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From Stuck to Unstoppable: How Coaching Can Change Your Life

April 4, 2025 by angishields

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From Stuck to Unstoppable: How Coaching Can Change Your Life
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In this episode of Greater Perimeter Business Radio, Ramzi Daklouche talks with Nicole Comis, a professional certified coach specializing in personal transformation. Nicole shares her journey from the mortgage industry to coaching, emphasizing the significant role of the subconscious mind in feeling “stuck.” They discuss the importance of clarity in attracting the right clients, building authentic relationships, and overcoming subconscious barriers. Nicole offers practical advice for self-discovery and highlights the value of having a coach.

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Nicole-ComisNicole Comis is not your average coach—she’s a powerhouse of transformation.

As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and a Master Coach in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Time Line Therapy®, and Hypnotherapy, she helps high achievers break free from the unconscious patterns keeping them stuck.

With years of deep coaching experience and extensive training, Nicole has mastered guiding professionals and business leaders toward incredible transformation. Nicole helps her clients gain the clarity, confidence, and courage to think bigger, push past self-imposed limits, and create a life that truly excites them.

Whether it’s scaling their career, building a thriving business, or finally prioritizing their happiness and fulfillment, she helps them achieve more than they imagined. Her clients come to her for career growth, leadership development, and personal fulfillment, but they leave with a radical shift in how they see themselves and their future.

Nicole’s coaching transforms not just what her clients do but who they become.

Connect with Nicole on LinkedIn and Facebook.

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Intro: Broadcasting live from the Greater Perimeter. It’s time for Greater Perimeter Business Radio. Now, here’s your host.

Ramzi Daklouche: Welcome to another episode of the Business RadioX show where we shine a light on the people, the strategies and the transformations that are moving business forward in Atlanta and beyond. I’m your host, Ramzi Daklouche, with VR Business Sales of Atlanta, where we help business owners transition to their next chapter. Whether they’re ready to sell, expand, or plan for the future, you can reach us at. World.com. Or by calling 678478675. If you’re curious about what your business is worth, we’re happy to have a conversation. Today’s guest someone who works on a different kind of transition. The one that happens on the inside. Nicole Comis is not your average coach. She is a powerhouse of transformation, A professional certified coach, PCC through the International Coach Federation and Master Practitioner of NLP and certified in time line therapy and hypnotherapy. Nicole helps high achievers and entrepreneurs break through the subconscious patterns that keep them playing small and unlock the clarity, confidence and courage to finally go after their big goals. Her work is not just about business success, it’s about who you become along the way. Nicole, welcome to the show. We are thrilled to have you.

Nicole Comis: Oh, thank you for having me.

Ramzi Daklouche: You know what? I did all this presentation. Most of it. I don’t even know what it is. So I hope you can shine a light on what you do. But before we start this, let’s start with your journey. What led you into coaching and transformational work?

Nicole Comis: Yeah, so I started working with my first coach in 2003. I was I had an incredibly successful career in the mortgage business, and I, um, a coworker and very good friend of mine started working with a coach, and I watched her transform in front of my eyes. And at the time I didn’t know what she was doing, but I didn’t care. I just wanted whatever it was. And I worked with my very first coach and it completely changed my life. So fast forward to 2008 and the housing market crash happened. Well, so did my career and my identity. I was really unhappy for about five years, trying to figure out what was next for me and try to reinvent my life. I tried to find that love and passion that I used to have for my career, and after five years of being unhappy, I finally decided to become a coach.

Ramzi Daklouche: So what was that moment before? Before the crash? Before all this, I said, you know what? This is something I could do. I mean, everybody has that aha moment that keeps in the back of your mind thinking, this is what my path should look like.

Nicole Comis: Yeah. You know, it’s funny, I my very favorite part of my job in the mortgage business was everything I didn’t get paid for. So it was really coaching my clients. It was coaching them, educating them, supporting them in creating goals for their finances and helping them structure their mortgage so it was compatible with their future goals. And you know, it’s funny, when I became a coach, my mom said to me, she’s like, Nicole, you really have always been a coach. She’s like, you were always that person that your friends came to for, you know, to talk about their problems or to work through different challenges they were having. And you always came with an open mind. And so realistically, I feel like being a coach was kind of in my DNA.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah, I think it’s natural people that are coaches and I’ve been I’ve done that before, uh, are not curious about people that really have this, uh, curiosity that makes them want to ask that next question and not afraid to ask the next question. And it’s genuine usually. So. And I see coaches that would never be successful because they just don’t have that. They’re in it for the and it’s not only a business, it’s really you got to be curious about the people.

Nicole Comis: Absolutely. And your heart has to be in the right place, you know? Yeah. And not, you know, it can’t be what I think is right. It has to be helping the client discover what’s right for them.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah. Yeah. Okay. So you specialize in helping high achievers get unstuck. How does the subconscious mind play a role in the in the stuck feeling?

Nicole Comis: Oh, so our subconscious is where our programing is. So it’s our beliefs, our values, our negative emotions, our, um. Ah.

Ramzi Daklouche: Everything that holds you back.

Nicole Comis: Yeah. Well, it’s it’s everything. Everything that we see. So imagine your prescription glasses. Right? Your prescription glasses work for you. That’s how you can see the world clearly, right? Now, if I were to put on your prescription, I would see the world differently, right? Right. So you see the world through your beliefs. I see the world through my beliefs and my values and my history. And so when somebody is stuck, it’s likely something in their subconscious programing.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah. So why do you think so many smart, driven professionals put their biggest dreams on the back burner?

Nicole Comis: Fear. Fear. Overwhelm.

Ramzi Daklouche: Is that what they get stuck with? Fear.

Nicole Comis: A lot of times, you know, and it could be fear of anything. It could be fear of rejection, of failure, of, um, you know, it could be fear of what other people will think.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah.

Nicole Comis: You know, um, a lot of people also get caught in living in autopilot. They made a decision to go after a goal, and then they started going after that goal, and they pushed everything else to the side.

Ramzi Daklouche: No balance.

Nicole Comis: No balance. Or, you know, they wake up in the morning and it’s they get up, they take a shower, they go to work. They work ten hours. They come home, they eat, probably work some more, go to bed, wash and repeat. Right? And it’s the same cycle. And then six months, six years down the road, they’re wondering, how the heck did I get here?

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah, but that’s not just for business. That’s for life in general. Right?

Nicole Comis: I mean.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yes, I know people that are trying to, for example, lose weight, right? And they lose the first 5 or 6 pounds and they stop and they think they’re just not doing them. It’s a fear of they don’t know what. What is it going to take them to lose that next ten or next five or whatever it is. So same thing in relationships, right? They they have it good and then they really screw it up after that. So what’s the I mean, is there something visual that people could do or. I don’t know, like what can they do? What advice do you have people that are stuck in stuck in fear, right.

Nicole Comis: Yeah.

Ramzi Daklouche: Meanwhile because they start but they don’t know how to continue.

Nicole Comis: Sometimes for sure. So, um, you know, through coaching, you know, or self discovery. Right. So really looking at what are what are your thoughts. Right. So let’s say there’s something that you want to go after and you notice that you’re stopping. Start asking yourself questions, right? Like, um, what are what are the thoughts that I’m, I’m having? What are the emotions that I’m having? And be curious about what’s happening in your mind.

