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When taking steps to make your business data-driven, seemingly small actions can have a massive impact. In this episode, Path for Growth coach Matt Aiken walks us through 6 of those small actions you can take to start identifying, collecting, and using the data that matters most for the outcomes you’re trying to achieve. He and Alex also provide advice for getting your team on board with these changes, and they share some examples of how data has informed their work at Path for Growth.  

Episode Recap:

• Nothing small, when done right, is actually small
• Get clear on your desired outcome and how you will measure it 
• Identify the processes associated with that outcome
• Pick 1-3 attributes that will have the biggest impact on your outcome
• Know the difference between lead measures and lag measures
• Identify a metric owner — and don’t let it be you! 
• Set your target for the metric 
• Determine a rhythm to update and review the data 

Resources:

Follow the podcast on Apple or Spotify

Try Path for Growth 1on1 Coaching Free for 14 Days

Download the Free Reading Guide

Join us for our 2025 Experience – Long Game Leadership 

Listen to “Grow Your Business with Better Data”

Connect with our Founder Alex Judd on LinkedIn and Instagram

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If you’re ready to move beyond just gathering information and start executing on what truly matters, Path for Growth’s 1-on-1 coaching can help. Apply now at pathforgrowth.com/coaching.
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Information isn’t the gap between failure and success—action is. Path for Growth’s 1-on-1 coaching helps you create a plan and execute on what matters most for your business. Apply today at pathforgrowth.com/coaching.
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Executing a strategy without data is like chopping down trees without ever stopping to sharpen your axe. In this episode, Path for Growth coach Matt Aiken addresses the five common blockers that keep leaders from becoming data-driven. He also shares actions you can take today to overcome each one. Make sure to check back next week for an episode where Matt will dive deeper into next steps for making sense of the data you’ve collected! 

Episode Recap:

• If strategy is our axe, then data is the whetstone for sharpening it 
• There are 5 common blockers that keep leaders from building a data-driven business
• 1. “I know my numbers.”
• 2. “I don’t know what data to look at.”
• 3. “I don’t have good data.”
• 4. “Collecting data takes more effort than it’s worth” 
• 5. “We’ve tried this in the past and it didn’t stick.”

Resources:

Follow the podcast on Apple or Spotify

Try Path for Growth 1on1 Coaching Free for 14 Days

Download the Free Reading Guide

Join us for our 2025 Experience – Long Game Leadership 

Listen to “Grow Your Business with Better Data”

Connect with our Founder Alex Judd on LinkedIn and Instagram

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If you’re ready to move beyond just gathering information and start executing on what truly matters, Path for Growth’s 1-on-1 coaching can help. Apply now at pathforgrowth.com/coaching.
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How do you collect the right data for your business, and once you have it, how should you respond? In this episode, Path for Growth coach Matt Aiken joins the podcast to talk about a data-driven approach to leadership. He shares 5 key principles for growing your business based on data. Matt and Alex also share a new perspective for leaders who might feel less comfortable with numbers and figures, reminding us that good data is ultimately telling a story. 

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Episode Recap:

• Why is data-driven business so important to you?
• If you’re uncomfortable with the concept of data, think of it as a story
• What gets measured gets managed
• Bridging the knowing/doing gap requires proactive leadership
• Wise strategy is rooted in healthy single-mindedness
• Wisdom does not come from experience, it comes from evaluated experience
• Decisions are bets, not certainties
• Tomatoes are fruits, but don’t put them in a fruit salad! 

Resources:

Follow the podcast on Apple or Spotify

Try Path for Growth 1on1 Coaching Free for 14 Days

Download the Free Reading Guide

Join us for our 2025 Experience – Long Game Leadership 

Listen to Matt’s previous Path for Growth episode

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If you’re ready to move beyond just gathering information and start executing on what truly matters, Path for Growth’s 1-on-1 coaching can help. Apply now at pathforgrowth.com/coaching.
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If patience is the price of impact, then it’s also one of the most important traits for leaders to cultivate and maintain. In this episode, Alex continues our series on patience by exploring 5 things patience does for leaders. He also shares words of encouragement for any listener who’s finding it hard to endure their current season. Make sure to catch up on the other episodes of this series if you haven’t already, and leave us a review letting us know what you’ve learned! 

