Coach as Entrepreneur

You became a coach to help people — but no one told you how to build the business behind it.Coach as Entrepreneur is the show for coaches who want to go beyond referrals and create a real business that supports both their clients and their family. Each episode explores the systems, strategies, and stories that help coaches simplify marketing, attract the right clients, and grow sustainably, without burning out.Whether you’re just starting or looking to scale, this is your roadmap to running your coaching practice like a business… and doing it with heart.Build the system. Serve your clients. Support your family.

Coach as Entrepreneur is a business podcast hosted by David Chung, with 33 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

David Chung hosts Coach as Entrepreneur, a business show with 33 episodes published.

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  Episode #32

  From Yahoo Mail to Coaching CEOs: A Stanford Psychologist on the Hidden Price of Success

  Jun 4, 202650 minS0

  <p>What does a former naval officer who helped build Yahoo Mail learn about leadership once he becomes a psychologist to CEOs?</p><p>Dr. Jonathan Marshall has lived several lives. A transposed phone number on his CV left him jobless in Silicon Valley, and he talked his way into the startup that became Yahoo Mail. Then he went to grad school instead of cashing out, earned a PhD at Stanford and a postdoc at Harvard, and built a Singapore practice that sits right on the line between clinical psychology and executive coaching.</p><p>In this conversation he shares...

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  Episode #31

  AI Won't Replace Leaders. It Will REVEAL Them.

  May 27, 202650 minS0

  <p>What happens when a 20-year IBM veteran and former CIO graduates from the corporate world and becomes an executive coach?</p><p><br></p><p>Jane Williams spent 20 years at IBM and was inside the building when Watson was first being trained, back when every professional had to teach the machine their own domain by hand. She rose to CIO, then built a coaching practice for IT leaders. In this conversation she makes the case that AI will not replace leaders, it will reveal them, because once the mechanical work disappears the only thing left to evaluate is judgment.<...

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  Episode #30

  Why This Executive Coach Rejoined the Military at 50 | Episode 30

  May 27, 202649 minS0

  <p>"My success as a leader is measured by how far my team members go."</p><p>Urs Koenig is a Swiss executive coach, NATO and UN peacekeeper, ultra-endurance athlete, and author of Radical Humility. He has worked with leaders at Amazon, Microsoft, and Starbucks.</p><p>In this episode, Urs takes us through one of the most unusual coaching journeys you will hear on this show. A geographer with a PhD in climate research, an MBA, a consulting career, then a transition to coaching in 2000 when coaching was still the Wild West. Seventeen years later, at age 50, he rejoined...

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  Episode #29

  Stop Throwing Spaghetti at the Wall: Coaching Lessons from Year 1

  May 20, 202656 minS0

  <p>"If your employees are hearing feedback for the first time at the annual review, way too late."</p><p>Dr. Lani Jones is a clinical psychologist turned executive coach and founder of HBL Advisory Group. She helps ambitious leaders stop chasing conventional success and start architecting a lasting legacy through her Final 1% framework.</p><p>In this episode, Dr. Jones brings her deep understanding of human behavior to the conversation on leadership, culture, and the realities of building a coaching business. We unpack the Index Card test that exposes the true culture of any leadership team, why yearly performance...

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  Episode #28

  How to Build Business Systems So You Can Take a 2-Week Vacation | Laurie Hollinger

  May 6, 202642 minS0

  <p>Laurie Hollinger didn't plan on becoming a coach. She planned on fashion. Growing up in a town of 900 in North Dakota, she told her mother she was going to live somewhere she could actually touch the clothes in the magazines. She got to New York. She got recruited into the Saks Fifth Avenue training program. And she became a designer sportswear buyer.</p><p><br></p><p>What followed was 15 years in corporate and another decade-plus helping a small business scale to $10 million. Then she woke up almost 50 and thought: what's next? The answer became a coaching practice — and a...

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