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How to Find a Powerful Source of Motivation With Andy Molinsky

How to Find a Powerful Source of Motivation With Andy Molinsky

Today’s guest is Andy Molinsky, Professor of Business and Psychology at Brandeis University and author Global Dexterity and Reach.

Topics include:

  • Empowering yourself to leap outside your comfort zones
  • How to create the conditions that lead to success
  • Psychological roadblocks that can prevent you from taking the necessary leap
  • Why having courage is one of the keys to overcoming fear
  • The conviction strategy: finding that powerful source of motivation
  • Using customization to create authenticity in your approach to life
  • Finding clarity and the importance of keeping catastrophic thoughts at bay

Andy Molinsky is a Professor at Brandeis University’s International Business School, with a joint appointment in the Department of Psychology. Andy received his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior and M.A. in Psychology from Harvard University. He also holds a Master’s Degree in International Affairs from Columbia University and a B.A. in International Affairs from Brown University. Andy’s work helps people develop the insights and courage necessary to act outside their personal and cultural comfort zones when doing important, but challenging, tasks in work and life.

Andy’s research and writing has been featured in publications such as  Harvard Business Review, Inc. Magazine, Psychology Today, the Financial Times, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Boston Globe, NPR  and  Voice of America. Andy was awarded as a Top Voice for LinkedIn for his work in education. His first book, Global Dexterity, received the Axiom Award (Silver Medal) for Best Business Book in International Business & Globalization and has been used widely in organizations around the world, including Boeing, AIG, the US Air Force Academy, and the Clinton Foundation, among others. His latest book, Reach, was published with Penguin Random House in January 2017. He teaches, consults, and lectures widely to university and corporate audiences.

Learn more about Andy Molinsky at andymolinsky.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

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Use Your Voice To Control Your Destiny With Laura Sicola (out of the archives)

Use Your Voice To Control Your Destiny With Laura Sicola (out of the archives)

In today’s special episode of Smashing The Plateau, we’re taking a look back at one of our favorite interviews – linguist and international keynote speaker Dr. Laura Sicola.

Topics include:

  • How to get over your fears and command the room
  • How to deliver an authentic (and persuasive) message
  • Why public speaking isn’t about you
  • How to use communication to create compelling content
  • Why everyone is in sales (and why that’s okay)

Dr. Laura Sicola is an executive communication expert, who helps leaders communicate their message effectively and persuasively to any audience by showing them how to confidently and authentically master the 3Cs of Vocal Executive Presence: Command the room, Connect with the audience, and Close the deal. As the Founder of Vocal Impact Productions in Philadelphia, PA, she has spent nearly 20 years training, coaching, lecturing, researching and publishing on language, cognition, pronunciation, culture, the voice, and learning. She is a speech coach for the TED Fellows program, and has delivered TEDx talks, workshops, presentations and keynote addresses on topics ranging from the art of persuasive speaking to intercultural business communication for audiences across the US, in Egypt, Japan, Spain, China and Germany.

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Five-Time Author Mark Levy on Pushing Yourself To Become Your Best

Five-Time Author Mark Levy on Pushing Yourself To Become Your Best

Today’s guest is Mark Levy, five-time author and Founder of Levy Innovation LLC.

Topics include:

  • Thinking of books as plasma (and why it works)
  • How to build self-belief in business
  • Working on what’s most important to your client
  • Knowing when it’s time to reposition yourself
  • How to push people (and yourself) past what scares them
  • Identifying a big, sexy idea and naming it
  • How to shape your big idea by dispelling stereotypes

Mark Levy is the founder of Levy Innovation LLC, a positioning and branding firm that helps consultants and other thought leaders increase their fees by up to 2,000%. His clients include a former department head in the White House, a speaker to the United Nations, CEOs of major organizations, a former head of the Strategy Unit of the Harvard Business School, performers on network TV and from the New York and Las Vegas stages, New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling authors, TED and TEDx speakers. Before devoting his work full time to Levy Innovation, Mark served as Chief Marketing Officer at an Inc. 5,000 experiential branding organization whose clients include Bank of America, Gap, Samsung, Time Warner, Tivo, and Harvard and Stanford Universities.

