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Today our expert guest is Mike Michalowicz, the author of Profit First, Surge, The Pumpkin Plan, and his most recent book Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself.

You’ve likely heard someone ask the question, “if you had all the money in the world, what would you do?” It’s an interesting question, but it assumes that the only way to achieve that is to have all the money in the world.

Mike likes to pose a complementary question: If you had no money in the world, what would you do?

And when the answer aligns to both of those questions – what you would do with financial freedom and what your vocation is – you’ve found something special.

So today we discuss how you can create a business that is your vocation, designing it to run by itself by optimizing task delegation.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“I challenge everyone listening today to schedule a four-week consecutive vacation. Not tomorrow, not next month, but maybe 1.5 to 2 years out. That’s the limit.

“Why? If you have a full physical and physical digital disconnect for four consecutive weeks, that’s the ultimate test for a business that can run itself ... So declare that four-week vacation, be courageous, and you’ll feel a mindshift happen immediately.”

You can join Operation Vacation at clockwork.life

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Resources:

• Become part of Operation Vacation at clockwork.life

• Learn more at mikemichalowicz.com
• Instagram: @mikemichalowicz
• Twitter: @mikemichalowicz
• Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself

• The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field
• Surge: Time the Marketplace, Ride the Wave of Consumer Demand, and Become Your Industry's Big Kahuna
• Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
• Personal Helping: One-On-One Sessions with Dr. Richard Shuster

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Today our expert guest is Andy Molinsky, a Professor at Brandeis University’s International Business School with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology and the author of Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence.

Andy’s work blends social psychology, organizational behavior, and cross-cultural communication to help people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important (but challenging) tasks in work and life.

“Cultural differences are really important – but what’s even more important is that it’s really hard to take that knowledge about cultural differences and put it into action.”

So Andy developed The Cultural Code, a concept that will help you understand cultural differences in any situation or culture.

To help you pinpoint the challenges you might run into in any given situation, you can look at it through six different lenses:

1. Directness
2. Enthusiasm
3. Formality
4. Assertiveness
5. Self-promotion
6. Personal disclosure

By looking at what’s expected in those situations, you can find the gap between what’s comfortable and what’s expected – and then, with awareness around your actions, step outside of your cultural comfort zone to make things happen, if necessary.

And as technology breaks down the physical barriers between countries, businesses are also increasingly virtual and interconnected. So how can we use this understanding to create great virtual teams?

In his book Global Dexterity, Andy explains that there are three core challenges to adapting and adjusting your behavior across cultures:

1. Authenticity - You may not feel yourself
2. Competence - You may even feel that people think you’re bad at what you’re doing
3. Resentment - You know the old adage, “When in Rome,” but now that you’re actually in Rome, you may be questioning why, exactly, you have to do as they do.

Logically, you need to adapt – but psychologically, it can be quite frustrating.

Unfortunately, there is no one-size-fits-all version of adapting and adjusting your behaviors across cultures. You have to arm yourself with knowledge, in each situation.

“You need to find a place in that culture where you can be appropriate and effective, which is of course important if you want to achieve your goals, but without losing who you are in the process – and the way you do that is by customizing, tweaking, and finding your version!”

If you want somewhere easy to start, though, you can also check out Andy’s free 10 Cultural Codes From Around the World Cheat Sheet.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Take action. We can be in our heads, we can think of all the sorts of ways we might want to do something or ambitions that we might have for ourselves, but I really think there is something to taking that leap.

And I don’t think you should go blind – but I do think that strategically, thoughtfully taking action and taking that leap can really be life changing.

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Resources:

• Learn more at andymolinsky.com
• Connect with Andy: Facebook | LinkedIn | Twitter
• Download Andy’s FREE 10 Cultural Codes From Around the World Cheat Sheet
• Read: Reach: A New Strategy to Help You Step Outside Your Comfort Zone, Rise to the Challenge and Build Confidence
• Read: Global Dexterity: How to Adapt Your Behavior Across Cultures without Losing Yourself in the Process

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Today our expert guest is Joe Sanok, a TEDx speaker, the host of Practice of The Practice, and a private practice owner.

