1. Discover how to avoid the “success trap” that keeps entrepreneurs chained to their business.
2. Learn Dr. Levine’s simple but powerful energy audit that creates instant freedom.
3. Find out why true productivity is about focus—not time management.
4. Hear how to build a business that serves your life, not the other way around.
5. Get access to Dr. Levine’s free Heartrepreneur® Playbook and community of 10,000 entrepreneurs.

Terri's Valuable Free Resource (VFR):

https://heartrepreneur.com/
https://go.heartrepreneur.com/playbook-life

Dr. Terri Levine, bestselling author and creator of the Heartrepreneur® movement, reveals how to escape the “success trap,” reclaim your time, and build a business that serves your life—not the other way around. Learn simple steps to live well and earn well in just 7 minutes.

02:35 Ideal Client: Driven coaches & consultants who look successful but feel exhausted, trapped, and out of balance.
03:15 Problem Solved: Breaking free from the “success trap”—the belief that earning more means working more.
04:00 Valuable Free Action: Do a 2-day energy audit—delegate, automate, or eliminate draining tasks.
05:15 Valuable Productive Action: Stop managing time, start managing focus—tackle your “one big domino” daily.
06:20 Bonus Material
10:40 Valuable Free Resource: Download Dr. Levine’s free Heartrepreneur® Playbook.

(Note, this was transcribed using transcription software and may not fully reflect the exact words used in the podcast)

Welcome to the Goalbusters Expert Peak Productivity Tips podcast, where top business experts get just seven minutes to answer five rapid fire questions about what they do and how they stay productive.

Each episode is packed with actionable insights to help boost your efficiency and achieve your goals. Let's dive in and unlock the secrets to peak performance.

00:22 ROBIN

Well, hello everyone. My name is Robin J. Emdon and I'm an accountability coach and the author of Get Resultsology® - The Science of Getting Stuff Done! I work with people who run their own business, no boss, distractions everywhere and never enough hours in the day.
Together we cut through the noise, sharpen their focus and follow through on the big ideas that actually move the needle. That's what I call the momentum formula.

Do it today, profit tomorrow and repeat!

So if that's the kind of breakthrough that you are looking for, then you're in exactly the right place. 

And speaking of being in exactly the right place, I am delighted to welcome our guest expert today, Dr Terri Levine.

Terri is one of the world's foremost experts on how to market a coaching or consulting or other service business.

She has built and sold several multimillion dollar companies.

Dr Terri is a best selling author of over forty books, forty! and a highly requested keynote speaker at events and conventions throughout the world.

To date, Dr Terri has helped almost eight thousand entrepreneurs worldwide to live well and earn well. 

Dr Terri, welcome to GoalBusters!

TERRI
Happy to be here, Robin. Thanks for having me.

ROBIN
You're very welcome, and I'm delighted that you've been able to join us today. Whereabouts in the world are you joining us from?

TERRI
Right in this moment, I'm in Pennsylvania. And a few hours ago, I was looking at the beach in New Jersey.

ROBIN
Wow. Okay. A real globe trotter there. Now you had a long weekend, haven't you, over there in America?

TERRI
Yes. We did. Yes. 

ROBIN
Something that we completely didn't pick up on here. We just walked normally yesterday.

Thought, oh, we could have had the day off. What a shame. Alright. Ask me waffling on.

Shall we do the questions instead?

TERRI
Sure. Let's go.

Alright. I'll get the clock up on the screen.

And there it goes. Terry, could you tell us, please, who is your ideal client?

02:35 TERRI – Ideal Client
My ideal client is a successful driven coach, consultant, or service based entrepreneur.

On the outside, they look like they have it all, a thriving business, financial success. On the inside, they feel overwhelmed, exhausted, chained to their business.

They wanted freedom, but now they don't have that, and they're ready to build a life that looks as good on paper as it is in real life.

ROBIN
Brilliant. And you've also segued nicely into our second question, which is exactly what is the problem that you've solved. You've mentioned it there, but I have a feeling that you solve more than one problem. So please feel free to expand on that.

03:15 TERRI – Problem Solved
Overall, I call it the success trap, and it's a dangerous belief that to earn more, you have to work more. And that mindset inevitably leads to burnout, strained relationships, loss of passion.

