Podcasts about entrepreneurial personality type

Join Alex on this episode of Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type as he unveils his groundbreaking framework for understanding self-love. Drawing from years of personal exploration, Alex shares insights and practical steps to help listeners navigate the complex terrain of self-awareness, self-acceptance, and self-appreciation. Alex guides listeners on a transformative journey towards true self-love. From the crucial step of self-awareness to the profound impact of prioritizing self-care and positive habits, this episode offers invaluable wisdom and perspective for anyone striving to cultivate a deeper connection with themselves. Discover the power of embracing your true self and unlocking a life of purpose, fulfillment, and boundless possibility. Join Alex as he unravels the mysteries of the self-love continuum and empowers listeners to embark on their own journey of growth and healing.

This episode I host Alex Charfen, author of "The Entrepreneurial Personality Type" and Co-Founder of Simple Operations. Alex has found contentment in his life though the realizations he's made while growing his and others' businesses up to and past eight figures.  Explore with me as we find out more about his personal journey to find contentment in life, all while keeping a growth mindset. Alex's Socials  - Instagram: @alexcharfen - LinkedIn: @alexcharfen - Twitter: @alexcharfen - Alex's Podcast: Momentum (found on his website and on streaming) My Socials - Twitter: @aaron_cordovez - Instagram: @aaroncordovez - YouTube: @AaronCordovez - TikTok: @aaroncordovez - LinkedIn:  @AaronCordovez _____________

Had a great time talking to Co-Founder of Simple Operations, Alex Charfen. Alex has spent his career growing businesses and helping other business owners create more simplicity in their business. We talked about three things to do right now to create simplicity in your business and spent time talking about the relationship with a significant other and how important that is to business success. Let me know how you liked the show and what your biggest takeaway was. You can connect with Alex in the following places: Get a free copy of Alex's book the Entrepreneurial Personality Type: https://freeeptbook.com/ Simple Operations: https://simpleoperations.com/ Social Media: IG: @alexcharfen X/Twitter: @alexcharfen Youtube: @alexcharfen Facebook: facebook.com/alexcharfen1 If you have a comment about the episode or an idea for a future show, you can send that to me here: https://featuredup.com/coachbrandon                                    _____________________ For more listening options and several FREE resources provided by New Work Revolution, please visit GrowthandFreedom.media.

In this episode Alex host of Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type reveals the power of having focused podcast targeting when creating podcast content and how that help podcasters build stronger, relationship with listeners. Host Name: Alex CharfenShow Name: Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality TypeCurrent audience size at the point of publishing: 20,000Niche/Focus of show: Entrepreneurship You can find Alex Charfen here.Every Monday, a successful podcaster with tens of thousands of listeners and a fully monetized show will leave you a 5-10 minute voice note sharing their stories, strategies, failures & the mindset needed to grow a successful show.And this is one of those episodes.So if you want to gain a deeper understanding of what it takes to build a successful podcast, scroll up and click play!More From Get More Listeners:Grab your FREE personalized audit + a copy of our bestseller Podcast Marketing.Or Visit https://getmorelisteners.com/bookView Client Results & Case Studies Here.https://getmorelisteners.com/studentsuccessOr Visit getmorelisteners.com/studentsuccessGet More Listeners Recommendations:Looking for a new hosting platform with amazing analytics?Try Captivate: Get a FREE 7-day Trial Here.

Brent Pohlman, owner and CEO of Midwest Laboratories, strives to bring his A-game to work daily. At 15, Brent landed his first job at Midwest Laboratories, the company his father founded in 1975. He became CEO in 2016 and is passionate about teaching others to lead effectively. As a person of faith, he coaches people up, leads from the heart, and has achieved success by focusing on people, processes, and technology—in that order.Grateful to build on his father's legacy, Brent aspired to be a leader and owner of a great company. His transformation has convinced him that leaders must look deeper within themselves to find their true identities. He believes the only way to lead is from the heart and is passionate about helping others learn how to lead others effectively.Brent has been a guest on the weekly radio show Grow Omaha and the business podcast Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type. He earned a BA in business administration and a BS in secondary education from Concordia University, then his MBA in human resources from the University of Nebraska.Working out and reading are among Brent's hobbies. He also enjoys attending Kansas City Chiefs games and live concerts by artists from the 1970s, 80s, and 90s. Brent and his family live in Omaha, Nebraska.

In today's episode, our host, Bryan McAnulty, sits down with renowned entrepreneur Alex Charfen, co-founder of the coaching company Sharfen. Listen until the end of the episode to get Alex Charfen's new book for free! Together, they tackle the challenges and triumphs of being an entrepreneur, discussing the importance of structure, boundaries, and self-care. Watch this episode to learn about your entrepreneurial personality and what are the keys to achieving sustainable success and fulfillment as a business owner. Alex Charfen is a renowned entrepreneur who co-founded CHARFEN, a coaching company that helps other entrepreneurs scale and optimize their businesses and achieve new levels of sustainable growth.

The Entrepreneurial Personality Type content was introduced into the market in 2015, at Genius Network with Joe Polish, and almost immediately people said that they needed more.  They wanted to understand more, and they identified with the Entrepreneurial Personality Type and it changed their lives just listening to that presentation. That might sound like an exaggeration, but that presentation at Genius changed my life. And for years people have been asking to go back to the very beginning of the podcast and re-record the Entrepreneurial Personality Type episodes. This is crucially important content for anybody who's an entrepreneur to understand and to be able to create more momentum in our lives, to understand ourselves better, to move things forward, to understand how we react to the world as entrepreneurs. Now, I share this episode with gratitude and with excitement and with everything that I've learned since I first introduced this all the way back in 2015. Ready for more? Book a call with our team and see how we can help you get out of overwhelm and calm the chaos in your life and business: https://simpleoperations.com/survey

Links for Alex Charfen: https://www.charfen.com/ https://www.youtube.com/c/AlexCharfen  https://www.instagram.com/alexcharfen/?hl=en  https://www.facebook.com/charfen/    Want to learn more about Artificial Intelligence (AI), Hermetic Philosophy, psychedelics, and the evolution of human consciousness? Go to https://beyondhomosapien.com/  Join hosts Paul and Scotty P as they engage in a captivating conversation with renowned entrepreneur and visionary, Alex Charfen. In this thought-provoking episode of the Beyond Homo Sapien Podcast, we delve deep into the transformative realm of psychedelic therapy and its profound impact on human consciousness. Alex Charfen, a seasoned explorer of the mind and an advocate for personal growth, shares his awe-inspiring experience with Ayahuasca, a powerful plant medicine known for its potential to unlock profound insights and catalyze deep healing. Through his candid storytelling, Alex takes us on an enthralling journey, recounting the profound lessons, revelations, and personal growth he gained through his encounters with different psychedelics.  Prepare to be enlightened as we explore the multifaceted aspects of psychedelic therapy, discussing its potential as a tool for healing trauma, expanding consciousness, and promoting holistic well-being. Discover how Ayahuasca guided Alex Charfen on a transformative path, shedding light on his purpose, unraveling limiting beliefs, and helping him tap into his true potential. Subscribe now to the Beyond Homo Sapien Podcast and join us in exploring the frontiers of human consciousness, personal growth, and the incredible potential of psychedelic therapy. Don't miss this extraordinary conversation with Alex Charfen, an episode that is sure to leave you with profound insights and a newfound understanding of the transformative power of Ayahuasca.

Leave a message for Ken or Alex here! In this episode of The Content Capitalist, Ken talks to Alex Charfen, a mentor, author, podcast host of the MOMENTUM podcast, and seven-figure business owner, about his journey from selling candy (and getting banned from doing it) to becoming a Fortune 500 consultant, and forming CHARFEN; one of the fastest growing small businesses in the country that helps entrepreneurs put process, structure, and routine into their lives, all while also making their greatest contribution. "I was always that kid that was super different, and I didn't really love school or didn't feel very successful in school. I wasn't very successful socially. I didn't have a lot of places where I felt like I belonged. And when I was about eight years old, . . . “ Hear how Alex started his first business when he was just eight years old, selling candy. And how he later started a financial consulting company in college, and after dropping out of college, wrote a book called ‘The Entrepreneurial Personality Type', which helps entrepreneurs understand themselves and their businesses better. Alex and his wife started their first online business in 2007, and have continuously evolved to meet the needs of their entrepreneur clients. Alex is passionate about helping entrepreneurs put process, structure and routine into their lives so they can grow businesses and not have to do everything themselves. Listen to hear more on Alex Charfen's journey to success. Follow Alex Charfen at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexcharfenwww.Momentumpodcast.com/https://simpleoperations.com/The Entrepreneurial Personality Type: Your guide to the most important and misunderstood people among us:https://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurial-Personality-Type-important-misunderstood/dp/1944602305#Follow Ken Okazaki at: http://contentcapitalists.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/influencervideohttps://www.instagram.com/kenokazaki/https://www.youtube.com/c/KenOkazakiContent Capitalists YouTube 

Leave a message for Ken or Alex here! In this episode of The Content Capitalist, Ken talks to Alex Charfen, a mentor, author, podcast host of the MOMENTUM podcast, and seven-figure business owner, about his journey from selling candy (and getting banned from doing it) to becoming a Fortune 500 consultant, and forming CHARFEN; one of the fastest growing small businesses in the country that helps entrepreneurs put process, structure, and routine into their lives, all while also making their greatest contribution. "I was always that kid that was super different, and I didn't really love school or didn't feel very successful in school. I wasn't very successful socially. I didn't have a lot of places where I felt like I belonged. And when I was about eight years old, . . . “ Hear how Alex started his first business when he was just eight years old, selling candy. And how he later started a financial consulting company in college, and after dropping out of college, wrote a book called ‘The Entrepreneurial Personality Type', which helps entrepreneurs understand themselves and their businesses better. Alex and his wife started their first online business in 2007, and have continuously evolved to meet the needs of their entrepreneur clients. Alex is passionate about helping entrepreneurs put process, structure and routine into their lives so they can grow businesses and not have to do everything themselves. Listen to hear more on Alex Charfen's journey to success. Follow Alex Charfen at: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexcharfenwww.Momentumpodcast.com/https://simpleoperations.com/The Entrepreneurial Personality Type: Your guide to the most important and misunderstood people among us:https://www.amazon.com/Entrepreneurial-Personality-Type-important-misunderstood/dp/1944602305#Follow Ken Okazaki at: http://contentcapitalists.com/https://www.facebook.com/groups/influencervideohttps://www.instagram.com/kenokazaki/https://www.youtube.com/c/KenOkazakiContent Capitalists YouTube 

Alex Charfen understands entrepreneurs. As a talented business advisor, he's come to the rescue of countless business owners…  including myself, when I met him at a mastermind and immediately begged him to share his wisdom!  The co-founder and CEO of Simple Operations, Alex created the Entrepreneurial Personality Type to explain the ambition and drive we all have. And he's confident that we can change the world! I was so excited to reconnect with him on my podcast and learn a bit more about how we, as financial professionals, can use our passion and drive to make the world a better place — all while growing our businesses.  I had Alex on my podcast to share some advice on business growth and creating change, including: How being awkward led Alex to massive success How Alex saved me from almost imploding my business The importance of our role as entrepreneurs in contributing to society What the Entrepreneurial Personality Type is, and whether you're truly meant to be one Connect with Alex Charfen Website: https://simpleoperations.com/ Book: https://www.charfen.com/eptbook/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/charfen LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexcharfen/ Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/momentum-for-the-entrepreneurial-personality-type-ept/id1263149459 Connect with Robyn Crane Website: https://robyncrane.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bizgrowth4women/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/robyn-crane-inc./ YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/RobynCrane Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/robyncrane/?hl=en  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Have you always had the feeling that you were different? Not like everyone else, maybe you or even the black sheep or the standout in your family that just doesn't think like the rest. If so, you and I have a lot in common. In this podcast, I share the preface of my book, The Entrepreneurial Personality Type, and my thesis on exactly Who We Are and why the world sees us as they do. You can get your copy of The Entrepreneurial Personality Type here, eptbook.com.  

Alex Charfen is the Co-founder & CEO of a multi-million dollar company. As a kid, Alex had a tough time learning, fitting in, and following other people's rules. His entrepreneurial journey started early on by selling things at school, and he went on to run a window washing service in high school and a financial consulting firm in college. Today, Alex has created multiple multimillion-dollar companies, learned a lot along the way, and is teaching entrepreneurs how they can do the same. Sharing his journey with others led Alex to write for publications such as Success, Entrepreneur, and Inc. Magazine, and his story has also garnered attention from major media outlets like MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News, USA Today, The Wall Street Journal, The Huffington Post, and Investor's Business Daily. As a result of his mentorship and success, Alex is now known as the go-to person for helping entrepreneurs ascend the Billionaire Code and understand how to plan strategically. Throughout all of this, Alex's mission is to empower entrepreneurs to grow and scale their businesses and make their greatest contribution.    Let's tune in to his story!   [00:01 - 10:26] Opening Segment Limitless opportunities for impact-driven entrepreneurs brought to you by the Tribe for Leaders! Be a part of the Preferred Partnership Committee where we've made millions and millions of dollars and introductions that have allowed our members to grow their businesses and make a far bigger impact in this world. Again, it's only by invitation! Don't miss this great opportunity, check it out now at www.tribeforleaders.com, and see if you qualify! Get to know my guest Alex Charfen  Alex shares his biggest handicap at the beginning of his career Diving into the business world at a young age The Entrepreneurial Personality Type    [10:27 - 24:12] Accidental Life Miracles Why entrepreneurs should not stay too tactically involved in their business How Alex reflects his childhood dream to his adult career How an interesting accidental forensics class as a freshman changed Alex's entire life Alex's journey to being an amazing public speaker   [24:13 - 28:38] How Great Relationships Make You Greater  170 Annual Speaking Engagements What sets apart great leaders and coaches from others How Alex's coach is holding him accountable for his life   [28:39 - 31:31] Closing Segment Relationships are not transactional, they're transformational.   Reach Alex through Facebook, LinkedIn, and Simple Operations.  Listen to the Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT) podcast.  See and know how to grow your business as an entrepreneur by visiting billionairecode.com Thanks for tuning in!   If you liked my show, please LEAVE A 5-STAR REVIEW, like, and subscribe!     Find me on the following streaming platforms: Apple Spotify Google Podcasts IHeart Radio Stitcher Tweetable Quotes   “Every great leader sees more in the people they lead than they see in themselves.” - Alex Charfen    “Relationships, as an entrepreneur, create this massive safety net. But it also creates this massive foundation. ” - Alex Charfen    “Investing in relationships is one of the biggest shortcuts that most entrepreneurs don't find out until way too far into our careers.” - Alex Charfen 

In this video I am speaking with Alex Charfen. Alex Charfen is known for the Billionaire Code and The Entrepreneurial Personality Type. We dive into understanding successful people. He speaks about how difficult it can be to be an entrepreneur and have a perfect balance of work and life. He further elaborates in this episode on how to reduce noise and pressure that society puts on us. Alex uses the quote ‘Magnetic people change the world', to help us realize it's not the materialistic things that impact our lives, but rather us and our actions. He also speaks about how important goal setting and routine can be for your success and methods you can use to assist you in your journey. We still have prizes up from grabs, ranging from books to coaching programs. So don't forget to subscribe to be in the draw to win. I strongly recommend to listen to Alex's podcast called Momentum. It is available on all major podcast platforms. You can find him via his website: https://www.charfen.com/ Join his FB Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/simpleoperations ____________ To win prizes subscribe to here: https://unleashyourfocus.com/ Please leave a review on iTunes and share this episode with fellow entrepreneurs that can benefit out of this episode To watch on YouTube follow this playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list... #alexcharfen #billionairecode #entrepreneurialmindset

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In this episode, Brad interviews one of his personal mentors Alex Charfen. For the past two decades, Alex has created and curated proven business philosophies, models, and strategies geared specifically to entrepreneurs. It all boils down to the fact that entrepreneurs are just built differently. They are physiologically sensitive, momentum-based beings that are highly reactive to constraint. Today, we’re discussing why entrepreneurs feel the need to be in motion constantly and how that burning drive is the framework for success. Whether you own your own business or work a 9-5, you are born to create. Tune in to today’s episode to learn how to use your creations to further success and live a truly free life. Key Takeaways:How Alex has influenced our lives (2:57)The entrepreneurial personality type (7:56)Entrepreneurs feel momentum (13:55)Our live event (17:26)Why you need targets in life (24:16)We are creators (27:34)This is what money is (29:26)There is no failed entrepreneur (32:59)The programming we must get rid of (38:08)--Additional Resources:Join Our Cashflow Tactics GroupTake Our FREE 5-day Cashflow Tactics ChallengeFind Alex here----Subscribe to the show on your favorite podcast app so you never miss an episode!If you enjoy listening to the Rise Up Live Free podcast, leave us a rating and a review on Apple Podcast!!

This week on the podcast, I am joined by a very special guest. I’m so happy to welcome Alex Charfen, my coach and mentor, who’s helped me scale my Credit Repair Cloud team to over 70 employees and build an empire.Alex is renowned in the entrepreneurial world for helping people scale and grow their business. In fact, our current processes and systems are entirely based on his brilliant training and programs.For the last 20 years, Alex has been working on guiding entrepreneurs to better business. With remarkable success, I may add!Today he’s working with hundreds of businesses worldwide and helping them make their greatest contribution.So if you’ve started a credit repair business, but just can’t seem to figure out the next step, you HAVE TO listen to this episode! Trust me, when it comes to scaling your business to a new level, there’s no better person to turn to than Alex Charfen.Also, after you’ve listened to the podcast, make sure to look for a free download link to Alex’s Time Study document in the Additional Resources section.Enjoy!Key Takeaways for This Week:Alex Charfen’s incredible journey (2:29)How Alex developed a deep understanding of the entrepreneurial mind (6:17)What are the key characteristics of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type? (9:35)Living with an obsessive need to drive forward (10:43)Who is the most important person in your business? (14:32)The secret to growing and scaling your team (17:28)Is now the best time to be working in credit repair? (23:10)One of the most rewarding feelings in the world is... (29:15)How is Momentum Masterclass helping entrepreneurs level up their business? (32:02)Breaking down the 4 steps of the Contribution Equation (33:47)Rapid-fire questions with Alex Charfen (40:02)Additional Resources:Get a free trial to Credit Repair CloudSign up for the Credit Hero ChallengeDownload Alex Charfen’s Time Study doc (FREE)Make sure to subscribe so you stay up to date with our latest episodes!

