For career professionals ready to:
No social media. No audience. No funnels. No content.
The Coaching Apprenticeship is a coaching mastermind & business fundamentals curriculum built on old school principles, led by executive coach Daniel Thomas Hind.
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You've watched people less capable than you take the leap while you've waited. You've read the books. Listened to the podcast. Followed along on social media.
You just don't know how to start.
Your career is all the training you need.
One warm referral beats a thousand posts.
You need to be an incredible coach. That's the whole edge.
Your career network is your pipeline.
One referral partner is worth an entire advertising agency.
A coaching mastermind and business fundamentals curriculum for professionals becoming coaches.
6 months of weekly live coaching calls and workshops.
A practice that runs on referrals, not algorithms. Clients who stay for years and send you qualified leads. Mornings that belong to you. A calendar of three or four conversations a day with people you actually love talking to. Income that compounds instead of expiring with your last paycheck. Built the old school way — and built to last.
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The Anti-Influencer
I've coached high performers for over a decade. CEOs, founders, investors, authors. I've never been an influencer. I haven't posted content or run an ad since 2019. You do not need social media to be a successful coach.
I built my business the way I'll teach you to build yours. By becoming a world-class coach, working with clients I love, and leveraging a world-class referral network. In The Apprenticeship, we practice old school fundamentals.
I'm Daniel Thomas Hind. Founder and head coach of The Coaching Apprenticeship.
Formerly:
CEO, EvolutionEat – CMO, Rich20Something Media – COO, Pain Academy
"I will teach you to build a fully-booked practice in a year with no technology beyond the year 2000."
Apprenticed with Daniel when she had nothing but conviction. Quit her day job the day her roster filled. Two years later, she'd built a multiple six-figure practice — without a website, without an audience, without ever posting any content.
"I had no business doing this. Daniel gave me a method when I had no audience, no network, and no idea what I was doing. I built a multiple six-figure practice in two years following exactly what he taught me. He taught me the basics that no one else seems to value anymore, and how to coach them so powerfully my clients lives would change forever. What I'm most grateful for isn't the money — it's that I finally trust myself to build something on my own."
Nurse anesthetist from rural Kansas. Doubled her medical income to $900K through executive coaching with Daniel — then apprenticed with Daniel and built a coaching practice alongside it. Never quit her job. Never had to.
"I came to Daniel convinced I had to choose — either I was a CRNA, or I was a coach. He taught me my career wasn't the obstacle to coaching, it was the doorway into it. My medical work is how I find my clients and what makes my coaching unlike anyone else's. I'm not living two lives anymore. I'm one person, and the work finally fits. Daniel is incredible. He cares about my life and my work as much as I do."
Ten years inside corporate accounting firms, Aaron came to Daniel as an executive coaching client. He never imagined himself as anything other than an employee. Soon he discovered his passion for entrepreneurship, landed two clients on the side, then pitched his employer and turned them into his third client. He left his job with paying clients already on the books. Now has a full practice as a hybrid consultant-coach.
"I came to Daniel for executive coaching, not to start a business. Daniel helped me transform my life multiple times over. The biggest thing: he taught me how to think like a business owner instead of an employee — that's what changed everything. Daniel didn't just teach me to be an entrepreneur. He helped me become the man who already was one."
"There is no one way to become a professional coach. The Apprenticeship method is applicable and adaptable to dozens of professions — whether you want to become a coach, a consultant, or a hybrid of both."
Vin Crispino
CEO · PAIN ACADEMY
"Everyone needs a Daniel in their life. And if you're lucky enough you get Daniel himself. I've been working with him for the past six years and he's helped me reorganize and restructure my entire business. We've 10xed since having him onboard and it's a completely different level of experience"
Terry Kerr
CEO · MIDSOUTH HOMEBUYERS
"Daniel has changed my life in every way imaginable. He's been my coach for nearly 10 years and has guided me through our business's most successful run in its 25 year history. He's helped me develop as a better leader. He's like my yoda for my life, business, health, and family. I'm so grateful to have him as an ally and trusted advisor."
Patrick Nix
COO · MID SOUTH HOME BUYERS
"As a business owner, we have over two hundred employees, and Daniel has helped us build a really awesome culture. Going from a toxic work environment to a place where people really do love going to work. He's my trusted counselor and advisor throughout my entire life. Wise beyond his years."
Austin Gillis
ONLINE MARKETER
"Imagine David Goggins had a heart. That's Daniel. He helped me turn my ambitions into a career path and my life will never be the same-–for the better—because of him."
"Daniel is a master at understanding and simplifying the overwhelming challenges that ambitious-but-busy people encounter. In him, you'll find an expert coach, mentor, warrior and philosopher all wrapped in one. It changed everything for me."
"Daniel is truly a master coach. If you're looking to become a peak performer, Daniel is THE COACH for you. You have my word."
"If you can work with Daniel, it's the single most powerful way to explode your business. It did for me. You'll transform your life. The business part will be easy after that."
"With Daniel's help I've quadrupled my business with a very small email list. Daniel's coaching is magic."
"Daniel helped unlock another level for me, to connect with my greater purpose, my meaning, and why I'm serving the customers I'm serving. I'm showing up way more powerfully in my business."
"His insights in the right moment, his brilliance on making the right questions so I can perform and be a better human, were countless and priceless."
No risk. No need to quit your job. Build your foundation now.
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