My Business On Purpose

This week marks the launch of the Business On Purpose annual PREP WEEK for clients.  Each year at the beginning of November, we guide each of our heroic business owners through a series of repeatable, predictable, and meaningful (RPM) steps to help bring the clarity they need to get their business in shape for the coming year. Each year brings its own swirling mix of headwinds and tailwinds, and the business must be properly prepared and maintained in order to handle the predictable and unpredictable chaos that will come. There are eight steps that we guide our owners through to equip them and their teams with the foundation to lean into their mission. First, every business owner (including me) will go review and update their vision story.  The vision story is a seven-category outline inviting the owners to detail what the future snapshot of their business looks like and enables their team to have a clear picture of what they are pushing towards. The Proverb is self-evident, “where there is no vision, people

Unleash the Power of the Master Process Roadmap! Join Patrice Miles- BOP Business Coach and Dr. Jessica Mendelsohn- New South Family Medicine and Medspa as they delve into the power  Master Process Roadmap at My Business on Purpose Podcast- Tuesday Tools On Purpose. Discover how Dr. Jessica Mendelsohn leveraged this game-changing tool to streamline her operations and achieve stunning success.  Are you working IN your business or ON your business? Do you have all of the foundational elements that will liberate you from the business chaos?  Take the assessment to find out which areas you can grow and improve on.  Take our Healthy Owner Business Assessment HERE ➡️ https://bit.ly/healthypatrice SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ LISTEN to the Business On Purpose Podcast HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-business-on-purpose/id969222210 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️

Revolutionize your business with the power of "Reels"! Join BOP Business Coach Patrice Miles and Business Coach Brent Whitaker as they delve into the power of Reels on the My Business On Purpose Podcast: Tuesday Tools On Purpose. Discover why Reels are more than just a trend—they're a game-changer for your business! Learn the importance, gain insights, and walk away with actionable strategies to level up your brand. Are you working IN your business or ON your business? Do you have all of the foundational elements that will liberate you from the business chaos?  Take the assessment to find out which areas you can grow and improve on.  Take our Healthy Owner Business Assessment HERE ➡️ https://bit.ly/healthypatrice SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ LISTEN to the Business On Purpose Podcast HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-business-on-purpose/id969222210 SUBSCRIBE to our

"Hey, Brent, what are unique core values?" Well, they're just that! Not to sound flippant, they're unique to you, to your business, to your family. 'Cause yes, we create those with our clients for their businesses and for their family because operating out of those filtering decisions through their unique core values makes a huge difference in life and work. I got these the other day from a client that we work with. These are their family core values. Listen to these. These aren't integrity. These aren't discipline, these aren't, um, honesty. Those are core values. We should all at our core have those values. Unique core values are just that. One of theirs was "Be where your feet are". And they, you know, the challenge is to, to define that. What is "Be where your feet" are mean. It means to be present. When we are at home, we are focusing on family and relationships. When we are at work, we are focused on work. We're being intentional. Uh, being intentional to be in the moment, to be present and checked in.

LinkedIn Strategies for Success! Join Patrice Miles (Business Coach, BOP) and Carter Polsgrove (Regional Sales Manager, Momentum) as they dive into the power of LinkedIn on the My Business on Purpose Podcast: Tuesday Tools On Purpose Learn the best practices, tips, and tricks to maximize your presence on this professional platform. Discover how to use it strategically, whether on your personal page or company profile. Uncover the secrets to building a meaningful network and boosting your business!  LinkedIn Tips and Tricks: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1YfLs65P-GolMBKUSTfrgXfQNW4HWQLnh/edit?pli=1 Are you working IN your business or ON your business? Do you have all of the foundational elements that will liberate you from the business chaos?  Take the assessment to find out which areas you can grow and improve on.  Take our Healthy Owner Business Assessment HERE ➡️ https://bit.ly/healthypatrice SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter For blogs and updates, visit our site

