Crap to Kick A** Coach Podcast
Coaches are everywhere these days. You can be the best coach in the world but if you don't know how to: - nail your niche - position your offering - find your audience - sell your services ...Then you're wasting your time. This podcast has been created for coaches like you, who are sick and tired of paying thousands of dollars for courses without getting meaningful results. Rebecca Bonnington has been in the coaching business for over 16 years and interviews people who can genuinely share their top tips, skills, knowledge, and expertise so that you can stop being a crap coach and start being a kick a** coach. Give us a 5* review if you find us useful. Contact Rebecca directly with you questions about building your kick a** coaching business. https://tricres.com/contact/
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S2 Episode 1: Abigail Mills - Rose & Thistle Social Ltd.
08/27/2025
S2 Episode 1: Abigail Mills - Rose & Thistle Social Ltd.
Welcome to Season 2! It's all about Marketing. Telling your story. Using what you've got. And starting exactly where you're at now. I f you’re looking for insights into social media marketing and some Instagram breakdowns - then meet Abigail, you’ve come across a profile you need on your LinkedIn feed! Abigail Mills is a social media manager, mentor, and director of Rose & Thistle Social Ltd. Her passion is sharing as much of her knowledge and experiences as possible with service providers and social media managers across the UK, Europe, and the rest of the world. She is also a guest speaker for online communities and panellist who loves educating people on social media marketing and her business journey as a business owner under 30. Abigail helps busy service-based businesses get in front of new eyes so that they can make more money with less hours spent on social, giving them time to focus on the other areas of work that they actually enjoy. 🌹 Here’s what Rose & Thistle Social is doing in this space: Social media management - Our done-for-you service where we work in collaboration with businesses across the UK and the Rest of The World to provide high-level social media management. Education and Consultancy - Business owners can provide their employees and themselves with education about social media marketing. Timestamps: [1:40] How the heck did you get into marketing? [8:05] Professionals do the work of marketing that tends to go viral and reacts quickly, for the rest of us it takes time! [9:15] What are some of the biggest mistakes people make? [11:10] Give us the idiot’s guide to Instagram Stories [12:30] How do you move to the DM’s which is next in the process? [16:55] What happens after DM’s? [19:40] If a client want to use a different platform how does that work? [22:45]What is the difference between marketing and selling? [29:30] Articulating the transformation piece, do you have a system for that? [31:45] Avoiding the tagline trap [33:00] Where to next? And the 8 principles of Dubai [ 35:30] Our final existential question tricres #businesscoaching #kickassculture #business podcast #businesscoachtraining #consulting #businesscoaching #businessconsulting #craptokickasscoachingpodcast #businesscoachingpodcast #craptokickasscoachpodcast Find the whole podcast at: Subscribe to the Tricres podcast on YouTube! If you’re a coach or consultant, subscribe to hear our podcasts and see how we coach clients. If your passion is about making it happen for SMEs you need to listen to our podcast to see business coaching in action! Join our family and community of business coaches & consultants. ---------------------------------- Want to join us for our next Intake Session to learn about how to become a business coach? Find out more and sign up to join our waitlist for our free Information Session here: https://tricres.activehosted.com/f/231
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S1 Episode 6: Abi Sea of X-Ray Messaging
08/13/2025
S1 Episode 6: Abi Sea of X-Ray Messaging
Abi Sea is a copywriter who helps coaches and mentors attract brilliant clients and make more sales through X-ray Messaging. With nearly 30 years in communications (and a talent for getting to the heart of what people actually do), Abi specializes in messaging that cuts through the noise without sounding like everyone else. She's the creator of the BLITZ framework – a positive psychology approach that helps business owners grow their businesses without feeling fake, bland, or pushy. When she's not helping clients turn their expertise into profit, you'll find her co-hosting Adventures in Marketing events and sending out weekly Blitz Monday emails that make messaging feel less scary and more human. She has ADHD and is perimenopausal, with 2 ND teenagers, a husband and two cats at home. She understands