130: Simplify Getting More Clients with Dan Kuschell
The Chris Harder Show
Chris Harder
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 4 June 2018
⏱️ 53 minutes
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Summary
Today's conversation with serial entrepreneur, Dan Kuschell, has to be one of the most value-packed episodes I've had to date. Not only does he take us through his childhood journey and the money mindset that went along with it, but he shares what initially got him hooked on self-development and as a result, propelled him into his crazy successful career today.
Having started 11+ business along the way, Dan is completely transparent sharing that his path has been far from perfect with struggles along the way, but he's grateful for each as he's always learned from them.
With so many actionable tips, stories and takeaways, this episode is going to blow your mind and possibly help you acquire more clients – and more success! I can't wait to hear what you think!
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Question Highlights:
- What's your favorite quote?
- What's one of your superpowers?
- What's one thing you're afraid of?
- What's one of your favorite accomplishments?
- Was the personal development book your dad gave you at age 10 ahead of its time, and did it shape what you do today?
- What was the first business you started?
- What did network marketing teach you?
- How did you work through your scarcity issues in order to become as successful as you are today?
- Earlier you said that you help clients simplify their process of attaining clients…can you walk us through that?
- When you worked with T. Harv Ecker, what was one of the biggest lessons you learned from him?
In This Episode We Talk about:
- Dan's first exposure to self-development
- What sports taught Dan about failure and making adjustments in life/business
- Breaking old habits and belief systems to stretch us to be the very best of ourselves
- Dan's insecurity about his smile and how he overcame it
- Abundance vs. scarcity
- The things you need for a successful business
- Why you should consider the BOTE framework for your clients
- How the right offer either convinces or compels people
- The differences between selling and buying cultures
- Four questions to help you tap into a niche market
- Dan's clients' success stories and strategies
- The secret to success
- How Dan let go of his financial goals and focused on being a human
- Dan's three daily grounding questions
- And so much more…
Dan's Thoughts…
"The to-do list is one thing, the not-to-do list is more important, the not-now list is important, but more importantly it's about enjoying these kinds of moments – even the struggles."
"It doesn't matter where you've been, it just matters where you want to go today."
"When you actually niche down, you attract more people."
"The harder I chased money, the further it actually got away from me."
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Dan is a husband, dad, serial entrepreneur and angel investor. He's the co-founder, Chairman, and CEO of BreakthroughX. He helps business owners like you connect the dots, see the blindspots, and get unstuck, by helping you implement unique sales and marketing systems so you get more clients, growth, and profits and have a bigger impact, reach, and contribution.
With over 25 years of business experience, he's started 11+ companies, coached over 5,329 business owners from over 180 niche industries, 9 countries, and had clients and partners like Joe Polish, Dean Graziosi, Genius Network, and more. He's bought and sold multiple companies, is a regular media contributor, hosts his own radio show, and has been a guest featured on multiple TV, radio, print, and online publications such as ESPN, NBC, Speed, Thrive, Huffington Post, and more.
He was recently rated as one of the top 25 Influencers by Influencive and his podcast was recommended for Ultra Lean Businesses in Forbes.
Resources:
Instagram: @dankuschell
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For more stories and tips on becoming unapologetically wealthy, follow me @Chriswharder on Instagram and check out fortheloveofmoney.com.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome everybody this is for the love of money where we are making you |
| 0:08.6 | unapologetic about your pursuit of success by sharing the tools, tips, and stories of those who have already made it. |
| 0:16.5 | My name is Chris Harder, and each week I will bring you incredible guests |
| 0:21.2 | in order to prove that when good people make good money, they do great things. |
| 0:26.0 | Hey everybody, welcome back to another amazing episode of for the love of money now I am |
| 0:37.6 | really excited to sit down with a gentleman named Dan Cushel today because he is literally an expert in coaching people's businesses to the next level. |
| 0:47.0 | As a matter of fact, he's got 25 years of doing this. |
| 0:50.0 | I mean, he's coached thousands and thousands and thousands of people from over 180 different niche industries and when you've coached so many different industries |
| 0:59.8 | You realize it's your system that makes people successful and he shares so many parts of his system |
| 1:06.1 | with us in this interview. So make sure you stick with us all the way to the end because Dan is a regular media contributor I mean he is always on |
| 1:14.8 | ESPN NBC speed thrive Huffington Post you name it we are honored to have him |
| 1:20.3 | here today and he delivers massive value to you. So get ready, take some |
| 1:25.1 | notes because here we go. |
| 1:32.0 | All right, Dan, my friend, thank you so much for coming on the show. |
| 1:36.0 | It's a pleasure to be with you, Chris. Thanks, man. |
| 1:38.0 | I've been looking forward to this ever since Mike connected us. |
| 1:41.0 | I know we went back and forth trying to make it happen but you know what's |
| 1:44.4 | meant to be it certainly happens and here we are today so I can't wait. |
| 1:48.0 | Yes I think for both of us we demonstrated what one core quality of most successful people |
| 1:52.4 | which is persistence right yes kudos do you on that |
| 1:56.0 | Kudos is the ability to go even though when people are saying no so persistence was both of our middle names on this one. |
| 2:04.5 | I love it. Well it was meant to be and we made it happen. You know on my show just to pick up the |
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