What if things getting worse is actually a sign that you're closer than you think to a breakthrough? In this episode, Mykie Stiller and Arash Vossoughi explore the “messy middle,” the uncomfortable phase where results seem to go backwards, doubt creeps in, and the temptation to quit becomes stronger than ever. Arash shares why this phase is essential to lasting success, what's really happening beneath the surface, and why the biggest breakthroughs often come when you're tempted to give up. Discover how to navigate adversity, strengthen your mindset, and keep moving forward when the results haven't caught up with the work. Because the messy middle isn't a sign to stop. It's where winners are made.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Mykie introduces today’s topic: it’s worse before it gets better.
• Why you may very well be on the right track even if your results seem to be going backwards.
• Arash defines the term “messy middle.”
• What is really happening under the surface: a complete rewiring of the subconscious,
• Why the messy middle sucks, but remains essential to your success.
• How you know a quantum leap is coming (and a reminder of what a quantum leap is).
• He explains why your environment is important.
• Why the messy middle isn’t a sign to quit.
• Filling your inner circle with people who challenge your beliefs.
• The one phase: living from the end.
• Holding onto the unknowns and operating out of faith.
• Two important questions to ask when setting goals.
• What Arash sees when people hit the messy middle.
• Why your beliefs are the issue, not your strategies, when it comes to achieving results.
• The most important actions to get you through the messy middle.
• Arash explains why qutting is never an option, despite circumstances.
• Why your attitude toward change matters.
• He explains what the saying “Do hard, better” means.
• His advice to those currently finding themselves in the messy middle.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Robin Sharma

Voss Coaching Co

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Mykie Stiller on LinkedIn

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Arash Vossoughi on YouTube

Are you genuinely productive, or are you just comfortable being busy? The difference could be the key to unlocking your next level of growth. In this episode of the Seven Figure Standard Podcast, Arash Vossoughi and Mykie Stiller challenge the belief that being busy equals being productive, unpacking how distraction, hidden commitments, and a desire for comfort can quietly sabotage your success. Arash explains why focus is essential for creating breakthrough results and shares practical strategies for protecting your productive hours, building tiny habits, and establishing non-negotiable standards that drive lasting change. Arash also explores the role identity plays in shaping our results and challenges you to ask the harder questions. Discover how to stop chasing busyness and build a daily model of focus that drives meaningful personal and professional growth. By shifting your attention towards what truly matters, distractions begin to fade, productivity improves, and lasting results follow.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Why the busiest person in the room is often the most distracted.
• Arash unpacks one of the greatest hidden commitments we have.
• He explains why busy and distracted are not the same thing, even if they’re often grouped.
• Why being busy is simply an honest lie.
• Arash argues why he believes busy and productive don’t create breakthroughs.
• Defining distraction: anything that takes your mind off of your end goal.
• Understanding the number one most important work habit to develop.
• How to protect yourself against distraction.
• Tools to help you build habits that keep you focused.
• Key questions to identify distraction and a commitment to comfort.
• One of the greatest forms of self-sabotage.
• The difference between two incredibly busy people: one creates results, and the other doesn’t — why?
• Grading where you are and where you need to go.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap... and Others Don't

Voss Coaching Co

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Voss Coaching Co on Facebook

Email Voss Coaching Co

Mykie Stiller on LinkedIn

Mykie Stiller on Instagram
Arash Vossoughi on LinkedIn

Arash Vossoughi on YouTube

Being positive doesn’t guarantee success; you can be positive and still be broke. In this episode of The Seven-Figure Standard, Arash Vossoughi and Mykie Stiller challenge the idea that positivity alone is enough to create meaningful results. They take a deeper look at what attitude really means, explore what it means to create a rich life across finances, health, relationships, and personal growth, and explain how our internal programming shapes the results we experience. Discover the two things we can control, how our thoughts, feelings, and actions define our attitude, and the key characteristics that separate a powerful attitude from surface-level optimism. They also unpack why attitude matters most when things go wrong, why optimism requires brutal self-honesty, and how accurate thinking differs from simply thinking positively. Finally, learn how self-awareness, disciplined thinking, and intentional action can help you break old patterns, take control of your attitude, and start creating results that reflect the person you want to become.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Why you can be positive and still be creating horrible results.
• Looking deeper and understanding what attitude is.
• What it means to create a rich life.
• Arash defines what a program is and how it creates your results.
• He unpacks two things we can control.
• What attitude really means: thoughts, feelings, and actions.
• Characteristics that define a great attitude.
• Why a great attitude matters even when things go wrong.
• Optimism as an obsession: being brutally honest with yourself.
• The difference between accurate thinking and positive thinking.
• How to develop a powerful attitude through self-awareness and action.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Voss Coaching Co