Episode Recap:

• Healthy, meaningful, and sustainable impact will always come at a cost
• Patient leaders clarify source, banks, and destination
• Don’t stay in the same place, but do stay on the same path
• Patient leaders catch a vision worth suffering for
• Patient leaders establish a rhythm for daily renewal
• Patient leaders connect to others who are committed to a path
• Patient leaders place a high value on coachability
• May you find the power and the character to endure this season

Resources:

Follow the podcast on Apple or Spotify

Try Path for Growth 1on1 Coaching Free for 14 Days

Download the Free Reading Guide

Join us for our 2025 Experience – Long Game Leadership 

Connect with our Founder Alex Judd on LinkedIn and Instagram

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If you’re ready to move beyond just gathering information and start executing on what truly matters, Path for Growth’s 1-on-1 coaching can help. Apply now at pathforgrowth.com/coaching.
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The same principles that Andrew Simpson uses to train athletes have helped him own and run a business more successfully. In this episode, he joins Alex on the Path for Growth podcast to discuss some of those principles, along with his own incredible story of faith and leadership transformation. Andrew is the founder of Player’s Fitness Performance, a personal training gym focused on young athletes and people over 40. He explains why fitness is such a powerful medium for helping people transform their lives and discusses the different seasons he’s experienced through the last 12 years of business ownership.
 

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Episode Recap:

• How did a search for significance lead you to starting a business and building a relationship with Christ? (0:00:00)
• What traits from those first five years of business still impact you today? (0:07:39)
• Can you talk about your relationship with your business partner and how it’s evolved? (0:13:04)
• What have the different seasons of your business looked like? (0:16:47)
• How do you stay willing to take more risks in service of others? (0:27:43)
• What rhythms have you developed to cultivate gratitude in your team? (0:38:40)
• What is the 5 Step Magical Experience, and how does it foster transformation? (0:40:42)
• How do you stay relevant in a constantly changing industry? (0:50:48)
• Why are you so passionate about mindset, and how does that impact your leadership? (0:52:47)
• How can applying mindset principles with intensity help leaders win? (1:06:20)
• What are you excited about right now? (1:12:47)

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Try Path for Growth 1on1 Coaching Free for 14 Days

Download the Free Reading Guide

Join us for our 2025 Experience – Long Game Leadership 

Learn more about PFP

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 If you want to make a sustainable impact, you need to embrace patience. In this episode, Alex continues the conversation about the price of impact by examining 3 beliefs every patient leader possesses. He also breaks down the difference between first, second, and third order consequences, shares real-life examples of practicing patience, and explains what leaders can learn from the Grand Canyon. Make sure to sign up for our weekly growth guide to access all the resources mentioned in this episode.

Episode Recap:

• Impact-driven leaders must be willing to wait (1:11)
• What are some of the things that a patient leader knows? (3:42)
• 1. Patient leaders understand the oppositional nature of first order and second and third order consequences (8:10)
• First order consequences are clunky and uncomfortable, but second order consequences are growth and progress (15:01)
• 2. Patient leaders know the difference between productive and unproductive discomfort (21:22)
• Ask yourself these questions when you’re feeling discomfort (27:37)
• 3. Patient leaders believe in the compounding value of staying on one path (40:08)

Resources:

Follow the podcast on Apple or Spotify

Sign Up for Our Weekly Growth Guide

Try Path for Growth 1on1 Coaching Free for 14 Days

Download the Free Reading Guide

Join us for our 2025 Experience – Long Game Leadership 

Connect with our Founder Alex Judd on LinkedIn and Instagram

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Make your business feel less chaotic and more predictable. Get the free workbook and video course from Path for Growth to start building the clarity and structure you need for healthy growth.

Download it today at pathforgrowth.com/free-downloads.
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Struggling to make success in your business repeatable? Path for Growth created a free workbook and video course to help you operationalize—so you can build consistency, reduce stress, and create space for growth.

Download it now at pathforgrowth.com/free-downloads.
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If you want to scale your business, you’ll need to be intentional about both delegation and personal growth. In this episode, Alex continues his conversation with Bryan and Shannon Miles about healthy business ownership. Bryan and Shannon leverage their own experience as multi-time, successful business owners to share practical advice and examples for our listeners. They also explain how you can be one of the first to get involved with their new nonprofit for leaders, O’nr. You won’t want to miss this one!

Episode Recap: 

• Today we’re continuing our conversation on business ownership with Bryan and Shannon Miles (2:22)
• What was the hardest thing for you to delegate, and how did you approach that? (4:55)
• How do you know when to speak up when delegating? (14:28)
• What is a whitewater season, and how do you navigate them?? (17:12)
• Why is the personal growth of leaders so important to you? (24:32)
• What personal growth rhythms are most important to you? (27:31)
• Where to learn more from Bryan and Shannon (31:24)
• What would you say to a business owner who’s feeling discouraged? (33:19)

Resources:

Follow the podcast on Apple or Spotify

Sign Up for Our Weekly Growth Guide

Try Path for Growth 1on1 Coaching Free for 14 Days

Download the Free Reading Guide

Join us for our 2025 Experience – Long Game Leadership 

Join the O’nr Waitlist

“Predictable Success” by Les McKeown

Connect with our Founder Alex Judd on LinkedIn and Instagram

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Struggling to make success in your business repeatable? Path for Growth created a free workbook and video course to help you operationalize—so you can build consistency, reduce stress, and create space for growth.