He helps healthcare professionals start, grow, and scale their practices by increasing income, influence, and impact on the world. And one way Joe accomplishes this is through Slow Down School, a conference for high-achieving therapists who want to slow down, skip stones on the beach, and work on their businesses.

In the same year that Joe launched his blog and podcast, his family experienced numerous medical emergencies that forced him to reflect on a simple question: What is the best use of my time? Is being a therapist really the best use of my time?

Joe chose to delegate the things that weren’t the best use of his time – like bringing in group practitioners to help run Mental Wellness Counseling or hiring someone to create the art for his podcast – and start focusing on the things that only he could do.

And Joe is able to help a lot more people by focusing his efforts on the practitioners themselves, as opposed to patients. Joe is really good at building up and marketing businesses online, and frankly that’s a weak point for many private practice owners (and, really, business owners in general).

By teaching others how to build their authority and find an audience online, Joe has a larger impact on the world than he ever could have by solely focusing on patient care.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“When you say no to one thing, you say yes to something else... So I think setting more boundaries around what you choose to do gives you so much freedom and happiness.”

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Resources:

• Learn more at practiceofthepractice.com
• Listen: Practice of the Practice
• Watch: “Fostering Aha Moments Through Slowing Down | Joseph Sanok | TEDxTraverseCity”
• Connect with Joe: Twitter | LinkedIn
• Get involved with microfinance: Kiva.org

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Today our expert guest is Dan Casetta, who helps build a dynamic culture of synergy and growth in sales teams, mastermind groups, and among his own family and friends. As a respected and trusted business leader, Dan has had a profound impact on thousands of people over the past 25 years.

During Dan’s career with Cutco, he became the most successful and influential field manager in the company’s nearly 70-year history. Not only that, his programs for leading and developing teams were integral in sparking the company’s rapid growth.

Plus, Dan is the mentor of two previous guests: Jon Berghoff and Hal Elrod.

Dan is a spectacular coach and mentor in large part because he has always loved sharing great ideas with other people. Even while at Cutco, his teachings didn’t have much to do with selling knives – it was all about being a better person, setting goals, having a better attitude, thinking more productively, creating influence, and then sustaining all of that.

Creating and sustaining long term influence is the key to finding success and creating an impact in many endeavors, especially in today’s increasingly entrepreneurial and online world. But how do we do that?

• One of the first things that creates influence is the ability to connect with other people, at a personal level; they have to be able to tell you have their best interest in mind.
• What we saw and how we talk is a simple but incredibly important aspect of influence. Jon wrote a chapter on this topic in Jon Berghoff’s book, Cutting Edge Sales.
• Your body language affects others’ impression of you, and that feeling will affect your ability to influence them. Your words and actions have to be congruent so that others feel that you truly believe what you’re saying.
• The best way to lead others is through example – if you want a team to work hard, you have to show a willingness to work hard and do whatever it takes.

Dan (along with Jack Canfield) is also one of 24 authors who contributed a chapter to Success Starts Today.

As you might expect, this book covers a pretty wide variety of topics, but Dan’s chapter (titled “Selling Knives and Changing Lives”) is about creating culture in an organization – and not just in a work organization, but in a family or team as well.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Most of the emotions and most of the states of mind that we experience in our life are based on choice... It’s so important that we recognize that we have a choice over our emotions and our states of mind at all moments, throughout every single day, and catch ourselves in the moments where we’re choosing a poor response and learn to choose a better, more constructive response – something that leads to the emotions we want, something that leads to the actions we want, and ultimately, helps us create the results that we want in our life.”

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Resources:

• Cutting Edge Sales: Confessions of Success, Influence & Self-Fulfillment from the World's Finest Knife Dealers by Jon Berghoff
• Get your Personal Helping at thedailyhelping.com/personal-helping

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Today our expert guest is Damion Lupo, whose mission is to free one million people from financial bondage through his Financial Freedom Blueprint, his books, and Transformation Nation podcast.

