Drop the Stress Not the Ball

Shaun Enright
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We are letting go for success unleashed. Welcome to "Drop the Stress Not the Ball " where leaders and high-performing entrepreneurs come to shed the weight of stress and hear ideas and strategies to get to new heights of success without stress, procrastination, or anxiety. Join us as we delve into the transformative power of letting go for the business-minded, empowering you to lead with clarity, purpose, and unstoppable momentum. Tune in for insights, strategies, and inspiring stories that will fuel your journey to greatness. Free resource: Sales Drift Fix Scorecard + Follow-Up Fix Pack (10 minutes) https://zenright.com.au/sales-drift-fix-scorecard?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=sales_drift_scorecard&utm_content=showdesc

  1. 4d ago

    Will I Ever Laugh Again? Bryan Blackmon Returns on Joy as the Tool, Not the Reward

    A first for the show — a guest returns. A few weeks ago Bryan Blackmon told us how he went from sleeping in his car and lost to addiction, to 900-plus days sober, to building a viral community called Crab Crew Life — with an 87-year-old landlord named Elaine who told him he was worth it. That was the climb. This conversation is about what carried him up it: laughter. When Bryan first got sober, one of his deepest fears was "will I ever be able to laugh again? Will I ever have fun again?" This episode is the answer — and it turns out joy wasn't the reward waiting at the end of the work. It was the tool that made the work possible. What we get into: How long the laughter actually took to come back (his honest answer: three to five months) The itchy-sheets story: how one task he didn't want to do turned into a four-hour burst of momentum Why you don't have to fix everything first to earn the right to enjoy your life "If you wait on inspiration, your whole life is going to pass you by" Building it for yourself first — why that isn't selfish, it's smart The month he stepped away from six-hours-a-day live streaming, and what putting it down taught him The oxygen-mask principle: why protecting your own energy serves everyone Brushing your teeth with the wrong hand, making tomorrow's coffee tonight, and the quiet power of being your own butler Plus — Shaun on open loops, the weight of the unopened envelope, and why one small finished thing changes the whole day. Find Bryan: everything — TikTok, Instagram, the podcasts, and how to work with him one-on-one — is at crabcrewlife.com. Go deeper: my free guide Go Three Levels Deep → zenright.com.au/go-three-levels-deep

  2. Aug 8

    The Journey from Importance to Usefulness: Chip Scholz on Identity, the Sales Freeze, and Why You Can't Force the Cut

    The best salespeople aren't the best persuaders. They're the most believable. Chip Scholz has spent nearly fifty years in and around sales — selling beans and ketchup out of school, logistics, ten years as a lobbyist — but by his own account he didn't become good at it until he got laid off, moved 2,500 miles across the country, opened a business, and suddenly had to "hunt what he eats." What he learned there reshaped everything: persuasion is the broken tool. The real work is problem-solving, listening, and letting go of who you think you have to be. Chip is an executive coach of nearly 30 years and the author of Small Decisions, Big Shifts, Handoffs, Selling for Geniuses, and the forthcoming novel Dancing in the Eye. What we get into: Why the hardest handoff isn't the business — it's identity The one opening question that replaced every sales script he'd ever learned The journey from importance to usefulness — and the 2012 stroke that forced it Why he slowed down and raised his prices, when most people would have shrunk What a wood lathe teaches about selling: you can't force the cut Why so many gifted coaches never get paid what they're worth — and the conversation they're avoiding The "five people at dinner" exercise — and how it becomes your board of advisors Plus — Shaun on why the freeze at the offer was never a skills problem: it's the identity you haven't handed off yet. Find Chip: his books are on his Amazon author page (search "Chip Scholz"). Go deeper: my free guide Go Three Levels Deep → zenright.com.au/go-three-levels-deep

  3. Aug 1

    Just Over Broke: Ted Kopecko on Why Your Job Was Never Designed to Create Wealth For You

    JOB. Just Over Broke. Ted Kopecko didn't come up with that acronym — one of his mentors did. But it's the line that anchors everything in his #1 international bestselling book Finding Joy: The Journey of You, because it names the thing nobody says out loud at the office: most of us are working so hard to stay just above the waterline that we've forgotten we're allowed to ask for a different life. Ted spent over 30 years across architecture, commercial real estate, and entrepreneurship. He built a large practice, sold it to a national firm, became a commercial broker, and then started looking around and noticing that everyone — regardless of success — was dealing with the same quiet frustration. He calls it lifestration. And he wrote a 400-page, three-years-in-the-making book to help people find their way out of it. In this episode we explore: What JOY actually stands for — and why it's not what you think The four pillars: mindset, identity, time, and direction — and what happens when all four align Why 95–98% of us are stuck closer to a fixed mindset than a growth mindset — and how that happened to all of us starting from the doctor's first slap Why struggle makes time disappear — and joy makes it stand still The 15 pages per day habit that produces 12-15 books a year — and why reading is the cheapest investment in yourself you can make Why your job was never designed to create wealth for you — and what to do about it Plus — the moment Ted watched his father on a gurney in the emergency room two years after retirement, and what his mother said that changed everything. Connect with Ted: Book + free 80-page workbook: findingjoy.us Also available: Amazon and Barnes & Noble — search "Finding Joy Journey of You"

