Is business coaching worth it? Here's a look inside the last 12 months of

side hustle nation. What's up, what's up Nick Loper here? Welcome to the

side hustle show. It's the Entrepreneurship Podcast you can actually apply. So

there's been a few requests for a progress report type of

episode, just kind of a state of side hustle nation, so to speak, and it's been a while since I've done

this probably over a year, so I wanted to take some time today to catch you up on what I've been working on what I've been working through some of the challenges wins and projects from the last 12 months or so and the biggest new thing is late last year I joined a business coaching program called 2X.

It's run by Austin Netzley, who I must have been 10 years ago at probably my first ever

blogging conference.

This was like three businesses ago or more for him.

Now our paths have crossed several times since then in the podcasting world, in the self-publishing

world at different conferences, but what really sealed the deal for me was having three different

friends all go through 2X and these are people you would recognize they've been guests on the show,

sometimes multiple times, and they all saw really strong results and on top of that another

friend of mine Tom Sylvester was one of the the two X head coaches beyond they actually

had this you know power guarantee which is something you could take away and maybe apply to your own business but it was a power guarantee like hey look if we don't increase revenue by the amount of your investment will just keep working with you until you do or something like that so very little to lose even though it was a big upfront investment and

especially when combined with my long history in the business was over 10 years old at that point.

I reasoned, look it's time to get an outside perspective from a group with a proven track record of getting results.

My biggest fear going into it was, am I even coachable with those 10 years in business?

I had developed certain habits and processes that were pretty well in grain, maybe some bad habits along the way.

And to be fair, they were working pretty well, but there is always this nagging grass is always greener kind of feeling of

what could be is there a way to make more and work less is there a way to build

better systems is there a way to make the business less reliant on me and then on a more

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