Meet Stephanie Thompson
Stephanie, the Launch Your Course Mentor, is a multi-award winning, international business empowerment coach and best-selling author whose work transforms the way coaches, practitioners and creatives bring their work to the world.
Stephanie helps solo and entrepreneurs turn ovewhelm into organised action and passion into profit. She has written and contributed to multiple books including:
- Plan and launch your coaching business in 12 steps
- Time to unloack your wealth potential
- Follow your stars; Transform your life
- Your Yarn, Your Way – Your Business, Your Way
- Your Yarn, Your Way – Business Planner
- Your Yarn, Your Way – Knitting and Crochet Planner
She is an international radio presenter of “Stephanie’s Business Coaching Show”, a global speaker, has appeared on TV, Radio, and is founder of the Launch Your Course Academy, sharing her message of courage, clarity and confidence in business.
Learning to be a coach provides a wonderful set of skills. Establishing a business requires a whole different skill set. So, having committed her working life to supporting small, medium and global enterprises, plus owning three profitable companies herself, Stephanie brings a unique combination of heart-centred coaching, mentoring and accountability to her international clients.
The Launch Your Course Academy trains thousands of coaches, from around the world, every year, to get focused, plan, create and launch their online programmes, courses or memberships in 30-days or less. Stephanie shares her unique FOCUS formula, so coaches become stars in their own business, which ultimately gives them the courage, clarity, confidence and connection with their courses , their programmes and clients alike.
If you are looking for a trusted voice in online business growth, or an engaging media guest, who blends strategy with heart Stephanie Thompson is your go-to expert for empowering others to create, build or expand businesses they love.
Stephanie believes thousands of talented, heart centred coaches are unintentionally suffocating their potential income, not because they lack the skill or the passion, but because they feel overwhelmed, fearful or unsure where to start.
May find the process of launching their course, programme or membership confusing and complicated. They worry about the tech, the strategy and the steps required to bring their vision to life and often end up stuck before they have even begun.
Stephanie knows this experience first hand. As an introvert stepping into the online coaching world she once battled the same fears, self-doubt and frustrations. But through years of investing, learning and refining she transformed the chaos into clear simple steps, creating her FOCUS 5-step method.
The FOCUS method helped Stephanie turn her fears into courage, her confusion into confidence, and her ideas into her profitable online business. It’s the same step-by-step framework she now teaches to clients worldwide through her Launch Your Course Academy.
Her method has supported coaches, practitioners and creatives to successfully plan, build, launch and grow their own businesses, achieving results that once felt out of reach.
Stephanie understands the biggest challenges her client face, when they first join her:
- Feeling overwhelmed by all the steps and unsure where to start
- Getting frustrated when trying to connect all the moving pieces and business systems
- Struggling to design a launch the feels both authentic and
Through her heart-led mentoring and FOCUS framework she helps them overcome fear, find structure and step into their business with courage, clarity and confidence.
Her message is simple yet powerful:
It doesn’t have to be this way!
Best selling author
Stephanie says it has been a joy to write her own books and to support others in their endeavours to becoming authors too. It was a delight to sit down each day, sharing the wisdom and knowledge she has gained over the years, with the intention of helping others successfully launch their businesses.
Stephanie is very grateful for the success of all the books she has been involved in. Stephanie’s books can be purchased across the globe, including USA, UK, Canada and Europe. She says it is a priviledge to support so many aiming for the stars and achieving their dreams of owning a successful businesses.
Above all, the feedback from readers has been phenomenal. Knowing her books resonate with so many, and that they have found it easy to read and apply had a great impact.
Stephanie has also written and presented her “Stephanie’s Business Coaching Show” on radio, broadcast into 44 countries. She has appeared on stages around the globe, appeared on BBC TV, BBC Radio and Channel 4 as well as appearing in national magazine publications.
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Photo by Channel 4 / James Simpson
What people say about working with Stephanie …
“What could potentially happen when you work with the amazing Stephanie Thompson is beyond your imagination!
Not only do you get the confidence, courage and self-belief, but also you get people direct messaging you, on your day off, asking about your programme, offers, to collaborate with them, or how to pay for your services.
I’m in Stephanie’s membership and I also invest in her other programmes, just to get things done, precisely for the results I want to achieve.
I feel inspired, empowered, proud and on top of the world after working with her.
Stephanie has an approach that is adjustable to everyone’s learning style, which has helped me a lot.
If you are shy or overwhelmed but you feel you want more for you and your business, then working with Stephanie will be a walk in the park and her smile makes everything doable.
Working with her has brought multiple opportunities – earlier than planned too. I highly recommend working with Stephanie Thompson”.
“I can’t make the call this evening but just to let you know I will be thinking of you all and to let you know you are in the presence of one of the most amazing, intuitive, awesome, kind, knowledgeable, generous, beautiful people I have ever had the opportunity to know in the shape of Stephanie Thompson, our one in a gazillion mentor! I had my 1-1 this morning and she blew my mind. Love this woman to the moon and back”.
Sometimes the universe brings you angels who cross your path to stay and accompany you to achieve your life purpose. Thank you Stephanie for your kindness, your love and your guidance. Thanks for your help and unconditional support. Thank you, thank you, thank you from ❤️ to ❤️
“Just what I needed to get started on getting my program out to the world. Laid out in concise simple steps, no fluff or beating about the bush, and Stephanie’s warm delivery made it easily digestible. I feel really confident now that I have a clear structure to get me working towards my business goals. Thank you, Stephanie, you are awesome!”.
“I have been working with Stephanie on her programmes over the last few months. I cannot praise her enough. Her knowledge and enthusiasm is infectious. I have always felt confident in my business experience but the coaching Stephanie shares is brilliant. She has made me up my game. I will make sure I take part in all Stephanie’s courses as I learn and grow so much. She has just had her work published so make sure you follow this talented lady as she soars higher and higher”.
Having fun with the awesome Sally Pepper at Radio Derby.
Such a great day out at the local Elvaston Castle filming with the BBC TV crew.
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