Leadership Junkies Podcast

Are you trying to navigate the reality of remote workers and team members? Do you want to better understand what it takes to successfully build and lead a business with remote team members? Are you looking for insights and tools for leading a remote team, whether fully, hybrid or otherwise?

Our special guest Laura Miller answers these and other questions about leadership, culture and doing business in a remote worker world.

Laura Miller is the Founder and CEO of TempDev, a nationwide healthcare information technology consulting firm that specializes in NextGen EPM and EHR development. She combines an engineering background with business savvy to create holistic and sustainable solutions with positive financial and operational impacts.

Over the past fourteen years, Laura has led and built a business with an entire team that works from home, including herself. Laura knows well the keys to leading, building culture, collaborating, innovating, communicating, and serving clients in a remote work model.

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Episode highlights…

• The basics of a remote workforce
• The challenges of bringing people back to the office who don’t want to go back to the office
• Financial realities of remote working in terms of compensation, cost of living, etc.
• Key values to team members of working from home
• Challenges of taking care of children while working remotely
• Collaboration and innovation also happen with remote working
• Pros and cons of remote working
• Importance of boundaries and routines when working remotely
• Overwork and burnout risks when working remotely
• Leaders must pay attention to the impact of their personal choices around work and remote work
• Productivity and remote work
• Pros, cons, risks and rewards of using employee work tracking software with remote workers
• Understanding the importance of and determining key performance indicators (KPI’s)
• Shifting the focus from time productivity to outcome productivity
• Role of existing trust levels in impacting employee response to monitoring programs
• Killing your peoples’ productivity by over-meeting your remote workers
• What’s the cost of your meetings?
• Remote working requires great technology and different approaches to communication
• Today’s workforce requires more empathetic leadership
• What would you do if you could not fail?

Do you struggle with challenging conversations? Do you want to learn more mindsets and tools for enhancing your crucial conversations? Are you ready to amplify your leadership and impact through conversations?

Our special guest Andrea Newton (England)  answers these and other questions about leadership and management in the context of conversations and communication.

Andrea Newton is the Founder of Confident Conversations and a woman on a mission to get leaders comfortable with the uncomfortable and believes there are 7 Significant Conversations that all good leaders ought to be able to have if they are truly to get the best out of their team and their business.

Andrea has spent the last 21 years working with a wide range of organizations across all industry sectors, helping literally thousands of managers and leaders at all levels to have conversations that matter.

Andrea believes that conversations change organizations, develop relationships, improve standards, increase results – in fact, conversations even save lives and having had her own experience of rooting around at rock bottom and peering over the edge, Andrea believe that unless leaders create the climate that encourages honest, open, frank dialogue then they will never achieve their full potential.

As a trainer, keynote speaker, author and soon to be podcast host, Andrea is based in the northwest of England and offers a whole range of online and remote training services to her clients – from television production to the NHS – she wants to use her past to improve others futures.

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Episode highlights…

• The importance of crucial conversations and different approaches to having them
• Understanding the blind spots about crucial conversations
• Confident leaders are willing to admit their weaknesses
• Going into crucial conversations with an attitude of curiosity
• Beware the words you use to label your crucial conversations
• Understanding the differences between feedback and opinions
• Leadership is not a popularity contest (do you want to be liked or respected as a leader)
• The impact of avoiding one-on-one conversations and instead relying on group conversations
• Importance of learning and teaching skills for crucial conversations
• Keys for leading and managing today’s workforce
• Understanding and navigating the Seven (7) Significant Conversations
• Crucial conversations are more impactful that processes and procedures
• The Four (4) F words in conversations: 1. Feelings; 2. Fears; 3. Family; and 4. Future
• Vulnerability and psychological safety in leadership
• Understanding the difference between empathy and sympathy in leadership
• Using the E.E.C. Model for crucial conversations (Example – Effect – Change)
• Leaders must get comfortable with the uncomfortable when it comes to crucial conversations
• The leadership of Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter series

Are you feeling burnout or overwhelmed? Are you looking for unconventional strategies for navigating your life and business? Do you want to be more purposeful, productive and present in every part of your life and leadership?

Our special guest Imogen Roy (Bordeaux France) answers these and other questions about burnout, purpose, productivity and personal energy.

Imogen Roy is a Business Mentor who helps unconventional people to be more purposeful, productive and present in their life and business. After experiencing burnout whilst doing what she loved, Imogen realized she'd have to take a much more proactive approach to protect her most valuable business asset: her own energy.

Despite doing what she loved, Imogen experienced a profound burnout experience that helped her to differently understand burnout, self-care and the importance of protecting your energy.

Today Imogen is the accomplice of founders, artists, consultants and visionaries who want to create unstoppable success in work and life without burnout or compromise.

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Episode highlights…

• Burnout is more a product of what happens when we care too much and too long for others without caring for ourselves
• The process and importance of finding and living your genius
• Understanding and overcoming the challenges of finding and living your genius
• Living an unconventional life by choosing not to fit in
• Keys to understanding the role of energy in leadership, productivity and life
• Navigating the land mines of false boxes in our lives
• Energy as your most important asset
• The reality that not all time is equal and controllable, but your energy can be managed
• What it means to be a time bender
• The role of presence in productivity
• Presence is essential when it comes to leadership
• Three kinds of attention / presence: 1. Outward facing attention; 2. Submissive state of attention (receiving); 3. Meditation
• Understanding what presence is and isn’t
• What happens to time when you’re not present
• Understanding our attachment to multi-tasking and its connection to lack of self-trust
• The myth of multi-tasking
• The flow of energy when you’re present (for yourself and others)
• Find a small way to honor what you feel like doing throughout the day (versus what you believe you have to do)
• Asking and answering the question of where you’re finding resistance
• Getting curious with your resistance
• Self-shaming or pushing through your resistance uses more energy and exhausts us
• The ways that language / words shape our culture and reality
• Understanding the different experiences of time (quantum and gestational)
• Examining the ways that your own language is serving you and not serving you
• Foundations for integrated leadership and living
• Embracing your resistance in order to learn from it

Are you confused about what to do to build a more diverse, equitable and inclusive culture? Are you looking to better understand the differences that are part of organizations today? Are you committed to creating a safer and more diverse, equitable and inclusive culture and organization?

Our special guest Marcia Alvarado answers these and other questions about diversity, equity, inclusion and leadership.

Marcia Alvarado has been a licensed professional engineer for the past 16 years and works as a Structural Market Leader for WGI in Tampa, Florida. She graduated from Florida Institute of Technology with a degree in Civil Engineering in 2004, where she played collegiate basketball. Marcia then pursued a career in structural engineering starting in New York City, and received her Master’s from the University of South Florida in 2009. Marcia enjoys designing buildings and has always had a passion for helping others through the ACE Mentor Program, a mentoring program for high school student to learn about the industry.

Marcia also has ventured in the fashion world by way of modeling and provides custom suiting for Sharpe Suiting, an LGBTQ+ owned and operated luxury custom suiting brand. In 2020, she Founded The Alvarado Experience, a consultancy focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Marcia knew her path was in design and construction at the age of four as she was standing on the London Bridge, barely tall enough to reach the glass, and told her mother “I want to build buildings when I grow up.”

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Episode highlights…

• Navigating the engineering, construction and business world as an other
• Critical interpersonal skills and mindsets for supporting more diversity, equity and inclusion in the world
• Understanding the difference between gender identity, gender role and gender expression
• Understanding gender identity and expression in the trans community
• The role of sexual expression in diversity, equity and inclusion (understanding the LBGTQ+ and queer community)
• Ongoing challenges for the LBGTQ+ community in the workplace
• Leaders and organizations must do more than talk the DEI talk
• The role of intersectionality with diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• Keys to bringing values around diversity, equity and inclusion alive in your organization
• The role of vulnerability in diversity, equity and inclusion leadership
• The leadership essential of knowing thyself especially when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion
• The power of publicly using your pronouns to build a safe and more belonging culture

Are you committed to leading with more humanness? Are you ready to lead with more people impact? Do you want to learn the tools and power of stories?

Our special guest Arthur Jones answers these and other questions about stories, leadership and humanizing your brand.

Arthur Jones is the founder of two companies – The Art of Standing Out (a leadership development firm) and The Art of Inbound Marketing (a marketing agency). Arthur has been described as a people centric, growth focused business strategy architect, as well as a brand story architect.

Arthur helps businesses and their customer-facing teams employ tools, strategies, and hybrid work models enabling collaboration and co-creation with the customers they serve. He’s also developed a concept called R.O.A.R – Return On Authentic Relationships.

His mission – to make meaning by enriching the lives of the business professionals they work with, and ultimately creating a more just and caring world.

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Episode highlights…

• What is a brand story architect?
• The power of stories and storytelling
• The source of the loss of the art of storytelling
• Understanding what it means to R.O.A.R. as a leader (return on authentic relationships)
• Being a humanologist (seek first to understand)
• The Big 3 of stories: 1. Story listening; 2. Story building; 3. Storytelling
• Obstacles to bringing more humanness into your leadership
• Leadership shifts for a remote and hybrid workforce
• Leadership top three … Integrity, Emotional Intelligence and Communication
• Leadership requires the courage to do the right thing
• Humanizing your brand

Are you struggling with what your culture will look like in the post-COVID workforce? Are you committed to being a learning organization? Do you want to build a culture that will engage and inspire your team?

Our special guest Dr. Troy Hall answers these and other questions about culture, talent, leadership, engagement and performance.

Dr. Troy Hall is the author of the best-selling title, Cohesion Culture: Proven Principles to Retain Your Top Talent, and the #1 title for Business and Professional Humor, FANNY RULES: A Mother’s Leadership Lessons That Never Grow Old. He was once told he did not have the talent to write. His mom, Fanny, reminded him, “It’s not the successes or failures that shape your life, it’s how you handle them.”

Dr. Troy is an author, radio host, global speaker, talent retention strategist and consultant who’s been featured on the Today Show, ABC, Beyond the Business Radio Show, and CEO World.

His doctorate in Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship has sent him across the globe to help leaders create cultures of cohesion and retain top talent in their organizations. With more than 40 years of practical leadership experience and a Ph.D. in Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Dr. Troy's consulting and executive coaching sessions have positively impacted organizational leaders around the globe on how to create cultures of cohesion to retain their top talent.

His mantra, "You don’t have to know everything, you just need to be teachable."

