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09/03/2026

Blake Erickson closes the episode with an assignment anyone can do tonight.
Frame: take your current revenue, 10X it, and put a 3-year deadline on it.
Floor: ask what in your current business would not get you to that goal. That's the noise to cut.
Focus: identify the two or three moves, a hire, a partnership, a distribution channel, that would actually get you there.
Do that exercise and you'll see exactly what's holding your business back, and exactly where to spend your time instead.
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09/01/2026

"Stagnation occurs because of what you're optimizing for," says Blake Erickson.
If you're going for incremental growth, 10%, 15% a year, you're not building momentum. You're guaranteeing you keep doing more of what you're already doing. Blake explains why the best move is setting a goal so big and so soon that it forces you to think in ways you never have before.
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08/31/2026

New week, new episode. Entrepreneurs United is live now with Blake Erickson on how to set (and actually reach) an impossible goal.
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08/28/2026

Self-care is not selfish.
John St. Pierre closes this episode with a simple but easy to forget idea: you cannot take care of others and show real caring if you are struggling to take care of yourself. Before you pour into your team, your family, or your community, ask how you are taking care of you.
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08/27/2026

Rich Hoffmann shares a formula that reframed how he thinks about caring for people: the happiness equation. Expectations minus reality equals your level of happiness.

If someone's expectation is higher than reality, they end up disappointed, even if reality is good. If you help them lower the expectation first, that same reality can feel like a win. It is not about lowering performance. It is about knowing when the kindest thing you can do is manage the expectation, not raise the bar.

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08/26/2026

Most compliments are truthful and positive but not specific, and that is exactly why they don't land.
Rich Hoffmann shares TSP: truthful, specific, positive feedback, a formula he learned from a former podcast guest. The specific part is what makes it stick. Instead of "hey, you're a good guy," it becomes something like, "I really appreciate when you say you learned something from me and tell me how much it meant to you."
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Big news for our 6th Annual Entrepreneurs United Empowerment Experience. Charlie Chase, CEO of FirstService Brands, is j...
08/25/2026

Big news for our 6th Annual Entrepreneurs United Empowerment Experience. Charlie Chase, CEO of FirstService Brands, is joining us as our Monday night keynote speaker.

Charlie has spent decades building and leading some of the most recognizable service brands in franchising. He'll be sharing candid lessons and practical advice from a career spent growing brands through change and opportunity- the kind of insight that comes only from experience.

Mark your calendars: November 2-4, 2026, Rio Mar, Puerto Rico. Register today, 5 seats left: https://entrepreneursunited.us/

We cannot wait to welcome Charlie, and all of you, to Puerto Rico this November.

08/24/2026

This week John and Rich sat down and just riffed on one idea: caring about people is a key.
They swap real stories, ordering DoorDash for a coworker who wasn't feeling well, writing 52 handwritten cards a year, using TSP feedback (truthful, specific, positive) instead of generic praise, and time-delaying a text so a follow-up question actually lands at the right moment.
They also unpack the happiness equation: expectations minus reality equals your level of happiness, and why sometimes caring means helping someone lower their expectations instead of raising the bar.
They close with the line that ties it all together: self-care is not selfish. It is the key to caring for everybody else.
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08/21/2026

Most businesses think of marketing as ads, content, and campaigns. Morné Smit says the real marketing happens somewhere else entirely: every single customer interaction.

He tells the story of an aggressive "you're in arrears" email he received the same morning they recorded this episode, even though he had already paid. His point: "What needs to happen in the culture of that organization for them to send, as a first touch, a very aggressive, angry email when money is owed?" Every touch either builds goodwill or burns it. There is no middle ground.

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08/20/2026

Tiger Woods practiced six to eight hours a day. Kobe Bryant practiced seven. Every winning team at every level treats practice as mandatory.

So why do so many sales teams believe they have outgrown it? Morné Smit shares a moment from a Novak Djokovic interview that stuck with him. Asked about his gift for staying calm in high pressure matches, Djokovic said: "Let me correct you. It's not a gift. I practice my mindset like I practice my serve."

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