Sales can be intimidating—especially when you’re chasing a passion that doesn’t come with a natural knack for selling. For many, mindset is the missing piece, not just in business but in life. But what happens when you combine strategy with psychology to unlock real growth?
In this episode, I have Christopher Philippi, a seasoned sales consultant and coach for CEOs. He helps people overcome the fear of selling and client acquisition by blending both coaching and consulting to support real growth. In our conversation, Christopher shares how mindset shapes our actions, why clarity and consistency matter, and how to shift your thoughts to get better results in business and life. Tune in to learn how the right strategy and mindset can change everything.
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Mastering Sales and Mindset with Christopher Filipiak
Welcome to Action’s Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. A lot of us have ideas, a lot of us have passions, and a lot of us have the impact that we want to make onto the world and maybe you’re listening and you’re thinking about it a little bit, thinking, okay, should I get serious about this? It’s springtime, there’s a new energy going on, maybe it’s time to actually get serious. But we have a series of things that oftentimes trip us up, make us a little bit intimidated, make us kind of question whether or not we want to hit that proverbial Start button. And one of the things that can really intimidate a lot of people is sales or kind of building a client base/audience, how do you actually connect your product to the market that you’re trying to connect it to, i.e., how do you actually sell the thing? Is someone going to ever pay me for this? Today, to talk about that subject, I would like to bring on my guest, Christopher Filipiak, who is a sales consultant and a coach for CEOs.
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Christopher, welcome to the program.
Hey, Stephen. It’s so good to be here today. Thanks for having me on the show.
Yeah, thank you for popping on. So not kind of a normal combination, sales consultant and coach for CEOs. What does that mean in tandem?
Yeah, sure. It’s a good question because consulting is its own unique thing and coaching is its own unique thing so when I think of consulting, you kind of think of three buckets, strategy, planning, and implementation of something, and a consultant is really someone who provides expert advice and a proven process, meaning, know how to get something done and they’re there to be an expert and go, “Hey, this is how you do that.” A coach is more there to help you create clarity on what you want and help you discover your own truths. So a coach isn’t there to tell you how to do it, a coach is really there to help you figure out how you want to do it and provide you some support and some challenge and a container for you to do that. So, when it comes to sales, I think both things are important, because my clients need someone who can help them set up a sales system, a sales process, the skills around the strategy and tactics of building a business that’s competent and making sales, and so much of sales deals with what’s going on in your own head and your own confidence and your own leadership and your own material around money and strangers that having coaching is also really supportive so that’s why I do both.
And are your clients often the same for both the coaching and the consulting or is it usually separate endeavors based on what someone at a certain time?
Yeah, that’s a really good question. So, they tend to be the same. When I work with my clients, what happens is we’ll have calls that are focused on building skill sets or implementation work around the strategies and tactics around sales and then we’ll have separate calls that are coaching-only calls. And so most of my engagements with my clients, I do both things, but they’re in –– I kind of play a different role dependent on the intention of what we’re doing together.
And then is there an order in the process? Can someone usually say, “I need a coach or a coaching service before I need the sales consultant,” because you have to understand where you’re going before, okay, I’m going to implement a way to sell this product to these people?
It’s a good question. So, I have plenty of engagements that are coaching only, where someone is just looking for coaching so coaching is really the starting point with me. If you want to do just consulting, I probably wouldn’t do it with you because I don’t think it is really serving you, and the reason that is and you and your audience will understand this is we live in a human body and we have a mind, which means we have a mindset, and so much about sales, most of my clients want a different result. Primarily, the clients that come to me are looking for a different result, and I know that that result is going to start or that transformation is really going to happen when that person decides that they want to make a change that requires coaching. And the reason that is, Stephen, is because how we think determines how we feel and feeling is what drives action for humans.
If you want a different result, we have to work on what’s going on in your mind and we have to work on the feelings in your body. Share on XAnd then once those two things are willing to change and grow, then we can start to bring in the different strategies and tactics that’ll enable sales to happen really, really quickly and really easily for people. So I would say that the order of operations there is coaching either by itself or coaching plus consulting is how I would do that.
