Lessons from My Coach

1. A rookie coach who is brand new and has no experience2. A coach who has been doing it for a while and has some experience3. A masterful coach who already has a full client list and a thriving business...So if you fit in to one of those 3 categories, BUY THIS BOOK!There are limitless amounts of practically useful and transformative ideas and actions that Amir provides here. His powerful storytelling, vulnerability and authenticity, bold but supportive style and heart-centered approach are things that all coaches (myself included) should focus on cultivating. I feel like this book gives us tremendous direction in doing so.I was especially impacted by Chapter 8 "Tell a Powerful Story" where Amir gets SUPER real about his own personal struggles and how that is a tremendously valuable and authentic way to build deep rapport with our clients.Also, Chapter 15 "Don't Decide Their Breakthroughs" and Chapter 21 "Powerful Coaching in Silence" were beautifully complimentary and a wonderful reminder not to take away our clients power by making it about us or filling in the gaps.I found myself not being able to go more than a page or two without highlighting something so this review could pour on for days but I'll sum it up this way. In a strong, real world, no-nonsense, loving and completely relatable way, Amir has challenged us to go back to basics where serving, connecting, and being present beat out tactics, internet marketing, and trickery.Well done!

Chapter after chapter Amir provides powerful stories and tools to help coaches deepen their coaching abilities. I highlighted so many pages that I need to buy another copy! His personal vulnerability in sharing his own life challenges inspired me to open up and live more authentically.He offers unique "seeming paradoxes" that somehow make perfect sense. When one reads about things like slowing down, holding silence, and knowing nothing, it cognitively seems too passive, yet my body and my mind soften and resonated with these concepts as great insights and powerful coaching tools. I use them with clients now and they are having great results!I highly recommend this book to coaches, and really anyone who wants to create powerful change. This book is such an engaging read. It's as if Amir is in your living room enthusiastically sharing his wisdom intending to truly make a difference for you and your clients! When coaches apply these concepts, they will up their game and fill their practices. When people apply these concepts they will create powerful life results. No marketing hype, no inauthenticity, just solid value. Get this book!

This is a must read for any coach or person who's thinking about entering coaching. Amir's stances, come froms, and words are unique, brilliant, and heartfelt. I just bought this book as a new year's gift for a client of mine, a coach also, and I will continue to buy it for more clients, prospects, and coach friends down the road.Amir makes heavy use of true stories from his own life and coaching practice. This book is succinct, clear, and broken up into very readable teachings. If it were not so I may not have finished it myself and I certainly wouldn't gift it to others who's time and attention I value.Coaching is an art, not a series of steps to be memorized and regurgitated. In the same way that a painter goos to the museum and becomes newly inspired to create so does this book provide inspiration for coaches to more deeply access their own unique style of creation.

I have had the privilege of talking with Amir when I was new in Coaching. I felt then the power in his words and when he told me he was writing a book. I was intrigued and knew I would buy it as soon as I could. He combines the lessons he learned from his past along with the lessons he learned from his Coach Rich Litvin. I started applying those lessons in my own practice and watched it take off. The book is written using simple guidelines that anyone who is really ready to take their practice to the next level can learn and apply. Not only does he help you achieve your own dreams he also helps you to listen deeply to the dreams of your clients. I now love No's, failing forward, and slowing down. Pick up this book and read it and apply the lessons and you will be an awesome Coach.

This is one of the books that I recommend to all life coaches. In it, Amir explains and describes his key insights from hiring Rich Litvin and being his apprentice for a year. I read this book in 2014 and then re-read it again in 2018. It was as relevant and eye-opening the second time as it was the first. If you are looking to grow your own professional coaching practice and want a deeper insight into how a successful coach thinks, check it out.

The author shares some pretty embarrassing personal and professional stories ... and not in the self-deprectating salesy way of someone trying to butter you up by pretending to be "just like you".That level of authenticity is what made this a powerful, and more importantly, useful read for me.Although this book would clearly benefit a new coach on their journey, as a professional coach and seasoned entrepreneur, it definitely challenged and inspired me to take some new actions with the clients I serve.

I'll admit, I'm eating this book much slower than I normally read and it's because of the first two chapters and what an impact they have made in my life. As a coach reaching for new levels of mastery I've been on a constant journey, forever seeking that next piece of inspiration, the next gem to dig out, the next ah-ha moment. And even though I keep hearing 'slow down', I never really got it until I started this book.This takes deep coaching concepts and puts it into real world application through story and example. Thank you Amir for literally changing my world one chapter at a time.

This book is well written, insightful and packed with ideas for people who are about to embark on coaching AND coaches themselves. We never know it all, and this book has so many little gems to help people prepare themselves for the coaching relationship. I now gift this to my prospects or people at the start of their coaching journey, as well as sharing it with other coaches. It is such a valuable contribution and of powerful service to the industry for everyone involved to really harness the gift of coaching!! Highly recommended.

Book is great when I eventually found where it had been wrongly delivered to and not even thro a letterbox as described!!!

If you are a coach or considering becoming a coach this book is life changing! Simply and beautifully written, packed full of light bulb moments, wise advice and real life experience. Thank you Amir for several spine chilling, golden insights.

i would recommend this book to anyone in the field of coaching

The writer gives some advice that he learned from his coach and shares his experience as a coach. But I didn't find the book helpful as he doesn't tell the reader how to do things. It's a lot of do/be this and that without going deep.I didn't agree with him about coaching people for 2 hours! for free, not using marketing, blog posts, etc. to acquire clients. For beginning coaches who are struggling to make a living as a coach, this is unrealistic. Many don't have the time to be coaching for free, or the income to afford that. For me, like most coaches, this isn't new though.I have been coaching people for zero euros my whole life before I discovered that I can pay the bills with this gift. Now it's time to help people through (free) blog posts, videos, podcasts, but get them to pay you for your time and energy if you were to coach them. He owns many restaurants (which is great, always nice to see people succeed in life) so I can understand where he comes from because I assume he already has an income from that.