What is a Free Zone Frontier? You enter into a Free Zone when you increasingly create unique collaborative possibilities and payoffs that are amazingly free of competition. Join Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach and Steve Krein of StartUp Health as they launch the Free Zone Frontier podcast. Learn the concepts as they relate to their own companies, and how this transformative mindset is the future of entrepreneurial growth.
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Common Pitfalls To Avoid For A Flawless Conference Experience
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As of this year, Dan Sullivan has been a business coach for half a century, and Strategic Coach® has been helping entrepreneurs lead their best lives for 35 years. In this episode, Steve Krein and Dan discuss the inaugural CoachCon event that recently took place in Nashville, how the three-day conference came together, and the secrets that made it …
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The Power Of Shared Language To Grow Your Community
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Ever been to a concert where everyone sings along to every song? That's the power of community. Dan and Steve explore the emotional side of entrepreneurship, discussing the benefits of building a strong community. It’s an environment of shared language, shared opportunities, and shared experiences where everyone can gain and grow. Show Notes: In an…
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Exploring AI's Impact On Entrepreneurship And Innovation, with Lior Weinstein
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Serial entrepreneur Lior Weinstein returns to the show. Teaming up with Dan and Steve, he shares his systematic approach for tackling business challenges and leveraging AI alongside human capabilities. Three entrepreneurs operating at the top of their game promise valuable takeaways to transform pains into new revenue streams and fuel your success.…
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How To Make Growth Inevitable, with Lior Weinstein
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Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein welcome Lior Weinstein, a serial entrepreneur who specializes in simplifying complex concepts into actionable steps. Lior shares his background, starting in Israel and moving to the United States, where he expanded his entrepreneurial career after serving in the IDF's Intelligence Corps. Lior's experiences taught him ab…
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How To Cast A Collaborator, Not Hire An Employee
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Many entrepreneurs don’t hire well, and those that do mostly dread the activity. Dan Sullivan aims to change that. He explains a mindset shift about hiring differently as entrepreneurs, exploring how thinking of hiring as casting a play creates a new perspective on team building and collaboration. Show Notes: Most entrepreneurs view hiring as a cos…
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Your Secret Weapon Is Discovering When You’re Great
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Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein delve into the power of the “When Are You Great?” tool, discussing how it serves as a crucial planning aid and a potent marketing resource. Using real-world examples, they explore the implications for crafting compelling offers, narrating impactful stories, and leveraging a marketer’s secret weapon. Highlights: To figur…
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Create The Future Using The Best Of Your Past
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The end of a year and the beginning of another is a great time to reflect and plan. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss effective ways entrepreneurs can look back on what’s happened and look ahead to what they want to accomplish, sharing insights from their own experiences running successful businesses. Highlights: A lot of people feel uncomfortab…
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No matter how long a company has been around, it’s vital that everyone is clear on and maintains their core values. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain why this is so important, discuss why all team members need to be aligned, and share some of their own companies’ core values. Highlights: In the U.S., core values used to be structured into the en…
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Strategic Coach® is approaching its 50th anniversary, and Coach co-founder Dan Sullivan is coming up on 50 years of coaching entrepreneurs. In this episode, Steve Krein and Dan share some of the significant changes to entrepreneurism that have happened over the past 50 years and what the future holds. Highlights: Steve and Dan discuss what is curre…
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The Role Of Tension In Breakthrough Thinking
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Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein continue their discussion about the power of thinking tools and how they can help entrepreneurs achieve their goals. They explore the importance of tension, shortcuts, and tools in simplifying complex problems and generating new opportunities for yourself, your team, and your clients. Highlights: Strategic Coach® began …
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Creating A Thinking Tool Culture In Your Company
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How do you find great people to join your organization? How do you train them, coach them, and guide them? The answer lies in what makes Strategic Coach® different from all other companies. In this first episode of a two-part series, Steven Krein and Dan Sullivan share the thinking tool culture of Strategic Coach, how it has transformed Steven’s St…
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Keep Things Simple So You Can Multiply Their Impact
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Most entrepreneurs believe they have to be in constant competition. But there’s a much more enjoyable way to live your entrepreneurial life to achieve bigger and better results: you can enter a zone of collaboration with like-minded people that’s entirely free of competition. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain how to start. Hint: it’s all about s…
