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Business is Good with Chris Cooper — 152 episodes

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Starting A Single-Person Business: Part II - Your First Product

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Starting A Single-Person Business: Part I - What Do You Sell?

3

Self-Leadership: What It Is, Why It Matters, and How to Build It

4

Founder, Farmer, Tinker, Chief: The New Four-Stage Framework

5

The Six Mindset Myths Quietly Killing Your Business

6

AI: Ally or Enemy?

7

An AI Demo

8

Business Ownership Is The Safest Bet You Can Make

9

My Top 5 AI Tools for Entrepreneurs

10

When a Brand Becomes a Cult

11

The Right Way (and Wrong Way) to Create Jobs

12

The Coach and the Mentor: Building an In-House Development Program That Actually Works

13

How to Start a College Inside Your Company

14

Why Universities Are Failing

15

Actually, We Need The Billionaires

16

Six Side Hustles that Actually Work

17

How to Talk To Your Kids About Money

18

How to Make More Money (3 Ways)

19

What IS Money? (And Why Most People Get It Wrong)

20

Your Daily Non-Negotiables - Making Success Unavoidable

21

Decision Fatigue: Why Your Best Decisions Don't Happen at 4 PM

22

The Productivity Emergency

23

The 80/20 Hiring Solution: Finding Staff When Nobody's Available

24

113: The New Cycle of Finding, Earning and Keeping a Job

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112: The Professional Amateur

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111: Winning The Unfair Fight For Staff

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110: The AI Rebound Effect

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109: Is More Communication Better?

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108: Entrepreneurship is a Hedge, Not a Risk

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107: From Practice to Platform

31

106: Fixing Our Tax System

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105: The Case for a Liberal Education (In the Post-Industrial Age)

33

104: Get Your Business OFF The Roller-Coaster Ride

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103: Skills For Each Stage of Entrepreneurship

35

102: Why Smart People Fail at Business

36

102: Killing the Golden Goose

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101: Are Bots The New Books?

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100: How Strong Businesses Become Weak Bureaucracies

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99: How to Give Yourself A Vacation

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98: How To Give Yourself a Promotion

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97: How To Give Yourself a Raise

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96: How to Turn Your Side Hustle Into a Real Business

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95: 20 Businesses For Less Than A Car Payment

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94: The End of Consultants

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94: How To Get More From The Taxes We Pay

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93: CASH vs KASH

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92: The Single-Person Business: Building a $1M Company Without Staff

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91: Is Private Healthcare the Solution to Canada's Healthcare Crisis?

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90: Is the "Information Age" Over?

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89: Saving the Sault

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88: Intrapreneurship

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87: The Art of War (Business Lessons from Sun Tzu)

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86: JFDI

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85: Where Growth Really Happens

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84: What You Can STOP Doing

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83: Luck Favours The Prepared

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82: How to Build a Business Scoreboard

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81: The Growth Mindset: How it Actually Grows Your Business

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80: What Culture REALLY Is (and How to Fix Yours)

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79: Chicken and Rice

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78: The "Save Game" Button for Business

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77: Those In The Back

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76: Captain, or Coach?

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75: The Best Workouts for Entrepreneurs

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74: How to Calm Down

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73: Self-Leadership

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72: The Golden Hour Challenge

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71: Why Get Rich at All?

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How To LOVE the HARD Stuff

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Complexity Is Slowing Your Growth

71

How to Get Through The Hard Stuff

72

Why Founders Don't Make Money

73

Improving Profitability by Improving Your Product

74

Fields of Play

75

Missionairies and Mercenaries

76

Chasing The Wrong Metric

77

Mentoring Your Team

78

Selling Subscriptions to Your Service-Based Business

79

The Managerial Mistake

80

On-ramping New Clients

81

Smoke Jumpers 2

82

Smoke Jumpers

83

Quickcasting

84

The Golden Age

85

Golden Hour

86

Why Your Kid Should Start a Business, with Nevin and Hannah Buconjic

87

The Entrepreneurial "Rest Day"

88

Stay In Your Lane

89

The 3 Elements of Motivation

90

How I Produce So Much Content

91

Hiring Right - The 4 Ps

92

Product-Market Fit

93

The Case for Firing Fast

94

Brand and Direct Marketing - Part 2

95

Brand and Direct Marketing - Part 1

96

Ideation-Income-Investment-Impact

97

Is Your Business a Democracy?

98

The ADHD Advantage, with Leighton Bingham

99

Taryn Dubreuil of PDBM

100

The Simple Business Plan for 2024

101

Specialists Work for Generalists

102

How to Reboot Your Business

103

How To Be Coachable

104

Two Types of Problems

105

What's Stopping Your Business From Growing?

106

The 4 Skills Every Mentor Needs

107

Steven McCoy

108

Building a Culture of Discipline

109

The Hedgehog Concept

110

Gaps, Gains and Gratitude

111

Thief Phase

112

How To Beat AI

113

Amazing (Literally) Founder: Jason Katzenback

114

Breaking Down the Problem

115

The Quicksand of Control

116

Valley of Death

117

Swamp of Perfection

118

Systemize, Optimize, Grow, Scale

119

The Empirical Empire

120

The Mentor-Coach Model

121

Clarity and Cancellations

122

Refer, Don't Guess

123

Coaching Skills - Virtuosity

124

The Value of Coaching Skills

125

Strategies, Tactics and Skills

126

What to Teach: How I Build Curriculum

127

Why We're Capping Our Program

128

5 Steps To Building A Staff Training Plan

129

The ABC Content Plan

130

Big Results in 1/10 The time

131

Build Your ARM Before Your LEG

132

The One-Man Band: Running a Single-Person Business

133

Outcome Based Mentorship

134

Building An Ascension Model

135

The ABC Content Framework

136

Scaling Up Your 1:1 Coaching Business

137

Why I Turn Down Free Money From Sponsors

138

The A+ Client Results Framework

139

The 5 Levels of Influence

140

What I Teach Teens about Entrepreneurship

141

How to Be A Business Coach

142

The Simple Six

143

The Exponential 11

144

6 Lessons Learned From Greg Glassman, the Ultimate Disruptor

145

Why Being The Best Is 10x Better Than Coming Second

146

Why Franchises Are Failing (And What To Do Instead)

147

Does Negative Marketing Work?

148

Three Business Tips I Learned in Prison

149

5 Things That Improve Your Value And Drive Up Your Price

150

How To Stop Your Company From Growing

151

From Zero to $5 Million in 4 years

152

From 200 Words To $20M Company