Ann and Sunny Sheu are not only life partners, they’re partners on their entrepreneurial journeys. With their business, Mpowered Families, they help high-achieving entrepreneurial couples to be as intentional about their family lives as they are about their business lives. In this episode, Ann and Sunny share what it’s like to be in business with the person you’re married to, how they apply business lessons to their personal lives, and the benefits they get from business coaches and fellow members in The Strategic Coach® Program.

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

• How Strategic Coach® workshops are like a clarity break for Ann and Sunny.
• Where Ann and Sunny’s work overlaps, and where it doesn’t.
• How Mpowered Families workshops have immediate impact on families.
• What led Sunny to stop being a slave to the business.
• How improving your personal life and improving your business life feed each other.
• The danger of trying to be what you think people expect.
• Why being a Strategic Coach member is really about the mindset shifts.

Show Notes:

If you want to change your behavior, you first have to change your mindset.

Many entrepreneurs don’t create the time and space to do for their families what they do for their businesses.

Your family is the most important team in your life.

When your family life is strong, then you have the space to give your all to your business.

To build a great family life, you have to first do the work on yourself.

What often happens in families is that people bring a very diluted version of themselves to the table.

If you can’t clearly articulate what you want out of life, you won’t know how to ask for what you want.

Once you're clear about who you are individually, you and your partner can come together and create a shared vision.

It’s not always easy for a couple to have an aligned vision for their family, but there are always commonalities.

Very rarely do people think a decade ahead for their personal lives.

Resources:

Unique Ability®

Article: “What Free Days Are And How To Know When You Need Them”

Article: “The 4 Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs”

Article: “The Importance Of Collaboration In Business: Leveraging Who Not How”

mpoweredfamilies.com

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Sunny Sheu on LinkedIn

From the age of 12, Molly Thompson knew she was different. She looked at the world differently and thought about the world differently, too, and it caused no shortage of problems. Now, she is the CEO of Perrysburg Energy Solutions, a company providing organizations—and communities—with compelling, mission-driven energy solutions. In this episode, Molly shares how she learned to embrace her uniqueness, the driving force behind her business success, and how her current project became a massive community collaboration. She also reveals how, through Strategic CoachⓇ tools and community, she learned to trust her intuition, think 10x instead of being limited by self-doubt, and turn perceived obstacles into opportunities. Tune in to learn more about embracing individuality and staying true to your vision as an entrepreneur!

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

• How Molly recognized her entrepreneurial mindset from a young age of 12 and saw the world differently.
• Her early entrepreneurial ventures, like co-authoring a book and developing a TV show.
• How she overcame challenges as an entrepreneur who didn't fit traditional corporate molds.
• Her experience being diagnosed with ADHD and how she strategically leveraged it.
• How she used tools from Strategic Coach to understand her unique brain wiring and thought processes.
• What makes for a transformational experience for a customer.
• What happens when an entrepreneur gets bored.
• How Molly took her commercial lighting business to the next level with a visionary solar project.
• Her innovative approach to collaborating with multiple stakeholders across sectors.

Show Notes:

Molly knew from age 12 that she was an entrepreneur at heart, seeing the world differently than others.

Successful entrepreneurs often have a sense of being different or not fitting into traditional molds from a young age.

This early recognition of their distinctiveness can be a driving force behind their entrepreneurial endeavors.

It also helps them develop unique capabilities very early in life— and often makes them unemployable as a result.

Young people are often pressured to conform and be like everybody else, but successful entrepreneurs learn to tune out the noise.

The biggest danger for an entrepreneur is boredom.

An ideal is like the horizon: you can never reach it.

It's a lot easier to ask for a million dollars than it is to ask for $200,000.

There’s value in taking a step back and thinking about things.

Obstacles are simply opportunities for growth and transformation.

Resources:

Book: I Am Diva!: Every Woman's Guide to Outrageous Living, by Molly Thompson, Elena Bates, Maureen O’Crean, and Carilyn Vaile

Book: The Gap and the Gain, by Ben Hardy and Dan Sullivan

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

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Greg Griffith has been in risk management and risk control for 38 years. For the past 11 years, he’s been a member of The Strategic Coach® Program, an experience he’s found “life changing and game changing.” In this episode, Greg shares some of the invaluable wisdom he’s gained from Strategic Coach® and why his entrepreneurial life is easier now.

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

• The Strategic Coach thinking tool for getting instant focus on something that's important to you.
• How Greg figured out he could help people dealing with risk.
• The interview with business coach Dan Sullivan that led Greg to Strategic Coach.
• The importance of Strategic Coach clients’ life partners embracing Strategic Coach tools.

Show Notes:

Entrepreneurs need to have a life partner who gives them total support for what they’re doing in their entrepreneurial life.

For some entrepreneurs, the easy part of their lives is the day at work, and the tough part is the night at home.

An entrepreneur’s best relationship has to be the one that they have committed themselves to for an entire lifetime.

Trying to go through Strategic Coach when the person you're in a relationship with isn't buying into the Program can be a struggle.

The approach in Strategic Coach is that your entrepreneurial life is your entire life.

Only about 5% of the working population ever has the commitment and courage to go out and face the marketplace straight on.

If entrepreneurs don’t succeed, they don’t eat.

Before seeking a partner, get your thinking straight on what makes someone a person you want to be in a relationship with.

Resources:

The Team+ Programs

The Impact Filter™

Article: “What Free Days Are And How To Know When You Need Them”

Your Life As A Strategy Circle by Dan Sullivan

Thinking About Your Thinking by Dan Sullivan

The Unique EDGE® Program for 18- to 24-year olds

Article: “The 4 Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs”

Deep D.O.S. Innovation by Dan Sullivan