Play Your Position: Recent Episodes
Mary Lou Kayser
Many of us receive the call to leadership at some point in our lives. It can happen when we are young, and it can happen later. Sometimes it happens more than once. Regardless of its timing, saying yes to that call fundamentally changes us and the direction of our lives. The Play Your Position Podcast explores what happens when we answer the call -- and why it matters.
Eric Collett is the man who's rewriting the script on brain health and challenging everything we thought we knew about aging. Imagine a world where Alzheimer's isn't an inevitable decline, but a preventable condition. That's not science fiction - that's Eric's mission. A former memory care executive turned brain health revolutionary, Eric went from running a struggling care facility to developing a groundbreaking protocol that's helping people reverse cognitive decline - we're talking about Parkinson's patients doing jumping jacks after being wheelchair-bound, and dementia patients dramatically improving their cognitive scores.
With a childhood dream of building flying machines and a professional journey that's taken him from caring for seniors to consulting with NFL athletes, Eric isn't just another health expert - he's a visionary who believes your brain's potential is limited only by your willingness to understand and nurture it. His company, A Mind for All Seasons, isn't just treating symptoms - they're uncovering the root causes of neurological challenges, from dental health to environmental toxins.
If you've ever wondered whether cognitive decline is truly inevitable, or if you're ready to take control of your brain's future, this conversation will change everything you think you know about health, aging, and human potential.
Connect with Eric Collett on his website: https://amindforallseasons.com/
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/a-mind-for-all-seasons/
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I write for people who want more signal, less noise.
If that’s you, come find me here: gobeyondthescroll.com
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What's it like to be a legacy creative leader in the Nashville music scene? In today's episode, I'm diving into the world of music, leadership, and creative passion with John Chisum, a veteran songwriter, publisher, and mentor who has spent over 43 years in the music industry. From working with Christian music legends like Steven Curtis Chapman and the Gaither family to running Nashville Christian Songwriters, John has a wealth of wisdom about finding your authentic voice and navigating the complex landscape of creative entrepreneurship. He's not just about hit songs, but about empowering artists to understand their “why” and develop their unique talents. This conversation is perfect for: Musicians and aspiring artists; Leadership enthusiasts; and anyone seeking inspiration and authentic career advice in a world that often prioritizes fame over substance. Connect with John Chisum: On his website: https://www.nashvillechristiansongwriters.com/ On his podcast: https://www.nashvillechristiansongwriters.com/podcast/
On YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@JohnChisumOfficial
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I write for people who want more signal, less noise.
If that’s you, come find me here: gobeyondthescroll.com
Join the AI Conversation You've Been Waiting to Have without the Hype or Chaos.
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The River Only Runs One Way
The Far Unlit Unknown
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In this game-changing episode, Geoff Woods, author of "The AI Driven Leader," reveals how artificial intelligence can become your ultimate strategic thought partner. Geoff breaks down the myths, fears, and incredible potential of AI for leaders across all industries.
Key Takeaways:
- Discover how AI can elevate your strategic thinking in minutes
- Learn the CRIT framework for powerful AI communication
- Understand why AI is an enhancement, not a replacement, for human talent
Highlights:
- Geoff's transformative journey from traditional leadership to AI-powered strategy
- Real-world case study: How AI helped a manufacturing CEO solve a critical debt restructuring challenge
- Practical tips for overcoming AI fears and embracing technological innovation
Memorable Quote:
"Your greatest risk is not losing your job to AI, it's losing your job to someone who uses AI."
Connect with Geoff Woods:
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/geoff-woods-8534774/
Website: https://AILeadership.com
Book: "The AI Driven Leader" (Available on Amazon/Audible)
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The Far Unlit Unknown
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James Brown isn't just another business coach - he's a living testament to breaking through limitations. From being told he wasn't good enough as a young man to building a law practice that generated $8 million annually, James has transformed personal challenges into a powerful mission of helping entrepreneurs scale their businesses intelligently. In this riveting episode, James shares his journey from working on a General Motors assembly line while pursuing his law degree to becoming a leadership coach who helps business owners think differently. His approach is refreshingly data-driven: he teaches entrepreneurs how to manage by metrics, create sustainable systems, and most importantly, overcome the mental barriers that hold them back. With practical insights and hard-earned wisdom, James reveals how understanding your true goals - personally, professionally, and financially - is the first step to building a successful business. For listeners looking to dive deeper into James's transformative philosophy, he recommends two must-read books: "Unf*ck Yourself" by Gary Bishop, which challenges limiting beliefs, and "Energy Leadership" by Bruce Schneider, which helps entrepreneurs recognize and shift their mental energy levels. Want to learn more? Visit James's Business Accelerator Institute at https://businessaccelerator.institute/play where you can download his free guide on the top 10 mistakes that can destroy a business and even schedule a complimentary 30-minute discovery call.
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In today’s episode, I’m joined by the deeply insightful Marybeth Gregg—an author, leadership advisor, and creator of transformative roundtable experiences for women leaders. She first appeared on the podcast two years ago and is back with more insights about how to lead with integrity, purpose, and vision, especially when you are facing a major life shift.
We explore the power of real connection in an increasingly remote and distracted world, the courage it takes to lead with values, and why creating safe, judgment-free spaces is one of the most radical things we can do right now.
Marybeth shares personal stories of navigating transitions, what it means to embrace AI without losing our humanity, and how we can redefine leadership through curiosity, compassion, and culture.
If you’ve been feeling the weight of burnout, the pressure to be perfect, or the pull to lead more intentionally—this one’s for you.
Connect with Marybeth Gregg on her website: https://ticwl.com/
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marybethgregg/
Listen to her original PYP episode here: https://playyourpositionpodcast.com/marybeth-gregg/
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Are you ready to be inspired? Because the woman you are about to hear is truly a powerhouse of resilience and leadership! Her name is Krista Ryan, and she is a dynamic speaker, author, and workplace performance expert. As a third-generation owner and former Human Resources Director of her family's bank, Krista brings nearly two decades of experience in the financial industry. Her journey took a transformative turn after surviving the Route 91 Harvest Music Festival tragedy in Las Vegas, leading her to develop the 'Keep F!#ing Going' (KfG) Method—a motivational framework designed to help individuals and organizations thrive through chaos and change. Krista's insights have empowered C-suite executives, entrepreneurs, elite athletes, and more. She's also the CEO and founder of KfG Coaching, LLC, a Bravely Pro Coach, and a 'Room Tilter' with Limitless Minds. Her book, 'Keep F!#ing Going: A Formula to Live Better and Lead Stronger Through Chaos and Change,' encapsulates her philosophy and strategies for turning adversity into strength.
Connect with Krista Ryan on her website: https://www.kristaryan.com/
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/krista-ryan-pcc-b91830164/
Get her amazing book: https://a.co/d/fTp5qwG
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What happens when a star athlete with a leadership mindset steps into the world of business—starting at the front desk and rising to CEO? Well, Damon Lembi knows firsthand. Drafted by both the Atlanta Braves and the Yankees, he had his sights set on a professional baseball career. But when that path took an unexpected turn, he found himself in a completely different arena: the corporate world.
Rather than leaning on family connections, Damon started as a receptionist at Learnit, the company his father co-founded. But with the same work ethic and drive that made him a leader on the field, he climbed the ranks—eventually stepping into the CEO role just as the dot-com bubble was about to burst. What followed was a crash course in resilience, reinvention, and redefining leadership for a new era.
For over 30 years, Damon has been at the helm of Learnit, evolving it from a tech training company into a powerhouse for professional development. His insights on leadership, storytelling, and the future of work are shaped by his own journey—from navigating the highs and lows of entrepreneurship to embracing AI as a critical tool for the modern leader.
Meet Damon Lembi on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/damonlembi/
On his website: https://www.thelearnitallleader.com/podcast
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Today, you will hear my conversation with one of the OGs of the Internet, Perry Marshall. Let me tell you a little bit about Perry. He is undoubtedly one of the most experienced Internet Marketers of all time. If there’s ever an internet marketing hall of fame, he would be inducted in the first round. I remember crossing Perry’s path way back in my early days as an online business builder, long before this podcast was even an idea, let alone a full show. I remember thinking how smart he was then, and let me tell you -- he’s even smarter now.
You will hear Perry talk about his early days online, how he got involved, how he positioned himself with Google AdWords until he recognized hitching his brand to a platform he didn’t own was not a great idea. He’s written a ton about how to market and sell online, including “80/20 Sales and Marketing -- the Definitive Guide to Working Less and Making More.” You all know how much I love a good book title -- this is exceptional. And what’s inside will blow your mind.
Perry has consulted across 300+ industries, shaping the $400B digital ad space. He’s the founder of the $10M Evolution 2.0 Prize and co-founder of the Cancer & Evolution Working Group. Perry’s insights bridge the worlds of marketing, science, and entrepreneurship, making him a must-listen for anyone seeking growth and innovation.
You can find Perry on his website: https://perrymarshall.com
Get Perry's offer here: https://perrymarshall.com/podcast
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My guest Leslie Hassler is a powerhouse strategist, leader, and author who is an expert in transforming small businesses into thriving, freedom-generating ventures. She is the founder of Your Biz Rules with 17 years of entrepreneurial experience. She’s also the author of First This, Then That and the upcoming book Scaling Rich™. Leslie’s holistic approach helps businesses achieve predictable profits and sustainable growth, all while maintaining a balanced quality of life. Our conversation dives deep into what it takes to first grow a business, and then scale it (there is a difference between those two things and Leslie explains it beautifully!) Get ready for a lot of energy, wisdom, and good old fashioned common sense.
Connect with Leslie Hassler on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lesliehassler/ On her website: https://www.yourbizrules.com/
Get her books:
Scaling Rich: https://www.yourbizrules.com/buy-scaling-rich/
First This, Then That: https://www.yourbizrules.com/first-this-then-that-book/
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In today's episode, Brad Englert, a former CIO at the University of Texas at Austin, discusses his career journey and leadership insights. He emphasizes the importance of building relationships, mentoring, and understanding goals and aspirations, key themes in his book, Spheres of Influence. He also talks about AI's potential impact, noting both its benefits and the risks of deep fakes and security breaches. It's another fascinating conversation with a successful leader!
Connect with Brad Englert on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bradenglert/
Get Brad's book: https://a.co/d/4X35zP9
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Today, my guest is Amy Bobchek, a seasoned executive leader and sales strategist with over 25 years of experience leading successful large sales organizations. Amy is truly a sales leader powerhouse. She is passionate about building teams and creating transformative experiences for employees and customers. She gets results and she does it with flair.
But beyond the corporate walls, Amy loves to express her creativity. She sings with a band, she supports local arts communities, she wears amazingly cool clothes, and she has a knack for being fashion-forward including on Zoom calls. I’ve been fortunate to know Amy for three years and am so happy she and I finally had a chance to sit down together behind the mic and talk about leadership. Our conversation is upbeat, thoughtful, and most importantly -- rich with takeaways for you to enhance your leadership practice.
Connect with Amy Bobchek on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amy-bobchek/
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Your best ideas and decisions don’t come from doing the same things or waiting for the ‘perfect’ moment. They come from breaking the cycle of hesitation and trying something different. "Activate and Align" isn’t just a workshop—it’s your next bold move toward clarity, confidence, and meaningful change.
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You know that one scene in Raiders of the Lost Ark when Indiana Jones finds himself facing a machete-wielding bad guy in the marketplace? Not only is that one of the best scenes in the entire movie, but it also carries powerful symbolic significance for anyone on a quest to grow. There comes a time in your life when you have to be Indiana Jones in that one scene -- and in today's episode, I talk about why.
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The 2024 Retrospective is here! Take a listen to this year's highlight reel of the conversations I had with 22 amazing guests who each brought their experiences and stories to the leadership conversation. So many awesome takeaways, there are too many to list here. Let's just say it was another terrific year here at PYP -- thank you for being a part of the journey! = = = = =
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Today, my guest is Chad T Jenkins, a visionary wizard who knows how to alchemize friction into gold for entrepreneurs and companies all over the world looking to grow through innovation.
He recently launched his latest book, Friction Fuel [the secret to listening strategically and leveraging complaints to keep your business running on premium]. We talk a lot about his books; he has another one: Just Add a Zero, which I also highly recommend.
What's cool about Chad is he offers simple frameworks you can use to expand your leadership skills, as well as some practical exercises you can do today to tap into new ideas and an endless stream of innovation.
Chad is part business strategist, part contrarian and part philosopher who understands what’s happening in business today, and I think you're going to walk away after listening to our conversation with a renewed sense of possibility and your own potential.
Connect with Chad T. Jenkins:
on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/seedspark/
on his website: https://seedspark.com and https://seedspark.com/books/
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The River Only Runs One Way
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Six months of radical honesty, self-care, and self-love can transform your life.
Original blog post: https://maryloukayser.com/give-yourself-six-months/
My latest book -- The River Only Runs One Way -- is available everywhere books are sold! Get your copy and learn more about it here
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You are in for a treat today, Team PYP! My guest, Blair Bryant Nichols, takes us inside the world of speaking in a post-pandemic world. If getting on real and / or virtual stages is part of your big picture in the coming years, you will want to take notes. Lots of wisdom drops now!
Blair Bryant Nichols, Owner of BBN Creative Management for Diverse and Mission-Driven Talent, is a seasoned expert in building strategic speaking platforms for speakers and business leaders. With a background representing top authors and managing diverse projects for founders, entrepreneurs, and celebrities, Blair specializes in helping his clients understand the strategic landscape of public and corporate speaking, emphasizing the need for a diverse portfolio of offerings to compete effectively.
Blair holds an M.B.A. from UCLA-Anderson with a specialization in Entertainment Management and a B.A. in Literature from American University, complemented by his post-grad training at the Columbia Publishing Course.
Outside of work, Blair enjoys traveling, literature, board games, and spending time with his husband Gray and their Shepherd-mix rescue dog Aspen in his homes in West Hollywood and Lake Arrowhead.
Connect with Blair Bryant Nichols on his website: https://www.bbncreativemanagement.com/
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/bbn-creativemanagement-llc/
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Kyle Mau is a seasoned entrepreneur with a diverse background. At the age of 24, he made a pivotal decision to leave his corporate engineering role and relocate to Eastern Europe, eventually settling in Kyiv, Ukraine. As a permanent expatriate and property owner in Ukraine, he is deeply integrated in the local culture and business landscape.
There, he successfully launched and managed a widely-read blog, amassing over 1 million readers a year at it’s peak. Additionally, Kyle co-founded Selo Olive, an esteemed olive oil company based in Croatia shipping directly from family farm to consumer. With a keen eye for talent and opportunity, Kyle went on to establish HireUA, a premier staffing and recruiting agency specializing in connecting skilled Eastern European professionals with Western companies. When Russia invaded Ukraine, Kyle relocated his family to Poland but maintained his commitment to fostering international connections for Ukrainians.
Today, Kyle focuses on business growth and strategy, entrusting the day-to-day operations of HireUA to his capable team. Under his leadership, HireUA continues to facilitate seamless talent acquisition, enabling businesses to thrive while saving employers 70-80% on premium talent in just 5 days.
Connect with Kyle on his website: https://Hire-UA.com
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/maukyle/
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Today's guest is Brett Snodgrass, a distinguished real estate investor with 15+ years of expertise. Brett is a versatile entrepreneur excelling in flipping, creative financing, and business scaling. As the driving force behind SIMPLE QUARTERS, his team handles 250+ property transactions annually while also orchestrating 50+ creative financing deals for passive income.
Seamlessly integrating faith and business acumen, Brett extends opportunities and spreads the mission of God. An active member of The Collective Genius, Brett contributes to philanthropy, supporting missions like Transforming Futures. Featured on prominent podcasts and hosting “The Iron Deep Podcast,” Brett thrives with his team.
Passionate about ministering to entrepreneurs, he founded Iron Deep in 2021, a unique men’s community focusing on purpose in Christ. Imperfect yet driven, Iron Deep is a band of brothers encouraging personal and professional growth, prioritizing significance over success. Brett, a devoted family man, values impactful ministries, aiming to empower the vulnerable for a thriving life.
Connect with Brett Snodgrass on his website: https://www.irondeep.com/
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brett-snodgrass-76057358/
On his podcast: https://www.irondeep.com/podcast
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"Do the right thing even if it's not in your best interest," says today's guest, Retired Lieutenant Colonel Oakland "Oak" McCulloch. Our conversation is full of insights like this. With Oak's stellar military background coupled with his work as a leadership coach and keynote speaker, today's episode provides plenty of examples of how we can all focus on developing our leadership practices.
Oak is the author of the 2021 release, Your Leadership Legacy: Becoming the Leader You Were Meant to Be. Oak is also an internationally recognized speaker who gives talks on leadership and success. Both his books and his talks are based on his 40+ years of leadership in the U.S. Army and subsequent civilian positions, Oak highlights principles that will benefit today’s leaders and inspire the leaders of tomorrow.
Connect with Oak on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oakland-mcculloch-34293256/
On his website: https://www.ltcoakmcculloch.com/
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When people enter the retirement phase of their lives my guest Tyson Ray describes what's left for them in three parts: the Go-Go Years, the Slow-Go Years, and the No-Go years. His mission is to help people have enough money to fund all three with plenty left over. In today's episode, we have a lively conversation about money, investing, and how to work with a financial advisor so you get the most of what you have to invest. Enjoy! About Tyson Ray Senior wealth advisor, philanthropist, and author Tyson Ray, based in Lake Geneva, Wisconsin, has over 25 years of experience in his field. As CEO and founding partner of FORM Wealth Advisors, Tyson is dedicated to helping clients live better lives. He seeks to add value by helping clients understand the future consequences of their actions, aiming to provide perspective in an industry often trying to scare clients.
In his book, Tyson introduces the Total Relationship™ framework to help financial advisors fully understand their clients’ needs. While sharing client experiences, Tyson guides readers through the value an advisor can bring when they empower clients to live the best life they can afford.
As a continuous industry learner, Tyson has expanded his knowledge by obtaining his CFP®, CIMA®, and CExP® certifications. However, he believes that some of the most valuable education he has received comes from the advisors and clients he works alongside.
Connect with Tyson Ray on his website: https://formwealth.com/tyson-ray/
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/form-wealth-advisors/
Get his book on Amazon: https://amzn.to/4bHszKJ
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What can happen when we choose to pay attention to what and who is around us?
This episode originally appeared on my blog here: https://maryloukayser.com/i-didnt-look-at-my-phone/
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This is a really fun episode. It's rare that I get to talk to two amazing guests at the same time. "Mike&Bo" aka Mike Merrigan and Bo Kort are best friends and they also have built a successful real estate investment portfolio together that funds their freedom. Over the past 30 years, Mike and Bo have acquired hundreds of properties and built over 43 companies. Now, they want to teach others how two small-town guys from Arizona did it—and how you can too. Are you fed up with the typical financial freedom "gurus"? Mike & Bo are the breath of fresh air you've been so desperately needing.
These guys are the real deal! Connect with Mike & Bo here: https://mikeandbo.biz/
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When was the last time you took a few minutes and acknowledged how far you've come in your life? In today's episode, I'm flying solo, talking about how powerful it is to look back and identify just how much you've actually achieved (even when sometimes it doesn't feel like it).
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Get ready to dive deep into the world of IT transformation with Dan Branco, the ultimate Chief Technology Officer for hire. With a wealth of experience helping organizations maximize their IT investments, Dan is the go-to expert for overcoming a myriad of challenges.
Is your tech team struggling to keep pace with stakeholder demands? Are legacy systems holding you back from innovation? Do you need to scale up for a major tech project? Or perhaps you're eager to embrace cloud services but unsure where to start? Cybersecurity concerns keeping you up at night? Looking to boost your digital maturity?
Fear not, because Dan has the solutions you've been searching for. His expertise extends far beyond the boardroom, as he'll also share invaluable insights on excelling in multiple fields and conquering lifelong anxiety. Plus, get an exclusive sneak peek into his upcoming book!
Whether you're a CEO seeking to revolutionize your organization's tech strategy or simply intrigued by Dan's journey, this interview promises to inspire and inform. Don't miss out - tune in for a conversation that will change the way you approach IT transformation.
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On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danbranco/
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My guest today is Michelle LaBrosse, a powerhouse in project management and innovation. As the Founder & CEO of Cheetah Learning, Michelle brings her dynamic expertise to the forefront, sharing insights from her incredible journey as an Aerospace Engineer and former Air Force Officer.
Discover the secrets behind Cheetah Learning's groundbreaking methodologies that have earned global recognition, including being named the 2008 Professional Development Provider of the Year by the Project Management Institute. Michelle's accolades extend further as she's celebrated as one of PMI's 25 Most Influential Women in Project Management.
In our conversation today, Michelle unveils her remarkable story of growth and leadership, from her engineering roots at Syracuse University and the University of Dayton to her transformative experience at Harvard Business School. With features in over 1000 publications and a dedicated readership of over 50,000 through her Know How Network column, Michelle's impact on project management education is unparalleled.
Michelle is on a mission to revolutionize project management, making it accessible and enjoyable for all. Don't miss this opportunity to learn from a true visionary, as she reveals the keys to unlocking exceptional outcomes in any endeavor. This interview promises to be an inspiring journey through innovation, leadership, and the power of getting things done fast, the Cheetah Project Management way.
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On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/best-pmp-exam-prep-course/
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With me today is Kyle Smith, CPA, a dynamic finance expert on a mission to empower small and medium-sized businesses. From his early days navigating Austin's bustling financial scene to his pivotal role as Director of Finance at Celis Brewery, Kyle's journey is one of passion and dedication.
Discover how Kyle's expertise evolved at Scalefactor, where he advised clients across diverse industries, and culminated in co-founding Strata Cloud Accountants. Join us for a dynamic conversation as Kyle shares his secrets for aligning personal and company goals, equipping businesses with the financial savvy needed to thrive in today's competitive landscape.
Learn firsthand about the founding principles behind Strata Cloud Accountants, where values of family and freedom drive their mission to provide clients with financial liberation. Don't miss this opportunity to gain insights from a visionary leader committed to helping businesses and business owners achieve greater profitability. Tune in and be inspired by Kyle Smith's remarkable journey!
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John Miller is the founder of Scribewise, a content marketing agency that helps B2B firms grow through demand generation and thought leadership. With a dedicated team of talented writers, designers, and strategists, John’s mission is to humanize complex business conversations. They develop and deliver captivating, audience-centric content that builds trust with Scribewise’s clients’ future customers.
John is the leading champion for courageous marketing. He believes that the business landscape is in dire need of a transformation from vanilla to vibrant. He’s committed to swinging for the fences and infusing excitement into the corporate world, a passion that culminated in the authorship of his compelling book, “Playing It Safe Sucks: A Manifesto for Courageous Marketing.”
John and his team at Scribewise help mid-sized B2B firms modernize their marketing by developing and executing content marketing programs that forge enduring, trust-based relationships with their ideal customers. In a world that often fixates on SEO, John proudly describes Scribewise as “SEO-cynical.”
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How do you get people to trust you when they don’t even know you? If you aren’t a thought leader, you’re a commodity. There’s no middle ground. And the most powerful, exciting, and fun way to rescue yourself from the commodity trap is by having a book of your own.
My guest today is New York Times bestselling author and the world’s most experienced ghostwriter Michael Levin, who is responsible for the writing, editing, planning, and publishing of more than 1,000 books over a 30-year career. He has written for the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, HuffPost, LA Times, Boston Globe, and many other top outlets.
Michael's ghostwriting clients include Boeing and Ford CEO Alan Mulally, baseball Hall of Famer Dave Winfield, motivational speaker Zig Ziglar (he edited Zig’s last book), NFL legend Pat Summerall, and countless other leaders in business, sports, broadcasting, real estate, finance, insurance, and many other fields.
Today, Michael is going to talk about how you can get your own book done quickly and easily…even without employing a ghostwriter. Connect with Michael on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thebestearningauthor/ On his website: https://www.michaellevinwrites.com/
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There are three main reasons why so many of us love March Madness. In today's episode, I talk about them and how they connect to the bigger picture of playing our positions.
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My guest today is Aaron Marcum. Aaron Marcum has spent over two decades founding and scaling award-winning, multi-million-dollar enterprises that have left an indelible mark on North America. His journey began in the healthcare sector, where his leadership transformed the home care industry. Through his second startup, Aaron revolutionized the lives of countless entrepreneurs and millions of seniors receiving care. He pioneered the Best of Home Care® award program, setting a new industry standard for quality measurement.
Recognized with numerous accolades, Aaron’s visionary leadership and service have earned him a national speaking platform since 2006. He thrives in empowering audiences to effect positive change in both personal and professional spheres.
Beyond his business success, Aaron embraces life as a devoted husband, father, Christian, and strategic leadership coach with a master’s degree in Applied Positive Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied under luminaries like Dr. Martin Seligman. Aaron’s passion lies in helping entrepreneurs eliminate stress, find their path to flourishing, and create “The Good Life.” Look out for his upcoming book, “EntreThrive,” which encapsulates his journey and the EntreThrive mission. Join him in the pursuit of a happier, more fulfilling life.
Connect with Aaro Marcum on his website: https://www.entrethrive.com/
Get the Guiding Truths Handout: https://www.entrethrive.com/pyp/
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Get his book: https://amzn.to/3IEcCJ1
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Anna Maria Ponzi is the former owner and past president of Ponzi Vineyards in Oregon’s Willamette Valley. From the age of four, she’s had the rare experience of working in every aspect of the winery. She helped plant its original vines, worked on the bottling line, hosted guests in the tasting room and has made countless national and international sales calls. Anna Maria has served the state’s wine industry in myriad ways, including serving as an early ambassador for Oregon wine both nationally and internationally while building Oregon wine country into a travel destination.
After earning her degree in journalism from the University of Oregon, she worked in Boston’s publishing industry until returning to the rural family business in 1991. Soon after, she was joined by her winemaking sister and the two young women trailblazed the growing tide of female vintners. Simultaneously, they grew the business from an annual production of 10,000 to over 50,000 cases and increased its vineyard holdings from 20 to 140 acres. This ownership distinguished Ponzi Vineyards as the nation’s only winery solely owned and operated by second-generation sisters at the time.
She is recognized for establishing a premiere travel destination with the opening of the valley’s first seated wine experience among other visitor attractions in the area. Her memoir ‘Pinot Girl’ was released in celebration of the winery’s 50th Anniversary in 2020. A year later, she and her sister successfully negotiated the sale of the winery to the esteemed French house Société Jacques Bollinger of Champagne, France. In 2023, she created “The Four-Ounce Pour”, a keynote that reflects on her life in wine and how bringing intentionality and balance into our lives creates greater meaning and impact.
Connect with Maria Ponzi on her website: https://www.amponzi.com/
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/anna-maria-ponzi-86b14a245/
On Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/amponzico/
Learn more about Anthony's Circle: https://www.anthonyscircle.org/
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Some non-obvious takeaways about leadership from the movie Oppenheimer which has been nominated for 13 Oscars this year.
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In today's episode, David and I explore the profound journey of leadership and how it evolves with time.
Reflecting on his own path, David has come to realize that leadership isn't just about titles or positions—it's a dynamic journey that evolves with time and experience. From his early days in the Boy Scouts, where he first tasted leadership responsibility, to building and leading teams in his business ventures, every step has been a lesson in growth and accountability. What's truly fascinating is how his perception of leadership has shifted—from leading himself to guiding a team, and now, nurturing leadership qualities in his own son.
One of the big takeaways for David about leadership as he reflects on his own journey is this: Leadership isn't confined to the boardroom; it extends into our personal lives, shaping our roles as parents and mentors. Embracing this multifaceted aspect of leadership brings richness to our experiences and opportunities for continuous improvement. Let's remember, leadership is not just about leading others—it's about inspiring growth, fostering resilience, and embracing responsibility at every turn. About David Braithwaite With several years of experience as an Associate Coach for Strategic Coach® and as a financial planner, David Braithwaite has built a reputation for his empathetic approach to coaching and facilitating meaningful conversations. He is a regular guest on BBC radio and TV and has even hosted his own BBC show, “On The Air With David Braithwaite.” He has also spoken at various conferences around the world with audiences up to 14,000.
David has a remarkable ability to connect with people and help them achieve their life goals by creating a supportive and safe environment where they can grow. As a coach and successful entrepreneur, David’s real-life experiences provide valuable insights for his clients and listeners.
With his passion for storytelling, David offers a unique perspective on the ups and downs of entrepreneurship and personal growth. Whether you’re looking for inspiration or practical advice, David’s dynamic personality and insightful commentary will make for a thought-provoking and enjoyable listening experience today.
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How is AI changing the way we play our positions? In today's episode, I share my thoughts about this as well as a few of the AI tools I use in my workflow for time efficiency, productivity, and creativity. The world isn't what it used to be -- AI is here. We owe it to ourselves to stay on top of what's happening.
AI Tools for Your Consideration ChatGPT https://chat.openai.com/
Claude ai https://claude.ai/
Lensa ai https://lensa.app/
Otter ai https://otter.ai/
Brainstory ai https://www.brainstory.ai/
Perplexity ai https://www.perplexity.ai/
PYP Episodes Mentioned on Today's Show https://playyourpositionpodcast.com/dirk-van-reenen/
https://playyourpositionpodcast.com/tony-wall/
https://playyourpositionpodcast.com/brigitte-piniewski/
https://playyourpositionpodcast.com/jason-shen/
https://traffic.libsyn.com/playyourposition/AINottheProblem.mp3
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Linda Cohen is an international keynote speaker, consultant, author, and trainer who considers herself a kindness catalyst. She shares the ROI of kindness with businesses and associations around the world through customized interactive programs for team meetings and conference keynotes with enthusiasm and expertise. Linda believes kindness is no longer a nice to have in the workplace, but an imperative skill for leaders and employees to cultivate. She says that kindness is at the basis of every aspect of a positive company culture from recruitment and retention to morale and burnout. Her book The Kindness Economy showcases nemerous examples of the ways employing kindness into compnay culture generates improvement in these common performance metrics. In short, Linda proves again and again that leaders who develop a "kindness practice" build stronger organizations and bigger bottom lines. Linda lives in Portland, Oregon where she enjoys spending time with her family.
Connect with Linda on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lindamcohen/
On her website: https://lindacohenconsulting.com/
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Tim Fortescue is an extraordinary communication coach who ignites transformation and drives success. With a background in basketball coaching and a passion for helping individuals grow, Tim’s journey has taken him from volunteer high school basketball coach to founding his own coaching venture, 40 Watt Coaching.
His coaching philosophy centers around coaching the full human, not just a person’s speech patterns. Tim’s extensive experience includes coaching and training thousands of individuals across six continents, working with renowned organizations like Nike, Amazon, Netflix, and Google.
Tim’s expertise extends beyond coaching, as he has led Manager and Leadership Enablement at the fintech giant Stripe. Prior to that, he served as a Managing Director and Senior Communication Coach at Own The Room, where he honed his skills and empowered executives at Fortune 500 companies.
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On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timfortescue/
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Jeff Bartsch is a visionary storyteller, communication strategist, and founder at Story Greenlight. With over 20 years of experience in the entertainment industry and online business, Jeff has helped shape content for clients including ABC, NBC, Universal, Disney, Apple, and many others. Jeff’s commentary has been featured in major publications including Time Magazine, USA Today, and the Associated Press. Through Story Greenlight, Jeff and his team empower business experts and leaders to tell their stories, serve more clients, and expand their impact in the world. He believes that the power of story is within reach of everyone, and that human connection is everything.
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On his website: https://www.storygreenlight.com/
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Michele Hecken is an ex-CEO who helps high-performing leaders design an organization where each person spends at least 80% of their time working on things they love.
She calls herself a contagious optimist, lover of freedom, shifter of paradigms, lifelong learner, and artist. Michele built, operated, scaled, and exited a successful business in the translation industry. She is an Entrepreneur at heart who moves fast, can’t sit still, and is addicted to personal and professional growth. She spent 25 years serving as CEO of the company, turning it into a well-oiled machine that continued to scale without needing her to micro-manage people, systems, and business units.
She completed a high-7-figure exit – and realized that her superpower lies in building companies where leaders focus exclusively on what inspires the organization, and eliminating the rest.
Today she serves as an Advisor to high performers who want to run businesses that serve them and live lives they dream of. Features in media outlets including Inc. Magazine, the Financial Post, Smart Business Revolution, the Edmonton Journal, and numerous podcasts. A passionate public Speaker, she leads talks and workshops across the globe to audiences ranging from Fortune 500 companies to groups of world-class entrepreneurs.
Connect with Michele Hecken on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michelehecken/
Visit Michele Hecken's website: https://www.michelehecken.com/
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What trends are driving growth today and into the future? In today's episode, I explore two trends based on the research data by people who are way smarter than I am. You can check out these people here. The bottom line is, if you are looking to expand, or cash in on some consumer spending trends for your personal or professional life, this episode will give you some things worth thinking about. Enjoy!
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Jason Brown is a big fan of Jim Rohn's quote: " Use the past as a school, not a club. Don't beat yourself up!" In today's episode, you will hear Jason's leadership story including how he managed to turn an investment that didn't work out into his life's calling -- and how he helps others take charge of their financial futures.
Jason Brown is a finance graduate from Wayne State University with over a decade of experience in stocks and options trading. At the young age of 23, Jason started trading with a $10,000 student loan and grew it into a six-figure trading account. His passion for teaching others about stock market investing led him to create his own online education company “Power Trades University” which has helped thousands of students worldwide to start investing.
Jason is an active YouTuber with over 80,000 subscribers and his videos have reached over 1 million views. He is also the host of the “Money, Markets and Mindset Podcast”. Jason believes that anyone can profit from the stock market if they know what to look for, and how to spot low-risk but high-reward times to buy and sell combined with the right option strategies to supercharge returns and minimize risk.
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On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonbrown1124/
Listen to his podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/5-year-millionaire-podcast/id909385126
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Today's guest is Dave Newell who is on a mission to “align the misaligned” — connecting leaders with systems that foster outstanding work and personal fulfillment. If you're feeling like any aspect of your current business is off-kilter, this conversation will help you find your bearings. Dave collaborates with small business leaders to implement the Five Facets of Business™ — a small business operating system — to optimize processes, foster team alignment around culture, strategy, operations, story, and finances. This framework provides leaders with the necessary clarity and alignment to crush both short and long-term goals. Dave has coached hundreds of leaders both nationally and internationally and has implemented this framework for the last 11 years.
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On his website: https://theevolvedifference.com/
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In today's episode, I have an in-depth conversation with branding and storytelling expert Emma Donovan of Dapper. As we launch a new year, the ideas Emma shares about choosing online platforms, owning your story in an authentic way, and driving the narrative about yourself and your brand are timely -- and timeless.
Emma Donovan is a seasoned entrepreneur with 15+ years of experience in brand strategy and professional profiling. As co-founder of Dapper, she excels in creating innovative products and collaborating with brilliant minds. Emma’s superpower lies in injecting enthusiasm and vibrancy into any situation. Currently, Emma’s focus is on sustainable ways to approach personal brand development for entrepreneurs and leadership teams, in a way that’s authentic and creates space to build their brands with intention.
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On her website: https://becomedapper.com/
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Happy New Year, Part 2! In today’s episode you will hear 23 remarkable voices of the men who appeared on the Play Your Position Podcast in 2023. Below you will find a list of these men in alphabetical order by first name along with a way to connect with them. I encourage you to follow and reach out to the ones who resonate with you and your passions and goals.
From financial literacy to resonating stories of resilience and the power of community, these speakers underscore the multidimensionality of leadership. Together, they harmonize to redefine the essence of leadership in our era. It's a truly inspirational listen. Enjoy!
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The Men in Alphabetical Order
Andy Hite https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-hite/
Bryce Henson https://www.linkedin.com/in/realbrycehenson/
Chris Larsen https://www.linkedin.com/in/nextlevelincome/
Dr. Taylor Hartman https://www.linkedin.com/in/taylor-hartman-29b37a1/
Gordon Graham https://www.linkedin.com/in/gordon-graham-57385319a/
James Cluskey https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-cluskey-5bb8376a/
Jason Shen https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonshen/
John Gumas https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-gumas-08046/
John Ovrom https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnovrom/
Josh Greene https://www.linkedin.com/in/greenejoshua/
Kevin Maney https://www.linkedin.com/in/kevinmaney/
Luis Scott https://www.linkedin.com/in/luis-scott-bader-law/
Mark Brodinsky https://www.linkedin.com/in/markbrodinsky/
Mark Yegge https://www.linkedin.com/in/markyegge/
Mario Lanzarotti https://www.linkedin.com/in/lanzarottimario/
Owen McGab https://www.linkedin.com/in/owenmcgabenaohwo/
Patrick Woods https://www.linkedin.com/in/patrickjwoods/
Paul Jackson https://grow.method.me/pyp/
Richard Newman https://www.linkedin.com/in/richardnewmanspeaks/
Rob Commodari https://www.linkedin.com/in/robcommodari/
Tim Yurek https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-yurek/
Tony Castillo https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-tony-castillo/
Zack Slingsby https://www.linkedin.com/in/zack-slingsby-702461164/
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Every year, at the end of the year, I like to take the voices of the amazing leaders I had the privilege of speaking with over the past 12 months, and putting them together into one large file where we can listen to the amazing ideas and insights and inspiration they shared.
This year, I decided to do something different. I divided my guests into the women and the men. In this episode, you will hear the voices of the 13 incredible women from 2023 who shared their unique leadership journey with all of us here at PYP. Get ready to be inspired! = = = = =
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The Women in Alphabetical Order:
Alice Tang https://www.linkedin.com/in/askalicetang/
Amina Moreau https://www.linkedin.com/in/amina-moreau/
April Mitchell https://www.linkedin.com/in/april-mitchell-7132295b/
Barbara Turley https://www.linkedin.com/in/barbara-turley/
Catherine Tindall https://www.linkedin.com/in/ctindallcpa/
Dr. Brigitte Piniewski https://www.linkedin.com/in/brigittepiniewski/
Dr. Jean Oursler https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeanoursler/
Lisa Seal https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-seal/
Marybeth Gregg https://www.linkedin.com/in/marybethgregg/
Melissa Hughes https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-lisa-hughes-mha-pmp-37147742/
MiMi Chau https://www.linkedin.com/in/mimichau/
Spencer Snakard https://www.linkedin.com/in/spencersnakard/
Stephanie Nivinskus https://www.linkedin.com/in/stephanienivinskus/
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As we come to the end of this year, it's a natural time to reflect. The holidays and the craziness leading up to Christmas are behind us now. This is a really fertile time to do some self-examination and put the past 12 months of your life under the microscope. What worked? What didn’t? What do you wish you did more of? What unconventional adventures are calling you in the new year? Are you living a full life or are you playing it safe by someone else’s rules?
All this and more in today’s episode.
Resources mentioned in the show:
Get your free download of the year-end journal: https://www.melrobbins.com/podcasts/episode-131
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Do you have an idea for a game, toy, or household product? Wondering what it takes to get your ideas into the marketplace? Ever fantasized about pitching a product to get a licensing deal?
Today's guest is April Mitchell, an expert and leader in the invention and licensing space. In our conversation, April shares her experiences inventing games and products, and getting deals from companies to have them made and distributed. She also discusses what happens when your idea isn't right for a company, and the question about patents almost everyone asks. You are going to love her energy and enthusiasm as you learn about turning your ideas into real games, toys, and products.
