There is something about the initial struggle entrepreneurs go through that ultimately shape them and they carry that through the growth of their company.

Today I'm In the Trenches with Dr. Emily Spichal, functional podiatrist and founder of Naboso Technology, an innovative new insole company. On this episode, we talk about creating a new product, the manufacturing process and getting investments.

Three Things We Learned

• Expect haters if you're trying to disrupt the norm.
• Factor the creation and manufacturing of your products into your timetable.
• You are always close to the moment of burnout.

After years of product development, planning, and manufacturing, your company may still need to go through several rounds of investments and stages of growth. When you're disrupting an industry, you cannot give up.

"What changes industries is disruptive ideas from someone who sees a void." - Dr. Emily Splichal

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You are capable to have success because of who and what you are.

Today I am joined by an incredible entrepreneur and Navy Seal, Alden Mills, author of Unstoppable Teams. On this episode we talk about, his entrepreneurial journey to the Perfect Push-up's success, the emotions of selling a business, and life as a Navy Seal.

Three Things We Learned

• Fear is a good thing and can keep you sharp.
• Nobody decides your limits but you.
• Persistence is the single most important thing for success.

Everything eventually comes down to how you build relationships with other people and how you get them all focused to build relationships greater than themselves. Grab Alden Mills' new book, Unstoppable Teams.

"There are things that are going to happen in your life and you can be a victim or a victor." - Cassidy Phillips

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We all have a need for significance, certainty, variety, love & connection, personal growth, and contribution. We find fulfillment through fulfilling personal growth and contribution.

This week, I'm joined by Hal Elrod, founder of the Miracle Morning and an author and speaker. In this episode, we talk about how to fix yourself to maintain a strong relationship and Hal's upcoming book, The Miracle Equation.

Three Things We Learned

• Be an unwavering source of unconditional love to everybody in your lives.
• Use affirmations in all aspects of your life, not just personal growth.
• Get on purpose.

The world's most successful anybody has all made 2 decisions: the decision to establish unwavering faith in something they've never done before and the decision to put forth extraordinary effort until they achieve the result. These are counterintuitive to human nature, but they will change you. This is the basis of Hal Elrod's Miracle Equation.

"We say a lot of words in our lives, but rarely do we see ourselves saying them. Reflections give you a reality check on who and what you are." - Cassidy

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Life is about how you can serve other people. This is how we find fulfillment - you get rich by helping enough other people to achieve what they want and add value to their life.

This week, I'm joined by Hal Elrod, founder of the Miracle Morning and an author and speaker. In this episode, we talk about how Hal went from class clown to changing lives with his Miracle Morning, the value in a great support system and how vulnerability shapes how you are received.

Three Things We Learned

• Our morning ritual is crucial.
• Focus on behavior, not thought.
• Choose to fail forward and fake it till you make it.

"If we win the morning, we win the day and when we do that every day we win the week, the month, the year, and have an amazing life." - Hal Elrod

Join me on Thursday as I finish up discussing vulnerability, relationships and changing our lives with Hal Elrod.

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Balance is not a permanent state of being. You have to live unbalanced to find your path to balance and then you have to work at it. It is the old cliche - it is the journey, not the destination. On your journey, you learn how to prioritize, communicate and win.

On this episode, I finish my talk with David Osborn, entrepreneur and author of Wealth Can't Wait, about your prioritizing, achieving and working toward balance, and learning how to handle your stress.

Three Things We Learned

Leaders need to be willing to follow.

Prioritization is the key to avoiding breakdowns and gaining financial freedom.

Look for the winning pattern.

"As you become more successful, you have to put those that are reliable, resourceful and innovative into positions to be able to take over what you have done." - Cassidy Phillips

When we say Wealth Can't Wait, we mean why would you wait for abundance when you can have it right now. David Osborn gave us insight into how we can find wealth in our own lives by embracing the journey.

We're all given different paths in life full of breakdowns and breakthroughs. Instead of continuously slamming your head against a wall, embrace your sense of adventure and find what works better for you.

On this episode, I talk with David Osborn, entrepreneur and author of Wealth Can't Wait, about investments, the emotions around reaching a goal and making continuous changes to better your life.

Three Things We Learned

Setting goals & accountability are the keys to success. Accountability systems around your goals lead you to more victory.

Vicious versus virtuous cycles. The reason that the winners keep winning is because they are in a virtuous cycle. When you find something that works, you keep working the cycle.

Pay attention to your air game. Air game is stepping out of your life like you're a spiritual being looking down on your life, and looking at what isn't working. Then change it. When you're stuck in the ground game, you're in survival or reaction mode.

Join us next week to continue this discussion with David Osborn on taking advantage of the opportunities you have and constantly taking steps to better yourself.

Jon's purpose-driven path in life is to facilitate this interconnected network. Many people lose connection with self, with other people, and with nature. Returning that connectedness through questions and answers to lead an organization toward collective wisdom.

On this episode, I continue my talk with co-founder and president of the Flourishing Leadership Institute, Jon Berghoff, about the consciousness of connectedness, leading businesses toward collective wisdom and how his parenting mirrors this philosophy.

Three Things We Learned

Figure out how to get everyone to listen. There are 4 levels of listening: being stuck, having an open mind, being empathetic, and seeing all together as one.

