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title: Sage Advice From a Successful New Coach
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# Sage Advice From a Successful New Coach

[Julia Stewart](https://www.schoolofcoachingmastery.com/coaching-blog/author/julia-stewart)

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### **![Gregg Schillinger](https://www.schoolofcoachingmastery.com/hs-fs/file-14050869-jpg/images/gregg_schillinger.jpg)Gregory Schillinger was one of the first coaches to take a chance on School of Coaching Mastery three years ago.**

**So you can imagine that I was pretty darned pleased when Gregg called me up a few weeks ago and told me he's now making more money than he ever thought possible.** This, while building a new coaching business in the middle of the Great Recession!

**It's really no surprise, though.** Gregg is an enormously talented coach and successful businessman. But then, coaches who are attracted to the word, mastery, tend to be a cut above. Hence our name, School of Coaching Mastery.

### **To paraphrase Gregg, it's the ones who 'get it' that you want to attract, because they get the most value.**

**I invite you to listen to my entire interview with Gregg, below (worth listening to the full 24 min.), because his experience can help you succeed beyond your expectations, too, but here's an outtake that is pure gold:**

**'If I had a plan that said I want to make this amount, I wouldn't have.** And much to my wife's surprise, and now I think she's come around to think that it's good to have a plan, but best to be able to adapt for reality, because you never know who you're going to meet on the street, or in a conversation, or through a contact and that's where the plan really starts to take place. You know, it's a fluid thing.

**I'm doing very well, I must say.** Better than I ever have or thought I would. But in the end of the day, why not? Why shouldn't I do well and why shouldn't anybody do well? I think forcing the expectation would have done me no good.

**Accept what I have now and having faith that it would all work out is how.** That's my plan. That's it in a nutshell.'

**Gregg's a business coach who specializes in helping new restaurant owners succeed.** His website is: [CoachingRestaurants.com](http://www.coachingrestaurants.com/)

### **Unfortunately, the audio player isn't working on this page, but you can [listen to this audio here](https://www.schoolofcoachingmastery.com/new-coach-gregg-schillinger/).**

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