MYM Your Business: The Brutal Truth

Colin Sprake is a four-time best-selling author and mentor to well over 50,000 entrepreneurs!

Colin has built several different million dollar businesses within 6 months. He has over 30 years of business experience having come from the mining industry to building his own multi-million dollar businesses from the ground up.

A dedicated teacher, Colin is the Master Trainer at Make Your Mark Training and Consulting and is devoted to people achieving huge success in their businesses. His purpose is to assist business owners to dramatically improve the number of businesses that succeed. After all, failing businesses affect us all in negative ways.

Using decades of business experience, Colin speaks and trains on a wide variety of topics for corporations, organizations & associations. Colin Sprake is all about delivering what is required to achieve the desired result and holding you accountable for your own success.

What you'll learn about in this episode:

• Why this episode serves as the series finale for the MYM Your Business: The Brutal Truth podcast
• Why Colin has been finding new ways to streamline his business, Make Your Mark, and implement more systems rather than adding more people
• How much it costs to operate and produce the podcast, and what returns Colin has seen from the investment
• Why it is important to do a profit analysis, review your expenses and revenue, and determine how to improve those numbers
• Why time is a more valuable asset than money, and why it is important to carve time out of your schedule for things that don't involve making money
• Why all one hundred episodes of MYM Your Business: The Brutal Truth will remain valuable tools to help grow your business

Additional resources:

• Website: www.mymyourbusiness.com

As a Co-Founder and President of Enlightened Alliances, Janet Atwood oversaw the marketing and PR that enabled her book, "The Passion Test, the Effortless Path to Discovering Your Life Purpose" to become a NY Times Bestseller.

The Passion Test has had made a huge contribution to turning the passion statistics upside down, enabling thousands of people to choose in favor or their passions thereby positively influencing how people live and work. There are now over 300 Certified Passion Test Facilitators around the world. By next year that number will have doubled.

Janet Attwood is also a presenter of The Passion Test and has presented my programs as a featured speaker to thousands of people at events like T. Harv Eker's Wealth and Wisdom conference, The Kaballah Center, Jack Canfield's Success Programs, and more.

Janet is also a founding member of Jack Canfield's, "Transformational Leadership Council", whose members consist mainly of top authors and speakers from around the world. She is President of "The World United", an organization in India that connects all individuals who are committed to Personal and Planetary Evolution and a founding member for S.A.N.G., a group of world class internet marketers and speakers.

What you'll learn about in this episode:

• What the Passion Test is, how it works, and how its exercises can help people crystallize their goals for all aspects of their lives and then achieve them
• Why the focus of the Passion Test is to help people achieve clarity and fulfillment and to find the happiness they seek
• Why being passionate about what you do in your business can help guide you to prosperity and joy
• Why following your passion doesn't mean you won't have to do hard work but means that you will be more focused and prepared to do the work
• Where the idea for the Passion Test came from when Janet was struggling in a job she hated and realized she needed to make a critical change in her life
• Why successful people don't focus on past failures and spend time on self-criticism, but rather focus on their past successes as proof that they can achieve
• Why high-achieving people don't listen to their limiting beliefs and their inner critic, and why it is important to develop a "self-love mantra"
• Why, whenever you are faced with a choice or decision, you should always choose in favor of the things you are passionate about
• How to learn more about Janet Attwood and the Passion Test, as well as how to receive a free gift from Janet

Additional resources:

• Website: www.thepassiontest.com
• Passion Plan Freebie: https://thepassiontest.simplero.com/purchase/82623-Your-Passion-Plan/freebie/5135929ce2c22fd1

Colin Sprake is a four-time best-selling author and mentor to well over 50,000 entrepreneurs!

Colin has built several different million dollar businesses within 6 months. He has over 30 years of business experience having come from the mining industry to building his own multi-million dollar businesses from the ground up.

A dedicated teacher, Colin is the Master Trainer at Make Your Mark Training and Consulting and is devoted to people achieving huge success in their businesses. His purpose is to assist business owners to dramatically improve the number of businesses that succeed. After all, failing businesses affect us all in negative ways.

