Episode 272: 7 ways group coaching helps
In group coaching, you have people that are very different from you, but you're all working towards a common goal of growing or building your businesses. In today's episode, Fiona shares 7 ways in which group coaching helps. Tune in!
Topics discussed in this episode:
Introduction
Fiona's experience in a group coaching
See inside other people's businesses
Meeting different types of business owners
Group coaching as a safe space
Tips from fellow business owners
Building friendships and connections
Accountability
Conclusion
Get in touch with My Daily Business Coach
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The ability to create friendships in these groups is wonderful. Particularly if you are lucky enough to be in a group where people are open and committed to being part of that group and to being open and real and vulnerable, then I think the friendships, it's such a huge win from a Group Coaching program. I've seen it myself firsthand in the programs that I run and I've been part of a friendship that has resulted directly from a Group Coaching program.
Welcome to episode 272 of the My Daily Business Coach podcast. Today it is a big one. If you have ever considered joining a Group Coaching program or a mastermind or anything like that, and I know a lot of people are thinking about joining those things for the first time, or maybe you have joined them in the past, I wanted to talk through today just how impactful they can be. I know I've been in my own Group Coaching programs, as in I have been a student in them or a member of them, and I've also run Group Coaching programs, I'm going to get into that in detail today. Before I do, I wanted to mention that our Group Coaching program is available at the moment for applications. It'll start in March 2023. And no matter where you live in the world, you can apply to be part of it.
You can find all the information over at mydailybusinesscoach.com/groupcoaching. And the second thing, of course, I want to acknowledge the traditional owners and custodians of this beautiful land, which is having storms and lightning as I record this. And that is the Wurundjeri and Wurrung people of the Kulin Nation. And I pay my respects to their elders, past, present, and emerging, and acknowledge that sovereignty has never been ceded. As we start this new year, also welcome any other indigenous or other people from around the world who might be reading in. I hope you are enjoying your 2023 so far. Welcome. Let's get stuck into today's coaching episode.
As I mentioned at the start of today, I wanted to dive into seven ways that I think being part of a group coaching program, mastermind, or part of any kind of group learning activity can be helpful. To give you some context, I have run the Group Coaching program, which as I said is available now for applications. You can find all the information at mydailybusinesscoach.com/groupcoaching. I've run that, I think we are up to our sixth or seventh group which is a year-long program. We generally have two of them running every year, not at the same time. People start in March and then the next cohort is in July. I've run those and when I first started to now, I've learned so many things and you have all different types of people, different types of learning, different subjects, and themes that people want to cover.
Those have changed especially through, we started before the pandemic and now going through the pandemic and then coming out kind of not the other side completely. Still, coming through it to a point where things are more open and things have opened up again, there's just been all sorts of things that have needed to be changed and tailored and customized for each group. I love hosting Group Coaching programs. I just love seeing people become good friends. I love people connecting, I love people putting in the effort and the energy and committing to it and seeing massive results at the end of it. I've also taken part in Group Coaching programs. I am part of a mastermind in the US and I know some people will say, “masterminds are very different from Group Coaching programs.”
In some cases, I guess they are. I mean, you want to have a look at what the program entails when you are joining one of these things. But the mastermind that I took part in in the US I can't say, was very different from a Group Coaching program, or at least perhaps maybe my group coaching program is very similar to a mastermind. But the mastermind I took part in was six months in the US and it was very intensive because I'm here in Australia, when I joined up, there wasn't a pandemic. I fully thought I would be able to get to LA for the retreats and I'd be able to kind of travel a bit. That wasn't the case. I was in hardcore lockdowns here in Melbourne while it took place. I was on Zoom for all of the calls, and we had about two calls a week every week.
