How to get an interview spot on my podcast
Every day I get a lot of pitches from entrepreneurs asking to be on my podcast. When Natural Born Coaches was a daily show, I had 365 slots/year and flexibility with accepting guests. When it went to a 3x/week frequency it got tighter, but I still had 150 or so...
How Steve Jobs brought Apple back from the dead
It's tempting to try to be "all things to all people" in the online space. You start out focusing on one thing, but get hauled into different directions by those darn BSOs (Bright, Shiny Objects). Experts tell you that you should be doing this, and that you absolutely...
Interested in a “Triple Win Partnership”?
Before I launched my podcast in 2014, I told someone about my plan for a show where I'd interview guests who could bring value to coaches. He flat out told me I was crazy to give a platform to my "competition", and that I shouldn't do it. "Natural Born Coaches"...
What Dave Ramsey thinks about masterminds
We're getting close to the live mastermind training with Aaron Walker that's happening at 1 pm EST today. Aaron has been helping entrepreneurs launch and fill their mastermind groups with his "Mastermind Playbook", and this is what America's top financial expert Dave...
The value of community
A new episode of Natural Born Coaches just popped out of the oven, and my guest is Aaron Walker. In this one, you'll hear: How masterminds literally transformed Aaron’s lifeHis advice for coaches who object to building a communityHow a strong community allows you the...
Introducing my Bill Murray
Bill Murray was a frequent guest on David Letterman's show. He was the very first one back in 1982, and went on to appear over 40 times before it went off the air. "Natural Born Coaches" hasn't run nearly as long as Letterman's show, but in 629 episodes I've had very...
Common questions about masterminds
Since I've been promoting next week's mastermind training with Aaron Walker, we've been asked a few common questions on our various FB live interviews etc, like: Q: "Why have a mastermind?" A: It makes it easier to scale your business working 1-to-many instead of just...
Aaron would have done this earlier if given the chance
Aaron Walker has been in business for over four decades, and he's often asked the same question when he speaks at events: "What would you have done earlier in your career if you had another opportunity?" The answer, which he recounts in his book "View From The Top",...
This guy is no “fake expert”
A common complaint in the online world is about the abundance of "fake experts". They're the people who read one book, or attend an event, or do a course, and then suddenly announce to the world that they're an expert at "x". They skip the whole "10,000 hours to...
Harnessing the power of masterminds
Back in high school, I stumbled across "Think and Grow Rich" by Napoleon Hill while browsing through a bookstore. I was intrigued and bought it, and it remains one of my favourite books to this day (I make a point to re-read it at least once a year). One of the big...