Episodes
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In one of our most popular episodes, Dan and Gord discuss how entrepreneurs can leverage ChatGPT to save money, grow their business, and streamline the most boring tasks while keeping teamwork alive and thriving.
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ChatGPT is the next level of written communication that started with the teletype.AI has not yet reached the level of being able to tell a good story.Great teamwork is completing any project through greater productivity and achieving greater profitability.If youâre wondering how an AI tool can be useful to your business, first ask how it can help make your team more productive, and second, ask how it can help increase profits.Garbage in, garbage out: AI results are only as good as the instructions.Dan points out that ChatGPTâs response is strictly positive because the company OpenAI is most profitable when we see its benefits and consume its service.Gord and Dan wonder what exactly weâre being sold. Is this just a toy to generate meaningless social media content or a tool that can allow anyone to be a creator of useful material?No matter what new technology comes up, Danâs approach is always to keep a very smart human between him and that technology.AI might generate the first 80% of the content, but a very smart human can take it to the next 80%.Resources:
Learn more about Ray Kurzweil
Learn more about Mike Koenigs
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There's a misconception that podcasting is a quick way to make money. But if you're only in it for the cash, you'll likely be disappointed. Start a podcast for the right reason: to create value for your audience. When you focus on creating great content for your listeners, the money may show up in other ways. Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman explain how Strategic CoachÂź has seen consistent growth for decades by doing just that.
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Most entrepreneurs develop the courage to become entrepreneurs because theyâre good salespeople.Marketing is what allows you to have the opportunity to be in front of someone.If you see a problem, set out to solve it, whether you get paid for it or not.You should do it because itâs valuable, regardless of the money you make.Donât listen to the people who are trying to throw you into âThe Gapâ by saying, âOh, you must do this because everyone else is doing it!âDonât force people to learn something new in order to get value from you.A podcast is like a message in a bottle. Most will sink, but others wash up on a beach where somebody will read it and say, âIâve been looking for that!âExisting clients listen to our podcasts faithfully. They come to the workshops and talk about the subjects that the podcasts cover.The goal of the Strategic Podcast Network is to attract people and marinate them in the content in the hopes that they become successful, talented, ambitious entrepreneurs.Itâs not tough to make money if your focus is on making other people successful.ï»żResources:
The Strategic Podcast Network features all our shows in one place
10xTalk podcast, featuring Dan Sullivan and Joe Polish
Joe Polishâs Genius NetworkÂź
Inside Strategic Coach podcast, featuring Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller
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Joe Stolte is the CEO and co-founder of Daily.ai, an innovative artificial intelligence newsletter that designs, writes, and tests itself to cater to user preferences. He shares with Dan and Gord the ways AI is âeating softwareââposing an existential threat to huge software businesses like Google, yet creating exciting new opportunities for entrepreneurs.
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Never before has a new technology been adopted as quickly and widely as AI.People are using AI passively without realizing it, but many are also quickly finding active, strategic, intentional uses for it.Investment in technology is often about placing bets rather than backing quality innovations.Entrepreneurs and venture capitalists are in a symbiotic relationship.Large software companies like Salesforce, HubSpot, and Google are having to shift their thinking around user experience.Thousands of talented tech workers have been laid off, which could lead to many simple, smart, easy-to-use innovations.Short-sighted, user-hostile thinking is an organizational culture cancer.News media being funded by subscriptions leads to giving subscribers only what they want to see, creating echo chambers and divisiveness.Strategies for growing an email newsletter: You can pay with your money or with your timeâand either is fine. (Ads arenât âdirty.â)âAI is like a really, really good intern: You wouldn't ship intern work to the marketplace.â âJoe StolteResources:
Learn more about Joe Stolte and Daily.ai
Dan Sullivanâs AI newsletter is The Spark
The Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christensen
Peter Zeihan, author and geopolitical strategist
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Joe Stolte is the CEO and cofounder of daily.ai, an innovative artificial intelligence newsletter that designs, writes, and tests itself to cater to user preferences. Dan, Gord, and Joe explain all of the ways entrepreneurs can benefit from AI that might not be obvious, and share what questions content creators should be asking themselves before trying different things.