Those calls usually were at either 3:00 AM or 4:00 AM or sometimes if I was lucky, 5:00 AM. For some of them, I just didn't do them. I watched the replay because it was 3:00 AM, but also the retreats happened twice in those six months. And those retreats, I got a hotel room so that I could literally be awake from say 11 p.m. until 6:00 or 7:00 AM, and then get some sleep and do the same thing the next night. I couldn't get a hotel room for the second retreat because we were in lockdown and were not allowed to do that. I had to camp in my office at home, I slept in my bed, but I got up at 2:30 to be there.
Maybe I got up at, I can't even remember, but it was full on, it was intense. And that program was, it's run by somebody who's not doing those anymore. I think looking back, that was kind of her last program like that. I feel for that reason, it wasn't necessarily what I had thought that it would be. It kind of was moving in a much different direction, which is now where she has gone that coach into that direction. It was still good. It was not what I expected it to be, however, I still learned so much from it and I've made incredible lifelong friends and yeah, it's, just been fantastic, in so many ways. In my Group Coaching program, the reason I decided to do that was, I felt like I wanted to bring very similar people that had kind of similar goals and to have them not just get coached by me, but have each other's support.
Other people come in with different types of businesses, different types of experiences, and getting that group program support rather than just one-on-one. Also, group programs tend to be a bit more affordable than one-on-one stuff, and I think they're a great way to build connections, particularly if you're somebody who works by yourself or maybe you lead a team but you don't feel like you have that support around you to just bounce ideas off to vent, to get vulnerable, to be like, “here are all my concerns and all my worries and somebody help me.” Often if we are the leader in the business, it can be difficult, and sometimes it's just not appropriate to share all of those anxieties and worries. I think in a group program you certainly can do that. Plus on the flip side, being able to share all your celebrations and your wins, I work with people sometimes who, for a variety of reasons feel that they can't share that with their good friends or their family.
Being in a group program allows them just as it does with one-on-one coaching as well, it allows them to celebrate those moments and to be like, “I'm so excited because this and this happened, or we hit we exceeded our revenue goal.” Or things that sometimes you can feel a little boastful or if you have got friends and family who don't run businesses who don't understand necessarily how exciting that is, that can be another reason why people join a Group Coaching program. But today I kind of wanted to talk through seven ways really that group coaching helps in business. Whether you are looking to apply it, maybe you've even applied for mine. Thank you. I can't wait to meet you all, but if you are just thinking that I hear about group coaching, I don't know what it entails.
Is it this kind of like scam? I know there are a lot of masterminds out there that I have seen people pay huge amounts of money for and then said I learned nothing from it or it just seemed like it was like a pyramid scheme. I just wanted to go through the seven things that I think are amazing about Group Coaching programs and I guess if you are thinking about doing them, maybe look at these almost like a checklist. Do I feel that I will be able to tick the box for this if I go with X, Y, Z Group Coaching or Mastermind program? The other thing I'll say about that before I get into these is if you are looking to be in a program with somebody, look for somebody who has not just built their own business doing X, Y, Z, but has proven to build other people's businesses in that way as well.
Whether that is, they've had extensive experience in their career up until that point, or they have got extensive they've worked with a lot of people that maybe you've talked to and those people have recommended them. What I see potentially happening sometimes in the sort of negative part of group coaching is people who have never had any experience building anyone else's businesses but their own. And then they do this program just sort of teaching other people's methods that maybe they haven't tried and tested on so many different types of businesses. They're leading people in a direction that they haven't proven outside of their own business. I would just be looking at people that if you are in e-commerce that has people who have worked in e-commerce companies or if you're looking in the service space, people who have helped other service businesses get up and running and more profitable or whatever it is that you're looking for.
Keep that in mind. I think some of the negative stuff that comes around Masterminds is that people might go and do a Mastermind and then basically just teach that same Mastermind on their own it's almost like a pyramid scheme and you want to avoid that. You want to work with somebody who is going to tailor it to you and the other people in the group, but also has that proven experience in the fields that you're trying to get better at. Say for example marketing or maybe it's about human design or something else like that, that they have that experience. I think that's a really important thing to keep in mind. The other thing to keep in mind is the size. I know some Masterminds out there will have a hundred-plus people in them and it's kind of like a Zoom call and you just get on and one person asks a question and then people are in hot seats and you get to watch other people be coached, but it doesn't actually allow necessarily for this a lot of connection to happen within the people in the group.