Now, a lot of people are familiar with that term, “Thought creates form,” kind of the general idea being that it all starts with your thoughts and then those thoughts somehow become a reality and there’s probably eight to ten different paths depending on if someone’s more spiritually inclined, practically inclined, and stuff like that. Do you believe in that adage of thought creates form or is there more complexity based on how you approach it?
Yeah, I think it’s a belief but I also think whether you look at a science perspective or spiritual perspective or a psychological perspective, it’s how humans create. It’s how humans have always created. And I know that some people think the whole manifestation, law of vibration, law of attraction stuff is like bullshit and then some people are like the ––
All about it, right?
Yeah, just full of it. I think if you get yourself too polarized on one side or the other side, you can get confused about what it actually takes to be a creative and create the thing that you want. I would go a step further and say that, at the moment you have the thought, it’s real. That thing starts to be real the moment that you have the thought, and then you have to start holding the image or thinking is a skill set on to its own, like understanding how to operate your mind and your body is its own skill set so that’s one skill set and then the skill set that has to follow that is you have to understand the strategies and tactics or the activity, the actions that you need to do to complete the creation of whatever you want, but both things are real, and when you have the thought in your mind, that means it exists, right? That’s kind of the first stage and I think that’s where people can start to think like, “Oh, it doesn’t really exist until I have it on my desk or I have it in my hand, physically happen,” but that’s not actually true. The moment you start to think about it, you have it. That can be difficult. That can be a new thought and a new way of operating. Whether you can get yourself there or not determines whether you’re going to be able to create it or not because if you start to think that that’s not true, you’re going to operate your body and your mind in such a way that makes it difficult to actually create that.
What I think this intersects with a little bit is that you described yourself as a coach for CEOs and one of the things that I’m wanting to clarify a little bit is that, let’s say someone out there listening just registered for an LLC with their bank, registered with their state, registered a website domain, and just started doing a few things on their own. They don’t have any customers yet, they don’t have any clients yet, they’re just there. Can that person think of themselves as a CEO at that point in time?
I think you can think of yourself however you want to think about yourself. It’s not on me to tell you who to be or how to think about yourself, and it’s not on other people. I think that comes down to, you know, we were talking about names as we started the podcast and asked you, “Hey, do you go by Steve or Stephen?” and you’re like you go by Stephen. Names are really important, and you get to think about yourself however you want to think about yourself.
Now, in the business community, people will say that you’re not actually a CEO until you have team and other people that you’re leading. Again, it is a mindset thing, and stepping into your own leadership and power and if you see yourself leading a company or leading team or building a business, you want to start to think of yourself as a CEO. Not from an ego perspective, I think, but from a place of truth that, yeah, I’m a leader and a creator of my life and of this business and I’m here to help people and build something beautiful that helps people.
Yeah, so I’m wondering how that intersects with what is the real mindset battle? Because when I think of mindset, I think of kind of where your focus goes, whatever you think of, you create more of, whether it’s thinking about what you want or thinking about what don’t want. Right now, what I’m envisioning is that there’s a lot of people who are having even like a little bit of struggle within themselves in their own heads about, “Okay, I have this idea. I’m gonna build this business,” or, “I’m gonna build this community,” or even it could be something as simple as, “By the end of this year, I’m going to be able to lift 20 more pounds and weigh eight pounds less.” What is usually the process in which things get in their way in which that thought may cross their mind but then they don’t stick to it and then they immediately start going to the mindset of, “All right, here are the 12 reasons why it’s not going to work out, here are the 12 reasons why I’m never going to find clients for this particular product, here are the 12 reasons why I’m never gonna be able to achieve this life that I really want.”
