Just Between Coaches

From a construction worker to a thriving mindset coach, Dave Conway emphasizes the transformative power of visualization and setting ambitious goals. By trusting a higher power and focusing on internal change, he overcame financial challenges and achieved personal growth, offering inspiration to aspiring coaches.

Dave Conway is the founder of Conway Consulting, a coach, and a regular contributor to Forbes.com and Entrepreneur.com.

In this episode Melinda and Dave talk about:

• The importance of relying on imagination over intelligence or abilities
• Visualization as a daily practice and the significance of clear intentions
• The power of clarity and manifestation, with the concept of “or better” for unexpected positive outcomes
• Trusting a larger universal power to assist in personal growth and financial improvement
• Impactful quotes from Earl Nightingale and James Allen plus personal insights on faith and growth
• Dave’s early career struggles and the pivotal role of Bob Proctor’s teachings
• Understanding true manifestation as changing one’s identity and self-image
• Detailed goal-setting and decision-making processes influenced by visualization and desires
• Personal transformation through regular visualization and new self-perception
• The importance of continuous personal growth, overcoming comfort zones, and avoiding complacency

Guest Bio:

Dave Conway is the best-kept secret of the personal development industry. Having coached more than 25,000 entrepreneurs and coaches worldwide, he is considered one of the world’s best “Mindset Mentors” working today. As the founder of Conway Consulting, Dave helps people discover the power within their minds to turn that power into results unlike any they’ve ever experienced. All of this, and much more, has been made possible through the study and practice of manifestation.

Dave spent his early career as a carpenter, making $5,000 a month in income until he was introduced to the concept of manifestation, and once he witnessed its true power, he was hooked. Dave then decided to follow this calling and began working with Bob Proctor at the Proctor Gallagher Institute. At this time, he became the world’s second-highest-performing sales consultant. After leaving PGI, Dave started Conway Consulting, where he continued to serve and mentor entrepreneurs and coaches all over the world, permanently leaving behind his carpentry career and magnifying his monthly income from $5,000 to more than $550,000.

Dave credits his success to a genuine desire to empower people and show them how powerful they really are. As a regular contributor to Forbes.com and Entrepreneur.com, he is known for his action-oriented approach to mindset coaching that produces lasting and life-changing results. Dave understands the mindset as well as the skillset it takes for an entrepreneur to succeed.

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Discover the “playground concept,” emphasizing the joy in work and the essence of credibility. Mitchell Levy dives into the importance of authenticity, social proof, and client-centric approaches. Explore how stories and testimonials build trust, uncover client needs, and enhance coaching influence.

Mitchell Levy is a two-time TEDx speaker, an international bestselling author of over 60 books, and an executive coach.

In this episode, Melinda and Mitchell talk about:

• Mitchell’s “playground concept” and the importance of loving your work
• Establishing and maintaining credibility through credentials, integrity, and actions
• A “credibility reel” for building trust and engagement
• The importance of energy, authenticity, and personal experiences in coaching
• Using the Customer Point of Pain (CPOP) to identify referral partners and potential clients
• Marshall Goldsmith's insight on earning credibility
• Misconceptions about credibility and the role of social proof and testimonials
• Methods for gaining testimonials and resourcefulness over perfection
• Fostering a supportive, client-centric coaching approach
• Concepts of respect, spreading “cred dust,” and avoiding “cred crud”

Guest Bio:

Global Credibility Expert Mitchell Levy is a two-time TEDx speaker, an international bestselling author of over 60 books, and an executive coach at Marshall Goldsmith’s 100 Coaches. After interviewing 500 thought leaders on credibility, he published a 7-country international bestselling book, delivered a powerful TEDx Talk on humanity, created courses, and created the Credibility Nation membership community to help those live, learn, and surround themselves with others on the credibility journey.

He’s an accomplished entrepreneur who has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley, including four publishing companies that have published over 750 books. He’s provided strategic consulting to hundreds of companies and has been the chairman of a board of a NASDAQ-listed company. Mitchell has been happily married for 31 years.

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Stressing the balance of values, relationships, and profitability, Mark Silver champions a heart-centered approach to business. He spotlights the wisdom in client empathy and broad vision, rejecting pure capitalism. His approach illustrates the journey of aligning business with love and integrity.

Mark Silver is a coach, consultant, mentor and spiritual healer, a fourth-generation entrepreneur, and author of Heart-Centered Business.

In this episode, Melinda and Mark talk about:

• Evaluating multiple vital signs in business, not just profitability
• Balancing business values, relationships, and profitability
• Distinguishing between needs versus wants in clients
• Integrating spirituality and business through love and relationships
• Challenges of scaling a business versus true business needs
• Balancing client customization with set business offers
• The client journey of transformation and assessing business stages
• Understanding enoughness and focusing on sustainable growth
• Sacred selling and assessing clients’ real needs with integrity
• Encouraging regular reassessment of clients’ evolving goals and needs

Guest Bio:

Mark Silver is a fourth-generation entrepreneur who has run a distribution business, turned around a struggling non-profit magazine, and worked as a paramedic in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the author of Heart-Centered Business (Wildhouse Publications). The book is based on Mark’s flagship course The Heart of Your Business and is intended to make that material accessible to a wider audience. Together they form a comprehensive entrepreneurial wisdom academy curriculum.

