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As a leader, you’re committed to making a difference, leaving a mark, and making the world a better place. But when it comes to moving things forward, does it often seem like you’re fighting an uphill battle against broken systems, impossible demands, and unreasonable people?   In this episode, Donald Miller talks with Tim Arnold, leadership expert and author of the new book Lead with And, to coach you to move beyond the traditional Either/Or approach to solving problems and embrace the transformational power of Both/And thinking.   If your business like an airplane, this coaching conversation is all about the cockpit! After today's conversation will help you learn how to rise above polarity, division, and conflicting values and gain the courage to lead with AND.   Order Tim Arnold's new book Lead with And at LeadWithAnd.com.   --   Have you ever created a new product based on a hunch? Or a guess? Or a favor you owe so-and-so? The truth is, most business leaders don’t have a plan for creating new products. And it’s costing them. A lot.If you think of your business like an airplane, your products are the wings. If they’re not strong, you’re going to crash! If you need a formula for creating new products (and auditing your existing products!), join Donald Miller on Thursday, February 17th for our next Live Coaching event on How to Create Profitable Products. When you register for the event for $275, you’ll also get a year subscription to the Business Made Simple platform, which includes your registration to ALL our live coaching event and our on-demand courses! Register now at BusinessMadeSimple.com/Live.    Are you stuck trying to grow your amazing business everyone should know about? We can help! Go to BusinessMadeSimple.com/Podcast, share what's been keeping you up at night when it comes to growing your business, and you could be a guest on a future episode. If selected, Donald Miller will coach you during a podcast taping to help identify where your business is blocked and what you need to do to fix it. Stop playing a guessing game when it comes to growing your business and go to BusinessMadeSimple.com/Podcast today!   If you are struggling to discover the problem that's keeping your business from growing, we can give you a customized plan to fix it. Just go to MyBusinessReport.com, fill out the assessment, and get a FREE detailed report on the health of your business along with a customized plan on how to make it more profitable. It only takes about 12 minutes to complete! Knowing what's really going on with your business shouldn't be a mystery. Go to MyBusinessReport.com right now and get the customized plan you need to fix it.   Every week on the Business Made Simple Podcast we help you build your business like an airplane so you can fly it far and fast.

When it comes to your own personal story and experiencing a meaningful life, do you feel like things are coming up short? Even if you have a packed schedule, you might still wake up feeling restless, bored or even hopeless. Know that you are not alone. Too many people have lost interest in their own stories. But in this Business Made Simple six-part limited series, we want to help you change that. We want to help you become a hero on a mission.   In the final part of this limited series, Donald Miller talks about the last and most important character in every story- the hero. Playing the hero improves our stories dramatically, but how do we get there? In this episode, Donald walks you through how to embody heroic energy to take control of your life, craft your own meaningful life story, and rise up with courage to change our circumstances.   Dive deeper into crafting a life story filled with meaning and order Hero on a Mission on Amazon, Audible, or wherever you buy books. You will learn to create a life plan, establish a morning ritual and stop playing the victim or villain so you can finally transform into a hero.

When it comes to selling your products, they need to be in demand and profitable. But what about if you are the product? How can you strategize and build a personal brand that is both in demand and profitable?   In this episode, Donald Miller coaches Shanera Williamson, founder and podcast host of Brown Mama Bear, a personal brand centered around helping mothers raise brown children in white spaces. Don coaches her on a step-by-step plan to grow her audience and build engagement.   If you think of your business like an airplane, this coaching conversation is all about building the airplane! After today you will have a clear path on how to build a personal brand as well as what's needed to grow and sustain it.   Learn more about Brown Mama Bear and listen to Shanera's new podcast at BrownMamaBear.com.   --   Are you stuck trying to grow your amazing business everyone should know about? We can help! Go to BusinessMadeSimple.com/Podcast, share what's been keeping you up at night when it comes to growing your business, and you could be a guest on a future episode. If selected, Donald Miller will coach you during a podcast taping to help identify where your business is blocked and what you need to do to fix it. Stop playing a guessing game when it comes to growing your business and go to BusinessMadeSimple.com/Podcast today!   If you are struggling to discover the problem that's keeping your business from growing, we can give you a customized plan to fix it. Just go to MyBusinessReport.com, fill out the assessment, and get a FREE detailed report on the health of your business along with a customized plan on how to make it more profitable. It only takes about 12 minutes to complete! Knowing what's really going on with your business shouldn't be a mystery. Go to MyBusinessReport.com right now and get the customized plan you need to fix it.   Every week on the Business Made Simple Podcast we help you build your business like an airplane so you can fly it far and fast.

