Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT)
912 episodes - English - Latest episode: 25 days ago - ★★★★★ - 359 ratingsThe Momentum Podcast is for those who of us who think differently — made especially for empire builders, game-changers, trailblazers, record makers, and creators of all kinds. Those among us who can’t turn it off, and don’t know why anyone would want to. We challenge complacency, destroy apathy, and we are obsessed with creating momentum.
While the rest of the world strives for average and clings desperately to the status quo, you and I are compelled to move forward and change the world.
We are the minority, the few, who are willing to hallucinate there could be a better future. Instead of just daydreaming of what could be, we endure the vulnerability and exposure it takes to make it real. We are the evolutionary hunters. The most important people in the world because entrepreneurs are the only source of consistent, positive human evolution, and we always will be.
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754 - Policies Create Freedom
September 14, 2021 12:05 - 6 minutes - 9.09 MBBoundaries create emotional safety. Entrepreneurs have experienced a significant level of trauma around boundaries because they were unfair or did not make sense. It is understandable, then, that there is resistance around putting policies in place because entrepreneurs do not want boundaries. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. ...
753 - When Your Business Turns On You
September 10, 2021 09:30 - 5 minutes - 7.29 MBYesterday my friend Jon Morrow did a training for our members and he made a statement that is going to stick with me… “One of the most important things I’ve learned as an entrepreneur is, understanding what I don’t need to learn.“ This was brilliant on many different levels. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. Your business...
752 - What You Don't Need To Learn
September 07, 2021 11:36 - 9 minutes - 12.6 MBAs an entrepreneur, we feel like all we want is for a business to grow. We think about it all the time, we put time into it, we set goals around it, growth is one of the most important things in our lives. Then the business starts growing! And before you can even celebrate, you’re already overwhelmed with everything you have to do. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can i...
751 - Intimacy Creates Business Growth
September 03, 2021 12:06 - 8 minutes - 11.8 MBI just had an amazing call with a couple of friends of mine. They are both high-powered entrepreneurs who are changing the world. They are also in an intimate relationship together that is very important to them. Our conversation was all about creating intimacy in their relationship so that they can protect it. Here’s what I know, that they will know soon, when you create intimacy in your relationship, it often makes running your business easier. In fact, when I have helped entrepreneurs ...
750 - Entrepreneurs: The World Needs You Now More Than It Ever Has
August 31, 2021 09:30 - 7 minutes - 10.8 MBIt doesn’t matter what side of the argument you are on in any debate today, the reality is we are in trouble. There is more division than there ever has been in my entire life. People are talking more and communicating less than they ever have. It’s hard to know who you can trust and what authority you can give any credibility to. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can im...
749 - Influencers, We Are In Trouble
August 27, 2021 09:30 - 19 minutes - 26.9 MBThe events of the past few days show just how much trouble we are in as a country. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. When one conversation can be silenced, any conversation can be silenced. When only one side of an argument is allowed, you don't have a democracy, you have a dictatorship. Even if you disagree with those being...
748 - Reawaken Creativity And Problem Solving
August 24, 2021 09:30 - 4 minutes - 6.85 MBAs entrepreneurs we want everything done in one timeframe, “all at once and right away!“ Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. We are willing to work long hours, focus like crazy, and even give up doing other things to create the momentum we want. This is the engine that drives our success and our lives. But sometimes, when w...
747 - Have You Made Peace With Disappointment?
August 20, 2021 09:30 - 14 minutes - 19.4 MBAs entrepreneurial personality types I believe we learn how to deal with disappointment well. Because we want more out of life, I think we experience disappointment more often. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. As we start to build a teams and have people working with and around us, we experience it even more. I believe t...
746 - This Breaks Projects and People
August 17, 2021 12:05 - 9 minutes - 12.8 MBAs entrepreneurs we have one timeframe in which we want everything done… All at once and right away! I’ve been like this my entire life. It’s not something I try to be, it’s just how I am made. I want things done fast and once I see the vision for something I can’t rest until it’s done. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. F...
