#91: How to Create a Powerful Ending to a Coaching Engagement

This short episode contains Robbie’s answer to a question every coach should ask themselves, especially if they want a sustainable coaching business: how do create a powerful ending to a coaching engagement? It’s so easy as a coach to completely miss the opportunity to create meaning and transformation at the end of our coaching programmes. But that's what's possible if we pay attention to this key moment in our work. In this episode Robbie explains: What I learned about endings from my coaches, like Rich Litvin and Joel Monk. The exact words I use with clients to help make the ending of our work a part of their transformation. What I say to create the possibility for more referrals from my clients after our work.  How we can support our clients to rewrite their scripts around endings. There are links to most of the people and resources Robbie mentions below. Download Robbie’s ebook, An Introduction to The Coaching Business Flywheel, here. For more information about Robbie, visit https://www.robbieswale.com/ Read more about The Coach's Journey at www.thecoachsjourney.com. Music by My Good Man William: listen on Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/artist/4KmeQUcTbeE31uFynHQLQg To support the Coach's Journey, visit www.patreon.com/thecoachsjourney and to join the Coach's Journey Community visit www.thecoachsjourney.com/community. THINGS ROBBIE MENTIONED THAT YOU MIGHT BE INTERESTED IN The video version of this episode: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/91-how-to-create-a-powerful-ending-to-a-coaching-engagement Robbie on the Better Bolder Braver Podcast: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BqhR6lGgNgA The episode of The Coach’s Journey Podcast Flywheel Series about working with clients and creating referrals: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/85-get-more-referrals-for-your-coaching-business-coaching-business-fundamentals Episode #8 of The Coach’s Journey Podcast, with loads of other nuts and bolts stuff from Robbie: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/robbie-on-structure-first-conversations-marketing-price His video about working with clients over a period of time not a number of sessions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzeyK2yvWOI&t=0s Joel Monk on The Coach’s Journey Podcast: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-6-joel-monk-conversations-at-the-cutting-edge-of-coaching Rich Litvin: https://richlitvin.com/ Claire Pedrick on The Coach’s Journey Podcast: https://www.thecoachsjourney.com/podcast/episode-44-claire-pedrick-cutting-through-complexity-and-simplifying-coaching Robbie and Claire Pedrick’s event in Malvern in 2025: The Artful Coach and the Soulful Coaching Business. Read more here: https://www.linkedin.com/posts/robbieswale_the-artful-coach-and-the-soulful-coaching-activity-7285744469444812801-gBzq?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

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Coach’s Journey founder Robbie Swale and a team of hosts interview coaches about how they created a successful business and how they create impact for their clients. Through these conversations, you can learn how each coach came to coaching, grew their coaching practice and found their way to the successful business they have today. Each interview, like each journey, is different. But each is also packed with insights, tips, suggestions and ideas to grow your coaching business and have even greater impact creating change in the lives of your clients. Past guests include life coaches, business coaches, executivecoaches, career coaches, leadership coaches and more. Some are household names; some are coaches you’ve never heard of. All of them share ideas on the key topics for creating a coaching business: money, fees, impact with clients, training and more. About Robbie: Robbie Swale is a leadership coach, podcaster and the author of four books. He has trained with masters in the field of coaching and building coaching businesses, including Rich Litvin, Robert Holden and guests on the podcast like Katie Harvey and Myles Downey. He is the creator of The Coaching Business Flywheel, which attempts to boil down everything he has learned from many years supporting coaches to grow their businesses and interviewing amazing coaches on this podcast, into one simple, actionable model. Subscribe and read more about the podcast, The Coach’s Journey Community and get the free ebook An Introduction to The Coaching Business Flywheel at www.thecoachsjourney.com