The Strategic Coach® Program has been helping entrepreneurs achieve accelerated growth and personal freedom for over 35 years. Now, Strategic Coach® is excited to welcome a new coach to the Program. In this episode, Associate Coach Erik Solbakken shares his unique journey from chartered accountant to successful entrepreneur, and what excites him about connecting with fellow entrepreneurs.

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

• How Erik responded after his professional dream was decimated.
• How Erik’s clients inspired him to become entrepreneurial.
• What led Erik to The Strategic Coach Program and how it changed his life.
• How Erik is helping accountants create better business models.
• What allows an entrepreneur to focus on their purpose.

Show Notes:

The way to create your future is by reflecting on your past.

Entrepreneurship isn't always easy; it's a journey with ups and downs.

Your ideal client wants the authentic you, not the pretend you.

Self-discovery is a lifelong journey.

Capabilities and confidence come from commitment and courage.

Being part of the Strategic Coach community means being surrounded by entrepreneurs who can support you through tough times.

Strategic Coach thinking tools help you clarify and simplify your thinking.

Each time you use a Strategic Coach thinking tool, you gain deeper insights.

Every coach at Strategic Coach is also a client, applying the tools and concepts to their own business.

Our eyes only see and our ears only hear what our brain is looking for.

Strategic Coach is one of the world's greatest philosophy programs wrapped in a business blanket.

Resources:

The 4 Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs

How To Sell Transformation Using This One Question

Unique Ability®

What You Can Learn From Failure

“Geometry” For Staying Cool & Calm by Dan Sullivan

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy

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

10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy

What Is A Self-Managing Company®?

Viking Academy™

The Accountant Success Formula™

Accountants Kelowna BC

Is complaining holding you back from your full potential? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller discuss the surprisingly simple choice between complaining and creating when facing obstacles. Discover how shifting to a creative mindset, embracing courage, and taking full responsibility can unlock new capabilities and exponential growth.

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

• How complaining allows you to avoid responsibility by justifying why you can't move forward.
• The Strategic Coach® thinking tool for transforming obstacles into capability and confidence.
• Why you need commitment and courage before you can gain capability and confidence.
• The kinds of people that give creativity a bad name.

Show Notes:

An obstacle feels like something is blocking your progress.

There are only two ways of dealing with obstacles: creating or complaining.

When you’re in creativity mode, you’re fully engaged with transforming or bypassing the obstacle.

To deal with an obstacle, you have to create something new.

Taking 100% responsibility is essential for creative problem-solving.

Complaining involves blaming external circumstances or people.

Committing fully to complaining offers a sense of freedom because you’ve absolved yourself of any responsibility for improving your situation.

Few people are entirely creative or entirely complainers. Most are a mix of both.

Creativity requires courage; complaining does not.

Creators are more likely to be honest with themselves.

You attract what you are: complainers attract complainers, and creators attract creators.

Resources:

The 4 C’s Formula by Dan Sullivan

Organizations have changed a lot over the past 50 years, and it’s vital for entrepreneurs to be aware of these changes if they want to achieve great business success. In this episode, Dan Sullivan, who has been coaching entrepreneurs for 50 years, talks to fellow business coach Shannon Waller all about the changes in companies that have taken place over the past half-century and the very different position that entrepreneurs are in today.

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

• What gave Dan confidence to become a business coach.
• How Dan’s desire to coach got married to entrepreneurism.
• How Strategic Coach® helps entrepreneurs thrive in the current economy.
• The way to give your team members roles, not just jobs.

Show Notes:

The invention of the microchip allowed entrepreneurs to have a lot of power and capability they’d never had before.

The introduction of the microchip meant large corporations would start to fracture and wouldn’t be as effective or useful.

It might take three months to get a decision from large organizations, but entrepreneurs can decide to hire you, and write you a check, in the moment.

About every 15 years, the number of employees required in an organization is about half of what it was 15 years previously.

Now that small companies with microchip power can be powerful economic forces, government has adjusted to make the process of incorporation faster and easier.

We’re partway through a 50-year period in which we’re shifting from large, pyramid-shaped organizations to network-based organizations.

Artificial intelligence can do work that used to require many people to do.

A lot more people can own companies and have leadership positions now than they used to.

Canada, especially Ontario, is one of the easier places in the world to incorporate.

Being a bureaucrat in a large pyramidal organization used to be the safest job in the economy, but is now among the riskiest.

Being an entrepreneur has become the safest role.

Resources:

The Great Crossover by Dan Sullivan

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

Unique Ability®