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Thanks for supporting Lewis and myself, Stuart over the last year and bit. We have had fun delivering and sharing our knowledge with you all.
This is the last episode for a while. We both have a different focus this year, me with the excitement of the Olympics to get and keep them focused and the relaunch of my Online 8 Week Peak Performance Program. Lewis is also busy restructuring himself now his PHD is done and building his business and executive coaching business.
We have left you with a process in this episode, you can get into it now. It is powerful in soo many ways to help focus, create motivation all while working on changing attitudes and habits.
Lewis's new Podcast is the A-players Podcast and incorporates the $100K Club, so for you entrepreneurial listeners, here is the link. https://open.spotify.com/show/2zKsY9xTX9t3pnZwdxsduT?si=332377b474d14336
For the peak performers in business, I also share in this episode how similar elite athletes and CEO's are now. Much of the content shared with the CEO Secret Weapon Podcast, will be available in my other podcast the Athlete's Secret Weapon Podcast. https://open.spotify.com/show/3tRPPnkzg53xMwOhstxfBE?si=8df264424b854682
Lewis and I really appreciate your support, we are still great friends, in fact we are recording an episode for his podcast on Monday!
Thanks again, we will be back!
Stuart Walter and Lewis Haydon.
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Following on from Lewis's Ep38. Money Mindset for Fast Growth Business Owners, I have taken a deeper dive into the fundamentals of the mind. I think that it may be an advantage to listen to that one first if you have time.
Money is a very a real issue and blockage for so many, so I have dug down deep to help you understand the triggers and the fundamentals at play here.
I have to admit, that I started on a pathway and with notes on this one and as I do in my client sessions, I took a few diversions that were obviously needed.
This information is potentially the awareness that will stir things up in your unconscious mind. That fact that our conscious mind is 3-5% of how we think act and behave, this information with hit the 95-97% of the unconscious mind and begin to process internally and start to break down inner beliefs that may have been creating blockages or resistance points.
Grab yourself a cup of tea, coffee, glass of water and enjoy.
And again, a huge thank you from Lewis and myself for choosing to join us again.
Stuart Walter
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A huge shout out to Marc Eccles, who Lewis interviewed in the last episode. It a very raw and vulnerable look into what success really looks like.
I would suggest go and listen to that one (Ep 39) first if you have not already. This episode is a follow on from that one.
This episode expands on Marc's comments and somewhere along the journey, I went into 'change mode' and shared a very powerful process that I use with my Champions in sport and in business.
If you can listen to this in a quiet location and follow the suggestions I shared it will deliver a shift in thinking and vision.
If you are listening to this while driving, please come back to this process as it evolves and step yourself through it.
Again, a huge thank you to those who continue to support both Lewis and myself. Please connect to us on LinkedIn and send us some topics and questions.
our website www.ceosecretweapon.info and you will find the links there. And while you are there, make sure you download 'The Dear Diary Process' eBook.
Grab the tissues and enjoy this very deep and transformational episode and process.
Until next time... stay awesome!
Stuart Walter.
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Business owners, entrepreneurs, CEOs... have you ever wondered what REALLY takes to have your business work without you?
In this episode of the CEO's Secret Weapon, two business coaches (that own businesses too) collide as they discuss the real life challenges business owners face whilst building a business that can work without them.
Today, your host coach Lewis Haydon interviews business coach Marc Eccles as he talks about his journey as a business owner and why he became a business coach. Marc talks about he started as an electrical apprentice all the way to the day he completed his business and it got to a stage that it could grow without him.
In this episode Marc discusses the various levels of the 'E-Ladder' becoming a manager, business owner, investor and entrepreneur, along with the roller coaster of emotions it had on him at each level — and how the right coach for him, Kent Rhodes, helped him go from electrician to entrepreneur and beyond.
If you are a business owner that is looking for leverage then be sure to grab a pen and listen to this epsiosde as Marc Eccles is as real as they come when it comes to being an entrepreneur and a business coach. You will be in serious danger of learning some great new tips and tools that will help you on your entrepreneur journey.