  4. Aug 1

    No More: Sophie Ash on the Day She Fired Her Team, Chose Herself, and Wrote a Memoir in Real Time

    Sophie Ash didn't write her memoir when it was over. She wrote it while it was happening — six years in, with $200 in her bank account, a pile of unpaid invoices, and no idea how the story was going to end. That decision to document the mess instead of shine it up afterward became one of the most honest books written about entrepreneurship in recent years. Be the Person is a memoir about burnout, ambition, and what it actually looks like when the version of success you spent years building stops feeling like it belongs to you. Sophie is an intuitive entrepreneur and communications expert based in Toronto, and her work explores the gap between outward achievement and inner alignment. In this episode we explore: The financial rock-bottom moment that forced Sophie to finally stop performing and start listening to herself Why she fired her whole team — and then quietly rehired a couple of them on completely different terms The three-part journey inside the book: disintegration, restructuring, and rebuilding around what actually works Why the Lego pieces were always there — and how she figured out which ones to keep What it looks like to run a business on intuition and systems — and why you actually need both How Sophie rebuilt her coaching model by doing something radical: asking her clients what was working Plus — the moment she realised that growing her team had been the very thing that was costing her herself. Connect with Sophie: Book: Be the Person — search "Sophie Ash Be the Person" on Amazon for your local version (UK, US, Canada, Australia), or Kindle available globally LinkedIn: Sophie Ash (posts daily) Instagram: @sophieashofficial YouTube: coming soon

  5. Jul 25

    If Your Message Is Stronger Than the Messenger: Wes Towers on Authenticity as the Last Real Edge in an AI World

    In a world where anyone can generate a polished, professional post in thirty seconds — what's left that actually builds trust? Wes Towers has spent over twenty years running Uplift 360, helping trades, construction and industrial businesses get found, get trusted, and get chosen online. He learnt it on the job, not in a lecture theatre. But the reason he's on this show isn't the SEO — it's a conviction about the AI-saturated moment we're all marketing into: that authenticity, sounding genuinely like yourself, is now the only real competitive edge left. What we get into: Why the niche found him — and the Taoist "Wu Wei" idea of doing by not doing, letting the muddy water settle until the clarity arrives "If your message is stronger than the messenger" — why the reluctant self-promoter is often the most trustworthy The AI trust collapse: why we're automating the wrong things (the creative, the human) and keeping the wrong ones A business is like an original painting — a perfect forgery is worth only the canvas once it's exposed. Authenticity carries the story, and the story is the value. Built. Trusted. Chosen. — treating the client, not the lead funnel, as the next wave of marketing Why the goal of social media is to get people off social media — and the humble power of a photo in your email footer How good marketing repels the wrong people and makes the sale feel half-done before you speak Plus — Shaun on AI as a brush: it's just a tool, and we decide the strokes. The human moat has to go around it. Find Wes: book a strategy call at uplift360.com.au, and ask yourself the question he'd want you to — does your online presence genuinely sound like you? Go deeper: my free guide Go Three Levels Deep → zenright.com.au/go-three-levels-deep

  6. Jul 21

    The Skills Gap They Call a Character Flaw: Jennifer Dechaine on Burnout, Regulation and Why You Were Never Broken