Mark has written for The New York Times, and has written or co-created five books. His last book, Accidental Genius: Using Writing to Generate Your Best Ideas, Insight, and Content, has been published in ten languages. Mark has also taught research writing at Rutgers University. In addition to being a positioning consultant, Mark creates magic tricks and shows. His work has been performed in Carnegie Hall and Las Vegas, and on all the major TV networks. He also co-created the off-Broadway show, Chamber Magic, which has played for 16 years, and is the longest-running one-person show in New York City.

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How To Cultivate Prosperity With Joan Sotkin

How To Conquer Your Emotions And Make Better Decisions

Today we welcome back Joan Sotkin, Founder of Prosperity Place, and author of the award-winning book Build Your Money Muscles.

Topics include:

  • How your family origins affect your ability to succeed in business
  • Why financially stable people still struggle personally
  • Understanding the habits behind our decisions through brain science
  • Joan’s Four Step Process to breaking habits
  • Recognizing the connection between money and touch
  • Why Joan teaches that “No” is a complete sentence
  • The impact of childhood experiences on business practices
  • How to create the habit of inner-peace

Joan Sotkin is the Founder of the popular website Prosperityplace.com, host of the Prosperity Place Podcast, and author of Build Your Money Muscles. For the past 30 years, Joan has been examining alternative ways of dealing with life on many different levels and guiding entrepreneurs and practitioners to build successful businesses and overcome money issues. Because defining success as merely making a lot of money and having social or career status has never made sense to Joan, Prosperity Place® is her contribution to those who want to experience the “more” of life.

Believing that it is not possible to separate career and business development from personal growth, Joan is known for her insightful understanding of the connection between money and emotion. She has delved deep into how family origins affect a person’s ability to succeed in business and employs methods from neuroscience in her teachings.

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How To Grow Your Business Through The Power of Authenticity With Sarah Jones

How To Grow Your Business Through The Power of Authenticity With Sarah Jones

Today’s guest is Sarah Jones, Founder of Introverted Alpha.

Topics include:

  • How to survive living paycheck to paycheck
  • Discerning what programs are helpful and what are not worth investing in
  • How to determine your unique offering that is valuable in the marketplace
  • The secrets to building trust
  • How to communicate with integrity and respect
  • Making sure people benefit from all your communications
  • Setting clear expectations and having structure
  • How to make things happen for yourself

Sarah Jones is the founder of Introverted Alpha, the premier dating coaching company for introverted men. Introverted Alpha has become the strong alternative to “pickup artist” advice, an oasis for men who want genuine connections with women. Sarah has loved introverted men all her life, and she naturally brings out their best. She has been featured in Business Insider, Forbes, Entrepreneur, Ramit Sethi’s GrowthLab, Entrepreneur on Fire, So Money, and many more.

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Embracing New Entrepreneurial Mindsets Featuring Dorie Clark

Embracing New Entrepreneurial Mindsets Featuring Dorie Clark

Today we welcome back Dorie Clark, the bestselling author of Entrepreneurial You and Stand Out.  

Topics include:

  • Why it is so risky to depend on one job
  • The value of having entrepreneurial side projects
  • Embracing experimental mindsets
  • Challenging aspects of being an entrepreneur and an employee
  • Why you should share your ideas and products early
  • How to leverage your previous experience
  • Why persistence sets you apart from the crowd
  • How having a consistent schedule can grow your business

Dorie Clark is an Adjunct Professor at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and author of Entrepreneurial You, Reinventing You and Stand Out, which was named the number one leadership book of 2015 by Inc. Magazine. A former presidential campaign spokeswoman, the New York Times described her as “An expert in self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.” A frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review, Dorie consults and speaks for clients including Google, Microsoft, and The World Bank.

Her work has been published in the Harvard Business Review Guide to Getting the Right Job  and the  Harvard Business Review Guide to Networking , and she is quoted frequently in the worldwide media, including NPR, the BBC, and MSNBC. She is also a regular commentator on Canada’s CTV and was named one of Inc. Magazine’s “100 Great Leadership Speakers for Your Next Conference.”

