode is packed full of helpful takeaways, tips, and challenges for all listeners.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Different accomplishments that your hosts had in 2022
- How to challenge yourself to reflect outside of your defaults
- Reflection questions to ask yourself
- Tips on ways to reflect
- Tips on ways to then physically and mentally reset after that reflection
- Exercises for how to refresh for the new year both personally and professionally
- And more!
This week’s episode outlines some essential skills for effective coaching from everything from concepts of asking questions, and active listening, to challenging your clients when needed, Em and Lex drop some tips for essential skills to have for an effective coaching strategy that will help solidify your time with your clients.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Skills to have as a coach
- The art of active listening with your clients
- Different types of solution mapping
- Actionable steps to give your clients
- Being able to take control of sessions with clients and keeping everyone on track
- Differences between coaching and therapy
- Questions that can be helpful to ask their clients
- Ways to keep clients on track and hold clients accountable
- And more tips on essential skills for coaching
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In this episode, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith take us behind the scenes of their Ready Set Coach active cohort. They break down what it was like building their first coaching group program and disclose a very intentional strategy they implemented along the way, and discuss how their “behind the scenes” continues to evolve with each new group to follow.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What works and what doesn’t for the first round of a new group coaching program
- Why being flexible and adaptable is critical to best serve your clients in a group setting
- How Em & Lex have become a more well-oiled machine with each cohort
- The different versions of their programs (and why they evolved the program with each round)
- How they spend their day servicing their clients - a look at their first cohort, and what it looks like as they head into their 4th
- Different systems for creating modules and distributing them to their cohorts
- Homework on the theme of “commitment”
- And more!
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith do a deep dive into all the hats you wear as a coach beyond, well, coaching. They provide insight into what hats they have worn throughout their ventures, and what roles you should expect and prepare to handle and address as you embark on your coaching journey.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The various hats you wear as a coach beyond just coaching
- Reflections on what has come up during their own coaching ventures and with Ready Set Coach clients
- An overview of all the different challenges and opportunities that will arise when coaching a client (and how to prepare to handle them)
- What is your job as a coach, and what is your job not when coaching
- What else you should create in order to best support your clients
- The value you provide as a coach
- Tips on not overstepping or crossing boundaries as a coach
- And More!
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In this mini-episode, Lexie Smith offers a variety of tips and tricks for coaches looking to up their thought leadership and PR game. A PR pro, coach, and agency owner herself, Lexie reviews the top PR strategies coaches should enact if looking to increase their credibility, visibility, and revenue.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The definition of thought leadership
- Why developing a thought leadership strategy is important for coaches
- Examples of PR tactics Em and Lex have deployed for Ready Set Coach
- What types of media to pursue as a coach looking to increase visibility
- How your PR efforts can translate into clients
- And more
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith touch on the various types of coaching business models and programs on the market: masterminds, group coaching, one on one coaching, and beyond. They share their own experiences with different programs and provide advice and tips on how to pick the best business model for you and your business.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Variations on types of programs for coaches out there
- How do you go about selecting what is the right structure for you and your business
- Their advice on when someone is ready to start group coaching
- Tips for how to go about starting a group coaching program
- About starting with one on one coaching, and why it’s typically best
- Tips on when to do masterminds vs group programs
- Advice on what types of programs are the best fit for your client at a given stage of business or life
- And More!
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In this episode, Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith talk about how to collaborate in the coaching industry to fast-track business growth. Reviewing the benefits of collaboration, Em & Lex share some of their favorite communities and give plenty of real-life collaboration examples sure to inspire and spark ideas for listeners.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Tips on how to create the best collaboration for yourself and your brand
- The powerful mindset shift regarding competition vs collaboration
- Real-life examples of coaches working together
- A few of their favorite online communities they are a part of
- How to collaborate with communities strategically
- How Em and Lex got their start as co-coaches and collaborations
- The benefit of inviting guest coaches on their cohort calls
- Homework on how you can create your next coaching collaboration to fast-track your business growth
- And More!
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In this episode, Em and Lex drop their tips on coaching workflows and streamlining systems to be successful once landing your client. They break it down on the timing of certain onboarding items to complete and provide suggestions for a successful onboarding session with new clients as well as a successful graduation and offboarding with clients when you wrap up a program.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Some of their favorite systems for signing clients officially
- Systems and software for invoicing once you land your client - to get paid!
