Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT)

There's one place where most problems in any business come from, challenges in communication. For a business to scale, it needs to have a system for communication, a cadence. Communication outside of a system is often misunderstood. When communication is predictable, comprehension and retention of information go up. When meetings are choreographed and repetitive, you can move people around with cl...

In our analysis and review of 100's of companies, we have discovered the 5 reasons why companies who should scale, don't. This episode, Strategic Plan, is part 1 of the 5 part series. A lot of businesses out there should be growing faster. One reason they aren't is due to not having a strategic plan. Without one, you are guessing at productivity. Having a strategic plan is the gateway to fast grow...

Dr. Hailey Heard has been in our Billionaire Code Accelerator for a year. Before joining us, she had no idea how to keep scaling without structure. Her Company, MaxGen Labs, had a team of 3 and came into the Accelerator making $300k a year. They had tried other coaching in the past but couldn't get to the level of success they wanted. After a few short months of joining our program, Hailey and her...

Many people confuse reactivity with momentum. It can often feel like momentum, but it's not. Being in a reactive state is a false feeling of momentum. If you get yourself out of reactivity and into productivity, you will find true momentum. When we're in a reactive state, our decision making narrows and we begin working in a diminished capacity. Being reactive slows down everything in your life. R...

Today's podcast is an exciting milestone for us; we've officially hit 500 episodes! I want to share with you the lessons I've learned, the insights I've gained, and what's come out of doing 500 Momentum Podcasts. The idea to start this podcast happened back in 2017 when I joined Russell Brunson's inner circle. During our mastermind, Russel pulled me aside and said if I did a podcast, he would list...

If you're learning from a coach, consultant, teacher, or mentor who hasn't built a team, you're learning from a limited perspective. Ask yourself, is the person you're learning from your biggest limitation? There are too many coaches out there who aren't doing the work themselves. Make sure you evaluate who you are learning from and see if they are where you want to be. If not, you're going to be...

There's a way to build a company culture that builds the company itself; I like to call it performance culture. A real culture for entrepreneurial personality types has an environment where they can win daily. It's not the parties, games, or fluff like you may think. Your team will have a real entrepreneurial culture when everyone is performing and in momentum. A team that wins together stays, gro...

As an entrepreneur, you will get blindsided. It's inevitable. We can't always predict what circumstances will arise, but we can prepare for them. Recently I was reminded of how important it is to develop a team around you. A team creates freedom. Isn't that one of the main reasons we become entrepreneurs, to gain freedom? So many people try to do everything themselves, failing to realize that they...

When we're triggered, our communication will usually cost us. When you feel emotional, you're likely to make irrational decisions. You simply aren't yourself, and responding immediately will only hurt you. When you're triggered and feel the urgency to reply, back down. Instead, use strategy and finesse when you're communicating with others, it will change everything.   Here are three key steps to...

The more you believe in your game plan, the more you will be offended by interruptions. A cold call is ultimately someone else interrupting and controlling your time. When we accept these calls, we are letting someone steal our most valuable asset, and for the sake of your success, it has to stop. Here's why you should cancel cold calls fast! When someone calls you out of the blue, and you answer,...

This episode is for anyone who's had team members throw a tantrum. The kind of tantrum where they blow up and act unacceptable. They completely shock you with their behavior and perform out of the ordinary from how they have previously been. In the future, here's how to prevent them from torching the place on the way out.    It may be hard to hear, but these tantrums could be a result of something...

In this episode, we discuss how to lower the pressure and noise so you can achieve your ultimate version of success. Lowering pressure and noise is a gateway to understanding how to succeed as an entrepreneur. When we lower the noise and decide what we will no longer tolerate, we're able to move forward fast. Ask yourself, what are you tolerating, and what are you going to stop? Evaluate the peopl...

One of the fastest ways to create momentum in your business is to find people who have been where you want to go and give them responsibility. When no one in your business has grown to the level you are going, everyone is consistently guessing. You'll feel overwhelmed around hiring. Imposter syndrome will kick in. And, when your business grows, you'll feel overrun because you absolutely can't do i...

Coaching is the fastest way to make massive shortcuts in your success. Anybody who doesn't get coaching, you are making things so much harder on yourself. Through coaching, you are getting expertise, finding the people who have been where you want to go, and providing you with a path, clarity, and direction. Coaching and self-education can help you skip months, years, decades on your path to succe...

Self-care is a gateway drug to success.   Self-care is not a weakness.  The sooner you figure that out, the faster you get into and stay in momentum. Self-care allows you to create momentum physiologically and within your business.  When you don't take care of yourself, you are training yourself to tolerate discomfort.  Experienced entrepreneurs know that when they go down, so does the business. ...

When you start building a team, it's no longer about you.  You can't scale a business without interacting with your team.  If you don't want to show up with your team, you shouldn't grow a business.  When you have a system and process in place, it will move the business forward fast.  If you aren't willing to have a daily huddle, to meet with leadership, then don't build a team.  A team will creat...

A surprise termination, where either you have to fire someone or someone quits without notice, can be one of the most destabilizing events on your team.  When sharing this information with your team, transparency is the easiest and most consistent policy.  Ambiguity will drive gossip.  Be careful talking negatively about someone who has left. The more respectful you are about what has gone on, the...

I see entrepreneurs all the time comparing their worst day to someone else's best day. Let's face it. On social media, people just share their best, but you can't compare your worst day to what appears to be someone's best. Comparison is dangerous. For everyone who appears to be perfect on social media, remember, every person out there is going through something. Don't ever assume they aren't. Whe...

Never take getting lucky as a sign of success in your business. Success must be predictable. If you can't predict your success or explain it, then you are just getting lucky. You can't rely on luck because it doesn't work, and you will struggle. It takes massive effort to actually get a business to survive. In the start-up phase, you want to see success everywhere you can, and you should. However,...

One of the biggest challenges we see with our new clients is that they have scaled, but they haven't let success drive their growth. They want to move forward so badly, they force growth based on anticipation of what could come versus the what will actually move the company forward. When you are growing a business, you will face an infinite number of decisions. It seems obvious we should scale the...

People are going to leave your team, and there is nothing you can do about it. As an entrepreneur, it is going to happen over and over again. The way that you get over this and keep it from being personal is to see change as an opportunity. People are going to leave for reasons beyond your control and for reasons that have nothing to do with you. They will get married. They will move. They will le...

People look broken without a plan.  When you don't have a plan, you will believe you have people issues and face constant turnover. Conflict.  Frustration.  Things not getting done.  Without a plan, the team doesn't have clarity, so they become tentative and are less likely to take risk and commitment to the work goes down.  Your team without a plan will be frustrating and annoying.  This is not a...

Growth isn't always financial. Sometimes, you have to strategically grow some things in order to grow others.  You have to take a step back in order to continue growing at a rate you want. I talk to entrepreneurs all the time about growing their businesses.  That's what keeps us in momentum – growing a business and moving things forward.  The problem occurs when you want to grow all the time.  A s...

As you grow your business, you can't continue doing everything.  This includes decision making.  In so many ways, the entrepreneur is by far the biggest bottleneck in the business.  We see this all the time in our coaching programs.  In a growing business, your responsibilities will change on a daily and weekly basis.  You miss an opportunity for leverage in decision making when you don't share th...

In the businesses I've owned, I've always had team members who have military experience in leadership.  The world needs to understand that members of the military consistently make ambiguous outcomes reality despite not having enough people, time, resources or direction.  They have the ability to adapt and overcome consistently, and this is why you want military leadership on your team.  They can...