In April's own words: "I am a professional problem solver, creative thinker, idea machine, magic maker, dreamer, and What if-er , also known as an inventor and designer specializing in the toys, games, party, and housewares industries. A product licensing expert and designer for hire whom uses my background as an educator, military spouse, and the “Mom of 4 Factor” for developing and designing products in several industries with some help from my TEAM(family of 6). A 2x Patented inventor whom has designed, developed, and licensed concepts in several industries. Areas of expertise include: organizational and storage products, kitchen tools & gadgets, party supplies, preschool toys & games, family games, party games, adult games, strategy games, sports toys and games, and outdoor/yard games. These products inspired by life as a military family, teacher, and mom bring both function and fun to families’ homes helping make life more enjoyable and convenient for everyone."
Connect with April on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/april-mitchell-7132295b/
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Are you ready for some awesome inspiration and laughs? Today's show features Andy Hite, a recognized leadership coach who supports entrepreneurs, executives, and their teams with energy and enthusiasm as they navigate the world of building businesses and lives filled with prosperity, meaning, & freedom.
Regardless of the setting—be it in front of an audience, within an intimate boardroom, or during individual client sessions—Andy’s background in commercial theatre, as an actor and executive, lends a distinctive perspective to his coaching practice.
Committed to making an impact and facilitating transformative change, Andy empowers entrepreneurs and executives to unlock their full potential and thrive in their respective fields. Leading with heart, he creates a nurturing environment that fosters growth and paves the way for true authentic leadership.
With a wealth of personal and professional growth experience, Andy is passionate about helping his clients explore new possibilities, challenge their limits, and unlock their true potential. As an accomplished executive and entrepreneur coach, Andy has impacted countless lives and earned a reputation for excellence. He is a sought-after guest, inspiring audiences with insights on how to lead more powerfully, love more deeply, and live more fully.
Connect with Andy Hite on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andy-hite/
Take the assessment Andy mentioned here: https://scalingminds.com/pyp
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Today's guest is Jason Shen, a former national champion gymnast and an executive coach with a focus on resilience and reinvention. As CEO of Refactor Labs, he coaches entrepreneurs and teams through crucial transitions and writes about creative risk-taking in his weekly newsletter Cultivating Resilience. He has been published in TechCrunch, Fast Company, and Vox and a speaker at Grubhub, Procter & Gamble, and Pinterest.
After facing multiple setbacks including layoffs, lawsuits, company failure, and traumatic knee injuries, Jason sought to understand what it takes to adapt and overcome adversity. His skills based Resilience Rules framework has helped hundreds of founders, leaders, and professionals learn to respond, restore, rebuild and reflect in the face of change. Jason’s next book is called The Path to Pivot—a playbook for entrepreneurs who want to reinvent their business—and will be released in Fall 2023.
Prior to Refactor Labs, Jason founded Ridejoy, a Y Combinator funded longdistance ridesharing marketplace, Headlight, a technical candidate assessment platform acquired by Woven, and Midgame, an AI gaming tools company acquired by Facebook (Meta). He holds the Guiness World Record for Aztec Pushups and two degrees from Stanford University. He lives in Brooklyn NY with his wife Amanda, a multidisciplinary artist.
Connect with Jason Shen on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jasonshen/
Jason's website: https://www.jasonshen.com/
Get a copy of Jason's book: https://www.pathtopivot.com/
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Have you ever seen a performance that moved you at the soul level? I have many times and it just happened again the other night when I was watching the Country Music Awards. I don't have a long history with country music as I've been a rock n roll girl most of my life. However, several country artists are putting out music these days I'm drawn to which is part of the inspiration behind today's episode. We can learn a lot about playing our positions more effectively from watching and studying people who are at the top of their game including people like Chris Stapleton and what he symbolizes for all of us on a universal level.
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Watch Chris Stapleton perform at the CMA 2023:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLhs0jfVRB8
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Richard Newman is the Founder of Body Talk, a business that helps people improve their communication and impact. In the past 23 years his team has trained over 120,000 business leaders around the world. One client gained over $1 Billion in new business in just one year using Richard’s techniques, winning 100% of their new business pitches.
When Richard was 18, he started his mission to discover the core principles of communication. As part of this mission, he lived in the foothills of the Himalayas with Tibetan monks who spoke no English. They had to communicate non-verbally to understand each other. He then worked as a professional actor before becoming a communication coach and keynote speaker.
Richard’s research on non-verbal communication was published in the Journal of Psychology. His study proved that you can increase your leadership ratings by 44% and win 59% more votes in an election by changing a few simple behaviors. He has also won the coveted Cicero Grand Prize Award for Best Speechwriter of the Year. His new book ‘Lift Your Impact’ explores how you can transform your mindset, influence and future to elevate your work, team and life.
Connect with Richard on his website: https://ukbodytalk.com/
Get his book here: https://liftyourimpact.com/thebook
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Have you ever felt like you're in a maze, searching for the elusive exit? I definitely have. Those times in my life when my vision and direction were muddy at best, I got so caught up in the whirlwind of life, I forgot the power of having a clear vision and direction. It's like having a treasure map without 'X' marking the spot. But here’s the harsh and compelling truth: underestimating the influence of a vision can be akin to sailing without a compass—it leaves you wandering aimlessly in the vast ocean of opportunities.
In today's episode, I share my own experience with getting clear about the direction and vision of my life despite the chaos of the past two years that continues to impact where I'm going and why. I also share an excellent exercise you can do to get some clarity about the direction and vision of your life as we wind down one year and look ahead to a new one. It's really powerful and can give you peace of mind that might be missing from your life right now.
Let me know what you discover! Contact me here: https://maryloukayser.com/contact-mary-lou-kayser/
Listen to Episode 478: Alice Tang on Building a Powerful Professional Network
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Well Team -- I've achieved a new milestone here at the Play Your Position Podcast!
Today's episode featuring the super accomplished, insightful, and hilarious Dr. Taylor Hartman marks number 500 of the show.
500 y'all! I am celebrating!
I remember thinking way back in the dark ages of early 2014 when I first started podcasting that having 50 episodes sounded impressive.
Here I am with 500 and I am proud of my work.
I am honored to have had the opportunity to converse about leadership and life with as many wonderful humans as I've had since I started.
And I'm grateful to all of you who tune in to the show each week.
I love you, Team PYP!
Are you ready for kickoff???
Let's go!
About Dr. Taylor Hartman
Through The People Code (formerly published as The Color Code) and The Character Code, Dr. Hartman provides a universal message, simple and profound: life is about relationships.
As an author, psychologist, corporate consultant and leadership coach, his life’s work has centered on providing an insightful system for improving your understanding of yourself and others and strengthening your day-to-day relationships with the People Code Personality Profile.
The People Code explains the “why” behind the “what” by identifying four basic personality types and showing you how to use “color profiles” to cultivate rich and balanced character and relationships.
In today's conversation, he goes into detail about the four colors. You will walk away with a new understanding of why you do what you do and perhaps more importantly, why others do what they do!
Use the code KAYSER30 to save when you sign up to take the powerful and life-changing Hartman Personality Profile Test here: https://taylorhartman.com/assessment-information/
Of all the assessments I've taken over the years (and I've taken them all), the Hartman Personality Assessment is by far the simplest to understand AND the most effective for strengthening relationships.
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What happens when someone famous dies?
In today's episode, I explore this question while paying tribute to the late actor, Matthew Perry, who died at the age of 54 on October 28, 2023.
Helpful Mental Health Resources
Forbes Health compiled a list of recommended online resources here: https://www.forbes.com/health/l/best-online-therapy/
Always use your best judgement, do your due diligence, and get a second opinion about any health-related resources before making any commitments.
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In today's episode, you will hear Amina Moreau discuss the future of shared workspaces as she and her business partners see it. She is a powerhouse of ideas, full of positive energy and enthusiasm for what’s possible! Get ready to think differently about what co-working spaces are and where you have your next team meeting.
Amina Moreau has a long and varied work experience. Amina began her career in 2004 as Cofounder and Executive Creative Director at Stillmotion, Inc., a five-time Emmy Award winning band of filmmakers.
In 2013, she co-founded Story & Heart, a footage licensing marketplace, education platform, and collaborative community of storytellers. That same year, she became a Partner at Marmoset, an off the beaten path, boutique music marketplace.
In 2017, she took on the role of Director of the Greater Portland Tennis Council, where she worked to give back to the community through the sport of tennis. In 2018, she became an Adjunct Professor at the University of Oregon's School of Journalism and Communication, teaching graduate students about the business of storytelling.
In 2020, she founded Float Small Business, a website that encourages small businesses to set up fundraising campaigns and gift card offerings. Additionally, she is the CEO and Cofounder of Radious, an online marketplace that turns houses, apartments, and other residential properties into collaborative workspaces, rentable by the day.
Connect with Amina Moreau
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/amina-moreau/
On the Radious website: https://radious.pro/
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and all your wildest dreams will come true.
This is one of my favorite lines from the movie Napoleon Dynamite. In today's episode I explore the role of dreams in our lives, especially wildest dreams. What happens if we don't allow ourselves to believe in big dreams? What happens if we stop dreaming altogther?
Original post: https://maryloukayser.com/vote-for-pedro/
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Most of us are approaching our health care from an outdated, average model based on data that doesn't help anyone experience exceptional health. Get ready to have your mind blown about what's possible for each of us in coming years when what Dr. Brigitte Piniewski discusses becomes standard in the healthcare system. I haven't stopped thinking about what she talks about since we recorded this episode. She is leading the charge in something truly revolutionary.
Dr. Brigitte Piniewski is a physician, ex-healthcare executive, researcher, author and angel investor who has witnessed healthcare from almost every angle. More recently, while providing investor education in the Web3 ethos, she appreciated the potential for pivotal health transformation now possible using new distributed ledger approaches. However, our Health industry would need multidisciplinary experts to update their understanding of the possibilities Web3 might enable. Thus her book, “Wealthcare: Demystifying Web3 and the Rise of Personal Data Economies” provides a starter-pack of sorts to engage diverse stakeholders to share a common vision and vocabulary. Together we should expect to design and deliver both health and wealth to our communities in perpetuity.
Connect with Dr. Brigitte Piniewski on her website: https://www.nex3.com/
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brigittepiniewski/
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And sometimes getting re-routed is the best thing that can happen to us.
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For many businesses, trade shows are an integral piece of the marketing puzzle. By their nature, they can be hit or miss. I’ve experienced both -- and the misses are worse than a bad night's sleep. In today's episode, I dive into 5 unconventional tips for leaders who want to experience success at their next trade show or networking event. Great info for anyone who is interested in getting a higher ROI from attending a trade show or professional event.
Original post: https://maryloukayser.com/trade-show-success/
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Today's guest is Mark Brodinsky, a writer, accomplished speaker, Emmy winner and a passionate believer in the power of your story. It is his mission to positively impact the lives of a billion people with his "You Matter" Movement. Mark worked many years in the TV industry as an Emmy-Award winning writer and producer. The creative process of working as a TV news producer helped him to think on his feet and to think about what change he can help to bring about in the world using his gifts and talents. He wants to see others reach for and achieve their dreams by focusing on and cultivating a foundation of good health, gratitude, appreciation and love.
Connect with Mark on his website: https://markbrodinsky.life/
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If not, why not?
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Bryce Henson is the CEO of Fit Body Boot Camp, the world’s fastestgrowing fitness boot camp franchise. Having nearly 20 years of Fitness Business experience and owning his own Fit Body location, his passion is spreading fitness to the world through business coaching. Through Fit Body Boot Camp’s World Wide growth, Bryce has overseen hundreds of gyms successfully launched throughout North America. Most importantly, he helps his Franchise Partners grow their profits while helping to offset the obesity epidemic. In today's conversation, Bryce shares his story of when he answered the call to leadership and how that call continues to shape his passion for fitness and business. Get ready to get enthused about your health and what's possible!
Connect with Bryce on his website: https://fitbodybootcamp.com/
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/realbrycehenson/
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Just about everyone knows that the American Dream as it was once presented is no longer attainable. It's not that the dream itself is dead -- it simply needs to be redefined. Today's guest is Tim Yurek, a highly accomplished financial consultant veteran and thought leader in his industry who is leading the conversation about how to redefine and achieve the new American Dream. Time believes the best leaders question everything and in our conversation, he talks about why.
As the founder and CEO of Tier 1 Capital, Tim has spent over 35 years helping 1000s of people across the country achieve their financial goals. He specializes in growing businesses, attracting and retaining top talent, planning for business succession, and converting business equity into cash. With his global recognition and membership in the million dollar round table, Tim offers valuable insights and strategies to his clients to help them achieve financial freedom. His expertise has been featured on major media outlets such as Bloomberg TV, and he recently launched his podcast.
Connect with Tim Yurek on his website: https://tier1capital.com/
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/timothy-yurek/
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Tony Castillo is a leader in the wellness industry with a passion for teaching about optimizing our health and fitness. We had a lot of fun discussing the myths and misunderstandings flooding the Internet these days about health and fitness, and ways to tell the truth from the lies. Not only is Tony knowledgable, but he loves to laugh. We also shared personal stories about the pain we each experienced as fat kids in a culture that is not kind to people who carry extra weight. I learned a lot about the critical role of nutrition for optimal performance and you will, too.
About Tony Castillo
Tony’s journey began as an overweight middle schooler and continued throughout high school until he decided to go on a “diet.” Unfortunately, this resulted in unsustainable weight loss. Tony’s weight fluctuated in college due to a lack of nutrition knowledge, following fad diets, supplements that didn’t work, and unsustainable habits. This inspired him to understand how nutrition played a
crucial role in the human body.
Today, Tony’s passion is to teach others how healthy lifestyle modifications optimize performance in all areas of life. He has worked at the University of Florida and with the Toronto Blue Jays, and now focuses on helping individuals become elite performers, whether they are business owners or professional athletes.
Tony graduated from Florida International University in Miami with a B.S. in Biology, B.A. in Chemistry, and an M.S. in Nutrition and Dietetics. As a Registered Dietitian credentialed by the Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics, his unique area of expertise lies in helping individuals optimize their performance through nutrition, with a specific focus on sustainable weight management and lifestyle modifications. Tony’s background in dietetics and specialization in sports nutrition has equipped him with the skills and knowledge needed to help athletes, business leaders, and anyone looking to improve their performance.
Learn more about Tony on his website: https://NutritionFP.com
Connect with Tony on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/the-tony-castillo/
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Answering the call to leadership comes with many benefits. Here on PYP, conversations often revolve around all the great results choosing leadership as a life path brings. But if we're being honest with ourselves, leadership hurts sometimes. Today's guest Luis Scott talks candidly about the painful side of leadership, while also shining a light on why there is no better option to pursue.
Luis Scott is a highly respected attorney, sought-after speaker and the owner of 8 Figure Firm Consulting and Bader Scott Injury Lawyers. Luis is known for his expertise in helping legal professionals optimize and grow their practices to 8 Figures in yearly predictable revenue and beyond.
With over 20 years of experience in the legal industry, including as the managing partner of a successful law firm, Luis has helped thousands of families navigate the legal system.
As the managing partner of Bader Scott Injury Lawyers, he is committed to making a positive impact on clients, their families and the community. He is passionate about sharing his knowledge of building multi 8 figure law firms and looks to help other lawyers streamline their operations to do the same.
Learn more about Luis Scott on his website: https://luisscottjr.com/
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Who doesn't want to make better use of the limited time we have? Today's guest, Barbara Turley, understands the needs of busy professionals these days and through her business, helps them get more out of each day without sacrificing results.
Barbara is an investor and entrepreneur, and the founder and CEO of The Virtual Hub, a business she started by accident that scaled quickly to become one of the leading companies that integrates in-house trained virtual assistants into client businesses. This strategy frees up time and energy so that businesses can focus on optimizing their operations further to achieve business growth goals. With a strong focus on customized training and ongoing career development, The Virtual Hub ensures that her team is trained in cutting edge programs that many of us are familiar with -- things like HubSpot, Ontraport and the like. Familiarity with these programs allows her team to best meet their client's unique needs in digital marketing, social media, operational support, and admin services. When she's not working on her business, Barbara is a mom to her gorgeous kids, Ruby and Alexander, and wife to her best friend.
Learn more about Barbara and The Virtual Hub here: https://www.thevirtualhub.com/
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3 specific skills that can come in handy in pursuit of living the good life.
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Sitting is the new smoking article from Stanford University
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Catherine Tindall knows taxes and is committed to teaching people about how to maximize their money and minimize their taxes. Catherine is a CPA with the accounting firm Dominion Enterprise Services, and she specializes in strategic income tax approaches to help clients navigate tax codes and regulations including the Employee Retention Credit.
In today's conversation, Catherine takes us into her world of accounting to shed light on some common misconceptions and misperceptions about taxes with the goal of helping us understand what's possible for us when it comes to our money and paying taxes. She shares some useful insights that will have you thinking differently about your taxes from now on.
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In today's solo episode, Mary Lou explores several important leadership lessons that matter to anyone who is answering the call to leadership from the movie "Air" starring Matt Damon, Ben Affleck, Jason Bateman, and Viola Davis.
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Episode 483: John Gumas on the 5 Step Process for Building Your Brand
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A veteran of the branding, advertising, and interactive marketing industry, John founded Gumas Advertising in 1984. Today, the award-winning firm is consistently named one of the top branding and interactive marketing firms by the California Business Times.
John is recognized as one of the country’s foremost authorities on Challenger Brand Marketing®. He is the author of two books “Marketing Smart” and “Challenger Brand Marketing” which describe how challenger brands can effectively develop marketing strategies to take on their larger competitors. In addition, John has been an adjunct professor of branding, advertising, and interactive marketing, a sought-after speaker, and a regular columnist for several publications and blogs.
John currently sits on many boards, including the San Francisco Giants CF, The San Francisco Chamber of Commerce, The San Francisco State University Foundation, The Bay Area Sports Hall of Fame, and The Elios Society. John was recently inducted into the San Francisco State University Hall of Fame and was Alumnus of the Year. John has also been recognized for his extensive community service and leadership by the U.S. Senate and the San Francisco Giants.
Get to know more about John Gumas on his website: https://gumas.com/
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It's fitting to bring you James Cluskey today as the 2023 Wimbledon Championships are playing out right now in London. James is a former professional tennis player turned entrepreneur and private tennis coach to Sir Richard Branson. He represented Ireland in the Davis Cup from 2006-2015 and won 15 professional titles, with a career-high ranking of 145 in the world. In 2018, James and three others broke the Guinness World Record for the longest doubles tennis match, playing continuously for over 60 hours.
Since retiring from professional tennis, James has carried passion for high performance and is the founder of Give Learn, an e-learning company that offers both LIVE and on-demand classes with global experts around soft skills. Give Learn links learning to social good and allows users to earn points to donate to different social causes.
James believes in connecting people to develop their life and career. He is a passionate advocate of human interaction, whether in person or remotely. James authored the book “Advantage: Lessons In Sport And Business To Achieve Your Goals.”
Learn more about James on his website: https://givelearn.net/
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The recent rise of vulnerability as a conversation topic, as a characteristic of effective leadership, and as a concept we are now expected to understand and embrace is the subject of today's episode. People are talking about it everywhere -- as well as abusing it to gain favors and attention. It's become a thing and as such, it's worth exploring.
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Listen to my conversation with Mario Lanzarotti: https://traffic.libsyn.com/playyourposition/Mario_Lanzarotti.mp3
Why Vulnerability Will Change Your Life: https://www.betterup.com/blog/vulnerability
The Best Leaders Aren't Afraid to Be Vulnerable: https://hbr.org/2022/07/the-best-leaders-arent-afraid-of-being-vulnerable
Why Be Vulnerable? https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/13/style/vulnerability-is-hard.html
Get ready for the fun energy! My guest this week is Mario Lanzarotti and he exudes excitement and enthusiasm for all of life!
From CEO’s to Olympians and mission-driven entrepreneurs, Mario Lanzarotti helps high-achievers all across the globe gain the mental clarity and focus necessary to achieve what would normally take years, in 6 months or less.
Mario is highly skilled in helping participants overcome mental and emotional blockages, which enables them to reach a much higher level of performance and well-being.
He has been certified as an NLP, life-, executive-, body- as well as hypnotherapy-coach. He also completed the Landmark Forum Advanced Course, the Self Expression Leadership Program, as well as Tony Robbins signature, 4-day event, Unleash the Power Within.
Mario has participated in a variety of spiritual plant ceremonies such as Ayahuasca, San Pedro and Psilocybin Mushrooms conducted by traditional
shamans.
Today, Mario travels the world on a mission to raise the consciousness of humanity through his master classes on conscious leadership and next level Mindsets.
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In today's solo episode, I dive into a topic we don't often discuss -- certainly not collectively or culturally. But it's an important topic and it's one that affects each of us throughout our lives. I'm talking about the way death impacts us as leaders -- of our lives, in our businesses, and at work -- and ways we can keep moving forward even when life as we've known it no longer exists.
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When it comes to building networks, many believe that you need to know a lot of people or spend a lot of time networking, but Alice Tang has proven otherwise. As a Vice President and Partner at a full service multi-generational full service financial planning firm in Oregon, a top female producer in the financial industry, and a sought-after speaker, she has built her business and success by focusing on creating and deepening relationships one connection at a time.
Originating from humble beginnings in Hong Kong, Alice quickly realized that relationships are the key to success as she watched her father build his business. As the first in her family to earn a college degree, Alice graduated from the University of London, where she met her husband, Horace. She immigrated to the U.S. without a network, family, or a community and started a career in financial advising.
After years of following the “tried and true” advice for networking and building a business, Alice realized it is not scalable, there are only so many hours in the day! So, she set out to create a system that is not only scalable but also has exponentially grown her network, business, and success ever since.
As an advocate for female professionals and helping the next generation succeed, Alice has unveiled her process to the world and now helps professionals catapult their success and that of their networks through her no-nonsense practical approach to building connections.
Connect with Alice on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/askalicetang/
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Marybeth Gregg is the President and Founder of the International Center for Women’s Leadership. Throughout her 30+ year career, she has worked in human development for several global corporations in addition to her extensive individual coaching work with clients in the business and not-for-profi t arena. In 2012, Marybeth founded what is now The Inter-
national Center for Women’s Leadership. This woman-owned-and-operated organization is dedicated to supporting women during personal life changes, mid-life journeys, partnership transition, retirement, or simply for women who are in search of a more meaningful and fulfilling life. In our conversation today, Marybeth shares her story of personal transformation from working in corporate to becoming an author and founder.
Connect with Marybeth on her website: https://ticwl.com/pyp-podcast-free-gift/
Get her book here: https://ticwl.com/how-to-soar-with-broken-wing-book/
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Imagine working on the leadership team for a renowned organization that services thousands of customers -- only to learn that not everyone on the team is operating ethically or morally. What would you do? Today's guest found himself in this position and his story of what happened after his discovery is the topic of his book -- and of our conversation. If leadership matters to you in any way, you don't want to miss this episode. Gordon Graham gives us a front row seat to what happens when corruption infiltrates an organization -- and it's a wild, insightful ride.
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Gordon Graham is a former information technology professional with over 30 years of experience in the electric utility industry. During his career, he was recognized by peers and industry trade associations as an authority on information technology management issues and was a sought-after speaker on information technology strategy and aligning technology with business.
In addition to his decades-long career, Gordon earned an AAS degree in computer science from Columbia Basin College, a BA in public administration from the University of Puget Sound, and an MBA in information technology management from City University, along with numerous certifications in IT and project management. He has served as the information technology section chair for the Northwest Public Power Association and as both information technology section chair and vice chair of the Business and Finance Committee for the American Public Power Association. Additionally, he has also served on curriculum committees for Wenatchee Valley College and NCW High School Skills Center.
Now retired, Mr. Graham lives in Oregon with his wife, where they enjoy gardening, boating, and traveling.
Learn more about Gordon and get his book here: www.intrepidbrotherhood.com
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In today's episode, I reflect on a poignant self-leadership lesson I learned as an adolescent about sun exposure -- and the impact foolishness can have on our lives.
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What does it take to optimize a small business for scale?
For many small business owners, scaling can feel overwhelming and out of reach. In today's episode, I talk with Paul Jackson who sees things very differently. Paul is the Founder and CEO at Method — the complete process automation tool for businesses that use QuickBooks and Xero. He believes that building small business software with a one-sizefits-all mentality is lazy and outdated. This firm belief, paired with his experience as a self-taught coder and entrepreneur, resulted in Paul’s empathy for small business owners. It also sparked his passion for changing the software landscape. While living in a bike shed during university, Paul built and sold his first business, QXpress (a field service scheduling app).
After that, Paul started Method, a company driven to equalize the future of small business technology. Method is an entirely customizable platform for small businesses that want to simplify their unique way of working. Method is best known for its flagship product, Method:CRM.
Connect with Paul on his website: https://grow.method.me/
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You might remember Zack Slingsby of Human Factor Media from my previous conversation with him. I invited him back to the show recently to talk about a short film he and his team made called "26" -- A guy considers getting married at 26 (watch it on YouTube here): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKeBbagtOoQ&t=764s
In today's episode, Zack and I discuss this creative project along with the power of storytelling through short films; how the landscape of filmmaking has changed since the Internet showed up; why movies still matter; why so many people have a hard time to commmitting to anything these days; the state of marriage as an instituion; and a ton of other thought-provoking ideas sure to inspire and entertain you!
Connect with Zack here: https://humanfactormedia.co/
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Get ready to be inspired!
With us today is Melissa Hughes, founder of Live Rich, Spread Wealth—a business (and movement) that is all about helping people live richer lives as a result of becoming their best selves. Melissa is a best-selling author, speaker, and master business coach that became a self-made millionaire by the age of 31! Known as The Guru of Implementation®, Melissa’s success, and that of her clients, is a result of her practical, proven systems for business and life success.
Her clients include companies like Microsoft, Motorola, ESPN, and globally recognized speaker Lisa Nichols, star of the hit film, The Secret, as well as small start-ups and individuals. Large corporations around the world hire Melissa to advise them on projects and initiatives to the tune of $20 million, and she specializes in helping to ensure culture, communication, project scope, and implementation are successful across divisions, departments, and business units.
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As the co-founder and CEO of Groove, an online coworking community and mobile app for solopreneurs, Josh is building on his passion for community to help transform the way people on wavy career paths (solopreneurs, freelancers, creatives) can find support and human connection to help them accomplish great things.
Josh’s career itself follows a wavy path — after working as an engineer, he studied meditation as a way to combat his burnout, spending time learning at ashrams in India. He brought together his spiritual practices with bringing people together through cultural events and programming as Managing Director at London’s Village Underground and working on festivals like Wilderness Festival.
He continued freelancing as a strategy and innovation consultant. He believes in work-life harmony — how we work shapes how we live, and vice versa. He experienced this firsthand as an exec at WeWork in the office of the CEO working across the business.
During the COVID-19 pandemic, Josh and his co-founders saw that the world had changed, along with our traditional work systems. Groove was created as a response to that, and is here to support the next generation of solopreneurs as they break open the ideas of how we can connect and work on energizing projects.
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Artificial Intelligence is here, and it's not the problem.
Let's get real about what the problem really is.
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The business landscape gets noisier every day which makes getting found, getting noticed, and getting bigger problems most face. What's a company to do? According to Kevin Maney, the answer is category design. In today's episode of the Play Your Position Podcast, Kevin explains just what category design is, why it matters, plus so much more about what it takes to succeed today in business. Kevin Maney is co-author of Play Bigger and has been a bestselling author and award-winning columnist writing about technology for three decades. That allows him to bring broad and deep context to Category Design conversations.
Kevin’s most recent book is Intended Consequences, co-authored with his long-time collaborator, Hemant Taneja, who runs the VC firm General Catalyst. His other books with Hemant are UnHealthcare: A Manifesto for Health Assurance, which proposes a new category of healthcare, and the 2018 book Unscaled: How AI and a New Generation of Upstarts Are Creating the Economy of the Future.
He also authored The Two-Second Advantage (a 2011 New York Times best seller), Trade-Off: Why Some Things Catch On and Others Don't, and The Maverick and His Machine: Thomas Watson Sr. and the Making of IBM.
Kevin has written for Newsweek, Fortune, The Atlantic, Fast Company, Conde Nast Portfolio, The New York Times and USA Today, and has appeared frequently on television and radio, including CNN, CBS Sunday Morning and NPR. He also writes music for and plays in a New York band, Total Blam Blam.
Learn more about Kevin on his website: https://www.categorydesignadvisors.com/
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Every leader knows doing everything ourselves is a cardinal sin...yet so many of us continue to insist "no one else can do what we do as well as we can do what we do."
Yikes. This mindset gets a lot of us into scalding hot water when we could be leisurely swimming in a pool that's at just the right temperature. In today's conversation with the Chief Revenue Officer for BELAY, Lisa Seal guides us through the process of handing over tasks and systems to capable allies who want to help us grow our businesses. And here's the thing -- delegation is a skill we can use in EVERY aspect of our lives, including running our homes, managing our families, and the like.
Lisa utilizes her vast experience in growth management across several industries and various sales environments to work with sales professionals, empowering them to achieve – and exceed – their targets and help organizations grow.
A major goal of Lisa’s is helping clients climb higher by giving them the space, time, and energy to grow their business. Aiming beyond increasing profits, Lisa helps businesses increase their reach, provide more jobs, and prioritize their loved ones over their time in the office.
She believes that team collaboration and a healthy culture are the core of every department, allowing for extraordinary organizational growth. She is a goal-driven, thoughtful, competitive, compassionate leader with a profound love of learning and reading.
It is her mission to encourage others so they may achieve all that they dream.
Learn more about Lisa on her website: https://belaysolutions.com/
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John Ovrom is the President and Founder of Exit Consulting Group, Inc. (ECG). He founded the company on a simple principle – the desire to help fellow entrepreneurs. What started as John helping friends and previous business connections, quickly evolved into a consulting business, and the creation of The Ovrom Group, that became the Exit Consulting Group, Inc. in 2009. John has an entrepreneurial spirit, and is constantly coming up with new, inspiring, creative, and innovative ideas.
A serial entrepreneur, John founded his first company OSSO Construction, Inc. in 1991, and ran the custom home remodeling company, along with several additional construction-based companies, for 14 years with his dad and cousin. After going through the process of selling his company, he realized the need for a service provider who can step into the business, develop a strategic exit plan, and manage the transition.
John is truly passionate about helping people and solving problems. His fearless persistence, openness, honesty, and intelligence make him an immense asset to his clients. He approaches problems by starting with the solution and working backwards. Always searching for the “win”, he asks the same question of clients and staff alike: “How can we use your strengths to best solve this problem?”
Besides his entrepreneurial work, John supports the Rotary Club International, serving his Coronado club in varying capacities, including President, and he served as past president of the Coronado Chamber of Commerce. One of John’s greatest joys was coaching his sons’ sports teams while they were growing up, including basketball, soccer, and baseball.
John’s favorite activities include fishing, lobster diving, hiking, travel, hanging out with his family, and spending as much time as possible playing in Baja, Mexico.
John’s WIN is creating long-lasting value for his clients by finding unique, effective solutions to business challenges.
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In Part 2 of my conversation with MiMi Chau, a Business and Transformation Coach + Reiki Master, MiMi and I dive into some deeper topics about success, embracing change, and love including:
- The differences between masculine and feminine energy and what we need to know about each kind for generating success in business and life;
- Why everyone has both kinds of energy present at all times regardless of how you identify;
- What each kind of energy means to us as leaders at work and in the home;
- "Third Love" -- what it is, how to find it, and why it's the most powerful kind of love of all
- Moving beyond trauma to fully receive our truest calling
Plus, MiMi leads us through a fantastic meditation so if you can, listen to this episode in a place where you can safely close your eyes to get the full experience. Please don't close your eyes if you are driving!
Catch Part 1 of my conversation with MiMi Chau and as always, thanks for being a part of Team PYP!
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MiMi Chau first appeared here on the Play Your Position Podcast in 2014.
A lot has happened in MiMi's life since then!
Not only did she meet her soulmate Henry, but she had her son and a few business experiences that didn't work out.
Today, MiMi is a Business and Transformation Coach + Reiki Master who helps clients honor their Divine Feminine in all aspects of their lives, including health, business, and love.
Through business coaching combined with holistic healing methods like Reiki to create balance, and manifest true potential for a fulfilling life, MiMi guides clients to trust their intuition, get clear on their soul purpose, and take action to create the life they desire.
The traditional concept of hustle is associated with masculinity and a focus on achievement, often at the cost of personal well-being and maybe at the cost of your piece of mind. Balancing this with feminine energy, which emphasizes balance, intuition, and self-care can lead to a more fulfilling and successful life. It involves finding a balance between drive, focus, determination and compassion, love, joy, service, and self-care.
As a mother, entrepreneur, coach, intuitive healer, spiritual seeker, and plant-medicine woman, MiMi has a passion for empowering and uplifting women. Founder of start-up Goddess Playground, MiMi is committed to deepening human connections in communities where people support each other.
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One of the biggest barriers to experiencing more fulfillment, more joy, and more happiness in life is the lack of skill we have in talking to ourselves intelligently.
We talk to ourselves all day long...and what we say can definitely use some improvement! I work on developing this skill every day and it does make a difference.
In today's episode, I share a couple of ways to do this so that you can benefit from an increase in intelligent self-talk.
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Chris Larsen is the founder and Principal of Next-Level Income. Since “retiring” after 18 years in the medical device industry, he dedicates his time to helping others become financially independent through education and investment opportunities.
Chris has been investing in and managing real estate for over 20 years. While completing his degree in Biomechanical Engineering and M.B.A. in Finance at Virginia Tech, he bought his first single-family rental at age 21. Chris expanded into development, private-lending, buying distressed debt as well as commercial office, and ultimately syndicating commercial properties. He began syndicating deals in 2016 and has been actively involved in over $1B of real estate acquisitions.
In addition to real estate, Chris owns multiple car wash locations across the Southeast. Chris lives with his wife and two boys (and Viszla, Lucy!) in Asheville, NC where he loves spending time with them in the outdoors and enjoying the food and culture that the region has to offer.
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In today's episode, I walk you through a simple exercise that can have a profound effect on where your life goes next.
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My latest book, The Far Unlit Unknown -- will be launching again on March 20th! Keep an eye open for the official announcement on social:
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Stephanie Nivinskus is the CEO of SizzleForce Marketing, a Fractional CMO agency that services scaling companies. Since 1995 she’s been developing brand-building marketing campaigns that have been used by companies including Starbucks, Quiksilver, The National Football League and Cox Communications along with thousands of privately- owned companies.
Stephanie has written for Forbes and Entrepreneur magazines and is the author of the international #1 best-seller, Absolutely Unforgettable: The Entrepreneur’s Guide To Creating A Heart- Centered Brand And Standing Out In A Noisy World.
Known for her ability to humanize commerce and market products and services in an authentic & powerful way, she delights audiences with attention-grabbing stories and strategies that connect the dots between people and profit. Her raw, heart-centered approach to creating meaningful conversations gives scaling companies a big voice in the marketplace.
Stephanie speaks nationwide. When she’s not helping brands showcase their sizzle, Stephanie is enjoying time with her husband and three teenagers in San Diego, CA.
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Mark Yegge, the Wealth Architect, has spent his entire life learning and teaching people about wealth and the importance of a success mindset. He started investing when he was 12 – and made enough to buy his first car at 16. Mark started, and later sold, his Wall Street software company - the company that ushered in after-hours trading. He then “retired” at the age of 39, but not before growing the company from nothing to a $30-million dollar enterprise. Along the way, he garnered awards as Small Business of the Year, the Florida 100, and the Inc Magazine Fast 500 - recognizing the fastest growing companies in America.
Personally, he was recognized twice by Deloitte as an Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.
In addition to his achievements in business, Mark has authored books and courses including: Hacking Money, The Cash Flow Machine, Negotiate To Win-Win, The Secrets of Business, and others. Today, Mark manages several investment funds, is a Wealth Architect for 7- and 8-figure investors and provides wealth education through his learning ecosystem at Destiny Creation dot com.
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Today's audible is all about artificial intelligence (AI) and the growing role it's playing in how we live and work.
Ultimately, we each have to ask ourselves, is our brand, our reputation, the kind of work that we do worth turning over to robots?
Are we destined to become a copy of a copy of a copy?
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With a Ph.D. in Business Psychology, Dr. Jean is one of the country’s top business consultants, a top-rated speaker, a world-class business performance coach and the creator of Caveman Brain®. Dr. Jean developed The Caveman Brain® Business Growth System to help individuals, teams, and companies who want to accelerate their business growth. This groundbreaking business growth system is the only one that uses skill set, mindset and tool kits to specifically align an individual, a team, and a company to achieve maximum results in the shortest time possible.
Dr. Jean says “when you use this customized, done for you system, you can achieve results in as little as 30 days and what is great is that you can do it on your own or have one of our certified Growth Coaches™ to assist you.
As a business psychologist, Dr. Jean employs a business growth philosophy grounded in a no-nonsense, results-focused approach, completely personalized to meet the needs of her clients. In fact, Dr. Jean’s clients call her The Results Queen® because she is all about getting unprecedented results — at an unprecedented speed — that creates and maintains unprecedented levels of performance.
Dr. Jean uses her mission, “To Leave You Better, Than I Found You,” to help everyone understand what your Caveman Brain® is so you can prevent it from holding you back and use it to propel you forward to better results in your business. This engaging purpose and passion come across in all her presentations whether they be on a stage or in front of a microphone.
Connect with Dr. Jean on her website
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Rob Commodari helps people find the path to reach their fullest potential. He discovered his own path in 1990, when he realized that speech and communication are powerful tools that animate hearts and minds. Rob developed a personalized approach to communicating that teaches awareness so that listeners may find their purpose and set attainable goals.
A serial entrepreneur, Rob has been involved in several businesses. He had his own newspaper business from 1994 until 2004. Rob was partners in a cigar business in the mid 1990s. He flipped a few houses over the years and has spoke in front of several organizations, including Wells Fargo, Sherwin-Williams, Wachovia, M&T Bank, BB&T Bank, The Baltimore Sun, and others. Rob also speaks to school students and prison inmates. When Rob speaks, he is moved by the spirit to connect with others and inspire them to realize their dreams.
In Rob’s first book, Better Than You Think, he shares his experiences and insights on awareness and how he has grown into the person he is today, and the person he wishes to become, which is an ever-changing goal. His goal is to inspire and impact everyone he meets to fulfill their God-given potential.
Connect with Rob Commodari on his website: https://www.robcommodariauthor.com/
Rob on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robcommodari/
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Formulas are great for chemical companies.
Recipes come in handy when you’re looking to make something you’ve never made before. Like a 3 layer orange lemon sunrise surprise cake.
Step by steps are excellent ways of learning new, useful skills.
But here’s the thing about formulas.
Their success and execution depend on any number of variables that are often not in our control.
Getting the exact same results as the original is possible but not common.
Eventually you have to learn how to rely on your inner compass to get you where you want to go.
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Spencer Snakard is an Executive Transformation Coach, Trainer, and Speaker. She helps visionary entrepreneurial women leaders break through upper limits so they can turn their mission into a world-changing movement … without life-sucking consequences!
With 25 years of experience, her transformative programs cause profound & lasting shifts in participants' lives by getting to the heart of what drives us, what holds us back, and what it takes to be truly fulfilled as spiritual beings having a human experience. Helping clients get out of their own way, she has taken them from self-limiting beliefs that were putting a ceiling on their revenue & impact, to multiple seven-figure years with a business & life of their design.
Spencer has a degree in Psychology and extensive training & leadership in Ontology. She is a Success Principles trainer, a Yoga instructor, and a Professional Certified Coach, who brings a sense of play & humor into all her work. Spencer has been featured on dozens of podcasts, including one ranked among Top Business Podcasts by Inc. and MSNBC.
