Ben Laws, CEO of multiple companies and associate coach at Strategic Coach, shares his entrepreneurial journey and the value of thinking tools. Topics include increasing entrepreneurial freedoms, embracing failure, paying for coaching as an investment, and being wildly helpful.
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Early Entrepreneurial Spirit
At 13, Ben Laws convinced his dad to let him bid on a lawn-mowing job for a local cemetery.
This early experience gave him a sense of freedom and responsibility, shaping his entrepreneurial mindset.
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Risk as Opportunity
Ben Laws realized he viewed risk differently than others when he left college early to start his first company.
He saw failure as a learning opportunity, not a setback.
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Learning from Failure
Ben's lack of fear stemmed from early experiences in athletics where he learned to embrace failure.
He viewed failures as opportunities to hone his skills and improve.
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Ben Laws is the CEO of multiple companies. What’s more, after eight years as a Strategic Coach® member, Ben has just become an associate coach and will lead his own workshop groups. In this episode, Ben shares key points from his entrepreneurial journey and the value of Strategic Coach thinking tools.
Here's some of what you'll learn in this episode:
How to increase your four entrepreneurial freedoms.
What made Ben think at an early age that he didn’t belong in an employee role.
How Ben realized he was destined to be in the entrepreneurial world.
Why he almost got fired from his first job after college.
What led Ben to Strategic Coach.
Show Notes:
The more thinking tools you learn, the more your freedoms multiply.
Entrepreneurs see risk differently than non-entrepreneurs.
You can develop a lack of fear through failing.
Failures point out opportunities to hone your craft.
Paying for coaching is an investment, not an expense.
Show up every day looking for how you can be wildly helpful.
It’s far more effective to pull people along than to push them along.