Alex Charfen is a consultant, author, speaker, and coach who's helped business owners around the world achieve exponential growth and scale. His book, The Entrepreneurial Personality Type, dissects the commonalities of successful people and unravels why this tiny percentage of the population lives for momentum and making a positive impact on the world. In this special episode, Alex shares the story of his entrepreneurial journey and walks us through the concepts, frameworks, and systems that have helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs create momentum in their businesses.  

In this episode, I'm joined by Billion Dollar Business Owner Alex Charfen, Founder of Charfen International and creator of the Charfen Cadence. Alex is a brilliant businessman and highly successful entrepreneur, having studied the "Entrepreneurial Personality Type" for his entire life.  This episode of Marketing Ink (marketinginkpodcast.com) is a must if you want to learn the simple yet profound secrets he shares that have helped businesses scale to billions of dollars while keeping their personal health and family lives front and center. He shares the difference between transactional and transformational leadership, how to make the right hire, and how to offload your discomfort while being more productive each day in this mind-blowing interview. Enjoy!  PS: Want to learn how I can help your local business bring in more leads and sales? Apply for Local Marketing Mastery Today! alliebloydmedia.com/local

Resource Links: Your Social Voice Website (https://www.yoursocialvoice.com.au/) Become the Mogul of your industry (https://www.mogulcall.com) Join our Mogul Mastermind (https://www.mogulmastermind.com.au/) Momentum Podcast (https://momentumpodcast.com/)   An entrepreneur is built and wired differently. We want to take something from the future and push for it to become a reality in our today. But the journey towards that can be difficult and full of stress as we struggle to grow our business. What are the things you need to scale your business? That's what we go over today with Alex Charfen. He tells us how he has effectively helped companies and entrepreneurs reach their goals by giving them the systems and tools for them to change the world. Learn how you can make your vision a reality by listening to this phenomenal episode now.   What we discussed in this episode: How he helps entrepreneurs [01:47] Going through several iterations to develop a movement [02:39] The connection between business and social movements [03:56] Finding the moment when everything clicks [06:02] The birth of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT) book [07:28] How they achieved high adoption of their program [12:31] Hardcore analysis as the first step to building momentum [16:57] The difference between a strategic plan vs a tactical plan [20:36] Recognising the EPT as a momentum based being [27:08] Success requires process, structure, and routine  [31:45]    About Alex Charfen Alex Charfen is the best person in the world when it comes to identifying the Entrepreneurial Personality Type. He knows the pains, thoughts, fears, and frustrations of every business owner. As an entrepreneur, teacher, author, speaker, and coach, he is on a mission to start a revolution that could change everything for small business owners. Thank you so much for listening! If you liked this episode, please don't forget to subscribe, tune in, and share this podcast.   Connect with The Kim Barrett Show:  Subscribe on Youtube Follow Us on Facebook See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

The Amplify Show is here to shine a spotlight on inspiring people doing incredible things, to help you amplify your business, and your life. In episode 1 of The Amplify Show I am talking with Alex Charfen, business coach extraordinaire and author of The Entrepreneurial Personality Type.  Alex has a history of taking failing business and turning them around, so maybe it shouldn't come as a shock that after his own real estate business went bankrupt, his next venture made it onto the Inc. 500's top 50 list in it's first eligible year. As my own coach, Alex has given me a roadmap for growing my business, my team, and my overall clarity in life.    “Essentially, every business is a turn-around because there's always challenges in a business.”- Alex Charfen   Moving the Needle Now   Alex shares his philosophy for strategic business planning, implementing processes that move the needle forward now, rather than trying to plan far into the future and having to constantly realign a confused team. He says that having a plan for today forward rather than an obscure 3 year vision is the best way to explode growth.    EPT and the Legacy of the Huntress   We talk about the Entrepreneurial Personality Type, Alex's book and theory defining fundamental traits that entrepreneurs share, and why people like us are vital to a growing society.    “..we are that small percentage of the population that… goes through the vulnerability and exposure it takes to question the status quo..”  -Alex Charfen   He shares about his systems and programs, and what it means to be a “huntress”. Alex believes in the power of strong women, and empowers women to help themselves and each other in his mastermind and business coaching groups.    “You can be both--you can be the mother and the nurturer and a family leader, and also lead a business.” -Emily Richett   Morning Routines for Intentional Success   High achievers know that how you start your day matters, and Alex is no exception. We talk through his personal morning routine, and the top 3 things you can do to improve your mornings.    “...the way you start your day with intention is going to be carried throughout the day.” -Alex Charfen   Topics discussed with high growth business coach Alex Charfen in this episode of The Amplify Show: Strategic business planning Entrepreneurial Personality Type Alex's Mastermind and his definition of the “huntress” Women in business  Morning routines for high achievers The top 3 things to incorporate into your morning routine Rapid Fire Round Q&A on business tools, false beliefs and what he knows to be true   Connect with Alex Charfen: Website Billionaire Code Facebook Instagram Connect with me: Website Instagram Facebook

