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I Love Coaching Podcast

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Episodes

Building and Engaging Your Coaching Business

July 02, 2024 15:00 - 15 minutes - 13.8 MB

In this episode of the I Love Coaching Podcast, host Adam Roach dives deep into the fundamentals of building and engaging a successful coaching business. Recorded during the week of July 4th, Adam shares his insights while at his family lake house, making the episode both informative and personal. Adam emphasizes the importance of coaches understanding and defining their unique value proposition by first creating a comprehensive achievement list. This list serves as a foundation for identif...

Everyone Needs A Beach Chair Moment

July 01, 2024 15:00 - 18 minutes - 16.7 MB

Welcome to the relaunch of I Love Coaching Podcast! In this introductory episode, host Adam Roach takes us on a heartfelt journey through a defining moment in his life that he calls "The Beach Chair Moment." This episode delves into how a personal crisis became the catalyst for profound change, leading to the creation of the I Love Coaching community. Key Themes: 1. The Beach Chair Moment:    Adam shares the story of losing his mentor, who was also his father, and how this loss led to a...

Transitioning to a Coaching Career: Overcoming Challenges and Finding Success

July 01, 2024 15:00 - 20 minutes - 18.4 MB

Welcome back to the I Love Coaching Podcast! In this episode, your host Adam Roach delves into the challenges that new coaches face when transitioning from other careers into the coaching industry. Adam shares insights on overcoming the common obstacles, such as imposter syndrome, fear of judgment, and fear of rejection, that often hinder new coaches from launching, growing, and scaling their coaching businesses.  Drawing from his extensive experience, Adam provides practical strategies for...

Build Better, Work Smarter Through Leverage with Jessica Swingle

August 17, 2022 23:07 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Jessica Swingle about how adding personal leverage to her life improved her work, her time at home, and her overall happiness.  Jessica shares how she realized she could save so much of her time by delegating tasks that didn't bring her any joy, and took away free time or focused work time.  Having someone able to help her for 15 hours a week ended up being a game changer to her ability to stay in a work flow, have higher quality family time, and have more ener...

Becoming The Winningest High School Football Coach in Texas with Randy Allen

August 10, 2022 18:16 - 35 minutes - 33 MB

On this episode, Adam Roach talks to Randy Allen about his impressive career as a football coach.  Randy shares how he started out with programs that needed help and transformed them into winning teams.  He discusses his approach in gaining the trust of the teammates, and how he motivated them to grow and improve as football players and men.  He shares how his passion for coaching came from wanting to give back what his coaches gave to him when he was growing up, and discusses what it's like...

Randy Pate: I'm Here To Help You Get What You Want

August 02, 2022 19:33 - 30 minutes - 28.4 MB

On this episode of the I Love Coaching podcast, Adam talks to Randy Pate, the owner and founder of Pate Academy. Pate Academy is a world class junior and collegiate tennis development program, and Randy and his team of coaches help guide serious tennis players to achieve and leverage their tennis goals to create outstanding college tennis and academic options for themselves. He shares how his approach to coaching includes asking the kids to set their own goals, and holding them accountable t...

Humble, Hungry, Smart with Stacy Smallwood

June 22, 2022 15:36 - 31 minutes - 43.3 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Stacy Smallwood about how she went from managing a team of 6 buyers at Neiman Marcus to owning over 30,000 sqft of space for her successful women's clothing store Hampden Clothing.  Stacy shares how staying humble, hungry and smart is what helped her grow her business from 1,500 sqft to what it is now in just 7 years.  She discusses how sleep, therapy and alone time keep her mentally on track to run such a fast paced business, and how learning to say no changed...

Cracking the Code to Your Best Self with Mike Batla

May 25, 2022 21:00 - 33 minutes - 31 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Mike Batla about his journey to becoming a chiropractor, and what Mike has learned in his practice. Mike shares his approach to chiropractics, and explains how his mission is to help people feel more like their best selves. He discusses how chiropractics aids a person's entire body, not just their nervous system, and the many benefits you can thus get from it. Adam and Mike talk about the age ranges that can benefit from seeing a chiropractor, and how to get st...