Married to the love of her life, they are a combined family with 4 children, ages 15-26. They love spending summers together on the rocky coast of Maine and are currently building an oceanfront home there to enjoy family getaways & client retreats!
Discover more about Spencer Snakard on her website: https://spencersnakard.com/
Connect with Spencer on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/spencersnakard/
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Owen McGab Enaohwo is the CEO and Co-founder of SweetProcess, an easy to-use software that enables company executives and their employees to collaborate together to quickly document and/or improve their standard operating procedures, processes, and policies.
In our conversation, Owen explains why businesses with well-defined processes and procedures outperform businesses that don't.
Owen was previously the CEO of Hire Your Virtual Assistant (H.Y.V.A.), a virtual assistant service for small business owners. His specialties include business development, negotiation, operations management, and more.
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Take Sweet Process for a test drive with Owen McGab Enaohwo here
Recommended Book:
Built to Sell by John Warrillow
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This episode was inspired by a blog post on www.maryloukayser.com
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When you're feeling the post-holiday, January blues, and can't quite get things in gear, the two techniques I share in today's episode can get your mojo up and running.
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The post Patrick Woods on Driving Success with Community appeared first on the Play Your Position Podcast.
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For brands of all sizes and shapes, community is fast becoming the driver of success. Today's guest has been at the epicenter for many years of helping brands bake community into their ecosytems for long-term growth and sustainability. If you're wondering what factor can determine setting your brand apart from others in your space, you will want to listen to what Patrick has to share in today's episode.
Patrick Woods is co-founder and CEO of Orbit, the leading community growth platform. Orbit enables teams to grow and measure their community across any platform. By gathering details of all community interactions in one place, Orbit delivers insight into the individuals and organizations and their relationship with your company.
In the past, Patrick has led customer success teams at Keen IO and Figure Eight. He has more than 10 years of marketing and customer success experience. He’s the co-creator of the Orbit Model, host of the Developer Love podcast, and is the author of the Brand Strategy Canvas (Apress). He lives in San Francisco and is an avid fencer.
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Connect with Patrick Woods on his website: https://orbit.love
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Happy New Year, Team PYP! In today's episode, I present to you the voices of my 30 phenomenal guests from the past 12 months who gave us wisdom, encouragement and reminders that it's okay that we don't get it right every time. That we can bounce back. That we can rebuild. That we can build something new from scratch. That like the tide, our lives ebb and flow. And at the core of it all is to remember that you are a leader, and in turn, show up in service and love. Enjoy today's episode, and we'll catch you on the other side.
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Tim Tortora started working in Hollywood over 30 years ago as a tape operator in a recording studio and worked his way up through the ranks to CFO by 2008. He learned a lot along the way and worked with some amazing people and some of the biggest companies ( Harpo Films, Mandalay Entertainment, Sony Pictures, Disney, TriStar Pictures, Columbia Pictures). He did it all having no family connection or friends who sat in key positions in the business.
Since he started working as a CFO in 2008, the industry changed substantially and his client list migrated to working with content creators who produce indie features, TV movies, feature films, branded content, blogs and online short form series.
During his career, Tim has served as Executive in Charge of Production and Finance for Oprah Winfrey’s feature film & TV production arm, Harpo Films, in charge of all aspects of production on such films as “Tuesdays With Morrie” (Jack Lemmon, Hank Azaria), “Amy & Isabelle” (Elisabeth Shue), “The Wedding” (Halle Berry), and “Before Women Had Wings” (Ellen Barkin).
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Connect with Tim Tortora on his website: https://timtortora.com/
Get Tim's book: https://timtortora.com/a_hollywood_accounting_its_a_swamp_its_thick_difficult_to_navigate_but_i_still_love_it/
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Brooke Chapman started her career as a television journalist before moving into corporate communications and public relations roles, advising leading brands across the mining, travel, property, recruitment, and not-for-profit sectors. Today, Brooke Chapman is the Executive Director for ThreeBy3 and 9Boxes.
Having worked within and alongside marketing teams for over 10 years, Brooke made the transition into strategic marketing roles and has led the marketing functions for leading plaintiff litigation firm Shine Lawyers, disability services provider Endeavour Foundation and most recently, Australia’s largest privately-owned retirement village operator, RetireAustralia.
Brooke’s expertise lies in working with boards and business owners, transforming underperforming marketing functions by transitioning organizations out of tactical lead generation and into a strategic marketing methodology aligned with broader business. Brooke has a proven track record delivering strong commercial results for large organizations in the professional services and not-for-profit sectors. She is skilled in marketing strategy and business growth, customer experience, brand development and team development & optimization.
Connect with Brooke on her website: https://threeby3.com/
On LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/brookechapman1/
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The recent release of artificial intelligence apps like Lensa and ChatGBT are casuing a huge commotion across the Internet right now.
In today's episode, I focus on the ai photo app Lensa and its widespread implications.
Tons of interesting questions we all need to be asking. You won't want to miss this episode!
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and life on your leadership journey.
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Zack Booth is the Founder of Driving For Dollars Mastery, where he helps people replicate his success through real estate investing. Just a few years ago, Zack was a window cleaner. You can even find his window cleaning tutorial videos on YouTube with millions of views. He even ended up on the history channel because of those window cleaning tutorial videos. Although he achieved success with his window cleaning business, he always dreamt of being a real estate investor. Taking a leap of faith, he walked away from window cleaning, and within a handful of years, he was making over a million dollars per year from real estate investing. Zack now has his own company, a successful podcast and YouTube channel where he dedicates his time giving back and helping others get started in the competitive game of real estate. This year, Zack launched the Driving For Dollars Mastery podcast and it is already in the top 1% of podcasts in global popularity. Recently on his YouTube channel, he did a 40 day challenge. The goal was to turn $1,000 into $40,000, he was wildly successful, making $93,000 and also buying two rentals with over $100,000 of equity. When he isn’t helping people make money through real estate, Zack can be found spending time with his wife and two children and hiking the mountains of the Western United States.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and life on your leadership journey.
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Valerie Hayes is on a mission to help small businesses beat the odds and push through the roadblocks to become an industry leader. She helps overburdened entrepreneurs, small business owners, and CEOs run their companies like a high-performance sports car. Fast and effective.
As a Fractional COO, Valerie helps untangle everything that’s not working smoothly, sorts it all out, and puts it back together. No more late nights stuck at your desk trying to figure it all out.
Valerie’s background as a business owner, human resources professional in Fortune 500 companies, and coach/mentor for high achievers enables her to bring a multi-faceted, collaborative approach to every aspect of business, and she’s passionate about sharing her actionable insights with audiences around the world.
Valerie is convinced that fewer businesses would fail if people knew more about how to run their business well and how easy it can be. Her direct, down-to-earth approach takes the mystery out of running a business.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and life on your leadership journey.
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Jack Tompkins is the owner of a consulting firm with the best name ever: Pineapple Consulting Firm. Based out of Charlotte, NC, Jack absolutely loves helping small businesses become data-driven!
Originally from Connecticut, Jack spent years after college in Corporate America with roles ranging from analyst to partnership manager, but moved down to Charlotte and started his company, Pineapple Consulting Firm.
Now he and his team help small businesses become more data-driven by creating KPI (Key Performance Indicator) dashboards with visual representations of their performance along with analytical support to fully tell the story of their business.
My latest book, The Far Unlit Unknown -- is available now! Grab your copy here >>> www.maryloukayser.com
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and life on your leadership journey.
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When you think about a work environment, what immediately comes to mind?
For many people, their work environment is a physical place -- an office, a renovated closet, even the kitchen table.
My guest today talks about another kind of work environment -- our digital spaces, where many of us spend considerable time as well.
Ian Robinson and his team at Enliven design and build highly functional, collaborative web apps for expert operational and project management processes. Ian works with established professional services firms - from construction to accounting - which have a unique worldview and proprietary operations to build a sustainable and healthy culture of expertise through the ongoing practice of product development.
While Ian’s natural bent toward process improvement and the development skills he has cultivated over the years make him an astute leader, it is his genuine desire to help companies create healthier workplaces through custom software that sets him apart from a largely sterile sector. For Ian, a successful project is one that uses software as a means of making people’s daily lives and jobs more enjoyable.
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My latest book, The Far Unlit Unknown -- will be available later this fall wherever books are sold. Be sure to check it out and get a copy!
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and life on your leadership journey.
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Content Anxiety Syndrome is the name of a disorder I made up to explain what's happening to a lot of people. It is yet another unnecessary and heartbreaking side effect of the Internet Age plaguing far too many amazing people who have fallen into the trap of thinking they must “make more content” or else risk irrelevance. If you are experiencing too much time on your laptop or phone making content to share on the social channels; if your kids are telling you to get off the computer; if you have headaches about or fears that somehow you aren't putting out enough content compared to everyone else, you will want to listen to this episode.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and life on your leadership journey.
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Carol Sanford is an award-winning business educator, summit Producer, podcaster, and author. She is a consistently recognized thought leader working side by side with Fortune 500 and new economy executives in designing and leading systemic business change and design. Through her university and in-house educational offerings, global speaking platforms, multi-award-winning books, and human development work, Carol works with executive leaders who see the possibility to change the nature of work through developing people and work systems that ignite motivation everywhere. For four decades, Carol has worked with great leaders of successful businesses such as Google, DuPont, Intel, P&G, and Seventh Generation, educating them to develop their people and ensure a continuous stream of innovation that continually deliver extraordinary results.
Carol is the author of The Regenerative Business, The Responsible Entrepreneur, The Responsible Business, and No More Feedback: Cultivate Consciousness at Work. Her books have won over 15 awards so far and are required reading at leading business and management schools including Harvard, Stanford, Haas Berkeley and MIT. Carol also partners with producing Executive Education through Babson College, Kaospilot in Denmark and University of Washington, Bothell, WA, and The Lewis Institute at Babson. For 40 years she’s collaborated with clients to develop people to realize their inherent capabilities. Google’s Innovation Lab uses her Responsible Business Framework. Learn more at CarolSanford.com and the Business Second Opinion podcast.
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Dirk van Reenen is the founder and CEO of BERGflow, a company that specializes in helping small and medium sized businesses build better teams to grow faster, with higher profits, and more time freedom.
Dirk is an award-winning entrepreneur, international consultant, trainer, and former CEO of an $800 million a year sales organization. After a decade of experience in building fast growing companies by focusing on building strong teams, Dirk made some huge life changes in 2017.
Since 2017, Dirk has been focused on his real passion with BERGflow in working with ordinary small and medium sized business owners that really want to elevate their business and life by focusing on their people.
Learning how to hire the right people based on company culture, values, and vision, and then building collaborative teams in the workplace. It’s the X Factor of growing and scaling successful business today, and it’s what he specializes in.
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My personal experience with self-promotion isn't exactly the poster board for how to do it well.
Like most people, I'd rather spend my time doing just about anything else besides telling the world about myself.
Unfortunately, there is a direct correlation between how effective our self promotion efforts are and how many zeroes are in our bank account.
In today's episode, I share some tips about how to self promote, and provide an example of a self promotion piece I'm sharing on my LinkedIn feed this week.
You can see how I used my self promotion piece on my website here
And speaking of self promotion -- my latest book, The Far Unlit Unknown -- will be available on October 30, 2022. So be sure to check it out and get a copy!
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You still have made a choice.
What is it costing us to not make decisions?
I explore this quesiton in today's solo episode of the Play Your Position Podcast.
Musical excerpt from "Freewill" thanks to RUSH
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Anthony "Tony" Wall is the founder and president of Noēsis, a non-profit dedicated to issues of human sustainability, to examine evolutionary influence upon modern behavior, and to one day free humankind from the churn of perpetual conflict. Wall, who comes from a family of nine, graduated from the William Penn Charter School in Philadelphia. He then moved on to Chicago, where he graduated from Lake Forest College.
Wall credits his Liberal Arts education as the catalyst for his ongoing interest in existential philosophy. He spent two decades of his career in the financial services industry. He found himself always drawn back to the study of humankind. In 2019, Wall established Noēsis. He created a series of educational videos to describe the immensity of evolutionary influence upon modern behavior. Wall describes a notable paradox. The primitive compulsions that kept evolving humans safe now combine to block humanity’s arrival into a sustainable future.
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Do you remember the first time you sat down to use the Internet?
I do. I was teaching high school English at the time. It was the mid-90s and I already knew my students knew more about this wild thing than I or any of my colleagues did because I’d seen groups of them gathered around clunky laptops on the floor gawking at their screens. A palpable buzz filled the air. We all knew things were going to be different from now on. We just didn’t know how different things would be.
What didn’t happen that day was getting a pamphlet, playbook, or sheet of paper with stick figure drawings on it walking me through how this thing works.
It came with no operating instructions.
Still doesn’t. Not in any organized way, anyway.
In today's episode, I explore a leadership question that has no simple answser, but needs to be asked again and again:
How do we develop the capacity for living simultaneously in two worlds -- the virtual world (where seemingly anything goes) and the natural world (where universal laws rule the roost) so that our lives are rich, healthy, and satisfying without destroying the planet or each other?
Thanks for joining me and let me know your thoughts about the show!
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Doing the next right thing can be easy -- or the hardest challenge we've every faced. Today's guest William Gammon is an accomplished senior executive, advisor, thought leader, author, and mentor coach with more than 50 years of success across the airline, securities, and insurance industries who knows a thing or two about taking the next right step.
William has held a leadership position as a financial advisor and Vice President for Ameriprise Financial Services Inc. He also founded Gammon and Associates where he assisted clients formulating clear goals and plans with processes and pathways to achieve and surpass them.
For his exceptional leadership, he has been recognized for the Ameriprise Circle of Success Award from 2012 to 2015. Prior to that, he was a top award-winning performer at three former Broker-Dealers. William obtained his Bachelor of Business Administration in Marketing and Finance from the University of Iowa, Henry B. Tippie College of Business.
As a sales executive, financial advisor, business founder/owner, and coach, William has assisted many other highly successful executives, financial advisors, and small business owners to co-create, implement, achieve, and surpass goals they previously found challenging.
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James Davis is the owner of Tech Commandos, a company on the forefront of the new era of hybrid workforce solutions which has been singled out by Goldman Sachs as a visionary business in the IT sector.
When the pandemic hit, much of the world’s workforce went online, creating a demand for reliable cloud based solutions. James noticed that smaller companies were at a disadvantage and didn’t have access to these solutions because of funding constraints. Tech Commandos was born to level the playing field. From protecting data, giving employees access to everything they need wherever they are, to attracting employees on a wider geographic footprint—James and his team make it easy and affordable.
James understands the needs of the hybrid workplace and is passionate about providing actionable insights to help business leaders navigate this new world. He is the go-to resource within the hybrid workplace space.
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Delegation is something every leader must learn how to do. Today's guest, Emily Morgan, shares with us what goes into learning this critical skill, and perhaps more importantly, how to get really good at it.
Emily Morgan is an entrepreneur with an innate heart for supporting others. Her mission is to create freedom and energy for people to do what they love by helping them master delegation. Emily speaks nationally on the topics of delegation, automation, remote workforces, and flexwork culture, and she has been featured in Forbes as a Top 50 Remote Employer, contributed articles to the Huffington Post, and highlighted in the NY Times.
As the leader of Delegate Solutions, she and the team focus on helping entrepreneurial leaders better manage their time and priorities. Their virtual executive support program includes their proprietary delegation system as a service that provides fractional executive support coupled with proven delegation strategies to help leaders leverage themselves more effectively.
Emily recently launched the Elevation Quarter™ Workshop, which guides a small cohort of like minded leaders through a series of delegation exercises to help them find more freedom. Her newest ebook, The Elevation Freedom Guide™, provides entrepreneurs with practical advice and concrete processes to execute delegation successfully.
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What makes some videos "watchable" while others are major snooze fests?Today's guest, Zack Slingsby, takes us inside the world of memorable video production, and how anyone can grow their companies and lead their content marketing initiatives with high quality videos.
Zachary Slingsby is a writer, short film creator, and founder of Human Factor Media, an award winning branded storytelling company that has worked with leading brands and publishers to create videos people actually want to watch.
Zack graduated from Fordham University, received his MFA from the New School and has published in over a dozen creative and industry publications. He believes the ingredient that makes a literary story great is the same that makes for a great video.
His company is based between Nashville, where he lives, and New York City, collaborating with brands to create stories and films instead of ads and interruptions.
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Mary Ann Pruitt is the CEO and President at Mosaic Media, a collection of media buying experts and creative strategists who negotiate, purchase, and monitor advertising space and airtime. Mary Ann started her career in media by working as a senior sales executive for some of the nation’s largest media outlets. After discovering her talent and love for all things media strategy, she founded Mosaic as a way to provide niche expert experience to agencies and marketing departments across the country.
Her hard work and savvy strategy skills have led Mosaic to year-over- year growth, and has expanded her impact as an industry leader in all things traditional, digital, and everything in between. Reflecting this is a 2020 award from Cynopsis Media naming her as a Top Woman in Media. Mary Ann has helped develop effective marketing strategies for agencies of all sizes, small businesses, service businesses, private educational institutions and legal and professional services businesses along with many others. She is passionate about passing on the experience that she has gained onto eager professionals looking for actionable marketing tips.
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These days, there’s a ton of talk about finding your purpose and then living it.
For many, finding your purpose is The Holy Grail of being human.
The challenge is, of course, life doesn’t always align in a perfect little sequence of bullet points leading us blissfully toward our why. When it comes to finding your purpose and doing what you’re here to do, discovering what that is will not necessarily be simple -- or immediately apparent.
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Trust has never been more important and yet... these days, trust in leadership has eroded significantly. From employees to citizens, too many of us have become jaded about what people in positions of leadership are -- or aren't -- doing. Today's guest, John Robertson, is determined to turn that trend around so trust is not only present, but fostered throughout teams and organizations.
John is the Founder and President of FORTLOG Services. John built his services with a focus on an encouragement-based approach, resolving root causes as opposed to treating crisis and transition in the workplace symptomatically, as is often the practice. A trusted thinking partner with 30+ years of assisting individuals and organizations manage all forms of crisis/change, John leverages a values-anchored ethos as a leadership development specialist, helping organizations and individuals to define the new norm and thrive.
Over the years, John has gained extensive and diverse experiences working with Indigenous peoples [First Nations], first responders, small-medium businesses, non-profits, churches, communities, municipalities, educational, health care, families, and EAPs. John’s qualifications include Conversational
IQTM, psychological health and safety advisor, ICF coach, Resilient Leadership, crisis intervention instructor, numerous psychometric tools, Certified Trauma Treatment Specialist (CTTS), Certified grief counsellor, and a Masters and Bachelors degrees.
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Can breathing really make a difference in how successful you are as a leader? Today's guest says one hundred percent it can -- and she can prove it.
Elizabeth Borelli combines her years of experience in ICF-accredited executive and leadership coaching, and RYT® 200 training into a unique mind-body approach to personal growth and professional development.
She combines proven stress reduction practices with coaching tools for developing the confidence, focus, and resilience you need to break through the thought traps of not-enoughness. The use of basic attention and energy management practices lets clients see beyond their limiting beliefs and into new opportunities for more meaning, positivity, and a greater life purpose.
Elizabeth supplements her coaching programs with ongoing support using tools proven to help you to gain focus and clarity, connect with your source of strength, quiet the voices of self-doubt, take action, and stay accountable. Her work centers around mind-body practices proven to support lasting change.
When she's not working with top-notch clients, Elizabeth enjoys hiking in the great outdoors in the gorgeous Pacific Northwest, where she lives and plays with her two teenage girls. She stays passionate about her work by maintaining a dedicated breathwork practice.
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What do you think you would do if you learned that your unborn child had a condition that almost guaranteed he wouldn't live beyond birth?
In today's episode, Ty Morgan shares his very personal leadership story which is unlike any I've heard in the eight years I've been podcasting. Ty's story is not only moving, but proof that faith exists and works in amazing ways when we choose it over mistrust and disbelief.
Faith has certainly been a central part of Ty's private and personal life. He is the Founder of Infinite Planning, where his goal is to educate and inspire individuals to take control of their financial lives through proper education and coaching methods. Ty also recently founded the nonprofit organization, Silent Guardian-Angels, Inc. something Ty never imagined he'd do but is beyond grateful he was guided to building it.
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Seven months ago, my dad died.
And grief moved in.
Losing my dad is by far the most intense grief I’ve experienced. Nothing could have prepared me for it. No book or podcast or course could have taught me about what I would feel when grief came knocking at my door and moved in for I can’t possibly predict how long.
Even as time passes and the initial sting subsides, grief is always lurking in the emotional shadows, ready to take center stage and leave me sobbing in a puddle of tears because I just saw a car commercial featuring cute golden retriever puppies which were dad’s favorite breed.
Granting ourselves the space -- and the grace -- to feel grief is more than half the battle. If we could learn how to talk about it without feeling ashamed or weak, think of how much better more of us would do in all facets of our lives. If we could add grieving to the collective cultural conversation, think of how much faster our country would heal.
Original post: https://maryloukayser.com/grief-and-the-leader/
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In today's episode, Courney DeRonde and I talk about how small businesses and nonprofits can become more profitable. Her enthusiasm for helping people see their business succeed is contagious. She shares ways she's experienced growth in her own business that any leader can use.
Courtney is a CPA and Managing Partner at TDT CPAs and Advisors, a boutique advisory and accounting firm for small businesses and nonprofit organizations. She and her team help overwhelmed, successful leaders understand and maximize financial information so they can increase profitability and move their organizations to the next level. As an owner in her firm and managing partner, she also has firsthand experience running and scaling a small business.
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Colin Gray is a podcaster, international speaker, PhD and founder of The Podcast Host and Alitu, a podcast maker app. Colin started out in Astrophysics, before realising, to his dismay, how much maths were involved. A zig-zag route through education, marketing and the web brought him to Podcasting, which has less maths, but just as many puzzles and fun ones at that.
He started ThePodcastHost.com in 2011 as a resource to help people create successful podcasts. It’s now one of the biggest and oldest Podcasting learning resources on the web.
Colin went on to found Alitu.com in 2018, a web app that helps podcasters effortlessly create their shows. Alitu takes care of the tech, and makes podcasting accessible to anyone. It offers a custom set of tools for recording, building and editing epic podcasts easily.
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Once known as “The Flip King”, Joe Evangelisti is now the host of The Legacy Blueprint podcast and a leading expert in real estate investing - specifically in the self-storage industry.
After experiencing “burn out” from chasing single and multi-family deals, Joe walked away from his wildly successful flipping empire and transitioned to the world of Self-Storage.
Today, Joe’s mission is to show others how to tap into the massive opportunities hidden inside the self-storage industry. Opportunities that require far less time, less risk and exponentially more profits than any industry in real estate.
In addition to The Storage Syndicate, Joe also serves as the CEO of three 7 and 8 figure companies.
Prior to building his business and real estate empire, Joe served in the military as a Builder in the US Navy Seabees. He holds Letters of Commendation from the US Navy and The White House, a Letter of Appreciation from President Clinton, and numerous service medals. Joe lives with his wife Ashley and their 2 girls in beautiful Haddonfield, New Jersey.
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John Mitchell teaches the “SCIENCE of SUCCESS" at the University of Texas, along with a 12 minute a day technique that typically doubles an entrepreneur’s income within a year. When John turned 50, he wasn’t as successful as he thought he should be. Then it came to him: find the top book in the world on SUCCESS and apply that book literally Word for Word to his life. That book is Think and Grow Rich, which has been read by over 100 million people. Once he did that, everything changed.
John has since gone on to develop his 12 minute a day technique which caused his income to start doubling. Within four years he was netting MID SEVEN FIGURES figures a year. Time Magazine even did a cover story on the science behind his 12 minute day technique.
John now teaches his methodology with the former Chancellor and President at the University of Texas where his technique is recognized as the “Top Application in the World” of the top book in the world on SUCCESS.
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The war for talent is perhaps as fierce as it has ever been. Consequently, business leaders across the board are putting more energy into attracting and then hiring the best people for the right roles.
It's no easy feat.
Today's guest Scott Drake helps leaders make great decisions about who they onboard along with how to guide high potentials through the leadership pipeline. Scott is a sought-after consultant and trainer who made every mistake when rising through the leadership ranks. After seeing emerging leaders on his teams repeating the same mistakes, he set out to find a simpler and faster way to grow leaders. When he couldn’t find a shortcut, he invented one. His 25-year career includes stops at Microsoft in Redmond, Washington and start-ups in Silicon Valley.
A few of the questions Scott addresses include:
How can someone accelerate their growth from a role player to a leader?
Why is it essential for leaders to “lose the competency war?”
How can leaders improve their hiring of other leaders?
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In today's episode, you will hear Dave “Laundromat Millionaire” Menz share his leadership journey from being your everyday average high school student to becoming a millionaire business owner in an industry with a not so clean reputation. Arguably one of the less "sexy" kinds of businesses to own, laundromats have nonetheless been very good to Dave. His story showcases why sometimes going against the popular grain grants you the biggest harvest.
Dave is a laundromat industry veteran and the owner of the Queen City Laundry Chain of Laundromats in Cincinnati Ohio. His inspirational journey from purchasing a struggling laundromat to becoming a millionaire has inspired many entrepreneurs to try and overcome their own obstacles while building wealth.
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Orshie Herbein, a partner at Brand3, knows if you don’t have a clear message and image, you could be wasting as much as 80% of your marketing budget. She is here with some actionable ways to help business owners rethink marketing and to stop wasting time and money and accelerate business growth. With her unique perspective as a visual problem solver, Orshie is a great asset to have with us.
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What does growing a business and blacksmithing have in common? Today's guest Russell Pearson is going to tell you...and you will love the way the analogy works out. I absolutely loved my conversation with Russell and I think you will, too.
Some details about Russell Pearson: he is a Business Strategist, Designer, Podcast Host, Keynote Speaker and Blacksmith. Whether stalking the big stage, going global from his private studio or rocking a comedy club, he brings passion, humour, and insight to every discussion.
For over 25 years, he has been working with passionate yet frustrated business people to transform the way they grow their organisations. An award-winning business owner, founder of the Forge Business Program, host of the Marketing Report Podcast, Past National President of Professional Speakers Australia, and father of 3 feisty children. Anyone who uses the word feisty to describe children is an immediate friend of mine!
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Jonathan Goldhill is a masterful business coach and personal strategist specializing in guiding next-generation leaders of family businesses to scale up their business as they take control over the leadership and ownership of the family business. Jonathan left New York for California at age 20 after his family’s large, privately-held men’s apparel manufacturing company—started by his great-grandfather—sold to a conglomerate in its third generation of family ownership. Within ten years, Jonathan had established himself as the go-to expert for entrepreneurs looking to find their freedom. Today, Jonathan brings thirty years of experience advising, coaching, consulting, training, and guiding entrepreneurial and family businesses to grow their revenues, profits and people’s leadership.
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In 12 years of owning multiple small businesses, Sean Adams felt overwhelming stress stemming from the government and banks having control over his income. He consumed hundreds of books, interviews, and courses to learn as much as he could about finance and discovered the ultra-rich had insider knowledge about protecting and growing wealth. Sean made it his mission to distill down these secrets and make sure everyone had access to them. This led him to found Leveraged Life Management in order to help other professionals leverage a time-tested wealth-building strategy of the ultra-rich.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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In today's episode, Benson Agbortogo and I talk about when he got the call to leadership and what answering that call has done for his life, along with having a few laughs about what it takes these days to build a successful business.
Benson is the creator of the Consistent Profit Tree System which helps business owners and entrepreneurs in the construction and service industry generate more profit while working fewer hours. While living in his native African homeland, at age 13, Benson Agbortogo discovered the immense love of a wealthy God and embarked on a quest to eradicate poverty. Benson became a missionary pastor with the purpose of helping people dedicate their lives to God but noticed most people still struggled economically and lived in financial poverty.
The Lord urged Benson to seek to understand the timeless, proven, economic principles of creating wealth to help others experience financial abundance. He moved to the USA where he has earned both a B.S. in Business Management and an MBA. Since then, Benson has served business owners through his Kingdom-based consulting services. He has authored 4 books, including “The Business System That Never Fails.”
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Today's guest, Paul Huszar, talks about why veterans are exceptional leaders in civilian life, with several stories that showcase this reality.
"If you value respect, showing up on time, and getting the job done right, you'll be hard-pressed to find anyone better than a veteran," he says.
This is one of the many reasons Paul founded his company, VetCor. He is the CEO of VetCor and Team VetCor, and a retired Army officer. Paul graduated from West Point and then served 23 years on active duty, including four combat tours in Iraq. He commanded a 1,000 Soldier and Airman Joint Task Force in 09-10 and last served as the Dean of the Army’s Engineer School. He retired and moved to Tampa in 2013 when he started VetCor and started franchising the concept in 2019. His passion is creating sustainable and meaningful employment opportunities, and now business ownership opportunities, for our Nation’s Heroes.
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Developing the ability to improvise when things don't go according to plan alleviates needless angst and suffering. And let's face it -- the way the world is going today, we are needing to improvise constantly. Sometimes the best move to make is to drop back and punt.
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As we enter a new year, many of us are thinking about what success means moving forward. My conversation on today's episode with Dr. Ruth Gotian is sure to get you thinking about your own definition of success and what you will prioritize in the coming months.
Dr. Ruth Gotian is the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology and former Assistant Dean of Mentoring and Executive Director of the Mentoring Academy at Weill Cornell Medicine. She has been hailed by the journal Nature and Columbia University as an expert in mentoring and leadership development and is currently a contributor to Forbes and Psychology Today where she writes about ‘optimizing success’. She also has a weekly show and podcast by the same name where she gathers high achievers to talk about their journey to success. She was recently recognized as the #1 Emerging Management Thinker In The World with the Thinkers50 Radar Award, dubbed the Oscars of management thinking. She's talking to us today from New York City. Her new book The Success Factor is available.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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In today's end-of-the-year retrospective, I've assembled highlights from the conversations I had here at PYP January-December. Topics we explored within the larger context of answering the call to leadership include:
- Uncertainty and change
- Moving forward anyway
- Investing in yourself is the best use of time and resources
- Answering the call to leadership is worthwhile
- Pay attention to money no matter how good or bad the economy is doing
- Know what you want and decide accordingly
- Making friends with technology will serve you well
- Take care of yourself—your mind, your body, your dreams, and your goals
Here are the links to listen to each guest's full episode. Powerful, uplifting, life-changing!
Peter Docker
Brian Kight
Angus Nelson
Ken Kladouris
Meghan Lynch
Jonathan Baktari
Calvin Brown
Rich Kasparian
Jessica Fialkovich
Dr. Roger Hall
Erin Fults
John Vuong
Nedra Rezinas
Curtis May
Janice Lintz
Jonathon Hensley
Tracy Goodwin
Neville Billimoria
Chuck Cooper
Amanda Clements
Mary Mosham
Kimberly Crowe
Jenna Cooper
Nadav Zeimer
Adi Klevit
Trey Taylor
John Johnson
Sam Groff
Michele Ashby
Chad Austin
Susan James
Jim McCarthy
Michael Roderick
Wayne Mullins
Judd Armstrong
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Peter Docker is a co-author of Find Your Why (global sales of over 420,000), and previously a founding Igniter at Simon Sinek Inc. His new book is called Leading from the Jumpseat: How to Create Extraordinary Opportunities by Handing Over Control. Jumpseat Leadership is a way of interacting with people that will enhance performance in any given situation – during normal business, times of crisis, and life in general. Handing over the reins to others is inevitable. Everyone will eventually leave their team, retire from being the CEO, or see their kids leave home and lead their own lives. Leading from the Jumpseat enables us to embrace this inevitability. Peter believes that everyone is capable of accomplishing extraordinary things. He’s here today to talk about his book, what it’s like to work with Simon Sinek, and when he got his call to leadership.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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When we reconsider our position or point of view on something, especially after time has passed, we open opportunities for growth as leaders.
Ep. 381 Neville Billimoria on Leading with Love
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“There’s nothing more inconsistent going on day to day week to week than what’s going on inside someone’s heart. The number one skill a coach can have is to move someone in that way.” Brian Kight
Brian Kight doesn’t know your goals, but he knows how you can get there faster—discipline. Discipline is the shortcut, and he’s sharing this shortcut every day with his 32,000+ Daily Discipline subscribers. Daily Discipline is a free daily email with a central mission to help people build the discipline they need to accomplish what they want, as fast and reliably as possible.
Brian has worked with some of the most notable businesses and sports teams in implementing his simple systems for training leaders, building culture, and creating winning behavior. Whether it’s delivering world-class keynotes or advising an organization’s leaders, Brian is making a difference for those ready to do the work. Brian’s competitive mindset grew from the influence of playing football to becoming an entrepreneur. He sits on the board of the Charlotte, NC chapter of Entrepreneurs’ Organization (EO) where he advises other entrepreneurs and small business owners on how to compete and win.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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One of the biggest myths about marketing for businesses of every size is this: marketing's job is to get someone to the point of sale and then marketing is done.
Nothing could be further from the truth. Today's guest Wayne Mullins of Ugly Mug Marketing is back for a second time to dispel this myth and share the truth about what marketing really is and how to do it effectively. If you're tired of reinventing the marketing wheel every 3-6 months and want a framework that transforms your marketing approach into results you love, grab a pen and something to write with because Wayne takes us inside his powerful system that anyone can use.
Some highlights of our conversation:
-Why so many businesses do marketing wrong (and what to do instead)
-How the latest marketing tactic is probably a waste of your time and money
-The secret to doing marketing better exists with your current customers
-How to engineer trust into your marketing efforts
Plus so much more!
You will also want to get a copy of his latest book, Full Circle Marketing, available now!
Get Wayne's book here
Listen to Wayne's leadership journey here and learn why your website doesn't have to be pretty -- Ep. 270
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Angus Nelson is a man on a mission: to help ambitious men find a life of meaning and purpose, free from the constraints of limitations imposed by others or self. He helps men create lives they’ve always wanted. As an entrepreneur, Angus endured the pain of burnout, addiction, and divorce as the gut-wrenching consequences of neglect in his own mental health, self-awareness, and humility. Angus is the Founder of Evolve Men Coaching and is one of America’s top men’s performance strategists. He’s spent the last decade working with high-achieving leaders using his signature alignment tool, The Manhood Matrix™, to discover what ignites men at their core. He’s spoken for global brands like Walmart, Coca-Cola, BMW, and Disney and will host the upcoming Evolve Men Podcast. He is ecstatically married with three children living in Nashville, Tennessee. He loves all things human behavior, Green Bay Packers, and BBQ nachos.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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At what point is it too late to turn back?
Links mentioned in the show can be found over on my blog here.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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What is the connection between stillness and success? With us today is Ken Kladouris, an esteemed wealth advisor and a leader in the self-mastery movement who has developed an online course entitled “Stillness to Success” to help people cut through the noise, find their stillness and create the success they want in life. Ken compiled this course with practical and impactful lessons he extracted from years of his own self-study with a spin that is fresh and relevant to the 2021 world we are all experiencing.
Outside of the office, Ken’s love of the ocean led him to pursue sailing. It is there that he also found his passion to give back to the community. In his spare time he can be found with friends and loved ones aboard a powerboat, sail boat or at community events.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Meghan Lynch is the CEO of Six-Point Creative, a brand strategy agency that helps “second-stage” companies breakthrough growth plateaus. As part of her mission to help small businesses challenge the goliaths, Meghan has served as an expert advisor to second-stage clients in a wide range of industries, from fast-casual restaurants to industrial manufacturers. Meghan was named an Enterprising Woman of the Year in 2019 and enjoys testing her limits as an endurance runner.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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When Jonathan Baktari was arguably at the peak of his medical career as a triple board-certified physician, he saw an opportunity to try something new. Taking everything he’d learned as a doctor, medical director, and educator, he launched two businesses—a vaccine clinic and a drug-testing enterprise—that are driven by technology and designed for fast, customer-centric service. Now, as those businesses grow, he’s continuing to write his second career chapter as a health care CEO.
Dr. Baktari’s company e7 Health was named the best technology company in the healthcare space in 2019. e7 Health could best be described as “the Uber of preventive medicine” in that it is a systems company that has invested heavily in developing their own electronic cloud-based software to leverage technology for the benefit of their operation, patients, and clients. In addition to vaccines, antibody testing, and many other medical services essential to employers around the country, e7 is now providing at-home COVID-19 tests for individuals and companies all over the US. Dr. Baktari has always believed that helping others was the ultimate achievement in life. Now, as a business leader and sought-after speaker, he’s excited to share his expertise in tech entrepreneurship, COVID-19, preventative health, and many other topics with Team PYP.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Welcome to the Fall 2021 season of PYP. Let's talk about leadership as we build, invent, explore, and move our lives forward.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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It's a special day here at PYP. Celebrate with me as I raise a glass to the 400th episode of the Play Your Position Podcast and why a podcast could be in your future! Cheers!
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Calvin Brown is a tech founder with experience managing global teams and multi-million dollar software deliverables. His software architecture background, coding capabilities, and keen understanding of the entire process help inform his mindful but competitive approach.
Calvin is fueled by his passion for understanding the nuances of the technical challenges businesses face across all industries. He considers himself a ‘forever student,’ eager to build on his hands-on technical foundation by architecting, building, and teaching others how to master the art of making complex technical issues solvable.
In 2017, Calvin’s love for giving back inspired him to create a community that offers free technical training. Today, the growing tech group of nearly 1,000 professional black coders provides access to the strategies and techniques used to build lots of the software we all use daily. Understanding the intricate dance between software developers and business owners, Calvin wrote a book to help entrepreneurs bring their app-related visions to life through effectively communicating with developers without necessarily knowing the technical language. He also contributes to technology-focused magazines, selflessly spreading knowledge and resources to empower others.
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When the time comes to say goodbye, write it in a letter.
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Rich Kasparian is the founder of Garden City Financial Group Inc. Rich and his firm work passionately with individuals, families, and businesses to plan, manage, and pursue their financial goals with confidence. Rich founded the firm in 2009 because he knew there was a need for sound, personalized, and objective advice in the confusing world of financial planning that sometimes seems to lack common sense. He is passionate about helping business owners and other individuals protect their investments to ensure a happy retirement.
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Many people go into business with their eyes on their eventual exit. Today's guest Jessica Fialkovich takes us inside the world of business valuations, giving us insights about what's involved, what's not, and when to know it's time to move on.
Jessica became a first-time entrepreneur at the age of 25 and since has been able to successfully establish, develop and sell multiple small businesses in a number of different industries.
In the last eight years, Jessica has been able to build her business brokerage firm from a two-person team to one of the top firms in the country. Under her leadership, the office has been the number one Transworld Business Advisors franchise location in the world for the last five years, has made the Inc 5000 list for the last three, and been recognized by the Financial Times, the Denver Business Journal and others. Jessica is also the Founder of Exit Factor, which teaches business owners how to buy and sell businesses for the most profit in the least amount of time.
As an entrepreneur, Jessica is passionate about small businesses driving our economy. Because of this, she has committed to educating and supporting entrepreneurs and the small business community. She is active in the Entrepreneurs’ Organization, currently serving as the President of the Colorado chapter, and the founder of the Small Business Coalition, a non-profit giving small businesses support and a voice. Jessica is originally a Jersey Girl that now lives in Colorado with her husband and two dogs, Moose and Sailor. When she’s not working you can find her either enjoying the outdoors or attending a Bruce Springsteen concert.
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You're not alone if you're struggling to let go of the you you used to be.
