Running a 7 Figure Coaching Business Organically to Make More, Give More - ft. Akbar Sheikh | TNS 12

We are live, we are live, internet entrepreneurs. Hey guys, this is Nikhil Sai. Welcome back to another interview. Today this is me, the Nikhil Sai. We are hosting another interview and guess who is coming? This is one of the craziest guy in the whole community when it comes to especially coaches, consultant, and helping them to scale to 7 figures and beyond. Let's not waste any time and welcome Aghbar Shaikh.

Hey man, thanks for having me, appreciate it.

Thanks, thank you so much, Aghbar. Even like, Aghbar is super traveling and super busy right now, but still he made his time for this interview. I really appreciate it, Aghbar. Thanks for joining.

Yeah man, anything for you.

Absolutely, thanks, thanks for that. And everyone who's watching, please put #live and #replay if you're watching it live or replay. And this is going to be a super short and straight to the point value session, so So Akbar is going to quickly answer all the questions we have. So let's not waste any time and get into the rocking rolling session. So Akbar, can you please start with your backstory? Like, how did it all start? Like, now you are at your 5th 2 Comma Club Award. It's super crazy. I've seen all the way up. So how did it all start?

Well, yeah, man, you know, and by the way, a lot of those 2 Comma Club Awards are celebrating my clients. I like to celebrate my clients success. A lot of the trophies that we have are commemorating their success when they hit 6 figures, when they hit 7 figures. So I like to celebrate my client's success more than I like to celebrate mine, because who cares what I'm doing, uh, bro? Where did it start? I mean, this is a long story, but look, um, I think the lesson we could learn is we were lost, we were overweight, we were broke, we were not spiritual, we had no direction, we had a lot of problems, toxic relationships. I think there's a benefit in not giving up. And I think that I'll conclude this idea that with a cool concept that you're not only the author of your life, but you're also the graphic, that you're also the illustrator. So for example, I want Akbar to have no hair. No problem. I want Akbar to have no beard. No problem. I'll shave my beard. I want to have a assault. I want to have a— I want to fix his chipped tooth. No problem. I want it to be big. I want it to be small. I want to be skinny. I want it to be strong. We can create— we can have him look like however we want to look like without surgery, by the way. Then as far as the story goes, well, you know what he prays, or he has a morning routine, or he doesn't pray, or he doesn't have a morning routine, or he eats healthy, he doesn't eat healthy, he spends time with the family, he doesn't spend time. We write that, we create that. And I think for me, I think a lot of people are not living their truth and their ideal life is they're just doing a poor job designing that. And I think that you need to design who you want to look, what you want to look like and who you want to be and just put it into fruition that very day. So for example, it's like if I'm, if I'm, if I'm trying to stop smoking cigarettes, which I did quit a long time ago, It's not that I say, oh no, someone offers me a cigarette, says, oh no, I'm trying to quit. Oh no, I'm not a smoker. And because it's different labels, as they talk about in a book, Atomic Habits, the bottom line is identity shift can happen today. Like it's not a thing of the future or later next week. It's literally today.

Absolutely.

You can start changing today. And I think that's the story of us where we were broke, you know, living in an electrical closet with no hot water, no showers. No, no.

Yeah, I know the story. It's crazy.

Yeah.

From nowhere to somewhere where you're impacting other people's lives.

Yeah. Now we're doing— now we're improving the quality of mankind all over the world, you know? And I think it starts with creating a new narrative.

Absolutely. You just need to have a clear goal of where you want to go and just live the life, right? That's super awesome, Akbar. Thanks for the answer. And just quickly, like, as you are the go-to guy when it comes to coach secrets, like, I don't think is there, there is anyone else in the market who is better than Coaching Coaches on becoming successful coach. Like, like, how do you think, like, people can start up and scale up a coaching business in a quick sentence? Like, how do you think that's going to happen? Because a lot of people have a lot of misconceptions.

Uh, coaches have a very what people need to realize is coaches have a very unfair advantage.

And it's—

listen, I come from an entrepreneurial family, bro, for generations and generations of entrepreneurs. I've been involved myself in retail, wholesale, fashion, automobile industry. My God, I go on and on. Easy, easy. I could very easily tell you the sexiest model I've ever seen and the best model I've ever seen is online coaching. Because you have a very unfair advantage. Yeah, you are an expert in something other people are not. They want to hire you to leverage your expertise, to leverage your gray hair, so to speak. So that's what coaching is all about. It's as simple as, hey, I'm really good at something, you need, you need help with that— health, wealth, relationship. I'm in great shape, you want to be in great shape. I have great relationships, you want to be great relationships. I have a great mindset, you need a good, great mindset. I, I know how to generate wealth, you want to generate wealth. It's a very beautiful relationship and exchange where opposites attract, and you just, uh, coach them in a very strategic way for them to get the results that they're looking for. So I mean, I think, I think the first thing is to recognize that, the beauty of that, and then all the other, all the other stuff is easy, bro. We help you with all that, the kind of funnels that you need, the kind of offers that you need, the kind of traffic that you need, the kind of automations you need, the kind— how do you close the sale on the phone, blah blah blah blah blah. All that, all that stuff, all that beast machine building stuff you need. I mean, we just give you all that stuff, you know, and then support you with to, to fine-tune that on a daily basis. Uh, but the main thing people need to do on, on their own is recognize how blessed they are. The fact that they want to be a coach, you know.