745 - Navigating Team Member Mistakes
August 13, 2021 13:00 - 13 minutes - 18.4 MBIt will happen. There’s no way to avoid it. You will have a team member that makes a mistake and cost you money. If you are going to grow a business, and have a team, this is inevitable. How do you handle the situation is up to you. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. Over the last 30 years of managing my own teams and help...
744 - The Simplest Scoreboard for Success
August 10, 2021 09:30 - 11 minutes - 16.5 MBAs entrepreneurs, there are metrics and scoreboards that we should track in order to measure our success. These can become incredibly complex and noisy. There is one simple scoreboard that will show you your momentum, and I want to share it with you. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. By far, the metric that has made the most...
743 - Progress Over Destruction
August 06, 2021 09:30 - 9 minutes - 12.5 MBIn life and in business, when we improve, change, or move something forward, we often damage what was there before. This is part of progress. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. There is an ancient Chinese proverb that I have used throughout my business career and my life: Progress often looks like destruction. When we are ...
742 - Do Your Own Research
August 03, 2021 12:29 - 25 minutes - 34.4 MBI’ve been seeing a lot of posts lately that are making me uncomfortable. They seem to be making fun of people for doing their own research and trying to understand what’s going on in the world. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. The memes, posts, and arguments sound something like this… With every medical professional in the wo...
741 - Stop Talking During Meetings
August 01, 2021 11:54 - 10 minutes - 14.1 MBThis may be the most counterintuitive advice you’ve heard as an entrepreneur. During a discussion at our last event, one of my favorite memories Rachel Rodgers exclaimed “I’m just going to stop talking to meetings!” Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. The members of our Grow in Scale group all laughed and thought it was funny ...
740 - Self-Righteous Self Check For Entrepreneurs
July 29, 2021 09:30 - 15 minutes - 20.8 MBGiven how crazy things are in the world, it's easier than ever to have conflict and get triggered. This is something that I’ve worked on for most of my adult life and I am still working on. One of the things I have realized about being triggered, is that when I am I often feel self-righteous. I define feeling self righteous as feeling like I am completely right, shutting out other options, and getting to the point where I don't hear anyone but myself or someone who agrees with me. Alex...
739 - Coaches Never Take the Field
July 25, 2021 12:02 - 12 minutes - 16.7 MBWhen you look at an entrepreneur in a business, they are normally the first person that is willing to drop everything, jump in, and do somebody else's job for them. Entrepreneurs are in this habit of solving for everyone around them. What happens when you set up an environment where people are used to that? You set up an environment where your team knows that when they can’t get the job done, you will jump in and save the day. The challenge with being an entrepreneur who's willing t...
738 - How to Clean Up Your Business (with Adrianne Meldrum)
July 20, 2021 13:14 - 12 minutes - 17 MBAs a business grows, the potential for pressure and noise to build within the life of the entrepreneur goes up. It can feel like life never really settles down for the entrepreneurial business. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. In this podcast, Adrianne Meldrum, CEO of Made For Math, shares the tactics and results of cleanin...
737 - The Age of the Entrepreneur
July 16, 2021 09:30 - 14 minutes - 20.2 MBWe're entering an age in the world today where the argument can be made that individual entrepreneurs are more powerful in some regards than governments. Jeff Bezos has a distribution system that rivals any country in the entire world. Mark Zuckerberg has a communication system that rivals and actually exceeds anything any country on the planet has. We have entrepreneurs who are now rising to the point where they have more influence on the world than governments. Alex Charfen, a bus...
736 - Solving Is Not Serving
July 13, 2021 09:30 - 13 minutes - 18.2 MBIf we jump in and tell people what to do, what we think, or what the answer to a problem in the business is, we take away their ability to think on their own. We deprive them of the opportunity to make decisions. In some companies, team members are conditioned to having things done for them. It's can happen in a relationship with a significant other, as well. If you tell your spouse or your significant other how to fix a problem they are going through, you're not allowing them to go throu...