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You learn more from start-up failures than successes.
People project their belief systems onto whatâs going to happen in the future.
AI plays a crucial role in content marketing by shifting the focus from outputs to outcomes, emphasizing personalization and enabling one-to-one marketing versus the one-too-many conversation weâre used to in marketing.
With generative AI, the cost of content creation is rapidly approaching zero.
Generative AI allows anyone to create content, which means weâre going to get a lot more content coming into the world than weâre even seeing now.
There are three forms of truth: what a company thinks the market wants, what the market says they want, and what the market actually wants.
Almost half of the content people are pumping out right now serves to push people away from the sale. This is because itâs not useful, and itâs intrusive.
Data has a feedback loop to improve what's going out into the market to actually give people what they want, when they want it, through the channels that they want it.
The biggest problem with any new technology is that itâs unfamiliar. You simply have to normalize the experience of engaging with it.
Resources:
Learn more about Joe Stolte and daily.ai
Dan Sullivanâs AI newsletter is The Spark
The advanced AI assistant discussed is Perplexity
Podcast: 10xTalk with Dan Sullivan and Joe Polish
Book: Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy
Unique Abilityâ
Article: Time Management Strategies for Entrepreneurs (Effective Strategies Only)
Article: How To Sell Transformation Using This One Question
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Statistics show thereâs no shortage of people pitching their expertise and services, but no oneâs really paying attention to them. Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman explain why so many pitches get ignored and how to actually engage with the people youâre pitching to.
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People can pay attention to only one thing at a time.
Nobodyâs looking for answers. Theyâre looking for questions.
Instead of thinking about a marketplace, you can focus just on relationships.
The pitch canât be about you. It has to be about the client.
People who work in competitive organizations might keep their future aspirations a secret.
Everyone has developed pitch filters as well as content and entertainment filters.
There's a crisis growing in the technological and marketing worlds where itâs taking more effort and more money to not get a result.
Having questions that get another person to think about their future is 100 times more powerful than any answer you could give them.
Resources:
Your Life As A Strategy Circle by Dan Sullivan
Learn more about Strategic Coach
Article: The 4 Freedoms That Motivate Successful Entrepreneurs
Walter Payton â Hall of Fame NFL running back and philosopher
Anything And Everything - Podcast with Dan Sullivan and Jeffrey Madoff
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Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman share some secrets of teamwork that Dan highlights in his new book, Everyone And Everything Grows. When a crisis hits, your team should be positioned to come out stronger for the challenge. Learn how Strategic CoachÂź pulls it off, how technology assists, and how an amazing company culture makes the whole thing possible.
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Video conferencing platforms like Zoom arenât communication tools, theyâre transportation tools.
Competitive internal politics always interfere with company culture and great communication.
Build your team so they donât have to spend any energy on defending themselves.
At Strategic Coach, when something doesnât work, itâs usually not an individual problem but a system problem or a structure problem.
There are only two teams you should be on: the winning team or the learning team.
At large corporations, everything grinds to a halt because people spend more time trying to avoid mistakes than actually creating things.
Resources:
Everyone And Everything Grows by Dan Sullivan
The Impact Filterâą
The Experience TransformerÂź: How To Transform A Negative Experience (Video)
Unique AbilityÂź
Welcome To Cloudlandia podcast with Dan Sullivan and Dean Jackson
AI As Your Teammate by Evan Ryan
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Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman discuss the importance of deciding who's in the room when it comes to podcasting. They highlight how Strategic CoachÂź is selective about who they allow in their workshop rooms and how this consistency extends to other ârooms,â such as your audience. They also mention the possibility of niching down and specializing in podcasting, citing an example of a podcast for optometrists with a very strange focus.
