What if your business actually served your life—instead of consuming it?

In this episode of Coach Launch Podcast, Matthew interviews battle-tested entrepreneur and business coach Chris Shurian, founder of Bootstraps and Battle Scars and Founders Exchange. With nearly four decades of real-world experience, Chris has built and scaled multiple businesses, including a $15M construction company, resorts, hotels, and restaurants—and now coaches entrepreneurs on how to scale their business without burning out.

Chris shares how he:

• Bootstrapped his first construction company from “me and a truck” into multiple companies with 50–60 employees
• Survived the 2008 recession, lost almost everything, and rebuilt in hospitality and restaurants
• Successfully exited a restaurant business in one of the toughest industries in the world
• Turned his bootstraps and battle scars into a business coaching practice helping founders, CEOs, and owners

You’ll learn how Chris helps entrepreneurs and business owners:

• Build systems and processes so the business runs without them doing everything
• Scale their business while improving customer experience and culture
• Hire for personality and train for skill to create high-performing teams
• Identify blind spots by interviewing staff and customers and turning feedback into action
• Win back time, clarity, and mental space, not just revenue

Today, through Bootstraps and Battle Scars and Founders Exchange, Chris works directly with founders who are “successful on paper” but overwhelmed, isolated, and stressed. He helps them fix money, time, stress, and leadership challenges using practical frameworks, not theory. He’s also working on his upcoming book, distilling decades of entrepreneurial lessons into tools any founder can apply.

If you’re an entrepreneur, coach, or business owner who wants to scale your business with systems, improve leadership, and create a business that truly serves your life, this episode is for you.

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The quality of your life is defined by the quality of your focus!

Most coaches and solo entrepreneurs secretly fear the tax man—and quietly worry they’ll never feel truly safe with money. In this episode of Coach Launch, Matthew White sits down with tax strategist and financial healer Bill Fauth to show you why taxes don’t have to be the enemy and how your mindset might be the real bottleneck in your business.

Bill shares his powerful journey from severe childhood trauma and deep distrust of authority to becoming a respected tax expert, financial planner, and PSYCH‑K facilitator. You’ll hear how decades of therapy, spiritual work, and finally high-speed subconscious reprogramming helped him transform his relationship with fear, self-worth, and money—and how he now helps solo and micro business owners do the same.

In this episode, you’ll discover:

• Why the IRS actually wants you to be successful—and how the tax code is packed with “tax candy” for small business owners.
• The crucial difference between tax compliance and tax strategy, and how Bill’s Financial Physical reveals missed deductions and wealth-building opportunities.
• How unhealed childhood wounds, low self-worth, and imposter syndrome quietly cap your income and limit what you believe you’re allowed to receive.
• Practical ways to start making taxes and inflation your friends, including hiring your kids, using Roth IRAs, and owning assets that grow with inflation.

If you’re a coach or solo entrepreneur who wants to stop fearing tax time, clear your money blocks, and build real financial freedom, this episode will change the way you think about both money and yourself.

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The quality of your life is defined by the quality of your focus!

On this episode of Coach Launch with Matthew White, Matthew sits down with Steve Anderson—risk strategist, tech expert and author of the Wall Street Journal and USA Today bestseller “The Bezos Letters: 14 Principles to Grow Your Business Like Amazon.”

Together, they unpack how Jeff Bezos used risk as a growth strategy rather than something to avoid. Steve explains why so many once-great companies (like Blockbuster and Kodak) died, not because they took too much risk, but because they didn’t take the right kind of risk at the right time.

You’ll hear:

• How Amazon built a culture of “successful failure” and constant experimentation
• Why Bezos banned PowerPoint and replaced it with six-page narrative memos to drive deeper thinking and better decisions
• The Anderson Growth Principles and the four cycles every business goes through: Test, Build, Accelerate, Scale
• How Steve is now helping small and mid-sized businesses use AI as a strategic thought partner—not just a writing tool—to spot patterns, reduce risk, and decide what’s next
• Practical ideas for using your own data (support tickets, customer feedback, etc.) to design new offers and keep clients longer

If you’re a coach or business owner who wants to think like Bezos, leverage AI intelligently, and turn risk into massive growth, this episode is for you.

To learn more about Steve and his current projects, visit his website:

👉 https://thebezosletters.com/

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The quality of your life is defined by the quality of your focus!