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Dan Sullivan Of Strategic Coach And Steve Krein Of StartUp Health
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Free Zone Frontier
Lasting Startups Thrive On Collaboration
Why do some companies continually grow while most fail? You need more than a great idea; you need to surround yourself with others who are thinking the same way. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss the successes of Steve’s unique, collaborative StartUp Health network, the mindsets entrepreneurs need in order to achieve the greatest success, and the things they do that most entrepreneurs won’t even think about. Medical breakthroughs are happening at such a fast rate that the most knowledgeable person really only knows how ignorant they are.“Free Zone” collaborations aren’t about the m...
2025-07-29
31 min
Free Zone Frontier
Living Forever Starts With Visionary Optimism
Innovations in the realm of age reversal are accelerating. Getting physically younger while getting older in years is a real possibility. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain the advances, discuss what’s needed for further breakthroughs, and share why age reversal developments are critical for entrepreneurs to be preparing for. Show Notes:Many entrepreneurs retire out of social or societal expectations.Setting a goal that might seem crazy serves as a magnet for what you need and as a repellent for what you don’t.You treat your remaining years diffe...
2025-06-17
32 min
Free Zone Frontier
Why They Come, And Why They Stay
Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein delve into the power of the “When Are You Great?” tool, discussing how it serves as a crucial planning aid and a potent marketing resource. Using real-world examples, they explore the implications for crafting compelling offers, narrating impactful stories, and leveraging a marketer’s secret weapon.Show Notes:To figure out what gets talked about, you have to combine everything you’re telling with everything you’re being told.You share when you’re good because you have competition. Others share when you’re great because they don’t think you have...
2025-04-21
35 min
Free Zone Frontier
Rewind: Why A Compelling Offer Always Beats A Convincing Argument
In one of our most popular episodes, Steve and Dan revisit why there’s a big difference between convincing someone with an argument and compelling them to take action with an offer. And in the market world where we all live, people don’t want to be convinced—they want to be compelled.Show Notes:A convincing argument is about the speaker, but a compelling offer is about the listener.In the education system, you convince someone with your argument, but it doesn’t get them to take any...
2025-03-04
29 min
Free Zone Frontier
How To Get Your Whole Team To Think Like An Entrepreneur
Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explore the powerful 4 x 4 Casting Tool™, which can transform how you integrate new team members into your company—and galvanize your current team members to take ownership of their roles. Discover how treating your company like a theater project ensures you have the right people in the right roles for maximum impact. Show Notes: An entrepreneur's primary job is to push things forward, not get stuck in bureaucratic processes.The least productive thing you can say to your team as an entrepreneur is, “I’m unhappy with you, but I...
2025-01-21
48 min
Free Zone Frontier
Front Stage Confidence Without Backstage Evidence
Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss the Free Zone Frontier® and the StartUp Health programs. They both believe it’s crucial to have the right people in the room, sharing their experiences and collaborating. Connecting like this with a community of ambitious, calm entrepreneurs makes it possible to experience five years’ progress in three months. Show Notes:What happens backstage is more magical than what’s seen on stage.Gutenberg's invention of the printing press was a revolution that led people to start having conversations with themselves.Fifty years into the microchip revolution, a “team consci...
2024-12-23
16 min
Free Zone Frontier
Powerful Strategies To Master A 25-Year Framework For Growth
Ever wondered what the success formula is for top entrepreneurs? Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss “The 25-Year Framework” and how it benefits entrepreneurs by helping them prioritize their biggest goals and measure progress every quarter. They explain how having a quarterly rhythm can be transformational, and provide insights into how to achieve long-term goals, adapt to advancements in technology, and overcome crises in the marketplace. Show Notes: Measuring your past progress and planning out the next quarter, every quarter, helps simplify and multiply your efforts.This kind of self-accountability and measurement allows...