I’ll try to simplify it here but that that could be –– I mean, that’s a lifetime’s work right there. Part of the challenge is that they’re addicted to the 12 reasons that it won’t work out and they’re addicted to their current mindset. They’re literal chemical addictions in your mind and in your body that are creating those recurring thoughts, and then you create your results from those thoughts and then your body perceives that in and reinforces the belief system and you’re running a pattern, a subconscious pattern that’s designed to keep you alive and that’s basically what’s happened. So, all of the mindset work, all of the consulting work, all of anything that you do is really about helping you get to the place where you’re willing to change that and go, “Hey, I am willing to change the way that I think,” and now, of course, there’s new information you can take in but, ultimately, that’s what it comes down to, Stephen. It’s about your ability to your –– it’s your choice to decide to make a change and stop doing the things that are creating your results. Part of the challenge that comes up too is people will start to judge and shame themselves and they’ll weaponize what I’m saying against themselves and make them feel bad and that’s part of the same pattern that’s keeping them stuck to begin with and keeping them creating their current results. Here’s two pieces of understanding for your audience and for yourself and even that I remind myself of. The world is based on cause and effect, okay? So whatever you want, whatever effect you want has certain causes, and then those causes, if you do them, have certain effects, okay? So the first thing is understanding that everything you’re creating, you and I being here today, is an effect of very specific causes that you and I lined up. We may be conscious or unconscious of those causes but they still have a cause and effect relationship. Everything in your life is like that. Everything you’ve created, everything you’re experiencing is held together by cause and effect. The causes are going to be your mindset, your strategies and tactics, and your activity, and this is one of the main thing that I work on with my clients. What you’re asking me about is what is the mindset skill required that enables you to actually change. And much of the mindset skill, how you operate your mind and your body, comes down to two things, clarity on what it is you want and understanding that your knowledge in all things comes from your life experience. So your current beliefs that these 12 things are slowing you down or you can’t have that or whatever core wound stuff you have going on came from your life experience. A lot of that life experience showed up when you were a little kid and was actually given to you or programmed into you by the people around you. So then what happens is you were given that and you have those experiences, and those experiences determine your thoughts and those thoughts feed back into your beliefs. So it creates a little bit of a loop. Knowledge, beliefs, life experience, thoughts. So, when you asked how do you change that, it has to start at the thought level. You have to start to have some new thoughts or some new ideas and you have to think those new thoughts and take action on those new thoughts to create a different experience for yourself or a new result. And, over time, if you do that consistently enough, you’ll start to install a different belief. But where people get stuck is they don’t want to change the thinking or they don’t want to change the way they feel in their body and they’re trying to take new actions and create different results without changing the thoughts and feelings and doing the, I’ll just say the internal work, that would allow them to choose different strategies and tactics and take different activity. If the listeners take anything from this discussion, it’s to really understand the cause and effect relationship between what it is you want and understand that the first cause is clarity on what you want and learning how to operate your mind and your body in a way that you start to teach yourself new thoughts and take different actions so you can have new beliefs. And that doesn’t have to take a long time. People have been operating the way they’ve been operating their whole life, mostly to try to be safe, because as humans, we’re wired for survival, not for happiness. We’re definitely not wired for change and growth. So, learning to rewire our brains for change and growth is the journey that some of us will go on, and I know a lot of your audience is kind of in that middle ground area. You can spend a lot of time there in that middle ground, and, again, that’s because you are stuck in an addiction pattern with your current life, in your current results, and you’re unwilling to make the changes required and think differently consistently enough to create a different result for yourself. And it’s hard to do on your own.
Now, you said that there’s an actual chemical addiction to whatever thought process is creating your current life. So can trying to level up, trying to create a different pattern be thought of similar to anyone trying to overcome an addiction, whether it be the most obvious ones being alcohol and drugs and we’ve all heard stories about how people who become true alcoholics, and I’m not even talking about the person who just parties over the weekend occasionally, gets a little bit over served and does something really dumb. The people who are like waking up the handles of vodka and stuff like that. Those addicts. Is this a similar process that they’re going in to overcome addiction to alcohol and drugs that anyone who has that addiction to their current thought process has to undergo in order to create something new?