Meeting Goals is Complicated.We set goals in January on what we wanted to see manifest this year. Now it’s time to do a mid-year check-in to determine if we’re on track to meet those goals or determine if we have to make some changes.Segment 1: What’s Happening NowSuper short one on this episode! The border crisis is still ongoing and still deserving of airtime until we see changes. So, talking a little about the latest with at the U.S. Southern border. In international business news, Africa is working on a trade pact for the continent. Quickly covering that topic and what it can mean for the continent.Segment 2: Self CareIt’s July so time for that mid-year check-in. How are we doing on the quest to meet our goals in our lives - whether in business, health, finances, or whatever. A gut check is needed so we can make sure we hit those goals before year end.Segment 3: Black ExcellencePat McGrath, makeup guru and beauty brand boss, is in the spotlight on this episode. She’s taken her passion for makeup artistry to new heights with her label Pat McGrath Labs and truly taking the industry by storm. Learn more about her in the show.Segment 4: The Biz CornerAs promised, here’s part 2 of Knowing your Entrepreneurial Personality Type! This episode is focused on the gaps in the personalities and how to fill them to be successful. Take notes or if download the helper guide. How? Just click here!It’s a great show, so make sure you hit that like button, rate the show, subscribe to get the latest updates when new episodes are available and share it with friends and family! That’s how you keep the conversation going! I’d love to hear from you and engage. I swear I don’t bite :)You can always reach out to the host, Sheena, at:Twitter: @SheenaD1 - https://twitter.com/SheenaD1 Instagram: @SheenaD1 - https://instagram.com/SheenaD1 Website: www.sheenahunt.com And make sure you like the BeautifullyComplicated Podcast page on Facebook!https://www.facebook.com/beautifullycomplicatedpodcast/ Always remember that the best life is BeautifullyComplicated. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Alex Charfen is one of the very select few coaches I continually plug into...    I have wanted to get this individual on here for quite some time, and Alex Charfen has been one of the reasons why my stuff is blowing up so much.    I have learned that I need to listen to less people, and I'm very, very picky on those that I choose to dive deeply with…   So for marketing and sales, I've really dove deep with Russell, (obviously) and you all know that.    For systems and business systems, I've dove very deeply with Alex Charfen... he's the other coach that I pay a lot to and listen to as well.    ...and I have other various ones that are very carefully selected... and I don't listen to ANYBODY else!    I'm extremely careful about the content that I consume - so that I can spend most of my time just moving, rather than gathering MORE information…   ... which I don't think many of us need more of.    So anyway, I'm excited for you guys to understand more of why Alex Charfen, for me, has been so key…   So I asked him to come on the show and to teach a little bit more about the systems that all businesses need, regardless of whatever you're in.    A lot of these are the systems that a brand new entrepreneur needs when they finally get that revenue coming in.    ...and then there are systems that he creates for those who have an existing business and are ready to scale.    Alex answers the questions…     How do you know if you should be scaling or not?        What are the five reasons why most companies fail to scale?     If you guys like this interview, please reach out to him, (he did not need to do this) and say “Thank You!”    At the very end, we have a special little thing for you, and so we're excited!    Boom, what's going on everyone? This is Steve Larsen, welcome back to Sales Funnel Radio - we're really excited to have you guys here.    I'm with one of my good friends, who's become an amazing friend and definitely a mentor... I would call and consider him a brother as well.    I want to introduce everybody to Alex Charfen.   Before I really bring Alex on, I just want you all to understand, Alex Charfen was one of the guys that helped me understand why I am who I am... and that, it’s okay… and helped me lean into that.    I talk to you a lot about leaning into your obstacles, leaning into those things that have been crappy in your life…    … because they end up becoming your superpower.    You all know my story of going to the first Funnel Hacking Live, Alex Charfen was one of the first speakers, and I took so many notes…    I ran back home, I showed my wife and she goes "That's why you act the way you do?" And I was like "YES, it's because of this guy!”    He had a crazy deep gravelly voice and I loved it. He was the man!" ...and I'm so excited to bring him on the show here:   Guys, please welcome Alex Charfen, “How you doing, man?”   ALEX: Steve, it is so good to be here with you, man. Thank you, and I echo your sentiments completely, and I consider you a brother as well, man.   STEVE: Oh thank you so much, thank you so much.    You know it was like two weeks ago;  me and my wife were chatting about your material and going on through it, and she goes "Oh yeah, I have to remember this is how your brain kind of works."    I was like, "Really naturally, yeah! You should really know that" so we'll go back through your stuff.   You know, I've got that Capitalist Pig shirt that I wear all the time, but I really want one that just says, "Charfen will explain," or something like that, you know what I mean?    That should be the next shirt…   So much of what I do in this world just is NOT explainable without you.   ALEX: Yeah, it's unique, you know, Stephen…    I think when you characterize it that way, so much of what you do is different than what anybody in the world would ever expect... and that's what I've found from the day I met you.    I think I walked up to you and said something like:    "Hey man, I think we should talk. You're a really unique entrepreneur and I don't think you understand just how unique."   STEVE: I remember you said that.   ALEX: Or something like that.   STEVE: Yeah I remember, and I felt like, you know in the Matrix when he's talking to that lady with the spoon bend... I felt like I was talking to her, and I was like:    "What does he see in me? What are you looking at?" You know, and "Please dissect me!"    So anyway, I really am pumped for you to be here and just massive incredible love.    You have to understand, your name; it's NOT just a noun, it’s a verb in my vocabulary.    People are like "How did you do that?” "I just Charfenized it, baby!"    I say ‘Charfenation’ all the time.    I was hanging out with the other ‘Charfenites.’    I'm going over the ‘Charfenation.’    "How did you do that?" “Oh, I ‘Charfenized’ it, baby!”   Anyways, you're very much a verb in my vocabulary, and with my family... so it's really quite an honor to have you on, it really is.   ALEX: Thank you Stephen, it's an honor to be here man, this is awesome.   STEVE: This is really cool. Well hey, I wanna just start right out and just, I wanted to ask…    My audience has heard a lot about you. I've talked about you a lot because there’s so much that ‘veI learned.   Just recently, I was going through some of my old notes, from two years ago, from one of your events, and I was like "Gosh, you're so right, this is so cool!"    It really has created additional leverage for what I'm trying to do.   It works, it's real, and I want everyone to listen to this and listen to what Alex has to say here.   Understand that *this* is how I've been doing what I’m doing.   I learned marketing and a lot of sales from Russell... but how to have a life, systemize, and make my business an asset from Alex Charfen.    So, anyway, could you just tell us how you got into this? 'Cause I know you weren't always…   I mean I call  it entrepreneurial optimization, I mean it's really what you do - it's not just the systems, but like:    I'm wearing glasses now   I'm drinking more water than I ever have in my life    I'm doing all sorts of stuff I never would do, because of you    How did you get into this?   ALEX: - You know Stephen, I think if the question is, "How did I become an entrepreneur?”    I didn't find entrepreneurship, it found me.    This was really the only thing I ever felt comfortable doing in my life.    Ever since I was a little kid, I was always the kid that was different than everybody else, crazy socially awkward, like what you see today…    I don't try to be socially awkward, it's just natural.    I was always different than the other kids   I didn't really get along   I had trouble in school   All the systems in the world told me I was broken.    … and then, when I was eight years old, my family went through kind of a financial downturn; my father lost a company.    He didn't go bankrupt, but he went really close, and to make money for the family we were selling stuff in a swap meet on the weekends.    I remember going to the swap meet for the first time and standing behind a folding card table, and a woman walked up, and I sold her a pen that had an LCD clock in it…    (Like that was big time for 1981 or whatever or '78 or '79, or whatever it was).   Stephen I can remember thinking at that moment, "Holy crap, I'm good at this. This is something I'm NOT terrible at."    … because up until that point, I really hadn't found anything where it was like, "Hey, that was good."  It was always’ "Almost got it, kid. You don't suck as bad as you did yesterday."    I was the kid who consistently got *MOST IMPROVED* all the time, 'cause it's the award you give to ‘the kid who sucked the worst!’   And when that woman walked up, it was like "Hey, this is something I can do over and over again."    And the more that I worked with my Dad, and the more that I experienced business, I loved it.   The world is so random, but when you get into the world of business there are rules.   …. there's an outcome.    People are in it together, and you actually have to work together to accomplish and achieve.   …  if everybody cares about the outcome, it'll happen.    And so *this* is where I feel comfortable.    You know, it's funny, when I was a kid I used to create businesses, create business plans,  write out time cards and all this other stuff, and as an adult, I thought that was like ‘the weirdest thing.’    I would reflect back and think like, "Man, I was such a weird kid."    Now, that's exactly what my daughters do.    My daughter this morning was at the kitchen table for three hours writing out a schematic for a water park she wants to build one day.   STEVE: Wow!   ALEX: And you are who you are, and I think, from the very beginning, this is who I've been.   STEVE: That's amazing, and when did you decide to make a business around this and go actually help other entrepreneurs, like myself, who need these systems?   ALEX: Well, the business that I have today, we started…    So let me give you a little brief history.   So in my twenties, I was a consultant, and you know, a lot of people ask about that.    I did some consulting at a very high level at the Fortune 500 level...    I built a very large business that almost killed me.    And so I can tell the story really good...    I can give you all the highlights and make it sound great:   $250,000,000 company   I've worked with Fuji and TDK and Memorex and Logitech, and all international business.    Or I can tell you the other side of that coin…    I had a $250,000,000 company   I made less than $2,000,000 a year    my margins were razor thin   I had a bleeding ulcer   I was probably over 300 pounds    STEVE: Wow.   ALEX: And so when I got out of that business, I wanted to do something completely different.    So in my early thirties, I got into real estate, and we were taken out by the real estate market in 2007.    Cadey and I introduced our first information product, and that's how we got into this world.   We created a product called the Certified Distressed Property Expert Designation.    In 2007 we were bankrupt, we introduced our product at the end of the year:  In 2008 we did $500,000 in sales   The next year we did $7,000,000   The next year we did $10,000,000   Over the course of the life of that product, we did about $70,000,000    We went from bankruptcy to liquid millionaires in a year.    In 2013, the US Treasury came to our office and did a broadcast with us, where they said that, according to their research…    Our company had pulled forward the foreclosure crisis five to seven years   ….so it was intense.   STEVE: Oh, yeah...   ALEX: Really intense!   And what happened was, right around 2011…    A lot of our clients who were buying our product wanted help growing their business; so I took all of the stuff that I used to use as a consultant; the systems and structure Cadey and I used to run our business, and we started training it.    And so since 2011, we've been training it in classes/ courses.   In 2017, we started the products that we have today. So now we have :   An entry-level coaching program called Billionaire Code Accelerator - for people who are doing over 300k a year   A high-level coaching program called The Billionaire Code Grow and Scale - for people doing over 3,000,000 a year.    STEVE: That's awesome! That's so cool.   ALEX: Yeah it is the most fun I've ever had, Stephen…   It's like every day, I wake up and here's what I get to do:    I get to play in this playground with game-changing entrepreneurs that are starting businesses that are doing things that are just unreal.    ...and our systems, our structures are kind of the backbone for how they're doing things.    So on a daily basis, me and everyone on my team, wake up knowing that we are helping the game-changers change the world, and we recruit people who want to do that…    We recruit for people who are passionate about our mission…   Everyone on my team feels like their life's mission is being fulfilled through being in this business right now.    It's the greatest thing I've ever done.   STEVE: That's incredible, and I can tell everyone else who's listening and watching this now, it's exactly as he says it.    I think I've been to three of your events now, and they have just been life-changing.    I go through and it gives structure to the idea, but then, also, how I behave against the idea. So I can actually go in and breathe; I can live.    I watched my Dad create this awesome company when I was a young boy, but it took him too.   But everyone does that, it's super natural - so you to go in and…    Remove the entrepreneur   Create systems    Create processes and procedures, and people that actually push forward their vision even further.   ... it's incredible.    I know it's not magical, but it feels magical, to me! I'm like "Oh my gosh!"    I've actually had a tab open with your course open for like the last month and I'll just dive into another video, and I'm like "Oh my gosh! Back to the drawing board, that was so good!"    And I go back to it again and again and again... it's just always up, everybody who's listening to me, it's always up.    That's really what's teaching me how to run a company, rather than ‘me’ being the company, and I've loved that.    *Just so powerful*    I wanted to ask you kind of a key question here, and it's a question that I get asked a lot...    People come through my programs, I'll help them make money. They go and make a lot of cash, and it's awesome... but then after that, like what do you do?   What are the first systems that you find that new entrepreneurs with a sizeable amount of cash should actually go create first?    What are those first few moves?   ALEX: You know I think I definitely want to share a couple of systems Stephen, but first, I want to just share a thought process. ..and this is a tough thought process for most entrepreneurs to take on, and it's interesting 'cause I've watched you go through this shift too, right? '   Cause at the beginning, (and I just want everyone to know)...    When I met Stephen Larsen, he was ready to take on the entire world solo!   STEVE: Yeah.   ALEX: Like all alone, right?    And here's the thought process…    After you start making money, the next thing to ask yourself is:    How do I sustain this?    How do I make it real?    How do I make it last a long time?   How do I make it so that I'm not the only driver here?   when you get to the point where the momentum you're creating on your own isn't enough, and believe me, we all get there...    Like I know that if you're watching me, watching Stephen, you're one of those entrepreneurs... and in the back of your mind, you have this crazy voice that has always told you:    You're meant for more   You're gonna do more   You're gonna change the world   You're gonna make a massive impact   ... and if you've always felt that, then there's a shift you have to make in your thinking.    Because here's the issue for people like us; I call it the Entrepreneurs Dilemma.    For people like us…    We need far more help than the average person to reach our full destination, but any request for help or support that we have to make, leaves us feeling vulnerable and exposed.    Stephen, you with me?   STEVE: Yes, yes, yes, yes, 100%!   ALEX: And so here's the shift…   We have to realize that if we're gonna change the world, that is a group activity, and leadership's a contact sport.    So we have to wake up to the fact that when we start to:    Build a team   Create a structure   Pour into the people around us    Invest in those people   Make them important   Build relationships with them   …. we will build the company that we have always wanted.    That's the only way it's ever been done.  The myth of the solopreneur who's changed the world is a myth - it's a joke.   STEVE: So true   ALEX: It's one of the most damaging things out there in the entrepreneurial world today.    Because the fact is…    Show me anyone that looks like they changed the world on their own, and I will show you a massive team behind them.   STEVE: So true!    There's this idea that gets pushed around now, and it's like, “I'm gonna go and be this person that does all this stuff. I'm the gift to the world...”   ...and it's like “Okay….” but you can't do that on your own.    In the last six months, I have begun to experience and feel burn-out.   ALEX: Yeah.   STEVE: I have never in my life experienced that, and it's been hard.  The only way I've been able to create leverage is by listening to what you say and create those teams.   ALEX: Yeah. Well then, Stephen, that's the thing…    Here's the deal I want everybody to understand this:   If you're an entrepreneur, you have a job, and that job is to…    Stay out of burn-out   Lower pressure and noise in your life   Increase the protection and support that you have around you.    Because if you don't work with that equation to constantly lower the noise and increase the support, lower the noise, increase the support…    Here's what ends up happening…     You are in an equation that doesn't work.    … and it's not like anyone can come and argue against me here because this is like gravity.    This is like you know the facts of life, this is like taxes. We're all gonna pay 'em. There's no way to argue against this, you're going to lose.    And so in that situation, as an entrepreneur, you have to be really cautious about doing too much yourself, and about loading yourself up, because here's our instinct…    (You know you have this, I have this, we all have it.)    If there's something to be done, the first thought we have is, “How do I just get it done without telling anyone else,” right? Oh yeah!   STEVE: Yeah   ALEX: And it's like "I'm gonna conquer!"   STEVE: Freedom baby!   ALEX: We forget that humans are tribal animals, man.    We are all terrible at most things. Let's get real…    If you're good at a lot of things then you have a liability because you're not gonna be able to choose what you shouldn't do.    I'm very fortunate, I suck at most everything, and that's like an honest reality.    Anyone on my team will tell you like "Oh man, don't let Alex fill out a form, use the calendar, "send emails. We keep him out of all of our systems."    Seriously my team actually knows when I have a password for a system and they monitor me using it, 'cause I'm so bad at that stuff.    But on that same token, I know what I'm good at.    I'm good at vision    I'm good at where we're gonna go   I'm good at putting the frameworks together    I'm good at assembling a team   … and by doing those things, we can grow a massive organization and have a massive impact.   So for every entrepreneur, the key is to figure out what you're good at and do that to the exception of everything else   ... and it's the hardest thing you'll ever do as an entrepreneur.    Here's why…   The second you start doing that you feel like you're being egotistical. You feel like you're being self-serving.    But here's the fact:    When you drive your business to get easier for you it will grow like crazy.   But driving your business to get easier for you will feel like you're doing the wrong thing.    It happens all the time.   There's a discussion right now on our Facebook group, one of the CEOs in our group made a post, and I'm paraphrasing, but she said something like :   "As I offload and reduce discomfort and get a team around me, I'm feeling less and less significant, am I doing this right?"   And my answer was "Yes! You're absolutely doing this right. That's exactly how it's gonna feel!"    Because we need to attach significance to the total contribution, NOT to your day-to-day activities.   STEVE: Mmmm, that's powerful.    You know it's funny I was It reminds me of …   You know when I first got to ClickFunnels, it was just he and I. There wasn't like a copywriter, a videographer... it was just he and I!    So we did every single role in getting these funnels out, occasionally there was an exception where he'd go "Oh someone's really good at X, Y, and Z,"  but then, by the time I left...   ALEX: - Probably design or something… but everything else was you guys?   STEVE: Yeah, yeah, yeah, right! I knew enough Indesign and Photoshop, I was the one doing it most of the time... and doing first copy rounds, and it like, it was nuts!    But by the time I left, it was funny because he had started implementing these types of things.    I remember watching him during these funnel launches just laying on the floor, bored out of his mind.    I've never seen him like that in my life, and he was almost going to a state of depression. He was like "I'm not needed in my own thing now. Ah no-one needs me anymore."    It's a funny thing to realize, we're just the orchestrators. We don't play all the instruments.   ALEX: We shouldn't, we shouldn't.    And so, you know, back to your question about what systems should an entrepreneur start looking at?   Now, I'm gonna talk high level, and I wanna share...    You and I are really close friends, and I wanna share the most critical content we have for entrepreneurs with your group.   STEVE: I appreciate that.   ALEX: This is what we normally share internally once somebody joins our program…    We share the five things that keep companies from scaling.    The reality is, there are really five things that keep companies that should scale, from scaling.    And here's what I mean ‘companies that should scale…’    You know, if you go talk to most consultants, venture capitalists, investment bankers, accountants, lawyers, whatever, they'll give you this laundry list of why companies don't scale:    They didn't have enough money   They didn't have the right people   They didn't do all of these things   The reality is, if you look at most companies that should scale, there are five clear reasons why they don't…    So let me share them with you, but let me give you this caveat…    Here's what I mean by "should scale..."    If you've got a market    If you're capable of selling   If you could do more    If you know you're leaving money on the table   …. you should be scaling.   If those things aren't there for you right now, go resolve that and then start scaling.  Far too many people try and scale before they actually have all the steps in place.    Then you just build infrastructure that does nothing.   So let me tell you what the five things are...    #1: So number one, first and foremost, absolutely most crucial, is…      Most businesses don't have any type of strategic plan.     So as a result, there's no go-forward strategy, and here's what happens in a business when you don't have a go-forward strategy.    If you don't know where you're going, neither does your team   ... neither does anybody around you   And so you will, by virtue of math, become the biggest bottleneck in the company.    Here's why…    If there's no forward plan where all of us can point at and go get it and help you chase it down, every time we want to know what to do we have to ask you, and we have to go to you... and it's a death of a thousand paper cuts.    You're literally in a place where you're:    Telling people what to do   Checking that it got done   Telling them what to do again.    And if you've ever been in that situation as an entrepreneur, you know that somebody only has to ask you twice before you're ready to flip out and lose it.    Am I right Stephen?   STEVE: Yeah, yeah, usually once.   ALEX: Once, right, right, but by the second time you're like "Are you kidding me?"    And so the way we get past that is we create a clear strategic plan, we share it with our entire team…   ... and if the team knows where they're going, here's what happens.    I want you to understand something about the people coming to work for you.  If you're in a small business, you're hiring entrepreneurs.   I know that there's this saying in the market, "You're either an entrepreneur or you work for one."    I call complete and total BS - don't even bring that crap around me.   STEVE: Yeah!   ALEX:    Every person on my team is an incredibly talented, hyper-motivated, world-changing entrepreneur, they just choose to be part of a team.   And so you're gonna hire entrepreneurs, and the way you keep entrepreneurs absolutely and totally focused and excited, is you show them what they're hunting, you give them the kill.    You say:    Here's our plan   This is what we're doing   This is how you win.    And if you hire the right people, they will walk over hot glass to get to that destination for you.   STEVE: Yeah.   ALEX: But if they don't know where it is, you're gonna demotivate them and completely de-leverage them.    So number one, you have to have a strategic plan.    In my experience, less than 1% of businesses do. Also, less than 1% of businesses ever hit $100,000,000. In fact only 3% ever hit 1,000,000.   STEVE: Jesus. ALEX: So when you look at that, it's not 1% of businesses that hit 100,000,000, 0.01% of businesses ever hit 100,000,000,  and the reason is...    Most businesses don't know where they're going.    And Stephen, by you having the tools to build a strategic plan in your business, hasn't it changed how you approach things?   STEVE: Oh gosh, you guys remember when I tell you those stories of I left my job...    I created 200 grand of revenue really quick but there were no systems   I was the…    Support guy    Fulfillment guy   Sales guy.    I did every role, and I voluntarily, very painfully, had to turn down revenue to go build these structures.    And I want you all to know, it was Alex Charfen's stuff that helped me go in and actually set those systems in place... and so, please understand my affinity for this man and what he does.   About halfway through the year, I was only at like 300 - 400 grand, which is pretty good, but that last huge sprint came in because of the things that Alex Charfen and his team were teaching me.    All those planning things that I use, and all the things that I've just lightly mentioned, they've all come from Alex Charfen, and it helped scale me.   ALEX: That's awesome Stephen... Man, that makes me so proud.   This is so cool! Like there's only one Stephen Larsen in the world, and I told you that the first day I met you…    I'm like, "Dude you are completely and totally unique and I think I can help you build the company you really want."   STEVE: Yeah, you said   ALEX: And for us to be sitting here, and for you to say that, I got chills Stephen, that's so awesome. Thank you, man!   STEVE: Oh man, I'm so jazzed about what we do, but it's because of what you teach I'm like "I can do it... "    The first time I ever saw Stephen at an event, I did not leave the event until I'd cornered him and told him what I needed to tell him... because I knew you were gonna be exactly that type of person.    ...and here's why it's so important to me, Stephen.    I could tell the first time I saw you,  that you were gonna have a massive effect on the world.    But here's what I know about entrepreneurs; you're gonna have the biggest effect on the people closest to you - the people who are most proximal, your team.   And when I see an entrepreneur like you Stephen, I'm like:    "Man, if that guy builds a team he's gonna change hundreds of lives internally in his company. They're gonna change millions of lives externally, and I know those hundreds of people will build your legacy."    And when I see somebody like you, I'm like, “Man! That is the path, let me show you how to do this.”    The fact that it's working, is like, “Ah, it makes me so excited every day.”    This is why I get up out of bed every morning and do what I do.     STEVE: Ah, it's so fun man, feeling's mutual. You walked up, it was from that FHAT event that you were at.   ALEX: Ah ha.   STEVE: And you walked up and said, "There's a huge company in you and I don't think you know it, and I'm gonna help you pull it out of you."    I remember when you said that, I was so scared. I was like, "There's no way that this is real! I know who you are, are you kidding me?"    It freaked me out, and I had to own my own vision for a while. It actually took me a while to practice that.    Anyway, so much has gone on in mental clarity and development from what you've taught, not just these systems and things around, it's really cool.   ALEX: - So let's give the second one, Stephen   STEVE: Yeah, sorry, sorry.    ALEX: oh don't apologize, shit I love this part.    So first you have a strategic plan…    #2: Second, the thing that you need to have is      A system to communicate that plan.        Let me tell you something about us as entrepreneurs…    We think we're good communicators, but we're lying to ourselves.    The fact is, we are haphazard and emotional, and we're pumped one second and we're not the next, and we're all over the place…    Here's what happens…    When we have a team that has to deal with a personality like ours, and there's NOT a system for communication, it's random and haphazard and overwhelming... and it comes from all angles, and they're waiting for word from on high. Here's the fact, if you're the entrepreneur in charge, you're the MOST important person in the building all the time.    You're the most important person on the team, in the tribe, in the group, and they're all waiting to see what you say.    And if they're waiting for days and nothing's happened, they start thinking:    Is something wrong?    Did something go bad?    Did we do something wrong?    So you need a system.   As an example:    My team knows every Monday at 4:00, we're all gonna be on a weekly meeting together.  They also know every day at 9:27 a.m. we're gonna be on a daily huddle, and I'll be there.    They know that once a month we're gonna have a meeting where we show our strategic plan.    They know once a month we're gonna have a meeting where they all get the results.    So they all know when they're gonna communicate with me and how.    From the first day you're on our team there's a system that  controls how you hear from me.    Not just me pumping stuff out there haphazardly.    As a result, my team knows they're gonna hear from me, they trust it and here's what happens.    I set the expectations, I meet the expectations, we create trust. I create trust with my team every time I do that.    And here's the fact:   If your team trusts you, you get way more out of them.   If your team trusts you, they will do more for you.    If your team trusts you, you'll get discretionary effort   ... which means when they're driving, when they're showering, when they're doing something else, they're gonna be thinking about your business.  Why?    ...because it gives them momentum.    So if you have a strategic plan and a system to communicate it, you're ahead of 99% of companies out there.   And Stephen, same thing for you with the system, the structure?    Like…    We all fight structure, but once you put it in place, isn't it incredible?   STEVE: Oh, it's amazing! Stuff's getting done right now, that we set in place once. and then, I'll be like "Oh, podcast episode just launched,!Oh, what day is it? Oh, that's sweet! Everyone just put it out, all right, cool!"   ALEX: Right, I remember when I started getting messages like, "Hey, I love the new podcast!" And I'm like "Oh, we put a podcast out? Nice!"       STEVE: I didn't do that, what are you talking about?   ALEX: So you have  #1: a strategic plan, then #2: a system to communicate.    #3: Here's the third one, now this is BIG, really big, and most business owners just, they don't look at this ever and it's the biggest struggle is, or one of the biggest struggles is;      You have to have a system to consistently document the right processes in your business.     And by documentation, I mean having:    A flowchart   A process document   A checklist   Something that shows you how the important things in your business are done over and over again.    For example:    If you walk into a McDonald's, and you look above the fry cooker, there is a process to cook fries above that fry cooker.    Anything that happens in that McDonald's, there's a process for literally every single thing, including:    Unlocking the door   Turning off the alarm   Sweeping the floor   That's why there's a consistent experience at McDonald's; I'm not saying it's a good experience, I'm saying it's consistent.   In most businesses, in most entrepreneurial businesses, there's no process.    In fact, it's even scarier than that...    The process lives either in the owner's head or in an individual's head - so you lose a person, you lose the company.    You lose a person, you lose a big chunk of what you're doing.   STEVE: Hmm.   ALEX: So you have to have a system in a business to consistently evaluate what processes are in the company, and then on a monthly and weekly basis document the right ones.    The way that I would suggest you start, is you look at your customer experience:    What is the customer experience in your company?   What process documentation do you have to back it up to make sure that is completely consistent?    If you do that, you're gonna beat most people out there...   99% of entrepreneurial companies have little to nothing documented in any type of process.   STEVE: They're just shooting in random spots 24/7.   ALEX: Or they're doing stuff like, "Here's how we do our customer on-boarding…”    I trained Suzy   Suzy trained Annie   Annie trained Bob     John does it now   ...and you're like "Oh, cool! Let's go and see what John's doing?"    Well, John's doing nothing close to what Suzy and Bob and everybody else was originally doing, and so you have these degrading processes in your business.    And here's what happens…    When you look at entrepreneurial businesses, they tend to…    Go up in revenue   Come back down in revenue   Go up in revenue   Come back down.    If you're inside those companies, hundreds of times like I have been, here's what I can tell you…    Revenue goes up as the process is working, and then when it breaks, it comes back down.    *PERIOD*    That's why businesses don't continue to go forward - there are processes breaking in the business.    Whether it's marketing, sales, delivery, whatever it is there's a process breaking.    When you document your proceses, you make them bulletproof.    So in our business, we actually use:    Lucidchart Flowcharts   Sheets in Google Sheets    A new product called Process Street  -  a distributed, automated process document system, which is incredible.    So we have all of our processes in Process Street, and we have a distributed team around the world.   We have somebody in Ireland who can do their part of the process, as soon as they hit the last button it transfers to somebody here in the US who can do their part of the process.   STEVE: That's awesome.   ALEX:    Documenting your processes + Putting them in place = Game-changing   STEVE: Holy cow, okay I wrote that down.    I'm taking tons of notes so everyone knows, I hope they are as well…. And I'm not sharing! ;-) Process.st is the company, and we are so happy with it because... Stephen, here's what I want everyone to know,...   Cadey and I have had five businesses get over $10,000,000 a year, and all five of them ran them with paper checklists.   This is the first time we have automated checklists in Process Street.    The last information products business that we had, we literally had three-ring binders that we would carry around the office and check stuff off.    Having a three-ring binder with a process was so much better than having somebody trying to do it from memory.    Now with Process Street, we can distribute that three-ring binder, and I can get reporting on who's doing what.   STEVE: That's amazing.    Yeah, I've actually seen the three-ring binder and I've thought, "Holy crap, that really is how he's doing it.”    You would teach it and then I watched you actually do it.. 'cause you would record your stand up meeting calls in the morning   ALEX: Yeah.   STEVE: And I was, "Oh my gosh, that's so cool! I'm NOT doing that, interesting."    Then I’d go back and take notes and start it.   ALEX: And then implement.    Well, and you know, there's this phrase in the entrepreneurial world. Ah... I kind of get a little triggered, right!   STEVE: Let it out, baby!   ALEX: You know the thing that people say from stage:   "Here's what I want all of you to know. All you have to do is stop working in your business and start working on your business."    And I'm always like:    "Oh, good, thanks. Thanks for solving it all for us dude, that was awesome. You just solved all my problems with that really cliched BS thing that everybody tells entrepreneurs."     When I was in my twenties, my instant thought was like, "How do I get on stage to punch that guy in the face?"    And my then my second thought was like, "What a load of crap!  If I don't work in the business nobody's answering the phones, sucker."    Like, what's going on here? I don't know how to make that change.    And so the way you make that change is…    Working on the business means documenting processes.    By making it:    Clear   Repeatable   Real   And so you have…    A strategic plan that everyone understands   A communication system everyone knows is gonna happen    A system for documenting processes so everyone can repeat what's going on with your clients   #4: The next step,(and this is BIG), is..    A consistent system for identifying, documenting, and then prioritizing the right project in the business.   STEVE: Ah, this changed my life. *HARDCORE*   ALEX: Whoa, Stephen, you know how game-changing this is because, here's the problem in most businesses…    Projects are selected emotionally.    Period, I can't tell you that they're done any other way - they're emotional.    You go to an event and somebody says "I'm doing this thing," and then, the next day, you're doing that thing.    You listen to a podcast or you hear a webinar, and the person says "Hey, I added this thing to my business," and the next day, you're trying to do that thing.    In our business, if I have a really great idea that I want to implement today…    If I'm like, "Man, this is a really high sense of urgency, we should get this implemented."    It'll probably be somewhere around 45 days, and I'm totally okay with that.    That's the timing it should be in my business.    Now if there's an emergency we're gonna fix it that day, but if I'm like, "Hey, I see an opportunity here with something," it's probably a 45-day event…    Why?    I have a team and a structure, and a plan, and we have a system that's moving forward. We're already hitting our numbers, why would I mess with anything?    I actually protect what's going on in the business   I add things gently   I add things carefully   I make sure my team's into it too    I make sure we have consensus    In just in the last 60 days, we've gone from two million recurring to two point three million recurring,   STEVE: That's awesome!   ALEX: So why would I mess with what we're doing?   STEVE: Yeah.   ALEX: Yeah, so when somebody's like "Hey Alex, I got this "great idea for your business." I'm like "Awesome, get in line."    And we'll put it into our system to see if we want to actually do this…   Because the fact is…    If you're getting sold as an entrepreneur on what your next project should be, you're probably in the wrong place.    STEVE: Yeah, that's fascinating. I really agree with that.    It was your planning system for figuring out which projects, I still do it.    Top of every three months and it has guided everything we do.    And while I do follow a few rabbits and I'm practicing bringing it back in, we still largely follow the plan as to what the business needs, and that's ‘grow and scale’ rather than this impulse of like:    "Yeah, oh shiny object, shiny object, "that looks good, that looks good!"    And it's been that discipline, that's the other thing that's always up is my waterfall...   ALEX: Yeah, yeah, always! I mean mine's up right now. I mean I could share it right now.   And the reason is I always have my strategic plan pulled up in front of me, I'm looking at it every single day.    I'm asking myself:   Is the team doing what we need to do here?   How do I support people more?    How do I help them do this more?   Because when you look at our strategic plan, here's what it's made up of.    Our one-year outcomes   Our client-centric mission - which is our Superbowl, our hall of fame, the long term   The 90-day projects we're focusing on right now    What we're doing this month to hit those targets . So that waterfall of long term, to one year, to 90 days, to 30 days, I can see it all on one document and it tells me EXACTLY where I should be supporting the team and what we're getting done.    And so here's what happens…   I went to an event a couple of weeks ago, and I had an idea that was like "Oh man, we have to do this."    Then I come back to the office, I look at the waterfall and I'm like "What do I want to kill in order to do this thing over here?"    And you know what the evaluation was? *NOTHING* I'm not going to take anything off this, that would be crazy.   There's no way I'm gonna go to my team and say, "Hey guys, in addition to all the other stuff you're committed to, here's a hot potato."    I just backed down and I waited till the next time we had a planning meeting and I said, "Hey, there's this thing I think we should do."    We evaluated it   It went into the system   It went into the plan    There is very little knee-jerk reaction in our company because we are going so fast in a forward direction, that for me to challenge that in any way it has to be game-changing at a different level - so it rarely even happens.   STEVE: Yeah, black-ops right? Call them black-ops?   ALEX: Black-ops.   STEVE: No black-ops!   ALEX: No black-ops, baby!  If it's NOT on the plan, you don't do it... or it's black-ops.    And usually, the biggest creators of black-ops are guys like Stephen and I.    So my team has an open license to tell me if I'm doing black-ops.    They will actually call me out in a huddle, in a meeting, they'll be like "Ah, this sounds like black-ops," and then we'll make a note, we'll put it in a parking lot and do it later.    STEVE: Oh, that's so cool, okay.   ALEX: Yeah,  that's one of the most important things you can do when you have a team Stephen…    You train your team to criticize you and then you congratulate them when they do.   STEVE: That's really cool, then they have a license to actually flex their brain instead of feeling like they're in a box.   ALEX: Absolutely. You know I heard a story once about Larry Page, who runs Google,   He was in a meeting and he really strongly stated a point. and one of the team members got emotional about it and started yelling at him.    She was like, "I think you're wrong and this is why you're wrong," and Page was smiling…   Afterward, she asked somebody "Hey why was he smiling?"    ‘Cause she backed him down, and he actually said "You know what, I think this deserves more investigation. Let's do this."    She walked out and she was shaking and all adrenalized up, she had just yelled at the CEO of Google, like, “What the heck's gonna happen to me?”   She turned to somebody next to her, and was like "He was smiling, is that because he's gonna come down hard on me?"    And the person was like, "No, he was smiling because you confronted him, he loves it, he wants it.”    He knows that if people aren't confronting him, he's in a bad place.   So I look at it in my team and I'm like, "Hey, if my team's not challenging me a little bit, then we're all just marching behind a duck."    You know, I don't wanna have ducklings behind me. I want people who are saying:    Hey, this might work   This might not work   We might have a better idea   So you give your team license to criticize and license to call you on stuff.   STEVE:  Gosh, I love that.   #5: So here's the fifth one...    So we have:    Strategic plan   Communication system   Selecting and documenting the right processes   Selecting and achieving the right projects,   ….and then, this is *BIG*   Finding the right people     It's NOT just finding the right people, its…    Evaluating the company   Understanding what the company needs right now    What can you offload that is going to create the most momentum, not just for you, but for the team, for everything that you're doing together?    What is the position that you need to put in place next - so that the company moves forward the fastest?    And unfortunately, just like everything else I've named, planning, projects, process, all of those... people also become emotional.    An entrepreneur wakes up one morning and says, "I'm doing too much, I'm gonna hire an assistant."    Then they have the assistant sit next to them for three weeks, and they wonder why this doesn't work out?    It's because you had the thought to get help, (which by the way I congratulate you on), but there was no process there to actually make it work.    And so here's the process you need…   Evaluate what's going on in the company   Understand what the company needs   Turn it into a job description    Then you use it to recruit   You do tons of interviewing   You drive it until you have three people that you can select from    You hire one of them and then you do at least a 90-day onboarding, high-intensity onboarding.    When I'm onboarding an executive team member, I meet with them every day for the first month, three times a week for the second month, and two times a week for the third month.    People tell me, "Hey man, doesn't that "feel like overkill?"    I'm like:    You don't understand what it means to have an executive team. Your job is to build relationships with those people.    You want to know how you build relationships?    There's one commodity that builds relationships. One!    *TIME* - that's it.    And so when I'm onboarding, when I'm bringing somebody on, (whether it's on my executive team or anywhere in the business), somebody is doing that high-intensity onboarding with them…    Up close and personal every single day for the first 30 days making sure we have no drift.    And so, when you have a system to select the right people, bring them on and then onboard them the right way…    Here's what you avoid, (and Stephen this is like, Ah, this statistic drives me crazy)...    In corporate America, I know because I used to be a consultant there.    In corporate America, they would say things like, "Well we just hired so-and-so in that position so they'll probably be productive in four to six months."   The first time I heard that I was like "Did he just say four to six months? Does he mean four to six days, or does he really mean four to six months?"    Because in my business, even way back then), if I had to wait four months for somebody to be productive I would have been, “They're gone”!   STEVE: Yeah, yeah, they're gone!   ALEX: And so in our business, we actually have this experience right now.    We recently brought on somebody else, a new person to help us in marketing, and with our onboarding process, he was actually achieving products within the first five days of his first week.   STEVE: That's so cool!   ALEX: And that's how it should be.    You want somebody to come in, be effective and start contributing and creating momentum.    Because here's what will happen…    As an entrepreneur, if you're wired anything like I am, (and I know Stephen is), if you have somebody on your team that starts to feel like they're not carrying their own weight, you won't sleep.    You won't sleep, it will rip you apart, Stephen am I right?   STEVE: Yeah! ALEX: It will destroy you…    And so here's the question though…   Are they not carrying their own weight because:   They're lazy? They don't want to?   They aren't the right person?    Or is it because it's not clear what they’re doing?   STEVE: They have no idea what they're doing. They don't have confidence...I didn't help them!    ALEX: Right, 'cause here's the thing.    Your team needs three things in order to ultimately be effective and to be the type of team you want.    And here's what I mean by that…    As an entrepreneur here's what you want, you want a team that just does stuff and asks permission later.    You want a team that achieves and lets you know how things worked out.    That's it!  I just know this is how entrepreneurs work.    You want people who make really good decisions.    You want people who move things forward.    You want people who don't stand around waiting for stuff.    And if you want to have a team that actually moves things forward as an entrepreneur…    You gotta spend the time with them and let 'em know what your ethos is, and let 'em know how you make decisions…   That's how you duplicate decision making.   STEVE: Hm, gosh I love that. Okay, so…   Strategic plan   System to communicate   System to document processes that can be shared inside the whole biz    Documenting projects and the ones you're gonna work on   Finding the right people   ...and I actually personally just went through your onboarding training and it's so awesome!    'Cause it goes through and it's like this, you basically create a runway for 'em, right?   And if they don't land, don't worry you've got parachutes and there are jumpy cords all over the place...   - you're doing everything you can to help 'em win fast and lots of small tiny wins that build that confidence, and I was like:    "That is brilliant. 'Cause that is not the way you're taught anywhere else.”   ALEX: So Stephen, check this out, man.    We recently fell out of the lucky tree on recruiting and we hired this guy named Greg Duby and he is, ah, amazing.    He's like, he's just one of the most exciting guys I've ever worked with because he's so solid and so centered, and just so good at what he does.    Greg is a former nuclear propulsion tech in the Navy, so you know what that is, that's the guy who rides the bomb around in the submarine, okay?   STEVE: Yeah, that's amazing!   ALEX: Yeah, you have to have advanced degrees in Physics, advanced degrees in Math.   He's literally a rocket scientist.    So he worked in the Navy, then he worked at NASA, then he worked for some of the larger consulting firms out there…    I mean, he's done incredible stuff in his career.    He's just one of the most solid people I've ever worked with, and within about two or three weeks into our company, in one of our daily huddles, we said, "Who got caught being awesome?"    It's where we call each other out, and he said:    You know, I just wanna call this company out for being awesome.   “ I've been here for three weeks, I've never had an experience like this getting on-boarded anywhere...    I'm up and running, I'm excited. I feel like I'm really part of the team. I feel like I've worked here forever and I'm three weeks in."    And this is somebody who worked at some of the best consulting firms in the world, NASA and the Navy!    And our little tiny company has impressed him so much because we did onboarding because he knew what he was supposed to do.    And as a result, Greg, I think we're about three months in with him, and dude, there are projects that I thought were gonna take a year or two that are getting done this week.   STEVE: That's so cool!   ALEX: It's crazy.   STEVE: It's just a completely different way to do it. One thing I hated in the military, I love the military, but you know, some things that are rough and that is that there are no clear guidelines on how to win ahead of time.   The way you're instructed is by hitting barriers and then you get punished for it, and you're like:    "Just tell me ahead of time and I wouldn't do it! But all right, let's do more push-ups."    Anyway...   ALEX: Something tells me you did a lot of push-ups, Steve!   STEVE: I just want to say thank you so much for being on here.    I asked for 30 minutes and you just completely over-delivered, and I just really want to say thank you to you.    My audience already knows very well of you.    Where can people go to learn more about you but specifically also get your help inside the business?   ALEX: So the best place to learn more about us is to go to our podcast.    I publish a podcast four days a week, which is essentially a one-on-one conversation with an entrepreneur growing a business.    And the way that I create each one of those episodes is when a question or issue comes up in our coaching groups, I create an episode around it, we distribute it to the group.    But then also we distribute it to anybody who's listening, so you can get the same coaching that I'm giving my high-level clients right on our podcast…    It's called Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type, and you can check it out at momentumpodcast.com.    And then, if you want to understand more about our products, about our coaching groups you can go to our website charfen.com, but better is to just reach out to me or to one of my team members through Facebook.    The easiest thing, is just reach out to me, and I'll connect you with the right person in our company, and we'll go through a process with you to help you understand if we can help you.    You know Stephen, we're pretty neat, we don't sell everybody. We actually get on the phone with a lot of people who we sell later, but we won't sell you unless it's time.    We know exactly what solutions we provide, and if you have those issues and they link up, then we'll work together... but we go through a personal inventory in order to help you do that.    So if anybody's interested in getting on a call with a member of my team, you can also shortcut the entire process by going to billionairecode.com…    Answer a few questions and you can just set up a call link and you'll be on a call with one of my team members and they'll help you qualify and understand where you are.    And just so you know, we don't do sales calls, they are all consulting calls.    When you get on a call with my team, you won't ever feel like you're being sold, you'll feel like you're being helped.   STEVE: Which is exactly what I have felt when I started doing that as well.    Just so you all know he's very serious about that - that's very real.    I always feel like I'm being helped by anyone on his team.    ...and come to find out later, "Oh that was the sales guy!"    ...You know what I mean?    They dare to go in and actually they want to change the world and they're very serious about it.    So thank you so much, appreciate it.    Check out Billionaire Code.    The Momentum podcast is a goldmine, it is one of those gems on the internet that is actually worth all of your time and attention.    Thanks so much for being on here, Alex, I really appreciate you and love you, and thank you for being on here.   ALEX: Stephen, dude, this has been an honor.    I hope to be able to get invited back again, and as a Sales Funnel Radio listener, this is really cool. I appreciate you, man!   STEVE: Thanks, I appreciate it!    Hey, awesome episode right?    Hey, once I figured out the simple patterns and formulas that make this game work, I had a new problem…    Back when I eventually left my job and launched my personal business, I sold about $200,000 of product in around three months-ish…    And while I thought I was King Kong, a new problem started.    I was the business, there weren't any systems...   I was support   I was fulfillment    I was the one in charge of getting the ads around   I was the sales department    I was the marketing department    And I knew I wouldn't survive it alone…    Better yet, I knew I'd never seen a rich solopreneur.    This game takes a team.    Contrast that to now, and my company does tons of stuff that I don't know how to do...    What changed?    His name is Alex Charfen, check him out at charfenrocks.com.     So I usually don't bring tons of people on Sales Funnel Radio, but you should know that his programs, combined with my marketing skills, are why my business is killing it in revenue today, and NOT killing me personally.    Alex Charfen's programs and training have been life-changing for me and my family... and taught me who I really am and what I'm meant to be.    So when you're ready to build an actual business, an actual asset and NOT just make this another job…    When you're ready to keep the role of entrepreneur but learn the role of CEO, go get started with Alex Charfen at charfenrocks.com. That's C-H-A-R-F-E-N rocks.com.