Ramzi Daklouche: And I don’t think that a coach can really figure out that every time you have that thought, you got to put it aside. It’s easier said than done, right? Even for me. And I listen to a lot of people and read a lot. Sometimes it’s very difficult to say, okay, stop thinking about this. You can’t control it. Just keep moving forward. Keep moving forward so well.

Nicole Comis: And that’s why I have a coach, right? Because.

Ramzi Daklouche: Oh wow. That’s interesting.

Nicole Comis: Yeah. Well, I can’t see what’s you know what I can’t see. Right. It’s like I’m in a box. And so you need somebody else to look at, you know, and see the things that you can’t see.

Ramzi Daklouche: You’re stuck in your own whirlwind, I call it.

Nicole Comis: Sure. Or your own. Your own crap.

Ramzi Daklouche: Crap. That’s a technical word.

Speaker4: I think that’s very good.

Ramzi Daklouche: What are some of the common internal patterns you see holding, you know, entrepreneurs, small business owners back? Um, besides overanalyzing.

Nicole Comis: Overanalyzing for sure. Right. We all do that. Um, I think, you know, also it’s it’s losing that fulfillment in life. Yeah. So many people, um, you know, especially driven professionals, are so focused on their career that they put their personal life on the back burner. And eventually that catches up. You know, our health and wellbeing is the foundation of everything we do and everything we don’t do. So how do we treat our body, mind and spirit? Relationships are we’re literally programed for for connection, right. So it is fuel to our goals. So if we’re not taking care of our relationships and we’re not taking care of our health and wellbeing, it’s almost like driving a car with, you know, little gas in it. It’s running on fumes and eventually it’s going to stop. Right? So if you can fulfill yourself with, you know, fulfilling relationships and taking care of your health and well-being, it’s like putting gas in a car. It helps you with those big goals.

Ramzi Daklouche: So in your business, you also have to help them with structuring the day.

Nicole Comis: Well, I you know, it’s really up to the client, right? So with coaching true coaching is different than consulting, right? Consulting is when you tell somebody what to do. Somebody would come to me for maybe being a marketing expert, a marketing consultant would say, here are the things you need to do to grow your business. Whereas coaching is more about helping the client discover the answers inside of them. So if during every coaching session, we spend a few minutes catching up and then I ask my clients, what would you like to get out of today? All of my coaching sessions are driven by the client, not by me.

Ramzi Daklouche: Okay.

Nicole Comis: So it really is up to the client’s, you know, decision. And it’s it’s based on their goals and what’s important to them in that moment.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah. Do you without mentioning, of course, names, but do you have an example of someone who had a big vision but needed support clearing their mind?

Nicole Comis: Sure. Um, I had a client who came to me, and he had been, um, in his business for about five years, and he built his company to $1 million. He had spent nights sleeping at the office to get it to $1 million. Right. And he hired me because he wanted more. More support with relationships and continuing to grow his business. And so five years later, his company was worth $10 million. He got married. He built a team. He took vacations. He took care of his health and well-being. So he wasn’t able to see that him, you know, working, you know, all these hours and painting. Spending all of his focus on his business was actually not supporting him in his true goals. And so we worked together and, um, you know, he did focus on personal development and all of that great stuff. And he grew both personally and professionally because of that.

Ramzi Daklouche: That’s awesome. I think there’s a lot of business professionals that probably could use that where they get stuck, or they really are their own worst enemy. They get in their own way and and help like this can be incredible to them.

Nicole Comis: Yeah.

Ramzi Daklouche: So you cover a lot of modalities. Nlp timeline therapy. Hypnotherapy. How do you integrate all these into a session?

Nicole Comis: Yeah. So, um, traditional coaching is more about what’s happening, say, in the conscious brain, right? What are your goals? You know, what do you want to achieve? Going. You know what’s going on in your day to day life. Whereas the subconscious mind is the NLP, which is neuro linguistic programing. So the study of your brain or the language of your brain. Hypnotherapy and timeline therapy. So what happens is all of my clients get breakthrough sessions, which is a full day intensive where we we dive into a specific problem or area of life. And so let’s say the main challenge that they’re having is in relationships or in finances or with confidence. We will spend that intensive focusing on that. We unpack all of that. What’s happening at the the subconscious level or with the unconscious mind. And we get those limiting beliefs and the negative emotions and the inner conflict and the values and all of that. And then we use the tools like hypnotherapy, Neurolinguistic programing and timeline therapy to release them at the unconscious level and install positive beliefs aligned with the goals that they want. One. And so that is really where the unconscious mind work comes in. And then once they’ve done that, we can based on what the client’s goals are during our weekly coaching sessions, let’s say a limiting belief comes up. We can work on unpacking that and then releasing it through those techniques as well.

Ramzi Daklouche: Can they? This is just a question that I have. Can they? Because as a business person, to take any time away from what I do because I think my time is very valuable and nothing else can get in the way. Can they take that and say, you know what, this is the return on investment I got because I spent time with Nicole.

Nicole Comis: Heck yeah. I mean, you know, a client five years made his company to $1 million. Five years later, it was worth ten. What do you think that ROI is? Well, right. So. And, you know, I work with my clients one hour a week, and I work with them remotely because they are busy, right? So they pick up the phone, or we jump on a zoom call and we spend one hour together, and then they’re on with their day. And of course, there’s always, you know, things to work on in between sessions, whether it’s journaling or, you know, making time in their day to work out or, you know, um, having conversations, that type of thing. Um, but it’s incredibly important. Working on you is the best investment you could ever make for you, for you personally and for your business, because you can only take your business as far as you’re willing to go yourself.

Ramzi Daklouche: And you got to structure yourself really, really well. And this is probably the hardest stuff for entrepreneurs is how do you structure yourself? How do you get the how do you get the help right. Because big corporation think Coca-Cola, think Apple. They really have executive coaches for the executives, right? I’ve had that before in my life. But as you get your own entrepreneur, you are it. You should be. You’re expected to do everything for the company yourself, right? Yes. From mopping the floor all the way to board, meeting with yourself. Right. But there’s no one really helping you through that journey, not coaching you for business and how to manage your business, technical aspects of your business, but actually how to really stay in touch with you and how to manage yourself so great. What sets you apart from other therapists and other executive coaches? It sounds to me like what you do is brain massage.

Speaker4: That’s how I.

Ramzi Daklouche: I don’t know if that’s a trademark word or not, but it should be kind of brain massage, which is really good, right?

Nicole Comis: Yeah. Well, when there’s so many things that sets me apart, you know, one, it’s my, you know, me as a person, right? My story, my personality. Um, I also like to bring a lot of fun into coaching, because I don’t think it has to be painful to experience, you know, to unpack the stuff that’s holding you back. We get to have fun in the process. Um, but also, you know, unlike a lot of coaches, I integrate the conscious mind and the subconscious into the work I do because that’s where I believe true Transformation comes. The other thing is, is that there’s a lot of coaches out there now who are delivering programs. So it’s a lot of hands off, kind of do it yourself type of programs. Yeah, I don’t believe I mean, sure, I, you know, I have goals of one day doing that more of where it’s something to support people who can’t afford to work with me to get some, you know, transformation. But I believe true transformation happens one on one. It happens when I can sit with you. You have a safe space to unpack whatever is happening in your head, in your heart, in your life, and you know you can be vulnerable and share things and say things that you’ve never even said out loud before.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah. You know what you just said about coaching online or programs? I think it’s just overdone in my point of view right now. And maybe it’s generational. I’m a generation where I get the most out of a time with a person on a one on one, or getting to know them in person, not on zoom. I prefer to have these moments where we are really talking and getting to know each other without any, you know, interruption of a phone or the second screen, getting an email on it, or a program. Right. Including not just, you know, a business coaching, but also workout coaching. There’s a lot of it right now where, you know, you find a coach and they charge you X amount of money a month, but you still are. It’s a program that’s going to send you once a week or once a I don’t know how that works generationally. Maybe it does not work for me at all. Maybe just me. Also, it doesn’t work at all.