I’m not a psychologist or I don’t work with drug addicts or alcoholics, but my knowing and my knowledge is that it is, I would say that it is similar, and the key thing to recognize is that whether it’s alcohol or drugs or sugar or coffee or your current situation, your brain has neural pathways and receptors and chemicals that are flowing when you do things that create pleasure or take you away from pain. And those are actual chemical pathways in the brain that are triggered or respond to you doing different things. And so the addiction happens and with your current results, when you look out at your environment at your world and it matches what your brain is used to, that feels good to your brain. It perceives that as safe even if, consciously, you’re like, “Man, I’m sick of driving this old truck,” or, “Oh, man, what is going on? My team isn’t working out again,” but if it didn’t work out yesterday and the day before and the day before and the day before and the day before and you had that same vehicle or that same amount of money or living in that same house or making the same amount of sales, whatever that is, that’s wired into your brain as a pattern and your brain just wants to repeat that pattern and it feels good. What your brain doesn’t want to do is it doesn’t want to change so that’s why alcoholics stay alcoholics, drug addicts stay drug addicts. We keep eating sugar, we keep making the same amount of money. Because once you step out and you start to change all those 12 things, all sorts of obstacles will start to show up or the obstacles are already there but you’ll start to be aware of them and your mind will go, “Nope, I don’t wanna do that. That’s too challenging.” Losing weight, for an example, and we can run it back through sales as well. But when you’re –– like, say, you want to lose weight, so the mindset, from cause and effect, the mindset piece is clarity on what I want. Well, I want to be healthy and I want to be strong and I want to run a seven-minute mile. And then the strategy and tactic that you’re going to pick is going to be either to ride your bicycle or go to the gym or walk or change your diet and then the activity is going to be how consistently you do that strategy and tactic. But what’s going to happen is that the first time you go to do that, your brain is going to perceive that as a change and it’s going to resist doing that. So there’s going to be a –– that’s it and you have to work through that change and that adaptation process ’til you install doing that consistently, eating better food, going to the gym, riding your bicycle more consistently, until you start to get a different result, which would be like feeling amazing.
Well, and the new thing becomes familiar to your brain too over time.
You then, again, and then your brain gets readdicted to that piece. That’s where you want to teach yourself to wire in, to wire in to change and growth and success, not into being stuck in whatever your current result.
And how long does it usually take? My reading has said most habit changes take somewhere between 21 and 66 days, depending on who you’re asking for. Is that kind of what you’re seeing with these mindset changes or is it a different time period?
I think it’s the same. I think I would start at 21 days as well. I don’t know where that number come from but somewhere between 21 and 90 days to start to redo a habit. But, again, you can start to feel better and change your habit today.
You can start to think a different thought and start to do something differently and start creating a different result. You don’t have to wait 21 days. Share on XAnd, again, it’s going to get easier and, ultimately, it’s about you making a decision and a choice to go, “Hey, I’m gonna more consistently think based on cause and effect. Think that I’m pro change and growth. Think that I’m pro sales,” and be the person who does that and that, again, we only have this moment, Stephen.
And when it comes to sales/client acquisition, I think one of the things that really trips a lot of people up, one of the things that I’ve kind of pointed out on some of my previous podcast episodes is that a lot of us have some kind of a negative connotation of it. In our lives, we’ve all encountered a salesperson who just really isn’t listening to us and they’re just like running a script and trying to push the product on you and use some psychological trick. It’s made us all feel bad one way or the other. And so when it comes to someone with that mindset, is it really a matter of if I want my business that I’m the CEO of, think of yourself as CEO, I’m the CEO of a business and I want that business to succeed, I need to think of sales in a very different way. I need to have a different thought pattern around the entire process of putting this product out there and acquiring clients.
Yeah, 100 percent. If you have a negative connotation around sales, wherever that came from, whether it was programmed into you or from your experience and you have negative feelings around money, whatever those may be, lack, dirty, evil, whatever those thoughts are around money, and you have negative beliefs around strangers, dangerous, unsafe ––
Stranger danger, yep.
Yeah, stranger danger, okay, so those three things, sales, money, strangers, whatever is going on in your mind around those things, whatever stories you have is going to be the result that you create from those things. So if you want to create a different result in sales and have more money come into your life, you’re going to have to have new thoughts around those things and you’re going to have to connect yourself with the truth of what those things are, not the stories you learned or the stories of what other people told you around those things. You want to try to get out of giving things meaning because sales isn’t good or bad.