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Sometimes, the smaller the niche, the bigger the market.Bureaucracies love solutions like lockdowns that let them catch up.How to wreck a radio station. Playing it safe is not how to stay at the top.The difference between style and fashion. (You want to find your style.)The freedom of cash confidence. Or, how to say no to jets and dinners.Resources:
Always Be The Buyer By Dan Sullivan
The story of Diogenes and Alexander
Total Cash Confidence By Dan Sullivan
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Evan Ryan joins Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman for another episode to share some valuable insights about how to regain control and use technology to enhance your creativity and freedom. Evan is convinced that AIâs best use is to amplify human potential rather than replace us.
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Dan mentions his new quarterly book, Owning Technology Like A Great Dog, which emphasizes the importance of humans being in charge of their technology, and not the other way around.Evan explains why itâs critical to know what you want. Then, you can make the technology work for you.Dan shares his experience of using Joe Stolte's Daily.ai newsletter platform and how it leads to significant increases in open rates and engagement.Dan makes a distinction between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom.There are four freedoms of being an entrepreneurâtime, money, relationships, and purposeâand technologies like AI can help or hinder that freedom.They discuss the shift from manual labor to knowledge work. Working with AI now presents people with an even bigger âconceptual chasm.âSome people have an almost religious view of technology that can veer into misanthropyâresenting the realities of relating to other human beings.Evan describes the freedom of the âdigital nomadâ lifestyle that he enjoys because of technology.There are technological âdemarcation linesâ that Evan wonât cross.Dan: âHumanity is always infinitely bigger than anything that humanity creates.âResources:
AI As Your Teammate by Evan Ryan
Evanâs company is Teammate AI
Danâs AI newsletter is The Spark
Owning Technology Like A Great Dog by Dan Sullivan
Joe Stolteâs Daily.ai newsletter
Unique AbilityÂź (website, book)
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Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman are joined by special guest Evan Ryan, an expert in artificial intelligence (AI). Evan shares his decade-long experience with AI and its entrepreneurial possibilities. They discuss Evan's book, which explores the potential of AI in various aspects of life, and provide valuable insights into how entrepreneurs can integrate it into their workflow to achieve more in less timeâand make life more fun in the process.
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AI can be defined as a computer doing something that a human used to do.
Evanâs goal is to allow his team to be less robotic in their lives, and to free themselves to do more fun, creative things.
A lot of people think of technology as something that happens to them.
There are two kinds of problems that a business can face: growing business problems and dying business problems.
AI isnât going to help companies that arenât using their teams well, or creating value in the marketplace.
Artificial intelligence is not artificial wisdom. Humans are still required for that.
Those who remain resistant to AI are usually people who want to maximize their billable hours, not improve their workflows.
Resources:
AI as Your Teammate: Electrify Growth Without Increasing Payroll by Evan Ryan
Evan Ryanâs company is: teammateai.com
Unique Abilityâ
Perplexity AI
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Believe it or not, podcasting has now been around for two decades. Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman delve into the history and share their personal stories of how each of them first got involved. Youâll hear where podcasting is headed and learn the art of having compelling conversations that make people laugh, think, question, cry, and always come back for more.
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The first podcast was published in 2003 via RSS, marking the beginning of the era. Podcasting allows for a more intimate connection with listeners, creating a loyal and supportive audience.The greatest compliment you can pay anyone in broadcasting is, âI feel like I know you.â Podcasting is a relationship-building medium. You donât have to sell anything if you donât want to. AI-powered capabilities are only going to increase and expand, making the medium more accessible to everyone.Podcast listeners count on two things: they want to learn something new, and they want to be entertained.Giving away free content in podcasts can inspire listeners to investigate your company and write a check.Even a 20-year-old podcast is new to someone coming across it for the first time.With podcasting, everyone whoâs listening to you made the choice to listen to you. Theyâre there because they want to be.Resources:
The first podcast ever
Danâs first podcast ever with Joe Polish
I Love Marketing Podcast with Joe Polish and Dean Jackson
Open Source podcast with Christopher Lydon
Chris Voss, author of Never Split The Difference and former FBI hostage negotiator
The Strategic Podcast Network
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Gord Vickman and Dan Sullivan dive into the concept of "Geometry For Staying Cool & Calm" and its relevance in the emerging age of AI. Drawing on a recent MIT Sloan study on the impact of AI in the workplace, they explore how anyone can thrive when they focus on constantly creating new things.
