The Less Doing Podcast
Ari Meisel
Welcome to The Less Doing Podcast with your host, Ari Meisel. Ari is a self-described "overwhelmologist" and founder of Less Doing. He helps entrepreneurs find focus, flexibility, and freedom in their business. The methodology enables founders to become replaceable so they can scale their business. His raving fans include folks like Tim Ferriss, Dan Sullivan, Victoria Labalme, Jim Kwik, and Steve Sims. So if you want to discover new tools, tech, habits, ideas, and workflows to improve your productivity, this is the audible hang you've been searching for. More at http://less.do/podcast
Episodes
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Aug 8, 2018 • 56min
333: Joe Polish — Selling and Marketing
This session features Joe Polish, entrepreneur, founder of the Genius Network, and marketing expert. Joe shares his wealth of knowledge about everything to do with sales, marketing and identifying and running an E.L.F (Easy, Lucrative, and Fun) business. Joe and Ari discuss his work with Genius Network, helping high-level entrepreneurs find like-minded people and the role of health in business success. Tune in to find out more.
Aug 1, 2018 • 1h 10min
332: Shane Snow — Teams and Collaboration
This session features Shane Snow, an author, journalist, and lifehacker. Shane has a unique way of looking at things that happen around us and takes his observations one step further to deconstruct them. In this engaging interview, Shane shares his method for deconstructing his observations, his observations about teams and collaboration, and the importance of diversity and conflict in pushing boundaries of what is possible. Tune in to find out more.
Jul 25, 2018 • 21min
331: Kelly Roach — Developing Your Business Growth Strategy
Every entrepreneur wants to start, grow and scale a profitable business, without compromising their quality of life. Kelly Roach, a business growth strategy coach helps entrepreneurs do exactly that. Kelly and Ari discuss the different stages that all businesses go through, and how she helps entrepreneurs address the challenges they face at each stage. Tune in for some great tips from Kelly about starting, growing and scaling your business.
Jul 18, 2018 • 29min
330: Mike Paton — How EOS Can Change Your Business
Paton grew up in a family of entrepreneurs and started his career in banking, before spending more than a decade helping run four entrepreneurial companies. Today, in his capacity at EOS, he has run over 1,000 sessions working with leaders of more than 100 companies, globally. He shares his experiences with EOS as a holistic interdependent system for running an entrepreneurial company, and how it relates to growing companies.
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Jul 11, 2018 • 51min
329: Peter Shallard — Personal Trainers for Productivity
Peter and his team at Commit Action help people become more accountable in the work that they're doing. He unpacks the science of accountability and its importance in helping people achieve the goals they set. Find out more about Peter’s process of providing accountability for entrepreneurs and how he helps people focus on the highest leverage tasks. Ari and Peter also reveal a cool collaboration they’re doing together. Tune in to find out more about the personal trainers for productivity.
Jul 4, 2018 • 20min
328: Chris Gardener — The Busyness Delusion
Chris has been in coaching for the whole of his professional career and spent some time in the corporate world before deciding to go independent 14 years ago. Today, he helps business owners address their busyness delusion while helping them achieve the 3Fs of success — financial security, freedom, and fulfillment. Join Ari and Chris as they delve into how business owners can turn their businesses into something that really serves them, and much more!
Jun 27, 2018 • 21min
327: Todd Palmer — Failing Forward into Success
Todd shares his perspectives on the talent problem today — finding, training, and keeping top talent in companies, and how he helps companies address this issue. Ari and Luke also discuss how leaders and leadership teams are often responsible for holding the company back, and why change needs to start at the top. Tune in for some great insights into talent, leadership, and much more!
Jun 13, 2018 • 19min
326: Justin Ehrlich — Healing with Chinese Medicine
When it comes to treating diseases, ailments, and other health conditions, Western medicine is not your only option. Justin Ehrlich, Chinese medicine and Daoist practitioner, joins Ari on this episode to discuss the alternatives. Justin and Ari discuss how Western and Chinese medicine differ in their approaches toward acute and chronic conditions, the process of healing, and the importance of treating people, not diseases.
Jun 6, 2018 • 16min
325: Nathan Hirsch — FreeeUp Your Hiring Process
Nathan became an entrepreneur at a young age. As his business grew, he needed to hire help, but the existing platforms for hiring freelancers proved to be a source of frustration. That prompted Nathan to create his own platform that that would take care of the intensive interviewing process for clients, and only provide them with top talent right for their needs.
May 30, 2018 • 35min
324: Joe Polish — What Needs Solved?
Joe and Ari discuss the importance of asking the question — what needs solved? — and how this can drive entrepreneurs. He shares the key role of learning (and unlearning) in bringing about a change in perspective that is often crucial, and how he helps entrepreneurs adopt a resourceful mindset. Joe’s business, while successful, is not without its own challenges, and he highlights some areas in which he is developing his teams to take his organizations to the next level.
