Meet Dan Gordon | Executive Business Coach & Transformational Speaker

We had the good fortune of connecting with Dan Gordon and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Dan, is there something that you feel is most responsible for your success?
Success is a word I use quite often in my work with entrepreneurs. It is the Namaste of the business world. Success means so many different things to so many different people depending on where and how you use it. I find Success to be a terrific catch-all term. It can be about growing one’s income, increasing their happiness or satisfaction, and strangely enough, Success can even be a description of massive failure. Indeed, Success and Failure are NOT two opposite sides of the same coin. They are, rather, the SAME side of the SAME coin. Recently, on my podcast, Shock to the System, a guest asked me what I considered to be the key to success. I flashed back to a moment in July of 2015. I was a man in an unusual position, face down on the floor of a Washington DC hotel room suffering, what I can only describe as an emotional breakdown. A couple of weeks prior, my marketing company had collapsed, and, along with it, I lost $80,000. Lying there, with tears streaming down my face, I truly felt that it was the end of everything for me. Yet, strangely enough, instead of the end, it turned out to be the beginning. Through the tears and the pain came a sudden shock. It was so powerful I literally sat up. I opened my mouth, and out came two words that defined what I later recognized as a massive shift of consciousness for me. I simply said, “I’m free.” Sitting there, I felt as if someone had lifted a giant boulder from my back. My company, which I thought was my pursuit of greatness, had instead been my prison cell. With the door now open, my world was a vast blank canvas. “Okay,” I thought. “Now what?” The next thing I remember was being on the DC metro train. I didn’t even know where I was headed. Then I found myself at The Smithsonian Air & Space Museum, gazing through the glass case of a spaceship model. It was a fantasy vehicle conceived in the mind of Gene Roddenberry, The Starship Enterprise. As a life-long Star Trek fan, I decided to create a new company and name it after this ship and all it represented. For years, I wanted to live a life helping others step into the new frontiers of their greatest selves. While I had been doing this in my marketing company, it was just a cover for my true passion. Now, with all that gone, suddenly, there was nothing stopping me. Dan Gordon Enterprise would assist entrepreneurs by taking them into their greatest challenges and setting them free of their self-imposed limitations. I would transform the meaning of success from the bottom of a bank balance to achieving one’s highest version of themselves. I had no idea how I would get started or how I was even going to sustain myself financially but, at that moment, I felt more alive and more successful than I had in the past five years of trying to build my marketing company. Nearly eight months later, to that very day, my new logo for Dan Gordon Enterprise was emblazoned across a giant screen. Standing backstage in an auditorium in Dallas, Texas, I listened to a voice saying, “Please give a warm welcome to Dan Gordon!” I walked out to see 1,200 people applauding me. It was my first ever professional speaking gig. I was being paid $10,000.00 to transform the thinking of my audience. To help them step through their own greatest fears and become their own greatest versions of themselves. One hour and ten minutes later, I received (what I later discovered to be) the first-ever standing ovation given by this company. Since that day, I have presented at many more speaking events. I have charted new paths for countless entrepreneurs. I have written books, launched podcasts, produced videos, and on and on and on, all in the pursuit of helping the daring women and men of business recognize that they too are free to create any kind of life and any kind of success they wish to have in their lives. It is truly an honor and a joy to live this successful life and point the way for others to live their successful lives as well. Success often begins in the most unusual ways under the most unsuspecting circumstances. It continues along a circuitous path with no road signs, no mile markers. You never quite know where you are on your journey because success is not about getting “there.” In fact, it is trying to get “there” that success will always throw you a curveball. Success is sometimes troubling. Sometimes maddening. Sometimes tormenting. Yet, never boring. When you finally surrender to it, success will take you to all the strange new worlds you have ever desired. It is your deepest passions and personal greatness. Success, you will discover, is indeed not a destination, but it is the journey itself. Success is your next adventure…and it is always waiting for you to begin.

What should our readers know about your business?
I am most proud of my ability to set others free. Indeed, we all live in a kind of self-imposed prison, built from our own imagined limitations. I assist my clients by first, helping them to recognize their limiting beliefs. I then guide them on a path away from those old ways of thinking and into a new freedom of unlimited opportunities. My clients tend to be executive-level individuals with a history of personal achievement. That is because the work isn’t simple. It’s often quite challenging and requires a mindset of determination. They are people who have reached a certain level of success, are feeling stuck, and seeking a massive breakthrough. It is a joy to provide them with it. I have a fairly high price tag because I offer real results. Clients often come to me after working with coaches who only offered one-size-fits-all solutions and provided no metrics for success. Instead, I put a strong emphasis on my clients earning back the investment they make with me. Along with mindset training, I have a full slate of tactical business solutions that automate complex processes. I free up their time, increase their income, and create new opportunities for growth. I encourage all people seeking a coach to get in writing the solid metrics the coach uses to determine if their work is effective or not.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
Because I’m a “systems guy” I have created an LA tour for all my out of town guests. These spots range from the most popular to the most out-of-the-way. Obviously, these were created pre-covid but they are still viable now. The highlights are the following: Shopping on Melrose Chinese Theater and Hollywood & Highland. Point Dume Paradise Cove Griffith Observatory Warner Bros Studio Tour Hollywood Forever Cemetary (and movie night if in the summer) Pinks Hotdogs Petersen Automotive Museum Santa Monica Pier Venice Beach Venice Canals The Broad Hollywood Bowl Hike to the Hollywood Sign The Museum of Death The Last Bookstore Bradbury Building Garden of Oz Clifton’s Cafeteria The Magic Castle Self-Realization Fellowship Lake Shrine Space Shuttle Endeavour

The Shoutout series is all about recognizing that our success and where we are in life is at least somewhat thanks to the efforts, support, mentorship, love and encouragement of others. So is there someone that you want to dedicate your shoutout to?
My very best to all the best who touched me along my way. You know who you are because we live in each other’s hearts.

Website: www.DanGordonEnterprise.com
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Other: If you’re ready to live life UNLIMITED, set up a no-cost consultation with Dan Gordon NOW! Click the following link and book a call at a time that is most convenient for you: https://calendly.com/dge/15int