Bold Business Podcast: Recent Episodes
Jess Dewell
The Voice of Bold Business Radio talks about skills to ask better questions, solve problems and take action. The result is effectively handling: tough situations; changing culture; adding new products or markets; setting goals; reviewing people; evaluating business; setting priorities; building strategy; and more.
Stepping up is essential for you, your team, your customers, and your service to create real impact. In this episode, Jess Dewell talks with Heather Gibson, Owner at Big Hearted Breeders, about how recognizing self-doubt is necessary for self-acceptance in the process of facing industry disruption. She shares that she is BOLD in order to meet the self-doubt that arises by remembering her purpose.
More than challenging misconceptions, outdated traditions, and external judgment is your dedication to your work. And that your work has value. Profit is not a dirty word. It is survival. You can indeed run a profitable business, stand in your power, and share your passion with on-purpose work.
In this episode, you will discover:
- How the "invisible committee" of unseen opinions impacts your self-perception and business decisions
- Why unsolicited criticism can undermine your confidence — and how to stay grounded in your purpose
- The power of morning and evening rituals to maintain clarity and direction
- How new tools and technologies are leveling the playing field for business owners
- Three questions to ask to discover what no longer works so you can let things go
- Why finding commonality with others creates greater impact and change
- The importance of regular reflection to ensure you're intentionally moving toward your vision
- How stepping back from daily operations protects your bandwidth and positions you as the visionary your industry needs
Remembering your purpose is a powerful ally when self-doubt shows up. The way to create real change is to find commonality with others as you move along your path.
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If you're ready to build the kind of organization that doesn't just survive uncertainty but leads through it, check out the Present Retreat, your weekly practice that reclaims executive bandwidth, sharpens business instinct, and replaces reactive goal chasing with strategic compounding, all with measurable reduction in decision-cycle time.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
You just invested in the latest feedback tool, the best collaboration platform, the smartest productivity software. And nothing changed. Not because the tools are bad — but because you're still measuring the wrong things. You're still rewarding the visible. You're still missing the people who quietly hold your organization together.
The future of work isn't about better tools. It's about measuring what actually matters. And what actually matters — reliability, leadership, attitude, the intangibles that move teams — has been invisible to your reward systems for too long.
Jess Dewell talks with Jacob Chase, Founder & CEO of The INFIN, on how organizations can stop chasing innovation for innovation's sake and start measuring the human contributions that technology can't replace. Jacob has built systems that capture what traditional evaluation misses: the peer-recognized strengths that drive real organizational change.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- Why innovative tools fail to drive change — and the real hurdle isn't the technology, it's understanding how people actually want to work.
- How to build feedback systems that tell you the truth — and why anonymity and safety are non-negotiable for honest insights.
- Why it's time to redesign your entire measurement and reward infrastructure — not just tweak the old system.
- How autonomy, initiative, and transparent reward systems create sustainable growth without chaos.
- Why real-time, continuous feedback outperforms annual reviews — and what that looks like in practice.
- How to measure the intangibles — leadership, reliability, attitude — that have the biggest impact on team performance.
- What a decentralized feedback system can capture that traditional metrics miss entirely.
- It is BOLD to reimagine culture and measuring formerly intangible value for all stakeholders.
The organizations winning today aren't the ones with the fanciest tools. They're the ones measuring what matters. They're recognizing contributions that numbers alone can't capture. They're willing to look beyond job titles and formal roles to see who's actually driving value. They've built systems where peer recognition and transparent rewards amplify the strengths that move culture forward.
The disconnect between tools and culture is growing. Companies invest heavily in platforms for feedback but still rely on outdated evaluation methods. They claim to value collaboration but reward individual achievement. They say culture matters but measure only output. That gap is costing you talent, innovation, and resilience.
If your feedback systems feel disconnected from reality, if your best people aren't getting recognized for their true contributions, or if you're wondering how to measure the intangible qualities that are actually holding your team together, this conversation will reorient what's possible.
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If you're ready to build the kind of business that doesn't just survive uncertainty but leads through it, check out the Driving Solutions Strategic Intensive program, designed to support leadership teams through high-stakes strategic decisions.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Your team is tired. Not because they're working hard — it's because nothing finishes. Projects linger. Code stays half-baked. Strategy documents gather dust. Trust frays. And the worst part? Nobody can name what's actually wrong. Because the real problem isn't the work itself. It's that half of it never ships. It just sits there, unfinished, invisible, draining energy from everyone who touches it.
Efficiency isn't about doing more. It's about finishing what matters. Team happiness isn't a perk you add on — it's what happens when people see their work actually ship, when they're focused on one thing instead of scattered across ten, when they know their contribution landed. The resistance you're sensing isn't that your team doesn't want to move fast. It's that they can't see progress. Because progress isn't a milestone. It's evidence of successful, ongoing delivery.
What creates capacity while making progress are small, iterative cycles so that goals remain relevant in disruptive environments. Making work visible can transform your organization's internal strengths into real competitive advantage.
In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, Jess Dewell talks with Thanos Diacakis, CEO and Chief Troublemaker at Cosmic Teacups, about why the teams moving fastest aren't the ones chasing arbitrary milestones — they're the ones who learned to name what's unfinished and architect a resilient delivery system.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- Why humility and questioning assumptions is foundational to progress.
- The power of constructive conflict in establishing shared language and driving innovation.
- Why premature standardization hinders innovation and adaptation.
- The critical importance of finishing work before moving to something new.
- How prioritizing completion and minimizing context switching improves efficiency and team happiness.
- The value of limiting focus to what truly matters most.
- Why naming discomfort directly enables honest problem-solving.
The teams that scale fastest aren't the ones with the best plans. They're the ones who can see where work actually gets stuck and aren't afraid to name it. They've learned that conflict isn't dysfunction — it's how you surface what teams actually need. They've discovered that when people finish work and see it shipped, everything changes. Efficiency goes up. Happiness goes up. Energy returns because there's forward momentum.
Thanos has spent years on the frontlines where this plays out every single day. He's seen what happens when leaders try to do everything themselves and what shifts when they instead create space for teams to own completion. He's watched rigid plans crumble and resilient delivery systems take their place. The lesson: stop chasing arbitrary milestones. Start shipping real work.
If your team is stuck in half-finished mode, if you're wondering why efficiency initiatives aren't creating happiness, if momentum has stalled and you're unsure whether the problem is strategy or delivery, or if you're ready to move from managing chaos to architecting a system that lets teams actually finish what matters, this conversation will reorient what's possible.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Growth plateaus aren't inevitable — they're a signal. In this episode, Jess Dewell, Growth Strategist at Red Direction and host of the BOLD Business Podcast, reveals why even high-performing CEOs and founders hit a ceiling and how to break through it.
The cycle of hustle is real, but scaling with intention requires more than speed — it demands strategy, self-awareness, and the courage to evolve. Jess explores the hidden bottlenecks and comfort zones that sabotage teams, keep decisions reactive, and erode competitive advantage.
What makes it BOLD: Being BOLD means transforming your proven business practices through Business Instinct — the fusion of data-driven logic, emotional intelligence, and intuitive leadership. It's the courage to step back, challenge what's working, and align your company with evolving markets before disruption forces your hand.
What You'll Hear:
- Why strategies that built your business won't scale it further
- The 11 Resources for Dynamic Growth every leader needs
- How to develop your Business Instinct for smarter decisions
- Why action-first approaches outpace endless planning
- The power of combining logic, emotion, and gut instinct
- How living tools like SWOT keep your strategy nimble
- Why reflection and disengagement drive breakthrough clarity
- How the Driving Solutions Strategic Intensive helps you implement sustainable growth without overwhelm
Learn how to unlock your team's next level of performance, command strategic clarity, and build lasting business relevance — without burning out.
Perfect for: Founders, CEOs, and ambitious leaders ready to move beyond the hustle cycle and scale with intention.
The resistance your team is showing isn't about your direction. It's about being left out of the story. You have the vision. You have the answers. You know exactly where this needs to go. And that's precisely where you're losing them. Because a vision that lives only in your head isn't a company vision. It's a founder's private project. And teams don't sign up to be passengers in someone else's story.
Leadership transitions aren't about pivoting strategy or restructuring org charts. They're about inviting your team into the narrative so they actually own the outcome. The resistance you're feeling? It's not a sign you need better answers. It's a sign you need better listeners, and you need to be one of them.
Jess Dewell talks with Nellie Lester, Advisor at WS & Co. Advisory, on how founders can move from being the hero of the story to being the architect of collective success. Nellie has seen what happens when leaders try to control every answer and what shifts when they instead create space for others to step into their strengths.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- Why your personal ambitions can actually create disconnects in your team, even when your intentions are good
- How founders accidentally hoard the company narrative and why that kills alignment
- The power of collective problem-solving during crisis, and why humility is a competitive advantage, not a weakness
- Why inclusive dialogue isn't a nice-to-have; it's how you prevent tunnel vision and build real ownership
- What to look for in hiring to prevent future friction: aligning on values before skills
- How to recognize when a role, relationship, or process has served its purpose, and why letting go is essential to growth
- The difference between being indispensable and building an indispensable organization
The leaders navigating change successfully aren't the ones with all the answers locked in their heads. They're the ones who stepped back enough to see that everyone at the table builds the organizational story together. They invited strengths they didn't have. They admitted what they didn't know. They created space for others to lead.
Resistance to change often isn't resistance to the direction, it's resistance to being excluded from shaping it. The teams that move through transitions with resilience aren't the ones that follow orders. They're the ones that co-create the path forward. That's the human side of leadership. That's what builds organizations that endure.
If your team is stuck in resistance mode, if momentum has stalled and you're wondering whether the problem is the strategy or how it's being communicated, or if you're ready to move from managing everything yourself to leading a team that owns the outcome, this conversation will reorient what's possible.
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If you're ready to build the organizational foundation that supports real growth, check out the Business Base Camp Consultation designed for owners who need to do the right work and lead growth at the same time, building the processes and market clarity to move from management oversight to systems-led execution.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
You started your company because you were exactly what it needed. Then your company grew, and suddenly you became the problem. No one tells founders this part of the story — not in the highlight reels, not in the fundraising pitch decks, not until you're standing alone at 2 a.m. wondering if you're the one holding the business back.
Scaling isn't just an operational challenge. It's a personal reckoning. The skills that got you here won't get you there. The team that was scrappy and loyal will need to be rebuilt. And the exhaustion you're feeling? That's not a weakness. That's a signal you're not supposed to ignore.
Jess Dewell talks with Alexis Sikorsky, Founder at Sikorsky Consulting and KnightScale Partners, on the confessions founders rarely make and the hard truths about what it actually takes to scale. Alexis has walked founders through the $5-15 million inflection point — where self-transformation becomes non-negotiable, and the cost of staying the same exceeds the cost of changing.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- Why founders risk becoming liabilities if they don't actively transform as the company scales
- The specific revenue milestone where this shift typically happens — and what to watch for
- Why trust must trump skills when building your leadership team — and what that actually means in practice
- How early team members who got you here often can't take you where you're going
- Why spending less is a more sustainable growth lever than obsessively raising more capital
- The power of saying no — and why declining work that isn't a mutual fit protects your reputation and runway
- How to recognize exhaustion as a founder signal, not a personal failure
- The friction that's actually necessary for real growth — and how to distinguish it from noise
The founders scaling successfully aren't the ones chasing the next funding round or surrounding themselves with resume stars. They're the ones willing to get uncomfortable. They're the ones who looked in the mirror and changed. They're the ones who built leadership teams based on trust, not credentials. They controlled their burn. They said no more than they said yes.
Loneliness in entrepreneurship is real. The pressure to do more, raise more, prove more — it's relentless. But the founders who make it through aren't the ones who pretend the exhaustion isn't there. They're the ones who claim it, get strategic about it, and use it as information instead of a weakness.
If you're at that inflection point where something needs to shift, if you're wondering whether the problem is the team or you, or if you're feeling the weight of scaling in a way nobody prepared you for, this conversation will give you permission to get honest about what's actually required.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Are you your own biggest roadblock to success? In this episode, Jess Dewell (Managing Partner and Growth Strategist at Red Direction) , Christy Maxfield (President and CEO at Purpose First Advisors), and Dean Barta (Founder and CEO at Barta Business Group, have a candid conversation about what growth really looks like — and what it costs.
Growth isn't just about revenue. It means building infrastructure, developing talent, entering new markets, and making hard choices — planned and unplanned. But before any of that, it starts with mindset.
Your inner dialog has real-world consequences, and knowing where you're being held back — by external forces or by yourself — is the first step toward designing intentional action.
Together, Jess, Christy, and Dean explore:
- How to stay with the problem when it shows up
- Why you don't need all the data — just the right data
- How tools like SWOT analysis can normalize smarter decision-making
- When and how to approach client diversification
- The power of starting with the end in mind
- How to let go of the stories holding you back
If you're ready to transform challenges into opportunities and build a business that is both successful and sustainable, this episode is for you.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Here's what kills growth quietly: not bad strategy or tired teams, but leaders who stop showing up with intention. When you're busy, when uncertainty rises, when the pressure mounts — that's exactly when trust starts to leak. And by the time you notice, it's already become your biggest liability.
Trust isn't an intangible value or a soft skill. It's measurable, concrete operational infrastructure. And when leadership is stretched thin, self-care gets deprioritized, and uncertainty becomes the norm, the organizations still standing are the ones who never let trust get blurry in the first place.
Jess Dewell talks with Kim Bohr, CEO at SparkEffect, on how high-trust organizations outpace uncertainty and build the resilience that allows businesses to scale. Kim has seen what happens when managers are left to navigate change alone, and what it takes to rebuild credibility with teams that have grown skeptical of leadership.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- Why continuous re-evaluation of systems and priorities isn't a luxury — it's how leaders stay credible and effective
- How trust between team members and self-trust are deeply connected and directly impact organizational performance
- Why measuring trust matters — it moves trust beyond concept and into actionable improvement
- The real cost of ignoring your own limits and energy — and how self-care directly affects your credibility with your team
- What transparency and fairness look like during organizational change — and why employees notice the gap between stated values and actions.
- How tailored leadership and adapted communication prevent misunderstandings and strengthen team alignment
- Why manager enablement isn't a side project — it's the primary strategic infrastructure for scaling trust
The organizations winning when uncertainty rises aren't the ones with the most sophisticated systems or the largest budgets. They're the ones with trust and discipline. They resisted the pressure to chase every new initiative. They invested in their frontline managers. They built credibility through intention, not volume.
Distrust in organizations is growing, and the companies feeling it most are the ones that prioritize tactical execution at the expense of people's investment. Trust is the competitive advantage that holds. And in a landscape increasingly driven by change and complexity, choosing to slow down and develop your managers is itself a bold business decision.
If your organization's growth has plateaued, your team is reacting to changes instead of leading with strategy, or you're wondering whether your current manager development investment is actually moving the needle, this conversation will reorient your thinking.
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If you're ready to build the kind of organization that doesn't just survive uncertainty but leads through it, check out the Present Retreat, your weekly practice that reclaims executive bandwidth, sharpens business instinct, and replaces reactive goal chasing with strategic compounding, all with measurable reduction in decision-cycle time.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
What if your routines are quietly stifling your company's growth? In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, host Jess Dewell sits down with Dr. Jennifer Berry, CEO of SmartLab, to explore a rebellious mindset shift that disrupts burnout and drives fresh thinking in today's fast-changing business landscape.
Dr. Berry challenges the "go it alone" approach to leadership, making the case that lasting impact is built through collaboration, belonging, and the willingness to face discomfort together. From her Stop, Walk, and Think process to the power of tiny acts of rebellion, she offers practical ways to break mental ruts, spark innovation, and reconnect with what truly matters.
You'll walk away understanding how celebrating effort fuels both immediate momentum and long-term goals, why joy isn't forced positivity but a practice worth designing into your culture, and how productive struggle — for your team and your clients — is one of the boldest moves a leader can make.
In this episode:
- Why identity and self-worth get tangled up in workplace change — and how to navigate it
- How hands-on, project-based environments unlock natural curiosity and real growth
- Making KPIs flexible enough to reflect shifting goals without losing structure
- Reflection rituals that sharpen focus and reduce distraction
- How micro-changes in daily habits fuel bigger innovation
- Cultivating joy as a resilience strategy, not a feel-good afterthought
If you're ready to redefine success to include joy and productive struggle, this conversation is your starting point.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Most companies don't lose ground because their product weakens or their team stops working. They lose ground because the message drifted - gradually, quietly - while everyone was busy chasing the next platform update.
A clear message isn't a marketing asset. It's operational infrastructure. And when algorithm shifts, shrinking social ROI, and an AI-saturated ad landscape all arrive at the same time, the companies still standing are the ones who never let the message get blurry in the first place.
Jess Dewell talks with Rihab Abouzaki, Expert in GCC–US Advertising at This N That Communications, on advertising strategies that hold up when conditions change. She's seen what happens when businesses outsource their message clarity to whatever platform is trending, and what it takes to rebuild trust with audiences that have grown skeptical of everything digital.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- Why a single, well-defined message consistently outperforms multi-channel complexity in advertising ROI
- What it actually means to choose the right medium — and why streaming TV is outpacing social platforms for authentic reach in the US market
- How to rebuild an advertising strategy when your current process has stalled or stopped producing results
- Why customers don't adapt as fast as AI-driven platforms expect them to, and how to use that gap to your advantage
- The cost of emotional attachment to your own ideas — and how daily testing without ego creates sustainable advertising performance
- How business seasonality should drive spending decisions, and why ignoring natural cycles drains budget without building momentum
- What starting from the desired result looks like in practice — and why reverse-engineering your strategy is the move most companies skip
The businesses winning in today's advertising environment aren't the ones with the most sophisticated tools or the largest ad budgets. They're the ones with message discipline. They resisted the pressure to chase every algorithm update. They built credibility through consistency, not volume.
Distrust in the online world is growing, and the companies feeling it most are the ones that chase reach at the expense of message. Clarity is the competitive advantage that holds. And in a landscape increasingly driven by automation and AI, choosing to prioritize human connection over algorithmic optimization is itself a bold business decision.
If your advertising results have plateaued, your team is reacting to platform changes instead of leading with strategy, or you're wondering whether the ROI on social spend is still worth defending, this conversation will reorient your thinking.
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If you're ready to build the kind of business that doesn't just survive uncertainty but leads through it, check out the Driving Solutions Strategic Intensive program, designed to support leadership teams through high-stakes strategic decisions.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn, or Red Direction website.
Growing companies often sacrifice the foundation while chasing the finish line. Culture gets built later. HR systems get installed when problems surface. Employee protections feel like a luxury for bigger budgets. And somewhere in the scaling sprint, leaders realize they've created the perfect conditions for workplace disputes, legal exposure, and the very chaos they were trying to outrun.
But here's what separates companies that thrive from those that get blindsided: the ones who treat people's systems as core infrastructure from day one.
"It is BOLD to say that you are for the people and mean it." — Jesse Weinstein, Partner at Phillips and Associates, PLLC
Jess Dewell talks with Jesse Weinstein who has spent his career untangling the mess that happens when intention and practice split apart. From startups racing to scale to established organizations with public missions focused on inclusion, he's seen where the gaps appear — and what it costs to ignore them.
In this episode, you'll discover:
- How rapid growth creates blind spots in oversight that invite misconduct and legal risk
- Why early investment in culture and communication systems prevents costly disputes later
- The role transparency and visible leadership play in building employee trust and accountability
- How misalignment between stated values and daily practices opens the door to reputation damage and lawsuits
- What proactive problem-solving looks like when you're under pressure to keep moving
- The strategic advantage of building strong internal channels before you desperately need them
The companies winning at scale aren't the ones outworking chaos — they're the ones who built systems that prevent it. They invested in culture when it felt optional. They made communication channels visible before crises forced their hand. They aligned their words with their actions.
This episode isn't about compliance theater. It's about recognizing that your people, your culture, and your legal foundation are inseparable from your growth strategy.
When leadership commits to getting this right, the payoff is both immediate and compounding: reduced turnover, stronger collaboration, and the kind of organizational stability that actually accelerates scaling.
If you're building a company that's growing faster than your systems can keep up, or you're realizing that your internal practices don't match your external promises, this conversation is for you.
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Ready to build the foundation that supports real growth? The Business Base Camp Consultation is designed for owners who need to do the right work and lead growth at the same time, building the processes and market clarity to move from management oversight to systems-led execution. It's where strategy meets culture, and where sustainable scaling actually begins.
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You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
If you picture your role two years from now, what would need to change? That's the question Christy Maxfield (President and CEO at Purpose First Advisors), Dean Barta (Founder and CEO at Barta Business Group), and Jess Dewell (Managing Partner and Growth Strategist at Red Direction) explore in this It's Your Business episode.
These three business advisors talk about the mindset shifts and practical moves that actually matter in the next 24 months. Whether you're running a boutique firm, scaling mid-market, or managing a larger operation, reducing operational friction and getting real-time visibility into your data is something you can influence right now.
The conversation moves through three key areas: the Reality Audit (really owning where your business stands), Design 2+ Years Ahead (working with your existing productivity rhythms), and the Execution Bridge (how to stack priorities and actually move forward).
They talk about why perception often doesn't match reality, how conversation can feel like progress when it isn't, and what it takes to shift from talking about change to making it happen.
Key Takeaways:
- Christy Maxfield: "Get all your butterflies flying in the same direction."
- Dean Barta: "Break down goals to be able to move forward."
- Jess Dewell: "Be courageous and make a shift in mindset to get to a large initiative 2 years from now."
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Ready to build the foundation that supports real growth? The Business Base Camp Consultation is designed for owners who need to do the right work and lead growth at the same time, building the processes and market clarity to move from management oversight to systems-led execution. It's where strategy meets culture, and where sustainable scaling actually begins.
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You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
"Stamina is a trap." Most small business owners already know it. But knowing it and actually building a business that doesn't depend on your constant intervention are two very different things.
We've normalized the grind, the packed schedule, the heroic push through chaos, the belief that if you just work harder, longer, the growth will come. And somewhere in all that muscling through, we stopped asking the more important question: are we doing the right work, or just a lot of it?
"If you are relying on your ability to outwork the chaos, you are already losing."
Jess Dewell, Growth Strategist at Red Direction and host of the BOLD Business Podcast, introduces the Business Basecamp framework, a three-part approach designed to get you off the plateau and back into the growth zone without burning out in the process.
What emerges isn't a productivity hack or a planning template. It's a rethinking of how leaders show up — moving from constant intervention to systems-led execution, from reacting to leading, from surviving the pace of change to setting it.
In this episode:
- Why reflection isn't looking backwards — it's the most strategic thing you can do right now
- How "distraction debt" quietly suffocates growth, and how to start paying it down
- The real reason smart leaders don't take action — and what to do instead
- How to protect your "core magic" as your business scales and your role shifts
- What strategic accountability actually looks like when chaos is the norm
"Growth isn't about doing more. It's about becoming a responsive decision maker."
This is one of those episodes that reframes the whole game, not by adding more to your plate, but by helping you finally work on the right things.
Jess also shares the 11 Essential Resources for Dynamic Growth, a free curated collection of podcasts and articles covering everything from mastering the Intentional Pause to building your own Present Retreat.
Designed for self-starters and lifelong learners, these are the actual tools Red Direction uses to help businesses break through their strategic ceilings. You can download it here.
It is BOLD to stop muscling through and build the foundation instead. This episode shows you how.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
"Good ideas come to me easily." It sounds almost too simple. But what if your creativity isn't actually the problem - what if it's the way you've been trained to chase it?
We've built entire careers around productivity systems, packed calendars, and the belief that output is the measure of value. And somewhere in all that busyness, we lost the thing that actually drives innovation: the ability to slow down and let ideas find us.
"You're not going to get good ideas if you're running around on the hamster wheel with your hair on fire. They just don't have any place to be."
Jess Dewell brings together three practitioners who approach this problem from very different angles - Catherine Morgan (business consultant and transitions strategist), Claire Uncapher (intuitive life coach), and Dr. Janice Campbell (acupuncturist and somatic practitioner) - for a conversation that's equal parts practical and perspective-shifting.
What emerges isn't a case for self-care. It's a case of rebuilding your relationship with time itself. For trusting the pause. Recognizing that the traits you've spent years working around - the slowness, the tangential thinking, the need for space - might be exactly where your best ideas live.
In this episode
- Why your physical and internal environment shapes your output more than any strategy or tool
- How to run a 2-minute experiment this week that can crack open creative thinking
- The difference between self-care and mindfulness as a genuine business practice
- What it actually means to trust yourself - and why most of us were trained out of it early
- How to reframe the traits you see as weaknesses into your sharpest creative assets
"Mindfulness is life. Not just self-care." It's "the ultimate productivity hack". This is one of those conversations that quietly shifts how you see your own work.