735 - Grow Out of Five Figure Business Habits
July 09, 2021 09:30 - 16 minutes - 22.3 MBYou have probably heard this more than once… "What got you here won't get you there.” In entrepreneurial circles, this typically means the habits and tactics that got you to one level of success or will not help you achieve the next level of success. In fact, those very habits and tactics may be holding you in place. This is something I see all the time with entrepreneurs. Rather than make the behavioral changes necessary to grow their business to the next level, their business plat...
734 - The Cure for Entrepreneurial Anxiety
July 02, 2021 09:30 - 14 minutes - 20.6 MBAs entrepreneurs, we are that small percentage of the population that goes into the future, creates a new reality, comes back to the present, and demands it becomes real. When we don't make progress towards that brighter future, when we're not moving in the right direction, all kinds of things happen. We feel restless agitation. We feel this restlessness and agitation and we wonder why we cannot make things happen. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and ...
733 - Transitioning From Work to Play With Your Team (With Ticora Davis)
June 29, 2021 12:00 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MBThe most important investment you can make in your business is with the people who choose to work with you every day. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. At a recent Charfen Summit, one of our members, Ticora Davis, the CEO of The Creator's Lawfirm, shared with our membership how she realized that she had created a negative work ...
732 - The Magic of Passenger Status
June 25, 2021 12:25 - 13 minutes - 18.9 MBAs your business grows, entrepreneurs like you and me must make increasingly difficult decisions with less and less information. You have to be able to hold space for a larger population of people. You have to actually be able to deal with the stress and the pressure of decision-making. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. We h...
731 - From Crisis to Growth (With Marialexandra Garcia)
June 23, 2021 11:39 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MBCrisis is a natural state for entrepreneurs. It is where we adapt, make a massive change, and create the impact we want on the world. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. At a recent Charfen Summit, one of our members, Marialexandra Garcia, the CEO of Outplay Swimwear, shared with our membership how she has gone from a place of cr...
730 - Loops and Spirals Created By Not Having a Strategic Plan
June 18, 2021 12:30 - 9 minutes - 13.4 MBYour addiction to new is preventing you from achieving mastery. I see this happen to entrepreneurs all the time. We will go to a conference or an event, hen we come back to our team and tell them all about the next big thing that is going to change everything in our business. Then we give them just enough time to get started on this new project before we come back to them with another new thing. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their business...
729 - Biggest Takeaways From the Charfen Summit
June 15, 2021 12:00 - 22 minutes - 30.7 MBOn the final day of the Charfen Summit, we gathered our members together for a unique opportunity to simplify their businesses so that they can grow and scale like crazy. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. As we conclude this virtual event, we are going to ask what our members are going to go back into their businesses and imple...
728 - The Biggest Myth in Entrepreneurship
June 11, 2021 09:30 - 14 minutes - 20.3 MBThe biggest myth in entrepreneurship is that entrepreneurs need to be good managers in order to lead their teams. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. Almost every entrepreneur in the world is challenged by managing people because we get stuck in transactional management. You might be challenged managing people, but you are a natu...
727 - A Strategic Plan in Your Business Will Change Everything
June 08, 2021 09:30 - 9 minutes - 13.7 MBThere is nothing in your business that will give you as much momentum as a strategic plan. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. The reality is that most entrepreneurs find themselves stuck, overwhelmed, bottlenecked, and burning out because they are missing this one thing... In this podcast, I'm going to talk about thi...
726 - The #1 Problem in Entrepreneurship, and Why No One Is Talking About It
June 04, 2021 12:45 - 12 minutes - 17.4 MBThere is a massive problem facing entrepreneurs around the world, and the most terrifying part is that nobody is talking about it Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. The reality is that most entrepreneurs find themselves stuck, overwhelmed, bottlenecked, and burning out because they are missing one thing... In this podcast, I'...