All the things go away. And what I do is help entrepreneurs shift their focus from being busy to being effective, allowing them to make more income in less time.

ROBIN
Brilliant. Thank you. Once again, that that really helps enlarge the picture so we get a better idea. So what is one valuable free action that the audience can implement that will help them to solve that problem for themselves?

04:00 TERRI – Valuable Free Action (VFA)
I call this an energy audit. So for the next two days, draw two columns on a piece of paper.

One half says energizing. The other half says draining.

And as you go through the day, list every task that you do. Put it in the appropriate column. At the end, look at your draining list. That is your road map to freedom.

Pick just one of those draining tasks right now to either delegate it, automate it, or eliminate it this week. And let me tell you, Robin, this single action will immediately free up mental and emotional energy.

ROBIN
That's fantastic. Thank you for that. That's really interesting. I should try that. Alright. I'm sure it works because I'm sure it's not the first time you've mentioned that idea.

So now that we have a better understanding of what you do, let's dive briefly into GoalBusting, focusing on how to maximize productive time to achieve business goals. And already that idea is one, so I'm being greedy and asking you for another one. So could you share any tips or advice for someone looking to improve their productivity habits over and above what you've already shared with us for no charge whatsoever? Sorry about that.

05:15 TERRI – Valuable Productive Action (VPA)
Absolutely. So stop thinking about managing time. What you wanna start managing is focus, and my best advice is to identify your one big domino just for the day. What is that one thing that if you get it done, it's going to make everything else easier or unnecessary?

Do that one thing first before you open your email, before you look at social media, go to meetings because true productivity isn't about how many tasks can I cross off my list? It's about the impacts of the task that you actually do complete.

ROBIN
Fantastic. Thank you. Yeah. All those time wasters that we love to go to because they're so easy and so simple.

Like, oh, I'll just check my emails. Such a time waster. Such a other people's agendas, I call those things. 

TERRI
Very true.

ROBIN
Yeah. Alright. Okay. So that's fantastic. Once again, thank you so much. So what should I have asked you today, doctor Terry, that I didn't?
And what would your answer be, please?

06:20 TERRI – Bonus Material
I would say, what is the real long term result for my clients beyond just better productivity and more income?

And the answer is that my client family members actually get their lives back.

They build a business that serves their lives, not the other way around, which quite frankly is what most people are doing or have done so that they're able to enjoy dinner with their families without sitting there checking their phones.

They take real unplugged vacations where they don't need any electronics, and they literally fall back in love with their work. They break out of the prison that they put themselves in. And we don't just optimize their business. I think this is a really important point.

We help them build a legacy of success, of fulfillment.

And so it's really important to me to help people who are successful stop being prisoners to what their business is because that is nothing more than a glorified job. And instead, to truly build their life by design, not by default, and then fit their business right into the delicious life that they are enjoying.

That's what it's all about for me.

ROBIN
Yeah. That's fantastic. And I love the… you’re gonna see what I do here. I love the heart you put into that answer. And as we have a little bit of extra time available to us, rather than hearing me talking about the British weather, which I'm sure our listeners would be delighted to hear about, maybe not, could you tell us a little bit more about your registered trademark that's beautifully, presented on your screen for those watching? And for those listening, you'll just have to believe me. The word Heartrepreneur®.

TERRI
Yeah. Thank you. So I have to give credit. I did not come up with that.

It was one of my publishers many years ago. My company was called something else. It was not my brand. And I was writing a book for him, and we had a contract.

It was, my sixth or seventh book with him. And he took my manuscript and he threw it on the floor, and he said, I don't want this book. And I'm like, what? And he said, no.

No. I've known you for eleven years. I want the book on how you do business as a heart entrepreneur. And I went, what?

And I honestly didn't know what he was talking about. However, on my train ride back from New York to Philadelphia, it just hit me. Doing business heart to heart, person to person, not transaction to transaction.

And I realized that was the best advice I got.

Went home, rebranded, trademarked, changed everything in our business, and really feel like Heartrepreneur® is the way that we do business, and we have over ten thousand entrepreneurs that have joined us over time.