A designated Master Teacher (“muqaddam murrabi“) within the Shaddhilliyya Sufi lineage, he has received his Masters of Divinity with a speciality in Ministry and Sufi Studies. As a coach, consultant, mentor, and spiritual healer, he has facilitated thousands of individual sessions with entrepreneurs and has led hundreds of classes, seminars, groups, and retreats. His weekly writings and teachings are followed by thousands of people around the globe.

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Multi-faceted coach Lindsay McKinnon talks with Melinda about the importance of a support network, practicing self-care, and the unique roles coaches play in their clients’ lives. They also explore the art of bragging to foster confidence and positive energy by focusing on one’s achievements.

Lindsay McKinnon is a holistic healer, teacher, massage therapist, bodyworker, and wellness coach.

In this episode Melinda and Lindsay talk about:

• The importance of having a personal support network and how self-care practices contribute to it  
• The role of coaches in providing a support system and creating safe environments for clients  
• The significance of allowing clients to experience vulnerability and teaching them to handle it  
• The differentiation between bragging and boasting and how bragging can elevate the collective experience  
• The practice of “living into the question” as a metaphor for embracing uncertainty and growth
• The concept of a “dojo” for practicing skills in small, manageable steps to build confidence  
• Creating a safe and structured journey for clients through listening, clear communication, and incremental steps  
• Trusting the coaching process and respecting the client's timeline for growth and development
• Empowering clients by helping them see themselves as whole and celebrating their achievements  
• Using bragging as a transformational tool to reinforce self-identity and raise positive energy

Guest Bio:

Lindsay McKinnon is a Midwife of Souls and a Vessel for holistic healing, guiding individuals and communities through inspiration and action to connect, heal, and amplify their lives. She has an extensive background and uses all of her experience and tools to meet her client’s needs. As a Youth Minister she led classes, retreats and pilgrimages to create personal encounters with Spirit through rituals, service opportunities, workshops and intentional conversations. As a Massage Therapist, Bodyworker, and Childbirth Doula for over twenty years, Lindsay passionately stands for the human spirit’s capacity for creation and having the courage to heal and expand, literally and metaphorically, while working with our bodies as Vessels.

As a Qoya Teacher, she has led retreats around the world. She loves connecting women to their body-temples through movement, allowing space for the full expression of the Divine living inside each and every one of us, while infusing ritual and ceremony into a celebration of the sacred feminine. As a trauma-informed, neuroscience-trained, Holistic Healing and Embodiment Coach, she meets her clients where they are and creates openings inside themselves they never even knew existed. Using the exact recipe that fits for their unique circumstances, clients become empowered, begin to manifest their desired outcomes, heal, and transform. Her writings and lectures offer both wisdom to soothe the aching soul, and empowerment to take action in our lives and communities.

You can find Lindsay gathering with friends to take in the sunset, swinging and climbing with her daughter on the playground, dancing on beaches, hiking in mountains, kayaking in rivers, and marinating in the people, animals, and landscapes… always spreading love, and being of service wherever her wanderlust takes her.

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Jerry Roisentul dives deep into the “laws of growth,” sharing his journey from entrepreneurial challenges to becoming a leadership mindset trainer. With insights on intentionality, consistency, and overcoming doubt, Jerry's narrative is a testament to personal transformation and resilience.

Jerry Roisentul is a coach, author, speaker, and the founder of Champion Mentorship, Inc.

In this episode Melinda and Jerry talk about:

• The “laws of growth” and impactful habits
• The importance of internal growth for achieving goals
• Identifying and lifting personal limitations
• Self-assessment and leadership growth
• The role of consistency and discipline in success
• Intentional growth and avoiding “growth gap traps”
• Strategies for incremental growth and doubt management
• Balancing masculine and feminine approaches to motivation
• Mindset shifts in response to challenges
• Guidance from influential leadership literature

Guest Bio:

Mindset matters! Jerry Roisentul knows from firsthand experience that the difference between success and struggle is almost always an issue of mindset. In 2006, after suffering devastating loss on every side, he fell into a thick depression in which he intended to take his own life. Thankfully, he survived that dark time and spent the next five years of his life on a journey of self-discovery and introspection that caused him to understand one very important thing--mindset was the most powerful tool he had. Having experienced deep pain and hardship, Jerry can channel that empathy into connecting with audiences at the soul level.

Professionally, Jerry has been a successful entrepreneur, having built his network marketing business from the ground up over the course of 13 years. He has been coaching, speaking, and training entrepreneurs, salespeople, network marketing and business professionals for over 10 years. His Champions Summit Event entitled "The Mindset of Leadership" has been attended across the United States and Internationally to large crowds of people excited to change their mindsets and change their lives. Jerry brings humor, fun, and interaction so that every participant feels personally engaged. Energetic and dynamic, he's a John Maxwell certified Coach, Speaker, and Trainer, and the bestselling author of "Don't Let Doubt Take You Out: Winning Strategies to Manage Doubt, Overcome Fear, Build Confidence, and Create an Unstoppable Life."

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