Join James Wightman for life changing conversations on business mindset, leadership, personal power, relationships, and client creation. Interviewing leaders and business owners on how they create from wherever they are. Whether that's a million dollar business or repairing a relationship with a significant other.
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Listen in as we help you own the self-authorization of your own life, business, and personal power so you can truly create the life and business you've always wanted from your full potential.
The Inner Journey Behind a Thriving Coaching Practice w/ Ankush Jain
Most coaches who struggle to build a thriving practice aren't missing a strategy. They're missing an honest account of what the journey actually looks like from the inside — the misunderstandings, the self-judgment, the money stories, and the slow, unglamorous work of becoming someone whose business can actually grow. Ankush Jain spent six years writing that account.
Ankush is the founder of the AJC Coaching Career School, author of Awakening the Coach Within and Sweet Sharing, and one of James' own coaches and mentors. In this conversation, he and James explore what the coaching journey actually looks like beneath the surface — why most coaches are living in a world of made-up meaning about money, rejection, and success without realizing it, and how the path to a thriving practice runs directly through the inner work most people are quietly avoiding.
They also get into what kept Ankush writing a book for six years, the role self-forgiveness plays in building something sustainable, and why the judgments we hold of others are almost always mirrors for the judgments we hold of ourselves. Ankush closes with a simple but direct message to every coach who's considered giving up: stay on the path. The world needs good coaches — and it's a win for everyone when you do.
If you've been working hard at your practice and wondering whether it's supposed to feel this hard, this conversation offers something rare — an honest look at the journey from someone who has been all the way through it.
If this resonated and you're ready to explore what's possible for you and your business, reach out to James at JMWightman.com (http://JMWightman.com).
Connect with Ankush: ankushjain.co.uk (http://ankushjain.co.uk)
Connect with James: JMWightman.com (http://JMWightman.com)
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29 Jun 2026
Making In a Month What Used To Take a Year - Client Spotlight w/ Stephen Lambert
Stephen Lambert has been tattooing for 22 years and has owned his shop for over 11. For many of those years, the results kept building. Then something shifted — and in a single month, he realized that he was making what used to take an entire year. Not simply from a better system, but because he started treating himself differently.
In this coaching spotlight, Stephen shares the domino that started it all: quitting smoking after 20 years, which led to dropping alcohol, which led to changing his diet, which led to losing weight, which led to showing up differently in his shop, with his team, and with his clients. He talks about momentum — how everything in life either adds to it or creates friction — and how years of compounding small personal decisions quietly transformed his business from the inside out.
They also get into what it looks like to lead a team of artists when you came up in a culture that modeled the opposite, the outside perspective that coaching gave him when he'd been too deep in the business to see it clearly, and Stephen's closing challenge to anyone sitting on the fence: if you're comfortable, that's exactly why you're still in the same spot.
If you've been focused on the systems while something underneath is quietly creating friction, this conversation points directly at what that something usually is.
If this resonated and you're ready to explore what's possible for you and your business, reach out to James at JMWightman.com (http://JMWightman.com).
Connect with Stephen: wanderlusttattoos.com (http://wanderlusttattoos.com)
Connect with James: JMWightman.com (http://JMWightman.com)
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15 Jun 2026
Coaching Spotlight: Trey Monaco — From "I Need a Website" To Creating Clients Everywhere
Trey Monaco spent 13 years in leadership development and sales training. He knew how to help people. What he didn't know was how to build his own practice — and when he started thinking about it, his mind went straight to the website, the business card, the marketing. Sound familiar?
In this coaching spotlight, Trey shares what shifted in the weeks since he started working with James — how the mental walls he didn't know he was building started coming down, what it felt like to move from desperation and pressure around getting clients to a genuine sense of ease and openness, and the moment he realized clients weren't strangers on the internet but people already in his world who needed exactly what he had to offer.
He also shares what it was like to say yes to coaching in the first place — the resistance, the gifted session that opened the door, and why he now emulates the same approach James used with him in every conversation he has with a potential client of his own. By the time of this recording, Trey had already created two new clients — without a website.
If you've been telling yourself you need to have everything in place before you can start, Trey's story is a direct and warm challenge to that thinking.
If this resonated and you're ready to explore what's possible for you and your business, reach out to James at JMWightman.com (http://JMWightman.com).
Connect with Trey: linkedin.com/in/trey-monaco-35a7718a/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/trey-monaco-35a7718a/)
Connect with James: JMWightman.com (http://JMWightman.com)
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