Champion Entrepreneurship with Greg Faxon, an entrepreneur, author and coach. He shares his personal journey, how he became an entrepreneur, and deep insights to help you become a high achiever in life and business and a Champion Entrepreneur.

Greg is the owner Greg Faxon Enterprises, a speaker, an author, and a Business Coach For Champion Entrepreneurs.

Greg was an All American wrestler and a nationally ranked Spartan racer, and he applies many of the principles he learned from athletics in his business coaching.

His passion is helping people develop a winning mindset so that they can build highly fulfilling and impactful businesses. “By the end of my life, I want to have helped more people unleash their full potential than any other person in the world.”

He recently published his book “Don’t Let The Fear Win: How to Get Out of Your Own Way and Grow Your Business…Fast”. You can download a FREE chapter of this book here.

He lives on an 80-acres farm in West Virginia.

• Greg began his career doing Market Research and Strategy Consulting for a company until he decided to leave the corporate world.
• He explains how he translates what he has learned from competitive sports into business and personal coaching.
• He defines what he means to be a Champion Entrepreneur. Taking 100% responsibility for their own success, and a high achiever in every area of their life and small business.
• He also explains the challenge of Creative Avoidance. A manifestation of fear. It’s about working on the periphery of your small business, instead of in the center of it.
• “Don’t let the fear win.”
• “Eliminate before your delegate.”
• “Are you being more of a consumer or a creator?” Are you creating value and your own content?
• “Creators get paid; consumers pay the creators.”
• He explains why he has no interest in scaling his private coaching practice.
• Greg details his morning ritual, and the three things he believes makes for an effective ritual.
• High Attention, Low Attachment – Greg’s daily mantra.
• Greg explains the concept of Deliberate Practice and how to apply this approach to living deliberately as an entrepreneur.

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More about “Don’t Let the Fear Win”:

Are you working hard to increase your income but keep getting stuck at the same plateau in revenue?
Are you sure that there’s a much bigger impact you could be making but still find yourself thinking too small?
Are you constantly seeking new models but not getting the results that those gurus are getting?
More importantly…
Is all of this second guessing causing you to question your abilities and making you wonder whether you’re taking action on the wrong things?
It’s not your fault.
If you’re like most entrepreneurs, the biggest obstacle to business growth is inside of your own head. The biggest obstacle is fear.
Don’t Let The Fear Win will help you get out of your own way so that you can build a business that you love. One that supports you, your family, and the people you are here to serve.
What makes this book different from other business how-to books is that it doesn’t distract you with the outer game of entrepreneurship (the techniques of the business). Instead, it focuses on the inner game (the mindsets of the entrepreneur).
In this book, you will discover…

• Why procrastination isn’t your problem (and the hidden force that is actually sabotaging your growth)
• How to rewire your brain for peak performance as an entrepreneur, even if you you’re not sure what’s been holding you back
• 7 proven strategies to take your business to the next level of income and impact without sacrificing the life you want

At the end of the day, you know that this journey is not about becoming famous. It’s not even about becoming wealthy, although this book will give you the mindsets to help you do that.
No, this is personal. You started your business because you wanted to live up to your full potential. You know deep down that you can become the champion entrepreneur you were born to be.
So what are you waiting for? It’s time to master the inner game of entrepreneurship.

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