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Join Up Dots -  Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

346: Korbett Miller: Teaching Us All To Spin Plates Everyday

Join Up Dots - Business Coaching Made Easy (With A Bit Of Life Coaching Too)

David Ralph of Join Up Dots

Business, Education

51.1K Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2015

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

Todays guest on Join Up Dots is a man who has been a small business owner for the last 18 years, and has learnt the hard way that to allow a business to thrive,. He believes that this means as much allowing the owner to thrive than anything else. Leaving Sienna Heights College with a Bachelor's Degrees in, Business Administration and Management, our guest set about creating one of the most successful martial arts schools in the State of Washington. Miller's Martial Arts Academy has become a key part of the neighbourhood for nearly twenty years, and is not just about teaching his pupils to break bricks with their heads (to be honest Im not even sure that this is what they do), but to teach children of all ages appropriate life skills which boost their self confidence. It teaches them responsibility, persistence, commitment and all the other things that will help the transition to adult hood and a successful life. And now with his new platform De-Mythify he is out to help the adults of the world, particularly the small business owners who have created income in their lives, but end up disliking the very thing that they have built. As he says "I have spoken to lots of burnt out business owners over the last nearly 20 years. I do not think you wake up not wanting to be a business owner. While, certainly, there could be a single event that sours you to the passion of being an business owner, that kind of change of heart only happens over time. It’s what I call the “death by a million paper cuts”. An owner has so many “plates spinning”– get this task going, now go do that task, hey we are out of toilet paper, John called off again, we lost our best customer, customer z is complaining again. All these little things add up so that the cumulative effect is that you wake up hating the thing that you truly loved doing just a few years ago." He seems a man who not only still loves what he is doing, but is now finding extra speed and energy because of that passion. He has found his thing (amongst being a rare horse breeder) and a real estate investor, and wants others to find theirs too. So how has he managed to stay energised, and keep all those plates spinning day after day, and come back for even more plates? And is there the right way to start a business, before even the first cheque hits the doormat? Well lets find out as we bring onto the show to start joining up dots with the one and only Mr Korbett Miller

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0:00.0

Today's mastery.

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mastery.com, the premiere online community teaching you to podcast like a pro.

0:08.0

Check us out now at podcasters mastery.com.

0:12.0

When we're young we have an amazing positive outlook about how great life is going to be,

0:17.0

but somewhere along the line we forget to dream and end up settling.

0:21.0

Join up dots features amazing people who refuse to give up and chose to go after their dreams.

0:27.0

This is your blueprint for greatness.

0:30.0

So here's your host, live from the back of his garden in the UK, David Ralph.

0:34.5

Yes, hello there everybody and welcome to join up dots with David Ralph.

0:43.5

It's episode 346.

0:45.8

And today's going to be a good one.

0:47.3

And it's going to be a good one for people

0:48.7

that are starting a business or thinking about a business.

0:52.0

And it's particularly going to be a good one of those who are in a business and are wondering why they've done it because it can be difficult and this guy today he's really sorted out the answers and he's providing a blueprint of having your life

1:05.6

and having your business work hand in hand. He is a man who's been a small business

1:10.4

owner for the last 18 years and has learnt a hard way that to allow a business to thrive

1:15.0

is really about allowing the owner to thrive more than anything else.

1:19.0

Leaving Siena Heights College

1:21.0

with a bachelor's degree in business administration and management,

1:24.0

our guest set about creating one of the most successful martial arts schools in the state of Washington.

1:28.8

Miller's Martial Arts Academy has become a key part of the neighborhood for nearly 20 years and it's not just

1:34.1

about teaching his pupils to break bricks with their heads to be honest I'm not even sure

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