the juggle more than most and firmly believes that being yourself is the best and boldest marketing strategy of all. Timestamps: [2:10] Adventures in Marketing events, and how long have these been running? [3:55] Why did Rebecca restart her podcast? [6:15] Making a client cry, and when successful entrepreneurs start out on their own as coaches and the hard parts of doing that [9:30] Email messaging - how do you do it differently? [14:20] How long have you been in this game Abi? [18:50] It’s easier to not give a toss when you come out the other side? [21:00] How do clients come to work with you and how does it work? [24:45] Micro Messaging Mondays with Abi, and finding your ‘right fit’ clients [28:30] Where are you going to take your business? #tricres #businesscoaching #kickassculture #business podcast #businesscoachtraining #consulting #businesscoaching #businessconsulting #craptokickasscoachingpodcast #businesscoachingpodcast #craptokickasscoachpodcast Find the whole podcast at: Subscribe to the Tricres podcast on YouTube! If you’re a coach or consultant, subscribe to hear our podcasts and see how we coach clients. If your passion is about making it happen for SMEs you need to listen to our podcast to see business coaching in action! Join our family and community of business coaches & consultants. ---------------------------------- Want to join us for our next Intake Session to learn about how to become a business coach? Find out more and sign up to join our waitlist for our free Information Session here:
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S1 Episode 5: Chris Perkins - Transition Coaching, Marketing & Branding @ Randstad Enterprise | Certified Brand Strategist
07/30/2025
S1 Episode 5: Chris Perkins - Transition Coaching, Marketing & Branding @ Randstad Enterprise | Certified Brand Strategist
Chris has 25 years’ experience in and around the coaching world. First, training and coaching for Dale Carnegie in the US and UK, then in sales and delivery leadership roles in outplacement and career coaching organisations. His current role is Global Marketing Lead for transition and coaching solutions at Randstad RiseSmart, while also being on the verge of completing his ICF coach accreditation. Chris saw the value of coaching following two layoffs in the early 2000’s, where he had career coaching. Since then, he has always thought being a coach would form part of his career at some point, which is now coming to fruition. Following the idea that coaches often ‘coach who they used to be’, Chris has applied his learning from his own squiggly career, several bumps in the road during his forties and his interest in design thinking to his coaching practice. He’s now developing his own model of midlife transition coaching and posts regularly on the five major challenges most people experience in their forties and fifties and how to address them. Timestamps: [2:10] Tell us what you were doing 30 years ago when we met in person the first time, and what have you been doing since the early 2000’s [6:55] Many who join us have left the 9 to 5 either by choice or by redundancy, are 45+, kids are older or have left home. Overwhelmingly they want to give back. What are you seeing currently in the marketplace in the corporate world, what patterns are you seeing, who is being let go? [10:00] Tell us about your article you recently wrote called The Happiness Curve [14:05] Rebecca’s theory about hormone shifts, and Chris talks about our brains re-wiring in midlife as we hit our 50s [17:40] Losing ambition explained, and what advice do you have for people experiencing this [22:25] Why do you think we don’t talk about this? It’s a natural progression and not a medical thing, but it’s not talked about in the same way menopause is [25:00] Identity is often attached to peoples jobs or business, what advice do you have for people who need to take a step back? [28:00] What about organisations who are looking to keep the more mature staff to teach the new generations coming on board? [30:00] Where are you going with your role? #tricres #businesscoaching #kickassculture #business podcast #businesscoachtraining #consulting #businesscoaching #businessconsulting #craptokickasscoachingpodcast #businesscoachingpodcast #craptokickasscoachpodcast Find the whole podcast at: Subscribe to the Tricres podcast on YouTube! If you’re a coach or consultant, subscribe to hear our podcasts and see how we coach clients. If your passion is about making it happen for SMEs you need to listen to our podcast to see business coaching in action! Join our family and community of business coaches & consultants. ---------------------------------- Want to join us for our next Intake Session to learn about how to become a business coach? Find out more and sign up to join our waitlist for our free Information Session here:
