How to Build a Coaching Business That Actually Gets Results with Margaret Lynch Raniere

Aug 24, 2025

In this powerful episode, Margaret Lynch Raniere shares her remarkable journey from 18-year corporate engineer to internationally recognized coach and trainer. Discover how she accidentally stumbled into coaching, developed her unique "motivation breakthrough" system, and now trains coaches worldwide to help clients overcome their biggest obstacles to success.

What You'll Learn:

• The "Modality Myth" trap - Why talking about your techniques actually repels your ideal clients (and what to say instead)
• The 3 places people get stuck - Margaret's simple framework that helps you identify exactly where clients need support
• How to attract goal-focused clients - The language that draws motivated, paying clients instead of tire-kickers and skeptics
• Why post-pandemic anxiety creates the biggest opportunity ever - How current world events make coaching more essential than traditional therapy
• The "Session 3 sabotage pattern" - Why clients disappear around the third session and how to anticipate and prevent it
• Margaret's "guarantee strategy" - How she used a bold guarantee to develop her techniques and build confidence
• The AI-proof business model - Why human connection and emotional work will become more valuable as technology advances
• From BNI to book deal - How networking meetings led to a Penguin publishing contract and 7-figure training business
• The Motivation Breakthrough Map - Margaret's color-coded system that shows exactly what's happening when someone procrastinates (and how to shift it)

Perfect for:

• Coaches struggling to attract and retain committed clients
• Anyone who's learned techniques but doesn't know how to package them effectively
• Entrepreneurs dealing with procrastination and self-sabotage
• Business owners looking to understand the psychology behind client motivation

Bottom Line: This isn't just another interview about coaching - it's a masterclass in turning personal transformation work into a thriving business while creating genuine, measurable results for clients.

Listen now to discover how Margaret's engineering background led to breakthrough methods that help people move from stuck to unstoppable.

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About Margaret Lynch Raniere

Margaret Lynch Raniere is the CEO of her own company that trains and certifies thousands of coaches and therapists in her highly effective Breakthrough Coaching approaches. She is also a speaker, event presenter, best-selling author of Tapping Into Wealth published in 2013 by Penguin/Tarcher and Unblocked published by Hay House in 2021.

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If you've found this conversation insightful, I'm Leisa Peterson, your host and financial intuitive dedicated to transforming lives through heightened financial consciousness.

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