Break The Mold And Build Something Better, with Kevin Dick

Oct 22, 2025

Kevin Dick, a wealth-management entrepreneur and Strategic Coach member, shares his journey of transformation. He discusses how the right community and energy can lead to breakthroughs, especially during market crises. Kevin highlights lessons from navigating the 2008 crash, emphasizing proactive client care and resilience. He also reveals the power of surrounding oneself with positive influences and using a 'who-not-how' approach to scale ideas. With insights on creating community and the importance of personal health, he inspires entrepreneurs to reinvent themselves through adversity.

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INSIGHT

Environment Sets Your Next Ceiling

Entrepreneurs hit ceilings when their environment doesn't push them toward bigger goals.
Raising goals requires more energy and greater capability from your team, not just you.

INSIGHT

Crises Create Breakthroughs

Market crises reveal new opportunities and are often when entrepreneurs make breakthroughs.
You must structure time and attention to spot and seize those opportunities during downturns.

ANECDOTE

From Bottle Boy To Business Owner

Kevin started selling returnable bottles and built a 14-home landscaping route as a teen, then sold the route before college.
Those early hustles seeded his entrepreneurial drive and led into a career in wealth management.

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Are you ready to break through your next ceiling? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Kevin Dick reveal how boosting your energy, surrounding yourself with growth-minded people, and structuring your time unlocks new levels of success. Learn how resilience, community, and self-belief help entrepreneurs thrive—especially when the market gets tough.

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

How The Strategic Coach^® Program guides entrepreneurs to their next level of success.
Why entrepreneurism is really an energy game.
How your response to crisis changes once you’ve overcome one before.
The unexpected benefits of being a Strategic Coach^® member.
How Kevin’s entrepreneurial drive started early in life.

Show Notes:

Entrepreneurs hit ceilings when their environment isn’t pushing them toward bigger goals.

Raising your goals demands greater capability from your team, not just yourself.

Breakthroughs are most likely during market crises, if you structure your time and attention to seize new opportunities.

Independence only works if you build a truly great company around yourself.

Entrepreneurial energy and resilience are shaped by who you surround yourself with every day.

Being around ambitious, positive people makes growth contagious.

You can reinvent yourself in times of adversity if you stay proactive and open to change.

The first year at Strategic Coach is about personal growth; after that, it’s about scaling your business practice.

Introspection is an entrepreneur’s secret weapon for overcoming major challenges and bouncing back from setbacks.

Your brain is wired to pursue what you focus on—feed it bigger goals, not limitations.

Self-belief matters more than anything, and it’s a daily discipline, not something that happens by luck.

Building a community with your clients creates trust, accountability, and lasting business success.

Even setbacks, mistakes, and crisis moments are raw material for entrepreneurial growth and transformation.

Resources:

Who Not How by Dan Sullivan with Dr. Benjamin Hardy

The Kolbe A^™ Index

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

The Unique EDGE^® Program