8. Mike Zeller, Business Machines, Embracing Failure, and Mentorship
The Fitness Business Podcast with Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
Erin Dimond and Jordan Dugger
4.6 • 667 Ratings
🗓️ 17 September 2018
⏱️ 63 minutes
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Summary
Today, we have the pleasure of being joined by Michael Zeller. Michael is a business tycoon, to say the least as he has started 9 different businesses across 5 different industries and being wildly successful in his ventures. In this episode, you will take away: a morning routine ritual that Michael shares that you can incorporate into your own life today, the single most important thing you can do to progress quickly, and what embracing failure actually looks like.
Time Stamps:
(0:45) Mike Zeller Intro
(2:45) Mike’s Early Start
(6:02) Pure Passion Motive vs. Practicality
(9:34) Creating a Business Machine
(13:00) The 80/20 Principle and Delegation
(16:39) Personality Testing and Clarity
(24:32) Saying No
(24:38) Mike’s Morning Routine
(37:00) Top 4% of Customers
(41:16) Lessons Learned “Embrace Failure”
(49:15) Mentorship and Proximity
(58:50) Mike’s Flow State
(1:00:58) Where to find Mike
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| 0:00.0 | Flow state, also known as in the zone. Being immersed in a feeling of energized focus and enjoyment resulting in a loss of one sense of space and time. |
| 0:10.7 | This is the Flow State of Mind podcast. Thanks for joining everyone. This is Aaron Diamond. And I'm Jordan Dugger. |
| 0:17.3 | We are entrepreneurs, fitness coaches, and social media influencers. We believe there is nothing more captivating than listening to somebody talk passionately about their flow. |
| 0:25.6 | Here we aim to bring you stories from ourselves, guests and thought leaders, |
| 0:29.6 | ranging in subjects from health, fitness, physique sports, psychology and business. |
| 0:33.6 | Let's get started so you can learn, be entertained, and possibly even discover your |
| 0:38.4 | flow state. Hey everybody, welcome back to the flow state of mind podcast. On today's |
| 0:47.5 | episode, we have a very exciting guest, Michael Zeller. Michael is a powerhouse entrepreneur |
| 0:52.2 | who has went on to start and develop nine businesses |
| 0:55.3 | in five different industries, totally more than $100 million in total sales revenue. He's actually |
| 1:00.8 | studied under mentors such as Tony Robbins, Peter Diamonds, Jay Abraham, and others. Mike is a really |
| 1:07.6 | interesting guy. He comes from a philosophy that profit is secondary in business but necessary for sustainability. |
| 1:14.1 | He inspires people to invest in themselves and to believe in big ideas and to invest in coaching |
| 1:19.6 | and mentorship. |
| 1:20.6 | And I'm going to let Aaron kind of explain how our relationship came to fruition with Michael. |
| 1:24.6 | Yeah, Mike's actually our personal mentor. Jordan and I are members of |
| 1:28.8 | his mastermind, the Rising Star's mastermind, and that really could be more true about his philosophy. |
| 1:34.0 | He is truly just meant to serve. He loves helping bring other entrepreneurs up, connect people, |
| 1:41.8 | and he really is just amazing at the game of business and is a great thought |
| 1:46.6 | leader and has a lot of interesting things to share. So I'm super excited for you guys to get to |
| 1:50.6 | hear his story and just the way he thinks about a lot of things. Hey, everybody. Thanks for joining. |
| 1:55.1 | Today we have a really special guest here by the name of Mike Zeller. So Mike runs the Rising Stars Mastermind that I joined back in January |
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