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.

Sabrina Noorani, Founder of ClearForMe, discusses the lack of transparency in skincare products. She shares her journey of starting ClearForMe, a platform that provides ingredient education to customers. The podcast explores the challenges of creating a consumer-focused business and the significance of setting measurable goals as an entrepreneur for achieving success and happiness.

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.