"How can I scale my business without expanding my team?" That's a question that most business owners have undoubtedly asked themselves. We're told to believe that a bigger team means more possibilities, more profits, more potential, but what if that isn't true? In this episode, Michael and Megan discuss the value of having a smaller, more nimble team. They also shed light on a key secret that businesses, no matter how small, can leverage to save time, reduce trouble, and maintain alignment. In t...
Jun 06, 2023•25 min•Season 2Ep. 35
We live in a society of "more is better". The argument goes that a big business is obviously better than a small one. But, is that actually true? What if you could actually achieve more with less? On this episode, Joel Miller speaks with Leidy Klotz about his book, Subtract: The Untapped Science of Less. Leidy shares the subtle yet powerful biological and psychological reasons behind our 'addition bias' and how we can recalibrate our mindsets to view subtraction as an equally valid – and often b...
Jun 01, 2023•25 min•Season 2Ep. 34
The idea of "firing" a client can be very scary for a business owner. After all, the whole point of owning and running a business is to maximize the amount of money coming in the door! However, as you'll hear in today's episode, firing a client can be just the decision that allows your business to thrive. In this episode, Michael and Megan use their experiences running companies to reveal the four telltale signs it's time to fire a client. They also discuss how to establish healthy boundaries, r...
May 30, 2023•34 min•Season 2Ep. 33
Summer is fast approaching and that means that it's time to start finalizing those vacation plans. Yes, you read that right: you need to take a vacation. Even though this may sound counterintuitive, your business needs you to take take off so that you can be rested, excited, and engaged while you're in the office. On top of that, those processes that you put in place so that you can actually take a vacation, those are the same processes that will allow your company to thrive. So, that's win-win!...
May 23, 2023•36 min•Season 2Ep. 32
So many business owners get caught up in the day-to-day, putting out fires rather than doing the work they love. What if this turned around? What if you could do parts of your job that you love and leave the rest to others? And, what if after all of that, you could watch your business grow? What if the business could run without you showing up for work at all? These don't have to be hypothetical questions. This could be your life. In today's special episode, Michael Hyatt, Megan Hyatt Miller, an...
May 16, 2023•1 hr 5 min•Season 2Ep. 31
“Meetings are the worst.” We've all said that at one point in time. Perhaps you even own the “I survived another meeting” coffee mug! People's complaints usually center on the idea that meetings are long, boring, and not even that useful for you or your organization. But what if meetings themselves are actually good? As a leader, how can you make sure that your meetings are productive and efficient? What might that mean for your business? In this episode, two different guests will help you super...
May 09, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 30
Providing effective feedback is one of the most important skills that a leader needs to possess. Throughout your day, whether you realize it or not, many of your interactions are going to be about providing the actionable feedback that others need to help grow the business. In this episode, Joel Miller walks through two different forms of communication: feedback that you give to others and feedback that you give to yourself. In the first half of the episode, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller ...
May 02, 2023•50 min•Season 2Ep. 29
We’re in an unusual time where hiring is really difficult. Recruitment is extremely competitive, and candidates have a lot of options. But once you find the right people, how do you make them want to stay? Hiring and retention are equally and critically important, and neither have ever been more challenging than in this current market. In this episode, Megan and Michael uncover the secrets of hiring great talent and retaining it. By following these five tools, you can get—and keep—the people tha...
Apr 25, 2023•29 min•Season 2Ep. 28
As a business leader, you undoubtedly have ideas and beliefs that you put into practice every day as you seek to guide your organization into the future. No matter how certain you are of these guiding beliefs, it's important to question them: How accurate are they? If they're not accurate, then how might those beliefs be hurting your business? In today's episode, we explore limiting beliefs as they apply to both the marketing and HR departments of your organization. More importantly, we also off...
Apr 18, 2023•57 min•Season 2Ep. 27
Take a moment to think about the following question: What does it take to grow my business? Truly stop and think about it. Get out a piece of paper and write down the steps that you, as a business leader, think are crucial to achieving the growth that you've only dreamed of? Did you do it? Well, there is a very good chance that you failed to write down the most important ingredient to your business' growth: mindset. That might sound like psychobabble or something unserious, but it's 100% true. I...
