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Episode #286
EPT: The Entrepreneurial Personality Type | Alex Charfen
In this episode of I Love Marketing, you’ll learn about the entrepreneurial personality type, the contribution equation, the power of momentum and more with Genius Network member Alex Charfen. Alex is an internationally recognized speaker, business consultant, coach, co-founder and CEO of Charfen. He has helped tens of thousands of entrepreneurs grow and scale their business including consulting for billionaires, the Fortune 500, and some of the most successful people in the world.
Here’s a glance at what you’ll learn from Alex in this episode:
- 3 Awakenings of The Entrepreneur: Where they begin and how you can harness their power
- Alex shares the one thing that makes you unique from everyone else
- The Contribution Equation: How unleashing your skills and abilities can change the world
- An advantage you have as an entrepreneur that can get you anything you want
- The Power of Entrepreneurial Momentum: How it makes you physically stronger and cognitively smarter
- Who is Alex Charfen [01:11]
- Alex asks, “How old were you when you knew you were different?” [02:20]
- Psychology says there are intrinsic and extrinsic motivations [02:47]
- The “call of contribution” [03:17]
- “There’s something more for you to give” [03:23]
- These are three awakenings of the entrepreneur
- the feel of difference
- intrinsic/extrinsic motivation
- the “call of contribution” [03:57]
- Entrepreneurs have similar traits [04:04]
- Entrepreneurs perceive unique connections [04:25]
- The advantage that gets entrepreneurs anywhere they want in life is sometimes called ADHD or ADD [05:10]
- The one who wants to push ahead [05:29]
- “We learn when we do” [06:01]
- “Not everyone is like us…we’re different” [06:13]
- The entrepreneurial personality type is different from everyone else, and science has missed it [06:24]
- “We don’t understand the rest of the world…they break us” by telling us to calm down [07:18]
- Schools hold entrepreneurs in place [07:46]
- Entrepreneurs are said to “feel the wrong way” [08:22]
- The foundation of entrepreneurs’ personality type is momentum [08:52]
- Entrepreneurs can’t be held in one place [09:47]
- When constraint disappears, the symptoms disappear [10:12]
- Lower pressure and noise by increasing protection and support and our skills and abilities have an opportunity to show [10:45]
- The “contribution equation”—live a balanced life and pull together, the world is our market and we have a responsibility to keep [10:54]
- “There is NOTHING wrong with YOU and…YOU are NOT alone” [11:51]
About Alex Charfen:
A family business failure started Alex Charfen’s professional business career when he was just 8 years old. Awkward in the rest of the world, the rules and organization that business inherently provided, made him feel at home. He has dedicated his life to answering the question ‘How do you make business grow?’ This led to the question, ‘How do you help people grow’ and subsequently that led to success far greater than he should have ever been capable as well as the discovery of a meta personality type among us: The Entrepreneurial Personality Type. For the past two decades, Alex has been creating and curating proven business philosophies, models and strategies geared specifically for entrepreneurs. As an expert in business growth with majority ownership of several multimillion dollar businesses, Alex is actively combatting the “entrepreneurial dilemma” that so many small business owners face. He’s been invited to share his strategies with business owners across the country and around the world. Alex is regularly called on by major media outlets, including MSNBC, CNBC, FOX News, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, The Huffington Post and more to provide his unique views and insights.
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