2024-11-26
46 min
Free Zone Frontier
Why The Future Of Work Is Blended And Collaborative
Should businesses be focusing more on engaging their customers virtually or in person? Since some customers prefer one and some prefer the other, you’re alienating people if you go too far in either direction. Dan Sullivan and Steven Krein discuss the incursion of digital elements into various aspects of human life and what this has your potential customers feeling—and seeking out. Show Notes: There was an industrial phase where everything old was torn down to build something new. And then there was pushback. A good city is...
2024-10-22
32 min
Free Zone Frontier
Transforming Ideas Into Reality With Innovation And Technology
For most people, entrepreneurship used to feel out of reach. Now, technology has provided the necessary tools for anyone to start a company that has all the potential to give them freedom. Dan Sullivan and Steven Krein discuss the many invaluable ways AI can be used by business leaders, and how it’s opened doors for dreamers. Show Notes: Entrepreneurism by its very nature creates disruption and inequality. Entrepreneurs like talking to other people who are entrepreneurial about their ideas in order to develop them further.
2024-09-18
58 min
Free Zone Frontier
Common Pitfalls To Avoid For A Flawless Conference Experience
As of this year, Dan Sullivan has been a business coach for half a century, and Strategic Coach® has been helping entrepreneurs lead their best lives for 35 years. In this episode, Steve Krein and Dan discuss the inaugural CoachCon event that recently took place in Nashville, how the three-day conference came together, and the secrets that made it a resounding success. Show Notes: When people are committing to an event that requires traveling, they give it a lot more thought than they did before COVID. You’re going...
2024-08-06
30 min
Free Zone Frontier
The Power Of Shared Language To Grow Your Community
Ever been to a concert where everyone sings along to every song? That's the power of community. Dan and Steve explore the emotional side of entrepreneurship, discussing the benefits of building a strong community. It’s an environment of shared language, shared opportunities, and shared experiences where everyone can gain and grow. Show Notes: In any community, shared language and experiences create an environment where people feel more comfortable. When you bring entrepreneurs together, there’s a shared language and also shared challenges that they’re all deeply fa...
2024-07-10
39 min
Free Zone Frontier
Exploring AI's Impact On Entrepreneurship And Innovation, with Lior Weinstein
Serial entrepreneur Lior Weinstein returns to the show. Teaming up with Dan and Steve, he shares his systematic approach for tackling business challenges and leveraging AI alongside human capabilities. Three entrepreneurs operating at the top of their game promise valuable takeaways to transform pains into new revenue streams and fuel your success. Show Notes: Every company has a history and constraints they bring along. Good marketing requires empathy. Too many entrepreneurs overthink, overengineer, and overbuild. Though it may seem count...
2024-06-04
42 min
Free Zone Frontier
How To Make Growth Inevitable, with Lior Weinstein
Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein welcome Lior Weinstein, a serial entrepreneur who specializes in simplifying complex concepts into actionable steps. Lior shares his background, starting in Israel and moving to the United States, where he expanded his entrepreneurial career after serving in the IDF's Intelligence Corps. Lior's experiences taught him about teamwork, tackling big missions, and winning with small teams.Show Notes: Strategic Coach® clients learn to prioritize being happy first.Focusing on meaningful relationships is the key to personal happiness and business success.Adopting an owner’s mindset in consulting lead...
2024-05-07
49 min
Free Zone Frontier
How To Cast A Collaborator, Not Hire An Employee
Many entrepreneurs don’t hire well, and those that do mostly dread the activity. Dan Sullivan aims to change that. He explains a mindset shift about hiring differently as entrepreneurs, exploring how thinking of hiring as casting a play creates a new perspective on team building and collaboration. Show Notes: Most entrepreneurs view hiring as a cost rather than an investment.An entrepreneur’s attitude toward hiring shapes the future of their relationship with their team.The notion of casting, as opposed to hiring, highlights the importance of finding the right fit for a...