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Episode highlights…

• Mother’s leadership lessons
• Mistakes are not failures – they’re learning experiences
• Five elements of a learning organization: 1. Being generative; 2. Adaptive; 3. Experimentation; 4. Diversity of thought; 5. Good stewards of the resources
• Knowledge isn’t power … it’s using that knowledge and turning it into wisdom
• Role of cultural relatively in sustaining a learning culture
• Importance of emotional intelligence and self-awareness in leadership
• Vulnerability and authenticity in leadership
• Charismatic leadership is no longer enough
• The importance of creating a culture to allow a collaborative voice among the team
• Four primary characteristics that cross all generations in the workplace
• Understanding the elements of a cohesion culture: 1. Belonging; 2. Value; 3. Shared mutual commitment
• Leadership shifts in the age of growing remote workforces
• Managing your people by time versus productivity / performance
• Differently managing remote team members
• Challenges of retaining team members in a post-COVID work world
• Being thoughtful about reboarding your team after COVID

People don’t follow accidental leaders – the importance of being purposeful as a leader

Are you looking for ways to grow and scale your business? Are you struggling with the many challenges of entrepreneurship? Do you want new ideas and mindsets for your entrepreneurial journey?

Our special guest Jan Cavelle answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, business growth, and scaling your business.

Jan Cavelle is an entrepreneur of entrepreneurs from the UK who has a few decades of running micro and small businesses behind her.  She is very familiar with all the challenges that go with that, having started one from the kitchen table when her children were small and she was a single mother, to go on to build that into a multi-million business.

Jan has put her entrepreneurial experiences together with her passion for writing into a book aimed at helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses during the big leap from $1 to $10 million. Jan’s book is called Scale for Success and is currently available in the UK, with an early July publication in the United States and Australia.

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Episode highlights…

• Understanding what it means to scale a business
• Start your business being clear on your why and where you want the business to go
• The vital role of systems early in your business
• The difference between growing your business and scaling your business
• Key questions to answer early in your business: 1. Why am I getting into this business? 2. What do I want out of this business? 3. What kind of business do I want? 4. What kind of life do I want with this business?
• The importance of getting clear on your market early in your business
• Beware the sales and marketing gap in your business
• Understanding the time realities in entrepreneurship
• Using a book for authority and rapport building
• The difference between your goals and knowing where you’re going
• The critical role mindset in business growth and success
• Mental health challenges in entrepreneurship
• Understanding resilience and its role in business leadership
• Key entrepreneur’s question: What are you willing to give up in order to build and scale your business?
• Avoiding burnout as entrepreneurs and business owners
• Don't do anything because other people are doing it – do what's right for you

Are you an entrepreneur looking to grow and scale your business? Are you thinking about starting a business? Are you committed to growing your leadership and your business?

Our special guest Bryan Clayton answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, small business growth and scaling businesses for exit.

Bryan Clayton is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with Local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day.

Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc., one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013.

Bryan‘s interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit.

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Episode highlights…

• Challenges of starting and growing a start-up business
• Unique challenges for starting and growing a technology business
• The three phases of business: 1. Start up; 2. Grow up; 3. Scale up
• Leadership and business lessons from Mario Kart
• Business growth requires leadership growth
• Transitioning from being a do-it-yourself business owner to building a business
• All elements of your business must be integrated and aligned
• The importance of having a clear sales process to grow your business (and you must do the process yourself first)
• Hiring the right people versus people with experience and industry experience
• Keys to measuring leading indicators in sales (activities); not just trailing indicators (outputs)
• Retention is a key indicator of your value and its alignment with your customer’s needs
• Business success requires failures (and learning) and time
• The critical role of listening to your customers
• Strategically using fractional experts to build your business (engage the top talent instead of settling for lesser / cheaper talent)
• The shift from full time, on-site employees to fractional, remote team members
• Debunking the myth of overnight successes in business
• Entrepreneurship as a full contact sport
• Understanding the difference between self-employment, business ownership and entrepreneurship
• Leveling up your leadership in order to grow and scale your business
• Understanding what comes first in your business (the chicken or the egg)
• The challenge of entrepreneurial leadership in being ahead of your team in vision and effort
• The need to slow yourself down in order to manage and bring your people along with you
• Business ownership is lonely (the importance of surrounding yourself with coaches, mentors and advisors)

Are you a woman looking to grow your leadership and expand your impact? Are you an organization committed to empowering your women and their leadership? Do you to better understand what it means and what it takes to empower your women leaders?

Our special guest Jane Finette answers these and other questions about leadership, women in leadership and growing yourself in order to grow your leadership.

Are you looking for different ways to build your business? Are you committed to growing yourself and your leadership? Do you want to be the most effective and impactful leader you can be?

Our special guest Karen Weinstock answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, leadership, innovation and even dating.

Karen Weinstock was born in Israel, served in military intelligence in the Israeli Army and then went on to law school at The Hebrew University. After practicing corporate law for a brief time, Karen moved into immigration law in part due to the challenges she faced when she came to the United States (she couldn't get a job without a visa and she couldn't get a visa without a job). Karen eventually founded her own entrepreneurial law firm, Weinstock Immigration Lawyers that helps immigrants achieve their American dreams

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Episode highlights…

• Understanding key elements of immigration laws and its impact on business
• Entrepreneurial mindsets to solve problems and add value
• Building a law firm as a business, not just a practice
• Leadership and business lessons from dating
• Using business thinking, strategies, principles and processes to enhance your dating experience and personal relationships
• The critical role of authenticity in dating, relationships and leadership
• Keys to building authentic relationships
• Entrepreneurship essentials
• Understanding the differences between building a practice and building a business
• Ways that working on yourself is a game changer as a leader and business owner
• Understanding emotional mastery for your leadership and relationships
• The positive impacts of building a culture of personal growth and development in your business
• The power of being honest and direct in your communication

Are you looking for ways to enhance your team’s experience? Are you committed to integrating diversity, equity and inclusion into your culture? Do you want tools to help you build psychological safety into your workplace experience?

Our special guest Khong Xiong answers these and other questions about leadership, team engagement, and diversity, equity and inclusion.

Khong serves as a thought partner, business advisor, and consultant working closely with business executives and HR leaders at Fortune 500 companies on how to engage their people, unlock potential, and translate their strategy into something they can operationalize to achieve growth.

Khong brings over 10 years of experience in leadership development and management consulting. He’s worked at some of the world’s top leadership development companies where he successfully helped his clients drive superior performance by developing their leaders and aligning their people, structure, and process. Khong offers creative insight and inclusive solutions to tackle some of human resources’ biggest challenges, such as diversity, equity and inclusion, employee engagement, strategy execution, culture transformation and organizational effectiveness.

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Episode highlights…

• The gap between intention and execution when it comes to people in organizations
• Self-awareness is vital in leadership
• Effective leaders create psychological safety in the organization and team
• Courage in asking for feedback
• Vulnerability in leadership includes admitting mistakes
• The importance of empathy in building a strong diversity, equity and inclusion culture
• Key obstacles to building a strong diversity, equity and inclusion culture
• Building your diversity, equity and inclusion team
• Importance of being present when it comes to building strong people first cultures
• Using check-ins to enhance your people experience at work
• Importance of flexible work options for team members
• Understanding psychological safety in the workplace
• Leadership is an inside out mindset and issue
• Impact of building and nurturing a culture of authenticity

Are you looking to grow and build your business? Are you wondering what’s getting in the way of your success? Are you ready to accelerate your business growth?

Our special guest Maini Homer (Australia) answers these and other questions about keys to growing yourself and your business.

Maini Homer is known as the Queen of Content Creation and has been in business for herself for over 23 years. In that time, Maini has built 13 successful businesses from scratch and usually with no money down.

She’s also the author of Lockdown Took My Income, a #1 International Best-Selling book in three countries and three categories. Maini wrote her book in under 24 hours at the start of the pandemic. It’s a 9-step blueprint to create your own income stream from scratch.

Maini’s latest venture, Copywriters International, was born in October 2020 after recording the video series Creating an Income From Scratch.  She did this to prove that the steps in her book really did work if you follow them. The rest is history.  Seven months later, Maini has 16 staff working for her and she’s staring down at total financial and time freedom … and deciding what her next adventure will be.

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Episode highlights…

• Keys to business success especially as a start-up
• The power of outsourcing and letting go
• Importance of setting clear and high expectations for your team members
• Social media consistency allows you to be seen and heard by your ideal target market
• Effective social media is about trust and relationship building
• You must be willing to put yourself out there to be heard above the noise
• Secrets for growing an online business
• Only your thoughts and feelings hold you back
• Mindsets and beliefs are the only obstacle to your success
• Self-development requires more than “shelf development”
• Get clear on what you’re passionate about and get clear on who you want to serve (clear target markets)
• When something doesn’t work, you must focus on “What’s next”
• Discerning between quitting and adjusting / shifting
• You must become aware of your self-limiting beliefs and brokenness (and then work on you)
• Your only glass ceiling is in your mind

Are you confused by technology? Are you trying to figure out digital marketing for your business? Are you looking for ideas to help your business and operations run more smoothly and effectively? Do you want to amp up your impact?

Our special guest Jen McFarland answers these and other questions about technology, AI and digital marketing.

Jen McFarland is the Founder of Women Conquer Business, and she also has a podcast by the same name. Women Conquer Business is a digital marketing operations consultancy to help entrepreneurs and small businesses solve their marketing technology challenges, streamline processes, and amplify impact.

Jen describes herself as an accidental entrepreneur, who’s committed to helping businesses enhance their businesses and impact by understanding how technology can help you grow a business, systematize the business, and change the overall imprint of the business through technology.

A former Peace Corps volunteer and operations analyst, Jen brings a wealth of experience in helping organizations streamline their operations and systems.

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Episode highlights…

• Why businesses and business owners struggle with technology and software
• Assessing your business operations and goals before developing your marketing and technology strategy
• The importance of alignment between your business and your marketing / digital imprint
• Ways that technology helps you and your business work better
• Using technology and automation to allow your business to be more human
• You must know where you are today with technology and marketing before developing strategies for getting where you want to be
• Social media strategy must be built around your customer’s needs and interests, not your own
• Marketing must focus on the emotions you want to elicit in people
• If you want to understand your customers, ask them
• The role of AI in your business, technology and marketing strategies
• AI tools for your marketing toolbox
• Getting past your technology fears
• You must understand what you need before you decide what technology you need
• The importance of mentorship in your business and leadership journey

Are you looking for ways to improve your mental health and the mental health of your team members? Do you want ideas on ways to lead effectively after COVID?

Our special guest Ian Adair answers these and other questions about leadership, mental health and workplace mental health.

Ian Adair is a nonprofit industry influencer, TEDx speaker, and recognized expert in leadership, fundraising, and nonprofit management. Ian is a speaker, author and advocate concerning mental health awareness and addressing mental health in the workplace. He’s the author of Stronger Than Stigma. A Call to Action: Stories of Grief, Loss and Inspiration!

Ian Adair is the Executive Director of the Gracepoint Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Gracepoint – one of the largest mental health organizations in Florida. Gracepoint impacts the lives of more than 30,000 individuals (children and adults) each year seeking mental health, medical, and addiction services in the Tampa Bay area.

