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Rough Drafts by Cory Miller
by Cory Miller
Quick thoughts, ideas about business and life by entrepreneur Cory Miller. These are designed to be fast, down and dirty ways to capture what I'm thinking about and likely need expanding into further ways.
Episodes
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Exit Exercise Episode 2: The 10 Keys to Prepare for an Exit and Why They Are Important
Exit Exercise partners Cory Miller and Jeff Meziere share the 10 keys to preparing your business for the inevitable exit and why they are important. Take the free assessment here: https://exitexercise.com/checklist
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Exit Exercise Episode 1 - Why We Built The Exit Exercise Assessment and Bootcamp
Exit Exercise Co-Founders Jeff Meziere and Cory Miller talk about their own exit stories and why they want to help entrepreneurs prepare and position for their own inevitable exits.
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Getting the Overlooked but Sorely Needed Perspective as an Entrepreneur
Stepping out and away is so vital
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Entrepreneurs are Experimenting Scientists - With One Person In Mind
The Brain Audit...
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A $5 Million Dollar Fund for WordPress Acquisitions: Interview with Mike Demo
Talking to Mike Demo of Web Ventures, that has a $5 million dollar fund for acquisition/investments in WordPress businesses. We talk about some keys and tips for prepping your business for a potential sale, along with the types of companies Web Ventures is looking for. Learn more at:...
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Interview: Dr. Nick Wignall on Self Care and How to Find the Right Therapist
Psychologist Dr. Nick Wignall and I talk about self care, how to find a therapist and more. https://nickwignall.com/about/
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Setting Time & Space to Reflect, Share Experiences in Leadership Peer Groups
Does your leadership team set aside time and space each month or regularly to share the good, the wins from the last 30 days ... and then look ahead to the next 30 days of challenges and share experiences to learn and grow together? https://leader.team
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Diversify Your Identity
Particularly with your work and career.
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Interview with Kim Doyal: On Authenticity, Showing Up and Fun
I recently (finally) met Kim Doyal and felt instantly like I had missed out on meeting and being her friend sooner. She's filled with incredible wisdom and has such an amazing perspective on this thing called entrepreneurship (as well as life!). Most of this conversation centers on her attitude…
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Entrepreneurs: How to Decide What's Next
One of the great questions we ask ourselves but can often haunt us as entrepreneur is: What's Next? Asking "What's Next?" is a great exercise to keep us focused on protecting and growing our businesses. For me, it was about staying relevant in the market and to our customers well into the future....
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Leadership Lessons from the Open Source Community of WordPress
My friend Andrea Middleton has an incredibly complex job leading a diverse organization of volunteer event organizers located around the globe in her role as Dot Organizer for the WordPress community. A job she does with grace, thoughtfulness and caring since 2011. The events are called WordCamps...
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How To Get Started If You Want To Be An Entrepreneur
In this season of my life, I've been reflecting on the early days of starting my business(es) and how you can get started moonlighting by learning a new skill or bolstering an existing one.
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Exercise: How Could You Charge $1500 an Hour for What You Do
As a starting again entrepreneur, I've been asking myself this question: How could I charge (or get paid) $1,500 an hour for what I do? Two questions for exploration follow that: * Who do I need to become to charge that? Particularly my skillsets, approach, even messaging * What are the results…
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Ultimately Your Business Should Serve YOU
Ultimately I believe as entrepreneurs at the highest level, your business should serve your hopes, dreams, goals, passion and interests. If not, it's out of alignment. I talk to entrepreneurs frequently about this and I've experienced it personally numerous times.
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The One Mindset For Improving My Mental Health ... Don't Go It Alone
Never, ever, ever go it alone. It's a message I have to remind myself of every day. To seek, ask for, and receive help and support. And then the three essentials I rely on for supporting my mental health are: 1. Counselor on speed dial -- just like I have a primary care who I can call to get help...
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Finding Help For Addiction: My Interview with Dr. Sherry Young
I recently met Dr. Sherry Young of RightFitNow.com. She helps those struggling with addiction or those with loved ones struggling with addiction to find the appropriate treatment and help for them. We talk about a lot of things like the stigma of mental health that keeps too many people isolated...
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A Simple Friend Habit that Makes an Impact
I learned this from a pastor .... whenever I think about someone, particularly someone going through a hard time ... I either pick up the phone and call them ... or send them a text to say I'm thinking about them. As the recipient of some of these messages, I gotta tell you it makes a huge...
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The Simple Yet Overlooked Formula for Successful Online Marketing Is ....
...... Send Email, Make Money Over and over for 10+ years it was the simple formula we used to build a multi-million dollar business.
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Us Versus Them -- The Value of External Enemies
I hate and despise (tough words) internal competition. I don't see much use for it. However I like external competition and enemies to rally teams together.
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Your Customers Are Buying a Pill
The pill is a shortcut to answer your customer's problems. They don't look at your products and services with your fancy names and cute logos you've given them because they care about that .... they care if your "pill" is the answer to their needs and problems.
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Bold Action: Putting Your Work/Ideas/Projects Into the World
I've been helping my mother in law with a podcast for the last 6 months. Mostly it's been us recording in my office, interviewing her and pulling out her expertise. She's been faithful to show up, but not a lot of results from it .... ... until last night. She got a new client from it. And the...
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Two Powerful Ways to Reach Your Goals: Environment and Identity
My recent reading has been around goals and habits ... particularly so I can start adding in healthy habits into my life. Two concepts talked about in the two books below are resonating with me deeply related to habits .... leveraging environment and your identity. Willpower Doesn't Work by...