2024-04-16
31 min
Free Zone Frontier
Your Secret Weapon Is Discovering When You’re Great
Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein delve into the power of the “When Are You Great?” tool, discussing how it serves as a crucial planning aid and a potent marketing resource. Using real-world examples, they explore the implications for crafting compelling offers, narrating impactful stories, and leveraging a marketer’s secret weapon. Highlights: To figure out what gets talked about, you have to combine everything you’re telling with everything you’re being told. You share when you’re good because you have competition. Others share when you’re great because...
2024-03-19
37 min
Free Zone Frontier
Create The Future Using The Best Of Your Past
The end of a year and the beginning of another is a great time to reflect and plan. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss effective ways entrepreneurs can look back on what’s happened and look ahead to what they want to accomplish, sharing insights from their own experiences running successful businesses. Highlights: A lot of people feel uncomfortable talking about long-term planning. You can use the new year to reflect on the progress you've made over the last 12 months and what you need to do over the n...
2024-02-13
19 min
Free Zone Frontier
How Valuable Are Your Core Values?
No matter how long a company has been around, it’s vital that everyone is clear on and maintains their core values. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain why this is so important, discuss why all team members need to be aligned, and share some of their own companies’ core values. Highlights: In the U.S., core values used to be structured into the environment you lived in. Reminding team members of the company’s specific purpose can help avoid distraction. The value reinforcem...
2024-01-23
36 min
Free Zone Frontier
What The Future Holds For Entrepreneurs
Strategic Coach® is approaching its 50th anniversary, and Coach co-founder Dan Sullivan is coming up on 50 years of coaching entrepreneurs. In this episode, Steve Krein and Dan share some of the significant changes to entrepreneurism that have happened over the past 50 years and what the future holds. Highlights: Steve and Dan discuss what is currently the number one resource on the planet If you look at cultural heroes in the business world and American life itself, they’re the great entrepreneurs. The orig...
2023-12-19
23 min
Free Zone Frontier
The Role Of Tension In Breakthrough Thinking
Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein continue their discussion about the power of thinking tools and how they can help entrepreneurs achieve their goals. They explore the importance of tension, shortcuts, and tools in simplifying complex problems and generating new opportunities for yourself, your team, and your clients. Highlights: Strategic Coach® began with The Strategy Circle®, the primordial entrepreneurial thinking tool.All Strategic Coach tools share the VOTA structure: Vision, Obstacles, Transformation, Action.By combining opposing thoughts, entrepreneurs can generate new ideas and surprising insights.Tools are shortcuts to help people do things fast...
2023-11-28
26 min
Free Zone Frontier
Creating A Thinking Tool Culture In Your Company
How do you find great people to join your organization? How do you train them, coach them, and guide them? The answer lies in what makes Strategic Coach® different from all other companies. In this first episode of a two-part series, Steven Krein and Dan Sullivan share the thinking tool culture of Strategic Coach, how it has transformed Steven’s StartUp Health, and how you can use it to upgrade any organization you choose. Highlights: Strategic Coach team members use the same tools as our members do. Thinki...
2023-10-31
24 min
Free Zone Frontier
Keep Things Simple So You Can Multiply Their Impact
Most entrepreneurs believe they have to be in constant competition. But there’s a much more enjoyable way to live your entrepreneurial life to achieve bigger and better results: you can enter a zone of collaboration with like-minded people that’s entirely free of competition. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain how to start. Hint: it’s all about simplifying before multiplying. Highlights: Finding collaborators who think the same way as you do is one of the most important activities an entrepreneur can undertake. Don’t fall in love wit...
2023-09-19
28 min
Free Zone Frontier
Age Reversal Innovations For Entrepreneurs
Innovations in the realm of age reversal are accelerating. Getting physically younger while getting older in years is a real possibility. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain the advances, discuss what’s needed for further breakthroughs, and share why age reversal developments are critical for entrepreneurs to be preparing for. Highlights: Many entrepreneurs retire out of social or societal expectations. Setting a goal that might seem crazy serves as a magnet for what you need and as a repellent for what you don’t...