In 2016, Ian was chosen as one of the Top 100 Must-Follow Giving Influencers on Twitter by Give Local America. In 2019, Ian was named of the Top 100 Charity Industry Influencers on Social Media in the world by Onalytica, an influencer relationship software company in London. In 2020, Ian was recognized as one of the 30 Nonprofit Founders that will impact the World by Causeartist, a global community and social enterprise platform.

Episode highlights…

• Understanding the state of mental health in the United States including its financial impact
• The role of stigma in limiting people from seeking support
• The trouble with self-diagnosing mental health conditions and challenges
• The interrelationships between mental health and physical health
• People take an average of 8-10 years to seek help for mental health issues
• Understanding the two types of stigmas – social stigma and self-perceived stigma
• Gender differences and mental health conditions (and impacts)
• Being high functioning doesn’t mean you aren’t suffering with mental health conditions
• The importance of opening up the conversation around suicide (data we can’t ignore)
• Relationship impacts of suicide
• Reasons we avoid conversations about mental health, suicide, etc.
• The bottom-line impacts of mental health on your organization and business (No. 1 reason for loss of productivity and absenteeism)
• Understanding the changes in our workforce and the impact of these changes on mental health and what employees desire in support
• The reality and mental health impact of toxic work cultures
• Leaders as culture caretakers in organizations
• Mental health and remote working
• Leadership and team challenges in transitioning out of COVID
• It’s vital to understand what your people want
• The human and financial impact of normalizing conversations about mental health in the workplace
• The importance of creating a safe work environment for your people including emotional and psychological safety
• The best mental health support you can offer is to just listen

Are you missing passion in your business and life journey? Are you looking for strategies to help you increase your passion and outcomes? Do you want to have a clear vision for your business?

Our special guest John Miles answers these and other questions about passion, purpose and impact.

John Miles is the Founder of Passion Struck™ and the host of Passion Struck Podcast. Passion Struck™ exists to ignite the next generation of game-changing companies and future leaders to make a real and lasting impact on the world. Becoming Passion Struck is for those of us who the box can’t contain — for game-changers, shapers, innovators, record makers, empire builders, career reinventors, and visionaries of all kinds.

John is passionate about being the catalyst who helps individuals and businesses take action on their ideas. He is a combat veteran, multi-industry CEO, successful entrepreneur, top podcast host, and author who is making passion go viral. Although best known as the President and CEO of Genius Central Systems and CIO of Dell, John’s career as a servant leader spans more than two decades. He's founded or co-founded more than half a dozen successful start-ups, mentored rising entrepreneurs, and invested in successful tech ventures.

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Episode highlights…

• The power of saying “yes”
• Choose to seek out discomfort and challenge yourself
• Three key challenges in business and leadership today – “contagion of the human mind, human spirit and ego” (comfort, apathy and showmanship)
• Ways that vulnerability is essential is leadership and relationships
• Taking the governor off your mind
• Passion follows purpose
• It’s vital for leaders to have a coach and keys to picking a coach
• Self-honesty is critical in leadership
• The importance of facing and dealing with your self-limiting beliefs
• Leaders are judged by their actions, not their words
• Stop helping other people achieve their dreams and start achieving their own dreams
• Prioritize what matters in your life
• Applying the mosquito principle and audit in your life – suffocator, blood sucker and pain in the ass
• Getting past the bull shit answers and getting to the real answer
• The number one thing that people aren't doing is being present in their own life

Are you confused by marketing and social media? Do you want to better understand what it takes to market and grow your business? Are you overwhelmed by all the “experts” ready to sell you their get rich quick strategies?

Our special guest Ellen Yin answers these and other questions about digital marketing, client attraction and essential marketing mindsets.

Ellen Yin is the founder of Cubicle to CEO, an online membership helping entrepreneurs who sell services make their first $10K month, without a large audience or posting every day. She has been featured on the TODAY show with Hoda & Jenna and in publications like Authority Magazine, Databird Business Journal, The Penny Hoarder, HerMoney, and BlogHer.

Notably, Ellen quit her job, decided she’d never work for someone else again and starting with a $300 project, quickly built at seven figure business.

Through her results-driven online courses + agency services, Ellen has worked with over 7,000 entrepreneurs and brands ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Ellen is also the host of the award-winning Cubicle to CEO Podcast, which peaked in multiple countries' Top 50 business podcast charts and has been downloaded in over 100 countries worldwide.

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Episode highlights…

• You don’t have to invest all your time in attracting clients (use simple systems to attract clients)
• Mindset and implementation must work together to grow your business
• Selling done right is a collaboration, not a coercion
• Three elements of a successful marketing system are a traffic generator, a lead generator and a sales generator (they must all work well together)
• Strategy is vital in marketing and social media (not just activity)
• Consistency needs to be applied on connecting and getting in front of your ideal clients online and driving traffic to your existing best quality content
• There are no magic pills, but you can shortcut other people’s mistakes
• Choose data over drama (every outcome is a learning opportunity)
• Sales funnels alone are not the solution
• There are many ways to niche including the transformation results (not just demographics or psychographics)
• Business and sales are not like the movie Field of Dreams (if you build it, they will NOT come)
• Online courses are meant to be a vehicle that takes someone from point A to point B, using a framework, a guide or a system that has been proven to work not just with one person, but with multiple people (it’s a proven recipe)
• Not everyone needs digital products
• What is going to create the best results for your dream clients
• Creating lucrative income streams as a referral partner (you don’t have to create everything anew)
• Understand the language that your ideal clients are speaking (not the language of your solutions) … Get crystal clear on your ideal clients’ language and problems
• Beware the ways you approach pricing
• Key mindsets and questions to assess your products and services pricing

Are you tired of playing the numbers game in sales? Do you want to accelerate your sales results? Are you open to a radical shift in the ways you build trust, solve problems and engage with clients?

Our special guest Ari Galper (Australia) answers these and other questions about true trust-based selling. He also debunks many of our long-held sales myths.

Ari Galper is the World’s #1 Authority on trust-based selling and creator of Unlock the Game®, a new sales mindset and results-oriented approach that has revolutionized the world of selling. With a Masters in Instructional Design, which strongly analyzes the way people learn, and supplying nearly two decades of experience in direct selling in a variety of industries, Ari has pioneered a breakthrough sales system – Unlock the Game. Built on the concept of authentic communication and trust, his visionary approach to selling relieves the pressure for both the seller and buyer, producing profound results.

Ari has been featured in a multitude of leading sales and business books for his unique and special trust-based sales approach. Interviewed on networks such as CNN Money and Sky News, he has become the foremost authority on selling around the globe.

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Episode highlights…

• True foundations of trust-based selling
• Sales are lost at the beginning, not the end
• Understanding how to unlock the game – shifting your mindset, letting go of the end goal of the sale, focus only on being present with people, and build deep trust so that people will always tell you the truth
• Debunking these sales myths: 1. Sales is a numbers game; 2. Sales are lost at the end of the process; 3. Rejection is part of the sales game
• Ways you trigger rejection with sales opportunities
• Understanding the words and language that triggers rejection
• Instead of moving people towards the sale, let people decide which direction things go
• Goal is to get to the truth, not the outcome you want
• Using language that reduces pressure (never use the phrase “follow up” again – instead use “do you have any feedback on what’s already happened)
• Learn the words and phrases to never use again in sales
• Trust building and relationship building are mutually exclusive (focus on trust at the beginning and save the relationship building until later)
• You can’t offer your solution until someone tells you their problem and asks you for help
• Goal is not a sale – it’s to get the truth
• Beware being addicted to the “drug” hopium
• Potential clients ask one question: “Do I trust them?”
• Fall out of love with your solution and in love with their problem
• You must slow down the process including the pace of your speaking
• You must care about the person and their problems until they say, “How can you help me?”
• Be a truth teller in sales – You must tell people what their real problem and impact is
• Differentiate based upon your approach (not your solution)

Are you looking for strategies to grow your business and your people? Are you committed to being a leader and organization focused on putting your people first? Do you want tools to achieve your business goals by putting your people first?

Our special guest Lori Kaiser answers these and other questions about people first leadership, culture and business growth.

Lori Kaiser is the Founder and CEO of Kaiser Consulting, which she founded in 1992. Lori is a chief executive, corporate leader, and business strategist with a proven track record in assessing risk and creating solutions for Fortune 500 Company C-Level Executives and Boards. Kaiser Consulting is an international professional services firm specializing in accounting, finance and IT consulting with 80 finance and accounting professionals.

Most important, Lori and Kaiser Consulting have grown the business on the simple premise of putting their people first.

In fact, Lori and Kaiser Consulting have built and grown a business based upon what you may think a crazy approach – ask your people what kind of career and practice they want and then deliver it. In 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020 Kaiser Consulting was named a Columbus “Best Places to Work”.

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Episode highlights…

• Building, growing and running a business based upon your people’s optimal schedule
• The death of the 40-hour work week and the benefits of having flexible schedules for your people
• You can run a people first business and still deliver high value to all clients (including large corporations)
• Building and nurturing an attraction model for building your team
• The importance of cultural fit with your team members
• Creating and using a success factor grid for your business and team
• Interview questions to help you assess cultural and success factor fit
• The importance of training and developing your people
• The value of providing a training and development allowance for your people (in addition to in house training)
• The challenge in offering flexible schedules is worth the returns
• Get clear on the skills that are needed for your people to advance their career (and support them in growing those skills)
• Using internal processes to continually evaluate your people’s time and schedules (avoiding overwork)
• Keys for growing and advancing your people based upon the skills needed for the next level (not just their current level)
• Every person is different which requires enhanced listening skills to understand each person
• The clearer you are about what kind of people you want, the clearer it will be who’s not a good fit
• When you put your people first, they will serve your clients well
• Be willing to fire clients that don’t treat your people well
• Be willing to say no to potential clients that don’t fit your people first model
• It’s essential to understand and use your key performance indicators
• Ask your people and make it safe for them to tell the truth and even say “no”

Are you looking for strategies to achieve balance in your life? Are you struggling with the challenges of growing a business while maintaining your life priorities? Are you feeling handcuffed to your business? Do you want tools for scaling your business without burning out and getting out of balance in your life? Is your relationship with money keeping you from your goals?

Our special guest Cassidy Arbeli answers these and other questions about leadership, business building and life integration especially for women.

Cassidy is a serial entrepreneur who owns several businesses. She now works with businesses, especially female entrepreneurs, to help them grow their businesses, scale their businesses and get the life they want out of their businesses, including multiple streams of income.

She also started her first business while beginning her journey as a mother – in essence, navigating the journey of business, marriage and motherhood all at the same time.

