HeyJaredThe Story of Scale
Most business owners hit a ceiling and have no idea why.The Story of Scale is a conversation between Harris III, a creative entrepreneur who has built businesses across entertainment, events, and coaching, and Chad Cannon, a business growth strategist who has helped companies…
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The Whisper Every Entrepreneur Hears (And How to Answer It) (opens the original)
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Every entrepreneur hears the same whisper. You don't have what it takes. You have no idea what you're doing. You're not gonna make it. It doesn't go away when the business gets bigger. It gets louder. In the finale of the Healthy How series, Harris and Chad pull Shane McKenzie — Istoria COO and author of The Healthy How — through the answer to the whisper. Plus the mirror moment that made Harris decide to lead, the phone-in-the-meeting story that took Shane from 64 times a week to zero, and why
The Business Won't Grow Until the Visionary Learns This (opens the original)
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Every visionary hits the same wall. The ideas keep coming. The team keeps flinching. The business stops growing. In Part 2 of the Healthy How series, Harris and Chad sit down with Shane McKenzie — Istoria COO and author of The Healthy How — for the one thing most visionaries never learn: how to hand the wow to a team without watching them how it to death. Along the way: the day Shane's team told him he was a cancer to the culture, the folder he still carries fifteen years later, why leverage is
At first we could only do what we could afford. Then we had to decide what was the right thing to do (opens the original)
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Shane McKenzie went from sharing one computer at a folding table in Spartanburg to leading a 109-person, $32M company. He's the first outside guest in Story of Scale history — and for good reason. He's also the COO of Istoria Collective and the author of The Healthy How . Harris and Chad sit down with Shane for Part 1 of a four-part series on what actually changes as you scale, what never does, and why the leadership playbook most of us were handed no longer works. In this episode: The three sea
The Information Age Is Over. Wisdom Is the New Currency. (opens the original)
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Harris and Chad go behind the scenes on Start With Wow (out Sept 22) and the shift from the information age to the imagination age.
We Cut Our AI Costs by 90% and 10x'd the ROI (Here's What Changed) (opens the original)
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Two months in: 27 → 29 agents, and $7,000/mo down to $700.
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