Nicole Comis: Well, and I do think that there’s some benefits, right? So somebody who can’t afford to hire a coach if they’re going to be committed to doing the work that’s going to get at least get them started, right? So and, you know, I think that there also gets to be some flexibility because there are people who are, you know, so, you know, stuck in the I only want to work with a coach in person and that can hold them back too, because, you know, if you think about it like if I had an office, let’s say it would take you 30 minutes to drive to me, find parking, then 30 minutes to get back to your office. There’s two hours out of your day versus just jumping on a phone call and having that session and moving on with your day.

Speaker4: Right?

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah, yeah. So how, um, you know, uh, how do people find you typically. Is it and this is really helping because part of this program is to really help small businesses, entrepreneurs with ideas on how to, if they’re stuck with referrals, if they’re stuck with, you know, marketing all this stuff. How do you find customers? Is it referrals online? Is it speaking events? I mean what is your best? And again, you have to go back to thinking, okay, there are entrepreneurs out there listening first year some second year, some ten year. So everybody different place in their journey, right?

Speaker4: Yes.

Ramzi Daklouche: What’s your what’s your best way to do that?

Nicole Comis: Well, I think I think it’s all of the above. Right? Like, I feel like you don’t want to put all your eggs in one basket, right? But I also do believe in the power of networking and building relationships. I’m a relationship person, right? I mean, well, coaching is all about relationships, right?

Ramzi Daklouche: It’s. Or you die.

Speaker4: Yeah.

Nicole Comis: Absolutely. And when I was in the mortgage business, it was the same. I’m all about building relationships. I want to get to know you. I want to get to know, um, your clients. I want to be able to find out. How can I help you? And so I believe networking is one of the best ways to. And building relationships is one of the best ways to build a business.

Ramzi Daklouche: And networking is a strange word for a lot of people. We hear it’s overused. But do you have any specific networking? You know, I know you go to groups and all this stuff, but what’s the best way to network? Like, you know, networking on purpose, let’s call it. Do you have any kind of nuggets for these entrepreneurs on how to network on purpose?

Nicole Comis: Um, well, you know, I think anything that you do could be considered networking. It’s all about building relationships. And so getting out there and, you know, I’m part of a group called the Amicable Divorce Network, right? Which is a bunch of divorce attorneys and financial advisors and people that are helping people through divorce. And so, you know, being intentional about getting to know those people in that group and their businesses. And then I’m also part of, um, you know, I’ve been part of Chamber of Commerce for years and years and years. And so, you know, it’s it’s all about building relationships with the people in the room.

Ramzi Daklouche: And it’s how much time you put into it.

Speaker4: Yeah.

Ramzi Daklouche: Not just coming to church once a week and saying, okay, well, I went to the chamber meeting or whatever. It’s actually putting time into spending time with them one on one, all this stuff to help you with that because they get to know you on a personal level.

Nicole Comis: Yeah. Quality time.

Ramzi Daklouche: What’s the most effective way to attract aligned clients? To make sure you get the right clients for you?

Nicole Comis: It starts with getting really clear on who you want to work with.

Ramzi Daklouche: Hallelujah. I talk to a lot of. I was waiting for this. I was I talked to a lot of coaches. So what do you do? I help companies grow. How? And, you know, whatever they need. No no no no. Be clear, be clear. How can I help you? If you don’t know exactly what is it you’re good at? You can’t be good at everything.

Speaker4: No.

Ramzi Daklouche: Right. So. So you got to be clear. So I love the clarity that you just said that. You really have to find that in the client you have, or else you can’t take them as a client. It’ll be a disservice to you and a disservice to them.

Nicole Comis: Absolutely.

Ramzi Daklouche: To take them to the client. Uh, for coaches, consultants and service based pros who don’t love selling. What advice would you give on building a business in an authentic way?

Nicole Comis: Shift your mindset. It’s not about selling. It’s about building relationships and offering a service that truly helps other people.

Ramzi Daklouche: Find a solution. Whenever you talk to somebody, just help them find a solution, right? It doesn’t matter if it’s going to pay you today or tomorrow, but they remember you for helping them with whatever solution you can give them, right?

Nicole Comis: Right. Well, and the reality is, every entrepreneur is a salesperson, right? And so if they have a nasty taste in their mouth about what a salesperson means, they need to be able to shift that mindset and think of it more as in providing a service, helping somebody out. And sales isn’t a dirty little word anymore. It’s not like, you know, the used car salesman that we heard, you know, see in our minds from long, long, long ago. It’s really, you know, about building relationships and helping the other person. If you believe in what you’re selling or you believe in the service you’re providing, share it with the world. Old.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah. Nicole, it’s interesting you say this because I used to train huge groups of people sales a long time ago for different companies that I manage or, you know, as a consultant. And it’s always give me one job in the world that doesn’t require you to sell, right. And there is not. And you born being a salesperson when you’re a little kid, when you’re asking for something and your parents say no to you, everything you do to get that thing, that’s called networking and selling. So for people that still don’t believe that you’re selling all the time, even if you try and go out on a date that’s selling, even if you’re priest that is selling. Right. So every profession I can’t find a doctors, surgeons, everything takes selling. It just depends on the on how you do it. And some of it needs more networking, some of it less networking. But you just are always selling.

Speaker4: So yes.

Nicole Comis: Building rapport first and foremost, connecting with the person and then selling.

Speaker4: Yep.

Ramzi Daklouche: So if someone listening today feels they’re not fully showing up in their business or leadership, what’s one action they can take to start shifting that today?

Nicole Comis: I believe it starts with getting clear clarity on what it is. Your vision is what it is. You want your business and your life to look like in the future. So depending on where you’re at, where you feel comfortable, think about a 1 to 5 year goal. Three years might be the sweet spot and write out what you want your business to look like three years from now, five years from now. And spend some time with your heart first, you know, and and try to get out of your head and imagine I had a magic wand and you created the most amazing business. It was perfect for you in every way. What does it look like?

Ramzi Daklouche: So dream. Yeah, yeah. Dream about your business. What’s it going to look like? Just your business.

Nicole Comis: Well, no. But also your your life, right. Because you. If you are a business owner, your business is connected. And to be real, every single one of us, our lives are interconnected, right? It’s it’s they’re integrated. And so your relationships are connected to your, your business in some way or your career in some way, because you don’t leave your, your business at home when you get, you know, when you’re out with your friends or you’re on a date or you’re coming home to your spouse or your children. It comes with you. So how does your business align with what you want for your life?