Using decades of business experience, Colin speaks and trains on a wide variety of topics for corporations, organizations & associations. Colin Sprake is all about delivering what is required to achieve the desired result and holding you accountable for your own success.

What you'll learn about in this episode:

• • Why we all have things we procrastinate over, whether we realize it or not, and why it is important to stop procrastinating and take action
  • Which dynamic and incredible guests appeared at Colin's Explosive Growth Mastermind event
  • Why paying to attend an event is worthwhile, as it will surround you with others who are truly of a different caliber
  • Why often the things we don't want to do in our business are the things that will make us a fortune
  • Why we often have two "voices", an angel voice and an evil voice, competing for our attention
  • How the evil voice tries to convince us not to do the things we need to do and tells us to be lazy and procrastinate instead
  • Why you have five seconds to make a decision to listen to your angel voice and cancel your evil voice
  • Why monotony is a necessary part of success, and why many people keep monotonous bad habits but don't want to deal with good monotonous work
  • Why it is important to be fully committed to your business and outcome, and why your angel voice is always working to help you succeed
  • Why getting stuck overthinking things can cause inaction, and why it is important to take action rather than just thinking about it

Additional resources:

• • Website: www.mymyourbusiness.com
  • Purchase tickets to Colin's Business Excellence three-day event: Phone 1-844-560-5609

Colin Sprake is a four-time best-selling author and mentor to well over 50,000 entrepreneurs!

Colin has built several different million dollar businesses within 6 months. He has over 30 years of business experience having come from the mining industry to building his own multi-million dollar businesses from the ground up.

A dedicated teacher, Colin is the Master Trainer at Make Your Mark Training and Consulting and is devoted to people achieving huge success in their businesses. His purpose is to assist business owners to dramatically improve the number of businesses that succeed. After all, failing businesses affect us all in negative ways.

Using decades of business experience, Colin speaks and trains on a wide variety of topics for corporations, organizations & associations. Colin Sprake is all about delivering what is required to achieve the desired result and holding you accountable for your own success.

What you'll learn about in this episode:

• Why knowledge is not power but implementation is the source of profit AND power
• Why the most successful business owners never stop learning and growing
• Why there is a significant difference between a business coach and a business cheerleader
• Why you should be open to being mentored by someone who has successfully done what it is that you want to do
• How to find the right mentor and how to ask for their advice
• Why you should figure out how much you can give to your mentor instead of how much you can get from them
• How your phone is not only your biggest distraction — but — can also send a signal to the people you're meeting that they are less of a priority
• Why successful people watch your actions and don't care about your words

Additional resources:

• Website: www.mymyourbusiness.com

Thomas Bähler has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the entertainment industry. He composed music for Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, directors Steven Spielberg and Barry Levinson, magicians Siegfried and Roy, Superbowl Halftime Shows and a number of other high profile stage productions. As a songwriter, he has written many hits including "She's Out of My Life", "Living In A House Divided", and "Julie Do You Love Me." Thomas created vocal arrangements for the landmark charity event "We Are the World," as well as for Barbara Streisand, Billy Joel, and the motion picture version of "The Wiz." He served as Music Director for a number of events sponsored by the White House, including "America's Millennium", "Points of Light" and President Clinton's Inaugural Concert. Mr. Bähler has also served as Music Director and arranger for "The Kennedy Center Honors."

