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Thriving as a Business Owner in the Age of AI (Ep. 44)

Thriving as a Business Owner in the Age of AI (Ep. 44)

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Today, we are providing resources and guidance to business owners to help them avoid burnout, realize the opportunities AI is providing and rethink their retirement.

In this episode, Bryan Sweet and Brittany Anderson discuss the challenges and opportunities faced by business owners. They highlight the struggles of limited employee markets, hiring difficulties, succession planning, and the identity shift that comes with exiting a business. 

The conversation also explores the shift in retirement mindset, the advancements in technology, particularly in AI, and the importance of proper exit planning. They encourage business owners to stay ahead of technological trends and leverage AI to their advantage. 

Bryan & Brittany discuss: 

  • The struggles and triumphs of business ownership: How to curb common pain points as a business owner in the modern day
  • Embracing technological advancements and taking advantage of the opportunities AI provides
  • The role of intentionality when avoiding business owner burnout
  • Some modern takes on retirement planning and business exit planning
  • And more

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How to Take a Proactive Stance on Your Well-Being (Ep. 43)

How to Take a Proactive Stance on Your Well-Being (Ep. 43)

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We’ve said it before, we’re saying it again now, and we’ll say it even more in the future:

Health is a priceless wealth.

In this episode, Bryan Sweet and Brittany Anderson discuss their recent health and longevity immersive event. They explain that the event was created to address common issues their clients face, such as health & longevity, purpose, legacy, and experiences. 

Bryan and Brittany emphasize the connection between health and wealth, stating that good health is essential for a meaningful life. They also discuss the importance of proactive healthcare and prevention. 

Bryan & Brittany discuss: 

  • The role of proactive healthcare in your retirement plan and how to implement it
  • Recent advancements in medical technology and when you should ask your doctor about them
  • Sweet Financial’s health and longevity immersive event: What it’s all about and how you register for their upcoming date!
  • Personal client stories of realizing the relationship between health and wealth
  • And more

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How Core Values Shape Your Identity and Influence Your Growth with Carrie Campbell (Ep. 42)

How Core Values Shape Your Identity and Influence Your Growth with Carrie Campbell (Ep. 42)

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What narratives from your past do you find yourself holding onto that may not serve your future? Let’s take a moment to reflect on that.

In this episode, Brittany Anderson chats with Carrie Campbell, a skilled clinical counselor with a strong grasp of mindset and emotional intelligence. Together they discuss the importance of aligning your values with goals and decisions, examining external influences, and consciously choosing values that serve your authentic self. 

Carrie also emphasizes the significance of core values in personal and professional settings and the power of introspection and self-reflection for personal growth!

Carrie discusses: 

  • How experiences shape the way you view yourself and the world and how that can positively and negatively impact your attitude
  • The process of “de-influencing”: How implementing it sparks personal growth
  • Money stories: What they are and how to rewrite the negative ones
  • The four pillars of mindset and how to implement them within your everyday
  • And more

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About Carrie Campbell:

Carrie Campbell is a clinical counselor and has worked with populations ranging from children with special needs and addicts to high-performing corporate executives and celebrities from the worlds of entertainment and sport. Her current list of personal clients includes NBA superstars, nine figure corporate executives and individuals working through addiction.

She has spoken on stages worldwide as an expert in mindset and emotional intelligence. Having co-developed the landmark system “Eliminate Your Limits”, a process that New York Times bestselling author, Dr. Benjamin Hard referred to as the most scientifically valid mindset system on the planet. Carrie wrote the Amazon bestselling book, “People Pleasing Nearly Killed Me” which sat at number one on the stress management category for nearly three months after its release in 2016.

She’s also a wife, a mother of two young adults, two French Bulldogs, and is a professional fitness competitor placing third in the world in 2001. Her personal life goals are happiness, impact, and mastery, and strives to teach and share that with the women in her Unstoppable Woman project as well.

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Creating an Even Bigger Future Than Envisioned With Amber Knips, CFP®, CDFA®, CeFT® (Ep. 41)

Creating an Even Bigger Future Than Envisioned With Amber Knips, CFP®, CDFA®, CeFT® (Ep. 41)

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Something every financial planner dreams about doing is helping their retirees achieve a far better retirement than they had ever hoped for.