Apr 11, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 26
Here's the truth: It doesn't matter how passionate you are, how smart you are, or how tenacious you are - the cap on the growth of your business is you. You alone can only do so much. That's why at BusinessAccelerator we talk so much about scaling yourself and your business. But, what does that mean and how do you actually do it? In today's special episode, Michael and Megan bring the show back to its roots and talk directly about why BusinessAccelerator is the premiere business coaching program...
Apr 04, 2023•47 min•Season 2Ep. 25
As the end of the first quarter approaches, now is a good time to reflect on how your goals are going. Hopefully you're progressing on all of them and feeling great! However, there's a good chance that at least one of your goals is either dragging behind or stuck entirely. If that's the case for you, then there's no need to panic! This episode is going to help you get unstuck and get moving towards your goals. To help get you moving, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller share five questions that...
Mar 28, 2023•55 min•Season 2Ep. 24
Entrepreneurs tend to be product people. They can find solutions to a problem and maybe even turn those solutions into a potentially profitable business. At this point, however, entrepreneurs often run into a problem: those skills that helped them develop a product are very different than the ones they need to market and publicize that solution to the public. What an entrepreneur needs are helpful frameworks to give them the baseline knowledge they need to grow their business. Well, you're in lu...
Mar 21, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Joel talks with Amy Porterfield talk about her new book, Two Weeks Notice: Find the Courage to Quit Your Job, Make More Money, Work Where You Want, and Change the World . The talk about creative customer avatars, creating consistent content, sharing your story, unbossing , and so much more. For more information on Amy's new book, visit www.twoweeksnoticebook.com . See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info ....
Mar 17, 2023•25 min•Season 2Ep. 23
Chances are that you're delegating wrong. Our coaching programs has worked with thousands of business owners to help them achieve more while doing less. No matter the industry, there is one area that these leaders almost universally fail to recognize and leverage: delegation. Without proper delegation, your company can only grow to the size that you can personally handle. The best way to add capacity to what your business is capable of doing is to bring other people onto the team and properly tr...
Mar 14, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 22
The story we often tell ourselves about entrepreneurs often centers on their intelligence, bravery, and leadership. But the truth is that as a leader, you simply cannot reach your goals unless you are willing to trust in other to help you get there. This means peers, mentors, colleagues, employees, friends, and family - we all need a community in order to be successful. In this episode, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller talk you through three reasons that you need community in order to achiev...
Mar 07, 2023•58 min•Season 2Ep. 21
If you want to accomplish those exciting goals that you've set for yourself, then your most important resource is time. The problem is that time is a finite resource and you already have so much to do! The only way that you can find the time you need to do big things is to get control of your calendar. Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller talk you through three ways that you're probably sabotaging your own calendar and offer you some helps tips to get moving in the right direction. After that, J...
Feb 28, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 20
Setting a goal is one thing. But, the trick is finding a way to push towards accomplishing your goals when life starts throwing obstacles in your way. In this episode, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller offer you four tactics that can help you achieve the goals you've set for yourself and get real results. After that, Joel Miller speaks with BusinessAccelerator™ Performance Coach, Dustin Guyton. He talks about how he takes these goal achievement strategies and uses them directly with business ...
Feb 21, 2023•44 min•Season 2Ep. 19
One of the most common limiting beliefs that business owners have is: "I'm simply not good with money." That's a story that even Michael Hyatt told himself for a long time. Since we've been talking about mindset for the last couple of weeks, we felt it would be nice to focus in on a specific mindset that we can all stand to reinterpret and explore what it means to change your mindset around money. First, Michael and Megan Hyatt Miller will share three steps to challenging your mindset around mon...
Feb 14, 2023•49 min•Season 2Ep. 18
As the saying goes, "Knowledge is power". Continually learning and seeking to optimize your knowledge is one of the marks of an outstanding leader. With that in mind, it is time to explore not just what we think, but how we think and, even more crucially, how we can optimize our thinking. In this episode, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller talk with Joel Miller about five key insights to help optimize your thinking. It's all in their new book, Mind Your Mindset: The Science That Shows Success ...