    What if the thing you've been calling a character flaw was just a skill nobody ever taught you? Jennifer Dechaine spent over two decades in sales — thirteen years selling, ten leading teams — and burned out twice along the way. That's not a footnote in her story; it's the reason for her work. She's the founder of Congruent Projects and creator of the Human Foundations framework, built on one sharp idea: we recruit driven, capable people, assume they already know how to regulate themselves under pressure, and then call it a personal failing when they break under the weight of skills no one ever named. What we get into: Leading a 100-person homebuilder through COVID while absorbing four roles — and the moment her body started shutting her down The turn most people miss: watching her own team burn out modelling her, and realising "this ends when I say it does" Why hard work and hustle have a dark side — "it's not a question of if, it's a matter of when" The regulation-timing method: literally measuring the gap between a stressor and readiness to problem-solve, and shrinking it from two hours to ten minutes Confidence as a learnable skill, not a personality trait you're born with or without The external-validation trap — and how needing the pat on the back leaves you open to being controlled Why the freeze before the offer isn't a flaw to fix — it's a gap to fill Plus — Shaun on why the freeze at the offer is a releasable charge, not a verdict on who you are. Find Jennifer: her free resource, the Confidence Ladder, is at join.congruentprojects.com/confidence-ladder. Go deeper: my free guide Go Three Levels Deep → zenright.com.au/go-three-levels-deep

  7. Jul 17

    You're Not Behind. You're Just Still in Park: Willie Blake on the 2% Rule and the Chains That Keep You Hiding

    What if you're not behind — you're just still in park? Coach Willie Blake was diagnosed with dyslexia in first grade and spent most of his life believing he was broken. He hid it, doubled his workload to reach average, and chased perfection to cover the gap. Then at 21 he found a statistic — 95% of CEOs read fifty or more books a year — and picked up a small purple book he could barely get through. He's since spoken from over 500 stages, hosts the podcast Light Beyond Limits, and coaches professionals and entrepreneurs out of self-doubt and into momentum. What we get into: The moment the story flipped: not dyslexia is bad, but what if the wiring is the advantage? Why "I don't know" stops your thinking dead — and the single word that reopens it The two chains Willie sees most: not knowing, and caring what they think Why exposure, not time, is what actually shifts a fear — start with one friend and a screen The 2% Rule — and why, if the step still feels too big, you haven't broken it down far enough Why the perfect plan from ChatGPT is worth nothing if the car never leaves park Building irrefutable evidence that you are who you say you are Why nobody has ever seen a Fortune 500 company with one employee Plus — Shaun on hiding behind admin, hiding behind free advice, hiding behind the shoulds, and how Elon Musk breaking a car company down to the price of copper is the 2% Rule wearing a suit. Find Willie: his free guide Break Free: 12 Chains That Hold Us Back & How to Shatter Them is at coachwillieblake.com/breakfree, and his podcast Light Beyond Limits is wherever you're listening to this. Go deeper: my free guide Go Three Levels Deep → zenright.com.au/go-three-levels-deep

  8. Jul 17

    I Am the Offer: Jon Symes on the Invisible Stories Underneath the Sales Freeze

    What if the thing tightening in your chest before you name your price was written before you could talk? Jon Symes is a mentor, speaker, and founder of Whole & Free. For over twenty years he's helped leaders and people in transition uncover the invisible stories that shape how they think, lead, relate and live. He calls the work Narrative Liberation, and his book The Stories That Are Killing Us arrives at the end of the year. What we get into: Why stories operate like an operating system — running underneath every decision, never surfacing into conscious thought The distinction that reframes everything: the story isn't what happened, it's the meaning we gave to what happened Why selling is the pressure situation that tracks all the way back to am I really enough to be here? — especially for coaches, where you are the offer The two things Jon found that let him sell almost anything: deep rapport, and congruence Why authenticity in sales doesn't mean whole, healed and complete — it means here I am, and I'm letting you see me Narrative Liberation, step by step: recognise the discomfort as a signal, find the story, lose it, step into one large enough to hold you Midlife redefined — not an age, but the moment your stories run out of utility Why the stories aren't the enemy: the ones to watch are the ones limiting your choices without you knowing Plus — Shaun shares the story of his father, a twenty-five-year career soldier, and the reframe that changed how he leads: his dad's story was never control. It was protecting his sons. Find Jon: his free five-day Mid-Life Reset Challenge is at wholeandfree.me/free — and watch for The Stories That Are Killing Us, out at the end of the year. Go deeper: my free guide Go Three Levels Deep → zenright.com.au/go-three-levels-deep

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We are letting go for success unleashed. Welcome to "Drop the Stress Not the Ball " where leaders and high-performing entrepreneurs come to shed the weight of stress and hear ideas and strategies to get to new heights of success without stress, procrastination, or anxiety. Join us as we delve into the transformative power of letting go for the business-minded, empowering you to lead with clarity, purpose, and unstoppable momentum. Tune in for insights, strategies, and inspiring stories that will fuel your journey to greatness. Free resource: Sales Drift Fix Scorecard + Follow-Up Fix Pack (10 minutes) https://zenright.com.au/sales-drift-fix-scorecard?utm_source=podcast&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=sales_drift_scorecard&utm_content=showdesc

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