The Freedom Focused Podcast

The Freedom Focused Podcast

by Daran Wastchak

Entrepreneurship Courses

Season 1

009 The Best Way to Predict the Future is to Create It!

In this episode, host Daran Wastchak will be talking about one of the most powerful ways to boost morale, team cohesion, productivity, and excitement in your organization. Something that every small business owner already has, but few take full advantage of.He's talking about a VISION for the future! If you underestimate the value of creating and writing down your vision for the future, you would not be alone. Many if not most small business owners do not have a written vision, and their employees are left to wonder what the future holds, where they're going, and how the work they do each day fits into a larger picture... Something that would give the work they do purpose and greater meaning. Daran will get you excited about creating a vision for your future, and then tell you how to do it. For those who are anxious to get started right away on clarifying your vision for the future, click here to download the FREE tool mentioned in the show: "Vision Builder". Enjoy the show and don't forget to... Stay focused on your freedom! Show Notes

008 The Key to Greatness Is Already in Your Hands

In this episode, host Daran Wastchak will be talking about an important item of your business that many, if not most, small businesses never put in place, robbing them of a competitive advantage and a very important opportunity to achieve significantly better results, even greatness, in everything they do. This important item is core values. Daran will share the process he teaches small business owner's to "discover" their core values by putting in place three key elements to create greater team alignment, greater efficiency, and greater productivity for your business. Once discovered, it is essential that your core values are integrated into as many areas of your daily operations as possible. Daran will share with listeners the most impactful ways to do this, from the first day a potential employee is introduced to your organization to the regular performance review process. For those who are anxious to get started right away on discovering their personal core values, click here to download the FREE tool mentioned in the show: "Personal Core Values Discovery". Enjoy the show and don't forget to... Stay focused on your freedom! Show Notes

007 Productivity Secrets with guest Dirk Haupt

In this episode, host Daran Wastchak will be interviewing Dirk Haupt to learn what his tips and tricks are for greater productivity. Dirk has been an entrepreneur for over 25 years and during this time has started 4 businesses and sold 2. He has an MBA from Arizona State University and taught classes for ASU's Entrepreneurship and Innovation Institute as well as various business classes at Paradise Valley Community College. With his current company, Professor Quick, LLC, Dirk provides bookkeeping, back office help, and coaching for small businesses, helping owners to run their business in a way that is flexible, fulfilling, and fun! Dirk calls this the “Small Business Lifestyle”. Listen to this episode to hear more about... The "Small Business Lifestyle". Dirk's "3 Big Ideas" for greater productivity that he's developed over his entrepreneurial career, and that he shares with small business owners. The meaning behind the name of his company, "Professor Quick". Very interesting, and creative! Be sure to join us to hear great advice on how to become more personally and professionally productive. Enjoy the show and don't forget to... Stay focused on your freedom! Show Notes

006 How to Be More Organized, More Productive, and More Reliable

What if you could be more organized and productive at work and in your personal life? Imagine how much more you could achieve each day, each week, each month, and each year. Imagine how much more reliable you would be. In this episode, Daran will be sharing his secrets to becoming much more organized and productive both in your personal and professional life, resulting in reduced stress, anxiety, and overwhelm and increased efficiency, reliability, and freedom. He will be sharing the specific tools that he makes a habit to use every day that are essential to greater organization and productivity, tools that you can incorporate into your life today to realize greater organization, productivity, and reliability. Click here to get your FREE copy of "Productivity Accelerator" Enjoy the show and don't forget to... Stay focused on your freedom! Show Notes

005 What's the #1 Way to Make Change in Your Life?

In this episode, Daran will be talking about one of the most effective ways for small business owners to change what they are doing in order to move their business from where it is today, to where they want it to be at some point in the future... habits. He will share what research says about how long, on average, it takes for a person to form a habit. He will share some of the specific best practices and time tested, well established business strategies that he and his team made a habit of doing to create a much more efficient and productive organization, ultimately creating greater personal and professional freedom for both himself and the rest of the team. Daran will even throw in a few thoughts on habits from the Greek philosophers Epictetus and Aristotle. Enjoy the show and don't forget to... Stay focused on your freedom! Show Notes