But before Damion found his mission, he built up a sizeable fortune in the real estate market… and lost it all. “I didn’t know who the heck I was because, for 10 years, my self-worth and net worth were the same thing.”

So when Damion’s net worth became negative $5 million, he was driven to teach; to step up and do something more important than just consuming.

When Being a billionaire used to mean having a billions dollars in the bank – “but today, the way I look at being a billionaire is a billion people impacted.”

After Damion made that dramatic shift, he wrote the book Reinvented Life to share the stories of transformation and offer others a roadmap of sorts to their truth.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Be incredibly careful – probably the most important thing is the influencers that you have around you: people like us talking, who you are hearing, and the people who are around you.

“I’m conscious about the impact of the people who are around and I always have somebody that’s really close who is giving me feedback on the truth and am making sure that the people who are around me… have the values that I want, that are important to me. Because if they have something that I don’t like, the wrong values or the wrong kind of person, I’m going to become that.”

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Resources:

• Learn more at damionlupo.com
• Get your copy of Reinvented Life
• Connect with Damion: Twitter | YouTube | LinkedIn

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Today our expert guest is Chelsey Korus, an Adidas athlete, Wanderlust TV teacher, and one of today’s foremost yoga teachers.

Chelsey grew up in Small Town, Minnesota, where she rebelled the way most young teenagers do: sneaking into the city to practice yoga. It may seem strange to many of us now, but yoga was not looked kindly upon in this small religious town back then.

Chelsey was immediately enthralled and captivated by the whole yoga scene – but at the time, she never thought she would teach it. However, the people around her didn’t take no as an answer… they saw that it was part of her and, eventually, she also heard the calling to teach.

A decade of learning and teaching around the world has led her to design AWAKE with Chelsey Korus, a total package lifestyle built on three pillars: soul, spirit, and environment.

“AWAKE has been a driving force for me my entire life – I never wanted to be the person who didn’t have the eyes to see the beauty around me!”

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Keep on your radar the energy or the habits or the thoughts or the people who bring about stagnancy, who bring about this non-participating in the moment – this energy that would cause you to play small, cause you to go numb, cause you be like ‘I don’t matter and I’m not even going to try.’”

Keep that on your radar and notice when you’re just being your rehearsed self… and start seeking out those who are different from you so you can destabilize that rehearsed self so that you can get a good vision, a new vision, for the world.”

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Resources:

• Learn more at chelseykorus.com
• Connect on Instagram: @chelseykorus
• Join Chelsey’s FB Group: Now It’s Like This with Chelsey Korus

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Today our expert guest is Lee Caraher, the founder and CEO of Double Forte, a national public relations and digital media agency that works with beloved consumer, technology, and wine brands.

Lee is also the author of two books: Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at Work and The Boomerang Principle: Inspire Lifetime Loyalty from Your Employees. The former is inspired by Lee’s own experience epicly failing and then succeeding at retaining millennials in her business and the latter is a pragmatic and actionable guide to creating high-performing work cultures that are ready for the future.

Lee is an expert when it comes to managing intergenerational workforces, so for this discussion it’s important to understand what exactly the five different generations in the workforce are. Lee uses the Pew Research Center’s definitions:

1. Silent and Greatest generations - Born 1945 or earlier; ages 73 and older
2. Baby Boom generation - Born 1946 to 1964; Ages 54 to 72
3. Generation X - Born 1965 to 1980; Ages 38 to 53
4. Millennial generation (sometimes called Gen-Y - Born 1981 to 1996; Ages 22 to 37
5. Post-Millennial generation (sometimes called Gen-Z) - Born 1997 to today; ages 16 to 20 are in the workforce

This is the first time so many generations are all working at the same time, although that’s a trend that will likely continue into the future. While each generation has its quirks, it’s impossible to generalize “All millennials are like _____” or “all Baby Boomers want is _____.”

But there is still a lot of talk about the “culture clash” being caused by this intergenerational workforce… so what’s that about?