Our guest, Amber Knips has a lot of experience doing just that.

In this episode, Brittany Anderson chats with Amber Knips, wealth advisor at Sweet Financial, about the biggest obstacles modern-day retirees face and what strategies they can use to mitigate these struggles, both financial and mental.

Amber discusses: 

  • Where she sees retirees getting the most ‘stuck’ and what modern-day obstacles they face the most 
  • How she uses “fear mitigation” with retirees when they are afraid of overspending (and the risk of inexperience because of this fear)
  • What dreaming big means to her and how this mentality applies to retirees like you
  • How to apply the 50/50 retirement approach – the misconception that retirement is either full-time traveling or full-time doing nothing at home
  • And more

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About Amber Knips:

Amber helps people see possibility through life’s greatest and most challenging transitions.  She is someone who has total passion and conviction for what she does. Using her empathetic and sincere approach, she has made it her mission to build deepened relationships with her clients all while helping them cultivate a financial plan that helps them focus on what they most enjoy. After joining the team at Sweet Financial Partners in 2012, Amber has gained extensive experience and training on guiding women through transitions such as loss of a loved one, divorce, career change, retirement and much more. You only experience these life transitions a few times during your lifetime, but she helps people through them every day.

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An Entrepreneur’s Guide: Building A Business You’ll Love For The Rest Of Your Life With Mike Koenigs (Ep. 40)

An Entrepreneur’s Guide: Building A Business You’ll Love For The Rest Of Your Life With Mike Koenigs (Ep. 40)

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Having a successful business doesn’t always mean someone has found fulfillment. Sometimes their business isn’t impacting the parts of life or the people they intended it to.

In this episode, Brittany Anderson talks with Mike Koenigs, an entrepreneur who collaborates with other entrepreneurs to create a business they’ll love for the rest of their life. 

Mike reflects on his experience working with limiting entrepreneurial mindsets and walks you through how to push past these feelings of stagnation.

Mike discusses: 

  • His 4 question approach and how it can narrow down your desires and goals
  • How he helps business owners and entrepreneurs push past feelings of stagnation
  • The power of moving yourself away from people who don’t keep their word and fail to show up (moving past self-sabotaging behavior)
  • The preventative measures you should take to get yourself re-focused on your business goals and aspirations
  • And more

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About Mike Koenigs:

Mike Koenigs is a serial Entrepreneur, judge on Entrepreneur.com’s “Elevator Pitch”, Forbes and Entrepreneur Writer, 13x Bestselling Author, Mike Koenigs helps “Experts Build Empires” and “Category of One” brands. He works with entrepreneurs to elevate their status, authority, thought-leadership and message to create more impact, income and freedom. 

His companies have helped over 61,000 customers in 156 countries get noticed, amplify their message, create awareness, gain attention and engagement so they attract better customers who spend more.

He co-hosts the “Capability Amplifier” podcast with Strategic Coach founder, and author of “Who, Not How” and “The Gap and the Gain” author, Dan Sullivan and “The Big Leap” podcast with NYT Bestselling author Gay Hendricks.

He’s a regular contributor and columnist for Entrepreneur and Forbes magazines and interviewed, consulted and advised celebrity clients, billionaires and bestselling authors including Tony Robbins, Paula Abdul, Richard Dreyfuss, Dave Asprey, JJ Virgin, John Assaraf, Brian Tracy, XPrize founder Peter Diamandis, Jorge Cruise, Harvey Mackay, Daniel Amen and Darren Hardy.

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How To Find Your WHY with Dr. Gary Sanchez (Ep. 39)

How To Find Your WHY with Dr. Gary Sanchez (Ep. 39)

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This episode in a nutshell: If what you do is in line with your WHY, your how, and your what, you will love doing it. You’ll have unlimited energy for it.

In this episode, Brittany Anderson speaks with Dr. Gary Sanchez, international speaker, author, dentist, and inventor, to discuss how you can discover why you like to do what you like to do and how you can bring it to life.

This is what Gary calls the WHY Operating System.