Feb 07, 2023•46 min•Season 2Ep. 17
We all have a voice that lives inside of our head. It's called The Narrator. The Narrator tells the story of your life, as it happens, and then that story will point you into making certain decisions. Sometimes those decisions are good. Sometimes they're bad. Since the implications of what The Narrator tells you are so huge, then there's only one thing you can do: figure out if The Narrator is telling the truth. To celebrate the launch of their new book, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller shar...
Jan 31, 2023•39 min•Season 2Ep. 16
No matter how good you are at giving advice to others, it is always difficult to follow your own advice. Since you're able to provide solid advice to your friends and colleagues, it's clear that the advice you need for yourself is lurking somewhere inside of you. How do we access that information and then start to use it in our own professional and personal lives? In this episode, we tackle the negative mindsets that are blocking your progress. First, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller provide...
Jan 24, 2023•57 min•Season 2Ep. 15
Every day you are confronted thousands of decisions - often as many as 35,000. Everything that you do is a choice, but if you spent one second for every decision, then you'd spend almost 10 hours a day just making decisions. That doesn't even include the time it would take to actually accomplish the things you choose. Luckily, the human brain has the ability to eliminate thousands of those decisions through a very simple tool: habits. If you can become aware of your habits, then you'll be able t...
Jan 17, 2023•45 min•Season 2Ep. 14
Everybody likes to win. As a business leader, winning probably includes successfully guiding your team into a profitable quarter. Here at Full Focus, we believe in the Double Win where you win at work and succeed at life. But, it's important to know that one of the best ways for a business owner to win is for their employees to win. If all of your employees are winning in their jobs, then the company is in the best position possible to meet all of its goals. In this episode, Michael Hyatt and Me...
Jan 10, 2023•54 min•Season 2Ep. 13
While it might seem cliche, the new year is a perfect opportunity to set goals both personally and professionally. This is due to something called the "Fresh Start Effect". This idea might seem more intuitive than quantitative, but the reality is that there is a lot of data behind the effectiveness of the Fresh Start Effect. Understanding how to harness the new year could be the difference between a good year and a great year. In this episode, Michael Hyatt and Megan Hyatt Miller offer you four ...
Jan 03, 2023•48 min•Season 2Ep. 12
Most people don't follow through on the goals that they set for themselves. This is common knowledge. But the more important question is: Why are people struggling to achieve their goals? It turns out that some of it has to do with how we structure our goals and some of it has to do with our motivation for choosing those goals in the first place. In this episode, Megan and Michael talk about five mistakes that people make when setting goals and how to move forward. Then, Joel speaks to author Lu...
Dec 27, 2022•55 min•Season 2Ep. 11
If there's one thing that a leader is good at, then it's probably making lists. More often than not, it's a to-do list of tasks that you'll probably never finish and make you feel like you'll never catch up (because you always add more than you can check off). But, what if there were lists that made you feel good? In this episode, we're branching out from the to-do list and providing leaders with a few other lists that might provide clarity and increase happiness and motivation. First, Megan and...
Dec 20, 2022•59 min•Season 2Ep. 10
As a business leader, you undoubtedly have ideas and beliefs that you put into practice every day as you seek to guide your organization into the future. No matter how certain you are of these guiding beliefs, it's important to question them: How accurate are they? If they're not accurate, then how might those beliefs be hurting your business? In today's episode, we explore limiting beliefs as they apply to both the marketing and HR departments of your organization. More importantly, we also off...
Dec 13, 2022•55 min•Season 2Ep. 9
Michael Hyatt returns to the podcast after a quadruple bypass surgery. He shares the story about what led him to call for an ambulance, encourages others to listen to their bodies, and talks directly about what he's learned throughout his recovery. For more podcasts, visit www.businessaccelerator.com/podcast . The Business Accelerator podcast is a reflection of the values and processes inside the BusinessAccelerator coaching program. If you want a free Business Growth Coaching Call, visit www.bu...
Dec 06, 2022•46 min•Season 2Ep. 8
There's one month left to close out the year. That's the good news. The bad news is that December is perhaps the most overwhelming month of the year. It is simply stuffed with commitments that need your attention. With all of the parties, holidays, and year-end festivities, how do you steer your organization towards its end of year goals while also maintaining sanity in your life? That's the question we answer in this episode. First, Megan Hyatt Miller speaks with Erin Perry about five strategie...
Nov 29, 2022•58 min•Season 2Ep. 7