One of the big differences is that the younger generations have an expectation for work-life integration, as opposed to work-life balance. When you talk about balance, you’re generally talking about a compartmentalized and even split of two different parts of your life… and that doesn’t really work that well, in practice.

Work-life integration is constant: from the moment you wake up to the moment you go to sleep, you can get through both your work responsibilities and personal responsibilities and optimize them however makes sense.

It’s a concept that sort of flies in the face of a typical 9-to-5 mindset. It’s different, but not bad. In fact, it has distinct benefits for everyone in the workforce – like being able to leverage the times of day you are most productive for your most important work – but previous generations didn’t necessarily realize they could ask for it.

Lee believes a lot of the “culture clash” can be solved through effective communication, particularly setting clear expectations up front (or asking for clear expectations if they are not provided).

“Don’t assume anything. You have to absolutely set your own expectations for what the values and what the behaviors are in your own organization.” This is useful for any generation, not just Millennials.

As is The Boomerang Principle, or the belief that those organizations that allow and encourage their former employees to return to them as employees have a strategic advantage over those that don’t.

This can be a point of contention between older and younger employees. Historically, the train of thought has been you left the company so you somehow betrayed it. But paying employees doesn’t create loyalty – it’s a transactional relationship.

On top of that, continual improvements in health and technology mean that people will be able to work longer. A 45+ year career just isn’t realistic.

Today’s young adults will likely have 60-70 year careers, so it makes sense that they’ll want to try a few different roles and functions in that time.

If we can keep people we want in our organizations for one more year, Lee says, we are improving our process, improving our profit, and improving our culture – and that’s what sustainability will be in the future, as we think about longer careers and many careers for people over time.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Define your own success. If you can define what you think is successful, you can chart your life the way you want it. That includes a great career and a great, interesting personal life, so as we live to 105, we’re not regretting that time.”

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Resources:

• Learn more at leecaraher.com
• Connect with Lee: Facebook | Instagram | Twitter
• Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at Work
• The Boomerang Principle: Inspire Lifetime Loyalty from Your Employees

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Today our expert guest is Dana Malstaff, the Founder of Boss Mom and the author of Boss Mom: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Business & Nurturing Your Family Like a Pro. She is a mother, author, speaker, business strategist, podcaster, blind spot reducer, and movement maker.

Dana published her book and started the Boss Mom brand in 2015, quickly growing into a six-figure business that includes an empowering community, transformative courses, and entertaining podcast.

Now Dana has over 10,000 students enrolled in her courses, helping women all over the world raise their businesses and babies at the same time. She believes that pursuing our passions and building our dreams – while including our children in the process – is the best way to build thriving businesses and families.

And ultimately we need to show our children that doing what we love can be financially viable

There are a few key steps in becoming a Boss Mom, and they can be applied to anyone who wants to simultaneously pursue running a business and living a life they’re passionate about:

• You need decision confidence. When you aren’t confident, that’s where guilt starts to creep into your life. But if you make a conscious assessment of what your priorities are, you can make any decision with confidence.

• To maintain confidence in those decisions, you also need healthy boundaries, which Dana says can be particularly difficult for women. There are many people who would rather be helpful than profitable, and that can make it challenging to successfully run a business.

• But you can’t set effective boundaries and assess your priorities without first knowing your WHY. Dana breaks your why down to three categories: financial, environmental, and emotional. A lot of people talk about knowing the purpose behind your business and surrounding yourself with the right people and things to make it happen, but there aren’t a lot of people who focus on the emotional part of your why. However, it’s a critically important question: How do you want to FEEL, and what does that mean about the business and life that you’re building?

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway:

“You have permission – you have permission!”

You are the only person who can give yourself permission to do whatever it is you want and to be whoever you want, and we spend so much time asking other people for permission that we don’t live the fullness that we could be living.”

