030: Creating success & a business you love: Interview with business coach Jim Palmer

Jim Palmer is a business coach who has created an incredible business (that allows him to only work 3 days a week and live on a boat!) but it wasn’t always simple.  Overcoming cancer and many obstacles starting a business while trying to provide for a family made him look at business in a new way. He shares his ideas, ways to find success and how to build a business you love.  You can find Jim at his website here. Be sure to join in on the conversation at our free facebook group : www.TheArtofLivingBig.com and connect with Jim to learn more about his coaching business. music by bensound. com Save Transcript: today’s podcast is brought to you by the infinite soul project where you learn how to shift your energy and manifest the change you want in your life. We’re gonna dive into your brain and the scientific reasons why you get more of what you focus on and help you consciously create some miracles for yourself. You can find out more at infinite soul project.com My guest today is an entrepreneur, a dad, a husband, a cancer survivor and author, just an all around really great guy and he’s got some really good information to share. If you’ve ever wanted to start something new, or you have a desire to be an entrepreneur yourself. He’s a business coach and he’s going to share some of his tricks and tips for all his clients on the show today. Welcome to the art of living big My name is Betsy Pake entrepreneur, author and personal success coach. This is the show that brings you stories and small ideas to help you live a big life. I hope this once a week podcast will inspire you, motivate you and encourage you to think differently about what could be possible for your life. Thanks for spending some time with me today. Now let’s go live big. Hey everybody, today I have with me Jim Palmer. Jim, thank you so much for being here. It’s my honor, Betsy, thanks for having me on your program. So I am, I’m a big fan of yours. And I’ve been reading one of your books, one of your many books, but tell everybody a little bit about you and what you do. So I am a like you, I’m a business coach, and I help entrepreneurs and small business owners create their dream business. That’s kind of my brand. I’m the dream business coach, I run the dream Business Academy and and you know what that means to some people is slightly different. But I think a dream business has, for example, multiple streams of revenue, it’s fun to operate, it’s always firing on all cylinders, it becomes an asset for worryfree retirement. It provides you the lifestyle that you want to live and allows you to give back and make a difference in the lives of others. So if you’re going to go into business, you might as well go into a dream business is what I tell people. Yeah, I want a dream business. That all sounds amazing. So I really like the idea of doing something that really brings you joy every day because I think so many people live their lives, like waiting for Thursday, Jr. You know, Thursday is Friday Jr. and then Friday and then the weekend. And then they start getting like heart palpitations on Sunday night thinking about going the next day. And that always just seems like kind of a sad way to live your journey. It’s true. You know, when I see people on, for example, on Facebook, TGF I mean, I only know what day it is because I I do all my calls Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, I’ve no business on Monday or Friday. So that’s how I’ve structured my my business and my life. Which by the way, for the first 10 years of my business,