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah, and I want to add one more thing to this that I believe is true. And it may sound, uh, materialistic, but it really is not. So part of dreaming or part of understanding where you want to go with your business, with your life, is having a something you look up to, right? For example, I want this bigger house on the beach or I want this, uh, you know, supercar, whatever. You could dream about that because whatever you come up with, a business will help you achieve that as well. So. So you don’t go out and buy it on credit forever, right? But if you dream about even financial, it’s okay to dream financial as well.

Speaker4: And you should.

Ramzi Daklouche: You should dream financial because it’s not just, oh, I want more time. Okay. More time comes if you if you’re more comfortable. Right. So thinking about all that stuff before you kind of start putting pen on paper, like what is my dream? And you know, I’m going to get there. So now what does my company needs to get me there?

Nicole Comis: Yeah. And think about all avenues of it. What does your team look like? You know who’s supporting you? Um, what are your customers look like? What are what do you want your customers to say about you? All of that gets to be part of your vision.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah, yeah. It’s interesting you say this because I dream so much about the company where I’m taking it, and we’ve been, you know, extremely successful and blessed with what we’re getting that my own family is joining the company now. My kids are joining the company because they see the dream. They hear it. They haven’t really seen like the the nuances of working in this business. But they feel it. They see it. They hear it in our voices that are joining the company now. That’s all continue to support us.

Nicole Comis: So and I would say the most important thing with that dreaming and that vision is put it on paper, share it.

Speaker4: Well share.

Nicole Comis: It too. But also put.

Speaker4: It on paper. Absolutely.

Nicole Comis: Because when you put it on paper, it becomes real.

Speaker4: Yeah.

Nicole Comis: And then you take that vision and you break it down into achievable goals.

Ramzi Daklouche: Absolutely. What is the biggest mindset between people of stuck and people that can actually see the future?

Nicole Comis: Well, that’s a I mean, there could be many things, but I think one of the biggest is having a growth mindset versus a fixed. A growth mindset. A positive mindset versus a closed or negative mindset.

Ramzi Daklouche: Or get help. Call Nicole. Let me tell you why. Because a lot of people like they may have a dream, but they get stuck somewhere. Oh for sure. Or or their subconscious become their worst enemy. Say, you know what? You don’t deserve this. Or you just can’t do this, or.

Nicole Comis: That’s not possible.

Ramzi Daklouche: Why are you looking at this? It’s not you at all. Like, oh my God, why would you even do that? Right. You’re supposed to work 14 or 15 hours. Yeah. And though outside they may say stuff, very positive things. The inside of them can really hold them back. And that happens not just in business, in life in general.

Nicole Comis: Oh, absolutely.

Ramzi Daklouche: So.

Nicole Comis: Well. And it’s so important to have that person, whether it’s me or another coach or, you know, an incredibly open minded, trusted friend, to talk about those big goals that you have. You know, I have a client that this week or a couple of weeks ago, we were talking about his goals for the future, and he owns a construction company and we were talking about he is partners in a bar, and we got really big on his vision about five years from now. And he doesn’t just want to own a construction company and a bar. He wants to own five bars, laundromats, a construction company. He wants he sees like the enterprise. Right. And he is managing these different, these different entities, and he’s got a team supporting him. It was because we were able to go in deeper, and I was able to ask questions that he wouldn’t have thought of himself, that he was able to come up with that.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah. That’s amazing. So talking about that dream for five years, what does Nicole Gomez look like in her coaching in the next five years?

Nicole Comis: Oh, it’s very similar to where I am now because I love what I do. I believe in one on one work. Um, you know, for me, it’s, you know, ten clients is a sweet spot for me with a couple additional breakthroughs every month. I also have a program. It’s a life transformation program, which includes a personal retreat. So it would be me and the client away for two and a half days where we really dive in deep into, you know, their goals and their life and the things that they want to achieve. And then, um, it’s in a fun location. So whether it’s in, you know, Tampa or, you know, um, South Carolina, right. Like we’re going to have two and a half days where we can spend some time on our health and well-being, as well as goals and working through any blocks that are showing up.

Ramzi Daklouche: That’s incredible. Um, wow. That’s actually fantastic. So there’s no, uh, Nicole Gomez franchise. And.

Nicole Comis: You know, one, Nicole Combs is plenty for the world.

Ramzi Daklouche: One nickel is plenty for the world. Okay, now I’m going to. There’s a, you know, three rapid fire questions. Okay. A morning routine must have.

Nicole Comis: Oh, water. I drink a big glass of water when I first wake up in the morning. And I think because we get dehydrated in the middle of the night, it’s so important for our brains to drink water. But I have a whole morning routine working out, whether it’s yoga or going for a early, early bird. Yeah, I tend to get up around six five.

Ramzi Daklouche: Oh, that’s not an early bird to me.

Nicole Comis: That’s not early for, you.

Ramzi Daklouche: Know.

Nicole Comis: For. Oh, boy, that is early. That’s still last night. Yeah.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah.

Nicole Comis: Four, four. Wow.

Ramzi Daklouche: Five at the gym.

Nicole Comis: Good for you.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah. It’s been like this for years. It’s the curse. Actually, I don’t know if it’s good.

Nicole Comis: No, it’s a good thing. It’s a very good thing.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah. Wow. Okay. Uh, favorite quote or book you say that shaped your journey?

Nicole Comis: Oh, how do you pick one?

Ramzi Daklouche: Latest one. I can tell you mine. Go ahead.

Nicole Comis: Um, well, I would say the best way to predict the future is to create it.

Ramzi Daklouche: Oh. Very nice. I don’t have a quote. I have a book.

Nicole Comis: Okay.

Ramzi Daklouche: What’s that? Buy back your time.

Nicole Comis: Oh.

Ramzi Daklouche: It’s incredible. It really changed my perspective on how I look at my calendar and how I give myself free time for me, in the past six months, I would say. Okay. All right. What’s something most people don’t know about you?

Nicole Comis: Oh, that’s tough, because I’m an open book. Oh, okay. I’m a beauty school dropout.

Ramzi Daklouche: Like the movie grease. Can you sing the song School Dropout?

Speaker5: Yes, I could. I won’t, but I could.

Ramzi Daklouche: Yeah. Wow. Uh, beauty school dropout. That’s interesting. And you went into mortgage and then coaching.

Nicole Comis: I actually was in the restaurant business. And then mortgages and then coaching.

Ramzi Daklouche: Very interesting. How can people get in touch with you or learn more about what you work?

Speaker5: Yeah.

Nicole Comis: So the easiest way is to go to my website Nicole m Omice Coaching.com. And all of my socials are there as well.

Ramzi Daklouche: Is that how they can connect with you? Yes, but the best thing to do is to go through your website.

Speaker5: Yeah.

Nicole Comis: Or you can find me on Instagram or Facebook, but it’s probably easiest just to go straight to my website.

Ramzi Daklouche: Very good. What are something that people should know about you but they don’t know anything about it?

Nicole Comis: What should people know besides that? I’m awesome. No, I’m just kidding. Um, what should people know about me? But they don’t. Well, I don’t know. It’s that people that don’t know this. But I have a huge heart. Um. I just want to see people win and succeed and live their best life.

Ramzi Daklouche: Well, that comes through through your coaching, so. And everything you said. So, Nicole, thank you very much for your time. I appreciate it. Pleasure talking to you.

Speaker5: You too.