Futurist Bob Johansen describes our modern context with the acronym VUCA - volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous. He goes on to explain, “Leaders will be buffeted, but they need not allow themselves to be overwhelmed, depressed, or immobilized.  Leaders must do more than just respond to the whirl of events, though respond they must.  They must be positive change agents in the midst of chaos.” That is our very aim, to liberate owners from chaos and make time for what matters most. Since 2008 virtually every business owner has thought, “when will the next recession come and how bad will it be?” Yours truly has wrestled with the same question during moments of emotional and mental weakness in my well-documented struggle with fear. Recently though I have wondered, “could I approach a market dip with enthusiasm and expectation rather than doom and gloom?” I believe so, here is what I mean. The lowcountry of South Carolina, where our family lives, has been on the receiving end of active hurricanes almost ever

Unlocking Health Benefits Solutions for Small Business Owners Join Patrice Miles- BOP Business Coach and Dr. Jessica Mendelsohn-New South Family Medicine and Medspa on My Business on Purpose Podcast as they dive into the world of Direct Primary Care (DPC) - a game-changer for business owners. Learn how DPC can transform your employee benefits, making healthcare accessible without breaking the bank. Are you working IN your business or ON your business? Do you have all of the foundational elements that will liberate you from the business chaos? Take the assessment to find out which areas you can grow and improve on. Take our Healthy Owner Business Assessment HERE ➡️ https://bit.ly/healthypatrice SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ LISTEN to the Business On Purpose Podcast HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-business-on-purpose/id969222210 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE

January 1 is too late to begin the annual preparation for your business. Studying the habits of elite military and sports organizations you will see a theme of early and relentless preparation; a willingness to bypass the chaos of the moment and all of the random fire-stopping that comes with it, and instead electing to focus time and energy preparing for what is coming. In business, we have a poor habit of future preparation and instead give ourselves to chaotic duct-taping and a strategy of “crossing that bridge when we come to it”.  You can do it differently and reap the benefit of early preparation with the satisfaction of long-term predictability.   What you plant today will be harvested 3, 6, 9, and 12 months from today.  If you plant chaos today, chaos is the rotten fruit that will be gathered on the ground.  If you plant repetition, predictability, and meaning today, the robust and fulfilling fruit of preparation will be harvested and replanted over and over. Every year beginning in November, we walk

A question we are asked by every person interested in business coaching is simply, and honestly, “So, what do I get?” The first answer to your question is equally as simple, “Our goal is to get you what you said you wanted.” The very first question we ask any heroic business owner after learning of some of the details of their business is, “What do you want?” The question is both broad and direct. Ultimately, your goal becomes the coordinates of the destination we set our sites on.  If we coach you to somewhere you do not want to be, then chaos grows and overtakes.  Our aim is to liberate you from that chaos. Being coached by the Business On Purpose team also means that you gain immediate access to the BOP community, a team of coaches, support roles, and heroic owners just like you outside of your local area that we will connect you with both virtually and in person at one of our four annual live events.   You get priority access to ticketing to one of those four local events all taking place near Hilton Head

I’ve heard a million excuses for why people don’t have the time to write things down, so why do we do it? Well, let’s dive in to that today. One of our Core Values here at BOP is Write it Down. Now, it has a ton of different applications. From Writing down our Vision to taking notes at team meetings, to documenting processes, and even to producing Coaching Notes from every meeting we have with clients. The list of ways we write things down is exhaustive. And yet, we get pushback all the time from clients and key leaders about whether or not it’s truly necessary. All I can say…it absolutely is. Don’t believe me, well two instances in the past week, not month, week, of when it's been worth it. A little back story from the first instance. I was working with a contractor who was frustrated about the cash in their business. We were looking at their Level Two Dashboard, and pause, this is the simple tool we use to, you guessed it, write down the weekly cash position of the business. In looking at it, his cash posit

