Lurker here, just to add, Steve Burgess ‘coached’ a close friend of mine who I lived with at the time, and the man is a complete bullshit artist.
He’s a narcissistic moron that talks a good game but his business advice doesn’t go much further than ‘get attention’ by ‘posting on social media.’
I listened in on a few calls as my friend felt like he was being conned after a few weeks and the advice he gave was basically ‘pull services out your arse’, if someone wants something, come up with a way to sell it to them.
He regularly tried to pressure my friend into paying for a years coaching upfront within the first few weeks of a short coaching package, usually he’d request more money after he shared a big win, leaving voice notes saying ‘you’ve just earned a ton of cash with my help, pay me £10k for a years coaching before I put my price up, this offer is ridiculous for the value I give blah blah blah’. All very high pressure and very intimidating, the voice notes really angered me at the time.
My friend is not a very confrontational person and it was easy to see how the narcissistic bully approach Steve uses could easily milk people who lack self confidence of money.
His coaching had no structure or substance, he regularly forgot what was said in previous meetings, he’d also forget to call when he had sessions scheduled, my friend had to send a weekly review each week which he knew he never even read because he put funny remarks in there a few times as a test and not once were they questioned.
The guy is 100% winging this coaching game, he seems to just jump from 'coaching call' to 'coaching call' delivering motivational rants to clients with no structure or substance. No systems, no planning or measures, just rant after rant.
If something he says didnt work or result in success, it was always my friends fault for not 'showing up' enough or becuase he didn't execute it with passion, a constant divert from his own lack of knowledge and unqualified advice.
Needless to say my friend binned him off pretty sharpish and avoided an expensive mistake.
The people that do stick around with Steve seem to like the idea of a Sargent major shouting motivational ‘do what you said you’d do’ bullshit into WhatsApp voicenotes. But the churn is his group is very high, we noticed people being added and removed all the time. Not exactly what you'd expect from a world class coach.
Notice there’s a small circle of around 5 people that are around for the long haul with Steve, others come and go from his circle very quickly. Sound familiar!?
I guess there is value in someone who can motivate you to get up off your arse and ‘do the work’ but calling yourself anything close to a business coach is frankly misleading, as for charging over £1k a month for what is basically 'whatsapp access' and a call here and there is simply a rip off.
His WhatsApp group is where he sends voice note rants to clients and makes a point of publicly pulling people up for not posting on social media, mixed with an ongoing rant about how he’s the greatest most focused fucker in the room.
He also likes to screenshot old clients posts from their facebook pages and criticise them in his group, not something you'd expect from someone who is always saying that we all need to focus on ourselves and not pull others down! Congruent, Steve!
Another MLM trick he uses is he demands everyone in the group makes a video to say how great he is, the long term inner circle are always quick off the mark to follow his instructions and new recruits are made to feel really very pressured to follow suit. He uses these videos to drive new customers from his clients networks.
The environment created by all the tinpot coaches stinks of MLM and is nothing short of a raging con for 99% of people.
He even wanted to take a % of my friends sales as payment on top of monthly fees! WTF!!!
He also used to talk about what others in the group had earned with his help (possibly lies) and mentioned a few times that one lady cried, letting slip what felt like personal information of others.
Whilst I get social media has value, this seems to be the only strategy for business growth he knows and he seems to think that by telling someone to post on social media and write a weekly review he never reads, sprinkled with surface level motivational rants on whatsapp he can warrant charging an insane amount of cash.
His invoices also look like a child wrote them and request money to be paid into a personal bank account, I wonder who taught him that trick!
Honestly this guy deserves his own thread he is a complete sack of shit that blows nothing but hot air.
I know for a fact there has been legal action against this man, he is absolutely as bad as Rhys and Llewellyn Davies. But he does hide it better.
He talks about results but I can assure you 90% of people sack him off very quickly when they realise he has zero substance and is completely inexperienced in giving business advice.
He goes on about ‘personal development first’ but short of some NLP bullshit and telling you to put videos on social media, the mans a waste of space.
my friend since hired a new business coach who had genuine experience in the industry, when he explained that Steve’s professional approach was to just blast social media with content and videos, he found it pretty concerning as the businesses needed a lot more internal work to grow (systems, processes, staff etc). We also noted that steve had never once even asked about the internal structure of the business or even glanced at processes and operating procedures. Again, it's all just surface level bullshit.
It’s not rocket science to know businesses need content on social media but it seems to be all Steve has to offer . That and do ‘morning cardio’, which is actually just a walk.
In all honestly I think steve partly does believe he is a great coach, he's a pure narcissist, he was trained by the Rhys and Llewellyn Davies and still operates on their model, he knows no different.
Look at the state of this sales page, ask yourself, does a man that has a page as shocking as this to sell £25k of coaching really well placed to show you how to grow your business, honestly it's laughable: https://www.steveburgess.com/12month-bespoke-coaching-program
Finally I'd like to thank all of you people on here for doing a great job of bringing this circle of con artists down!
Tattle can be a toxic place and I dont follow any other thread on here but this one. People need to know about the likes of Steve Burgess and know what they are getting themselves into with him, most people will spot his bullshit early on but some people might be saved from parting with vast amounts of money due to this thread being active.
I have no issue with people being paid to motivate others, but the way these people conduct business is simply self serving and immoral. Not to mention massively overpriced.
Seeing as the twins have now been sent packing, Steve Burgess no doubt needs to go with them!
Now there is heat on him, just wait for the testimonial videos and comments to emerge on his page, he'll be in the group telling the 'inner circle' to put positive reviews and getting all angry if they refuse.
