Mike Skrypnek is a top selling author, international speaker and transformational business coach. His latest book, “Entrepreneur Secrets to a Grow Get Give Life”, is the guide for mid-career business owners seeking a better business, a great life and even bigger impact. Mike has conducted hundreds of keynote presentations and workshops to inspire and train thousands of owners, C-Suite executives, professional advisors and charitable organizations in Canada and the United States. His Grow Get Give philosophy helps guide impact-minded owners build great businesses that give them the life they want to live.

Highlights

• For people who have wanted to leave their jobs, is this a good time to start a new business?
• Mike asked himself, “Am I living my passion every day?”
• We talk about how one finds one’s passion.
• Ask what am I good at that could be the basis for a business and take one step forward at a time. Get help and input from others.
• Break everything down to the simple things that you have to learn and tackle one at a time.
• Engaging people in an authentic way is the basis of sales.
• We talk about establishing relationships using Zoom rather than in person.
• Mike has looked deeply into the issue of trust, which is more about us than the person who is trying to gain our trust.
• We can develop trust business relationships if we agree on the future goal, a common outcome, and the rules of the game.
• There is scarcity mindset happening now rather than their normal abundance mindset.
• High end earners rarely give referrals to others.
• We talk about approaching high-end clients.
• Mike shares his personal challenge to not sound promotional when talking to people. He uses writing books to put forth his genuine desire to help others.
• After you figure out your why, identify your ideal customer and interview them about themselves and what they want. Learn the language of your ideal customers.
• If you don’t lead by serving, you aren’t leading.
• Be patient, be serving, be compassionate.
• This is one of the rare moments in history where everyone is experiencing similar emotions. This allows for more authentic discussions.
• People are becoming tired of the chaos which Mike believes will lead us to a better place.

Links

Mike’s book: Enterpreneur Secrets to a Grow Get Give Life

Mike’s site: www.GrowGetGive.com

In this episode I share some thoughts about what each of us can do to overcome feelings of aloneness and powerlessness that are affecting a lot of people during this difficult time.

Highlights

• I’m trying to identify the emotions, both comfortable and uncomfortable, that I’m experiencing now.
• Because I like to solve problems, not knowing how to help leads me to feel powerless.
• I have no power to change what’s going on outside of me. I can only change what’s going on inside of me.
• The people in power don’t understand what ordinary people have to go through.
• What can each of us do – what actions can we take – to help lift the burden that so many are feeling.
• Although there’s a lot of aloneness going on, we have the opportunity to reach out and connect to others.
• It’s important to reach out to others and be authentic about how you are feeling and what you are dealing with.
• If we share our feelings with others, both up and down, we can feel more whole.
• Who might you reach out to just to ask How are you doing?
• How can you re-perceive the current situation?
• We need to connect to and support others.
• We have to look beyond the past and into the future. And, you have the right to imagine a positive future.
• Try to imagine positives solutions and results of what has been happening.
• How can you look into the future and see a positive story?

Links

Prosperity Place

Information about the Taos Pueblo

Holistic Prosperity Facebook Group

Mark Wolynn is the director of the Family Constellation Institute in San Francisco. He is a leading expert in the field of inherited family trauma. His book It Didn’t Start With You: How Inherited Family Trauma Shapes Who We Are and How to End the Cycle (published by Viking/Penguin) is the winner of the 2016 Nautilus Book Award in psychology and has been translated into 19 languages. His articles have appeared in Psychology Today, Mind Body Green, MariaShriver.com, Elephant Journal, and Psych Central, and his poetry has been published in The New Yorker.

Highlights

• Mark explains what Family Trauma is.
• When trauma is unresolved it can pass on to future generations.
• Many of us live with medical mysteries that need deeper examination.
• Our sense of not having enough can hark back to not getting enough attention from our mother in early life.
• If the mother has a previous difficult pregnancy or miscarriage, or any difficult life experience during pregnancy, that will affect the child’s experience as a fetus.
• Instead of blaming your parents because you are, in some way, screwed up, find out what trauma they experienced that allowed them to treat you the way they did.
• There’s a long list of questions about their parents that Mark asks his clients.
• Although early memories may not be available to us, they still affect us.
• By understanding what your parents went through, it makes it easier to forgive your parents. We can then let go of whatever anger we are holding on to.
• Mark helps people get out of the stress response so they can have new, more pleasant experiences and build new neural pathways while overcoming the stress response.
• Mark mentions some of the techniques he uses and how he helps people become “trauma detectives”.
• Trauma in our family history can determine how success does or does not flow to us.
• Because of Covid, we have the chance to look inside and work through past traumas.
• What’s your worst fear? It time to look at this.
• When traumas are not talked about, that’s what leads to repeating the pattern.

Links

Prosperity Place

Mark’s Book

Mark’s Site

Mark's Facebook Page

Mark on LinkedIn