Many people confuse reactivity with momentum. It can often feel like momentum, but it’s not. Being in a reactive state is a false feeling of momentum. If you get yourself out of reactivity and into productivity, you will find true momentum. When we’re in a reactive state, our decision making narrows and we begin working in a diminished capacity. Being reactive slows down everything in your life. Remember your energy affects the people around you, and if you’re reactive, your team will be reactive. You will also have lower transparency and challenges in communicating with the people around you. Tune in to hear how you can avoid getting yourself into a reactive space! When you’re ready, here are a few ways my team and I can help scale your business: 1. Grab a free copy of my book: The Entrepreneurial Personality Type. This book will show you why, as an entrepreneur, there is nothing wrong with you, and how you’re not alone. We are the few who dare to dream of a better future and go into the world, insisting it become a reality. 2. Watch our free presentation on Momentum Masterclass. In this free training, you’ll learn how to eliminate pressure and noise, how planning systems play a massive role in your success, and the keystone habits every entrepreneur needs to develop. 3. Join our Billionaire Code Facebook Group. Come hang out in our Facebook group of over 2,000+ members where we regularly share about team building and company growth. 4. Subscribe to the Momentum Podcast. The Momentum Podcast will walk you through the importance of building a team, scaling companies, and ultimately, making your greatest contribution to the world. 5. Join one of our programs and work with me and my team. If you’d like to work directly with me and my team, to take you from where you are today to a place where there are consistent growth and scale, head on over to billionairecode.com and we’ll send over some details to get you started.

In this episode, we discuss how to lower the pressure and noise so you can achieve your ultimate version of success. Lowering pressure and noise is a gateway to understanding how to succeed as an entrepreneur. When we lower the noise and decide what we will no longer tolerate, we’re able to move forward fast. Ask yourself, what are you tolerating, and what are you going to stop? Evaluate the people, places, and things in your life. They are either giving you momentum or taking it away. Make sure you defend your focus like your life depends on it because it does. Do this over and over, and you will create momentum you didn’t know was possible.   Once you lower the noise in all areas of your life, you will see your business grow like crazy! When you lower the noise first, the percentage of your success goes up exponentially. You will have the momentum, clarity, and space you need to go out and create the success you always wanted. It’s time to lower the noise in your life. When you’re ready, here are a few ways my team and I can help scale your business: Grab a free copy of my book: The Entrepreneurial Personality Type. This book will show you why, as an entrepreneur, there is nothing wrong with you, and how you’re not alone. We are the few who dare to dream of a better future and go into the world, insisting it become a reality. Take our free Momentum Masterclass. In this free training, you’ll learn how to eliminate pressure and noise, how planning systems play a massive role in your success, and the keystone habits every entrepreneur needs to develop. Join our Billionaire Code Facebook Group. Come hang out in our Facebook group of over 2,000+ members where we regularly share about team building and company growth. Subscribe to the Momentum Podcast. The Momentum Podcast will walk you through the importance of building a team, scaling companies, and ultimately, making your greatest contribution to the world. Join one of our programs and work with me and my team. If you’d like to work directly with me and my team, to take you from where you are today to a place where there are consistent growth and scale, head on over to billionairecode.com and we’ll send over some details to get you started.

Alex Charfen is the co-founder and CEO of CHARFEN. He has spent his life seeking to understand how to make business grow, which evolved into the question, “How do you help people grow?” Through his research and years as a top consultant to billionaires, the Fortune 500 and Global 100, this question led Alex to discover the long-misunderstood Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT). Best-selling author Robin Sharma recently described Alex as “the most progressive entrepreneurial mind on the planet.” A highly sought-after speaker on entrepreneurial awareness, Alex has spoken around the world for tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and top global businesses to help them identify and live in their strengths.