He’s a narcissistic moron that talks a good game but his business advice doesn’t go much further than ‘get attention’ by ‘posting on social media.’
I listened in on a few calls as my friend felt like he was being conned after a few weeks and the advice he gave was basically ‘pull services out your arse’, if someone wants something, come up with a way to sell it to them.
He regularly tried to pressure my friend into paying for a years coaching upfront within the first few weeks of a short coaching package, usually he’d request more money after he shared a big win, leaving voice notes saying ‘you’ve just earned a ton of cash with my help, pay me £10k for a years coaching before I put my price up, this offer is ridiculous for the value I give blah blah blah’. All very high pressure and very intimidating, the voice notes really angered me at the time.
My friend is not a very confrontational person and it was easy to see how the narcissistic bully approach Steve uses could easily milk people who lack self confidence of money.
His coaching had no structure or substance, he regularly forgot what was said in previous meetings, he’d also forget to call when he had sessions scheduled, my friend had to send a weekly review each week which he knew he never even read because he put funny remarks in there a few times as a test and not once were they questioned.
The guy is 100% winging this coaching game, he seems to just jump from 'coaching call' to 'coaching call' delivering motivational rants to clients with no structure or substance. No systems, no planning or measures, just rant after rant.
If something he says didnt work or result in success, it was always my friends fault for not 'showing up' enough or becuase he didn't execute it with passion, a constant divert from his own lack of knowledge and unqualified advice.
Needless to say my friend binned him off pretty sharpish and avoided an expensive mistake.
The people that do stick around with Steve seem to like the idea of a Sargent major shouting motivational ‘do what you said you’d do’ bullshit into WhatsApp voicenotes. But the churn is his group is very high, we noticed people being added and removed all the time. Not exactly what you'd expect from a world class coach.
Notice there’s a small circle of around 5 people that are around for the long haul with Steve, others come and go from his circle very quickly. Sound familiar!?
I guess there is value in someone who can motivate you to get up off your arse and ‘do the work’ but calling yourself anything close to a business coach is frankly misleading, as for charging over £1k a month for what is basically 'whatsapp access' and a call here and there is simply a rip off.
His WhatsApp group is where he sends voice note rants to clients and makes a point of publicly pulling people up for not posting on social media, mixed with an ongoing rant about how he’s the greatest most focused fucker in the room.
He also likes to screenshot old clients posts from their facebook pages and criticise them in his group, not something you'd expect from someone who is always saying that we all need to focus on ourselves and not pull others down! Congruent, Steve!
Another MLM trick he uses is he demands everyone in the group makes a video to say how great he is, the long term inner circle are always quick off the mark to follow his instructions and new recruits are made to feel really very pressured to follow suit. He uses these videos to drive new customers from his clients networks.
The environment created by all the tinpot coaches stinks of MLM and is nothing short of a raging con for 99% of people.
He even wanted to take a % of my friends sales as payment on top of monthly fees! WTF!!!
He also used to talk about what others in the group had earned with his help (possibly lies) and mentioned a few times that one lady cried, letting slip what felt like personal information of others.
Whilst I get social media has value, this seems to be the only strategy for business growth he knows and he seems to think that by telling someone to post on social media and write a weekly review he never reads, sprinkled with surface level motivational rants on whatsapp he can warrant charging an insane amount of cash.
His invoices also look like a child wrote them and request money to be paid into a personal bank account, I wonder who taught him that trick!
Honestly this guy deserves his own thread he is a complete sack of shit that blows nothing but hot air.
I know for a fact there has been legal action against this man, he is absolutely as bad as Rhys and Llewellyn Davies. But he does hide it better.
He talks about results but I can assure you 90% of people sack him off very quickly when they realise he has zero substance and is completely inexperienced in giving business advice.
He goes on about ‘personal development first’ but short of some NLP bullshit and telling you to put videos on social media, the mans a waste of space.
my friend since hired a new business coach who had genuine experience in the industry, when he explained that Steve’s professional approach was to just blast social media with content and videos, he found it pretty concerning as the businesses needed a lot more internal work to grow (systems, processes, staff etc). We also noted that steve had never once even asked about the internal structure of the business or even glanced at processes and operating procedures. Again, it's all just surface level bullshit.
It’s not rocket science to know businesses need content on social media but it seems to be all Steve has to offer . That and do ‘morning cardio’, which is actually just a walk.
In all honestly I think steve partly does believe he is a great coach, he's a pure narcissist, he was trained by the Rhys and Llewellyn Davies and still operates on their model, he knows no different.
Look at the state of this sales page, ask yourself, does a man that has a page as shocking as this to sell £25k of coaching really well placed to show you how to grow your business, honestly it's laughable: https://www.steveburgess.com/12month-bespoke-coaching-program
Finally I'd like to thank all of you people on here for doing a great job of bringing this circle of con artists down!
Tattle can be a toxic place and I dont follow any other thread on here but this one. People need to know about the likes of Steve Burgess and know what they are getting themselves into with him, most people will spot his bullshit early on but some people might be saved from parting with vast amounts of money due to this thread being active.
I have no issue with people being paid to motivate others, but the way these people conduct business is simply self serving and immoral. Not to mention massively overpriced.
Seeing as the twins have now been sent packing, Steve Burgess no doubt needs to go with them!
Now there is heat on him, just wait for the testimonial videos and comments to emerge on his page, he'll be in the group telling the 'inner circle' to put positive reviews and getting all angry if they refuse.