Voss Coaching Co on LinkedIn

Voss Coaching Co on Instagram

Voss Coaching Co on Facebook

Email Voss Coaching Co

Mykie Stiller on LinkedIn

Mykie Stiller on Instagram

Arash Vossoughi on LinkedIn

Arash Vossoughi on YouTube

One decision is all it takes to change your life, but a decision that creates permanent change is always followed by action! Today on the Seven-Figure Standard Podcast, Arash is talking all about the kind of decision it takes to create permanent change in your life. In this conversation, you’ll hear all about Arash’s definition of what a decision is, why it needs to be followed through with action, ‘want’ as the prequel to making a decision, how making a decision based on money limits you, and more! We delve into the differences between making an irrevocable decision and wanting something but not getting it before discussing the danger of having a plan B. Arash also shares the real reason people avoid making ironclad decisions, the power of self-esteem, how much consideration to give a decision, making a decision privately, and knowing when decision remorse is real. Finally, Arash leaves listeners with inspiration to bet on themselves every day to make permanent change. Thanks for tuning in!

Key Points From This Episode:

• What a decision is and why it requires action as a follow-through.
• Why want/desire is always the prequel to making a decision.
• The danger of making decisions based on your bank balance.
• An irrevocable decision vs. wanting something and not getting it.
• Why having a plan B is problematic and why people have one.
• How much consideration to give a decision before making it.
• Arash explains how to improve the follow-through of decisions.
• The power of making a decision privately and quietly.
• How to know if remorse is real or if the program is pulling you back.
• Today’s action step: Bet on yourself daily!

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Think and Grow Rich

Voss Coaching Co

Voss Coaching Co on LinkedIn
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Voss Coaching Co on Facebook

Email Voss Coaching Co

Mykie Stiller on LinkedIn

Mykie Stiller on Instagram
Arash Vossoughi on LinkedIn

Arash Vossoughi on YouTube

When you experience real transformation, you make a dramatic, permanent change upward from where you are to where you are capable of being. But that kind of change does not come from simply learning more; it comes from putting the right principles into practice. In this episode, Mykie Stiller and Arash Vossoughi explore what creates lasting change and why information alone is not enough to produce new results. Arash reflects on his own transformation from debt and uncertainty to building an eight-figure business, and explains why direction, commitment, and implementation matter so much. They also discuss the role of identity, self-image, environment, and daily decisions in creating permanent change, while looking ahead to Transform LIVE 2026 and how being in the right environment can accelerate growth. Listen in to learn why transformation happens one day at a time and what it takes to create meaningful, lasting change.

Key Points From This Episode:

• Discover what transformation really means and why it creates permanent change.
• Learn why information alone does not create transformation.
• Find out how implementation turns ideas into results.
• How direction helped Arash stop starting and stopping.
• Hear how the right environment, like Transform LIVE, can raise your standards and identity.
• Why commitment, not discipline, was the real issue for Arash.
• Learn how self-image and identity shape what you believe is possible.
• Why transformation starts with deciding how you want to live.
• How transforming one day at a time creates lasting change.
• Why your current results reflect your past, not your future.
• Find out how Transform LIVE helps attendees focus on the actions that matter most.
• Who Transform LIVE is for and why it’s designed for people ready for real change.
• Why accountability and environment matter after the event.
• How standards, identity, and philosophy shape your results.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Transform LIVE 2026

Transform!: Freedom Demands Personal Transformation

Think and Grow Rich

Voss Coaching Co

Voss Coaching Co on LinkedIn
Voss Coaching Co on Instagram

Voss Coaching Co on Facebook

Email Voss Coaching Co

Mykie Stiller on LinkedIn

Mykie Stiller on Instagram
Arash Vossoughi on LinkedIn

Arash Vossoughi on YouTube

If you can change your story, you can change your life, and there is so much power in letting go of results in order to change your appearances! Today on the Seven-Figure Standard Podcast, we are discussing why you need to stop letting your results control you. Tuning in, you’ll hear all about what appearances tell you and what they don’t tell you, how to ignore them, why they can be so convincing, and more! We delve into how you can know when your actions need to change before discussing why tying your identity to results is so problematic and the danger of making decisions based on current appearances. We even touch on why you may be on the right track if your appearances look like you’re failing. Arash goes on to explain how to break the doom cycle of making decisions based on appearances. Finally, listeners are encouraged to focus on creating a change of attitude towards circumstances. Thanks for listening!