Run Self Experiments on Your Health with Helen Hall

May 18, 2022 18:57 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Helen Hall, the founder of Blender Bombs (soon to be Bomb Food) about how she built her business helping people supercharge their health.  She shares how she started making blender bombs as a personal trainer trying to help her clients get more healthy food into their diet, and how the success of them lead her to turn it into it's own online business.  Adam and Helen discuss how they both approach their health, ways to get more fruits and veggies into your diet...

Optimize Your Health with Dr. David Geier

May 11, 2022 16:57 - 37 minutes - 34.2 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to his own doctor, Dr. David Geier, about everything involved in creating and maintaining a healthy body.  They discuss the massive importance of sleep, and how they both track their sleep and make adjustments when necessary.  Dr. Geier breaks down how hormones can affect your overall health, and how he advises getting them under control before you move on to other therapies.  They both discuss peptides and the way they interact with your body from an anti-aging s...

Say No to Good to Say Yes to Great with John Haney

May 04, 2022 08:00 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to John Haney about how he helps entrepreneurs supercharge their businesses with the Entrepreneurial Operating System, EOS.  John shares how he got into real estate, and how he started to realize there were tools available to streamline the experience of being a Real Estate Investor.  He explains the basics of EOS and how it helped his business, and also how he uses it to help other people in their businesses.  He breaks down how the EOS helps entrepreneurs say no...

IF you Aren't Tracking, You Aren't a CEO with Calvin Mergen

April 27, 2022 17:47 - 25 minutes - 23.2 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Calvin Mergen about how he helps business owners track their expenses, income, behaviors and more so they can grow their business as large as possible.  Calvin shares how his love for data tracking goes all the way back to his childhood, where he was constantly testing out functions on their first family computer.  Later in life, he helped track data for another business, and eventually he realized how much Realtors would benefit from data tracking, and launche...

Fill Your Ops Gaps with Jazmin Morrison

April 20, 2022 08:00 - 30 minutes - 28.5 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Jazmin Morrison about how she got into the real estate industry, and how she grew a company that helps agents with operations when they aren't ready to hire an admin full time.  Jazmin shares how she became an admin for a Rainmaker, and everything she learned working with someone who wasn't sure the direction they were going.  She breaks down exactly why it's so important to know the direction you are going in, especially when you are hiring people to help you ...

Document then Create with Tyler Hergott

March 30, 2022 16:23 - 25 minutes - 23.6 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Tyler Hergott about how he grew his video business over the last 5 years.  Tyler shares how he discovered he enjoyed being behind the camera, and how he grew a client base that needed videos.  He breaks down the approach he most often follows, document, then create, a tactic he learned from Gary Vaynerchuk, and how he applied that to his business.  He discusses how important it is to just do it, to just get started, and to see where that momentum takes you. Fo...

Get Emotionally Connected to Your End Goal with Kate Randall

March 23, 2022 16:59 - 34 minutes - 32.2 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Kate Randall about how she helps coach people to reach their true end goals.  She shares how she approaches asking people what really matters to them, so they can be emotionally connected to the tasks necessary to get to their end goal.  Kate shares some examples of how this has worked for her clients and why she's so passionate about working with Ops team members. To chat with Kate, email her at [email protected]

No Choice But Success with Jonathon Wells

March 10, 2022 00:21 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Jonathon Wells about how he went from 0 to 2,000 doors.  Jonathon shares how he was always hungry to succeed, even as he just started out in real estate.  This desire to succeed lead him to enter into coaching, because he believed the best investment you could make is into yourself.  After being coachable and willing to work off scripts that had succeeded for his mentors, he grew his multi-family investments to 2,000 units.   To check out the Bootcamp Jonathon...

Are You Growth Minded or Overwhelmed? With Shannon Dager

March 02, 2022 17:56 - 18 minutes - 16.9 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Shannon Dager about what she loves most about coaching. She shares how she loves helping people grow their teams, and how she recommends approaching the hiring process.

