Driven To Win
Driven To Win
Podcast Description
Grow your business without sacrificing family or me time. Sign up for our Family Mastermind here: https://gatheringthekings.com/family-mastermind.Do you also feel driven to win? My name is Chaz Wolfe. I'm a serial entrepreneur, investor, and founder of Gathering the Kings.Throughout my career, I've built, purchased, and sold multiple 7-figure ventures in franchising, home service, real estate, and consulting. And I know first-hand how being a business owner can be a lonely and isolating experience.I created the 'Driven to Win' podcast to help entrepreneurs who are trapped in the cycle of trying to grow their businesses without having time or energy for anything else. Here, we share insights about self-mastery, emotional intelligence, and resilience so you can find financial freedom, build thriving relationships, and nurture spiritual wellness. Follow wherever you get your podcasts for tips on how to lead a balanced, exceptional life.
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The podcast focuses on themes such as self-mastery, emotional intelligence, and resilience, with episodes exploring a variety of topics like effective sales strategies, marriage dynamics impacting business, and personal finance management. Notable episodes examine building business legacies, leveraging AI in sales, and the importance of parenting in entrepreneurship.
Driven To Win is the podcast for entrepreneurs who refuse to choose between building a successful business and building a strong family.
Hosted by serial entrepreneur Chaz Wolfe, the show is built for business owners who want to scale their companies, lead stronger teams, and create a life that wins both at work and at home. Chaz built and scaled multiple businesses by his late twenties, becoming a millionaire by 29 and a multi-millionaire soon after through ventures in franchising, home services, real estate, and online education. His approach centers on leadership, systems, and structure that allow businesses to grow without the owner carrying all the weight.
On Driven To Win, Chaz sits down with elite entrepreneurs, business leaders, authors, and operators to break down the real strategies behind growth. These are not surface level conversations. Each episode focuses on the practical disciplines required to build companies that run through strong leadership, clear structure, and effective sales systems.
But business success is only half the conversation.
Driven To Win is built around the belief that true success means winning in all areas of life. That includes business, family, health, faith, and lifestyle. Through honest conversations and practical insights, the show challenges entrepreneurs to build businesses that support their family life instead of competing with it.
Listeners will learn how to:
• Scale a business through leadership and systems
• Develop stronger sales and operational discipline
• Build teams that reduce owner dependence
• Lead their family with the same intentionality they lead their company
• Create a legacy that lasts beyond the business
Whether you are building your first company or scaling an established business, Driven To Win delivers clear strategies and real conversations with leaders who are committed to growth in every area of life.
If you are serious about building a business that creates freedom instead of pressure, this podcast is for you.
Somewhere between 50 and 60 percent of Americans are actively considering a new job this year. There are 2.3 open jobs in the United States for every available worker to fill them. And more than 50 percent of new hires never show up for their first day because they accepted another offer in the window between signing and starting.
Joey Coleman has spent his career teaching companies like Zappos, Whirlpool, Hyatt, and NASA how to keep the people they spent months recruiting. His book Never Lose an Employee Again applies the same eight-phase framework he built for customer retention to the employee experience. In this conversation with Chaz Wolfe, Joey walks through every phase, identifies where even the biggest companies break down, and gives contractor business owners the exact moves to make before another great employee walks out the door.
Key Takeaways:
- Phase 1, Assess: Your prospective employee is assessing you before you ever meet them. They are reading your Glassdoor reviews, checking your LinkedIn, and looking at who they know that works for you. Your employer brand exists whether you manage it or not.
- Phase 2, Accept: The moment they accept the offer, the clock starts. What happens next in the first 24 to 48 hours determines whether they actually show up on day one.
- Phase 3, Affirm: New hire remorse is scientifically proven. More than 50 percent of people who accepted a job offer in one study never showed up for their first day because they had accepted another offer. Your job is to reaffirm their decision aggressively between offer acceptance and day one.
- Phase 4, Activate: Day one is not orientation. Day one is a choreographed experience. You already know their significant other is going to ask how the first day went. Why are you not engineering that answer?
- Phase 5, Acclimate: More than 50 percent of companies spend less than two days onboarding. Only 5 percent spend more than a month. If you want them to stay longer than a month, invest more than a month getting them up to speed.
- Phase 6, Accomplish: People do not take jobs for the paycheck. They take them to grow, learn, gain flexibility, and be part of something bigger. Track each employee's actual goal and celebrate when they hit it. Not with a check. With an experience, a gift, or a meaningful acknowledgment.
- Phase 7, Adopt: Your longest tenured employees are the ones you are paying the least attention to. They are also the most dangerous to lose. The institutional knowledge and client relationships that leave with them can be catastrophic.
- Phase 8, Advocate: If your open positions are not being filled by referrals from current employees, you do not have advocates. You have adopters at best. Advocates actively recruit people into your culture because they genuinely love where they work.
- Every six months, sit down with every direct report and ask what their goal is for the next six months. Then pay for it, support it, and give them time during the work day to pursue it. When you create space for people to grow, they walk through fire for you.
- Follow your employees on social media. They are publicly broadcasting what matters to them. Use that information to show up in their real life in a way no one else does.
If you are a contractor business owner doing $1M+ and you feel stuck in the day-to-day, we built GTK for you.
Through peer mastermind and 1:1 coaching, we help you:
- increase profit
- install real systems
- build a team that runs the business
- get your time back
Visit www.gatheringthekings.com for information on how to apply.
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