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S1 Episode 4: Jo Watson - Sorted in 60
07/16/2025
S1 Episode 4: Jo Watson - Sorted in 60
If you google ‘Jo Watson’, what pings to the top of the page is a link to one of the finest writers in the world. That writer is not this Jo Watson. She’s further down. She is the copywriter hired by people with great taste in copywriters. Not the globally acclaimed author of multiple comedy romance novels. However, thanks to her publisher, Jo *can* actually call herself an author. 'TOT ANALYSIS: Why Running Your Business is Child's Play' is on shelves in all good bookshops under Business/ Parenting/ Humour. Yep - Jo is funny. Sorted in 60® is fab for hard-working business owners, ambitious career climbers, and over-stretched CMOs. Creative, collaborative & truly transformational, whatever you want or need from your copy, content, messaging, branding, or comms, that’s exactly what we’ll work on together over Zoom. With Sorted in 60®, you’ll either never need me again, or you’ll want to work with me forever. Timestamps: [3:45] Talk us through your process for Sorted in 60 [10:30] What kind of people do you help? [13:10] Prospects after graduating with an English degree [18:00] When did you go out on your own? When you left your job what did you think you would do? [21:40] How does Sorted in 60 work? [23:45] Allergic to LinkedIn? [29:30] How do you deal with people who criticise? [34:20] If you had a year to live, what would you change? #tricres #businesscoaching #kickassculture #businesscoachtraining #consulting #businesscoaching #businessconsulting #craptokickasscoaching Find the whole podcast at: Subscribe to Tricres! If you’re a coach or consultant, subscribe to hear our podcasts and see how we coach clients. If your passion is about making it happen for SMEs you need to listen to our podcast to see business coaching in action! Join our family and community of business coaches & consultants. ---------------------------------- Want to join us for our next Intake Session to learn about how to become a business coach? Find out more and sign up for our free Information Session here:
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S1 Episode 3: Geoff Ketterer - CEO and Co-Founder of Rev Boost Recruitment
07/02/2025
S1 Episode 3: Geoff Ketterer - CEO and Co-Founder of Rev Boost Recruitment
Sales Recruitment and Fractional CRO | We Place, Train and Maintain Remote Sales Reps For Coaches & Consultants. As the Co-Founder of Rev Boost with over two decades of expertise in sales and marketing, Geoff specializes in developing and implementing proven sales operating systems to enhance team performance and drive revenue growth. Our approach focuses on placing, training, and maintaining remote sales reps for businesses, enabling them to streamline operations and focus on scaling their organizations. Previously, he contributed to the success of Closers.io by supporting the development of effective sales frameworks, which helped clients achieve substantial revenue milestones. His work emphasizes creating scalable systems that foster team culture, improve close rates, and simplify the sales process for business owners. Passionate about empowering organizations, he aims to deliver solutions that remove operational bottlenecks and unlock growth opportunities. Timestamps: [2:10] Introducing his business and how it all started [5:30] How do you help businesses get their head around leadership? [9:00] How do you find your prospects and train your team to prospect? [10:45] Lead generation and cold calling [14:00] Do you give cold calling another name? [17:30] Do you think what you do is reinforcing our connections with people? [20:30] How big is your business and how big do you want it to be? [26:50] Case study [29:30] What is the life you want? And work out what you actually need to live that life [31:20] If you knew that a year from today that you were going to die, how would live our your days? #tricres #businesscoaching #kickassculture #businesscoachtraining #consulting #businesscoaching #businessconsulting #craptokickasscoaching Find the whole podcast at: Subscribe to Tricres! If you’re a coach or consultant, subscribe to hear our podcasts and see how we coach clients. If your passion is about making it happen for SMEs you need to listen to our podcast to see business coaching in action! Join our family and community of business coaches & consultants. ---------------------------------- Want to join us for our next Intake Session to learn about how to become a business coach? Find out more and sign up for our free Information Session here:
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S1 Episode 2 with Ashley Leeds: Nobody Knows Who I Am. How Do I Tell People Who I Am?