As always, be sure to connect with Lewis Haydon or Stuart Walter on LinkedIn to engage with the CEO Secret Weapon community.
Be great,
Lewis
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Growth costs money... how much are you limiting your business growth because of your money mindset?
In this episode of CEO's Secret Weapon, coach Lewis Haydon talks about how business owners hold the growth of their company and their people back because of thinking about money in the wrong way.
What sort of constraints do you put on your business because of limiting beliefs?
Is your money mindset where it needs to be to have the business you want to achieve?
Let us know in the comments or by reaching out to us at ceosecretweapon.info
Be great,
Lewis Haydon & Stuart Walter
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I hate selling...
I hate being sold to...
How do we then build a business, negotiate salary, deal with partners, employees and bring opportunities to the business if we dont sell?
Again, lets understand the difference at an emotional level and avoid the pitfalls of the 'new age selling process', that we all hate, except marketing companies who love to tell you how useless you are if you don't follow their system.
And then we have the self labelled 'experts', you know the ones that connect on social media. Does this sound familiar? "Hi I am _______ I would love to connect you understand your business". Now you have, let me ram a product down your throat and make you feel less that adequate or a failure if you don't use this system.
This seems to be the way all the 'experts' suggest you should approach a sale now. No wonder people hate selling, and being sold to.
It does not have to be this way, every one of my clients over the years can guarantee they have not been pushed, guilted or sold to. They enter the process, in their own time and most of the time I push them away initially, until I know they are committed and ready for the evolution. So why am I busy? results and the ability to understand the clients needs, how the they internally process and how to talk to them at their level.
2 simple and powerful words for any meeting, presentation or sales pitch, "Matching and Pacing". Master this and the world is yours.
Enjoy the episode,
Stuart Walter on behalf of Lewis Haydon
The CEO's Secret Weapon Podcast Team.
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As we all know, everything always works out soo well in business and life!
According to the law of averages, the pathway is going to be a balance of 50/50 great and not so (insert your own words here)
A great day is not actually a great day, it is a great attitude to the experience, call or situation you find yourself in. Some people love chaos, they believe they thrive in it. So ask yourself the question here, do they create 'Chaos' in order to thrive and feel alive? probably yes!
This week we cover the mindset when it comes to negative news, or experiences, and remembering that personal stuff does influence your work, your workers and yourself. How you respond as the CEO/ Leader in this situation will influence those around you in business and at home.
So how can we manage the response to these negative stimuli? Well, to be able to change, we first need to understand, why we respond the way we do.
Now we know why, we can plan to change and we have the perfect tool to be able to help here and that is 'The Dear Dairy Process'. my published book. An this is not a sell job coming. I outlined this in Episode 8 of this Podcast and you are able to go to www.ceosecretweapon.info for your FREE download.
And if you have not listened to that podcast, please go back to listen to that after this one... or before, it really does not matter. just do it.
So on behalf of Lewis Haydon and myself, Stuart, enjoy the podcast and please share this with your team.
Stuart Walter.
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Hi Listeners,
This is Stuart Walter, on behalf of Lewis Haydon. We have been talking about the subscription based arm of this podcast 'The Board Room' for a few episodes now. I am here to let you know, we have hit a technical barrier that is being rectified before we launch.
Anyway, here is the audio apology as to why!
Remember to connect to us, go to the website, connect via LinkedIn and send us a request for an episode or a great person who we can interview about success in business and how mastering their mind was the difference.
www.ceosecretweapon.info
Stuart and Lewis
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Show notes.
Following on from Lewis' last episode, we decided to go a little deeper to understand why people don't take action.
The mind has 17 Fundamentals that are like rules or laws as to why we do what we do and think the way we do. These fundamentals are always operating at the deep unconscious level and can not be altered. One of which is #3 Fundamental, 'Everything we do is for a beneficial reason'. Based on that, we have to understand the reason many of us don't take action when we should..
Why do some people just take action and others spend endless hours planning?