In our group, we always cap it at 10 people, so that people can get to know each other. I mean you're with each other every two weeks for a year, and you do get to know each other, but if there were 20, 30, 40 people in that group, you just may not have that same level of connection and understanding and also just the time for people to actually talk within that Group Coaching program. Just some things to keep in mind. These are in no particular order, but they are seven ways that I really do think group coaching helps. Regardless of whether you are looking at our Group Coaching program or starting your own or, going to one anywhere in the world, just looking through the lens of thinking, do I feel like that program is actually going to allow me to hit these seven things that I'm about to talk about?
In no particular order, the first thing that I think is a really great outcome of being in a Group Coaching program is just the ability to see inside other people's businesses and particularly different businesses to your own. Now again, if you're in a program that is just for a particular niche, then this might be to a bit of a lesser extent for you. However, you still get to see inside a whole bunch of other people's businesses. Now as a business coach and I can't even think of how many people I must have coached over the years, but I would say it'd be in the thousands including workshops and other things. I have got to see inside of so many people's businesses and I have seen the same problems come up whether you are just getting started and you've got a business idea and maybe you're still working in an employed role through two people who are earning tens of millions of dollars and multiple staff and even locations in different territories around the world still have the same issues.
You start seeing the common threads that come up. But also what is amazing is that you start seeing platforms or tools or different tactics or strategies that people are using regardless of what type of business they're in. I think being in a Group Coaching program, getting that access to other people's businesses and seeing what works, what doesn't, even things from retail training programs through to legal documentation. I mean hearing from other people, this is what we did or this was a big mistake that we made, and it just allows you to have not just your own experience and maybe the experience of the coach you're working with, but all these other people's experiences to guide you towards success and to help set you up in a way that doesn't completely remove but reduces the risk of failure in certain areas. Because you have these other people who may well have gone through that and said, “I've gone through that, and trust me you don't want to do it.”
Here's what I learned, X, Y, Z. It's just an incredible way to access that information in a really supportive group. Again, I'm talking from experience running my own groups in that it is supportive. I would say in other groups that I've been part of it, that support maybe hasn't been there to some degree. That's the first one, the ability to see inside different businesses. It's something that we don't get to do enough of. And even if we chat with our friends who have businesses, it's different to being in a program where people are a lot more open, particularly about say their failures or about things that they're really worried about. Whereas with friends sometimes there can be a bit of competition or sometimes with family, there can be a bit of bravado in a Group Coaching program, it just doesn't exist.
Again, it depends on what program you go into, but in the programs that I run, I really try and work with people in the interview stage when they're applying to make sure that we get the right people in that group who are going to be open and are going to be committed. I have to say I've had six or seven groups now and I think we're up to number seven. I would say there's one group that I've had that has not committed, that has not been as open. Some people have for sure, but, but other people haven't, whereas every other group has been engaged and committed, and open. To some degree, it is going to be a risk if you go into group coaching, but more often than not that risk will completely pay off. Number one is the ability to see the inside of different businesses.
I think that is key and you can always learn from somebody and that's the thing, you can always learn from somebody regardless of where they are and regardless of where you are in business. This brings me to number two, these aren't in any particular order, but the second thing, the second way that I think Group Coaching programs really help is that you meet different types of business owners and again, even if you're in a particular niche, say you are all psychologists, you're going to meet people at different stages of their career in psychology. In our business, we always work with creative small business people that are at different levels. And the reason that we do, we have quite a detailed application process. You apply online, you fill in quite a detailed questionnaire, then you have an interview, then you might have a second interview, and then we ask you to fill in another survey that gets shared with the group.
