Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT)

There are particular habits we develop as entrepreneurs that are responses to the world around us. High levels of pressure and noise lead us to journal and release all of the thoughts bouncing around in your head. By contrast, during times where we have a lack of thoughts, we are lead to consume without purpose. This is the exact framework for reducing purging the thoughts and frustrations that ha...

This is a special presentation of the Momentum Podcast. In this unique episode, Alex and Cadey Charfen share the number one value for momentum in your marriage or relationship. Alex and Cadey have been married for nearly two decades, run numerous multi-million dollar businesses, and have created a unique process for their marriage that generates momentum. In this Making Love and Business Work epis...

This is a special presentation of the Momentum Podcast. In this unique episode, Alex and Cadey Charfen share the number one value for momentum in your marriage or relationship. Alex and Cadey have been married for nearly two decades, run numerous mulit-million dollar businesses, and have created a unique process for their marriage that generates momentum. In this Making Love and Business Work epis...

The number one issue in entrepreneurship today is that entrepreneurs do not know the true value of a strategic plan. In fact, most business schools, startup courses, and business consultants go about this all wrong. A strategic plan for your business can change everything, but a true strategic plan should be exciting and capture your entreprenurial vision of the future. The strategic planning myth...

Leadership is the one thing that will make or break a business. A company with a deficit of leadership is going to implode, but a company that creates and develops leaders is going to scale consistently and predictably. Years ago, a coach and consultant friend of mine asked a group of executives, "What is the number one value of a leader in business?" We all said Results, Integrity, Power, Teamwor...

Today is day 16 after my diagnosis with Covid. It has been an interesting ride. I obsess over my health and do a ton of biohacking and optimization so I'm very sensitive when it comes to anything that's going on. Covid is unlike anything I've ever had. There were so many twists and turns, it was confusing. One of the most interesting symptoms with Covid is that for the past five or six days I have...

Over the course of the past six months, we have gone through the process of rebranding our entire company. We went from a personal brand "Charfen" to a corporate brand "Simple Operations." It took us a while but we figured out that our personal brand was causing more confusion than clarity and making it difficult to work with us. It has been a huge eye-opener. I'm looking forward to sharing the le...

If you haven't yet, listen to the two previous episodes on "Bottleneck Breakthrough" and this one will make a lot more sense. The third step to never being the biggest bottleneck in your business again is to --- stop doing everything! This may seem like it makes sense however I watch entrepreneurs all the time higher team, and then keep doing what I've been doing in the past. I in our membership,...

Once you have a strategic plan, a clear roadmap for your team, you've accomplished the first step of getting out of being the biggest bottleneck. If what comes next is critically important. In order for you to stop being the biggest bottleneck, your team needs to be confident in how you are going to communicate with them. Most teams wait for a "words from on high" so that they know what's going on...

One of the biggest issues with growing a business is that you realize you are the biggest bottleneck in the business. It can be excruciating. Knowing you are the person who is really holding things back. It as you start growing a team, this comes with constant interruptions, got a minute, and more than take away your time and slow you down. So many of us got into entrepreneurship so that we can cr...

We spend a lot of time with business operators in our organization, maybe more than we spend with the visionary entrepreneurs who founded the business. The reason is, we help entrepreneurs simplify the operations of their business so that they can grow without having to do everything themselves. To do this, a critical factor in long-term success is hiring a capable operator that can help you run t...

One of the most important things our company does this help visionary entrepreneurs find and work with incredible operators. As visionaries, we need the person in our business who will pay attention to the details, strategically drive the tactical, and help us grow without doing everything ourselves. We call the person in this position an operator, and we feel they are one of the most critical fac...

It's incredible how often I hear the story of an entrepreneur hiring an operator, usually an executive assistant, personal assistant, or a virtual assistant, where everything was going great until it wasn't. Maybe you can relate if you ever hired someone into an operator position and then had it go wrong. Here's what an entrepreneur typically tells me… For the first weeks and months of having the...

This week I've jumped on a few sales calls with people who are considering joining one of our memberships. It has been eye-opening as it usually is. One of the things that came up on two of the calls that I was on is the question "what is an operator?" Honestly, I was surprised by the question because we do so much work with Amin at operators it is obvious to us exactly what they do and who they a...

Every business I've ever worked with has emotional metrics. This is the feedback that you get from someone when they are frustrated or upset. When feedback is emotional he can make it seem like you have a much larger problem than you do and you may over crack and harm your business. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tang...

As your business grows, entrepreneurs like you and me must make increasingly difficult decisions with less and less information. You have to be able to hold space for a larger population of people. You have to actually be able to deal with the stress and the pressure of decision-making. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical,...

The biggest myth in entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs need to be good managers in order to lead their teams. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. Almost every entrepreneur in the world is challenged by managing people because we get stuc...

In an entrepreneurial business, the most common issue I've encountered is that the entrepreneur in charge is buried by the responsibilities of running and growing that business on a day-to-day basis. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. More...

As entrepreneurs, we typically have one timeframe in which we want everything done… All at once and right away! Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. For most of my career this is how I felt about everything. Nothing could ever happen fast eno...

I was recently talking to a friend of mine about a situation in his company where he felt like a team member was working against him. As he was talking, I had to remind him that we often project how we're feeling on other people and it creates a massive constraint. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionab...

Yesterday I was having lunch with a friend of mine, Seth Ellsworth and his wife Michelle. I don't remember exactly how the conversation got there but I was sharing with both of them how much trauma therapy has changed my life. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into you...

At an amazing event this week with George Bryant, one of the speakers was Brian Bogert. His presentation was about emotional triggers and how they can control and affect our lives. It was intense. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. One of t...

To make the biggest impact, you will come to a place in your business growth where you will need to grow a team. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. The person you choose to operate your business is the one you place the most of your trust i...

In this episode of the Momentum Podcast, Alex is interviewed by Emily Richett of the Amplify Podcast. Alex shares such an important message for entrepreneurs. If you're running a business, you're taking risks, you're making things happen, and during these challenging times, it may require more fortitude and mental focus than ever before. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneur...

Growing up I was obsessed with understanding what made businesses grow. I read thousands of biographies of successful entrepreneurs. After a while, I began to notice a trend. Most of these successful entrepreneurs struggled in life, just like me. But they all used a common method of overcoming their challenges. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their busi...