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The Greg McKeown Podcast

66. What's Essential: Jeff Burningham on Learning to Define and Achieve Sustainable Success

The Greg McKeown Podcast

Greg McKeown

Self-improvement, Business, Education

4.91K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2021

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Entrepreneur and former candidate for Governor of Utah Jeff Burningham (Co-Founder & Chairman, Peak Capital Partners) joins Greg for a conversation on defining and achieving sustainable success. They discuss the importance of relationships versus results in making a greater impact, and explore growth mindset and the ability to reorient when a vision don’t go as planned. For a limited time purchase Effortless and get the 21-Day Challenge (and download Chapter 1 of Effortless) FREE! Share the What’s Essential podcast with your co-workers & friends and earn rewards: 1 Referral - Access the exclusive "Tim Ferriss" episode 3 Referrals - 21-day Challenge PDF  15 Referrals - $10 digital gift card you can use at stores like Real Simple, Container Store, etc. What's Essential Podcast Twitter Facebook Greg McKeown Twitter LinkedIn Instagram Scratch Audiohouse Instagram LinkedIn Credits: Hosted by Greg McKeown Produced by Greg McKeown and Scratch Audiohouse Executive Produced by Greg McKeown, Avi Gandhi, Brent Montgomery, and Ed Simpson Co-Produced by Paul Dizon

Transcript

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0:00.0

Welcome to the show I'm Greg McEwen and I'm your host for the What's Essential Podcast.

0:09.5

There are lots of shows on how to improve, on how to become successful, but there is only

0:15.4

one on what to do once you are.

0:19.1

This is essential because success can be a catalyst for failure, especially if it leads

0:25.1

to the undisciplined pursuit of more.

0:28.5

This show is about how to become successful at success.

0:32.3

It's for high performers who are on the edge of exhaustion, solving problems completely

0:38.2

before they even arise.

0:39.7

It's about turning tedious tasks into joyful rituals.

0:44.2

It's about simplifying your processes and making your most essential activities the

0:49.7

easiest ones.

0:51.8

So if you're a driven, hardworking, productive person who is running out of space but still

0:56.8

wants to make a higher contribution effortlessly, the What's Essential Podcast is designed

1:03.5

especially for you.

1:07.5

So let's begin.

1:15.9

My guest today is Jeff Burningham.

1:18.0

Jeff's that entrepreneur that you knew in high school or a neighbor of yours who's

1:24.0

going to go and build a billion dollar businesses and you think, well, I don't know about that,

1:30.0

but then Jeff actually did it.

1:32.5

Three businesses, a billion dollars or greater in revenue.

1:37.2

Just ran for governor in Utah, family man, a good man, and it's just a real delight to

1:45.2

have you on the What's Essential Podcast today.

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