When it comes to your own personal story and experiencing a meaningful life, do you feel like things are coming up short? Even if you have a packed schedule, you might still wake up feeling restless, bored or even hopeless. Know that you are not alone. Too many people have lost interest in their own stories. But in this Business Made Simple six-part limited series, we want to help you change that. We want to help you become a hero on a mission.   Every story includes four basic characters: a hero, villain, victim and guide. Do you know which character you're playing in your life? Unfortunately, more often than we'd like to admit, it's easy for us to default to villain energy, making others feel small or talking about them behind their backs. We get stuck wishing for our friends and colleagues to fail, or worse yet, paint them as villains all so we can find comfort from our own insecurities. Being a villain might give us that temporary dopamine hit, but will always act as a distraction from living a meaningful life.   In part five of our series, Donald Miller shows the way out of a villain mindset, giving you ways to check in with yourself before it takes over so you can truly transform into a hero on a mission.   Dive deeper into crafting a life story filled with meaning and order Hero on a Mission on Amazon, Audible, or wherever you buy books. You will learn to create a life plan, establish a morning ritual and stop playing the victim or villain so you can finally transform into a hero.

Customers are buying your product. They're loving it. ... Then what? As a business, is your job done now? We'll go ahead and give you the answer. If you're not equipping your customers to share about your products after they buy, you're leaving a ton of money on the table.   In this episode, Donald Miller coaches Connor Meakin, founder of Blue Bird Provisions, on how to create marketing that gives your customers everything they need to share about your product, turning them into a sales force for your company. If you thought word-of-mouth marketing was dead, lean in and listen to this episode.   If you think of your business like an airplane, this coaching conversation is all about your right and left engines, your marketing and sales, and after today you will know how to build and implement your marketing so it's not only captivating but moves your customers to spread the word!   Go to BlueBirdProvisions.co and use Promo Code "don" for 15% off your next purchase.   --   Are you stuck trying to grow your amazing business everyone should know about? We can help! Go to BusinessMadeSimple.com/Podcast, share what's been keeping you up at night when it comes to growing your business, and you could be a guest on a future episode. If selected, Donald Miller will coach you during a podcast taping to help identify where your business is blocked and what you need to do to fix it. Stop playing a guessing game when it comes to growing your business and go to BusinessMadeSimple.com/Podcast today!   If you are struggling to discover the problem that's keeping your business from growing, we can give you a customized plan to fix it. Just go to MyBusinessReport.com, fill out the assessment, and get a FREE detailed report on the health of your business along with a customized plan on how to make it more profitable. It only takes about 12 minutes to complete! Knowing what's really going on with your business shouldn't be a mystery. Go to MyBusinessReport.com right now and get the customized plan you need to fix it.   Every week on the Business Made Simple Podcast we help you build your business like an airplane so you can fly it far and fast.

When it comes to your own personal story and experiencing a meaningful life, do you feel like things are coming up short? Even if you have a packed schedule, you might still wake up feeling restless, bored or even hopeless. Know that you are not alone. Too many people have lost interest in their own stories. But in this Business Made Simple six-part limited series, we want to help you change that. We want to help you become a hero on a mission.   Every story includes four basic characters: a hero, villain, victim and guide. Do you know which character you're playing in your life? We often play the victim when we feel overwhelmed with our to-do lists or stuck at our jobs. But unlike true victims who do need our help, a victim mentality is a temporary state that can actually be avoided.   In part four of our series, Donald Miller breaks down how you can take control of your own life, escape the victim mentality, and transform into a hero on a mission.   Dive deeper into crafting a life story filled with meaning and order Hero on a Mission on Amazon, Audible, or wherever you buy books. You will learn to create a life plan, establish a morning ritual and stop playing the victim or villain so you can finally transform into a hero.