Business owners need to stop asking, "How do we fix a prob problem?" That question only gets us back to neutral, closing the deficit gap. Instead, focus on the question that will get you to abundance.

Leaders need to have patience. The biggest barrier we see to a leader or an organization transitioning to this new approach of tapping into this collective wisdom is patience. It takes patience to figure out what the questions and wait for the answers from 900 people at one time. It's a lot more efficient for the leaders to figure out what to do since we're smart and we made it here.

Instead of thinking of sustainability as doing less harm, let's look at sustainability as flourishing. The highest purpose in our work is a world generations from now where all living things are thriving. Our starting point is within organizations that want to start with collective wisdom within their business.

In order for us to be good leaders, we have to tap into our emotional currency as much as we tap into our intellectual currency. How do our negative experiences in childhood and the emotions that come from them design us for our lives in leadership? How can we balance the hyper-focus between our internal selves and the outside world? On this episode, I talk with co-founder and president of the Flourishing Leadership Institute, Jon Berghoff, about overcoming childhood pain, how the seed of mentorship and coaching was planted early in his life, and the levels of leadership required to build successful organizations.

Three Things We Learned

How success can be a vehicle to prove ourselves

Jon believes that a lot of his early success was a rebound or pendulum in response to a lot of pain in his life. A lot of the energy and motivation he had was an attempt to counter not feeling accepted, and not feeling like he was enough.

What defines a good teacher

Every good teacher/coach knows that the amount of wisdom in the universe is beyond what they can teach. They know that their job is to inspire the student to want to learn on their own— to instill that hunger in them.

The most critical skill a leader should have

As leaders, one of the most critical things we can do is to listen through the eyes and the hearts of other people. In order to do that, we must have certain emotional experiences and emotional currency.

Every experience in our lives prepares us for each level, and this is especially true in leadership. As the world has become more complex, so has leadership. We may feel at times that the complexity of our world has surpassed our own capabilities, but that doesn't mean we are useless as leaders. In those moments we need to unlock collective intuition and work on helping the people we lead to tap into their own inner wisdom and strengths.

So many of us take actions and make choices to prove ourselves to other people, but the true journey of enlightenment requires us to look inward. How do we overcome the feeling of not being enough? When we build a business, why is it so important to listen to what the market wants? Why is it so critical to celebrate our wins and milestones?

On this episode, I'm joined by personal development speaker and coach, Rob Dial. He shares about overcoming his childhood trauma, how it influenced who he is and the business he runs, and how he's gotten to a billion content views.

Three Things We Learned

The root of not feeling like we're enough

We all have a feeling of not being enough in some way, and a lot of it comes from childhood. The average child is reprimanded 8 times more than they are praised by their parents, so they feel like they aren't enough more often than not. If we're searching for love from our parents and they constantly reprimand us, we'll feel like we're not enough. This can become a trauma, and if we don't get past it, we'll just remain broken children inside.

How to build more relevant products

A lot of entrepreneurs just build up a following and never really ask people what they want, and they just guess and fail. It's better to grow a following, find out what people want and then figure out how you can best serve them based on what they want and then put out that product.

How you can be more influential in the market place via online channels

The most valuable thing to have right now is a personal brand, people connect with people, they don't connect with brands The best way to influence sales is to go where everyone is going, and just be top of mind. Have a personal brand that's just about you and then people will find out about the company eventually. When there are more eyes on you the person, inevitably there'll be more eyes on your business.

Many people are stuck in lives they don't think they signed up for. One of the most important things we have to unravel is whether we're trying to prove ourselves to others or doing things for ourselves. When we're so focused on how other people see us, it holds us back from doing what we're really great at and shining at what we do best. To overcome this, we have to focus on our superpowers and learn to look inward to determine our worth. When our emotional currency is greater than any physical currency in the bank, that's when we can truly find joy.

It's so easy to have checks and systems that evaluate how well we're doing financially, but our inner selves require the same. What does it take to overcome the past challenges, traumas and difficulties that impact our emotions? What is selective disbalance, and how should we think about the concept of balance in our lives? On this episode, I'm joined by whole-life wealth expert, and one of my mentors, Rock Thomas who shares on his life, his journey to success and what drives him and brings him joy.

Three Things We Learned

Why Balance is an Illusion Our lives are divided into different buckets, career, spirituality, relationships etc. The prevailing message we're told is that all these things have to be in complete balance, but this isn't practical. The truth is, you'll only be able to intensify in specific areas while the others take the backseat. Anytime one bucket gets filled, others will get depleted.

How our environments can poison or nourish us We're all programmed by the ecosystems we were raised in, and we're constantly receiving data from the outside world that influences us negatively. When we hire people, we have to take their environments into account in order to know how best to lead them.

How to start taking control of your mind and your thoughts When we "don't feel like doing" something important or "aren't in the mood" for an activity that improves our businesses or our health, we're letting our minds own and control us. We have the power and permission to own our minds and control what we do.

Whether it's never getting the approval and validation of your parents, or going through a tough childhood, the answer to your healing is actually falling in love with yourself. It's no one's job to validate us, that responsibility lies solely in our hands.

We can be the architects of our greatest successes, and this applies in life and in entrepreneurship. Entrepreneurship is an art, and as long as you feel that you are meant for more, you'll keep seeking and searching for the answers. You just have to have the faith that you'll find that purpose, and be willing to pursue it.