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201 - Playing For Real with David Wood

Season 2, Ep. 201

Today we welcome back a previous guest, David Wood! Since we last spoke, his path in life and business has changed and we take a few minutes to catch up with him. As a reminder, David is a former consulting actuary to Fortune 100 companies. He built the world’s largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for life coaching and coaching thousands of hours in 12 countries around the globe.

As well as helping others, David is no stranger to overcoming challenges himself, having survived a full collapse of his paraglider and a fractured spine, witnessing the death of his sister at age seven, anxiety and depression, and a national Gong Show! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgKwAJieQes)

He coaches high-performing business owners to double revenue, and their time off by focusing on less and being 30% more courageous in their business or career.

Time over time, David keeps asking his essential question: “How can I help you get more out of your life so that on your death bed you can say, I gave it everything?”

And today, we’re going to discuss What’s Playing Full Out looks like, including courage, transparency – and a bit about his new book, Name that Mouse.


Learn more and connect with David here:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/focus-ceo

https://www.youtube.com/c/ExtraordinaryFocuswithDavidWood

https://www.instagram.com/_focusceo/

https://twitter.com/_focusceo

https://www.facebook.com/extraordinaryfocus

https://www.facebook.com/playforrealll

8-Week Samurai program: http://www.myfocusgift.com

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