How do some very successful entrepreneurs not have business plans? One I follow said, 'It limits spontaneous decisions and action'
It would be best if you listen to the last episode that Lewis shared.
Please enjoy and feel free to connect via www.ceosecretweapon.info to suggest an episode, download The Dear Diary Process eBook and to connect to Lewis Haydon and Myself.
Enjoy the podcast,
Stuart and Lewis.
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Planning is essential for business growth, but is it ALWAYS a good thing?
Humans are not generic. Running a business is all about understanding the dynamic of teams and individuals within those teams. We can't assume that one method of doing something to grow our business is going to work with all our team.
Here is an example. If your business has employees then you can guarantee that not every employee will not think and act the same. When implementing a new strategy in a business, business planning can be a useful tool to achieve direction and accountability. However, to an over thinker or perfectionist, planning can have an adverse effect.
Listen to this podcast so that you, as a CEO, can learn how to overcome lack of action and speed in your business by implementing the 'Go Before You Know' strategy.
As always, visit ceosecretweapon.info to get access to free tools that will accelerate your CEO journey.
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And here we go!... This is not next level thinking, this step is going 'Beyond the Next Level'.
Since Lewis came to Australia, we have been planning and building to becoming The Peak Performance Podcast for CEO's and business owners. We are both world leaders in our fields and combined we approach success from a strategic and mindset perspective. to date neither of us has found another podcast with a similar approach.
This Episode is the introduction to the Structure to build your Peak Performance and balanced mindset and business.
The old days of business, either work or life suffered if too much focus was on the other. Both Lewis Haydon (Business SuperCoach) and myself work on the paradigm of Self First. When you focus on your happiness, health and love... wealth is the beneficiary! a more content and relaxed person will always perform better in business and is easily able to manage any level of pressure.
To get this structure right, I (Stuart Walter) have outlined the '16 Fundamentals of the Human Mind' for your awareness and knowledge, on the paid Subscription platform to this podcast.
Lewis will add and share the Strategic Processes and I will add the Mindset Methods and Experiences that will apply this knowledge for you.
Now the same tools and processes that 41 World Champions and CEO Clients have used, will be available for you. And equally supported with Lewis and his Coaching Processes that have taken clients to over $100Million.
We are extremely proud of the content and we have positioned the investment at...
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How often have you heard talk about how busy they are or that they don't have the time?
In this episode of the CEO's Secret Weapon podcast, your host Lewis Haydon gets real about the reality of working hard in business and how business owners are busy doing the wrong stuff.
Stuart Walter in previous episodes has talked about the phrase 'hustle' and how in elite performance it can also have negative effect on high performance athletes (and executives) effectiveness. In this episode, Lewis discusses further the negative impact that wearing the 'hustle' badge of honour can also have a negative effect on your organisation and your team's development.
We hope you enjoy the show.
Be great,
Lewis and Stuart.
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How do you know you are making the best strategic decision in your business?
Strategic decisions are essential for any business for it to grow. But, how do you know you are making the best strategic decisions for your business?
In this episode of the CEO's Secret Weapon podcast, business strategist Lewis Haydon coaches you through how to make the right decisions for any business.
Listen to this episode if you are a business owner, entrepreneur or manager that want to grow your business and make stronger decisions in your organisation.
We hope you enjoy the show.
Be great,
Lewis
P.s. Visit ceosecretweapon.info for more tools and resources.
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"How do you soar like an eagle, when you are surrounded by turkeys?"
I know it is a common quote, I was not able to find credit anyone for this as the original owner.
Thanks to a listener who connected with me (Stuart Walter) on LinkedIn for this episode.
Their comment,
"An interesting thing which I’m coming up against at the moment is
dealing with negativity within the workforce, and how from one person it
spreads.
Any insights into that would be welcome 😊"
Well here you go, from a mindset perspective, I will take this one off Lewis's hands.
I am focusing on the word 'Spreads', emotions and energy spreads, both good and bad. And generally, it is the ones at the top that set the energy for the workplace. If it is not the owner, allowing positive to flow down, it is the generally the workers on the ground that allow the negative to flow up.
