#142 The secret to having a bigger impact with Mike Michalowicz

Mike Michalowicz is an entrepreneur who by his 35th birthday became a self-made cash millionaire after selling two multi-million businesses, before losing it all trying to become an angel investor. 

When Mike announced to his family that they were financially wiped out, his daughter ran upstairs and offered to give her piggy bank to support the family, tears came running down his face.

That was the most humbling moment for Mike as he realised he simply couldn’t ignore the biggest problems he had avoided up until now.

After some serious business soul searching while going through functional depression and getting over his financial heart attack, he made the commitment to dig his head out of the sand and help fix the entrepreneurial problems he experienced and realised he knew very little about. 

That’s when he asked himself if he had all the money in the world, what would he most like to do? And if he had no money in the world (which he did) what would he want to do to generate income. The crossroad answer became clear: become an author. 

It was a crazy dream, but thirteen years later, Mike is a best selling small business author of six books (Surge, Toilet Paper Entrepreneur, Pumpkin Plan, Profit Firsts, Clockwork and Fix This Next) and is on a mission to eradicate entrepreneurial poverty. 

He’s also a former Wall Street Journal small business columnist and business makeover specialist on MSNBC.

Today Mike is passionate about making the complex entrepreneurial problems simple, and as a shareholder of four companies, he uses his companies to further the teaching of his books and uses them as guinea pigs for future book ideas. 

Mark

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“As an entrepreneur myself, I know the struggles all too well. I've devoted my life to making entrepreneurship simple.” Mike Michalowicz

 

Praised by the likes of Simon Sinek, Seth Godin, Michael E Gerber and Guy Kawasaki:

 

·      If there will ever be a patron saint for entrepreneurs, Mike Michalowicz is surely the top contender for the position.” Simon Sinek, Author of Start with Why

 

·      Mike's hard hitting advice is aimed directly at the entrepreneur stuck being a wandering generality instead of a meaningful specific.” Seth Godin, Author of Purple Cow

 

·      “Every one of you – entrepreneurs, business owners – do what Mike says!” MICHAEL GERBER, Author of The E-Myth

IN THIS WEEK’S EPISODE YOU’LL LEARN

  1. The importance of committing to one daily routine

  2. Why the greatest connector is being yourself

  3. Why workaholism isn’t cool (or good)

  4. Why the right size business will find you

  5. Why everyone is judging everyone

  6. Why your ego will kill your business

  7. Why hiding your head in the sand is a terrible business strategy

  8. Why Poker is a great metaphor for how confident you really are


SHOWNOTES:

  • Website: www.fixthisnext.com


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