Yeah, yeah.
Sales is an exchange of goods and services but I like to teach people that sales is an expression of love, so start to think about sales as an act of love or sales is good or sales is an expression of love. Money isn’t good or bad either. It’s a tool for exchange. That’s the definition and it’s just something we made up as humans to allow us to transact. Well, you want to start to think of money as good and you want, again, strangers aren’t good or bad, strangers are just other humans that you don’t know.
Yeah, don’t know yet.
Don’t know yet, yeah. None of those things, money, sales, or strangers, is inherently bad or scary. I’m not saying that humans don’t hurt each other or can’t hurt each other or money can’t be used, everything has two sides to it, and, again, it’s the human that decides what they create with that. But inherently, in and of itself, those things aren’t good or bad. So you really want to start to think about sales as something that’s good, as an expression of love, as something you do for someone, not to someone, and these are new thoughts that you can start to have in your head. And, of course, if there’s underlying trauma in your body, again, going back to the neural pathways and the chemicals that are floating around, if there’s trauma, you may have to do some of the feeling work or some of the body work required to move that out of your system so you can even start to have a new thought pattern. And then once you start to have new thoughts, you can start to learn new skills around money, around sales, around stranger, and you can up level your strategies and tactics and your skill sets and go, “Hey, what I really need to learn around sales is how to create and have sales conversations,” like money is not this mysterious, magical, lucky thing that we think it is or only for those people over there, just a skill gap, man, like if you don’t have the money you want, it’s just a skill gap, and I really like to think of it through that lens, because it kind of takes away all of the illusion and mystery around money and going, “No, this is something I can actually have,” and it’s like that with anything, and it’s about learning those new skills. So it starts at the thought level, because at the thought level, you’re like, “Okay, this is some new information,” and what that new information actually allows me to do is change my behavior, change how I make decisions, change how I think, change how I feel in my body, and when I start to change those things, I’ll create a different result through how I show up, how confident I am, my leadership, my skills, my consistency.
What it sounds like is, in general, we have thoughts, and a lot of people do things like, “Oh, I have a thought about building this,” or, “I’m gonna give myself affirmations,” and stuff like that, but in order to cement that, we need to kind of put it into action consistently in one form or another so taking that thought and saying, okay, if I’m going to say, “I am worthy of this life,” well, am I going to go out in the world and act like I’m worthy of this life or is that just going to be a thought that comes and passes and I try to drill myself but meets that resistance that we’re talking about, where the resistance, the addiction to whatever combination of neurological signals we get from kind of sinking back into our old life or sinking back into our limitations because we’ve been trained evolutionarily to think that they’re comfortable and we know that we’ve survived them before.
If you’re operating, meaning you’re creating results that demonstrate that you’re not worthy, you can do all the affirmations you want. Your results in what you’re actually creating in your environment demonstrate what the bulk of your thought process is. Affirmations are great, but they need to be matched up with actions and having a different experience. That’s how you’re actually going to change that. And that’s where, again, people can get too focused on the action without the mindset or they can get too focused on the mindset stuff without the action, and it has to be both things together. So the affirmations can be a doorway but it’s ultimately about actually doing and having and creating what it is you want.
So you want an environment, you want results, you want people, you want things that reflect to you your worthiness. And if you don’t have them, there’s work to do, both on your mindset and on your activity or your strategies and tactics. That’s why a lot of people go to personal growth or –– not even personal growth, it could be for any type of mentorship, coaching, consulting around changing and so many people don’t, because they want to work only on their mindset without actually doing the work to change their life. It’s hard to make changes, dude.
Yeah.
Must have passion for that. It’s something ––
It takes a while and it takes some people a lot of false starts.
Yeah, it can. And, again, it depends how much newness you’re willing to accept and how uncomfortable you’re willing to be and how addicted you are to your current situation and story and your willingness to let that that go. It doesn’t have to be hard or take a long time. What gets in the way is all of our own lies ultimately about what we can and can’t do.