Consider a toilet... you have the water source, the cistern, to hold the water, what is in the bowl and the plumbing underneath. Energy, in this case water, flows down. Where ever their is a blockage (shit) the toxic water flows back up. Both are as powerful as the other.
As CEO is is very hard all the time to keep the energy up, especially over the last 3 years of Covid. Everyone looks to you for direction, focus and positivity, and you are the one probably feeling it more as you have soo much on the line. How has your positivity or negativity influenced your business over the last 3 years? Take time to have a think.
A CEO last week, was saying over the Covid period, he allocated $ to his Management Team to distribute to those who had gone above and beyond their job. A week later, he was astounded that none of the money had been distributed as everyone was just 'doing their job' and that was all. I asked the CEO, 'would you have given yourself the money as a bonus for contributing more than expected, according your your business values?' He took a moment and said no.
Over the last 3 years CEO's have taken close to 40% of my availability, and this is also corporate teams and workshops I have run. And when we push the 'flush button' on the energy flow to remove the shit, the CEO and teams are once again in a positive flow.
OK time now to listen to this episode, and again, a huge thanks to a confidential listener, for this question.
To connect, head to www.ceosecretweapon.info to download 'The Dear Diary Process' eBook. I know that is the perfect tool to help in the flushing from negative to positive. and while you are there, connect and drop us a question and comment.
And thank you all, during the week we cracked the 1000 plays on our podcast.
until next time, this is Stuart saying thanks on behalf of Lewis the great!
Take care,
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What fuel are you currently running your business on, standard or premium fuel? What impact is that having on your business results?
Have you ever stopped and looked at what your business really needs to make it operate at its optimum performance?
In this episode of the CEO's Secret Weapon, your podcast host Lewis Haydon talks about how your business is a vehicle for your success, and that vehicle needs the right fuel!
The right input equals the right output. Bad fuel in, bad performance out.
So, here is taking this to another level... if the business needs the right fuel, what about the people in the business?
Be sure to listen to this episode of the CEO's Secret Weapon to find out more and how you can maximise your business results.
Be great,
Lewis Haydon
P.s. Check out ceosecretweapon.info for more information
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This journey around the Boardroom table started back in Episode 18 with Lewis, his clarity on who you need around your boardroom table really hit the mark for content.
The knowledge from his years running his own business and as an elite business coach in the UK (Have we shared that Lewis Haydon was named The UK Coach of the year late last year?) really made me think about the benefits from a peak performance mindset perspective.
We then had a great chat here in Australia when Lewis came here on holidays with his family and the episode 25 was a revisit to this with a difference... Who we don't need around your boardroom table.
From a mindset perspective, I am pleased Lewis asked me to add to the points we have both made in episodes. The limitations, barriers and dramas that can be created by having the wrong people around you, could potentially have a greater impact on your business and life than you realise.
Remember these boardroom tables are not just in business, consider your dining room table at home. Who do you need and not need in all aspects of life?
I will leave you to listen to this, the conversation and content awaits.
Remember the website www.ceosecretweapon.info if you want to ask a question, recommend a topic and download my eBook version of 'The Dear Diary Process' that is free to use for you, your team and family. Enjoy the process and love the results. For further details on 'The Dear Diary Process', listen to Episode 8 of the podcast.
Thanks or your support as always,
Chat again soon
Stuart Walter and Lewis Haydon
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Hi and welcome back, Stuart here again with more mindset content.
Communication a very broad term and a huge subject that we will continue to explore throughout this podcast series.
Communication is not just talking as some people believe, it is greater than that, apparently it is only 7% words (I say apparently, because we do not know) the balance of 93% is tone, tempo, volume and the non verbal of body language.
We are only focussing here on verbal communication today.
The most powerful understanding is, communication is the feedback you get as a response, action, words.
This content will help you understand that 'Communication is a 7 step process' between 2 or more people.
And remember communication is also between your conscious and unconscious mind.