Her foundation and podcast are called Unburden Your Business, and helps women build their businesses despite the unique challenges and burdens faced by women.

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Episode highlights…

• Focusing on life integration (not balance)
• Assessing priorities based upon either a “Heck yes” or a “Heck no”
• The benefits of theming your days
• Asking and answering the question, “What would you do if you only had two hours a week to work on your business?”
• It’s essential to put your team first and help them not only perform, but achieve their dreams
• The importance of having a clear vision for what you want your business to achieve for you and in your life
• It’s critical to processize your business and your team’s activities in the business
• The biggest challenge in business is execution and the role of a strategic execution plan
• Minimize the resistance to execution
• Understanding your money (not just growing revenue)
• Understanding the different ways the women function and lead in business (feminine energy versus masculine energy)
• Leading your business in alignment with your feminine cycles
• Acting and leading like men is NOT the answer for women (although it may deliver short term results)
• The reality of ongoing challenges for women (and the reality that men are often unaware of these ongoing challenges)
• It’s vital for women to show up as their authentic selves in business and leadership
• Clients care about relationships and value
• Let your people be themselves in their networking activities, dress code and sales methods
• You can create a profitable business that aligns with who you are
• Doing business with a persona requires that you work harder
• People follow authentic people (not personas)
• The difference between living an integrated life versus a balanced life
• The power of pause in your business and life
• Breaking the cycles that keep you handcuffed to your business
• Embrace the data to run your business
• Understanding your relationship with money and the ways that relationship impacts your business and financial performance
• Power Question: Where do you see yourself in 12 months?

Are you frustrated with the current state of leadership? Are you wondering about the future of leadership? Are you willing to make a fundamental shift in your leadership to help enhance engagement, trust, followership and performance?

Our special guest Paul McCarthy answers these and other questions about leadership, leadership development, and a fundamental shift in leadership for the future.

Paul McCarthy is the Founder of a movement called FIRED Leadership. He's working on his first book that's called The FIRED Leader: Reinventing the Future of Leadership, challenging CEOs to rethink who they are firing, because they're getting rid of the wrong talents and skills.

Despite being a global multibillion-dollar industry, studies show that the more companies spend on leadership development, the less leaders are ready for today's changing marketplace.

Driven by the quest to discover what motivates people to do what they do, Paul thinks big, questions deeply, and strives to create the conditions for leaders of all levels to have courageous and honest conversations that build strong and healthy organizations.

Having worked within big firms in the UK and Canada, he brings global perspective to his work as well as real-world experience and straightforward guidance that informs and supports leaders and leadership teams to navigate opportunities and challenges presented by transformation.

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Episode highlights…

• Leadership and leadership development is a broken model that requires foundational disruption
• Exploring the fundamental defects in today’s model of and approach to leadership development
• The trouble with performance review processes and performance improvement plans
• The importance of dropping your ego in order to explore solutions to leadership and leadership development
• Creating conditions for an honest discussion of what’s working and what’s not working in leadership, management and business
• Beware the guruizing of leadership and leadership development
• Understanding the profound cost of disengagement in business
• The performance impact of clarity and alignment around purpose
• Key drivers of team disengagement
• The role of fear in staying stuck personally, professionally and organizationally
• The connection between leadership, culture and mental health
• The foundations of FIRED leadership as a mindset and practice
  Fresh thinking
  Inquisitive nature
  Real and accountable
  Expressive and challenging
  Direct and transparent
  
• The power and impact of treating people like humans
• The many ways we’re failing in our meetings

Are you looking to grow your leadership, impact and engagement? Are you curious about the ways that understanding and using your soul intelligence will enhance your leadership and impact? Are you committed to enhancing your team’s impact and performance?

Our special guest Kristine Glein answers these and other questions about performance, team engagement and soul intelligence.

Kristine Glein is a conscious leadership coach committed to bringing the power of Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) into the mainstream. She is dedicated to helping executive and senior leadership transform their managers into game changing leaders resulting in increased performance, consistency and alignment with the best version of themselves so they can make a greater impact on their individual teams and the organization as a whole.

When it comes to motivating others to meet and exceed expectations, Kristine knows you must have your purpose and passion aligned, as that’s when you are able to fully stand in your power and embody your potential. It’s this fundamental transformational change that allows you to access the flow of energy within you by tapping into your Soul Intelligence. It drives your actions, enabling you to leverage your talents and gifts and share with others to influence and inspire. There is no doubt that we need more soulful leaders in this world. A native New Yorker, she is tenacious and singularly focused making Soul Intelligence not just a concept, but a sweeping movement across the country.

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Episode highlights…

• Using the Game Changer Index to grow yourself and your team
• The role of intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional quotient (EQ) and soul quotient (SQ)
• IQ only uses 5% of the brain – your subconscious mind is the other 95%
• Understanding the DSCO coaching model (Drama – Solution – Choice – Opportunity)
• It’s vital to get clear on identifying and living mission, vision, values and purpose
• People (especially millennials) want to be motivated by the work
• Trust and transparency are vital in managers and leaders
• Focus your people development on your mid-performers (not your poor performers)
• Understanding inside out problem solving
• Understanding and solving our engagement issues and opportunities
• The ROI of investing in your people
• Understanding the Game Changing Index and ways to use it in your business
• The power and impact of soul intelligence

Are you seeking to achieve peak performance? Are you looking to achieve alignment between your priorities and your actions? Do you want tools and strategies to enhance and accelerate your balanced performance in life and business?

Our special guest Katie Stoddart (Sweden) answers these and other questions about peak performance, balance and removing the obstacles that get in our way.

Katie Stoddart is the Founder of ‘The Focus Bee’ and an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie supports founders and executives on sustaining peak performance in their business.

Katie started her career as an engineer, working offshore, mapping the seafloor. From her time at sea, she gained the experience of managing teams under stressful circumstances and this led her towards coaching. She has coached in English, French, Spanish and German.

For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews leading experts in high performance. She’s passionate about leadership, performance and resilience. Katie challenges every person she works with to re-focus on what matters most. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through one-on-one coaching and workshops on focus, leadership and performance.

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Episode highlights…

• Peak performance is overall balance while pursuing excellence (striving and thriving)
• Balance is adjusting areas that you’ve underprioritized
• Self-leadership requires doing your identity work and creating healthier habits
• The ego challenge to making identity shifts
• The importance of identifying and acknowledging the “wins” of the behaviors you want to change
• Our subconscious defaults to certainty and comfort zone unless we’re aware and willing to shift
• Ways that not “knowing” what to do is a form of resistance to change and pursuing what you desire
• Ways we get stuck in the doing
• Naming your internal saboteurs as a strategy to be more aware of them and avoid them
• Not enough is the foundation for all internal saboteurs
• The role of emotions in personal change and transformation
• We hesitate to acknowledge the truth of choices because then we can’t blame or be the victim (blame doesn’t exist)
• Strategies for inviting others to take responsibility and change themselves (versus demanding that they take responsibility and change)
• The critical role of why and purpose in change (including taking the focus off themselves and onto others)
• The vital role of energy in leadership and performance
• Paying attention to the energy of your space
• Beware energy thieves including unfinished tasks
• Beware the words you use to enhance or diminish your energy
• The “busy excuse” is an excuse for not making something a priority
• Alignment of values, priorities and actions is essential
• The reality of conflicts between long term vision and short-term gains (dopamine hits)
• Regularly assess your time allocation based upon priorities
• Important role of focus in managing energy and time, and a lens through which we choose to see things through
• Strategies for enhancing their focus
• Clarity is essential for peak performance and achieving your goals and objectives

Are you struggling to lose weight and improve your physical health? Are you falling victim to the “I don’t have time” excuse for not exercising? Are you looking for practical ways to achieve your health and weight loss goals?

Our special guest Gav Gillibrand will answer these and other questions about exercise, weight loss and your physical health.

Gav Gillibrand is a fitness and nutrition expert who specializes in helping busy men and women lose 20 pounds or more in 12 weeks or less without cutting out carbs and other fun stuff from their lives. From a TV appearance on “Blind Date” in 1993 to a distinguished career as a male revue artist (aka a male stripper) traveling all over the UK and Europe, Gav went on to become one of the UK’s most successful online health & fitness coaches having helped hundreds of clients in the last 15 years to health & weight loss success.

His techniques have helped people lose body fat with ease, increase their energy, improve their health, and give them the weight loss goals that they have always wanted. Finally, Gav’s unique take on fat loss has led to him building a community of 33,000+ followers on LinkedIn where he inspires them each day with content that is fun, informative, and unique.

Are you often focused on doing in your leadership? Have you ever felt stuck in your business or career journey? Are you looking for tools to enhance your leadership effectiveness and impact? Do you want to learn to be more resourceful as a leader?

Our special guest Noa Ronen is back to answer these and other questions about leadership, change management and Being the leader you desire to BE.

Noa Ronen is a speaker, certified executive coach, author, disruptor, and coffee lover with more than 20 years of experience in change management, human resources, project management, and coaching.

Noa encourages founders, executives, social leaders and their teams to challenge the norms so they can create the change they desire. As part of her want to do things differently she founded the Walking Mastermind™ a unique networking system for leaders that allows people and communities to network outdoors.

Noa’s personal relocation experience from Israel to the United States resulted in a refreshing view of the world that invites you to hold a new mindset of what she calls BEyond leadership where you hold your leadership BEyond yourself, your vision and values to engage and grow others to BE their best selves.

Are you often focused on doing in your leadership? Have you ever felt stuck in your business or career journey? Are you looking for tools to enhance your leadership effectiveness and impact? Do you want to learn to be more resourceful as a leader?

Our special guest Noa Ronen answers these and other questions about leadership, change management and Being the leader you desire to BE.

Noa Ronen is a speaker, certified executive coach, author, disruptor, and coffee lover with more than 20 years of experience in change management, human resources, project management, and coaching.

Noa encourages founders, executives, social leaders and their teams to challenge the norms so they can create the change they desire. As part of her want to do things differently she founded the Walking Mastermind™ a unique networking system for leaders that allows people and communities to network outdoors.

Noa’s personal relocation experience from Israel to the United States resulted in a refreshing view of the world that invites you to hold a new mindset of what she calls BEyond leadership where you hold your leadership BEyond yourself, your vision and values to engage and grow others to BE their best selves.

Are you looking for ways to enhance your people leadership mindsets and tools? Do you want strategies to enhance your people culture and leadership impact? Are you ready to lead and manage differently to meet the leadership needs of today?

Our special guest Denise Cooper answers these and other questions about leadership, tools for HR leaders, and strategies for creating cultures of psychological safety and belonging.