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Dan and Gord share the concept of "Geometry For Staying Cool & Calm" as a mindset for living in the digital network economy.An MIT Sloan research paper showed that AI can significantly boost productivity for less experienced workers.Academic credentials are being left behind in a networked world where people only care if you create value for them.The current educational system is stuck in an industrial economy that makes little sense to continue following. Podcasting invites everyone to have their voices heard without needing permission.Dan makes an important distinction between efficiency and effectiveness.Productivity in the future wonât be contingent on tenure but rather on oneâs ability to leverage AI and embrace the habit of always creating new things.Resources:
MIT article: âWorkers with less experience gain the most from generative AIâ
âGeometryâ For Staying Cool & Calm by Dan Sullivan
The Strategic Podcast Network
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Every new thing you learn to do is scary at first. That includes starting a podcast, filming a video, writing a blog, or performing for a crowd. Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman discuss The 4 Câs FormulaÂź and how it captures every performerâs experience in starting a podcast and growing it.
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First-time performers tend to focus on their fears, but the audience never even notices. Itâs hard to sound natural and have fun when youâre too focused on yourself.Wrap your message in a narrative or story for better engagement.The best entrepreneurial companies effectively combine Simplifier and Multiplier teamwork. The 4 Câs Formula involves:First, commitment to a new effort.Then, courage to follow through despite the fear.Gradually, you develop new capabilities as you learn and grow from the experience.Eventually, you feel confidence in those capabilities.âThe difference between courage and confidence is that confidence feels good.â âDanEarly in his radio career, Gord said a four-letter word live on air, and it changed everything.Dan believes consistency of delivery and of message are two things that hold your audience.Youâre not competing with other similar podcasts; youâre competing with all the other things your audience could be doing with that time.âHang out with people who love the thing that youâre doing.â âDanâIf you want one guarantee that your eventâs going to be enjoyable for all the guests, the first thing you have to do is guarantee that the host has a good time.â âDan, learned from Emily PostBe proud of the first podcast you made because you did it solely on commitment and courage, without yet having the capability and confidence.Resources:
The 4 Câs Formula by Dan Sullivan
Simplifier-Multiplier Collaboration by Dan Sullivan
The Strategic Podcast Network
Learn more about author Emily Post
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Gord Vickman and Dan Sullivan discuss Danâs latest book, 10x Is Easier Than 2x, co-authored by Dr. Ben Hardy. By identifying the changes and breakthroughs that led to your past growth, you can gain the confidence and insight needed to achieve your next jump. Sounds like fun, right? This episode is a must-listen for entrepreneurs and creators looking to build things faster, easier, and cheaper than before.
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10x Is Easier Than 2x is a compilation of concepts that have been tested and proven in The Strategic CoachÂź Program. Dan says itâs âthe best book for getting an overview of all the productivity tricks that we have in Strategic Coach.âHow can 10x growth possibly be easier than 2x growth? Dan invites the listener to remember that theyâve already made this leap at least once in their lives.The key to growth is imagining an exponentiallyârather than incrementallyâbigger future.Dan credits writer Ben Hardy for making these books possible.Reaching that future will require shedding outdated methods and even team members and customers who are no longer a good fit.This trilogy of books, Dan says, is linked by a kind of entrepreneurial logic: the logic of achievement, the logic of progress, and the logic of growth.When you set out to achieve breakthroughs, you have to allow for luck and surprisesâand even count on them.Danâs goal for these books was never about becoming a famous author but about finding new people to talk to who might be interested in The Strategic Coach Program.Resources:
10x Is Easier Than 2x by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy
Who Not How by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy
The Gap And The Gain by Dan Sullivan and Dr. Benjamin Hardy
Novelist Mark Dawson
Tucker Max
The Strategic Coach Program
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Get the latest book by Dan Sullivan and Ben Hardy, 10x Is Easier Than 2x.
Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman discuss the importance of partnership between AI and humansâfinding a balance between technology and the human touch. Dan also shares his insights about where ideas come from and the differences between creativity, wisdom, and intelligence.
