In a world of misinformation and deep fakes, an entrepreneur who is selling based on trust is a beacon of light. Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman let entrepreneurs in on a timeless system for becoming a source of truth.

Show Notes:

In every interaction, part of the human brain is quietly assessing whether someone can be trusted.

At its core, marketing is about presenting something that feels credible and valuable enough for people to quickly say yes.

The more self-awareness you have, the easier it becomes to understand others and relate to them.

Trust matters because it creates predictability. When we trust, we can better anticipate outcomes and decisions.

Our sense of knowledge is built from countless small facts that gradually come together into a larger understanding.

With the rise of deepfakes, we can no longer rely on our senses the way we once did—seeing is no longer believing.

A simple rule that always holds: create value before you ask for anything in return.

Education doesn’t stop at school. Life continuously adds new layers to who you are as a unique individual.

The most important story you tell is the one about yourself. It’s through how you act, react, and show up in different situations.

Resources:

Primal Intelligence by Angus Fletcher

Are your most ambitious years behind you, or still ahead? Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman explain The Six-Year Framework™ from Dan’s latest book, Always More Ambitious, and share why recent capabilities are the best fuel for your future. They also discuss how to stay smart in a distracted world so teamwork and technology keep you calm, creative, and increasingly ambitious at every age.

Show Notes:

The Six-Year Framework keeps you focused on three years of recent achievements and three years of future growth.​

There’s a direct connection between capability and ambition: expanding one naturally expands the other.​

The real fuel for your next jump isn’t more goals—it’s taking your strongest capabilities and deciding where you want them to go next.​

Teamwork and technology are the two biggest multipliers behind entrepreneurs’ best decades.​

Pairing your smartest past decisions with your most exciting new possibilities makes the future feel bigger and more achievable overnight.​

A fixed six-year window gives you a clear sense of progress instead of the stress of chasing a constantly moving goalpost.

Entrepreneurs need to resist getting lost in new tech and instead let their team find and build the right tools.​

Deciding that your later decades will be your most ambitious changes how you use every year between now and then.​

Resources:

Always More Ambitious by Dan Sullivan

Perplexity

Shannon Waller’s Team Success podcast

The Strategic Podcast Network

Dan Sullivan and Gord Vickman are joined by special guest Evan Ryan. Evan shares his decade-long experience with AI and its entrepreneurial possibilities. They discuss Evan's book, which explores the potential of AI in various aspects of life, and provide valuable insights into how entrepreneurs can integrate it into their workflow to achieve more in less time—and make life more fun in the process.

In This Episode:

• AI can be defined as a computer doing something that a human used to do.
• Evan’s goal is to allow his team to be less robotic in their lives, and to free themselves to do more fun, creative things.
• A lot of people think of technology as something that happens to them.
• There are two kinds of problems that a business can face: growing business problems and dying business problems.
• AI isn’t going to help companies that aren’t using their teams well, or creating value in the marketplace.
• Artificial intelligence is not artificial wisdom. Humans are still required for that.
• Those who remain resistant to AI are usually people who want to maximize their billable hours, not improve their workflows.

Resources:

AI as Your Teammate: Electrify Growth Without Increasing Payroll by Evan Ryan

Evan Ryan’s company is: teammateai.com

Unique Ability®

Perplexity AI