Denise Cooper, MBA, is a Certified Conversational Intelligence Trainer with 25 + years as a human resources leader who brings a practical approach to improving both soft and hard leadership skills. According to Denise, The majority of corporate “transformations” fail to meet their objectives. We know it is usually not because of a flawed business strategy, but due to poor people management or approaches that have not changed, despite the very different business model evolution. Better leaders and managers simply hit or exceed their goals more reliably. Denise’s also the author of Remarkable Leadership Lessons.

As an accomplished HR executive turned owner of a boutique leadership and coach to human resource professionals, her work is focused on advising executives and HR professionals on how to create a responsive people strategy that creates a more motivated and talented workforce than your competition. Denise is a business coach for people who hate people issues but love getting things done.

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Episode highlights…

• The difference between having a great strategy and implementing that strategy (all people issues)
• The myth and fundamental failing of our leadership thinking
• What we’re missing in assessing leaders and their leadership
• The need for change in HR and leadership
• The struggles of creating workplaces where people feel like they belong
• The bell curve truth of mediocre leaders and managers
• The importance of value in the culture and leadership conversation
• People have a core desire to be seen, heard and relevant
• If you can’t see a way, then what you see is in the way
• People need to learn to be adaptable but few of us are being taught adaptability
• The importance of allowing your people to bring their full selves to work
• What are you attached to as a leader and manager?
• Leadership is like learning to ride – eventually you have to actually ride the bike and you actually have to lead (and learn to recover when you fail or fall)
• Understanding the boundaries in allowing measured risk
• The role and importance of psychological safety in the workplace
• Compassion is understanding empathy and still hold people accountable
• The power of asking who’s the best people developer versus asking who’s the best performer
• What is the true meaning of being an alpha leader

Are you ready to be more brave in your life and leadership? Are you ready to face your fears and lead with greater purpose, alignment and intentionality? Do you want tool to enhance your bravery in leadership?

Our special guest Nicole Bianchi answers these and other questions about overcoming resistance, bravery and leadership … and what it means to lead as your bravest self.

Nicole Bianchi is a founding partner at Bravium HD, where she’s a professional speaker, facilitator and ICF executive coach leading leadership, team alignment and culture-building workshops. Before Bravium, she was a human resources and organizational development executive, leading transformation within Conagra Brands and Markel Insurance.  She is the author of “Small Brave Moves” by New Degree Press in April, 2021.

Her passion? Inspiring Bravery. Her focus? Enabling leaders to stretch into their bravest selves. She decided to write this book when she saw the common missing element in leaders was bravery, everyday bravery. Immediately she thought, how can I help?

Listen as Jeff Nischwitz and Craig Mathews explore the concept of tolerance.

No, not the idea of being more tolerant of people and differences, but the many ways that we tolerate things and people to the detriment of our businesses, teams, outcomes, relationships and life experiences.

Jeff and Craig will explore the many layers of this life truth:

Listen in as Jeff and Craig share many examples of the ways that tolerance limits our outcomes and bring more awareness to the depth and range of the impacts of our tolerance.

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Episode highlights…

• Differentiating tolerance of differences from tolerance of behaviors
• The truth that your tolerance factor is the key element in the ways that people experience your values and priorities
• We not only tolerate behavior, situations and people, but we also tolerate things within ourselves (self-tolerance)
• The many faces of excuses (“reasons”) we use to justify our tolerances
• The relationship between empathy and reducing tolerance
• Real business examples of tolerance and its impact
• Every day relationship examples of tolerance and its impact
• The may whys of our tolerances
• The importance of getting clear on what and who you’re tolerating
• The reality of tolerance blind spots
• The Tolerance Assessment process and its role in helping you to make more conscious tolerance decisions
• A power question to use in communicating with people who are benefitting from tolerance (e.g. “Do you think it’s fair that ….?”)

Are you leading through adversity? Are you struggling to find ways to navigate the leadership reality of differing perceptions? Are you looking for tools and strategies to enhance your leadership impact?

Our special guest Jesus Campa answers these and other questions about leading through adversity, navigating the unique leadership challenges in the public sector, and leading in the midst of social unrest and divided communities.

Jesus Campa is the owner of America's Best Strategic Security Group and Leading Through Adversity. Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Jesus served in law enforcement for 27 year, including serving as a Chief Deputy and Chief of Police on two different occasions. He then retired from public service and transitioned his experience and expertise to the private sector as a mentor, consultant and leadership development trainer.

As a result of his last tour as Chief of Police in a city impacted by racial divisions, Jesus created and implemented the innovative No Colors No Labels Initiative designed to remove the preconceived notion that the police were racially motivated. In 2017 Jesus was named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian of the Year by the NAACP. He is a leader who believes in diversity and that a workforce should mirror the community they serve.

Jesus holds a Master's in Criminal Justice and Security Administration and is currently working on a PH.D. in Public Service Leadership. He is a strong supporter of leadership development, strategic planning, customer service, crisis communication, 21st Century Policing, and Procedural Justice..

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Episode highlights…

• Leadership inside and outside of law enforcement
• Leadership challenges when you’re under the microscope of culture and social media
• Keys for leading through adversity
• Understanding your leadership mission
• Navigating leadership challenges when followers are heavily focused on what benefits them
• Challenges of leading through the maze of varying stakeholders
• It’s okay to make mistakes as a leader and you must be prepared to handle the consequences when you do
• Challenges of changing the culture in law enforcement especially with respect to diverse communities
• Unique challenges of navigating people issues in the public sector
• Keys to leading through adversity
• Critical role of getting support (mentors) to lead through adversity
• Leadership in adversity requires resilience
• Self-awareness is vital to leading through adversity
• Unique challenges of leading in the public sector, including the impact on family
• The role of individual perceptions and wants in engaging your team
• Unique challenges of leading with a long game mindset in the public sector
• Leadership strategies for navigating your own differences amongst those you lead
• It’s okay for people to be pissed off when you do the right thing
• Challenges of leading people who are primarily focused on ways that decisions benefit them (or not)

Are you confused about diversity, inclusion and what it means in business? Are you looking to better understand the role of diversity and inclusion in your life and business? Are you looking to better understand the path to more diverse and inclusive organizations, teams, communities and lives?

Our special guest Dr. Helen Turnbull answers these and other questions about diversity, equity, inclusion and leadership.

Dr. Helen Turnbull, CSP and Global Speaking Fellow, is a world recognized thought leader in global inclusion and diversity. Her extensive research focuses on unconscious bias and its impact on all aspects of inclusion. She has unparalleled knowledge on the complexity of inclusion; and a deep understanding of the patterns and mental models contributing to exclusion. Her “Inclusion Complexity Model” identifies 3 Immutable Forces and 4 Permeable Forces that play a key role in Inclusion and she knows what it takes to create an inclusive work environment.

Dr. Turnbull is the author of three online psycho-metric assessment tools on Unconscious Bias and Inclusion – namely, Cognizant, the ISM profile and The Gender Gap Assessment. She also has an E-Learning program on Unconscious Bias and Inclusion. In May 2013 she spoke at TEDx on “The Illusion of Inclusion”. She keynotes on these topics globally and has spoken to senior executives in Australia, Asia, Europe, UK, Canada, Latin America and the USA.

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Episode highlights…

• Ways that diversity, equity and inclusion has changed (or not) over the past 40 years
• One unconscious bias – we hire for diversity but still manage for similarity
• Everyone has unconscious biases and they don’t go away (awareness brings them into your vision but you still must pay attention to them and catch them)
• Unconscious bias as a mental virus
• Defining and understanding unconscious biases and their impact
• The unchallenged brain is not worth trusting
• Strategies for creating diverse and inclusive workplaces
• The complexities of diversity and inclusion – The Inclusion Complexity Model
• The role of dominance as an immutable force
• Unconscious bias as an immutable force
• Degrees of difference as an immutable force
• Understanding intersectionality and its impact on diversity and inclusion (individuals and groups)
• The role of the lived experience as a foundation of understanding diversity, equity and inclusion
• The four permeable forces around diversity and inclusion (affinity bias, assimilation, political correctness (redefined as polite consideration) and internalized oppression)
• Using the Inclusion Complexity Model to address diversity, equity and inclusion in your business
• People of difference can tell the difference between genuine interest and lip service
• The power of listening to your people without interrupting
• Being intentional about opening space for others to speak

Are you looking to grow your leadership? Do you want to amp up your leadership and influence? Are you ready to be open enough to feedback to grow your leadership?

Our special guest Sara Canaday answers these and other questions about  leadership, feedback and high performance.

Sara Canaday is a keynote speaker, award-winning author, and former corporate executive who helps arm professionals with the strategies and practices they need to make the critical shift from informed to influential, from doer to driver, and from manager to leader.

Sara works with Fortune 500 companies who are committed to helping their managers strengthen their leadership skills, improve business relationships, and enhance their performance. Sara is the author of two books: Leadership Unchained and You – According to Them.

When she’s not speaking or working with her clients, Sara’s cheering on her son’s football team, hiding new shoe purchases from her husband and 17-year old daughter, and ordering a double cappuccino at Starbucks. Her secret fantasy … Cupcake Wars judge.

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Episode highlights…

Are you looking for ideas on building your people and culture? Are you committed to enhancing your leadership and people development skills? Are you looking for strategies and tools to enhance your people development impact?

Our special guest Alicia Parr answers these and other questions about  leadership, the role of human resources, and building high engagement and performance cultures.

Alicia Parr is Alicia is the founder of Performentor, which offers fractional full-stack HR for scale-change businesses. With deep experience in HR, she delivers a behavior science-informed and small-business approach. An entrepreneur at heart, Alicia has 20 years of HR experience in small businesses spanning multiple industries. Her expertise is co-authoring learning cultures, amplifying innovative environments, and building high-performing teams of HR experts.  She frequently serves executives as an executive coach and advisor.

Perhaps most important, Alicia is endlessly curious.

Alicia is endlessly curious about how people work and perform as individuals and in groups.  Applying the people science of human performance, she knows theory only matters when it works in practice. With a Bachelors in Marketing, a Masters in Mass Communication, and post-graduate work in Clinical Psychology, Alicia also has deep experience as an endurance athlete.

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Episode highlights…

• The state of HR (moving from cost center HR to strategic, value adding HR leader)
• A new understanding of business – the conversion of people's energy and converting that into sustainable economic value
• HR leaders need to be able to speak the language of business (solve problems)
• HR’s job is to make it easier for operational leaders to achieve their objectives
• You must bring value to earn a seat at the leadership table
• The algorithm of responsibilities, authorities, capabilities and accountabilities
• The impact when the scope of a role changes (on the person, team and the business)
• It’s important to focus on the behaviors that aren’t working and to be clear on what the behavior expectations are
• Intersectionality with people issues requires a more integrated solution
• The role of generational differences in culture, leadership and change
• Clarity is vital throughout the organization
• Understanding network based (versus hierarchical) organizations
• The importance of understanding the competencies required for each role (especially when someone is potentially advancing)
• A process of best assuring the right fit between a role and a person
• Building the skill of empathy for leaders and managers
• Differently understanding empathy
• Vulnerability and empathy in leadership
• Getting it right with your people is not just for big companies
• You can change and be more than you imagine … it only takes small steps

Are you looking for ways to enhance your leadership? Do you want to exponentially grow your leadership? Are you ready to be the most impactful leader you can be?

