Built by the Journey

#27 E15 S2 The Entrepreneur as Client Zero. Welcome back to Built by the Journey: Navigating Entrepreneurship Where Every Milestone Matters and Every Detour Counts. I’m your host, Chris Laible.   Today, we’re embracing the question: Are you Client Zero? The goal isn’t to invent  a fictional person. The goal is to begin by observing a real one.   So here is the question: Are you Client Zero?   Entr...

There was a moment when you decided to build something. Welcome back to Built by the Journey: Navigating Entrepreneurship Where Every Milestone Matters and Every Detour Counts. I’m your host, Chris Laible.   Today, we’re embracing a question: Have You Outgrown Your Passion? The goal isn’t to chase passion recklessly. The goal is to steward it wisely   So here is the question: Have You Outgrown You...

Will Someone Notice If Your Business Disappeared? Welcome back to Built by the Journey: Navigating Entrepreneurship Where Every Milestone Matters and Every Detour Counts. I’m your host, Chris Laible.   Today, we’re embracing a question I’ve been sitting with lately. If you were to disappear from your business for 30 days, would anyone notice? Not in a dramatic way. Not in a “something bad happened...

#24 E12 S2 Designing What Fits You: Why Your Business Needs a System That Grows With Your Life Welcome back to Built by the Journey: Navigating Entrepreneurship Where Every Milestone Matters and Every Detour Counts. Today, we’re embracing the value of designing as an entrepreneur, which is Designing What Fits You : Why Your Business Needs a System That Grows With Your Life   There is no shortage o...

#23 E11 S2 Creativity Is Not an Art Class: Entrepreneurial Creativity is About Designing Solutions Entrepreneurial Creativity is About Designing Solutions- Welcome back to Built by the Journey: Navigating Entrepreneurship Where Every Milestone Matters and Every Detour Counts. Today, we’re embracing the value of being creative, which is Creativity Is Not an Art Class: Entrepreneurial Creativity is...

The Entrepreneur as Client Zero - Welcome back to Built by the Journey: Navigating Entrepreneurship Where Every Milestone Matters and Every Detour Counts. Today, we’re embracing the value of being client zero, which is The Entrepreneur as Client Zero: Why Your Habits Hold the Clues to Your Ideal Client   Most entrepreneurs don’t wake up one day and randomly choose a business. More often than not,...

The Power of Being Bingeable - Welcome back to Built by the Journey: Navigating Entrepreneurship Where Every Milestone Matters and Every Detour Counts. Today, we’re starting a conversation where a library creates a safe place for discovery, which is The Power of Being Bingeable: Why Every Entrepreneur Needs a Content Library   Have you ever had a moment where you got hooked entirely on someone’s c...

Welcome back to Built by the Journey: Navigating Entrepreneurship Where Every Milestone Matters and Every Detour Counts. Today, we’re reminding the world and you, too, by discussing the topics What Did You Do Today to Remind the World You’re Still Here? And what did you do for yourself today?   There are quiet assumptions that many seasoned entrepreneurs carry.   “People know what I do.” “If someo...

Welcome back to Built by the Journey: Navigating Entrepreneurship Where Every Milestone Matters and Every Detour Counts. Today, we’re discussing business when life is asking something of you , which is The Mobile Life isn’t a Trend, Often It’s Survival   For a long time, we were sold a version of entrepreneurship that looked like this: a laptop, a beach, a cocktail, and complete freedom, the origi...

Welcome back to Built by the Journey, navigating entrepreneurship where every milestone matters and every detour counts. Today, we're having a conversation about the power of stepping away from your desk intentionally, which is why every entrepreneur needs a field trip. There's a belief in entrepreneurship that progress only happens at your desk with the laptop open. Staying visible means staying...

Welcome back to Built by the Journey: Navigating Entrepreneurship Where Every Milestone Matters and Every Detour Counts. Today, we’re diving into staying connected with our business by answering the question: Why a Regular Business Inventory Keeps You Aligned (Even When It Feels Repetitive)   Every month, I sit down with a fresh, blank roadmap that asks me many of the same questions it asked the m...

Welcome back to Built by the Journey: Navigating Entrepreneurship Where Every Milestone Matters and Every Detour Counts. Today, we’re digging deep into why I replaced the Vision Board with a Journey, Dream, Strategy Board.   For years, we’ve been taught to create vision boards by focusing on what we want next . The dream house. The next title. The future version of ourselves.   There’s nothing wro...

