Carl-Gould-70secondCEO-You Can Hustle to $3–5 Million — Then What? Pt. 2
Release Date: 04/03/2026
Carl Gould #70secondCEO
The Truth About Staying Consistent Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. So we come to the middle of the year. You're either out of inspiration, or motivation is struggling, or the activities have been up and down or not as consistent. I saw this great infographic recently, and it says, here's what people think consistency is. And it shows a bunch of glasses, cups, and they're filled right to the top with fluid. And they said, but here's what consistency actually is. And they show the same dozen...
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Discipline Over Inspiration—Every Time pt. 2 Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We need to put that same level of discipline into our daily activities so that when we do get an inspiration or we do get a motivation, that only fuels the fire. You all probably follow some sport on some level and the top players in the world who do drills before every match or every game. You know, why does a hockey player before a match have to go and shoot the puck 100 times beforehand? They're the best in the...
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Discipline Over Inspiration—Every Time Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. I'm sure you've heard the statistic by now. 95% of New Year's resolutions are gone by the middle of January, and the rest are gone by the end of January. We have these great ideas, we're inspired. Inspiration's a spark. Inspiration is a daily dose. It's not what carries you through. My son quotes, and I'll paraphrase, my son quotes a line that he hears in the military a lot. He's in the Army, he's in his...
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Are You Certified to Win? Why Credentials Still Matter Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Questions that we ask is, we ask this of our clients, and we'll say, does everybody in the company hold the credential for the job that they perform? You know what the majority of the answer is for most people in most companies? No. So if you are the bookkeeper, you use QuickBooks Online or some other NetSuite or some other financial software. Have you taken all the certifications that the software offers? The...
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Can you handle the task at hand? Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Not as important, but it is very important, especially in a commercial setting, respect. Can you handle the task at hand, right? So whatever your title is, can you handle the job that you say you can do? Here's why that's important. Because if I don't respect you, I won't bother telling you the truth. I won't bother bringing things to you because you can't handle it. Why would I bring a problem to you if you can't handle it, okay?...
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No Common Ground? Break Barriers and Build It Fast Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. And you can't find something in common, it's painful. You meet somebody. Hey, how are you? Nice to meet you. Oh, yeah, I'm Carl. How are you doing? Oh, good to meet you. Oh, yeah, it's your first time at this? Yeah, great, cool. So you into sports? Nah, not much of a sports person. Oh, oh, OK. So what are some of your hobbies? You know, I don't have a lot of hobbies, so I'm just more of a stay-at-home kind of...
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Start with “Yes”: The Simple Word That Builds Instant Connection Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. You have to use this word first. And here's the word. The word is yes. So what's the word? OK, everyone, this time, what's the word? OK, so we're going to try it out. Hey, do you golf? Some of you are like, well, I don't I don't know if it's called golf. Like, I went to the miniature. All right, we're going to try it again. Ready? We'll review the training. I'm going to ask you a question. You...
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Trust & Respect: Focus on Them First to Win Influence Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We need two things going at the same time at a high level, and they are trust and respect. So, trust is defined as having common goals or interests. So there you are, you're talking to another person, whose goals or interests matter? Yours or theirs? Who thinks it's yours? Like, it's really important that everyone knows what I like to do so they can talk about it when I want to talk about it. Or theirs? Not...
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Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. We need two things going at the same time at a high level, and they are trust and respect. So, trust is defined as having common goals or interests. So there you are, you're talking to another person, whose goals or interests matter? Yours or theirs? Who thinks it's yours? Like, it's really important that everyone knows what I like to do so they can talk about it when I want to talk about it. Or theirs? Not a trick question guys, go ahead. This is the audience...
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Different Styles, Same Goal: Influence Starts with Understanding Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results. Now that we have rapport, we can influence somebody to our point of view, right? Remember, there are three styles, right? So think about it. When you walk around every day in your work and you say, you know, that department, I don't know how they hired those people. They don't deserve to have jobs. How do they make it through the day? Ever have one of those moments, right? Because those people...
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Hi everyone, Carl Gould here with your #70secondCEO. Just a little over a one minute investment every day for a lifetime of results.
Pinch point in that three to five million dollar range, where having a bunch of generalists, nobody knows marketing well enough to know how to do Google Ads.
Nobody knows logistics well enough to get the best trucking and rates other than just calling around like, how much will you be, how much will you, no. They don't know how to synchronize routes and points of origin. It's not point of destination, it's the point of origin that almost always reduces your shipping.
So they don't know a lot of these things and they're scrambling, and they're generalists in almost all areas, so that means there are challenges in almost all areas. So all of us being entrepreneurial and scrappy, while those are good attributes, they're not good techniques when you get to three to five million.
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