Our special guest Jonathan Bowman-Perks answers these and other questions about  leadership, teams and personal growth.

Jonathan is a Master Certified Coach (MCC), virtual team facilitator, motivational speaker, philanthropist, pragmatic philosopher and author. As a top 2% globally ranked podcaster and Key Person of Influence (KPI) he focuses on current and aspiring CEOs, senior executives and their teams in every possible sector. No challenge is too hard.

Jonathan thrives supporting early growth businesses and tech companies, focusing on personal behavior and future business results. His vocation has been shaped by his Father’s heroic leadership role modeling and his untimely death, as a British Royal Navy fast jet pilot. Jonathan’s life calling is to inspire you and your team to: find and live your “True North,” unlock your potential and make a difference via your business.

Jonathan recently graduated from one of Harvard's top leadership programs, and he’s a visiting Professor in Leadership and Executive MBA lecturer at Cass Business School in London. He still holds the unbroken world record for the Cyprus double Mountain Marathon. He’s also a leadership authority and author of both Top Tips for Inspiring Leaders; The Little Book of Wisdom (2017), plus Inspiring Leadership: Leadership Lessons from My Life (2010).

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Episode highlights…

• Leadership is about HIT – honesty, integrity and transparency (Steve Kuhn)
• The tragic story of Jonathan’s father and the inspiration it created
• The power and impact of choice in life and leadership
• Leadership requires courage, humility and discipline
• Honesty is about self-honesty (being honest with yourself)
• Integrity is about integration of your whole person
• Transparency means sharing everything except those few things that you can’t
• Trust is the foundation of everything
• The importance of learning to trust your gut
• Leadership successes and failures during COVID
• Using check-ins to enhance your leadership, uplift your people and build a culture of safety
• Leaders must care about the heart and soul of the organization … the people
• The role of a “psychological contract” with your people (providing psychological safety)
• The difference between care-taking your people and caring about your people
• What do your people really care about at work
• The role of love in leadership
• Take time to get to know your people
• The difference between know how and show how in leadership
• It takes courage to lead differently than you were led
• The role and importance of treating people with dignity in leadership
• Leadership is not about being friends with your people (it’s about showing that you deeply and genuinely care about them)

Do you want to sharpen your habits and practices for peak performance? Do you have rhythm you want in your life, business and leadership? Are you ready to climb to the heights of your personal and professional performance?

Our special guest Jon Tsourakis answers these and other questions about  leadership, culture, performance and productivity.

Jon is a longtime serial and currently owns or has a part of at least three businesses. He's a co-owner and President and Chief Revenue Officer of a company called a Oyova, a national marketing and application development agency, where they help helps the firm identify and capitalize on opportunities. He’s also an owner of two other businesses – one that’s healthcare based (CentralComp) and one for people looking to work in sports related businesses (Jobs In Sports).

Jon also facilitates the Digital Mastermind, which is a collection of some of the top digital marketing agencies. He also has a podcast called The Climb.

Jon is a  huge proponent of experiencing different countries, cultures and cuisines, which makes Jon an adventurer. He also has a love of people that drives him every day, and he's very involved in giving his time and mentoring. He also has a unique ability to organize chaos, simplify the complex and build a team to overcome obstacles and challenges.

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Episode highlights…

• Finding the right partners is more important than deciding on the right business
• Keys for starting and owning multiple businesses (structure and priorities)
• Strategies for maintaining your priorities in the midst of constant change and chaos
• Strategies for more intentional and effective communication
• Energy management matters more than time management
• A company is a collection of people including their hearts and minds
• Simple routines to improve your energy, focus and output
• The impact of sleep and what you eat on your focus and productivity
• Using daily tracking to assess your habits, practices and energy
• Assessing your performance patterns to enhance your performance
• The power and impact of rhythm in your eating, sleep, habits and the people around you
• The role of trust in building personal rhythm and team rhythm
• Find every opportunity to give and share praise with your team
• Leadership lessons from drumming
• The importance of listening to the red flags you experience in business
• The importance of having conditions of satisfaction with your clients and customers (ideal client profile)
• Key questions to ask potential clients (e.g. On a scale of 1-10 how needy are you?)
• Keys to sales – authenticity, loving people and making people feel special
• Navigating challenging times – be creative, optimistic, honest and adaptive
• Leadership ideas for COVID and all times
• Power of a mastermind
• If you want to grow, get uncomfortable being uncomfortable

Do you want to empower and accelerate your sales results? Are you looking to get past the self-limiting beliefs that are holding back your results? Are you ready to embrace you most empowered and authentic self?

Our guest Elyse Archer answers these and other questions about  sales, leadership and overcoming the inside stories that get in the way of our results and fulfillment.

Elyse Archer is the founder of She Sells, a coaching program and community for women in sales who are breaking through six figures and revolutionizing the way sales is done. A thought leader whose insights have been featured in major media including Forbes and Inc, Elyse is passionate about empowering women to sell in a way that leverages their natural gifts and help them build wealth along the way. She is an international keynote speaker and host of She Sells Radio, where she shares best practices from female entrepreneurs and sales professionals who have accomplished extraordinary goals.

Prior to founding She Sells, Elyse served as a Partner in an 8-figure international sales coaching organization, where she helped sales professionals achieve their goals.

Outside of She Sells Elyse is also a founding team member of Brand Builders Group, a personal branding strategy firm. Her client list includes New York Times bestselling authors, top 100 podcast hosts, and 8 figure entrepreneurs, as well as leaders who are earlier in their journey and committed to scaling their influence, impact and income.

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Episode highlights…

• Overcoming challenging life experiences and letting go of your old stories
• The of choice in empowering your life
• The importance of learning to trust yourself and instincts, especially in sales
• Sales is more than high quantity activities
• Strategies to overcome the unique challenges for women in sales
• The power of integrating your female and male energies
• The importance of having more self-worth in sales and leadership
• Exploring one of the massive self-limiting beliefs of women in sales and leadership
• The critical role of boundaries to empower your efforts and outcomes
• The role of healing in enhancing and empowering your sales efforts
• Ways that enoughness gets in the way of sales and leadership
• The role of vulnerability in self-empowerment and sales success
• Why family history must be exploring as part of the sales and leadership coaching process
• Learn about the five dream lives exercise
• Why a big purpose is vital
• The importance of exploring and changing your self-limiting beliefs (and why they are lies)
• The challenge when your experience is in conflict with what you believe about yourself
• The importance of learning to accept and receive compliments
• More sales doesn’t change how you feel … how you feel (about yourself) changes your sales results
• The quantum physics and science behind how your self-beliefs drive your outcomes
• Strategies for selling differently when your sales manager is resisting your way of selling
• Self-worth and risk have an inverse relationship … the higher your self-worth the lower risk you’ll experience

Do you have many ideas but far fewer that become reality? Do you find yourself stuck and not moving towards your dreams? Are you ready to turn your dreams into reality?

Our special guest Berta Medina-Garcia answers these and other questions about what it takes to achieve your goals and dreams.

Berta Medina is an eternal optimist who believes in the power of generosity and is passionate about sharing her message that dreamers truly succeed! After years of building, operating and growing her own successful business, she’s taken her experience and love for philanthropy to travel to Africa on a harrowing climb to Mt. Kilimanjaro’s peak as part of a mission trip to change the world for Maasai children Since she reached the peak at 19,341 feet, she has re-envisioned the importance of goals and the power of generosity.

Berta now helps businesses and individuals connect genuinely, give generously, and reach a level of success and fulfillment that means more to her clients than just the bottom line.

Berta is a keynote speaker, professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, author, a certified Go-Giver Speaker, Thrive Through Accountability Expert and host of The Dreamers Succeed Podcast. As the founder of Dreamers Succeed, Berta believes that once the seed of a dream has been planted in a person’s heart, they already possess all they need in order to achieve it.

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Episode highlights…

• The journey from successful business owner to creator of a new life vision and business helping people achieve their dreams (inspired by a trek to Mt. Kilimanjaro)
• What it takes to coach coaches
• What is adventure coaching and the ways it can transform your life
• The importance of self-accountability in achieving your dreams
• The importance of continually leveling up yourself and having your own coach
• Great ideas are not enough – it’s about the accountability and follow through to turn your ideas into reality
• Mindset is the foundation to change, impact and dreams
• The magic (real change) only happens when you’re willing to get vulnerable
• Generosity as a catalyst for change, goals and dreams
• What it takes to turn your vision board into a reality board
• The role of gratitude in achieving your dreams
• Pursuing experiences over things (breaking the habit of material things)
• Pursuing dreams includes connecting with the giving part of yourself
• What it means to find love in what you do (and strategies to get there)
• If you want to enhance your life experience, turn off the news
• Stop watching other people’s lives (entertainment) and start living your life
• The ways that relationships are everything in our businesses and lives
• What it means to plant seeds of generosity
• The illusion of money as the path to happiness
• It’s critical to focus on an impact driven bottom line (not just money or similar objectives)
• Exploring our relationships with and beliefs about money
• Embracing the potential to show up for each other

Do you want to better understand the power of stories? Do you want to be part of the solution when it comes to divisiveness and change? Are you ready to let go of your attachment to your old stories and be open to the possibility of new stories?

Our special guest Gareth Higgins answers these and other questions about leadership, change and reconciliation.

Are you struggling to achieve the results and life you desire?  Are you feeling stuck? Are you looking for ways to get past your fears, limiting beliefs and doubts? Are you ready to level up your life and your outcomes?

Our special guest Akhtar Khan answers these and other questions about fear, self-sabotage and personal transformation.

Akhtar Khan (UK) is the Founder of Reaching Excellence, and is a renowned and respected high performance, property and business success coach.

As a successful business investor, property entrepreneur and authority on mindset, Akhtar’s ongoing mission and commitment are in supporting others in building wealth through property and business so that they can live life on their terms.

Having had a challenging start in life, growing up in a dysfunctional single-parent family with minimal financial resources, Akhtar discovered that a lack of resources was less important than an attitude of resourcefulness, coupled with a healthy mindset of possibility and good old hard work.

With no personal funds, no experience, and no track record from a standing start, Akhtar built a multi-million-pound portfolio that generated him a 6 figure income that allowed him to retire at the ripe age of 37.