Episode 393
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It's what everyone wants. More happiness. More success. Today's guest, business psychologist Dr. Roger Hall, shares ways of getting both.
He has one trick: training leaders to MONITOR and MANAGE their thinking. Successful people are first and foremost disciplined thinkers. Yogi Berra was right. He said, “Ninety percent of baseball is mental. The other half is physical.”
He may not have been great at math, but he was right about successful people. Successful, happy people discipline their thoughts.
Better thinking leads to better behavior, which leads to better results. Roger focuses his clients first on their thinking. Once that is lined up, the behavior follows pretty quickly and the improved results follow shortly after. Roger has worked with little companies with only a few people all the way up to big behemoths that dominate their industries. He likes working with people who want to become the best version of themselves.
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Go ahead. The rest of your life is waiting.
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Erin Fults is a strategist, coach, implementer, and the founder of Acorn Studio, a business coaching, and marketing consultancy. Erin passionately believes that healthy, sustainable small businesses can change the world. She helps business owners figure out the next right step to move their business forward and implement simple frameworks that maximize revenue and productivity. As a Storybrand Certified Guide and a Business Made Simple Certified Coach, Erin draws on her background in photography, design, and entrepreneurship to help business owners confidently grow a business they love.
When she isn’t obsessing over her clients’ success, Erin and her husband, Jon, along with their three children, love hosting friends and family at their home in Mississippi. Most afternoons there are as many as 12 neighbor kids playing in her yard after school. When she can catch a few moments to herself, Erin enjoys cycling and reading. The verdict is still out on whether or not consuming stacks of marketing and business strategy books actually constitutes a hobby.
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Most people are like most people yet we work so hard not to be.
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Think SEO is a thing of the past? Think again! Today's guest John Vuong takes us inside the world of SEO and why it matters more than ever and how you can make it work for you without knowing all the backend tech stuff.
John Vuong is the owner and founder of Local SEO Search. He helps small and medium-sized businesses rank on Google and dominate their local market. John puts a strong emphasis on relationships and treats his client's like family, wanting to not only help them rank but to help their business grow and succeed.
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Get inside the mind of an experienced marketer to learn what works, what doesn't, and why adopting a marketing mindset can transform your business or career. Today's guest Nedra Rezinas offers excellent tips and advice on getting the most out of your marketing efforts.
Nedra Rezinas is a marketing coach with 20+ years of business experience, including working with over 200 businesses on their websites and marketing decisions. She has worked in a variety of roles such as business owner, web designer, project manager, consultant, teacher, mentor and contributor. She loves teaching at the Small Business Development Center at Portland Community College in Oregon and enjoys the lasting, amazing connections to her students over the years.
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How childhood games shape our attitudes and set us up for persistent failure or success.
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Curtis May is the creator and owner of Practical Wealth Advisors (PWA) and host of The Practical Wealth Show Podcast. The primary focus of his financial planning firm is to help individuals and families become financially free by following the principles of wealth creation that have endured for centuries around the world. As the host of his popular podcast, The Practical Wealth Show, and in his individual meetings with clients, Curtis teaches people that their number one financial asset is their knowledge. The more they know, the lower their risk, and the greater their chance of success over time. He feels strongly that financial products are simply tools. What makes the biggest difference in people’s lives isn’t the product, it’s how they use it.
Curtis has been planning for individuals for more than 35 years, and he is passionate about helping his clients save money and live the very best life they can right now. Curtis is very blessed to be married to his wife of 22 years, Erica, a family law attorney. They like each other so much that they even share an office together! Curtis and Erica have three amazing daughters and love to travel.
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Which one is better for achieving success?
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Janice Schacter Lintz is a passionate, accomplished hearing loss consultant and advocate. She is well known and respected for her ability to assess situations, identify areas for improvement, recommend solutions, and implement programs that help organizations improve customer service and grow profits. A culture lover, Janice felt her heart sink whenever her daughter – diagnosed with hearing loss at 2 ½ – struggled to understand museum guides and actors on stage, even with hearing aids.
Not one to wait, Janice plunged into the research and learned that cultural venues could provide better hearing access with relatively standard technology. Her ability to break down issues and do what is needed to affect change has earned her unprecedented access to business leaders, government officials, political leaders, and respected academicians around the world. Since 2002, Janice has become the global “go-to” person on all matters related to access for people who are deaf or hard of hearing.
Janice is also a Consumer Education/Travel/Food writer. She has traveled to 139+3 UN countries and 194 Travelers’ Century Club destinations and is on a quest to visit every country in the world. She lives in New York City and is here today to share with us her leadership stories.
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Jonathon Hensley is co-founder and CEO of Emerge, a digital product consulting firm that works with companies to improve operational agility and customer experience. For more than two decades, Jonathon has helped startups, Fortune 100 brands, technology leaders, large regional health networks, non-profit organizations and more, transform their businesses by turning strategy, user needs, and new technologies into valuable digital products and services. Jonathon writes and speaks about his experiences and insights from his career, and regularly hosts in-depth interviews with business leaders and industry insiders. He lives in the Pacific Northwest with his wife and two boys.
Originally from Silicon Valley, Jonathon got into the digital product space inspired by the incredible people developing new technologies all around him and the possibilities they unlocked. This fueled his curiosity to understand how technology transforms the ways in which people live and work. That curiosity continues to drive him today, as he works to help businesses harness technology. His work focuses on helping leaders define the value they want to create in a succinct and tangible way; where to focus, why, and what it will take to achieve that outcome. His favorite part is going beyond the idea and mapping how you bring together people, data, and processes so that clients can succeed.
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Over the last 30 years, Tracy Goodwin has had the honor of transforming the lives of hundreds of 7 figure entrepreneurs, executives, business professionals, and celebrities simply by shifting sounds that are sending the wrong message out of their voice.
Tracy’s interest in how voices are subconsciously perceived and the effect that can have on a person’s life and success started when she was a child. She was raised in a family where children were to be seen and not heard. She wasn’t really allowed to speak. But, in spite of that, she started winning speaking awards when she was 12 years old. It was the one platform to use her voice and she thrived in that space.
She went on to be an award-winning actor and director. In her freshman year of college as she was studying acting, she had a horrific event happen on stage, and in an instant, her voice changed. It was that moment that set the real stage for the work she does today, Psychology of the Voice. The Psychology of the Voice transforms her client’s voices and lives because she goes after the drivers that are in their minds and the stories they are telling. It’s those drivers that put those bad voice habits into place. We have to eradicate both to have true transformation and results that stick.
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Beyond the cap and gown.
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PYP episodes mentioned in today's show:
Neville Bilimoria
Nadav Ziemer
Neville Billimoria is an award-winning communications executive who also teaches martial arts, yoga, and meditation on the UC San Diego campus (which he's been doing for 38 years!). He is a frequent speaker on topics including brand as culture, purpose-driven leadership, social capital optimization, and civic engagement.
Neville writes a weekly blog over at Soul Food Friday intended to feed, grow and energize your soul.
I think you are going to love Neville's energy and enthusiasm as much as I do! We had a fantastic conversation. Enjoy!
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They may not look like the ones of old, but rest assured -- Gate Keepers are alive and well.
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Clip in today's episode courtesy of:
Monty Python's "The Meaning of Life" Song
Over the past 25 years, Chuck Cooper has been involved at the ownership level with a number of companies across several different industries, but of all his work-related accomplishments, one stands above the rest. Chuck loves partnering with companies to develop their HR strategies. For him, the greatest reward is seeing clients achieve greater levels of success.
Chuck’s passion for helping to create better companies led him to found WhiteWater Consulting in March of 2019. WhiteWater Consulting defines and designs custom HR solutions that allow companies to create a positive culture, manage their expenses, and maximize their revenues. Specifically, Chuck helps his clients take care of their people through recruiting and talent management, payroll and compliance, compensation management, group health programs, corporate wellness and financial wellness plans, and much more.
To Chuck, faith and family are everything. When he isn’t working with companies to develop their HR strategies, he enjoys spending time with his grandkids, reading, photography, and college football. He has been richly blessed and happily married to Debbie, his wife of 35 years, and has three children and soon to be eight grandkids.
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Amanda Clements is a Certified Professional Coach (CPC) who specializes in teaching and training the mental aspects of sports. She helps athletes perform under pressure, overcome disappointments, handle stress, and increase emotional intelligence. Her "whole life" approach can also help those who feel they are lacking direction, purpose, motivation, organization, passion and/or life balance. She has experience working with a wide range of age groups and uses mental performance techniques to help her clients achieve their desired goals.
Amanda’s twenty-year sports career includes competing as a Division I gymnast and playing defensive back for Washington, DC’s semi-pro, women’s football team. It was her own, emotional struggle with transitioning out of competition that ultimately led her to combine her coaching practice with her love of sports. She now finds purpose helping other athletes excel during their competitive careers, as well as navigate the transition into life thereafter.
Amanda graduated from Towson University with a B.S. in Anthropology and Sociology. She later completed her CPC with the Institute for Professional Excellence in Coaching. In addition to her work through MD Sports, she is also the owner and operator of Beyond the Game, LLC.
She lives in the Washington DC area and is here today to teach us all how to get our heads back in the game after the craziness 2020 handed us.
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How often and why you choose to travel there is up to you.
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Mary Mosham is an award-winning leadership coach, mindfulness teacher, and author. She specializes in leadership, team, and personal development, yoga and meditation, and corporate mindfulness.
With over 20 years’ experience in corporate change consulting and management at Cisco and Fortune 100 companies, she pioneered innovative people development solutions and led global change efforts that enhanced organization, leadership, and team performance.
Mary earned a master’s degree in organization development from Pepperdine University and ICF professional coach certifications from New Ventures West and Marcus Buckingham Company. She has received numerous awards, including Cisco’s Coach of Excellence award. She is a certified facilitator in leading-edge programs and assessments, including Potential Project’s corporate mindfulness programs, Leadership Circle Profile™, Hogan, StandOut, Emotional Intelligence (EQ-i®), and Enneagram.
She is the author of Mindful Career: Seven Keys to End Burnout and Unlock Your Greatest Potential. Away from work, she is passionate about traveling, hiking, healthy living, sponsoring the Tibetan Children Foundation, and creating a more sustainable world.
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As a Master Connector, Kimberly Crowe gets entrepreneurs the stages and connections they need to stop being overlooked, and massively grow their revenue and reach. Kimberly is an award-winning international inspirational public speaker, best-selling author, audiobook producer, and six-time entrepreneur.
Kimberly is the founder of Entrepreneurs Rocket Fuel, an active community of Entrepreneurs, looking to contribute, connect, and grow with other entrepreneurs.
Kimberly is also the mother of two and an adventure seeker, who has hiked sections of the Pacific Crest Trail, navigated Class IV rapids with one of Costa Rica's female Olympic medal-winning whitewater champions, sailed down the coast of Mexico on a 42-foot sailboat, and traversed 200 miles on horseback through Canada’s Jasper National Park. Her specialty is turning dreams into reality.
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It's a new month here at PYP with a new theme: attitude. What exactly is your attitude and what does crying have to do with it? I answer these questions plus so much more explore in today's episode of the Play Your Position Podcast.
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This episode is dedicated to Dr. John "Jack" Cooper May 14, 1932 - March 29, 2021
A seasoned public relations professional, Jenna Cooper, APR is Founder/President at The C3 Collective. Her nose for news has transplanted her in television broadcast markets across the country including Boise, Austin, Atlanta, and Seattle. Cooper has successfully woven her award-winning journalism skills together with high-profile public relations and communications positions, serving as a strategist and front-line spokesperson and President of the Public Relations Society of America, Portland Metro Chapter.
Cooper’s communications campaigns have won several PRSA Portland Spotlight awards. The Associated Press and the prestigious Texas Headliners Foundation have awarded her for her excellence in journalism. Career highlights include reporting on the numerous court challenges and recounts stemming from the 2000 Presidential campaign, the 2003 Space Shuttle Columbia disaster in North Texas, and the volcanic activity in 2004 on Mt. St. Helens.
Jenna Cooper is accredited in public relations from the Universal Accreditation Board through the Public Relations Society of America. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Political Science from the University of Oregon. Cooper lives in Portland, Oregon with her brilliant daughter, and what is suspected to be, the world's most mellow Beagle.
In today's episode, Jenna and Mary Lou talk about ways to ease presentation anxiety, why owning your story is essential for success in anything you do, and what happens if you freeze in front of a room.
Click here to register for Jenna's webinar on how to be a powerful presenter.
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People who run a business as an independent consultant, coach, or freelancer often generate money in one of two ways: through direct response marketing or brand marketing. In today's episode, you will learn about what distinguishes one from the other and what it means for you if you are interested in growing your business.
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Nadav Zeimer works at the intersection of technology and education. He excelled as a software engineer in Silicon Valley prior to becoming an award-winning physics/robotics teacher, turnaround principal, and public speaker. The transition from software to education started when Nadav founded a nonprofit focused on hyper-local radio production.
As a teacher, Nadav integrated podcasting into his curricula and was selected to lead a school design team. Seven consecutive years of breakthrough student outcomes followed, along with widespread recognition for his digital media-centered approach to school reform. Nadav promises to end standardized testing in NYC high schools by 2040. Based on nearly two decades of experience, he has launched an open-source, blockchain ledger of "gold standard" high school credits. The Zeimer Family adopted their eldest child from Japan and currently serves as foster parents to a medically fragile child in Harlem.
Nadav is the author of Education in the Digital Age: How We Get There which offers an evaluation of how digital technology and economics are poised to transform education by examining the concept of academic capital. He explains why he wants to reengineer the way credits are stored and used in education by implementing blockchain technology to the credits ledger system.
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We read about pro athletes and lottery winners coming into big money fast. Yet more of these people wind up bankrupt and broke than the ones who manage to live well for the rest of their lives.
Why is this? Isn't money supposed to fix all the problems and make our dreams come true?
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Resources from the show:
Why so many athletes go broke
What brings down lottery winners
Take the Money and Run by The Steve Miller Band
There’s a boatload of money in the 2 1/2 week basketball tournament. Here’s why.
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Adi Klevit is the founder of the Business Success Consulting Group, a team of experienced professionals working together to provide business owners, entrepreneurs, and key executives with strategic implementation, process improvement and documentation, and long-lasting systems necessary to support business expansion. She specializes in helping businesses scale and grow by implementing efficient business infrastructure, processes, and systems. She works with companies that want to scale and expand as well as companies that are gearing up for transition.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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What's flavoring your life is not the MSG that makes Chinese food taste so good.
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Resources from today's episode:
You Are a Badass at Making Money: Master the Mindset of Wealth by Jen Sincero
It’s Not Your Money: How to Live Fully from Divine Abundance by Tosha Silver
Profit First: A Simple System to Transform Any Business from a Cash-eating Monster to a Money-making Machine by Mike Michalowicz
The Notorious B.I.G. - Mo Money Mo Problems
Whether you’re a new CEO trying to navigate chaotic workdays or a veteran of the C-Suite trying to reignite your passion, focus is your most important asset. Many owners and CEOs think they have to be involved in every aspect of their business. They spend valuable brainpower on low-priority decisions. Before long, they’re overworked and burned out.
Trey Taylor is the managing director of trinity | blue, a consultancy designed to provide executive coaching and strategic planning to C-Suite leaders. His experience derives from fields as diverse as technology, financial services, venture capital, and commercial real estate development. Frequently featured as a keynote speaker, he has addressed attendees at the Human Capital Institute, the Ascend Conference, and many other engagements. He is also the author of A CEO Only Does Three Things, a book that goes into detail about what those three things are and why they matter.
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It's heavier and more cumbersome than you realize.
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Resource mentioned on the show:
Storage stats in America
John H. Johnson, PhD is president and CEO of Edgeworth Economics, a professional economist, expert witness, internationally renowned speaker, and author of EVERYDATA: The Misinformation Hidden in the Little Data You Consume Everyday.
Dr. Johnson has helped some of the world’s largest companies understand how to interpret data and is known internationally for his ability to explain highly sophisticated concepts in a simple, straightforward manner, helping his audiences become more confident and discerning consumers of data and make better decisions in their professional and personal lives.
Dr. Johnson received a PhD in Economics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his BA in Economics with Highest Distinction from the University of Rochester. He lives with his wife and two children in McLean, Virginia.
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What it takes to move forward.
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Letting go can be really, really hard. So can forgiveness.
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Samantha “Sam” Groff helps transition your traditional in-person training, consulting, and coaching to the online course world. She has a no BS approach to getting you and your clients the results you want. By taking you back to your beginner mindset, she shows you how to easily transform your brilliant ideas and talents into a course your clients will rave about. Sam is able to do all of this with her clients because she taught high school for 11 1/2 years where kids were brutally honest about whether the content was palatable or not. From the classroom, she dove headfirst into corporate and freelance instructional design. Now she pulls all of that knowledge together to help entrepreneurs design online courses that actually teach what they promise in their marketing.
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Don't let Resistance beat you.
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Resources from the Show
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
Good Day by Greg Street
It's the game-winning touchdown, the top of Everest, the alpha and the omega -- and it makes all the difference.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Judd Armstrong is a passionate entrepreneur with a visionary innovative approach to business. In 2006, Judd spearheaded the wireless revolution when he founded and bootstrapped JayBird, becoming the third top premium headphone brand in the US alongside Beats and Bose, a great story of customer insight, innovation and word-of-mouth. Judd sold Jaybird to Logitech for $95M in 2016.
After selling JayBird, Judd took a few years off to farm a small piece of independence and self-sufficiency at his new farm in Australia. In the meantime, he developed a lifestyle-friendly method of trading Bitcoin, with just 12 trades per year on average, which grows money by 100X over a few years. He has now made this method available for the first time with his Unlisted app which is uniquely designed from the ground up to cater to the needs of first-timers, with performance that delights any experienced trader.
If financial independence is what you desire, this is for you.
Judd has dedicated much of his time to studying the power of positive thought and how the subconscious controls so much of our relationship with happiness, health, and wealth. Out of that knowledge, he developed a companion app, Jump, which is designed to help you reprogram your brain with positive thoughts.
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If you're lucky enough to have one, you know what that one friend is all about.
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Losing a friend sucks, especially when that friend has been an instrumental part of your life you aren’t ready to move on from yet.
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Michele Ashby is CEO & Founder of ACE LLC, Ashby Consulting Enterprises LLC. Her focus is on educating, supporting and teaching women how to attain corporate board positions through the ACE Board Certification Programs for Women. Ms. Ashby has a diverse background which includes 30 years as a gold specialist/analyst, financial expert, independent corporate director and successful entrepreneur. She was recently awarded, one of the Top 25 Most Powerful Women in Business in Colorado, for her work in training 1,000 women to get on corporate boards. She is a subject matter expert on Board Governance, Finance, and Strategy.
Ms. Ashby has extensive board experience as an independent director with collective corporate board experience of 20 years on six corporate boards, as well as over 20 years of non-profit and trade association board experience. She founded Dani’s Foundation, a non-profit organization, in memory of her daughter, Dani Stell, which contributed over $1 million for Ewing’s Sarcoma cancer research over 15 years.
She is the author of 3 books and a former ultra-athlete. Michele is the first woman in North America to row 24 hours on a Concept 2 rowing machine – a total of 211,036 meters in 24 hours.
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We are all familiar with taking a sick day -- but a think day? Unheard of. Yet it is on think days when you can discover some of your best ideas -- you know, the ones that can change everything.
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Resources
Article about Warren Buffett
Stages of Competence PDF
I Think Therefore I Am by Billie Eilish
Friendship is one of the two survival skills for 21st-century success I'm exploring this month. Oh, and I'm also celebrating PYP's birthday this month. 7 years ago PYP became a thing. Yay! :-)
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NY Times article mentioned in today's show
After listening to this episode, you will never think of donuts the same way again.
My guest is Chad Austin, a personal trainer, speaker, and the owner of Priority Fitness in Overland Park, Kansas. Priority Fitness’s name was inspired by Chad’s best selling book, Make Fitness A Priority: How to win the fight against your excuses. Chad is passionate about helping people in all stages of life reach their fitness goals, and he is an expert at assisting his clients in making changes that lead to long term success, not just temporary success.
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What to do when faced with having an uncomfortable conversation with a customer, client, colleague, or friend.
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Have you ever noticed that you can't feel unhappy and grateful at the same time?
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Susan James is a Self Discovery Trainer. In 2002 she and her partner co-founded the Self Discovery Group LLC. They and their Team of Licensed Self Discovery Trainers and Coaches train visionary and ambitious people who are committed to fulfilling their limitless potential.
The Self Discovery Life Mastery Process is a very simple yet highly effective strategy made up of experiential and practical techniques that support people to manage themselves in today’s fast-paced world and to develop the skills to live life more deliberately.
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What are you carrying every day during this time in history? What will you carry into the future?
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Practicing gratitude doesn't come easy for some people -- and sometimes it's really hard.
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Jim McCarthy is the co-founder and CEO of Stellar Tickets (www.stellartickets.com) and Goldstar (www.goldstar.com), a company that sells millions of live event tickets to millions of people on behalf of more than 5,000 venues and producers each year. An e-commerce veteran, Jim has spent his entire career in high-growth businesses and likes to share his knowledge and insight with others. He studied English at Harvard University and received an MBA at UCLA Anderson School of Management. Jim also has a black belt in Northern Eagle Claw Kung Fu.
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What if it really was possible to get more satisfaction out of life using gratitude?
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How works of art by Arthur Miller, Victor Hugo, and Billy Joel can help us make more sense of what’s happening right now.
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The entire world laughed when we saw the now infamous "BBC Dad" video back in 2017, a portent of what was to become reality for millions in 2020. That video is now a symbol of our new normal and a testament to how leadership is being reimagined, redefined, and reinvented every day.
Today's guest is no stranger to reinvention. When Michael Roderick went from high school teacher to Broadway producer in under two years people started to ask him how he managed it. Michael began his career as a high school English teacher before producing Off-Broadway and then on Broadway. This combination of experience in the arts and entrepreneurship led to Michael starting an arts incubator program to teach more artists about building and growing their own businesses (PLAE). Eventually, he decided to develop a workshop on networking which grew into a full-time consulting practice and that became Small Pond Enterprises.
Michael took a short break to work as the V.P. of Operations and as a Director of Business Development for an NYC Ed. Tech Startup which introduced him to the New York Startup community. Most recently, Michael founded The Connecting Connectors Conference (ConnectorCon).
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It's a really good day when all the links work and go where they're supposed to.
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Today's episode kicks off another fantastic year of content here at the Play Your Position Podcast. I was inspired by Jenny Davis from ep. no. 315 who challenged me in December with the following question:
If 2020 were a person, what would you like to say to it?
I decided to write a letter which I share with you here.
Enjoy!
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Predictions, end-of-the-year thoughts, and of course some inspiration for the new year are packed into today's episode. Enjoy!
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Today’s guest is Russ Stephens, co-founder of the Association of Professional Builders, a leading business coaching company dedicated to improving the residential construction industry for both builders and consumers. Since 2014 he has been helping builders double the size of their businesses through profitable growth. The Association Of Professional Builders excels in providing cutting-edge systems, world-class support, and sales & marketing training to the construction industry.
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Reflections on the things that make us go “D’oh!” and other end of 2020 unfortunate events, discombobulations, and bewilderments.
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What's so cool about today's guest Jeremy Segal is how open and honest he is about his journey to becoming more visible online. Our conversation takes you behind the scenes of Jeremy's path to building several successful businesses as well as taking ownership of his expertise in a bigger way so that others can benefit from what he knows.
Jeremy has successfully launched businesses in Blockchain, Software (SaaS), Automotive Importation, UAV (Drone), and eCommerce. He has grown over 200,000 social followers in his latest business, completely behind the scenes. He is on a mission to help people share in the biggest possible way, doing his best to help enable and inspire people to go bigger with their voices, especially thought leaders, as they often have the expertise but can lack the reach to make the impact they want. He hosts the podcast Why Influence and since March 2020, he’s hosted a weekly meetup of influencers -- facilitating that meet up every week.
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The difference between formal education and self-education and why it matters.
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Getting noticed in a noisy world is a challenge. What works? What doesn't? Today's guest Chelsea Martin may just have found a solution for anyone looking to add a personal touch to your sales and marketing efforts without breaking the bank.
Chelsea Martin is a Co-Owner of Noms Bake Shop, the industry expert in corporate gifting that leaves a lasting impression with clients, partners, and prospects. In a noisy world of email marketing and forgettable corporate tchotchkes, Chelsea’s team at Noms Bake Shop provides a premium solution to corporate and personal gifting that delights clients and showcases your brand. Chelsea is dedicated to helping companies make an impact with premium customized gifts that will actually be enjoyed.
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Andy Buyting is the founder of Tulip Media Group. He is a leader in thought leadership and content marketing. His “integrated content” strategy has served both himself and his clients exceedingly well. You might recognize his name from being a part of the 3 CEOs troop who were on the show earlier this spring.
Andy has delivered countless keynote presentations and workshops to entrepreneurs, business leaders, and marketers all over North America. His audiences leave his keynote addresses with a better understanding of their true brand and the value they hold in the eye of their customers. They also leave with easy to execute content marketing strategies that can be immediately integrated into their marketing.
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Most towns these days are dotted with all sorts of businesses that are part of the franchising business model. Just about everything you can think of can be franchised -- from food to car repair to crafting supplies. Chances are good you have shopped at a franchise at least once this year and in turn, helped out a local business owner. Ever wonder about the people who choose to own franchises or what it takes to decide which franchise is the right franchise? Why do some franchises work out while others close their doors? In today's episode, you will get an inside look at the world of franchising from my guest, Kim Daly. Kim has spent the last 20 years helping people achieve financial freedom by enabling them to find the perfect franchise opportunities. Her skill for matching a client’s background, interests, skills, finances, and life goals to the ideal opportunity has made her one of the top franchise consultants in the country. Enjoy the show!
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A short story about a tough lesson I learned the summer when I was ten.
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Charlie Mechem’s remarkable business career spans six decades and includes stints as a lawyer, a business executive heading up the Taft Broadcasting empire, and the Commissioner of the Ladies Professional Golf Association. Charlie is a consummate storyteller, and he uses his great deal of experience, wisdom, and joy to help professionals become more engaging speakers. His book, Total Anecdotal, and podcast, 15 Minutes with Charlie, were made to share his insights and help readers and listeners become better presenters.
Charlie Mechem is the most senior member of Team PYP -- at 90 years young, he is still going strong and proves age is just a number. Listen to this delightful conversation between me and Charlie. You're going to be inspired!
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Christine Miller is a goal-oriented sales executive with extensive experience in sales and marketing. She is a highly motivated, customer-focused trainer and coach, who excels at building and structuring sales organizations. Her style is inspirational, high-energy, and collaborative.
With more than 15 years of experience in media and marketing, Chris knows how to build an opportunity pipeline while maximizing the client’s sales and marketing potential. She is highly motivated with expertise in business development, client management, content writing, sales training, and social media. The scope of her experience has spanned virtually all aspects of sales, marketing, advertising, as well as management, and team building.
As a sales consultant and coach, Christine has worked with a variety of businesses in the legal, non-profit, start-up, finance, SaaS, and real estate industries.
In addition to her consulting work, Christine spent many years as a Director of Sales in the corporate world, working for Sison Broadcasting and Comcast Spotlight. She is accomplished at recruiting, training, and coaching salespeople and sales managers to success.
Teaching small business marketing classes, writing for Business People Vermont, and volunteering for non-profits is how she pays it forward. She is also the author of Sales Geisha (available on Amazon.)
Christine has a B.S. degree in communications from Rutgers University and a Masters (MBA) degree from St. Michaels College. She resides in Essex Junction, Vermont, with her husband and two children.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Could 2020 turn out to be the best year ever?
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Gregg Ward is a management consultant, trainer, coach, and the founder and executive director of the Center for Respectful Leadership, who is on a mission to help leaders and their organizations develop their skills around respectful leadership, emotional intelligence, and executive presence. Using skills and techniques from his professional training in Live Theater, Gregg began his career as a specialist trainer for the NYPD.
Since then, he’s developed and delivered thousands of keynote addresses, experiential learning programs, and executive coaching sessions for Fortune 100 & 500 organizations around the world, including ADP, Harley-Davidson, Kaiser Permanente, Kraft Foods, Siemens, the University of California, the US Navy, and Warner Bros. Studios. He’s here to share some of the key insights outlined in his bestselling book The Respectful Leader.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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How much money is in the jar on my desk one week later after I committed to putting a quarter in the jar for every email list I unsubscribe from? Find out on today's episode, along with what horror movies can teach us about being great leaders.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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If you’re like most high-performing leaders, you’re tired of being pulled in multiple directions with zero time left for yourself. As a Certified Proctor Gallagher Coach and 27-year military leader, Laura Noel helps high-performers live empowered, fulfilling lives all while achieving their highest potential. She helps leaders focus on what really matters, so they can stop feeling out-of-control, become more effective with their time, and spend more time discovering doing what they love.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Not enough of us are talking about grief and more of us need to be.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Getting to inbox zero when the offers just keep on coming.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Why we all secretly want boundaries and limits.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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One of them is definitely better than the other.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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As the founder of Business Builder Camp, Wayne Herring has helped men across the country grow their businesses into successful and thriving enterprises. However, there is so much more to his story than simply “coach” or “consultant.” Wayne has worked as a specialty drilling and blasting contractor and an organic farmer. He has run ultra marathons, gone on epic road trips, and is a 1997 Montana state arm wrestling champion. He loves to hunt and farm, but he also enjoys yoga and meditation. Some have described Wayne as a renaissance man, but he thinks that is a strange term for the son of a coal miner.
Highlights from our conversation:
• How to make the vision in your head a reality
• Living a fulfilling life of adventure, family, and satisfaction as you grow your business
• Working to be a good dad and husband while growing your business
• Why we need people to help part the “curtains” in life
• Mentors in Wayne’s life and the value of having them in yours
• Camp / Rendezvous - reasons to gather with other sharp high performers
• What got you here won’t get you there... a trap for high performing business builders
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Elsie Escobar is a die-hard podcast junkie who lives, breathes, and works the medium since 2006. She has worked for Libsyn (where PYP is hosted) since 2007 and has had the pleasure of working with hundreds of podcasters, sharing tools for better production, educating them in the fast-moving podcasting space, as well as cultivating a strongly engaged community through The Feed: The Official Libsyn podcast which she both co-hosts and produces. The Feed’s sole focus is on keeping people podcasting.
Elsie has pulsed with the podcasting space and grown from someone who had NO IDEA what a digital recorder was or how to record anything to someone who currently offers advice to thousands of people a month.
- She knows the heart and soul of podcasters and podcasting well beyond iTunes and public media.
- She has the unique perspective and expertise of a podcast listener, independent podcast producer, and podcasting industry analyst/personality.
- She has co-run the largest community for women in podcasting with a corresponding podcast (of course) called She Podcasts whose sole mission is to empower women to continue to share their voices while creating a safe community of podcasting education and support.
As a mom of two daughters, Elsie has been known to say that “my MacBook Air and my iPhone are like my adopted children.” Her sense of humor and all-around good nature make this episode extra fun.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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A tribute to Eddie Van Halen.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Ben Krueger is the founder and CEO of Cashflow Podcasting, where they help industry advocates reach more people, change more lives and move entire industries forward. Having collaborated on 100s of podcasts since 2012, they’ve developed 8 Podcast Principles that when applied, lead to highly effective business podcasts. Built on these principles, they’ve developed a proven system for leaders to host their own world-class podcast in a fraction of the time, and he’s here today to share what he’s learned.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Dave Blanchard, Owner and Founder of Cognesis Marketing has helped well over 100 small business owners get better results from their marketing budget. He is an innovative, customer-focused, and results-driven marketing leader with expertise in startups, automation, and growth. He lives with his wife and son in Battle Ground, WA.
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The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Richard Lau, founder of Logo.com, has an impressive track record of building successful businesses. He has founded, built, and sold multiple companies including MyDomain.com, Resume.com, and NamesCon. Along with success on the business side, he has a heart for giving back to others and is Executive Director of WaterSchool, a charity focused on clean water projects in Uganda.
2020 is Richard’s 20th year as a cancer survivor. He was diagnosed with colon cancer at age 30 after just moving to a new country with his wife & 3-month old son. His faith in God carried him through this trying time for himself and his family and gave him even more drive to help others through business.
His current project is Logo.com - an AI-powered logo maker that has the ability to design a unique logo for your company in just a few minutes. He’s also hitting the podcast circuit as a means of helping others get more out of their ventures and lives.
The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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The quickest way to innovate is to take lessons from one world and apply them in another. Jenny Davis was the fastest woman in Scottish sprint cycling. As a Commonwealth Games Medalist, Jenny understands what it takes to envision, plan, train, compete, and thrive on and off the track.
Using timeless principles she has successfully created and led change management and continuous improvement programs for teams as small as 5 up to business units of 1500+. Jenny takes what she learned in excelling in sports to help entrepreneurs and business leaders lead their teams from crisis to performing to thriving. Stopping the constant fire fighting, high stress, and high emotion, ‘running around like headless chickens’ feeling in their teams, businesses, and personal lives. Instead, she helps them gain calm and control for their teams, businesses, and personal lives, by taking those core sporting principles and applying them to business.
The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Liletta Harlem is an Author, Event Coordinator, Motivational Speaker, Women's Group Facilitator for Domestic Violence, Television Producer /Host, and CEO and Founder of her own companies entitled Big Sis & Company, and Keep The Box, LLC. Liletta has received training in Crisis Counseling, Group Counseling, Psychology, and Domestic Violence counseling. She currently is the Host of a YouTube series entitled, Pivotal Moments with Liletta.
In today's episode, Liletta opens up about her own journey out of a violent relationship to living her life fully expressed. She also shares ways we can use our voices for positive change, starting with ourselves. Her energy and enthusiasm will get you excited about what's possible for you!
Elevate Your Expertise Fall 2020
What if sharing what you know with a bigger audience could be one of the best decisions you'll ever make … even if you have no idea where to start? The future needs what you know. See what's possible for you here. = = = = =
The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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The West is on fire from the northern border with Canada to the southern border with Mexico. As flames rage, questions arise about what's next for America as we work to recover from one of the worst years on record.
Elevate Your Expertise Fall 2020
What if sharing what you know with a bigger audience could be one of the best decisions you'll ever make … even if you have no idea where to start? The future needs what you know. See what's possible for you here. = = = = =
The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
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Eric Rogell is the host of the “Warriors, Lovers, Kings, and Heroes” podcast, producer of The Complete Man Summit, a bestselling author, and a mentor creating bold, inspirational leaders who want to ignite motivation, vision, and purpose in their teams. He's the author of the bestselling guide to creating lasting relationships, The Art of War for Dating, and he speaks on how to create “Gotta Have It Now!” attraction to products and how to nurture “uncheatable” relationships—where clients would never dream of running to your competitors. As a lifestyle writer for several publications, and having cultivated a wide social media reach, Eric travels the world with Fortune 500 companies, not only spreading the word on the importance of attraction and building relationships but also constantly gathering knowledge on the latest in what works (and what doesn’t) for your business.
Elevate Your Expertise Fall 2020
What if sharing what you know with a bigger audience could be one of the best decisions you'll ever make … even if you have no idea where to start? The future needs what you know. See what's possible for you here. = = = = =
The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
We always appreciate your rating and review of the show. If you haven’t already been incredibly generous and awesome, now’s your chance when you leave us a review and make sure to subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts!
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Here’s the thing about opportunities. We just can’t know where what we say yes to can lead us. If we are sitting around waiting for someone to come knock on our door chances are good we’ll be sitting there waiting for a long, long time.
So how can we tell when an opportunity is worth our time? That's the subject for today's episode which officially kicks off the Fall 2020 season of PYP.
Welcome and thanks for listening!
Elevate Your Expertise Fall 2020
What if sharing what you know with a bigger audience could be one of the best decisions you'll ever make … even if you have no idea where to start? The future needs what you know. See what's possible for you here. = = = = =
The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.
We always appreciate your rating and review of the show. If you haven’t already been incredibly generous and awesome, now’s your chance when you leave us a review and make sure to subscribe to the show wherever you listen to podcasts!
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- Find out what type of thought leader you are. Take the quiz here!
References mentioned in the show:
AntennaeTV Interview
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In today's episode, Tim Leonard takes us inside the world of college athletics. As a leader in the industry, Tim is passionate about student-athletes and how playing sports is where many young people learn critical leadership skills along with other important lessons for living a successful life. We spoke a couple of months into the COVID-19 situation when the fall season of college sports was still up in the air. Like most leaders, Tim exudes an optimistic attitude about the future of college sports despite the current challenges colleges and universities face. His point of view is inspirational and exemplifies what it means to show up as a leader in a complex world.
About Tim Leonard
Tim Leonard is in his seventh year as the Director of Athletics at Towson University in Maryland. Tim joined the Towson staff in the fall of 2013 after serving as the senior associate athletics director for external affairs at Southern Methodist University (SMU). Since coming to Towson, he has overseen continued success both on the field and in the classroom. Some of the successes his leadership has contributed to include conference titles in women's basketball and men's lacrosse plus the first NCAA FCS Playoff berth for football since 2013. Many athletes are excelling in the classroom as well, finding their names on the Dean’s List. Tim earned his bachelor’s degree in communications from Boise State. The Twin Falls, Idaho native and his wife, Monica, have two children, Hayley and Nathan.
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Judy DeFeo is passionate about the freedom and opportunities she brings to her clients. With 20 + years of financial industry experience, there’s no one better positioned to help small to midsize businesses leverage the power of cloud accounting software to help ease their accounting burden.
Judy spent 15 years with Goldman Sachs in New York, eventually serving as Vice President in their Global Treasury and Banking Division. She is a member of the National Advisor Network (for QuickBooks® ProAdvisors and is certified by the Sleeter Group, a national consulting network of accounting software professionals.
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What are micro-changes and what can they mean for you and your business, career, life?
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In the immortal words of the late Tom Petty, the waiting is the hardest part.
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Since collaborating on a film project for the first time in 2013, Will Cuddy and Zach Feiner have spent countless hours working together on projects that have taken them all over the world. As their artistic and business partnership has grown, they’ve come to a realization - the more hours they spend together, the closer friends they become and the better work they produce.
Zach and Will have co-directed numerous projects developing the technical and creative tools necessary to operate in any scenario. From Peru to Haiti to Cannes and back home again, they’ve always attempted to do one thing - cultivate friendships that allow their new friends to tell stories that they wouldn’t tell to someone that they weren’t friends with. So far, it’s worked pretty well and there's no end in sight.
Based out of Portland, Oregon, Will Cuddy and Zach Feiner are leading players in the local indie film scene, as well as accomplished commercial artists who produce exceptional digital ads for companies of all sizes. With several awards under their belts including an entry in the 2020 Cannes Film Festival for their short film "Waiting Game," these two filmmakers -- who also happen to be great friends -- are ones to watch in the years to come.
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Sometimes to feel better all we need is a change of perspective.
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Beth Armknecht Miller is CEO of Executive Velocity, a top talent, and leadership development advisory firm. Beth is a trusted executive consultant, Vistage Chair Emeritus, and committed volunteer. She is certified in Myers Briggs, Hogan, and Business DNA. And, she is a Certified Managerial Coach by Kennesaw University. Beth’s insight and expertise have made her a sought-after speaker on hiring, leadership development, and succession planning. She is a frequent contributor to Entrepreneur Online, About.com, and TalentCulture to name a few. She is a graduate of Babson College and Harvard Business School’s OPM program.
