Episode 21: Starting and Scaling Your Coaching Business with Guest Nick Hancock

All Things Endurance

In this episode of All Things Endurance, host Rick Prince chats with coach Nick Hancock, owner of Maximum Mileage Coaching in the UK. If you’re looking to start or scale your coaching business, consider this podcast a must listen! Coach Hancock doesn’t hold back about his challenges, his successes and his best pieces of advice for new coaches. He also discusses his personal challenges that led him to start running and coaching.

1. Tell us about yourself and how you got into coaching

2. What was it like balancing coaching as your side gig and your full-time job?

3. When you made the decision to go full-time into coaching, was it a leap of faith or was your coaching income enough that you didn’t have many worries?

4. How long did it take to go from side-gig to full-time with coaching?

5. What are some of the things that you do attract and retain athletes?

6. If someone is looking to go full-time into coaching like you did, what are some tips that you have for them?

7. What are some mistakes that you did with respect to going full-time?

8. How do you balance your own training, coaching and family obligations?

9. What do you enjoy the most and least about being a full-time coach?

10. You have a coach that works with you. What advice would you give to coaches that are considering bringing on another coach to work with them?