2023-08-15
39 min
Free Zone Frontier
How To Succeed When Others Are Stuck
A lot of entrepreneurs are scared right now, while others are excited, feeling like this is the best time to be innovating and creating value. Why these opposing mindsets? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steven Krein explain why some people are experiencing anxiety about the future while others are staying cool and calm. Highlights: Some people see “scary times” as opportunities. The people who we expect to be in charge are responding not only to an event, but to other people’s responses. ...
2023-07-11
46 min
Free Zone Frontier
Simplifying The Complexity Of Capitalism
Dan Sullivan and Steven Krein discuss Dan’s latest quarterly book, Capitalism—And Everything Else, and explain what capitalism really means, why many people believe they don’t like it, why it’s misunderstood, and its five growth stages. Highlights: Some people incorrectly approach capitalism as a rival to ideologies like communism and fascism. Capitalism isn’t in competition with anything. Capitalism involves capitalizing on your own talent and time, your production, your abilities, your profitability, and on living in a world of greate...
2023-06-06
38 min
Free Zone Frontier
The Power Of A Quarterly Reflection
Ever wondered what the success formula is for top entrepreneurs? In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss the “25-Year Transformation” and how it can benefit entrepreneurs by helping them prioritize their biggest goals and measure progress every quarter. They explain how having a quarterly rhythm can be transformational, and provide insights into how to achieve long-term goals, adapt to advancements in technology and crises in the marketplace, and maintain a transformational mindset.Highlights: Measuring your past progress and planning out the next quarter, every quarter, helps simplify and multiply your...
2023-05-02
47 min
Free Zone Frontier
Collaborating From A State Of Calm
Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss the Free Zone Frontier® and the StartUp Health programs. They both believe it’s crucial to have the right people in the room, sharing their experiences and collaborating. Connecting like this with a community of ambitious, calm entrepreneurs makes it possible to experience five years’ progress in three months.
2023-03-14
16 min
Free Zone Frontier
Your Collaborations Move At The Speed Of Trust, with Timothy Nelson
What does it take to make a significant impact in battling a disease? In this third episode of their three-part series, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Dr. Timothy Nelson discuss the innovative model Tim has developed for combatting congenital heart disease, the incredible commitment from others that it’s taken to reach this point, and how many other areas of medicine could be influenced by the work he and his partners are doing.
2023-02-07
44 min
Free Zone Frontier
The Incredible Healing Potential Of Stem Cells, with Timothy Nelson
An astonishing discovery has taken the concept of stem cell usage and regenerative medicine and put it permanently on the map for future generations. In this second of their three-part series, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Dr. Timothy Nelson discuss the latest breakthroughs and possibilities that exist in stem cell research. Free Zone collaborations are making it all possible!
2023-01-24
37 min
Free Zone Frontier
Achieving The Impossible In Curing Congenital Heart Disease, with Timothy Nelson
Dr. Timothy Nelson is an entrepreneur with a specialty in curing congenital heart disease. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein chat with Tim about the discoveries and motivations that led him to this position. Tim explains how he and his team are on a mission to leverage the philanthropic community to focus on rare diseases that are too often neglected. Join the show to learn about some incredible, and almost inconceivable, breakthroughs that have occurred in just the past few years.
2023-01-10
20 min
Free Zone Frontier
Creating A Startup That Lasts
Why do some startup companies continually grow, while most fail? You need more than a great idea. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss the successes of Steve’s unique, collaborative StartUp Health network, the mindsets entrepreneurs need in order to achieve the greatest success, and the things they do that most entrepreneurs won’t even think about.
2022-12-07
42 min
Free Zone Frontier
How To Innovate In An Old-School Industry, with Carson Holmquist
On the cutting edge of the construction, Carson Holmquist creates the most value for his clients by exploring opportunities in off-site and modular construction. In the second episode of a two-part series, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Carson explain how to innovate when an industry feels too established for any wholesale change.
2022-11-09
38 min
Free Zone Frontier
Exploring The Future Of Construction, with Carson Holmquist
Carson Holmquist is a true innovator in the field of construction, and a member of the Free Zone Frontier program at Strategic Coach. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein share what has allowed Carson to thrive, in what ways everyone involved is benefiting, and how he sees the future of modular construction.
