Quick Cut: S2E313 Lessons from the Coaching Floor
It's a Good Life
Brian Buffini
4.4 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 17 July 2025
⏱️ 11 minutes
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You have the skills and the experience, so why aren’t you performing at the level you know you're capable of? In this episode, Dave McGhee, Vice President of the Buffini Coaching Institute, explains how a skilled coach can help you to clarify your aspirations, shift your perspective and tap into your unique gifts and abilities so you can achieve phenomenal success and live the good life.
YOU WILL LEARN:
· Why everyone needs a coach.
· How a coach can draw out untapped potential.
· What you can do to thrive in the current market.
MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE:
NOTEWORTHY QUOTES FROM THIS EPISODE:
“Training is a transfer of skill. Mentorship is a transfer of experience. And coaching is the drawing out of potential.” – Dave McGhee
“Everybody needs a coach, because nobody wants to die with their music still in them.” – Dave McGhee
“Our strategy of coaching is to help people get very clear on what they aspire to.” – Dave McGhee
“Everybody thinks they need to know how. And, by and large, how will take care of itself if you know what and why.” – Dave McGhee
“I'm a firm believer in having big goals and taking small steps.” – Dave McGhee
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to It's a Good Life with Brian Bafini, founder of America's largest business coaching company. |
| 0:10.4 | Here's a short, classic cut from one of our all-time favorite episodes. |
| 0:16.5 | Well, the top of the morning to you, welcome to It's a Good Life. |
| 0:20.1 | I'm your host, Brian Bafini. And today, you're going to hear from the great Dave McGee. Dave, welcome back to the program. The reason I love having you on Dave is you're able to bring real world stuff to people. You know, look, we're in a coaching business. It's where all the change happens, right? Our mission is to impact and improve the lives of people. |
| 0:38.1 | Impact happens through the seminars. It happens through the training. It happens through the |
| 0:41.8 | podcast. It happens through the books. All the stuff. I'm on the impact side of the business, |
| 0:45.6 | but the improvement all comes through the coaching and the story. And without the coaching, |
| 0:49.9 | we would not be what we are. We wouldn't have clients with the, you know, phenomenal turnarounds and |
| 0:55.6 | success stories we have. You have a quote and I always jump up and down because it's one of the |
| 1:01.0 | great quotes I've come across. And I'm known for quotes. I produce a book of quotes and I quote |
| 1:05.5 | people on all the podcasts. But you have a quote, I think that is a differentiator that talks about |
| 1:10.6 | training, |
| 1:11.2 | mentoring, and coaching because so many people mix up those three concepts and think they're all |
| 1:15.9 | the same thing. So I'd love you to start with your quote and then ultimately break it |
| 1:20.1 | apart and tell us what the differences are. Sure. The quote is this, the difference between |
| 1:24.3 | training is a transfer of skill, mentorship is a transfer of experience, |
| 1:30.0 | and coaching is the drawing out of potential. |
| 1:32.8 | And in our world, it's the drawing out of potential to improve performance because we're |
| 1:36.4 | working with business owners. |
| 1:38.4 | And it is an important distinction for a lot of reasons, and not the least of which is so that you know what modality |
| 1:47.5 | of professional growth and development you need. And a lot of our competitors say they're |
| 1:52.4 | coaching when they're really training or mentoring. And training and mentoring are important. People |
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