MIKE GARRISON

Mike Garrison, 2024 CEPA Member of the Year, is a nationally recognized business growth consultant, author, and creator of the Can I Borrow Your Car? referral methodology. A CEPA and Growth Drive™ Certified Professional, Mike helps top financial advisors, consultants, and business owners accelerate growth, deepen relationships, and build transferable value through intentional referral systems and strategic exit planning. 

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2024 Exit Planning Institute Member of the Year

Author and co-author of multiple best selling books on referrals and sales

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Mike Garrison, when not fly fishing or dreaming about it, has worked for 25+ years with financial advisors and small business owners across the globe helping them to both grow their business and enjoy their lives. Mike also enjoys helping business owners preserve legacies through his work as a Value Advisor in the exit planning process as a holder of the CEPA designation. 

His work is informed by experience as a multiple franchise owner across the USA, having been founding partner of an international training franchise, owner of multiple types of business entities with different types of exit experiences.

Mike is the founder of Values Based Mindset LLC.  Mike is the author of “Can I Borrow Your Car? How Financial Advisors Can Grow Their Business and Love their Life”. He is also the co-author of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com and USA Today bestseller: Truth or Delusion: Busting Networking’s Biggest Myths. Mike is also a contributing author to the number one bestseller Masters of Success. 

Mike is honored to be the 2024 Exit Planning Institute Member of the Year and

a faculty member of the Exit Planning Institute Academy and to have been invited multiple times to speak at their annual Exit Planning Summit. 

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Author and co-author of multiple best selling books on referrals and sales

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Mike Garrison, when not fly fishing or dreaming about it, has worked for 25+ years with financial advisors and small business owners across the globe helping them to both grow their business and enjoy their lives. Mike also enjoys helping business owners preserve legacies through his work as a Value Advisor in the exit planning process as a holder of the CEPA designation. 

His work is informed by experience as a multiple franchise owner across the USA, having been founding partner of an international training franchise, owner of multiple types of business entities with different types of exit experiences.

Mike is the founder of Values Based Mindset LLC.  Mike is the author of “Can I Borrow Your Car? How Financial Advisors Can Grow Their Business and Love their Life”. He is also the co-author of the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Amazon.com and USA Today bestseller: Truth or Delusion: Busting Networking’s Biggest Myths. Mike is also a contributing author to the number one bestseller Masters of Success. 

Mike is honored to be the 2024 Exit Planning Institute Member of the Year and

a faculty member of the Exit Planning Institute Academy and to have been invited multiple times to speak at their annual Exit Planning Summit. 

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