Ian Murray

I became a business owner at the age of 23, I opened a small insurance agency in a small town in Southwestern Ontario, Canada, that I wasn't from and knew nobody there. We built up the business and had a lot of success, but the business was running me. I was working almost every day and all hours. Insert all of the 5 frustrations here - my team would often laugh and say "Another Ian idea.... let's just stay quiet, he will move onto something else in a week". I ended up with gastritis, and then we had Triplets, and when they were 2 years old and I was yelling at them in my Kitchen, I ended up breaking down and crying, and I knew things needed to change. I am a big believer that things always enter my life at the right time. I joined Strategic Coach, and I was complaining about all of my business issues, and a cherry farmer from Northern Michigan handed me "Traction" - I put it on Audible and listened to it on my 4-hour drive home from Toronto, and it blew my mind. I was obsessed with it! This also started my multiple attempts at trying to implement EOS into my business and falling on my face. I convinced my wife to come into the business as the integrator because I saw how well we worked together raising triplets. I did the most unfair thing in the world, I handed her traction and said HERE IMPLEMENT THIS despite having no business owner experience. We eventually hired an EOS Implementer named Jon Weening and the business took off (despite me still doing a terrible job at correctly implementing EOS). All jokes aside one day I will write a book on how to NOT implement EOS and give all of my stories... maybe I will call the book "Traction? How about a flat tire!". I ended up working myself out of a job in my insurance agency and I was so passionate about EOS that I decided to become an EOS Implementer. I still own my insurance agency, it is growing and we have multiple locations and my leadership team is incredible! Now I get to work with business owners and help them and its the most rewarding things I have ever done in my professinal life.