Overview

On this episode of Build Your Network, Host Travis Chappell interviews Scott Beebe, a strategist, teacher, and business coach for My Business On Purpose with a background in direct and B2B sales, marketing and more.

Topics Discussed:

• About Scott Beebe
  • He liberates small business owners from their chaos.
  • Ambiguity ruled his mind for a long time.
  • He’s gone from working with global brands to small companies, to small business owners exclusively.
• What is the number one thing you’ve been able to help businesses with?
  • The majority of small business owners don’t know where they’re going.
    • This is a tell-tale sign that they don’t have a vision for their business or family.
  • They ask business owners, do you have a written, articulated vision story of where you’re going?
  • Do you have a structure of team meetings in place so that you, your team, and stakeholders can collaborate on a regular basis?
• Do you believe that what you know or who you know is more important, and why?
  • What do you bring to the how and the who?
  • We often give strategy responses to capture the moment.
  • Begin to bring the “why,” what drives you out of bed, and the “where,” where are you going?
  • There’s nothing more empty than leaving a conversation with the how and the who.
• How would you define networking specifically?
  • Networking is a performance stage.
  • The performance is not for your glory, it’s for your service to others.
  • Scott is an introvert but can fool a lot of people into thinking that he’s an expert.
  • Relationships take time, but the challenge for introverts is that you think of what else you could be doing with your time.
• Tell us about a time when a connection you made led to a moment of success?
  • He reached out to a guy who runs a podcast for architects.
    • He had a neat network of architects from all over.
  • An hour and a half ago he got out of his architect group coaching call.
• If you had to boil it down to one tip, what would it be?
  • Start with your vision.
  • If you don’t know where you’re going, you’re going to confuse people.
• Why do you think people fail to establish vision?
  • People like to make things more complicated than they are.
  • They’re embarrassed that they haven’t done it already.

The Random Round:

• What profession other than your own do you think it would be fun to attempt?
  • Pilot
• If you could sit on a park bench with anyone for an hour who would it be, and why?
  • Jesus
• How do you like to consume content?
  • Books
• Give us a piece of content you’d recommend?
  • American Icon by Bryce Hoffman
• Give us a glimpse of your morning routine?
  • Wake up at 4:45 am
  • Go out for a jog.
  • Spend time processing and praying.
  • Gets ready and takes his little guy to school.
• What is your go-to pump up song?
  • Imagine Dragons Thunder
• What is something that you are not very good at?
  • Bookkeeping
• What is one place where we can find you the most?
  • mybusiness.com/vision

Tweetable Quotes:

• Relationships require depth, depth requires time, and time requires a suspension with what we’re comfortable with.
• You need to know your narrow brilliance.
• If you don’t know where you’re going, you’re going to confuse people.

Resources Mentioned:

Buildyournetwork.co – Podcast website

BYN.media/fb – Facebook Group