As you grow your business, there are going to be times when it feels like you've hit a wall.  This is especially true if you're a fast growth business. It's so normal to hit a wall and it's something that happens to every entrepreneur out there. The key is learning how to deal with your challenges in the right way and not let the struggles you feel push you into making bad decisions. When people are under pressure, they don't normally make good and rational decisions. If you've hit a wall, here's what you need to do... 1 -- Lower pressure and noise for you 2 -- Assess if your team is overwhelmed 3 -- Pull the targets closer and rack up some wins You can get past the wall.  If you haven't yet, get a copy of my book the Entrepreneurial Personality Type at freemomentumbook.com             

When it comes to true entrepreneurship, there are few that do it better than this man. His company has made the Inc. 500 Fastest Growing Companies three times over, he published the amazing book called ‘The Entrepreneurial Personality Type', his Podcast ‘Momentum' packs more value than almost any other single podcast online and his passion for strategic planning, communications, creating a movement and building the right team around you… ….well, let's just say its explosive! This guy is an entrepreneurial rock star, and I was lucky enough to have him on the show for Episode number 100! Tune in, this is Episode 100 of The Billy Rickman Show! Learn more about Alex Charfen: https://www.charfen.com/ Download Alex's Free Book: https://freemomentumbook.com Get Tickets for SALONGROWTHCON: https://salongrowthcon.com Some other ways to tune in... YouTube: https://youtu.be/ghW5AgwddBU Subscribe to The Billy Rickman Show! loom.ly/H_kxqOE ****** Billy Rickman Host of The Billy Rickman Show Billy on Facebook: loom.ly/h4Cs3pE Billy on Instagram: loom.ly/SWvPFKA Billy on Snapchat: loom.ly/Vb1i3YU

I recently read a book from Alex Charfen called, "The Entrepreneurial Personality Type" and in the book he talked about a trap that many entrepreneurs fall into, which is buying something you think will help you solve a bigger problem in your business. This is a trap I fell into myself way too often because I thought it was the solution I needed at the time, but I needed to do something else instead, and you can do this too. Enjoy, Brian --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/clicksandfunnels/message

Being an entrepreneur means committing to a life of change.  If things feel safe and comfortable, you've probably stopped moving forward and stopped creating momentum. Too many entrepreneurs fight the changes, but, if you do this, your really fighting your company growth. To move from a startup to long term growth you have to change 100% of the things that you do. Lean into the transitions and the things that make you uncomfortable,  these are the things that will ultimately move you forward. If you're ready to create more momentum than you ever have and leap through the transitions that the average entrepreneur gets stuck in, grab a copy of my book The Entrepreneurial Personality Type.  I want you to understand yourself better than you ever have before. freemomentumbook.com    

"I spent my entire life focused on the question "How do you make business grow?" But here's the problem, if you don't make make people grow with the business, you can make the business grow out of the people" Alex Charfen helps businesses and people grow and scale their businesses. He has spent over 25 years of his life mentoring entrepreneurs and Fortune 500 companies. In the interview, we discuss the three stages of Momentum, which every entrepreneur goes through. How to build momentum even when we're facing resistance and feeling constraint.  Alex is also the author of the book The Entrepreneurial Personality Type, a public speaker and the host of the Momentum Podcast. Visit Alex's website: http://charfen.com   Follow Alex on Instagram: @alexcharfen Follow Carolina on Instagram: @carolinamillan Get your FREE Report here! http://personalbrandingsecrets.me/ebook 

Compartmentalization for entrepreneurs is impossible. We can't just stop and separate from who we really are. In reality, if there is something wrong at home it's going to affect you in your business and if something is stressing you out at work you're going to take that home with you whether you admit it or not. If you want success in your business you have to make better personal decisions. That's how we grow the businesses we want and achieve the outcomes we know we're meant to make. If you're ready to really understand yourself better and stop limiting behavior get a copy of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type book - freemomentumbook.com

The Huntress may be as important as the Entrepreneurial Personality Type.   See, there is a subset within the Entrepreneurial Personality Type.  The women I know would blow you away with what they're capable of.   The age of the female entrepreneur is here.  

What is the thing in your life that creates vulnerability and exposure for you that you're fighting doing?   I have things in my life that make me nervous, things that cause the imposter syndrome to make an appearance.  I've recorded over 350 podcast episodes yet every time I still try to talk myself out of it. Every time I record a podcast the voice in my head says things like "no-ones going to listen to this one".  Every day it gets a bit better and the voice gets a bit quieter. I don't think the imposter just goes away on its own. I think you have to intentionally kill it one day at a time. As evolutionary hunters, we fight the feeling of being exposed. Sometimes the most difficult thing we do, the thing that's the hardest is actually a guide to what we should be doing!    You are strong, you are capable, and you will create the business, the life, and the reality that you want. Do not let that voice talk you out of it. If this podcast spoke to you and you identify as an evolutionary hunter I want you to go freemomentumbook.com and get a copy of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type. You'll see that you are not alone.

Being different means you're not average.  You're not like everyone else.  There were times in my life when I thought why can't I just be like everyone else and fit in? Today, I realize that those questions were not empowering and they were looking at the world in the wrong way. When you were younger you might have been told to sit down, stop moving, stop making everyone else uncomfortable.  But when we grow that's exactly the Evolutionary Hunter in us that allows us to create businesses, make massive outcomes and change the world! If you feel that difference within yourself, I want you to understand that is what makes you brilliant.  It is what makes you who you are and it's what's going to help you change the entire world.   If you haven't yet, go get a copy of my book The Entrepreneurial Personality Type, it will help you understand why people like us are the way we are. freemomentumbook.com   

There are times as an entrepreneur when you just want to shut down that drive you have and be like everyone else but you can't. You can't turn off who you are. The first awakening of every entrepreneur in history is when they realized they were different. The second is the discovery of innate motivation. The third is hearing the call of contribution, that voice that's saying you need to do more, be more and leave more behind. Once you realize who you're meant to be there's no way you can turn it off. You will move forward.    If you're listening and you feel like this is your time and you're ready to create momentum as an entrepreneur, grab a copy of my book. The Entrepreneurial Personality Type - freemomentumbook.com 

You are who you are, so how do you make the most of being uniquely you? In this episode, Keith talks about the fascinating area of personality testing and what that means for us entrepreneurs. Amongst other things, Keith discusses: – Why personality is not a great predictor of entrepreneurial success – Why there seems […] The post What’s Your Entrepreneurial Personality Type? appeared first on Keith McEvoy.

One Saturday afternoon, a few years ago, I sat down and started writing and I just couldn't stop.  I was trying to describe the Entrepreneur. Before the weekend was out I had written 25,000 words and that's how the Entrepreneurial Personality Type book was born.  I printed only 500 copies of the book and gave them all away.  It meant so much to me, the books went to people all over the world, some I knew and some I didn't.  The only request was that If you got a copy you would read it and pass it forward and the next person would do the same. Can 500 books change the world? I think so!  

When I was younger, I read hundreds of personal development books.  If you could send them all up with one thing, it would be… If you want massive success in your life, create congruency and alignment and everything around you will start moving fast. The problem I had when I was younger is that while many books share the concept of congruency, very few shared tactics. This became an obsession of mine.  What are the tactics that will help create congruency and alignment for entrepreneurs 100% of the time? I didn't focus on everyone, instead I focused exclusively on the Entrepreneurial Personality Type. I asked the question over and over again “how can evolutionary hunters like us create massive congruency and momentum?” The result was a holistic approach to working with entrepreneurs. I realized that when we focus on improving our lives in all areas, congruency starts to create itself. In this short message I received from a client of ours, Isla Books, she eloquently and clearly described what it feels like when you achieve congruency and momentum that comes with it. I'm sure you will be as inspired by her as I am.

I’ve had the huge honor of speaking at Russell Brunson’s Funnel Hacking Live event this week, the energy of walking out onto a stage to talk to 3500 people is just incredible.  I spoke about the Entrepreneurial Personality Type and Russell also gave me some extra time to go deep into the Billionaire Code. There’s a clear path to success for entrepreneurs, the Billionaire Code shows you exactly what you need to be doing at each level of development as an entrepreneur. Over the next 9 podcasts, I want to go over each level of the Billionaire Code with you. 

I have news for you, as an Entrepreneurial Personality Type you’ve committed to a life of constantly being in a transition and struggling with something all of the time. Being an entrepreneur means that you are always a beginner at something. The rest of the world doesn’t want to have struggles and challenges, they don’t want growth.  If you’re not putting up with some deficit or overcoming some complexity, you’re not growing.  That’s just part of who we are.

One of the 10 attributes of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type is 'Drive for Gained Advantage'. The ancient voice that keeps evolutionary hunters constantly asking "how do I get ahead?" This is one of the strongest drives we have and can often overrule our better judgment. I feel lucky that early in my career as a consultant I saw the repercussions of situational ethics and was sufficiently scared to always think twice when money was too easy. This is a story from my years as a consultant that I have never told publicly before.

On a Saturday afternoon in Southern California I recorded a podcast with Daniel Gefen who was on the other side of the world in Israel. Even though we have never met before, in the hour we spent together we recognized we were brothers and we had more than we could ever imagine in common. During our podcast, Daniel explained to me how he felt complacent and was having trouble getting motivated to continue to grow his business and make more money. We pick up where I share with Daniel what motivates me even though I enjoy a very high level of financial security and success. What followed felt magical. I shared my true feelings with Daniel and everyone listening, and he shared an extraordinary story of his grandfather and the Holocaust and the realizations he had about being an Entrepreneurial Personality Type. This is a conversation I will never forget.

In this episode, I will share the attributes 6-10 of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type.  As I studied the most successful people throughout history, I found they had similar attributes that had created their success. These attributes also caused most of the challenges throughout their lives. In the video I describe the 10 EPT attributes that create our success and just as quickly can rob our momentum. Understanding the difference may change everything for you. Download the Entrepreneurial Personality Type book now, FreeMomentumBook.com.

How many do you have? As I studied the most successful people throughout history, I found they had similar attributes that had created their success. These same attributes also caused most of the challenges throughout their lives. In this episode I introduce you to 10 EPT attributes that create our success and just as quickly can rob our momentum. Understanding the difference may change everything for you. Download the Entrepreneurial Personality Type book now, FreeMomentumBook.com. 

Entrepreneurial Personality Types are driven by the need for momentum and for progress but we are highly reactive to constraint. We are the small subpopulation of humanity that drives our evolution, but we can go from looking talented to disordered in a moment. When we don't understand this reactivity to constraint it can confuse us, cause us to judge ourselves, and hold us in place. When we understand ourselves better, we know we are not motivated by the rest of the world, and we can move forward and accomplish. When we release the judgment the rest of the world imposes on us and realize that we are driven by the need for momentum and contribution, we create the outcomes that we want in the world. Great entrepreneurs throughout history have proven, regardless of the diagnosis or disorder or even physical limitation, we can change the world.

This is the introduction to the Entrepreneurial Personality Type and how the content that has gotten the most exposure in my career has been a struggle to monetize, until now.  The content flowed through me after sitting down to write a book called Constructive Company.  When I reached the point in the proposal that was about the audience, 200 words turned into 25,000 and the Entrepreneurial Personality Type was born.  This is for the most misunderstood and brilliant among us.  If you are listening, you are most likely one of them although you may have felt isolated and like a party of one.  You are actually part of the most important club in history.  I can prove it to you.  

In this episode I read a chapter from my forthcoming book about the Entrepreneurial Personality Type. When my writing partner Dennis Welch read this to me, I got emotional. I feel like it almost perfectly captures the essence of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type and who we are. This podcast and my forthcoming book are not marketing pieces or lead generation devices, collectively they are my manifesto to people like us to shake off the suppression, lean into our strengths, and go change the world.

Alex Charfen  Tell us a little about yourself and your background. Can you explain the Entrepreneurial Personality Type? 1. Care Takers 2. Communicator 3. Coordinator 4. Evolutionary Hunter How do you help other entrepreneurs succeed? How do you deal with fear? What’s a personal self-talk, mantra, affirmation or self-belief that contributes to your success? How can my listener find out about you? Free Book - https://freemomentumbook.com  Podcast - https://momentumpodcast.com Watch my Celebrity interviews on my YouTube Channel! Go here> https://goo.gl/EA9x6D Connect with Bert Martinez on Facebook. Connect with Bert Martinez on Twitter.  

The Huntress may be as important as the Entrepreneurial Personality Type.   See, there is a subset within the Entrepreneurial Personality Type.  The women I know would blow you away with what they're capable of.   The age of the female entrepreneur is here.  

The Business Called You is an ever-expanding global community of like minded business owners who want to expand their knowledge and be on the leading edge of the technology and business thinking that will take their business to the next level.  This podcast is for entrepreneurs, small business owners or even start-ups who want to be inspired, and who want tools and actionable strategies to improve their life and their business.  Jonathan Edwards brings his ever expanding knowledge as an Olympian and an Entrepreneur to bring you the latest and greatest in tech, psychology, productivity, books, inspiring people. This podcast is part of Jonathan's Podcast365 project. Please leave a comment below. Listen today as Jonathan speaks with Alex Charfen

Do you feel misunderstood? Not like others? Crazy confused? Alex Charfen knows how you feel. He knows what you need to hear. Begin your journey of personal development. Get a business coach to help you out. They can help you increase your revenue, and make your life easier. Alex is my business coach, and in today’s episode, we talk about the entrepreneurial personality type (EPT). Successful people are stubborn and obsessive. They don’t give up. The most successful people in history are different and unique. You'll Learn... [10:20] Everyone around you are aliens; or are you the alien? [11:08] Garage sale game changer; act of generosity. [12:41] All an entrepreneur needs is someone to encourage them a little bit. [13:40] Use social media to encourage people; feel return of momentum. [15:10] If you feel broken as a business person, learn how to have relationships and build each other up. [17:50] EPTs are asynchronous learners and developers. [18:50] Most available coaching is disappointing and abusive. [19:58] 4 Types of Personalities. [20:30] Caretaker: A need to serve; do you enjoy changing bedpans? [22:10] Communicator: Carries on oral tradition; do you enjoy small talk? [24:05] Coordinator: Love organization, memorization, and rules; do you enjoy being on committees? [26:00] Entrepreneur: Evolutionary hunter who changes things and makes others uncomfortable; can you turn it off? [28:20] Go out, be who you are, and make the change in the world you’ve always known you could. [29:24] “All great truths begin as blasphemies.” - George Bernard Shaw. [30:05] Every great visionary was crazy until they sold something. [30:15] If the world is fully supporting you, telling you that you are right, and saying everything is going to be ok, then you are probably not doing anything very important. [30:40] Challenge beliefs in yourself; hook onto contribution and momentum. Tweetables The most successful people in history are different and unique. All an entrepreneur needs is someone to encourage them a little bit. Entrepreneurial personality types are asynchronous learners and developers. Resources Entrepreneurial Personality Type book Tony Robbins Dr. Wayne Dyer Momentum Podcast DoorGrowClub Facebook Group DoorGrow Live

Episode 263:  Must Listen Special Edition - Alex Charfen The Entrepreneurial Personality Type Today this is a special edition episode! Alex Charfen is in the mastermind group - he's unbelievable. This content is unbelievable, it's powerful and can change your life. Alex has built multiple large companies, even some that have been in the fortune 500 3 times! He's done Ted Talks. He's been on Fox News & CNN  & so much more. Alex is a BEAST. "My goal in the world, eventually, is to get this content to the point where no evolutionary hunter suffers the fate at the hands of a coordinator, a communicator, a caretaker,  who doesn't understand them and holds them in a box...." - Alex Charfen "Our society systems don't help us, they break us!" - Alex Charfen For people like me, who came out of a hometown blue-collar style business - this might all feel like a huge overwhelming thing. Over the decades, he earned his experiences. As a kid, Alex was just trying to fail as little as he could. Success felt so far away, even impossible. But he did it. He crushed it. Growing up, business was an obsession for him. It was the only thing he focused on. There are 3 stages of momentum that Alex talks about and goes deep into explaining them. As Entrepreneuers, Momentum isn't what we want. It's who we are. - Alex Charfen When you get really clear on who you are, this is when you start to decide what comes next. Alex discusses going into your new reality, a new reality of who you are, what you're meant to do and why you are here. Every one of us has that quiet little voice that says we are meant for more, that we can change the world. STOP DENYING THIS! You are you. You are who you are. Don't deny it any longer. Follow it. Lean into it. Accept it. It's who you are. Just remember this, "If you've ever felt alone, there is nothing wrong with you and you are NOT ALONE! For anything you are dealing with, someone in the world has done this, overcome it and changed the world." - Alex Charfen Learn more about Alex Charfen by checking out www.Charfen.com Buy Alex Charfens Book click here Check out his Podcast by https://www.charfen.com/podcast/ (clicking here) Interested in learning more, directly from Alex Charfen? https://www.charfen.com/programs/ (Click here) for program details! Connect with Alex Charfen on his personal Facebook by https://www.facebook.com/charfen/ (Clicking here) Follow with Alex Charfen on Twitter by https://twitter.com/AlexCharfen (Clicking here) Check out this podcast to change your life! If You Haven't Yet, Check Out RevenueBuddy. The ULTIMATE Visual Goal Setting Buddy!http://revenuebuddy.com/ ( Click Here )To Check It Out You can also check out the INCREDIBLE Super Course by http://supermarketingcourse.com (clicking here!) Have an idea for a Podcast Topic? A question you want to be answered live? Or just want to leave a random message with whatever you want? Now's your chance! You can now call my new Podcast Hotline number and leave a 3-minute message and I'll play some of these LIVE on the air! 810.201.4555 You can check out Joshua's AMAZING Marketing software by clicking here If you've enjoyed this PodCast this year if it's brought value to you, your life or your business could you please go to Itunes and leave a 5-star review? https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/radiusbomb-com-quick-talk-podcast/id1061375545?mt=2 (Click here to leave your review)

This week I found out I'm not a Visionary, and that's okay.

I’ve had the huge honor of speaking at Russell Brunson’s Funnel Hacking Live event this week, the energy of walking out onto a stage to talk to 3500 people is just incredible.  I spoke about the Entrepreneurial Personality Type and Russell also gave me some extra time to go deep into the Billionaire Code. There’s a clear path to success for entrepreneurs, the Billionaire Code shows you exactly what you need to be doing at each level of development as an entrepreneur. Over the next 9 podcasts, I want to go over each level of the Billionaire Code with you. 