Gary discusses: 

  • What made him realize he needed to stick out from others in his field and how you can do the same
  • His “light bulb moment” that made him want to expand his career beyond being a dentist
  • Your WHY Operating System – Why you do what you do, how you bring it to life, and what others can count on you for
  • The tools he has made to help you discover what is going to be fulfilling in your next chapter of life (marriage, retirement, switching to a different career)
  • And more

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About Our Guest:

Gary Sanchez is an international speaker, author, dentist, and inventor who “figured out why”. He’s best known for discovering the “9 Whys”, developing the WHY.os, which is the WHY Operating System, founder of the WHY Institute, and creating the world’s first WHY discovery tool to help people accurately and quickly discover their WHY in under 5 minutes.

Dr. Sanchez’s personal journey takes him from successful dentist to being “WHY obsessed”, to helping hundreds of thousands discover their WHY to creating software to impact 1 billion people. Yes, 1 billion. In 2021, WHY Institute launched the WHY.os discovery, which discovers your why, how, and what, and creates your personal brand message for you.

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Having Everything But Feeling Completely Unfulfilled With Trevor Muir (Ep. 38)

Having Everything But Feeling Completely Unfulfilled With Trevor Muir (Ep. 38)

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Chances are you have probably hit a milestone in life and thought “This is it! Now my life can start!”, but this truly is a never ending cycle.

In this episode, Brittany Anderson talks with Trevor Muir, CEO at SurePoint Technologies, about how facing immense challenges can often lead you to the place or position you are meant to be in.

Trevor discusses: 

  • The moment in time he had an equal fear of living and dying
  • What he would share with someone who has everything but feels completely unfulfilled
  • The whole progression that life is going to get easier
  • His “Someday To Today” initiative and how you can incorporate it into your lifestyle
  • And more

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About Our Guest:

Trevor is the CEO of Surepoint Group and the founder of the Surepoint Someday to Today initiative. He is laser-focused on building a culture of caring and believes to his core that authenticity and vulnerability are strengths. He strives to be an inspiring leader and knows that people help people best by sharing their experiences.

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Extraordinary Out Of The Ordinary, Part 3 (Ep. 35)

Extraordinary Out Of The Ordinary, Part 3 (Ep. 35)

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For some reason, people think that experience equals traveling somewhere. But experiences are sometimes just making the extraordinary out of the ordinary. 

But ultimately you have to define what experiences mean to you.

In this episode, Bryan Sweet and Brittany Anderson discuss how to be intentional about the experiences you want to have in your life. They also explain how their resources and connections can help to eliminate all the reasons why your experiences are not going to happen, to live a more fulfilling life.

Bryan and Brittany discuss:

  • Two examples of Bryan’s most favorite experiences
  • How they help clients find those things that can give them experiences to satisfy that itch
  • Why you should be intentional about your desired experiences
  • If it’s not front of mind it’s less likely to happen
  • And more

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Living A Life Beyond Wealth Through Legacy and Purpose, Part 2 (Ep. 34)

Living A Life Beyond Wealth Through Legacy and Purpose, Part 2 (Ep. 34)

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The two most important days in your life are the day you were born and the day you find out why. There’s been studies done that say if you lack purpose, your life expectancy is four to seven years less.

In this episode, Bryan Sweet and Brittany Anderson address why it’s so important to take the time to discover what motivates you, and gives you a sense of belonging. 

Bryan and Brittany discuss: 

  • What it means to have purpose in your life
  • How to prevent emotional or rash decision making
  • Being intentional about how you want people to feel because of your actions
  • How to get started on making your mark
  • And more

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The Power of Having One More Question To Ask Yourself, Part 3 (Ep. 32)

The Power of Having One More Question To Ask Yourself, Part 3 (Ep. 32)

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This is part 3 of our three part series about our findings in the book “The Power of One More” by Ed Mylett!

In this episode, Bryan and Brittany discuss why you may be the biggest thing standing in your own way. They discuss things like how you can analyze your old ways of thinking so you can develop newer, healthier habits.

Bryan and Brittany discuss: 

  • How to analyze your thought process and question the things you think to be true about yourself
  • How different emotions can influence how you view yourself and your value
  • Why you can teach an old dog new tricks
  • The right questions to ask yourself when developing thought patterns that can bring you closer to your goals
  • And more

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