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Inside Strategic Coach is a practical resource for entrepreneurs, or anyone with a growth mindset. Hosts Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller share breakthrough insights, educational success stories, and insider know-how, gained from working with thousands of successful business owners, worldwide.

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Inside Strategic Coach is a practical resource for entrepreneurs, or anyone with a growth mindset. Hosts Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller share breakthrough insights, educational success stories, and insider know-how, gained from working with thousands of successful business owners, worldwide.

    Discover The Most Essential Tools Used By Successful Entrepreneurs

    Discover The Most Essential Tools Used By Successful Entrepreneurs

    Everything that humans create is done with tools. But the skill level people have for using tools varies drastically. In this episode, business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller discuss why it’s essential to be good at using the tool of language for both thinking and communicating, and share the thinking tools that all entrepreneurs can use for both business success and business growth. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:* Why Dan vowed years ago to never again operate his business with receivables.* Why you’re never starting from zero.* How entrepreneurs can learn what to do in the future by looking at their past.* How Strategic Coach® thinking tools improve clients’ lives.* Dan’s process for developing and introducing new Strategic Coach thinking tools.Show Notes: One of the reasons to get really good at language is because it gives you the tools for thinking and communicating. If you don’t have the language to think about things, you’re trapped by your emotions. If your language skills aren’t good enough, people can only respond to your emotions. A lot of small businesses stay small because they never really comprehended what entrepreneurship really was. Some things that are impossible can become possible if you change your thinking. Strategic Coach currently has roughly 250 thinking tools in the company’s 35th year. Every quarter, Dan creates three or four new thinking tools. New thinking tools address new things that are happening to entrepreneurs where there isn't a structure for thinking about it. Questions about the future are tools for instigating a thinking process. You always have to have a bigger and better future to bounce your present off of. In today’s world, ideas and processes have tremendous value.Resources: Total Cash Confidence by Dan Sullivan Article: This Tool Will Help You Make Sense Of The Past AND Take Charge Of Your Future (https://resources.strategiccoach.com/the-multiplier-mindset-blog/this-tool-will-help-you-make-sense-of-the-past-and-take-charge-of-your-future) The Impact Filter™Your Life As A Strategy Circle by Dan Sullivan The Transformation Trilogy by Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy Article: The Four Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs (https://resources.strategiccoach.com/the-multiplier-mindset-blog/the-4-freedoms-that-motivate-successful-entrepreneurs) Everyone And Everything Grows by Dan Sullivan The Positive Focus®The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Time Management (https://resources.strategiccoach.com/guides/the-entrepreneurs-guide-to-time-management)

    • 25 min
    Do You Know Where The Highest Level Entrepreneurs Look For Collaborations

    Do You Know Where The Highest Level Entrepreneurs Look For Collaborations

    Description:Since 1989, Strategic Coach® has been helping entrepreneurs find greater happiness and business success. In this episode, Gord Vickman and business coach Dan Sullivan talk about how the company has grown over nearly 35 years and how they’re catering to the needs of successful, collaborative entrepreneurs with growth mindsets.Here's some of what you'll learn in this episode* What entrepreneurs get out of each of the three Strategic Coach program levels.* Why additional program levels were created*  Why there’s no competition for entrepreneurs in the “Free Zone.”* Why Dan considers himself only 50% of the creative team when it comes to innovating new thinking tools.* How entrepreneurism is like jazz music.*  The future of The Free Zone Frontier® Program.Show Notes:Thinking tools enable structured thinking. Strategic Coach thinking tools are all about entrepreneurs thinking about their thinking. Strategic Coach has 240 trademarked thinking tools. And by this time next year, they’ll have 50 patents. A Self-Managing Company® is one where team members manage what already exists, and the entrepreneur creates what's higher, better, and bigger. A Self-Multiplying Company™ is where individual team members create new productivity, creativity, and profitability in the world. For entrepreneurs in the “Free Zone,” their competition wants to be their customers. Sometimes, your mistakes are your biggest breakthroughs. Strategic Coach’s ideas come from ongoing experimentation with entrepreneurs. All entrepreneurs are outliers. The more thinking tools you have, the more flexible an entrepreneur you are. Intellectual property—copyrights, trademarks, and patents—is backed up by major governments.Resources:The Self-Managing Company by Dan Sullivan

    • 24 min
    The Growth Mindset That Extends Your Lifetime

    The Growth Mindset That Extends Your Lifetime

    Exciting advances are being made in the area of life extension. Business coach Dan Sullivan, having set a goal for himself in 1987 to live to the age of 156, has been keeping close track of the trends. In this episode, he and Shannon Waller talk about what people should know if they’re interested in living a great life as long as possible. Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:* Why Dan chose age 156 as his goal.* The profound impact Dan’s growth mindset has had on his thinking.* The simple thinking exercise that can add decades to your life.* Major breakthroughs that have happened in the longevity field.* Why longevity is going to be an area of great inequality.Show Notes: The body really pays attention to what your mind is thinking. The majority of Strategic Coach® clients are planning to live to at least 100. Human progress is created out of human aspiration. People’s longevity goals are having an impact on medicine, science, and technology. All the longevity breakthroughs have happened within the last ten years. All of our cells are specialized cells, but they all come from a kind of universal cell. AI can turn one kind of information into another kind of information. There's a profound mindset change going on in medicine, that all disease is just an aspect of aging. Your chronological age and your biological age can be different. Regeneration is taking what's healthy and keeping it healthy. Repair is taking what's damaged and making it healthy again. If enough people want to live longer, as a whole, we’re going to live longer. Resources: My Plan For Living To 156 by Dan Sullivan Unique Ability®

