Grow Your Video Business

445. The Hard Truth About Scaling a Video Business That Nobody Talks About with Chad Brown


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Chad Brown shares his journey from running a "successful" but personally destructive film business to completely redesigning his work to serve his life, offering powerful insights about the specific reflection processes that can help video professionals build profitable businesses without sacrificing what matters most.

Key Takeaways
  • The results in your life reveal the truth about your priorities - if you say family is important but your calendar and bank account tell a different story, you're living a lie
  • Get extremely specific about what you want (not just "more time off" but when, where, how long, with whom) because vague goals prevent you from taking real action
  • Your business doesn't have to look any particular way to be successful - question industry norms and design a model that actually serves your life priorities
About Chad Brown

Chad Brown is a scaling strategist and coach. He founded a media production studio called Shade Tree Films in 2008 that has serviced global companies such as Volkswagen, Target, and Pixar Animation Studios. This is where his love and passion for leadership and business was developed.

Over the last 7 years he has trained and developed creative entrepreneurs who want to increase their profit and work less. When he is not helping others create more freedom in their business, you will find (or won't be able to find) Chad on a wild adventure in the mountains with his family. He resides at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Orem, Utah, with his wife Katie and three children (Addison, Kenya, and Milo).

In This Episode
  • [00:00] Welcome to the show!
  • [04:07] Meet Chad Brown
  • [05:37] Chad's Filmmaking Experience
  • [10:58] Are You Fulfilled?
  • [13:29] Prioritizing Family
  • [21:00] Identify What You Want
  • [27:30] Prices Verses Benefits Exercise
  • [30:20] Connect with Chad
  • [34:22] Outro
Quotes

"When I hired my coach...he just looked at me and said, 'You're lying to yourself. You may like the idea of being a family man, but look at the results that you have in your life right now. The results are the truth. The story you tell, unfortunately at this moment is a lie.'" - Chad Brown

"If I say one thing's important, but my calendar and my bank account say something different, then I'm living a lie. And until those two things align, it's gonna be despair." - Chad Brown

"Most people build their life around their business rather than building their business around their life...You can do that. People build all types of businesses, it doesn't have to look a single way." - Chad Brown

"It's a psychological principle that our mind will generalize things so that they're not actionable because action takes energy...If I get really specific about something, my brain goes, 'Okay, this is real. Now I've got to take action.'" - Chad Brown

Guest Links

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Links

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