Inside Strategic Coach: Connecting Entrepreneurs With What Really Matters
Inside Strategic Coach is a practical resource for entrepreneurs, or anyone with a growth mindset. Hosts Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller share breakthrough insights, educational success stories, and insider know-how, gained from working with thousands of successful business owners, worldwide.
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Simple Habits For True Happiness While Building Your Business
<p>Happiness can be tricky for entrepreneurs, especially when the outside world thinks you’ve already “made it.” In this episode, Dan Sullivan shares a simple daily framework for staying genuinely happy as an entrepreneur, regardless of what’s happening in your business, your relationships, or the larger world around you.</p><p><br /></p><p>Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:</p>Why an entrepreneur’s happiness depends on three simple ingredients.How to measure your daily achievement in a way that actually feels like progress.What excites Dan most about creating and sharing a brand-new th...
Feelings Are Fuel For Entrepreneurial Creativity
<p>Today’s media environment constantly tugs at your emotions and makes it harder to think clearly about your future. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller show how to treat feelings—especially being bothered—as raw material rather than reality, and how to quickly turn intense emotional energy into insight, better decisions, and creative projects that expand your future possibilities.</p><p></p><p>Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:</p>How information overload and constant media input affect the way people think.How Dan feeling bothered has led to the creation of powerful Strat...
How Entrepreneurs Are Using AI Without Losing Their Edge
<p>Predictions have been made over the years, especially with the emergence of AI, that computers will be more intelligent than human beings. But humanity is always infinitely greater than anything that humans create. Business coaches Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller discuss why computer intelligence can never compete with humanity’s intelligence.</p><p> </p><p>Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:</p>Why a person’s intelligence doesn’t include only their own.What “humanity” really means.How successful entrepreneurs are using—and not using—AI.How AI is lessening the importance of experts.<p> </p><p>Show Note...
How To Build AI Around Your Most Valuable Strengths
<p>Your deepest passion is yours alone, and what lights others up may leave you completely cold. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller explore why every entrepreneur is born unique, how your experiences continually shape that uniqueness, and how doubling down on it leads to greater freedom, happiness, and business success.</p><p> </p><p>Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:</p>How to strengthen and continually reinforce your passion.What actually grows and develops your uniqueness every day.What gets created when two people collaborate.How AI is multiplying individuality and adding even...
The Community Where Ambitious Entrepreneurs Belong, with Chad Johnson
<p>In this special episode, Shannon Waller sits down with Program Coach Chad Johnson to explore his entrepreneurial journey, what he’s learned along the way, and how he helps Strategic Coach® members grow bigger, simpler, and more rewarding businesses.</p><p> </p><p>Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:</p>Why many of Chad’s early entrepreneurial ventures were short-lived.The turning point that made him get serious about building a real business.How Chad defines the entrepreneurial mindset and lives it daily.What sets Strategic Coach Program Coaches apart from traditional business coaches.<p> </p><p>...
The High Price You’ll Pay For Creative Isolation
<p>Isolation is more than just uncomfortable—it distorts your thinking and drains your creativity. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller open up about the risks of going it alone as an entrepreneur and why strong relationships make all the difference. Listen now to learn smart, actionable ways to reconnect, recharge, and keep yourself moving forward with clarity and confidence.</p><p> </p><p>Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:</p>Why isolation causes the mind to invent stories and distort reality.The reasons entrepreneurs are particularly vulnerable to feeling isolated.Why isolated entrepr...
The Emotional Edge Top Entrepreneurs Can’t Ignore
<p>Do you ever wish difficult emotions would just disappear? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller reveal why every feeling, especially the bothersome kind, is actually a valuable resource for entrepreneurial growth. Discover how turning frustration into clarity and action can lead to your next breakthrough, and learn the thinking tools that transform emotional energy into future results.</p><p> </p><p>Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:</p>How technology has increased conversations about feelings in daily life.Why your feelings serve as a built-in warning system for your thinking.How to quick...
Why Ambition Is Often A Dirty Word For Entrepreneurs
<p>What if ambition isn’t something you’re born with, but a capability you can keep growing?</p><p>In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Shannon Waller explore why ambition is the single master capability for entrepreneurs and how to nurture it. Learn why talking about ambition is difficult, how to grow it continually, and why community and capability are the true accelerators of progress.</p><p> </p><p>Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:</p>Why entrepreneurs rely on ambition more than most people.The most common misconception about ambition.How to navigate the socia...
Why Entrepreneurs Who Keep Playing Always Win, with Lee Brower
<p>Are you thriving or just arriving? In this episode, Shannon Waller and Program Coach Lee Brower explore the lifelong mindset that keeps entrepreneurs in motion long after the initial motivation fades. Discover practical ways to make growth and gratitude central to your business, family, and life—plus the powerful impact of asking the right questions and building strong traditions that last.</p><p> </p><p>Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:</p>The surprising first job Lee created for himself before he was old enough for a paper route.What sparked Lee’s deep appreciat...
Entrepreneurs Grow Stronger With Community Over Isolation
<p>Do you feel alone navigating the entrepreneurial journey, even in a room full of peers? This episode uncovers the power of a shared language, showing how entrepreneurs elevate their growth, tackle obstacles, and celebrate wins together. Discover how Strategic Coach’s thinking tools turn isolation into collaboration, making progress possible for everyone—no matter their industry or experience.</p><p> </p><p>Here’s some of what you’ll learn in this episode:</p>How Strategic Coach® stands apart from other coaching companies.How thinking tools create a shared language for entrepreneurs.A simple approach for entrepreneurs to clarify their idea...