 

About Your Host

Ramzi Daklouche is Principal at VR Business Sales. His mission is to facilitate seamless transitions for business owners looking to sell or scale. The organization’s four-decade legacy in managing transactions, from modest enterprises to extensive mergers, resonates with his expertise in mergers and acquisitions. Our collaborative approach consistently unlocks the true value of businesses, ensuring sellers’ peace of mind throughout the process.

His journey began when he left corporate world to venture into the challenging realm of entrepreneurship. After running their own business for several years and earning accolades for their dedication to service and quality, he decided to establish VR Business Sales Mergers and Acquisitions Atlanta. Their mission is to provide unmatched value through transparency, security, diversity, service, and experience.

At VR Business Sales Mergers and Acquisitions Atlanta, they empower business owners and buyers with clear, honest guidance and exceptional service throughout every step of the transaction process. While their office is based in Atlanta, they offer their services nationally and globally, embracing diversity and engaging with a broad spectrum of communities and businesses.

With decades of industry expertise, they aim to build lasting relationships based on trust and excellence, enabling their clients to achieve their business goals with confidence and peace of mind. Whether they are transitioning from owning their business or moving toward ownership, they’re here to support every step of the way, navigating the vibrant landscape of Atlanta’s business community and National & Global markets for remarkable success.

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Personal Development + Mindset Coach Nicole Comis

March 17, 2025 by angishields

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HighVelocityRadio031325pic2Nicole Comis is not your average coach—she’s a powerhouse of transformation.

As a Professional Certified Coach (PCC) accredited by the International Coach Federation (ICF) and a Master Coach in Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP), Time Line Therapy®, and Hypnotherapy, she helps high achievers break free from the unconscious patterns keeping them stuck.

With years of deep coaching experience and extensive training, Nicole has mastered guiding professionals and business leaders toward incredible transformation. Nicole helps her clients gain the clarity, confidence, and courage to think bigger, push past self-imposed limits, and create a life that truly excites them.

Whether it’s scaling their career, building a thriving business, or finally prioritizing their happiness and fulfillment, she helps them achieve more than they imagined. Her clients come to her for career growth, leadership development, and personal fulfillment, but they leave with a radical shift in how they see themselves and their future.

Nicole’s coaching transforms not just what her clients do but who they become.

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Intro: Broadcasting live from the Business RadioX studios in Atlanta, Georgia. It’s time for High Velocity Radio.

Stone Payton: Welcome to the High Velocity Radio show, where we celebrate top performers producing better results and less time. Stone Payton here with you this afternoon. You guys are in for a real treat. Please join me in welcoming to the broadcast personal development and mindset coach Nicole Comis. How are you?

Nicole Comis: I’m so good, Stone, and thank you for having me.

Stone Payton: Well, it’s exciting to have you in studio. I know we reached out to you because we specifically wanted to have you come share your story. And typically this particular series we’ve been doing virtually, and we learned that, you know what? We don’t have to do that. We’re close enough. We can go into the studio. So it’s a delight to have you here. I got a ton of questions, so we probably won’t get to them all, but let’s start with just describing a little bit about mission purpose. How are you out there trying to help folks?

Nicole Comis: Oh my goodness. Well, I mean, my purpose really is to help people live their best lives, whatever that looks like for them. You know, um, so many driven professionals tend to focus on their business or their career, and they put on hold the things that matter most. They they sacrifice their relationships and their health. And I really want to help people live their best life with every area of life, their careers, their business, their their relationships and their health and their confidence. All of it.

Stone Payton: Wow, that sounds like noble. Just true work, if you can get it. Yeah. What’s, uh. What was that career path like? How did you end up doing this?

Nicole Comis: So I started in the mortgage business. Um, it.

Stone Payton: Makes perfect sense.

Nicole Comis: Yes. So similar. Right? But I was in the mortgage business. I was probably two years in, and I watched a very good friend of mine and coworker completely transform in front of me. And this is 2003. So coaching was not a common thing. And I didn’t know what she was doing, but I didn’t care because I just wanted whatever it was. And so she was working with a coach. And so I started working with my first coach and it completely changed my life. I used to be that girl that looked in the mirror, and all I saw was everything that was wrong with me. And coaching helped me develop my confidence. It helped me work through challenges I was having at work and in my career relationships, and I became a better version of myself. And fast forward to 2008, the housing market crash happened and so did my happiness and my career and my income and my identity. And so for years I struggled trying to get that love and passion that I once had for my career back five years, to be exact. And it just wasn’t happening. And so I reached out to another coach of a friend of mine and two sessions in, she started laughing and she goes, Nicole, you want to be a coach with your life? And I’m like, you’re right, I do. And I enrolled in a coach training program, and a couple of weeks later, I quit my job and went all in on coaching.

Stone Payton: Wow, man. I applaud you for jumping off the Or, at least from my perspective, that feels like jumping off the cliff.

Nicole Comis: Oh, it felt like jumping for sure.

Stone Payton: Man. Making that transition, it had to be intimidating. It had to be scary. But you made you did a couple things. You got your inspiration or your maybe partially permission to go try this from someone who was a coach and and you went and got some formal training, it sounds like. Oh, speak to that a little bit.

Nicole Comis: So I went through a incredibly intense one year training program where we met in person once a month, Saturday and Sunday, ten 12 hour days. Wow. Incredibly intense and awesome. And we also worked with a coach to work on our stuff to grow as a person and, you know, work through the challenges we’re having in our lives and achieve goals that we wanted to achieve. And, um, so I went through that program and it’s a ICF International Coach Federation.

Stone Payton: Well, I’ve been hearing about this because I’ve been talking to a lot of coaches. That’s right. Yes.

Nicole Comis: So the International Coach Federation is our governing body for coaching. And it really is the, you know, the the standard for coaching. And so it is a the school that I went through, it was credentialed through them. And so then I went through that program. I got certified through the ICF afterwards. So I went on to earn that credentialing, and then I stayed on as a mentor coach the second year.

Stone Payton: Oh, wow.

Nicole Comis: It’s kind of like grad school of coaching. When you teach somebody, you you learn more, you know, and it takes you deeper. So that’s my original training. And then three and a half years ago, I, I kind of started nerding out on the mind and found how powerful our subconscious mind is. And so I went on to get certified as a master practitioner of neuro linguistic programing, hypnotherapy and timeline therapy. So yeah, it’s pretty cool.

Stone Payton: This gal has the street grid. So, uh, not to try to go through the whole curriculum by any means, but what are some of the skills or disciplines or strategies? What’s an example of a couple of things that you you go and you learn and you practice. I’m in I’m assuming a relatively safe environment. Oh, yeah. And when you’re going through this IVF thing or something like it.

Nicole Comis: Oh yeah. So they have um, we would get, you know, we would coach other participants.

Stone Payton: Oh, so you’re getting real flight time to practice all of these things.

Nicole Comis: And then the trainers would grade you.

Stone Payton: Oh, my.

Nicole Comis: Yeah. So it was a little intimidating, but it was incredible because you learned. You learned. You learn by doing, not by reading, you know. And so they really pride themselves on making the best of the best. And so, um, you know, active listening is huge. Um, following the client’s agenda, not your own agenda. Right. So, um, you know, asking, you know, questions, um, you know, accountability. All of those things were part of our training.

Stone Payton: Yeah. Wow.