And then we have quite a bit of an orientation and onboarding so people get to know each other. But also I get to know that you're going to be a good fit for this group. I don't choose people according to, “everyone's earning the same amount or everyone's at three years in or whatever it is.” We've had people, 25, 30 years into their business. And then we've felt other people where the idea is there, but they haven't launched the business yet and they're working towards it. And the reason that we have people at different levels is I honestly believe that everyone and anyone is an educator. You can have somebody who comes in who maybe hasn't launched their business yet, but it's had this huge experience in say corporate or who's had this massive experience in a structured environment, in an employed role, and they're able to bring that information into the group with maybe somebody who has known from day one what they wanted to do and they've maybe been a maker or a creator of some sort.
They maybe have gotten into a business but have not had the structure and that stuff that surrounds kind of corporates in terms of structure and policies and legal and hierarchies. I mean, hierarchies aren't a great thing, but organizational charts and things like that that can really help and benefit small business owners. The other thing is that you get to work with people who are maybe from a different background to you or maybe from a different country. We often have people from outside Australia in the groups and from different parts of Europe, the US, or New Zealand. You have those people coming into the group as well and providing their experiences. You may have people who just come from a different type of walker life than you. It's really great for you to see that and hear that.
Sometimes we can get stuck in the people that are in our lives being very similar, and that can sound really harsh, but like I remember when I moved to London, I moved the first time when I was 21 and I moved again when I was 29. I spent about five and a half years living in London. And the people that I met in London were so different from the groups of friends that I'd had here. I think nothing wrong with that, it's just I'd had a group of friends here from high school, we all went to the same school, we were the same religion, and we were the same background financially, and culturally a lot of the time as well. I think that when we can put ourselves into a situation where we are meeting people that maybe we wouldn't have met otherwise, it's just such a beautiful thing to be able to talk to people that are maybe coming from a different perspective and whether that's a perspective from maybe they studied something that we have no understanding of, maybe they're like a mathematical genius and they're coming to it and looking at your numbers and being like, why don't you do this or that.
Maybe they're coming from an IT perspective or maybe they're coming from a really artistic and creative perspective. They're coming at it, looking at it like, “what if you did this?” Or what if you moved that? Or I was thinking about your mood board and what if this or that happened? You're getting this incredible melting pot of people giving ideas and support and suggestions from all these different backgrounds. I think that is just such a wonderful thing. One thing that comes up a lot in, I mean where this is really exemplified is in when we talk about money mapping and I always talk to people about your money mindset and where that comes from and I'll share my own stuff that has come from growing up in an Irish Catholic family and a lot of this mentality of like give back, give back, give back.
I had to break over some of the things like, “is that greedy?” Or certain things that I had in my mind from my background. And other people might come to it by saying, for example, I grew up in a household where my parents lost all their money and that has made me really determined to be really secure and I have various ways of building wealth. People are coming from all different perspectives and I think that is such a beautiful thing as well to have. One thing that we don't necessarily have access to once we finish high school or university or an employed role, is if we are out on our own quite often we can kind of get stuck in meeting the same type of people all the time.
That's number two, just meeting different people, different ages, different locations, different backgrounds, different lifestyles like it's a beautiful thing. Number three, it's a safe space and again, I'm just talking from the perspective of my own Group Coaching programs. I would say the one program that I did in the US as well, the Mastermind was also a pretty safe space. But I definitely feel like I try and cultivate that in my groups as well. If you're looking at I guess this also comes down to like the numbers, I wouldn't necessarily feel safe in a group where there are like 50 or 60 people to be completely vulnerable. I would feel a lot safer in a smaller intimate group where I really do know the people that are in there. Being in that group, really allows you to open up and be vulnerable.
