Cameron Herold has taken 20 years of experience operating some
of the biggest business success stories in North America and turned
it into a flourishing career as both a motivational speaker and
management consultant. Cameron is a business coach and mentor to
several companies, and a CEO coach to large corporations globally.
He is also the best-selling author of
Double Double: How to Double Your Revenue and Profit in 3 Years
If you could pick any superpower, what would it be and
I’d pick the one my oldest son has and it’s his smile. Every
time he smiles, the whole world stops.
Was there an impact moment that led you on this journey
to being an entrepreneur?
I was groomed by my father to be an entrepreneur, but the real
moment that showed me that being an entrepreneur was where I wanted
to be was one day my dad took me to a golf course in the middle of
the day. He pointed out to me all the people who were playing golf
at twelve o’clock, and what company they owned. His lesson was, the
people who could play golf in the middle of the day are the ones
who control their free time, and the way they control their free
time is by controlling the way they make their money which is by
running their own company.
How has mentorship impacted you and influenced your
The mentoring for me comes in various forms. The first is
focusing where I’m going, the second is having a mentor board of
advisors that I could always learn from, and the third is
surrounding myself with others in masterminds who are learning in
Entrepreneurs are wired differently than the rest of
Most have the following traits:
Those aren’t necessarily traits that describe entrepreneurs.
They are actually clinically diagnosed traits for bi-polar
disorder. Most entrepreneurs have the traits of manic depression.
We also have a lot of the signs of attention deficit disorder.
According to the medical community, we’re disasters. We should
be medicated. The reality is we are sane. We’re wired exactly the
way we’re supposed to be wired. They should not be medicating us.
We should learn how to actually leverage those strengths and not
call them weaknesses anymore because they’re absolutely strengths
What we need is for the entrepreneurs to rise
up and say, “Stop medicating our kids. Stop saying there’s
something wrong with them. Maybe they’re wired exactly as they’re
supposed to be. Maybe this is how they’re supposed to think.”, and
starting to show the education system they can actually function in
high functional ways if they would try to accommodate for those
How can entrepreneurs get supercharged
in vivid detail on a 3-4 document. Then share it with all of your
employees so that everyone is on the same page.
Continually surround yourself with people that are strongerthan you in the areas that you’re not strong in. Focus your effort
around the stuff that you’re great at.
Start delegating everything else except genius.
Make sure that you’re setting the right goals: annual,quarterly, monthly, weekly & daily. Get an accountability
partner. Every day, set your daily top 3 business goals and send
them to each other using the CommitTo3
When you commit your goals to someone in writing, there’s ahigher chance that they’re actually going to get done.
Recognize you need breaks in your day. Only schedule 60-70% ofyour calendar during the day and leaving the rest as open, free
time or project work. Allow yourself to sit in different parts of
your home or business.
Use a Pomodoro app. Focus in bursts.Stop beating yourself up for not being focused for 12 hours aday day or 5 days a week.
We need to give ourselves a little bit of a break and allow
ourselves to hyperfocus for maybe 8 hours a week, do some buffer
work for 16-20 hours a week, and then have lots of free time &
breaks scheduled in between just to recharge our brains.
How can entrepreneurs and leaders approach leading teams
that consists of four different generations?
We need to understand how each generation works & leverage
their strengths, and also teach each other. Traditionalists and
baby boomers can learn a ton from Gen X, Gen Y & Gen Z on
leveraging technology. Gen X, Y & Z can learn a ton on business
processes, planning, and leveraging networking the old fashion way
& truly building deep relationships.
How did you enroll “the dream manager” into
On day one, get your employees to write down their bucket list.
Your role is to help coach people and connect them to people, and
get them to start crossing things off their bucket list.
Imagine you could start getting people on your team to achieve
the things they want to do before they die, and how much more
engaged they’d be in the company.
In your book, you talk about the 5 stages of the
rollercoaster ride of entrepreneurship. How can entrepreneurs
approach that Crisis of Meaning (questioning the meaning
of life) stage, and what are the steps they should follow to get to
the
Hopeful Realization stage?You need to relax your brain and take disconnect times from work
or you’ll never be recharged enough to hit the ground running.
Why is important to take time and reflect on the
Instead of being busy and learning from everybody else, it’s
important to dig deep and ask, “What have I learned from me?”.
Instead of reading a book of someone else’s experience, why don’t
we tap into our own experiences.
I am probably the best mentor I can have for myself if I
will allow myself to be introspective and look at my contributions
to my successes and failures.
How will you measure your life?
Right now it’s on my ability to raise good kids. Our role is to
raise nice young adults, and to raise happy, healthy children so
At the end of the day, let’s not take ourselves so seriously.
Can we just wake up in the morning and start having fun with what
we do? Let’s leave others that we touch every day with a sense of
our smile, our fun and our healthy enjoyment of life cause at the
end of the day none of us are getting out of this alive. We might
as well have fun along the way.
Cameron’s Website - CameronHerold.com
Suck, Cameron’s newest book on Amazon
Raise Kids to Be Entrepreneurs” Tedx Talk
Commit To 3 App - CommitTo3.com
FocusTime (Pomodoro app) - FocusTimeapp.com