Stone Payton: So you mentioned earlier in the conversation, uh, people have a tendency sometimes, maybe often, to hold themselves back. I’m interested in hearing you speak more to that, and why you didn’t hold yourself back when you saw when you were taking this opportunity.

Nicole Comis: Yeah. So you mean when I. When I took the opportunity to quit my job after.

Stone Payton: Yes. That seems like the perfect opportunity to hold oneself back.

Nicole Comis: Oh, yes. Well, you know what happens for me, and I tell this to my clients, too, is when you get really clear on your vision, you start making decisions aligned with your vision and your values. Right? And I made the decision that I wanted to be a coach, and I felt like it was out of integrity for me to continue to work for somebody else and pretend that I was all in. Right. And so I knew that I could be all in on, you know, growing as a coach and starting to build my coaching practice. Or I can go out and still sell mortgages, but it would be very hard to do both. At least. Both. Well.

Nicole Comis: And I loved the boss that I worked for. I worked I worked for him for 13 years. He had opened a an incredible mortgage company, and I really valued my relationship with him and everybody in the company. And I didn’t feel like it was fair for me to go become a coach and go through this training and start building a coaching business and not be, you know, 100% for him, too.

Stone Payton: And there are apparently, uh, well, I guess you’d call them specialties within this. I mean, within this, um, discipline. And you really gravitated more and more to mindset. I think you, you mentioned speak more to that, if you will. And if there is an element and I suspect there is of the subconscious, the impact the subconscious has on the decisions we’re making, the words we’re saying, the actions we’re taking.

Nicole Comis: Yeah. So we you know, my big thing is personal development and mindset. I believe that when you focus on growing as a person and becoming the best version of you, everything else takes off. So I had a client who, um, hired me after five years of owning his business. He had taken his business from to $1 million, and he, you know, worked all of the time. He slept at the office, all of that. He hired me and we started working together. And five years later, his business was worth $10 million.

Stone Payton: Wow.

Nicole Comis: Yeah. And he said that he contributes that to taking care of his health and wellbeing, working on his mindset. Just all of the personal development stuff, because you can only take your business as far as you’re willing to go, right? And you can your business can only be as good as you are. So that’s my belief, is that when you work on the person, the rest falls into place. Especially the mindset because our unconscious mind or a subconscious controls 90 to 95% of everything we do. That’s where our beliefs are, our fears, our values. Um, that’s where we our habits are. Everything starts at the subconscious level.

Stone Payton: It seems to a layperson like me, or at least this layperson, that that would be. I don’t find that difficult to to believe at all. Um, but it sounds intimidating. It sounds like like it would be very difficult to tap into that and much less shift it.

Nicole Comis: Okay. So let me normalize it for you.

Nicole Comis: So tapping into your subconscious isn’t like, um, being in trance, right? It’s not like I’ve got a little.

Stone Payton: Like the watch going back and forth, right? Right, right, right.

Nicole Comis: You’re getting very sleepy. Um, so what it really is, is about, you know, um, think about a number from 1 to 100. What’s the first number that popped into your head?

Stone Payton: Uh, 50 for me.

Nicole Comis: Was it the very first number, or did your conscious mind get involved in the first number? Was something else, and then your conscious mind said, oh, no, this one.

Stone Payton: Actually probably 61, because that’s how old I am. Yeah.

Nicole Comis: Well. And so what happens is what our, our unconscious mind is always that first answer.

Stone Payton: Ah.

Nicole Comis: Then our conscious mind gets involved and starts saying, no, no, no, that’s not the right one. Say this instead.

Stone Payton: And so that’s what I said right here in front of God and everybody. And on air I said 50, but really.

Nicole Comis: 61 was the first one.

Stone Payton: And maybe because that’s been on my brain a little bit, that I’m 61 years old and I need to be getting a lot more done a lot faster. No. You’re perfect. You look great. I got all these stuff. You’re really helping me tap into this stuff right now. This is real world.

Nicole Comis: Real world. Yeah. So, I mean, and so when I work with my clients, I. I pay attention more to what they’re saying underneath the the story, if that makes sense.

Stone Payton: Well, it makes sense, but what a tremendous skill. Oh my gracious, to be able to read beneath the between the lines and underneath the story, man. Yeah.

Nicole Comis: It’s cool. It’s really cool.

Stone Payton: So what does that look like? Is it as simple? And I don’t mean to to to say that it’s less than when I use the word simple. Is it as simple though the mental image I have of just, you know, you and I sitting here and having a conversation, I got to believe there’s some structure, some discipline, some rigor to what you’re walking me through. But my experience of it may be a lot of just conversation.

Nicole Comis: Yes, it’s definitely conversation. Okay. And I, I don’t do anything that’s not fun. So I like to laugh and I like to have a good time. And so what what it really comes down to is that we can unpack the, the deep stuff and still have fun in the process. So, you know, some people think that coaching can be, you know, really hard work. And sure, it’s it’s powerful work, but I don’t think it has to be hard. It doesn’t have to be painful. Right. And so when I work with my clients, you know, I, I just keep asking questions to go deeper and deeper and deeper. So it is it’s just like you and I talking right now, except instead of you asking me questions, I’m asking you questions. And, you know, I’ll just keep asking questions to go deeper and deeper into what’s going on.

Stone Payton: Well, you’ve touched on an important point. I think it was another interview, I think that I had where the the lady was trying to describe the difference between a consultant and a coach. Uh, and there really is quite a distinction on the coaching side of things. It’s much more about sort of letting that person, well, you I’ll let you articulate it. Yeah.

Nicole Comis: Yeah. Well, so with coaching, we believe we’re partners. It’s two equals two coming together. Right for the same goal. My goal is my client’s goal. And, you know, with consulting, you have a superior somebody who’s an expert in right, marketing, right, or business development. And that person’s going to tell you what you need to do. Where I believe that you have the answers inside of you. There’s just some gook in the way that we got to clear out and really help you discover what those answers are. Does that make sense?

Stone Payton: It makes a lot of sense. So the work mostly with individuals or with teams, or is it several individuals in an organization? And then in the second part of that question is can you achieve some kind of like, uh, capability transfer, like you’re leaving them with coaching skills that they can at least model if not replicate?

Nicole Comis: Oh, sure. I mean, they definitely can model. You know, that’s how we learn. I mean, you think about a child learning to walk or to eat, right? They pay attention to, you know, your kids or their parents, you know. Um, we learn by modeling. And so and that’s actually one of the reasons why they thought it was so important for us to have coaches. And my coach training program is because it’s another way for us to learn how to coach is by being coached. Right? So, you know, and then, you know, there’s always pointers that I give, um, whether it’s in relationship or, you know, to employees or, you know, different things like that. Um, but mostly, you know, there’s a little bit of training that happens. There’s, you know, consulting a little bit. But for the most part, it’s about helping the clients discover the answers inside of them.

Stone Payton: So, um, partially answering for a very selfish reason. In my role here in Business RadioX, a big part of my responsibility is to go out and recruit and initially train someone to run a Business RadioX studio. Right. And I am a bit of a subject matter expert in that you know how to get set up, how to really help people and make money. And so I’m thinking in the early going, I’m not coaching, I’m mentoring, I’m training that kind of. But, you know, once they’ve been at it a year or two and they’re really they really are peers that I should be wearing more of a coaching hat and probably get a lot better at at least exercising some of the, the, the disciplines that you do. Right.