2022-10-26
46 min
Free Zone Frontier
How To Make Your Own Luck
Every entrepreneur has something to offer their clients, but most of them attempt to make convincing arguments rather than compelling offers. Dan Sullivan and Steven Krein continue their conversation and highlight the differences between the two approaches, and how you can use this to effectively sell your solutions.
2022-10-04
44 min
Free Zone Frontier
A Compelling Offer Beats A Convincing Argument Every Time
There’s a big difference between convincing someone with an argument and compelling them to take action with an offer. And in the market world where we all live, people don’t want to be convinced—they want to be compelled. Join Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein to learn the differences between convincing and compelling, and the very different effects each has on your customers and clients.
2022-09-21
48 min
Free Zone Frontier
The Innovation Property Builder
Too many entrepreneurs don’t spend enough time focusing on issues related to their intellectual property early on in the development of their companies. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein share why you need to value your ideas, and the steps you need to take to protect that value.
2022-08-31
43 min
Free Zone Frontier
The Importance Of Intangible Assets, with Keegan Caldwell
In this constantly changing political and economic landscape, entrepreneurs can benefit greatly from understanding intellectual property. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein continue their discussion with Keegan Caldwell, founder of one of the fastest-growing IP firms in the world, about what entrepreneurs should know when it comes to their IP.
2022-08-09
29 min
Free Zone Frontier
It’s Time To Protect What’s Yours, with Keegan Caldwell
The importance of intellectual property is undeniable, but not everyone knows as much about their own IP situation as they should. In this second episode of a three-part series, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein chat with Keegan Caldwell, the founder of an intellectual property law firm, who explains how IP law can benefit entrepreneurs beyond just protecting their creations.
2022-07-13
19 min
Free Zone Frontier
Where Law And Entrepreneurship Collide, with Keegan Caldwell
There are many exciting ways in which entrepreneurship and law overlap. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and special guest Keegan Caldwell discuss the issues from all sides, including intellectual property and how lawyers and entrepreneurs can best communicate. Keegan helps clients defend their intellectual property assets. Have a listen to hear how that’s done!
2022-06-23
34 min
Free Zone Frontier
Turning Back The Clock, with Regan Archibald
Age reversal has been a hot topic for about 20 years, and there are more factors at play in its advancement than you might think. In this episode, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and guest Regan Archibald talk about the great strides that have been made and what needs to happen for even further advancement in this field that will impact us all.
2022-05-17
38 min
Free Zone Frontier
You’re In Charge Of Your Own Health, with Regan Archibald
It’s possible that, through the right set of circumstances, health-care advancements can allow people to have longer lives. In fact, all of the necessary ingredients already exist. Dan Sullivan, Steven Krein, and special guest Regan Archibald discuss what needs to happen in order for health care to help people extend their lives.
2022-04-26
25 min
Free Zone Frontier
Rewind: How To Think 100x About Your Business
Join Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein as they revisit one of the earliest episodes to share the mindsets that were critical in the creation of the Free Zone Frontier. You’ll learn how to start thinking 100x about your company, and how that opens up enormous possibilities. To have a huge impact, you need to think huge. And taking your business to that level might be easier than you think.
2022-03-15
30 min
Free Zone Frontier
Why Credibility Is Everything
While it can take years for an entrepreneur to establish credibility in their industry and marketplace, it can be destroyed in moments. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain why credibility is so important for entrepreneurs, various ways it can be established and built on—and the risks of losing it.
2022-02-15
29 min
Free Zone Frontier
Rewind: Cash And Confidence
Cash and confidence are rewards for entrepreneurs, but there are steps that need to be taken before they appear. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain the process that you will need to go through to create something profitable and the dangers of skipping important steps.
