I’ve coached a lot of business owners who say they want growth — more freedom, more income, more control over their time.

But when you listen closely, their attention is somewhere else.

Politics. The economy. The system. Algorithms. Clients. “The market.”

In this episode, I break down a psychological trait that predicts whether a business owner stagnates or thrives: locus of control — where you believe power over your outcomes actually lives.

I explain why founders with an external locus of control consistently struggle to build momentum, make clean decisions, and stay resilient under pressure — and why the highest performers take an almost unreasonable level of personal responsibility for their results.

I also challenge a widely accepted idea in psychology: that locus of control is fixed. From my own experience — and from coaching high-performing founders — I believe it’s a trainable asset. And when it shifts, everything else follows.

If you want your business to grow, your thinking has to move inward first.

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