Stay clear
I am submitting this review for the third time. I will not be bullied or have my review removed .. this tactic is pure bullying behaviour (and ironically highlights the very real behaviour within this organisation) and also defies the objective of leaving honest reviews for which this community is for.
I have been advised that i am not able to mention the former owner of this company by name. So I will replace with X.
Please beware .. you have been warned
I’ve thought long and hard about writing this review. I am now writing it because I don’t want other people to fall for X and his amazing (very convincing) sales techniques.
Whilst I did get value from SWYK through the fantastic other coaches who had also invested over £10k in this program .. and I certainly I gained a great deal of help from the great team of coaches whom x employed.. I did not get a single client from snails promises.
X has a way of making you feel like it is your fault. I felt very alone during the program, not because I was, (as there were literally hundreds of us) but because when my program didn’t sell (despite following x instructions word for word) I took it personally.
I began to believe that the problem lay with me.
X himself has an air on unapproachability about him and it makes you feel inadequate. I certainly felt this way, especially coming from a non coaching background with limited technical knowledge. Luckily, as I say his team made up for that, but x himself is a salesman not a coach.
There was an odd culture and at the time I found it hard to put my finger on. Subsequently I have learnt that I wasn’t infact alone.. what I was experiencing was very much in the majority.
X promised the world. His promises were too good to be true but there was a huge element of trust. I worked harder than I have ever done in my life, and I started to find that I was becoming increasingly more and more in debt .. shelling out money for funnel software, props and then of course the paid ads.
The vetting process to enter this program was dire, because when I did come to launch what I found is that the nature of my course was not taken well with Google ads or similar, so it meant my campaigns were a flop before they got going.
Something x will say was out of his control.. except had my offer been validated properly then I would have been advised of this at the very beginning before I took out a loan to do this program, which let’s be honest promised I could make my money back! no brainer?!
This whole situation has been a huge learning curve for me, and whilst I have sinced moved on, found an amazing coach who promises what he delivers.. I am writing this because I am just so frustrated to hear that x has subsequently gone on to set up several other similar companies all promising huge success.
I think the crux of the matter is that because I am now aware of all of these other businesses being set up, I am just so concerned that others will face the false promises that x gives.
Please think twice before parting with your hard earned money. This experience has massively affected my family, has caused tension and upset in my married life and fundamentally caused me a great deal of stress.
I would also like to add that had I not heard that x was ‘at it again’ I would have not spent the time writing this review.. (as I honestly did feel sympathy for x for some strange reason- as he had let so many people down, and a part of me wanted to believe that this wasn’t intentionally) but now I know about not only all the other hundreds of people (clients and staff) who remain out of pocket because of him .. I have have had no choice. Again, a shining example of how x makes you believe you are very much the problem!
Please stay clear. Coaching is an amazing career and massively rewarding.. just don’t part any money to x.
Date of experience: October 01, 2023
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