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The Business of Coaching | The Guiding Matrix
The Guiding MatrixTHE GUIDING MATRIX
ICW 2026 · Expert Panel

You are a brilliant coach.
So why does the business feel this hard?

Three coaches who cracked the business side, Frankie Picasso, Ann Farrell, and Sandra Stocks, sat down to map the exact shift from skilled practitioner to strategic business owner. The whole conversation is yours, in every format, for less than the price of lunch.

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The Business of Coaching panel, ICW 2026

If you trained to coach, not to run a business, this will sound familiar

You fell in love with coaching. Then you discovered that loving the work and building a business are two different jobs. Most days look like this:

  • You post on social media and wait, and the clients do not come.
  • You sell hours and sessions, so your income is capped by your stamina.
  • You watch other coaches online and quietly wonder if you are behind.
  • You are busy delivering, with no time left to actually grow the business.
  • You hear that AI is coming for coaching, and you are not sure where you fit.
  • You suspect you are undercharging, but you are not sure how to fix it.

The problem is not your coaching

Here is what the panel named in the first five minutes, and it changes everything: you are anaccidental entrepreneur. You went to coach training and fell in love with the craft, then walked out into a market that does not buy coaching. It buys outcomes.

You can wear the coach hat all day. Until you also wear the CEO hat, the business will keep running you instead of the other way around.

The struggle is not a sign that you are a bad coach, or that you are not working hard enough. It is a sign that no one taught you the strategic layer: which market to serve, how to price for transformation instead of time, and how to build relationships that actually convert. That layer is learnable. And three people who learned it the hard way just handed you the map.

The Business of Coaching, in every format you learn best

One panel, distilled into a complete resource pack. Use the format that fits your week, then keep the rest for reference.

Watch

The full video panel

The complete conversation between Frankie Picasso, Ann Farrell, and Sandra Stocks, moderated by Erwin de Grave. Watch the shift unfold in their own words.

Listen

The full audio

The entire panel as audio, for the car, the gym, or the school run. Learn while you live your life.

Listen

The short audio briefing

A tight audio discussion of the panel's key moves, for when you want the core ideas fast.

Reference

The slide deck

The visual playbook of the whole conversation, ready to revisit any time you need to reset your strategy.

Apply

The companion guide

A written guide that turns the conversation into a working playbook, with the frameworks, tables, and the exact quotes that matter.

Remember

The infographic

The entire shift from practitioner to CEO on a single page. Pin it where you will see it every day.

A look at what you get

Real, polished assets you will keep and use, not a thrown-together PDF.

Course cover
Slide Deck
Slide deck
Companion Guide
Companion guide
Infographic

This is not theory. It is from coaches who did it.

Every idea in this pack comes from practitioners who built sustainable businesses, not from a marketing playbook.

Media & social impact

Frankie Picasso

Social impact entrepreneur and media host across four decades. Founder of The Good Radio Network and co-founder of Gwomen Media.

Executive & organizations

Ann Farrell

Executive coach with a 30-year corporate career and more than 10,000 coaching hours, who built multiple seven-figure organizational engagements.

Mindset & authenticity

Sandra Stocks

Authenticity and mindset coach, NLP practitioner, and best-selling author of16 Seconds, host of theLiving a Hell Yespodcast.

Moderator

Erwin de Grave

Director of The Guiding Matrix, who guided the panel through the move from coach to CEO.

What you will walk away knowing

  • Why coaching is a relationship business, not an audience business,and where to actually spend your energy to find clients.
  • How to put on the CEO hatand own the one role you can never delegate.
  • How to price for outcomes instead of hours,so your income stops being capped by your calendar.
  • Why introductions beat referrals,and how to use the network that already knows and trusts you.
  • How to build a portfolio that survives a downturn,instead of betting the business on one format.
  • Where AI fits,and the deep human work that makes you the premium, irreplaceable choice.
The complete pack

The Business of Coaching

Video, full audio, short audio briefing, slide deck, companion guide, and infographic.

$29

One payment. Instant, lifetime access.

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The kind of strategic shift coaches pay thousands to learn, captured from three people who lived it, for the price of lunch.

Quick questions

I am brand new. Is this for me?

Yes. The panel speaks directly to new coaches who have no client list yet, and to experienced coaches who have plateaued. The starting-from-zero section was built for exactly this.

How do I access everything?

You get instant access after checkout. Watch the video, download the audio, and keep the deck, guide, and infographic for reference, on any device, for life.

Why is it only $29?

Because the goal is to get this thinking into as many coaches' hands as possible. The price is low on purpose. The value is not.

Get instant access for $29