The BetterLife Podcast 11 Simple Rules of Business That Will Make You MILLIONS
Dec 9, 2025
Two entrepreneurs share eleven essential rules for business success. They discuss the importance of clear strategy, defining personal and business destinations, and focusing on high-value tasks. A deep dive into solving market pains reveals profit opportunities in areas like affordable housing. The hosts emphasize execution over ideas, sustainability over sporadic brilliance, and the need to adapt based on market feedback. Outsourcing low-value tasks to reclaim time and the value of persistence are pivotal themes throughout.
01:03:25
Clarity Creates Momentum
- Lack of clarity is the biggest thing holding people back in business and investing.
- Brandon Turner: decide your strategy, then pick a lane and go all in to create momentum.
Pain Signals Profit
- Businesses that solve big, messy pain points make the most profit.
- Cam Cathcart: harder, more complex problems (like land development) often pay far more than easier niches.
Choosing A Hard Niche Intentionally
- Brandon chose mobile home parks because the niche is very hard and underserved.
- He argues the difficulty is the advantage that makes the niche profitable once mastered.
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Intro
00:00 • 2min
Clarity Creates Momentum
02:14 • 3min
Define Your Personal and Business Destination
04:57 • 2min
Where There's Pain, There's Profit
06:57 • 6min
Money Follows Value, Not Effort
13:20 • 9min
Be So Good They Can't Ignore You
22:36 • 10min
Build One Bridge Until Success
32:16 • 7min
Ideas Are Worthless Without Execution
39:10 • 5min
Consistency Beats Brilliant
43:53 • 2min
Buy Back Your Time
45:56 • 3min
Document Processes Weekly
48:58 • 4min
Test Fast, Fail Fast, Fix Fast
52:35 • 3min
Use Cheap Tests To Validate Demand
55:50 • 3min
Market Determines Success, Not Ego
59:20 • 1min
Business Owners Don't Fail, They Give Up
01:00:30 • 3min
Outro
01:03:15 • 5sec
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• Mentioned in 192 episodes
Buy Back Your Time
Dan Martell
Buy Back Your Time is a definitive guide for entrepreneurs at every level, teaching them how to scale their business quickly while avoiding burnout.
The book introduces the 'Buy Back Principle,' which emphasizes hiring people to do repetitive and low-value tasks, allowing entrepreneurs to focus on high-value activities that bring energy and fulfillment.
Dan Martell provides practical steps, frameworks like the 'replacement ladder' and 'DRIP matrix,' and strategies for outsourcing, automation, and prioritization to enhance both professional and personal life.
The book is structured around key frameworks and tools, making it a valuable resource for entrepreneurs looking to achieve a better work-life balance and build a thriving business empire.
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• Mentioned in 140 episodes
The Lean Startup
Eric Ries
The Lean Startup introduces a revolutionary approach to building and scaling businesses, emphasizing continuous innovation, customer feedback, and scientific experimentation.
Eric Ries defines a startup as an organization dedicated to creating something new under conditions of extreme uncertainty.
The book advocates for 'validated learning,' rapid experimentation, and the Build-Measure-Learn feedback loop to shorten product development cycles and measure actual progress.
It also stresses the importance of pivoting or persevering based on data and customer needs, making it an essential read for anyone involved in starting or growing a business.
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• Mentioned in 129 episodes
Unreasonable Hospitality
The Remarkable Power of Giving People More Than They Expect
Will Guidara
In 'Unreasonable Hospitality,' Will Guidara shares his experiences as the General Manager of Eleven Madison Park and The NoMad, highlighting the importance of hospitality in any business.
The book emphasizes that simply offering a great product is not enough; organizations must also focus on creating authentic connections and memorable experiences for both customers and employees.
Guidara provides practical advice on setting expectations, managing teams, and adapting to unexpected situations, all while maintaining a commitment to hospitality that goes beyond mere service.
