If you’re a founder, agent, or business owner who’s always chasing what’s next – this episode was made for you.
Tom Ferry and Jimmy Mackin get into three questions that most people in this industry never slow down enough to actually answer: What do you do when your business stalls? What makes a business take off? And how do you find the right partner, and spot the wrong one before it costs you?
This is a hard-won perspective from two people who’ve built, stalled, pivoted, and scaled more than once.
👉 In this episode you’ll learn:
- Why “the founder got bored” is the most common (and least admitted) reason a business stalls
- The lighthouse principle Jimmy uses to stay focused when everything feels like a priority
- The difference between waiting and generating, and which one you’re actually doing right now
- Jimmy’s “cheap and fast” framework: the zero-cost plays that rebuild momentum before you reinvest a dollar
- What upgrading your bench actually means, and why a 100% employee retention rate is a red flag, not a flex
- “The business will only go as fast as you go.” Why you’re too small to be slow
- The NDA + whiteboard interview hack Tom uses to find out fast whether someone can actually think
- The one quality Jimmy looks for above all else in a partner — and why most people who have the title don’t have the mindset
This won’t transform your business overnight. But if you do the work and run the plays, the clarity you get from this one conversation is worth more than most courses you’ll pay for.
🎧 This is Episode 18 of Growth Mode, the weekly podcast for agents, marketers, and business owners who want to move faster, think bigger, and grow on purpose.