Yeah, and then we can all get addicted to it because I think what we see a lot of in the world, more than needed, in my opinion, is the exaltation of victimhood. Their own victimhood is their identity, is their story, and it becomes the thing they can’t let go of. Now, when it comes to this combination of the mindset adjustment as well as the action to kind of integrate the mindset adjustment, is that part of your story about how you got to where you are and how you got to working with your clients and having the business that you have?
Yeah, it’s really interesting. I think I’ve always been pro change and growth, and I always think there’s a gap between where I am and where we want to be. That’s just part of being a being a human. But I can remember when I was a very young boy, I was like listening to Chicken Soup for the Soul by Jack Canfield in the 80s.
Yeah, the series of books.
Yeah, and then my mom, I would go to these personal growth seminars when I was, I don’t know, 10 years old, and so I was kind of already prewired for some of that mindset work. I didn’t think of it as mindset work at the time, but the reason that I was so interested in it is I was like if I’m going to be anything in this life, I’m going to be able to take care of myself independently of other people, and I’m going to learn to be comfortable around other humans. That was sort of like my two things, like I wanted sovereignty and independence and I wanted community and wanted not to be afraid of other people. So when I started my business in 2017, the first few years were challenging for sure, but I kept moving forward, I kept learning, and I synced up with my first mindset coach, my first mentor, and really went through a rapid change in growth process because of that coaching that I received, and it was like, man, I really have to bring this work to my clients and I think I’m naturally wired for coaching and helping people, and really, really wired to be safe space for other people for them to be who they are, but also really safe space, and this is in my spiritual DNA or my elemental code to feel their feelings so I’m uniquely qualified to help people do the inner body work required to create change and growth. And then my skill set, my education, is all strategies and tactics around growing businesses so I get to marry those two things together. But I started to bring that work into my clients, and I think, what is it, 2025 now, so I’ve been studying more on the path of change and growth over the last seven years than I’ve ever been in my entire life. It’s been a real season of change and growth for me, and that’s included working with some of the best mentors in the world, studying, studying, studying, doing, doing, doing, those two things together, and, again, both doing the consistent work of feeling what I need to feel and then also taking action on the things that are scary or that I resist doing. It’s like there’s very little that I resist doing. I try to make decisions towards what I want even when it’s uncomfortable or even when it doesn’t seem like I have the money.
I’m always making decisions into uncertainty, and a lot of people don’t. They want it to be safe first and know that it’s going to work out, then they’ll make the decision. But it doesn’t work like that. Share on XThat will only get you what you currently –– you want to be able to take action and make decisions into uncertainty without knowing that’s a change. Again, you have to be willing to change. And there’s some thoughts and some, again, some coaching there can really support you through that change and growth process.
Yeah, because I don’t think most people are capable of making that transition alone, you know what I’m saying? Because what we’re talking about is understanding and I think the key point here that’s worth repeating to really hammer it home is that if you’re waiting for certainty in your results before making the decision, all you’re going to do is keep getting the same result you’ve always gotten. That’s the gist of what you had said, right?
Exactly.
And it’s hard for someone to make that adjustment because we’re pretty wired for certainty and it’s wired into our education system and everything else as well as many of our upbringings. So it sounds like most people at least need help from somebody, whether it be a mentor, whether it be a coach, or whether it be just even finding the right community of people around you, that phrase, “Show me your friends, I’ll show you your future,” finding the right people around you to actually encourage that. For most people, it seems like something that’s required or necessary.
Otherwise, you would have changed it yourself already. If you’re serious about changing and creating a different result for yourself or your business or your family or your community or your team, you’re either going to make the decision and do it. But, again, it goes back to like skill sets. You need someone who can help you develop new skill sets so you need someone who has different experience than you or has already done what you’re trying to do, walk with you and that is something that is super helpful and valuable when you’re going through that change and growth process. And also just a lot of times, just making the decision to have a guide in your life or a coach in your life is the start of a change and growth process, because we’re not meant to journey alone as humans. We’re social creatures. We’re meant to go together.