725 - Communication Creates Peace
June 01, 2021 13:25 - 22 minutes - 30.4 MBThe relationship you have with your team members, particularly your operator, can make or break your success as an entrepreneur. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. Anyone who says business isn't personal hasn't grown an organization to the level where they should be giving advice. As you grow, your ability to grow the business i...
724 - What to Do When You're Stuck
May 28, 2021 09:30 - 10 minutes - 14.6 MBIf you are an experienced entrepreneur, or really any entrepreneur, that is feeling stuck, plateaued or like you are out of momentum, this is for you. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. There is one thing you need to get unstuck as an entrepreneur. If you're stuck in a place of procrastination, overwhelm, and lack the excitement...
723 - How to Become a More Effective Visionary
May 26, 2021 11:59 - 16 minutes - 22.8 MBEntrepreneurs are that small percentage of the population that gets up every morning, travels into the future, create a new reality, then comes back to the present and demands it becomes real. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. We are visionaries. People who create the future that isn't there yet. In fact, the future of the worl...
722 - The Easiest Way to Build Trust with Your Team
May 21, 2021 13:08 - 7 minutes - 10.9 MBWe all reach a point as entrepreneurs were what we can do on our own is no longer enough. At that point it’s time to build a team. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. The fastest way to make your team productive, and to build a team of true believers, is to build trust with them. It may be counterintuitive, but in the video I expl...
721 - I Got Rid of Commissions and This is What Happened...
May 18, 2021 12:51 - 31 minutes - 43.8 MBAbout ten months ago, I had an idea… (An idea that is practically unheard of in business and would go against all industry standards) I wanted to eliminate high-pressure sales and commission-based sales reps in our company. Instead, I wanted to create a purely consultative sales experience with our Coaches and zero commissions. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implemen...
720 - Stop Striving For Balance
May 14, 2021 09:30 - 20 minutes - 28.8 MBFinding the right balance between growing and scaling your business and being present and focused with your family can be challenging for entrepreneurs. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. This interaction comes directly from a coaching call with a member using the Momentum Planner System. In this interaction, she expresses that ...
719 - A Sneak Peek Inside the Charfen Daily Huddle
May 12, 2021 13:44 - 8 minutes - 11.5 MBWhen a team collectively cares about the shared goal of the company, and they transparently share their feelings, they will always create momentum. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. This is a special look inside the Charfen Daily Huddle on a very important day in our company. We are launching a new product and this is the first...
718 - Increase Your Impact with Video (Expert Call with Marley Jaxx)
May 07, 2021 09:30 - 18 minutes - 25.3 MBWhen you have video on your side, you can increase your impact, make a contribution, and get your tribe into momentum. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. This clip was recorded during a broadcast of one of our company's Expert Calls. Once a month, we bring in an expert in a specific area of business in to speak to our membership...
717 - Why the Power of Belief is Crucial to Your Success
May 04, 2021 12:46 - 18 minutes - 25.7 MBBelief in your business is one of the most powerful catalysts to making the impact, and the income you want. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. As entrepreneurs, it is crucial that we understand how to create this belief. Not a timid “I am pretty sure we can do this,” type of belief. That isn’t good enough. If you want to make a...
716 - Process Will Protect Your Marriage and Grow Your Business
April 30, 2021 12:58 - 13 minutes - 18.7 MBProcess creates intimacy, and can rebuild a marriage or any relationship. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. A couple weeks ago I got a call from a friend of mine who let me know that he was having issues in his marriage. He and his wife were not ready to get divorced, they weren’t fighting, they were just in a place of apathy. ...
715 - One Universal Truth About Every Business
April 27, 2021 13:09 - 17 minutes - 24.5 MBYour business is broken and if things go well and always will be. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. Far too many entrepreneurs expect their businesses to feel perfect, they beat themselves up over gaps or flaws, and they have challenges when things don't go exactly right. Businesses are meant to be broken. They are constantl...
