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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

1/ 🟠 Leadership isn't about your title, it's about your influence. Influence is built through trust, relationships, results, and developing others. Great leaders move beyond relying on AUTHORITY, to earning respect by investing in people and helping them grow.

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

🟠 Shameful. Is this still the United States of America?

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

🟠 How do you get people to use the stairs more in public spaces? 🙂 #Ideas

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

🟠 Nothing humbles you faster than realizing the person you used to look up to is now posting thirst traps and crypto scams.

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

🟠 Helping to make exercising fun and spontaneous. #Ideas

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

🟠 Listen, most entrepreneurs have been taught that business growth is about adding MORE. More customers. More employees. More products. More meetings. More software. More complexity. We celebrate bigger teams, bigger offices, and bigger revenue as if they... open.substack.com/pub/charliet...

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Don't build a CAGE and call it a company.

🟠 Listen, most entrepreneurs have been taught that business growth is about adding MORE.

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

🧵 1/2 🟠 Usain Bolt won 8 Olympic gold medals while spending less than 115 seconds actually racing on the track, and earned over $119 million in the process. That’s the ultimate economy of effort. But those few...

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

#Leadership #Business #Entrepreneur 🟠 Leading up to today, America’s 250th birthday, I’ve been finding myself thinking a lot about leadership. Listen, leadership is often framed as something mystical, almost theatrical. We celebrate the bold visionary, the... open.substack.com/pub/charliet...

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In both business and politics, confidence can be mistaken for competence...

🟠 Leading up to today, America’s 250th birthday, I’ve been finding myself thinking a lot about leadership.

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

🟠 250 years of showing up. 🇺🇸

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🧵 1/2 🟠 The "MY MARKET IS TOO SATURATED TO STAND OUT" excuse... Listen, the market isn't saturated with solutions; it's saturated with identical messaging. You sound exactly like your competitors because you are copying their playbooks.

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

🟠 Listen, my work has always centered on helping founders and operators build businesses that are resilient, scalable, and built to last. But pretending that politics doesn’t affect business is a luxury none of us actually have. Decisions coming out of Washington open.substack.com/pub/charliet...

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Bad politics are bad for business. But...

🟠 Listen, my work has always centered on helping founders and operators build businesses that are resilient, scalable, and built to last.

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Vision without action stays stuck as noise. EXECUTION turns it into impact.

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

#Business #SuccessHabits #Entrepreneur #Solopreneur 🟠 Listen, the old gatekeepers are gone. The networks, newspapers, and boardrooms that once decided who was “allowed” to win no longer control the outcome. The MARKET decides now, in real time. And for... open.substack.com/pub/charliet...

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Solopreneurs... Stand up.

🟠 Listen, the old gatekeepers are gone.

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

#Business #BusinessGrowth #SuccessHabits #Entrepreneur 🟠 Listen - in business, being invisible is far more dangerous than being imperfect. The people who stand out in their markets aren’t louder or more aggressive - they’re CLEARER. They’re trusted. They can... open.substack.com/pub/charliet...

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Don't be invisible.

🟠 Listen - in business, being invisible is far more dangerous than being imperfect.

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

#Business #BusinessStartUp #SuccessHabits #Entrepreneur 🟠 Like you, I love to follow politics. I mean with all the wild drama in Washington these days, who doesn't?? One side blaming the other, the other side blaming history, and somehow, a carton of eggs... open.substack.com/pub/charliet...

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Politics, dreams and TRUE freedom.

🟠 Like you, I love to follow politics.

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

🟠 Revenue grows naturally when the value you deliver is unmistakable to the market. #Business #Entrepreneur #BusinessStrategy

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

🧵 1/2 🟠 The “I’M HESITANT TO RAISE MY PRICES BECAUSE CLIENTS MIGHT LEAVE” bottleneck. Listen, if your current clients buy from you solely because you are the cheapest option in town, you don't own a premium brand; you own a commodity. Discounting your pricing model only forces...

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

#Business #Entrepreneur #Leadership #BusinessStrategy 🟠 Listen, true leadership is never something an HR department hands you. It’s something you build, decision by decision, relationship by relationship, result by result. A company can give you a position... open.substack.com/pub/charliet...

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True leaders intentionally MENTOR, and multiply.

🟠 Listen, true leadership is never something an HR department hands you.

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

🟠 This clip of Korean soccer fans having fun with Mexican fans after the match is so cool. 🙂 The true spirit of sports. 👍🏼

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

🟠 Most entrepreneurs believe their next breakthrough requires a bold reinvention, a shiny new offer, or an entirely different direction. In reality, the greatest growth almost never comes from STARTING OVER, it comes from seeing what’s already there with sharper open.substack.com/pub/charliet...

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How impactful businesses are built.

🟠 Most entrepreneurs believe their next breakthrough requires a bold reinvention, a shiny new offer, or an entirely different direction.

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

🟠 A few years ago, I was fly fishing in Montana. I stood in the river with my guide while he asked me what I could see. I scanned the scene and confidently answered: the water, the rocks, the banks. He smiled, shook his head, and told me to look into the water... open.substack.com/pub/charliet...

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TRUST is the fastest growth strategy in business.

🟠 A few years ago, I was fly fishing in Montana.

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

What will you do with your one life?

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

A "Carnival of Corruption". The report shows that Tump is shameless profiteering from the Presidency ... even as he strips healthcare and rights from Americans 😑:

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 19/06/2025

WOW - Senator Tammy Duckworth really tore into failed Secretary of Defense, Pete Hegseth!! He was told some truths. 😄 I'm here for every second of it!

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 27/05/2025

GENERAL MARK MILLEY: "We don't take an oath to a wannabe Dictator." 🙂 🇺🇸

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Our generation of ordinary citizens is now called upon to ACT in the service of our democracy. To RESIST tyrannical, self-serving capture of our Nation. 🇺🇸 🔲 The late JOHN LEWIS: “Rosa Parks inspired us to find a way, to get in the way, to get in what I call GOOD trouble, necessary trouble.”

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 19/05/2025

Those that aspire to be KINGS or Emperors in America, will always fail. We don't play that game here. 🇺🇸 As evidenced by the rising tide of resistance... This was the Utah "hands off" rally the other day. ❤️

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

◼️ SPRINGSTEEN: “The America I love - the America I've written about that has been a beacon of hope and liberty for 250 years - is currently in the hands of a corrupt, incompetent and treasonous administration..." #ThanksBruce 🇺🇸

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Charlie Tengods @charlietengods.bsky.social · 17/05/2025

SEN. Adam Schiff was so right about Donald Trump back then, some years ago. SO right. 🤷🏻‍♂️ "You will NOT change him. You cannot constrain him. Truth matters little to him - what's RIGHT matters even less..." #MidnightInWashington

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