Again, this depends on the group of people that you get. As I said, I've had one group where I don't feel that that's happened as much and that's something I've really tried to work on, but in most of the other groups, people are really vulnerable and safe and happy to share and you see it all the time once one person shares and is vulnerable, other people feel that they can as well. I feel like just that Group Coaching program or a Mastermind if you choose to go down that path, you want to be like, “is this a safe space for me?” And within a couple of sessions, you should know if this is a safe space and if you feel like you can open up and if you feel like you can't, definitely that is something to talk to the person who's facilitating it about, in our groups, we bring in a psychologist, we bring in a financial advisor, we bring in a mindfulness teacher and we bring in all sorts of other experts as well.
But really to provide that safe space. I also talk with people a lot in the interview process about this being a safe space and I'll reiterate again and again when we are sharing, this is all confidential and some people will have big brands that everyone knows and we just want to all be really confidential and keep that in that sort of safe united space. I love it because once you are in there, you do feel like, “Okay, I can open up” and whether it's opening up about your money, whether it's opening up about mental health challenges, whether it's opening up about competition that you've really felt maybe you're opening up about family challenges or, self-esteem issues. A lot of those things can come out and they can come out in a safe environment.
That is something that is really amazing and special about Group Coaching programs. Number four, and this goes to the other things that I was saying, but you often hear about tips or tactics or platforms or tools that you've never heard of before. Someone will bring it up and be like, “has anyone used this particular tool?” Or “Hey, I just recently discovered this online platform that allows people to do X, Y, Z,” or “Hey, I was working with a client and they talked about this and I think that would be perfect for you because you mentioned this in the last session,” those sorts of access to not just your own learning but 10 other people's learning. They may have listened to a podcast, they might have read a book, they might've watched a film, or they might've just come across this tool that has been really helpful for them.
They're sharing that information and again, you are able to access that and grow from that and leverage their research and their information in your business and likewise give back and leverage as well. For example, in one of our groups, I love this group, we have a graphic designer and she recently mentioned a platform that is easy to create email signatures with and that was really useful for somebody else in one of the groups. And it's that having that support and that friendship that is like, “Hey I was thinking about you and I thought of this for you.” What's so beautiful to watch as the person facilitating a group program is you see people start off as strangers, and then by the end of the 12 months, most of the time they have become really close and they get each other's sense of humor and they get each other's quirks and it's just a wonderful thing to be part of.
I love that. Number four is the tactics and tips, and tools that maybe you have never accessed before or never been never known about. Number five, and I've alluded to it just then is friendships. I think friendships particularly as an adult are harder and harder to cultivate and you have less opportunity to find new friends, especially if you are working a lot and maybe you have other things going on in your life, maybe you've got children, maybe you've got an elderly parent, maybe you've got some health challenges that take up a lot of your time and there's less chance of just sort of making these friends. I know, I hear it all the time from people that they can feel incredibly lonely when working for themselves, particularly if it's just them or even if they've got staff, but maybe those staff is remote or maybe they've just got one or two staff and people are feeling this intense, want to make friends that have a similar outlook, similar values and maybe similar career in building a business and they're just not being able to find that.
I know from my own perspective, I started the mastermind in the US and I was a little like, everyone's going to be from the US and there was one person who was from Australia and that was Dr. Rebecca Ray who I've had on this podcast and she's an author and just incredible. She actually comes into the Group Coaching program as an expert to talk about all sorts of things and they're always just such beautiful sessions with Rebecca. Rebecca was the other Australian in that group and there were about 40 or 45 people in that group who were split into two other groups. You had about 20 in each group and the rest of the people, I would say probably 80, 85% were from the US and then the rest were from Italy, Germany, the UK, Netherlands, and Sweden, I think somebody was from Norway.
What happened was I actually became, I actually became good friends with Dr. Rebecca Ray after the Mastermind, but I think she was in the other group. But then what happened in my group is I became really good friends with this woman in Amsterdam of all places and we have become such good friends, her name's Marre, she runs a business called Web Club, she's been on this podcast before and we're actually meeting for the first time this year in Europe. I have just so enjoyed having that person to chat with about not just business but life. Marre has got a very similar lifestyle, she's like in the smack bang in the middle of a big city and I live in the bush, but she has a similar outlook on life, and similar humor. She has young kids, I have young kids.