Exactly. And that, that's a great answer. And as everyone is watching this, Akbar has all the wheel already done for you. You just need to pick that up and just have the passion to be a good coach and have that, you know, intention to impact someone else's life. And you can do it in a spark, right? And like, as this trend is going on, Akbar, like, there is a lot of people who is doing a lot of mistakes in like being a coach. Like, what do you think is the number one mistake most coaches do in this industry in 2021?

The biggest— well, there's a lot of mistakes. I mean, people don't know. People are— where do I even start with that? Most people are doing mostly everything wrong, you know, and I say that with all due respect, and that's fine. Generally speaking, the fundamentals are broken. Generally speaking, the fundamentals are broken. Their messaging is no good. Their funnel is lacking ethical principles of persuasion. Their messaging is not enticing. It doesn't make anyone emotionally flicker. Their social proof is weak. Their likable authority, they don't even, uh, uh, their likable authority, they don't even present themselves properly. Uh, they don't know their marketplace. They don't know their real pains. They don't know their actual— what they actually want to accomplish. Um, I mean, it goes down to the fundamentals. Simple, you know, to be honest with you. I mean, it's the beauty of it is it's simple to build a 7-figure coaching business, but it starts with the fundamentals. And the beauty of that is at least we know what's wrong so we can go ahead and fix that.

Exactly. Absolutely. Yeah, that's a great answer, Akbar. I really appreciate that. So there are a lot of things which coaches are doing wrong. You just need to find the core principles and just make sure that your first principles are right. And Akbar, like, as you're already dealing with a 7-figure business, or I hopefully you'll be doing 8 figures very soon, and all of your clients doing good when it comes to managing all of the businesses, especially coaching businesses. Like, what kind of tools and what kind of systems you use to manage all of the things? Because you have a lot more stuff to get done and big team, right? So how do you get things done?

Yeah, man, that's a cool question. I mean, I don't know. I mean, our software stack is, you know, where we communicate with our team. Look, honestly, I'm tech— look, listen, you know, I joke, I say I'm a funny-looking brown guy. Who's technologically illiterate with a name nobody can spell or pronounce, right? So I'm not this big tech guy, but we use basic tech, you know. I use Voxer to communicate with a lot of my team members. Uh, we use Gmail Suite— we use— I'm sorry, Google Suite, you know, all the Google products— Docs, Slides, you know. We write stuff on the Docs, pretty simple slides on the Slides. Yeah. Um, spreadsheets on the Google Sheets. Um, You know, I mean, ClickFunnels, Stripe, Zapier. Yeah, ClickFunnels is my go-to. Zapier does— look, I don't even know my Zapier. Just to show people how tech illiterate I am, I honestly, I don't even know my Zapier login information. I've never made a zap. I have no idea how to do it. Frankly, I don't even understand what it is.

That's awesome.

Yeah, but look, any software we use is simple, bro. I have no mind-blowing software. Well, I'm working on a mind-blowing software for coaches. But as we speak right this minute, yeah, you don't need to be fancy. You don't need a lot of— you don't need a ton of tech. You don't need to be fancy.

Keeping it simple is the key, right? That's awesome. Yeah, we're excited to get that announcement of, uh, you know, your upcoming software about coaches. We'll be looking forward for that. And Akbar, I think the session was super helpful. Like, where do you think our audience can find you mentoring? Like, like, where do you think my audience can find you mentoring?

Well, I have a system that I have a new system that you can check out at LuckForChic.com right now. Yeah, we actually guarantee you, we actually guarantee you 7 high-ticket clients for your coaching business leveraging our new system. So, wow.

Guarantee one client. That just blew my mind up. That's awesome.

Yeah. Well, When you figure out what works, then you can make crazy guarantees like that.

Just look at the confidence in Akbar's face. That's incredible. You know what I mean? That's at a different level, dude. I love it. And Akbar, I really appreciate your time. Any last one before you conclude the whole session?

Yeah, my number one secret to success is giving. The more you give, the more you're going to get. Um, just don't stop giving. You can never go poor by giving. Uh, you'll get the best ROI of your life from giving. Um, and let that be your North Star.

Absolutely. When you make well, share well.

Thank you.

Thank you so much for hopping on, and I really appreciate you being super busy and still joining the interview. I really appreciate it from bottom of my heart, and looking forward for more success. And hopefully all of you enjoyed the session and have a great time. We'll be looking forward to the next interview. Bye.

Thanks so much. Make more, give more. Bye.

Have a great time. Peace.