ROBIN
Yeah. I couldn't agree with you more. The best by far, not just coaches, which is your specialty, but any kind of entrepreneur when they're coming from the heart, when they're coming from their authentic selves and it's a passion and they're living their life purpose maybe through their family and their personal lives, but also through their work. They are unstoppable and they are inspirational, and that is what I think we should all aspire to, and it's certainly something I aspire to.

So thank you so much for that definition now. I love it. Absolutely wonderful. Drat! It's registered as well as a trademark, so I can't steal it.
No. You cannot. We've had people try.

ROBIN
Yeah. I won't try. But it but I but I certainly I love the concept. Thank you so much.

You're welcome. Alright. So that's our seven minutes. Thank you so much. That's been an absolute master class as I expected it would be.

So Dr Terri, could you tell us please how can people reach you? That's part a of this two-parter. And also the second part is, is there like a valuable free resource they could get from you? Because as I always say, although it sounds a bit cheeky asking for that. Well, I'd say that partly because the Americans, some Americans like the word cheeky because it sounds very British. But the reality is that it is a very good way of people finding out a little bit more about your offer without taking what often feels like a very big step, which is making direct contact. So they just find out a little bit more before they're ready to do that.

10:40 TERRI – Valuable Free Resource (VFR)
Of course. So one way is to grab any of my books. Just go to Amazon and look for doctor Terry Levine. Another way is to tune in to my podcast, which is Live Well, Earn Well for coaches and consultants.

And the other is to join our community of about ten thousand people doing business heart to heart, doing strategic networking.
That is at heartrepreneurs.com.

And I have a free resource that people are truly digging that I hope that you will enjoy, which is at go.heartrepreneur.com/playbook-life

ROBIN
Fantastic. Thank you. And it seems a bit silly for me to ask you about your books because I know we mentioned at the beginning there's forty of them, and it would be like a test when you rattle off forty titles for us. But are there any new ones coming out, or what's the most recent one that you've been working?

TERRI
So right now, I do go striving for other people. However, the book that I highly recommend for me to spend the bible of how I have created eight multimillion dollar businesses while working about twenty hours a month. And that is called The Conversion Equation. 

ROBIN
Fantastic. I shall definitely look that up. Anything anytime someone refers to the bible or some technique or other, I'm there in a heartbeat. See what I did there? See what I did there? I can't say I'm there in a Heartpreneur® beat, can I? But I can say that.

TERRI
I love that.

ROBIN
Alright. So Dr Terri Levine, thank you so much. It's been an absolute pleasure and a joy as fascinating as I thought it would be. Very inspirational.

Thank you so much for being with us on GoalBusters today.

TERRI
It's been a pleasure. Thanks for having me, Robin.

ROBIN
You're very welcome. And remember, everybody, keep GoalBusting and make your future self proud.

Bye bye.

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Robin J. Emdon is the creator of GetResultsology®: The Science of Getting Stuff Done!, a research-backed system that helps solopreneurs beat procrastination, build momentum, and follow through on what matters most.

Robin was one of a small, invitation-only group selected for an intensive life-coach programme taught by Tony Robbins* and his faculty in 2001. The training was meant to prepare them for roles at his organisation in San Diego, but when that opportunity changed Robin stayed in the UK, launched his own life-coaching practice, and later stepped back to raise his two young sons.

Known to clients today as The Procrastination Slayer, Robin had a face-palm moment in 2019 when he realised it had taken him ten years to finish a six-year degree. That wake-up call launched his mission to master procrastination.

During the Covid lockdowns in 2020 he discovered that researchers had published more than 900 studies on procrastination in a single decade and pulled the most practical lessons from the strongest research and leading books to shape his momentum formula:

Do it today, Profit tomorrow, Repeat.

Peer-reviewed research from the Dominican University of California shows that working with an accountability partner can raise goal-achievement rates by up to 33 percent, a finding woven into every GetResultsology® plan.

Robin hosts The GoalBusters Podcast, now past 100 episodes, where he talks with fellow solopreneurs and uncovers the real-world productivity tactics behind their success.

From South Devon, England, he coaches clients worldwide, helping solopreneurs, creatives, and other no-boss professionals turn scattered effort into consistent progress and profit.

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