004 What Is the True Cost of Hiring the Wrong Person?

In this episode, Daran will be talking about one of the biggest causes of stress for small business owners: the loss of an employee. Whether employees leave voluntarily or involuntarily, the impact to small businesses, especially those with a very small staff, is almost always significant. The business suffers a loss of productivity, output, employee morale, and all the dollars associated with these things. The impact to the small business owner is almost always a loss of time to do other important work while they focus on finding and hiring a new person, all of which results in a loss of freedom. To reveal the true cost of replacing an employee, Daran will share objective data from a report published by the Center for American Progress. These results will be a real eye opener that you'll want to hear! Lastly, Daran will provide information about his upcoming "Dream Team" Builder Workshop where he will share the secrets for how he built a "dream team" of employees for his own business, then sold the business to three of them 24 months later. Enjoy the show and don't forget to... Stay focused on your freedom! Show Notes

003 Freedom Secrets with guest Matthew Gardner

Freedom Secrets with guest Matthew Gardner In this episode, host Daran Wastchak will be interviewing his first guest, Matthew Gardner with HealthMarkets, the #1 ranked health insurance agency in America as rated by Trustpilot. Matthew is a Personal Benefits Consultant working in the Arizona market with over 50 agents as part of his team. While Matthew may not be a small business owner in the traditional sense, he certainly operates like one within HealthMarkets with lots of autonomy to run his business, managing employees, mentoring the sales team to achieve results, and answerable to the marketplace on a daily basis. What stands out about Matthew is his very high level of personal and professional freedom even with such a large team and so much to do. Listen to this episode to learn what Matthew's secrets are to achieving an amazing level of freedom, including... Time each week to coach his son's and his daughter's baseball and softball teams. Eight (8) vacations each year with his family that Matt refers to as "non-negotiable". ** You'll be impressed, and maybe a little envious, when you hear the details for a trip he planned with his family seven days after our interview. Wow! A spur of the moment trip to play golf with friends in Pebble Beach, California. And more.... You won't want to miss all that Matthew shares, and walk away with some of his "secrets" to gaining a similar level of freeom for yourself. Enjoy the show and don't forget to... Stay focused on your freedom! Show Notes

002 How to Become Freedom Focused

Welcome to The Freedom Focused Podcast! In this episode, host Daran Wastchak will explain his formula for moving small business owners from less freedom to more freedom, as measured by the "Four Levels of Freedom Survey". The foundation of the Freedom Focused program is people. Daran will provide an overview of how you create a "Dream Team" of high quality, highly aligned, and highly engaged employees. Once you've created your "Dream Team", you must make the most of the team in order to create greater freedom for not only the business owner, but also the entire team. Daran will provide an overview of the two key elements that make up the second part of the Freedom Focused program that he refers to as "execution" or "implementation." At the end of the episode, Daran will introduce the first guest who will be joining him on the first "Freedom Secrets" podcast episode. Stay focused on your freedom! Show Notes

001 Welcome to the Freedom Focused Podcast! Let's talk about FREEDOM

Do you know how free you are? Welcome to The Freedom Focused Podcast! In this episode, host Daran Wastchak introduces The Freedom Focused Podcast as well as himself, then shares information about personal and professional freedom for small business owners, including two free tools that will help you to know just how free you are. How do you define "personal freedom"? How do you know how free you are? Daran will share a free tool that will give you a pretty good idea. Daran will describe his "Four Levels of Freedom" hierarchy for small business owners and their businesses. Which level of freedom is your business operating at? For those who take a personal freedom assessment and professional freedom survey, Daran will be sharing a free gift. Listen to find out more! Stay focused on your freedom! Show Notes

Trailer for The Freedom Focused Podcast

In this special podcast, made just for small business owners, host Daran Wastchak talks about how to increase both your personal and professional freedom as a small business owner. More specifically, Daran shares his formula for greater freedom called "Freedom Focused." On a regular basis, the podcast includes special episodes with guests called "Freedom Secrets." Guests will share what they've done to create greater freedom in their own small businesses and provide a peak into what they do with the greater freedom they've been able to achieve. To learn more about Daran and Freedom Focused, visit his website at DaranWastchak.com Stay focused on your freedom! Show Notes

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