06/18/2025
S1 Episode 2 with Ashley Leeds: Nobody Knows Who I Am. How Do I Tell People Who I Am?
💛 The 15-Minute Guy - I give people courage for LinkedIn. All in just 15 minutes a day | Author | Public Speaker | Coach | Podcaster | Does using LinkedIn™️ feel like a waste of time?... 🤦♂️ Are you struggling to create content that actually clicks with people?... 😢 Are you overwhelmed by the idea of keeping up with it all?... 😱 You are NOT Alone. Ashley hears this all the time. Stop worrying because he can help people like you turn LinkedIn™️ into a place where connections happen, your business grows, and you feel confident showing up every day all in 15 Minutes a day. Ashley is wonderfully entertaining and engaging, and has some corking stories to tell to boot. Links: Timestamps: [2:30] Ashley busts out his 0-800 number voice [4:00] If nobody knows who you are, what can you do about it? [8:40] Tell us about Italy and why you don’t post about yourself [12:00] Growing your LI audience [15:20]What has LI led to for you? [17:45] How does building a caring community lead to cash? [24:15] How do you respond to people that make negative or crap comments about your posts? And why is that important? [27:00]What’s your pitch? Hint: Not LinkedIn training #tricres #businesscoaching #kickassculture #businesscoachtraining #consulting #businesscoaching #businessconsulting #craptokickasscoaching Find the whole podcast at: Subscribe to Tricres! If you’re a coach or consultant, subscribe to hear our podcasts and see how we coach clients. If your passion is about making it happen for SMEs you need to listen to our podcast to see business coaching in action! Join our family and community of business coaches & consultants. ---------------------------------- Want to join us for our next Intake Session to learn about how to become a business coach? Find out more and sign up for our free Information Session here:
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S1 Episode 1: Anna Payne - When Sales Is Not a Dirty Word!
06/04/2025
S1 Episode 1: Anna Payne - When Sales Is Not a Dirty Word!
Anna Payne is a sales expert, business growth strategist, author, and speaker. Her refreshingly simple, feel-good approach to sales, focusing on integrity, value, and long-term relationships, is revolutionising the results of her clients. If you’d love to sell more in your business, but find a lot of the traditional sales training out there off-putting ot-dated and awkward, Anna’s your woman. Sales is not a dirty word Everyone can be good at sales, here’s how… In this energising and practical session, sales expert Anna Payne will help you cut through outdated sales tactics, that quite frankly make you cringe, and instead show you what actually works in today’s market. You’ll walk away with: A fresh perspective on what selling really is (and what it’s not) The three things you can do right now to make more sales: Inspiration that you can sell, and you are excited to make it happen If you want to make more money in your business without compromising your values, confidence or integrity. Links: Timestamps: [1:45] Confidence in selling for our coaches, tell us your story [9:00] Recruitment and moving into sales [10:45] I think you interviewed me! [11:50] How do you make sales not be ‘a dirty word’ [16:30] How much time a day the average business coach should be spending on nurturing relationships a.k.a. selling [22:50] Offers for coaches working face to face versus online offers and how to share that [25:30] Building a brand and gaining an audience [26:25] Doing a lot of dating and never asking for the kiss [28:45] Skepticism and advice about picking the right people to work with [ #tricres #businesscoaching #kickassculture #businesscoachtraining #consulting #businesscoaching #businessconsulting #craptokickasscoaching Find the whole podcast at: Subscribe to Tricres! If you’re a coach or consultant, subscribe to hear our podcasts and see how we coach clients. If your passion is about making it happen for SMEs you need to listen to our podcast to see business coaching in action! Join our family and community of business coaches & consultants. ---------------------------------- Want to join us for our next Intake Session to learn about how to become a business coach? Find out
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