714 - Why So Many Visionaries Fail
April 23, 2021 09:30 - 19 minutes - 27.2 MB"You know, I've studied a lot of systems. I just want to hire people now to run whatever systems work." This statement embodies the reason why so many previously successful visionaries end up failing to create success a second time. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. There is no substitute for creating the systems, framework...
713 - To Create Predictable Growth, You Need...
April 20, 2021 21:40 - 19 minutes - 26.6 MBA predictable business is not necessarily something entrepreneurs start off their journey into business with the intention of attaining. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. The challenge is that we fell that predictability will stiffle our creativity and the freedom we wanted when we first decided to become an entrepreneur....
712 - The Power of Yes with Darian Khosravi
April 16, 2021 09:30 - 11 minutes - 16.3 MBThe power of saying, "Yes" in your business can be absolutely game-changing. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. This is a special presentation by Darian Khosravi, CEO of Kosmos-Q, at the Charfen Summit. In this presentation, Kosmo shares his emotional story of how his life has been impacted by the power of saying, "yes" to his c...
711 - Four Fears All Entrepreneurs Face (And How To Conquer Them)
April 13, 2021 09:30 - 25 minutes - 35 MBIf you're an entrepreneur, it can seem like you need to keep up an outward appearance of success in order to maintain it in your life. From the outside, it can look like things in your business are going great... So why does it feel so hard? Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. When you first started your business, we thought that...
710 - Owner and Operator Alignment with Brent Pohlman
April 09, 2021 09:30 - 14 minutes - 19.5 MBWhen a CEO and Operator are aligned, their business can grow exponentially. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. This is a special presentation by Brent Pohlman, CEO of Midwest Soil Labs, at the Charfen Summit. Their company has experienced massive growth in leadership over the last year, and that growth can be attributed to the a...
709 - How to Stop Being the Biggest Bottleneck in Your Business
April 06, 2021 09:30 - 24 minutes - 34.2 MBIn an entrepreneurial business, the most common issue I’ve encountered is that the entrepreneur in charge is buried by the responsibilities of running and growing that business on a day-to-day basis. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. More often than not, entrepreneurs say that they are drowning in things that need to get done. ...
708 - Closer Teams Through Weekly Reports with Adam Liette
April 02, 2021 09:30 - 12 minutes - 17.3 MBWeekly reporting can completely change how you lead and manage your team. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. This is a special presentation by Adam Liette, Operator of Musical U, at the Charfen Summit. The reality is that most entrepreneurs want to run and hide when they hear the words weekly reporting but you're about to hear f...
707 - How To-Do Lists Destroy Productivity
March 30, 2021 13:53 - 15 minutes - 21.2 MBYour "to-do" might be robbing your productivity. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. If you are anything like me, then you've probably tried more than one (way more than one) planner or organizing system. In my experience, most of the planners I tried to use have been so complicated they took more time than what I was getting bac...
706 - Get Clear. Grow Fast. With Andrea Reindl
March 26, 2021 09:30 - 16 minutes - 22.2 MBAs an entrepreneur, the more leverage you have in your personal life, the more leverage you can have in your business. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. This is a special presentation by Andrea Reindl, CEO and Founder of Legacy Creative. Andrea has created an organization that is changing the world and making a massive contribu...
705 - When Blind Entrepreneurs Lead Blind Companies
March 23, 2021 09:30 - 15 minutes - 21.7 MBEntrepreneurs without a plan can feel like they are the biggest bottleneck in their business. Alex Charfen, a business growth coach who helps entrepreneurs grow and scale their businesses, gives practical, tangible, and actionable tips that you can implement into your business right now. This is the remedy to being the biggest bottleneck in your business and will give you the clarity you need to grow and scale your business as the transformational leader you were meant to be. By the...