Key Points From This Episode:

• What appearances tell you and don’t tell you.
• How you can ignore your appearances.
• Why appearances can feel so convincing.
• Ignoring appearances versus ignoring reality.
• How to know when to change your actions.
• The danger of tying your identity to results.
• Some examples of deceptive appearances.
• Why making decisions based on appearances is bad.
• What your results are really telling you.
• How to break this ‘cycle of doom’ and redirect thoughts.
• Looking at the evidence of your behavior.
• Why you need to change your attitude to change circumstances.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Voss Coaching Co

Voss Coaching Co on LinkedIn
Voss Coaching Co on Instagram

Voss Coaching Co on Facebook

Email Voss Coaching Co

Mykie Stiller on LinkedIn

Mykie Stiller on Instagram
Arash Vossoughi on LinkedIn

Arash Vossoughi on YouTube

Everyone has an internal conversation running throughout the day, but how often do you stop to question where that voice comes from? In this episode, Mykie Stiller and Arash Vossoughi explore how your inner voice is shaped by past programming and how changing that conversation can change your results. Arash explains how to distinguish the fear-based voice of your past self from the calm, faith-based guidance of your intuition and future self. They discuss why language is so powerful, how to become more aware of limiting inner dialogue, and how accepting and rejecting ideas can help you take control of the conversation. Arash also shares practical exercises for retraining your internal voice, why repetition and discipline matter, and how your language influences your feelings and actions. Listen in to learn how to create an inner conversation that aligns with the person you want to become!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Where your internal voice comes from and how it reflects past programming.
• Why changing your language is the first step toward changing your results.
• The difference between fear-based programming and faith-based intuition.
• How your six higher faculties can help you override old programming.
• Recognizing the voice of your past self versus your future self.
• Using three-hour reminders to retrain your internal conversation.
• Why the first and last five minutes of your day matter.
• How to respond when doubt and limiting thoughts show up.
• Why your silent inner dialogue can be more influential than what you say aloud.
• Using acceptance and rejection of ideas to take control of your internal voice.
• How saying “I’m busy” can keep you focused on what’s comfortable, not on what is essential.
• Why controlling your language can change your feelings, actions, and results.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Voss Coaching Co

Voss Coaching Co on LinkedIn

Voss Coaching Co on Instagram

Voss Coaching Co on Facebook

Email Voss Coaching Co

Mykie Stiller on LinkedIn

Mykie Stiller on Instagram

Arash Vossoughi on LinkedIn

Arash Vossoughi on YouTube

There’s an in-between space after you make a decision but before the results show up. And it’s within that gap that many people give up. In this episode, Mykie Stiller and Arash Vossoughi explore what is really happening in that gap and why staying committed is essential, even when you can’t yet see evidence of progress. Arash explains the importance of delayed gratification, unwavering faith, and consistency, and how changes in your standards, thinking, actions, and emotional state can signal that you’re moving in the right direction. They discuss why looking for evidence too soon can reinforce doubt, why focusing on the process matters more than watching the scoreboard, and how calmness can signal an approaching breakthrough. Arash also shares how coachability changed his own trajectory and offers practical ways to stay aligned when doubt creeps in. Listen in to learn how to keep doing the work between the decision and the result!

Key Points From This Episode:

• Why most people give up in the space between decisions and results.
• The importance of delayed gratification, consistency, and unwavering faith.
• How to identify if someone is making progress: standards, thinking, and actions.
• Why looking for signs and evidence too early can reinforce doubt.
• How a calmer emotional state can signal an approaching breakthrough.
• Why focusing on the process matters more than checking the scoreboard.
• Ways your old identity can trigger self-sabotage before a breakthrough.
• How to recognize when you’re stuck: chasing, grinding, excuses, and blame.
• The difference between a wealth identity and a survival identity.
• Why coachability is essential when working toward your goals.
• What to tell yourself when doubt and frustration show up.

Links Mentioned in Today’s Episode:

Voss Coaching Co

Voss Coaching Co on LinkedIn

Voss Coaching Co on Instagram

Voss Coaching Co on Facebook

Email Voss Coaching Co

Mykie Stiller on LinkedIn

Mykie Stiller on Instagram

Arash Vossoughi on LinkedIn

Arash Vossoughi on YouTube