There's a lot of alignment there. And we would never have met, I mean, how would I have met somebody running a branding and web design agency in the Netherlands from little old North Warrandyte in Australia when we're in a pandemic and not traveling? That is just an incredible friendship that has come out of that. I've seen similar things happen in my own Group Coaching programs. I remember bumping into, I went to an event in Melbourne, part of Design week that was being run by another client who'd done my first round of Group Coaching programs. I walked in and I saw one of my clients and then next to her I saw another client and I was like, “oh my gosh.” It just took me a second to figure out, “yes, they know each other from Group Coaching.”
They're like, “yeah, we've started going to events together and catching up.” I just love that I was like, “you've taken it off Zoom and you are actually meeting in real life and connecting.” And since then I know that both of them have like referred work to each other and I just think it's such a great thing. I know that's also happened in another state where I've had people catch up quite often and go out for drinks and I've had one couple that was in a Group Coaching program actually create a product together. I just think the ability to create friendships in these groups is wonderful. And particularly if you are lucky enough to be in a group where people are really open and committed to being part of that group and to being open and real and vulnerable, then I definitely think the friendships are just such a huge win from the Group Coaching program.
I've seen it myself firsthand in my own programs that I run and I've been part of a friendship that has resulted directly from a Group Coaching program. Number six, and this is a big one, regardless of what type of coaching you do, whether it's one-on-one or whether you work in a Group Coaching program or a Mastermind, is the idea of accountability. Again, I would say this is very much a result of Group Coaching and particularly in a smaller group. I run with 12 10 people, whereas say in a mastermind where there's like 40 or 50 people maybe the accountability isn't there as much. I would say the US Mastermind I was part of it was great in terms of connecting people. We had a Slack channel, although that can be kind of overwhelming when you've got 45 people in there chatting.
Particularly because of the time difference. I was looking at it later in the day and they'd just be like hundreds of messages that had happened at 2:00 AM my time. But if you are in a small group, then accountability is key. In one of the current groups that I'm running, we have a Google doc and they input the people in that group input what they want to be held accountable for between now and the next time we meet. And then when we meet the next time we spend the first part of the session literally going through, “okay you said you were going to do this, how'd you go?” It's just lovely to see people really open up, and to be like, “yeah, I want to be held accountable for this.” This is something big. And people will say, I've been sitting on this for six months and I wouldn't have done it if I wasn't being held accountable to the rest of the group.
That is a huge part of coaching and a huge part of I know in Marketing for Your Small Business where you have a group program there as well called the course and coaching program, and that starts in March as well. If you were in the Group Coaching program that runs for the whole year, you actually get free access to the Marketing for Your Small Business. Just keep that in mind if you're interested. But in that marketing field, a small business course and coaching program run for nine weeks and people at the end of it have the choice of whether they want to present their marketing plan to the rest of the group. It's so wonderful to see people start off and be like, “I don't like marketing. I've never had a plan” and then get to the end of it. And they've been held accountable the whole time to finish that course and to present to the group, this is my marketing plan, this is what I'm going to do.
I think when you can have that win and that like, I did the thing I was going to do and I did the thing I said I was going to do and I did the thing I've been putting off for how many months or years, it just gives us such confidence as small business owners and I think we can easily not stay accountable when it's just us. We can break promises to ourselves all the time, but we find it so much harder to break a promise to somebody else. I mean that's why they often say you should exercise with a friend because you're not going to let them down. Whereas if it's just you, you can easily hit snooze. That is a huge part of group coaching that there's accountability, that there are people that are wanting you to do the thing that you said you were going to do.