Someone, say, sitting here right now, can someone even start by changing what content that they’re consuming even when they’re at home alone? A lot of people step online and they have algorithms that have –– and algorithms mostly train on your past viewing behavior, whether it be YouTube, Instagram, TikTok or anything else, and so it’s going to kind of keep you in that same pattern. So can the very start of it ever just be someone consciously deciding, “I don’t wanna keep consuming the same content that’s gotten me to the same place. I’m going to make effort to just do something different with that time when I’m just kind of sitting in idle”?
and whether that’s the food you eat or the content that you consume or the people you hang out with or the house you live in or the city you live in or the vehicle you drive, all of that makes up your environment, okay? All those things, people, places, and things, that’s your environment. Environment has a huge impact on the result that you create, primarily because, again, it’s your mind taking in that experience and then repeating a pattern. Yeah, you got to change your thoughts. You got to change your environment. I listened to your show with Dr. Savage on screens and the screens are really hard on our body and the messages that we’re getting often manipulative and fear based, those things go together, it’s an overwhelming amount of information and a lot of it is not the truth, and so you’re taking in a lot of information that isn’t going to be the cause of what you want. Those images are so rich and so designed in a way that we can’t even reject them, they just slip right through our conscious mind right into our subconscious and we just accept them as truth without actually doing the critical thinking to go, “Hey, is this true or not?” It just slips right in, fires the dopamine, and then it’s like, “Oh, dude, I’m back here again tomorrow for another hit.” Boom, back here again for another hit. Boom, back here again. And then your life is just going by and you’re not actually changing and growing, you’re not actually creating the life that you really want and desire in your heart because you’ve disconnected from your truth.
Before we wrap up, I just want to give anyone in the audience a chance to get a hold of you. If anyone’s been listening to this episode, if anyone did want to get a hold of you, what would be the best way?
Yeah. So if there’s anyone that is looking to make a change in their life or in their business, get in touch with me. You can go to my website, christopherfilipiak.com, or you can find me on LinkedIn under Christopher Filipiak. While I mainly work with CEOs and help people add revenue to their business, again, I’m safe space for people to be who they are and want what they want and we could do a coaching-only engagement. If you are a CEO, you are looking to add revenue, it’s going to look a little different but it’s very likely, if you want to change in your life and in your circumstance that I’d be able to help you and I’d encourage you to get in touch.
And that’s Christopher Filipiak, F-I-L-I-P-I-A-K, just to make sure people know how to spell it if you’re looking on LinkedIn. So, Christopher, thank you so much for joining us today on Action’s Antidotes, for sharing a lot about how we need to combine the idea of our thought processes but also actions in our lives in some capacity to integrate our new thought processes in order to create a new set of patterns.
It’s ultimately –– what it comes down to, and, Stephen, and this is something I realized in my own journey, it’s ultimately about actually having the result. It’s actually about creating the life that you really want and desire. I mean, part of that is the journey, but it’s going, “Hey, I’m really gonna do this. I’m really gonna have these things. I’m really gonna create this result,” and making a decision for that and starting to do that.
Yeah, because there’s a difference between, “I have this fantasy,” and it’s still this fantasy and, “I’m really actually gonna do something toward it,” which for everyone out there in the audience, first of all, I would like to thank you for tuning in to Action’s Antidotes today, for being open to inspiring stories and inspiring ideas, and I hope that you all find a way to do something, whatever it is, toward building that life that you really want and toward getting unstuck as I’m sure many of you out there are on that path already.
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About Christopher Filipiak
Christopher Filipiak is a sales consultant and coach who helps CEOs take control of their sales efforts to drive consistent, profitable growth. With a background in engineering, data analytics, and Fortune 100 consulting, he blends strategy, execution, and mindset transformation to build Sales Ready Organizations. Christopher has helped businesses 12x their sales, boost deal flow by 500%, and dramatically increase their client base.
He teaches that sales isn’t something done to someone, but for someone—reframing selling as a powerful, service-driven act. His approach integrates lean systems, entrepreneurship, and personal development to help CEOs grow revenue while creating the lifestyle they want.