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When my kids were small, one of the favorite bedtime books in our house was Eric Carle’s “The Very Busy Spider.” If you’re not familiar with this book, it’s one that teaches children about focusing on work that matters. With delightful illustrations, the story has several different kinds of animals asking the spider who is spinning her web to do things with them. The horse asks if she wants to go for a ride, the goat asks if she wants to jump on the rocks, the dog asks if she wants to chase a cat… but her answer to all these invitations is no thanks, she is busy spinning her web.
In today's episode, I talk about how to be more like a spider and less like a horse, dog, or goat. It's fun, it's relevant -- and always with a simple yet powerful takeaway!
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For years Derek Stone had dreams of becoming a musician. This road didn’t lead him to success, however, it led him to Nashville, TN. Struggling to live as a starving artist with a family to feed, it was then he thought “there’s got to be a better way.” He went through an early life crisis, changing careers with the help of mentors, and watching YouTube. He took his God-given talent of creativity and transferred it from being something you hear to something that you can see. As it turned out, the construction industry was his road to success, the “better way” he had longed for. In three short years, he grew a small one-man show into a company with $1.2 million in gross revenue.
He credits his success today to one decision he made as a senior in high school: forgiving his dad and taking a different path in life than his parents. He blamed his dad for every bad thing he went through as a child: from being sexually abused and going hungry, to taking cold showers because the power got cut off. He was a bitter teenager and wanted a better life, so when the opportunity presented itself, he took it and chose forgiveness. 36 years have passed since the beginning of his story and he is currently living his best life. He enjoys hunting, fishing, knife making, and hanging out with his family. He also loves empowering people to re-tool and change their lives.
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What are 5 minutes worth? A heck of a lot more than you might think. In today's episode, I share with you how valuable 5 minutes can actually be to your life, business, and career.
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Today I put a special pin on the map of my podcasting journey -- pin #300. That’s right, Today’s episode is number 300, and I am proud to say I did it! I achieved a goal that once seemed very, very far away.
I have my guests to thank, I have you to thank, I am thanking myself for setting this goal and achieving it on the day I said I would, July 9th, 2020. That doesn’t always happen. There are plenty of times in my life when I didn’t hit a goal on the date I put on the calendar.
Today is not one of those days.
Today is a day of celebration. Glad you're choosing to celebrate with me!
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In the second part of this micro-series on how to manage our life online, I share five more tips about best practices with respect to spending time on the Internet.
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Managing our life online is now part of what we have to build into our day. What do we need to think about? How do we ensure what shows up in search is accurate and relevant to the online narrative we want representing us? In this first half of a two-part series, I share with you five tips for doing that successfully -- and without spending tons of time.
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In a digitally-driven world, does word-of-mouth still matter? This is the central question I explore in today's episode of the Play Your Position Podcast.
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The recent shift to working remotely for millions, and not of their own choosing, has brought up an even greater need to set boundaries and make expectations clear when everyone is homebound. In this Friday edition of PYP, I share with you how to set up boundaries when working remotely, as well as a handful of lessons I learned about making the work from home scenario work well.
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Times are different today with so many of us working remotely. Working with clients and building the right client systems to maximize client results and profit is tough during normal conditions. Add the layer of being at distance and the entire game changes.
Ever wonder what your clients are actually thinking? Why they’re not taking action or seemingly standing in the way of their own success? The truth is generating client success (and the retention, referrals & raving fans that follow) is a system that can be optimized and engineered.
Today's guest is Tony Banta. He is a systems engineer, innovation consultant, and host of the Client Whisperer Show. Beginning his career as a self-taught software developer, Tony quickly realized that the best code could never solve broader leadership issues within organizations. Today Tony works with other client-businesses to maximize client results, increase client retention, and streamline the client fulfillment experience. Tony’s writing has been featured in Forbes, The Huffington Post, and Recruiter Magazine to name a few. Tony and I talk about the changes to the way we're working today and the effects those changes are having on our client relationships. It's a great conversation as always!
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Is it possible to build a thriving community or group remotely, one that meets the needs of all the participants and allows for measurable progress to occur? That’s a question that’s coming up more and more these days as working remotely continues to be a reality for millions of people who until four months ago showed up to a building outside their dwelling and had the luxury of working together in person. In today's episode, I share five tips about how to create successful virtual groups or communities so that participants have a positive experience while making measurable progress toward their goals.
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In today's episode, I share three practical tips for success while working remotely. Enjoy the show!
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This whole working remotely thing is new to a lot of people and with it comes unexpected joys and mistakes! This week I'm exploring what it means to work from home -- the flubs, the flabs, the fun, the frustrations. I will share with you tips and insights I've picked up from being a #WFH business owner for the last 15 years. Today's episode is about what can go wrong and I share a funny personal story that inspired this week's theme of what it means to work remotely. Enjoy!
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Is success predictable? What are some ways we can reflect on moments when we experienced success? What kinds of moments do we associate with success? Is there a formula for success? These are some of the provocative questions I explore in today's episode of the Play Your Position Podcast. Enjoy!
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At some point we have to come to terms with the truth that we are measuring fiends, obsessed with knowing the numbers, comparing and contrasting ourselves constantly to everyone and everything. Measuring is the full-time job we didn’t even know we had.
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Josh’s approach to business has always been about creating an organization that is strong, secure, and able to avoid distraction. Throughout his career in the coffee industry, he relied on the unusual metaphor of the lobster to unite the team and prepare the organization. Awareness that lobsters never stop growing and of the trauma they experience during molt can remind any business to enjoy the ups while preparing for the downs that always come.
His book Growing Like a Lobster was motivated by Josh’s sincere desire to help others who seek to build extraordinary businesses. Through sharing his personal experiences and insights, Joshua offers a new way to confront challenges and simple approaches to building special and lasting organizations.
Josh has a B.A. in Political Science from Yale College and an M.B.A in Marketing and Finance from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. Along the way to building brands within the world of coffee machine cleaning products, Josh worked in investment banking for Salomon Brothers and in marketing for Unilever Home and Personal Care.
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From the outside looking in, success often appears magical. We love magic because of its essence -- who doesn’t want to experience success as if by magic? Wave a magic wand and all your dreams come true, right? In today's episode, I explore magic as it pertains to achievement and success, including how we can all experience more magic on our leadership journey. Enjoy!
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When you look around at people who are achieving great things, do you wonder how they do what they do? In today's episode, I explore success through the lens of mechanics and why all success is ultimately mechanical.
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In what ways is the call to adventure and leadership the same for women and men? How is that call different? These are some of the questions I explore in today's episode. Enjoy!
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What conditions or variables might be present when we get the call to leadership? In today's episode, I share what can be happening in your life when the call shows up.
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Today’s guest is Peter Lazaroff (LAZZ-ar-off), who knew from a young age that he had a future in investing. Today, Peter is the Chief Investment Officer at Plancorp, which manages over $4 billion for its clients. What makes Peter unique is his personable “big brother” perspective and unique ability to simplify complex issues for anyone. He’s here to share insights from his book, Making Money Simple, and help you understand what today’s financial landscape means for your money.
Take Peter's Smart Money Quiz here!
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The call to leadership has come for you, but maybe you're resisting it. Today's episode explores what causes so many people to refuse the call when it comes.
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In the hero’s journey, the hero or protagonist lives in the ordinary world and receives a call to go on an adventure. The hero is reluctant to follow the call but with the help of a guide, coach, or mentor, he or she moves deeper into the adventure.
In today’s episode, I focus on the initial call -- the call to adventure.
- What is calling you?
- What gets your adrenaline pulsing?
- What breaks your heart about the world right now?
- What has the ability to knock you out of your current existence onto a path where the outcome is unknown but you can’t stop yourself from following that path even if you tried?
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Leadership excellence is predicated on getting others to help us do our jobs, achieve our goals, and complete projects. Why, then, do so many of us struggle to ask for help when help is exactly what we need?
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Entrepreneurs with big growth goals realize there’s a substantial gap between where they are now and where they want to be. Sharon Cully, owner and founder of Simply Processes, knows the best way to close that gap is through a clear, robust vision and well-crafted processes all with the right level of focus. Listen to what Sharon has to teach us about putting the right systems in place to make our lives and businesses better.
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Why leaders need to play more often.
Scientific American article
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When you're ready to make some serious forward progress in your life, business, or career, here's how you can go about finding the right coach to help you get the results you're looking for.
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To be great at something including leadership, do you really need to work with a coach? And what's the difference between a therapist and a coach? Aren't they pretty much the same thing?
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One of the most iconic scenes in American film is in the original "Raiders of the Lost Ark" where Indiana Jones comes face to face with one of his greatest fears on his quest to find the Ark of the Covenant -- a pit full of snakes. We all have our own version of a pit full of snakes that can stop us if we let it. The question is, will we?
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What do Millennials really want? Answering that question is central to the work today’s guest does. He even wrote a best selling book about what he’s learned. Chris Tuff calls himself the Millennial Whisperer and for good reason: because he listens -- and listens hard -- to Millennials.
For anyone who works with Millennials or has them as part of your family, today's conversation will shed light on that plus so much more.
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We’ve built a world that’s extremely good at generating causes for anger, but extremely bad at giving us anything constructive to do with it.
Read >>> America Is Burning
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Introducing the new and improved 3 Ps of leadership.
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What are the boundaries between freedom and authority?
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At various points in our leadership journey, we will become tired of hamburgers.
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Think you have to have a beautiful website to do well online? Think again.
Today's guest Wayne Mullins, Founder of Ugly Mug Marketing, shares why what your website looks like has little to do with overall performance. Wayne and I have a fantastic conversation about what today's businesses need to consider when building an online presence. You'll walk away with new ideas and insights for your own website and digital marketing strategy, that's for sure!
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"The truth will set you free… but not before it has its way with you."
-David Foster Wallace, award-winning American author
In today's episode, I explore this quote and the role Truth plays in assisting us as we walk the road to becoming more of who we are. Why is it that so many people go through their lives without ever getting at the truth about why we're here with this one precious life we've been granted? Why do we waste so much time on things that don't matter when we could be exploring the Truth about ourselves so as to live a more extraordinary life? This is what's on tap in today's episode...enjoy!
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You're in for a special treat! Today I'm talking with Nigel Bennett (Founder of AquaGaurd), Todd Palmer (INC 5000 CEO & President 6x), and Andy Buyting (Founder & CEO of Tulip Media Group) about what they call "lessons from the edge" and how we can thrive in a time of massive change. Each of my guests has suffered financial uncertainty, major loss, and serious doubt about whether or not he could move forward.
They call themselves the "3CEOs" and they are currently on a global virtual tour helping people find hope and optimism in what can feel like a grim situation.
They hit on topics including facing bankruptcy, finding an identity outside a family business, and having to make the painful decision to fire your entire staff and start from scratch. They don’t mince words. They genuinely care about entrepreneurial and business success.
You’re going to love this conversation!
Links & Resources from today's episode
Nigel's book
Todd's book
Andy's book
Mary Lou's Quiz
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I worked for a company in the 2000s where one of the messages leadership drilled into our heads was “You’re not here to be average.”
The products we sold were not average. The sales team was not average. The owner of the company was not average. And these were good things. I loved hearing this message over and over again because it helped me when times got tough, as times did then, and as times do now.
Reminding myself that I’m not here to be average still helps center me all these years later.
I got to thinking about this phrase today when I was scrolling through Instagram and I saw a list Ramit Sethi posted on his feed called “5 thoughts on standing out.” If you haven’t heard of Ramit, he’s the author of the best selling book I Will Teach You to Be Rich. He has also built a sizable online business based on that book.
Here’s what’s on the list:
-The rarest thing in the world is a strong point of view
-You’re not trying to serve everyone, just the right people
-There’s always room for the best
-Creating a real business should be hard and it should take time
-Choose your heroes carefully
What stands out for you on this list? Are you choosing to live an average life or an extraordinary one? How can you tell?
That's the topic of today's episode.
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When actors forget their lines during filming, they are known to call out to the crew off-camera, "LINE!" Cue cards in hand, the crew responds, the actors remember, and filming resumes -- or doesn't, as the case may be when actors for whatever reason cannot recall what they are supposed to say.
Today was one of those days when I thought I was ready for my scenes...but discovered I needed help with my lines halfway through the session. The lesson I share with you is short and sweet and oh-so-relatable as we all continue doing our best in conditions that have thrown us off our lines in a million different ways.
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I believe in the ethos of hard work. This entire podcast celebrates hard work and the results that can come from hard work and the stories of people who made a decision to not just show up, to not just be themselves, but to work so hard that winning at what they do is the only outcome possible.
Links & Resources
Do the Work by Steven Pressfield
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What causes organizations to break down more often than anything else? That's the focus of my conversation with today's guest, Kim Bohr.
Kim Bohr is an author, in-demand speaker, and coveted executive advisor. She is also the CEO of The Innovare Group. The firm that is known for diagnosing and repairing organizational and leadership disconnects, working with both the companies and leaders to help them assess, align, and accelerate the strategic priorities that impact talent, execution, and business growth. Kim works with VC-funded start-ups, mid-market companies, and progressive corporate teams often guiding the sales, marketing, and operations functions of these organizations, helping them face the fact that a Solid Strategy Won’t Survive Poor Execution.
She created a career journal called Successes, Failures, & Lessons Learned that was published on Amazon just a few short months ago.
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What's the difference between being a thought leader and an expert? Today's episode marks the start of my newest micro-series about -- you guessed it -- thought leadership where I answer this question. Learn what makes the difference between the two and if you want to find out what type of thought leader you are, take my quiz here.
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Returning for his second appearance on the Play Your Position Podcast, Tommy Breedlove shares his excitement about recently becoming a USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author for his book, Legendary. With humility and a tremendous amount of compassion for the hard journey we all face becoming our highest and best, Tommy believes, "No one is born a Legend, but anyone can become one."
Tommy and I had our first conversation back in 2018 which was a blast. Two years later, we are still laughing at ourselves and having a good time talking about ways to achieve greater success in business and life. Inspirational, uplifting, and full of useful tips for getting more of what you want out of life, today's episode with Tommy and me brings the HEAT! Game on, Team PYP!
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The brutality of someone not loving us anymore or even in the first place is the fuel for some of the greatest music, art, literature, and poetry humanity has ever created. Every opera ever made has at its core the theme of betrayal and lost love. So does every play by Shakespeare. Old-style country music does too. Many music artists have become millionaires singing about suffering and cheating and lying and getting kicked around.
In this second part of exploring the chapter "People Are Not Loyal and Loving All the Time" from David Richo's book The Five Things We Cannot Change and the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them, I offer some ways of working through the times when we've been betrayed or feeling the brutal sting of having our heart broken.
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Today I am going to teach about the fifth thing we cannot change based on David Richo’s book titled The Five Things We Cannot Change and The Happiness We Find by Embracing Them. If you’ve been listening for a while, you’ve probably caught the last several episodes. Each one builds on the other but I’ve also designed them so they stand on their own.
So far I’ve covered everything changes and ends, things don’t always go according to plan, life isn’t always fair, and pain is a part of life.
This final segment is called people are not loving and loyal all the time and if I’m being honest, this chapter is arguably the meatiest so I’ve decided to break it into two separate shows starting with part 1 today. I’ll frame the content for you and then in the next episode, I’ll get into some tactics you can use to work through the times in life when you’re facing this truth.
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In today's episode, I tackle a topic most of us work hard to avoid: pain. It's the fourth reality about life we cannot change that author David Richo writes about in his book, The Five Things We Cannot Change and the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them.
I also draw some wisdom from Pema Chodron's book, When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times, which I highly recommend.
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We fight against this one all the time, but there's no escaping the truth that life is not always fair. How can we work with this reality so that we don't live in a constant state of self-pity, jealousy, bitterness, or wanting to get back at others?
That's what I talk about in today's episode.
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The paradox of the current pandemic is while on the one hand, many things are not going according to our plans...on the other, new opportunities are showing up everywhere.
In today's episode, I explore this thing we cannot change and how to flip the switch on it so it actually turns out in our favor.
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Today's show is focused on a key lesson taken from the book, The Five Things We Cannot Change and the Happiness We Find by Embracing Them by David Richo.
As we are each forced to step up and face a new reality given current global conditions, the five things Richo points out become even more important to study and understand. Resisting them is futile while embracing them unlocks us from misery and suffering.
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Napoleon Hill first wrote about the sly disguises of opportunity in his iconic book, Think and Grow Rich.
For millions of people around the world, the COVID19 pandemic is causing tremendous problems. In today's audible, I explore a way to solve problems through the lens of what Napoleon Hill wrote about more than 80 years ago.
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Did you know that the subconscious mind accounts for 95-98% of all of our decision making and reactive measures? Removing the blocks in our thought patterns can completely change the trajectory of everything moving forward.
Today’s PYP MVP Malorie Nicole helps entrepreneurs and driven professionals remove their mental barriers stopping them from creating the life they want. Stress, overwhelm, and income caps aren’t solely just a business problem. She helps people solve this with subconscious belief work and mindset growth so they can not only make the money they desire but feel the way they want to feel. She also helps small to midsize leadership teams in companies grow further faster by implementing emotional intelligence in their work.
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If you thought you knew about personal branding, wait until you hear today's conversation with PR and Branding expert, Frances Reimers.
This woman is K.N.O.W.L.E.D.G.A.B.L.E.
I bet you'll walk away from our conversation with your head full of practical tips and strategies for moving your ball into that metaphorical endzone.
She works with high profile athletes and professionals to elevate their brands in the marketplace so they can achieve their goals. Her energy is palpable. Her experience is first class. You will learn so much about the ins and outs of building, repositioning, renovating, or even starting a personal brand.
You will also learn why Joan Rivers is one of her idols and how what Joan taught her helps professional football players play a bigger game online.
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As the COVID-19 crisis continues to rage around the globe, I want to continue sharing with you useful and relevant conversations that offer solutions to leadership challenges both large and small. Today's conversation with Bill Eckstrom does just that. We talk about setting up boundaries, strengthening our resilience, and embracing changes beyond our control. Bill is a wise and humble leader. Enjoy the show!
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Ryan Cote is the Director of Digital Services and Partner at Ballantine, a third-generation, family-owned direct mail and digital marketing company
based out of Fairfield, NJ. Ballantine has been serving small-business clients since 1966 when it was founded by Ryan’s great-uncle. Ryan has been with his family’s agency since 2003, and today he manages the growing digital marketing division.
From lead generation to marketing strategy for small businesses, Ryan Cote and his company rise above the get-featured-quick schemes so often attributed to digital marketing. He loves to geek out on technical marketing talk as well as work with real-world business owners about growing their book of business in today’s online world.
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In this third part of my micro-series on making the transition to working remotely, Kimberli Allen of Everything Webinar and I discuss slide decks for virtual presentations. Specifically, Kimberli shares the three slides almost everyone neglects to include in their online presentations and why they are critical for the success of your webinar, online meeting, etc.
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A lot has happened in a week since I last sat down with Kimberli Allen about making the transition to working remotely. In today's conversation, Part 2 of our micro-series on working virtually, Kimberli shares tips on how you can set up a virtual policy so your company and team succeed in this new territory. She also has some excellent advice for parents who suddenly find themselves at home managing their own work online as well as their kids logging into online versions of school. Kimberli is a fountain of knowledge --This is a series you don't want to miss!
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Today's episode of the Play Your Position Podcast is the first of a micro-series I am starting with the Founder and CEO of Everything Webinar, Kimberli Allen. Kimberli and I plan to check in over the coming weeks and talk about what it takes to successfully run a business virtually, build powerful virtual teams, create virtual policies, and how to strengthen your virtual leadership brand.
With the COVID19 pandemic shutting down sports, conferences, concerts, and schools around the world -- just to name a few of the organizations being impacted by the global pandemic -- working virtually is fast becoming a necessity to keep business going. In today's conversation, you will get to know more about Kimberli Allen and her company Everything Webinar, as well as what to do to transition your business, team, or organization into working virtually.
We have a lot of fun talking about this topic and think you will benefit from our conversation as the current COVID19 crisis continues to dominate conversations everywhere.
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Domenic Rinaldi is the Owner and Managing Partner of Sun Acquisitions, a mergers, and acquisitions firm that specializes in helping to maximize value for business buyers and sellers. Domenic has been personally involved in over 300 business transactions across a broad range of industries and is considered an expert in the field of business brokerage.
Domenic is also a speaker, author, and podcast host at M&A Unplugged, where he interviews business buyers, sellers, and advisors, sharing firsthand accounts of their transaction experiences. Domenic is here today to share valuable insights and actionable takeaways so that you can maximize the value of your business acquisition or sale!
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Where will your next adventure take you? That's the big question Mary Lou asks in this episode of the Play Your Position Podcast.
In an uncertain world, entrepreneurs like Nigel Bennett are our best hope for the future.
At a young age, Nigel was shocked to witness first-hand the real impact of oil spills on our natural world. After almost being shot down by FARC guerrillas on the Venezuela-Colombia border and being forced to escape Egypt while working for his father’s oil spill contingency planning company, he decided to break away and start Aqua-Guard Spill Response. Aqua-Guard now provides equipment and services that protect water, the planet’s most precious resource, in over 100 countries.
His extraordinary journey from dyslexic high school graduate to global entrepreneur, adventurer and philanthropist have much to teach us about responsibility, freedom and the bravery that surfaces in moments when everything is on the line.
In Nigel’s book Take That Leap - Risking It All for What Really Matters, he recounts his unanticipated adventures as an entrepreneur, emerging philanthropist and always avid outdoorsman. Readers get a peek inside Nigel’s head as he negotiates deals with the big boys and wrestles with the myths surrounding work/life balance and being an entrepreneur.
He takes readers along the crazy challenges of simultaneously launching a startup and a family all the way through to the even zanier challenges of becoming a steward of Pachamama (Mother Nature). He shares how he tested his limits in extreme outdoor adventures, built homes for the homeless with his wife and children, and discovered his big “Why?” with the indigenous people of the Amazon.
If your appetite for adventure isn't whetted after listening to today's conversation with Nigel Bennett, I'm not sure what could!
Enjoy the show. :-)
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Dr. Nancy Gordon is Chairperson of the Department of Counseling, Leadership, and Expressive Arts at Salve Regina University. She received her Doctor of Education degree from Harvard University and has been a member of the Salve Regina faculty since 1993. Now an Associate Professor, she was granted tenure in 2015.
Dr. Gordon is also the graduate program director for the Holistic programs, with oversight of five master’s programs, five Certificate of Advanced Graduate Studies (post-master’s) programs and five Certificate of Graduate Studies programs. In addition to course development, she teaches in the program. Her current graduate courses include “Leading Holistically,” “Creative Leadership Intervention Skills,” and “Leading System Change and Transformation.”
Her most recent published work is Gordon, N. (2013). Women and Leadership: An Integrative Focus on Equality. Journal of Interdisciplinary Feminist Thought (Vol.7, I). Up until 2015, Dr. Gordon was also co-proprietor of a consulting firm that assisted private, non-profit, and public organizations with strategic thinking and planning, leadership development, change, and transition planning, diversity and cross-cultural awareness, and skill development for a high-performance workplace. She has also designed and delivered professional workshops on topics from leadership to strategic vision and handling stress.
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Brands these days invest a lot of time and money into making sure their customer service departments deliver exceptional experiences for customers. Why? Because customers won't stick around for long if they feel like companies don't care about them.
In today's final installment of the Expectations Mini-Series this week, Mary Lou explores what can happen when we intentionally set out to exceed the expectations we have of ourselves, and some simple ways to do that.
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If you’ve ever caught yourself saying to yourself or someone else, “I thought I’d be farther along than I am today in… having a relationship, building a business, getting fit, etc…
Then you are familiar with the darker side of not meeting expectations we set for ourselves. In today's episode of the Play Your Position Podcast, Mary Lou shares ways to set and manage our own expectations so that life is more fulfilling and less stressful and disappointing.
In today's episode of the Play Your Position podcast, Mary Lou talks with Josh Fonger who helps business owners considerably reduce their stress levels. If you are a business owner or know one you care about, have a listen to what Josh shares about making running a business a joy again.
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Josh Fonger is a consultant, coach, and speaker who is recognized as the leading authority in Business Performance Architecture. With his unique ability to develop and implement systematic solutions to complex business problems, Josh has personally consulted or coached over 600 business owners from more than 100 industries, from small startup businesses to large $500M enterprises. Due to his phenomenal success rate, and a mountain of client testimonials, he has quickly become one of the most in-demand small business consultants in North America.
In 2011, Josh connected with Sam Carpenter after reading Sam’s book Work the System: The Simple Mechanics of Making More and Working Less. Recognizing their shared vision of helping business owners get unstuck using systematic solutions, Josh and Sam partnered to co-manage consulting firm Work the System, which has now attracted over 100,000 business owners from over 50 countries.
One of Josh’s greatest strengths is helping businesses properly organize and systematize their operations so they can achieve exponential growth. Using the Work the System methodology, Josh has inspired hundreds of success stories among small business owners around the world. Many of Josh’s clients acknowledge that his ideas and coaching have increased their profits by millions of dollars.
Josh graduated from the University of Michigan with a bachelor’s in architecture before getting his MBA from Arizona State University. When he’s not coaching or consulting to business owners, Josh enjoys setting up “personal systems” to maximize his time with his wife and three boys.
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The world is grieving and trying to make sense of the loss of Kobe Bryant, a man, a father, a basketball superstar, and a symbol of all that is good about being human and playing our positions throughout our lives. The world is also grieving the loss of his 13-year old daughter Gianna and seven other passengers who died tragically in a helicopter crash on Sunday, January 26, 2020.
Today's episode is a tribute to Kobe Bryant who exemplifies all that this show stands for. May his sudden and unexpected passing be yet another part of his tremendous legacy and inspire all of us to love harder, grow stronger, and be better for each other and for the world moving forward.
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This week on the Play Your Position Podcast, Mary Lou dives into the topic of expectations and the role they play in our lives. Expectations for ourselves -- expectations of and for others. Some of the questions she will explore include:
- What are expectations?
- How do they play a role in us playing our positions?
- What happens when we don’t meet our expectations or others don’t meet what we expect of them?
- What are some expectations beyond the playing field we can consider for developing a sound leadership practice and experiencing a higher quality of life?
Expectations play a huge role in how we think and act. They play a big role in our overall quality of life, how satisfied we feel. When we take the time to sit down and think through the expectations we’ve set for ourselves and others, we can begin to pinpoint what's causing us to feel dissatisfied and then -- if we want to improve -- we can make strides to replace them with ones that lead to feelings of more satisfaction.
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In today's episode of the Play Your Position Podcast, Mary Lou shares the story of when she first learned about looking at life through the lens of it being one big experiment...and the impact doing that has had.
She also shares some of the lessons she's learned from publishing PYP 5x a week and what she sees in the show's future.
What topics would you enjoy hearing Mary Lou tackle in future episodes? Share your thoughts via Twitter or Facebook! Or write to us here coach@pypodcast.com
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How many of the images we see on our daily social media feeds have been altered via one filter app or another? What are all these filters doing to us psychologically and emotionally? Does the use of filters on photos we share make us less authentic?
These are some of the questions Mary Lou wrestles with on today's episode of the Play Your Position Podcast. What do you think about filters? Share your thoughts via Twitter or Facebook!
Sports fans are pretty much guaranteed of hearing snippets from a handful of iconic rock songs when they attend live events. Songs like "Thunderstruck" by AC/DC; "We Are the Champions" by Queen; "I Am Iron Man" by Black Sabbath.
In today's episode of the Play Your Position Podcast, Mary Lou explores the philosophical question:
Is it time to retire "I Am Iron Man" from live sporting events? What should replace this long-time favorite let's-get-the-fans-riled-up list of rock-n-roll songs?
What do you think? Can a hockey be a hockey game without an excerpt from an AC/DC song rocking the rink? Share your thoughts with me via Twitter or Facebook!
What can a former Wall Street High Roller teach us about playing our position with more dignity, grace, and courage so that we experience more success and satisfaction?
Turns out, plenty.
Twenty years, Geoff Blades was sitting in his Wall Street office and asked himself the question that would ultimately change his life.
“Is this what I truly want?”
The answer to that question led Geoff on a personal transformation quest that he’s still on today.
In today's episode, Mary Lou talks with author and former Goldman Sachs superstar Geoff Blades about how to design your life so that you can do what you want. Geoff's story about visiting the self-help section at Barnes and Noble for the first time is sure to put a smile on your face, as is his overall enthusiasm for life. Get ready for a boost of high energy! Geoff brings everything to this conversation and leaves nothing on the field. :-)
Bio: Geoff Blades is the author of several books including Do What You Want In Your Career and Do What You Want On Wall Street. After leaving a prestigious job at Goldman Sachs, Geoff spent years researching how people can achieve success and fulfillment in their careers and life. Today along with writing, he teaches masterclasses about living a fulfilling life through personal and professional development.
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Have you ever wondered why some people seem to grow year after year experiencing more success while others remain in the same place for decades? Fortune favors the curious! In today's episode, Mary Lou shares 5 ways to outperform yourself in 2020 and beyond.
Remember -- the only person we should be competing against is ourselves! As you know more, you can do better. As you think bigger, your results will become bigger. Last year’s championship season is this year’s starting point. Stay hungry. Stay curious. Energy is the currency of life and is more valuable than intellect. So is cultivating massive belief in yourself. When you believe you can outperform yourself and experience different, more satisfying results, you can!
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Today’s episode is part of a new series here at the Play Your Position Podcast about the effects of social media on how we play our positions in life and work.
The goal of this series is to advance the conversation about how social media exposure impacts us and ways we can develop the skills needed to effectively navigate life in a hyper-connected world.
What are some strategies and skills you've developed to help you navigate a social media world? What is your approach to interacting with bad news you read on social media? Write to us here >>> coach@pyppodcast.com
We'll share some listener insights on future episodes of PYP!
Thanks for listening and being part of Team PYP!
In today's episode, Mary Lou talks about Social Listening -- what it is, why it matters, and how you can use this technique to build your brand, grow your business, expand your network, find your next career opportunity.
Social media can be a fantastic goldmine of connections, insights, and ideas. Mary Lou shares how she used social listening to create an info product that she now sells on Amazon. When we learn how to use it effectively and intentionally, it can open new doors for us on so many levels!
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Happy New Year, Team PYP! Today's episode kicks off a new year and a new decade at the Play Your Position podcast with a preview of the guests who will be sharing their stories and insights in the coming weeks, as well as Mary Lou's book and movie recommendations for anyone looking to expand your reading and viewing lists.
The 2020s offer an incredible opportunity to become even more of who you are and to share your leadership with the world! Let's commit to practicing the best of who we are together as the new year unfolds.
Are you ready for kick-off? Let's go!
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After watching his father’s family-owned business struggle to succeed, Rich Allen made it his mission to turn failure into a legacy by asking one simple question: what makes a business work? The answer? It’s as easy as riding a bike.
A high- energy speaker, recognized author, very successful entrepreneur, and sought- after advisor to business owners, Rich has proven time and time again that his bicycle model works. With experience in both large and small companies, including growing a small manufacturing business to well over $100M in annual sales, Rich has helped hundreds of business owners harness the power of their team – giving them the freedom, flexibility, and profitability they deserve.
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Janet Kafadar is an online business coach who’s passionate about helping coaches, entrepreneurs, and experts to package their brilliance into a
sustainable, profitable online business. A busy mom and entrepreneur, Janet has personally experienced the frustration and overwhelm of feeling stuck on the path to building an online business. She’s made some mistakes along the
way, and she’ll share what she’s learned and how these lessons have shaped her perspective as an online business owner and coach working with other online business owners around the world.
Whether it’s understanding the right first steps to take to get started in creating an online business, identifying the best tools and tech to support your journey, or learning how to set the right pricing, Janet knows what works (and what doesn’t work), and she’s made it her mission to support women around the world in their online ventures.
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Rick Cesari has been a pioneer in Brand Response advertising since the early 90’s. He helped create the concept of “sell while you brand” and has been the force behind the creation of many of today’s iconic consumer brands including Sonicare, The George Foreman Grill, OxiClean, and many others. He has helped take companies like GoPro from start-up to over $1 billion in sales in just a few short years.
Rick’s newest book, Video Persuasion, puts his experience with winning companies in the hands of everyday business owners, marketers, brand managers, and more. His innovative ideas around video marketing are changing the game for brands big and small alike. Today he’s focused on video marketing as a powerful tool for increasing sales and building your business. In Video Persuasion, Rick shares his best practices for influencing
customers by creating and leveraging compelling stories on video.
When not working, Rick enjoys reading, skiing, fishing, and hiking. For his 50th birthday, he achieved one of his lifelong goals: successfully summiting Mt. McKinley. Rick resides with his wife Martha and daughter Anna in Seattle, Washington.
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Today’s guest is Heidi Piper. During Heidi’s three decades living in Europe and working at Fortune 50 company Procter & Gamble, she led teams to deliver innovation for some of the world's most iconic brands. She now lives in Boulder, Colorado and supports global senior leaders and their teams through transformation with her company, PhoenixRising.
Heidi Piper is committed to helping heal the world through intentional action. She is passionate about the calling for all of us to choose love, every day, and particularly in the most trying of situations, to facilitate our personal and collective healing. Above all, she is grateful for her role as the mother of two amazing young adults. Choose Love is Heidi’s first book and is already making a huge difference in readers' lives.
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Rabbi Yonason Goldson takes full responsibility for his life. He has reinvented himself several times and continues to enjoy experiences that allow him to inspire and motivate audiences around the world.
For example, Yonason Goldson has circumnavigated the globe, seen the Taj Mahal, the pyramids of Giza, and the tea plantations of Sri Lanka. He’s hiked to the bottom of the Grand Canyon and to the tops of the Sierra Nevada. He’s jumped out of an airplane and undergone open-heart surgery (but not at the same time).
He’s studied at the University of Edinburgh, taught school in Budapest, Hungary, and seen Richard III performed in Ashland, Oregon, and Stratford-on-Avon. He’s been a professional speaker and teacher for over two decades, published five books, raised four children, and been married to the love of his life for over 30 years.
In today's conversation, he shares with us why his sense of urgency has amplified this year, why being accountable is the secret to long-term success, and how circumstances outside our control that feel heavy and bad at the time can sometimes be the best thing that happens to us.
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Brad Mulvey is a husband, podcast host, personal development thought leader and data-driven marketing consultant. He hosts the Millennial Mastermind Podcast, a show dedicated to giving entrepreneurial millennials the tools, tactics, and inspiration to turn their dreams into reality. Each week, he interviews successful entrepreneurs, authors, thought leaders, and experts to share their stories and their advice on how to create a life worth living. Brad’s own personal development journey was born from a place of frustration and desperation. Like many of us, he found himself at a point in life where he felt he was unfulfilled, undervalued, and underpaid. Worse yet, he knew that there was a wealth of unmet potential deep inside of himself. It was at that point that he decided to take a stand and make a change. Thus was born the Millennial Mastermind Podcast. Now, he helps other young professionals ignite their potential and create a life worth living.
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Bob Glazer is the founder and CEO of a global performance marketing agency Acceleration Partners. Under his leadership, Acceleration Partners has become a recognized global leader in the affiliate marketing industry, receiving numerous industry and company culture awards, including Glassdoor’s Employees’ ChoiceAwards (2 years in a row), Ad Age’s Best Place to Work, Entrepreneur’s Top CompanyCulture (2 years in a row), Inc. Magazine’s Best Place to Work, Great Place to Work & Fortune’s Best Small & Medium Workplaces (3 years in a row) and Boston Globe’s Top Workplaces (2 years in a row). Bob was also named to Glassdoor’s list of Top CEOs of Small & Medium US Companies, ranking #2.
Bob is dedicated to helping others build their capacities and raise their personal and professional performance—whether that means scaling a business, strengthening their health, improving their relationships or finding their purpose in life. His inspirational Friday Forward newsletter is read by over 100,000 leaders around the world and he is a regular columnist for Inc, Forbes, and Entrepreneur. He is a sought- after speaker worldwide and is the author of the best-selling book Performance Partnerships and his new book Elevate, which will be released on October 1, 2019.
Bob’s writing and speaking are focused on capacity building, performance marketing, building world-class company cultures and changing the work-life paradigm. Bob is committed to sharing his experiences as a CEO, author, and speaker with others, giving individuals and organizations the tools they need to grow their capacity, inspire others to do the same and elevating their performance.
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Christopher O’Donnell is a technologist, musician and public speaker who has built dozens of web and mobile products. His product portfolio ranges from language learning products for the U.S. military to the most popular free CRM product in the world.
Today, Christopher serves as Senior Vice President of Hubspot Product, which he led from startup ($50M in revenue) to successful publicly-traded company ($600M in revenue). Christopher has become a staple in the product management community and was recently named one of the Best Product Leaders of 2019 (via Comparably). As an experienced leader, he is passionate about leading and supporting teams to build anything, from developing tech products to creating rock & roll records.
He is a highly-rated public speaker and a frequent guest lecturer at MIT Sloan School of Management and major global corporations, speaking on topics like leadership & team-building to audiences of over ten thousand. Outside of his day job, Christopher spends his time as songwriter and guitarist for his band The Providers, with whom he has recorded dozens of albums across a variety of musical genres.
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Most of us face a time when we know we need to make a move. When we know it's time to play a different position.
In today's episode, I share with you a simple framework for when it's time to change directions with your business or career.
Think of it as Rebranding 101.
I've just gone through this process for my primary business. It was both exhilarating AND exhausting! But so worth it.
Are you thinking about taking your business or career in a new direction? Share your journey with me on social media using the hashtag #pyprebrand
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Selling is changing... but not in the ways that most people believe (and why this is important to entrepreneurs, CEOs, and sales leaders).
Today’s guest is the host of his own top-rated podcast called Accelerate! With Andy Paul which has more than 700 episodes produced and nearly 2 million downloads. Andy is the go-to resource for sales leaders and top sales producers. He educates and inspires sales professionals to take their expertise to the next level.
Andy is #8 on LinkedIn’s list of the Top 50 global sales experts, where over 166,000 professionals follow his daily posts on sales. He is the author of two Amazon best-selling books, as well as the founder of The Sales House, the first all-in-one modern personal growth program for modern B2B sellers.
On today's episode, Andy and I talk about sales education and the power of people along with
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Why technology and automation are having a massive impact on sales productivity -- and why, unfortunately, it’s not a good impact (yet)
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Why the ability to be human is becoming even more valuable in sales (and will only increase in value)
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D. Scott Smith is known as a Motivational Listener. He is a speaker, coach, and mentor who works with businesses and individuals across the country on improving their leadership skills including listening and networking.
Business Networking is essential for business and careers these days – but what do you actually do at events? How do you connect with a stranger?
The answers to these questions are part of what Scott teaches through a science-based method to help professionals quickly and confidently build a network of advocates. He has an online course, books, and works with individuals to learn how to become Motivational Listeners.
D. Scott Smith is the author of Motivational Listener: Be Interesting by Being Interested. Practical Skills to Be Successful at Business Networking Events. Prior to becoming a full-on entrepreneur, Scott worked in large and small companies in leadership roles including CEO, COO, and General Manager. He has lived and breathed financial services, agriculture, and manufacturing for many years and understands how recent changes to the business landscape are impacting these sectors. Scott is involved with joint ventures because he believes in the power of networking. He speaks on being a Motivational Listener (business networking), Leadership, and Intentional Change.
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Last week I had the opportunity to spend a day with Steven Pressfield in Nashville, Tennessee. Steven is the author of several bestselling books including The War of Art and Do the Work.
