Sarah Akwisombe

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No problem. How do you mean I got approached directly and then ended up working with him?
I don't think we were conned, the ones of us who bought SI, paid £199 per month for the first two months anyway - until it started to collapse.
I didn't like the upselling mid-course to people who could not afford it, or the FOMO creation eg with the splitting of the group. Whether that was tactical or not it created divisions which weren't cool and made it seem as though the 25 were somehow 'better' or special which didn't make others feel good about themselves. Same with the creation of the Business Smashing It - people just got so confused as to what was what and which one they should be on and some people even bought both - not a good idea. As I said in an earlier post, I think ti started off well and with the best of intentions, but then greed took a hold x



But Smashing It was not designed to be a business coaching course. Surely no-one will have a coach's full attention for £199 per month?
Thanks for that, if you don’t mind me asking are you still working with him? And do you find he has helped you?
 
Thanks for that, if you don’t mind me asking are you still working with him? And do you find he has helped you?
Can we just take a step back, I'm asking you why you have written in this public forum that I am am 'working with' Llewy and where you got this information? :)
 
I assumed it was the other interior designer tttofficial featured the other day people were speaking of I don’t think they meant you @brooks69
 
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To be fair, he seems to work with a few interior designers including andthentheywentwild who has done some tv work
 
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I assumed it was the other interior designer tttofficial featured the other day people were speaking of I don’t think they meant you @brooks69
I assumed it was the personal stylist off the tv! The one who always wears red?
 
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I assumed it was the other interior designer tttofficial featured the other day people were speaking of I don’t think they meant you @brooks69
Ahhh ok. Yes, Pippa is working with Llewy. As are others. I don't know of any problems with the direct coaching.
 
Can we just take a step back, I'm asking you why you have written in this public forum that I am am 'working with' Llewy and where you got this information? :)
Ok I could be getting you mixed up with someone else as pointed out below sorry, just going off what I’d seen LD post on his feed, I thought you were the one working with him one on one - I unfollowed him so could be wrong now
 
I assumed it was the personal stylist off the tv! The one who always wears red?
He coaches several well respected, intelligent women who run their own businesses, from what I can see in the public domain.

Ok I could be getting you mixed up with someone else as pointed out below sorry, just going off what I’d seen LD post on his feed, I thought you were the one working with him one on one - I unfollowed him so could be wrong now
Yep, defo wrong. I'm not working with Llewy 1-2-1.
 
Sorry if I’ve confused things, I just wondered if anyone here was or had worked one on one with LD and if they had it might help us understand more that’s all

He coaches several well respected, intelligent women who run their own businesses, from what I can see in the public domain.



Yep, defo wrong. I'm not working with Llewy 1-2-1.
Sorry my mistake - yes that’s what I was referring to, lots of well respected clients work with him so I just wonder that he might be genuine and the issue between him and Sarah was something different and it’s all got blow out of proportion
 
But Smashing It was not designed to be a business coaching course. Surely no-one will have a coach's full attention for £199 per month?
Fair enough I was referring to their group coaching programs, plus the other ‘accelerators’ seem to be sold as a program that will motivate you and help you make money, give you step by step actionable stuff bla bla bla.

I pay £60 per week for a 50 mins 1-1 therapy session and I’ve covered a wide range of subjects, from my past childhood trauma, all the way to what are my current goals, why am I not feeling grateful, Why I feel stuck in my business and figuring out how to move forward, learning how to communicate with people and all types of things. You’d be surprised, but you already have all the answers, you just need guidance to find them ☺

Therapy is amazing for figuring out your why, you won’t get someone to tell you to exercise at 5am, but they will help you realise why it’s important for you to work out at 5am. You might find out you are happier working out at 7pm and if that works for you, that’s amazing!

And if you are gonna invest in a coach, you might as well work with someone who knows what he’s talking about.

A coach should not even be giving you instructions on what to do (exercise at 6am, get rid of the dead wood, no rest until you achieve all your ‘true potential’, post on your Instagram and tag me in it). A coach is supposed to help you identify and clarify YOUR own goals, be it for your personal life or business life. This is not ‘one size fits all’, coaching is first listening to you, your problems and needs, then building a map for success.