- Hear their suggestions for documenting your process of onboarding
- Learn tips on setting expectations for you and your clients
- Tips on systems for setting expectations for work with a client
- Ideas on creating a memorable off-boarding experience for your clients
- And More!
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In this episode, Em and Lex reflect on their own personal business journeys and talk through “expectations vs reality” in coaching and entrepreneurship. Hear how your hosts navigated the ebbs and flows of entrepreneurship and the coaching industry, and their best tips learned along the way.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Their individual expectations going into entrepreneurship and the realities that hit them on their journeys into coaching
- How inflated expectations are often unrealistic in the first year of business - and what one should actually expect
- The realities of having high months and low months when running a coaching business - and how to plan accordingly
- How to manage having an emotional response when coaching clients
- How getting neutral is essential for maintaining relationships (and how to achieve such)
- Giving yourself grace in your business practice
- And More!
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When your co-founder is away it’s time to play! In this mini-episode, Emily Merrell sneaks in a solo episode devoted to the importance of vacation, boundaries, the beauty of having a co-founder, and finding resilience in yourself, your business, and your community.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Why create a self-love list
- How to take inventory of your accomplishments
- How to take stock of your community and individuals that light you up
- The importance of reflecting and taking stock on your business and what’s working and not working
- Tips on tapping into your resilience and sparking your connection with your business
- Ideas on how to create space for your business in your life
- The importance of giving yourself grace and support in this wild ride of entrepreneurship
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith reflect on the most common mistakes they see new coaches making across the industry. Hear their personal lessons learned, actionable tips on how to avoid making common mistakes as a new coach, and homework geared towards auditing your own coaching practice.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Em and Lexie’s own experiences starting out in the online coaching business
- The most common mistakes new coaches make across the industry
- Tips on how to avoid the most common mistakes coaches make when starting their coaching journey
- The reality of what happens behind the scenes when launching an online course or program (what does and doesn’t happen)
- Strategic ways Em and Lex teach their clients to avoid common pitfalls and what to do instead
- And More!
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Emily Merrell and Lexie smith review their 7 steps to sell with confidence as a coach. From dissecting and studying different selling styles and techniques to necessary mindset reframes and strategies, this episode will help coaches and business owners show up and sell confidently.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Em & Lex share how to identify and own your unique selling style
- They talk about necessary selling mindset shifts and word swaps
- How to knowledge up to nail discovery and sales calls
- The importance of knowing and owning your authority when selling
- The key and sift that happens when you release expectations
- How practice is necessary to overcome objections and sell with confidence
- And more!
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith get real and break down what it’s been like navigating owning and building a business as new moms. They dish out their best advice, and lessons learned, and reflect upon the realities that face all moms as they navigate business, babies, and balance.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Em & Lex share their personal experiences of being pregnant
- They dish out on what it feels like to be a new mom while running and building a business
- They address societal standards and perceptions that working moms face
- Lex shares a book recommendation for moms
- Both of their best tips for managing babies and business - they give advice on how they personally time block
- The greatest gift you can give yourself when childcare is hard to find
- The advantages moms have in building a business
- Self-reflection homework to help you feel more clear about how to both parent and work
- And more!
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith discuss how to add a coaching revenue stream to your already existing business. They disclose how entrepreneurs can achieve true wealth and why becoming a coach is such a great business model. The two explore the different ways you can add a coaching arm to your already existing business and how and where to get started today.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Who can add a coaching revenue stream to their business
- Why Emily decided to add a coaching revenue stream to her business
- What helped Em finally pass the six-figure mark as an entrepreneur
- How people develop and achieve true wealth
- Why Lexie was initially attracted to coaching
- Examples of the different ways you can add a coaching revenue stream to your existing business model
- How service providers - from agencies to consultants, to photographers, etc., can (and maybe should) consider adding a coaching offer to their business
- How and where you can get started in adding a coaching revenue stream to your business today?
- And more!