I moved mountains to make being in that room a reality, and in today's episode, I share with you some of the gifts Steven gave to me and the 34 other people fortunate to be in his presence.
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The War of Art
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Turning Pro
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t
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Today’s starting quarterback has “I have a crazy obsession with automating processes in your business so you can work less and make more money.”
Her name is Caroline Balinska -- aka the Ecommerce Growth Specialist. She is a forward-thinking game-changer with simple solutions for Merchants to get their first 1000 sales.
THE FIRST 1000 ARE THE HARDEST! Caroline's ability to change the mindset of merchants is the real trick to her skill. Her bold, creative ideas make others take notice, and she presents them in her own unique way that is easy to understand for a newbie merchant.
People watch to see what Caroline will do next because she thwarts traditional boundaries. Her ability to reformulate products, processes, and business models is her distinct advantage in the ever-changing world of eCommerce.
Passionate about business and marketing, Caroline mentors and speaks professionally about a multitude of business and marketing topics and often focuses around marketing pertinent to eCommerce businesses.
She also decided about six years ago that she wanted to live in Europe and so, packed up her bags and did just that!
What I love most about Caroline is her no-nonsense attitude about getting things done. When she sets her mind to something, it happens. That's in the true spirit of being a PYP MVP!
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We are all facing the exact same problem with social media right now, and it's a big one.
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Loss can be one of our greatest teachers. This summer wasn't supposed to be the way it was because last December, I sat next to my mom in a hospital room and took notes as she planned her funeral.
None of us expected her to make it to the new year. But she did, and the summer that almost wasn't became the summer that was.
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During my break this year here at the lake, I've made time to reflect about the power loss can have on our lives, how we can use it for accelerated growth, and how gratitude and grief can exist side by side in our hearts. Life is always pushing forward. It's up to each of us to decide if we will be a part of it or not.
I recorded this bonus episode while paddling my kayak on the last day of my vacation this year.
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Happy summer, Team PYP!
I hope you are enjoying some outside time if you live in the Northern Hemisphere. If you hail from south of the equator, getting outside into the cooler, shorter days has magic, too.
In today's episode, I share with you details about a recent volunteer experience I had working with high school students who are interested in business, leadership, and entrepreneurship. The organization I volunteered with is called Young Entrepreneurs Business Week and you can learn more about them here.
I also review four books for your reading consideration this summer and why they matter.
Educated by Tara Westover
The Dip by Seth Godin
The Entrepreneurial Imperative by Carl J. Schramm
Turning Pro by Steven Pressfield
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Tracy Timm is a born and raised Texas girl who has a very specific goal: to make life simple again. She does that as a quarter-life career coach and human capital advisor. Her program, The Nth Degree™ Academy, helps high-potential professionals discover their career “sweet spot” through a mix of self-discovery, tactical training, and some much-needed tough love. Tracy has a degree in behavioral psychology from Yale, a severely bruised ego from working on Wall Street, and has logged one trip around the entire globe. She believes that our unique purpose in life can be realized through our careers, and wants to help people come alive at work once again.
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Tracy’s early career life started in the typical 9 to 5 with benefits and stability. After making some decisions to change up her profession, she started her own business as a career coach. After about two years, Tracy found a similar pattern in the needs of the people she spoke with and that led to the creation of The Nth Degree™ Academy.
In this episode, we talk about the importance of getting help from coaches and mentors and how one particular coach made a major difference in Tracy’s life. This coach ultimately gave her not only a great business strategy but also time with her father whose health was failing. Tracy also shares her thoughts on how people nowadays have so much opportunity to make money in so many ways by monetizing what they love doing.
Tracy also shares some great insights about finding the career you want using unconventional ways because the majority of the jobs on the market are “hidden” and really only secured through networking.
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“Doing introspection on yourself, especially if you're at a job, is stressful. You're living your life, you're trying to take care of yourself and build a name for yourself and it's like doing open heart surgery on yourself.”
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“You owe it to yourself to realize that you're gonna get there faster by asking for help.”
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“You don't realize that money's not the solution until you have the money and it's not the solution.”
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"Coaches are everything. Every athlete knows that it's one tweak that can make the difference...seeing you from an objective third party perspective can change your swing ever so slightly or change the strategy of throwing the ball ever so slightly...it's those small tweaks from someone who's an expert in the process that really changes the game."
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“We better believe successful people are getting good help and they're constantly reinvesting in coaches.”
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“We have to make a fundamental shift between being victims of our lives and our circumstances and being in control.”
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"The majority of the job market is fundamentally hidden."
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If Life Is A Game, These Are The Rules by Cherie Carter-Scott
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Bob Paskins is a speaker, trainer, and consultant who looks to inspire people and companies to their full potential. He lives in Oregon with his wife Danielle, and three boys under the age of 12. Yes, he drives a Minivan.
For 20 years Bob worked in the financial services space as a commercial insurance broker. His two primary goals were to increase his sales base by attracting new customers and to lead a customer service team in keeping his current clientele happy. Bob built his business from scratch. Along the way, he gained hundreds of clients, forged relationships with key vendors and brokers, and won several sales competitions. He was promoted to sales manager and then became a principal owner in a large commercial insurance brokerage. His customer base included distributors, wholesalers, contractors, non-profits and a Bay Area company called Yahoo!
Now Bob speaks to businesses around the country using storytelling, and humor as well as providing tangible takeaways. He also consults with companies looking to elevate their sales performance and sales processes. He is the creator of the GROWTH MATRIX which is a comprehensive and transformative system for unlocking the full potential salespeople, sales processes and sales performance.
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Bob not only likes growing as a professional, but also advocates for growing as a person as well. He looks out at his audiences and strives towards making an impact.
Starting out as a radio station DJ right out of college, Bob realized that although the creative lifestyle was fun, it didn’t offer him what he wanted financially. So, after gaining some insight and advice, he went into the commercial insurance industry to pursue the financial lifestyle he sought after…or so he thought!
In this episode, we talk about Bob’s early career days in the commercial insurance industry and how he lost interest in the position but liked the aspect of working and helping people with their business. Bob talks about how he elevates businesses and acts as the “tow truck driver” to put people on the road that is best for their success going forward.
Bob has great tips and real-life experiences such as feeling isolation that he wants to share with those who are looking to elevate sales processes, professionals, and performances! If that sounds like you, make sure to give this episode a listen!
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“My manager said, you will love the commercial insurance industry because in a sense you have what he called 'golden handcuffs' and you're able to put these golden handcuffs on, which to him basically meant this is the job that you were going to have for life and it can be financially rewarding and it will provide the lifestyle that you want it...but as I started going into this instead of focusing on the word 'golden' after awhile, I was starting to focus on the word handcuffs."
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"What I realized was after meeting with them for 50 to 55 minutes, we had not talked about commercial insurance once. And that got to me and I realized I love what I was doing, I just didn't care for the product that I was looking to sell."
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"What I am, is I am the tow truck driver that will come into those companies, I try to get them back out so they're able to have traction and be able to go the distances."
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“It eroded a lot of trust that I had with my support staff and it took me a long time to rebuild that trust back with them. If I go in and share my life, because I had chosen what I would say, was life segmentation instead of life inclusion."
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"It all circles around to building a relationship with them [your clients]."
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"Take a look at football and people probably are even imagining some people who when they score, they make it all about them. And then others out there when they score, they celebrate with their team."
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email: bob@bobpaskins.com
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What's the connection between effective leadership and feedback? Turns out, plenty. That's why I've devoted an entire bonus audible to this topic so how you can tap into this powerful source of accelerated growth!
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Tim Bratz is the CEO and founder of CLE Turnkey Real Estate, a real estate investment company that acquires and transforms distressed commercial and apartment buildings into high-performance investment assets.
Tim began his real estate career in 2007 as a commercial broker in the competitive NYC real estate market, where he saw the true potential of real estate to transform lives. He spent time reading, attending workshops, and networking with accomplished entrepreneurs, and found that being resourceful was a cornerstone to becoming successful. Tim’s resourcefulness helped him build his first real estate company in 2009 in Charleston, SC, when he used a credit card to acquire his first property. Tim transformed a rundown duplex all on his own and turned a profit on his first deal. He reinvested those proceeds, meanwhile seeking private capital to expand his growing company. Today Tim still uses this formula for success, which all starts with being resourceful and having the right mindset. Working in real estate, Tim has learned how to build a passive business and create a residual income that allows him to live the lifestyle of his choice.
Tim now focuses on educating and empowering active and passive investors to become financially free through commercial real estate. Under Tim’s leadership, CLE Turnkey owns over 1,300 rental units across five states and operates one of the largest property management companies in greater Cleveland. Tim is a husband and proud father, organizer for CLE Captains of Industry Mastermind and Cleveland Entrepreneurs & Business Owners Meetup Group, graduate of the Goldman Sachs 10,000 Small Businesses program, and an active member of several high-performance national entrepreneur masterminds, including Collective Genius, Deal Maker Family, The Brotherhood, Multi-Family Boardroom, and Advisor’s Council.
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Around the age of 20, Tim moved from his hometown in Cleveland, Ohio to New York City and got a job as a commercial real estate agent, brokering leases in Manhattan. After seeing the wonders of owning rental real estate, Tim quickly decided that was the path he wanted to follow.
After years of being not so great at real estate and experiencing many failures, Tim built his business to a highly successful operation with a solid team of professionals and partners on his side.
In this episode, we talk about the difficulties Tim has managing his business and team, what success means to him, the importance of letting go of the fear that's always around money so that you can accelerate your business, the modern changes in investing in commercial real estate that weren't available last generation, some strategies for those looking at commercial real estate, and Tim’s wisdom on giving as much value you can.
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“I’m not even the quarterback, probably more of the coach of my team.”
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“It was $10,000 a month in rent with a 4% annual increase on the rental amount and a 12 year lease term, and I did the math on it and I was like, this guy's making almost 2 million bucks as the landlord over the next 12 years for doing something one point in time…and it motivated me and opened my eyes that I was on the wrong side of the coin.”
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“If you don't have metrics in your business, then you cannot measure your business, right? And if you can’t measure your business, you can’t manage your business”
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“Once you reach that point [success] it's more about showing people what an exceptional life can look like and really painting a picture.”
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“I said I just can't do this. He goes, you need an assistant.”
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“What you'll find in business and in life and success is that, there's always another level. There's always another layer and every level that you get to, guess what? There's another level of problems that comes with it that you needed them be able to push through again.
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“The only people who get rich in a lawsuit or the attorneys.”
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“Some of the biggest setbacks in life are actually some of the greatest setups.”
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“Be your best, not the best.”
LINKS
cleturnkey.com
Tim Bratz Facebook
commercialempire.com
Jab, Jab, Jab, Right Hook by Gary V.
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You have to be living under a rock not to notice the massive changes going on around us every day. Cranes are silhouetted against city skylines; technology roars forward.
I recently returned to the states after spending two weeks in the United Kingdom and Ireland and witnessed massive change everywhere I went. From the political and economic struggles surrounding Brexit to the opportunities the digital revolution is offering us to transform our lives, the world is in flux on a much bigger scale than in previous decades.
As more of us choose to deepen our leadership practices as business owners, creatives, parents, and active global citizens, I believe we need to consider adopting the attitude around change and evolution that the late fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld had. I recently watched a documentary about him called “Lagerfeld Confidential” (French with English subtitles) which taught me a lot about a man I knew nothing about, to be completely honest. He epitomizes the spirit of PYP and stood for staying true to your vision even in the face of criticism and doubt.
In today's bonus audible, you will hear my insights about America as seen from being across the pond and why I have a new-found appreciation for a country that's struggling with its identity right now. You will also learn why we always have a choice about how we respond to the changes going on in the world: how hoping and wishing for things to go back to a different way of life in the past won't get us very far and how welcoming the opportunities that change offers us can bring us tremendous gifts if we open our hearts and minds to possibilities.
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Tracy Imm has been doing the corporate dance for decades and has more degrees and certificates than you’ll ever need from top rated schools and professional associations. She won’t bore you with all of it but if you want to know more about those details, visit her LinkedIn profile.
Tracy is here to train women to be better leaders. She has been leading people since she was the President of her Girl Scout Troop at age 11. She knows what it takes to motivate and inspire people to show up and do their best work. Obsessed with learning as much as she can about the topics of leadership and influence, she is humbled and grateful to have been named one of Maryland’s Top 100 Women in 2017 and again in 2019 by The Daily Record for her body of work in the world.
Tracy is also a writer with two self-published books available on Amazon. Her podcast, Brave Girls with Tracy Imm, launched in 2018 after 2 full years of planning. She wanted to bring more positivity into the world and create a platform to showcase female leaders. She interviews the world’s most successful female leaders about their stories and what it means to be “brave.” You can access the show from iTunes, Google Play, iHeart Radio, Spotify, and Stitcher as well as directly from her website and social media accounts. Tracy attributes her success to INVESTING IN HERSELF AND DOING THE WORK and fundamentally believes that until you are ready to say YES to yourself, nothing will change. She lives outside of Baltimore, MD with her husband Don.
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Tracy is a returning guest on the show from 2014. We hear what Tracy has been up to during our last conversation and we get to see where she is now on her playing field as a leadership coach, hosting retreats, podcasting, and more! The last five years have brought many changes to Tracy's life such as teaching at a college she was working for and working for a big government agency, as well as launching her podcast, "Brave Girls with Tracy Imm."
In this episode, we talk about Tracy’s personal transformation that led her to teach students how to prepare for their careers after college and give them valuable career advice. After speaking with numerous students and creating a consistent guide for students to succeed in their careers, Tracy decided to put all this content and strategy into her book, Conquer Shame and Claim Success.
Tracy shares with us how the idea of her book came into her universe and what process she used to make that journey happen. She talks about some of the changes she made to her attitude and mindset, along with her belief in and understanding of the Universal Law of Cause and Effect. Tracy talks about the power she has gained from taking the leap and investing in herself.
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“I gave a lot of thought to the next thing I wanted the world to know.”
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“We have different points in our life where we have what I call significant emotional events that shape us.”
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“It was the universe and it said you're going to write a self-help book…it was so crystal clear, I couldn’t even explain it.”
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“You've got to grab people and really let them know what you're feeling.”
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“All of us on this journey have things happen that we did not directly cause, but we happened to be there.”
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“I want people to know that it's okay to be who you are and that you really need to do that self-development work…otherwise, you'll find yourself in the same situations over and over again.”
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“My most transformational days have come when I've been the most vulnerable.”
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“When you know what's important to you, life gets simpler.”
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“Once you have decided to embark on the inward journey, then your life can be rapidly transformed.”
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“I knew that in order for it to be a great book that was really going to bring the reader in, I needed to go deep. I needed people to see and feel the pain.”
LINKS
tracyimm.com
Brave Girls Podcast
Tracy Imm Instagram
http://playyourpositionpodcast.com/tracyimm/
The War of Art by Steven Pressfield
The Foolscap by Steven Pressfield
The Artist’s Way by Julia Cameron
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
https://amzn.to/2J1SZwK : Tracy’s book on Amazon
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After growing one of his first PPC clients from 25 to 250 employees, today’s starting quarterback Jake Baadsgaard realized he had a gift for using pay-per-click marketing to drive dramatic business results. To help more companies succeed online, Jake founded Disruptive Advertising, a PPC and CRO management agency that has helped hundreds of companies realize unprecedented growth and profitability from the online advertising space.
In the four years since its founding, Disruptive Advertising has grown from two employees working in Jake’ s basement to a flourishing agency with more than 120 employees and a run rate of over $18 million- putting it at #145 on the 2017 Inc 500 list!
Jake's ability to assess and clearly explain complicated issues has made him a favorite in a variety of forums. Jake is a regular contributor on a variety of blogs-- including notable publications like Entrepreneur, Forbes and SearchEngine Land-- where his wit and ability to make even tedious topics engaging elicits rave reviews from his readers.
Jake’s humor, charm, and insight aren’t limited to the written word, though. He has spoken at numerous events and webinars including SMX, Kissmetrics, Create Nation, Unbounce, PRSA, Starfest, VWO and others and has a gift for both entertaining and educating his audience. Attendees usually leave comments on how much they enjoyed his sessions-- and how much he gave them to think about.
As a business owner, author, and speaker, Jacob Baadsgaard ’s witty, thoughtful and genuine approach to pay-per-click advertising makes him a compelling leader in the digital marketing arena!
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Jake comes from a big family, the sixth out of ten kids to be exact, so growing up he needed a way to stand out to be “different.” With a natural driven and movement-oriented personality, Jake had no problem thriving and being just that, different. With a job at only eight years old, Jake learned the value and payoff of hard work. He would later discover his greatest skill set is understanding how to collect the right data, connect the right different datasets, and make simple but impactful marketing decisions!
In this episode, we talk about:
-the works of Jake’s disruptive advertising and skillset for collecting data
-how he manages the people involved with his team
-a time where he handled a difficult situation pertaining to relieving a specific member on his team
-how he had a reality check with his marriage counselor and his wife about her being a partner to his business and how that affected their relationship
-how he decided to have better routines and habits in his life, and
-times of inspirational moments that were great examples of having great habits and sticking to a goal
Want to better the habits in your life and focus on how to be competitive, connected, self-improving, and have a vision and map to be the person you want to be? Make sure to listen to this fantastic episode to get all of Jake’s great wisdom and strategies!
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“I don't actually have to be good at marketing. I just have to be really good at getting the right information and taking action on it.”
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“The situation I keep finding myself in is hiring the wrong people and then holding on for too long and pushing off that hard conversation for too long.”
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“The number one challenge that we're currently dealing with that needs to be addressed in some degree by all of us is being present and connected with ourselves and with others.”
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“You’re changing the way people show up to work and think about themselves as participants in the workforce.”
LINKS
Jake Baadsgaard LinkedIn
disruptiveadvertising.com
Leadership and Self-Deception by The Arbinger Institute
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As president and CEO of On the Same Page Consulting, Michael Alan Tate works with successful executives, entrepreneurs, and technical professionals who are seeking a simple action-focused plan to effectively manage career transitions, keep teams on the same page, and prepare for positive leadership succession.
With over 20 years’ experience as an executive coach, consultant, and strategist, Mike knows that successful people want to navigate the murky waters of career transition as quickly and effectively as possible. Drawing on his own experience, Mike developed a unique consulting strategy, in which he helps each of his clients create a powerful and succinct strategic plan, incorporating prioritized actions and accountabilities set in a whole-life perspective -- all in just 24 hours.
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After going through a crisis of depression and being sick, Michael quit his job and went to his career counselor who would give him a personality test and suggested he be in HR. After sending out 500 resumes, Michael only got one response, sending him into a deeper depression. About three years later, Michael realized he chose the world’s worst strategy to find work and made it his calling to help other people know the way to find a life-giving career in a life-giving way.
In this episode, Michael talks about what a life-giving career is. He talks about some key points from his book, The White Shirt, about knowing who you are, what your skills, interests, and values are, as well as finding the key interest in your career and how to find a job before looking back to ask, “who am I and where do I fit?” Michael’s plan is to help and coach people who feel discouraged by finding “their way” and into their career. As a mentor himself, Michael talks about some of the influential people in his life who have contributed to his life-giving ways.
Make sure to give this episode a listen if you are stuck finding the career that is for you! Don’t just give into the grind or hanging around a job you don’t like just to end up in a dead-end career. Make the change! Hear some of the key offensive strategies Michael shares on this episode to further your career path and design a life that matters snow!
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“Most people don't know what they want, but they're pretty sure they don't have it.” – Alfred E Neuman
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“Two are better than one, for one falls down, there'd be another pick him up, and we all know how much easier it is to have someone when you get discouraged to talk to encourage you.”
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“The White Shirt is the only career book in the world that has ever been designed to be worked with a friend or a mentor.”
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“A part of a survey said that 34% of millennials with PhDs are underemployed, most are working part time because they used the wrong strategy [to find work].”
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“My process for my business is, first, sharpen your focus. Second, strengthen your relationships.”
LINK
thewhiteshirt.com
The White Shirt Video
Gift for Podcast Listeners!
Hope by Carol B. Amos
The White Shirt
Design a Life that Matters
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Forget sales & net income; focus instead on gross profit & cash flow… and here’s why. Today’s starting QB Terry Lammers grew up watching his parents run their own company in the fuel & lubricants industry, and eventually came on as a full-time employee in the early 90’s and took over as president of the company.
In just 18 years, TriCounty Petroleum had purchased 11 different companies, growing Terry’s family business from $750,000 annual sales to over $40 million when the company was sold in 2010. Today, as co-founder and managing member of Innovative Business Advisors, Terry taps into his financial expertise and hands-on business experience to advise and guide prospective business owners who are interested
in buying, as well as current business owners looking to sell their enterprises.
In his new book, You Don’t Know What You Don’t Know, Terry provides an in-depth examination of the process of buying, growing, and eventually selling a business. Through Terry’s guidance, business owners and aspiring business owners are sure to walk away with a wealth of knowledge and advice to lead them down the path to business success in every stage.
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After banking for three and half years and getting his entrepreneurial spirit back, Terry reflected back on his life and came to the realization that he enjoyed buying companies and decided to help people do the same by evaluating and advising their businesses.
In this episode, Terry talks about business valuations and understanding the concepts of operating systems, financials, profits, income, key ratios, and getting the biggest bang-for-your-buck when selling. Terry truly enjoys helping business owners understand their business more than they know. He shares a lot of strategies and modern techniques to manage a business, while also sharing some common misunderstandings and mistakes business owners have about the system of their own businesses.
Want some more ways to understand your companies’ value? Make sure to listen to Terry’s key offensive Glider Principle, as well as some of his past experiences with some of the people he’s worked with, gaining them maximum value for their business!
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“I have this uncanny ability... if somebody comes to me, I'm going to help them.”
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“It's not about sales and net income, it's about gross profit and cash flow.”
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“Business owners aren't fully aware of their numbers and price, [too often] pricing their products or services too low.”
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“If you're a seller, know the value of your company that's going to get you to the touchdown. If you're a buyer, know your ratios and know where your cash is.”
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“There's a lot of advantages in acquiring companies, but if you're on the sell side get a true value of your company. Number one reason most companies don't sell as the owner has an overly high expectation of what the value of their company.”
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“Don't be afraid to get help. Get a coach.”
LINKS
www.innovativeba.com
FREE Value Build your Questionnaire
You Don't Know What You Don't Know
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Ari Meisel is an author, speaker, coach and the creator of Less Doing, More Living, a set of practices and principles designed to help the overwhelmed become more effective.
These practices were born out of Ari's battle with Crohn's disease. As his illness progressed, he began to optimize, automate, and outsource everything in his life so that he could completely focus on healing his body.
Inspired to help entrepreneurs and companies Ari now teaches them how to offload the majority of their activities so they can grow, prosper and spend more time doing the things that truly matter most.
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At age 23, Ari found himself in $3 million of personal debt and diagnosed with Crohn’s Disease. Despite all odds, Ari turned things around, overcoming his illness and eventually competing in the Iron Man.
Ari realized a big part of his illness was based on stress. This realization influenced him to create a new system of productivity which is Less Doing, More Living. The goal of Ari's system is to teach people how to optimize, automate and outsource as much they can to be more effective. Ari's mission is to grow this system in the form of books, speaking, coaching, consulting, and business growth methodology.
In this episode, we talk about ways to optimize, automate, and outsource both your life and business. Ari talks about some of his key influencers including David Bach and Dan Sullivan, some of the tools/apps he uses for his team such as Voxer, and his thoughts on today’s technology and communication.
Make sure to listen to get some of Ari’s key offensive strategies to help you be more effective with your time and energy!
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“I think that there was my life before that talk and my life after that talk.”
“If we get intentional and we know what different tools are used for, why? When?…that becomes a lot more manageable.”
“who are you people and why are you hitting our API 2 million times every month?”
“About three weeks ago we hit $1 million in revenue and it's the first time in my life where I feel like this is my first million.”
“I don't want people to, in an absolute sense, do less things, but I want you to do less of the things that you don't want to do and more of the joy and the genius that you can have.”
“If you take the mindset that instead of putting out fires, you want to build a fireproof.”
“Either learn how to use it or stop using it.”
LINKS
Lessdoing.com
Ari’s Book: The Art Of Doing Less
Free Mini Course
App: Less Doing Peak Time
Voxer
Trello
Joe Polish
David Bach
Dan Sullivan
Book: The Master Mind
Social: LinkedIn, Instagram, Twitter, Facebook
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A former punter in both the NFL and European football league, today’s starting quarterback on PYP is Nick J. Murphy who has reinvented himself several times since kicking a pigskin to earn a living. Today Nick is a StoryBrand Certified Guide and sought after expert in the world of work. His career highlights include award-winning tenures at CareerBuilder, Monster and Indeed where he worked to optimize the effectiveness of F500 National Accounts across industries. His candid insights have been featured in national media like USA Today, U.S. News & World Report, Fox News, Inc., Reader’s Digest and more. He is the author of the recent book, Unboxed: An Unfiltered Guide to Creating a Career on Your Terms. Nick divides his time between Omaha NE and Scottsdale AZ with his wife and five children.
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Nick’s position and main focus is all about integration, balance, and showing up for the people in his life that need him. It’s most important for Nick that he is a good father, husband, and entrepreneur to his business ensuring its growth and helping people create careers on their terms.
After getting out of the NFL at 26 and doing pretty well working in a corporate setting, Nick and his buddy decided to start a video resume company to help people with nontraditional backgrounds give them a 62nd elevator pitch to supplement a text resume. It is here where Nick learned a lot about how companies hire people, the corporate world, and later taking that expertise to his career journey at CareerBuilder, Monster, and Indeed. But this wasn’t enough for Nick. He always wanted to be an entrepreneur, and so, that’s what he did! He decided to help people explore the area in between security from within a cubicle and freedom by going completely crazy and going all full entrepreneurship like he did.
In this episode, we talk about Nick’s journey in all the career paths he’s taken and where he’s at today. Nick talks about the importance of taking control of your career and the path and steps you take to get there. He shares key offensive strategies that are straight from his playbook about utilizing leverage to build your business or career and how it can help reduce the number of sacrifices you’ve made trying to build the greatest business or career in a corporate job. Nick also shares times of difficulty, what he did to recover, and how he uses that experience to coach and mentor others.
Through his book, podcast, and course Nick is leading people on this path of success so they can take control of their entrepreneurial venture or career.
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“Unlike maybe a linebacker or wide receiver or positions on the line, there's one punter on a roster, you're the starter or you're unemployed and so there are 32 jobs on the planet and I like to tell people that you have a three times better chance of being a United States senator than an NFL punter or an NFL kicker. There's a hundred of them. There's 32 of us. So I think in terms of like survival or trying to find what it is that, you're cut out to do and having to reinvent yourself and the inevitable ups and downs… I think football, particularly playing that position was a really good foray into, it's going to accelerate that whole thing. You're going to be the highest of highs and the lowest of lows, probably oftentimes within the span of months or weeks. And you better be very, very mentally tough. You better be very focused and disciplined and you better have it damn good idea of what you want to do and how you want to do it.”
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“…people are operating in this false choice that you have to settle for a corporate job where you sacrifice and you expend a lot of energy and you work really hard and you try to climb the ladder and you do all the right things and maybe you get the recognition, maybe you don't. Yeah. But that job could go away tomorrow.”
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“The thing that drives me the craziest is people will look at entrepreneurship or a side hustle or doing the work to expand your skillset or, look at other options to diversify your income as 'risky' when the riskiest thing you can do is stay in a job that you have no control over. When you're 100% rely on it”
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“How are you putting your career to work for you, to protect you from things that are uncertain. Are you paying off your debt? Are you living below your means? Are you saving away for, for kind of rainy days?”
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“Getting back up and rebuilding is actually probably one of the most fun parts, in hindsight, it doesn't feel comfortable in the moment. But looking back that reset and starting from zero and building what you want, knowing what you know, actually was a really enjoyable piece of my journey.”
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“If you're not feeling hard, you're not pushing yourself hard enough. If you haven't failed, you're too comfortable and you should become 50% uncomfortable in the next thing that you do... don't go crazy, don't risk everything. But at the same time, if you're just comfortable, then you push it. You're not achieving your full potential if everything's just easy and safe and fun.”
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“The one I always talk about is challenging your condition beliefs. Each and every one of them. There is no one way, there is no right way. There's no wrong way, and a lot of the things that we take either historically or that we've kind of absorbed through Osmosis in our environment or through conditioning just flat out aren't true. There is a way to have it all. Don't have to sacrifice things you're not willing to sacrifice.”
LINKS
https://www.nickmurphy.io/
https://www.nickjmurphy.com/
Social Media: Instagram, Twitter, LinkedIn
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Looking for a dynamic, interesting, insightful, creative, and fun speaker for your next leadership training or event? Get in touch here to learn about how I can help you run your leadership ball into the End Zone!
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Hey Team!
Today I am celebrating the 200th episode of the Play Your Position Podcast with an audible about Tiger Woods winning the Masters yesterday in Atlanta, Georgia. In it, I share my thoughts about this accomplishment, what Tiger Woods represents for Americans and some larger questions about leadership.
Enjoy, and thank you Team PYP for hanging in there with me for 200 episodes! You guys are seriously the best podcast listeners out there!
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Bryan and Shannon Miles are determined to help you grow your business with the help of bringing freelancers on board to achieve your goals. Bryan and Shannon Miles are determined to help you grow your business with the help of bringing freelancers on board to achieve your goals.
This power husband and wife team are today's starting QB and wide receiver and they will prove that the way we work today is just plain different than it was ten years ago.
Bryan Miles can’t sit still. He is an entrepreneur, backpacker, mountain climber, writer, husband, and father. In addition, he’s the CEO and Co-Founder of BELAY, a premium staffing company serving businesses all over the U.S. He and his wife, Shannon, are proud co-owners.
Creating and fostering a healthy culture has always been close to Bryan’s heart. He has written about it for years and has put all of his thoughts into his second book, Virtual Culture: The Way We Work Doesn’t Work Anymore.
Bryan loves to mentor other entrepreneurs and small business owners to reach their full potential, sitting on the board of Radical Mentoring and two other organizations. Welcome to the show Bryan.
Shannon Miles is a master delegator. She and her husband Bryan grew a 2 person operation into a staff of 60 corporate team members by seeing where they were the strongest and delegating the rest. They lead with trust and have a thriving business built on the premise that adults are adults and can handle their business. The pair are also visionaries on the virtual workplace.
Shannon’s passion, in addition to helping others realize the freedom they receive from delegating, is to bring to light the challenges women face in the workplace. From finding the courage to ask your boss for a flexible schedule, to deciding if there is an option for you outside 100% full-time onsite office work and a 100% full-time stay at home mom. Shannon has walked the walk and is here to lead other women on the journey to find their own Third Option - which happens to be the title to her book.
The Third Option: Why a Woman Doesn’t Have to Choose Between a Career and Family, but Can Actually Have Both and Succeed
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Bryan Miles Co-CEO role is building deeper networking relationships with strategic partners, guiding the COO and CFO.
Shannon Miles Co-CEO role is on the operational and empowerment sides of their business. She represents Belay in the marketplace and speaks at different events.
In this episode, we learn about how Tim Ferris’s book, Four-Hour Work Week brought the idea of this virtual assistants businesses to life for Bryan and Shannon. They realized no one was executing on the idea of matching virtual assistants with businesses and knew something could be improved. With Bryan’s past experience with his company using a virtual assistant, it was no brainer!
Bryan and Shannon talk about their lives before their business, what they were doing, and how they started the business idea that would later grow into a team of 60 corporate team members!
We get to hear their thoughts about what it’s like working together (husband and wife) and what challenges they face, how they’ve switched roles and positions in their company, how they gain wisdom and advice from mentors and savvy business people in Atlanta and how they formed a business based off of delegation, what their process is for gaining talent on their team, and what sort of vision they have for their business.
Bryan shares some details about his talent pool, such as the average hourly rate, what type of hours are expected and what is expected of them and their duties. Make sure to give this episode a listen!
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“When a company is growing 30% year over year or more, the fastest way to continue that scale is to create a leadership pipeline internally where people can grow up with the organization versus go to the outside for that solution.”
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“In a virtual environment, how you work with somebody and how you, how you really treat them as you know, is very important. And so these people that we find are really great people, we get over 2000 resumes a month. So we find the best of the best to basically represent our company and support our clients in a dedicated, or an assigned relationship.”
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“…I was talking to him and I mentioned the word 'own' and he stopped me and he said, 'You don't own anything right now.' And I'm like, 'What? What are you talking about? Yes, I do.' I just, you know, I'm so offended. I said, 'Well, all right, what are you trying to tell me?' Hey said, 'You don't own the business right now. Right now, you RUN a business. The day that the business doesn't need you day-to-day is the day that you OWN the business.'"
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“It's the recognition that you can't grow and scale an organization and do it all yourself. Like if you want to have something of significance, you have to enlist help and trust the team to do the work.”
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“Start to discern the things that you love doing and the things that you hate doing because, what I've discovered is those things that you hate doing and you keep doing them, those are the best things for you to outsource.”
LINKS
belaysolutions.com
mythirdoption.com
Bryan Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
Shannon Instagram, Facebook, Twitter
Life is good today but that wasn’t always the case for today's guest, Josh McLean. Over the past decade, Josh has overcome the crippling effect of fear and a brain injury resulting from a car accident. His success proves small actions and a strong mindset can spark powerful transformation; eliminating the feeling of being drained, conflicted, confused, and hopeless.
Josh has spent 15 years in Finance and Strategy, managing highly engaged teams and holding management positions across iconic brands including Nike, KinderCare Education, and Ameriprise Financial.
His recent book Catalyst: Ignite Your Spark Within To Achieve Powerful Transformation, brings his signature blend of humor, passion, candor, & poignant personal experiences directly to the lives of restless achieves looking to create a more fulfilling life.
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Josh’s day job is Finance Strategy at Nike, but he is also on a speaking authorship journey serving his mission to share his voice and give his audiences hope about what's possible in life. Josh is also a husband and the proud father of two girls.
In this episode, Josh shares his story of struggle that began with a traumatic experience in the 7th grade that shattered his self-confidence. You see, Josh developed a very deep voice at a young age and consequently, he was teased and humiliated that only deepened his fear and self-doubt. His insecurities eventually led him down the all-too-common path of drugs and alcohol to numb his pain, which then led to depression and suicidal thoughts. After many months of questioning his habits, he cleaned his slate and embraced a corporate identity. Playing this game for a while, he would soon find his world crashing down again, this time from a car accident, leaving him to slog through three years of intense rehab.
Josh teaches us how he made certain life decisions that have allowed him to play his current position, spreading his voice to help others shed light on possibilities, life transformations, setting goals, taking action and putting meaning into your life with healthy choices.
Make sure to listen to hear some phenomenal key offensive strategies straight from Josh’s playbook!
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“I realized that I had been playing a spectator sport of looking upon other people's lives and I had been too afraid to get in the game.”
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“...most people are in this self-deception mode that I'm trying to subtly and sometimes forcibly, grab the sledgehammer and let's just take that down and have an honest conversation and say, are you actually playing the game that you say you want to?”
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“You have to ask yourself, are you willing to do the work behind your goals or we'll use it and passively complain and let life pass you by. “
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“…some people choose to complain or play the victim card while these are both options, my challenge to you is to get excited, embrace the idea of becoming refined by fire and what lies on the other side of adversity.”
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“If you're finding yourself restless, it's likely because there is a decision that you are not making or you're making it, but the choices to play small, that once you decide to play big and just go all in and figure out what it is that path has, you will have more energy, more excitement.”
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(Jeff Olson) “People who live with huge, vivid, clearly articulated dreams are pulled along towards those dreams with such force, they become practically unstoppable.”
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(Judy Blume) “Each of us must confront our own fears, must come face to face with them. How we handle our fears will determine where we go with the rest of our lives.”
LINKS
Catalystignite.com
Mentor Impact Model
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Today’s starting quarterback is Lee Caharer, the founder and CEO of Double Forte PR and Digital Marketing that works with beloved and up and coming consumer technology and wine brands. Lee is known for practical solutions to big problems. She is the author of two books Millennials and Management The Essential Guide to Making It Work at Work and the Boomerang Principle Inspiring Lifetime Loyalty from Employees. Her big laugh and sense of humor have gotten her out of a lot of trouble and she splits time between San Francisco and New York City where she puts her degree in medieval history to work every single day.
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Lee is in the digital marketing and national public relations world. She and her team provide companies with the tools they need to improve performance in intergenerational relationships, communication, and leadership.
In this episode, Lee talks about the changes in PR and digital marketing and how the industry has evolved from the ways we once communicated with each other to how we communicate today via social platforms. Times have changed drastically, so the importance of staying relevant is key to keeping up with technology and culture. Lee shares her thoughts about the roles each generational group has set for their standards and how this has created a conflict between what is right and what is relevant. She explains the benefits between different groups like Baby Boomer and Millenials and creates a positive and effective workplace when she brings the generations together. We get to hear some of the fumbles Lee has encountered through her journey as well as the winning touchdown moment she had while working at Sega.
We also get a glimpse into the world of San Francisco and Silicon Valley and what sustainability looks like there. Lee shares some thoughts and experiences she has had about what she's experienced in those two places. You won't want to miss that!
Having trouble finding something in your playbook that works for you? Try following these three key offensive strategies straight from Lee’s playbook: Listen loudly, make a decision and call the play, and decide if it’s working or not. Can you make it better and listen again and implement again? If yes, do it!
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“As the Quarterback for my company, it’s really about looking long and playing short to get there.”
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“You have to play really short games all the time and understand who your people are, what they're good at, and what their role can be so they can do their job to move everybody forward.”
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“It’s also super important in our business, do not put all your eggs into one basket, ever.”
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“How you decide what’s going to have a chance and what isn’t, is half the battle.”
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“Sometimes it’s good to be up in the stands so you can see the whole field.”
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Listen more loudly.”
LINKS
leecaraher.com
Double Forte
Millennials and Management The Essential Guide to Making It Work at Work
Boomerang Principle Inspiring Lifetime Loyalty from Employees
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Isn't It Time to Write Your Book Already?
All right, Team! This month's pick for my book review is The Million-Dollar One-Person Business: Make Great Money. Work the Way You Like. Have the Life You Want. by Elaine Pofeldt.
If you or someone you know is curious about whether or not starting and building a business with one person at the helm is worth it -- meaning is it possible to generate a million dollars in revenue without hiring a bunch of employees -- then this is a great book to add to your personal library.
I put it in the growing category of the new world of work -- how many of us are choosing to show up and earn our livings today is profiled nicely in this book. It is well-written and a fast read. I got through it in one afternoon and that included lots of underlining and dog-earing!
Generating real money while keeping a business lean isn't a pipe dream anymore. Listen to the episode and leave your 5-star review of PYP in iTunes if you haven't already! I appreciate and read every single one.
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Write your book already!
Today’s starting quarterback is Oscar Trimboli, a coach, supervisor, speaker and author of several books including Deep Listening: Impact beyond Words, The 125/400 Rule: The Art and Science of Listening and Breakthroughs: How to Confront Your Assumptions.
Through his work with chairs, boards of directors and executive teams in local, regional and global organizations, Oscar has experienced firsthand the transformational impact leaders and organizations can have when they listen beyond the words. He consults with organizations including Cisco, Google, HSBC, News Corp, PayPal, Qantas, and TripAdvisor, helping executives and their teams listen to what’s unsaid by the customers and employees. Oscar lives in Sydney, Australia with his wife Jennie where he helps first-time runners and ocean swimmers conquer their fears. He also contributes to the cure for cancer as part of Can Too, a cancer research charity.