2022-01-18
26 min
Free Zone Frontier
The Ultimate Entrepreneurial President, with Howard Getson and Matthew Pinsker
There are many overlaps between entrepreneurship and both American business and American politics. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and guests Matthew Pinsker and Howard Getson discuss the entrepreneurial mindset and structures displayed by Abraham Lincoln and other former U.S. presidents.
2021-12-16
49 min
Free Zone Frontier
Do More With Less, with Paul Abel
While many entrepreneurial companies eventually get stuck in their growth, Paul Abel devised ways and designed systems to help others avoid traps and bypass competition. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein continue their conversation with Paul about his strategies and why they’re so effective for modern entrepreneurs.
2021-11-09
20 min
Free Zone Frontier
Protecting Yourself As A Successful Entrepreneur, with Paul Abel
Paul Abel was a successful franchise owner, but going up against government regulations, he always lost. Fifteen years ago, inspired by an experience he had with a workplace injury, Paul decided to start his own business informing employers how to avoid fines and lawsuits. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Paul cover the responsibilities of employers as they relate to government regulations.
2021-10-05
28 min
Free Zone Frontier
The Best Ways To Build An Audience—And Keep It, with Nick Nanton
With so many media platforms out there, it’s hard to know which you should be spending your time on. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and special guest Nick Nanton explain how you can most effectively reach your desired audience—and keep them engaged and interested. If you don’t become part of the story happening all around you, you’ll become irrelevant very quickly. If you engage with a platform like it’s just a hobby, you won’t get the same results as you would if you engaged with it at a professional level.
2021-09-07
27 min
Free Zone Frontier
Thinking More Deeply About What You Do, with Nick Nanton
After 15 years as an entrepreneur working with celebrities, Nick Nanton has made the shift to helping other entrepreneurs stand out in the marketplace. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein chat with Nick about his personal growth, what’s changed, and what’s the same. Since entrepreneurs were not meant to work for other people, a sign of business wisdom is being able to make complex things simple. Being authentic is critical, as is sharing your vision with the best collaborators you can find.
2021-08-10
45 min
Free Zone Frontier
How The Best Collaborations Work with Brett Kaufman
An entrepreneur’s proper role can be as the explainer, the contextualizer, and the protector of a vision. If you can’t find great people to work with on that, it might be that great people aren’t looking for you. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and guest Brett Kaufman explain what makes for the best entrepreneurial collaborations—and collaborators. Find out how to find great people to work with and how to be a great person to work with.
2021-07-06
24 min
Free Zone Frontier
Positive Shifts with Brett Kaufman
Too often, people focus on the negatives of what’s changed, but the past year has shown that entrepreneurs are in a position to adapt quickly and even step up their game. During the lockdown, a lot of people re-evaluated what they actually like doing and are taking action to do more of that. In this episode, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and guest Brett Kaufman explain how it’s possible to flourish if you have the right mindset.
2021-06-08
50 min
Free Zone Frontier
The Right People To Raise Your Thinking with Howard Getson
Everyone acts and thinks differently depending on who they’re dealing with. Part of what dictates this are the differences in how people see you. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and guest Howard Getson discuss the kinds of people who raise your capability, the best tools to communicate with them, and the kinds of people who limit your thinking. If you’re still emotional about something that happened a long time ago, it’s possible you’ve not over it. Stay in constant motion to correct your course.
2021-05-18
49 min
Free Zone Frontier
Building Your Own Future with Howard Getson
While some entrepreneurs are satisfied once they reach a certain status, others are always moving onto the next stage no matter what. Join Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and special guest Howard Getson to learn how decision-making processes are discovery processes, and why creating technology to handle unpleasant tasks might be easier than you thought.
2021-05-05
47 min
Free Zone Frontier
Learning The Tricks Of Top Entrepreneurs with Dean Jackson • Part 2
The best entrepreneurs are always looking to improve by gathering useful tools and concepts and by coaching others. Knowing how to present new information to entrepreneurs is critical because they often don't have the patience to sit through a deep analysis of problems. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and guest Dean Jackson share what’s worked best for them in terms of both entrepreneurial learning and also coaching others to gain clarity for themselves.
