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The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success with Jeffrey Shaw

02/18/22 • 110 min

In recent years, self-employment has become something that interests many people across the globe. While it has a plethora of benefits, being self-employed comes with a set of unique challenges as well. Our guest today is someone who has made a remarkable career out of helping entrepreneurs and business owners navigate the world of self-employment. Jeffrey Shaw, business coach, speaker, and the author of ‘The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success,’ joins us today to take a deep dive into business and personal development strategies for entrepreneurs and small business owners.

We start the conversation with some of the things that inspire and motivate Jeffrey and some of the learnings from his long career as a business coach. Getting into the concepts of self-employment, Jeff shares his thoughts on the reasons that motivate people to lean towards self-employment and a concept that he’s included in his book; the self-employed ecosystem. Throughout the episode, we dive deep into each of the three key elements of the self-employed ecosystem.

Diving into the first element of the ecosystem, we talk about how to overcome the fear of success, how we sometimes become an obstacle in our own path to success, and what we can do to overcome the limiting beliefs that hold us back. He further explains how setting intentions can become a powerful catalyst to success and some scientific research that demonstrated the power of intentions.

Jeffrey’s perspective on marketing is quite unique and fascinating. We talk about why some of the commonly used terms in marketing have a negative impact on our mindset and attitude towards our customers and why he prefers to use terms that resonate closely with the relationships we build with our customers. Wrapping up the episode, Jeffrey dives deep into some of the habits self-employed people should implement in their lives that will lead them to success.

Resources:

Connect with Jeffrey

Website: jeffreyshaw.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jeffreyshawauthor
Twitter: @jeffreyshaw1

Jeffrey’s Book

The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
goodreads.com/en/book/show/57405745-the-self-employed-life

Mentioned in the Episode

Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power by Carolyn Elliott
goodreads.com/en/book/show/50915816-existential-kink

Resources:

Connect with Jeffrey

Website: jeffreyshaw.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jeffreyshawauthor
Twitter: @jeffreyshaw1

Jeffrey’s Book

The Self-Employed Life: Business and Personal Development Strategies That Create Sustainable Success
goodreads.com/en/book/show/57405745-the-self-employed-life

Mentioned in the Episode

Existential Kink: Unmask Your Shadow and Embrace Your Power by Carolyn Elliott
goodreads.com/en/book/show/50915816-existential-kink

Previous Episode

How Failure Makes You an Outstanding Leader with Colin Hunter

Combined with focused, purposeful reflection, relearning failure as a valuable outcome makes an exceptional and successful leader. In addition, leadership requires embracing your self-doubting inner voices and intentionally stretching yourself and your staff. That is, however, easier said than done.

In today's episode of the pursuit of learning, we have a fascinating and informative conversation with Colin Hunter. He is an author, mentor, entrepreneur, coach, and the CEO and Lead Guide to a business, Potential Squared, founded in 2001. Colin founded the company to inspire leaders by reimagining how they engage and develop their people. He and his international team are experts in creating immersive, quantifiable environments that promote new ways of thinking, systems, and behaviors. Colin's passion is for leadership experimentation, producing influence through a leader's presence, and designing systems and habits that are integrated with the intentional practice for those leaders.

What if you could create a work environment that felt less like a struggle, less stressful, and more like a playground: a place filled with opportunities to take risks and push limits, with soft landings? A space where you and your team can experiment, make mistakes, and get things wrong? A space where failure is acceptable? It has never been more critical to fail early, fail frequently, and fail forward in the age of disruption. Colin's most recent book, Be More Wrong, delves into the systems, habits, and practices required to develop crucial leadership abilities and accelerate learning. If you're recovering from Imposter Syndrome and feeling constrained in your ability to lead effectively, Be More Wrong will shift your mentality and encourage you to believe you can succeed by learning from your mistakes.