His approach is applicable across various industries, not just limited to restaurants and luxury businesses.
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• Mentioned in 94 episodes
Profit First
Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine
Mike Michalowicz
In 'Profit First', Mike Michalowicz introduces a behavioral approach to accounting that flips the conventional formula from 'Sales - Expenses = Profit' to 'Sales - Profit = Expenses'.
This system involves taking a predetermined percentage of sales as profit first and then allocating the remainder for expenses.
The book provides practical, step-by-step advice and case studies to help entrepreneurs manage their businesses more effectively, ensuring early and sustained profitability and long-term growth.
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So Good They Can't Ignore You
Why Skills Trump Passion in the Quest for Work You Love
Cal Newport
In this book, Cal Newport challenges the conventional wisdom that following one's passion is the key to career happiness.
Instead, he argues that passion often follows mastery and that developing valuable skills and expertise is essential for creating work you love.
Newport presents four rules: Don't follow your passion, Be so good they can't ignore you, Turn down a promotion, and Think small, act big.
He supports his arguments with case studies from various professionals who have found satisfaction in their careers through hard work and skill development.
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Steal like an artist
10 Things Nobody Told You About Being Creative
Austin Kleon
This book, which began as a speech given by Austin Kleon to college students, expands into a manifesto for creativity.
It outlines ten transformative principles such as 'Steal like an artist' (honoring, studying, and transforming ideas), 'Don’t wait until you know who you are to start making things,' and 'Use your hands' (emphasizing physical work).
Kleon argues that creativity is not original but builds on what came before, and he provides practical tips and inspiring concepts for artists, writers, musicians, and anyone generating creative work.
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The 4 Disciplines of Execution
Achieving Your Wildly Important Goals
Sean Covey
Chris McChesney
Jim Huling
In 'The 4 Disciplines of Execution', authors Chris McChesney, Sean Covey, and Jim Huling provide a framework for organizations to achieve their most important goals.
The book outlines four disciplines: focusing on the wildly important, acting on the lead measures, keeping a compelling scoreboard, and creating a cadence of accountability.
These disciplines help teams and individuals stay focused and motivated to execute their strategies effectively.
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Vivid Vision
Cameron Herold
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• Mentioned in 177 episodes
Traction
Get a Grip on Your Business
Gino Wickman
In Traction, Gino Wickman provides a systematic approach to achieving business success through the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS).
The book focuses on six key components: Vision, People, Data, Issues, Process, and Traction.
It helps business leaders clarify their vision, align their leadership team, solve common business problems, and foster healthy communication and discipline within the organization.
The EOS system is designed to help businesses overcome frustrations such as lack of control, people issues, insufficient profit, hitting the ceiling, and feeling stuck.
The book offers practical tools, real-world examples, and actionable strategies to drive sustainable growth and improve business operations.
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Two entrepreneurs. Years of mistakes. A stack of wins. And a list of rules they wish someone had handed them long before things finally clicked.
Brandon and Cam sit down after a marathon stretch of Thanksgiving, birthday parties, flights, and jet lag to strip business down to the essentials. This episode breaks down the eleven rules that keep real businesses alive. The rules that help you move faster, think clearer, and build something that holds up when the economy decides to wobble.
Along the way, they pull back the curtain on the complexities of mobile home parks, co-living models, land development, Class A rentals, and conducting time audits. They explore the unexpected comfort found in defining your own challenges, the true hurdles behind seven-figure revenue, and the vital difference between high revenue and actual profit.
These are the exact rules that powered the creation of their multiple companies—and the rules they rely on every single day.
👇Books that came up in the conversation:
📘 Traction by Gino Wickman - https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71lELYG7IgL._AC_UF1000,1000_QL80_.jpg
📗 Vivid Vision by Cameron Herold - https://m.media-amazon.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1520122317i/38922562.jpg
📈 The 4 Disciplines of Execution by Chris McChesney - https://www.franklincovey.com/the-4-disciplines/
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