It is BOLD to intentionally build the conditions for creativity. This episode shows you how.
If you want to reclaim your strategic clarity, break free from reactive operations, and ensure you're focused on the right priorities for growth, explore the Present Retreat™ approach. This will help you lead with intention and make the time you already have more impactful — so you can see and seize your next big opportunity.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The leap from leading yourself to leading others is one of the most underestimated transitions in business. The self-awareness, discipline, and clarity that made you effective as an individual contributor don't disappear — they evolve. And the leaders who thrive are the ones who learn to extend those qualities outward.
In this episode, Jess Dewell sits down with Tim Fortescue, Founder of 40 Watt Coaching, to explore what it really takes to build a team that moves with purpose. They dig into how honest self-knowledge becomes the foundation for trust, how the way you communicate your vision determines whether your team feels aligned or adrift, and why slowing down to reflect is often the fastest way forward.
You'll also discover how to uncover your grandest ideas and plan for them — planting seeds for the future, knowing your key performance levers, and finding what keeps you going when things get hard. Because the small wins matter: they build momentum, reinforce how your company does its best work, and deepen relationships through shared success.
This episode is a practical and honest look at what truly drives performance — in yourself and in the people around you — and how to build the kind of momentum that compounds over time, one small win at a time.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Scaling a business isn't just a strategy — it's an act of faith. It demands the willingness to change course, challenge ingrained habits, and make decisions that are uncomfortable but necessary.
What really happens when things get hard? The answer lives in the decisions most business owners avoid: narrowing focus, eliminating bottlenecks, and making bold pivots before the market forces your hand. The shift to specialization, the ability to read and respond to market signals, and the discipline to leverage systems for clarity and execution — these are what separate businesses that survive from those that scale.
Long-term business ownership is built on recognizing what others overlook. Team alignment, having the right people in the right roles, and anticipating changes in customer needs aren't soft advantages — they're the foundation of a business that remains relevant over time. And when business models must evolve to keep pace with the market, the owners who endure are those who move with intention rather than reaction.
Jess Dewell talks with Erik Dodier, EOS Implementer, about being in business long term, the Business Instinct required to remain relevant, and why it is BOLD to be ruthlessly focused on scaling from $10M to $100M.
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If you're ready to build the kind of business that doesn't just survive uncertainty but leads through it, check out the Driving Solutions Strategic Intensive program, designed to support leadership teams through high-stakes strategic decisions.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Past successes can provide valuable insights, but it's important to recognize that they belong to a different time. While experience is beneficial, the ever-changing business landscape means that relying solely on past achievements can be misleading.
It's essential to understand that perfection is not a realistic goal and can sometimes become a barrier in your leadership journey. By accepting this reality, your approach to growth can transform, allowing you to focus on what truly matters. This discussion invites you to reevaluate your perspective on risk, failure, and self-advocacy.
In this program, you will hear that undesired results are justified by numbers and metrics, that decisions are always flexible and not irreversible, and that past successes don't guarantee future achievements.
In a conversation with Jess Dewell, Coach Kevin Voisin, CEO of We Live Legend, LLC, highlights the significance of continuous learning, adaptability, and honest self-reflection. These practices help to eliminate hidden feelings of guilt and shame, ultimately paving the way for future success and exploring how to move beyond past successes and open up new possibilities, even when the outcomes are uncertain.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
We often think of innovation as loud—the flashy announcements, the social media hype, the constant spotlight. But the most profound changes happening right now are quietly being built behind the scenes.
The real disruptors aren't chasing notoriety; they are chasing root problems.
When you align a team around a mission that actually matters, you create an invisible force. That culture of shared purpose becomes the leverage needed to challenge industry giants who have benefited from the broken system for years.
The most valuable work isn't always visible. It's the daily, intentional effort to chip away at complex issues, build technology that works seamlessly in the background, and prioritize substance over facade.
In this Bold Business Podcast episode, Jess Dewell spoke with Sufian Chowdhury, CEO and Co-Founder at Kinetik, about what it really takes to disrupt an industry. If you want to make a real impact, look for the quiet, difficult problems. That is where the future is being shaped.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Stop attempting to fit into a mold that was never intended for you. Your dreams may need a reality check to prevent them from slipping away, ensuring you don't unintentionally drift further from them.
Following a plan, establishing habits, and achieving goals may seem straightforward, but if you're not genuinely engaged in the journey, you're likely confined by standards that don't serve you.
This discussion focuses on demonstrating your commitment to yourself and the people around you. It emphasizes the importance of embracing your truth and building a life that reflects your core values. The foundation of strong self-discipline may begin with the promises you make to others.
It involves letting go of the acceptable, mastering the subtleties of time and energy management, and cultivating the skills essential to success. The resulting advantage is reaching your most significant long-term objectives while remaining authentic to yourself throughout the journey.
Jess Dewell talks with Bolanle Williams-Olley, CFO of Mancini Duffy, about the significance of challenging 'norms' to achieve one's ambitions and why it takes courage to break away from them.
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Many mid-market companies tend to hit a wall around the eighth year. The very processes that helped you get to this point are now what's holding you back from moving forward. This panel discussion aims to break the cycle of 'future-proofing' and focus on what it takes to stay relevant.
Introducing your Future-Maker panel:
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Christy Maxfield, President and CEO of Purpose First Advisors
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Dean Barta, Founder and CEO of Barta Business Group
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Jess Dewell, Managing Partner and Growth Strategist at Red Direction
Tune in to explore the differences between playing defense and offense, the unintentional growth throttling that can occur, the power of curiosity, and how true accountability fuels progress.
This episode offers practical insights—from empowering teams and celebrating small victories to building a business that supports succession and growth. You'll find valuable tips to shift your mindset, prioritize effectively, and cultivate a culture that embraces the future.
Your business's success hinges on the decisions you make today. Each small victory, combined with a commitment to accountability, accelerates your momentum. Whether you're focusing on staying competitive or planning an exit strategy, this episode provides a bold perspective and actionable strategies to help you become a true future-maker.
If you want to move from daily uncertainty to unwavering confidence, lead with clarity, make sharper decisions, and build a business that not only survives but thrives through change, check out the Driving Solutions Strategic Intensive program.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Making decisions is more than just picking an option; it's an art that influences your path forward, impacts your relationships, and challenges your values. By embracing your unique personality and strengths while being mindful of your leadership weaknesses, you can discover the best ways to support your company and uplift your team.
In this exciting episode, you'll explore whether you're truly taking the right risks.
Get ready to uncover three vital steps for managing mistakes, understand the feeling of being poised to take bold action, and learn about three critical areas you need to watch to protect your business from potential failure.
Join Jess Dewell and her guest, Bew White, Executive Chairman of Summer Classics/Gabby, as they discuss the crucial role of decision-making in business.
They explore the ups and downs of valuable experiences, revealing that while the journey may be tumultuous, the rewards can be incredibly satisfying!
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The era of having all the answers is over. Today, it is becoming the norm for founders and management teams to lead without knowing exactly where they are headed. Change is occurring across every aspect of business and how we conduct it, and it will continue to impact the workforce.
This transformation isn't solely about achieving efficiency and cutting costs. It also involves adopting new mindsets not only to survive in business, but also to significantly increase your impact in the years to come.
In this program, you will learn about the traits necessary to grow your business 300 times with AI, the three steps to embrace and integrate AI into your operations, and the importance of understanding what NOT to do amidst a multitude of choices.
Jess Dewell speaks with Steve Brown, an AI futurist, about why humility, experimentation, and vision have become essential superpowers for modern executives. They discuss how small and mid-sized companies can lead in an AI-first economy rather than keep up, and how to be BOLD and strategically prepare for the next evolution of your company, even when it feels unimaginable.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the ""Growth Framework Reset"" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Your character and skills often outweigh your credentials in today's ever-evolving world.
True growth stems from the challenges of difficult conversations, and effective leaders can use these moments of discomfort to tap into the potential that already exists within their systems, processes, and teams.
Honest self-reflection is essential for setting goals, adapting to changes, and navigating uncertainty. A crucial takeaway from this discussion is that the concept of "enough" is a personal measure rather than a comparative one.
In this program, Jess Dewell engages with Marnie Stockman and Nick Coniglio, Co-Founders and Co-Authors of "The Business of You," as they explore the tough questions that drive growth. They emphasize strengthening your connection to core values and using your character skills to address uncertainty head-on.
You'll discover how to take greater ownership in times of challenge, how to lead yourself effectively, and what it truly means to be BOLD as you navigate friction to propel your success forward.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
In a world where every choice is navigated with limited information, you may find yourself stepping into the unknown, missing key insights, or even underestimating potential risks. However, the clarity of your vision and your commitment to your goals will ultimately dictate your journey to success.
Your business strategy should be aimed at the long-term — fostering growth and profitability while embracing whatever challenges and opportunities come your way.
Building a robust network of peers is crucial. Whether it's through a mastermind group or a board of directors, surrounding yourself with trusted allies allows you to brainstorm ideas, share experiences, and seek expert guidance when trying to steer your growth journey.
In this program, Jess Dewell sits down with Geneve Huxley, the Founder and CEO of Huxley CPA Consulting. They discuss the common obstacles companies face and explore how to harness powerful financial insights to overcome them.
Tune in for practical advice on how to track what truly matters, discover three dynamic tools to amplify the effectiveness of your decisions, and learn how to firmly establish your business goals.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Transform complaints into golden opportunities and bring enthusiasm to your customers by empowering your team to swiftly address friction points.
Embracing change is essential, and it's perfectly fine to reconsider past decisions. Flexibility is key to successfully navigating today's growth landscape. Take proactive steps by delegating responsibilities, launching experiments, and truly listening to your customers — even if you haven't established a perfect system yet.
In this episode, you'll discover that managing energy is just as crucial as having the right systems in place, how to eliminate barriers, and the importance of letting go of processes that hinder growth.
Jess Dewell welcomes Solomon Thimothy, Co-founder and CEO of oneIMS, exploring his journey to uncover BOLD growth opportunities within his company and to redefine the CEO growth strategy through continuous adaptation.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Are you underestimating your actual level of control? Learn why redirecting your attention from the obstacles you can't change to the factors you can influence can transform your business growth.
"Control the controllables" is more than just a saying; it's a powerful mindset. Not only does it help you excel in your field, but also it reveals the best path forward. By recognizing how to use your resources effectively in any situation, you gain greater control over your circumstances.
In this episode, you'll discover the importance of acknowledging what you want to avoid, allowing you to eliminate unproductive tasks. When faced with situations beyond your control, shift your focus to how you can influence outcomes. You'll also learn to reframe setbacks, using them as opportunities to strengthen your foundation and achieve your goals.
Jess Dewell welcomes Apollo Emeka, Managing Director of Apollo Strategy Group, to discuss how to infuse fulfillment into your major decisions and why it's BOLD to master the basics, ultimately leading to a sense of satisfaction as you act on your aspirations.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
True sacrifice involves letting go of distractions and negative influences, rather than letting go of the people or things you truly care about. Our personal stories — both the ones we share and those we keep to ourselves — play a crucial role in shaping our leadership.
Establishing boundaries and being ruthless in your priorities, even if it means stepping outside your comfort zone or distancing yourself from loved ones, is essential for determining your success.
Remember, who you were yesterday doesn't dictate who you need to be to fully embrace life and take action toward your biggest dreams.
In this episode, you'll discover the power of sharing your story, even while you're still living it. You'll learn that releasing what doesn't serve you makes room for gratitude, and that sacrifice isn't about what you lose — it's about filtering out the noise.
Jess Dewell chats with Benny Mobley, a Legacy Coach, about the importance of reclaiming your authority through small, consistent daily efforts. They explore how to overcome limiting beliefs and embrace authenticity to build the resilience needed to thrive as an entrepreneur.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
If your job as CEO hasn't changed in three years, your company might be outgrowing you.
To elevate your business 10x, it's essential to reassess your role as CEO, make tough calls, and prioritize with unwavering focus. These are the key areas where you can unlock significant value for yourself, your team, and your customers.
Jess Dewell from Red Direction, Christy Maxfield of Purpose First Advisors, and Dean Barta from Barta Business Group have an open discussion about how you might be the bottleneck hindering your business growth.
Here are key notes you don't want to miss:
** Assess and sharpen your focus - The greatest obstacle to growth often lies in avoiding tough decisions. Failing to make a choice is still a choice — and it can dilute your impact. Set aside dedicated time (like a focused retreat) to review your priorities, clarify the true value you provide, and eliminate the "busywork" that distracts from strategic advancement.
** Differentiate your roles for clarity and growth - Many business owners find themselves unintentionally wearing the CEO hat, which can pose challenges. Ask yourself: would you hire yourself for this role? Establish clear job descriptions for both CEO and Owner to define your responsibilities, promote effective delegation, and identify where you can add the most value — then focus relentlessly on those areas.
** Unleash your greatest asset: YOU - Sustainable and exponential growth begins when leaders evolve authentically, delegate tasks that no longer align with their strategic vision, and cultivate habits that keep them in their zone of genius. Keep in mind: the value you realize for yourself directly influences the value your company delivers to customers and prospective buyers.
After the discussion, your expert panel shared their biggest takeaway:
Dean Barta: Separating the roles of owner and CEO: Assess whether you would hire yourself to be the CEO of your company.
Christy Maxfield: This about making sure that you can unlock more value for your customer, about unlocking more value for you as an owner, about unlocking more value for a future buyer.
Jess Dewell: Your ability to make decisions will get easier, stronger, and clearer. That ensures that you are evolving and assessing as you go.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
A fuzzy strategy comes with real costs, and that lack of clarity can diminish true value. Think you're scaling well? Think again. It's crucial to support a bold vision with clear direction and regular reality checks.
Identifying your unique growth factor while staying focused on the core problem can be quite a challenge, particularly as your company faces new constraints and friction points.
You, your team, and your investor partners will achieve the most significant milestones by collaborating through difficulties.
In this program, you'll learn how to address the "stay in your lane" mindset that might be holding you back, why it's essential to disrupt your own company before the market does, and how to achieve strategic clarity.
Jess Dewell and Melanie Nabar, Vice President at Volition Capital, unpack how unclear objectives and scattered initiatives can waste resources and opportunities. They provide actionable steps to help maintain your momentum and emphasize how BOLD founders challenge themselves as leaders to embrace continuous learning and transformation.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Being curious and stepping into new dynamics are tangible signs of bold leadership. It requires committing to courageous practices that ultimately make the greatest impact both in business and beyond. And it starts with you, as an authentic individual. Bringing more of yourself to every moment of your day will give you MORE energy.
You can have "space" in your meetings, conversations, or company culture to unlock your team's best ideas. It is the intangible connections that transform how your business scales, grows, and belongs together.
Embrace experimentation — after all, we all do it already. Be intentional about tuning in to the people around you, and work to overcome any feelings of shame or embarrassment that may hold you back from acknowledging how interesting each person is.
Jess Dewell talks with Heather Hester, Founder of More Human More Kind, about being BOLD and acting with courage even when it feels uncomfortable or risky, and about being brave and honest about mistakes and strategic challenges to reach your growth potential.
Tune in to explore what you're already doing successfully, which will help you enhance those efforts and demonstrate positive energy management and trust-building behaviors. You'll also learn about the concept of "Brave Belonging" and how cultivating curiosity can energize your team.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Endings often go unnoticed. It's easy to push back project deadlines and adjust our expectations for results, but calling for a definitive stop to review our progress can be much harder. We might feel the urge to dive right into tactics to achieve results, yet what we're truly after is a clear, overarching goal—whether that's increasing something or changing the status quo.
When launching a product, crafting your business's narrative, or entering a new market, a lack of clarity makes it challenging to recognize when we've hit our desired outcome. It's crucial to step back, evaluate our plans, the actions we've taken, and the results we've achieved to decide whether to move forward or make necessary tweaks. We need to acknowledge when we've arrived, even if the path we took wasn't what we originally envisioned.
In this episode, you'll discover the significance of milestones for tracking your progress, how endings can pave the way for new beginnings, and that the journey from executing a plan to reaching our goals is rarely a straight line.
Jess Dewell hosts Pam Didner, the Founder of Relentless Pursuit, LLC, and Mickie Kennedy, President of eReleases, to explore why it's bold to reflect on how endings can actually help us thrive.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
This episode originally aired on GoalChat, hosted by Debra Eckerling, a goal strategist and the creator of The DEB Method.
The panel features Jess Dewell, Managing Partner at Red Direction, who specializes in operations and strategy; Jeannette Seibly, a results-driven leadership coach; and Isioma Utomi, a consultant focused on leadership and productivity. Together, they explore modern leadership development and share their views on past and current leadership trends.
Each expert brings their unique flair to the discussion: Jess passionately advocates for the significance of purpose in leadership, Jeannette shares her insights on the art of effective communication and the power of self-promotion, while Isioma focuses on achieving impactful results that truly matter.
Whether you lead a department, are a valued team member, operate as an entrepreneur, or work as a consultant guiding others, this conversation will highlight the essential role you play in your leadership journey.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The depth of your knowledge opens up new opportunities. The more you learn, the more you realize there's so much left to explore, which is why curiosity is key. Asking questions like, "What's going on behind this process?" or "What discoveries can help our industry improve?" is crucial. Also, consider what we might be doing that could inadvertently create new problems for our customers.
Sometimes, the way our industry works can be frustrating, which might motivate us to develop solutions to address its shortcomings. To make this happen, it's super important to have a team that's not only knowledgeable but also curious about new ways to do things. Even with a great team, we need to commit to using the info we have, looking for knowledge gaps, and connecting with experts who have a deep understanding of the field. This teamwork can highlight areas that are ready for product and process innovation.
In this podcast episode, you'll find out how to build a successful business by shaking up the foundation repair industry and pushing for better solutions for those who need them. You'll also see how a curious mindset has led to patents and inventions that have changed the game in this sector.
Your host, Jess Dewell, chats with RK Bob Brown, Founder of Spatial Vision, to discuss the importance of focusing on one solid idea and using that strength to drive growth.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Yesterday's playbook is useless for tomorrow's problems. Smart companies evolve their people, keep clarity around priorities, navigate uncertainty and grow.
The Gauntlet of Growth for sustainable growth has six parts: sharpening focus, calibrating culture, strengthening leadership, elevating talent, aligning structures, and amplifying communication. These insights are derived from hands-on work with high-growth companies that help founders and leaders scale their organizations.
In this episode, you will learn what it truly means to navigate change, how your role as a CEO evolves alongside your company, and the importance of aligning your actions throughout the organization to create a stronger company.
Jess Dewell talks with PeopleCap Advisors, Co-Founders Meg Crosby, Principal, and Howard Cleveland, Leadership Coach and Confidante, about how to lead in uncharted territory amid rapidly changing markets. They discuss what it means to be BOLD in your willingness to adapt as a founder, emphasizing the value of experimenting, failing, and learning to make confident decisions in new situations.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Are you responsible FOR your team or TO them? It takes courage to confront and transform the internalized shame and disgust that can affect our ability to harness anger as a force for good.
The next time you experience feelings of anger or shame, take a moment to pause and ask yourself, "Is this truly mine, or did I absorb it from someone else?" You may be surprised by what you find. This reflects the underlying myths society holds about anger. Any unresolved feelings of anger or shame could negatively impact your well-being, hinder your focus, and affect your business's bottom line. Self-accountability starts with recognizing and channeling your emotions as fuel for growth.
In this program, you will learn that you are only responsible for your own feelings, how to distinguish between healthy and reactive anger, and the importance of doing the necessary self-work (behind the scenes) to become whole. This enables you to show up fully in the world.
Jess Dewell speaks with Bronwyn Schweigerdt, a psychotherapist and host of the "Angry at the Right Things" podcast, about the role of emotions, how to transform shame into strength, and how to be BOLD by building self-trust and using emotions for assertive action.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Business teams thrive or struggle based on the attitude of their leadership. As a leader, you have the power to influence and uplift your team's environment, creating a significant impact through clear internal communication and a strong external presence.
Are you building an opportunity or obstacle into your company culture? Both conscious and unconscious beliefs shape self-image, behavior, and relationships. By managing your self-talk, you can control your outcomes. It's possible to take action that shifts your mindset so you—and your organization — can bounce back stronger each time.
In this episode, you will learn that it's okay to return to familiar strategies to achieve progress. Your beliefs shape and dictate your actions, and we will discuss the steps to becoming a conscious creator.
Join Jess Dewell and Coach Cudjo, President of Human Optimization 3.0, as they explore what it means to be BOLD in tapping into your full potential.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
In the pursuit of success, many people become fixated on future goals, often missing a vital ingredient for achievement: the power of taking a pause. How we manage our time dramatically influences what we can really accomplish.
Welcome to an exciting ENCORE episode of the BOLD Business Podcast! This conversation originally aired on Seeds of Wisdom by author Rachael Wolff.
Jess Dewell, a strategic growth consultant, dives deep into the transformative concept of pausing in the world of business, unravelling what pausing truly means, the incredible power it brings, and how it serves as a strategic tool for more thoughtful decision-making, heightened creativity, and more decisive leadership.
By shifting from reactive to responsive behaviors, you'll discover how a simple pause can pave the way for greater success. Don't miss this opportunity to rethink your approach and embrace the art of the pause!
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Unlock your competitive edge by planning earlier than everyone else. Strategic planning is more than an annual box to check; it is a time to reflect, reorient, and reengage your company with its long-term objectives, and to align today's priorities with them.
The true cost of distraction goes beyond just affecting mental focus; it impacts your bottom line. It's not only about lost productivity; on average, it takes about 23 minutes and 15 seconds to switch between business activities. Even though we are working effectively, the time lost hinders our company from maximizing its available resources.
In this episode, you will hear how not to overthink reflection, the importance of taking time to understand your current position before moving forward, and tips for conducting productive deep work sessions.
The panelists in this "It's Your Business" conversation are all business advisors: Christy Maxfield, President and CEO of Purpose First Advisors; Dean Barta, Founder and CEO of Barta Business Group; and Jess Dewell, Growth Strategist at Red Direction. They discuss a three-part framework designed to unlock your business's growth potential and explore pathways for strategic re-engagement.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Your success relies on your ability to continually grow over time by ensuring that what you do today aligns with your long-term goals. It can be tough, and let's be honest, the word "preparation" often gets a dull reaction. However, without it, you won't fully understand how your current resources can impact the results you're seeking.
Three key factors really drive sustainable growth. First, what are your nonnegotiables? When two things are equally important, one must always take precedence. That shows your priorities and how everything gets done. Second, carve out protected time each week just for strategy—ideally, at least two uninterrupted hours. Third, being adaptable gives you a competitive edge. It's not just about individual adaptability; it's the team's collective response to change that really makes a difference.
In this program, Jess Dewell, a Strategic Growth Consultant at Red Direction and host of the BOLD Business Podcast, shares valuable insights on how to pinpoint your business's core to drive sustainable growth. She discusses strategies for managing growth while navigating the uncertainties associated with complex business issues.
Additionally, Jess explores how a well-defined growth strategy can help your company remain competitive in the market. She breaks down the three main ideas behind an effective growth strategy, highlighting the essential components for managing change and overcoming obstacles.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
There are invisible signals that differentiate bold business moves from costly mistakes. Calculated risks — financial, emotional, and strategic — unlock opportunities.
In today's fast-paced environment, modern businesses need to embrace rapid change, particularly with the rise of AI. Start by focusing on what you know best: the strengths of your business, yourself, and your partners. Then, analyze how AI is impacting your industry and how your customers' needs and purchasing behaviors are evolving.
In this episode, you will learn how to identify clues that indicate success or failure. You'll discover the importance of honing your skills to recognize when you're out of your depth and learn how to determine what results signify success. Remember, business success today is not defined by the same paths as in the past. The saying "don't judge a book by its cover" holds truer today than ever.
Jess Dewell speaks with Scott Kelly, CEO of Black Dog Venture Partners, about how to navigate mistakes by listening for your next big opportunity and what it truly means to be BOLD and committed to big moves.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
How do you dare to innovate when there are mouths to feed and mortgages looming? It's time to cut through the theory — real, practical risk-taking is not just bold, it's smart and can lead to significant gains.
Life comes with constraints, but by embracing them, you can shift your perspective and unlock innovative solutions that go beyond the standard "workable" options. It's absolutely possible to pursue your biggest dreams while taking calculated risks that maintain your stability. While pragmatic risk-taking may not have the flashiest reputation, its potential for substantial, long-term rewards is undeniable.
In this episode, we dive into the reality of situational decision-making. Discover how to stay in tune with your business even from afar and learn how to rethink constraints to make the best choices for your next step.
Jess Dewell sits down with Rich Kahn, CEO and Co-Founder of Anura Solutions, LLC, to explore the art of controlled risk, the power of being BOLD, and the clarity needed to achieve your goals. Don't miss this opportunity to be inspired to take your risks strategically!
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Not every industry trend is worth chasing after. How you allocate your time is something you can truly manage.
Leverage your experience to step up and embrace new, riskier challenges. Your time is your most valuable asset, and being open to failure demonstrates to yourself and your superiors that you are willing to take risks and explore new opportunities.
As technology evolves at lightning speed, stepping into situations that highlight your cross-functional curiosity can help you build essential skills while sharpening your business instincts.
In this program, you'll learn about the critical need for two-way communication when making significant decisions. Just because your competitors are doing it doesn't mean your company should follow suit. Remember, time is your only true currency, so use it wisely.
Jess Dewell discusses with Mahesh Guruswamy, Technical Advisor at Luster, the importance of being BOLD and the courage to raise your hand and accept complex business challenges.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The decisions you sidestep often carry the heaviest consequences. Embracing a "NO" can lead uncovering your greatest victories. Taking small, bold actions consistently over time equips you for the more significant leaps ahead.
Your mindset around confidence, setbacks, and daily activities can determine whether your business succeeds or fails. It's high time to stop shying away from the information that enriches your decision-making process. Those cozy chairs may remain unnoticed until you actively seek them out.
This conversation is about the importance of reaching out to the right people about your strategic ideas, as this can often be a limiting factor. Furthermore, you'll learn that developing your own decision-making framework is crucial for engaging with your growth strategy. It's all about taking consistent actions that enable your company to push forward, refine which ideas to explore, and then experiment with them.
In this UNCHARTED episode, Jess Dewell speaks with Rosco Graves Jr., Managing Director at Polaxis. They discuss the vital balance of optimism and realism necessary to confront the discomfort that comes with scaling, and what makes it BOLD to step away from the temptation of easy wins.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The potential of your business has a gatekeeper: the day-to-day conversations you engage in. From great ideas that never take off to the changes that promises bring, understanding our own communication patterns can help unlock growth.
Meaningful conversation is rooted in self-development and an open-minded approach to understanding others' perspectives. While there are many correct choices to make, only one can be selected at a time. It’s important to ensure that the choices and promises made—whether to ourselves, our teams, or our company—support the future of the business rather than hinder it.
In this episode, you will learn how to identify cues that require closer attention, the true impact of promises on the bottom line, and how slowing down just a little can enhance your chances of success.
Jess Dewell speaks with Chuck Wisner, CEO of Wisner Inc., about what bold companies do to turn conflict into growth and how to break through conversational patterns that can sabotage innovation.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
What would you do to forgive yourself and unlock your business' true potential? This is achievable when you regularly engage in honest assessment without judgment.
Servant leadership combines compassion with a strong focus on accountability. It involves genuinely caring for both the employees and the community your organization serves, while also maintaining high standards and holding everyone accountable for results. This approach requires self-awareness, enabling you to foster a culture of accountability where everyone can thrive.
In the launch of Season 9 of the BOLD Business Podcast, you'll discover that it is indeed possible to identify areas in need of improvement and make significant changes. You can reach for greatness because it is a tangible goal, and you can embrace your imperfections while forgiving your past self.
Jess Dewell talks with Tom Gegax, Gramercy Fund / Confessions of a CEO Film, about why it is BOLD to break the current expectation of what a CEO's role is.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The way you develop and execute goals, choose connections to form relationships, and overcome limiting beliefs may be at odds with your definition of success.
There are pitfalls associated with the power of goal setting, but you can begin right where you are. Question the goals you set to ensure they genuinely reflect your aspirations and are free from family or societal expectations. Discard any ego-driven goals to uncover your authentic objectives. By cultivating deep, meaningful relationships, you can build a support system that helps you courageously confront limiting beliefs while staying true to your authentic self.
When you demonstrate genuine care and value for others, you create a cycle of positive, impactful relationships at all levels, which in turn fuels your goals.
In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, you’ll learn that relationships are central to everything in life. Your dreams matter, so it’s essential to articulate them clearly for yourself. Every business has a plan, as you've already answered THE question.
It’s time to tap into the human aspect of goal setting by listening to the conversation between Jess Dewell and David Steele, Founder / CEO of One Wealth Advisors and Co-Founder / Executive Chairman of Flour + Water Hospitality Group. They discuss the human elements of goal setting, and David emphasizes the importance of rigorously examining your own goals to ensure they are authentic and not based on ego or external pressure.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Partnerships play a vital role in the future of your business, whether you're just launching or you've been in the game for years. Interestingly, companies often fail not because of a poor idea, but rather due to partnerships that go awry.
In this episode of "It's Your Business," Jess Dewell, a strategic growth consultant, Christy Maxfield, a business consultant and Dean Barta, a financial advisor, offer valuable insights to help you strengthen your relationships, minimize risks, and secure your business's future.
They explore the often-overlooked potential of curiosity and mutual accountability, guiding you through five essential steps to evaluate your current partnership.
By doing so, you'll be equipped to engage in meaningful conversations with your partners. This approach transcends mere pleasantries, diving into the complex yet crucial discussions that can truly make or break your business.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Commitment is truly your driving force. The extent of your commitment shapes the forward-thinking perspective that prepares you for effective change management.
Achieving product-market fit is crucial, even for established businesses, as customer needs and perceptions continuously evolve. By asking curious, probing questions, you can stay attuned to hidden opportunities or quick wins within your operations. Are you challenging your thoughts regularly?
In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, you will discover how documenting processes can simplify complexity, tackle the significant challenges faced by CEOs, and reveal the depth of insights that data can provide for decision-making.
Jess Dewell engages in conversation with La Tonya Roberts, Fractional COO at Harmony Consulting Group, discussing the importance of believing in yourself and remaining steadfast in your commitment—especially when it seems that no one else shares your vision. Together, they explore why it takes BOLDness to stay true to your vision amidst change.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
In today’s marketplace, understanding your numbers is more than just a survival skill; it’s essential for having honest and productive conversations with clients, as it provides clear evidence of where bottlenecks exist and why they occur.
Pursuing excellence often means taking risks, particularly in the constantly evolving supply chain landscape. Embracing failure is a crucial step toward discovering the best path forward, and committing to continuous improvement is vital.
While the idea of ongoing improvement can feel overwhelming, it encourages collaboration on how to enhance our processes and work with clients to uncover optimization and new opportunities.
In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, you’ll discover that rapid changes are necessary to uphold standards and get the job done. By leveraging data and technology, you can identify problems and explore possibilities, while maintaining a clear focus on your goals to avoid confusion about opportunities.
Jess Dewell engages in a conversation with Colby Varley, Vice President - Partner at Advanced Transportation Services, discussing how he navigates the constant changes in the dynamic world of transportation logistics — from overcoming unexpected hurdles during peak holiday shipping periods to utilizing data to foster trust and long-lasting client relationships. He emphasizes that it’s BOLD to embrace change by thoroughly understanding your business.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The “grind” is often romanticized, yet there exists a wealth of joy, fulfillment, and accomplishment waiting for you beyond the brink of burnout.
Challenging your internal beliefs, especially the limiting ones, can feel daunting and overwhelming. Simply posing the question, “What else is possible?” provides a brief pause — just a moment is all it takes to reconnect with your core values and make intentional choices about how to engage in the present. Fortunately, there’s a science-backed approach that can help shift the direction of your life.
In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, you’ll discover that burnout is a stress disorder and learn how to move away from a zero-sum mentality. Instead, you’ll focus on cultivating hypervigilance and awareness, understanding that the human body is designed to handle stress, which unfolds in stages with a beginning, middle, and end.
Jess Dewell engages with Scott Anderson, Burnout Breakthrough by Doubledare Coaching, to discuss the reality of burnout as an extension of stress that can be transformed. They explore why self-care alone is insufficient and may even exacerbate feelings of burnout, emphasizing that an internal mindset reset is the true key to overcoming burnout.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
What happens when you choose the less obvious or counterintuitive option at a fork in the road? The way you recognize the choice before you and how you approach making that decision can significantly impact what comes next. Establishing a routine is helpful; making and keeping promises to yourself is essential, and believing in yourself is a necessity.
In this episode of UNCHARTED, you will discover the benefits of keeping promises to yourself, how to embrace the unknown at each fork in the road, and how to reflect on your actions to see how you are shaping the future. You’ll also learn to leverage the momentum that comes from small successes, which can accumulate over time.
Jess Dewell speaks with Tessa Thomas, Co-Founder of Pipeline Solutions, about harnessing the power of persistence and resilience in uncertain times, as well as what makes it BOLD to walk the less-travelled path.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Who truly holds the responsibility for your company culture? More importantly, does that person have the authority to shape and steer their development, or is it merely lip service?
To remain competitive and forge your own future, your organization will benefit from a clearly defined, actionable culture plan that everyone rallies around. Dedicating time and effort to outline and evaluate this plan is essential for fostering a culture that evolves year after year, enhancing your competitive edge in the process. It all begins with defining your core values.
In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, Jess Dewell welcomes Brett Hoogeveen, Co-Founder of BetterCulture, to discuss the often-overlooked 20% of culture, exploring what it encompasses and how to leverage it to outshine your competition. They also explore how to embody your core values to cultivate a lasting, growth-driven organizational culture.
You’ll discover who is best positioned to take ownership of your organization’s culture, gain two foundational questions to evaluate the strength of your engaged culture, and understand the significance of internal conversations for staying aligned with your plan.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Every choice has a consequence — success is intentional. The decisions we make for our companies have a ripple effect on society and the environment.
Interdependency exists in everything. Our businesses require customers to stay in business. Additionally, having options to access materials and technologies is essential for delivering goods and services. There are many interdependent parts of a company, and recognizing each point where we connect with people and entities outside our own orbit is empowering.
This depth of knowledge allows for curiosity and an understanding of how business is conducted, enabling you to make informed decisions knowing you have the correct information at your disposal.
In this program, you will hear that every choice has a consequence, that business success is intentional, and how to discern the signal in the noise using feedback loops. The biggest pitfalls of filtering information are that the filter may use unrecognized ideology or confirmation bias.
Your host, Jess Dewell, talks with Kevin Howard, Principal Consultant at Climate Changes Everything®, LLC, about how leadership is evolving and how, even in the midst of change, with planning, you can shape the success of your future.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Are you tired of constantly playing catch-up in a fast-changing market? This BOLD Business Podcast Panel discusses how to unlock your team’s potential by fostering a creative and proactive business environment.
Discover how empowering your team to think proactively and solve problems creatively can reveal hidden growth opportunities and turn uncertainty into a competitive advantage.
Your host, Jess Dewell, leads a discussion on how maintaining curiosity, receptiveness, and an openness to new ideas — regardless of experience level — can help organisations stay competitive.
Join Jess and her guests, Brad Englert, Founder of Brad Englert Advisory; Grace Gavin, Co-Founder of Know Honesty; and Dr. Yaniv Zaid, CEO and Consultant at Dr. Persuasion, as they explore three key topics:
Perfection is the Enemy of Progress: Quit waiting for people to speak up with bold, creative ideas — the hard truth: your company culture might be scaring creativity into silence. Learn how to flip the script and empower every voice, not just the loudest.
From Command-and-Control to Trust-and-Inspire: Your leadership style can determine whether your business stays relevant or gets left behind. Hear real stories from leaders who broke out of the old-school, top-down mold — and what happened to the ones who couldn’t.
Failure is the New Secret Weapon: What if you ran a “Failure Lab” at your company? Discover why sharing stories of screw-ups — not just wins — could be the untapped source of innovation and resilience your business needs right now.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Ignoring small problems now can lead to significant costs later. Are you hoping your team's missteps, inefficiencies, or cultural issues will just “work themselves out”?
In this episode of "It's Your Business," host Jess Dewell, a strategic growth consultant, is joined by Dean Barta, a financial advisor, and Christy Maxfield, a business consultant. They discuss how to identify the silent signals of larger issues and what to do when “business as usual” is no longer effective. They offer practical approaches and share hard-earned lessons from their direct experiences.
You will learn:
- Why overlooking small misalignments holds your team back and can even halt projects altogether.
- How to recognize the issues you may be ignoring.
- The skills you need to develop or enhance.
- How to engage in healthy confrontation that leads to better decision-making.
When you confront the actual conditions of your business, supported by data, you gain more value than simply relying on hopeful but unfounded narratives.
Use your voice with courage. Whether you're a CEO, consultant, or team leader, you'll gain actionable insights on embracing difficult truths, leading with intention, and creating lasting momentum.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or the Red Direction website.
Technology integration offers a significant benefit to companies and organizations that prioritize customer experience as a core component of their business operations, enabling them to maintain a competitive edge.
The delicate balance between optimization and deep connection to customers is where today’s marketplace will separate companies that succeed now from those that succeed in the long run.
It is time to ensure that you are flipping the script and prioritizing the experience and convenience of customer buying paths in your strategic growth decisions.
In this program, you will hear what it takes to design your tech stack for user experience, that big data is less important today than thick data (and what that means for your company), and that creating your company’s future relevance requires monitoring customer relationships in new ways.
Jess Dewell discusses AI and Intuitive Leadership with Krishna Raj Raja, Founder and CEO of SupportLogic, about the necessary elements to design customer experiences into the integration of new and emerging technologies, and why it is BOLD to future-proof your business by elevating customer experience.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset“ approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Stamina is the new leadership approach, focusing on intentional quick wins to build your team’s confidence and maintain progress in today’s unpredictable marketplace.
Accountability is not only essential, it is everything. A shift in mindset involves claiming the outcome as your choice, taking responsibility for the outcomes that have occurred, and recognizing that radical accountability is crucial for creating lasting relevance for your company.
In this program, you will learn to fully embrace every action as your choice, be intentional, and claim accountability. You will discover that the challenging path is what builds resilience. Intentionality, combined with unconventional thinking, is essential for navigating through chaos.
Jess Dewell speaks with Ralph H. Groce III, President and Chief Operating Officer at Scroobious, about how today’s leadership demands boldness and the willingness to break what is not yet broken.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
To unlock your company’s full potential, it’s essential to prioritize effectively while keeping an eye on future growth amidst everyday demands.
You’re bombarded with advice, ideas, data, and they all can be urgent — but the actions chosen underpin your company’s relevance and growth. It is up to you to decide what is practical and pragmatic and prioritize those actions. Leading with limits is crucial for your business.
Ideas, plans, ROI expectations are all part of the beginning. Once decisions are made, everyone gets moving — without knowing what the end looks like. Start adding endings before implementation begins. Without endings, even the best-run teams fall short and don’t quite make it to the finish (because there isn’t one!).
The outcomes of a growth strategy hinge on what we choose to prioritize. Our priorities reflect our values, and these values shape our work culture. Our achievements multiply when we deepen our understanding of each other and how we collaborate.
In this program, you will learn the power of using “no” as a boundary, why to create endings to achieve more, and why Present Retreat™ is the most powerful strategic tool amidst daily demands. Jess Dewell, Managing Partner at Red Direction and your host, shares with you why it is BOLD to focus on doing as much impactful as possible.
Here’s what to expect:
- Boundaries are important, and saying NO is a crucial boundary.
- Quick changes and our never-ending to-do lists often lead to burnout.
- Strategies for managing too many good ideas.
- The Present Retreat: a powerful strategic tool at your disposal.
- Focus on impactful work — now and in the near future, balancing both interest and influence.
By making small shifts, you can create lasting positive impacts that build on the work you’ve already accomplished while leveraging existing skills and strengths.
If you recognize that you’re already steering the direction of your company’s future, this is the moment to pay attention — your breakthrough moments for future growth can come from making intentional choices among the wealth of ideas and advice surrounding you.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset“ approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Welcome to this special episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, where we’ll walk you through the highlights of the Finance Innovation and Excellence Summit - AmeriEuro 2025 (FInEx AmeriEuro 2025). This groundbreaking event has become a pivotal moment for the global finance community, hosted by Steve Rosvold, the innovative founder of CFO.University, alongside strategic growth consultant Jess Dewell.
Steve has dedicated his career to transforming financial data into actionable insights, with a strong passion for empowering finance professionals to lead with confidence, think boldly, and make a lasting impact.
If you’re passionate about creating meaningful change as a CFO or finance leader, tune in to this summary to gain insights from global finance experts. They shared their thoughts on leading with agility, leveraging data, managing risks, and embracing innovation. An impressive lineup of speakers delved into the dynamic landscape of finance, exploring key themes such as Talent, Agile Finance, AI, Data & Analytics, Risk Management, and the Evolving Role of the CFO.
Additional resources:
FInEx AmeriEuro - Panel 1 - AI and the CFO’s Role in Driving Organizational Success
FInEx AmeriEuro - Panel 2 - Guardians of the Bottom Line - Risk Strategies for CFOs
FInEx AmeriEuro - Panel 3 - The Innovation Imperative: Transforming Data into Value
FInEx AmeriEuro - Panel 4 - From Talent to Triumph – Driving Success Through People
FInEx AmeriEuro - Panel 5 Finance on the Fly - Agility as a Competitive Edge
FInEx AmeriEuro - Panel 6 The CFO’s Vision Shaping the Financial Landscape of Tomorrow
CFOs of Tomorrow: Lessons from the FInEx AmeriEuro Summit with Jess Dewell & Steve Rosvold
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Do you have confidence in your team's ability to deliver — or do you continually find yourself covering for them? In this episode of "It's Your Business," we take a closer look at one of the most vital — yet often misunderstood — elements of business development: accountability.
Discover how genuine accountability fosters trust, scalability, and a strong performance culture from the insights shared by Jess Dewell, the show host and strategic growth consultant; Dean Barta, financial advisor; and Christy Maxfield, business consultant.
They discuss how accountability turns ambitious objectives into concrete, measurable outcomes and clarify what accountability genuinely signifies in today's business environment — encompassing personal responsibility and dedication, as well as nurturing trust and encouraging successful collaboration.
You'll receive real-life examples, practical advice, tips for cultivating a culture where everyone comprehends and embraces their responsibilities, and insights into overcoming challenges directly — whether your team operates remotely, in a hybrid model, or face-to-face.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Don’t just showcase your business as it might be — celebrate as it truly is! Highlighting the distinct offerings that address the specific challenges your company tackles is crucial.
Let’s face it: subscription models aren’t always the panacea for digital content. To navigate the complexities of monetization effectively, engaging with the real challenges and finding solutions that resonate with your unique work style is vital. As you embark on this exploration, you’ll uncover valuable insights that will sharpen your approach to pricing in an ever-evolving landscape.
In this episode of UNCHARTED, discover the genuine cost of subscription fatigue and learn how to strategically choose marketing solutions that align with your company's mission. Join Jess Dewell in a thought-provoking conversation with Bob Bowdon, the visionary founder of VidaFair, who shares his journey in connecting with underrepresented markets.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
How much does your ego hold back your company’s growth? It might be more than you realize. You could stunt your company’s potential without a commitment to ongoing learning and a clear intention to achieve your most significant ambitions.
We know a lot about running a business yet often fail to act on it. The reasons behind this are numerous, but as days, months, and years pass, the rapid changes in technology, compliance, and planning are closely tied to your company's ability to remain relevant. This hinges on the proactive steps you take to evaluate and adapt to the evolution of your organization.
In this episode, you’ll hear about valuable life lessons that carry over into the business world, how to engage in meaningful conversations while balancing your thoughts and feelings, and the critical importance of asking tough questions about disruption (as it can arise from unexpected sources).
Your host, Jess Dewell, sits down with Rohit Maini, the managing director at Apex Accountancy, to discuss the importance of being bold in the decisions you face today. He shares his journey of navigating company growth, both with and without the influence of his ego.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The rules of business are constantly evolving – and it doesn't matter what industry you're in. To stay ahead, we must shift our focus from merely keeping up with the competition to setting the standard ourselves. Innovation isn't just a buzzword; it's the key to relevance and longevity in the marketplace.
Consider this: according to the Wild Newsletter, a staggering 52% of Fortune 500 companies have either faced bankruptcy, been acquired, or disappeared entirely due to stagnation. The cost of inaction is far too high.
So, how can your business ignite change, disrupt the status quo, and lead the way in your sector?
This is a crucial question—because failing to innovate can spell disaster.
In this episode of "It's Your Business," join Christy Maxfield, President and CEO of Purpose First Advisors, Dean Barta, Founder and CEO of Barta Business Group, and your host, Jess Dewell, Managing Partner at Red Direction. Together, they dive into three key areas that will help you navigate the whirlwind of change your business faces:
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Discover the catalyst that will drive your change.
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Learn how to identify trends that shape your priorities and decisions.
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Explore existing resources and strengths you can leverage for sustainable change.
You'll walk away with insights to tackle the pivotal question: How can our businesses not just keep pace but become the catalytic force, the disruptor, and the standard-setter, ensuring we remain relevant and drive our industry forward? Tune in and get ready to innovate!
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Reframe the rules you follow to build a future-ready business by identifying what you don’t want and shifting your mindset to be growth-oriented.
Productivity is not just about efficiency or organization. True productivity stems from intentional behaviors and habits that align with the needs of both you and your team. Business positioning is not a one-time effort; it’s an ongoing process that evolves alongside your business.
In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, you will hear real experiences that illustrate what it takes to run, evolve, and scale a growing business. Discover how growth occurs when we adapt and change our approaches, what the “voice of success” sounds like, and gain insights to strengthen your five- to 10-year outlook. Learn how daily planning can still accommodate the unexpected.
In this conversation with Jess Dewell, Amber De La Garza, The Productivity Specialist, shares her experiences of successfully growing a business through both internal and external challenges.
Amber discusses how her pivot from being an “organization consultant” to an “efficiency consultant” transformed her business by allowing her to communicate in her clients’ language. She emphasizes the importance of staying true to long-term goals, even in tough times and what it means to be BOLD by being consistent and vigilant about maximizing your time.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Legacy isn’t just about the wealth you leave behind; it’s about the leaders you cultivate in the present.
Building trust takes time, interaction, and navigating frustrations together. When team members feel free to express their emotions and challenges, it fosters a healthier workplace dynamic and enhances problem-solving.
This mindset enables organizations to set ambitious goals, take ownership, commit to continuous learning, and achieve consistent results — this is the formula for bold leadership.
In this episode, you’ll discover what the Power of Four is and how to apply it, dive deeper into self-reflection to find ways to provide more value, and explore the significance of diverse perspectives in driving innovation.
Jess Dewell talks with Mark Mears, Founder & Chief Growth Officer at LEAF Growth Ventures LLC, discussing his insights on how giving back can alleviate struggles, speed up growth, and inspire future generations within your organization. They also reveal why it’s BOLD to learn how to achieve your most significant goals.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
How many times do you hit a wall before you ask for help? While this can be a strength, there are a few universal situations where the downside of not asking for help has a big impact.
While generally a strength, there are situations where not asking for help can have significant negative effects.
Knowing how you have designed your business directly impacts why and how you may exit. Understanding what has been built is necessary to understand the reality of selling and what preparation may help find a buyer for your legacy. Business ownership is fraught with challenges and surprises; none of your experiences have to be regrets.
In this program, you will hear how experience is found in all luck that comes your way, how knowing yourself makes spotting when you are comparing yourself and your business to others easier, and a strategy for staying focused by saying “no” more.
Jess Dewell talks with Saul Cohen, Accountant & Acquisitions Advisor at The Expert Eye, about the difference between scaling and stalling business growth and why it is BOLD to accept and embrace the company you built and look at it through a lens of abundance.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
To stay laser-focused on your goals, it’s vital to grasp the foundational principles that lead to meaningful professional and personal success.
Self-confidence is key to asking the right questions, doing the right work, and finding the right support along your journey. Embracing failures is an essential part of this journey, particularly when it comes to getting back up and trying again. Ultimately, living in alignment with your values will help you navigate the challenges you face.
“Aim small, miss small” is a guiding principle from Justin Goodbread, CEO of Financially Simple. In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, Jess Dewell hosts Justin to discuss the courage it takes to fervently believe in your goals and the impact of pursuing success with determination.
You’ll discover the truth about self-deception, what you might need to release to grow, and the strength that comes from cutting out distractions to focus on one key goal.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Each experience may not seem significant on its own; however, these experiences can reveal powerful trends over time. Accumulating your experiences can spark creativity and encourage you to take calculated risks.
This conversation challenges you to embrace the learning curve in both business and leadership. You will hear about the faces of regret and how to overcome them, the importance of defining your comfort zone when it comes to risk, and the value of allowing yourself to be inexperienced or even "bad" at something in the early stages of learning. This discussion will guide you in transforming your business strategy: uncover the 'art of magic' in advertising and leadership while breaking free from the constraints of what you should or could have done.
In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, Jess Dewell engages with Jimi Gibson, the VP of Brand Communication at Thrive Agency. Together, they explore why being new or struggling at something is a crucial step toward achieving greatness through intentional, bold actions and how to maintain a forward-looking perspective when trying new things.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
How do you maneuver through the ever-present uncertainty in today’s business landscape? The foundation is constantly changing, and external perspectives will influence our choices if we fail to assert our business narrative.
In this episode of “It's Your Business,” we examine the essence of business resilience and investigate how to clarify a company's capacity for adaptation, take charge of your distinct story, and create the future you desire, beginning now.
Don’t simply respond to change; learn to proactively direct your business’s future.
Tune in to learn actionable strategies for linking past choices to future progress, prioritizing a long-range vision, confronting a passive stance towards uncertainty, and grasping how to foster a culture of ongoing improvement.
Christy Maxfield, President and CEO of Purpose First Advisors, Dean Barta, Founder and CEO of Barta Business Group, and your host, Jess Dewell, Managing Partner at Red Direction, share insights on the significance of boldly taking ownership of your company's narrative as you face uncertainty and embrace opportunities.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Your instincts are a culmination of experiences and silent calculations. When your gut nudges you, take a moment to pause and listen — you might uncover insights you hadn’t consciously realized.
“No egos are welcome here.” To be able to work together, experiencing healthy conflict builds team trust and camaraderie. The experiences and creativity of everyone on the team allow for innovation while staying focused on the project’s finish line. More creativity and more problem-solving approaches result in the desired outcome.
In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, Jess Dewell interviews Elizabeth Bieniek, an author, speaker, and consultant. They discuss how to tap into your gut feelings as part of the decision-making process, how embracing constraints can lead to genuine innovation, and how the art of leadership transparency can protect the team from unnecessary stress while maximizing their potential to excel.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
When it comes to making decisions, balancing speed and strategy is crucial. The way we make informed choices directly reflects our risk tolerance and self-confidence.
Sometimes, the priority isn't just staying ahead of the curve; it's about ensuring the company's survival. Understanding your current position in the business journey is key to setting goals and focusing on the right priorities that can drive meaningful change. A hint: it is about slowing down, actually pausing, to speed up.
In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast UNCHARTED, Jess Dewell sits down with Amanda Cromar, the Camanda in Chief at COMtuity. They discuss Amanda's journey of taking time to reflect and how to inspire others to embrace change in a disrupted market.
Listen in to discover the importance of looking at long-term horizons for strategic growth, the advantages of making thoughtful decisions, and the signals that indicate when a quick choice might be appropriate.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Feeling stuck in the small game? The world can embrace BOLD changes without requiring drastic overhauls (which happen often enough).
When it comes to our strategic growth, we focus on profits, clients, and building support networks. No matter what challenges you’re currently facing—because every business hits roadblocks at different stages—there are adequate processes you can adopt that will help you navigate the opportunities and manage the risks ahead in the next 12 to 18 months.
Join us in this BOLD Business Program, where you’ll discover the five essential steps to ensure any business thrives, gain insights on leveraging financial information, and learn the skills you can implement right now that will transform your approach.
Jess Dewell engages with Michael Barbarita, President of NEXT STEP CFO, to discuss how to develop crucial mindsets and strategies that can benefit you immediately. Learn why it’s BOLD to invest in making smarter business choices.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Dynamic goal setting and decision-making support the necessary action needed for achievement. Uncertainty is normal, and at times heightened by what is going on within your world — in addition to what may be happening nationally and globally. Shaping your risk comfort zone will help you navigate during times of high pressure and low mental/emotional capacity.
Risk tolerance is a skill that you can build. It will come from experience (from action), learning (from other’s mistakes), and letting go (scenario planning and delegation). Your risk comfort zone isn’t something to set and forget — it is something that evolves with you, your team, your company, and your trusted advisors. The collective will provide information to help you be decisive in decision-making and align business goals with how your business fits into life goals.
Dive into the secrets of maintaining confidence in times of uncertainty. Discover practical strategies to turn your “what ifs” into “what nexts” and drive your company forward, even when the path seems unclear. Join Christy Maxfield, President and CEO at Purpose First Advisors, Dean Barta, Founder and CEO at Barta Business Group, and me (Jess Dewell, Managing Partner and Growth Strategist at Red Direction) live for a discussion about what makes it BOLD to identify your “risk comfort zone” and expand it strategically.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
How can you develop a mindset that prioritizes influence and adaptability instead of rigid control? Establishing a clear mission helps focus your attention, aligning your goals with your aspirations.
You can positively channel fear to foster your growth by pushing past limitations that arise from embracing challenges. Understanding who you are can significantly aid you in navigating the unpredictable, whether it’s expected events or unforeseen circumstances, keeping your momentum toward your goals. Remember to continually reassess and make adjustments as necessary.
In this program, you’ll learn how claiming your true north fosters adaptability, how to maintain a realistic view of your goals, and how to identify what might be masquerading as progress but is actually holding you back.
Jess Dewell hosts Carrie Haines, a Mortgage Broker at Movement Mortgage, Jevoy Palmer, the CEO of Palmer House Productions, and Debra Eckerling, Goal Strategist and Author at The DEB Method. They will share experiences on how they embraced their identities, navigated life’s twists and turns, and why it’s important to be BOLD in adapting while maintaining focus on what you can control.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Human behavior is a fascinating journey—always evolving and incredibly dynamic. It takes real bravery to connect with others and to truly share our stories, including the lessons we've learned from our experiences.
Every aspect of your life has you in it. You are on a universal journey of continuous self-improvement. Perspective is the result. But to truly see things clearly, we need to dig a little deeper. It means embracing both the highs and lows, choosing valuable lessons to learn from, and actively deciding how to show up as our best selves, no matter our past. This is where true fulfillment resides.
In this program, you'll discover a powerful approach to openness, learn when it's time to rewrite the rules and understand how to nurture yourself during profound personal development.
Join Jess Dewell as she chats with Steve Utech, CEO and Founder of illumyx, about the art of intentional and effective communication. They explore how embracing authenticity and openness can make you a stronger leader.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
In a world where knowledge is at our fingertips, achieving our goals hinges on how we leverage that information. It’s not just about what we know but how we apply it to propel ourselves forward.
Take the time to reflect on your recent and past experiences, and use those insights to fine-tune your actions in pursuit of your aspirations. Clearly articulating your goals is a vital stepping stone on the road to success.
In this program, you’ll hear about the art of extracting valuable insights to fuel our experiments and drive us toward our objectives. You’ll learn to reframe challenges that arise, helping you stay grounded in the present while gaining a dual perspective — both from within your business and from an external viewpoint.
Join Jess Dewell as she sits down with Tom Schwab, Founder and Chief Evangelist Officer at Interview Valet. Together, they explore how to make the most of each day, focusing on the work you're most passionate about and the impact you want to create.
Tom emphasizes the power of being intentional and leading with gratitude, as these approaches can open doors to your next big breakthrough — often just one conversation away. Remember, when your heart is deeply invested in something, pursue it relentlessly. As a wise friend once told Tom: “Don't die not knowing.” Embrace your journey and strive to uncover your potential!
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Consistent effort to do the right work pays off. Clear metrics, a commitment to how tasks are accomplished, and ensuring that every team member’s efforts align with the primary objective are key components of strategic growth decisions.
By narrowing the focus, your team can tap into more opportunities for innovation and creativity. Limitations provide pathways to collaborate and work toward a shared goal. Limiting both goals and what is tracked ensures decision-making on what projects and ideas to explore, as well as measuring their efficacy.
In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, you’ll discover the importance of measuring outcomes and making difficult choices about what to let go. Learn how to select performance indicators that reflect the entire company and prioritize the right work.
Join Jess Dewell in conversation with Troy Munson, CEO of Dimmo, to hear all about how strategic prioritization can drive revenue growth.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Do you follow these three tips for achieving success?
Relentless learning — both from mistakes and acquiring new skills - separates the good from the great.
The more effort you put into yourself, the stronger your ability to navigate unexpected situations well. We don’t live and work alone, and each connection we have is a choice.
Collaborating and being willing to be vulnerable is a necessary part of the human-to-human connection, regardless if you are talking to one person or thousands of people.
Listen to this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast if you want to learn how to use:
- Fear to fuel success
- Competition for mutual benefit
- Your ability to identify and remove beliefs that hold you back
Jess Dewell engages in an open discussion with Dr. Yaniv Zaid, CEO and speaker at Dr. Persuasion, about various strategies for continuous self-improvement, product innovation, and business growth.
They share real-world examples of achieving success by cultivating mental strength, addressing the problem before presenting the solution, and creating a supportive community of peers. This approach helps combat loneliness and enables individuals to achieve their greatest goals.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset“ approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
To remain competitive in rapidly changing markets, leveraging emerging technology is just part of the solution. Equally important is the human element that holds the vision for your company's future, ensuring it remains relevant over time and can anticipate shifting customer expectations.
It's essential to challenge your initial response to emerging technologies as they relate to maintaining a competitive edge in today's marketplace. The clearer you are about what your company does and how it will adapt to keep offering appealing solutions, the better you will understand potential exit strategies. This knowledge can spark curiosity about process improvement and optimization.
In this program, you will learn the importance of identifying what makes your company unique, while also recognizing that your competitors might also present options for revenue growth and exit strategies. Examining how you operate within your business is an excellent starting point for understanding how emerging technologies can fit in.
Join Jess Dewell, Managing Partner at Red Direction, as she hosts an inspiring conversation with Christy Maxfield, President and CEO of Purpose First Advisors, and Dean Barta, Founder and CEO of Barta Business Group to learn how to leverage emerging technologies and stay competitive in today’s fast-paced business world.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Connecting goals with results is what makes a successful company a high-achieving organization.
Your framework for tracking progress is how you direct energy for tangible results. To harness your team's potential, knowing their capabilities, experience, and limitations drives group dynamics and reveals what it takes to optimize working together at an elite level. Everyone is open to stepping out of their comfort zones and challenging assumptions.
In this program, you will learn how to connect your goals to measurable results. You will discover three ways to leverage internal disruption and how to unlock the true potential of your team's achievements.
Jess Dewell interviews Steven Gaffney, CEO of the Steven Gaffney Company, about the importance of fully committing to maximizing your team's potential. They also discuss the significance of becoming a high-achieving organization, especially since leaders are evaluated based on their results.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset“ approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
How adept are you at letting go of what no longer serves you, including perceptions you've adopted from others that may not be true? Growth and learning manifest in various ways, and being intentional about understanding your purpose and identity can significantly inform your decision-making process.
Your resilience is key to navigating adversity. Today, the mental and emotional well-being of leaders and entrepreneurs is crucial for avoiding burnout and achieving success.
In this program, you'll hear about the vital role of intention in doing deep self-work and how to muster the courage to take that first step and gain insights from a co-founder about these lessons. You'll also uncover the importance of personal growth, self-awareness, and ongoing learning in reaching your professional and personal goals.
Jess Dewell engages in conversation with Andrew Dewar, Co-founder at Five Year You, discussing how self-development is essential for ensuring you are aligned with your purpose in work and life, along with effective CEO mindset strategies for success.
Jess Dewell talks with Andrew Dewar, Co-founder of Five Year You, about the importance of defying “norms” to reach one’s goals and why it is BOLD to defy norms.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
What do you do when filled with fear and must move forward? It's essential to recognize that taking the time to engage in meaningful work is vastly different from merely keeping busy with tasks that don't yield positive results.
In this insightful episode of UNCHARTED, host Jess Dewell engages in a deep conversation with Erik Holmberg, the president of Nauvatis Coaching and Consulting.
As an internationally bestselling author and a seasoned business coach, Erik shares invaluable lessons from his own journey. He discusses the strategies and insights while launching his business during a recession filled with challenges and uncertainties. Erik emphasizes the importance of identifying and focusing on the right actions drawn from his experiences in overcoming adversity.
The conversation highlights how to foster resilience, adapt to changing circumstances, and harness the lessons learned from past difficulties. Whether you're a seasoned entrepreneur or just starting out, this episode offers practical advice for thriving in uncertain times by bringing forth the elements that can lead to success.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
In the world of business, even during our most successful periods, we often encounter challenging plateaus. The real question is: how ready are we to spot these moments, respond thoughtfully, and adapt accordingly?
The key lies in our internal and external feedback loops, the network of experts we can tap into, and the strength of our soft skills—they all serve as a roadmap to navigate forward.
In this BOLD Business Podcast ENCORE episode, Jess Dewell, Managing Partner of Operations + Strategy at Red Direction, unveils the five invaluable gifts from experiencing business plateaus. Dive in and discover they can lead you to new opportunities!
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Embracing challenges is an essential part of your journey. Every experience you go through equips you for the unique work you're destined to do. Often, your initial vision evolves into something you could never have anticipated when you finally launch.
Building meaningful connections with a dedicated group of supporters makes it easier to navigate the rollercoaster of ups and downs that life throws your way. It's often in moments of discomfort that you unearth your true potential. Discover what ignites your passion and fills your spirit, and let that be your guiding light as you forge ahead and continue to grow.
In this inspiring episode of UNCHARTED, Jess Dewell sits down with Sarah Dale, Founder of Project 1490. Together, they explore the transformative power of personal growth, and the profound impact of deep, authentic relationships on our success. Listen in as they discuss how to harness your energy, embrace new challenges, and allow your most cherished values to steer you on your path.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Have you considered the resources needed for your computing work? Beyond the creation and delivery of electricity, there is a tangible cost associated with building or utilizing data.
The journey of bringing your organization's values to life begins with you. Significant changes take time—sometimes years or more. One effective way to drive innovation is by integrating continuous questioning into your daily work. Engaging in conversations about topics that affect your business and industry keeps you informed, enabling you to navigate both the challenges and opportunities that arise.
In this BOLD Business Podcast, you'll discover how to confront fear and continue moving forward. Expressing business values is an evolving process, and you'll learn about the transformative power of disruption through innovation. A key part of fostering innovation is scrutinizing what your company does today and finding a balance between growth and sustainability when faced with challenging technological hurdles. Embracing the risks associated with purposeful work and aligning your team with a shared goal can lead to remarkable outcomes.
Join Jess Dewell as she chats with Steve Russell, CEO & Co-Founder at Upstart 13. They explore how to leverage technology to tackle complex business challenges.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Are you your own biggest roadblock to success? Discover how to conquer self-doubt and seize control of your company's future! Join us for an enlightening discussion that will guide you through the tough choices of survival, stability, and growth.
Growth isn't just about increasing revenue—it encompasses many areas, including enhancing your infrastructure, developing skills, attracting top talent, and expanding into new markets.
But be aware: every strategic choice comes with hidden costs. By harnessing the right data, you can empower yourself to make informed decisions that propel your business forward.
In this dynamic program, you'll learn about the power of mindset, how to face the tough choices that lie ahead and gain valuable insights from your own experiences, and you'll find practical tips and tools tailored to your unique growth journey.
Join Jess Dewell, Managing Partner at Red Direction, as she hosts an inspiring conversation with Christy Maxfield, President and CEO of Purpose First Advisors, and Dean Barta, Founder and CEO of Barta Business Group. Together, they'll share how to transform challenges into remarkable opportunities.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
We often underestimate the impact we have just by being ourselves. In a world where information is at our fingertips, it's easy to get lost in the flood of both valuable and misleading content. The tips and insights we share with friends, family, and colleagues can make a difference.
Some subjects remain shrouded in silence due to fear of discussing them, but it's our responsibility to break that barrier and share the knowledge that people desperately need.
We can support each other on our unique journeys by staying informed about the resources available to us.
Join Jess Dewell in a compelling conversation with Suzanne Hobbs as they explore the ins and outs of Safe-Haven laws, the crucial role of accurate information in shaping a better world, and Suzanne's personal journey. Let's work together to empower ourselves and others!
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The future of business success relies heavily on the ability to leverage data effectively. Having access to the right information is crucial for understanding your company's health and ensuring it's adaptable and relevant.
In the face of uncertainty, businesses must focus on what they can control. It's essential to tie key performance indicators to clearly defined objectives. When there's ambiguity about where to invest time, effort, and resources, the costs can add up quickly. That's why having real-time, measurable data is vital for keeping your business's pulse in check and thriving in a competitive landscape.
In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, Jess Dewell speaks with Adam Callinan, CEO of Pentane about his journey as a CEO, focusing on how to build a competitive and resilient business through effective data utilization. You'll learn essential strategies for nurturing a strong company culture, measuring your progress effectively, and aligning your daily activities with your long-term goals.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Discover the power of self-awareness and intentional relationships to drive growth. The key is taking initiatives steeped in openness and honesty for genuine connection with real potential.
Making a commitment to being present and on purpose with every relationship changes everything. Even striving to be mission-driven and unapologetically authentic with great moves, communication is a two-way street. We also have to put aside everything we want to be fully present and hear what others want. Honest communication creates a path forward to overcome challenges along the journey to goal attainment.
In this BOLD Business Podcast, you will hear about the power of bringing in an outside set of eyes, understanding how to take action (or not) on all your thoughts, and the building blocks of having open and honest conversations to build depth and fortify relationships.
Jess Dewell discusses with Grace Gavin, co-founder at Know Honesty, how to create intentional growth opportunities through open and honest communication.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The depth of your knowledge creates opportunity. The more you know, the more you realize you don't know, and curiosity becomes necessary. When asking questions like: what's behind this process, or what new findings for our industry can help us evolve and provide a modern solution, or what are we doing that accidentally creates different or new problems for our customers?
Sometimes, we find ourselves frustrated with how our industry operates, and we build an offering that addresses the shortcomings. To do this well, having a team that brings a depth of knowledge and curiosity about how to do things differently is necessary. Even then, a commitment to leveraging available information, researching the areas that are lacking, and tapping into the knowledge of others with deep expertise in the same area will illuminate where product, invention, and process innovation exists.
In this episode of UNCHARTED, you'll discover how to create a successful business focusing on modernizing the foundation repair industry and advocating for better solutions for those in need. You'll also learn how curiosity has led to patents and inventions that disrupted this field.
Your host, Jess Dewell, sits down with RK Bob Brown, Founder of Spatial Vision, to discuss the importance of excelling at a single focus and leveraging that strength to drive strategic growth.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Accountability is based on boundaries. How well we define, communicate, and engage with them will determine how well we do achieving our goals. Boundaries and constraints help with finding common ground and the right solutions for right now.
One step at a time not only helps us stay present and engaged, each step allows for integration of the information you experience. With information from doing, you can integrate the role of values and coping skills to improve your relationship with yourself. The deeper your self-understanding, the more able you are to keep commitments to yourself.
In this program, you will hear how to negotiate a solution from common ground, how to be accountable, and that leaps are made when everyone has a voice and can move forward together.
Jess Dewell talks with Jan Yuhas and Jillian Yuhas, Relationship Capital & Conflict Resolution Strategists, about using boundaries to reach your goals more effectively and how healthy relationships catapult our ability to succeed.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Have you ever wondered why even the best-laid plans can go wrong?
Your company may have a strong strategy devised by a team of brilliant individuals but still face challenges in making progress. This occurs when there is a disconnect between strategy and implementation, which can be difficult to identify.
Tune in to this episode of "It's Your Business" to explore the common pitfalls that lead to failed strategies and discover practical approaches that successful companies use to translate their plans into tangible, measurable results – strategies you can apply in your business.
Christy Maxfield, President and CEO at Purpose First Advisors; and your host, Jess Dewell, Managing Partner at Red Direction, will guide you in learning how to provide yourself and your team with the tools to overcome obstacles, promote accountability, and bridge the gap between strategic planning and successful execution.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Do you want to learn how to achieve your goals consistently?
In this BOLD Business Podcast, Jess Dewell and Marie Hale, the co-founder of @revenue, explore the actual requirements for reaching business goals:
- the importance of having a system in place
- the significance of consistently showing up
- the idea that achieving our goals may involve discomfort
This conversation is not just about theory but practical strategies that can turn you into a goal-getter every time. It will shed light on the often-overlooked aspects of goal setting that can help us navigate uncertain and high-stress situations.
You'll also learn how to navigate life's transitions and challenges, gain a better understanding of achievement, and explore ways to expand your capacity and that of those around you.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
There will always be situations beyond your control, and it's crucial to navigate them to reach your goals. Creating accountability is essential for a thriving business.
To learn more, tune in to this BOLD Business Podcast program with Jess Dewell, Managing Partner of Red Direction.
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How to focus on short and long-term goals while juggling day-to-day responsibilities.
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How to effectively prioritize tasks with numerous moving parts in a company.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Successful business leaders always prioritize the basics. They invest time in understanding themselves, their goals, and the art of preparation. These small but crucial steps can significantly affect the success of your negotiations.
Here are three practical ways to practice negotiation skills daily:
- Dive into research: Gain insights into the people involved, their objectives, and communication styles. This knowledge will boost your confidence and preparation for the negotiation process.
- Set clear objectives: Before entering negotiations, define what you aim to achieve and what you will bring to the table.
- Anticipate challenges: Be ready to handle objections, unexpected requests, and hurdles in finding common ground.
By incorporating negotiation practice into your daily routine, you'll enhance your strategic growth plan and align it with your business priorities. Research will uncover new opportunities, knowing your goals will guide your offerings, and challenges will test your determination and help you better understand yourself.
In this “It’s Your Business” episode, Christy Maxfield, President and CEO at Purpose First Advisors, and Jess Dewell, Managing Partner at Red Direction, discuss the daily practice of negotiation and its impact on business growth.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or the Red Direction website.
In a world of constant change, businesses face the challenge of staying agile and adaptable. How can organizations effectively respond to the ever-evolving landscape and embrace change as an opportunity for growth and innovation?
In this BOLD Business Podcast episode, you'll hear actionable tips, personal experiences, and what results to expect. Jess Dewell talks with Steve Chaparro, Principal at Culture Design Studio, and Mike Wittenstein, Story Miners, about the deep work that design thinking and innovation thrive on.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Unlocking your full potential as a leader requires a deep understanding of your strengths and weaknesses. True success in your professional and personal life comes from having mental fortitude.
Building mental strength is the next level of emotional intelligence. It all starts with identifying the barriers of doubt and fear holding you back. Once you conquer these obstacles, you'll unleash your true potential and become the person you need to be to achieve your aspirations. Developing mental strength involves self-reflection, creating positive habits, and constantly learning. This resilient mindset is the key to leading others effectively.
In this program, you'll learn how to overcome self-doubt, regulate your emotions for better leadership, and kickstart a disciplined approach to building mental strength.
Tune in to the latest BOLD Business Podcast episode, where Jess Dewell chats with Scott Mautz, CEO of Profound Performance, as they explore the essential six muscles you need to achieve your biggest goals.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The key to effectively leading your teams lies in your enthusiasm and priorities. It is crucial to identify where your company can excel while staying committed to its mission. This is how value is created for all stakeholders.
You can achieve even more by capitalizing on past successes and focusing on current strategic initiatives, which will bolster your confidence in your chosen strategy.
In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, Jess Dewell hosts a discussion with Luke Layman, CEO of Vector Solutions; Dr. Kelly Henry, Customer Service Business Consultant; and Jay Hanes, Founder & CEO of thrv.com. They discuss the importance of staying adaptable to daily challenges while keeping an eye on long-term business strategies.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
In a dynamic company, there are numerous opportunities for growth that can foster optimism and hope.
Start by making incremental, lasting changes from your current position. Actively adapt by creating value, tackling the right challenges at the right time, and being authentic.
Even small changes can significantly impact your company's ability to thrive.
Check out this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast with Jess Dewell, featuring insights from Rick Hall, CEO of Aginity, Steve Chaparro from Culture Design Studio, and Mike Wittenstein from Story Miners. They share why adaptability is crucial for a company's success.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Optimism by itself is not good enough for decision-making. It's the balance of optimism and pragmatism that leads to sound decisions.
Creative solutions have constraints. One way to identify the impact the constraints have on a big business decision is to consider the downsides. Finding out the root cause is still elusive, or continuing some part of the work will hold you back.
It takes courage to face what could go wrong. But worst-case scenario exploration is not just about identifying weaknesses, it's about building a strong foundation to tackle challenges, making you more prepared and resilient.
Tune in to this "It’s Your Business" program with three people passionate about consistent action to create accountability. You will hear from Quentin Ortega, Founder and Lead Consultant at QCO Consulting; Christy Maxfield, President and CEO at Purpose First Advisors; and your host Jess Dewell, Managing Partner at Red Direction,, discuss the upside of downside thinking to achieve success.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or the Red Direction website.
Your success comes from your ability to sustain growth over time by ensuring alignment of today's actions with your long-term goals. It can be challenging, and preparation is a word that brings a lackluster response at best; yet, without preparation, you don't know how the resources being used today can influence the outcomes you want to achieve.
Foundationally, there are three things that create sustainable business growth. First, what are nonnegotiables? When two things have equal importance, one is always put first. Not only is that the priority, but also it indicates the way work is really done. Second, protected time dedicated to strategy every week. Specifically, at least two consecutive hours in a row. Third, adaptability is a competitive advantage. More than what people can do to adapt, it is the collective response and adaptation of the team that truly makes a difference.
In this program, Jess Dewell, a Strategic Growth Consultant at Red Direction and the host of the BOLD Business Podcast, shares valuable insights on identifying your business's core to achieve sustainable growth. She also discusses strategies for managing growth while addressing the uncertainties that often come with complex business challenges.
Additionally, Jess explores how a growth strategy can set the course for a company to remain competitive in the market, outlines the three main concepts behind a successful growth strategy, and emphasizes the crucial components for navigating change and overcoming challenges.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Emotional resilience, a key component of Dimensional Leadership, comprises self-awareness, persistence, emotional control, and flexibility. Dimensional Leadership is about leading your company forward and being comfortable outside your comfort zone, a concept that is crucial in the context of emotional resilience.
Our response to each situation and its relative stress is a reflection of our emotional resilience. In a world filled with high stress and dramatic change, the ability to flex in our actions, thinking, and feelings becomes crucial. This adaptability is a key aspect of resilience, allowing us to navigate through pressure cooker situations with self-awareness, trust in ourselves, and a moral compass. It's this trust in ourselves that gives us the confidence to navigate through any situation.
Jess Dewell welcomes three esteemed guests to share their insights and experiences about building emotional resilience. Ben Baker, President and CEO of Your Brand Marketing, Mark Carruthers, Principal and Senior Consultant, and Andrew Hutton, Founder and CEO of Day One. Together, they discuss the importance of self-trust, using a moral compass, and getting uncomfortable in the journey of building emotional resilience.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
"It's all in the preparation" sounds anything but exciting in our instant-gratification world. Yet, it's the key to success, providing a sense of security and control in the unpredictable business landscape. Success comes from consistent attention to how you, as a founder or business owner, show up—which requires preparation!
Your mindset directly relates to the actions you prioritize. There is potential to be tapped into for efficiency and adaptability. The creativity from having a shared vision and embracing long-term goals defines excellence and how it is demonstrated. To do this, stepping outside your comfort zone is more than ideal. Today, stepping into being uncomfortable is necessary to create a lasting business.
In this program, you will hear about two questions that will make you uncomfortable, the creativity that comes with the limits of a 24-hour day, and how preparation can make or break the timeline set to reach your goals.
Jess Dewell discusses with Andy Lee, Parallaxes Capital's Chief Investment Officer, the importance of embracing individuality by leading purposefully. They also explore strategies for thinking differently, making even a 1% difference through intention and focusing on business growth.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
One key aspect of excelling in any field is the discipline to focus on one thing and be exceptional at it. It is important to acknowledge the inevitable gap between our knowledge and being entirely right when making decisions. Striking the right balance between confidence and self-assurance is crucial in navigating this uncertainty.
Jess Dewell engaged in a thought-provoking conversation with Michael Silverman, the CEO of Flipp. They delved into the crucial role of embracing change within the business landscape. Michael emphasized how this adaptive approach allows technology, customer needs, and team knowledge to harmonize, propelling the company's growth. Their conversation discussed the significance of setting clear priorities, continuous learning, and identifying key business prioritization areas.
Moreover, the discussion went deeper into the frameworks and leadership styles that form the bedrock of Flipp's adaptive strategy, shedding light on the innovative approaches driving the company's success.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Selling your business isn’t as simple as it seems. For sellers, this means understanding their role in the business and preparing it for a successful transition. For buyers, this means knowing what they’re looking for and what kind of business aligns with their skills and goals.
Business buyers and sellers want to have confidence in their ability to maximize their business's value, attract the right buyers, and create a seamless transition. To do that, it's crucial to have strong business fundamentals. This includes a depth of knowledge and the ability to communicate cash flow, operational efficiency, and customer satisfaction.
In this program, you will hear about the actual cost of burnout and selling your business, an exercise to determine what you are really selling, and what to know about a person who is buying your business.
Jess Dewell talks with David C Barnett, a Private Transaction Advisor, about how to uncover the hidden truths and be objective about the company you have to sell, and why it is BOLD to take the time to get real about a salable business.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Forget perfect plans and endless strategizing. The secret to achievement is found by taking action, learning from mistakes, and making choices that align with your biggest goals.
Ultimately, decision-making is a framework for action. Even imperfect choices create an environment that fosters gathering more information to hone in on what you don't know, what you assumed … or even those actions that turned out to be great. Making decisions is a skill and a craft that requires stamina, energy, and commitment. Every action affirms that you are moving away from or toward the goal.
This "It's Your Business" program features audience questions and real experiences from Christy Maxfield, President and CEO at Purpose First Advisors; Quentin Ortega, Founder and Lead Consultant at QCO Consulting; and your host, Jess Dewell, Managing Partner at Red Direction.
You will hear how to stay competitive, that decisions don't have to last forever, how to measure the results of your decisions, and how making decisions is crucial to your success.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
This program originally aired on the "Growth Forward Today" show, hosted by Paul D. Casey, executive coach, speaker, author, team-building expert, and communication expert.
Paul and Jess discuss her roles as an interim executive, board member, consultant, podcast host of the Bold Business podcast, and Red Direction business owner.
They discuss the practical skill of asking powerful questions of your team and yourself, providing actionable insights to achieve breakthroughs, accountability for forward momentum, and increasing one's capacity.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Stop trying to fit into a box that was never meant for you. This conversation is built on owning your truth and creating a life that resonates with your core values. The secret to unstoppable self-discipline? It might start with the promises you make to others.
Your aspirations might require a reality check to prevent them from fading away, and to ensure you don't inadvertently drift further from them. It's simple to follow a plan, build habits, and even achieve, but if you're not truly living in the process, it's likely that you're trapped in norms that don't benefit you.
This program is designed to help you claim your commitment to yourself and others. It includes giving up the good, learning the nuances of time and energy management, and developing the skills necessary to succeed. The cumulative benefit is reaching your biggest long-term goals while staying true to yourself along the way.
Jess Dewell talks with Bolanle Williams-Olley, CFO of Mancini Duffy, about the importance of defying 'norms' to reach one's goals and why it is BOLD to defy norms.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Your current mindset may be holding you back. It's time to shift your perspective and seize the opportunities you truly deserve. Envision multiplying your results by adding a zero!
Forget about sticking to the usual methods; it's time to uncover the hidden value within your current business. Striving to discover or refine your company's WHY is crucial to clearly communicate your unique offering and recognize the true value being provided. This isn't just a change in thinking; it's a powerful tool that empowers you to unlock new opportunities for your business.
In this program, you will learn how to reframe your thinking, ask bigger questions, and take ownership of your actions. This knowledge will enable you to break free from mediocrity and push boundaries, paving the way for exponential growth.
Jess Dewell discusses with Chad Jenkins, President and CEO at Seedspark, how to break free from conventional thinking, reframe your business's hidden potential, and intentionally create value from the work you've already done.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Imagine being able to achieve anything you set your mind to, not because you have more hours in the day but because you use the ones you have more effectively. That’s what this It’s Your Business program covers.
We all experience moments of stress and unproductivity, but these can be significantly reduced, or even eliminated, when you transform your relationship with time. By understanding what you can truly control and reframing the pressures around productivity, you can revolutionize the way you use your time. This could mean saving time, finding time, or even manipulating time by making strategic decisions within its constraints.
In this program, you will hear about the true cost of poor time management, learn strategies to enhance your effectiveness by embracing constraints and discover the untapped creativity that can be unleashed by reframing your perspective of time.
Quentin Ortega, Founder and Lead Consultant at QCO Consulting; Christy Maxfield, President and CEO at Purpose First Advisors; and your host Jess Dewell, Managing Partner at Red Direction, discuss accountability and how consistent action is THE factor in achieving your biggest goals.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or the Red Direction website.
Forget viral. Forget overnight success. Forget shortcuts. Are you willing to live in a tent to chase your dreams?
The startup failure rate is staggering. A fundamental quality for success is the readiness to acknowledge and embrace your weaknesses as you shape your vision, build a team, and engage in the right work. Curiosity and, importantly, clear communication are also vital to this process. Even when it feels like you're repeating yourself, it's crucial to find the mantra for your vision, ensuring others understand and join you on your journey.
In this episode, you will hear details about what is really in your control, how life is a pitch, and that even when surrounded by ambiguity, you must take the next step.
Jess Dewell candidly talks with Robert Herr, CEO of The Empower Project, about his insights on passion, determination, and the hidden costs of building a business and achieving one's dreams.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Trusting yourself in the present moment may seem simple, but it's easier said than done. The expectations surrounding how we use our time slow us down, making it difficult to tap into our creativity and innovation.
While mindfulness in business is a popular concept, we aim to take it further by advocating for a more comprehensive approach. This involves setting yourself up for success by integrating mindfulness into your daily routine and tapping into your inner creativity.
To do this, it's important to shift your thinking away from current thoughts about mindfulness in business. Instead, focus on how mindfulness can make your work more fulfilling and enjoyable and how your challenges are worth the effort. Doing so can unleash your full potential and achieve greater success in all aspects of your life.
In this program, you will learn questions to ask, experiments to gather information, and how to shift the lens you use to assess challenges. Trusting yourself begins with creating and protecting your environment — inside and outside yourself. As you tune in, think about your traits — focus primarily on the ones you may see as weaknesses, and figure out how these characteristics are actually your strengths. Innovation from the inside allows new and different ways of working to emerge.
Jess Dewell facilitates a BOLD discussion about how to change our relationship with time to be more creative in business and the connection between mindfulness and creativity with Catherine Morgan, President at Point A to Point B Transitions, Claire Uncapher, Clinical Nurse and Intuitive Life Coach, and Dr. Janice Campbell, Acupuncturist and Herbalist.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
With a slight shift in thinking, you can become an even more global citizen. Since technology connects us more than ever, it is easier to think beyond our local community, take ethical action to help and commit to using our advantages to help others.
For many, the difference between passion and drive is blurred. Through reflection for self-awareness — rooted in values and integrity — intentional action becomes possible. The impact you want to have, the participation in something bigger than yourself, is BOLD. And it may take a lot of hard work to become the person you need to be to do it.
This program will present two questions you can ask yourself to reflect on and confirm that your values align with your actions. You will also learn what limiting beliefs do and how self-awareness can be a tool to navigate through them. Finally, you will learn the power of thinking more significantly than your current community to be an active global citizen, bringing opportunities to others.
Jess Dewell talks with Charlie Bresler, Co-Founder of The Life You Can Save, about his consistent alignment with his values to be an impactful global citizen and why it is BOLD to be a global citizen and allow others to have some of the advantages you do.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Business longevity results from tenacity, small wins that compound, and saying “no” decisively. When you shape your decisions with nonnegotiables providing constraints, there is less to evaluate with regard to removing overwhelm and freeing up time to spend doing the real deep work necessary to build a thriving business.
Effective communication is necessary to maximize the compounding effect of your choices. That comes from clearly articulating and sharing more than the vision, including the nonnegotiables for the way to do work. It can be difficult to persist, yet sticking to your decisions and continuously taking the next step illuminates the best possible next step to take. This effort compounds and the small wins add up.
In this program, you will hear how the foundation to grow — including what you don’t do — is necessary to look to the future, about the importance of consistently coming back to work even when it is hard, and that willpower and effort create momentum to push forward.
Quentin Ortega, Founder and Lead Consultant at QCO Consulting, Christy Maxfield, President and CEO at Purpose First Advisors, and your host Jess Dewell, Managing Partner at Red Direction, discuss accountability and how consistent action is THE factor in achieving your biggest goals.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Adapt! Change! Evolve! These are the three things necessary to create a lasting business. The fuel for success is determining your business purpose — that as the company develops and evolves, it continues to be fulfilling even as customers and technologies change.
The insight that reflection brings is highly undervalued. Many of us use data to reflect on what happened before and where we are now, and how we look forward is based on numbers. What about you? Your team? Your customers?
Reflection allows you to see and feel how you have changed so you can fully respond to the way those around you have changed. Leading a company denotes the expectation of being an example. The more you are willing to acknowledge shortcomings, desires, and strengths … the more insight you can bring to coaching for personal growth at every level.
Jess Dewell talks with J.J. Parker, co-founder and CEO of Tightrope Media Systems which makes the Carousel Digital Signage Software and Cablecast Community Media products. Discussion is about creating a lasting business by focusing on bringing people together to do their best work. Tune in to learn the importance of founding values, business purpose, and self-awareness in leading a company through multiple changes and focusing on your company's current state and future goals to adapt and thrive.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Leading your team requires a variation of the skills you’ve developed to lead yourself. Communication becomes exponentially important — not only to create expectations about how to do the work, but also to celebrate success and meet each person where they are at (i.e., so they understand their goals align with the company’s). Tim Fortescue, Founder at 40 Watt Coaching, talks about knowing what you will do to achieve your goals — and helping your team do the same.
Reflection is often undervalued as a tool for moving forward, and is essential to avoid backtracking or pivoting as new information and results become known. It is necessary to celebrate wins along the way, too — and reflection builds in the time and opportunity to identify wins. Small wins build momentum, reinforce the way you work in your company, and deepen relationships through shared success.
In this program, you will hear how to discover and plan for your grandest ideas by planting seeds for the future, knowing your performance levers, and persevering when it gets difficult. Jess Dewell talks with Tim Fortescue, Founder of 40 Watt Coaching, about taking the time to really know yourself and what you want to do.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
It is important to understand the fundamentals of accounting to be able to make good business decisions. This includes having an outside set of eyes that are honed from the manner in which technology is changing the way CPAs work.
Data is necessary to know where you’ve been so you can make the most informed decisions possible. That means collecting data — the right data — and using it to optimize the evaluation of several good ideas. Risk is always a part of good ideas, and the cost of debt today doesn’t have to make things harder or unreachable; it just requires understanding how such risk will help you today.
This program is about the exciting developments surrounding how technology can create more opportunities to better understand what it takes to achieve your growth goals. It emphasizes the importance of committing to expanding the ways you think, and provides insights on how to change with the world as it changes around you.
Jess Dewell talks with Dave Hartley, Partner in Charge at Anders CPA, about the commitment it takes to bring 30 years of experience forward while navigating change to help clients stay competitive in their markets — and why it is BOLD to be innovative while surrounded by quickly changing marketing conditions.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you to keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
It's incredible how often we can hold ourselves back from growth by not doing the critical work. But the truth is, with intention, awareness, and conscious choice, we can cultivate effective decision-making and become true leaders. Knowing ourselves and our team can unlock our full potential and achieve great things.
Surrounding yourself with individuals who have your business' best interest in mind — who also complement your thinking processes — not only offers support in making sure you don't miss anything essential but also allows an outside set of eyes to help you keep the information you need … and let go of the rest (for now). Reduce your confusion and increase your confidence by seeking advisors and consultants who understand exactly where you are on your business growth journey.
In this "It's Your Business” program, you will hear about the importance of finding an accountability sounding board, embracing the discomfort of consistent action, and knowing the distinction between the inside and outside game of decision-making.
Quentin Ortega, Founder and Lead Consultant at QCO Consulting; Christy Maxfield, President and CEO at Purpose First Advisors; and your host, Jess Dewell, Managing Partner at Red Direction, discuss and offer actionable takeaways for moving through knowing what to do and taking consistent action to get things done.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The disparity between the desired and actual image may limit business growth, making office changes essential for real revenue change. Elevating your office/work space attracts the clients you want to attract for real business growth.
Entrepreneurs and healing arts practitioners must recognize that the story being told is crucial for connecting with their ideal clients. While scary and even intimidating, specialization is the journey necessary to find the unique market space to be of the most service and value. This important work shows the connection points between digital and physical brand image consistency.
In this program, you will be given two questions with which to use and evaluate your brand identity for the asset it really is; for learning how to connect digital and physical marketing efforts; and for exploring the entrepreneurial journey of a growing company designing a welcoming and on-brand image for healing arts practitioners.
Jess Dewell talks with Carolyn Boldt, VP / Director of Design at CrossFields, about why it is BOLD to create a positive energy exchange between your service and the client you serve. They also delve into the potential growth (and revenue) business owners might miss out on when they fail to use their office as a marketing asset.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Embrace repetition. It changes more than your own perspective (clarity!) with understanding. Your business goals have a higher chance of completion with higher quality outcomes when everyone is moving in the same direction.
Measurement and results directly relate to how well you, and your team, understand the goal. Intentional and inevitably repetitive communication is a reminder of the direction everyone is going — together. Listening, working through obstacles, and recommitting to the goal on a regular cadence is a disciplined framework to get more work done and reach more success.
In this program, you will hear:
- How to remove problems by listening well and then intentionally communicating
- The four key questions to guide performance
- How repetition is part of successfully being accountable to your biggest goals
Jess Dewell talks with Jeff Eschliman, CEO and Executive Coach, about how discipline drives CEO success.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Regardless of company size and growth goals, your ability to make conscious choices about investing in the long-term versus getting to market, knowing what is a priority versus what is disguised as one, and your strengths and weaknesses will directly influence your success.
Growth is difficult. The more understanding and clarity you have about your situation, the more insights you will have to make the best decision for right now. Every decision will reinforce or update the way you do your work. Your ability to know what must be true for your company with its resources and mission is vital for growing the way you want to grow.
In this program, you will hear that investors and financial institutions look for efficient and quality growth, which comprises the first principles that are part of every company, focusing on development and frameworks to develop yourself as a founder and CEO. To use what you will hear, bring your tenacity and desire to stand out, even if it is just one degree from the norm.
Jess Dewell hosts Maia Benson, Managing Director at Forum Ventures and Bocar Dia, Partner at Forum Ventures, to discuss why it is BOLD to face the challenges of growth today.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
While discipline is crucial, the unwavering consistency propels you towards your goals. Prioritizing the right work becomes a cornerstone — building, learning, growing, and managing energy converges in how your plan becomes a reality with the time, energy, and money you have to invest. How you align expectations with the reality of your situation is key.
Growth doesn’t have to be complex — and yet, at times, it will be difficult. Your ability to comprehend the way work is done within your organization and the value being provided requires a commitment to deeply understand how you will grow so that it can be communicated. Then will it be possible to discern the right work, communicate what work will be done, and know that choices will be made to reduce the chance of work overload — choices that are supported by processes, automation, and actual results.
In this program, you will hear that commitment, discernment, and consistency are constant in pursuing sustainable, profitable growth. You will also hear real-life examples of determining urgent versus important and practices to help you build confidence in making decisions.
Quentin Ortega, Founder and Lead Consultant at QCO Consulting, Christy Maxfield, President and CEO at Purpose First Advisors, and your host Jess Dewell, Managing Partner at Red Direction, discuss what to do when you can't work any harder, and give you actionable takeaways for how to face what to do when you can't work any harder.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
At the core of our ability to lead ourselves effectively is a set of values that drives our decision-making. By understanding and embracing these values, we can make intentional choices that align with our personal and professional goals. This includes having the courage to say no when necessary and saying yes to opportunities that align with our values and aspirations.
Even when faced with tasks we may find difficult or unpleasant, we can push through and stay focused on our objectives because we know ourselves and what we stand for. Ultimately, self-leadership is about taking ownership of our lives and being accountable for our actions, and this all begins with having a clear sense of our values and how they guide us.
Join Jess Dewell and Dr. Benjamin Ritter in an exciting conversation about the power of good leadership habits. Discover how these habits can help you achieve more and live a fun and fulfilling life.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Time is a precious resource, and how we spend it reflects our priorities to the rest of the company. The decisions we make based on the data we collect and analyze significantly impact the performance and credibility of our organizations.
By intentionally setting aside time for reflection, assessment, and evaluation, we gain greater clarity on what truly matters for our organization's success. Aligning our priorities with strategic initiatives requires a strong sense of discipline, reflected in the one thing we all have in common: 24 hours a day. Remember, a Present Retreat is a valuable opportunity to protect and nurture your company's growth and prosperity.
Jess Dewell hosted a discussion with three successful business leaders - Kurian M. Tharakan, founder of StrategyPeak Sales and Marketing; Maceo Jourdan, founder of Canexxia; and Myoshia Boykin-Anderson, CEO of AndTech Solutions. They shared their insights and experiences on making better decisions by dedicating time to intentionally working on their businesses.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The Economist Intelligence Unit has conducted a survey on the importance of prioritizing and funding the appropriate initiatives and projects for businesses to remain competitive.
The survey results have indicated that 86% of respondents believe that prioritizing and funding the right initiatives and projects is essential for companies to stay competitive. This information is crucial for business owners to understand and implement in your organization.
It raises some critical questions - what are the appropriate initiatives and projects that must be prioritized? How can we identify them? Once identified, how can we fund them? By answering these questions and implementing the insights gained from the survey, you can lead your business towards long-term success and competitiveness in the market.
Jess Dewell and Dean Barta start to scratch the surface in this livestream of the BOLD Business Podcast.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
A workplace's culture is shaped by how work is done and how it connects different functions and individuals. When things don't go as planned, diving deeper and identifying what causes the undesirable outcomes is essential. The information you uncover can then be used to bring about positive change, which involves recognizing and unlearning certain assumptions.
One can start by observing what is happening and making necessary decisions to shift the workplace culture. Each role in the company contributes to a larger mission, so it's important to take the time to understand how they all fit together. In this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, you'll learn about the significance of trusting institutional knowledge and taking the time to make informed decisions.
Jess Dewell welcomes guests Tony Minessale, CEO of SignalWire, Steve Simpson, Director of Keystone Management, and Carol Sanford, Executive Producer of The Regenerative Business Summit, to share insights about why strong business cultures are the future of work.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Discover the power of intentional sabbaticals in designing your company's next level of growth. Release yourself from stress and break free from what has been holding you back. Innovation requires stepping outside of our comfort zones and embracing new perspectives. Letting go allows us to see possibilities and opportunities we may have never imagined.
During a conversation with Jess Dewell, Tobin Lehman, President at New North shared his sabbatical experience. He discussed the steps he took to plan and prepare for his time away and how he trusted his team to handle things in his absence.
Tobin also talked about the purpose behind his decision, how he gained valuable insights about himself, and what his team learned about their needs in his absence. He emphasized the importance of taking time to reflect and assess opportunities and how he plans to be strategic about doing so in the future.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Developing mental flexibility is crucial for cultivating resilience in both personal and professional realms. One of the ways to build mental flexibility is by being fully present in the moment and avoiding distractions that may hinder our ability to adapt to change.
Taking a pause when faced with a challenging situation can also help us gain perspective and make better decisions. Following through with our commitments, even when faced with obstacles, can help us develop the resilience needed to overcome adversity and build mental strength.
By implementing these practices in our daily lives, we can train our minds to be more agile and adaptable, ultimately leading to greater success and well-being.
Jess Dewell and John Davis discuss how to achieve more now on this episode of the BOLD Business Podcast.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
To achieve business growth, it is important to have a sharp focus on your industry, maintain good financial health, and adopt a growth mindset. Foundational decisions based on company values and work ethics play a crucial role in ensuring the longevity of your business.
Mental fog and decision fatigue are silent and dangerous to a business focused on growth. As a vision holder, two things are paramount to success: personal vitality and strategic clarity. Without those, becoming complacent and going through the motions is easy. For growth and questioning assumptions, an intentional cadence is needed to check in to stay focused on profitable growth.
In this program, you will learn the three metrics categories to align with how you work when pivoting from or reframing a situation. That clarity comes from knowing how to correct your forecasting assumptions. Using non-financial drivers, your business growth levers, and financial awareness to be accountable — together, these will increase understanding of how intertwined each part of your business is.
Jess Dewell talks with Guillermo Rodriguez, Virtual CFO at Anders CPA, about the importance of an outside set of eyes that works in partnership with you to grow profitably.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The energy you bring determines your success. And then putting intentional effort into the 4 Cs, your self-care, and the ability to communicate creates your generative mindset to risk taking the next step.
Consistency sounds easy, and it is - at first. What makes it hard is the lack of certain results within a certain time, comparing yourself to others, and even surrounding yourself with the wrong people. Do yourself a favor and be thoughtful about the market and product you will offer, and then commit to it. Learn, act, evaluate results, adjust — and then repeat.
In this program, you will hear the 4 Cs of success, 4 things to build credibility (and a community), and 4 questions to pick the right market for your product. Jess Dewell talks candidly with Lloyed Lobo, Boast.AI & Traction | From Grassroots to Greatness, about having an energized state of mind and confidently taking the risk of betting on you and your success.
If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the "Growth Framework Reset" approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
What’s your organization’s mantra? Can you see the understanding of this driving focus in the way your company makes decisions, its presentation in the marketplace, and the way the team does work? Both software and hardware technologies (including robotics and drones) are opportunities for your organization to remain competitive while achieving your biggest goals.
Technology always has and will continue to impact how we work. This can be exciting! It does require a desire to change when change is suitable for the organization. This is just one of the tools that allow us to solve bigger and more complex problems together because technology is just that — a tool.
When the CEO includes the core functions in growth initiatives, every individual, team, and department can be empowered to do their best work and take pride in their accomplishments.
In this program, you will learn the three skills necessary to succeed as the CEO of a thriving customer-centric organization, two stories about relationships learned the hard way, and the importance of making the right decisions (versus making as many decisions as possible).
Jess Dewell talks with Harry Drajpich, CEO at Amware Fulfillment, about using the right tools and cultivating the right mindset to be effective today and to expand faster than the market to keep and grow market share.
Are you looking to achieve your long-term growth goals with ease? If so, consider the Business Base Camp Consultation. This unique program is designed to help business owners like you make informed decisions and take the next best step for your business. With a personalized workflow, you will be able to work more strategically on your business and achieve the results you desire.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Formalized or not, we all seek points of view (maybe even validation) to check ourselves. Being on the right track, getting results, and making the best decisions are weighty responsibilities. By default, it is commonly thought that confidence comes from knowledge. In actuality, confidence comes from being tuned in.
How do you make the right decision at the right time? Have an outside set of eyes. This could be coaches and consultants asking the hard questions that enable you to develop yourself and your approach and your confidence in making decisions to propel you toward your biggest goals. The more we can separate ourselves from the influences of people, situations, and tasks that seem urgent — the more we can assess to prioritize the right work.
In this program, you will hear three ways to measure success (and choose the metrics to measure), how to change the point of view to find the real problems, and that even when it doesn’t feel like it — you can choose what work to prioritize. Jess Dewell hosts Catherine Morgan, Transition Expert at Point A to Point B Transitions; Christie Garcia, Founder & Ego Management Expert at Mindful Choice; and Dave Newell, President at Evolve Leadership Consulting, to talk about the importance of having an outside set of eyes on your business and what makes it bold to bring in external perspectives to shape your business strategy.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a Business Base Camp Consultation. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The high performance begins with you. Putting a priority on getting to know yourself and reflecting (on failures and successes) allows you to choose what learning you consciously want to take forward.
The intersection of what makes you unique, the impact you want to make, and what drives you are the critical elements to the customized definition of what high performance is for your business. Once defined, this powerful tool allows you to navigate failure, what is out of your control, and even success.
In this program, you will learn how to use your unique strengths, understand why to choose what opportunities to act upon selectively and understand the impact of your choices. You will also learn the importance of being clear when communicating to your team — and communication overall — to give them the confidence to act, adapt, and act again.
This and more will give you a basis to remain collected under pressure with minimal setbacks and pivots.
Jess Dewell facilitates a discussion about how to create and build a thriving, high-performance business with Julie Perkins, Founder at Wyseminds, Erik Holmberg, President at Nauvatis Coaching, and Chris Michel, Founder of Coach Chris Consulting and Author of The Red Chair Experience.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a Business Base Camp Consultation. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Your business plan is a tool to know what not to do. This dynamic tool allows you to include core information about how you do your work, your company's impact, and what opportunities are the right ones to pursue.
Finding winfinity (win-win-win) is possible by shifting the lens you look through. Whether internal growth and development of people and processes or aggressively tackling initiatives to grow market share, knowing yourself is foundational. When you have a strong level of self-awareness, you are prepared to discern what is really going on to serve your team and achieve your biggest goals.
In this program, you will learn how to use your business plan dynamically, the difficulty (and necessity) of saying no to good things, and recognize that all change takes time. Change is deliberate, and your ability to be intentional and guide your company forward is what will result in success.
Jess Dewell talks with Bessi Graham, Founder at Benefit Capital, about the importance of strategic planning and why it is BOLD to strive for success and to make a positive impact.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies.
Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
All you need are the right words that reach the right people at the right time. Easy, right? Yes, when you can provide the time for discovery and development when creating marketing messages and stories. Your customers are savvy, and to claim a spot in their crowded brain space requires diligence to maintain objectivity.
It is time to acknowledge you may be working in a silo, telling your existing and potential customers — instead of showing them — how your product helps save time and money and improve their overall business. The indirect work of demonstration allows the discovery and challenge of assumptions and the thoughtful observation of emotion (or lack thereof) when people are presented with your brand.
This program emphasizes the significance of taking the time to identify your unique qualities in today's competitive market. You will learn the language necessary to inspire action and gain practical insights from our expert panelists on cultivating curiosity and effectively managing your time.
Hosted by Jess Dewell, the discussion features Mark Carpenter, Chief Storyteller, and John Gumas, CEO of Gumas, who will explain why it is BOLD to adjust sales and marketing strategies to align with evolving customer behaviors.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a Business Base Camp Consultation. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Recognizing the warning signs of decision fatigue, decreased work quality, and heightened stress can make all the difference in securing the success of your business.
Staying focused and committed to achieving your goals takes discipline and determination. The crucial lesson to be learned is to trust your instincts as part of the decision-making process, remain open to new opportunities, and embrace the challenges of change.
In this inspiring conversation, Jess Dewell speaks with Kiley Peters, CEO and Founder at RAYNE IX, about the importance of slowing down and gaining valuable insights.
Peters shares her experiences of making significant changes through deliberate and consistent action, highlighting the rewards of embracing change and transitioning to something new. This powerful message reminds us that change may be difficult but always worth the effort.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a Business Base Camp Consultation. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Be OK with making mistakes. Decision-making inherently has a risk element, and knowing how you make decisions with imperfect information is a reminder that you are human — and also helps with a better understanding of the cascading results of making a choice.
Whether it’s time-sensitive, a risk of looming stagnation, or more information is necessary — consider what you know: the decision will create something. Hopefully, forward movement. Use decision-making to move forward, not to plan into the far-distant future (that’s what your business strategy is for). Change from making decisions still has a stigma, so the more your company normalizes “change,” the more you can use decisions to iterate forward.
In this program, you will hear about how you get in your own way; how to notice reality to reset and refocus; and that it is OK to make mistakes. The conversation calls out that life and work are messy, and more gets done when embracing that fact. The discussion highlights that making decisions has risks and that it is courageous to understand your risk tolerance.
Jess Dewell invites Maria Morkuian, President of MSM Global Consulting, LLC, and Stephanie Judd, Founder and Managing Partner of Wolf & Heron, to explore the topic of making decisions without complete information. They discuss the importance of being bold and proactive in decision-making, even in situations where information is missing.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a Business Base Camp Consultation. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
During her appearance on the Smashing The Plateau podcast with David Shriner-Cahn, Jess Dewell shared insights on how businesses can ignite their engines and achieve their goals. She also discussed her methods for helping clients succeed and the key traits required to flourish as a consultant.
Additionally, Jess highlighted the importance of weekly retreats for working on one's business and offered advice on overcoming communication obstacles and managing an overloaded schedule. Tune in to this episode to discover how to push past your limits and achieve success.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
What you are drawn to is a clue to how you can add value to the world around you. Regardless of scale, each purposeful action and intention creates an opportunity for you or another to keep moving an idea forward. Wherever your curiosity takes you and the problems you choose to work on, be intentional.
It takes commitment to keep chipping away at an idea that results in an intuitive, easy, and top-of-mind-to-use product that improves our lives.
The idea, the research, reshaping the idea, having a working proof of concept, and refining each moving part can take a long time. Even so, the work results at each step have a significant impact, too.
In a conversation with Jess Dewell, Sufian Chowdhury, the CEO and Co-Founder of Kinetik, discusses how his passion for problem-solving has led to the development of a healthcare solution that aims to improve communities and the world.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
To meet and accept yourself is fundamental for showing up as you are, especially in a world where so many expectations exist outside of ourselves. That passion and drive are there, and the more you listen, the more you can define what success is for you — AND embrace the twists and turns of the journey from having a clear set of principles to live by.
Cumulative learning — from seeking knowledge and dedication to building skills — is more transferable than you realize. From college football team captain to successful entrepreneur, Alex Sezer used the depth of knowledge he had as a competitive athlete and listened to the inner voice that pointed him in a new direction. His previous experience proved helpful in transitioning to entrepreneurship.
This program will provide you with tips on how to maintain contentment, even during stressful times. You will also learn how your past experiences can be helpful in unfamiliar situations and the importance of working on your mindset to achieve your goals.
Jess Dewell talks with Alex Sezer, CEO of Alex Sezer Ventures, about the principles that connect your talent, effort, and skill and their intersection necessary to find your unique formula for growth and success.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a Business Base Camp Consultation. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Growth is uncomfortable. Whether pushed (life change) or pulled (following your dream) toward the career and contribution you want, commitment is foundational.
The beginning will be tactical:
- Creating a revenue stream
- Building a business pipeline
- Attracting the right people to work with you
Time management, workflow to produce deliverables, and integrating work product time into the larger life scope are all elements underpinning your company values. How your company works will be determined by the metrics measured at the company level, plus employee metrics.
In addition to metrics, provide guidelines for consistently delivering the work and product; when broken down by role, each person knows how they contribute to the company's success.
In this program, you will learn that culture is how you do your work (not what work you do); that competing priorities always pop up, so with more precise set goals, you have a way to navigate forward; and that sometimes contraction (in sales, margin, or resources) is an intentional way to reach growth goals.
Jess Dewell talks with Amy Anderson, Co-Founder at Wild Coffee Marketing, shares how accountability allowed her to build an amazing company through the discomfort of growth.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Endings are often overlooked. We can push project dates and modify results expectations much easier than calling for a full-stop to review. It is easy to jump right into tactics to get results, yet we typically desire an overarching goal: more of something or a change to the way something is.
Whether a product launch, your business’ story, or breaking into a new market, the less clarity there is, the less likely you are to know when you’ve reached the desired outcome. It's important to review and assess the plan, the actions selected, and the results to decide whether to continue or modify things. We must identify that we’ve arrived, even in a very different way.
In this episode, you will hear about the importance of milestones to mark your progress, how endings are the starting point, and that we rarely follow a direct path from the execution of the plan to achieving the objective.
Jess Dewell hosts Pam Didner, Founder of Relentless Pursuit, LLC, and Mickie Kennedy, President at eReleases, to discuss why it is BOLD to reflect on how endings help us thrive.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing, and to stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a Business Base Camp Consultation. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or the Red Direction website.
To disrupt an industry, your company must tap into clear communication, be vigilant about minimizing groupthink, and create a sustainable work environment for high-performance teams.
However, pressure can be amplified when you feel alone, and that comes from a lack of options. Empowered teams that feel their shared impact -and yet will take risks to reach the collective company goals means - that do-overs and pivots are part of the process and that together you get up and try again.
In this program, you will learn how purpose-driven companies can disrupt industries, how embracing high-pressure situations is part of path forging and scaling; and how important it is to be consistent in how your company makes decisions. Promoting wins, learning from the unexpected, and being willing to take risks builds an agile team responsive to opportunity wherever it appears.
Jess Dewell talks with Brett Barlow, CEO at Everee, about high performance under pressure and how recognizing the knowledge of collective mistakes avoids significant setbacks.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The high performance begins with you. Putting a priority on getting to know yourself and reflecting (on failures and successes) allows you to choose what learning you consciously want to take forward.
The intersection of what makes you unique, the impact you want to make, and what drives you are the critical elements to the customized definition of what high performance is for your business. Once defined, this powerful tool allows you to navigate failure, what is out of your control, and even success.
In this program, you will learn how to use your unique strengths, understand why to choose what opportunities to act upon selectively and understand the impact of your choices. You will also learn the importance of being clear when communicating to your team — and communication overall — to give them the confidence to act, adapt, and act again.
This and more will give you a basis to remain collected under pressure with minimal setbacks and pivots.
Jess Dewell facilitates a discussion about how to create and build a thriving, high-performance business with Julie Perkins, Founder at Wyseminds, Erik Holmberg, President at Nauvatis Coaching, and Chris Michel, Founder of Coach Chris Consulting and Author of The Red Chair Experience.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a Business Base Camp Consultation. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Knowing the bottom line is vital to maximizing what you get from your business. Understanding the mechanics is also important — how you make money, what difference you make in the world, what you can be best at and why you are doing what you do.
In this broadcast, you will discover how to shift your thinking to have a successful business the way you want it, the importance of doing more overall planning, and when to let go so that all the planning work has a chance to get results.
Jess Dewell talks with Clint White, Founder of Tattoos Not Brands Inc., Author, and Podcast Host, about the importance of a business strategy achieved through deliberate and considered branding.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Strategically looking forward shows what opportunities, goals, and problems make the most sense to focus on. Results from the time and energy spent working to deliver your product directly relate to your commitment to choosing the following best action to move the business forward.
Prioritizing high-value activities that were thoughtfully selected through a lens of curiosity create a firm boundary — one in which you know how many initiatives you can realistically work on at any given time. It takes commitment to dedicate uninterrupted time to evaluate where your company is right now. And from that place of reality, solving problems and striving for goals will help you build a company that thrives and has longevity.
In this episode, you will hear how long it takes to know you are committing to the next best goal, problem, or initiative to achieve your long-term goals. The discussion covers tips and experiences about prioritizing, building a commitment to take the time, and traps that may crop up along your journey. Jess Dewell hosts Christy Maxfield, President at Purpose First Advisors; Brandi Olson, CEO at Real Work Done; and Debra Eckerling, Goal Strategist, Author & Workshop Leader, to discuss why it is BOLD to commit time to strategic thinking, planning and business problem-solving.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a Business Base Camp Consultation. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
You make all decisions with imperfect information, leading to several scenarios: walking right into a blind spot, missing a key point of view, or maybe even downplaying the risk. The clarity of and commitment to your initiatives determines success.
Make sure you have a peer group — from a mastermind to a board of directors — whom you can talk with in general and are confident in consulting when an expert may be helpful to navigate part of your growth path.
In this program, you will hear about keeping track of what is most important, the three levers you can use to maximize the impact of your decisions, and making decisions about what you want from your business. Remember that your business strategy is about the long game — growing and thriving profitably — as you face each new challenge and opportunity. Jess Dewell talks with Geneve Huxley, Founder and CEO of Huxley CPA Consulting, about the challenges companies face and how to use your finance intel to face them.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a Business Base Camp Consultation. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
More than just influencing outcomes, how you make decisions impacts your next step, your relationships, and also tests your values. Leaning into your personality and strengths, recognizing your weaknesses as a leader, inform how, when, and what you do when showing up for your company and employees.
In this show, you will learn to recognize if you are taking enough risks. This will include three vital steps to handling mistakes, what it is like to know you are ready to give up everything to take big action, and three key areas to watch to prevent your business from failing.
Jess Dewell talks with Bew White, Executive Chairman at Summer Classics/Gabby, about the impact of business decisions and how the best experiences can be hard and messy, yet worth it.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Effective communication requires intention. Intention requires time and effort, both of which are in short supply in our demanding world.
The first thing we must do to address this particular problem is to recognize that there are areas we've overlooked in our communication.
Christopher Wallace, President and Co-founder of Innerview, Michael O'Brien, Chief Shift Officer, and Margaret Watts Romney, Speaker Coach, share how to address overlooked aspects of organizational communication.
They all share their experience, expertise, and tips that you can use right now to analyze what's going on in your company's communication, strengthen it, and positively impact what you're doing.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Initially published by Debra Eckerling, host of The DEB Show. Find out more about this podcast at https://bit.ly/3BehalO.
On this episode of The DEB Show, hot Debra Eckerling wraps up a month of #GoalChatLive "health" topics with a conversation on Corporate Health.
Jess Dewell, Managing Partner, Red Direction, and Lance Robbins, Director of Talent Acquisition, XWP, share their thoughts on The Great Resignation, what makes a business healthy – and unhealthy, and much more.
Whether you are the boss, a team member, a consultant, or an entrepreneur, you can always do something to improve company culture.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
With a wide range of meanings, a pivot can secretly be shiny-object syndrome, necessary because of industry change or nuances in how you do business.
The clarity needed to know what the pivot is and if it is the right time comes from reflection and understanding exactly how that pivot will improve business. Pivoting requires you to know who you are and what you do as a company.
In this interview, Brandi Bernoskie, CEO of Alchemy+Aim and North Star Sites, shares the power of a pivot.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
We dig into the question: how often does your organization assess its strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats to understand the current business climate?
Daily integration of your organization's SWOT knowledge brings necessary information into day-by-day, impactful decision-making. You will hear how to use the information to assess the current state of business and make impactful daily decisions. It's these decisions that create more opportunities over time.
Jess Dewell shines a light on the positive influence of the SWOT as a tool for implementing your strategy and shares insights from JW Rayhons, President of Rayhons Financial Solutions, Erica Feinberg, with The Perfect Companion, and Adam Mutschler, Partner at the Kedar Group.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Initially published by Mitchell Levy, host of Thought Leader Life. Find out more about this podcast at https://bit.ly/3Y1yPHl
Push your business to the next level beyond its plateau with flexibility and purposeful action. This episode features thought leader and expert Jess Dewell, growth entrepreneur, founder and managing partner of Red Direction, strategy consultant and speaker and host of BOLD Business Podcast.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The capacity for rapid change comes down to our adaptability. In this broadcast, you will learn more about the three questions that companies are asking right now, the importance of time management and elements of agile leadership that prepare your company for rapid change.
Jess Dewell interviews Kathy Atkins, CEO of The Lattitude Group; Tom Libelt, CEO & Podcast Host of Smart Brand Marketing; and Paul Casey, founder of Growing Forward Services.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Good leadership is a tricky subject. There is no single way to lead well. To be a good leader, you must be consistent. It's not hard work; it is ongoing work.
Jess Dewell discusses elements of good leadership with guest appearances from Terry "Starbucker" St. Marie, angel investor, Amy Charity, author and speaker, and Jeffry Caudle, technology start-up founder, to talk about the elements of good leadership.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
What is the framework necessary to level up yourself as a leader? Your relentless pursuit of serving customers by solving problems drives your success and is the foundation for the way business is done in your organization. Use the framework outlined in this interview to remain aware of the highest priority initiatives and the effort necessary to achieve them.
Bryan Clayton, CEO and co-founder of Greenpal, shares similarities and differences while growing businesses from two first-hand experiences. The tenacity needed to work on yourself, know your customer and stay dedicated to what your company does best requires focus and discipline.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
How leaders respond to their mistakes fortifies or erodes trust within the organization. Your actions are a model for those around you.
Reflection on our past actions allows us to choose what action to take next. Using reflection and thoughtful questions, you can choose the learning to take away from mistakes. Those lessons are what help you bounce back.
Jess Dewell shares insights from Dominic Rufran, Former NLF and Net Worth Risk Manager; George Papadeas, COO at The HOTH; and Paul Birkett, CEO of Automation Finance.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Initially published by Kiley Peters, host of Welcome to Eloma. Find out more about this podcast at https://apple.co/3VXjRAc
Being an entrepreneur is all about making things happen. But part of making things happen is knowing when to say yes and when to say no. In this episode of the Welcome to Eloma podcast, Jess Dewell joins Kiley Peters, and they talk about the importance of saying yes and no to what matters most.
Jess is a successful entrepreneur and business coach, and she shares her insights on prioritizing your time and energy so that you can focus on what's truly important. If you're an entrepreneur or considering becoming one, this episode is a must-listen!
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
How can we recognize what’s out of our control and then adapt to the change we face? Integrating learning, pausing to assess, and accessing your awareness are the three things we can use anytime to face uncertainty.
When we take more time to work on our business, reflect, and seek out new knowledge, we get a better baseline to work from. We can use the information we gain to spark creativity, check the alignment of action and initiative, and assess commitment.
In this ENCORE episode of the BOLD Business Podcast, Jess Dewell talks with Cynthia Del’Aria, CEO and Founder of Raika Technologies, Lizabeth Wesley-Casella, CEO of L-12 Services; and Ed Vincent, CEO and Founder of festivalPass. Together they bring insights into patience, accountability, curiosity and the importance of adapting to change.
Knowing the bottom line is vital to maximizing what you get from your business. Understanding the mechanics is also important — how you make money, what difference you make in the world, what you can be best at and why you are doing what you do.
In this broadcast, you will discover how to shift your thinking to have a successful business the way you want it, the importance of doing more overall planning, and when to let go so that all the planning work has a chance to get results.
Jess Dewell talks with Clint White, Founder of Tattoos Not Brands Inc., Author, and Podcast Host, about the importance of a business strategy achieved through deliberate and considered branding.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
You can use four measures to face your business future with confidence. Combine these measures with several commonly associated challenges and you will take away proactive ideas about where to put your resources to navigate disruption.
You will experience disruption in your business within the next 12 months. While grit and vulnerability matter, your confidence will help navigate downsizing, recessions, disruption, and day-to-day challenges. By using the four measures, you will increase your capacity to respond.
You will learn how to increase your capacity through leadership, execution, strategic vision, and innovation. This information will lend support as you prepare for the worst case scenario, and then navigate through what shows up. You’ve got this!
Jess Dewell shares the importance of having measures — outside of processes and programs — to increase your ability to optimally respond to any, and all, challenges that arise for your business.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Not noticing the signs of decision fatigue, a decline in work quality, and increased stress can lead to the perfect storm that can potentially destroy your business.
Keeping your head in the game and staying disciplined to see big change is difficult. The lessons that come from such dedication to building a thriving business include: remembering your gut is an informant to be listened to as part of the decision-making process; rigidness creates missed opportunities, and that change is time-intensive as well as messy.
Jess Dewell talks with Kiley Peters, CEO and Founder of Brainchild Studios® and RAYNE IX, about gaining insight by slowing down the struggles that show up during a long period of change and how to embrace change and transition to something new with consistent action.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Your commitment to supporting your team is more complex than ever before. The ability to help others move through tough situations comes from knowing your boundaries and the boundaries around the way your company completes work.
How we approach our work — identify then solve a problem, reduce costs, produce more, and follow a process for efficiency — can impact the short term. To adapt and flex with change, we must add emotional intelligence.
Jess Dewell and Dr. Cassandra LeClaire, Communication Consultant, discuss how compassion and boundaries work together to create high-performance teams. Learn how to ask for what you want so others know how to support you, how acting with compassion can look different every day, and how healthy boundaries reflect our goals and values.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Accountability is elusive, but it doesn’t have to be. In fact, you may have all that is needed except for time and discipline. Too much time management drastically impacts your ability to connect and fully show up to minimize risk, expand capacity, and have truthful conversations. In this #AskJess Anything question roundup from the Fast Track Your Business program, Jess Dewell focuses on how to reduce failure by intentionally designing points of accountability.
The impact you can achieve is directly related to how and what you think about … including avoidance, over-positivity, and even accidental oversight. Knowing what work is necessary — and what work is possible — you can achieve more than you ever thought possible.
In this program you will learn to be ruthless about what is possible; that you can understand the nuances of what you can control; and that you are a model for what behavior is desired. Jess Dewell will share how a commitment to a weekly Present Retreat™ will give you a way to design more accountability into your life and business.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Stories that create connections may not be the obvious ones. When what we shape and share doesn’t obtain the desired marketing result, we feel immense frustration. That friction is where to take a closer look at shared stories, set goals, and discover where there is a gap.
Recognizing a communal communication shorthand helps us acknowledge that outside of those situations, we may be missing something when talking with others.
Jess Dewell talks with Gabrielle Dolan, Author and Keynote Speaker at Gabrielle Dolan Consulting, about making your communication authentic. Discover how to dig into many different types of stories, the stories from which you can learn, and be courageous in sharing them.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
It takes time to create meaningful relationships in life and business. When you know what you want to accomplish, you know where to put your effort and how to build relationships with those that can help you reach your goals.
Relationships help with this learning and journeying. In this program, you will learn what disconnected behaviors look like and what to do to change, the three powers of presence in your business, and how much we influence the outcomes around us.
Jess Dewell talks with Lucas Root, Entrepreneur and Author at SGIC Consulting, about leveraging your superhuman power of collaboration and how to inspire others and bring your vision to life.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
It takes time to create meaningful relationships in life and business. When you know what you want to accomplish, you know where to put your effort and how to build relationships with those that can help you reach your goals.
Relationships help with this learning and journeying. In this program, you will learn what disconnected behaviors look like and what to do to change, the three powers of presence in your business, and how much we influence the outcomes around us.
Jess Dewell talks with Lucas Root, Entrepreneur and Author at SGIC Consulting, about leveraging your superhuman power of collaboration and how to inspire others and bring your vision to life.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Your skills can never be taken away. Once you have them, they are yours for the rest of your life. Also, skills take time and energy to build, and your learning experiences always come from less-than-ideal situations. You build your resilience with each lesson.
Listen to this BOLD Business Podcast episode to learn how to prioritize and address:
- The problems that are “always just there”;
- The fact that you are responsible for what your business has done;
- And how to close the gaps in communicating decisions.
Jess Dewell talks with Sean Campbell, CEO at Cascade Insights, about investing in yourself and building resilience by building your skills.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Your skills can never be taken away. Once you have them, they are yours for the rest of your life. Also, skills take time and energy to build, and your learning experiences always come from less-than-ideal situations. You build your resilience with each lesson.
Listen to this BOLD Business Podcast episode to learn how to prioritize and address:
- The problems that are “always just there”;
- The fact that you are responsible for what your business has done;
- And how to close the gaps in communicating decisions.
Jess Dewell talks with Sean Campbell, CEO at Cascade Insights, about investing in yourself and building resilience by building your skills.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Regardless of skill or background, you are always learning and taking risks, constantly checking in with your gut and listening to your instinct about when to step into something new. The foundational piece is WHY you are doing what you are doing.
In this broadcast, you will hear about the three pillars used for making decisions, the importance of an outside set of eyes, and the real impact of saying “no” more often.
Jess Dewell talks with Howard Zales, Founder of Viridity Entertainment Services, about how mistakes happen because all information is imperfect and how relying on his gut as part of the decision-making process has been vital to the success of his business.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Regardless of skill or background, you are always learning and taking risks, constantly checking in with your gut and listening to your instinct about when to step into something new. The foundational piece is WHY you are doing what you are doing.
In this broadcast, you will hear about the three pillars used for making decisions, the importance of an outside set of eyes, and the real impact of saying “no” more often.
Jess Dewell talks with Howard Zales, Founder of Viridity Entertainment Services, about how mistakes happen because all information is imperfect and how relying on his gut as part of the decision-making process has been vital to the success of his business.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Success happens when a company recognizes the importance of the WHY behind good leadership teams.
With clarity around the expectations, a leadership team that learns to work together collectively is able to respond with greater capacity to the problems and issues that crop up along the way.
Learn more about the importance of clear communication for business efficiency, how to know if you are growing, and the three ways that leadership teams are different from other teams.
Jess Dewell talks with Jack McGuinness, Managing Partner at Relationship Impact, LLC, about seeking how to take collective action and achieve more by getting the right people who will navigate uncharted waters together.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Success happens when a company recognizes the importance of the WHY behind good leadership teams.
With clarity around the expectations, a leadership team that learns to work together collectively is able to respond with greater capacity to the problems and issues that crop up along the way.
Learn more about the importance of clear communication for business efficiency, how to know if you are growing, and the three ways that leadership teams are different from other teams.
Jess Dewell talks with Jack McGuinness, Managing Partner at Relationship Impact, LLC, about seeking how to take collective action and achieve more by getting the right people who will navigate uncharted waters together.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The skills you need to run and grow your business differ from those you have for selling and delivering your solution.
Finding repeatable processes offers indications about what levers you have within your business to grow. Once your process is known, the levers become clear, and your focus can be on optimizing the process for a higher return.
Learn about the five types of sales questions you must know regardless of your industry and the importance of committing to your personal skill development.
Jess Dewell talks with Jeremy Miner, Chairman at 7th Level, about knowing what you can control in the sales process and skills that will support your success today and in the future.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
All action comes with risk. You can mitigate the risk by breaking down multi-year initiatives into smaller goals. Picking one small goal provides a way to collect information and gain additional knowledge to sort, think through, and prioritize the next best step.
Making time to reset and recharge ensures you maintain the focus needed to face the next uncertainty, how building accountability promotes forward progress, and the importance of endings so the next can begin.
In this program, Jess Dewell talks to John Bertino, Founder of The Agency Guide (TAG), about a journey in developing an idea, achieving proof of concept, and how to reach your long-term goals successfully.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
All action comes with risk. You can mitigate the risk by breaking down multi-year initiatives into smaller goals. Picking one small goal provides a way to collect information and gain additional knowledge to sort, think through, and prioritize the next best step.
Making time to reset and recharge ensures you maintain the focus needed to face the next uncertainty, how building accountability promotes forward progress, and the importance of endings so the next can begin.
In this program, Jess Dewell talks to John Bertino, Founder of The Agency Guide (TAG), about a journey in developing an idea, achieving proof of concept, and how to reach your long-term goals successfully.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Growth happens in sprints. Defining the beginning, middle, and end of a business growth sprint is necessary for the wellness of you and your team.
Mental sharpness is critical to participating in and leading high-performance teams. Recognizing what resources are needed to build and grow a high-performance team requires clarity of purpose, navigating uncertainty, and being open to new ideas.
Three of the many takeaways from this program are:
- Your energy matters for your business success
- Why high capacity is needed to navigate uncertainty
- How to do less to achieve more results by having more intention
Jess Dewell talks with Sri Chellappa, President at Engagedly, about how success and high growth only happen when you prioritize your health and personal performance.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Deeply related to business success today, your ability to flex and adapt is more important than ever. In addition, compassion can be interwoven into thriving businesses. To tap into resilience, you must go beyond acknowledging someone else's hardship and attempt to understand the whats and whys of their experience to intentionally choose how to show up for yourself, your business, and the other person.
As you take on bigger goals with more considerable risks, community becomes ever more important, even as it becomes hard to know how today's results impact future outcomes and what is missing from the plans made.
Jess Dewell welcomes David Shriner-Cahn, Smashing the Plateau Community Builder and Podcaster, to discuss how companies can thrive with compassionate and empathetic leadership.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Seemingly urgent daily items can quickly fill up more than your available time.
Committing time to look at the bigger picture is not easy. Yet, the awareness that emerges from strategic initiatives allows you to say “yes” to more of the right things that will help you navigate the urgent and vital.
In this episode, you will hear about how the result of breaking something (that was working) was necessary to grow and how to deal with always present doubt. Learn the importance of knowing what and when to share to guide your team well. Jess Dewell talks with Andy Buyting, Founder & CEO of Tulip Media Group, about doing things differently in your business.
Small, meaningful conversations use existing hope for a more significant positive impact on your future. Breaking down barriers never happens in ideal moments; however, you can still make the most of each interaction.
In this episode of BOLD Business Podcast, you will hear about prompts to evaluate what holds you back, prompts to assess overwhelm, and the fact that people require effort and time to build trust. Meeting people where they are can help you embrace and use what is present to work together on the current set of priorities.
Jess Dewell talks with Houda Elyazgi, Chief Client Officer at Saxum, about taking the time to care and to fully allow yourself and others to have the chance to show up in purposeful conversation.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Growth happens in sprints. Defining the beginning, middle, and end of a business growth sprint is necessary for the wellness of you and your team.
Mental sharpness is critical to participating in and leading high-performance teams. Recognizing what resources are needed to build and grow a high-performance team requires clarity of purpose, navigating uncertainty, and being open to new ideas.
Three of the many takeaways from this program are:
- Your energy matters for your business success
- Why high capacity is needed to navigate uncertainty
- How to do less to achieve more results by having more intention
Jess Dewell talks with Sri Chellappa, President at Engagedly, about how success and high growth only happen when you prioritize your health and personal performance.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
When to have the answer and when to seek the answer is a skill that we forever hone. Asking for help means considering the problem, what we want to have happen, and what it will take to make those goals happen.
Listen in to hear about a three part framework for knowing when you have the answer, or when you are seeking help to discover the answer.
The framework includes:
- clarity and ability to communicate your mission consistently
- finding the weaknesses and right opportunities to prioritize
- evaluate where your company was, where it is, and where it is going.
Jess Dewell talks with Edwin Williams, Founder of Zen Hammer, about how to achieve your business goals.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Time is scarce. What we do with our time models the rest of our company, and sets up the priorities. As we strive to collect and assess the right data to make the right decisions, the actions we take influence the performance and legitimacy of our organizations.
On this episode, Jess Dewell welcomes Kurian M. Tharakan, Founder at StrategyPeak Sales and Marketing; Maceo Jourdan, Founder at Canexxia; and Myoshia Boykin-Anderson, CEO AndTech Solutions. They share insights and experiences about how to make better decisions by protecting time, and being intentional about working ON the businesses.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning, growing and staying intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
What makes your company different is what will make your company last. High-performance teams know how to problem-solve and be flexible – yet they are high-performing because they understand how to use the combined skill sets at the right time.
Yet, it takes time to discover, learn, and most importantly, know when to lean into the team's strengths. Understanding and applying this knowledge helps develop communication with customers, what expectations to set, and how to quickly assess and choose the right opportunities at the right time.
Jess Dewell talks about building a trust-based partnership with Kevin Kamali and Ali Meshksar, Owners and Co-Founders of EA Home Design. You will hear about the importance of taking time to build trusting relationships, the value of knowing what makes your company unique, and how structured growth allows for adapting to market changes.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
BOLD Business Podcast is featuring The DEB Show podcast with host Debra Eckerling. In this episode, Debra speaks with powerhouse leaders Jess Dewell, Tom Reid, and Jenn Tsang about leadership.
The group discusses the attributes of leaders, the challenges of developing leaders, and the future of leadership. Listen in to hear tips for developing leadership skills and how to set up the right goals.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning, and growing and staying intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Intentionally adding value is a commitment. The dedication to asking the right questions, the hard questions, is the path to discerning the right opportunity, right now. It also includes a clear beginning and knowing what the end looks like. Endings provide a way to pause, assess, and make the next set of actions to reach your long-term goals.
Jess Dewell talks with Paul D. Casey, Coach and Author at Growing Forward Services, about the impact of reflection on achieving massive growth. Tune in to hear about successes and failures, lessons about time management, filtering questions to assess an opportunity, and what elements are necessary to consistently show up.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
As a leader, to support others, steer business development, and grow your business, you must first know yourself.
Jess Dewell was a guest on Gerdi Verwoert's Daring Self-Leadership podcast. Listen to this episode to learn more about dimensional leadership and how to find better solutions for your business and your team.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
It takes time to build, deploy, and gain the adoption of your product. Without knowing where – and the reason why – you are going in a particular direction, it’s easy to become discouraged and give up.
Each of us has an ultimate goal, and it is important to know what that goal is. Once known, creating the right business strategy, choosing the right priorities, and navigating the difficulties in every business becomes easier since you know what is non-negotiable.
Jess Dewell talks with Melissa Kwan, CEO and co-founder of eWebinar, about the importance of taking all the time needed to define and use your guiding star to navigate growing your business.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Those who talk about success always being “forward-looking” are missing a key element to achievement: reflection. Time, and how you use time, sets the stage for what you can do.
In this Uncharted episode, Jess Dewell talks with Jürgen Strauss, Founder at Innovabiz, about doing exemplary work and having fun. You will hear about elements that allow you to grow, the power of reflection, and outcomes of diligent prioritization.
The more you reflect and use past experiences to build resilience and emotional intelligence, the richer the result.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
With attention to the details that make up your unique selling proposition and how your company works, the organization can successfully adapt and thrive through the external and internal ups and downs all businesses navigate.
However, reaching the next level of business growth brings new challenges. Deciding how to approach issues and snags when in the middle of the day-to-day provides a guidepost.
That's why putting effort into managing your time is the requirement for success. Time can be creative, and interestingly, time constraints encourage us to stay resourceful.
Jess Dewell talks with Kevin Kamali, Co-Founder of EA Home Design, about being tenacious and going for the big goals. Kevin shares his growth experiences while maintaining a strong connection to his family, friends, and interests.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Success today is a consistent but imperfect action that needs to be used to learn, adjust, and keep going. Such perseverance requires confidence because it requires courage, patience, creativity, and a lot of grace mixed with fun. There will always be situations out of your control. That is why you must navigate them to achieve your goals. Jess Dewell, the Managing Partner of Red Direction, talks about what it takes to succeed in today's business circumstances by setting your top business priorities and how to push the edges of what you've done to break through to the next level.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
The quickest way to resolve a problem is to know what the problem REALLY is. Decision-making always sounds easy, but in practice can be difficult to peel back the layers of what you think.
In this episode of BOLD Business Podcast, you will hear tips to discover your customers’ genuine problems, how to operationalize trust and how finding causality helps you find the root issue.
Jess Dewell talks with Dr. Tom Tonkin, CEO of The Conservatory Group, about rapports, empathy, connecting with people, finding the actual problem quickly, and what it takes to resolve it successfully.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
When we mess up, we want others to remember we are human. That means we must do the same. The way we show up in the face of adversity tells others a lot about us.
In this episode of BOLD Business Podcast, you will hear how the Teabag Principle, the Character Matrix, and reflection are necessary to navigate change. The resilience built from tirelessly facing change will create shared values to get the excellent work done at the right time.
Jess Dewell and John Robertson, President at FORTLOG Services, talk about leading through organizational change and how to critically and realistically look at the way you act to execute your strategic plan successfully.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Scaling a small business has its challenges, and each of us face a unique journey due to our strengths, weaknesses, and interests! In this show, you will hear how to: chase the next level of success, study business to help make the right decisions right now, and incorporate a three-to-five-year vision to create a lasting business.
Jess Dewell talks with Dave Menz, Founder of Queen City Laundry and Laundromat Millionaire, about repeating successes, the continued growth, and changing industry along the way.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Reflection must be part of your leadership role as a necessary part of an organizational checkup process. Today's most important action or project may be different from the week, quarter, or year. To utilize your time best, know the numbers. Why? Because what you avoid is what will most likely cause your business to fail. Developing the skills necessary to find and challenge assumptions offers a realistic assessment of what is going on in your business. Jess Dewell talks with David Longhini, CEO at Empodio, about scaling, team building, learning from past efforts and what it takes to go from zero to $1 million in two years.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Want more time in your day? Achieving this goal is possible when you're focusing on the right work, designing a process to ensure you're doing the right work and ensuring there is time to do the work. Repeating success comes from inner confidence, which involves a clear finish line you can communicate, hold accountability to, and problem solve as a team to reach that goal. The most significant impact you can make is understanding (and then choosing) the right work on which to focus and making sure the right people are doing those tasks.
Host Jess Dewell talks with Emily Morgan, Founder and CEO of Delegate Solutions, about shifting your thinking to achieve more.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
How do we prioritize tasks and get more work done? There’s always the danger of falling into the trap where our lives outside of work direct our work. With slight tweaks, you can provide clarity, hold the direction, and guide the planned and unplanned work.
Jess Dewell, your host of BOLD Business Podcast, shares results from the 2022 Business Management Report and what you can do right now to optimize your results.
If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Your awareness of the paths employees are on, what accountability looks like in your company, and how you approach problem solving influence the way everyone does work in your organization.
So much is out of our control. This includes what is in the “head and heart space” of employees when they come to work, what the economy is doing, and even the way your customers think about your product. Aligning your mission and vision – and courageously having conversations that acknowledge people for who they are and what they bring to the table – equate to real conversations about equity. Host Jess Dewell talks with Leslie Short , Founder and CEO of The Cavu Group, about what DEI looks and sounds like.
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If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other business owners who have created great companies. Try Fast Track Your Business today to keep learning and growing and stay intentional as you work strategically on your business.
Feel like you need a bit of help with some business direction? Then ACT to Plan by contacting Jess for a 30-Minute Unstuck Quick Consult. You’ll discuss your aims, where you are, and where you should be to move deliberately toward your team-building goals!
If you want to stay informed and plan for a successful year, download the Annual Red Direction Business Management Report and get access to survey findings and information to help navigate volatility and uncertainty.
You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.
Stop being boxed in by thinking and process patterns. Thoughtful chaos is the way to increase creativity and innovation within your company. It requires slowing down, taking time to ensure clarity, being accountable, and having the courage to act. Jess Dewell hosts Scott Novis, the Chief Creative Officer at Bravous Esports, in a discussion about the importance of connection through technology to remain creative, while adapting to the obstacles we face.
In this discussion, Steven Goodman, President of SHG Planning, Inc., shares tips and stories about how to discuss setting up a successful future for yourself and your family. Let the wealth you’ve created from your hard work make an impact for more than just one generation by having the right mindset, having difficult conversations, and knowing what you will not compromise. The framework you create will support you as your business grows, your financial situation changes, and you make choices of how the results of your effort will support you, your family, and your community.
Cultivating opportunity is exciting. Pausing, evaluating, and learning from what has previously happened – good and bad – these tasks are often overlooked and deemed unnecessary. Leadership teams that are disciplined about reflection achieve more over time. Listen in as Jess Dewell discusses building a better legacy with Michael Buzinski, President and CMO at Buzzworthy Integrated Marketing.
We are a product of those who came before, and what happened to them. Yet often we want to disconnect from those influences before fully learning what we must from their experiences. And when that happens, we make similar mistakes. Cultivating opportunity is exciting. Pausing, evaluating, and learning from what has previously happened – good and bad – these tasks are often overlooked and deemed unnecessary. Leadership teams that are disciplined about reflection achieve more over time. Listen in as Jess Dewell discusses building a better legacy with Michael Buzinski, President and CMO at Buzzworthy Integrated Marketing.
The way people work together is determined by company culture; the ability to navigate that culture is a flexibility allowing you to be more adaptable and responsive when it matters most.
What can we do to build mental flexibility? Be present. Pause. Follow through. Jess Dewell and John Davis discuss how to achieve more now on this Livestream of the BOLD Business Podcast.
Originally published by Katie Brinkley host of the Rocky Mountain Marketing Show. Find out more about this podcast at https://www.spreaker.com/user/katiebrinkley/back-to-basics-building-an-effective-bus
When your business seems to be going far off track, there might be a discrepancy with the goals you are setting, your strengths, and your strategy. It is always important to go back and evaluate your growth impact plan.
In this episode, Jess and I talk about helping small businesses create a strong growth impact plan. She found satisfaction in helping small businesses discover what they are good at, and amplifying that to reach their goals. She said that knowing your strengths and how to prioritize them are key to effective business strategy.
Today, technology is a core part of business – just like marketing and accounting. When we only think of technology as a tool to support functional areas in our businesses, we are at a deficit. When employed as a key part of overall business strategy, technology allows us to explore and make choices that: positively impacts our market position; allows us to better serve customers; and enables us to adapt quickly to change. Jess Dewell hosts Michael Daniels and Greg Michaels in a discussion about strategy and technology.
Your business is like a kaleidoscope. Listen in to hear the listener questions (submitted to #AskJess) that range from improving capabilities; the future of work; and facing our assumptions to make decisions that move a company forward. Spoiler alert: It’s talking more about strategy; acknowledging decision fatigue; and leveraging what you have to navigate uncertainty.
Our values begin and drive self-leadership. The importance of knowing ourselves ensures we say no (and yes) intentionally. That includes the tasks we might be avoiding and maybe even dreading. Jess Dewell and Dr. Benjamin Ritter discuss how good leadership habits allow you to do more have a more fun and fulfilling life.
Originally published by Jason Cutter host of the Authentic Persuasion Show. Find out more about this podcast.
How do we find the missing elements that are keys to our success? How do we move forward and go to where we need to go? Do you want to make sure your actions align with yourself in the future?
In this episode, Jess and I talk about the importance of a company’s mission. We talked about maintaining and creating a consistent experience for customers, incentivizing your team, and creating a result- and mission-driven team.
We bear responsibility for our actions, and yet most of us only look at this obligation insomuch as it impacts ourselves / our lives. The thing is … there are people watching us, deciding how they feel about the actions we take, and whether or not the outcomes are something they want to change or embrace. Jess Dewell and special co-host Joan Schnepp (her mom) host mother/daughter duos Marilyn Shannon / Gloria Lipman and Laura Bachman / Katie Raynolds to talk about generational leadership.
The right action at the right time is only part of the equation. The other part is recognizing when something is working (or not) and choosing to make intentional adjustments. More time engaging with your strategy may be necessary, yet using four or more hours differently may also be needed. As you plan for next year, consider what you can do to shake things up. Listen in as Jess Dewell talks with Red Direction team members Scott Scowcroft and Iva Ignjatovic about being BOLD in your business planning.
In this conversation, Tobin Lehman, President at New North, shares how he planned his sabbatical, prepared his team, and then stepped back knowing that he could not predict what he would come back to. He shares the purpose for taking time away, what he learned about himself, what his team learned they needed from him, and how he will be strategic about taking more time to reflect and assess opportunities going forward.
What you are excited about, what you prioritize, is what your teams will follow. The intersection of what your company can be the best at, while staying true to the mission … this is where value can be added to all stakeholders. Building on past wins and saying no to ideas outside of the current strategic initiatives brings the opportunity for greater achievement. Jess Dewell welcomes Luke Layman, CEO Vector Solutions; Dr. Kelly Henry, Customer Service Business Consultant; and Jay Hanes, Founder & CEO thrv.com, to discuss staying adaptable to the challenges of day-to-day while being focused on the longer-term business strategy.
Today we are talking about customer-centricity and how to identify opportunities our business has to grow. Jess Dewell welcomes Jay Haynes, Founder & CEO of thrv.com; Dr. Kelly Henry, Business Consultant and Coach; Luke Layman, CEO Vector Solutions, Inc.
In this conversation, Michael Silverman, CEO of Flipp, shares how important it is to embrace changes so that technology, customers, and team knowledge can in concert to grow the company. Frameworks and leadership styles underpin how Flipp uses available information to adapt. Listen in as host Jess Dewell and Michael Silverman talk about setting priorities, learning along the way, and pinpointing what to prioritize.
How you spend your time sends a message to the rest of the organization. Intentionally taking time to reflect, assess, and evaluate where your company has been and where it is going creates clarity for what is truly a priority. Making sure priorities are aligned to strategic initiatives requires discipline. That discipline reflects in the one thing we all have in common: 24 hours in a day. A Present Retreat is protected time that one of the elements crucial to leading your company to success. Jess Dewell welcomes Kurian M. Tharakan, Founder at StrategyPeak Sales and Marketing; Maceo Jourdan, Founder at Canexxia; and Myoshia Boykin-Anderson, CEO AndTech Solutions; they share insights and experiences about how to make better decisions by protecting time to be intentional about working on their businesses.
Today we are talking about the vital qualities to lean into, so you can navigate your company’s success. Jess Dewell welcomes Myoshia Boykin-Anderson and Kurian Tharakan to the BOLD Business Podcast Livestream.
In this conversation, E.A. Csolkovits, Founder of GIVERS University, talks about the way discernment can be used to nurture relationships. Two of the many things he shares are how important reframing negative situations and setbacks are and knowing what you believe in. Listen in as host Jess Dewell and E.A. Csolkovits talk about the most significant results come from seeming insignificant moments.
How we show up to each situation, and its relative stress on us, is the capacity we have for emotional resilience. A world with high stress and dramatic change lurking just beyond what we can see requires that we are able to flex in our actions, thinking, and feelings. Those pressure cooker situations also require a high level of self-awareness and the ability to trust yourself and lean into your moral compass. Jess Dewell welcomes guests Ben Baker, President and CEO Your Brand Marketing, Mark Carruthers, Principle, Senior Consultant, and Andrew Hutton, Founder & CEO Day One, to share their insights and experiences as they grow their emotional resilience.
One can't overstate the importance of being able to flex in action, feeling, and thinking to build emotional resilience. In this discussion, receive actionable tips, personal experiences, and results! Jess Dewell welcomes Ben Baker, President and CEO Your Brand Marketing; Mark Carruthers, Principle, Senior Consultant; and Andrew Hutton, Founder & CEO Day One, to share their insights and experiences to build emotional resilience in a world of burnout.
Culture is determined by the way work is done. It connects every business function and person together. Being able dig deep when results and outcomes are not as expected requires a willingness to notice what’s present that creates undesirable results. This information will be the information used to change and it includes acknowledging assumptions and unlearning. Jess Dewell shares insights from Tony Minessale, CEO SignalWire, Steve Simpson, Director Keystone Management, and Carol Sanford, Executive Producer The Regenerative Business Summit the reasons strong business cultures are the future of work.
In this interview, Dan Irvin, Professional Speaker, shares his 20 years of learned experience from being CEO and COO in companies. Commitment to rituals to focus attention; reverence for the time to do deep work; and insights from his experiences ... all are elements of building and expecting accountability applicable to any business leader and their team. Listen in as host Jess Dewell and Dan Irvin discuss how to rethink the way you approach achieving your goals.
You must fight for your culture. It is silent, it is not-squeaky, and it is easy to forget. However, culture is where capacity is built. That capacity is where creativity, innovation, and the ability to speak up with good intention happen. Jess Dewell discusses with Anthony Minessale, CEO at SignalWire, and Steve Simpson, Director at Keystone Management, the results of investing time and energy into your business culture.
In this interview, Molly McGrath, Founder Hiring & Empowering Solutions, LLC, discusses the importance of communication – and over-communication – as a skill to support consistent action to face change. She shares three things that every business leader needs to navigate uncertainty while staying grounded and having the capacity to expand your thinking. Listen in as host Jess Dewell and Molly McGrath talk about the importance of clarity during uncertain times, and then taking intentional action forward.
There are three ways to be more intentionally adaptable: 1) continue to create value, 2) solve the right problems at the right time, and 3) be present and real. Small changes will start to create different (and more) impact to build internal company resilience. The more dynamic your company, the more opportunities may be realized. Listen to Jess Dewell share the insights from Rick Hall, CEO of Aginity, Steve Chaparro, Principle at Culture Design Studio, and Mike Wittenstein, Story Miners, in a discussion about how adaptability keeps companies adaptable.
In this interview, listen in to Michelle Seiler Tucker, Founder and CEO of Seiler Tucker Incorporated, share the three questions every business must ask themselves. To help you answer those questions, it is imperative that you begin with the end in mind, reverse engineer, and keep working on the skills you need to move toward success. Jess Dewell and Michelle discuss what is important to remember in moving toward success.
Constant change is our reality, how can businesses adapt? Actionable tips, personal experiences, and results to expect are all wrapped into this discussion Jess has with Steve Chaparro, Principal at Culture Design Studio, and Mike Wittenstein, Story Miners about the deep work that design thinking and innovation thrive on.
Asking good questions is a key element of intentional conversations. Planning ahead (know your prospect), knowing what the purpose of the dialog is (where you are in the sales cycle), and creating a safe space to share problems (allow in curiosity) is time well spent. Your system and self-awareness allow you to find the right time to create ways to work together. Join Jess Dewell as she talks with Kathleen Winsor-Games about the Big IF of Sales Success.
In this interview, Jeffrey Harry, Positive Psychology Play Keynote Speaker, discusses how to have more fun by expanding our viewpoint to ensure we walk the talk, work on conflict, and keep initiatives on time. His viewpoints touch on the biggest issues companies face leadership teams look to the future about how to support, develop, and engage every person in the organization. Listen in with host Jess Dewell as she discusses with Harry how he is instilling more play into our everyday work.
To better understand achievement, we are digging into what it takes to reach our goals. Three things you will hear about are: the power of a system; how to show up; and, that achievement may be uncomfortable sometimes. Jess Dewell talks with Marie Hale, founder and CEO of fwd@revolution, about the overlooked aspects of goal setting that can carry us through times of uncertainty and high stress.
In this interview, Tracie Lamourie, Managing Director of Lamourie Media, discusses how she faced issues around business growth. There are structures and profitability points that we look at and use to confirm alignment to the businesses' three- and five-year plans. Lamourie shares with Jess Dewell how she faced overwhelm, built inner strength, and is currently building an adaptable business.
In this interview Hector Simoudis, co-Founder eLearning Partners (formerly VP Legacies), shares the journey of making product changes and rebranding. The importance of knowing what product produces most revenue, provides the most impact to clients, and has the most success stories are the metrics they used to reduce 15 products…down to one. He and Jess Dewell explore the many layers of focus and how to put attention and resources into fewer areas leads to positive growth outcomes.
There are three ways to ask better questions: 1. Be curious and use words wisely; 2. Challenge what we “know"; and 3. Have in mind an idea of what a productive outcome is. Asking questions in a leadership position creates more opportunities. Increasing adaptability of your teams means incorporating their experiences and ideas to solve problems and create impactful solutions. This also means letting go of the need to have answers … and control. Listen to Jess Dewell share the insights from Elizabeth Bachman, Max Irzhak, and Mickey Desai in a discussion about empowering ourselves and others to ask better questions.
Being an impactful leader is, among other things, about asking the right questions. So, I'm curious when you ask a good question (or good questions), what do you gain? In what ways, good questions improve your business?
Inspired by clips from #BoldBusinessPodcast from Phyllis Weiss Haserot, Martin Medeiros, Joe Pepper, and Justin Patton. Scott Scowcroft randomly picks clips from our past programs and host Jess Dewell discusses how (or even if…) they are relevant to #growing and #leading your #business toward success today. Behind the Scenes of the #BoldBusinessPodcast with Jess and Scott.
Lucile Ball said, “The more you do, the more you can do.”That’s the basis for resilience and to bounce forward to what’s next. Dean Barta and I chat about gratitude, small business, planning, and the importance of an outside set of eyes. #Prioritization is what will move you to your #growth and #operational goals. Listen in, share your experiences and tips!
The mission of a company is more critical today than ever before. With a shift from a desire from possessing something from and identifying with a brand, to choosing brands that believe in the same things we do … how we used to define a brand has changed. The actions of a single individual impacts both the perception of what a brand stands for, and the “real” mission being evaluated by the actions of the people working at a company.
Evaluating the capacity of our team and our entire organization starts with introspection within ourselves. To build capacity, we must be actively engaged lifelong learners who can guide and direct the development of teams to maximize success. Jess Dewell talks with Nadine B Hack, Social Responsibility Leader and CEO, beCause Global Consulting, about a leader’s responsibility for Direct Impact on Core Business.
There are three things you can use to achieve more with less and reach your goals: the power of the pause, frameworks to think about success, and how we all have complex challenges. Jess Dewell brings you real examples about stepping back and surveying the landscape and bringing what you find into your daily journey. She discusses how to hone what you’ve learned and apply it to an achievable future with Erik Host-Steen, Business Consultant; Crista Grasso, Creator Lean Out Method; and Jonathon Hensley, CEO of Emerge Interactive.
You can only respond to threats and take advantage of opportunities from the amount of resilience you have. The actions you take build our habits. In this interview Jess Dewell, Business Advisor and David Leopold, Facilitator, dig into elements of resilience: necessary skills, visioning, written strategy, and a commitment to discipline.
There are three things you can use to leverage positioning and growth strategies to achieve your company’s goals: know what you want and why you do it; use a dynamic SWOT to stick to priorities; and be consistent, which builds resilience. Jess Dewell brings you tips and experiences about the interplay of positioning and growth from Bart Rupert, Managing Partner Stone Park Alliance; Lawrence Wayne, Digital Marketing Coach; and Justin Winter, CEO of Boostopia.
In this interview Bryan Clayton, CEO and co-Founder of Greenpal, shares similarities and differences growing businesses from two first-hand experiences. The tenacity needed to work on yourself, know your customer, and stay dedicated to what your company really does best requires focus and discipline. The framework outlined in this interview also builds in accountability to stay aware of the highest priority initiatives, and the effort necessary to achieve them.
There are three things we can use to create a strong framework for productivity: to know yourself and your needs; awareness of the pressures facing employees at work and at home; and assessing processes to rely on and build resilience. Jess Dewell brings you tips and experiences about productive leadership from Eric Brotman, CEO of BFG Financial Solutions; Kris Ward author of Win the Hour, Win the Day; and Charles Rose, founder of Charles Rose Executive Consulting.
In this interview with Brandi Bernoskie, CEO of Alchemy+Aim and North Star Sites, she shares the power of a pivot. The clarity needed to know what the pivot is, and if it is the right time, comes from reflection and an understanding of exactly how it will improve business. This requires you know who you are and what you do as a company.
There are three things we can use to know what’s in our control. And, the more time we take to work on our business, reflect, and seek out new knowledge provides us a baseline to work from. We can use that information to spark creativity, check alignment of action and initiative, as well as assess commitment. Jess Dewell brings you insights about the importance of being able to adapt to change from Cynthia Del’Aria, CEO and Founder of Raika Technologies; Lizabeth Wesley-Casella, CEO of L-12 Services; and Ed Vincent, CEO and Founder of festivalPass.
In this interview Charles Rose, an executive coach, shares some of his most impactful personal growth points. Expecting drastic change when certain life and business milestones are reached – like exiting a business and becoming a millionaire – is something that is easy to embrace. The truth is that understanding your motivation and being clear on your purpose is necessary to reflect on and look at your beliefs with curiosity.
In this interview with Jeff Chastain, Professional EOS Implementer, he shares the importance of business structures to use to create freedom to think and play and vision. Part of having a North Start is knowing where you are going. That point in the sky makes sure the right priorities are set.
The consistency in aligning mission to every action your company takes ... well, that takes effort! During times of change and disruption, focusing may seem daunting, yet it is important to recognize when to pause and assess and intentionally move forward, focused on the actions that create coherent results with regard to your strategic plan. Jess Dewell interviews Dr. Aditya Nagrath, CEO of Elephant Learning; Jeff Bermant, CEO of Virtual World Computing; and Tallis Salamatian author and entrepreneur about the importance of refocusing in business.
The capacity for rapid change comes down to our adaptability. In this broadcast you will to hear three questions that companies are asking right now, the importance of time management, and elements of agile leadership that prepare your company for rapid change. Jess Dewell interviews Kathy Atkins, CEO of The Lattitude Group; Tom Libelt, CEO & Podcast Host of Smart Brand Marketing; and Paul Casey, founder of Growing Forward Services.
In this interview with Erik Holmberg, Owner & Master Electrician Windward Electric, he shares what he brought forward to overcome today's uncertainty by bringing forward the right things from what he learned from starting his business in a recession.
Internally, company weaknesses and strengths reflect how well each step of your delivery model is working. Externally, if you don’t know what the threats and opportunities are, you may be unpleasantly surprised and unprepared for how to adapt your delivery model for effectiveness. Jess Dewell interviewed Matt Sweetwood, CEO of LUXnow; Laura Wright, Master Coach at Epic at Sales; and Ian Peterman, CEO of Peterman Design to discuss maximizing your company’s capacity.
In this interview with Benita Samuels, Founder, she shares the importance of having a business moral compass to face difficult conversations with clients. Part of that moral compass is how you respond when the company faces are large setback. Having a True North guides you through the ups and downs of being a business leader.
In this interview with Jeff Bermant, CEO of Virtual World Computer, he shares the importance of continuously building your skills so that you have a solid framework to use facing new and different situations. Part of that framework are the people in your life that can help you and you can help when times are tough. Make sure to treat them right.
Reflection on our past actions allows us to choose what action to take next. Your actions are a model for those around you. Using reflection and thoughtful questions, you can choose the learning to take away from mistakes. Those lessons are what help you bounce back. Jess Dewell shares insights from Dominic Rufran, Former NLF and Net Worth Risk Manager; George Papadeas, COO at The HOTH; and Paul Birkett, CEO of Automation Finance.
Use whatever time it takes to be confident you are asking the right question(s). Then, stay on track by reflecting regularly (we recommend using Present Retreat™). And practice clarity to meet challenges that will test your leadership. Jess presents these elements of correlating KPIs to goals to your overarching strategy. Insights are also shared by Casey Carroll – founder of Action Advertising Agency, Edwin Williams – SaaS founder of Zen Hammer, and David Tash – CEO of TashRizzo Advertising Agency.
In this interview Andy Podner, CEO of Atlas Precision Consulting, shares the importance of using past learning, understanding what assumptions are being made, and how those assumptions become part of decisions. Knowing your true north matters, and your values set the guide posts for what the best options are for your company.
In this interview with Jen Olson, we talk about the reality of being plunged into something totally different and some ways to approach the challenges unique to each of us. Especially when we feel blind-sided - and didn't see change coming - how we show up is an indicator of the strength of our leadership.
Misunderstandings come from what happens in a conversation. When only 2% of people have formal listening training, it’s no wonder there is so much miscommunication. In this program, we will share research and best practices that show the importance of presence – i.e. truly and effectively listening – to increase achievement. Jess Dewell talks about the cost of not listening and shares insights from Oscar Trimboli, Author, Rodolfo Ramirez, COO, and Marilyn Shannon, Facilitator.
THE tool to find real opportunity: building and integrating a dynamic SWOT analysis. This program is about using information to assess the current state of business to make impactful daily decisions. It’s these decisions that create more opportunities over time. Jess Dewell shines a light on the positive influence of the SWOT as a tool for implementing your strategy, and shares insights from JW Rayhons, President of Rayhons Financial Solutions, Erica Feinberg, with The Perfect Companion, and Adam Mutschler, Partner at the Kedar Group.
How do we find our self imposed limits? This program is about the reasons we do what we do and what we can start doing right now to find and eliminate areas holding us back. Our success relies on how well we know ourselves as well as how we relate to others in varying situations. Jess Dewell shares what she learned about limiting beliefs from Michelle Shakti Anne, Brain Trainer, Jen Coken, Life Coach, and JW Rayhons, President of Rayhons Financial Solutions
Effective communication requires intention. Intention requires time and effort, both of which are in short supply in our demanding world. There are elements you can increase our awareness of, and a tool to practice to improve your communication. To lead by example. Christopher Wallace, President and Co-founder of Innerview, Michael O'Brien, Chief Shift Officer, and Margaret Watts Romney, Speaker Coach, share with Jess Dewell how to address overlooked aspects of organizational communication.
Your business has many directions it can travel. The one true direction, toward that new exciting level, we call the Red Direction. In this show, Jess Dewell delves into one question that will add clarity to the big questions you face in business today including
How to stay competitive in a changing market,
How to break through business plateaus,
and how to respond to the changing expectations of today's customers.
Differentiation is everything. Obvious pressures push us to features, comparisons, and price. Even so, if your strategy doesn’t include those pressures why do we still feel the need to put head space around them? Strategy isn’t just more sales, it’s positioning and thinking about the adaptability and longevity of the product. Jess Dewell, mentor to executives and founders, hosts Patti Haus, Conversion Copywriter, and Zachary Beach, Coach and Real Estate Investor to discuss strategic differentiation.
Fostering an engaged employee experience, namely the interactions with your company from job posting to hiring to adding value to the work they (and you) do … is harder than you think. We all have stories of job seeking, hiring, and working where a company says one thing and does another. Usually such gaffes are unintentional – yet those gaps really impact the bottom line of your company. Tune in and listen to Jess Dewell, executive and founder mentor, talk with Reagan Freed, Principle Consultant at HR, about how our work interactions can add to intentional growth.
Our actions show what we prioritize. The perception of those priorities add to, or take away from, your organization’s culture. The better you know what the culture is and can talk about it with new (and existing) stakeholders, the better you can leverage innovation and achievement. Jess Dewell, mentor to executives and founders, hosts Barbara Jaynes, Founder of Positively Funded, and Russell Dennis, Possibility Engineer, to discuss how well we understand our culture.
Our life experiences are based on many things – one of which is the differences in how we live and work. These experiences shape our views, our expectations, and how we perceive loyalty, collaboration, and trust. Jess Dewell, executive and founder mentor, talks about the productivity of multi-generational teams with Phyllis Haserot, President & Founder of Practice Development Counsel.
With so many distractions and opportunities, focus can be difficult. What you do, the habits you cultivate, reinforce your ability to achieve your goals. Jess Dewell, mentor to executives and founders, discusses productivity, time, and more with guest Joe Workman, technology entrepreneur.
Technology changes at an incredible rate, yet many processes used to introduce people to your software haven’t changed at the same rate. The way you introduce your product matters! Jess Dewell, mentor to executives and founders, talks with Greg Dickinson, founder of Omedym, to learn why we face the “death of the salesman.”
Systems, processes, and results, oh my! We create systems and processes for our workflow, yet we don’t always connect that important work to how we deliver product – specifically online. Jess Dewell, mentor to executives and founders, talks with Zachary Beach, Coach and Mentor and Real Estate Investor about effective delivery models.
There are times we make decisions that impact those around us. It is important to remember that people not involved in the decision-making process are impacted, too. Win-win situations can be elusive, especially when we don’t include key elements into the way we think. Jess Dewell, mentor to executives and founders, and talks with Dr. Marlene Bizub, Certified Divorce Coach and Consultant, to explore why what’s right doesn’t have to be hard.?
We often find ourselves facing different situations depending on life experiences, family affluence, and choices made. Sometimes opportunities come easily, other times not so much. Our personal attitude and awareness of what we have because of who we are ... this is an honor. When using this mindset for good, we improve humankind. Jess Dewell talks with Jessica Pettit about creating a “culture of humility.”
Today, technology is a core part of business – just like marketing and accounting. When we only think of technology as a tool to support functional areas in our businesses, we are at a deficit. When employed as a key part of overall business strategy, technology allows us to explore and make choices that: positively impacts our market position; allows us to better serve customers; and enables us to adapt quickly to change. Jess Dewell hosts Michael Daniels and Greg Michaels in a discussion about strategy and technology.
It’s easy to look at others and critique their leadership style. It’s harder to look objectively at that characteristic in ourselves. In this program, we will discuss important characteristics of leaders and how developed these skills are in our own professional lives. Jess Dewell hosts Patti Haus, conversation copywriter, to discuss necessary leadership characteristics.
What we prioritize is what we value. When looking at our choices, do they align with our values and move the needle toward growth? Growth of your business, growth of your team’s capacity, growth of yourself as a leader? Jess Dewell, business consultant, executive and founder mentor, and growth entrepreneur, digs into the importance of that which you will not compromise.
Most things are out of your control, and yet you have the ability to think and act in ways that will influence the direction of your business. Your success will come from the way you think and the actions you take … and how aligned these interconnected items are. Jess Dewell discusses how to execute your growth strategy with panelists Dr. Amanda Barrientez, NFA Coach, and Joe Workman, technology entrepreneur.
Being truly customer-centric includes knowing the reason that people buy your product. And that reason is found through experimentation. The way you test matters directly correlates to your ability to anticipate changing customer needs over time. Jess Dewell talks with Chris Dayley, Neuromarketer at Disruptive Advertising, about how to understand the connection you have to your customers.
The more you think up front in business, the easier it is to adapt, change, and even pivot as necessary. Yet most of us don’t plan for what might happen when we begin implementation to achieve growth. To discuss having a fallback plan, Jess Dewell hosts panelists Zachary Beach Coach, Mentor, Real Estate Investor, and Steve Rosvold, CEO and Founder of CFO.University.
Is our vision enough to create and scale the business we lead? It’s how you think, decide, and follow through. Having accountability matters, and impacts your company’s realized and potential results. Jess Dewell talks about getting an outside perspective on your business with Don Cohen and Greg Thiesen, founders of SecondOpinion.how.
The intention brought to thinking about what we want to accomplish impacts the end result. Listen in as Jess Dewell and co-host Teodora Petkova discuss: "How do you know when you've crossed the line from necessary work to busy work?"
You have an immediate opportunity to increase profitability 100% with just a few small adjustments to how you do business. The adaptability and flexibility require specific skills and perspectives. Jess Dewell talks with Jeffry Caudle, Founder of NeuroDash, about building a business plan that lasts 100 years.
People come to us for specific information. That knowledge is specifically what people perceive about us … what we can contribute to what will keep us top-of mind-for our area of expertise. Jess Dewell talks about thought leadership and market positioning with Annalisa Parent, CEO and founder at Date with the Muse.
You can position your product for success today, and ensure its relevance tomorrow. We like to make marketing complicated, yet it doesn’t have to be. What if marketing is just an ongoing experiment? Jess Dewell talks with Laura Pence Atencio, International Marketing Consultant and Trainer, about grappling with product positioning.
There are times where we want to self-finance, and understanding business credit is the key to doing just that. With so many variables comprising your unique situation, elements are in place to ensure your ability to receive a loan. Jess Dewell talks with Stephen Wible, Director of Business Development at Credit Suite, Inc., about what you don’t know about business credit.
Choosing what to prioritize is easier when we have more self-awareness. The confidence that comes from knowing what we are working towards allows us to compassionately say yes to the right things. As we discover what contributes to our success, we can fall back on them for difficult decisions. to discuss your leadership principles Jess Dewell discusses your leadership principles with panelists Jenny DuFrense, CEO and Mark Carruthers, Principle + Senior Consultant.
Our lens shapes the work we deem important and the way we work with others. The struggle of achieving a growth strategy is one we all face. Empowering everyone to make decisions is one aspect of developing self-managed teams – i.e. teams wanting to work together and knowing what they are working together to accomplish. Jess Dewell talks with Chuck Blakeman, the Founder/Chief Transformation Officer, Crankset Group.
Capacity awareness of our teams is something that to think about when we are in pain – we have too much or too little time within the team. What we do to anticipate the changing needs of our business includes the brain power and skills of the people working with you. Jess Dewell hosts panelists Mario Pena, Sales Manager and Michael Bernstein, Lead Account Executive, to discuss the changing capacity of our team.
If we don’t know what we want, how do we develop impactful solutions and make more good decisions? The way you communicate what actions move your organization toward growth directly correlates to how much you achieve. With this in mind, it is important to know what you value; your standards; and how to communicate to rally effort and make effective decisions. Jess Dewell, growth entrepreneur, discusses elements to frame the way you share your priorities.
Books expand perspective. What you read influences how you look at daily situations as well as unexpected problems, an enhances the ability and desire to be more inquisitive. Books and podcasts offer concepts that you can practically apply – just read (and listen)! Jess hosts panelists Michelle McGee, Creator of EAE program and Property Accountant, and Michael Bernstein, Lead Account Executive for T-Mobile, to discuss business book must-reads.
Your patterns, habits, and approaches have similarities to systems. When you focus on them, systems (and processes) offer great insights. From doing different to doing better, you will move toward achievement through knowing the elements of systems, and how to use them to create lasting traction. Jess Dewell talks with Dr. Ingrid Pyka, founder of IBP Consulting, about the necessity of effective systems.
As lifelong learners, we not only seek new information … we also seek to apply the information we’re learning as much as possible. On today’s program, Kristi Sullivan, Kittye Tilford, and Kris Tower – all from different areas of the financial planning industry – join Jess Dewell to discuss unexpected Easter eggs that they apply to business growth and development.
The reality of disruption is at our doorstep. We see disruption daily, and while we should give it a lot of thought … do we? Working with what we know today involves foundational elements that shape the future of our companies. Jess Dewell talks with Thomas Frey, Senior Futurist and founder of the DaVinci Institute, about the future, now.
The concepts that we learn about taking one step at a time are not always sufficient; sometimes we must radically change techniques to get the results we want in real time. To do so requires a dual realization: understanding that we don’t always know everything … and yet, we know enough to also recognize that sometimes we must change our thinking to meet goals. By embracing “we don’t have to know everything,” we attain a level of mastery-in-moments. Jess Dewell interviews Dianne Collins and Allan Collins about QuantumThink.
Too busy! Scope creep! Stalled! Stuck! Overwhelmed!!! These are just a few of the experiences and feelings that occur when we’ve taken on too much. What if we noticed ourselves, our team, our company going down that path before realizing we’re stretched too thin? We can choose to look for that path, and use its trail to inform ourselves on what needs to happen to change course. Jess hosts panelists Jimmy Godard and Ryan Marchman on this topic; listen in as they discuss concrete actions to take when we realize there are too many things going on, and nothing is getting done.
The struggle of addiction is real, and may be closer than we think. When people (including ourselves) try to hide something from others, there is a toll. An erosion of personal self-esteem as well as facing our deepest fears around belonging (or not). Jess Dewell talks candidly with Kirk M Samuels about how our vices have hidden impact.
Surrounded by chaos every day, our mindset matters – specifically to keep our priorities front and center. Whether charged with developing our company’s growth strategy or part of a team that implements for results, the actions we choose and the way we face knowns and unknowns every day will determine business outcomes. Jess Dewell talks with Chris Natzke, Black Belt Leadership Speaker & Coach, about developing the mind of a champion
Deciding for yourself what success looks like increases confidence in what and how you prioritize. This knowledge assists in communications across the board. The way we collectively understand and share organizational values has a direct impact on achievement. To discuss the look and feel of success, Jess Dewell hosts panelists Nathalie Gregg, a change agent, and Kathrine McGraw Patterson, a brand and business strategist.
The struggle surrounding how to use time is real. Leveraging your own priorities and those within a business requires consistent attention, to the degree that time becomes an actual art. With strong roots in personal values and shared meaning of company values, teams increase their confidence in the work they do, achieving more together. Jess Dewell talks with Chris Prefontaine, Founder/Mentor at Smart Real Estate, about being disciplined and goal driven.
Part of growth strategy is being consistent. Integrating a strong thread of the qualities of sustainability to daily operations improves our ability to be consistent in our actions and choices. Aligning sustainability to growth also enhances our ability to increase confidence in our decisions. Jess Dewell discusses qualities of sustainability as a leadership value with Dr. Federico Fioretto, leadership entrepreneur.