Creating a Heart-Centered Business (Mark Silver)

Oct 9, 2024

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Stressing the balance of values, relationships, and profitability, Mark Silver champions a heart-centered approach to business. He spotlights the wisdom in client empathy and broad vision, rejecting pure capitalism. His approach illustrates the journey of aligning business with love and integrity.

Mark Silver is a coach, consultant, mentor and spiritual healer, a fourth-generation entrepreneur, and author of Heart-Centered Business.

In this episode, Melinda and Mark talk about:

Evaluating multiple vital signs in business, not just profitability
Balancing business values, relationships, and profitability
Distinguishing between needs versus wants in clients
Integrating spirituality and business through love and relationships
Challenges of scaling a business versus true business needs
Balancing client customization with set business offers
The client journey of transformation and assessing business stages
Understanding enoughness and focusing on sustainable growth
Sacred selling and assessing clients’ real needs with integrity
Encouraging regular reassessment of clients’ evolving goals and needs

“I really want to do the real work. Like, I want to work with people that want to go deep, that really want to take on the changes, that really want to do something worthwhile.” — Mark Silver

Guest Bio:

Mark Silver is a fourth-generation entrepreneur who has run a distribution business, turned around a struggling non-profit magazine, and worked as a paramedic in the San Francisco Bay Area. He is the author of Heart-Centered Business (Wildhouse Publications). The book is based on Mark’s flagship course The Heart of Your Business and is intended to make that material accessible to a wider audience. Together they form a comprehensive entrepreneurial wisdom academy curriculum.

A designated Master Teacher (“muqaddam murrabi“) within the Shaddhilliyya Sufi lineage, he has received his Masters of Divinity with a speciality in Ministry and Sufi Studies. As a coach, consultant, mentor, and spiritual healer, he has facilitated thousands of individual sessions with entrepreneurs and has led hundreds of classes, seminars, groups, and retreats. His weekly writings and teachings are followed by thousands of people around the globe.

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:

Mirasee
Coaches Console
Melinda’s book: The Confident Coach
Mark’s website: HeartOfBusiness.com
Mark’s book: Heart-Centered Business

Credits:

Host: Melinda Cohan
Producer: Michi Lantz
Editor: Andrew Chapman
Audio Editor: Marvin del Rosario
Executive Producer: Danny Iny
Music Soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely
Making our hosts sound great: Home Brew Audio

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Episode transcript: Creating a Heart-Centered Business (Mark Silver).