As of this year, Dan Sullivan has been a business coach for half a century, and Strategic Coach® has been helping entrepreneurs lead their best lives for 35 years. In this episode, Steve Krein and Dan discuss the inaugural CoachCon event that recently took place in Nashville, how the three-day conference came together, and the secrets that made it a resounding success.

Show Notes:

When people are committing to an event that requires traveling, they give it a lot more thought than they did before COVID.

You’re going to see that almost all businesses have three tracks: a technology track, a teamwork track, and a coaching track.

Technology does not coach itself. Teamwork doesn't naturally expand itself.

Dan sees it as a form of progress when great things can be created in his company that he has no involvement in.

Most conventions and conferences are overloaded with content with no time to think.

What gets talked about in free periods during conferences is a more important takeaway than anything heard in the panel discussions.

Sponsors of communities are not always authentic members of those communities.

If people have a great experience, they'll tell a few people about it. If they have a bad experience, they'll tell a lot of people about it.

Resources:

Article: Your Business Is A Theater Production: Your Back Stage Shouldn’t Show On The Front Stage

The Impact Filter™

The Strategic Coach® Program

Visual Capitalist

Ever been to a concert where everyone sings along to every song? That's the power of community. Dan and Steve explore the emotional side of entrepreneurship, discussing the benefits of building a strong community. It’s an environment of shared language, shared opportunities, and shared experiences where everyone can gain and grow.

Show Notes:

In any community, shared language and experiences create an environment where people feel more comfortable.

When you bring entrepreneurs together, there’s a shared language and also shared challenges that they’re all deeply familiar with.

When entrepreneurs share networks, it’s an instant capability.

Entrepreneurs can have shared opportunities not only individually, but collectively.

Questions are more powerful than answers.

Technology is actually about taking things that already work and putting them into a new form.

You can create a new lesson and a new course of action out of any three of your past experiences.

You want your existing clients to be part of your marketing team.

When you get involved with investors, there are two numbers that really matter: 51% and 49%.

Resources:

The R-Factor Question®

The Entrepreneurial Time System®

Unique Ability®

Genius Network®

Abundance 360®

The daVinci50 Mastermind®

Perplexity.ai

The Gap And The Gain by Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy

10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy

Your Life As A Strategy Circle by Dan Sullivan

Serial entrepreneur Lior Weinstein returns to the show. Teaming up with Dan and Steve, he shares his systematic approach for tackling business challenges and leveraging AI alongside human capabilities. Three entrepreneurs operating at the top of their game promise valuable takeaways to transform pains into new revenue streams and fuel your success.

Show Notes:

Every company has a history and constraints they bring along.

Good marketing requires empathy.

Too many entrepreneurs overthink, overengineer, and overbuild.

Though it may seem counterintuitive, it’s better to build the website before building a product.

When an amazing technology launches, people make predictions without appreciating or understanding the actual engineering problems that underpin the technology.

The rate at which the open source community is creating competitive products is incredible.

You’re only as smart as the quality of your questions.

Search engines are becoming answer engines.

We're going to learn more and more about human intelligence by interacting with AI technology.

Resources:

Book: The 4 C’s Formula by Dan Sullivan

Article: The 4 Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs

Unique Ability®

Perplexity.ai

Book: The Gap And The Gain by Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy