Personal Productivity: Recent Episodes
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My name is Conor Butts and I am on a mission to empower people to LIVE what’s most important to them. My goal is to help people become more productive. Personal Productivity is a podcast where I interview interesting guests based on their own experiences so you can learn more about productivity.
Jesse Elder has devoted his life to sharing his principles of self-mastery with people all around the world. Jesse teaches others how to create their own success and fulfillment, reclaim their personal freedom, and master their reality.
Top 3 Nuggets
- The Root of Self-Mastery
- Time Piercing
- The Art of Staying Present
This Weeks Challenge: Do 1 kind thing for another being!!!!
Contact Jesse Here https://jesseelder.com/
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AJ Harbinger is one of the world’s top relationship development experts. His company, The Art of Charm, is a leading training facility for top performers that want to overcome social anxiety, develop social capital, and build relationships of the highest quality.
Top 3 Nuggets
- The Most Expensive Trait in life
- Finding your Core Values and Using them
- What is Social Capital
This Week’s Challenge: Use the word “because” in the next 5 conversations and increase the depth of that conversation.
Website - https://theartofcharm.com/
Podcast - https://theartofcharm.com/podcast/
Twitter - https://twitter.com/theartofcharm
To contact me go to my website here at Conorbuttsss.com
Stephen Parato is an author, conscious content virtuoso, meditation guide, and creativity wizard. Stephen Bridges the spiritual side of personal development with the business side.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Yin-Yang of Soul and Action
- Meditation
- Finding Purpose
This weeks Challenge: Meditate for 2 minutes a day
Connect with Steven Here -> https://www.feelingoodfeelingreat.com/
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Richard is fascinated with how we create technology to increase our productivity and then often seems to achieve the opposite. He has a passion for finding easy ways to make technology work for us rather than against us.
Top 3 Nuggets
- What is your Digital Heath?
- Parking Skills
- 1-3-5 method to fulfilling days
This weeks Challenge: 3 Skill Improvements for your work life
https://www.emailhandyman.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/rwolfe/
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Corey McCombs’s writing focuses on the sweet spots in life where human connection, creativity, and personal growth intersect. Corey has also recently released his Book “Productivity is for Robots” helping people to stay human in the new world
Top 3 Nuggets
- Why Burnout?
- Sharpening Your Creativity
- Getting Into Flow
This Week’s Challenge: Never empty your motivation well.
Corey ->https://coreymccomb.com/
Twitter -> https://twitter.com/coreymccomb?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor
His Book -> https://www.amazon.com/Productivity-Robots-Connect-Creative-Human-ebook/dp/B08MY8H52S
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John Gray is the author of Men Are from Mars, Women Are from Venus the number 1 best-selling book of the 1990s. John helps men and women better understand and respect their differences in both personal and professional relationships.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Men + Women Relationships
- Meditation
- Productivity is Relationships
This Weeks Challenge: Meditate to help balance your hormones
https://marsvenus.com/
https://www.facebook.com/Mars.Venus.John.Gray/
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Fred Gladney Connects people to people (& resources) to help them become the best version of themselves! He helps individuals and businesses diagnose and solve growth challenges, career questions, and remove barriers to business and personal growth.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Rules Of Sucess
- Consistency towards success formula
- Mindset in coaching
This Weeks Challenge:
What do you cry about?
What do you sing?
What do you dream?
https://gladneygroup.com/
fred@thegladneygroup.com
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Patrick Reilly is the President of Resources In Action, a firm specializing in executive coaching and consulting. Patrick supports leaders to gain clarity, to craft their path forward, connect with others, and become their best selves so that others want to follow them
Top 3 Nuggets
- Having Executive Presence
- Significance of the word important
- Priorities
This weeks Challenge: Chose 1 of the 14 Options and implement it with a friend this week
https://www.resourcesinaction.com/about.html
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Rebecca Heiss helps clients break out of the ruts of their ancestral brain pathways and engage their conscious brains to take action and override their self-sabotaging instincts.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Our Biological Blindspots
- “Overcoming Stress”
- ANTS
This weeks Challenge: Ask for a 10% discount at a coffee shop
Contact Rebecca -> https://rebeccaheiss.com/
Instinct Book -> https://www.instinctbook.com/
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Kaelyn Loes is the director of content for the training company behind the best selling book The ONE Thing. She shapes the strategy for helping people live the surprisingly simple truth behind extraordinary results.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Finding Core Values
- Personal Productivity
- 66-Day Habit Challenge
This week’s Challenge: What is the 1 thing you can do such that by doing it finding your values would be easier?
Find the 1 thing here -> https://www.the1thing.com/
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Warren Wandling is a Keynote Speaker, Leadership Coach, and Communication Expert who partners with leadership-driven companies and individuals to increase their productivity, clarify their purpose, and improve communication skills.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Finding your own values
- Skills and Beliefs
- Consistency
This weeks Challenge: Identify your Limiting Beliefs
https://warrenwandling.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/warrenwandling/
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Tyler helps students and teachers identify their strengths, create their stories, overcome mediocrity, and transform their lives. Part of Tyler’s own transformation story includes losing 100 pounds and going from not being able to run a full mile in 2018 to completing multiple marathons and a 52.4 double marathon in 2019.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Health on Productivity
- Process for a goal
- Experimenting
This weeks Challenge: Include Microworkouts in your day
https://tylerchristensen.com/vsa/
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Dev Chandra is known as a process Hacker helping other entrepreneurs streamline their processes, be more productive, and reduce their bottom line.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Building Impactful Relationships
- Self Introspection
- Consistency in Growth
This weeks Challenge: Who are the people you are spending the most time with?
Are they helping you towards your goals?
https://theprocesshacker.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/devchandra/
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Christopher Rausch is a transformative leader with 20+ years of expertise in leadership, management, and mindset mastery skills that propel companies and their people to the next level of success.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Homeless -> Masters Degree
- Adversity as fuel
- No Regrets
This week’s Challenge: Create a chart of people around you and see if they are positive or negative for you.
https://www.christopherrausch.com/
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Bill Dolan is an Emmy nominated TV producer and Author of the 7DRM book and strategy. This episode talks about how to show up in your field and how hard work is the biggest determiner of success.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Work hard
- Purpose Manifesto
- What it takes to get good
This weeks Challange: Don’t live but discover your life
https://www.spiritmedia.com/about/
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Cathy Sexton is the owner of Productivity experts a company helping businesses to achieve more through better productivity. Cathy explains how her story led her to productivity and some actionable tips for you to use
Top 3 Nuggets
- Destressing
- Creating a plan for tomorrow
- Natural productivity styles
This weeks Challange: Do brain dump and organize to take action
https://theproductivityexperts.com/
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Ryder Carroll is the best selling author of the Bullet Journal Method and Digital product designer. This podcast talks about finding solutions that work for you and his view of productivity
Top 3 Nuggets
- Finding Focus
- What to Journal
- Staircase Model of Productivity
This Week’s Challenge: Sit down with Pen and paper and ask yourself “what do I want and why?”
https://bulletjournal.com/pages/about
https://bulletjournal.com/pages/book
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Mark Struczewski is Mister Productivity helping coach his clients with systems and strategies to better productivity. Mark has an obsession is to help YOU become a more productive version of yourself.
Top 3 Nuggets
- What is Productivity
- Needle Moving activities
- Self-development time every day
This weeks Challange: ODEA Challenge
https://www.markstruczewski.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/markstruczewski/
To contact me go to my website here at Conorbuttsss.com
Brett Cooper and Evans Kerrigan help professionals like you build work relationships that really work. They are Co-Authors of Solving The People Problem helping people to build better relationships
Top 3 Nuggets
- Why solve the people problem
- DISC Method
- Leadership is relationship
This weeks Challange: take the DISC-EQ survey
https://solvingthepeopleproblem.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/brettmcooper/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/evanskerrigan/
To contact me go to my website here at Conorbuttsss.com
Jay Papasan leads the training and publishing teams at Keller Williams Realty. He co-authored The ONE Thing with Gary Keller which has more than 500 national bestseller list appearances, including #1 on the Wall Street Journal.
Top 3 Nuggets
- 3 types of accountability
- 7 Ball Analogy
- Time Blocking
This weeks Challange: What is the 1 thing you can do such that by doing it everything else is easier or unnecessary
https://www.the1thing.com/
https://kellerink.com/pages/about
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Wade Wedow facilitates growth personally and professionally for individuals and teams looking to thrive not just survive. Wade helps people set and achieve goals, becoming part of the successful 8%
Top 3 Nuggets
- Put in less effort for more results
- Mindset Shifts
- Self Accountability
This weeks Challange:
https://www.efficiencybook.com/
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Graham Allcott is the author of the global best-seller, "How to be a Productivity Ninja" and founder of Think Productive, a leading provider of personal productivity training and consultancy
Top 3 Nuggets
- Lead with kindness
- CORD Method
- Make space for what’s most important
This weeks Challange:
https://www.grahamallcott.com/
https://www.grahamallcott.com/books
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Christy Whitman is a best-selling author and celebrity coach based around the law of attraction and other universal laws. She helps people to quantum success and help them gain the right energy for their life
Top 3 Nuggets
- Law of attraction
- Create your energy
- Why you can have it all
This weeks Challange: Take this free course called Watch Your Words
https://www.watchyourwords.com/
https://www.christywhitman.com/
https://thedesirefactor.com/
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Adrian Shepherd is a best-selling author, Asia’s #1 Time Management Expert and the creator of the One-Bite Time Management System.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Make time management simple
- The fax machine method
- Dedicate 1 part of your day to self-improvement
This weeks Challange: Take the first step, people fail by blaming others. 1 bite at a time
https://adrianshepherd.com/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/isucceedbook/
Info@isuccedbook.com
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Ashdin Doctor is the habit coach at Awesome 180 where he helps people create the life they want through personal development and habit change
Top 3 Nuggets
- Relationship between health and productivity
- 3 golden rules to habit change
- Find the true source of stress
This weeks Challange: No sugar Challange AND do something that scares you every month
https://awesome180.com/
https://www.instagram.com/ashdindoc/?hl=en
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Penny Zenker is an international speaker, business strategy coach, and best-selling author. Penny’s high-energy and interactive keynote presentations and workshops inspire and challenge you to think more strategically, to be more emotionally intelligent, and inspire personal leadership. Listen as she brings that same energy to this podcast.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Stress-Response vs Challenge-Response
- 3 Core Segments of Productivity
- Finding your core 20%
This weeks Challange: Take the distraction quiz and remove the greatest distraction
https://pennyzenker360.com/
https://pennyzenker360.com/dq
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/take-back-time-best-practices/id1491823736
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Laura McClellan is a lawyer, a writer, a productivity enthusiast, and a tech geek. Married for 40 years to her high school sweetheart, with whom she's raised five amazing kids, she's passionate about encouraging women in their individual journeys as people, wives, mothers, citizens.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Maximizing positive impact
- Ordering you life
- Tools vs the end Goal
This weeks Challange: Set aside 15 mins to answer the question honestly
What do I want?
https://theproductivewoman.com/
To contact me go to my website here at Conorbuttsss.com
Stever Robbins is a serial entrepreneur, top-10 iTunes podcaster, and productivity expert. He is also the author of It Takes a Lot More than Attitude…to Build a Stellar Organization and Get-it-Done Guy’s 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Life Maps
- Procrastination
- Finding a clear purpose
This weeks Challange: Do a Mind map for 15-30 minutes
https://www.steverrobbins.com/
https://www.steverrobbins.com/lelhbs/
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Corey is an author and podcast host of The Successful Thinker Podcast. Corey has dedicated his life to making sure that others don’t have to struggle as he struggled. He helps people go from getting crushed to crushing it
Top 3 Nuggets
- Surround yourself with better people
- Never be the smartest person in the room
- Do the things you are good at and delegate the rest
This weeks Challange: Ask for Help until you get ti
https://thesuccessfulthinker.com/
Corey@CoreyJahnke.com
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Shawn Anderson is a #1 ranked "Motivation" and "Self-help" author, international keynote speaker, and a results-producing people builder. He helps people achieve more with his go the extra mile philosophy.
Top 3 Nuggets
- 3 Questions to start every day
- Why Lie to yourself?
- Are you goalsetting for yourself or the perception of others?
This weeks Challange: Ask yourself what you want for your life?
https://shawnanderson.com/
https://www.extramileamerica.org/
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DAVID KADAVY IS AUTHOR OF MIND MANAGEMENT, NOT TIME MANAGEMENT, THE HEART TO START & DESIGN FOR HACKERS.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Mind Management
- Week Cycles and Rhythms
- Curiosity
This weeks Challange: What Type of work am I in the mood to do now?
https://kadavy.net/
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Todd henry writes books, speaks internationally on creativity, productivity, and passion for work, and helps people and teams generate brilliant ideas.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Maintain creativity with productivity
- Motivation code
- Inspiration is nothing without application
This weeks Challange: Use steady measured progress
https://www.toddhenry.com/
https://motivationcode.com/the-motivation-code-book/
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Dr. Jeff Williamson is an organizational consultant and executive coach to higher education, business, and industry. He taught people how to use their strengths to get ahead and do more in a better way
Top 3 Nuggets
- Gallup Strengths and weaknesses
- Strengths approach
- Economics of time
This weeks Challange: Take 20-30 mins to jot down your values
http://coachmentorguide.com/
https://www.amazon.com/Power-168-Shaping-Moments-ebook/dp/B08H3YMDNP
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Greg is a best selling author, speaker, and entrepreneur. He is currently CEO and Co-Founder at CareerGig, after selling his digital experience agency. He has written 5 books on business and consumer relations. Greg was also named in a 2018 50 on Fire winner from DC Inno as one of DC’s trendsetters in Marketing.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Find the right people
- How to use Agile
- Perfection
This weeks Challange: Use the opportunities that come each day to get better
Find Greg
https://www.gregkihlstrom.com/
https://www.gregkihlstrom.com/books
https://www.gregkihlstrom.com/theagileworld
To contact me go to my website here at Conorbuttsss.com
Sebastien Rodger de Nunez developed Thought Leadership Academy to help inspire young entrepreneurs to lead. Listen to him talk about how he coaches and helps others.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Forcing vs Luck
- Separate Creativity and productivity
- The dance between wants and needs
This weeks Challange: What is your 1 Thing
Facebook Group https://www.facebook.com/superherotribe
Ted Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3UTyc-2eBVY
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Aaron Walker is a Life coach and businessman who specializes in creating masterminds to take people to the next level. In their mastermind groups, Aaron and his team help people solve problems in their life and improve as people
Top 3 Nuggets
- Why you should have diversity in thought
- Surround yourself with successful people
- Creating not only a successful life but a meaningful life as well
This weeks Challange: Be more fearful of missing an opportunity than fearing failure
Click here for the view from the top
Click here for mastermind playbook
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Geoff Woods is the CEO behind the best selling book, The 1 Thing. Geoff explains the thought process behind many of the techniques in the book and how he lives it out in his life.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Serving others first
- Finding your lead domino
- Finding a good circle of influence
This week’s Challange: Ask yourself what is the 1 thing I can do, such that by doing it, everything else becomes easier or unnecessary?
Visit their website here
Create your 411 here
Listen to Geoffs Podcast here
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Trent Meacham is a retired professional basketball player after 9 years. In this episode, Trent dives deep into his why in his life and how he maximized his talent in the game of basketball
Top 3 Nuggets
- Maximizing your talent
- Finding your role in life
- How to adapt to new challenges
This week’s Challange: Are you being efficient or effective?
Contact Trent here
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Christ is a Certified Financial Planner at Elliott Wealth Management where he helps clients achieve their goals in wealth. Listen as he gives his 7 wealth-building tips
Top 3 Nuggets
- Get prepared with the knowledge
- You can’t succeed without a team
- Know when you have success vs the trappings of success
This weeks Challange: Create your own net worth statement
Create your net worth statement with Chris’ software at https://elliottwealth.com/success-planner
Listen to Chris’ Podcast Simply Finacial at https://elliottwealth.com/podcasts
You can contact me here at https://conorbuttsss.com/
Simon Hedaux is the owner of ReThink Productivity a business to help of their businesses be more productive and efficient. Simon has worked with many clients and has a retail background
Top 3 Nuggets
- Improving the pace of work
- Know the questions your customers will ask
- Create a business plan for productivity
This weeks Challange: Use Parkinson’s law and to do that create a deadline for the things you want to accomplish
Listen to Simons Podcast at https://rethinkproductivity.co.uk/category/rethink-productivity-podcast/
Visit ReThink at https://rethinkproductivity.co.uk/
Use ReTime at https://www.retime.co.uk/
You can contact me here at https://conorbuttsss.com/
Julio Maria is one of Africa’s 100 top young influencers and helps entrepreneurs and individuals by coaching and influencing them. He is a leader at action catalyst and coaches at Coffee Chat.