Welcome back to Built by the Journey: Navigating Entrepreneurship Where Every Milestone Matters and Every Detour Counts. Today, we’re identifying if you’re feeling scattered, tired, or stuck with marketing; it may not be a motivation issue. It may be a foundation issue, which is Your Marketing Foundation: The Quiet System That Makes You Memorable   Entrepreneurs today have more creative tools at t...

Welcome back to Built by the Journey: Navigating Entrepreneurship Where Every Milestone Matters and Every Detour Counts. Today, we’re diving into a creative opportunity for the online entrepreneur to grow their business from their backyard, which is Entrepreneurship Out Your Backyard: Where Offline is the On-Ramp in Any City Many online entrepreneurs chose the online path for a reason. They didn’t...

Welcome back to Built by the Journey: Navigating Entrepreneurship Where Every Milestone Matters and Every Detour Counts. Today, we’re diving into the long game for you and your business, which is Sustainable Entrepreneurship: Choosing a Pace You Can Live With. Entrepreneurship isn’t just about getting started. It’s about staying. For many of us, we’ve chosen to be the only person wearing all the h...

Welcome to this episode of Built by the Journey, where awareness is essential, milestones matter, and detours count. For this week's On Track Check-in, we’re visiting the essential of Relationships, and asking one of my favorite questions: Who’s in your front row?   Who’s genuinely cheering for you, not just watching your journey, but helping you keep going when it gets hard?   Who keeps you groun...

Past jobs, Business Dreams, and Tasks others can do better.   Welcome to Built by the Journey , where awareness is essential, milestones matter, and detours count. I’m your host, Chris Laible, entrepreneur, author, and creator of the Journey, Dream, Strategy Framework. Each Monday, we explore three powerful prompts designed to guide your week with intention: Your Journey , your Dream , and your St...

Welcome to Built by the Journey , where awareness is essential, milestones matter, and detours count. I’m your host, Chris Laible , and today, we’re rolling into Visibility Friday . I created the Visibility Dice to help entrepreneurs end the week with something lighthearted yet powerful, an actionable visibility spark that reminds you: showing up doesn’t have to feel heavy. A fun, chance-meets-cho...

Welcome to this episode of Built by the Journey, where awareness is essential, milestones matter, and detours count. I’m your host, Chris Laible Today, we will explore, Beyond the Build.  More specifically, the subject of Beyond Alone , where we explore what it means to build something extraordinary without losing yourself in the process. While visiting about Beyond the Build, we will pull from th...

Welcome back to the Built by the Journey podcast, where milestones matter, and detours count.  Today’s topic is Market by Design , where marketing meets momentum. I’m your host, Chris Laible, entrepreneur, coach, and author of The 12 Essentials . Here, we break marketing into three essential layers: your marketing foundation, your marketing habits, and your marketplace. You’ll gain foundational cl...

Welcome to this episode of Built by the Journey, where awareness is essential, milestones matter, and detours count. I’m Chris Laible, your host of the Built by the Journey podcast. Thank you for finding your way here today. The Tuesday topic of this podcast is your On Track Check-in from my signature program, On Track with Chris, where we check in on five of the essential tools to keep entreprene...

Welcome to this episode of Built by the Journey, where milestones matter, and detours count. I’m Chris Laible, your host of the Built by the Journey podcast. Thank you for finding your way here today. Each week, on Mondays, we walk through the JDS Framework prompts, Journey, Dream, and Strategy, together, because the JDS framework isn’t just for business plans; it’s for real life. Being a seasoned...

In this episode of Built by the Journey, we explore the pivotal moments that lead entrepreneurs to forge their own paths, the importance of defining a legacy, and the necessity of setting boundaries in business. Through personal anecdotes and client stories, emphasizing the significance of resilience, creativity, and intentionality in entrepreneurship, encouraging listeners to reflect on their jou...

Summary In this episode of Built by the Journey, Christine Laible explores the themes of overcoming the impossible, the power of dreaming, and the importance of automation in entrepreneurship. She shares personal stories of resilience, including her journey through cancer recovery and the challenges of leaving a corporate career. Christine emphasizes that overcoming obstacles energizes us and expa...

This episode, we’re sitting with a trio of prompts pulled straight from the Journey Dream Strategy framework. These three questions work beautifully together because they cover the past, the possibility, and the present. Here they are: From your Journey: What lesson from childhood still guides you today? Someday Maybe Dreaming: If fear wasn’t a factor, what would you create? Strategy prompt: How c...