Episode 45- Establishing A Firm Foundation In Your Business W/ Zach Carlin

My guest on today’s podcast is Zach Carlin. Zach is the owner of Summit Chasers Network, a business designed to help businesses lay the groundwork for enduring success, both personally and professionally. In this episode we talk about their SUMMIT system which stands for Start with you, Unify your team on a collective vision, Map your path, Make a clock, Increase talent density, and Time to scale. In this episode we talk in length about the importance of starting with working on your own growth, especially when you are a founder and leader. We discuss victim mindsets, and the need to take intentional and radical responsibility for every aspect of our lives. And be sure to listen to the end when Zach shares how he defines success, which is making a lasting positive impact on as many lives as possible. So with that introduction, I hope you enjoy this episode of the Self-Employment Success Podcast with Zach Carlin.

Transcript:

Leland Gross (00:00)

All right, welcome, Zach, to the Self-Employment Success Podcast. Thanks for being here.

Zach Carlin (00:05)

Thanks so much for having me, my friend. I'm excited about this one.

Leland Gross (00:09)

same. Zach, let's start off. Why don't you tell the listeners what your business is and what it does, as well as kind of how you got started?

Zach Carlin (00:18)

Yeah, absolutely. So company name Summit Chasers Network. And what we do is we work with small to medium sized businesses, sometimes a little bit bigger businesses as well that they tend to sneak in there. But we really work with companies on business foundations. There's so much noise out there right now. And it's going to continue to get noisier as things progress, right? With AI, with...

Leland Gross (00:34)

Mm.

Zach Carlin (00:43)

everybody being an expert in something. There's a million different coaches out there. There's a million different like AI platform, software, CRM, sales, funnels, marketing tactics. There's just so much noise out there. And when you're a small business owner and then you could probably attest to this too, it's noisy enough as it is. And then if you, if you start to not see yourself in the place that you want to be, when we start businesses, we have a vision of kind of how, not just the business,

We want the business to look, we want how our life is going to look. And then we get into it and we're like, this isn't what I thought. And then when we feel like we're drowning a little bit, like things get, get tough. We're putting up fires all the time. We feel like we have to do everything. You know, we hire a few people, they don't work out. Now we feel like we're alone even more. And it's, and then you start grasping. You start grasping at straws, right? And that's where the noise gets so detrimental, gets so scary.

Leland Gross (01:17)

Mm-hmm.

Mmm.

Zach Carlin (01:41)

because you don't know what is actually going to work. You don't know what is actually going to get you to the next level or get you out of this hole that you're in or whatever it is. Right? So we tend to grasp, but what we forget is we need, we can't, none of that works. At least it works long-term if we don't have foundations to build it upon. So we work with businesses, specifically founders mostly, but we also work with our leadership teams and bigger companies and that kind of thing on leadership and personal development. So summit.

Leland Gross (01:58)

Mmm.

Zach Carlin (02:09)

We have an acronym, it's kind of our framework, and it's in the act, we're so excited when we were able to make it into an acronym summit. But the S's start with you, and that's where the leadership and personal development comes in. So we work with founders specifically, because a business can't outgrow the founder. You are going to be, as the founder, as the business owner, you are going to be the ceiling that your business can't grow beyond, and if it does, it doesn't long-term. So you need to, and that's.

Leland Gross (02:15)

Thank you.

and

Mmm.

Zach Carlin (02:37)

It's a tough pill to swallow. It's not the sexy answer. It's like, Hey, I want to get a successful business. What do we need to do? We need to work on yourself. Well, that's not what I wanted. So I'm going to go over to these shiny objects over here, right? That work short term and then they crash. But we work with, with individuals we overcome. We have something that's called the default doom loop. So a lot of us, we don't like imposter syndrome. That's another kind of word for it. Right? So we, we feel like we're not capable of the success that we want. So we keep sabotaging ourselves.