In This Episode:Dan and Gord talk about the importance of AI-human partnership, addressing concerns of AI replacing human creativity.Where does Dan get his ideas? Through conversations with ambitious people and those who faced setbacks, as well as by thinking about his thinking.Intelligence manifests in Unique AbilityÂź, like Larry Bird's situational quickness and unpredictability in basketball.Human creativity links unrelated concepts, while AI focuses on patterns and predictability.Whatâs the difference between data, information, knowledge, and wisdom?Journalism's decline linked to AI's inability to replicate the classic journalistâs three Ws: waiting, wondering, and wandering.News reporter Barbara Frum interviewing the Shah of Iran's consort, tapping into the listenersâ reactions in a way that AI never could.Dan sees AI as just another tool, not a replacement for human thinking, and emphasizes maintaining agency and partnership with technology.Resources: Larry BirdBarbara Frum, from the CBC archivesHoward Getson â CEO, CapitalogixThe Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr SolzhenitsynThe Strategic Podcast Network -
Join Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman as they explore the rapid growth of podcasts and how the most successful shows get things done. Why are so many people turning to them over traditional media? The answer, Dan says, is relationship: The best podcasters know that itâs not about them, itâs about you.
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Why podcasts exploded in popularity.Why creating a podcast is no longer just fringe marketing.The importance of building relationships with listeners.A marriage analogy for building a show from a seed.The importance of understanding the listener's needs.A timely transition from broadcast to podcast.ï»żThe D.O.S. Conversation âA deceptively simple method for immediately making a powerful connection with any client or prospect, which allows you to create unique value in their life.â
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Gord Vickman and Dan Sullivan explain how entrepreneurs who don't think of themselves as technically minded can still use the latest tools to their advantage. Youâll learn simple, actionable steps for breaking through the mental barriers that can make technology seem intimidating at first, so that you can make it another part of your overall teamwork strategy.
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How can entrepreneurs who donât consider themselves to be technically minded embrace new technologies?Danâs new quarterly book, Thinking About Your Thinking, is based on a mental skill he developed at age six and formed the basis for all his subsequent success.Most people think about things, people, and thoughts, but thereâs another level of thinking available that opens up new and better possibilities.Why Danâs never felt lonely or weirdâeven when he was doing completely different things to the people around him.Instead of learning about every new development himself, Dan simply surrounds himself with others who are fascinated by technology, tells them what heâs looking for, and rewards them for discovering useful new shortcuts and capabilities.Gord and Dan discuss the Kolbe profile, which helps you learn how to work in your best abilitiesâor team up with others whose skills complement yours.The Kolbe profile made Dan happy because it highlighted the areas where he has no staying power or motivation, which showed him where he needed teamwork.Kolbe also helps explain the widely different ways in which people will approach learning a new tool.âTechnology is teamwork that has been made automatic.â - DanThe starting point is an awareness of individual uniqueness, then combining that with other peopleâs uniqueness.âI always keep a smart human between me and technology.â - DanâI would not spend any time learning how to use any technology. But Iâm very, very fast to understand the importance of the technology.â - DanThinking About Your Thinking by Dan Sullivan
The Kolbe Profile
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ChatGPT is on everyoneâs lips and on everyoneâs screens, but as an entrepreneur, you might be asking how it can help with your business growth. Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman share how to tell if the current crop of AI tools is useful for your business or just the latest futuristic distraction.
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ChatGPT is the next level of written communication that started with the teletype.AI has not yet reached the level of being able to tell a good story.Great teamwork is completing any project through greater productivity and achieving greater profitability.If youâre wondering how an AI tool can be useful to your business, first ask how it can help make your team more productive, and second, ask how it can help increase profits.Garbage in, garbage out: AI results are only as good as the instructions.Dan points out that ChatGPTâs response is strictly positive because the company OpenAI is most profitable when we see its benefits and consume its service.Gord and Dan wonder what exactly weâre being sold. Is this just a toy to generate meaningless social media content or a tool that can allow anyone to be a creator of useful material?No matter what new technology comes up, Danâs approach is always to keep a very smart human between him and that technology.AI might generate the first 80% of the content, but a very smart human can take it to the next 80%.Learn more about Ray Kurzweil
Learn more about Mike Koenigs
Learn more about Hamish MacDonald
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Every new technology makes someoneâs job irrelevant. Blockchain and its by-productsâNFTs, smart contracts, and stablecoinsâdecentralize transactions that are traditionally moderated by middlemen and gatekeepers. If youâre one of those middlemen today, it may be time to find innovative ways to create value that people will pay you for.