I find what people say to themselves, about themselves when they are by themselves, is disgusting. You would never talk to anyone like most people talk to themselves. If all you do is change your internal communication after this, you will have incredible success.
This episode opens up your mind to the power of words, intention, connection and projection.
And every individual has their own communication model and it is all based on your previous experiences, so one style of communication in business, will not work for everyone.
The power you have in communication to empower yourself and others is amazing. When you know how to master your communication, you master your actions and that of others... and so too it has the power to disempower just as quickly.
This episode also exposes how my communication has created the success that I have with my clients, how understanding communication has given me the edge in business and it will also in yours.
Enough of the introduction, time to listen.
If you have any questions, suggestions or feedback, email us through the website www.ceosecretweapon.info and remember to download your eBook copy of Stuart's published book, 'The Dear Diary Process' from the website too.
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Is your environment right for getting you where you want to be or is it time to change some people around?
In episode 18, Lewis Haydon spoke about 'Who do you need around your board room table?' In this episode, we turn the concept upside down to explore it from a different angle.
Are the people around your board room table stopping you from getting you where you want to be?
In this episode you will get:
1) How to get clarity on who you will need in your environment to get where you want to be?
2) What values to look out for in others, and in you!
3) How to shape your environment so it is right for your success mindset?
Be sure to listen and comment on this episode. Your feedback has been welcomed in past issues and helps shape more of CEO's and their teams really need in the day-to-day modern business world.
Have fun,
Lewis Haydon and Stuart Walter
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And another episode and another opportunity to question the normal, another Stuart perspective.
This episode is thanks to a listener who connected via LinkedIn, their details have been kept confidential, just as yours will be when you request an episode topic.
To request a topic or a person we can talk to on the subject of CEO and Performance, please visit our podcast website www.ceosecretweapon.info connect, download 'The Dear Diary Process' eBook and send us an email.
Today's episode come from this comment.
"I talk a fair bit about false expectations appearing real and I think there is a link to a potential lack of resilience that brings those feelings to the fore. Would be good to hear your experiences with athletes and business owners who have found this a struggle and found a way to overcome challenges and adversity through becoming more resilient"
My Initial response, "I am not a huge fan of the 'FEAR' statement. When I ask people what does that actually mean to you, most have no idea. We want you to have huge expectations of yourself, I want you to aim huge... And everything is real including your feelings. It is understanding why these feelings exist, that allow you to manage them".
And now, for a greater understanding, listen to the podcast.
Thanks on behalf of Lewis who is currently touring Australia, spending quality time with his family.
Stuart Walter
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Stuart here for this episode, Lewis is flat out with the final touches to his PHD for handing in and preparing to come to Australia to visit, so I am delivering another episode for you.
Eating smarties does not make you smart. What makes you smart is what you consume emotionally and mentally.
Some people may be the healthiest of eaters, yet be highly stressed and negative. Just because you eat well does not manifest into your actions and energy.
This episode outlines the brain's ability to take everything onboard and to filter out what is not wanted, to nourish the mind in a way that supports your outlook.
Unlike food, we can choose to eat what we want, the brain will absorb everything, you can not control it. Your brain is designed to protect you from potential hurt or harm, physically, emotionally and financially. It needs to absorb everything to keep you aware and therefore safe.
Ep8. The Dear Diary Process is now even more powerful in this process to filter thoughts. if you have not listened, I suggest maybe listen to that first then come back to this one. The Dear Diary Process when used correctly, can be your filter through the simple addition of... "1 more thing everyday made me laugh and smile." For today, 1 thing is nothing much, in a week, same. In a month 30 things are going to get you to smile, in a year 365!
Our survival program is to be aware of possible threats, so we constantly look for negatives, that is what we see and how we experience life. The same is for the positives. In your diary write "I am very aware of the the brain to keep me safe and as it is doing automatically, I give myself permission to find the positive in everything today".
Time to listen and this is the 1st of the positives in your day, knowing you can change your outlook and responses.
Smile now... and have a great day!
- Vis mere