Let's be honest. As business owners, we can often be the creator of our own chaos, which means we create chaos for other people. Hey, it's Scott Beebe with the Business On Purpose platform. Make sure to go to mybusinessonpurpose.com/healthy and you can take a Healthy Assessment of the backend health of your business and see if you're one of those that stirs up chaos. You know, one of the biggest reasons of chaos stirring in a business is, lack of communication, which means a lack of clarity. And you go, Well, Scott, we talk all the time. Well, if Ashley, my wife, and I just talked, quote, all the time, that meant we're texting, phone calling, that sort of thing. But we never sat down to have intentional conversation on a walk, a bike ride, the back porch without distraction being our constant companion, then that's not really talking. That might be communicating back and forth, but we're not actually growing. We're not developing. And so we've got to do something different. The reason I'm doing this podcast i

Join Scott Beebe, Founder of Business On Purpose, and Thomas Joyner, BOP Director of Coaching, as they break down the 30-Day Business Owner Challenge. Learn about preparation, key takeaways, team strategies, and driving business growth in this insightful discussion.  LISTEN HERE to learn more! Are you working IN your business or ON your business? Do you have all of the foundational elements that will liberate you from the business chaos?  Take the assessment to find out which areas you can grow and improve on.  Take our Healthy Owner Business Assessment HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/healthy SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ LISTEN to the Business On Purpose Podcast HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-business-on-purpose/id969222210 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPR8lTHY0ay4c0iqncOztg?sub_confirmation=1

For the last 9 years, my two sons and I have made a pilgrimage to Camp Ridgecrest in Black Mountain, NC for the annual father/son weekend camp.  A weekend marked by meaning, muscular pain, intentionality, and ibuprofen, this time may be the most momentous in our relationship as dad and sons.  The regularity, frequency, and repetition of daily life is wildly important, of course, and these dedicated moments of focused intentionality have bred special awareness. This year was different for two reasons. Both of my sons are now living away from home, each maneuvering through their own experience outside of the daily, in-person interaction of mom or dad.  Both were working as staff members of father/son camp for the weekend while I was able to participate as a volunteer cleaning floors and watching dads walk with their sons to play frisbee golf, hike through hornet's nests, and most meaningfully, sit and read what they had written. There is a tradition that has been manufactured through premeditated repetition; if

Owning and operating a business is a continual streak of tests that ultimately prove the trustworthiness of the business that built.  The business of scammers and hucksters fall apart over time forcing them to be in a state of constant reinvention and re-huckstering. Traveling various parts of our historic world over the past few months has reminded me of the longevity and duration of things.  Walking the streets of Rome flanked by artifacts from late B.C. and early A.D. eras has a way of sobering the hardships of your time. Walking through the carved caves of the Cappadocia region of modern Turkey sobers you to the challenges and hardships of previous cultures.  Every culture endures testing.  Every generation is put on trial so as to mark the trustworthiness and endurance of that generation.  Endurance allows for longevity and the hope of seeing the days that are hoped for. Without endurance, life is short and hope is fleeting. The ingredients of our words fuel much of the cocktail of what is continually be

Remember that Billy Joel song We Didn’t Start The Fire? It is a maniacal mantra sequencing decades of rage into a lyrical pounding intentionally crafted as a relentless onomatopoeia; the song feels like it sounds allowing us as listeners to likewise feel the chaos. That song could be the soundtrack for so many chaotic business owners who are on a remorseless campaign to find the next great marketing hammer that will crack open a whole new world gushing with leads and sales because, in their minds, sales solves everything. The myth of that last statement will have to be fleshed out on another date and time; for now, we need to confront the restlessness and confusion of marketing.  It is good to turn the volume down, or maybe off completely for a moment, and sit in the silence of what is rather than the snake-oiled and empty promises of what could be. We’ve said often that marketers are like gypsies and business coaches (a bit self-deprecating seeing that business coaching is our profession); the barrier to ent