Colin discusses his Pi2 Leadership Impact Model and demonstrates how to develop systems and habits that will enable you to lead with greater confidence, conviction, and connection during the conversation. Additionally, he emphasizes that we will learn to distinguish between various leadership styles. Moreover, he highlights numerous aspects that make a good leader exceptional. Furthermore, Colin discusses multiple topics, including determining the goal of one's life, becoming an impactful leader, and various other concepts, such as positive intelligence and conflict pack. In addition, he highlights the significance of starting things right and small.

By putting our egos and expertise aside and embarking on a trip to study human behavior, generate new ideas, and experiment, we will begin to create a playground for ourselves and our team. Driven by his current purpose, Colin works to create measurable playgrounds to disrupt the way people are led and amplify the human in leadership. Furthermore, throughout the talk, Colin emphasizes regardless of how unlikely a leader you believe yourself to be, you may get it right by being more wrong.

Resources:

Connect with Colin:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/colinhunter/

Mentioned in the episode:

Be More Wrong: How Failure Makes You an Outstanding Leader: goodreads.com/book/show/57440454-be-more-wrong?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=byumSst4ED&rank=1

Dan Carter: How to make the leap from being good to being great: play.acast.com/s/the-high-performance-podcast/dancarter

Next Episode

The Responsibility Ethic with Adam Kreek

We want to make ourselves the boss right now. We want to lose weight more quickly. In general terms, society has become addicted to short fixes. We want to believe that there is a hidden cheat code, hack, or shortcut for all of these. But, deep down, we see right through the deception, which makes us nervous. Today's guest in the Pursuit of Learning podcast is an incredible individual who teaches how to reach the maximum potential at whatever point in our careers or lives. He offers winning tactics from the trenches, where the strongest minds dominate, based on his eight years of intensive Olympic training, near-death ocean adventures, and work as an executive coach and corporate trainer. Adam Kreek, an executive business coach, joins us today to address numerous aspects related to responsibility ethics and values-driven achievement techniques, which he teaches to increase professional impact and achievement.

Adam works with high-performing CEOs, business owners, and organizations to increase engagement, growth, and measurable results. His book, The Responsibility Ethic, a fascinating narrative with solid teaching and direct application, pushes business leaders worldwide to pursue their aspirations and accept responsibility for their achievement. He outlines the 12 basic principles of self-leadership that have driven his extraordinary accomplishments in The Responsibility Ethic and demonstrates how you may master them as well.

Throughout today's conversation, Adam delivers mind-blowing explanations on locus of control and its importance, goal formulation, and goal attainment. Also, diving deep into the concept of shared leadership, he explains the three C's of shared leadership. Additionally, Adam delves into how good stress and a self-assured attitude toward failure can completely revolutionize your life and career. Further, in The Responsibility Ethic, Adam delves into the various ways a person might accept responsibility in their personal lives, businesses, and leadership positions. These twelve responsibility ethics cover many topics, from taking responsibility for our fears and failures to mentoring, stress, leadership, and even safety. Readers will have a better grasp of taking greater ownership of their lives and careers through this book.

During the conversation, Adam highlights that not everything we do has to be about the journey, but rather the destination and journey. Also, he explains what it means to accept responsibility and how "responsibility ethics" might alter how you view yourself and the world during today's conversation. Finally, ending the conversation, he emphasizes the necessity of professionalism, communication, and mentoring in workplace leadership.

Resources:

Connect with Adam:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/adamkreek/

Twitter: twitter.com/adamkreek

Website: valuesdrivenachievement.com

Mentioned in the episode:

The Responsibility Ethic: 12 Winning Strategies to Power Lasting Success and Happiness: goodreads.com/en/book/show/46029638-the-responsibility-ethic

The Metronome Effect: The Journey To Predictable Profit: goodreads.com/book/show/23657014-the-metronome-effect?from_search=true&from_srp=true&qid=3rRLXjInJy&rank=1

3HAG WAY: The Strategic Execution System that ensures your strategy is not a Wild-Ass-Guess!: goodreads.com/book/show/39889654-3hag-way?from_search=true&from_srp