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Gemma Gilbert on Balancing Motherhood with Growing a Thriving Coaching Business

Betty Cottam Bertels Season 3 Episode 7

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Do you crave simplicity & spaciousness as a busy business owner & parent? Me too! 

Today's guest, Gemma Gilbert, is a down-to-earth & successful business coach, ex-teacher, and mother. She's built a successful business that works for her, giving her the spaciousness & balance in her life that she longed for when she was working in the corporate world. I had so much fun hearing her story. 

Here's what we talked about: 

  • Winter morning dog walks & why mittens are superior to gloves!
  • Gemma’s niche: a flagship evergreen group coaching model 
  • Gemma’s story, from teaching to corporate, and how becoming a mother changed her priorities
  • Coaching skills and how they don’t help you grow a business
  • Choosing a niche when you don’t feel you have any particular expertise
  • How Gemma grew her business as a new mother, and then realised it wasn’t what she wanted
  • Gemma on her current offerings Amplify & Weeks That Work
  • Creating balance & focus, as a mum with a business
  • Betty on reading novels again after being obsessed with personal growth
  • Betty asks Gemma about her experience at Summercamp
  • Gemma on Satish Kumar and simple living 
  • Gemma on her experience of speaking at Tad Hargrave’s London workshop last year 
  • Meeting people you have only previously met online
  • Gemma on feeling less confident in group environments
  • Knowing when to NOT offer your opinions 
  • Gemma on picking ONE THING to grow your audience
  • Half-arsed social media and when to run ads
  • The golden era of Facebook & Facebook Groups & the algorithm changes 

Find out more about Gemma at : https://www.gemmagilbert.com/

Learn how to scale one evergreen group programme to 10K+ months without exhausting launches: download Gemma's free workshop series

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