Don't Play Small, Don't Think Small with Nate Gainey

February 02, 2022 22:33 - 35 minutes - 32.6 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Nate Gainey about how learning the value of time blocking and working hard as a teen and young adult helped him grow his real estate sales to $100M.  Nate shares how he always did odds and end jobs as a kid, helping his mom with auctions, working on the farm, and recycling glass bottles for cash.  When he entered college, he was managing 3 jobs most of the time on top of his schoolwork.  When he later transitioned into real estate, he was able to draw from thos...

Mindset and Mission with Lucas Sherraden

January 26, 2022 17:36 - 28 minutes - 26 MB

On this episode, Adam Roach talks to Lucas Sherraden about the ability to alter history and change someone's life with a phone call.  Lucas shares how one phone call someone made to him years ago completely changed the trajectory of his life, and it became his new mantra when making phone calls that he was going to change the history of someone's life when he talked to them.  He shares his best recruiting script, how he uses the acronym W.A.I.T when meeting with people, and how walking peopl...

Welcome to the I Love Coaching Podcast!

January 19, 2022 20:54 - 6 minutes - 6.02 MB

Welcome to the new I Love Coaching Podcast experience!   On this episode, Adam Roach talks about what to expect in the future from the I Love Coaching podcast, and from I Love Coaching in general.

Be Creative, Aggressive, Disruptive and Think Outside the Box with Chris Stevens

June 09, 2021 08:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MB

On this episode,  Adam talks to Chris Stevens about how he built up 12 offices around Philadelphia with 500+ agents.  Chris shares a little about his life before real estate as an executive chef working with Wolfgang Puck, and how he learned the value of systems and models when producing all of the food for large events.  He integrated that skillset into real estate when he became a Realtor in 2015 and started recruiting people to his team.  He shares how building the right team of people ar...

Moving from Success to Significance with Christopher Ryan

May 12, 2021 18:24 - 52 minutes - 48.1 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to CEO of Gobundance Christopher Ryan about how he discovered his passion for helping people define and chase their significance over their success.  After building a tech company and selling it right before the tech bubble burst in his twenties, Christopher was asked to help with Tiger21, one of the most influential social networking groups where the average net worth of the members was $100M.  He set out to learn how he could help these people and found a book c...

Add Value Whether You Get the Recruit or Not with Jeff Glover

April 28, 2021 21:45 - 23 minutes - 21.6 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Jeff Glover about how he grew his real estate business to 600 agents after starting out selling 30+ homes his first year in real estate at 18.  Jeff shares how after doing well in his first year, he wanted to run an office and asked his current broker to let him, but the was told no.  That lead him to look at other brokerages, where he helped with recruiting and training.  5 years into his real estate career, he joined KW and loved their focus on training.  He ...

Creating Unique and Memorable Experiences with Jeremy Feldman

April 21, 2021 08:00 - 30 minutes - 27.8 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Jeremy Feldman about how honing in on his vision helped him grow his real estate exponentially.  Jeremy was living in Denver when he got interested in real estate when he realized the simplicity to making money by paying your mortgage down with rent payments while your property appreciates.  In 2012, he moved to Charleston to start a gym with his brother and learned how to recruit clients to the gym.  Eventually, he wanted to shift to real estate and started gr...

Hitting Rock Middle with Sallie Holder

March 31, 2021 08:00 - 31 minutes - 28.7 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Sallie Holder, business coach and author of Hitting Rock Middle.  Sallie shares how she always heard that entrepreneurship is so hard and that being miserable is almost a part of it, and she felt like that didn't have to be the truth.  She started learning everything she could about making businesses run smoothly and started coaching people on how to do what truly makes them happy.  She shares how the most common roadblocks for entrepreneurs are feeling like th...

