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Most coaches who struggle to fill their practice aren't missing a technique — they're missing a relationship with themselves. Nathaniel Dunn has been coaching full time for six years, working with everyone from military veterans to CEOs, and the thing he keeps coming back to is simple: the work you do on yourself is the work that creates clients.
In this conversation, Nathaniel and James explore what actually gets in the way of building a coaching practice — not the lack of a system, but the neediness, the attachment, and the invisible agenda that people feel before a word is even spoken. They talk about what it means to be so complete in yourself that you can make a bold request of someone with total integrity and no hunger behind it, why saying what you're actually up to is more powerful than any pitch, and why the best kept secret gets no clients regardless of how good the coaching is.
They also get into the practice of detaching from the outcome before a proposal conversation — not as a one-time insight but as an ongoing ritual — and why doing your own inner work isn't just good for your wellbeing, it's the thing that makes you genuinely magnetic to the people you most want to serve.
If you've been trying to get clients and wondering why it keeps feeling hard, this conversation reframes the whole question.
If this resonated and you're ready to explore what's possible for you and your business, reach out to James at JMWightman.com.
Connect with Nathaniel: nathanieldunt.co.uk
Connect with James: JMWightman.com
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