A lot of people in real estate are taught that they can and should do it all alone. Why is this misleading? How can you use systems to free up time and actually make you wealthier? What does it take to really grow a business? On this episode, we talk to coach and business growth specialist, Alex Charfen, who shares his journey and one thing all real estate business owners should know. Any successful person in business that has grown an empire, has done it with the help of other people. -Alex Charfen   Takeaways + Tactics Once you start making money, ask yourself what you can do to start making things easier for yourself. If you don’t build leverage or a team, you’ll make a decent living but only for a while. Determine what part of the business you love. Then build structure, processes and people around everything else.   The discipline of gratitude is a huge part of recovering after a difficult time.   At the start of the show Alex shared how he got into real estate, the incredible story of overcoming the challenges of two hurricanes and the 2007 crash. Next, we talked about one of the biggest impediments to the growth of real estate businesses. We also discussed the issue with a great deal of real estate coaching programs out there and why you need to stop listening to them. We also discussed: How to build an organization around yourself The importance of outsourcing and delegating Why a real estate business can be a trap   Real estate agents are taught that they need to do everything themselves, and that they are in a self-sufficient business. As a result, many agents are control freaks, hindering their ability to grow a business and build an empire. You can do pretty well on your own, but to get to real wealth, you can’t close yourself into a bubble of productivity. If you really want to grow the business, build an organization around yourself. Stop listening to people that put you in the loop of doing the same things over and over again. Guest Bio Alex is the CEO of the Charfen Institute and the author of The Entrepreneurial Personality Type as well as Momentum, set to publish in early 2018. He is a widely-known business growth specialist and coach. Go to http://www.charfen.com/ for more information. Resources Become a Certified Luxury Listing Specialist Get Your Free Gift - Luxury Listing Blueprint

When I was younger, I read hundreds of personal development books.  If you could send them all up with one thing, it would be… If you want massive success in your life, create congruency and alignment and everything around you will start moving fast. The problem I had when I was younger is that while many books share the concept of congruency, very few shared tactics. This became an obsession of mine.  What are the tactics that will help create congruency and alignment for entrepreneurs 100% of the time? I didn't focus on everyone, instead I focused exclusively on the Entrepreneurial Personality Type. I asked the question over and over again “how can evolutionary hunters like us create massive congruency and momentum?” The result was a holistic approach to working with entrepreneurs. I realized that when we focus on improving our lives in all areas, congruency starts to create itself. In this short message I received from a client of ours, Isla Books, she eloquently and clearly described what it feels like when you achieve congruency and momentum that comes with it. I'm sure you will be as inspired by her as I am.

Alex Charfen is the co-founder and CEO of CHARFEN. He has spent his life seeking to understand how to make businesses grow, which evolved into the question, “How do you help people grow?” Through his research and years as a top consultant the Fortune 500 and Global 100, this question led Alex to discover the long-misunderstood Entrepreneurial Personality Type or EPT. Alex is a highly sought-after speaker on entrepreneurial awareness and has spoken around the world in front of tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and top global businesses to help them identify and live within their strengths. WHAT YOU’LL LEARN ABOUT IN THIS EPISODE: What differentiates entrepreneurs from everyone else What laid the groundwork for Alex’s book, “The Entrepreneurial Personality Type” The common attributes of the entrepreneurial personality type How high sensitivity and awareness allows you to make things happen in your life How low pressure and noise compares to high pressure and noise Why Alex believes that entrepreneurs don’t know the difference between happy and sad The one thing entrepreneurs are driven by The power of taking on challenges while facing resistance How we become cognitively clearer when in momentum The four different types of people in the world RESOURCES Entrepreneurial Personality Type book: freemomentumbook.com Podcast: momentumpodcast.com Momentum Masterclass: www.momentummasterclass.com

Alex Charfen is co-founder and CEO of CHARGEN, a training, educating, and consulting organization helping visionary entrepreneurs grow and scale their business and movements, and create momentum everywhere in their lives.  A Ppr A private advisor and consultant to billionaires, the Fortune 500, and some of the most well-known entrepreneurs on the planet, entrepreneurs on every continent (except Antarctica) use his online courses to change their lives. Alex has spoken on entrepreneurial awareness around the world for tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and top global businesses, including TEDx, Genius Network annual event, and EOs Global Leadership Conference in Athens Greece. At his recent Titan Summit event in Zurich, best-selling author Robin Sharma introduced Alex as “the most progressive entrepreneurial mind on the planet.” For the past two decades, Alex has created and curated proven business philosophies, models and strategies, geared specifically to entrepreneurs and the Entrepreneur Personality Type (EPT) he is a nationally syndicated contributor to the American City Business Journals and regularly is called upon by national media outlets.  What the Entrepreneurial Personality Type or EPT is and how it can help you The unique characteristics that entrepreneurs have How the best qualities entrepreneurs have can be reproduced Habits of self-made billionaires and how to duplicate them How to live your life intentionally The best way that entrepreneurs can overcome overwhelm The qualities that the best business minds of our time share How the most successful entrepreneurs overcome their fears The key to maximizing your performance by self-improvement and growth How successful entrepreneurs recognize their weaknesses to overcome them, while building off their strengths The key to building momentum as an entrepreneur How entrepreneurs reverse engineer past success to get what they want How to discover and awaken your entrepreneur super power Some things you see successful entrepreneurs do to grow and scale their businesses And much more...

Alex Charfen is an entrepreneur and host of the Momentum for the Entrepreneurial Personality Type podcast. Today, Alex will share the four-step test to determine your EPT so you can move forward. More at www.bemovingforward.com. Follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn @Bemovingforward The Corporate Cliches Adult Coloring Book is available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble online: Just go to Bit.ly/corporatecliches

Alex Charfen helps evolutionary entrepreneurs grow, scale and thrive! His book, The Entrepreneurial Personality Type has become the handbook for his restless tribe around the world looking for answers. He’s spoken on the biggest stages, appeared on TV and in print for major media outlets such as MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Investor’s Business Daily and AmEx OPEN Forum to provide his unique views and insights. His next book, Momentum, will publish in early 2018 and Alex lives in Austin with his wife, Cadey, and their two children, Reagan and Kennedy.

"When Does The Hustle Actually Suck?"... Just do it. Make your dreams come true, so just do it. That's right. Welcome to Sales Funnel Radio where you'll learn marketing strategies to grow your online business using today's best internet sales funnels. Now here's your host, Steve Larsen. Hey, what's going on guys. Hey, that was my little three year old. She obsessed with that Shia LaBeouf thing where he's like, "Just do it. Make your dreams come true, so just ..." She's like quoting it. She's walking around and she says it all the time. It's adorable. It's hilarious. There's this part of me that's like, "Oh my gosh. I'm so excited." I've never had any success without becoming a monomaniac about something. Just really obsessing, being all about massive volume in whatever the thing that I'm going for whether it's a physical goal, financial, personal development, spiritual, anything. Monomaniac, these sprints of like really high intensity focus is how I've done what I've done. When I see my little girl do that, I'm like, "Yay, she's got," but then there's other side of it. There's this other side of the coin that I don't think is talked about as much. Gary V who's at the Viral Video Launch a little bit ago, and he talked about ... He's on stage for a solid two hours it seemed like. He did a great job obviously. It's Gary V, but someone asked him ... I don't remember exactly what they said, but the question had to do with some kind of life balance. That's a question a lot of people ask. It's a good question to be asking for sure. I do get a little surprised at how many people ask it. I guess how frequently it gets asked. I remember Gary V said like, "Look." Something to the effect of, "You don't want to wake you when you're 37 years old and find out that what you've been doing the last 15 years you hate. You've built something that you don't want to be a part of or you've built something that literally sucks so much of your time in your life away that you really don't have time to live outside of your business." It's been kind of an interesting experience going back and forth on that. I mean I've worked my butt off for the last five years. I mean specifically over the last five years. Really it's been like eight, but really the last five years has been just high pressure sprinting, very, very, very little rest. Just go, go, go, go, go, go, go. I get that a lot from my dad. My dad was an extremely successful businessman. He's actually a software architect. He was an executive at IBM. He took on huge roles over at American Express. He was all over the place and set a lot of industry standards for the software world. My dad's the man. I learned how to work because of him and specifically because of yard work and the way he interacted with me on that. You know what I'm talking about. I talk a lot about that in the early episodes of this show. Anyway, it was a little bit ago. I've been working like crazy, just doing tons of stuff. Working, working, working. One morning I was leaving and I was like, "Hey guys, I'm going to go to work." My little girls had just asked like, "Hey." They're saying, "Are we going to go to the park?" I was like, "No, I got to go to work." My little two year old like sucked to my leg and was looking up at me with like the biggest saddest puppy dog eyes I've ever seen. I was like oh crap. It kind of rips your heart out a little. Gosh, dang it, am I doing this for the right reasons or is it my own? I don't know. I'm really aggressive. I'm extremely ambitious obviously. Chances are if you're listening to this podcast, you are also. I mean usually podcast listeners are go getters. Anyway, the whole point of this podcast, I've had a lot of things in my mind lately for how I want to make sure that I'm crafting my life. I recently have had the experience ... I'm not sure if you guys read the book "The ONE Thing" by Gary Keller. "The ONE Thing" by Gary Keller. Fascinating book. I looked at that book like many entrepreneurs and said, "Oh yeah, but everyone else has to do just one thing. I could do like 15." I haven't really taken it that seriously. There's been a few experiences over the last two weeks though where I've been going through it. I've actually had the chance to get to know Don Hobbs who runs the Gary Keller "ONE Thing" events. He's been coaching me through a lot of this kind of stuff. He's been teaching me like, "Steven, man, what's your one thing? What's the thing out in the future?" I'm like gosh, I don't know. I almost got offended by it at first. I was like, "I don't know." When I was running the two mile race in the army, right, the two mile. You go in as fast as you can for two miles. I never did it by looking at the finish line. I always did it by looking three steps ahead of me. That's how I've lived my life where I just keep heads down and I just sprint and I just go towards stuff. Build the funnel. Get the thing done. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom and just go, go, go, go, go. It's good because you got a crap load of stuff done. Stuff that takes other people way too long. They think about stuff too much rather than just act and get something out there and fix it as its falling. You know what I mean? Anyway, and he's asking like, "Hey, what's your one thing? What's your one thing?" I was like, "I don't know. I don't know. I don't honestly know what my some day goals, what my one thing goal is." My thing's way out in the future. Whenever people say like, "Where do you think you'll be in 10 years," I'm like I have no idea. I have no idea. I mean that's what I said to him when he and I were chatting. It almost got a little bit heated. He was like, "You got to know what your thing is." I'm like, "I don't know what my thing is." I'm really good at short-term sprints, getting a ton of awesome stuff done that rocks. I told him. I was like, "Look, I've lived my life this way for especially the last five years." Actually probably most of my life. I don't plan more than six months in advance because it's guessing. That's what I've always felt. My whole mentality towards that has started shifting and changing. I've started thinking through like okay, what is it that I really want? I know how to hustle. I know how to crush it, but when my little girls are running up to me and saying like, "Look dad, take me to the park," it starts to tug on the heart strings a little bit. It's easier to charge high ticket for my time when you start having those kind of life events happen to you like, "Hey, here's a kid. Hey," whatever. You kind of check yourself just a little bit. I've been kind of going through that lately and thinking through a little bit more ... I don't know. I think that living a balanced life is a façade. I still do. A lot of people ask me this type of question, which is the only reason why I'm bringing it up on this podcast. I get this question frequently. How do you balance everything? I was like well, I don't. I don't try to. I've never found success by being balanced. Are you kidding me? An Olympian is an Olympian because they train their freaking butt off and that's all they do for decades. You know what I mean? I don't try to live a balanced life. I don't try to. I work hard. I don't sleep that much. I had this screeching realization though about two weeks ago and I've been trying to figure how to say this on the podcast. I had this screeching realization like why, you know. The ability to work this freaking hard is amazing. I love it. I learned it from my dad. I love working where I do. Emotionally scratches a lot of itches. You know what I mean? It's amazing. I guess that'd be a question that I post back to everyone who's listening. I'm just trying to pass it. I don't totally know the answer yet. I'm still trying to figure that out and I actually feel like that answer will be something that's discovered. It's like a discovered answer mixed with intention. You'd all find it. I'm not exactly sure what that 10 year goal is, the 20 year goal is. Look, I have no idea. The thing that I know that I do want to do is keep teaching people how to make money. I'm very, very interested in philanthropy. I really, really want to go do a lot of third world stuff. I look at money as a tool. It's a means to an end. I don't totally know what that end is though. I just kind of have an idea of what those things are. It was these going through more of Gary Keller's "ONE Thing" book, talking to Don Hobbs, Russell, talking to I guess like Dave Woodward. It's been very eye opening to be like okay, short-term for these things, but like make sure it's actually affecting the one thing you're trying to go for. I've never really been that huge into planning whatever. I lived the last five years of my life going, "You know what? I want to go for that." Then I'd get it because that's who I am and what I do. I take my target and I destroy it. That's my whole mentality... That's my internal persona is is whatever the obstacle is, I'm going to crush it. I'm going to go to the left of it. I can go to the right of it. I'll go above it or below it or I can blow the crap straight through it. That's my warrior mentality. That's like get out of my way. This is who I am and what I do. Don't try and stop me. My being is built on movement. When I'm forced to sit still for too long, I feel like I'm kind of like entering hell a little bit. I don't mean just like sitting, but like if I feel like there's a lack of movement, it really messes with my head. It really messes with my being in general. I'm real good at those sprints. I'm real good at those. I'm not trying to just focus on me with this episode today. I hope that you understand the why. Like what is it that you're actually pushing for? Money's great... Not going to take it with you. What's the impact? Obviously the impact that you can have is greatly increased by the amount of money you do have, which is how I look at all this game. I want to learn it to make a lot of money for the means ... There's a means to an end, which is I really, really want to do a lot of philanthropy stuff. I don't totally know what that is. I know that I'll figure it out when I get there and that's kind of how I've lived my life, but I do want to have a little bit more long-term direction and I hope that you're doing the same. If you haven't read that book, I seriously recommend it. It has been an interesting exercise. What's been funny, it's been hard to actually answer the questions. Anyway, I always get kind of frustrated when people were like ... I actually think I did an episode about this a while ago. It was like, "How do you balance everything?" It was like, "I really don't think that there's such a thing as balanced." Balanced compared to what? Who is it? It was Dan Sullivan. I think it's Dan Sullivan. He talked about like if you want to feel really bad about yourself, make sure you compare yourself to some ideals because you'll never reach them. They're a façade. They're undefinable, right? If you compare yourself in I don't know what you're trying to do, compare it to pop culture, that would suck because pop culture changes momently, right? Every hour there's a new thing, there's a new style, a new fad, a new this, a new that. If you want to feel really crappy about yourself, compare yourself to an ideal, right? That's been part of my fear is I don't know want to compare myself to some idealistic thing that's out there. That's been my fear with setting a one thing goal, but I'm realizing it's a false belief of my own, right? What Dan Sullivan says is, "Look, rather than gaining your sense of self-worth by comparing yourself to an ideal," he says, "Compare yourself to where you've been. Compare you to you, rather than you to some ideal because ideals change and you'll never actually reach it because they change. It's undefinable." He was like, "Look back and figure out where it is that you've been and where you're going." Anyway, it's kind of interesting. You got on one side a guy like Tim Ferriss, right? Tim Ferriss boasts a 4-Hour Workweek, which I'm sure he's so popular now I bet that's not true anymore. For that business though maybe it is, that business that book is about. The 4-Hour Workweek. 4-Hour Workweek, right? He sat back and he said, "What's the one thing I can do that when I do that, it makes all the other tasks irrelevant?" Right? That's how he approached it. That's one side of the spectrum. The other side of the spectrum is like Gary V style where it's like sprint, go, go, go, go, go, roar. It's like oh my gosh. Hustle. Hustle until you bleed. Hustle until you get ... Honestly, I appreciate the hustle. I can do the hustle, but the hustle sucks. The hustle is not a sustainable strategy. Right? I believe the need of hustle especially when you're building your business for the first time, you're building funnels in the valley lighter, you're trying to figure out what offers convert. Man, you better be hustling, man. That is life changing. That is the potential for generational wealth. You better be hustling towards that. That's my mentality. It's like, "Man, you don't like what you're doing in life? Then freaking do something about it and you run at it. You sprint at it." Don't try and save a little for later in case you got to run back. Give it all in the sprint. It's the only way I've ever found that actually gets stuff out and built and done. I'm good at that. I'm very good at that. That's the thing. Then there's this other romantic side by Tim Ferriss. He was like 4-Hour Workweek compared to Gary V, sprint until you bleed. Hustle, hustle, hustle. You're crap until you're running at all times. Hustle and then the taxi. Anyway, it's like very different schools of thought going towards hopefully the same outcome that I'm seeing all these other guys go for. It's interesting to watch how people take the path towards whatever they're going for, where it's Gary Keller's "ONE Thing." Just one thing... If it doesn't have anything to do with the main event that you're going for or the main goal, don't even attempt it. Other people are like, "Just do it all. Sprint you all. Something will stick on the wall. Go, go, go." I don't have the answer. I'm not trying to tell you guys what the answer is, but for me right now what I'm trying to figure out is okay, if I can't define a 10 year old, can I define a five year? What is that? Are the things that I'm building and what I'm putting, is it in supporting of that? The hustle is great and I believe there's a time and season for everyone of those schools of thought. I believe that there is the 4-Hour Workweek style when you figure out the new opportunity and the charismatic leader. You figured out the cost. When you figure those things out, in my mind it does become a little bit more 4-Hour Workweek-ish. Not that you can take the back seat or actually work four hours, but like it's all about creating the systems and putting people in place and be able to step back and step out. I get that. I think there's a time and a season for that. I also think there's a time and a season for the hustle... I remember sleeping literally three, four, five hours a night literally just about every single day of my entire college experience because I was studying marketing and launching businesses and trying to be successful. I was hustling my face off. I worked so hard and then I go to marketing classes and people are like, "Well, we know what you're talking about." I'll be like, "Man, you guys have not a clue." What we're learning right here is 15 years old. You know what I mean? Anyway, I love the hustle and sometimes we can romanticize the hustle. Sometimes I see too many posts on Facebook of people saying, "I'm doing my 3:00 AM. I haven't slept tonight. I haven't slept great," but you're going to sleep the next 24 hours because you're going to be dead and totally rocked. You know what I mean? Whenever I see somebody say, "Oh my gosh. Yeah, I worked a straight 46 hours," there are very specific times and seasons where that is needed, but I actually don't think it's something to brag about. In my mind it means that you might be doing something wrong. Maybe you didn't delegate it properly or you did bad on your launch calendar and you didn't plan appropriately. You know what I mean? Whenever like, "Yeah, I've been hustling doing X, Y and Z," like okay, because of what? Is it because of you truly have that many things to get that or is it because you're trying to be busy because you're confusing that with achievement? Activity with achievements, the same thing. I always laugh. I think they're tagging me in the post. I can't remember. Regardless, I saw several in a row of people bragging about how they had not slept in a very, very long time. Read the book "Rework." The book "Rework" talks about that very principle. It's dumb. You can't be creative when you're tired. That your part of your brain starts to shut down. It's like the most high maintenance part of your head... You're not going to be creative. You're not going to come up with a new opportunity. You're not going to come up with new copy. You're not going to be a very good analytical traffic driver if you're reading stats. You know what I mean? If you're tired, it rocks your world. I still only sleep five, six hours in a night. Usually it's five, but man, it's taking a while for me to ... Anyway, all I'm trying to say is figure out if you're actually in love with the hustle or are you using hustle to get the end goal. There's a very important distinction. My hope is that you don't fall so in love with the hustle that you just keep doing it because you don't know what else to do. It's what Tim Ferriss talks about in The 4-Hour Workweek. He's like, "Look, most of us work because we don't know what to do besides work." I love work and work is a sanctifying aspect to it. There's so much personal development that comes from it, but man, it is not about straight hustle. The hustle sucks sometimes. It sucks a lot of times. Truly for the first time in like four ... I mean five years. For the first time in five years, I have been asking the question, so what? What is it for? How come I'm doing this? What's the farther end goal? What's the reason that I want to push forward on this? I'm not going to lie. That question has freaked me out because ... Actually Alex Charfen talks about this in the Entrepreneurial Personality Type. If you guys don't know him, go check out Alex Charfen. He is fantastic. He helps me learn more about myself than I know about myself and why I act the way I do and why I can do these hustle periods. He talks about these very things. Like, "Look, if someone asks an entrepreneur what their five year goal is, their brains explode because they have no idea how to even think that far ahead. There's so much stuff that they've got going on." That's how I feel. I don't know what the answer is. It's literally like those old TV sets when the channel isn't on. It's like ssh. Do you know what I mean? There's this blank channel. I have no idea. Five years from now, 10 years from now, no idea. That can be a little bit freaky. I'm trying to get more clarity on what that actually is and I'm challenging you to do the same and to take it serious and to know what the end game is. Are you falling in love with the hustle? That's basically the whole point of the whole episode I was trying to make with this whole thing. Is it like oh gosh, you got to have ... If you want to be really successful and stuff, increase your volume in that activity. You will be successful. Have huge ridiculous unbalanced volume in whatever you're trying to be really good at or make money at or whatever it is and you'll be successful. That's like the formula. Just obsess. They'll do well. Obsess, but know that it is a means to an end. The way you stay relevant, go back to these little tiny obsessing moments. It's kind of like the way I learn now has changed dramatically. The way I learn, I actually have not read a full book in quite some time. Years actually. The reason why is because I realized that I was distracting myself with the activity of reading books rather than applying what the books were saying. Right? I realized that I needed to change my learning style and I needed to start doing these little more mini learning sessions. When I first started, it was like this big gulp. Just taking in everything I can. I was reading all these courses, taking all these things in. Then eventually I needed to change my strategy because I was just not launching anything. I was way too distracted. It's the same thing with your goals and what you're actually going for. I think at the beginning it may not matter as much what that long-term goal is, but I'm starting to ... I'm really, really starting to ask the question, okay, what is the long-term goal? Does this activity have to do with that? Is it sustainable? Is there a reason I should be doing this or should someone else be doing it for me at a hire out? Those are all the kind of questions and I can feel that I'm in a transitionary period. It's important to be self-aware of where you are in that process. I'm not telling you not to hustle. Gosh, I'm going to hustle as long as I can. I also know now it's a means to an end, rather than this glorification thing, like this badge of honor. "I haven't slept in 47 hours." Well, then you've got a problem. There's another problem set you're not addressing and because of that, the side effect is happening. Take a step back. Figure out that problem set. What's going on? How come you can't? Anyway, that's all I got for you guys. Thanks for listening to Sales Funnel Radio. Please remember to subscribe and leave feedback. Want to get one of today's best internet sales funnel for free? Go to SalesFunnelBroker.com/freefunnels to download your prebuilt sales funnel today.