Top 3 Nuggets
- How to beat procrastination
- Having 3 types of influencers
- Creating a not-to-do list
This week Challange: Make a list of times you have beaten Procrastination
Book a call with Julio at https://www.coffeechat.co/mentor/in/J%C3%BAlioMuhorro
You can contact me here at https://conorbuttsss.com/
Reagan Rose is the Owner of the Redeeming Productivity a website designed to help Christians get more things done like Christians. Reagan is the host of the podcast and writes articles on productivity.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Effects of Simulated Productivity
- Creating a morning routine
- What you do first says a lot about who you are
This weeks Challange: Take the time this week to create a morning routine and use it and see how your days feel
Here is Reagan’s website https://www.redeemingproductivity.com/
Listen to Reagans Podcast here https://www.redeemingproductivity.com/series/the-redeeming-productivity-show/
You can contact me here at https://conorbuttsss.com/
Colin Hoobler is a fitness instructor helping vulnerable populations eliminate chronic Pain. He helps people elevate to the fitness level they want. He is the Host of the Action 30 podcast
Top 3 Nuggets
- How to use the best medicine we have… Exercise and Nutrition
- 4 areas of Physical fitness
- What it means to have fitness balance
These weeks Challange: Ask the questions
When will you start?
Why do you want to start?
Colin gives you the answer to what to do in the exercise videos here
To listen to the action 30 podcast click here
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Kayla Celeste is a mindset coach and the host of Daily Steps Toward Success Podcast. She coaches people on what their real problem is and finding ways to work towards their goal every day.
Top 3 Nuggets
- Define the real problem before solving
- Its harder to change Circumstances than to change your mindset
- Coaching allows you to get an unbiased look at your life and problems
This weeks Challange: Think about what you think about
At some point, this week take a piece of paper and write down your thoughts. Observe whether your thoughts are serving you or not. You can use this to have a deeper relationship with your thoughts and change your mindset to be serving you more.
Click here to listen to the Daily Steps Toward Success Podcast
Click here if you want to book a consult call with Kayla for coaching
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Rod Franklin Spent 20 years in the United States Air Force as an officer and pilot. worked at the pentagon for 2 years He has an M.S. in Counseling and Guidance. The greatest joy is sharing Christ with those who don't know Him.
Top 3 Nuggets
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How to share your Faith
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How to find God
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Why he will never retire
Kristian Veit is a psychology professor at Olivet Nazarene University. He teaches courses in research and statistics, social psychology, industrial/organizational psychology, and personality psychology. especially in Industrial and organizational psychology which is helping organizations internal with Human Relations and improving productivity.
Top 3 Nuggets
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How to be productive working at home
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Difference between skill and ability
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Peoples psychological needs
John is one of the world's leading experts in Design Thinking as well as an Olympic silver medalist in the 1994 Olympics. He is the CEO and Founder of Speaking Design Thinking where he has written a book called “Design For Strengths: Applying Design Thinking to Individual and Team Strengths”s. He has coined the nickname “the time guy”
Top 3 nuggets
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Design Thinking
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How to create endless summer
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Stories on how time works.
Design Thinking Academy
Johns TedX talk
Today's guest is John Schumacher Reginal director of the Chicagoland area of Keller Williams Realty. John is a teacher of the One Thing, a Wall Street best-selling book that Gary Keller and Jay Papasan wrote.
Top 3 Nuggets
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The One Thing
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A new way to Goalsetting
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Story on how important coaching has been in his life
Dan Hofmeister is a lawyer at Reed Smith Law from in Chicago where he specializes in Complect litigation and trial work.
Top 3 Nuggets
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Separating Yourself from the Competition
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Tips on Negotiation
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Importance of Reading
Marc Chagnon is a Motivational Speaker at Coach ADYB, he speaks to local schools and organizations on helping people find motivation and always doing their best.
Top 3 Nuggets
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How Marc found his purpose
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His own 5 step decision-making process
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Finding a career that fits you
Rick Selk is the CEO of Youth For Christ in Chicago where has had worked for 32 years. Rick found his calling early in life by finding his purpose in God. Now he works at YFC Living that out. He has a focus on relationships and in this episode, Rick dives into how he views relationships and their importance.
Top 3 Nuggets
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Finding his Calling
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How to find Mentors and Coaches
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Difference between Transactional and Transformational relationships