Own Not Run | Shannon and Bryan Miles
Good Life Project
Jonathan Fields / Acast
4.5 • 3.4K Ratings
🗓️ 14 September 2020
⏱️ 60 minutes
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Summary
Bryan and Shannon Miles fell in love when they were young, got married, started a family and each started building their own successful careers. But a series of unexpected experiences led them to re-evaluate what they wanted out of their lives, and the way they wanted to contribute. So they pretty much blew everything up and went out on their own, starting a new venture together with the goal of creating freedom, by building a company that helped others create freedom. Not a bad vision, right?
Their passion is all about empowering small business owners and entrepreneurs to be more efficient as they achieve success in business (and in life). Having now generated more than $100M in revenue as the Co-CEO's of BELAY SOLUTIONS, a virtual staffing company, they graduated to Co-Chairs where they are stepping into a more educational role, sharing the Own Not Run philosophy that led them to build their own company. I was fascinated by their approach, since it’s always been a large part of my aspiration, too. To build something that truly mattered, while also doing it in a way that put family and flourishing at the center.
Quick note, too, this conversion, like a few others we’ve recently released, was recorded in our studio in what we’ve now come to know as Before Times. We’d been holding it until it felt like a more accessible conversation, and with so many people now reflecting on how to create their own endeavors or build existing companies in a way that built freedom into the DNA, it felt like the right time to share it.
You can find Bryan and Shannon Miles at:
Website : https://ownnotrun.com/
Instagram : https://www.instagram.com/belay_solutions/
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| 0:00.0 | Shannen and Ryan Miles fell in love when their young got married, started a family, and |
| 0:10.6 | each started building their own successful careers. |
| 0:14.0 | But a series of unexpected experiences led them to completely ree-evaluate what they wanted |
| 0:19.4 | out of their lives, and the way they wanted to both earn a living and contribute to the |
| 0:23.6 | world so they pretty much blew everything up and went out on their own, starting a new |
| 0:28.2 | venture together at what some might argue was the worst possible time, and you'll hear |
| 0:32.9 | what we're talking about in the conversation, with the goal of creating freedom by building |
| 0:36.9 | a company that helped others create freedom. |
| 0:40.3 | Especially others who were in business, not a bad vision, right? |
| 0:43.4 | Their passion is all about empowering small business owners and entrepreneurs to be more |
| 0:48.1 | efficient as they achieve success in business and life, and having now generated more than |
| 0:52.6 | a hundred million dollars in revenue as the co-CEOs of Bale Solutions, a virtual staffing |
| 0:58.5 | company, they have graduated themselves to co-chairs where they're stepping into kind |
| 1:02.8 | of a more of an educational role, sharing what they call their own not-run philosophy |
| 1:07.6 | that led them to build their own company. |
| 1:09.5 | I was fascinated, not only by their story, but by their approach to building businesses |
| 1:15.0 | that are in service of both a bigger goal and vision, but also their desire to live |
| 1:20.5 | life a very specific way. |
| 1:22.7 | Since that has also always been a large part of my aspiration, and I imagine many of our |
| 1:26.8 | listeners too, really to build something that truly matters, while also doing it in a way |
| 1:30.9 | that puts family and flourishing at the center. |
| 1:33.6 | So quick note to this conversation, like a few of the others we have recently released, |
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