Brent Whitaker Business on Purpose. I wanna dive right in. So we were sitting the other day with some folks, and, y'all have heard this song, “You can't always get what you want.”True. Well, you definitely can't get what you want if you never define what it is that you want. This came up because I asked a couple in real estate, and I said, Hey, what is it that you want? And it was like deer in headlights. Like I'd asked them some quantum theory question and they paused and said, I don't know. And I said, well, definitely can't get what you want if you don't define what you want. I said, why is that a, you know, difficult question for you. “So we're just so busy” Ask anybody how they're doing lately, man, I'm good. I'm just, just busy. I don't know if being busy is a good or bad thing, but they were so busy they haven't slowed down enough to ask that question. What do I want? So that's the question today is if you're driving, if you're sitting, I'd encourage you, if you're in your office to grab a pen, if you'

While in Turkey, we were struck with curiosity as to the various wars and struggles that entangled Asia Minor leading to the rules and regimes that have inhabited the intersection of the world in modern Istanbul. Netflix had an interesting historical presentation of the Ottoman Empire with a focus on Mehmed II that details how the Sultan empowered his forces with relentless raids on the impenetrable walls of Constantinople. They eventually took the city and rules the regions for centuries.  While watching Rise of Empires: Ottoman I was struck by the number of messages that were sent by couriers, or delegation of one side directly to the leaders of the competing side.   These were soldiers who had but one task; deliver a message from the leader in its exact form and for its intended purpose.  Mehmed II or Emporer Constantine were the originators of the message, and the courier its delegate.    Delegation is birthed from the Latin delegere and according to latin-is-simple.com  carries the idea that you are assi

Join Patrice Miles, BOP Business Coach, as she interviews Conner Fennell, BOP Intern. Discover Conner's experiences, the hiring process, DISC test insights, tasks for BOP, and how this internship is shaping his goals. Don't miss this valuable internship discussion! WATCH THE VIDEO to learn more! Are you working IN your business or ON your business? Do you have all of the foundational elements that will liberate you from the business chaos?  Take the assessment to find out which areas you can grow and improve on.  Take our Healthy Owner Business Assessment HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/healthy SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ LISTEN to the Business On Purpose Podcast HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-business-on-purpose/id969222210 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPR8lTHY0ay4c0iqncOztg?sub_confirmation=1

Join Patrice Miles (BOP Business Coach) and Jessie Barber (BOP Director of Client Experience) as they share essential tips on hiring interns. Learn the hiring process, overcoming obstacles, internship length, finding the right candidate, compensation, onboarding, and communication.  LISTEN HERE to learn more! Are you working IN your business or ON your business? Do you have all of the foundational elements that will liberate you from the business chaos?  Take the assessment to find out which areas you can grow and improve on.  Take our Healthy Owner Business Assessment HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/healthy SIGN UP for our Newsletter HERE ➡️ https://www.boproadmap.com/newsletter For blogs and updates, visit our site HERE ➡️ https://www.mybusinessonpurpose.com/blog/ LISTEN to the Business On Purpose Podcast HERE ➡️ https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/my-business-on-purpose/id969222210 SUBSCRIBE to our YouTube channel HERE ➡️ https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCbPR8lTHY0ay4c0iqncOztg?sub_confirmation=1

It is my first day back and my mood is curious. Today is July 31st, on June 30th I sat in the Houston airport awaiting a flight to Paris, then Rome, and promptly deleted my email and Slack apps from my phone.  For the next 30 plus days I would not be available to the BOP team for any business-related items.   Of course, we could send some personal pics and updates, but no business communication.   While away the BOP team had a straightforward mission: grow the business by one client. After founding Business On Purpose (BOP) over 8 years ago in 2015, it was time to take an extended time away from the day to day of the business.   Ashley and I just navigated a string of massive life milestones; our daughter’s wedding, our final son’s graduation from High School, and celebrating 25 years of marriage all within two months of each other. I also wanted to test the sea-worthiness of the BOP ship with me not at the helm.   As I write this I still do not know anything that happened over the last four to five weeks, I