Nicole Comis: Well, it depends on what what outcome you’re looking for. Yeah, right. It’s like, well what’s the intention behind that? Is it, you know, because my suspicion is that there’s still that mentor that you get to be to these people.

Stone Payton: Mhm.

Nicole Comis: Um, and you know, you can bounce back and forth. Right. You can be a mentor. And then some conversations might be a little bit more coaching conversations, some may be more consulting conversations. And you can flow between them. Um, to me coaching is just about, you know, you know, for you anyway, it’s about getting clear on what the person wants and what’s the outcome that they’re looking for.

Stone Payton: Okay, but but a professional coach, someone who is in your capacity, you’re in that other role. 100% of the time. Oh, I got the idea a moment ago when you were talking about asking the right questions and helping them uncover and tap in. I would think you could not stay only limited to, you know, Stone and running a studio in stone and trying to scale the network. You probably have to talk about the whole stone, right? Like the. Is that is that accurate?

Nicole Comis: Yeah, I talk about ask.

Stone Payton: I should say ask about the whole stone. Right. See, I’m learning like he can be taught.

Nicole Comis: You can be taught. So yes, with my work, all of my clients create goals for their business. Most of my clients are business owners or executives. So they create career goals. They create relationship goals, health and well-being goals, and personal development goals and then whatever other goals that they want to create. Because I believe that you’re a whole person. You’re not just one part of whatever area you want to work on. So they’re integrated you, you know, and the thing I tell my clients all the time is that your health and wellbeing is the foundation of everything you do and everything you don’t do. So how do you treat your body? Everything you don’t? Yes. Everything you don’t do. And relationships are literally programed for connection, right? So, you know, making sure that those two areas are a priority is so important for people who have big things they want to accomplish in their career.

Stone Payton: Okay, I want to go back to this idea of subconscious and having the subconscious work for me instead of me, instead of me. Maybe I’m trying to be too controlling instead of me working for, um, for it, but, uh, I mean, do you ever run into any resistance or raised eyebrows when you start to talk about, you know, the subconscious having that much of an impact? And if so, how do you get people past that initial bristling with it? And maybe you don’t? I could just see maybe a raised eyebrow from hearing again. I don’t know.

Nicole Comis: I do my best to try and normalize things for people and and to meet them where they’re at. So in the work that I do, all of my clients get a breakthrough session, which is a full day intensive. I usually split into two half days, where we unpack a specific problem or area of life that they want to focus on, and we unpack limiting beliefs and fears and negative emotions and inner conflict and values and all all the stuff that’s underneath. So what I really tell people is that we’re going to work through and unpack those roadblocks that are there to the thing that you want, right. Because there’s a gap between where we are to what we want. And one of those things that we get to address are the unconscious roadblocks. And so, you know, people tend to say, I’m willing to do it right. Like, okay, you know, and.

Stone Payton: By the time they’re willing to come to you and write you a check, they’ve they’ve moved in that direction to some degree that they’re willing to try something. Right. Because.

Nicole Comis: Yeah. Well, and also it’s not you know, it’s not it’s also the language that you use. Right. So, you know, meeting people where they’re at. So I may say, have you ever heard of the subconscious? We start there. Right. So then we talk about that a little bit, you know, a lot of a lot more people than you think are familiar with the, you know, the subconscious. Okay. Um, you know, our habits. So if you think about driving, you consciously learned how to drive. But now when you drive, you don’t think about.

Stone Payton: It, right?

Nicole Comis: That’s your subconscious. It’s it’s as simple as that. Right. So it’s teaching them that we’re just going to unpack what those things are for them.

Stone Payton: So at this point in your career, what are you finding the most rewarding? What’s the most fun about it these days for you?

Nicole Comis: Oh, I love watching people transform. I mean, it’s the coolest thing to. I had a client say to me not that long ago. It was actually a Instagram post that she she posted to her friend saying, it is so cool how my mind works now. I am a totally different person, I think different. I’m kinder to myself and she’s like, my mind is so different than it used to be and that’s just so cool, right? Having people build up their confidence and trust themselves more and and hit goals that they never thought that they could hit. You know, it’s just really cool to watch them get the life that they want to live.

Stone Payton: That has to feel incredibly good. You must sleep very well at night knowing that you’re really putting you’re putting a dent in the universe. Uh, you’ve been at this long enough now, and I can just hear it in your in your voice and see it in your eyes. I’m sure you’re well past this, but I want to talk about the business side of running a coaching practice, particularly in the early, I’m going to say years because I don’t I’m not sure you can pull it off in months of something as simple and straightforward as going out and getting your first handful of clients. And then it may be how that may be quite a bit be quite different these days. Yeah, yeah.

Nicole Comis: Well, you know, I was trained to be a really great coach. I was not trained to be a marketing expert.

Stone Payton: Oh, yeah.

Nicole Comis: And when you own a business, you wear all of those hats. You need to be a, you know, CFO and a, you know, marketing expert and the, you know, the admin and all of the things. And, um, to me, that was the hardest part, specifically the marketing, because my brain doesn’t work naturally like that. I was a numbers girl. I am a numbers girl. You know that. I was always problem solving. Right, right. And so, you know, that was that was the biggest challenge for me was the marketing piece and things with marketing, especially with social media change so quickly that trying to stay on top of that and being the best coach I can be and, you know, learning all these other things, it’s it’s a challenge.

Stone Payton: Yeah, I’ll bet, I’ll bet it is. So at this point, though, you probably my experience has been nothing sells like doing good work. Yes. So that probably.

Nicole Comis: Word of mouth.

Stone Payton: I have that track record behind you. But but I do feel for people who who, uh, you know, initially when they’re coming into this profession or really any professional services provider kind of, uh, profession, I think a lot of them struggle with it. Mhm. Yeah.

Nicole Comis: Yeah, absolutely.

Stone Payton: But here again you didn’t let it hold you back, right?

Nicole Comis: I don’t know if it’s stubbornness or determination. No, no, it’s definitely. This is my purpose, you know? And when you feel it in your heart. And I’ll be completely transparent. Last March, my whole business crashed.

Stone Payton: Oh, really?

Nicole Comis: Yeah. So I it just so happened I had several clients complete at the same time. Um, I had one client who stayed, but his business partner and him broke up, and so he couldn’t afford to pay me for two months. So it was just bizarre. And I questioned everything. You know, I, I was very I was in a hard place and, um, thank God for my mom, you know, because she was she was my rock, and, um, and I needed to step back and really assess what I was doing. And it actually is why I decided that I am incorporating a breakthrough in every single, you know, coaching relationship that I have, because I believe that that’s the missing piece for any of the work. You know, we can consciously go after goals and achieve things, but if we don’t change how we think, it’s going to take a lot of effort. And, um, kind of in a way, self-manipulation, you know, and so it takes so much effort and work to go after those goals if you don’t change how you think. And so I decided, you know, that to me, that’s my purpose is really helping people change their thoughts and their, you know, their beliefs and really become stronger mindset wise. And so I now incorporate that into all of the work that I do. And I also realized that my purpose, what I, where I thrive is being with people I don’t I don’t thrive behind a computer screen. I don’t, you know, writing blog posts or social media posts. It doesn’t excite me. It doesn’t bring me joy. And it’s not. It just doesn’t work for me. And so I got out there and I started developing relationships and doing more networking, and I feel better than I have felt in years.

