Misfit Story — PATRICK KENNEDY
He's not chasing a quick win.
He's building something that lasts.
New clients landed
through relationship-led outreach, without ever feeling like a sales pitch.
Reaching his revenue target.
a deliberate goal, pursued on his own timeline.
10 out of 10
how strongly Patrick recommends Band of Misfits, and he's already brought others in.
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“Joining Band of Misfits has been the single best investment I've made in building my business. The frameworks around LinkedIn and relationship-building gave me a way to expand my network and connect with the right people authentically, without feeling like a ‘salesperson.’”
A planner, in a world that rewards hustle.
Patrick isn't the kind of founder who needs convincing to put in the work. He's deliberate. He's intellectually engaged. He researches his options before he commits to them. Starting out, he worked with a small business center to gain better insights into the operational side of running a company." By the time he found Band of Misfits, he was already building a real pipeline of corporate and individual coaching clients.
What he was looking for wasn't motivation. It was a sharper edge. A community that would challenge him to go deeper, not start him back at the basics.
"I'm playing a long game," is how he describes it. He has a revenue goal that’s enough to go full-time in his own practice.
He's realistic that it won't happen this year. That's fine with him. He'd rather build it right than build it fast.
BOM in actioN: What BOM helped with
Band of Misfits isn't built around urgency for urgency's sake. For a member like Patrick, who already had the fundamentals, the value showed up in being surrounded by people thinking at the same altitude — and being pushed to go further, not just faster.
Relationship-building, without the sales pitch.
Patrick had heard every version of the "grow your LinkedIn" advice before. What he found inside BOM was different: a relationship-led approach to connecting with the right people, built around genuine conversation instead of a pitch in disguise.
That distinction mattered to him. He's interested in being useful to the right people. And the Golden Rings framework gave him a structure for doing exactly that. Identify the people already in your orbit. Strengthen those relationships deliberately. Let referrals and trust do the work that cold outreach never quite manages.
"The frameworks around LinkedIn and relationship-building gave me a way to connect with the right people authentically."
The Shift
The Golden Rings framework — BOM's relationship-led growth approach — replaced Patrick's instinctual resistance to pitch with a structure for showing up authentically. The result wasn't more outreach. It was better outreach.
New clients, and a pipeline that's actually his.
The return showed up where it matters most: in his client list. Patrick's relationship-first approach has translated directly into new business — coaching clients and corporate engagements alike, built on connections that felt real because they were.
He's quick to credit Stephen specifically for how the coaching happens. "Stephen has a gift for asking the kinds of questions that make you think differently," Patrick says. Not answers handed down, but questions that make him do the thinking himself.
For someone who already had the resources and the drive, that's exactly the kind of coaching that compounds.
The BOM result
Patrick's pipeline now includes both corporate clients and individual coaching engagements, sourced through relationships built the Golden Rings way — proof that the framework scales across very different types of business..
A long game, played with the right people around him.
Patrick is realistic about his timeline. He has big goals and isn’t cutting corners on the way to success. Patrick also knows that he’s playing the long game. What he wanted was a community that would fuel his energy to go the distance..
"The community brings just as much value as the content itself," he says. It's why he's already referred other people into Band of Misfits, and why he rates the experience a 10 out of 10. For a founder playing the long game, that kind of advocacy doesn't come easily. Patrick gives it freely, because the value has been real.
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“If you're an entrepreneur trying to figure out how to build something real, Band of Misfits is where you start.”
Patrick Kennedy
Executive & Business Coach
Specialty:
Executive coaching, corporate client engagements, individual coaching
Goal: Transition to full-time in his own practice
Recommends BOM: 10 out of 10 — and has already referred others
BOM tools he's worked with:
Golden Rings (relationship-led growth)
LinkedIn relationship-building frameworks
What shifted: A real, authentic pipeline of clients. A coaching relationship that sharpens his thinking. A community matched to how far he wants to go.
