238: 8 Surefire Ways to Dramatically Grow Your Business by Becoming the Obvious Choice

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In today’s solo episode, I dive into what I’ve learned over the last 10+ years about standing out as an organization or personal brand.

A complete grasp of these concepts is what allowed me to successfully navigate leaving my traditional job and venturing out onto my own over five years ago.

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I’ve given talks on this topic more and more this year and adapted this episode from my slides.

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231: How to Go From Overwhelmed to Highly Efficient and Reclaim Your Life with Kris Ward

Author of Win the Hour, Win the Day

Today’s guest knows how to get attention. In a good way, of course.

She reached out to me recently with her compelling story that included a personalized video she created.

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Kris shared with me that she was inspired to write the book when the cards life had dealt forced her team to move forward without her leadership for a time.

The resulting book is called Win the Hour, Win the Day: Time Management for Small Business.

In it, Kris hopes to help teach you how to accelerate your business beyond your wildest dreams while reclaiming time for yourself.

Time management, she says, isn’t about going faster or being in a constant state of high activity. It’s not about being busy; it’s about being productive. Amen!

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229: Design Your Business to Run Itself with Mike Michalowicz

Author of Clockwork

By age 35, Mike Michalowicz had launched two multimillion-dollar companies.

Today he is the co-founder of Profit First Professionals, a membership organization of accountants, bookkeepers, and business coaches who teach the Profit First method.

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He is also the co-founder of the Provendus Group, a consulting firm that utilizes his business growth methodologies.

He is the host of the Profit First Podcast, he’s a globally popular speaker, and in addition to Profit First and several other books, he has written columns for the Wall Street Journal, Box Pro magazine, Entrepreneur, OPEN Forum, Harvard Business Review, and more.

In his new book, Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself, Mike asks, “Do you worry that your business will collapse without your constant presence?” If that’s the case, what if, instead, your business could run itself, freeing you to do what you love when you want, while it continues to grow and turn a profit?

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228: The Most Important Meeting of Your Life

With Jim Sheils, author of The Family Board Meeting

If you’ve achieved any amount of success in your business, then you may be among those who realize it’s not come without sacrifices. Sacrifices that affect your relationship with your spouse and your children.

As you no doubt realize, it doesn’t have to be that way but, unfortunately, it can often seem to be easier said that done, right?

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That’s why I’m excited to have recently met (virtually) Mr. Jim Scheils. He has an incredible vision to impact families all around the world with the message that true, outstanding quality time with the people you care about is indeed possible, even in the midst of the hustle and bustle of demanding work and school schedules.

Jim’s book – originally released three years ago, but relaunching next week in an updated and revised edition – is called The Family Board Meeting: You Have 18 Summers to Create Lasting Connection With Your Children

I don’t have children of my own, but I still benefited greatly from reading it. That’s because Jim’s concepts and strategies apply to all of your cherished relationships.

Jim asks, “If you could do one thing to dramatically strengthen your family in just a few hours, would you do it?” Of course you would, right?

Then welcome to the most important meeting of your life!

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227: How to Revolutionize Your Career and Make Big Things Happen

With Derek Loudermilk, author of Superconductors

Three years ago this month, I had the privilege of appearing on The Art of Adventure podcast.

The host, Derek Loudermilk interviewed me about reading and podcasting (surprise!). Fast forward a few years and he’s leveraged what he’s learned interviewing fellow adventurers, and has turned that knowledge into a new book.

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Derek has lead a pretty exciting life. He is a professional adventurer, polymath, bestselling author, publisher, speaker, digital nomad, business coach, father, Lord of Sealand, and host of The Art of Adventure Podcast

He’s also a former scientist and has a degree in biology. They don’t come any more well-rounded than this guy. 

Derek’s book is called Superconductors: Revolutionize Your Career and Make Big Things HappenIn it, he says the steady career path is a thing of the past: disruption is here to stay.

He continues that you need to be able to keep learning, growing and reinventing yourself to stay valuable in the midst of this change. Superconductors shows you how.

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