Have Jon Allen on as a guest

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Topics
that worked well in the past

Business

Issues listeners might be struggling with


📈 Growth Stagnation

📉 Revenue and LTV Decline

🗓️ Overloaded Calendar

🗣️ Delegation Disconnects

🐌 Operations Drag

🧠 Innovation Stagnation

🤖 Leadership Isolation

👀 Original Vision Drift

🚪 Team turnover

Business

Goals they’re aspiring towards


Small business

😍 Keeping the team excited with the mission

💣 Executing a big bold idea/product

🤖 When to hire vs Automate

Medium - Large Business

⏳ Increase Idea-to-execution speed

🏄‍♂️ Achieve a safe exit from my company

😒 Find the fun again in my company

🚪 Keep knowledge & money from walking out the door

Personal Growth


🧬 Spiral Dynamics is like seeing the Matrix code

🩵 Finally forgiving myself with Daniel Kanehman’s System 1 and System 2 thinking

📈 Sure EQ is important, but Synergist empathy has been the key to working happy for me

🕺 Turns out, the hippies got a lot right

(as they started the transition to the next human development level 🧬)

Favorite Quotes for sparking topic ideas

All of these have been great conversation starters before for topic ideas, social quotes, and just general musings during an episode

Focused bat shit crazy visionaries can change the world. Unhealthy, unfocused ones quickly tank a company that could have made the world better
— Jon Allen
You are the average of your five closest friends (choose carefully)
— Jim Rohn
‘Visionary’ doesn’t have to be a bad word
— Jon Allen
Trust is equal parts character and competence... You can look at any leadership failure, and it’s always a failure of one or the other
— Stephen M.R. Covey
Only the Synergist can put aside their own agenda and interpret the language of difficult personalities, capture the best from each person, and put the good of the enterprise ahead of their own ego
— Les McKeown
Pessimists get to be right. Optimists get to be rich
— Shaan Puri

Quick grab info

Bio Pictures

Jon’s Bio / Intro recommendation

Jon Allen, founder of Visionary Clarity, launched his whirlwind of a career in the music touring industry, taking on roles from audio engineer all the way to executive producer. His firsthand experience with the cycles of creativity and burnout among artists led him to recognize crucial patterns. To avoid his own burnout he shifted to the startup world, founding a software company, a marketing agency, and a consultancy, where he significantly increased the profitability of a large doctor coaching firm and taught over 200 doctors how to scale their businesses.

Today, at Visionary Clarity, Jon harnesses his observations from 100s of visionaries to address the challenges that often ensnare successful early to mid-stage businesses. He has developed a unique process that helps visionaries escape these ruts and align their initial momentum with sustainable growth strategies.

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The longer, spoken version of the bio that Jon uses

It’s worked well for quick authority building and familiarity with the audience at the start, but we can roll with however you usually do things.

I’ve had a crazy life, I’ll try to go fast…

  • 1 semester of college > Then joined the circus, IE the Music touring industry

  • Spent 15 years touring the planet with tons of bands and artists

    • Audio engineer

    • Production manager

    • Tour manager

    • Show Desinger

    • Producer > Executive producer

    • Designed some huge shows and had a ton of fun

    • Created a “tour management as a service” business, had some decent sized clients

    • Saw repeating destructive patterns in Visionary artists

    • 37 countries, airline status all over the place

  • Quit cold turkey

  • Started a software company - Aware

    • amazing product, crap partner, ran out of money

  • Started a podcast about processing people exiting the modern church - The Airing of Grief

    • Learned so much about people transitioning from one phase of life to another

  • Marketing agency 1 > Agency 2

  • Freelance Integrator

    • Realized I was kind of a visionary whisperer

  • Built a large doctor coaching company

    • Built a viable product out of the founder

    • 9 clients, negative P&L > 200+ clients, nearly 3mil / year, 25% profit

    • Working w 200+ visionary doctors confirmed lots of my theories about how to FOCUS Visionary energy

  • Founded Visionary Clarity as side hustle

  • Co-Founded a startup doing health certifications for short term rentals called Clearstay

    • Got funded, made it into the validation stage… didn’t validate out. STRs don’t want a big light shined on their moldy dark corners

  • Sold 95% of worldly possessions and went full time nomad

    • Added a few more countries to the list

  • Co-founded a platform that would have fixed medicare insurance -

    • Got shot down by monopoly powers

All of that taught me….

Focused, batshit crazy visionaries can save the world

Unhealthy, unfocused visionaries are the death of so many great ideas, that could have made a big impact

I realized the greatest impact I could have for humanity was helping focus visionary energy with all that I learned

If you do a Blog Article with your episodes

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