The other part of that is in my group we have a buddy system, so it's optional, you don't have to choose to be part of it, but we do put people together and sort of say, “that's your buddy.” In addition to the Group Coaching program and all the support from us, you also have that person that you can catch up with on a frequency that suits you. I have one client at the moment and they are in Europe, their buddy is in Australia, and they catch up just prior to the group coaching call. I think that also goes for the friendship part of it. I like that person in Australia, I'm sure if ever they go to Amsterdam they'll be like, “let's catch up.” Accountability is a huge part of group coaching and I just love people ticking those things off, particularly when they say, “this is something I would not have done if I had not told everyone in the group that I was going to do it.”
Number seven, and it wraps everything up that I've been talking about is you have these lifelong connections. You form connections with people and you see people, really vulnerable at certain points. There was somebody in the US program that I was part of and they lost their mom very early into that program and I reached out, I also lost my mom very suddenly in 2017 and I reached out to them and we had good chats and that person works in a field that I think is really important for all small business owners. I've talked to them previously about doing things in group coaching or, coming onto the podcast and there are those connections that you make with people that even if you don't talk to them for a couple of years you could go back to them, and be like, “Hey, how you going?”
Remember when we talked about this or that or “Hey, I'm coming up against this challenge and I know that you dealt with that, or remember how you talked about X, Y, Z?” I feel like you have those connections and you have those people that have traveled a whole year with you. I mean, in the case that I run for a year. In that case, in the US it was six months and you definitely saw some people really grow and change over that time. It's the same when I run these, I see people really change from the start to the end and open up and get more confident and be more real, and it's just they have more clarity around their business, which I also think adds to confidence. But it's that idea of these lifelong connections that again kind of goes back to the point of being friends or having access to things that you just don't necessarily get an opportunity to do very often.
I mean, you can if you join say a sports group or if you decide to go back to university and study, but even then you may be working with people that are very different from you. And yes, in group coaching you have people that are very different from you, but you're all working towards a common goal of growing or building your businesses in some way. That's number seven, these lifelong connections. I know in my case with Beck and Marre and other people that I met in that Group Coaching program as well, we will have this lifelong connection we already do and I can't say that ceasing at any point in the future. It's a huge part of Group Coaching programs. As long as you are committed and you put yourself forward and you're vulnerable and you are real and open in them, you will get back what you put in.
If you don't turn up or if you turn up every so often and you never say anything or you never share or you never put yourself forward, then just like anything else in life, you're probably not going to get that much back. But if you turn up and you are willing to be open and share and trust in the process, then you get so much out of these programs.
That is it, that's number seven. I'll just run through them again. The seven ways that group coaching can help you as a small business owner. One, you get to see different types of businesses. Two, you get to meet a whole bunch of people who maybe are from different walks of life that you wouldn't necessarily meet otherwise. Number three, it allows you to be open in a safe supportive space.
Number four, you get access to tips, tools, and tactics that maybe you would never discover otherwise. Number five, you get access to friendships, and the ability to cultivate real and lasting friendships. Number six, you stay accountable to a whole bunch of people what do I want to do? What am I promising myself? What am I trying to do in this business? What are my goals? How do I get there? What am I going to say no to this year? Have I said no to it? You have this immense accountability. And number seven, the chance to build lifelong connections, which is just magical really. That is it for today's coaching episode. As I said, Group Coaching is open now, and if you're reading this thinking, “yes, that is what I want to do.” Please be quick and go over and apply at MyDailyBusinessCoach.com/groupcoaching because we will be closing the applications at the end of this month.
That is it for today's coaching episode. The notes will be over at mydailybusinesscoach.com/podcast/272. I hope you are enjoying your summer or winter or wherever the season is where you are and I'll be back next time. If you did find this useful, I would love it so much if you could leave a review on Apple or Spotify, it just really helps us get found, and perhaps somebody else is out there right now contemplating if they want to be part of a mastermind or group coaching program and this is the episode they need to listen to. Thanks so much for listening, I'll see you next time. Bye.
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