Carl Gould-#70secondCEO-Stage 1-Rate Your Strategy: Boring or Compelling?
Release Date: 02/09/2026
Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Exit or Evolution—You Need a Plan-Part 2
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Exit or Evolution—You Need a Plan-Part 2 Hi Everyone, Carl Gould here your #70secondCEO, just over a minute of investment per day for a lifetime of results. You’re gonna say, you’re gonna say, all you’re gonna say is, “There’s a seat for every one of you on the bus.” And over your head on this, over this shoulder is going to be today’s organizational chart with all the names in it, and tomorrow’s, or your five or ten-year plan, or whatever. And, for example, the job you’re in right now you won’t be in that in five years. Alright, so if you’re a CEO now, you might be a...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Exit or Evolution—You Need a Plan - Part 1
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Exit or Evolution—You Need a Plan - Part 1 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. An exit strategy. As a matter of fact, when I first started my business, my landscaping company, very community-based, very local, I never left 30-50 miles of radius around my house. And I used to do snow removal as well, and that’s Latin for, you never get to take a vacation, ‘cause you never know when it’s gonna snow. Right? So, I could never go anywhere, it’s very very local. But, since then, since I started...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Why People Must Feel Safe Before They Act
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Why People Must Feel Safe Before They Act Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Let's talk a little bit about how we can influence another person. Because at the end of the day, we're gonna go from potential to performance. But the idea here is that you will be influential to another person, alright? Now building rapport and ultimately influencing something, somebody, it's a bit of a self-fulfilling prophecy, that’s a bit of an automatic reflex. In other words, wired into our central nervous...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Success Puts You in Uncharted Territory
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Success Puts You in Uncharted Territory Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You know, one of the first things I learned as a coach was that there are two types of distress you're going to deal with a lot as a coach. And the number two type of distress is, I know what I want. I haven't gotten there yet and I'm not either. I'm not sure or lack of strategy, or I don't have the resources, or whatever the number one type of distress is, I've achieved my goals, I set out to achieve certain...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Writing a Book Isn’t About the Book
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Writing a Book Isn’t About the Book Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Okay, so you write a book for three reasons, one of three reasons: I want to get rich, I want to get famous, or I want to get something off my chest, right. So most of the people I believe you're working with are trying to get rich or trying to get famous. Some might be writing something to get off their chest, but I suspect that's probably not the case. I want to get rich, meaning not just from the book, but I want to use...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Stop Letting Your Heart Kill Your Sales
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Stop Letting Your Heart Kill Your Sales Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. In the game we're in, we sell us as good as anyone, and we have to sell us, alright. Now- Nobody does (unclear word follows) Nobody does, right? However, I've learned a few things after certifying and helping 7,000 people like you launch their business, is you are heartless servants. You want to change the world, you want to help people, and you will work for free to help somebody else rather than make them...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO- Consistency Beats Intensity in Growth
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Consistency Beats Intensity in Growth Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Now, as a general rule of thumb, we say 90 minutes a day of business development. Whatever these five are to the best that you can, do 90 minutes a day. If you can’t avoid it, try not to do more than that. Unless you're like, I'm at a networking event. It's eight hours long. Like when I'm at Board of Advisors, Ray and I are members of Board of Advisors in Minnesota, you know, it's an all-day event. So I'm, you know,...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Urgency Starts With Knowing Their Pain
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Urgency Starts With Knowing Their Pain Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. What you do want to ask yourself is what keeps them up at night? Because if you're going to solve the problem of what keeps them up at night worrying, and what exists in their life or their business right now that makes calling you a necessity today, then you are really well dialed in to who your ideal client is, right? So you know, I live in the northeast, I live right near our ski resort. There's probably two weeks...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-If You Won’t Guarantee It, Why Should They Buy?
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
If You Won’t Guarantee It, Why Should They Buy? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. The issue is who has the guts to take the mark? Because you all know the answers to, right. So I trade now. So I use this in all of our businesses, and I use this with all of our clients. So I've trained over 7000 business coaches, right, to that long and a have a business coaching and consulting business. And so one of the things that I teach is for them to give you. So think about this next time you hire...
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Carl-Gould-#70secondCEO-Stop Selling Positives—Solve Problems Instead
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
Stop Selling Positives—Solve Problems Instead Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Now, I know the biggest mistake you kick your way, I want to know what the biggest mistake you are making in your business is, so we can go and fix that problem. Here's the biggest mistake. Talking about the positives of your business too much, or giving it too much airtime, right. That's not what it is in a current client working. In the season of business that we're in cold winter, people defer to...
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Hello Everyone, this is Carl Gould, author of The 7 Stage Growth Method and your #70secondCEO just a little over a one minute investment per day for a lifetime of results. Today, we are going to start ranking your business according to the 7 Stage method.
Stage 1- give yourself a ranking, one low, BORING! 10 high, inspiring and compelling. To what degree are your strategic planning documents, all those great ideas you got out of your head and onto paper, not only are they documented they are inspiring and compelling. What you do, how you do it, why you’re doing it, all that together has to be a 10, a 10 in each one, so give yourself a ranking.
Like and follow this podcast so you can learn more. My name is Carl Gould and this has been your #70secondCEO.