Inside Strategic Coach: Connecting Entrepreneurs With What Really Matters

The Hidden Trap That Steals Your Energy And Blocks Business Success

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Sep 2, 2025

Entrepreneurs often lose their spark when they focus on what's wrong instead of their Unique Ability. Understanding this innate talent leads to greater energy and success. The discussion highlights the importance of strengthening what works rather than fixating on problems. By observing their performance and collaborating effectively, entrepreneurs can regain clarity and purpose. The conversation also emphasizes leveraging peer wisdom and teamwork to create lasting value in the marketplace.

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ANECDOTE

A Line That Became A Motto

Stephanie Song observed succinctly: "you keep fixing what works," which resonated with Dan and Shannon.
That phrase became a defining, almost Zen-like, subtitle idea for Strategic Coach.

INSIGHT

Unique Ability Powers Entrepreneurs

Everyone is born with a Unique Ability that feels effortless and generates high energy.
Entrepreneurs succeed when they build economic roles around that ability and keep improving it.

INSIGHT

Frustration Means You're Off Track

Entrepreneurial frustration comes from being diverted away from your Unique Ability.
When people lose access to that energy they focus on problems and feel tired instead of rejuvenated.

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If you’re an entrepreneur, you’ve taken complete responsibility for your financial welfare, choosing to make a living based on what makes you unique. When entrepreneurs get frustrated and start focusing on what isn’t working, it means they’ve strayed from their uniqueness. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller explain how to recognize when this is happening and how to get back to finding business success doing what you love and are great at.

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

The specific type of economic role every entrepreneur is uniquely designed to fill.
The single root cause behind every problem an entrepreneur experiences.
Why entrepreneurs get frustrated without knowing why.
How to become hypersensitive to anything that will throw you off track.

Show Notes:

Your Unique Ability^® is the innate talent you’ve been honing since birth, characterized by high energy and exceptional results.

When children play, it’s a way for them to discover what they’re great at and love doing.

Entrepreneurs create value for other people by doing what they’re very good at and find easy to do.

Most people don’t bet their futures on the abilities that make them unique.

Frustrated entrepreneurs become preoccupied with what doesn’t work.

The most effective way to solve problems is to strengthen what works, not to dwell on the problems themselves.

Strategic Coach^® helps you become an objective observer of your own performance.

You’re the only person you have a total lifetime responsibility for.

Once you’ve figured yourself out, you can focus on being in great teamwork and collaboration with others.

Powerful external collaborations are simply the linkage of unique capabilities between organizations to create new market value.

Your role as an entrepreneur is to use what works for you to solve a "not-working" problem for someone else.

Every transaction in the marketplace is ultimately about freeing someone else up to do more of what works for them.

Resources:

Unique Ability^®

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