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Technology eliminates people having to do predictable work in a process or system.Freed from doing predictable work, people can be creative elsewhere.The blockchain, which allows smart contracts and cryptocurrencies such as stablecoins, is a technology that eliminates middlemen and gatekeepers.NFTs allow creators to sell directly to buyers, and buyers to resell directly to each other.Originally, CryptoPunksâ pixelated cartoons were reselling for tens of thousands of dollars.Like Hollandâs tulip bulb craze in the 1600s or the Japanese real estate craze in the 1980s, people are using these cartoons as an investment, believing they can sell them for much more later.Trust is the essence of capitalism.The internet has made it difficult to know whom to trust, but blockchain smart contracts solve that.Smart contracts are tiny programs plus data deployed on a blockchain, such as Ethereum, that automatically execute an exchange once the conditions have been met.Instead of having a third party such as Kickstarter hold all the money during a crowdfunding campaign and then take up to a 10% cut, a smart contract can eliminate that middleman at just the cost of hosting the smart contract on the network.Defi, or decentralized finance, works the same way to make secure loans available to people who were turned down by banks.Stablecoins are cryptocurrencies that are pegged to a stable asset like the U.S. dollar or gold.Because they donât fluctuate wildly, stablecoins can be used for reliable international payments.Stablecoins also cut out fees to banks and other institutions because thereâs no currency exchange and no service charge for moving across borders.If you want intellectual property protection today, you must file copyrights and trademarks in every country for it to be enforceable everywhere.With the blockchain, Strategic Coach could upload its thinking tools in a similar way to smart contracts or NFTs to universally prove ownership of creation.CryptoPunks
IBM article: âWhat are smart contracts on blockchain?â
Forbes article: âAn Introduction To Stablecoinsâ
Your Life As A Strategy Circle by Dan Sullivan
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There's a misconception that podcasting is a quick way to make money. But if you're only in it for the cash, you'll likely be disappointed. Start a podcast for the right reasons: to create value for your audience. When you focus on creating great content for your listeners, the money may show up in other ways. Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman explain how Strategic Coach has seen consistent growth for decades by doing just that.
In This Episode:
Most entrepreneurs develop the courage to become entrepreneurs because theyâre good salespeople.Marketing is what allows you to even have the opportunity to be in front of someone.If you see a problem, set out to solve it whether you get paid for it or not.You should do it because itâs valuable, regardless of the money you make.Donât listen to the people who are trying to throw you into The Gap by saying, âOh, you must do this. Because everyone else is doing it!âDonât force people to learn something new in order to get value from you.A podcast is like a message in a bottle. Most will sink, but others wash up on a beach where somebody will read it and say, âIâve been looking for that!âExisting clients listen to our podcasts faithfully. They come to the workshops and talk about the subjects that the podcasts cover.The goal of the Strategic Podcast Network is to attract people and marinate them in the content in hopes that they become successful, talented, ambitious entrepreneurs.Itâs not tough to make money if your focus is on making other people successful.The Gap and The Gain by Ben Hardy and Dan Sullivan
The Strategic Podcast Network features all our shows in one place
10xTalk podcast, featuring Dan Sullivan and Joe Polish
Joe Polishâs Genius Network
Inside Strategic Coach podcast featuring Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller
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Are you paranoid that youâll soon be replaced a computer? What you might not realize is that no matter how fast a computer can process information, only humans can create meaning. Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman discuss how technological breakthroughs actually affect human beings and the best ways for entrepreneurs to think about the coming wave of artificial intelligence.
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