Multiplier Mindset® with Dan Sullivan

Elliott Neff is the founder and CEO of Chess4Life, an organization whose goal is to teach life skills through chess to one million kids a week. In this episode, Elliott shares the story of how the company used technology to pivot successfully when they had to shut down their physical locations, and how the business has more than doubled due to what Elliott has learned in The Strategic Coach® Program.

Hao Lam left the communist country of Vietnam where he was born, eventually moving to North America and becoming a successful entrepreneur in the education field. In this episode, he talks about what it’s taken to get where he is today.

While most people think about retiring when they reach their sixties, Dan Sullivan plans to be alive and working until the age of 156. In this episode, Dan shares how he learned that having an audience keeps you going strong, and how losing your audience means the opposite.

From a young age, Erick Holliday had the entrepreneurial drive. After 9/11 ended his advertising business, he spent many years as an employee. Then, after the 2008/2009 economic downturn and a personal tragedy, Erick’s eyes were opened to the fact that his career wasn’t just about making money, but about the impact he wanted to have on his family, his community, and the world. Now, he’s CEO of a company in the medical field and an investor in several other companies.

Many successful entrepreneurs who are admired from the outside often feel like failures. In this episode, Dan Sullivan explains that feeling successful depends on how you’re measuring your progress.

José Barrios came to the United States from El Salvador as a political refugee when he was four years old. From a young age, he felt that he didn’t fit in, and it wasn’t until he joined The Strategic Coach® Program that he realized that this wasn’t because of language or cultural differences, but because of his entrepreneurial drive. Now, he owns a janitorial and maintenance company that does business in two states.

If you’re stuck in the future or the past, you’ll have a hard time operating in the present. There are many ways entrepreneurs can wind up in this trap, and you might not even know if this is what’s happening to you. Dan Sullivan explains what you’re missing out on if you’re living anywhere but fully in the present.

After a very bad allergic reaction to a skin cream, Sabrina Noorani discovered that there was no standardization for ingredient lists on product labels. So she started ClearForMe, a centralized platform that works with brands and retailers to provide ingredient education and transparency to customers.

When business is going well, you might think there’s no reason to change anything. But if you hold onto the way things are, some new way of doing things might result in your getting left behind. In this episode, Dan Sullivan explains the importance of letting go with two examples that took place in the same town.

As a child, Beth Kraszewski witnessed the change that Strategic Coach® mindsets made in her father, allowing him to be fully present with the family when he wasn’t working. Now an adult, and an entrepreneur herself, Beth credits Strategic Coach mindsets with helping her get what she wants in both her work and personal life.

As soon as he became aware of COVID, entrepreneur Jayson Lowe got his team together and told them they had two choices: advance or retreat. After everyone committed to advancing, Jayson assured them that all their jobs were safe. And after one year in this uncharted territory, his company grew 147%.

Lamarr Lark vowed that after age 50, he would no longer be part of corporate America, and so, at 48, he left that world after spending 24 years in it. He then did what he needed to do in order to achieve his dream of owning his own business.

After 20 years as a journalist, Justin Breen quit his job and started his own company. In 2018, he made more money than he ever had in his life, but he’d never been more miserable. Then he joined The Strategic Coach® Program, which helped him discover who he was as a person.

Eric Roman is an entrepreneur with experience in the health care field, and he currently has a hand in half a dozen ventures. With the Strategic Coach® thinking tool The Gap And The Gain™, which involves measuring your progress not against your destination but against where you started, he’s learned to stay connected to everything that’s occurring and to harness and leverage that power.

At a young age, Bill Bloom knew that he wanted to become an entrepreneur and take responsibility for his own financial security. At 27, he started his own company, but spent two years doing everything himself. After joining The Strategic Coach® Program, Bill learned a better way to do things, hiring team members so that he could spend time only on the activities in his business that he loved doing. And almost eight years later, he has the freedoms he’s sought while running a successful business that helps people manage their money.

After eight years of apprenticing at her father’s financial planning business in Scotland, Katie Ridland bought the company. Now, 13 years later, she’s the head of a successful team of all women, and is also taking the time to educate students about budgeting. In this episode, Katie tells Dan Sullivan about the emphasis of her work life and how she uses what she’s learned from Strategic Coach.

In 2008, entrepreneur Jeffrey Mark was $1 million in debt and told that his interior design/architecture project management company would have to shut down. Now, the company is experiencing huge success and has expanded its operation to two countries. In this episode, he explains how he turned things around so drastically.

At 70 years old, financial planner Gordon Wick is having more fun than ever, and he has no plans to retire. Find out what’s led him to thriving in his work and his life.

Ricky Smith comes from an entire family of entrepreneurs, and now he’s one himself, running a successful insurance and financial services agency. In this episode, he talks about what’s influenced his success.

Darryl Bellamy has spoken to thousands of people and learned what fears they have that are holding them back. In this episode, he shares what the most common fears are and how people can move past them in order to accomplish their goals.

Emily Morgan has used the concepts and tools she’s learned over several years at Strategic Coach® to build her own virtual assistant company that works with entrepreneurs. Find out what she’s done to make her company self-managing, freeing her up to do only what she loves.

Ryan Lermitte has been gaining wisdom from The Strategic Coach® Program since he was a child. Now that he’s a successful entrepreneur in the property maintenance field, it’s allowed him to see his business through a different lens. Find out how he’s learned to spend quality time with his family no matter how busy things get, and the benefits he’s experienced by learning to collaborate with his competitors.

Dan Sullivan was born into what’s called “The Lucky Generation,” which has experienced abundant opportunities for success. In this episode, he explains exactly why this generation is lucky and how it affects their perspective.

Dan Sullivan realized at an early age what makes for a top-notch experience, and the impression such an experience can make. In this episode, he explains why customers and clients will be willing to write bigger checks when you provide them with “first-class” experiences.

On August 15, 1978, Dan Sullivan experienced both divorce and bankruptcy. But instead of feeling sorry for himself, he made the decision to learn from the experience in order to find the success he wanted in both areas of his life. In this episode, Dan shares the mindsets that let him turn his biggest failures into his greatest successes.