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Age Reversal Innovations For Entrepreneurs
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Innovations in the realm of age reversal are accelerating. Getting physically younger while getting older in years is a real possibility. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain the advances, discuss what’s needed for further breakthroughs, and share why age reversal developments are critical for entrepreneurs to be preparing for. Hig…
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A lot of entrepreneurs are scared right now, while others are excited, feeling like this is the best time to be innovating and creating value. Why these opposing mindsets? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steven Krein explain why some people are experiencing anxiety about the future while others are staying cool and calm. Highlights: Some people s…
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Dan Sullivan and Steven Krein discuss Dan’s latest quarterly book, Capitalism—And Everything Else, and explain what capitalism really means, why many people believe they don’t like it, why it’s misunderstood, and its five growth stages. Highlights: Some people incorrectly approach capitalism as a rival to ideologies like communism and fascism. Capi…
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Ever wondered what the success formula is for top entrepreneurs? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss the “25-Year Transformation” and how it can benefit entrepreneurs by helping them prioritize their biggest goals and measure progress every quarter. They explain how having a quarterly rhythm can be transformational, and provide in…
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Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss the Free Zone Frontier® and the StartUp Health programs. They both believe it’s crucial to have the right people in the room, sharing their experiences and collaborating. Connecting like this with a community of ambitious, calm entrepreneurs makes it possible to experience five years’ progress in three months.…
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Your Collaborations Move At The Speed Of Trust, with Timothy Nelson
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What does it take to make a significant impact in battling a disease? In this third episode of their three-part series, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Dr. Timothy Nelson discuss the innovative model Tim has developed for combatting congenital heart disease, the incredible commitment from others that it’s taken to reach this point, and how many othe…
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The Incredible Healing Potential Of Stem Cells, with Timothy Nelson
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An astonishing discovery has taken the concept of stem cell usage and regenerative medicine and put it permanently on the map for future generations. In this second of their three-part series, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Dr. Timothy Nelson discuss the latest breakthroughs and possibilities that exist in stem cell research. Free Zone collaboratio…
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Achieving The Impossible In Curing Congenital Heart Disease, with Timothy Nelson
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Dr. Timothy Nelson is an entrepreneur with a specialty in curing congenital heart disease. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein chat with Tim about the discoveries and motivations that led him to this position. Tim explains how he and his team are on a mission to leverage the philanthropic community to focus on rare diseases that are too often neglected. J…
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Why do some startup companies continually grow, while most fail? You need more than a great idea. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss the successes of Steve’s unique, collaborative StartUp Health network, the mindsets entrepreneurs need in order to achieve the greatest success, and the things they do that most entrepreneurs won’t …
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How To Innovate In An Old-School Industry, with Carson Holmquist
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On the cutting edge of the construction, Carson Holmquist creates the most value for his clients by exploring opportunities in off-site and modular construction. In the second episode of a two-part series, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Carson explain how to innovate when an industry feels too established for any wholesale change.…
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Exploring The Future Of Construction, with Carson Holmquist
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Carson Holmquist is a true innovator in the field of construction, and a member of the Free Zone Frontier program at Strategic Coach. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein share what has allowed Carson to thrive, in what ways everyone involved is benefiting, and how he sees the future of modular construction.…
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Every entrepreneur has something to offer their clients, but most of them attempt to make convincing arguments rather than compelling offers. Dan Sullivan and Steven Krein continue their conversation and highlight the differences between the two approaches, and how you can use this to effectively sell your solutions.…
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A Compelling Offer Beats A Convincing Argument Every Time
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There’s a big difference between convincing someone with an argument and compelling them to take action with an offer. And in the market world where we all live, people don’t want to be convinced—they want to be compelled. Join Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein to learn the differences between convincing and compelling, and the very different effects ea…