Get Comfortable Being Uncomfortable with Brian Beers

March 24, 2021 08:00 - 32 minutes - 29.8 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Brian Beers about how he grew multiple Midas franchises.  After taking over a Midas his parents ran, Brian learned all he could about the technical side of the business, which in turn helped garner him respect as someone who wasn't just the boss' kid.  He quickly figured out that being able to say yes to the customer the day they called was key to their growth and started conveying to his employees that no matter how busy they seemed one day, the way they would...

Daily Habits Can Make or Break You with Matthew Ledford

March 17, 2021 08:00 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MB

This we, Adam talks to Matthew Ledford about the tools he uses to stay productive and on track with his goals.  Matthew shares his philosophy that consistency over time brings results and that similarly, your daily habits can make you or break you.  He discusses how training for triathlons taught him how positive habits feed themselves; having discipline to train your body physically can improve how you perform at work  mentally.  He talks about how in the midst of all of the grinding, it is...

Listening to Hear Instead of Listening to Respond with Kim Zuroff

March 10, 2021 09:00 - 27 minutes - 25.6 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Kim Zuroff about how she mastered recruiting by learning the importance of being authentic and caring with people.  Kim  had her first leadership opportunity at 23, and she says now that she looks back she knows the reason she wasn't able to recruit very well was that she had all the knowledge she needed, but didn't know how to engage with people in a way where they knew she genuinely cared about them.  She learned from lots of great recruiters and eventually m...

Urgency Dictates What You Have to Do with J Michael Manley

March 03, 2021 09:00 - 34 minutes - 31.5 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to J. Michael Manley about how he went from homeless to being a BOLD coach and owning a successful real estate team.  J. Michael started real estate in 2003, had a slow first year selling 12 homes, but sold 42 his second year.  He did this through lead generation, making 1300 calls to FSBOs before he got his first listing.  He became a KW agent in 2009 as the market was crashing and ended up moving in with his in-laws as a result of it.  The urgency that situation...

Attitude is Everything with Glenn Bill

February 24, 2021 09:00 - 35 minutes - 33 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to realtor, coach, public speaker, author of The ABCs of Attitude and host of the Get Attitude Podcast Glenn Bill.  Glenn was licensed as a Realtor at the age of 23, and purchased a Century 21 franchise shortly after, taking the franchise from 15 to 168 agents.  After 17 years developing that franchise, he sold it and went into public speaking, using the sales meeting notes he kept from all of his years at C21.  He has developed The Source of Sales challenge that ...

If You Feel Amazing, Your Results Are Amazing with Matt O'niell

February 17, 2021 09:00 - 32 minutes - 29.7 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Matt O'niell about how focusing on his state helped him grow from $16M to $300M in just a few years.  Matt shares how state is 80% of success, and the morning and daily routines he uses to keep his state in a great place, because if you feel amazing, your results are amazing.  He discusses how he got to a point where he felt totally overwhelmed and was convinced that he couldn't do anything more with his business, and a mentor asked him how he thought Richard B...

Feed the People You Currently Have and They Will Feed You with Michael Brown

February 10, 2021 09:00 - 34 minutes - 32 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Michael Brown about how to take care of the people you've already recruited so they in turn help you recruit more people.  Michael started building and flipping houses with his friends in the 90s and stayed in real estate and real estate investing until 2012 when he took a management and recruiting role in Greenville, SC.  He grew that office to 450 agents that did 1 billion in production, and he and his wife also operate their own team as well.  Michael shares...

If You're Trading Time for Money, You're not an Entrepreneur with Jeremy Bowers

February 03, 2021 09:00 - 28 minutes - 26.4 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Jeremy Bowers about how he got into real estate, and how he discovered he truly loved recruiting.  Jeremy went to school to be a pharmacist and transferred to sales in 200.  He got into real estate and bought 100 houses in 17 years while selling 175 houses a year for about 7 years.  He wasn't looking to get into leadership, but Coldwell Banker asked him to work on leadership and recruiting for them and he tried that for a few years.  In 1027, he decided he want...