What you'll learn about in this episode:

• How Tom's relationship with his father guided and shaped his life and his philosophies, and how it started with an Aesop fable
• Why Tom looks at every major disaster that happened through his life as a great turning point that led to even better things
• How Tom has worked with incredible and legendary music professionals like Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, and Cher, as well as serving in the Ford Motor Company promotional band "The Going Thing"
• How, in 1968, Tom met Henry Ford Jr. at a Ford Motor Company event and exchanged ties with each other, and other anecdotes from the remarkable evening and its strange events
• Tom shares a family tradition of how to deal with unpleasant surprises, by asking "what do I want?" and then "how are you going to do that?"
• Why you must be a good host to the ideas you have, then declare that you are taking action now, not in the future
• How to reach out to Thomas Bahler, either through email or by connecting with him through Facebook

Additional resources:

• Facebook: www.facebook.com/thomas.bahler
• Email: [email protected]
• Twitter: @tbahler

Warren is a Smart City professional with 30+ years of experience in providing excellence in the fields of Power, Automation, Advanced Pedestrian, and Intelligent Smart City Technology Solutions. He is committed to helping the citizens of our country arrive quickly and safely to their loved ones, and to provide governments with efficiency to deliver the best service to their communities.

What you'll learn about in this episode:

• The catalyst that got Warren to switch from industrial to government sales
• Tips for running a business where you sell a long lasting product
• Challenges of selling to the government, including the bidding process
• Advice for dealing with the government and sales, and what increases your chance of success
• Secrets to success when Warren was just starting out, and how he navigated the financial risk
• The difference between sales and running a business, and why it's essential to ask for and accept help
• Why you need to know and really understand your numbers
• Things Warren has done to make himself stand out in the crowd
• The top secret for getting to the next level that everyone follows, from the top business owners to the top athletes
• The sheer importance of understanding your numbers even if you don't love them
• Why you should rely on other people to help you, but always understand what they are doing

Additional resources:

• Website: www.smartcityits.com
• Phone number: 604-366-0819

Colin Sprake is a four-time best-selling author and mentor to well over 50,000 entrepreneurs!

Colin has built several different million dollar businesses within 6 months. He has over 30 years of business experience having come from the mining industry to building his own multi-million dollar businesses from the ground up.

A dedicated teacher, Colin is the Master Trainer at Make Your Mark Training and Consulting and is devoted to people achieving huge success in their businesses. His purpose is to assist business owners to dramatically improve the number of businesses that succeed. After all, failing businesses affect us all in negative ways.

Using decades of business experience, Colin speaks and trains on a wide variety of topics for corporations, organizations & associations. Colin Sprake is all about delivering what is required to achieve the desired result and holding you accountable for your own success.

What you'll learn about in this episode:

• Why people are too drawn to their electronic screens like computers, televisions, and phones, and why this is distracting them from human connections
• Why morning and night are critical times for your brain, and why you should set positive routines for these important times of the day
• Why a few minutes of meditation each morning is a great way to wake up your brain and set the tone for your day
• Why spending time reflecting on the things you are grateful for will help you clear your mind and focus on positivity
• How Colin begins each day through meditation, gratitude, calming his mind, and practicing key daily habits
• Why journaling is a useful tool to clear your mind and find the things that happened in your day that you should be grateful for
• Why your subconscious mind is a powerful driver for your success or failure, and why keeping yourself in a positive frame of mind in the evening is the key to success the next day
• Why consistency in your routine is the key to forming positive habits, and why you must stay dedicated

Additional resources:

• Website: www.mymyourbusiness.com

Have you ever thought about how much your emotions influence your health? Our guest today, Dr. Bradley Nelson is the author of the bestselling book, "The Emotion Code." It explains how to identify and release trapped emotions that block mental and physical healing. A new edition of "The Emotion Code" is coming May 7, 2019, from St. Martin's Press. For more information and a free Emotion Code Starter Kit, visit www.emotioncodegift.com.

What you'll learn about in this episode:

• Dr. Bradley shares a personal miracle he experienced as a child, and he explains why it started him on his current path
• How Dr. Bradley's belief in a higher power helped guide him to a career as a physician and ultimately led to his book, The Emotion Code
• Why the emotional baggage we carry with us can weigh us down and cause many of the problems we experience in our lives
• Why people often struggle to align their conscious and subconscious mind, and why their subconscious mind often sabotages their efforts
• Why your subconscious mind is functionally a binary computer that can answer yes-or-no questions and can be turned to help you achieve your goals
• How you can test your subconscious mind and ask it questions, using certain muscular changes in your body to determine its answers
• What a "heart wall" is, how it is created due to past trauma, and how it often prevents you from finding the happiness you are searching for
• How Dr. Bradley connected with legendary speaker, author, and life coach Tony Robbins, and how that has expanded his opportunities
• How Dr. Bradley and his wife's lives were changed dramatically when they first discovered Tony Robbins

Additional resources:

• Website: www.discoverhealing.com
• Website: www.emotioncodegift.com

Colin Sprake is a four-time best-selling author and mentor to well over 50,000 entrepreneurs!