    • 27 min
    Why Entrepreneurs Must Be Clear On Their Own Perspectives

    Why Entrepreneurs Must Be Clear On Their Own Perspectives

    While some people think it’s a good idea to take neutral positions, Dan Sullivan says entrepreneurs need to avoid this. In this episode, he and fellow business coach Shannon Waller discuss the business motivation for always choosing a side.Here's some of what you'll learn in this episode:* Why trying to be neutral doesn’t teach you anything or get you anywhere* How to know your own standards.* How Strategic Coach® clients learn about themselves.* The way to strengthen your position using opposing views.Show Notes: When you pick a side, you immediately begin learning an enormous amount about the side you’ve chosen and why you’ve chosen it. If you try to be a neutral person, you just disappear because you’re not for anything. A lot of people have very strong opinions about their thinking but have no real foundation or basis for their thinking. The most successful entrepreneurs bet on themselves 100%. You only become successful by making increasingly more successful judgments. Obstacles are the raw material for achieving your goals. Every person is a complete universe of experience and learning. Other people do things for their reasons, not your reasons. You can only have a conversation if you show respect for who the other person is. It’s only if you respect other people’s opinions that you can reverse your own. Emotions come before our thinking. You don’t pick a side out of thinking; you pick a side out of feeling.Resources:The Impact Filter Your Life As A Strategy Circle  The Entrepreneur's Guide to Time Management  The Communist Manifesto 

    • 26 min
    A Step By Step Process For Extraordinary Business Success

    A Step By Step Process For Extraordinary Business Success

    At most companies, when something goes wrong, an individual gets the blame. At Strategic Coach®, on the other hand, we ask whether the individual could have been better set up for success. In this episode, business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller explain how the Coach environment is set up so that everyone at the company has the best shot of performing at their best and contributing the greatest value. Here's some of what you'll learn in this episode:* The positive change that new Strategic Coach team members can take advantage of.* What will cause a new Coach team member to be rejected.* Why envy shouldn’t be tolerated in a company culture.* The importance of congruency in a company.* Why Dan doesn’t want to think about how any of his team members are interacting with clients.* Dan’s growth mindset toward his position at Coach.Show Notes:A company can create the structures and the processes where any good person can decide to be a great person. If you trust in your team members, you’ll save yourself a lot of worry. Envious people feel inferior from birth. The ultimate proof that people aren't envious is that they innovate new things that everybody applauds them for. The outlook that you’re born with is very much subject to the circumstances you’re born into. In all your teamwork interactions, make sure everyone else knows where you’re coming from and what you’re trying to achieve. Team members should be freed up to focus on what they’re uniquely good at and love doing. People who are relaxed and confident can be more creative. If your company does new things, you need people’s creativity. In bureaucracies and large corporations, you’re expected to be very good at doing several things. Resources:Video: Tips For Exceptional Company Performance (https://resources.strategiccoach.com/videos/tips-for-exceptional-company-performance) The Positive Focus® The Transformation Trilogy by Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy Unique Ability® The Impact Filter™

    • 26 min
    Four Factors That Determine Business Growth Are “M.E.L.T.”

    Four Factors That Determine Business Growth Are “M.E.L.T.”

    Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller cut through the predictions of unlimited business growth. They explain why the cost of four key elements crucial to business success are on the rise. It's a straightforward conversation about what entrepreneurs should anticipate, and practical steps you can take to navigate the changes ahead.Here's some of what you'll learn in this episode:* Why we’re entering a working person’s market.* Why energy is going to be cheap only in the United States.* How the four crucial factors influence each other.Show Notes:90% of all transport happens on water. And the cost of water transportation is going through the roof right now.Over the next 25 years, the only place where energy will be guaranteed to be cheap is the United States.The four crucial MELT factors are money, energy, labor, and transportation.The costs of the MELT factors are going to rise over the next 25 years.It’s important to find a way to finance yourself that doesn’t involve debt.You shouldn’t be giving up a lot of your company just to get your growth money or your survival money.The U.S. is going to start using tariffs for foreign-produced goods.We're now in a period where the whole world is going through the greatest loss of skilled knowledge and skilled know-how in history, and this period will probably continue for another decade.It’s going to get more and more expensive to hire really great people.The last three years have seen the fastest, biggest growth of new industry and new manufacturing in the history of the United States.Entrepreneurs are successful to the degree that they solve the D.O.S.® issues (dangers, opportunities, and strengths) of their client base.Automating what used to be strictly human work is a very slow process.Resources:Deep D.O.S. Innovation by Dan SullivanYour Life As A Strategy Circle by Dan Sullivan

    • 20 min

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Thank you Dan and Shannom
I’m a very small family business
And a lot of my business life I’ve felt isolated being a entrepreneur
As I have a different mind set to non business people
And I searched and searched for
Answers
I finally found your podcasts
Which I immediately down loaded
Every episode
So I can listen at every opportunity
To get myself up to speed
Constantly taking notes
Helping me plan grow rewire mind
But most of all giving me confidence
On my path in these uncertain times
Also giving me confidence to lead the people around me
Please continue you really make a difference in people’s lives
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