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Episode highlights…

• The realities of self-sabotage and strategies to overcome it
• If you want to change your outcomes you have to change your thinking
• It’s more important to change your thinking than to figure out what to do
• The importance of understanding the drivers for the behavior you want to change
• The vital role that your peer group plays in supporting or sabotaging what you want to achieve
• The value of having a mastermind group
• The ways that life traumas, your core wounds, your unconscious and your resulting thinking can determine your results
• Resistance is fear in action based upon your belief systems (often unconscious)
• Understanding the four phases of change and implementation
• Getting past the obstacle of being unconscious (awareness)
• The importance of being willing to be uncomfortable
• The importance of community on your transformational journey
• Change requires that you get down to the root of your beliefs and thoughts
• Vulnerability is essential to transformation
• The search for unconditional love and the ways this search gets in your way of your success
• If you want to transform your results, you must do the work and take off the masks
• The biggest thing holding you back from what you desire is YOU (and your thoughts and beliefs)
• Change can be painful, but it’s often necessary and temporary
• The importance of having support for your transformation journey

Are you looking to amplify your leadership and influence? Are you looking for impactful leadership tools for these uncertain times? Are you wondering what it means to lead with an agile leadership mindset?

Our special guest Rikki Schwartz answers these and other questions about agile leadership, the power of influence and building a culture of performance.

Rikki Schwartz is the President, trainer and coach at the Center for Agile Leadership®, a company that teaches leaders how to integrate the principles and tenets of Agile philosophy into their leadership styles. Rikki joined The Center For Agile Leadership® in 2018 after spending nearly 20 years in leadership training and development at a multi-billion waste management company.

Rikki is also a Certified Life Coach and founder of My Turn Life Coaching, which has served as a perfect extension to her existing passion to help folks be better leaders of their own lives (personal and professional). Rikki also hosts her radio show –  “My Turn Life Coaching-Reclaim Your Life” – interviewing life transformation experts on Transformation Talk Radio.

Episode highlights…

• What does it mean to be an agile leader and to have an agile mindset as a leader?
• Differences between leadership and management, especially with respect to projects
• Positional leaders should steer away from managing people or projects (instead empower your managers)
• Leadership means being the one who influences people (differences between positional power and the power of influence) .. the best leaders use the power of influence, because influence is about persuading, it's not about forcing
• Influence requires trust, transparency, authenticity, and relationship
• One key shift for agile leadership is from command and control to servant leadership
• Agile leadership is not about methodology and tools (it’s about being agile more than doing agile)
• The importance of failing forward in agile leadership including celebrating failures and learning
• The importance of vulnerability and transparency in agile leadership
• Influence requires personal connection, which requires being a human being and being willing to show people what that human being is
• Vulnerability is the most important thing to being an effective influencer and agile leader (and what it means to be vulnerable as a leader)
• Leaders don’t change a culture, they influence it (what it takes to influence cultural change)
• What it takes to have self-organized and self-managing teams as part of agile leadership (and the role of team empowerment)
• The role of the upside down organization chart in an agile leadership culture
• Let your people closest to the issues make the decisions
• Hiring as an agile leader is about fit more than experience
• Beware focusing your time and energy on your poorest performers
• If you put someone on a personal improvement plan (PIP) you must follow up, check in and assess their performance and improvement
• The trouble with annual performance reviews

Resources:

Are you interested in enhancing your leadership and people solving skills? Are you looking for tangible tools to build trust in your organization? Do you want to better understand yourself as a leader in order to better lead your team?

Our special guests Brett Cooper and Evans Kerrigan answer these and other questions about vulnerable leadership and strategies for enhancing your team engagement, building trust and improving your efficiency and execution.

Brett M. Cooper and Evans Kerrigan help professionals like you build work relationships that really work. Over the last twenty years, they’ve influenced thousands of people in government, non-profits, and corporate America to work together in more productive, more effective, and more human ways.

Through Integris Performance Advisors—the firm they co-founded—Brett and Evans have helped clients increase employee engagement, improve efficiency, and generate hundreds of millions in financial benefit.

Are you burned out by today’s work realities? Are you looking for strategies and tactics to reduce burnout and enhance wellbeing? Are you ready to lead and live differently in order to have a more productive work life and a more fulfilled personal life?

Our special guest Becky Jacobs answers these and other questions about leadership, wellbeing and empowering high performing teams.

Becky Jacobs is the founder and Chief Engagement Officer of Simple Change, an organization dedicated to improving engagement and productivity by building healthy, high-performing teams. She has dedicated her career to the study and practice of personal and workplace productivity, successfully leading teams to greater efficiency, wellbeing and overall impact.

Becky spent more than twenty years in senior leadership roles at various multinational companies, including Bank of America, Red Hat and Rise Against Hunger. She graduated from Old Dominion University with a degree in Business Management and completed her MBA at UNC Chapel Hill.

Episode highlights…

• What is well being in the workplace and why it matters so much today
• The concept of the juggling balls of life
• The reality that we bring our whole selves to work and organizations must support the whole self
• Wellness and cultures are not marketing bumper stickers in organizations
• What do your organizational and leadership behaviors saying about your culture and values?
• Are your behaviors expecting your people to choose between work and their family / relationships?
• It’s essential to provide clarity for your people on distinguishing urgency
• Don’t assess your culture unless you’re committed to making changes
• The exhausting and burnout impact of remote working (and the truth that work more hours doesn’t make you more innovative or impactful)
• Redefining and focusing on productivity versus hours worked
• Beware leading people today (and having work expectations) based upon the way you were lead (and the work expectations on you) decades in the past
• Are you paying your people for their time or for what they produce / create?
• Leaders don’t have to solve everything (you only have to listen and empower your team in solving it)
• The more you engage your employees in coming up with solutions and ideas, the more you're going to empower them, retain them and enhance their performance
• Ask your people what’s working, what’s not working and what they’d like to see different
• Psychological safety at work is essential to get high quality feedback from your team
• Strategies for measuring well being
• Beware the cultural messages that work sucks (e.g. Thank God it’s Friday)
• Millennials are generally more willing to speak up, provide feedback and ask for what they want (but will you listen and change?)
• The impact of COVID on our teams and the different leadership it requires
• Leadership requires balancing productivity and compassion
• What messages are you giving your children about work and life?
• Why pivoting emotionally and vulnerability are essential in leadership
• Leaders must model wellbeing for their team
• You can’t pour from an empty cup
• Pick one simple change, make that normal and then pick another simple change

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Are you hungry for more and deeper relationships in your life? Are you committed to living a life as a go giver? Are you looking for strategies to accelerate and grow your relationships, sales and business?

Our special guest Bob Burg answers these and other questions about what it means to live a life of giving and the magic of giving in building impactful relationships.

Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences sharing the platform with everyone from today’s business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U.S. President.

Bob is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies. His book, The Go-Giver, coauthored with John David Mann, itself has sold over 975,000 copies and it has been translated into 29 languages.

Bob and John’s newest parable in the Go-Giver Series is The Go-Giver Influencer. Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic and is past member of the Board of Directors of Furry Friends Adoption, Clinic & Ranch in his town of Jupiter, Florida.

Listen as Bob shares his wisdom and experience on servant leadership, sales and building impactful relationships.

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Episode highlights…

• What it means to be a go-giver in business and life – focusing on delivering immense value to others
• Navigating the perceived challenges of being a go-giver when you have personal and professional goals to achieve
• Nobody is going to buy from you because you have a quota – they’ll buy from you because they’ll be better off because of buying from you
• What it means to give 100% in a relationship, versus only your 50%
• The critical paradox – that giving to build relationships helps you more quickly and consistently achieve your objectives
• The go-giver mindset is about living a good life, not just a good living
• Living and selling as a go-giver is not about denying your self-interest, but putting on pause or to the side while you focus solely on the other person
• The go-giver mindset and approach is the most profitable way to do business
• Clarifying the misunderstandings of the go-giver mindset and approach
• The go-giver mindset is not about giving things / value away for free
• The go-giver way is the high value way of selling and doing business
• Business and sales reality – people will do business with and refer business to those people they know, like, and trust
• Being a go-giver is based upon the power and value of relationships
• The go-giver way is more about reframing self-interest versus suspending self-interest
• The essence of influence is pull (not push)
• What it means to apply the go-giver way to your leadership

Are you a mindful leader? Are you a resilient leader? Are you investing in knowing yourself as a leader? Are you looking for mindsets, tools and strategies to enhance your leadership and impact?

Our special guest Libby Robinson answers these and other questions about what it means to be an impactful, resilient and mindful leader.

Libby Robinson is the Managing Partner, Chief Heretic and CXO Whisperer of Integral, an award-winning leadership, executive coaching and advisory company working with Fortune 1000 companies globally. A former wall street banker, aerospace engineer and national champion equestrian, Libby has worked for 26 years with senior leaders globally, helping to bring more mindfulness, resilience and greater capacity to brilliant and ambitious leaders.

Integral uses a multi-disciplinary approach to foster deep personal change in leaders and to evoke “conscious leadership” cultures for their clients. Libby’s latest venture has been to launch BackFeed+, a new app that helps individuals and organizations get better, faster feedback using a method backed by the latest neuroscience data about how individuals receive feedback with less stress.

Listen as Libby shares her wisdom and experience on conscious leadership, mindfulness and resilience.

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Episode highlights…

• Relationship precedes results – accomplishments always follow some form of relationship
• The key role of mindfulness in leadership (What does it mean to be a human being versus a human doing in leadership?)
• Understanding your triggers and navigating them differently
• The importance of mindfulness and resilience in leadership and rich living
• Foundations of ontological coaching
• Deepening our emotional intelligence, awareness and range
• The importance of being clear about the standards by which your team works (expectations)
• Pace is a leadership choice
• Leaders don’t run (slow down, see more, connect more)
• Mindfulness is the one core way of being for leaders
• Winning in business at the expense of the health of your team and people is a loss
• The secret Jedi mind tricks of leadership
• The key role of and need for compassion in leadership
• Leadership essentials in creating a place where your people feel safe, secure and vulnerable
• Key elements of resilience
• What does it mean to root your leadership
• Leaders must allow others to support them
• The role of imposter syndrome in leadership

Are you feeling stuck or lacking passion in your life? Are you wondering what it takes to live the life of your dreams? Do you want new ideas to enhance your wellness, wisdom and wealth?

Our special guest Rochel Marie Lawson answers these and other questions about getting past your fears and living the life of your dreams..

Get ready for this … Rochel Marie Lawson is a registered nurse, an Ayurvedic health practitioner, a holistic health and wellness consultant, an international best-selling author, a speaker and a radio show hostess. She’s also the Founder and President of Blissful Living 4 U, which exists to improve wellness, wisdom and wealth by utilizing ancient holistic principles that only lead to success.