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith explore how you can tap your existing network to find clients. They discuss a variety of strategies coaches can deploy to reconnect with people from their past, how to move past common mindset hurdles of feeling judged, and how to authentically and effectively approach your network with your new business and offerings.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Em & Lex discuss how to tap your existing network to find clients
- The “fly your flag” approach to engaging and promoting your business on social media networks
- The steps Lex had to take to feel comfortable promoting her business on social media when she first started
- The mindset reframe Em has on selling to friends and those you know
- Actionable steps and authentic ways you can reengage with past connections
- What to say when you approach your existing network with your new business or coaching offerings
- People in Em & Lex’s networks who they were surprised became clients
- Homework on how to take one step forward today on tapping your existing network to find clients
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith explain how to attract and sign high-ticket coaching clients. They review the reality of what it takes to find, market, and sell high-ticket offers and provide actionable advice on how you can work towards building a roster of high-paying coaching clients.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What first to look at when evaluating how to attract high-ticket coaching clients
- How it’s important to audit the “rooms that you’re in”
- What commonalities most high-ticket clients have
- What is involved in actually signing high-ticket coaching clients
- How confidence and energy come into play - and how to go about building such
- Mindset reframes you can adapt to rock high-ticket sales calls
- Homework on identifying prequalifers to ask on your next high ticket sales call
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith dive into the world of tech and discuss a variety of market options for the best software and systems available for coaches on the market today. From CRM and Project Management softwares to Communication and Email Marketing Platforms, learn how to select the best systems for your coaching business.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Non-business-related apps that are fun to try
- What are Em and Lex’s favorite CRMs and Project Management Tools for Coaches
- Their favorite communication tools for coaches
- Their favorite client onboarding systems and tools for coaches
- Their favorite (and least favorite) email marketing softwares for coaches
- Other tools softwares and systems for coaches that Em & Lex find helpful
- How to identify what software and systems are best for your coaching practice
- Homework on three steps to start the system selection process in an efficient manner
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith chat with Intuitive Guide, Breathwork Coach and Ready Set Coach Grad Christine Singh about the power of breathwork and how to tune in and access one’s own intuition.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What is Breathwork? And what are the different effects breathwork can have on an individual
- How Christine was able to connect with her true life purpose
- Christine walks everyone through a grounding breathwork exercise
- How to tune in to your intuition and let it guide you in making decisions
- The transformations Christine has witnessed from her clients through their work together
- What is in store for Christine and her coaching practice in the future
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Learn More about breathe with Tine: https://www.breathewithtine.com/goodies/
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith dive into the world of mindset and address how to overcome common coaching mindset hurdles. From imposter syndrome to pricing objections, to fear of competition and self-promotion – and beyond – learn how you can reframe and move past these common mindset hurdles and become the best coach (and person) possible.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- The reality is about mindset and limiting beliefs.
- How all fears are objective and perception-based - thus can be reframed.
- How to overcome feeling weird promoting yourself or showing up on social media.
- A reframe to make you never feel sleazy when selling again.
- How to not let the fear of competition get in your way.
- The solution to common objections such as “I don’t have time” or ‘I can’t afford” this.
- Takeaway homework on how to go about creating a self-love list so you can begin to truly own your worth as a coach.
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith chat with Confidence Coach and Ready Set Coach Grad Amy Christman about how to build confidence and become your own personal hype person. They break down the importance of understanding the transformation you are delivering as a coach, the common hang-up on titles, and how to stay accountable to your business goals.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Who is Amy Christman - learn Amy’s journey into coaching
- Her “A-ha” I want to be a coach moment
- Amy’s best tips on how to build confidence
- Where confidence really comes from - and where it can’t be found
- The importance of not getting hung up on titles in coaching
- What’s more important than a coaching title
- Amy’s best tips on how to stay accountable to your business goals
- Takeaway homework on how to go about building confidence and staying motivated to follow through on your goals in life and business
Follow Amy on Instagram at @thefiercecollective
Learn more about working with Amy at https://the-fierce-collective.com/
Connect with Amy on LinkedIn here.
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith review how to set and implement boundaries as a coach. They discuss both the business and personal benefits of setting boundaries with clients early on, how to do such, and how systems can make the process both seamless and feasible.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What boundaries are key for protecting
- How to take an inventory of what tasks drain your energy and what boundaries to implement in effect
- The business importance of setting and implementing boundaries as a coach
- What systems can support the implementation of boundaries
- What Em & Lex do personally to set and implement boundaries in their own practices and at Ready Set Coach
- The importance of setting and managing client expectations as a coach
- Takeaway homework on how to go about setting and implementing boundaries in your own coaching practice
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith review how to price yourself as a coach and then confidently stand behind your pricing. The business coaches review the dynamics involved in selling to friends, signing beta clients, setting boundaries, and when it is and isn’t okay to offer discounts. Tune in to learn the duo's exact formula for pricing yourself right as a coach from the get-go.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How Em has navigated working with friends as clients.
- How both Emily and Lexie first priced themselves as coaches.
- The exact pricing formula they teach their clients in Ready Set Coach.