2021-04-01
32 min
Free Zone Frontier
Between Certainty And Uncertainty with Dean Jackson • Part 1
There’s at least some uncertainty in a lot of ventures, and entrepreneurs can do the best job if they acknowledge the uncertainty instead of pretending to know everything. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and guest Dean Jackson explain the value of believing in your projects and how uncertainty itself can shape how well they develop.
2021-03-25
29 min
Free Zone Frontier
Rewind: Confidently Ambitious
In one of our most popular episodes, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explore how confidence isn’t always obvious in your communication with other people. It’s often clear when you’ve given way to others’ skepticism and you’re no longer sold on what you’re talking about. The key to remaining in your ‘Free Zone’ is to hold an unwavering belief in the projects and collaborations you’ve created. This will draw only the best people to you who can see your vision and want to participate in its growth.
2021-02-03
21 min
Free Zone Frontier
What Always Stays The Same In An Entrepreneurial Life
It often happens that once an entrepreneur finds success, what led to their company’s success can go missing. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Lisa Cini discuss ways in which entrepreneurs can continue creating value once their company has grown. In order to achieve a big goal, you might need to look decades ahead and to big collaborations. You have to stay in touch with the emerging capability that got you started, and keep going back year after year.
2020-12-15
00 min
Free Zone Frontier
What Always Stays The Same In An Entrepreneurial Life with Lisa Cini
It often happens that once an entrepreneur finds success, what led to their company’s success can go missing. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Lisa Cini discuss ways in which entrepreneurs can continue creating value once their company has grown. In order to achieve a big goal, you might need to look decades ahead and to big collaborations. You have to stay in touch with the emerging capability that got you started, and keep going back year after year.
2020-12-15
53 min
Free Zone Frontier
Rewind: Launching The Free Zone Frontier
Let’s jump back to the episode that started it all! The essence of a “Free Zone”—a brand new realm of value creation where there is no competition. This idea of forging ahead into new, competition-free “frontiers” has become the foundation of the program and is unique and particular to the experience of entrepreneurs.
2020-11-10
31 min
Free Zone Frontier
Transforming Health Care Until It’s Free with David Berg
Most Americans can’t afford health care in addition to food, transportation, and shelter, but one entrepreneur has created a way to make it accessible to everyone. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein welcome David Berg to explain his system for providing health care to employees with no funding wasted on administration or unnecessary costs.
2020-10-19
52 min
Free Zone Frontier
Why You Shouldn’t Collaborate With Someone Just Like You with Lee Richter
Even if two entrepreneurs are at the top of their game, that doesn’t mean they’re the right fit to work together. Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Lee Richter explain how everyone is either a Simplifier or a Multiplier, and how the best work happens when one joins forces with the other. You’ll know if you’re a Simplifier or a Multiplier based on your first impulse to take action in a typical situation. It’s important to learn if you’ve been acting in a role in which you don’t fit, and find someone to work with who...
2020-09-16
33 min
Free Zone Frontier
The Common Goal Of The Best Entrepreneurs with Lee Richter
Some entrepreneurs find that their industry is actually working against innovation and breakthroughs. It can be incredibly difficult to go against the status quo in this case, but it’s easier if you’re not working alone. In this episode, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Lee Richter discuss challenges they face in the healthcare industry and what entrepreneurs need to have in common in order to collaborate.
2020-08-13
35 min
Free Zone Frontier
Why Total Cash Confidence Is Crucial with Lee Richter
Worrying about cash flow is one of the main reasons why entrepreneurs hold themselves back from exciting opportunities. In this episode, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Lee Richter explain how having total cash confidence means you can engage in the best and most profitable collaborations and projects.
2020-07-08
30 min
Multiplier Mindset® with Dan Sullivan
Cooperating And Collaborating To Achieve The Best Solutions, with Steve Krein
In 2011, Steve Krein founded Startup Health, a community that now includes over 300 companies operating out of 26 countries, with the goal of cooperating to achieve massive breakthroughs in health care. Find out how they were well prepared for the unexpected global pandemic and what they’ve learned in this time.