Finding Ways to Make People's Lives Better by Giving You Referrals with Justin Stoddard

January 27, 2021 09:00 - 30 minutes - 28.1 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to bestselling international author of The Upstream Model Justin Stoddard.  Just shares how he started in the home building industry in 2003, but realized he liked developing people and businesses more than land and homes.  That lead to his switch to working in Title and Escrow, where he essentially needed to recruit top agents over to his company to use him as xtheir title rep.  He quickly realized that Realtor's pain points were listings, leads or leverage, and ...

If You Don't Have Enough Money, You Aren't Prospecting Enough with Jim Gilday

January 20, 2021 09:00 - 36 minutes - 33.2 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Jim Gilday about how he has learned to prospect in his 9 and a half years as a realtor.  Adam and Jim talk about starting out working together and the systems they used to prospect together.  Jim discusses how important it is to be making your phone calls even on days that you don’t want to, because you just might call someone on the day that they are finally receptive to your call and ready to make a change.  He shares how he stays motivated by remembering tha...

You're Not Recruiting, You're Building Relationships with Barbi Triana

January 13, 2021 09:00 - 26 minutes - 24.5 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to KW Miama Shores Team Leader and recruiter Barbi Triana about her journey learning to recruit.  She discusses how she started out going after new agents, but has shifted her focus to teams and established agents, or rock'n'rollers as she calls them.  She shares how she experienced the power of building a relationship and not just recruiting someone, and how she learned how not to give away the store.  

You Can't Afford NOT to Hire an Assistant with Vanessa Rosenblum-Inglese

November 25, 2020 13:00 - 29 minutes - 26.7 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to founder of Pro REA Staffing Vanessa Rosenblum-Inglese about how she helps Realtors grow their business by pairing them with great assistants.  She discusses how she insures that an assistant will be a good fit by focusing on if they are correct for the Job, Culture and Goals of the Realtor's business, and if they have the Talent needed for that specific position.  She shares how she interviews people to make sure they will be prepared to be a real estate assist...

Lessons from John Maxwell

November 18, 2020 20:27 - 24 minutes - 22.3 MB

On this episode, Adam Roach shares lessons he learned while attending John Maxwell's Exchange leadership event.  He discusses how their is no finish line, the importance of not letting a relationship get one sided, and the huge impact you can have on so many lives.

It's Hunting Season with Adam Roach

October 21, 2020 23:27 - 13 minutes - 12.8 MB

On this episode, Adam talks about the tactics you need to employ as a recruiter during the fourth quarter of the year, the hunting season.  Adam shares how in his experience, the majority of realtors are going to be more likely to switch companies at the end of the year so they can go into the beginning of the next year with a fresh start.  He talks about how to interact with a recruit at a meeting, and how important it is to set an expectation at the end of the meeting that you will be reac...

Getting Out of the Friend Zone with Adam Roach

October 14, 2020 16:06 - 16 minutes - 14.7 MB

On this episode, Adam walks you through how to get out of a rut with a recruit where you have gotten stuck in the friend zone: they'll meet you for lunch and they'll talk to you about everything in their life except their business.  He shares ways to approach the setup of the meeting so that it is clear the goal is to talk about business, how he learned to use a pattern interrupt to change the course of the conversation, and how important it is to listen and help them self discover instead o...

The Road to 100,000 Recruits

September 30, 2020 12:00 - 26 minutes - 24.1 MB

On this episode, Adam Roach talks to his lifelong friend and business partner Josh Licht about how they grew their business to 100,000 recruits.  They discuss how they started the company when Adam had an idea for a system and Josh told him he could create it.  They also talk about how they made themselves their only competition, and didn't worry about other competitors as long as they were helping their clients in the best way possible.  They share their experiences in moving into many othe...

Success Hacks with Adam Roach

September 16, 2020 12:00 - 22 minutes - 20.6 MB

On this episode, Adam shares some of the success hacks he uses in his daily life to make his recruiting practice even better.  He discusses the power of chunking your day and stacking multiple successful habits into each chunk of the day.  He goes through his own daily routine and talks about the specific habits that help him stay at the top of his game.  He also explains how important practicing your scripts is, because once you memorize, you can internalize and then personalize them. To j...

