EFR 529: The Genius Within - Breaking Down Barriers to Change & Using Obstacles as Fuel with Mike Zeller

Doing better and being better requires a mindset shift and a lifestyle shift. Not only that, but it requires failure. 

When we look at challenges, failure and loss as gifts, we will inevitably experience immense growth and revolution because what stands before you becomes the path to your zone of genius.

Business Architect, Mike Zeller, says, “I’m going to take the gifts of the obstacles and use them as fuel, use them as my nitro fuel, to grow and catalyze.”

After experiencing gut-wrenching failure, loss, and debt as a high-level entrepreneur, Mike knows what rock bottom feels like… but that didn’t stop him from learning and trying again. Now, his business has done over $300 million in sales and he helps others get unstuck, find their zone of genius, and fuel momentum that will launch their business to new heights.

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Key Highlights

• Mike speaks on the power that lies in getting out of your usual environment and how changing your mindset and lifestyle stimulates growth.

• The biggest external and internal barriers to change and how to overcome them.

• How affective is optimism? Do you believe in ‘faking it ‘til you make it’?

• Mike details the story of losing a business while giving insight into the struggles that entrepreneurs have with identity and failure.

• Embracing grief and loss, specifically in your career and as a business owner.

Powerful Quotes by Mike Zeller

Even if you go down the path and you fail, it’s not really failure if you’re learning and getting better. One of my quests is to be relentlessly obsessed with getting better.

I’m very intentional to utilize all the suffering I can for good.

I’m deep in my purpose and I wouldn’t be that way without the failures in the past.

Episode resources:

• Save 20% on your entire first purchase from Legion Athletics with code EVERFORWARD

• Save 15% on RISE by Cured Nutrition with code EVERFORWARD

• Stay tuned for the launch of his upcoming book The Genius Within

• Get the 6 Steps to Finding Your Genius by texting GeniusU to 474747

• The Obstacle Is the Way by Ryan Holiday

• Super Human by Dave Asprey

• The ONE Thing by Gary Keller & Jay Papasan

• Failing Forward by John C. Maxwell