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Too many entrepreneurs don’t spend enough time focusing on issues related to their intellectual property early on in the development of their companies. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein share why you need to value your ideas, and the steps you need to take to protect that value.By Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach And Steve Krein of StartUp Health
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The Importance Of Intangible Assets, with Keegan Caldwell
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In this constantly changing political and economic landscape, entrepreneurs can benefit greatly from understanding intellectual property. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein continue their discussion with Keegan Caldwell, founder of one of the fastest-growing IP firms in the world, about what entrepreneurs should know when it comes to their IP.…
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It’s Time To Protect What’s Yours, with Keegan Caldwell
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The importance of intellectual property is undeniable, but not everyone knows as much about their own IP situation as they should. In this second episode of a three-part series, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein chat with Keegan Caldwell, the founder of an intellectual property law firm, who explains how IP law can benefit entrepreneurs beyond just prot…
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Where Law And Entrepreneurship Collide, with Keegan Caldwell
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There are many exciting ways in which entrepreneurship and law overlap. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and special guest Keegan Caldwell discuss the issues from all sides, including intellectual property and how lawyers and entrepreneurs can best communicate. Keegan helps clients defend their intellectual property assets. Have a listen to hear how that…
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Turning Back The Clock, with Regan Archibald
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Age reversal has been a hot topic for about 20 years, and there are more factors at play in its advancement than you might think. In this episode, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and guest Regan Archibald talk about the great strides that have been made and what needs to happen for even further advancement in this field that will impact us all.…
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You’re In Charge Of Your Own Health, with Regan Archibald
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It’s possible that, through the right set of circumstances, health-care advancements can allow people to have longer lives. In fact, all of the necessary ingredients already exist. Dan Sullivan, Steven Krein, and special guest Regan Archibald discuss what needs to happen in order for health care to help people extend their lives.…
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Rewind: How To Think 100x About Your Business
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Join Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein as they revisit one of the earliest episodes to share the mindsets that were critical in the creation of the Free Zone Frontier. You’ll learn how to start thinking 100x about your company, and how that opens up enormous possibilities. To have a huge impact, you need to think huge. And taking your business to that l…
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While it can take years for an entrepreneur to establish credibility in their industry and marketplace, it can be destroyed in moments. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain why credibility is so important for entrepreneurs, various ways it can be established and built on—and the risks of losing it.By Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach And Steve Krein of StartUp Health
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Cash and confidence are rewards for entrepreneurs, but there are steps that need to be taken before they appear. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain the process that you will need to go through to create something profitable and the dangers of skipping important steps.By Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach And Steve Krein of StartUp Health
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The Ultimate Entrepreneurial President, with Howard Getson and Matthew Pinsker
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There are many overlaps between entrepreneurship and both American business and American politics. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and guests Matthew Pinsker and Howard Getson discuss the entrepreneurial mindset and structures displayed by Abraham Lincoln and other former U.S. presidents.By Dan Sullivan of Strategic Coach And Steve Krein of StartUp Health
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While many entrepreneurial companies eventually get stuck in their growth, Paul Abel devised ways and designed systems to help others avoid traps and bypass competition. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein continue their conversation with Paul about his strategies and why they’re so effective for modern entrepreneurs.…
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Protecting Yourself As A Successful Entrepreneur, with Paul Abel
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Paul Abel was a successful franchise owner, but going up against government regulations, he always lost. Fifteen years ago, inspired by an experience he had with a workplace injury, Paul decided to start his own business informing employers how to avoid fines and lawsuits. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Paul cover the responsibilities of employers …
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The Best Ways To Build An Audience—And Keep It, with Nick Nanton
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With so many media platforms out there, it’s hard to know which you should be spending your time on. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and special guest Nick Nanton explain how you can most effectively reach your desired audience—and keep them engaged and interested. If you don’t become part of the story happening all around you, you’ll become irrelevant …