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Promoting Positive Mental Health in WordPress
Join me in supporting WPandUP https://friends.wpandup.org/become-a-friend/
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Great Things Happen When You Consistently Show Up
Consistency is showing up. It’s showing up every day in the same spot with the same or similar message .... As the same or similar person. When you are consistent ... and when you consistently show up ... Others know what to expect of you Others know where to find you Others know who to turn to…
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Working With a Boss Who Micromanages You
I share an approach to talking to a micromanaging boss and working with them.
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3 Times When I'm Prone to Micromanage as a Leader
Micromanaging is such a big topic and for good reason. I reflected on times when I've micromanaged and came up with three .... 1. When I don't trust the person I'm delegating a task to 2. When I have a high skillset and experience with the task I'm delegating 3. When the project is highly...
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Preparation Tips for Important Meetings, Public Speaking or Job Interviews
This week I helped a friend prep for an important job interview. In the process, I shared a couple of key tactics/tips that help me stay centered and be calm and confident in those important times to showcase my best self. I don't like surprises. So I rehearse, practice my steps getting to there…
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Finding the Novelty in Physical Exercise
Exercise is vital and a part of my personal self-care program. The base activity I've found is rualking -- aka run-walking. I've found I love the novelty of new places and particularly trail running whenever possible, whether that's around the state capitol of a state or in a new state park I found.
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Job Interviews: Being Yourself vs. Winning the Interview
I have been on both sides of the interview table .... and I share how I think we need to be and showcase our natural, authentic self (on both sides of the table) in job interviews.
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When is it time to hire ... and how do you go about that
One of the frequent questions I get asked as an entrepreneur is when did you decide to hire and how did you go about that? The first year of my business I made a simple org chart to think through all the roles I needed to get the work done. Most of the hats I wore myself .... and when I could ...…
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Failure and Regret
Let's talk about failure ... and then regret. I share my philosophy and belief how it's not really failure if you are learning and growing from it. I don't live in regret then.
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Hearing Yourself Out Loud aka Getting Out Of Your Own Head
The value of talking to a coach, or a business partner, or having a sidekick ... is simply getting out of your own head and being able to hear yourself out loud. Learn more about Cory and his work at: https://leader.team https://corymiller.com
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Instead of Delegating Tasks, Focus on Painting the Outcome You Desire
Paint a picture of the future, the desired outcome instead of focusing on delegating tasks. When you do so, you give your people more context, control to see how they fit in and what you're actually wanting from them.
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Do You Do Time Blocking? If So Give me Your Tips!
Been reading about and want to experiment with time blocking. If you do this already, I'd love to hear your tips and feedback for me. Use the comments or hit my website https://corymiller.com
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The Key is Consistency
In the previous video, I talked about remembering the struggle. In this one, I talk about the takeaway .... making consistency progress a practice.
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Remembering the Struggle
I found some old journals of mine in the attic from the year I started my business and the years before. I saw a lot of wandering, ideas and it helped me remember the struggle. The place where things feel less certain and less clear. And it was a good reminder to me.
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Willpower doesn't work ... here's what does
I've been reading the fantastic book "Willpower Doesn't Work" by Benjamin Hardy .... he says willpower doesn't work ... your ENVIRONMENT does. So how do we tweak our environment as leaders to get the most or better from our people? https://readstrategically.com/willpower-doesnt-work/
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Modeling Work-Life Boundaries with Vacations
No wonder burnout is such a prolific phenomenon in workplaces today ... as leaders we need to model good boundaries in taking time off.
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My Name's Not Alexa
So don't treat me like it.
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The Obstacle of Failure
Getting past our fear of failure and mindsets around failure is key to progress and getting and giving our best
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The Need to Feel Needed & How It Sabotages Us And Others
We have tough jobs and don't always get our just and due recognition .... but we short circuit it when that need to feel needed gets in the way.
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We Are What We Repeatedly Do - So What Are We Getting?
And what incremental changes can we make to improve and arrive faster or better to who we want to be.
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Cut Out The Shortcut Mentality & Show Up Consistently
Part 2 from the previous episode on Step 1: Show Up. Step 2: Do the Hard Work.
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Step 1: Show Up. Step 2: Do The Tough Work aka Effort. Step 3: Repeat
First, you gotta show up. Every day. Then, you gotta put in the tough, sometimes grueling work. Consistently. Over and over and over.
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Taking Cold Showers Every Day & The Tough Tasks of Leadership
My friend Jonathan has taken 500+ cold showers in a row. And I relate his reasons why he does this to the task we're responsible for in leadership. https://jonathanwold.com/523-days-of-cold-showers/ Here is his site on Tiny Habits btw: https://tinyhabits.io/
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The importance of getting away for perspectivce
For 8+ years I've had an annual retreat with my business group in Oklahoma City ... and for a year I did a quarterly two-day ... and I talk about the benefit of these get-aways for perspective (and recharge).
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Wanna be successful as a leader? Be willing to have the tough conversations
Over and over again, it's hard news to swallow ... but absolutely critical to success.
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Why is it so hard to delegate?
And what you can do about it.
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Another way to boost your confidence -- lean into your strengths
I talk about ways I lean into my strengths as another way to get a confidence boost when up against a challenge. Here are the two strengths tools I mention: http://strengthsfinder.com http://www.viacharacter.org/ Here's my previous video on getting a quick confidence boost:...
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Leaders Need Work Buddies Too
Gallup suggests we need to help our teams cultivate work friendships .... but what about leaders? I share thoughts about work buddies for leaders.
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Quick thoughts, ideas about business and life by entrepreneur Cory Miller. These are designed to be fast, down and dirty ways to capture what I'm thinking about and likely need expanding into further ways.
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