Make Your Business Independent of YOU! (Shawn Johal)

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     When Shawn's biggest competitor copied 200 of his products and offered them for one dollar less, Shawn could have quit business entirely. Instead, he concluded that his business model wasn’t innovative and disruptive enough, and he needed to change the way he did things.

     Fortunately, he shares his hard-earned wisdom with his clients and with us on Making It. He teaches us to look at four main areas and create a BHAG (Big Hairy Audacious Goal) for each of them. He also advises us to ask this question: Will your business flinch if you were gone for a month or even three months? He believes that entrepreneurs should build their businesses to sell, even if they don’t end up selling; they have to separate themselves from their business so they can walk away at any time.

     In this episode of Making It, Shawn shares that, to him, “making it” means one word: freedom.

“I could probably be gone for a month, two months, maybe even three months, and the business wouldn't flinch. And to be honest with you, that was the point at which I decided to pursue a new calling. Being able to leave your own business, I think, is the ultimate sign that you've made it.”

– Shawn Johal

Shawn Johal

Guest bio:  Shawn Johal, the CEO and Business Growth Coach at Elevation Leaders, launched his business growth coaching practice to inspire entrepreneurs and their teams to achieve happiness and success. He has spent the last few years expanding his Scaling Up system to help entrepreneurs and business leaders reach their most audacious goals while finding personal balance.

     Shawn is a certified implementer of Scaling Up methodology, working with companies from $5M to $200M in revenue in industries as diverse as tech, manufacturing, marketing, services, and beyond. He also leads numerous leadership-focused workshops and gives talks to amazing organizations across Canada.

     Shawn is the best-selling author of The Happy Leader: A Leadership Fable about Transformation in Business and in Life. It's a life-changing story about human transformation—from the triumph over grief, despair, and frustration to the powerful healing brought on by forgiveness.

    He is obsessed with high performance, the pursuit of happiness, and the power of mindset to fuel a successful life, and he’s committed to bringing his message to the world.

Resources or websites mentioned in this episode:

MiraseeShawn’s websiteShawn’s  LinkedInShawn’s book

Credits:

Guest: Shawn JohalAssociate producer: Danny BermantProducer: Cynthia LambAssembled by: Geoff GovertsenExecutive producer: Danny Iny Audio Post Supervisor: Evan Miles, Christopher Martin Audio Post Production: Post Office SoundMusic soundscape: Chad Michael Snavely 

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Episode transcript:

     I'm Sean Johal and you're listening to Making It! I run a business called Elevation Leaders and we help business owners globally 10X their business evaluations. 

     I think that the only way to have a massive impact in this one life that we get is to have the highest level of energy at all times. If you want to realistically have that high level of energy, you absolutely have to be changing the way you start your days, everything you do throughout the day and how you end your days. Every moment counts. It really does. So it's incredibly, incredibly important along the way that you figure out the right that happens for yourself. What are you going to do specifically to make sure that your level of energy is that it's highest level and that you become somewhat untouchable when it comes to stress, anxiety and you know mental, you know, illness of any type. So there's a lot of things that you can do and they don't have to take hours at a time. You know, I, I hear sometimes stories of people saying you gotta get up at 4:30 in the morning and start doing some crazy things. You know, most human beings don't have that kind of time. I think we're all busy. So I would start by really just trying to put aside 10 minutes in the morning, make sure you start your day the right way. It's scientifically proven that in the first moments when we wake up, we're in the theta brainwave state, that is the brain wave that has the most impact on our subconscious mind. What you do in those 1st 10 minutes when you wake up are going to have a massive, massive impact on the rest of your day. Obviously do not check your ...