2020-06-23
35 min
Free Zone Frontier
A Community Of Sharing Solutions
Most entrepreneurs choose to operate alone, and while they can still be successful, there are dangers that come with isolation. What if there were a better way? Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss why it’s critical to be part of a community, and how it’s vital that everyone involved has the right mindset to move forward fearlessly during good times and bad.
2020-06-09
17 min
Free Zone Frontier
What Entrepreneurs Can Do Right Now • Part 2
During “scary times,” entrepreneurs can be among the most effective, positive contributors. Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein continue offering strategies, including forgetting about what’s missing and focusing on what’s available. There will be a period after this in which the general public will be more thankful, and complain and criticize less. It’s good for morale to have tangible proof that productive work is getting done every day.
2020-04-20
40 min
Free Zone Frontier
What Entrepreneurs Can Do Right Now • Part 1
While many people in the world are isolating themselves and being alone with their own fears, a lot of entrepreneurs want to help but aren’t sure what they can do. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein provide a list of strategies for being useful in a time of crisis.
2020-03-27
49 min
Free Zone Frontier
What’s Your Focus For Exponential Growth?
What tools do the biggest companies in the world use? You might be surprised to learn that they’re the same tools they used at the very beginning. In this episode, Dan and Steve explain how the farthest-reaching and most profitable companies have found success by staying focused and eliminating as much complexity as possible.
2020-03-17
28 min
Free Zone Frontier
Join A New Dimension Of Entrepreneurs
Every entrepreneur would be happier without competition in their life, but you have to make the choice to stop competing. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain how to focus on unique value creation and collaborations instead of paying attention to what your competitors are doing.
2020-02-13
33 min
Free Zone Frontier
What Makes For The Right Collaborator with Kevin Brady
If you’re an entrepreneur with a big vision who never wants to stop growing, there are steps to getting there and certain mindsets that you need to have. In this episode, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Kevin Brady talk about cash confidence, recognizing your role, and entering into collaborations with the right kind of people.
2020-01-15
43 min
Free Zone Frontier
Why Health Care Needs Collaborative Innovation with Kevin Brady
There’s a lot of improvement that can be made in the health care industry, but it’s not going to happen by itself. In this episode, Dan Sullivan, Steve Krein, and Kevin Brady explain how certain kinds of collaboration are necessary and give examples of how such collaboration is leading to huge improvements and benefits.
2019-12-17
25 min
Free Zone Frontier
Play The Long Game To Achieve Your Biggest Goals
Many entrepreneurs only look so far ahead, which limits what they can envision achieving. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein explain how having a bigger framework can lead to bigger success and collaborations.
2019-11-12
36 min
Free Zone Frontier
The Story Behind A “Global Army” Of Entrepreneurs
Like many fields, health care often involves entrepreneurs working independently, but StartUp Health is different. In this episode, Dan Sullivan and Steve Krein discuss how the supportive, ambitious, global community was created, and how it operates.
2019-10-18
37 min
Free Zone Frontier
Launching The Free Zone Frontier
From The Game Changer, to Free Zone Frontier.The essence of a “Free Zone”—a brand new realm of value creation where there is no competition. This idea of forging ahead into new, competition-free “frontiers” has become the foundation of the program, and unlike “Game Changer” which has become a ubiquitous term on many different fronts, is unique and particular to the experience of entrepreneurs.
2019-09-20
31 min
Free Zone Frontier
Launching The Free Zone Frontier
From The Game Changer, to Free Zone Frontier.The essence of a “Free Zone”—a brand new realm of value creation where there is no competition. This idea of forging ahead into new, competition-free “frontiers” has become the foundation of the program, and unlike “Game Changer” which has become a ubiquitous term on many different fronts, is unique and particular to the experience of entrepreneurs.
2019-09-20
31 min