How To Scale Your Business and Unlock Personal Growth
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Mike Agugliaro is the Founder and CEO of FuDog Group, which provides personal growth coaching to executives and business owners. Before establishing FuDog Group, he co-founded Gold Medal Service, a home services company he expanded to $32 million in annual revenue before its acquisition in 2017. Mike also founded CEO Warrior, a leading training and coaching organization for home service businesses that he sold. As a lifelong martial artist, Mike has written over 28 books and is dedicated to helping individuals achieve personal and professional growth.
Here’s a glimpse of what you’ll learn:
[2:09] Mike Agugliaro shares his journey from being an electrician to becoming a successful entrepreneur and business coach
[5:21] How a childhood encounter with gang violence led Mike to martial arts and shaped his mindset
[6:55] The genesis of FuDog Group
[10:55] Why traditional mindset thinking is flawed and how to fuel mind growth
[13:41] FuDog Group’s goal of impacting over 120 million people across 100 countries
[15:41] How personal trauma, shame, and guilt stunt entrepreneurial growth
[19:18] Balancing personal and business transformation
[21:47] Mike shares how FuDog Group’s events use fire-walking and sword-fighting to create breakthroughs
[27:45] Mike’s motivation for writing 28 business and personal growth books
[30:56] How to sustain growth and avoid falling back into old habits
In this episode…
Many entrepreneurs struggle with scaling their businesses, not because they lack skill or ambition, but because limiting beliefs, past traumas, and outdated mindsets hinder their progress unknowingly. They attempt to implement new strategies but often find themselves stuck in the same cycles of fear, hesitation, or self-doubt. How can business owners shift their thinking to break through barriers and create lasting success?
Business and personal development strategist Mike Agugliaro believes that true transformation starts with "mind growth" rather than "mindset,” which involves shifting your identity rather than adopting new habits to create permanent change. After enduring gang violence as a child, Mike pursued martial arts to develop discipline and resilience for personal growth. Through experiential learning methods like fire-walking and real-time exercises, Mike encourages individuals to step beyond their perceived limitations and design their lives intentionally.
In today’s episode of FuDog.TV, guest host Chad Franzen of Rise25 interviews Mike Agugliaro, the Founder and CEO of FuDog Group, about shifting your mindset for entrepreneurial growth. Mike talks about sustaining personal transformation, his motivation for writing 28 books, and the importance of learning from mentors.
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Quotable Moments:
"You cannot put new skill sets that will last on top of trauma. That’s like standing on quicksand."
"Mastery is being better tomorrow than you are today, by design and with intention."
"If I invest in somebody’s knowledge and I just do their knowledge, I’m going to move way faster."
"Motivation is temporary. We’re talking transformation — permanent change that shifts who you are forever."
"A journey of 1,000 miles doesn’t start with the first step; it starts with the first right step."
Action Steps:
Shift from "mindset" to "mind growth": Instead of seeing your beliefs as fixed, commit to continuous personal and professional growth. This ensures you don’t stay stuck in old habits and always evolve to meet new challenges.
Invest in mentors who have already succeeded: Learning directly from people who have achieved what you aspire to accomplish accelerates your progress. Rather than reinventing the wheel, leverage their knowledge to avoid common pitfalls and scale faster.
Reframe past trauma as a stepping stone, not a setback: Many business owners unknowingly let past failures and hardships dictate their current decisions. By redefining these experiences as lessons, you create an opportunity for transformation instead of limitation.
Immerse yourself in experiential learning: Activities like fire-walking or breaking arrows on your neck push you beyond your perceived limits. These experiences reinforce that what you once thought was impossible is often just a mental barrier.
Define your success by design, not by default: Instead of reacting to circumstances, create a clear vision for your life, business, and wealth. By setting intentional goals and aligning actions to them, you take control of your future rather than leaving it to chance.
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This episode is brought to you by FuDog Group, a personal development training company.
The FuDog Group provides educational training, resources, and connections to anyone looking to grow.
Most personal development insights taught today only address life’s basic challenges. We share proven next-level strategies and secrets no one else talks about.
We accomplish this through a combination of ancient wisdom and modern insights laser-focused on helping you enhance all areas of your personal life, including health, relationships, and wealth.
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