SPI 527: How to Start Something That Matters with Michael Bungay Stanier
The Smart Passive Income Online Business and Blogging Podcast
Pat Flynn
4.8 • 3.8K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2021
⏱️ 49 minutes
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#527 I'm so excited for this episode. We are speaking with one of my favorite people in the world: Michael Bungay Stanier. Michael is an author who's written a bunch of amazing books. He's also the founder of a training and development company, Box of Crayons, that has taught coaching skills to hundreds of thousands of people. In fact, one of Michael's books has been hugely impactful on my own business, and it's called The Coaching Habit. The Coaching Habit has guided the exact process I use when I coach my students—you can hear it in action when I'm coaching people on AskPat 2.0. Speaking of coaching, Michael also wrote another game-changing book called The Advice Trap, about how we default to offering advice to people before we know the full circumstances, and how to change our behavior to be more helpful to them. But the big focus of today's conversation is Michael's new book, How to Begin: Start Doing Something That Matters. And this book is incredible because it gets to the heart of why we do what we do. How do we make sure that what we're going to do moving forward is actually something that, like Michael says, matters? How do we have the courage to let go when we need to? And how do we navigate the raging waters that sometimes happen when making these decisions? We talk about how to know whether or not the direction we're going is one that lights us up. You're going to love this conversation because Michael is just a great, genuine person, with a ton of amazing insights to share. Show notes and more at SmartPassiveIncome.com/session527.
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| 0:00.0 | Sometimes getting an online course just by itself isn't enough to get you where you want |
| 0:04.2 | to go, right? |
| 0:05.2 | You know what this is like. |
| 0:06.3 | Sometimes maybe later, turns into maybe tomorrow, which turns into maybe never. |
| 0:10.0 | And that's just a waste. |
| 0:11.0 | But it doesn't have to be like that. |
| 0:12.4 | If you want education, community, accountability, and the growth that you deserve, you can |
| 0:16.9 | have it all in one spot with SPI's brand new All Access Pass. |
| 0:21.6 | All Access brings education and community together. |
| 0:24.4 | This is community-powered courses. |
| 0:26.7 | All in one roof to support you and hold you accountable. |
| 0:28.8 | It's the best thing that we've created so far to help entrepreneurs like you start building |
| 0:32.0 | real growth in your business. |
| 0:35.0 | Community-led courses are a ground-breaking approach to online learning. |
| 0:37.8 | In one study, the American Society of Training and Development found that 95% of people |
| 0:41.8 | are more likely to meet a goal when they're held accountable by others going through ongoing |
| 0:47.1 | meetings and progress check-ins, etc. |
| 0:48.9 | Which is exactly what we offer. |
| 0:50.4 | You're not just getting access to a course. |
| 0:52.8 | We've designed the All Access Pass to offer several pathways. |
| 0:55.5 | So no matter where you are in your business, even if you're just trying to pick an idea, |
| 0:58.7 | we have a curriculum design for you. |
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