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At its best, business ownership can be a dream, but at its worst, it can feel like a nightmare. In this episode, Alex talks with two wildly successful business owners, Bryan and Shannon Miles, about the lessons they’ve learned about healthy, lifegiving business ownership. Bryan and Shannon are co-founders of the virtual staffing company Belay and serial business owners who are now launching a new nonprofit to help business owners experience personal and professional growth. In this episode, they talk about casting and refining a vision, staying in alignment while working together, embracing expansion, and much more. Make sure to follow the podcast so you don’t miss part 2!

Episode Recap:

• Over the next two episodes, we’ll talk with Bryan and Shannon Miles about business ownership (2:21)
• What can business ownership look like at its worst? (5:49)
• Can you cast a vision of what business ownership can look like at its best? (15:42)
• What was your intent when you started Belay, and how did it change? (19:50)
• How do you help your people buy into the vision? (26:20)
• How does intending to sell a business change your approach? (29:42)
• Can you tell us about O’nr? (33:05)
• What have you learned about vision from owning multiple businesses? (37:36)
• How do you maintain alignment when working closely together? (44:48)
• What role does your faith play in your business decision making? (49:22)
• How to join the O’nr waitlist (56:30)

Resources:

Follow the podcast on Apple or Spotify

Sign Up for Our Weekly Growth Guide

Try Path for Growth 1on1 Coaching Free for 14 Days

Download the Free Reading Guide

Join us for our 2025 Experience – Long Game Leadership 

Join the O’nr Waitlist

Connect with our Founder Alex Judd on LinkedIn and Instagram

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Make your business feel less chaotic and more predictable. Get the free workbook and video course from Path for Growth to start building the clarity and structure you need for healthy growth.

Download it today at pathforgrowth.com/free-downloads.
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Struggling to make success in your business repeatable? Path for Growth created a free workbook and video course to help you operationalize—so you can build consistency, reduce stress, and create space for growth.

Download it now at pathforgrowth.com/free-downloads.
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Too often we underrate the importance of patience, but sustainable growth will never happen overnight. If you want to make a lasting impact, patience is the price you’ll have to pay. In this episode, Alex kicks off a new series where he’ll be sharing principles, questions, and action items to help you become a leader who can sit with the discomfort of waiting. Make sure to follow the podcast so you don’t miss the next installment!

Episode Recap:

• Patience is the price of impact (2:17)
• Are you willing to wait? (5:08)
• Growth is like an Allen wrench: for maximum leverage, you have to pull back (8:05)
• Many of us are far too comfortable with underrating patience (12:22)
• Growth without patience is not sustainable (13:25)
• Patience is uncomfortable and even painful at times (18:08)
• How to get the most out of this series (22:52)
• Reflect on these 3 questions today (25:49)

Resources:

Follow the podcast on Apple or Spotify

Sign Up for Our Weekly Growth Guide

Try Path for Growth 1on1 Coaching Free for 14 Days

Download the Free Reading Guide

Join us for our 2025 Experience – Long Game Leadership

Connect with our Founder Alex Judd on LinkedIn and Instagram

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Make your business feel less chaotic and more predictable. Get the free workbook and video course from Path for Growth to start building the clarity and structure you need for healthy growth.

Download it today at pathforgrowth.com/free-downloads.
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Struggling to make success in your business repeatable? Path for Growth created a free workbook and video course to help you operationalize—so you can build consistency, reduce stress, and create space for growth.

Download it now at pathforgrowth.com/free-downloads.
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A committed team doesn’t just happen overnight. Instead, it requires repeated rhythms and clear standards. In this episode, Rusty Fulling shares three more actions you can take to help you develop a committed team, along with practical examples of what each action can look like when you’re just getting started. Rusty is the founder and CEO of Fulling Management and Accounting, and he’s also offering a free opportunity to learn from his team if you listen to the end of the episode.

Episode Recap:

• Today Rusty Fulling will break down 3 more actions for building a committed team (1:39)
• 3. Hold a high standard for commitment (3:52)
• How can leaders create a culture of healthy feedback? (8:44)
• What does it look like to set expectations during the hiring process? (12:22)
• 4. Create rhythms that foster commitment (16:29)
• How do you start adding rhythms? (19:22)
• How to learn more from Rusty and his team (27:48)
• 5. Be committed to something bigger than yourself (29:14)

Resources:

Follow the podcast on Apple or Spotify

Sign Up for Our Weekly Growth Guide

Try Path for Growth 1on1 Coaching Free for 14 Days

Download the Free Reading Guide

Join us for our 2025 Experience – Long Game Leadership 

Apply to Work with Rusty Fulling

Connect with our Founder Alex Judd on LinkedIn and Instagram

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Make your business feel less chaotic and more predictable. Get the free workbook and video course from Path for Growth to start building the clarity and structure you need for healthy growth.

Download it today at pathforgrowth.com/free-downloads.
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