Stone Payton: Oh that’s fantastic. Well, shout out to mom and kudos to you. We’ve got like a half a dozen examples of you living into this work that you’re trying to bring to bring to other people. Uh, I don’t want to hit on it too hard because it sounds like you’ve you’ve figured out a way to navigate yourself, certainly. And others through, uh, any initial trepidation. But what would you say is the most prevalent misunderstanding, misconception, preconceived notion about coaching in general? And certainly, you know, mindset and personal development coaching. Do you run into some of the same stuff?

Nicole Comis: I think that there’s with coaching, they you know, some people think that you’re going to give them advice, you’re going to fix things for them. And you know, and that’s one of the hard things. You know, I for me, anyway, is that there? You don’t have to be a credentialed coach to go out there and say, I’m a coach. And so there’s life coaches out there who have no education, no training, no credentialing, you know, executive coach, same thing. Right. All different kinds of coaches who out there and just saying I’m a coach. And they may be there might be coaches who are amazing and awesome. And then there’s other coaches who are out there saying, okay, what you need to do is X, Y, and Z. What happens is if I told you what you needed to do, if you’re not on board with it, it just it doesn’t it doesn’t work. I once had a coach who told me, you know, Nicole, you need to get out and you need to do Facebook Live three times a week. And she went through this whole list of all these things I needed to do to to grow my business. I got off the phone, I’m like, yep, I don’t want to do any of them. Whereas if I asked you, you know. Hey, well, what have you tried before? I could have asked. Have you ever thought of Facebook Live? I heard that like it was amazing. And then we would have a conversation and unpack. Maybe why you wouldn’t want to do that? And what would be more aligned with where you are and who you are.

Stone Payton: Because to your point, if it’s not going to happen, if there’s yeah.

Nicole Comis: It’s not going to happen.

Stone Payton: It’s not going to happen. Hey, I’m going to switch gears on you here for just a minute. Uh, interest, hobbies outside the scope of the work we’re talking about. Most of my listeners know that I like to hunt, fish and travel. Yeah. Uh, what’s your thing outside the scope of this work?

Nicole Comis: Oh, my. Um, I love music, I love music, um, I love music, live music. I have two little nephews. Well, well, they’re not that little anymore. Nine and seven, and, um, they’re my favorite people in the world. Oh, and I have a 25 year old nephew, too, who’s pretty awesome. But he, you know, he’s too cool to hang out with me.

Stone Payton: Sure.

Nicole Comis: So, um, you know, hanging out with them is so fun. Um, I, I moved here. I told you before we started that I moved here, um, in April of 2020, and my whole family’s together for the first time since 1992. And I love family barbecues and birthday celebrations and Sunday dinners, and that’s. That’s cool.

Stone Payton: I want all of you to know this is a very authentic answer. So because I know this, before we came on here, we did a sound check and I asked her what she was going to do this weekend. And she said, I’m going to go watch my nephews play soccer. That’s right. So this is real. You’re getting the real Nicole here. She’s not making this stuff up. Yeah. No, I could tell how I could just see it in your eyes and hear it in your voice and how much you enjoy being with family. And it sounds like two very bright stars in your life. Are these nephews?

Nicole Comis: Yes. Well, three.

Stone Payton: 303.

Nicole Comis: Just the 25 year old is, you.

Stone Payton: Know, okay, too.

Nicole Comis: Cool for me.

Stone Payton: We’ll give him some props.

Nicole Comis: That’s right.

Stone Payton: Oh my gracious. Well, listen, before we wrap, I would love to if we could leave our listeners with 1 or 2 pro tips kind of tied to what we’ve been talking about. I’ll frame it up as, you know, producing better results in less time. But maybe specifically with respect to this, you know, trying to get our arms around this mindset personal development thing. So and look gang, the number one pro tip reach out and have a conversation with Nicole. Yes that’s what I did. I tell them all the time. Look you want to talk to some really smart, passionate people and get some good counsel? Get yourself a radio show, right. Just.

Nicole Comis: Oh. That’s great.

Stone Payton: But no, that’s my number one. Pro tip is reach out and talk to Nicole. But let’s give them something to chew on between now and then.

Nicole Comis: Yeah. So, you know, circling back to last March when when everything went upside down in my business, one of the things and I believe it’s because of all the work that I did, it was painful. It was one of the most painful experiences I’ve had in a long time, since before the housing market crashed when I was in the mortgage business. The thing that kept me going was that I. I didn’t know why it was happening and like I said, it was painful, but I knew it was happening for me, that it was something better was on the other side, and that I needed to take a step back and assess where what I was doing and what was aligned with my heart. And to me, that trust is what puts I mean, it is so powerful when you can trust that your life is turning out the way it’s meant to. That you just need to reassess.

Stone Payton: Wow. Talk about breakthrough. If if one can reach a point where they genuinely believe that what’s happening externally from the world is is not happening to me. It’s happening for me. Wow. You talk about a mindset shift. Yeah, that’s a goal. That’s a that’s a pearl right there, babe.

Nicole Comis: Yeah.

Stone Payton: So what’s next for you? And how can we help? Is there a book in you? Is there the Nicole methodology is there.

Nicole Comis: The pressure is.

Stone Payton: On the Nicole certification process.

Nicole Comis: You know, right now I am just focusing on one on one clients. And, um, I there is a online program that might be in the future. It’s just not not there yet. Um, don’t.

Stone Payton: Let it hold you back.

Nicole Comis: No, no. It won’t. It’s just I have to wrap my head around it because I believe true transformation happens in one on one conversations. Yeah, yeah. However, a very intelligent young woman who is part of one of my networking friends said to me, there are people who want your work, who just aren’t ready to go to that one on one place yet. So, you know, give them a little something. We need a little something. So so that’s in my that’s in the back of my mind. And I’m processing that and seeing what that’s going to look like. But I think that’s that’s something that I’ll probably come out maybe next quarter.

Stone Payton: Well I hope if and when you do that and I have every confidence that you will because I don’t think you’ll let anything hold you back. I hope you’ll let us know, and I hope you’ll stay connected with us and let us continue to to follow your story.

Nicole Comis: I would love that.

Stone Payton: Thank you. So what’s the best way for our listeners to tap into your work and connect with you? Whatever coordinates are appropriate, but let’s give them a way to do that.

Nicole Comis: Sure. I think the easiest way is to go to my website at Nicole Combs Coaching.com, and all of my socials are on there too. Instagram, Facebook. Um, but my website is, is where, where it’s all at.

Stone Payton: That’s right. Because we don’t like the social as much. I think we uncovered that in the stone coaching session that we did. What’s the website one more time, Nicole.

Nicole Comis: Com’s Coaching.com.

Stone Payton: Nicole. It has been an absolute delight visiting with you this afternoon. You are a breath of fresh air. You’re inspiring. You have such a marvelous perspective. I took copious notes. Amazing. And you and I are definitely going to stay connected. Well, well beyond this. Thank you so much. The work you’re doing is so important and we sure appreciate you.

Nicole Comis: Oh thank you.

Stone Payton: My pleasure. All right, until next time. This is Stone Payton for our guest today, Nicole Combs and everyone here at the Business RadioX family saying we’ll see you in the fast lane.

 

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