Scale with Psychology

Transforming Business Success Through Founder Psychology In this episode I outline the philosophy and approach of 'Scale with Psychology', my company dedicated to helping entrepreneurs scale their businesses by optimizing their psychology.  I emphasizes the importance of congruence between a founder's life and their business, illustrating how misalignment often leads to self-sabotage and prev...

Success, self worth and sabotage (live coaching session) This segment goes deep into the experience of seeing through the illusion of low self-worth and the underlying we have to feel safe.  If you find yourself holding yourself back, this is going to help you see yourself and your challenges in a completely new way.  I talk about: Dealing with Low Self-Worth The Desire for Safety and Ac...

The one I consistently hear from entrepreneurs is their desire to feel more control in the business.  It’s extremely vulnerable to feel like you lack a fundamental sense of agency in influencing outcomes. But this lack of control is the not the problem. It’s the symptom of a deeper problem.  That deeper problem is unmitigated entropy.  Entropy is a fact of life. No system is immune...

Scaling exponentially requires balancing paradoxes. The larger the gap between the present and desired future, the more it will require us to hold a supreme amount of tension. Our ability to hold this tension is always limited by our nervous system capacity, and the psychological operating system running the show. We have to want it, while simultaneously being totally ok with not having it. We hav...

Have you ever met someone who seems to have unlocked the secret to a joy-filled life? Virgil Brewster, my guest this week, might just be one of those rare individuals.   I connected with him when I was in Bali, and we had such a great conversation that I immediately knew I wanted to jam with him on the show so you can benefit from his crazy story of accidentally building a $10M a year busines...

My guest today is my friend Chris Marhefka, who facilitates transformation by opening hearts, expanding minds, and giving people permission to be their most authentic self. He came into this healing work after over a decade in entrepreneurship and coaching where he has worked with over 2000 clients in physical, mental, emotional, energetic and spiritual development. This episode is packed with som...

My guest today, Joel Sanders has built 3 successful businesses in the real estate space, and his latest venture Apartment Insiders is doing multiple 7 figures and on track for 8 figures in revenue. In this conversation we talk about: The macro picture on what’s happening in the real estate market right now How he built a 2 sided marketplace that serves renters and apartment buildings from scratch...

My guest today, Alex Charfen has spent 30 years on the frontlines of entrepreneurship and built multiple multimillion dollar businesses, reaching #21 on the INC 500 and then being featured on the list 3 years in a row. He's the founder of Simple Operations, a company that helps entrepreneurs run their business from the passenger seat. They give entrepreneurs the systems and the processes they need...

Rogelio Martinez went from being the President of Berlitz, the largest and oldest franchise in the world, managing hundreds of people around the world and being interviewed on TV to starting completely over - and in record time managed to build multiple successful businesses - a tech consulting company, a SaaS product company, a hardware and media company in the blockchain industry. This is his st...

Tim Vogel, the Co-Founder and CEO of Scenthound, exemplifies the character traits required to build a world class business: courage, vision, persistence, self awareness, leadership and an ironclad commitment to values. Not only has he built an incredible team at Scenthound, he has also coached hundreds of entrepreneurs in the Entrepreneurs Organisation (EO) Accelerator program. This episode with a...

At Synaptiq.ai Stephen has built a global reputation for solving the most challenging problems for businesses using strategic AI solutions. With a focus on the humankind of AI, Synaptiq partners with companies across dozens of industries to determine their strategy and roadmap for data and AI, use data to generate solutions where none previously existed, and seize opportunities to bring novel prod...

Are you head over heels in love with your business? Or does it frequently feel like a source of struggle? Like a problem you are perpetually trying to solve… Listen, most entrepreneurs settle for a business that doesn’t turn them on… …because they think that’s the price they must pay So they grind it out… Pushing… Forcing… What if it didn’t have to be that way? What if you could have your cake and...

If you are an established online entrepreneur - consultant, expert, eComm store or agency owner, SaaS founder, coach or course creator… …and you want to scale your business from 6 to 7 figures and beyond …while maximizing freedom, time and your own happiness, …and while operating at their peak potential …all without changing a single thing about your ads, team, strategy, or systems… You’re going t...

In this episode I introduce you to the two types of money. Most entrepreneurs live in survival mode. They are living day to day. (..even if their business is making money) They are exhausted putting out fires. Cleaning up after their team. But there is a different paradigm that is required if you want to optimize your business for wealth AND happiness. Listen or watch to discover the simple (not e...

Scaling a business is all about increasing the transaction throughput (I explain what this means and why it’s important in the episode).  Most entrepreneurs try to do this by adding more inputs.  More traffic, more leads, more sales people, more more more.. They end up with a monstrous mess of a business that is difficult to manage.  There is an easier way to increase sales, and do...

Chances are there are things in your life or business you want to change.  Chances are you think about these things constantly.  You obsess over it. Ruminating constantly.  Chances are, you see these things that you want to change as ‘problems’.  You think about these problems so much as an attempt to solve them.  Sometimes, we get so focused on a problem that the problem...

Everything that happens in your business is a direct reflection of the energetics & psychology of the leadership.  This perspective offers a radically different path to solving your most complex challenges and exponentially scaling without 'doing more' to create more.  If you have been trying to solve your ‘people problems’ so you can grow the business without burning yourself out, y...

Everyone and their grandmother seems to be yelling at you these days to be more disciplined. Yet, what happens when you try to (yet again) commit to that new habit that will change everything? If you’re like most people, you do it for a few days then fall back into old ways. Then you watch some youtube videos, pick up James Clear’s Atomic Habits, (which you’ve started 4 times attempting to read th...

Listen for a sneak peak into an 8 Figure Shift coaching call - Today, I’m talking about how to get the things you want with one simple shift.  Need is fear based but desire is an expression of abundance. Need is contractive and desire is expansive.  Understanding the difference determines whether you’re empowering yourself or tearing yourself down. This is a very simple shift you can mak...

Listen for a sneak peak into an 8 Figure Shift coaching call - I talk about the levels of consciousness entrepreneurs operate from and how that determines their results in business.  The first level is one that was our default when we were young, but many entrepreneurs continue to operate from this stage as adults. What impact might this have on your ability to run and grow your business? Lea...

Listen for a sneak peak into an 8 Figure Shift coaching call - in this clip I share how our perception of the world shapes what we experience as reality. Your entire world is your creation. Every person and how they show up, whether pleasant or not, is also your creation.  So, your life and business is a reflection of you and everything is designed to be a catalyst for your growth. That’s why...

Learning to master your state of mind is the number one skill you need to develop to explosively grow your business, build real wealth and sustain happiness. Unfortunately you are currently most likely trying to manipulate your external world by destroying your internal world. This is madness and the only thing it does is REDUCE your chance of actually creating the result you want in life, busines...

Are you looking to create a transformation in your life or business? If you're working hard at it but keep falling back into old ways, this may be the ingredient you’re missing.  This episode will help you understand what very well may be one of your biggest blocks - safety. Change feels very unsafe by its nature and often leads to massive amounts of stress.  If you’re ready to create th...

Scaling your business is hard. You have to wear a lot of hats and it takes significant amounts of time, energy and effort. But once you hit traction, and are generating consistent value for your customers & clients, and revenue for yourself, something very interesting happens. The entrepreneur becomes the company’s biggest bottleneck.  Because the entrepreneur is maxed out, involved in to...

Have you had the level of growth you expected in your business in the last 12 months? Do you see a gap between your potential and the level you are currently operating at? Does it feel like you are doing all the right things but not getting the results you expect?  Here’s the inconvenient truth I want to share with you... you can’t reach a level in your business you’ve never hit before, by do...