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Resources:

• Boss Mom: The Ultimate Guide to Raising a Business & Nurturing Your Family Like a Pro
• Learn more at boss-mom.com
• Listen: The Boss Mom Podcast
• Connect with Dana: Instagram | Facebook
• Listen to me on The Boss Dad Podcast: Episode 4: How to Build a Business That Makes the World Around You a Better Place with Dr. Richard Shuster

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Today our expert guest is Jesse Harless, an inspirational entrepreneur in long-term recovery who is passionate about helping people overcome bad habits, go all in on their recovery, and live their best life. Jesse is also the Founder of Entrepreneurs in Recovery, a movement to empower people in recovery through facilitation, personal development, and entrepreneurship.

You may be thinking “this episode’s not for me” because you don’t have a substance abuse problem, but the reality is that addiction affects almost everybody, in one way or another.

Things like the opioid crisis in the U.S. is sparking a bigger conversation about the problem of addiction. But it doesn’t need to be as extreme as an opioid dependency – “I think in some ways, everyone has their own addictions and so just to learn more about it can be useful for everyone.”

Jesse’s personal journey with addiction began when he was very young. As an eight-year-old boy, he was still sucking his thumb to cope with emotional pain. Shame caused him to stop, but that didn’t ease the emotional pain.

As a pre-teen at the dawn of high-speed internet, Jesse dove head first into the world wide web. It started with hours of online games, eventually shifting to an obsession with pornography. That’s when Jesse really started to see the effects of addiction, even if he didn’t quite know that’s what it was yet.

In college, Jesse fell further into addiction as he discovered marijuana and alcohol. Eventually, this grew into cocaine and heroin. Then when his connection for hard drugs was arrested, he leaned on prescription pills and heavy alcohol use.

He told himself that the pills weren’t as bad, and this went on for months… until he was arrested. In court, he saw how his actions affected his family, and that’s when he had a critical realization:

“I thought that because I was a functioning alcoholic and someone in addiction that I wasn’t affecting anyone – but the reality is I was affecting everyone.”

Ultimately, this is when Jesse started recovery. And a few years later, he started combing personal development with recovery.

One of the first personal development strategies that Jesse implemented was the daily practice of taking cold showers and starting that challenge actually inspired his first book, Smash Your Comfort Zone with Cold Showers: How to Overcome Your Habits, Defeat Your Anxiety, and Boost Your Energy Using the Power of Cold Showers.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Number one: write down your goals, make them specific, and I challenge you to put a date to when you’ll have that goal completed by. And look at it every day. Second, do something that scares you every single day. Do something every day that’s going to get yourself out of your comfort zone.”

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Resources:

• Check out jesseharless.com
• Learn more about Entreprenuers in Recovery
• If you want to learn more about appreciative inquiry, go back and check out episode 36 of the show: “Attracting & Cultivating Relationships with Mentors | with Jon Berghoff”

Today our expert guest is Brannon Beliso, the owner of One Martial Arts and the creator of One Merit Badges and Excellent Kids, two internationally distributed children’s life skills education systems. Brannon is dedicated to helping people live their best life and reach their full potential through learning, living, and growing.

Brannon was first introduced to martial arts by his father back in 1967, when he was only five years old, and that decision has had a profound impact on his life. “I was exposed to Eastern philosophies of self-discipline and the balance of mind, body, and spirit at a very early age, and all of that has shaped and served me throughout my lifelong journey of self-discovery to be a better version of myself.”

Brannon shares this journey in his book, Live Learn Grow: Lessons of a Reluctant Tiger, and as you’ll hear in this episode, there were a lot of ups and downs: Growing up poor, child abuse, foster care, becoming a martial arts champion, living as a rockstar in the Philippines, and how he ultimately found happiness.

By reading the book and learning more about his raw and tumultuous story, Brannon hopes others will learn how to find their happiness on purpose, too.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are not what everybody tells you that you are. Every one of us is born perfect.”

“With all humility and gratitude, embrace that you are perfect the way you are, warts and all, imperfections and all. Be okay with who you are and you’ll be okay with the world!”

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Resources:

• Learn more at brannonbeliso.com
• Connect with Brannon: Facebook | Twitter | YouTube
• Read: Live Learn Grow: Lessons of a Reluctant Tiger
• Watch: “Happy on Purpose | Brannon Beliso | TEDxMillsHighSchool”

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