One of the 10 attributes of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type is 'Drive for Gained Advantage'. The ancient voice that keeps evolutionary hunters constantly asking "how do I get ahead?" This is one of the strongest drives we have and can often overrule our better judgment. I feel lucky that early in my career as a consultant I saw the repercussions of situational ethics and was sufficiently scared to always think twice when money was too easy. This is a story from my years as a consultant that I have never told publicly before.

Alex Charfen is a proud member of a band of brothers and sisters that includes Einstein, Oprah, and Edison – and many people like YOU join this tribe of entrepreneurs every day. We are born with a unique set of gifts and issues that will, for better or for worse, drive us for all of our lives: Entrepreneurs will chase momentum, and even long for it; they will have a hard time fitting into the systems built for everybody else; and, in the end, if they survive and are able to stay unmedicated and unincarcerated, they will likely change the world. Throughout Alex’s (http://www.charfen.com/blog/free-ebook/) , both called The Entrepreneurial Personality Type, he dives into this idea and offers incredible value for anyone who can relate to it. Resources: Learn more at (http://www.charfen.com/) Listen to The Entrepreneurial Personality Type podcast Download The Entrepreneurial Personality Type ebook for FREE Production & Development for the 20 Under 20s Podcast by Podcast Masters

On a Saturday afternoon in Southern California I recorded a podcast with Daniel Gefen who was on the other side of the world in Israel. Even though we have never met before, in the hour we spent together we recognized we were brothers and we had more than we could ever imagine in common. During our podcast, Daniel explained to me how he felt complacent and was having trouble getting motivated to continue to grow his business and make more money. We pick up where I share with Daniel what motivates me even though I enjoy a very high level of financial security and success. What followed felt magical. I shared my true feelings with Daniel and everyone listening, and he shared an extraordinary story of his grandfather and the Holocaust and the realizations he had about being an Entrepreneurial Personality Type. This is a conversation I will never forget.

Guest: Alex Charfen is developer of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type and host of the podcast by the same name. His upcoming book, "Defending Brilliance", applies this research children’s learning styles personality development and how they relate to the modern educational system. In this episode, we will cover: how Alex's research into the personality types of ultra successful business people lead him to understand why so many kids are being incorrectly diagnosed as ADD, ADHD, Asperger's, etc. in school today what the 4 general types of people are and what the one qualifying question for each that determines which group your child belongs to how to support your child in the modern school system if they are displaying some of these unique characteristics so they can remain Brilliant rather than being forced to fit into a box Resources mentioned in the conversation: Alex's website: www.AlexCharfen.com Link to his article: The 3 Questions Brilliant Children Need to Hear to download his free ebook on the Entrepreneurial Personality Type: http://www.charfen.com/blog/free-ebook/ Link to listen to his podcast in iTunes: www.MomentumPodcast.com About Alex Charfen: Alex Charfen is the co-founder and CEO of CHARFEN. He has spent his life seeking to understand how to make business grow, which evolved into the question, “How do you help people grow?” Through his research and years as a top consultant to billionaires, Fortune 500 and Global 100 companies, this question led Alex to discover the long-misunderstood Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT). Best-selling author Robin Sharma recently described Alex as “the most progressive entrepreneurial mind on the planet.” A highly sought-after speaker on entrepreneurial awareness, Alex has spoken around the world for tens of thousands of entrepreneurs to help them identify and live in their strengths and grow their empires. And now he applying this knowledge to children’s personality development, learning styles and how they relate to the modern educational system. All of this will be released in his upcoming book “Defending Brilliance”.

In this episode I read a chapter from my forthcoming book about the Entrepreneurial Personality Type. When my writing partner Dennis Welch read this to me, I got emotional. I feel like it almost perfectly captures the essence of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type and who we are. This podcast and my forthcoming book are not marketing pieces or lead generation devices, collectively they are my manifesto to people like us to shake off the suppression, lean into our strengths, and go change the world.

Alex Charfen is an entrepreneur in every sense of the word.  He's founded and operated a number of businesses, written books, spoken to audiences around the world, led high powered mastermind groups, and much more.   Alex has identified that some of history's most accomplished individuals, such as Einstein, Picasso, Oprah, and Edison, have unique commonalities.  He has defined these similarities as the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT).  In this episode, we dive into EPT, the other 3 personality types that exist, Alex's epic morning routine, and how you can accomplish amazing feats like some of history's top performers.   Please enjoy this incredible episode!   Links: Entrepreneurial Type Podcast - momentumpodcast.com Alex's morning routine: morning.charfen.com Alex's book Entrepreneurial Personality Type - freemomentumbook.com  http://www.charfen.com/  

Entrepreneurial Personality Types are driven by the need for momentum and for progress but we are highly reactive to constraint. We are the small subpopulation of humanity that drives our evolution, but we can go from looking talented to disordered in a moment. When we don't understand this reactivity to constraint it can confuse us, cause us to judge ourselves, and hold us in place. When we understand ourselves better, we know we are not motivated by the rest of the world, and we can move forward and accomplish. When we release the judgment the rest of the world imposes on us and realize that we are driven by the need for momentum and contribution, we create the outcomes that we want in the world. Great entrepreneurs throughout history have proven, regardless of the diagnosis or disorder or even physical limitation, we can change the world.

In this episode, I will share the attributes 6-10 of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type.  As I studied the most successful people throughout history, I found they had similar attributes that had created their success. These attributes also caused most of the challenges throughout their lives. In the video I describe the 10 EPT attributes that create our success and just as quickly can rob our momentum. Understanding the difference may change everything for you. Download the Entrepreneurial Personality Type book now, FreeMomentumBook.com.

How many do you have? As I studied the most successful people throughout history, I found they had similar attributes that had created their success. These same attributes also caused most of the challenges throughout their lives. In this episode I introduce you to 10 EPT attributes that create our success and just as quickly can rob our momentum. Understanding the difference may change everything for you. Download the Entrepreneurial Personality Type book now, FreeMomentumBook.com. 

This is the introduction to the Entrepreneurial Personality Type and how the content that has gotten the most exposure in my career has been a struggle to monetize, until now.  The content flowed through me after sitting down to write a book called Constructive Company.  When I reached the point in the proposal that was about the audience, 200 words turned into 25,000 and the Entrepreneurial Personality Type was born.  This is for the most misunderstood and brilliant among us.  If you are listening, you are most likely one of them although you may have felt isolated and like a party of one.  You are actually part of the most important club in history.  I can prove it to you.  

For more than two decades, Alex Charfen has been creating and testing business philosophies specifically geared towards entrepreneurs. Alex has been an entrepreneur himself during this period, and has developed the Entrepreneurial Personality Type to help business owners grow their business and themselves. He has contributed to numerous major media outlets and brings his core philosophy to Paper Napkin Wisdom: “There is nothing wrong with you.” Alex’s contribution stems from an observation that whoever has stood out in history has always had a restlessness - something that people constantly told them was a weakness. Ranging from the original great thinkers of Athens to Einstein to Buffett, opposition to this type of innovative thinking has always originated from a resistance to change. In the business world, entrepreneurs represent this archetype because we are highly susceptible to negative criticism. At every level of business - and especially when starting out - the message is “fix yourself.” In Alex’s experience, however, entrepreneurs must discover how to identify strengths and abilities, develop protection and support, and lower pressure and noise. You may be surprised at how rapidly these efforts help in accomplishing your goals. Alex even goes so far as to recommend leaning into your personality (as opposed to tempering it) and make it a more prominent part of your business. From the work Alex has done with entrepreneurs, he has identified three awakenings that each of us experiences: 1) a realization that we are fundamentally different, 2) an innate motivation to keep going, 3) the call of contribution. The first stage begins at an early age by learning “what is wrong with me” through systemic suppression and fear. This eventually grows, however, into learning how to get ahead, and learning that self improvement often requires breaking systemic rules. The next evolution becomes “how to get my partners and team ahead”, which finally results in “how to contribute and help everyone.” Think of Bill Gates as the perfect example: someone who began is career as selfish, driven, and cutthroat, but developed a philanthropic, generous spirit of contribution. Entrepreneurial personalities tend to prefer momentum to feeling - forward vs backwards as opposed to happy vs sad. As such, chasing momentum is more rewarding than chasing happiness. Entrepreneurs tend to be momentum-based or highly attuned to whether they’re moving forward. As Alex describes it, pressure and noise = stress, frustration, obstacles, regardless of size. Protection and support comes from surrounding yourself with people who help you move forward.   Complete the following exercise: think of a time when you experienced a high level of momentum. What were you chasing and how are you tracking your momentum? Who contributed to you and who have you contributed to? A perfect example of this formula is Rick Hoyt: a person who, with the help of his father, family, neighbors and friends, overcame a physical disability to develop strengths and abilities, and eventually make a contribution through inspiration.

Meet [Alex Charfen](http://www.charfen.com/bios/alex-charfen/), the man who pioneering adventurer who discovered the Entrepreneurial Personality type, and the Founder/CEO of [Charfen](https://www.charfen.com/). Alex works as a personal consultant to billionaires, Fortune 500 CEOs, and some of the world's most successful individuals of industry. In addition to his brain power he loans for top-dollar, Alex is also a prominent speaker and writer who has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs around the globe. Pssst—Check out Alex's FREE GIFT to all Leverage Podcast listeners [here](http://www.charfen.com/leverage) ## 10% OFF AT SWOONERY.COM USE DISCOUNT CODE leverage10 ## Key Quote “When I look at the world, I think there are different types of people. And when you look at the entrepreneurs, and when you examine entrepreneurs, we're different than most” ## What You'll Learn 1. The [Entrepreneurial Personality Type](http://www.charfen.com/blog/tag/entrepreneurial-personality-type/) 2. The difference between entrepreneurs and the majority of the population 3. The Contribution Gap and how Charfen helps bridge the gap 4. The 4-Step High-Level Process 1. Lower pressure and noise 2. Increase protection and support 3. Grow strengths and abilities 4. Make that greatest contribution 5. The BIG issue facing the vast majority of entrepreneurs 6. The importance of knowing what to do in order to achieve your vision 7. Why you should always communicate and authenticate your vision with your team 8. The [Scrum Methodology](http://scrummethodology.com/) 9. The meaning of, “Chase the membership you serve” 10. Alex's Top 3 pieces of advice - Make sure there's a clear outcome for anything and everything you do—not matter the action, know the desired outcome. - Above all, exercise transparency with your internal and external people—employees, clients, etc. - Practice accountability at all times. Make a habit of it. ------- [Get the FREE Optimize, Automate, Outsource Blueprint here.](%20https:/go.lessdoing.com/blueprint?utm_campaign=blueprint-ari&utm_medium=link&utm_source=podcast) --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/lessdoing/message

Learn about the entrepreneurial personality type, the contribution equation, the power of momentum and more with Genius Network member Alex Charfen. Alex is an internationally recognized speaker, business consultant, coach, co-founder and CEO of Charfen. He has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs grow and scale their business including consulting for billionaires, the Fortune 500, and some of the most successful people in the world. Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from  in this episode: 3 Awakenings of The Entrepreneur: Where they begin and you can harness their power Alex shares the one thing that makes you unique from everyone else The Contribution Equation: How unleashing your skills and abilities can change the world An advantage you have as an entrepreneur that can get you anything you want The Power of Entrepreneurial Momentum: How it makes you physically stronger and cognitively smarter Shownotes and links from this episode can be found at: www.ilovemarketing.com/286

Alex Charfen and the Entrepreneurial Personality Type, the Contribution Equation, the Power of Momentum, and more…with Genius Network Member Alex Charfen. Alex is an Internationally recognized speaker, business consultant, co-founder and CEO of CHARFEN. He has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs grow and scale their business including consulting for billionaires, the Fortune 500, and some of the most successful people in the world. He is focused on helping YOU make your greatest contribution. This Ten Minute Talk™ Was Recorded Live At The Genius Network Annual Event. Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from Alex in this episode: 3 Awakenings of The Entrepreneur: Where they begin and you can harness their power An advantage you have as an entrepreneur that can get you anything you want The one thing that makes you unique from everyone else The Contribution Equation: How unleashing your skills and abilities can change the world The Power of Entrepreneurial Momentum: How it makes you physically stronger and cognitively smarter Shownotes, special resources, and links from this episode can be found at: GeniusNetwork.com/6

ALEX CHARFEN truly epitomises the concept of living life the fullest and going all in! -Founder of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type concept -Has bought, flipped, and sold more than 1500 properties -Lost millions of dollars and ended up bankrupt -Worked his way from bankruptcy to having the #21 Fastest Growing Company in America on the Inc. 500 -Consultant to billionaires, fortune 500, and global 100 companies The post Ep 002: Robin Sharma Calls Him The Most Progressive Entrepreneur On The Planet | Brett Campbell with Alex Charfen on Unleash Your Greatness appeared first on Brett Campbell.