The Recruiting Steps: #6 Self Discovery

September 02, 2020 16:59 - 12 minutes - 11.3 MB

On this episode, Adam discusses the 6th step of recruiting: self discovery.  He explains how important it is when recruiting someone to get them to a point where they discover they need to make a change, and shares ways to stay in front of them so that you are who they think of when they realize they need that change.  He gives an example of someone he recruited who he sent different books to each month, and how it got to the point that the admin would say "Here's another book from that Adam...

Don't Think, Don't Talk, Decide to Do It with Ken Wimberly

August 26, 2020 12:00 - 39 minutes - 36.3 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Ken Wimberly about how he grew a real estate team, net lease company, positive laundormat, and parent to child digital scrapbooking app by always putting his intentions out into the world.  Ken shares how when he shifted into real estate, and specifically investing in land, he reached  out to all of his sphere and told them what he was doing, and he immediately had deals to start working.  After growing a wildly successful net lease company, becoming Keller Wil...

Mind Share Over Market Share with Alexis Rankin

August 19, 2020 12:00 - 24 minutes - 22.7 MB

This episode is from the Leading and Recruiting Through a Crisis event Adam put on in March of 2020.  Alexis Rankin discusses what routines she has put in place to keep her productive during a pandemic, and how she stays motivated and connected to her leadership and recruiting team.  She talks about the huge pop of energy she gets when someone she has been working to recruit calls and says they want to have a meeting with her, and how she has been reaching out to people and still recruiting ...

The Gain of the Move Must Be More Than the Pain of The Move with Michael Brown

August 12, 2020 12:00 - 28 minutes - 26.3 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to Greenville, SC rock star recruiter and Realtor Michael Brown.  Michael discusses his leadership and recruiting strategies that have helped him be as successful as he is now.  He shares his approach to recruitment as establishing himself as an authentic humble leader, helping create a vision, going on a fact finding mission, and filling in the gaps he finds with people.  Ultimately, what he feels you have to do for people is find a way where the gain of the move...

The Recruiting Steps: #5 Time with Adam Roach

August 05, 2020 12:00 - 10 minutes - 9.66 MB

On this episode, Adam talks about the fifth step of recruiting: time.  He shares a story about a guy who was so hesitant to be recruited that he made Adam come to his office anything he wanted to talk to him.  The realtor knew that he wasn't getting what he needed at his current office, but he always said no to Adam's recruitment.  Four years into their relationship, he called Adam and said he was ready to make a move and came over to Adam's office.  It's not always easy to be patient, but w...

You Don't Need to Know the Systems Yourself with Kathleen Metcalf

July 29, 2020 12:00 - 31 minutes - 29 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to agent and admin coach Kathleen Metcalf about how she helps train administrative assistants for top producing real estate agents.  She shares how years ago she started to realize that agents who were doing 25-40 deals a year had something in common: they had admin assistants.  After realizing that, she started to research what made a good admin and saw that having systems for every part of the real estate transaction made them successful.  She then started train...

Pay Attention to Your Check Engine Light with George Bryant

July 22, 2020 12:00 - 41 minutes - 38 MB

On this episode, Adam talks to New York Times bestselling author and digital marketing consultant George Bryant about how to keep your marketing from being boring.  George discusses that any kind of success comes from intentionality, discipline and depth, and that applies to how you market yourself.  He shares how he helps people massively expand their businesses by focusing on Relationships Over Algorithms (which he trademarked).  He also explains how important it is to be auditing your bus...

The Recruiting Steps #4 Validity

July 15, 2020 12:00 - 12 minutes - 11.7 MB

In this episode, Adam discusses the importance of validity in the recruiting process.  He explains that being valid means being well grounded, sound and correct for the people you are bringing value.  He shares a story of what can go wrong when you shift away from being grounded into being judgmental, and reminds you to stay open minded.  He also talks about the power of knowing someone's why and being able to deliver to the them the correct solution based on knowing what truly matters to th...