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Thinking More Deeply About What You Do, with Nick Nanton
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After 15 years as an entrepreneur working with celebrities, Nick Nanton has made the shift to helping other entrepreneurs stand out in the marketplace. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein chat with Nick about his personal growth, what’s changed, and what’s the same. Since entrepreneurs were not meant to work for other people, a sign of business wisdom is …
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How The Best Collaborations Work with Brett Kaufman
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An entrepreneur’s proper role can be as the explainer, the contextualizer, and the protector of a vision. If you can’t find great people to work with on that, it might be that great people aren’t looking for you. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and guest Brett Kaufman explain what makes for the best entrepreneurial collaborations—and collaborators. Find…
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Too often, people focus on the negatives of what’s changed, but the past year has shown that entrepreneurs are in a position to adapt quickly and even step up their game. During the lockdown, a lot of people re-evaluated what they actually like doing and are taking action to do more of that. In this episode, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and guest Bre…
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The Right People To Raise Your Thinking with Howard Getson
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Everyone acts and thinks differently depending on who they’re dealing with. Part of what dictates this are the differences in how people see you. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and guest Howard Getson discuss the kinds of people who raise your capability, the best tools to communicate with them, and the kinds of people who limit your thinking. If you’r…
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Building Your Own Future with Howard Getson
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While some entrepreneurs are satisfied once they reach a certain status, others are always moving onto the next stage no matter what. Join Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and special guest Howard Getson to learn how decision-making processes are discovery processes, and why creating technology to handle unpleasant tasks might be easier than you thought.…
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Learning The Tricks Of Top Entrepreneurs with Dean Jackson • Part 2
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The best entrepreneurs are always looking to improve by gathering useful tools and concepts and by coaching others. Knowing how to present new information to entrepreneurs is critical because they often don't have the patience to sit through a deep analysis of problems. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and guest Dean Jackson share what’s worked best for …
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Between Certainty And Uncertainty with Dean Jackson • Part 1
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There’s at least some uncertainty in a lot of ventures, and entrepreneurs can do the best job if they acknowledge the uncertainty instead of pretending to know everything. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and guest Dean Jackson explain the value of believing in your projects and how uncertainty itself can shape how well they develop.…
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In one of our most popular episodes, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explore how confidence isn’t always obvious in your communication with other people. It’s often clear when you’ve given way to others’ skepticism and you’re no longer sold on what you’re talking about. The key to remaining in your ‘Free Zone’ is to hold an unwavering belief in the pr…
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What Always Stays The Same In An Entrepreneurial Life with Lisa Cini
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It often happens that once an entrepreneur finds success, what led to their company’s success can go missing. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Lisa Cini discuss ways in which entrepreneurs can continue creating value once their company has grown. In order to achieve a big goal, you might need to look decades ahead and to big collaborations. You have …
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Let’s jump back to the episode that started it all! The essence of a “Free Zone”—a brand new realm of value creation where there is no competition. This idea of forging ahead into new, competition-free “frontiers” has become the foundation of the program and is unique and particular to the experience of entrepreneurs.…
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Transforming Health Care Until It’s Free with David Berg
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Most Americans can’t afford health care in addition to food, transportation, and shelter, but one entrepreneur has created a way to make it accessible to everyone. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein welcome David Berg to explain his system for providing health care to employees with no funding wasted on administration or unnecessary costs.…
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Why You Shouldn’t Collaborate With Someone Just Like You with Lee Richter
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Even if two entrepreneurs are at the top of their game, that doesn’t mean they’re the right fit to work together. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Lee Richter explain how everyone is either a Simplifier or a Multiplier, and how the best work happens when one joins forces with the other. You’ll know if you’re a Simplifier or a Multiplier based on your…
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