From Bankruptcy to becoming the FAIL Coach

Scott Mulvaney — Thu, 30 Apr 2020 11:00:00 +0000

Have Your Learned To Succeed Through Failure? Today We Chat With The FAIL Coach Himself, Miha Matlievski:

One business coach has forged his approach to helping entrepreneurs and business executives by using a monumental personal failure and eventual redemption to help get others where they need to go to find their personal success and fulfillment.

At just 18 years old, Miha Matlievski, a Slovenian high school dropout, dreamed of becoming a successful entrepreneur. And he pursued it with a passion, putting in 12 years of hard work that resulted in four successful businesses and a personal net worth of $15M.

But in December 2009, an unexpected call from his bank, which had decided to foreclose on his real estate investments, brought his world crashing down around him. That one negative event instigated an avalanche of ruin for him and his businesses, resulting in his four, once-successful companies going bankrupt.

QUOTE: Try not to become a man of success, but rather try to become a man of value. ~ Albert Einstein

Top 3 Hot Point Takeaways:

Burnout Awareness
The Power of Systems
The Importance of Life Balance

Today’s Resource Links from the Podcast:

Website: www.fail.coach

Website FrameWork4Freedom program: www.framework4freedom.com

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matlievski.miha

Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/FailCoach

Twitter: https://twitter.com/fail_coach

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/failcoach/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mihamatlievski/

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Timestamped Show Notes:

00:30 – Introduction

10:00 – What you’re building is a cascading effect of negative results because you can only go so long that way and then you’re going to burn out. You’re going to reach a point where referring to your website, “I was literally ready to throw myself over the balcony”. I mean, that’s a pretty strong statement!

20:00 – The thing was, why all that happened to me, I was that crazy, winging it type of entrepreneur and not laying down any foundations. When I talk about those times, I always reference the Three Little Pigs story, and all my businesses were that first house made out of straws. When the first wind of crisis blew in, bam, it was a domino effect. Because of that, I went through depression, anxiety, darkness, suicide attempts, and so on. Until I had the aha moment and I was able to figure out that I had to take ownership of every mistake that I did in the past that led me to that failure. Then, I could start working on my personal goals and business development.

30:00 – What I see with my clients is often, I see bigger things for them than what they can see. But that’s because I was there where they weren’t yet. So it’s much easier to see and to set big goals, because, for me, eight figures, nine figures, etc, I was there. I know how to do that, I can do it again. That’s the difference.

40:00 – I was actually very stupid with my money, spending it like crazy because I could just keep making more at the time.

50:00 – You are that momentum builder and you must create a system that can then move forward. If it relies on you 24-7, 365 days a year, then that’s not scalable. You can’t create the momentum to create a movement that can go around the world. You can’t, you simply and physically can’t. So I’m not expecting me to be the one who saves the world from failure. I just want to help. More people are talking about failure, yes, but they’re still brushing it off too casually. This subject is very important.

53:00 – Final Words

Our Final Words of the Show:

I’m guessing a majority of your audience is entrepreneurs or future entrepreneurs. So I’ll say this, the number one thing that you need as an entrepreneur is a healthy relationship with failure. That’s one thing that you will be faced with a lot and you need to know how to deal with it. The second thing that’s super, super important, is that you must build a foundation, and always go back to the foundation when you want to go to the next step. It’s just like building a house. You start with a foundation, you don’t start with the second floor. Then when you say, oh, now I want to make my house larger, you can always go back and make sure that your foundation(s) are in place for that bigger house. This same point goes for your business. I know it’s boring, I know. It feels like oh, I don’t need this. It’s so, so, so important, especially if you want to have a sustainable, long-term, and profitable business.

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008: Liven Up Ya’ll with Whitney and Chris Carullo

Scott Mulvaney — Fri, 23 Sep 2016 13:00:00 +0000

Good day ladies and gents! Today we have decided to one up it again and go with two new, happy couple co-hosts. This episode is about making an impact in the diverse and crowded Health & Fitness industry. All while we focus on how they are living a healthy, balanced, business lifestyle. This is demonstrated perfectly by today’s co-hosts, Chris and Whitney Carullo who choose to Liven Up. These two are a young couple that fulfilled their dream since college of opening their own fitness business.

Originally their plan was to open a small personal training studio with just them training their clients. We fast forward four years later and they have a 7,000 sq feet facility, 350 members, seven full-time employees, ten all together. They have built a healthy business and a great brand here in the Lehigh Valley.

I have been able to get to know them both personally and professionally over the past two years. Located in Bethlehem Pennsylvania, their facility and brand are known as Liven Up Health and Fitness.

On This Liven Up Episode You Will Hear:

[spp-timestamp time=”1:27″] How we came to connect
[spp-timestamp time=”4:07″] Liven Up business model and retention
[spp-timestamp time=”5:51″] Why you should not go cheap on your health and why you should be fueling the lifestyle
[spp-timestamp time=”8:27″] Building your brand, building that recognition and a lasting impact in peoples lives
[spp-timestamp time=”9:55″] How Whitney and Chris impact the business separately and how they guide their customers through the fitness process
[spp-timestamp time=”11:49″] Having good mentors that help pave the way for you, you don’t have to reinvent the wheel. Masterminding and a great stat on gym membership in the US
[spp-timestamp time=”14:25″] Customer Retention and word of mouth referrals
[spp-timestamp time=”16:28″] Being in a very sales driven industry and caring for your fitness professionals
[spp-timestamp time=”20:16″] Knowing what they wanted to do since college and grinding everyday to change the industry
[spp-timestamp time=”21:21″] The Dream team. The intense, Liven Up hiring process
[spp-timestamp time=”23:35″] Building the systems, the process and infrastructure to free yourself from working on the business rather than on it
[spp-timestamp time=”36:46″] Why we create the lifestyle we do and getting that location freedom
[spp-timestamp time=”39:45″] Stepping away and giving your people the power to make decisions, people have to have self worth
[spp-timestamp time=”41:21″] Switching off, stress management and writing stuff down
[spp-timestamp time=”44:03″] Constantly evolving visions, utilizing square footage and managing your bandwidth
[spp-timestamp time=”49:03″] Hustle but keep your health balanced, this will only add to your bandwidth
[spp-timestamp time=”51:49″] Director of accountability and staying in your lane
[spp-timestamp time=”58:13″] The 20 mile march
[spp-timestamp time=”62:31″] Final Words

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Links and Resources

People Mentioned

Gary Vaynerchuk

Final Words

All it comes down to taking care of yourself, if you are exercising and eating well, good things happen. It will keep you motivated. Always go back to the basics and that start’s with you.

Also, have fun with it. Don’t take yourself too seriously and don’t take life so seriously; it is what you make it. It is all about fun, remember it’s a lifestyle. So make it a part of your lifestyle, don’t make it like a crash diet. Commit to it stay, with it and believe in yourself. Just keep it fun along the way!

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