Alex Charfen, the author of Entrepreneurial Personality Type, wants you to know that you are not alone. Entrepreneurs are known for being “different,” for standing on the outside of normalcy. Alex always felt like he was different from everyone else and just didn't belong. Over time, this led him to identify common personality traits of entrepreneurs.If you think about history, how many significant historical figures would you consider to be “normal”? Not many. It is the people who stand out, who think outside the box, who march to the beat of a different drum, that make the biggest impacts in the world. Does this sound like you? Have you been diagnosed with (or do you suspect that you might have) ADD, ADHD, Asperger's, Autism, dyslexia, or other similar conditions?Do you focus more on action than emotion? Do you feel that you need more help than other people, even if you aren't willing to ask for it? Do you feel isolated? Do you struggle with being “busy” instead of being productive? If any, or all, of these, apply to you, you're not alone and you are not broken. You're probably just an entrepreneur. Listen as Alex explains the Entrepreneurial Personality Type to help you better understand yourself.Episode Highlights Include:Building a daily infrastructure to help you reach your full potential.Struggling with constraint.Realizing there's nothing wrong with you.Learn more about Alex and get the full shownotes at https://baconwrappedbusiness.com/alex-charfen/Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How To Rate and Review Us»Join the Bacon Wrapped Business Community today: Bacon Wrapped Business on FacebookBrad Costanzo on FacebookBrad Costanzo on LinkedInBrad Costanzo on YouTubeBrad Costanzo on Twitter

The importance of entrepreneurs can’t be overstated. Alex Charfen, today’s guest, firmly believes that Entrepreneurs are critical for growth, momentum, and the economy. As he looks back at the founding of the United States he sees that all but one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence was an entrepreneur. That means the nation was based on the spirit and mentality of the entrepreneur. You’ll likely recognize the importance of Entrepreneurs and the power of “The Entrepreneurial Personality Type” as we discuss Alex’s new book and why you need to know there is nothing wrong with you. In fact, if you’ve ever thought you were different, or that you were a little awkward, or felt like a misfit, or unique, then you just might have a new sense of confidence after hearing what Alex has to share with you. Every successful entrepreneur has built ritual(s) and structure into their lives. Entrepreneurs are acutely sensitive to pressure and noise in the world. As a high achieving entrepreneur, you can eliminate pressure and noise by using rituals and structure so you can simplify and leverage your time and energy.   Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn in this show: Introduction to the Importance of Entrepreneurs, the Entrepreneurial Personality Type and Why Nothing is Wrong with You, [0:32] Who is Alex Charfen; [1:09] The two questions Alex asks high level coaching clients to empower them; [2:23] Why Alex says that we are momentum based beings; [7:10] What is the entrepreneurial personality type? [9:24] Why high sensitivity and awareness are the top entrepreneurial traits; [12:41] How entrepreneurs can handle the sensitivity and awareness of their personality; [15:10] The concept of “pressure and noise” and what entrepreneurs can do with it; [16:52] The solution for overwhelm; [19:30] How you can tap into the insights are collective learning from thousands of years; [22:03] How labels are attempts to define us, but don’t work for us; [24:45] Why Alex Charfen does what he does in the world; [25:40] How you can get Alex’s book, “The Entrepreneurial Personality Type”; [27:19] The importance of contribution and how it gets confused; [28:55] Gratitude: Alex thanks his wife; [30:23] Why community is vitally important for EPTs; [31:23] Legacy: What Alex wants to leave for his children and others; [34:08] The top strategies that have been a game-changer in the last 12 months; [35:49] Take Action: What you can do today; [37:50]   Get in touch with ALEX CHARFEN Get the book for free: www.Charfen.com/GrowthToFreedom Website: www.Charfen.com SnapChat: @AlexCharfen Facebook: Alex’s EPT Group Twitter: http://twitter.com/alexcharfen Youtube: http://instagram.com/alexcharfen/ Instagram: http://instagram.com/alexcharfen/   Resources mentioned on this episode: BOOK: The Entrepreneurial Personality Type www.ILoveMarketing.com/265   ********************* This show brought to you by Done for You Solutions. Outsourcing doesn’t have to be difficult. Whether you’re looking for customer service, optimizing your website, or a virtual assistant to help with reporting, data, or research, Done for You Solutions can help. I’ve used Done for You Solutions for years and they help simplify. Click here to learn more and let the founder Ric Thompson know that you heard about him from our show. Genius Network is the place high level entrepreneurs go for collaboration, contribution, and connections not available anywhere else. Members get strategies for exponential growth and opportunities for deal making, strategic partnerships, joint ventures, and more. Membership is by application only. Click here to learn more. I was one of the original members when Joe started it in 2007 and today I get to help grow the company in my current role. You can also learn more about the Genius Network Annual Event here – which is the one time per year the group is opened to non-members. *********************   People mentioned on this episode: Joe Polish Robin Sharma   =================== ABOUT DAN KUSCHELL: =================== Dan Kuschell is a success driven business growth strategist, a media contributor, and thought leader. He helps entrepreneurs, leaders, and business owners grow and scale their companies 10x by driving the flow of elegant ideas, execution, and team-culture for greater clarity, confidence, and direction. Dan has been recognized worldwide for creating results with his resources, books, and strategies. Meet Dan at http://www.DanKuschell.com Get more access to Dan's wisdom here: http://www.youtube.com/ChampionVision Watch/Listen to the show: http://www.growthtofreedom.com Tweet us at: https://twitter.com/dan_kuschell Follow us on Facebook: https://facebook.com/dankuschellpage LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dankuschell Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/dankuschell Instagram: http://www.instagram.com/dankuschell    

Joe Polish interviews Alex Charfen, a lifelong entrepreneur whose sole focus is dedicated to helping businesses grow. Alex is the creator of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type, which helps entrepreneurs understand how to look at their attributes objectively, and go beyond weaknesses or perceived areas for improvement in order to see their unique value. Here’s a glance at what you’ll discover in this episode: The Entrepreneurial Personality Type: Understanding the most important (and misunderstood) personality type How to make the most of your strengths and abilities to achieve what you want in your business and life Liberation From Labels: How to overcome suppression and change the world 2 questions to ask yourself every morning if you want to create faster results Why entrepreneurs are similar to hunters and where this drive comes from Alex and Joe walk through the attributes of The Entrepreneurial Personality Type The truth about every major entrepreneurial success in history from Edison and Ford to Jobs and Gates Alex reveals the 9 Entrepreneurial Personality Type’s fundamental life questions 4 simple steps for overcoming constraints and creating more freedom “Contribution is a shortcut to capital” : What this means and why it could change your life How to harness your entrepreneurial gifts, create more value and make your greatest contribution Alex shares the 3 states entrepreneurs exist in: 1. M__________ 2. R__________ 3. C__________ The Overwhelm Equation: How to master overwhelm, reduce pressure and noise, and create greater clarity and momentum Shownotes and Links for this episode can be found at: www.ilovemarketing.com/265

Have you ever wondered what kind of entrepreneur you are? Well, listen in to this show when Alex Charfen shares what he's learned about Entrepreneurial Personality Types. Best-selling author Robin Sharma recently described Alex Charfen as the most progressive entrepreneurial mind on the planet. A highly sought-after speaker on entrepreneurial awareness, Alex has spoken around the world for tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and top global businesses. He has spent his life seeking to understand how to make business grow, which evolved into the question, How do you help people grow? Leveraging this drive and his experiences consulting to billionaires, Fortune 500 and global 100 companies, and some of the most successful people in the world, Alex discovered the Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT). He is the author of “Entrepreneurial Personality Type: Your guide to the most important and misunderstood people among us.”  Visit Alex Charfen to learn more.  This show is sponsored by Audible.com and Expert Insights. 

For entrepreneurs, greater awareness about themselves leads to a greater ability to innovate, lead and build teams, and create the lives they're looking for. By understanding how the world affects them (Entrepreneurial Suppression), how they interact with the world (Entrepreneurial Loops and Spirals), and the foundation of their entrepreneurial existence (The Contribution Equation), entrepreneurs can find ways to lower pressure and noise, increase protection and support, and enhance their unique strengths and abilities so they can make their greatest contribution to the world. Dave recaps episodes 481-484 where guest Alex Charfen shares from his FREE e-book, “The Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT).”

Alex Charfen has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs grow their business through his insights from consulting for billionaires, the Fortune 500 and some of the most successful people in the world. Alex is the co-founder and CEO of CHARFEN, empowering entrepreneurs to grow and scale businesses and make their greatest contribution. An in-demand thought leader on business strategy and entrepreneurship, he regularly appears in major media outlets such as MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Investor's Business Daily to provide his unique views and insights. Alex has recognized a certain set of traits that many entrepreneurs have in common, and from that, wrote his book, The Entrepreneurial Personality Type. In This Episode: Starting a business too young? Why systemization is is so important. Do entrepreneurs think differently? Does society fear united entrepreneurs? Alex's Favorite Quote: “Every failure carries with it the seed of an equal or greater success.” — Napoleon Hill Alex's Favorite Books: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller – Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century Revised & enlarged edition by Napoleon Hill (2005) Paperback Get Your Free Audio Book Links From Today's Show:charfen.com/cyolife Today's Sponsor: www.iboommedia.com jeremyryanslate.com/book jeremyryanslate.com/hosting

Alex Charfen has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs grow their business through his insights from consulting for billionaires, the Fortune 500 and some of the most successful people in the world. Alex is the co-founder and CEO of CHARFEN, empowering entrepreneurs to grow and scale businesses and make their greatest contribution. An in-demand thought leader on business strategy and entrepreneurship, he regularly appears in major media outlets such as MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Investor's Business Daily to provide his unique views and insights. Alex has recognized a certain set of traits that many entrepreneurs have in common, and from that, wrote his book, The Entrepreneurial Personality Type. In This Episode: Starting a business too young? Why systemization is is so important. Do entrepreneurs think differently? Does society fear united entrepreneurs? Alex's Favorite Quote: “Every failure carries with it the seed of an equal or greater success.” — Napoleon Hill Alex's Favorite Books: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller – Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century Revised & enlarged edition by Napoleon Hill (2005) Paperback Get Your Free Audio Book Links From Today's Show:charfen.com/cyolife Today's Sponsor: www.iboommedia.com jeremyryanslate.com/book jeremyryanslate.com/hosting

Alex Charfen has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs grow their business through his insights from consulting for billionaires, the Fortune 500 and some of the most successful people in the world. Alex is the co-founder and CEO of CHARFEN, empowering entrepreneurs to grow and scale businesses and make their greatest contribution. An in-demand thought leader on business strategy and entrepreneurship, he regularly appears in major media outlets such as MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Investor’s Business Daily to provide his unique views and insights. Alex has recognized a certain set of traits that many entrepreneurs have in common, and from that, wrote his book, The Entrepreneurial Personality Type. In This Episode: Starting a business too young? Why systemization is is so important. Do entrepreneurs think differently? Does society fear united entrepreneurs? Alex’s Favorite Quote: “Every failure carries with it the seed of an equal or greater success.” — Napoleon Hill Alex’s Favorite Books: Think and Grow Rich: The Landmark Bestseller – Now Revised and Updated for the 21st Century Revised & enlarged edition by Napoleon Hill (2005) Paperback Get Your Free Audio Book Links From Today’s Show:charfen.com/cyolife Today’s Sponsor: www.iboommedia.com jeremyryanslate.com/book jeremyryanslate.com/hosting

Today we have Alex Charfen back on the FIVE Minute Bark Podcast. I also would like to share with you his amazing new course titled "Awaken Your Superpower" Find information on how you can review and purchase this course at:  http://www.charfen.com/blog/awaken-your-superpower/   I personally am in the middle of this course and the title it's self explains it all.        

Alex Charfen knows the ups and downs of being an Entrepreneur. He has spent years figuring out what it really takes to have success in business. What he has found is an actual personality type that is unique to Entrepreneurs. The details he uncovers in this episode will be life altering to you. Your life, the things that drive you in your life and business will all of a sudden make sense. This episode is a must listen to for any entrepreneur. Listen and let me know what you think.

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Internationally recognized speaker and business consultant, Alex Charfen has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs grow their business through his insights from consulting for billionaires, the Fortune 500 and some of the most successful people in...

Internationally recognized speaker and business consultant, Alex Charfen has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs grow their business through his insights from consulting for billionaires, the Fortune 500 and some of the most successful people in...

Internationally recognized speaker and business consultant, Alex Charfen has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs grow their business through his insights from consulting for billionaires, the Fortune 500 and some of the most successful people in the world. Alex is the co-founder and CEO of CHARFEN, empowering entrepreneurs to grow and scale businesses and make their greatest contribution. An in-demand thought leader on business strategy and entrepreneurship, he regularly appears in major media outlets such as MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Investor’s Business Daily to provide his unique views and insights.

Alex Charfen has spent his life seeking to understand how to make business grow, which evolved into the question, “How do you help people grow?” Through his research and years as a top consultant to billionaires, the Fortune 500 and global 100, this question led Alex to discover the long-misunderstood Entrepreneurial Personality Type (EPT). Best-selling author Robin Sharma recently described Alex as, “the most progressive entrepreneurial mind on the planet”. A highly sought-after speaker on entrepreneurial awareness, he has spoken around the world for tens of thousands of entrepreneurs and top global businesses to help them identify and live in their strengths. Alex regularly appears in major media outlets, including MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and The Huffington Post to provide his unique insights on topics that affect entrepreneurs. Alex can be reached at:http://charfen.com    

This week Lian is with internationally recognised speaker and business consultant, Alex Charfen. Alex has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs grow their business through his insights from consulting for billionaires, the Fortune 500 and some of the most successful people in the world. Alex is the co-founder and CEO of CHARFEN, empowering entrepreneurs to grow and scale businesses and make their greatest contribution. An in-demand thought leader on business strategy and entrepreneurship, he regularly appears in major media outlets such as MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today and Investor's Business Daily to provide his unique views and insights. In this show Alex shares his fascinating story of going from a child described as 'retarded' and 'failing to thrive' to now running multi-million dollar organisations. He also talks about what he's discovered about the Entrepreneurial Personality Type and why this is so important to understand if you're an EPT! Warning: This show might activate your natural thirst, you'll have to listen to find out why! :) What you'll learn in this show: If you've struggled with feeling different all of your life, if fitting in at school or work was impossible, if you've been told to stop or slow down, if you've been told you're too intense.... you're probably an Entrepreneurial Personality Type. Alex talks about why society has it all wrong when it says 'different' means 'broken' when in fact, it's part of the natural design that we have this personality type because that very difference is exactly what humankind needs to innovate and move forward. Momentum and flow is something we can all tune into effortlessly every day when we're in alignment with what's natural for us. There's nothing wrong with you and you are not alone.

Alex Charfen—entrepreneur, teacher, author, speaker—is on a mission.He has spent 3 decades on the front lines of entrepreneurship and business. His journey has taught him many things, but he believes he has discovered one key that could change everything for small business owners. He is the author of The Entrepreneurial Personality Type, and has spent years helping other entrepreneurs find success. If done right your network will mean everything.. but Alex Charfen does not believe in cold calling people to pick their brain.In this episode Alex shares his views on entrepreneurship. Society gives labels like ADD to those who can't sit still and want to change the status quo, but there are the people who are having the largest impact on business. Being an entrepreneur gives you options, and being opinionated lets you follow through .... Alex has a lot of opinions and this episode is a real experience. Download today!!

This week we welcome Alex Charfen… AGAIN! This author, speaker and creator of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type made such a splash that we invited him back almost immediately. As a lifetime entrepreneur we continue our discussion with Alex what that separates every entrepreneur from the herd. In the first segment, we revisit the Contribution Equation and discuss his appearance at the Genius Network event.  We talk about how to create infinite value, how to lean into momentum and the one thing that most entrepreneurs struggle with. In the second segment, we have a Q&A. After his first interview, we put out to our social media followers what questions that they have respective to the Entrepreneurial Personality Type and his other processes for success.  He offers a level of clarity that you won’t want to miss it. To reach out to Alex or learn more about his program visit EntrepreneurialPersonalityType.com RulesofSuccess.com is your source for all links to iTunes, direct streaming and our blog. Please be sure to subscribe, rate and review us on iTunes AND subscribe to our list for other free resources delivered right to your inbox. If you were inspired by The Science of Getting Rich presented by Rules of Success check out ApplytheScience.com

Are you weird and wired wrong or do you just simply have an entrepreneurial personality type.  Find out by listening to special guest Alex Charfen on Thriving Entrepreneur How many times have you been told you are flighty or not focused?  How often have you just been able to see the solution to a problem?  How much do you strive to contribute in all that you do in life, to have it be about more than just the money you make but for it to be about the difference the contribution you are making All of these are signs that you may have an entrepreneurial personality.  What the world in general may call ADHD or bi-polar may just simply be you living your life as a Thriving Entrepreneur.  Now I know this concept is radical but I encourage you to listen as special guest Alex Charfen shares with host Steve Kidd what it means to have an entrepreneurial personality and how you can THRIVE when you embrace it is simply who you are.  Today on Thriving Entrepreneur

This week we welcome Alex Charfen; author, speaker and creator of the Entrepreneurial Personality Type. As a lifetime entrepreneur we discuss with Alex his experiences of living life as a certain personality type that separates every entrepreneur from the herd. If you’ve ever felt like no one understood you or your motivations, this is the interview to listen to. In the first segment, we discuss with what he calls the Contribution Equation that outlines an exact formula to take the idea of your purpose into a life of contribution. He has a very keen understanding of how to get the truth out of his closest associates and you will hear him take this interview right out my hands and turn it into a workshop of sorts. In the second segment, we get personal. Alex turns his understanding towards the host of the show and uncovers some very interesting demons from Bryce’s life. You won’t want to miss it. To reach out to Alex or learn more about his program visit EntrepreneurialPersonalityType.com RulesofSuccess.com is your source for all links to iTunes, direct streaming and our blog. Please be sure to subscribe, rate and review us on iTunes AND subscribe to our list for other free resources delivered right to your inbox. If you were inspired by The Science of Getting Rich presented by Rules of Success check out ApplytheScience.com

Alex Charfen is a husband and father as well as a consultant to some of the world’s biggest companies. He works closely with his wife, Cadey, in their business, Charfen, which is geared toward helping entrepreneurs and small businesses realize their potential in a very innovative format. He calls the concept 'Congruency' and his ideas are starting a revolution. Alex has prospered personally and professionally, with Congruency as the centerpiece of his business and life. His mantra is simple: “I wake up every day determined to be the best husband I can be, the best father I can be, and to help as many people as possible achieve their goals. I have found a way to build my business with these values, not in spite of them. And I’ve learned that when small business owners really do this, long-term success is practically guaranteed.” The frameworks created by Charfen are being used by businesses around the world. He is very passionate about the entrepreneurial mindset and how important it is to play to our strengths and not let labels and self-limiting beliefs hold us back.   Below is a free membership to start your All-in journey!   All-in Membership : A free video course and mentoring for those who know it’s time to get off the sidelines and step up to make a difference in their lives and the thousands behind you.   Review All in Podast on iTunes Please tell us what you think becasue it matters to us. Click Here   Show Sponsors We are currently looking for Sponsors and Advertisers. To learn more Click Here

If you are an entrepreneur then you can not miss this episode. It will literally BLOW your mind. Find out more about Alex here: At the age of 8 years old a family business failure started Alex professional career. Awkward in the rest of the world, the rules and organization that business inherently provided made him feel at home. He has dedicated his life to answering the question ‘how do you make business grow?’ This led to the question, ‘how do you help people grow?’ this led to success far greater than he should have been capable of and the discovery of a meta personality type among us: The Entrepreneurial Personality Type. For the past two decades Alex Charfen has been creating and curating proven business philosophies, models, and strategies geared specifically for entrepreneurs. Experts in business growth with majority ownership of several multimillion-dollar businesses, Alex is actively combatting the “entrepreneurial dilemma” that so many small business owners face. He’s been invited to share his strategies with business owners across the country and around the world. Alex is regularly called on by major media outlets, including MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News, the Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Huffington Post, and more, to provide is unique views and insights. Today, Alex lives in Austin, Texas and owns properties in California and Colorado. He enjoys with spending free time Cadey and their daughters Reagan and Kennedy.   We love your feedback and your questions! Keep them coming. We would love to hear what you think of this episode.So please leave a comment below. Subscribe to this podcast in iTunes, click here.  

Alex Charfen is a serial entrepreneur who shares some of his entrepreneurial wisdom and strategies that will supercharge your business success. Alex also gives us an insight into the Entrepreneurial Personality Type, a set of traits that every successful entrepreneur throughout the history has had.