The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path Your Busiest Weeks Aren't Your Best Weeks Last week a client came back from a long weekend trip and had a “first-day-back-do-I regret-taking-time-off” stressball moment. He had that ‘feeling’ of having a week's worth of catching up to do. The first thing we do when we connect is update on the priorities for the week. He named his three, clear and concise. That told me his head was much clearer than he was letting on, or that he...
8 days ago • 3 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ Season 3 New episode TODAY with Joe Gannon! 👇🏻 These Decisions Get Harder As You Grow A friend just walked away from a six-figure contract. She'd outgrown it. About a year and a half ago, she took on a contract role alongside her consultancy. Her business was in its early stages. She needed income. Ten hours a week for steady revenue while she built her own thing. At that point in her journey, it made sense. She traded some...
15 days ago • 3 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path The Founder Who Became the Backup Plan for Every Role “I’m basically the backup person for every role in this company.” I had a founder say this to me 2 weeks ago, (and he looked like he was going to vomit as he was saying it…) His agency took on a new high-value client and the team member assigned to own the strategy got sick . Manager’s first move? Ask the founder to cover. Want to know why the manager asked the founder? Because...
22 days ago • 3 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ Season 3 New episode TODAY with Ryan Page! 👇🏻 "Not Ready" Is the Most Expensive Story You'll Tell Yourself "I need to get clearer on my positioning first." That's what a young agency founder told me when I asked why he hadn't reached out to his network yet. He had relationships with people who could send him business tomorrow - as we all do. (His network is full of .1%-ers. One with over 6 million YouTube subs, another over 4...
29 days ago • 3 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path After a Monster Q1... Before we get too deep in the 'Thread', I want to pause to celebrate (something I'm learning to do...). I'd like to share some news about a few people I'm extremely proud of. Q1 was a landmark quarter for each of my advisory clients. I shared Daniel Wakefield's breakthrough last week. (2nd best rev month, completely different business and leader.) Joe Drake and David Crump had Axiom's best quarter ever while...
about 1 month ago • 5 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ Season 3 New episode TODAY with Jay McCauley! 👇🏻 When the Producer Finally Steps Out Daniel Wakefield is arguably the best in the world at what he does. He started his photography business, Top-Tier Headshots, five years ago. And for years, he was the guy handling every shoot and every client. In an expertise-led business, that isn't uncommon. For those founders, it can be exactly where the trouble starts. When your personal...
about 1 month ago • 4 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path When the Producer Won't Let the Leader In He had the candidate. He had the budget. He had a phased plan with three tiers depending on how the first 90 days went. And then he asked the room for permission to do it. His business partner listened to the whole pitch, nodded, and said: "If you'd walked in and said 'here's phase one, here's the number, I'm calling him tomorrow'... I would've said yes. Immediately." The room went quiet....
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path tBOJ Season 3 New episode TODAY with Jordan DiPietro! 👇🏻 How to Run Business Growth and Leadership Growth on the Same Track A buddy of mine scaled a company past $10M. Over 1,000 members. Respected in every room he walked into. And he walked away from it. I asked him why. "I tracked five areas of my life for three years straight. Financial and professional? Nailed it. Every single year. Family?" He paused. "Missed it. Every single...
about 2 months ago • 4 min read
The Golden Thread Clear Vision → Clear Priorities → Clear Path Busy Isn't the Same as Moving Forward You can have a productive week and still feel like you got nothing done. I was talking with a founder recently who's building a membership business. He’s a smart guy, and he’s clear on the model and the market. He’d shifted marketing focus to networking and making connections in his community. It’s work that had proven it could fill his pipeline. He told me that by Friday, he'd look at his...
2 months ago • 3 min read