More Patients, more Money

You want a better quality of life, and you want to see results quickly. So why would a dentist need a life coach?

The simple answer is to not just love your practice again but also love your life again.

This involves everything from leading your team to doing the technical parts of dentistry that you have been trained to do, to make more money.

And for you to be a business owner who loves owning a dental practice.

Let me ask you...

As a dental practice owner, do you have an off switch?

While we may be coming to the end of pandemic and lockdown restrictions changing, many dentists have reported increased levels of anxiety, loneliness, panic, wanting to leave or just simply wondering; why are they a dentist in the first place?

Through my work with high-level entrepreneurs, including dentists, I've noticed several patterns:

1. Imposter syndrome - Who am I to be charging higher rates? Who am I to be growing a dental practice at a young age?
2. Big Questions -...

Ever since I became an entrepreneur, over 10 years ago, I've been asked how I've continued to sell out consulting services.

I've had requests from other top consultancies, journalists, and leading corporate agencies. I'm going to share with you today how I broke the rules and became a sold consultant without even having a website at the time.

One - Mindset 

Whether you are brand new to consulting or an established consultant, it is essentially important to look at your mindset before ever trying to sell your services. If you have a block, limiting belief, or blind spot around selling your servicing to others, then address this before ever moving forward. I would include mindset work around selling your consultancy services and your pricing.

Are you charging what you are worth? Are you proud, honored, and comfortable to ask for your rates? Also checking that you are not frustrated with the rate that you are charging.

It's important to remember that if you aren't confident in...

What is sex in a long term relationship supposed to look like? How often are most people doing it?  

Chances are if you are asking this question for either you or your partner, you’re probably encountering some issues in the bedroom department.

A universal truth is that most sex-education in the UK comes from the very limited sex-ed classes in school, behind the bike-shed conversations or from porn.

The first option of sexual education classes in school is not led from a standpoint of how to have great sex, but rather the mechanics of pregnancy.

Then option 2 and 3 of peer conversations and porn, feed into each other of setting unrealistic expectations around intimacy and sex. You may be reading this article as you found it on Google, after searching for advice because the frequency of the sex in your relationship has decreased, it just feels boring or you are on auto-pilot and doing it because of the fun associated.

Let’s talk about the 4 truths of going off...

Whether you have been an entrepreneur for a while, new to consultancy, or you're getting frustrated with how much you are earning; you will likely want to raise your rates at some point in time.

Here are the observations that I hear when clients are considering raising their rates, but blocks or limiting beliefs are holding them back.

• My clients may go to someone who charges less
• My existing clients will go and I’ll be out of business
• My clients are going to be annoyed when I raise my rates
• My clients will not understand the rate increases
• My clients will complain to others about my rates
• Peers are going to make negative comments about who am I to charge those rates

Let me say this to you right now: these are all common blocks to have.

What is so wrong with wanting to charge more?

Many entrepreneurs do raise their rates for several commercial and lifestyle reasons.

• They are fully booked and earnings become capped
• The margins for their consultancy rates isn’t...

If I look back at my own story as a child, I learned during school that people-pleasing was a skill and it got results. From putting the pens back in the draw to seeing on report cards “Laura is a pleasure to have in class”, there were always ways that I could please people.

As a skill, people-pleasing or a part of what enables you to people-please is important. It is the ability to be empathetic, read and understand your audience in a very short space of time.

It’s important to understand that people-pleasing, isn’t the same as being kind to others.

The behaviour resides in that you will seek to make others happy, even though it may have a detrimental impact on your health and wellbeing.

It can involve you being terrified, with a physical response of being rejected by others.

How do you know if you are a people pleaser:

1. Pretending to agree with people when you don’t
2. Apologies even when you’ve done nothing wrong
3. Not being able to say no even when...

Whether you are looking to become a coach or for your own personal development, neuro-linguistic programming is a powerful coaching tool, and here are the best NLP Books.

The list that follows is comprehensive for beginner level as you explore the powerful world of NLP, and I’ve also thrown in a couple of more advanced books too, for you if you wish to progress.

An important note that the books below give a comprehensive top-level overview of NLP as a topic, but they do not always go into specific focus on certain models or techniques.

What is NLP

Before we get into the book list, let’s go back to what actually is NLP. 

NLP stands for ‘Neuro Linguistic Programming’ and has been around since 1970’s when its co-founders, Richard Bandler and John Grinder first modelled the therapists Milton Erickson, Gregory Bateson, Fritz Perls and Virginia Satir.

ANLP defines NLP as a collection of models, techniques and strategies for modelling excellence, in...

As a certified Master Coach of NLP, I only work with the leading organisations with the NLP Coaching Community and I’m delighted to announce, that I have accepted the position of NLP Specialist Envoy for Online Business & Technology on behalf of the ANLP.

Whilst virtual therapy and coaching sessions are becoming part of the norm as ‘face-to-face’ therapy stopped seemingly overnight after the Covid-19 Pandemic.

As leading coaches we have to find new ways to grow businesses and support clients and this includes online technology.

NEW Online Virtual hypnotherapy clinics, Virtual NLP Success Coaching, and ‘One-to-One’ Sleep Coaching are now part of the safe solution. 

As lead coach and strategist at ElevateLABS, we help coaches build sustainably integrity led services online.  Through my blend of NLP, corporate strategies, and proven online growth systems, I lead the ElevateLABS team that creates long term growth for coaches, consultants, and...

Do you ever find yourself thinking that you don’t know enough, aren’t slim/ pretty or confidence enough/ aren’t experienced enough? Basically just not good enough to achieve your goals?

Let me tell you that you aren’t alone and it’s very common for highly successful people to feel this way to, including the amazing Michelle Obama, Tina Fey and Sheryl Sandberg, who have all publicly said that they felt like a fraud at times.

So what actually is this? It is called Imposter Syndrome and at the core, just not feeling good enough.

Here are some of my top 5 tips to start addressing your Imposter Syndrome.
1. Write down all of your strengths 
sit down and write down a list of all your strengths and positive qualities. If you find any resistance to doing this task, simply put on a blank page, “Why am I awesome.....” and just like you would tenaciously go after any other goal in your business, direct that towards answering this question.

2....

Any entrepreneur will tell you that it is a roller-coaster, that there are highs and lows. As an established entrepreneur for over a decade I know this to be true, but too often being an entrepreneur is pitched as being 100% fun and creating the life of your dreams.

Let’s cut through some of the marketing speak and false promises on this. Yes being an entrepreneur is 100% awesome and I would never trade it for an employed role. It is about creating a life and business of your dreams, and this does take work. It does take hustle and it does take hard work and momentum to get a business started especially if you are at the beginning.

Many entrepreneurs also find themselves feeling very isolated and lonely, as they spend large quantities of time on their own. It is one of the reasons as to why I created the Facebook community Entrepreneurs Elevating to bring together those entrepreneurs who are seeking to build a highly profitable and have longevity in business built on solid...

The reason as a mindset ninja coach that selling is so important to me is that no matter what field you are in, the impact on increasing your conversion rate, increasing your average order value and increasing your lifetime customer value has HUGE impact on your business.

The world has undeniably changed for me since I learned not just the techniques but the neuroscience behind how to sell with ease.

As a coach, I used to hate the idea of actually selling my services, it felt sleazy and pushy. And this is something that I hear from so many of my own clients too.

Clients who are tenacious and awesome at what they do, yet selling to them feels like incredibly hard work.

Here are a few quick tips that you can implement today on how to sell more:

1 – Get to Know your Customer

As an NLP Master Practitioner, we call this getting into rapport, and on a basic level, it means getting to know your customer BEFORE you launch into your sales script.

Match and mirror their...