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Oscar is fiercely devoted to teaching people the importance and significance of deep listening and how the brain reacts to information. He is on a quest to create 100 million deep listeners in the world by 2030 by sharing his knowledge and wisdom.
While growing up, Oscar recognized within himself some natural skills around having the capacity to listen well. Working at Microsoft for 11 years, Oscar asked to be part of the college graduate recruitment team where he realized they had a problem. He listened to what the graduates said about the recruiting process and eventually helped create a program that Microsoft took to 26 different countries all because Oscar took the time to listen. Around this time he felt challenged to make listening a significant part of his professional life.
In this episode, we talk about the life and career experiences Oscar had, who made him who is today, as well some of the influencers and mentors he had along his journey. He talks about the science of listening, the brain, the body, and ways we can reach our full potential in health, productivity, and in learning. He also shares some great tips such as how to use technology to minimize the use of our amygdala, the most primitive part of our brain that controls the fight or flight instinct.
Want to improve your listening skills? Listen through to the end of the episode to get three tips from Oscar on how to listen to yourself more effectively, maximize your ability to process ideas and increase your productivity.
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“The minute we come into the world, we come into the world kicking and screaming and wanting to be noticed and we spend the rest of our lives speaking. If we've spent the 20th century learning how to speak, I think the productivity hack of the 21st century is learning how to listen.”
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“Mark Twain said there are only two days in your life that matters. The day you were born and the day you figure out why.”
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“The biggest mistake most people make that blocks them from becoming deeper listener is they don't listen to themselves…it's impossible to listen to somebody else. When you've got a story going on in your head.”
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“…drink a glass of water at every meeting because a hydrated brain is a listening brain. The brain consumes 25% of the blood sugars of the body, even though it's only 4% of the physical mass of the body”
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“…are you choiceful in the way you use technology or are you just defaulting in?”
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“use the technology. Don’t let it use you.”
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“And so the question that poses to me and for you listening, who aren't you listening to? What aren't you listening to? What's going on in all aspects of your life because you're just listening to what people are saying rather than taking the time to go a little bit further and hearing what they haven't said?”
LINKS
Deep Listening Podcast
https://www.oscartrimboli.com/
Deep Listening: Impact Beyond Words
Breakthroughs: How to Confront Assumptions
125-400-Rule: The Art and Science of Listening Book
Cal Newport Books
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Andrew currently works with a non-profit called Young Entrepreneurs Business Week (YEBW), a liaison program for schools, companies, and students around Oregon. They teach business and professional skills to high schools students on a college campus over the summer, and their goal is to build the next generation of leaders and educate them, teaching things such as how to run a multimillion-dollar company, how to make their own business, invention skills, job interview skills, etiquette skills, and to make sure they have more opportunity with their future. Andrew’s job is to spread awareness of the program and to maintain relationships with the community.
Andrew also runs his business as a public speaking coach. He regularly coaches people who want to overcome their fear of presentations and figure out how they can engage more audiences when they present. Andrew is also the author of Tucan Play at This Game and his passion is helping people become better leaders with powerful presentation skills. Not to mention, he is the pun-master and considers himself “punnomenal.”
In this episode, we talk about why it’s important the YEBW program exists, the real-life experience the students get from it, and how Andrew’s past experiences played a significant role with his involvement at YEBW. Andrew also gives his perspective as a kid on the world financial crisis and how it impacted him growing up. He also shares how he learned from his moments of failure (or lightbulb moments) that have applied to the work he does today.
Andrew gives advice and strategies out of his playbook on ways people can set goals, manage time, get advice and mentorship, and most importantly, how to take action!
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“That’s why it’s so important to be part of this program where we’re helping show people this is what the professional world is like and we want to help you thrive as much as possible.”
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“I said, “You know what, I need to stop caring what people think about me.” and that’s definitely like kind of a light bulb moment for me is that when you stop caring about what people think about you, people usually like you more for that [laughs].”
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“People who have constructive feedback for you, they’re the ones who actually care about you and want you to do better…versus if someone just says, “oh good job” all the time or ignores what you’re doing, then they don’t really care about your future.”
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“You’re the average of the 5 people you spend the most time with.”
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“I really encourage people to do is just constantly reach out and ask for advice and of course take action.”
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www.weisswisdom.com
weisswisdom@gmail.com
www.yebw.org
Tuesdays with Morrie
Joey Jankins
Will Cuddy episode
Benjamin Hardy
Sibly
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In this week’s bonus audible, I share with you my candid review of two films I recently watched on Netflix. One is a series and the other is a documentary. Coincidentally, both have to do with the fashion industry.
I also have a couple of fun announcements and a preview of who is on the roster for March. You guys are gonna love my guests this month and into April. Things are rocking and rolling here at the Play Your Position Podcast.
Thanks for suiting up and showing up to play with us!
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Write your damn book already! (You won't regret it.)
Today’s starting quarterback is Steven Griffith whose mission in life is to teach us how to finally have that mind-blowing relationship with time. Steven is a nationally recognized author, speaker, researcher, and performance expert, former Chicago Golden Glove Boxer Champion in Illinois Heavyweight nicknamed "The Velvet Hammer," and considered one of the leading authorities on the connection between time, productivity, and performance. Steven worked with organizations such as Jimmy Kimmel Live, the U.S. Military, LAPD, NBA, NFL, MLB, and NHL!
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Steven is always on the field helping us get some of our time back. In his upcoming book with McGraw Hill The Time Cleanse: A Proven System to Eliminate Wasted Time, Realize Your Full Potential, and Reinvest in What Matters Most, Steven provides a strategic and effective approach to changing our relationship to time, allowing you to maximize your Energy, Focus & Performance. His revolutionary 3-step performance process will accelerate your personal productivity and rebalance your work-life relationship while simultaneously improving the quality of both. Based on two decades of experience working with thousands of clients, the Time Cleanse is the world’s first “timefulness” solution that both “adds time to your life, and life to your time” while increasing performance, reducing stress, and improving mindfulness.
Steven crushes the common complaint, “I don’t have enough time,” pointing out that we’ve been conditioned to be overstimulated multitaskers who always feel under “time pressure.” Steven shares strategies to help us break free from this illusion.
Steven traveled to places such as Thailand and Japan, studying mindfulness strategies, neuroscience, and even Einstein’s theory of relativity to come up with a solution of how to change the relationship we have with time and how to perform optimally with it. One of his key messages reminds us that time comes from us, that we need to focus on that and be present for it.
Steven also talks about his experience growing up playing football, thinking that’s what his success was meant to be. After suffering a series of hamstring injuries, he realized he was in a blind spot and needed to change course if he was going to make a difference in the world. This is considered one of his most life-changing moments that directed him to understand and share his knowledge of time management.
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- “…we’re here to make a difference and how we make a difference is with our time.”
- “We have been conditioned to use time as an excuse for not doing, having, or being.”
- “Timefulness doesn’t replace mindfulness, it’s something that’s added to it…it’s about improving the quality experience and performance with time.”
- [Time Cleanse] “Stopping to evaluate where your time is, shift, get rid of the containments and go for what matters the most.”
- “Take 100% responsibility of your time and go on a time-excuse “diet.”
- “Kick what’s most important and commit to it!”
LINKS
- The Time Cleanse: A Proven System to Eliminate Wasted Time, Realize Your Full Potential and Reinvest in What Matters Most.
- stevengriffith.com
- stevengriffith.com/pyp
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Mark J. Podolsky (AKA The Land Geek) is widely considered the country’s most trusted and foremost authority on buying and selling raw, undeveloped land within the United States. He has been actively investing in real estate and raw land since 2001 and has completed over 5,000 unique transactions. Mark’s company, Frontier Equity Properties, LLC, is an A+ rated BBB real estate company. Mark has achieved this level of success largely due to his core business philosophy – “Happy Customers Guaranteed.” I would add his success also comes from the fact that he chooses to use a treadmill desk. “Sitting is the new smoking!” he reminds us all. Mark is also the host of one of the top rated podcasts in the Investing Category on iTunes aptly titled “The Best Passive Income Model and The Art of Passive Income.” As if he wasn’t already busy enough, Mark hosts “The Land Geek Podcast- Work Smart. Earn More. Learn How.” You can check those out on iTunes and wherever else great listening is enjoyed.
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Mark’s brilliant and successful business model of buying and selling raw land has gained the interests in many ambitious followers to learn and follow this “sort of gateway drug to a better life style”, with passive income.
In this episode, Mark talks about the details of his book Dirt Rich and how the works of passive income drastically made an impact on his life. How is first ever one client (who made $350,000 on a one-time deal due to Mark’s help) sparked the beginning of his digital course, which gained the attraction to more like-minded “geeks” wanting the same success. Not to mention, Mark shares this incredibly unique model of buying and re-selling raw-land estate and reveals some of his secrets that anyone could follow!
With his live investor tool kit events and boot camp program, Mark teaches his students how to offer true value, how to recognize the “Head of the Long Tail”, how to find true fans and how to motivate the needle in their lives. He has a goal to help people see what’s available and to figure out if that’s what they really want to do.
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Quotes
- “Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion” - Parkinson’s Law of Time
- “As you earn more money, your needs increase and you end up spending more money” - Parkinson’s Law of Money
- “Can I rid the world of solo-economic dependency…if you’re not personally working, you’re not making any money.”
- “We can always make more money, but we can’t get more time.”
- Everyone is going to run out of money, before they run out of deal flow…”
- Mary: “Who is this system best for?” Mark: “I think it’s best for anyone who needs to get paid!”
- Seth Godin: “It’s not for the masses, you want to find your minimum viable audience”
- “You need to start small, but also think bigger…to make sure you have something that is viable.”
LINKS
The LandGeek Toolkit
Geekpay.io
The Art of Passive income Podcast
Dirt Rich
Tim Fair Podcast
Shark Tank
Seth Godin: This is Marketing
Chris Anderson
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Today’s starting quarterback is Laura di Franco, a 6-time published poet and author, inspirational speaker, holistic physical therapist and a third-degree black belt in Tae Kwon Do with over two decades of experience in healing. After checking off all the “to-do” lists that were to supposedly make her feel happy, Laura woke up one day and realized it wasn’t good enough. She had everything she could possibly want or need but wasn’t truly happy and knew that feeling had to change.
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Laura is a highly inspirational speaker whose mission is to help people ground themselves with healing, awareness, self-development while guiding them to live the very best life they can live. She wants to share her message out loud to inspire people to take action, align themselves, seek help such as life coaches and mentors, and practice what they’ve practiced out onto the field.
In this episode, Laura talks about her experience with awareness and her healing journey. How her game changed after she started to question all the negativity and realized, she had a choice. Her daily challenge is staying in the moment with an on-purpose-positive attitude while life throws its challenges and negativity. Laura has to remind herself that she is good enough and that people should follow that mindset. She says, “Brave Healing is how you show up in the world with a lot of awareness, courage and a little badassery.”
We also talk about a time when Laura played a foul standing up for a previous employee’s action, how she limits media entertainment to filter out toxicity, and how she stays in her lane to help focus on a positive mindset.
Straight out of Laura’s playbook is this powerful question: “What if there was nobody to offend, upset, or disappoint? What would you do or who would you become?”
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- [Awareness journey] “It’s a healing journey. It just means that I’m showing up for life and paying attention to what I feel, what I want, and how to go after it.”
- [Awareness journey] “It has brought me illegal amounts of joy.”
- “We were not trained to listen to our own deepest desires and intuition about what turns us on and what makes us happy.”
- “You never get to a destination of perfection with anything, it’s always the journey.”
- “Part of mastery is understanding the practice itself…mastery really is making a commitment to practice.”
- One of her game-winning moments was when she had a man, who seemed to have speaking trouble, come up to her after her speaking event and say, “You’ve changed my life.”
- “Life is short. What the heck you guys waiting for!”
LINKS
- bravehealer.com
- Fb @kickasswarriorgodess
- Link to her book!
- Odette Peek
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Hey team! Welcome to my newest series within the Play Your Position Podcast, the PYP Monthly Book Review. Each month moving forward, I'll share with you a review of a book I've either just read or pulled off my shelf and read again.
Super excited to share with you this month's pick, Company of One: Why Staying Small Is the Next Big Thing for Business by Paul Jarvis. If you are running a solo business or thinking about starting a side hustle, you will want to pick up a copy of this book for the insights on what makes a difference in long term sustainability and happiness and what doesn't.
I put this book in a growing category of non-fiction business books that highlight how work gets done in the 21st century. Work does not look like it did 15 years ago. We all need guidance on how to do our best work. This book offers that in a straightforward and well-documented style.
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Today’s starting quarterback is Rock Thomas, a best-selling author, Tony Robbins Trainer, Real Estate Mogul, the man behind the #IAmMovement and Mastermind Expert. After growing up on a farm, Rock learned the value of hard work and wanted a way to share his experiences by learning from the best and mentoring people so they can take a look at what they can do to make their lives better.
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Rock is the CEO to M1 March To A Million mastermind and travels worldwide to motivate people to empower their businesses. His relationship with Tony Robbins gave him a significant influence on how he plays his position and how he shares his ideologies with others. Coming straight from his strategy play book, he advises people to generates leads, to feed their mission, come from providing value and learn to earn. He believes in action and taking action.
In this episode, Rock talks about how he manages mentoring while managing his own life, how he utilizes social media to speak to his community and the importance to limiting your activity on social platforms, and the time he fumbled the ball by, “trying to make the plays on my own”, and what plays he made to recover. You will also hear what great wisdom Rock shares for others and what steps to take to empower yourself and your business.
Having trouble finding something in your playbook that works for you? Try following the “3M” formula Rock stands by; Find the mentor you admire, model them, and master what they master.
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- Gold Cast Video Programs touched 72 million people!
- “Some people get crushed by their circumstances and they become smaller and they hide, and they play small.”
- “We need to start to learn how to love ourselves…”
- “It’s important to ask questions.”
- “In life, if you do what is difficult, life will be easy and if you do what is easy, life will be difficult.”
- “Nothing has meaning, but the meaning we give it.”
LINKS
rockthomas.com
Goal Cast Rock Thomas Video
gom1.com
gobundance.com
@rockthomas on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, LinkedIn
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Millions if not billions of people just like me are sandwiched between two generations -- our children, and our aging parents. Having aging parents who still live in their home can cause stress, but it's also an incredible opportunity to learn new things about ourselves. In today’s bonus audible, I explore some of the surprising gifts having aging parents grant us if we’re willing to look -- and receive them.
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It’s 100% certain that everyone listening to this podcast is experiencing some kind of change or transition in their life or business. How you navigate these transitions determines your ultimate success. Today’s guest is John Hinkle, an author, speaker, and personal growth coach who’s empowering men and women to navigate those changes and find their “second-half purpose.” He’s here today to share 5 practical and transformational principles from his book, Shift: Moving from Where You Are to the Life You Want, to empower you to move from your current unfulfilled status to a future of success and purpose.
John shares some awesome stories of how he overcame some grim odds. Anyone interested in reinvention will want to listen to what John has to share on today's episode of the Play Your Position Podcast!
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“Some people do cocaine; my drug of choice is helping people keep as much of their wealth as possible. It’s the greatest natural high on earth.”
If that doesn’t get your attention, Team, I don’t know what will. Today’s starting quarterback is Molly Grubb and she is a dynasty builder. After seeing her family’s business torn away from her parents, watching them lose their identity and then walking away with almost nothing, Molly decided she wasn’t going to let that happen to other entrepreneurs and family business owners.
Now Molly helps build, protect and maintain a family business owner’s dynasty. She is one of only 200 Certified Business Exit Consultants and less than 7% of advisors that utilize all of the fundamentals of wealth management.
We all know owning a business has value and the average business owner has the majority of their net worth tied to their business. With only 20% of businesses actually selling in the open market this makes it extremely difficult for the average owner to ever realize the wealth they built in their business, personally. In fact, 90 % of businesses fail within the first 10 years. Molly is here
to help us beat those numbers and build our dynasties.
What a joy to have the chance to chat with Molly Grubb and learn some of the tried and true approaches to not only building but also keeping business wealth!
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John Fairclough (FAIR-clow) founded The Resicom Group to help retailers optimize the way they improve and maintain their store environment. Under his leadership, the company has evolved from a local construction company into an international provider of facility maintenance and construction services.
Naturally curious, John spends his time developing better questions to find the “uncommon sense” of a situation. By improving his questions, he’s been able to create better answers to the challenge of developing people, evolving their processes, and protecting the value delivered. John’s specialties include listening without prejudice, activating ideas, and mentoring without bias. He’s on a mission to help businesses protect their brands at all touch points throughout their physical facilities.
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Happy New Year, Team PYP!
I'm super excited about 2019 and I hope you are, too!
I've got another fantastic season planned for you featuring a new lineup of phenomenal guests, bonus audibles, and some fun surprises along the way. New music, new cover art, new everything will inspire you to do more of what you already do well while also challenging you to step it up and move past your comfort zone so you can score more game-winning touchdowns.
That sounds really great to me!
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So Team...Are you ready for kick off? Let's go!
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Pat Rigsby is a dad, husband, business coach, entrepreneur & author. He’s built over 25 different businesses, including 2 Entrepreneur Franchise 500 award-winning franchises. Today he coaches entrepreneurs to create their Ideal Business, one that allows them to earn more, have a greater impact, and enjoy more freedom to live the lives of their dreams. He’s here today to share his insight with you to help you build the business of your dreams.
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Pat Rigsby is a dad, husband, business coach, entrepreneur & author. He’s built over 25 different businesses, including 2 Entrepreneur Franchise 500 award-winning franchises. Today he coaches entrepreneurs to create their Ideal Business, one that allows them to earn more, have a greater impact, and enjoy more freedom to live the lives of their dreams. He’s here today to share his insight with you to help you build the business of your dreams.
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The rules of the Internet are changing every day. Smart business owners enlist the help of attorneys like this week's PYP MVP Scott Reib.
Scott Reib (pronounced “Reeb”) is known as America’s Legal Coach. He’s the official Zig Ziglar Small Business Lawyer, a Ziglar Legacy Certified Trainer, and he has over 20 years of experience as an attorney. For the last two decades, Scott has been helping business owners, entrepreneurs, coaches, and service providers to “shatterproof” their businesses and succeed in the professional world. Scott is a firm believer that seeking legal advice doesn’t have to be intimidating or expensive if we treat lawyers like primary care doctors instead of ER doctors. Through his subscription-based Access Plan legal service, Scott is making great strides in shifting that perspective.
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Imagine it’s another normal day. You're driving to work, thinking about what’s on tap for you and your business. You are 27 years old, you have worked hard for the last 14 years to build a multi-million dollar business, taking you out of poverty and into the realms of the world’s elite entrepreneurs.
Suddenly, you accidentally hit a pedestrian. Time stops. This day is forever frozen in your mind. You come to find out the person you hit didn't make it.
How different would your life be?
Today’s returning PYP MVP Aaron Walker, Founder of View from the Top and Iron Sharpens Iron Mastermind, knows exactly what his life would be like because this happened to him on August 1, 2001. He says it’s a day he will never forget and all these years later, it still gives him tremendous pain to tell the story.
Aaron recently joined me in the PYP studio for an encore conversation to catch me up on where his life has taken him since we first spoke back in July of 2015. Aaron is one of those incredible humans who exemplifies servant leadership and living his purpose. Since we last spoke, Aaron published the book he was working on when we talked three years ago, as well as grown his mastermind business that, at its core, motivates ordinary men to become extraordinary.
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- Who do you know who is currently looking for a new job and continues to hit dead ends in their job search?
- What is the secret to landing your next great job with your dream company -- without going through the hassle and frustration of online job applications?
- How does anyone -- at any age -- find meaningful work that pays well when the job application process is fundamentally broken?
Maybe you’re like today’s PYP MVP Austin Belcak (“Bell-sack”) who found himself applying for more than 300 jobs online and getting zero responses. Sick and tired of going nowhere fast, Austin did what any awesome PYP MVP would do -- he got creative and began searching for answers from people who were doing the kind of work he dreamed about doing.
Today Austin is not only happily employed, but he’s well-compensated for the contributions he makes. AND -- it gets even better! He loves to share his process and insider tips for landing your great next opportunity no matter your age. This is a conversation you don’t want to miss!
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Austin Belcak is the founder of Cultivated Culture, where he teaches people how to use unconventional strategies to land jobs they love in today’s market -- without connections, without traditional “experience,” and without applying online.
Austin’s strategies have been featured in Forbes, Business Insider, Fast Company, Inc, and more. He’s grown his community to over 10,000 job seekers who have leveraged his advice to land job offers at Google, Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Twitter, Goldman Sachs, ESPN, and more. Austin is ready to share his step-by-step breakdown of the process that has helped hundreds of people land amazing jobs at the world’s best companies.
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The rise of people marking themselves safe on social media after yet another tragedy is a growing leadership problem.
My central question on today’s bonus audible of the Play Your Position Podcast is:
What role can each of us play in solving it?
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For anyone who works in a diverse culture, today's episode of the Play Your Position Podcast is not to be missed.
I had the chance to talk with the authors of the popular book Breaking Through Bias: Communication Techniques for Women to Succeed at Work, married lawyers Andie Kramer and Al Harris who have been speaking and writing about gender communication for more than 30 years.
What they understand about good communication goes beyond gender. That's one of the many takeaways I picked up after our conversation and there are plenty more that we can all apply to what we do every day in and out of the "office."
What I admire about this power couple is they bring a unique viewpoint to both women and men looking to navigate gender bias. They are frequent keynote speakers, and conduct workshops for multinational organizations to better understand the world of gender bias.
Today they’re helping us understand that the glass ceiling still exists and what we can do to keep moving forward while working together. Be sure to tune in and keep the conversation going by sharing this episode on social media!
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At times in our lives, circumstances will ask us to go beyond what we expected would happen. Game 3 of the 2018 World Series between the Boston Red Sox and the Los Angeles Dodgers demonstrated this phenomenon quite literally, extending 18 innings and lasting close to seven hours. Every player, coach, manager, and fan was exhausted when the game finally ended on a solo home run.
This game got me thinking about the "extra innings" of our lives.
Specifically:
What happens at work when a project takes on a new direction and the deadline is extended (and our workload with it)? How about when a loved one gets sick or when our car doesn't start and we have a very important meeting on the other side of town? What about when we don't hit a goal we set for ourselves?
How are we showing up in times like these?
In this week's bonus audible, I shed some light on what successful people can do in times when we are called to rise above and beyond what's expected of us and we have no choice but to play in extra innings.
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Whether you’re single, married, happily partnered, or searching for love, you’ll be amazed at the insights shared by today’s guest, Karen Aberle.
Karen is the author of #1 Amazon bestseller Love’s Invisible Dance, inspired by her own juicy 30-year marriage, 3 decades of researching and teaching about relationship and the philosophy of language, and an 18-year apprenticeship with Huichol shamans of central Mexico.
She’s coached individuals and teams in Fortune 100 organizations including Comcast, Spectrum Reach, and Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, on the art of building strong professional relationships using the same skills she and her husband have taught around the globe in workshops for individuals and couples seeking more love in their lives. Karen is here to share her insight on the universal dance of relationship we’ve been doing all our lives, and to help us choreograph a more graceful dance with our loved ones and colleagues in order to achieve the life we truly want.
Click here to get Karen's #1 Amazon bestselling book, Love's Invisible Dance!
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We're all carrying around a boulder on our shoulder of one type or another.
In this week's bonus audible, I explore some common boulders dragging people down these days and ask some tough questions about what we can do to roll those boulders off our shoulders, freeing us from their weight and relentless damage.
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Michael Redbord is the General Manager of the Service Hub at HubSpot. Prior to that, Michael scaled the HubSpot Customer Support team from 20 people in a single office with single-language phone support to more than 200 people powering a global, multi-lingual, multi-channel support experience. In doing so, Michael turned HubSpot’s customer support team from a cost center to a profit center and one of HubSpot’s greatest engines of growth, with an unimaginable revenue retention rate of over 100%. Essentially, the revenue the sales and marketing teams generate is worth more because of the customer success team. Michael is a noted writer, speaker, and former competitive classical pianist -- in case you’re looking for a conversation starter.
If you’re really good at keeping customers, you can spend more to get customers. It’s simple math. If your customer value goes up, everyone in sales and marketing gets a raise and bigger budgets to go after new ones. So if sales and marketing leaders want raises and bigger budgets, they need to be making noise in support of greater investments in customer service.
A noted writer, speaker, and leader, Michael is ready to share his experience at HubSpot with us to help you re-envision what success looks like for your business. Here’s a hint: It’s about the customer.
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Michael Redbord is the General Manager of the Service Hub at HubSpot. Prior to that, Michael scaled the HubSpot Customer Support team from 20 people in a single office with single-language phone support to more than 200 people powering a global, multi-lingual, multi-channel support experience. In doing so, Michael turned HubSpot’s customer support team from a cost center to a profit center and one of HubSpot’s greatest engines of growth, with an unimaginable revenue retention rate of over 100%. Essentially, the revenue the sales and marketing teams generate is worth more because of the customer success team. Michael is a noted writer, speaker, and former competitive classical pianist -- in case you’re looking for a conversation starter.
If you’re really good at keeping customers, you can spend more to get customers. It’s simple math. If your customer value goes up, everyone in sales and marketing gets a raise and bigger budgets to go after new ones. So if sales and marketing leaders want raises and bigger budgets, they need to be making noise in support of greater investments in customer service.
A noted writer, speaker, and leader, Michael is ready to share his experience at HubSpot with us to help you re-envision what success looks like for your business. Here’s a hint: It’s about the customer.
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We hear a lot about grit and determination these days when it comes to getting ahead, but what about other factors that play a role in success?
Today's MVP Jason Treu is full of ideas. His energy is infectious and you will love what he has to say about curiosity as a tool for getting ahead in your business or career. We had a terrific conversation and you won't want to miss the super cool game he gives away for free (details at the end of the show).
Enjoy!
Player stats on Jason Treu (in his own words):
The Professional Side
"I was a featured speaker at TEDxWilmington for my talk, How to Get CoWorkers to Like Each Other.
I've been a guest expert on more than 500+ podcasts, radio, and TV shows in the past year
I've studied and learned hands-on from the top experts in the world such as Tony Robbins, Marie Forleo, Mastin Kipp, and Brene Brown, and at leading institutions such as Harvard, University of California Berkeley and Ken Blanchard Companies
I have helped clients generate over a billion dollars in personal wealth over the past five years." (we talk about this in more detail on the show)
The Personal Side
"I live in Dallas, Texas (and have lived in NY, Los Angeles, San Francisco and spent one year in London, NYC, and Boston).
I have a curious and energetic 15-year-old Jack Russell Terrier.
I’m very active with charity events, cultural organizations such as Dallas Museum of Art…huge sports fan — knock the Cowboys or Mavericks and you’ll have me to deal with…and love to meet new people. I’m also running three marathons that are coming up, Chicago, Philadelphia and Phoenix (and the Dallas half-marathon).
And fine, if you’re dying to know: I love champagne and barbecue. Separately."
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Are you and/or your company or organization caught up in the current innovation for the sake of innovation trend?
In today's bonus audible, I share with you some insights I picked up from attending a panel discussion recently in Portland, Oregon at the University of Oregon's Lundquist College of Business where the topic of innovation and its role in business today was front and center.
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Michelle Gomez is the creator of The D.A.R.I.N.G. Process and an accomplished corporate executive with over 18 years in the transportation and logistics industry. The first in her family to graduate from college, she has earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Business Management, a Master’s Degree in Business Administration, and a certification in Broadcast Journalism. Throughout her career, Michelle has been an advocate for women in the workforce, leading the charge in speaking forums, business articles, and networking events.
Michelle has personally mentored and coached dozens of men and women toward achieving their academic and career goals. She’s inspired others to reach for their goals with a sense of confidence and trust in their own value. Through resume reviews, mock interviews, and focus on presentation, she has helped dozens of men and women prepare and position themselves as strong candidates for the career or role they desire. Michelle has also advocated for a healthy work/life balance through her blog posts, providing insight into practical methods for creating balance and wellness in daily pursuits.
Michelle’s cultural background is of Ecuadorian and Mexican descent. She was born and raised in Southern California where she still lives with her husband and two daughters.
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Everyone does it in one way or another.
Keeping score, that is.
Think about this:
Facebook likes. New York Time bestseller. Who cooks, who cleans up.
All forms of keeping score.
In today's bonus audible, I explore the concept of keeping score from a few different perspectives.
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Jim Jubelirer (JUBE-uh-leer) is a seasoned executive, coach, and public speaker. Jim’s mission is to help leaders improve their business performance and personal satisfaction. Jim speaks to a wide variety of audiences about leadership and business excellence and motivates people to achieve Breakthrough Results.
He has designed and delivered custom training programs and has delivered speeches, conference presentations and/or executive seminars to over 6,000 people from over 40 countries.
Jim’s Massively Transformative Purpose is to create an equitable and sustainable world for everyone. His Moonshot is to see the transformation to 100% renewable energy worldwide in his lifetime.
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Adam Capes is disrupting the fundraising and vacation travel spaces simultaneously. He is the Co-Founder and President of Getaway2Give, a company changing the way non-profits raise money and people think about vacations. Their mission is to be the best in the country at helping charities and schools raise money, and they’ve helped raise over $10M so far.
Adam began his journey to being a Social Entrepreneur as co-founder and president of a luxury residence fund called Equity Estates. This fund was one of many playing in the crowded destination club space and one of the few that survived the economic downturn. Adam helped raise $60M for this unique equity-based fund where members own the homes they vacation in. At one prestigious gala in Aspen, Colorado, Adam had an “Aha” moment and decided to start Getaway2Give to help change the worlds of fundraising and vacations.
Adam says, “At Getaway2Give, we’re incredibly passionate about two things – helping charities raise significant money and the lasting importance and memories made from meaningful vacation experiences.”
Featured in Forbes, LA Times and Travel and Leisure, Adam works closely with NFL players like Larry Fitzgerald as well as regular folks who are looking for a fun and profitable way to raise money for their school or nonprofit organization.
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In the snippet you are about to hear from my one-minute mindset series, I share with you three reasons why you might want to consider working with a coach. As we gear up for the fall run, and 2019 not being very far behind that, what could a coach help you accomplish that you just can’t get done on your own? Do you have a book you’ve been carrying around in your head for a while that you’d like to get into the world? Is your career going the way you’d like it to go? How are your leadership skills stacking up against the demands of your current position in a company or running a company of your own?
Coaching is a viable and acceptable way of moving the needle of your current life, business or project. Ask people in your life who are getting results you’d like to get and find out who they’ve worked with. Obviously, PYP is full of excellent resources for coaches in a variety of flavors from executive coaches to leadership coaches to relationship coaches and everything in between.
As you enjoy these longer and warmer days of summer, reflect on where in your life working with a great coach could benefit you.
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“If one of us is not like the other, then we have to take action.”
If you are at all familiar with Sesame Street, this reference by today’s MVP David Quick to the iconic children’s show will hit home.
David Quick is referring to how leaders can create a magnetic and compelling vision for their company so that more people will be attracted to what they are doing.
You will learn quickly just like I did that David is no bull.
“I use the analogy all the time, I need to be compelled to go to work everyday and if and when I start to be repelled, it’s telling me something. I need to sort through that. I urge leaders to think about this magnet that compels and repels. How are you building something that compels the right people to come to your organization everyday? Do you have a compelling vision and core values in place?”
Father of four amazing sons, married to an incredible woman, long history of coaching, and all around great guy, Dave Quick loves helping others thrive. He’s getting ready to launch a new business with his wife that will help like minded couples who work together in business do well in both their personal and professional lives.
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David Quick is the go-to speaker, executive coach, and Vistage Chair expert helping business owners and CEOs learn how to work fewer hours, be significantly more successful, and build stronger professional relationships. David is a true “recovering Bull,” having worked over 20 years with companies like Bayer, Johnson & Johnson, and Roche Diagnostics. As the owner of Helping Bulls Thrive in China Shops, David has impacted over 300 CEOs nationwide, been featured on TEDx, and is a regular presenter at Vistage meetings.
David Quick is a “recovering bull in the china shop” who now uses his passion to help business leaders and their teams thrive by sharpening their focus on Vision, Values, Expectations, Engagement.
David puts executive coaching, live events, keynote presentations and group sessions all to work to help create powerful herds of high performing bulls. His no-BS communication style speaks to high performing leaders of all levels.
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Notes on the World Cup 2018
Did you watch the World Cup finale yesterday?
I will first begin by saying I am not an active soccer fan per se but if you’ve been listening to the Play Your Position podcast for a while, you know I am a bonafide sports fan. I love a good match. Could be tennis could be soccer could be croquet -- I love to watch people engage in sport because it’s one of the things that makes us fundamentally human. It’s a celebration of life.
Science has shown that animals outside of human beings do engage in play any games. But our human brains have allowed us to create these magnificent games like football like Baseball and basketball and poker and what we Americans call soccer.
I didn’t have a horse in the race for the 2018 world Cup but when I was watching matches leading up to the final I was intrigued by the name MBappe. He is my sons age. 19.
He is the next Pele.
I was also drawn to the rooster icon that the French team has on its uniforms. I can’t help it team I’m a big fan of branding and that rooster is just super cool. Now the checkerboard pattern of the Croatian team is also striking but side-by-side I’m going to pick the dark blue with the rooster and white font uniform over the red and white checkerboard any day of the week and twice on Sunday. It honestly has nothing to do with the country of origin. It simply has to do with the design aesthetics.
Back to MBappe for a minute. We love a superstar, though, don’t we? There’s just something about greatness that we cannot turn away from. To see a new and up-and-coming star in any sport in any field is thrilling.
It was a good match. Back-and-forth good offense good defense. The fans were really into it.
Congratulations to France. The players the staff the fans. Congratulations to Croatia, too. The players the staff the fans. It is no small feat to make it to the pen ultimate game of your chosen sport. Whether it’s the World Cup the World Series the NBA final the Super Bowl what a game.
What an incredible experience to witness.
What an incredible gift to be alive.
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The hardest day of his business was also the best day of his business. Today's PYP Todd Palmer talks openly on today's episode about firing himself, changing his mindset for the better and being willing to reinvent himself and his business when he realized things just weren't going to work out if he kept going the way he'd been going.
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Todd Palmer is a renowned thought leader/CEO, executive coach and author who is committed to Improving Lives. As a successful entrepreneur and business owner, he works with both individuals and companies to support corporate growth, foster business start-ups and guide leaders in the areas of talent management, workforce planning and organizational development.
As the CEO of a 6-time INC 5000 company, Todd knows the struggles that businesses face around the areas of people, cash, strategy & execution. Through his firm Extraordinary Advisors, Todd is able to guide leaders into programs of sustained profitability.
Todd Palmer is the founder and President of Diversified Industrial Staffing. Since 1997, Todd’s companies have helped over 4,300 people secure employment, improving their lives and the lives of their families. In 2007, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, & 2013 Todd’s company, Diversified Industrial Staffing, was named by INC Magazine to the INC 5,000, as one fastest growing companies in America. In 2011 Diversified Industrial Staffing was named a Michigan 50 Company to Watch. In 2008 his company was named by CORP! Magazine as one of Michigan’s Economic Bright Spots. In 2011 CORP! Magazine named Diversified Industrial Staffing as a Best of Michigan Company and named Todd individually as an Entrepreneur of Distinction.
In 2013, Todd was the National Chairman for Industrial Staffing firms, on behalf of the American Staffing Association (ASA). In 2015, he launched Skilled Labor Training Centers to train the next generation of CNC machinists. Todd writes a monthly column on employment issues for Dbusiness Magazine and a bi-monthly column for Production Machining Magazine, on employment issues specifically within manufacturing. His company has been featured in INC Magazine, The Detroit News, CORP! Magazine, Crain’s Detroit & MetroMode. Todd is a graduate of Eastern Michigan University with a bachelor’s degree in Organizational Communication and minor in Marketing.
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Do numbers matter?
When you log on to any of your social media platforms, do you find yourself wondering how certain people have so many fans or followers?
How bothered are you if your numbers aren't as big as other people in your field or industry?
In today's bonus audible, I explore these questions along with the concept of quality vs quantity with respect to the "in your face" social world we find ourselves in. How does knowing numbers of fans, followers and zeroes in bank accounts influence what we do, how we think about ourselves and our work?
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At the end of our conversation, I asked Albert Williams who or what is he watching on Sunday. Who is his favorite team?
“Well, my daughter is a Girl Scout, so this Sunday is all about selling cookies!” he laughed.
I asked him which kind are his favorite.
Without hesitation he said, “Samoas.”
I smiled. “Ya, it’s hard to beat that coconut chocolate caramel goodness. But I have to say -- I’m a Thin Mint girl myself.”
And so it goes with today’s PYP MVP Albert Williams. A million-dollar business owner, podcaster, father and Girl Scout cookie connoisseur. You will quickly discover how warm, genuine and authentic he is and I just know you will love today’s conversation on PYP.
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Born in Kingston, Jamaica to a single mother, Albert Williams grew up in the birthplace of Hip Hop and the home of the NY Yankees - the Bronx. Motivated by the countless hours his mother worked to create a better life for him and his siblings, Albert grew up to hold several jobs in both the public and private sectors while all at the same time owning and operating several of his own businesses. His entrepreneurial spirit led him to explore many avenues including landscaper/snow removal, restaurant menu designer and printer, computer consultant, barbershop owner, part time owner in a laundromat and part time owner in a hair salon.
In June 2012, Albert acquired Best Deal Private Car Service Inc., based in the North East Bronx with 19 owner-operated cars in its fleet. As President and CEO, he went on to certify the business as a Minority Business Enterprise, increased the company’s revenue to top $1.5 million, added hundreds of new drivers and created a new revenue stream by adding non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) to their line of services.
This serial entrepreneur with a proven ability to grow a business now teaches others through his Mastermind coaching. Albert considers it his responsibility to give back, coaching minorities with entrepreneurial aspirations to realize their dreams.
Albert also hosts the Plan Build Become podcast, interviewing inspiring thought leaders to further help his own minority communities.
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They are a fact of life, but are our smart phones, tablets and laptops taking over our lives to the detriment of actually living a life?
In today's bonus PYP audible, I explore this question along with some observations from a mini experiment I ran during a recent shopping experience.
What are your thoughts on the proliferation of digital devices in our culture today? Let me know over at PYP Podcast dot com! Would love to hear from you.
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“There’s a revolution going on in the accounting world right now,” today’s PYP MVP Ron Saharyan says. “We’re all about an algorithm away from being totally outsourced.”
You will discover pretty fast that Ron is not shy about sharing his enthusiasm and passion for embracing change. From his unique vantage point of working with bookkeepers, accountants and business coaches, the writing is on the wall: get with the new program or get left behind.
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Ron Saharyan is the Co-Founder & Managing Partner of Profit First Professionals, a family of the most elite accountants, bookkeepers and business coaches who help entrepreneurs make more money in their business, eliminate debt permanently and enjoy the financial freedom that they’ve always wanted.
He has over 15 years experience in managing organizational growth, he is a thought leader in business cash flow management and he’s also a popular speaker on the topic of small business profit. He and his business partner Mike Michalowicz host a podcast called The Profit First Podcast.
Ron lives in a small town called Boontown in New Jersey where he grew up and is now in a historic bank building where the world headquarters of his company operates and gives back to his community.
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The iconic UCLA men's college basketball coach John Wooden was known for a lot of things, including his philosophy on winning. In today's bonus PYP Audible, I highlight one of his most famous coaching approaches when things weren't going well for his team:
"It's time to go back to basics."