Success as a business owner can feel like a double edged sword. You are accomplishing your dream and growing a business you're passionate about, but you're also doing so much, feeling constantly overwhelmed by the weight of making sure everything runs as it should.   Today's coaching guest finds herself here. Renee Thompson is the founder and CEO of the Healthy Workforce Institute, an organization eradicating bullying and incivility inside the healthcare system. In this episode, Donald Miller coaches Renee on how to evaluate which tasks are the most important and truly need your attention to avoid overworking yourself. After all, if you break yourself, you won't be able to fix what's broken in the world.   If you think of your business like an airplane, this coaching conversation is continuing to show you how to strengthen your wings, or your products, so you can stop living in a state of chaos and actually find time to take a break.   Learn more about Renee Thompson and the amazing work she's doing at HealthyWorkforceInstitute.com.   --   Are you stuck trying to grow your amazing business everyone should know about? We can help! Go to BusinessMadeSimple.com/Podcast, share what's been keeping you up at night when it comes to growing your business, and you could be a guest on a future episode. If selected, Donald Miller will coach you during a podcast taping to help identify where your business is blocked and what you need to do to fix it. Stop playing a guessing game when it comes to growing your business and go to BusinessMadeSimple.com/Podcast today!   If you are struggling to discover the problem that's keeping your business from growing, we can give you a customized plan to fix it. Just go to MyBusinessReport.com, fill out the assessment, and get a FREE detailed report on the health of your business along with a customized plan on how to make it more profitable. It only takes about 12 minutes to complete! Knowing what's really going on with your business shouldn't be a mystery. Go to MyBusinessReport.com right now and get the customized plan you need to fix it.   Every week on the Business Made Simple Podcast we help you build your business like an airplane so you can fly it far and fast.

When it comes to your own personal story and experiencing a meaningful life, do you feel like things are coming up short? Even if you have a packed schedule, you might still wake up feeling restless, bored or even hopeless. Know that you are not alone. Too many people have lost interest in their own stories. But in this Business Made Simple six-part limited series, we want to help you change that. We want to help you become a hero on a mission.   In part three of our series, Donald Miller breaks down how to create a morning routine that gives every day meaning, all from his new book Hero on a Mission. Donald walks through the steps to take to propel you towards a meaningful life, including starting your day by reading your eulogy (trust us on this one), reviewing your vision for the future, and knowing exactly what you want to accomplish. Today's conversation will show how to begin each day with intention and purpose.    When you order Hero On a Mission on Amazon, Audible, or wherever you buy books, you get free instant access to our upcoming Hero on a Mission LIVE event on January 27, where Donald Miller will personally walk you through how to create your life plan and morning ritual so you can experience a deep sense of meaning every day. Just go to HeroOnAMission.com/LIVE and register using your receipt number for free access.  

It's inevitable; even the most successful businesses eventually hit a plateau. So how do you avoid losing the momentum that grew your business from the ground up?   Today's coaching guest, Gabe Helguera finds himself here. Gabe is the founder and CEO of Drum Beats Online, a subscription-based platform helping drummers level-up their skills. In this episode, Donald Miller coaches Gabe on how to keep his business growing towards his next goal.   If you think of your business like an airplane, this coaching conversation is all about how to strengthen your wings, or your products, helping you level up and reach seven figures!   Learn more about Gabe Helguera and his amazing business at DrumBeatsOnline.com.   --   Are you stuck trying to grow your amazing business everyone should know about? We can help! Go to BusinessMadeSimple.com/Podcast, share what's been keeping you up at night when it comes to growing your business, and you could be a guest on a future episode. If selected, Donald Miller will coach you during a podcast taping to help identify where your business is blocked and what you need to do to fix it. Stop playing a guessing game when it comes to growing your business and go to BusinessMadeSimple.com/Podcast today!   If you are struggling to discover the problem that's keeping your business from growing, we can give you a customized plan to fix it. Just go to MyBusinessReport.com, fill out the assessment, and get a FREE detailed report on the health of your business along with a customized plan on how to make it more profitable. It only takes about 12 minutes to complete! Knowing what's really going on with your business shouldn't be a mystery. Go to MyBusinessReport.com right now and get the customized plan you need to fix it.   Every week on the Business Made Simple Podcast we help you build your business like an airplane so you can fly it far and fast.

When it comes to your own personal story and experiencing a meaningful life, do you feel like things are coming up short? Even if you have a packed schedule, you might still wake up feeling restless, bored or even hopeless. Know that you are not alone. Too many people have lost interest in their own stories. But in this Business Made Simple six-part limited series, we want to help you change that. We want to help you become a hero on a mission.   In part two of our series, Donald Miller talks through the exercise of writing your own eulogy, all from his new book Hero on a Mission. While it may seem morbid, writing your eulogy while you're alive actually gives direction how you should spend your time each day and how you truly want to spend the rest of your life. You'll find that determining how you want your story to end acts as the perfect filter to help make decisions on living a life that gives you true meaning and purpose.   When you preorder Hero On a Mission on Amazon, Audible, or wherever you buy books, you'll also get free instant access to Donald Miller's limited video series How to Transform Your Life with Story-Based Goal Setting. Just email your receipt to book@heroonamission.com, and you'll unlock the course you need to achieve your goals using the power of story.