011: Shannon Graham on People Being Addicted To Their Own Suffering
Your First Thousand Clients with Mitch Russo
Mitch Russo
5.0 • 104 Ratings
🗓️ 10 July 2017
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
Shannon Graham has developed a number of transformative coaching programs to tackle the hurdles of life and business. Some of Shannon Graham’s more recent innovations include “The Ultimate Lifestyle Intensive”: a highly popular weekend mentor coaching program that helps developing coaches skyrocket their personal and professional success, and “Legacy”: Shannon’s intensive one-on-one program for visionary entrepreneurs which combines one-on-one coaching with a powerful mastermind.
In this episode, Shannon Graham and I will discuss:
- The start of the journey & Shannon’s biggest challenges
- Dealing with the imposter syndrome
- Being a young entrepreneur in business
- Skills which helped him achieve success
- Thoughts on imagination & creativity
- Changing the rules of the game
- The brutal and rewarding honesty
- Keeping “impossible” out of your vocabulary in order to change the world
Resources Mentioned in This Episode:
- Your Erroneous Zones – Wayne Dyer
- Lessons in Mastery: How to Use Your Personal Power to Create an Extraordinary Life!
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- Oscar Hamilton - Podcast Editing & Production services
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| 0:00.0 | You're listening to your first thousand clients with |
| 0:06.1 | Miss Russo. Okay listeners I want you to picture yourself on the West Coast of America, California, USA. |
| 0:16.0 | And I want you to be thinking of how it would look if you are standing by the coast on one of the most beautiful parts of the entire state in |
| 0:25.0 | Santa Barbara, California. Now with your eyes still closed, even if you're driving, |
| 0:30.3 | go ahead close your eyes, it's totally okay. |
| 0:32.4 | Imagine. go ahead, close your eyes, it's totally okay. Imagine we are about to get an incredible injection of wisdom directly from Santa Barbara, California, |
| 0:42.0 | from one of the ultimate success coaches in the country. |
| 0:46.3 | His name is Shannon Graham, and he has built the ultimate lifestyle intensive, which is |
| 0:51.9 | a highly popular weekend mentor coaching program that helps develop coaches |
| 0:57.2 | Skyrocketing their personal and professional success Shannon welcome to the show |
| 1:02.8 | Mitch. Thank you very much. |
| 1:04.4 | My pleasure, buddy. |
| 1:05.6 | It's great to have you on the show and I know that a lot of people are looking forward |
| 1:09.7 | to this interview. |
| 1:10.7 | So let's kind of start at the beginning. What I like to do here is just have you go through |
| 1:16.2 | what it was like when you started and tell us about some of the struggles and the decisions you made |
| 1:22.3 | and kind of what your journey looked like. |
| 1:24.9 | Sure. You know I started my coaching career at age 21 and I'm 34 now I'll be 35 in September so that's close to 13 years ago and so I had two major challenges when I first started coaching. |
| 1:45.0 | The first was, back then, back 13 years ago, hardly anyone knew what coaching was. And so a large part of having a |
| 1:59.6 | successful coaching practice at that time had to do with, excuse me, educating the marketplace. |
| 2:07.8 | And the second major challenge that I had was my age. |
| 2:10.8 | I was 21 years old and Mitch, you've seen pictures of me, you know I'm 34 now. I look maybe like I'm in my 20s now. |
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