Join Chris and me in welcoming Annie Hyman Pratt to the show this week! As the CEO of The Coffee Bean & Tea Leaf, she grew the company from a small family business into an international brand, overseeing its high-value sale. Today Annie is the founder of Leading Edge Teams, one of the top leadership and team development consulting firms in the world. She has also been a member of my Platinum Plus Mastermind for years, and I’ve brought her on board time and time again to improve the way my team communicates and operates. In today’s chat, she guides us through some of the key components of her approach. The central focus is how our survival instincts tend to cause problems in our businesses, and what we can do to mitigate those primal reactions. When it comes to conflict negotiation, team leadership, and organizational structure, Annie is the go-to expert.

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Key topics discussed:

• Self-Protection: Annie explains why employees sometimes act from a place of self-protection, which negates much of their critical thinking capacity.

• Building a Leadership Team: To ever have a chance of removing yourself from the day-to-day, you need to assemble a strong core of leaders across all departments..

• Organizational Simplicity: As Annie sees it, many companies try to do too much too soon, which sabotages their profits.

Key takeaways:

• Leadership starts at the top. As the founder of the company, you can’t operate from a place of emotional reactivity.

• You can’t do everything yourself forever. You need to build up a team that can actually do everything themselves, without any micro-managing or hand-holding.

• Give your employees an opportunity to impress you. If you’re micromanaging them, they’ll never be able to come into their own.

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Resources Referenced in the episode:

• “Crucial Conversations Tools for Talking When Stakes Are High” by Kerry Patterson, Joseph Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler

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Join Chris and I in welcoming Olivier Roland to the show this week. A blogger, author, and longtime member of our Platinum Plus Mastermind, Olivier is something of an entrepreneur’s entrepreneur. After becoming obsessed with business books in his early years, he started a blog devoted to sharing all of the knowledge he was taking in. And later, he started a coaching business specifically for entrepreneurs, helping them optimize workflows and effectively delegate tasks. One of his greatest accomplishments in all of this work, however, has been the creation of a business that serves him – not the other way around. In this illuminating chat, Olivier recounts his journey from a high school dropout to a globetrotting business owner. He focuses on the tactics that have helped him the most, like creating a network of mentors and collaborators, testing small before going big, and following personal passion. Olivier is an encyclopedia of entrepreneurship, and we were thrilled to mine as many gems out of him as we could!

Key Topics:

• Asking for Help: Olivier explains how swallowing his pride and asking for help has always been the best course of action in difficult times.

• Self-Education: Devouring entrepreneurship books didn’t just help educate and motivate Olivier… his fascination with them inspired his most successful venture yet.

• Delegating Tasks: Olivier offers up some tips and tricks to help busy entrepreneurs manage their time and effectively offload responsibility to their staff.

Key Takeaways:

• Testing your idea on a small scale can be a smart way to ensure you have a viable product and a legitimate market niche to serve.

• No matter what you’re looking to learn, there’s almost guaranteed to be a book or a course out there to help you learn it.

• Your goal as an entrepreneur should be to delegate and manage your time so effectively that you’re able to work on your business instead of for it.

Olivier Roland’s book: “The Way of the Intelligent Rebel” and his blog "Disruptive horizons"

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Resources Referenced in the episode:

• “The 4-Hour Workweek” by Tim Ferriss

• “The E-Myth” by Michael Gerber

• “The Lean Startup” by Eric Ries

• The Toggl time-tracking app

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I lost my first business in the blink of an eye. And in this episode, I’m sharing that story.

As some folks may know, I used to publish a premium newsletter for stock market investors in the late ’90s and early 2000s. I gradually built up a loyal following of over 800 people, pulling in hundreds of thousands in annual subscriptions. But the business relationship I had with my partner at the time just wasn’t a great fit, and poor communication slowly eroded our dynamic. One Monday, I got a phone call that shook me to my core: My partner was starting his own business and taking our subscribers with him. Just like that, everything I’d been building for 8 years evaporated.

This time period was one of the most difficult in my life. Yet now I look back on it with a smile. At that moment, I already had an inkling of what I might do next. But I had no idea just how much success – and mind-blowing impact – I would get the great privilege of experiencing in the years to come.

Key topics discussed:

• My First Business: How I started my first business from scratch, and the nature of the dynamic between my partner and me at that time.

• The Big Moment: One phone call was all it took to dissolve an 8-year working relationship and erase my entire working income. I unpack what that felt like.

• The Next Chapter: The seeds of what was to come were wrapped up in that fateful moment, and I share how I strategically pivoted to the next stage of my career.

Key takeaways:

• Business challenges big and small can be seen as opportunities to grow and adapt – if we approach them with a resilient, positive spirit.

• My network of fellow entrepreneurs was my life raft, and there’s no way I’d have been able to push through without them.

• Overcoming challenges is like lifting weights. The more reps we get in, the stronger those muscles get. And tackling small challenges prepares us for the big ones.

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