From what I’ve seen, all their work is about them talking at you. The intake forms that were completed by the participants were not even read, everyone got the same automatic emails, feedback was not given at all, basically there’s was a huge lack of communication which is ironic since the whole point of these programs is the client communicating 😅😅.
 
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@Brook69 i think your perspective is important as otherwise this thread becomes another eco chamber. What concerns me are the women who couldn’t really afford the courses but were influenced to buy them with the underlying promise that they, too, will make money. The Business Accelerator kind of promises 6 figures in the next 6 months (se the post on the NBBS page). Sounds like you already have a successful business and can afford £200 a month for coaching. I once spent £300 a pop with a coach before - I could afford it and I didn’t feel conned. But a lot of women on these courses were indoctrinated into getting in this magical money mindset - I’m sure it works for some but I’m yet to see the smashing evidence.
 
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That’s all it was, really, generic group chats and generic emails with no planning...
 
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Can we just take a step back, I'm asking you why you have written in this public forum that I am am 'working with' Llewy and where you got this information? :)
Because he made it look like you were in his stories... classic MLM trick that he’s doing with the “shadowing” posts with all his current 1-2-1 “clients” assuming you are the 10 years younger lady that is.

This thread is so confusing now! 🤪
 
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I would really love to hear from some of the women that are being coached 1-2-1 with him and whether they think they are getting value for money. It would help me try to get my head straight with all of this-I was SO close to giving away a vast sum to him. I would like to believe that the problem was in the 'too much too soon' nature of everything and that it was the courses/dilution/upselling etc that were the main problem. I think Sarah has said that his mentorship was good, it's just all a bit confusing as him and his brother fit the contrepreneur description to the letter.
 
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@FFS Barbara i don’t doubt his mentorship was good as she made a lot of money. Whether she made it ethically and with integrity is another story
 
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Because he made it look like you were in his stories... classic MLM trick that he’s doing with the “shadowing” posts with all his current 1-2-1 “clients”
Yes I thought I saw him definitely say he was working with you on his stories and the reason it stuck in my head was because I thought he must be good if someone with as much credibility as you were working with him. There were a lot of well respected women he was posting about so it gave him credibility. I think that’s where I’ve got confused
 
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@mchi2el2

🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 To all of what you said about therapy and REAL qualified and structured coaching.

Coaching should be a safe container to explore the self and/or business and create a springboard to then fulfil potential. The SA and LD road show was anything but, just a bunch of motivational noise.

I’d go so far as to say it was dangerous especially at a time when so many people are feeling generally vulnerable. It’s evidenced in some of what people have said in this thread about affordability, leaving relationships and triggering anxiety etc.

To be giving out generalised advice like ditch the deadwood or to scold people for not doing homework is such bad practice. No ethical coach would ever do that.

As far as I know neither of them are qualified or insured to coach they are simply pushy sales people obsessed with how much they sold and not client outcomes. He’s probably not even a PT! But shouldn’t be telling 250 people to train at 5am anyway without signing waivers etc...

I think SA started with good intentions but it went dark and she stayed on the ride instead of stopping it simply because of the money.

She didn’t respect herself or her paying clients enough to take the supposed no BS approach she mouths off about. And she’s also failing to fully own it and apologise now.

No one wants to admit they were conned, we all think it couldn’t happen to us right?! But we were had.

I think she was referring to ten years younger lady
Yes I was
 
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I don’t think anyone legit has to talk about Bentleys and rolexes and Gucci !.Anyone can shout motivational nonsense at people , whether it’s right for the person or tailored for you or harmful is another thing entirely , I could scream at someone to cut out the deadwood and go to the gym ,it might help them , it might make them have a major depressive episode and ruin their life .
 
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Sorry it’s me causing the mix up, what I meant was I saw Nicky from 10 years younger and other respected ladies on the event. I then saw LD posting he was working with Nicky 121 and that’s who I’m referring to - no idea if you are Nicky @Brook69
I didn’t want to name names hence why I just said the lady off TV, but I just meant that seeing someone with those credentials who I admire really was the push for me to pay for more things because I thought wow he must be good if they want to work with him if you see what I mean.
 
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