Are you feeling stuck, drowning in the day-to-day and being micromanaged? Are you feeling lost and confused about your direction (or lack of direction) in life?  Are you looking for ways to have more peace of mind, keep your integrity, spend more time with your family, and still be successful?

Our special guest Corey Jahnke (the Zen Pharmacist) answers these and other questions about achieving your definition of success with more joy by living in this moment.

Corey is a full time pharmacist, a John Maxwell certified coach, and a certified Go Giver coach. Twelve years ago, Corey found himself facing fatigue and burnout at life threatening levels, and I know many of you have felt that as well. And Corey found his way out of that. Corey also has an organization called Successful Thinker Magazine and Successful Thinker Podcast. He’s also the author of the book The Successful Thinker.

Listen as Corey shares her wisdom and experience on different ways to live and experience life with more joy, better relationships and greater success.

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Episode highlights…

• Here’s an idea – ask people questions and listen
• The importance of getting clear on what you want, why you want it and what price you’re willing to pay to get it
• You can have mutual love with the people you serve
• The role of personal pride in serving others and loving your work and life\
• The profound truth that all we have is this moment and the gifts of living in the moment
• You are 100% responsible for your life
• Understanding the obstacles to living life with gratitude and in the moment
• The vital importance of saying “no” to more things so you can have more time for the things you want to say “yes” to
• You are so much more than what you do for a living
• Nothing exists except this moment (everything else is made up by you)
• We typically worry about things that never happen
• “What is the best use of your time right now?”
• Moments are not good or bad – they’re what you decide they are
• If no one told you who you are, who would you be
• Strategies for living relationally in a transactional world
• How you treat others will determine the experience you have with others
• Slow down, live in the moment and “see” the people around you
• The Law of the Heart – the more people you care about, the more people you will have in your life to care about (it’s as simple as letting people know that you care about them)
• The importance of being intentional to interact with people who are different and who think differently from me
• The stories we make up about our lives and experiences
• Your experience of life is based upon how you choose to see it and experience it
• You can choose your own pace of your life (not what everyone else tells you it should be)
• If you realized how little people think about you, you’d probably be offended

Are you confused about diversity, inclusion and what it means in business? Are you looking to better understand the role of diversity and inclusion in building more robust teams and cultures? Are you looking to better understand the path to more diverse and inclusive organizations, teams, communities and lives?

Our special guest Jina Etienne answers these and other questions about diversity, inclusion and creating a culture of belonging.

Jina is a consultant and speaker on diversity, inclusion, culture and belonging. She creates training programs and workshops to help clients move forward in their D&I journey. She is a story-teller and speaks candidly about her experiences, hard lessons and ‘aha’ moments that helped her understand the importance of individuality, the value of curiosity and the courage it takes to “just” be yourself.

Jina is the Founder of Etienne Consulting, a boutique consulting firm that offers unique strategy development, workshops & coaching to leaders, executives and entrepreneurs. Jina is an accountant, had her own accounting firm, and has had leadership roles in various organizations including Director of Diversity and Inclusion for Grant Thornton, a national CPA firm.

Episode highlights…

• Why we should separate the concepts of diversity and inclusion
• What does equity and belonging mean in organizations and teams
• Diversity and inclusion statements are important but not the solution
• Why “We’re hiring the best people” is not an adequate solution to creating more diversity and inclusion
• Diversity and inclusion is NOT about blaming and shaming (it’s about moving forward)
• The importance of hiring for thinking skills more than technical skills
• Diversity and inclusion is essential to have a culture that is dynamic, innovative and creative
• Diversity and inclusion changes often start with simply noticing
• The key is to make your organization safe for people of difference
• Before you diversity your business diversify your life
• Basic mindsets that are essential to enhance diversity and inclusion in your business and life
• Unconscious bias is the auto-pilot of our lives until we’re willing to address the biases
• The key role of intention in diversity and inclusion efforts
• Leaders must be able to effectively lead the entire team, not just certain people or types of people on the team
• The problem with asking target group team members to lead the diversity and inclusion efforts
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives often require an external voice and an internal champion
• The role of self-awareness in diversity and inclusion (and taking ownership of your impact)
• The vocabulary of diversity and inclusion (and its role in change)
• The role of grace and curiosity in diversity and inclusion conversations
• Change happens when we know better AND do better
• Millennials different view of diversity and inclusion
• The importance of being intentional with your efforts to diversity your business and life
• Diversity requires exercising and building new muscles
• The importance to learning ways to navigate your fumbles and triggers around diversity and inclusion

Are you wondering what it means to be a courageous leader for change? Do you want to be a professional advisor that adds value rather than just deliver services? Do you want to sharpen your leadership skills and impact? Our special guest Deana Labriola answers these and other questions about leadership, adding value and making a difference in the business of law.

Deana Labriola is a partner is the Raleigh, NC office of the law firm of Fox Rothschild and has been practicing law for twenty years. More important, Deana is unique as a lawyer in that she’s deeply and fully committed to being more than a lawyer for her clients – she’s committed to adding value to them and their businesses. She’s also a connector of people, business advisor, relationship builder, “consigliere” and a courageous leader.

As Deana puts it, she’s a mom, a wife, a lawyer, an athlete and a leader, and in that order of importance. Deana has a dynamic transactional practice that spans a range of business matters, including mergers, acquisitions, and debt/equity financing deals. She also assists a wide variety of businesses with corporate governance structuring, development initiatives and expansion opportunities. Deana serves as outside general counsel to a number of closely held companies.

Listen as Deana shares her wisdom and experience on courageous leadership, diversity and inclusion, and change.

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Episode highlights…

• What it means to craft and plan your law career by design and based upon priorities
• What it means to lead courageously by speaking up for yourself and for others
• Leadership as a woman in a male-dominated industry
• Real life examples of diversity and inclusion leadership in the legal industry
• Every day strategies to enhance your diversity and inclusion efforts and results
• Understanding the business case for diversity and inclusion – lead with the business case to create change
• The importance of putting yourself in a position to speak up (and be heard) for change
• Leaders genuinely and deeply care about their people (and take action to support them)
• The importance of courageous conversations
• Truths about trust – losing it and building it in leadership
• Stepping up as a woman in leadership
• Career paths require choosing wisely including surrounding yourself with champions / mentors
• Grit, scrappiness and resilience are essential for succession in law and any profession
• What it means to be a true business advisor for your clients in the law
• Lawyers must be willing to share their opinions (not just assess risk)
• Lawyers must understand the psychology of advising clients and decision making (you also must get to know and understand your clients and their businesses, including their risk tolerances)
• Leaders are constantly asking themselves “In what ways can I add value” to this situation, circumstance, client, culture, etc.
• Connecting people and helping others build relationships is a great way to add value
• Women need to lead like themselves rather than learning to lead like men (lead authentically)

Are you looking to build a high performing team? Do you know the 7 deadly sins of leadership? Are you curious about what and want to better understand the concept of conversational intelligence? Do you want to be more strategic with your talent and talent development strategies? Our special guest Jen Thornton answers these and other questions about leadership and building great teams.

Jen Thornton is the Founder, Talent Strategist and leadership development consultant with her rapidly growing consulting firm, 304 Coaching. She’s led international teams across Greater China, Mexico, the U.K., and the U.S. to expand into new markets, managing franchise retailers, and developing key strategic partnerships – all while exceeding business objectives and financial results.

This growth has been largely due to Jen’s unconventional approach to building innovative workforce development solutions for companies who are facing breakthrough growth and accelerated hiring patterns. She’s a sought-after business strategist, specializing in start- ups and large value-based organizations. She assists her clients in building talent strategies that complement their business strategies to ensure exponential growth.

Listen in as Jen shares her wisdom and experience on talent development, conversational intelligence and team development.

Are you looking to accelerate your team’s performance and impact? Are you looking for actionable ideas to enhance your own leadership and the leadership of your team members? Would you like to better understand the genetics of leadership and what it takes to build systems of leadership? Our special guest Dan Edds answers these and other questions about leadership, systems of leadership and building sustainable high impact teams.

Dan Edds is Founder of Praxis Solutions, a management consulting and leadership development firm. Dan has 25 plus years as a practicing management consultant in a wide range of industries, including public sector, health care, K- 12 education, higher ed, and non-profits. He's written two books, the most recent of which is Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership: Cracking the Code of Sustainable Team Performance. Most important, Dan is someone who understands, studies and is constantly evolving when it comes to leadership.

Listen in as Dan shares his wisdom and experience on leadership, systematic change and high performing teams.

Episode highlights…

• Leadership is getting work done with and through other people
• Leadership is a relational enterprise – get to know your people as human beings
• Start by designing a series of routines to build your leadership
• A team of great individual performers are not enough
• High performing organizations have a very systematic approach to leadership
• While leadership is a relational enterprise, those relationships can be achieved with a systematic approach
• Companies often succeed despite themselves and this gets in the way building great cultures and teams that achieve high impact (missing enormous opportunities)
• Beware losing out on the best parts of people (their humanness, creativity, innovation, etc.) when you ask them to only bring their technical skills
• It’s essential to include the whole human side of every person on your team
• Beware elevating your top performers bases upon performance and not focusing enough on character
• Your reward systems will determine your leadership – leaders often won’t take care of their people until they’re rewarded for taking care of their people
• Being a people centric organization is not the same as being a person centric organization (great teams flow from people centric organizations)
• When you’re clear with expectations, then people who choose not to meet the expectations are taking themselves off the team
• Organizationally, the leadership system is always focused on the experience of the workforce (a relationship experience)
• Learn from the US Army’s approach to leadership – servant leadership and love
• Organizations and leaders must lead from a common set of values and experience priorities
• Get clear that team experience is your top priority – then decide what you want that experience to be – and then decide what behaviors will feed the intended experience outcome
• If team members are coming to you to solve problems, you have a leadership and management problem
• High impact organizations develop the whole person / human being – not just the professional

Are you struggling with growing your coaching business? Are you confused about coaching and when / if you should engage a coach? Are you curious about coaching and wondering about the who, what, why and how of engaging a coach? Are you wondering what to expect when you engage a coach? Our special guest Nichole Lowe answers these and other questions about coaching and the business of coaching.

Nichole Lowe is the Founder of Sole Life, an organization that helps coaches grow their businesses and enhance their experience with their coaching business. Nichole has a background in leadership, sales and advertising, but most importantly, she has a long history as a coach. What she learned as a coach is that coaches actually struggle with the business of coaching. From her experience as a coach and in coaching over 500 coaches, Nichole decided to create Sole Life to help coaches with the many challenges of a coaching business, including getting clients, and to allow them to more fully live their passions and make a difference.

Listen in as Nichole shares her wisdom and experience on the power of having a coach and tools for coaches to grow their business and enhance their impact.