What are the basics you can go back to when things in your business, life or career go off the rails?
Today's episode will inspire you to think about what you can do when things don't go well.
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I love when PYP MVPs refer people to be guests on the show.
Today’s guest is one such referral, a terrific woman who comes to us via Jo Miller (PYP Episode #87). Selena Rezvani is strong, and tough, and suited up to face the biggest thrills and challenges life throws her way.
And to be clear: times are challenging. For women. For men. And Selena isn’t afraid to talk about “big ideas” related to these challenges because talking is where change starts.
As a Vice President of Consulting and Research at Be Leaderly, a community of over 270,000 aspiring women leaders and their employers, Selena architects and oversees global consulting projects focused on creating workplace cultures that better attract, retain and develop women employees. She also leads the company’s Philadelphia-based research division, which focuses on uncovering pressing trends facing professional women and creating custom research for clients. Rezvani has led numerous workplace culture research campaigns and studies on women in the C-suite, millennials, managers and negotiating habits, which have been covered by international media.
Known for her award-winning column for The Washington Post on women leaders, Selena has also written two acclaimed books, Pushback: How Smart Women Ask—and Stand Up—for What They Want (Jossey-Bass, 2012) and The Next Generation of Women Leaders (Praeger, 2009). Previously with Deloitte’s Greenhouse experience team and The Great Place to Work Institute (the company that produces Fortune’s 100 Best Places to Work in America list), Selena Rezvani has assessed dozens of workplace cultures, helping companies pinpoint and address how they can be more inclusive and welcoming to workers.
She has been featured in the LA Times, Oprah.com, Today.com, Forbes, and dozens of other outlets. She holds an MBA from Johns Hopkins University and an MSW from NYU. She lives in the Philadelphia suburbs with her husband Geoff and her five year old boy/girl twins.
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Hello Team PYP! In today’s audible, I talk about this mad crazy world we now find ourselves living in, how creating and sharing engaging content with our tribes is top of mind for a lot of us and why the pursuit of excellence never gets old. Because I am super engaged right now in helping some of my clients create their thought leadership content, I can’t make creating new content a top priority for my audible series.
So, what’s an effective entrepreneur to do in this situation?
Mine old files for content, of course!
And I found a gold mine sitting on one of my external hard drives that I am working up into some new content for us here at PYP. When I first created this content four years ago, I intended to launch it under the brand “One Minute Mindset with Mary Lou.” For many different reasons I won’t get into right now, that series never launched. However, creating that content served as what I now see was a warm up to the audibles I share with you here on PYP in between the awesome conversations I have with guests.
As I listened through these micro audio files, I realized they fit perfectly into PYP -- why not dust them off, edit them into a new file and share them with you?
Over the next several weeks, I’ll be sharing these micro episodes with you -- some are super short, like in the one to two minute range, while others are a bit longer. The average is about six minutes and in them, I tackle universal themes and challenges we all face as we go about doing what we do.
I got a kick out of listening back to these recordings and I think you will find them uplifting and useful!
Thanks for listening, Team and as always, I sure appreciate your reviews on Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen to PYP!
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Tom Schwab completes the circle of PYP MVPs from a very special tribe known as Interview Valet. Starting with Aaron Walker, who led to Matt Miller, who led to Scott Beebe, who led to Tom Schwab...I feel like the Interview Valet team has been represented very well here at PYP.
That's one of the many reasons I was so excited when Tom agreed to come on the show. Interview Valet has been a strategic partner for us here at PYP -- I am grateful for the many outstanding individuals Tom and his team have put behind the mic to share their wisdom and insights with us on this podcast.
Some things to know about Tom Schwab:
He knows how to build an online business. He’s done it successfully several times, and now helps others find online success with podcast interview marketing. He is a digital marketing engineer who helps solopreneurs, entrepreneurs and small business owners harness the power of the internet with a clear actionable plan so they can quickly grow a profitable business with an automated marketing and sales machine that attracts visitors, engages prospects and delights customers.
He knows this is not just theory because he built his business from a regional player to a national leader in under 3 years with no marketing or sales department. These days, he serves by sharing what he’s learned through writing, speaking, coaching, consulting and leading mastermind groups.
Tom believes that marketing, at its heart, is starting a conversation with someone who could be an ideal customer. Tom helps thought leaders (coaches, authors, speakers, consultants, emerging brands) get featured on leading podcasts their ideal prospects are already listening to.
After having the chance to chat with Tom here on PYP, I have no doubt that what Tom says about marketing is possible!
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Doug Sandler has over 30 years of business experience as an entrepreneur, business owner, and leader. His book, Nice Guys Finish First, is a #1 ranked Amazon Best Seller. He specializes in making connections, building relationships and strengthening bonds both inside and outside organizations.
His speaking and consulting business is geared towards improving relationships and winning business through his time tested sales, service and relationship building system. Doug is a nationally recognized speaker, trainer and podcaster.
Doug has been titled by a leading social media marketing company in the top “100 of Social Media Thought Influencers to Follow.”
His podcast with Strickland Bonner, The Nice Guys on Business, has over 500 episodes and more than 1 Million downloads. Now Doug is using that experience to help businesses and brands grow their audience with TurnKey Podcasting.
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Show me the money!
And in today's audible, it's show me some books about making money, thinking about money, keeping more of our money. To play our positions at peak levels, we have to have money. How much depends on what matters to you -- there is no one-size-fits-all when it comes to money.
But there are some universal principles that, when applied, can mean the difference between just scraping by or living a full and abundant life.
I recommend 3 books in today's episode. Enjoy!
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Profit First by Mike Michalowicz
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Money Master the Game by Tony Robbins
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You Are a Badass at Making Money by Jen Sincero
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“What changed the game for the chatbot industry is when Facebook opened up its Messenger platform to automated communication for businesses. So just like with building our email lists where we send people automated messages periodically offering more value to them, we can now do the same thing in Messenger.”
Today’s PYP MVP Mary Kathryn Johnson is back for an encore appearance and A LOT has changed since she last came on the show. It’s safe to say that Mary Kathryn is one of the world’s leading experts on how to use chatbot technology for building a business and she has plenty of case studies to prove it.
Mary Kathryn Johnson is the CEO and Founder of Messenger Funnels which helps businesses message their way to sales and ridiculous ROIs. Based out of northern California, Mary Kathryn is leading the way for how we all will be marketing in the not so distant future.
If you are curious about these funny little things we call chatbots, and wonder how they could make a difference to your business or company, you won’t want to miss today’s show!
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In this week’s Audible, I’m celebrating a big milestone here at PYP. Today’s episode marks a tremendous milestone in my podcasting journey: 150 shows in the vault! I look back over the last 149 episodes and see a lineup of phenomenal guests sprinkled in with some thought-provoking audibles to mix things up and keep it real. I’m excited about what’s coming; I’m excited about the future of PYP.
If you have been with me from the early days, I can’t thank you enough for taking this journey with me.
If you are a new listener to PYP, welcome to the family, welcome to team PYP! It’s so great to have you here.
To celebrate this milestone I decided I would share with you my gravel bar story, a story that harkens back to my days as a white water rafting guide on the Kenai River in Alaska.This is a story that clients and friends know well because I tell it a lot, but I’ve never shared it here on PYP and as I was thinking about what I wanted to do for this 150th episode, I decided the gravel bar story would be the centerpiece because what happened that night 30 years ago marked a milestone in my young life.
So if you’re ready for kick off, here we go!
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“A lot of people get to a point in their lives when they are so done with the 9-5,” says today’s PYP MVP Sue Monhait. “They may be 60, or 65 and ready for something else. But there’s only so many times they can work out, or play golf or tennis. A lot of people have crafts they enjoy that they can turn into a business.”
Sue loves the wonderful community she serves known as Gifters-Bakers-Crafters-Makers. She is known as the Gift Biz Gal and has worked in the retail and online spaces for over 25 years. After 15 years in corporate sales/marketing to both boutique shops and larger brands, she went on to open two profitable businesses of her own.
I mentioned how much I love Marcus Lemonis and his popular show on CNBC called “The Profit.” Sue told me he often comes to the coffee shop right below where she works. “If you’re listening to this show, Marcus, you need to stop by and say hello!” Sue laughed.
“And I’d love to have you on my show!” I added. So Marcus, if you’re listening, consider this an invitation to share your story here on PYP. :-)
Today Sue Monhait owns The Ribbon Print Company, a gold-standard business offering custom ribbon printing systems so businesses can provide product personalization right in their store or craft studio, Sue-Circle-Blue.
She has been identified as an industry leader and trendsetter. She has created her own proprietary software program, Design and Print™, and a specialty brand of ribbon, Pretty Print™ Ribbon, that is sold exclusively through The Ribbon Print Company. Other industry firsts are an online training program supporting customers worldwide as well as a membership Design Vault – again focused on the needs of their customer base.
Recently, Sue identified the need within the gifting, baking, crafting, and designing spaces, for a leader to help entrepreneurs set up their businesses to become profitable and sustainable entities. Pulling from her vast experience, she has started coaching and speaking to guide entrepreneurs who have a hobby or creative passion that they want to turn into a business. She also works with existing business owners who have gotten stuck or are looking for that one thing that’s needed for them to gain traction and move ahead.
As host of the Gift Biz Unwrapped Podcast, she provides free content weekly to assist those searching for answers on how to start and grow their business.
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The startup scene in San Francisco is very much alive and brimming with ideas
I recently had the opportunity to attend a pitch night in downtown SF. Think of it like a mini shark tank, minus Mr. Wonderful. :-)
The place was packed. Adult beverages and pizza were served. I arrived early to check out the scene and network and in doing so, I met some fascinating people including:
- a woman who worked at LinkedIn for six and a half years before it was bought by Microsoft and became the BIG COMPANY it is today
- a man who puts on events for startups and was very excited to have his first one scheduled for London this summer
- a woman who came all the way from Ireland to pitch her idea
- a man who has created a sensing device that will track packages from start to finish and indicate exactly where damage occurs along the journey (if any)
The majority of attendees were originally from other countries including India, Pakistan, Italy and Russia.
The predominant smell in the air besides pizza and beer was hunger -- hunger for closing a deal -- hunger to make it big -- with a hefty side of money.
The entire evening was fascinating to experience. If you're at all curious about what goes on at these pitch nights, today's audible will take you on the inside of one.
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“The things that I’ve accomplished have been amazing,” says today’s PYP MVP Vince Kramer. “I’ve held director jobs at the corporate level, my military career was way beyond what I expected, and I’ve been an entrepreneur with several different businesses. I had the big house, the beautiful wife, the big bank account and through all of that, there was still something missing in my life and I didn’t know what it was. It wasn’t until I experienced a crisis awakening that what I was missing became clear.”
Like so many people who reach the level of being a successful discontent, Vince asked himself some tough questions about the meaning of life. These questions led him to start a new chapter that includes writing a best selling book with Jack Canfield called “Mastering the Art of Success,” founding Imagine Miracles to
educate and train people of all walks of life on how to discover, design and create their Miracle Life, and write and produce the Your Miracle Life series of online training programs and associated workshops based on the C.R.E.AT.E.model and Your Unique Purpose Formula.
In a nutshell, Vince Kramer is creating miracles.
Yes, he comes from a stereotypical “macho” field serving in the military, and he also works as a pilot for United Airlines, but like all PYP MVPs, Vince Kramer has a huge heart and is dedicated to serving the world at a higher level so we can all have a chance of showing up as our best selves to play our positions with humility and grace.
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The future is here and it's called AWS.
I decided to attend the AWS Summit in San Francisco this week on a whim -- I am not a developer and have no intention of becoming one but as a small biz owner and leadership specialist, I believe it's important that everyone has a basic level of understanding around what this mega company known as Amazon is up to.
Long story short:
Mind. Blown.
AWS stands for Amazon Web Services and it is true to its namesake. I had the chance to listen to Werner Vogels, Amazon dot com's CTO and Vice president speak about big things happening with AWS and my mind is still reeling from what I learned.
In today's audible, you will hear me share 10 leadership lessons I learned from going to this summit. I recorded those lessons on my iPhone in my hotel room right after getting back from the event. You will hear that I sound a bit fatigued after a full day at the Summit, but also A LOT of excitement about what's happening with this company.
If there's one thing I can stress here it's that AWS is laying the groundwork to change the way companies function. Cloud computing is here and we are just at the early stages of what's possible. As a futurist, as a business woman, as a podcaster, as a writer... what AWS is doing thrills me even if I don't understand most of the technical jargon! I hope my takeaways give you something to think about and use as you continue your journey.
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“We only get one shot at this crazy thing called life,” today’s PYP MVP Christie Garcia says. “My personal goal is to make sure you leave your legacy and maximize your impact while you are here.”
When she was 29, Christie was the epitome of success. She had a great apartment in San Francisco, a nice car, friends, travel opportunities, an interesting career and all the other external symbols of making it in America. But a freak accident close to Christmas one year caused Christie to reevaluate her life and ultimately make some decisions that changed the course of her life forever.
These days, Christie still has a great life; it just looks different than the one she used to have. These days, instead of selling medical devices, Christie is a Leadership Coach and founder of Mindful Choice. She works with groups and individuals to help them maximize their impact, improve their relationships and be more successful at both work and home. She believes good men can become great by making a 1% personal improvement each day.
Christie is also the organizer of The Manifesto Adventure Retreat, a life-changing adventure experience for men. These retreats challenge men mentally, physically and emotionally to make the good man great.
In today's episode, Christie tells the story of her life-changing accident along with stories of how she helps good men become great. If you've ever wondered why your relationships at work or home aren't as fantastic as you'd like them to be, Christie has some pretty awesome insights.
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History has its eyes on you, Team! What are you doing to make it proud?
For those of you who are Hamilton fans, the title of this week’s audible will be familiar. For those of you who don’t know about Hamilton, who lives who dies who tells your story are lyrics to one of the songs from the musical. This past Sunday, I sat in the audience next to my daughter and experienced all that is Hamilton for more than three glorious hours.
In today's audible, I unpack the story of Hamilton, drawing direct parallels between it and how it reinforces the many themes of PYP including how we seek continuous improvement in our work and private lives, pursuing the glorious, imperfect and courageous End Zone of leadership excellence.
I even go WAY outside my comfort zone and sing a line from the show! :-)
Enjoy!
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I’m not going to lie.
I was really excited when Andrea Owen accepted my invitation to come on PYP and share her stories about being more vulnerable, getting sober and building a life on your own terms. I learned about her through a podcast I listen to, which led me to her podcast Your Kick A$$ Life which led me to her book (which I highly recommend.)
Honest, energetic and inspirational, Andrea Owen isn’t afraid to play her position full out and is winning big time because she does. On today’s show, she opens her heart and gets super real about tough topics like making amends, letting go of what we thought would happen and accepting that when life doesn’t work out the way we imagined, there may actually be something better behind our disappointment.
Some details about Andrea:
She is an author, mentor, and certified life coach who helps high-achieving women let go of perfectionism, control, and isolation and choose courage and confidence instead. She has helped thousands of women manage their inner-critic to create loving connections and live their most kick-ass life.
She is the proud author of 52 Ways to Live a Kick-Ass Life: BS Free Wisdom to Ignite Your Inner Badass and Live the Life You Deserve, (Adams Media/Simon & Schuster) and How To Stop Feeling Like Shit: 14 Habits That Are Holding You Back From Happiness (Seal Press/Hachette Books).
When she’s not juggling her full coaching practice or hosting retreats, Andrea is busy competing in triathlons, chasing her 10-year-old son and 8-year-old daughter or making out with her husband, Jason. She is also a retired roller derby player having skated under the name “Veronica Vain.”
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In this week's audible, I cut right to the chase and recommend three amazing podcasts for you to consider adding to your weekly playlist!
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The Aggarwal brothers like to laugh. And they are passionate about great design. We talked over Skype -- I was in Portland, Oregon and they were in India. It was morning for me and night for them. We had a great conversation about launching a business, moving through self-doubt to keep a vision alive and why customer service can be a company’s greatest competitive advantage.
In October 2014, brothers Rahul and Varun Aggarwal launched Designhill in an office in New Delhi, India. In the beginning, the co-founders had a small team of 4 developers and 2 designers to pioneer a new kind of marketplace for the design industry. Upon launch, Designhill quickly caught the attention of business owners around the world looking for a fast, reliable and quality alternative to the traditional design companies.
The service received an overwhelming response from around the world, allowing the company to grow rapidly to a team of more than 45 with over 48,000 registered graphic designers from around the world. Designhill now has offices in New Delhi & Gurgaon, India and a subsidiary company and office in Delaware, United States. The company also plans to set up operations in Germany and UK this year.
The Aggarwal brothers built Designhill to provide a reliable marketplace for sourcing high quality graphic designs including logo design, banner design, packaging design,merchandise design, web design and many other designing works at extremely affordable prices. Designhill provides an interactive interface that allows the customers to give real time feedback and ratings to design works, to help the designers better understand the customer’s expectations. Rahul and Varun are entrepreneurs who scaled and grew a bootstrapped business to among the top 3 graphic design platforms in the world while helping thousands of businesses source quality designs.
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In this week’s audible, I share the story about my sixth grade bully and the impact getting bullied has had on how I’ve played my position over the years. I also have an exciting announcement to share with you so stay tuned for that!
As far as the big picture of bullying goes… We tend to think of bullying as a kid problem but it’s actually a human problem. Bullying in the workplace is on the rise and it’s impacting the bottom line of a lot of companies because people who don’t feel safe at work aren’t producing the work the companies expect them to. Every target of a bully may lose up to 200 hours of productivity annually. If that targeted employee takes sick or vacation time, it may be a total of 400 hours of lost production to the employer.
Here are a few 2017 stats about workplace bullying sponsored by the Workplace Bullying Institute:
- 60.3 Million American workers are affected by workplace bullying
- 70% of workplace bullies are male, 30% are female
- Rank -- 61% comes from the boss; 33% is coworker driven and 6% from the bottom up
Some other things about bullying I found about come from Brandon Gaille, who is one of PYP MVP’s Epsiode #77:
- 62% saw sabotaging of others’ work or reputations as the primary form of bullying in the workplace.
- 80%. That’s the percentage of bullies who are able to have a negative effect on 5 or more co-workers.
- 37% of the people who are targeted by bullies are considered to be “compassionate and kind” co-workers. Only 6% of the targets of workplace bullying are aggressive.
I can relate to that last set of stats -- as a compassionate and kind person, I was an easy target. There’s a growing body of work in the scientific community about the effects of trauma on our lives, the way trauma manifests in our minds and our bodies. Bullying is no small matter. Having been a victim of bullying, I understand this. If you or someone you know are experiencing workplace bullying or online bullying or any kind of bullying, check out http://stopbullying.gov and http://operationrespect.org Both provide relevant information and resources for people experiencing bullying.
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Here is my exciting announcement!
I am gearing up to launch the PYP Leadership Academy! The PYP Leadership Academy is something I’ve been thinking about for at least two years and I will tell you that making this announcement public is terrifying me, but also exciting me because it’s time. I’m being called to expand the PYP brand and message in a greater capacity. Those if you who have listened for awhile know my background is in formal education. I have a masters degree in teaching. I’ve won numerous awards for my instructional abilities and I consistently earn the highest reviews whenever I lead workshops. As I was telling somebody the other day, for whatever reason one of my superpowers is people just feel safe when they work with me. I have a quiet, calm and powerful energy that attracts people to me and you get a lot when you work with me.
I’ve set up a special page for people to express your interest without committing to anything. Go over to http://pyppodcast.com/la where you can put your name and email address indicating your interest.
You’re not signing up for the program. This is for me to get a sense of the interest level out there.
The PYP Leadership Academy Beta Program will focus on what I call fundamentals of success in life, business and career. I’m going to strip things down to the bare essentials and I’m doing this because I have discovered that basic fundamentals, basic principles of success are missing in society today. People want more and gaining a deep understanding of these fundamentals is a fantastic way to help you get to the point where you can honestly say, “This is the life I have always wanted.”
This program will be 7 weeks. It will follow the format you hear on my show, Kick off Move the Chains and Touchdown. We will dive deep into a handful of success categories including technology, mindset, time, money and culture. I will have a curriculum that will include short reading assignments and podcast listening outside PYP -- some carefully selected episodes of shows that bring value to our coursework together. You will have access to a playbook that you’ll get to download and use throughout the program. and probably the best thing about it will be the baked in accountability and community. This for those of you who are hungry to take your life, business and/or career to that next level. I’m limiting enrollment to 20 people so I can provide personal attention to everyone. It’s going to be awesome!
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On the surface, today’s PYP MVP Yigal Adato had what our culture tells men they’ve made it. The big business, the house, the car, the vacations, the beautiful wife, the family.
Yet…
Below the surface, Yigal was living a lie. He was overweight, he was addicted to porn and he was on the fast track to getting a divorce from the love of his life.
“I had to start telling the truth to myself,” Yigal said fairly early on in our conversation. “Doing that allowed me to become courageous and move forward with my life. It also saved my health, my primary relationships and my marriage.”
This kind of vulnerability took Yigal years to develop. It’s still a lot of work today for him to tell the truth. “If you want it, you have to work for it. If you want to have an epic life, you have to work for it.”
That’s one of the big themes from today’s conversation, which is a tough one, Team. Just preparing you for that. Yigal and I get into some pretty deep and raw territory. But like usual, the journey we go on is full of insight and wisdom.
Some details about Yigal: He is a leadership expert, speaker, and an executive coach to business owners and is on a mission to unlock their leadership potential. He now dedicates himself to helping business owners master self-leadership skills, make more money, stress less, and have more freedom to do what they love. Along with being the Founder of Unlock the Leader, a mastermind for businessmen, he is also the host of the new show Small Business Big Leaders.
Since the age of 15, Yigal has been studying and practicing leadership. He is well aware of what it takes to run a business handling the speed bumps, excuses, stresses, and how to run teams. At the age of 22 he ran a Retail/Service business with his brother that earned 50 million in 15 years.
His varied businesses have provided real life experiences in the trenches, achieving success in going from broke musician to selling over $50 million dollars in his business endeavors, managing hundreds of employees, raising a family, and having fun in the process. After his personal and professional successes, he courageously followed the source of his happiness to become a
mentor to business owners.
Yigal offers a practical approach to helping people find the truth of what makes them tick and live accordingly to their discovery. Most importantly, he is a father to his daughter Taly and husband to his wife Sharon.
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Hello Team PYP, welcome to this week’s Audible, Episode #138. I’m calling this audible “We’re not really sharing what’s real” because in my next show, you will hear my guest Yigal Adato go into more detail about why this is happening and what it means for us as men, women and citizens of a global community. You are not going to want to miss that episode because it is one of the most raw and emotional conversations I’ve ever had with a guest here on PYP. That episode is scheduled to drop in the next few days, so be sure to keep an eye out for it.
A quick preview: Yigal talks about how he personally transformed his life from being 40 pounds overweight and addicted to porn -- to being able to speak his truth so he can work with people to help them speak theirs. He openly admits it has taken him years of doing hard work to get to where he is today, and he has to work on telling the truth every single day… but he wouldn’t trade it for the world. Doing that work saved his health, his marriage and probably his life because like a lot of people, Yigal was on the fast track to total self destruction.
Again, you can catch the full episode with Yigal Adato later this week, but let’s get on with today’s audible.
In today’s audible, I want to dive deep into something Yigal shares with us on that episode, he said:
“We’re not really sharing what’s real.”
What he’s referring to here is the proliferation of social media and how it’s directly impacting our lives. How it can really play with our heads and our emotions. Boy, did that ever hit me right between the eyes. Team, I feel like a broken record when I talk about the paradox of social media.
On the one hand, I love social media and use it to build my brand and my business. I also use it to maintain a professional network and to stay connected with people I love.
On the other hand, I suffer at times from the Highlight Reel overload, which plays with my head and can leave me feeling depressed and less-than because I haven’t yet made a million dollars or achieved the level of financial success I thought I’d have by this point in my life.
But I will tell you something.
Because of this next little hack I’m about to share with you from Yigal, I’m able to shake off those useless feelings pretty quickly, realign and refocus my time and energy on doing the things I love -- things like have amazing conversations with incredible individuals for this podcast, write books, build leadership coaching programs and deliver them to awesome professionals who are trying to figure out their path, too.
I can focus on what’s real and then share that with the people I serve and work with.
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We are facing an unprecedented addiction epidemic in America. Deaths by overdose are growing every year; addiction is a problem millions face every single day. Today’s PYP MVP believes there’s a better way for addicts to get the help they need when they are ready for recovery. A few years ago, Megan Peterson saw how technology could bridge the gap between addicts seeking help and the therapists who want to serve this demographic.
With over 15 years experience in the addiction field as both a counselor and pharmaceutical representative, Megan Peterson knew there could be a better way for patients to get the help they needed. As a result, she started 2nd Chance Counseling Service, providing a cost effective and discreet solution for patients seeking drug and alcohol addiction therapy.
Megan believes that as long as patients are willing to put in the time and do the work, they deserve that 2nd, 3rd, even 10th chance at getting clean and living a full life. The creative solution at 2nd Chance Counseling provides flexibility and better options for patients wanting to change. Access to licensed counselors via video sessions and email support in all 50 states opens up opportunity to seek help without the limitations of work and family schedules for time sensitive counseling. Megan truly believes the “telemedicine” platform fits with the future of treatment and is here to stay.
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Welcome to this week’s audible. Last week I dropped the first part of this 2 part series exploring the question, Is self help selfish? And in that episode, I shared my initial thoughts about that question.
If you haven’t listened to that episode, if you are just tuning into PYP for the first time, welcome -- be sure to go back and listen to episode #134 but for the sake of time here’s a spoiler alert -- I concluded that self help is not selfish.
However…
What happens when we become too obsessed with knowing ourselves? What happens then?
Is all this obsession with self help making us a culture of raging narcissists who can’t get out of the weeds of our own lives and our own problems because self help can perpetuate our feelings of unease and confusion?
Do we believe we have more problems than we actually do as a consequence of immersing ourselves in personal development activities?
And, where do we draw the line between doing the self help work like journaling or talk therapy or reading books or listening to podcasts like PYP...and when do those activities become a problem in their own right and get us stuck in the self help blender?
In today’s audible I’ll explore the question:
Are we too focused on self help at the expense of things that might be better for us in the long run?
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Scott Beebe admits he’s not a good marketer.
He might even admit he’s a little jealous of people who are good marketers.
But what Scott Beebe does do well is what plenty of people wish they could do.
Scott Beebe is the Founder and Head Coach of MyBusinessOnPurpose.com
He also hosts the Business On Purpose podcast. Small business owners pay him well to help them articulate and implement intentional Vision/Mission/Values, Systems, and Processes which can liberate them from the chaos of working IN their business. Once they’ve shed the shackles, they find the freedom to work ON their business (shout out to Michael Gerber of the E-Myth!)
So ya. Scott Beebe is a pretty terrific guy.
When he played football, he played a little known position called the deep snapper. The deep snapper may not get all the glory that a quarterback or star wide receiver gets, but no team can succeed without a great deep snapper. The deep snapper is a special teams specialist whose duty is to snap the football over a longer distance, typically around 15 yards during punts, and 7–8 yards during field goals and extra point attempts.
Why is this position so important?
Ask anyone who played for the New York Giants on January 5, 2003 when the deep snapper botched a snap on a field goal attempt that could have won the game for the Giants, who had led 38–14 at one point in the game. But they lost. And they were taken out of contention for the Super Bowl that year.
Scott understands that small businesses can't afford to botch any snaps if they hope to succeed long term and qualify for their own super bowls.
During our pre-chat, we discovered that Scott attended the high school I once taught at in Lake Oswego, Oregon (Go Lakers!) before he and his family moved to South Carolina where he lives today with his own family.
It really can be a small world.
Life is good like that!
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Want to improve your relationships?
Having trouble sleeping?
Feeling stuck in your career?
Coping with grief?
Looking to hone your leadership skills?
If you’re like many people, you’ll try to find the answers to these questions and other problems in your life by browsing Google or heading over to the self-help aisles of your favorite bookstore or let’s be honest -- cruising on Amazon. Self-improvement books now account for billions of dollars a year in the U.S. alone. Approximately one-third to one-half of adults in the U.S. have purchased a self-improvement book at least once in their lifetime. That includes yours truly! :-)
Most of us wish we could improve certain things about ourselves. But change that sticks around is difficult. Many of our habits are deeply ingrained, and certain core personality traits may be fixed for good. Don't let that discourage you from making changes, though -- Honestly, it's never too late to change if change is what you truly want! With effort and determination, it is possible to be the person you want to be.
As the great Englishwoman of letters George Eliot once said, “It is never too late to be who you might have been.”
Here at PYP, we say right on to that!
So, is self help selfish? I don’t think so, but… tune in to hear why I reach that conclusion!
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“Do you guys remember Periscope or Meerkat?” today’s PYP MVP Lauren Fritsch asked during our conversation. “That was the hottest thing at SXSW a couple of years ago...and where are they now?”
We both chuckled about this.
“The world is changing at an incredible pace,” she continued. “And it’s great to be curious and it’s great to be an early adopter...but always remember it’s far more important to be super clear on why you do what you do so that when that next round of bright shiny objects comes around, you don’t get stung.”
Just because everyone else is doing something doesn’t mean you have to do it, too.
Lauren and I spoke near the end of last year just as the holidays were upon us. In fact, she was one of the last people I talked to for the show in 2017 and I've been super excited about her episode airing in this newest season of PYP since we talked.
Lauren Fritsch is a speaker, entrepreneur, artist and mom. Her mental model, the Joy|Money Matrix, is a simple tool that empowers creative entrepreneurs to make strategic decisions that prioritize joy and improve revenue simultaneously. She calls the movement the Joy Imperative and it's really cool!
Lauren has been an entrepreneur since the age of 23. For most of her career, she ran TCC Consulting Group, a boutique firm that focused on the specific sales and leadership needs of mid-market businesses in the United States. Now she teaches other coaches and consultants how to sell to those mid-market firms in addition to sharing the Joy Imperative.
Her life includes more time painting, wife-ing, parenting her magical 3 year old, and supporting the licensees who use her systems. She splits her time between Manhattan and the Hudson Valley but will always be a southerner.
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Participating in our own rescue may be a new concept to some of you. I had never heard the concept described until Tommy Breedlove mentioned it in episode #131. Have you ever noticed that you pick up on a phrase from a conversation or from something you read and it stays with you for awhile? I’ve learned over the years that’s usually a clue I need to be paying attention to the message it’s sending. And this time is no different. What message do you need to be hearing right now? Today's show may reveal it to you!
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At one point during our conversation, today’s PYP MVP Tommy Breedlove paused and said: "I am a Picasso of screwing up. The journey never ends. When the train is running on all cylinders, the demons and the noise show up even stronger."
He then goes on to tell a story he's never told anyone, one that involves flashing blue lights and having a gun held to his head.
He also shares a story about a time when a trusted adviser asked him the following question:
“Do you want to live your life? Or do you want to live your story?”
This question stopped Tommy in his tracks and caused him to make some big changes, including doubling down on serving others. What happened next was nothing short of magical.
In fact, Tommy Breedlove proves that when you start living your life from a position of serving others -- everything changes.
Everything.
Tommy Breedlove is the founder of Choose Goodness, a company dedicated to helping executives and entrepreneurs focus beyond the financial bottom line. By empowering leaders, Tommy bridges the gap between humanity and profitably. He transforms organizations to attract and re-tain the best and brightest people, create a loyal customer base and promote goodwill within their communities. Choose Goodness provides both the rational and emotional perspectives to the strategic and financial decision making process.
Since beginning his career at Deloitte, Tommy has spent 20 years serving companies as a CPA and financial consultant. He still serves as Board Advisor, Chair and/or Director for multiple for-profit and civic entities.
But what he loves most these days is serving the Choose Goodness community and demonstrating that it's possible -- and never too late -- to live an authentic, satisfying life.
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Leadership Lift: “Our level of success rarely exceeds our level of personal development.” Jim Rohn
January is traditionally the month where millions set goals for how the next 12 months will be different than the previous 12. I bet you set at least one goal for the year -- how are you doing with it?
Don’t worry if it’s not going like you thought. Huddle up with it again for ten minutes to explore what’s working and why you could be off your game. Be sure to be crystal clear about why this one goal is important to you. Clarity often solves pesky problems.
In today's show, I share with you 5 ways to show up differently this year. Self leadership is grounded in several tenants including conscious decision making about all aspects of our life. Sometimes making changes we know we need to make can be overwhelming.
That's why I subscribe to the notion of making small shifts -- little things that over time add up to big things.
Don't be shy about sharing on social media the insights you pick up from today;s episode! Use #pyp when posting. Step into your next level of leadership and share ideas today!
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“No matter how skillful we are, we are always going to have blind spots. We just can’t know what we don’t know,” says today’s PYP MVP Pamela Gold. “And don’t even get me started on what phones are doing to us!” she laughs. “Our phones are messing with our minds!”
You will love today’s conversation with Pamela Gold. Some history: Pamela grew up on her family’s apple farm in upstate New York, graduated from Yale University, and then entered the business world in NYC where she was the point person on an IPO at the age of 24. Leaving the workforce to start a family, she co-founded West Village Parents and went on to pursue her passion for fitness and wellness. It was through this pursuit that she discovered yoga, which connected her love of philosophy, science, psychology, and wellness and eventually led her to discover her life’s work: teaching inner peace as the key to our greatest evolution and ultimately, world peace.
About a year and a half ago, she had a really big shift and wrote a book as a result of that shift -- it took her two weeks to write and the rest is history. It’s called Find More Strength: 5 Pillars to Unlock Unlimited Power and Happiness and it is full of tragedy to triumph personal stories, along with actionable tools to help increase power and happiness in life.
She jokes that all her friends read it and liked it and gave her those warm and fuzzy feelings we all love to feel from time to time. But the real mark of success for her is the outpouring of positive responses she continues to receive from strangers who tell her how much this book is changing their lives.
Leadership skills and insights Pam shares on today’s show include:
- How do we use our phones to make life better, while minimizing the noise and clutter that threaten to take us out if we don’t develop the right skills to tackle them
- How to use our brains to stay centered
- What to do when we lose an important relationship
- Why we give away our power too easily sometimes
- When putting some of our happiness on how another person is treating us and caring about us becomes a problem
- How to practice self compassion
- Why it’s so hard not to take things personally
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Kicking off the new year with our annual highlight reel show featuring the voices of every PYP MVP from 2017. You will love their wisdom and insights as you continue planning your goals for the next 12 months and step up into new leadership roles at work, in your business and life. This episode is jam-packed with timeless reminders of how we can all show up and be our best at everything we do.
As always, check out the shownotes page for more info on individual guests and then let our guests know how much you appreciate them with a quick 5-star rating and review on iTunes!
Happy New Year!
What does it take to lead in a global marketplace? How can we become better at what we do every day in our work and our private lives? Is it possible to learn the leadership skills necessary to lead teams at a world-class level?
These are some of the questions my guest asks today on the show. Claudio Toyama returns for his second appearance on PYP to talk about his new book with the curious title, The Samurai Samba Vinci Way: How to Improve Your Executive Presence, Increase Trust and Lead Your Team at a World-Class Level. It was published in the fall of 2017 and quickly became a number one international bestseller. The book reflects the incredible work Claudio has done teaching subject matter experts over the last 10 years through his coaching and consulting practice how to become excellent leaders.
Are you more of a Samurai, a Samba or a Vinci? Learn about the power of these three personas and how they can help you improve your life in today’s episode of the PYP Podcast.
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Aren’t all business owners happy? today’s PYP MVP Tim Fulton asks. You would think they would be being out on their own, running their own show, chasing a dream, having the freedom you can’t get with a job. But the answer to this question is a surprising no, and in the show, Tim goes into detail about why that is so -- and how to fix it.
Tim Fulton showed up ready to play and you’re going to love his enthusiasm. The facts about him include: he is a nationally recognized small business consultant and advocate with more than 30 years experience in entrepreneurship. His purpose and passion is helping others succeed. Over the years he has worked with thousands of business start-ups and existing business entities as a catalyst for starting and growing their business enterprises.
Tim has also served as the assistant director of the Small Business Development Center at Clayton State University and the Director of the Family Business Institute at Florida International University. An author of a very popular, award-winning book on small business titled Small Business Matters and the follow-up book Small Business Matters and All That Jazz, Tim also publishes his own award-winning monthly newsletter, Small Business Matters.
A popular public speaker, Tim has addressed groups from the Association of Small Business Development Centers, the Cruise Line Industry Association, and the American Society for Training & Development. He has also appeared on television and radio programs as an advocate for small business and entrepreneurship.
Let Tim know how much you loved his show today by leaving us a 5 star rating and review over on iTunes by clicking here. It shows the guests you appreciate them and helps spread the word about PYP!
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“The time you can take to care for aging parents is 10-20 years according to a survey done by MetLife,” says today’s PYP MVP Ruth Ullman. There are plenty of other sobering statistics about the wave that’s coming -- and most people are either ignoring it or denying it even exists. Our conversation goes pretty deep into what’s happening around the world today, and the trend of aging parents shows no sign of slowing down anytime soon.
“No one wants to think about their parents getting old,” Ruth continues. “But to pretend that’s not going to happen can cost you a lot of money, not to mention time.”
Ruth began caring for her aging parents when she was in her 40s. She had to navigate a labyrinth of financial, legal and health mazes to get answers and figure out next steps. “It wasn’t easy,” she says, reflecting on that time of her life. “And my business didn’t survive because I hadn’t set it up to work without me fully present every day.”
Because of these experiences, Ruth founded her latest business called myeldercarejourney.com which focuses on helping small businesses, entrepreneurs and consultants realign their businesses to thrive while caring for aging parents. She believes that no one should have to choose between the business they created and caring for aging loved ones.
Ruth has been featured on Fox, CBS, NBC & ABC News and lately, a lot of podcasts where she spreads her message about how to prevent catastrophe from striking when aging loved ones become front and center in our lives.
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“Why are sports growing in popularity?” today’s guest Teresa McCloy asks rhetorically. “It’s because people are longing for that connection we get when we come together for an event.”
She’s right. I see it every time I go to watch a game in person. In that stadium, for a few hours at least, those of us who have chosen to spend our time watching athletes run, tackle, hit, jump, leap, throw, pound, and slide share in something very special -- and very human. Teresa gets this, which is why she has redesigned her life around helping clients discover the habits that aren’t serving them and building new ones that do.
It’s a fast-paced world out there and any professional knows the battle isn’t with information, but rather with execution on selected information relevant to us personally. As a REALIFE Speaker & Coach, Teresa McCloy partners with her clients to stop being productive and do what matters. There’s a difference, she argues, between going, going, going just because everyone else is doing that and deliberately choosing activities and strategies that are directly aligned with what matters most to us.
A recovering workaholic who was addicted to all the latest apps, software, and bestselling books on productivity, she is now passionate about helping business leaders and entrepreneurs to assess their habits and execute a REALIFE Process to take their everyday ordinary life to something Xtra-ordinay in their REALIFE, REALWORK & REALSELF. Teresa is a founding trainer and coach with the 12 Week Year system, and uses tools such as iEnneagram© and Life Maps, serving her audience and clients through speaking, masterminds and training to discover their REALIFE Process.
As we begin to gather with loved ones and friends in the coming weeks of the Holiday Season, let's remember Teresa's message about reconnecting to what matters most. Hold close the ones who you love best and express gratitude for the blessings both big and small you have in your life right now. And if it suits you, venture out to a live game somewhere to gather with those who share the joy in spectating, cheering, and celebrating being human together.
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