Coaching Clinic: scale your business, acquire high ticket clients & master coaching skills
Coaching Clinic is the go-to podcast for new and experienced professional coaches who want to grow a thriving, sustainable business and get better results with clients. Hosted by veteran coaches John Ball and Angela Besignano, this weekly show delivers actionable coaching strategies, business-building insights, and real-world tools to help you attract clients, master your craft, and scale with confidence. From powerful client conversations to group coaching design, sales, mindset, and marketing—this is your backstage pass to what really works in coaching today.
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How Do You Know If Your Coaching Is Working? (Simple Metrics That Actually Help)
<h2>Show Notes</h2><p>How do you actually know if your coaching is working?</p><p>In this episode of The Coaching Clinic, Angie and John unpack one of the most uncomfortable—and most important—questions for coaches: are you effective, or are you just being liked?</p><p>They challenge the common reliance on client satisfaction, renewals, and “good sessions,” and explore why those signals can be misleading. Early-stage coaches often ride the highs and lows of recent sessions, but without clear metrics, improvement becomes guesswork.</p><p>The conversation moves beyond theory into practical application—how to introduce...
Optimise Coaching Sessions: Balancing Support and Challenge
<p>SUMMARY</p><p>Are you challenging your clients enough? </p><p>Let's talk about Keeping Coaching Impactful </p><p>Angie and John discuss the client journey in coaching and the risk of sessions becoming comfortable, friendly chats rather than driving transformation. They emphasise that coaching should produce progress, expansion, and results, not “a $500 cup of coffee,” and that clients’ outcomes are the best advertisement and referral source for a coach. </p><p>They explore how effective challenge varies by client—some need gentle coaxing while others want direct feedback—while maintaining balance so clients aren’t discouraged or pushed just for the...
How to Use Client Feedback for Effective Coaching Check-Ins
<p>Empowering Coaching Clients With Check-Ins and Simple Metrics </p><p>Angie discusses how coaches can keep delivering value by sharing experience and, importantly, making clients an active part of the coaching equation. She recommends using simple metrics and regular check-ins—such as quick 0–10 ratings after sessions or structured touchpoints at one-third, two-thirds, and the end of an engagement—to avoid discovering issues at the “11th hour.” </p><p>Angie suggests asking strategic, rotating questions (e.g., how challenged or empowered the client felt, key takeaways, or preferences for cheerleading vs. tougher probing) and giving clients time to reflect before discussing...
The 7 Key Strategies to Fully Book Your Coaching Practice
<p>How to Identify and Attract Your Ideal Clients in 2026</p><p>SUMMARY</p><p>In this episode, John & Angie discuss essential strategies for coaches and entrepreneurs to attract clients, build sustainable businesses, and avoid common pitfalls. They share personal experiences, practical tips, and insights on targeting the right audience, leveraging marketing channels, and maintaining focus.</p><p>Keywords:</p><p>coaching business, client attraction, marketing strategies, target audience, business growth, referrals, webinars, social media, niching, strategic focus</p><p>key topics:</p><p>Target audience identification and niching</p><p>Effective marketing channels and strategies</p><p>Building a...
Energy in Coaching: Balancing Empathy and Professionalism
<p>Coach Energy and Consistency: Handling “That Client,” Emotions, and Authority in Sessions</p><p>SUMMARY</p><p>John and Angie discuss how coaches manage their energy and consistency across sessions, including whether they show up the same with every client and how reactions to “that client” can signal a coach’s own challenge in navigating difficulty. They explore adapting energy to different clients while still leading the session, and identify a risk point when a coach’s view of a client’s potential becomes clouded by triggers or poor rapport. They cover handling clients who overtalk, ask constant questions, assert disrupt...
Coaching Visibility: Boost Your Brand Recognition
<p>How Coaches Can Become More Known: Strategic Podcast Guesting, Speaking, and Content </p><p>SUMMARY</p><p>John opens the Coaching Clinic without Angie, who is busy applying the show’s advice with new clients, and shares key ways coaches can become more known to generate lead flow. He outlines the main pillars: developing clear IP by knowing exactly who you help, then using authority builders like a book, a podcast or a YouTube channel, speaking engagements (often starting locally and for free), and a focused social media channel rather than trying to be everywhere. He emphasises podcast guesting as...
How to Manage Over-Talkative Clients in Coaching Sessions
<p>Keeping Coaching Sessions on Track: Handling Clients Who Talk Too Much. </p><p>SUMMARY</p><p>John & Angie discuss a common coaching challenge: clients or prospects who dominate calls, talk over the coach, and leave no space for productive coaching. They argue that effective coaches must stay in the “driver’s seat” or “pace car,” setting expectations up front that interruptions may occur to prevent unproductive rambling or to pause to address important nuances. They share tactics such as politely interrupting, redirecting, summarising what was said, asking clients to nutshell the point, and helping clients choose the most impactful focus for...
How to Start and Scale Your Coaching Business: Expert Tips from Angie and John
<p>The Business of Coaching: Vision, Strategy, and Avoiding Costly Mistakes</p><p>Angie and John discuss the dos and don’ts of building a coaching business, reflecting on how they started with little guidance and often spent money on marketing and setup that didn’t work. They emphasise creating a clear vision of what “success” looks like (lifestyle solopreneur vs. scaling with staff), understanding finances and time constraints, and following a general progression from one-to-one coaching to groups and then scaling. They warn against getting distracted by non-priorities, overspending without a strategy, and growing too quickly, sharing an example of a sta...
The Power of Preparedness in Coaching Sessions
<p>Prepared Coaching: Notes, Energy, and Being Fully Present with Clients </p><p>SUMMARY: </p><p>Angie and John discuss why showing up unprepared to coaching sessions harms client outcomes and rapport, and why “work before the work” matters. </p><p>They emphasise protecting energy and presence by avoiding back-to-back sessions and building in at least 15 minutes between calls to reset, review prior notes, and track action steps. They argue that coaches who wing sessions without notes or tracking may be adequate but cannot be masterful, and that forgetting prior commitments is a “bad look” that can damage trust, renewals, reputati...
My coaching calendar is fully booked! What can I do?
<p>We know some problems are good problems to have, but they still need solutions. In this episode, Angie and John discuss the real challenges coaches face when reaching their capacity limits. They share insights on managing workload, setting boundaries, and scaling your coaching business sustainably while maintaining quality and personal well-being.</p><h4>Key Topics</h4>The emotional and mental impact of reaching coaching capacityUnderstanding and defining your personal coaching limitHow solopreneurs can avoid burnout and manage their time effectivelyStrategies for handling client waitlists and managing client engagementShifting from one-on-one to group coaching to increase capacityBuilding a referral network...
