Are you ready to break through your next ceiling? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Kevin Dick reveal how boosting your energy, surrounding yourself with growth-minded people, and structuring your time unlocks new levels of success. Learn how resilience, community, and self-belief help entrepreneurs thrive—especially when the market gets tough.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

• How The Strategic Coach® Program guides entrepreneurs to their next level of success.​
• Why entrepreneurism is really an energy game.​
• How your response to crisis changes once you’ve overcome one before.​
• The unexpected benefits of being a Strategic Coach® member.​
• How Kevin’s entrepreneurial drive started early in life.

Show Notes:

Entrepreneurs hit ceilings when their environment isn’t pushing them toward bigger goals.​

Raising your goals demands greater capability from your team, not just yourself.​

Breakthroughs are most likely during market crises, if you structure your time and attention to seize new opportunities.

Independence only works if you build a truly great company around yourself.​

Entrepreneurial energy and resilience are shaped by who you surround yourself with every day.​

Being around ambitious, positive people makes growth contagious.

You can reinvent yourself in times of adversity if you stay proactive and open to change.​

The first year at Strategic Coach is about personal growth; after that, it’s about scaling your business practice.​

Introspection is an entrepreneur’s secret weapon for overcoming major challenges and bouncing back from setbacks.

Your brain is wired to pursue what you focus on—feed it bigger goals, not limitations.​

Self-belief matters more than anything, and it’s a daily discipline, not something that happens by luck.​

Building a community with your clients creates trust, accountability, and lasting business success.​

Even setbacks, mistakes, and crisis moments are raw material for entrepreneurial growth and transformation.​

Resources:

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

The Kolbe A™ Index

The Gap And The Gain by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

The Unique EDGE® Program

Are you still hiring from a stack of résumés, or are you building a team designed for exponential growth? In this episode, VisionSpark CEO Alec Broadfoot shares hard-won lessons on hiring, leadership, and entrepreneurial freedom. Discover why looking beyond the résumé and investing in the right people leads to a business—and a life—filled with fresh possibility and confidence.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

• How Alec became an entrepreneur at 25.
• What Alec’s company, VisionSpark, can do for entrepreneurial businesses.
• How Alec’s first role as owner gave him the idea for VisionSpark.
• Why you shouldn’t compromise when hiring for your company.
• Why entrepreneurs aren’t great at hiring.
• One of the biggest mistakes you can make while hiring.
• The key factors to consider during the hiring process.

Show Notes:

The real breakthrough for entrepreneurs happens when they choose a trusted leader who effortlessly turns their vision into reality.

The best leaders think fast on their feet, act with integrity, connect with people, and bring ideas to life—qualities you’ll rarely see listed on a résumé.

Choosing the wrong person for a key leadership role can set your company back in ways that aren’t just expensive, but can ripple through every area of your business.

Most resumes contain exaggerations or outright lies, so real clarity comes from digging deeper and looking beyond what’s on paper.

Settling for the “best available” instead of the “best possible” leads to constant turnover and limits the energy inside your organization.

Want to find real talent? Use thoughtful assessments and ask purposeful questions to discover what makes a candidate truly unique.

It’s easy to let empathy drive hiring decisions, but the most lasting impact comes from putting your company’s bigger future first.

True leaders inspire, hold people to higher standards, and create teamwork that lasts.

If you want more time, energy, resources, and meaningful relationships, start by freeing yourself up to do what you’re uniquely great at.

Letting great managers take the reins makes space for bigger breakthroughs and builds a company that runs without constant oversight.

Getting clear about what you want in your company and your team is the first step toward attracting the clients, partners, and opportunities that matter most.

The bigger your pool of candidates and the more objective your tools, the more likely it is that you’ll discover a perfect match for your team.

Putting all your focus on one client can leave your business vulnerable, so keep creating new value and broadening your reach.

Scaling up is easier when you know what you’re uniquely best at and rely on experts to cover the rest.

Every hiring decision either multiplies the possibilities for your future or creates a barrier to the freedom you’re working toward.

Resources:

The 4 Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs

What Is A Self-Managing Company®?

Time Management Strategies For Entrepreneurs (Effective Strategies Only)

The Positive Focus®

VisionSpark

Hiring Your Right #2 Leader by Alec Broadfoot

Unique Ability®

Talent Impact Profile™️

What if the key to differentiation isn't about your product, but your perspective? Dan Sullivan reveals how to escape the crowded marketplace by shifting your focus from your needs to your clients' futures. Learn the powerful question that instantly creates partnership and makes you the most valuable person in the room.

Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:

• The two critical questions that clarify an entrepreneur's most impactful actions.
• The two time systems in which the best entrepreneurs operate.
• How to determine the needs of your customers and clients.
• A simple method to instantly engage anyone in transformative thinking about their goals.
• The one essential question that builds partnership and loyalty with every client.
• Why Strategic Coach® members continuously achieve bigger and better future outcomes.

Show Notes:

Stating goals as needs puts entrepreneurs in a position of asking for permission rather than leading with confidence.

Bold goals are vivid pictures of yourself in the future operating at a higher level.

State your ambitions based on what you truly want, not just what you think you need.

Modern uncertainty means that seeing clearly beyond the next 90 days is difficult, so it’s important to focus on shorter time frames and long-term vision.

Your entire future lies in helping your customers and clients achieve their own futures.

The real competition is not for market share, but for a person’s time and attention.

Every entrepreneur can offer clients something truly unique that nobody else can provide.

Entrepreneurs who make every conversation about the other person hold their attention and differentiate themselves for the long term.

Maintaining calm confidence in your own future lets you focus on creating breakthroughs for others.

Traditional advertising talks about the seller, but true impact comes from asking clients about their future goals.

Strong partnerships are built by consistently helping top clients clarify and expand their future goals together.

Entrepreneurial growth is a continuous process across 100 quarters, fueled by a commitment to others’ futures.

Strategic Coach’s unique value is opening clients’ eyes to new possibilities through insightful questions, not prescribed solutions.

Resources:

Wanting What You Want by Dan Sullivan

The D.O.S. Conversation® by Dan Sullivan