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229: Design Your Business to Run Itself with Mike Michalowicz

Author of Clockwork

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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

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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

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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 Happen. In 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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226: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership

With Kevin Eikenberry, author of The Long-Distance Leader

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If you work in a traditional office setting but have coworkers who work remotely, you’re probably a bit jealous from time to time.

They don’t have to commute all the time. They can work in their pajamas. The list goes on and on.

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Funny thing is, if you’re the one working remotely with coworkers who work in a traditional office setting, you no doubt worry about the advantages they may have in regard to promotions because they’re being seen more than you are. They can get the bosses “ear” at a moments notice sometimes. Birthdays? No cake and ice cream for you. You’re not there.

“The grass is always greener…” mentality, I suppose.

These remote work issues and more are being addressed in a new book by Kevin Eikenberry and Wayne Turmel. That book is called The Long-Distance Leader: Rules for Remarkable Remote Leadership.

Today, I interview Kevin as we dive into the key insights and main ideas from the book.

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225: How to Reinvent Yourself as a Leader (Because Eventually You’ll Need To)

With John Hillen, co-author of What Happens Now?

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As much as I didn’t want to admit it at the time, I’ve been at a point in my career when I realized I had “stalled out.”

Not only was I no longer growing in my skills and abilities, I’d gradually become less and less useful to my company as a result.

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I’d come to what co-authors John Hillen and Mark Nevins refer to in their new book as a “career stall.” It was time to reinvent myself, for the organization and for me.

Though I wasn’t able to benefit from their book during my career stall, the good news for you is, you can. You see, you will experience a stall eventually.

Do yourself a favor and pick up a copy of What Happens Now? Reinvent Yourself as a Leader Before Your Business Outruns You before that happens.

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