Colin has built several different million dollar businesses within 6 months. He has over 30 years of business experience having come from the mining industry to building his own multi-million dollar businesses from the ground up.

A dedicated teacher, Colin is the Master Trainer at Make Your Mark Training and Consulting and is devoted to people achieving huge success in their businesses. His purpose is to assist business owners to dramatically improve the number of businesses that succeed. After all, failing businesses affect us all in negative ways.

Using decades of business experience, Colin speaks and trains on a wide variety of topics for corporations, organizations & associations. Colin Sprake is all about delivering what is required to achieve the desired result and holding you accountable for your own success.

What you'll learn about in this episode:

• How Make Your Mark will be celebrating its fifteenth birthday this June, and how tenacity has been the key to Make Your Mark's success
• Colin discusses a MYM client who wanted to win a Starbucks graphic design contract, phoning every single month for over two years to finally win the contract
• How Colin's Business Mastery events are designed to wake business leaders up to their own potential
• Why it is important for business leaders to hold themselves to a higher standard and maintain accountability
• Why you should find specialists to help you with your business, and how Colin defines a "relationship trust transfer"
• Why any great mentor has great mentors of their own, and how Weekends With Colin are structured to help business owners strategize
• Why you should think about your "client journey", the different stages your clients go through
• Why you must present yourself and your business with confidence and not be uncertain about the results you can deliver to your clients
• Why Colin's Business Mastery event is an essential tool for unleashing your true potential and finding the results you want

Additional resources:

• Website: www.mymyourbusiness.com
• Website: www.weekendwithcolin.com
• Email: [email protected]
• Telephone: 1-844-560-5609

Trevor Hall has been in the green industry all of his life. Trevor's first source of income was cutting the neighbor's lawn. Later in life, he began a summer job at the University of Calgary grounds and maintenance department, which became a full-time position and was his first real introduction to the creativity around landscape design. This summer job exposed Trevor to all of the aspects of landscape and irrigation design and construction. His interest and curiosity led him to pursue an education in Horticulture through Olds College. Trevor's thirst for knowledge took him back to the University where he completed his Bachelor of Commerce at the University of Calgary. It was a natural step to take since his love for the outdoors, the development of outdoor spaces, and combine it with a business degree to do what he loved every day. Artemis Landscapes & Design Ltd was born and when she later needed a sister, Trevor purchased Calgary Sprinkler Systems adding underground irrigation and maintenance to their repertoire. A fantastic synergy between the two companies was born.

What you'll learn about in this episode:

• How Trevor started his company, Artemis Landscapes, by combining his horticulture and management degrees into business ownership
• Why Trevor purchased his second company Calgary Sprinkler Systems, and how both of Trevor's businesses are rapidly growing
• How a major car accident a decade ago caused Trevor to lose his short-term memory and had a powerful impact on his business
• How Trevor discovered the importance of having systems in place for his business to help him get through the period after his accident
• Trevor shares how his wife and three daughters were the driving force that kept him going and kept him focused on his business
• What important lessons Trevor learned over the course of his career that he wishes he had learned earlier
• Why Trevor struggled early on to let go and delegate responsibility, and why trying to do everything himself was hurting his business
• How Trevor supports his team by allowing them to make their own mistakes and encourages them when things go wrong
• What key areas Trevor plans to work on in the next five years to take his business to where it wants it to be

Additional resources:

• Website: www.artemislandscapes.com
• Website: www.calgarysprinklersystems.com