- Em and Lex’s stance on Beta clients - how and why they are all for them
- How to develop the confidence to stand behind your price point
- When it is and isn’t okay to offer friends & family discounts
- How to own your worth as a coach
- Takeaway homework on how to go about reverse engineering your price point to support your lifestyle.
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith peel back the curtain on how they both individually hit their first six figures as business owners. Both taking a slightly different path, they break down what worked and what didn’t in their journeys to surpassing that highly sought-after “six-figure” mark as coaches.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Em’s journey to hitting her first six figures - how long it took, and what additional revenue stream helped her get there
- Lex’s path to hitting her first six figures - how long it took, and what tactics proved key in her success
- The reality of what being a six-figure business owner looks like (and what it doesn’t)
- Marketing and business tactics both found vital in growing their businesses separately and together
- How to calculate how many clients you should have in order to hit your revenue goals
- The two share a free resource on 5 numbers you should know when launching your coaching business (available via a free mini ebook below)
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Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith break down how they went about creating, launching, and filling their very first group coaching program. Tune in to hear mistakes you should avoid, the reality of what’s involved, and lessons learned along the way. Leave with clear homework on how to go about building out your first or next group coaching program.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How Em and Lex ideated their very first group coaching program - Ready Set Coach Program
- A step-by-step breakdown of where to start when formulating your group coaching program
- The specific tactics that Em and Lex took to launch and fill their first cohort
- The realities of what goes into filling a group program - and where most coaches go wrong.
- Mistakes both Em and Lex made in the past, and how you can avoid them in your own launch
- Takeaway homework to help you build out your first or next group coaching program
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The Great Transition - Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith share the things they did wrong and right when transitioning into entrepreneurship and coaching. They share lessons learned, what tactics helped them fast track success, and give listeners actionable homework to help them do the same.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How Em and Lex transitioned into full-time entrepreneurship
- Advice on how to transition into entrepreneurship and coaching seamlessly
- What helped Em and Lex fast-track success in their businesses
- Your most important asset as a coach and entrepreneur
- The reality of what it takes to make it and what activities you must commit energy to
- Takeaway homework to help you transition more seamlessly as a business owner
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Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
Snag free resources from Ready Set Coach here.
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What’s a coach and how is it different from a consultant? How can you become a coach - do you need a certification? Once you know you want to be a coach, how do you come up with what type of coach to become and what to offer the market? Tune in to hear Em & Lex answer all these questions about the coaching industry and more.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- What’s a coach and how it is different than a consultant
- What types of coaches are out on the market
- How do you become a coach - do you need to be certified?
- How to become a coach from experience
- How to identify your passion and how that can translate into coaching
- A helpful journaling activity that will help you get clear on your passion and why
- How to identify and brainstorm what to offer the market as a coach
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachprogram
Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
Snag free resources from Ready Set Coach here.
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
Meet Em & Lex - two imperfect six-figure business coaches, co-founders, and friends who decided to combine their superpowers to bring to market something they wish they had when they entered the world of coaching. A real, non-BS, intimate, and fun community built with integrity, intention, and a few glasses of wine.
Tune in to hear Em & Lex get real - real about life, business, relationships, and what it really takes to find your version of success in the world of coaching.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- Who are Emily Merrell (Em) and Lexie Smith (Lex)
- Em and Lex’s backgrounds and how they found their way into the world of coaching
- A little bit about their independent businesses - Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.
- How the two coaches met and decided to embark in starting their own business - Ready Set Coach
- What Ready Set Coach is and the two’s thought process behind launching
- Em’s viral wedding story
- What to expect in upcoming episodes in the Ready Set Coach Podcast
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachprogram
Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
Snag free resources from Ready Set Coach here.
Emily Merrell and Lexie Smith share how they landed their first coaching clients and review the different ways you can land your first or next client too! Tune in to hear their behind-the-scenes stories and learn activities you can implement today to get started.
Here’s what you’ll learn:
- How Em and Lex landed their first coaching clients
- How to start coaching with beta clients - and what to ask for in exchange
- How to gain confidence to land your first paying client
- Different marketing tactics that you can implement to find clients
- Specific examples for coaches of where to hang out to find clients
- The most important thing you can do to find your first or next client
Follow Em & Lex on Instagram at @readysetcoachprogram
Learn more about the Ready Set Coach Program at Readysetcoachprogram.com
Snag free resources from Ready Set Coach here.
Learn more about Six Degrees Society and THEPRBAR inc.