At age 14, Clark entered Mary Baldwin College’s Program for the Exceptionally Gifted. At 18, she graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Smith College, and two years later received a Master of Theological Studies from Harvard Divinity School. As a former New England Press Association award-winning journalist, Clark directed the environmental documentary film  The Work of 1000  and was a producer for a multiple-Grammy-winning jazz album.

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Why Success Only Stems From Working On Yourself With Adee Cazayoux

Why Success Only Stems From Working On Yourself With Adee Cazayoux

Today’s guest is Adee Cazayoux, competitive athlete and Founding CEO of Working Against Gravity.

Topics include:

  • Why success will never exceed personal development
  • Triggering customer response and leveraging feedback for business growth
  • Removing ego from business decisions to better serve customers
  • Adee’s daily tips for personal development and meditation
  • The importance of consistency and compliance in business and fitness
  • Why we need to adopt practices from people we admire
  • How a love coach helped push Adee’s business
  • Why success is being proactive vs. reactive
  • Why leaders need to fall in love with the process of their craft

Adee Cazayoux is a competitive athlete and the Founding CEO at Working Against Gravity. Known as the “Barbell Gypsy,” you can find Adee weightlifting, bobsledding, power lifting, or competing in the NPGL or the CrossFit Open. In her childhood, Adee struggled with her weight and found herself at 16 years old, 45 pounds overweight and leading an unhealthy and an unhappy life. After some encouragement from her mother, she decided to make a change. She gained control of her body and diet and discovered a new passion: nutrition.

Most recently Adee has gained an immense amount of knowledge from working with other nutrition consultants known for creating “macro-counting” diets and helping athletes lose fat. Continuously advancing her knowledge, Adee obtained her Precision Nutrition Level 1 and is constantly researching and studying to become better in her field. As an athlete, Adee has trained under many renowned coaches, most notably national champion Aimee Everet, world-champion powerlifter Travis Mash, and Hungarian national champion Steven Sandor. Adee is currently completing her Master’s in Nutrition and Human Performance.   

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How to Build a Solid Plan of Action With Robb Holman

How to Build a Solid Plan of Action With Robb Holman

Today we welcome Robb Holman, Founder of Inside Out Leadership.

Topics include:

  • How to increase sales
  • Analogies between sports and business
  • Why being specific leads to specific results
  • Using your time efficiently
  • How to work smarter, not harder
  • Setting boundaries and getting comfortable with saying no
  • Serving business leaders and lifting them up with inspiration
  • Top, actionable steps to take to become a better leader
  • How to determine when you need a leadership coach

Robb Holman is an internationally recognized leadership expert, executive coach, keynote speaker, and author who has a heart for authentic relationships and a true talent for equipping people with the skills and the knowledge necessary for their success. With passion and exuberance, Robb’s dynamic teaching style has successfully led countless business owners, executives, and leaders through his exclusive and proprietary method of Inside Out Leadership™ Coaching. In helping his clients learn how to connect with their unique life’s purpose, they are finding success in a way they never expected – from the inside out!

As a lifelong serial entrepreneur, Robb has founded numerous, highly influential organizations, both for-profit as well as non-profit. His current endeavor is as founder and CEO of Holman International, a global leadership consultancy revolutionizing the way business leaders operate. For the first time, Robb presents his proven and purposeful Inside Out Leadership™ principles as a practical guide to transform your leadership and help you lead the way, so be sure to check out his book Lead The Way.  

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Harnessing Collaboration To Solve Big Problems With Daniel Jordi

Harnessing Collaboration To Solve Big Problems With Daniel Jordi

Today’s guest is Daniel Jordi, creator of The ChangeMakers’ Hub and Founder of LeadersBridge.

Topics include:

  • Business problems disguised as personal problems
  • The true importance of collaboration in business
  • How to identify the biggest causes of problems
  • Asking the right questions to determine where you are
  • Formal and informal structures that focus on corporate collaboration
  • The relationship between specificity and passion
  • Being conscious about being a lifelong learner
  • Sharing your vision and walking your own path

Daniel Jordi has always been a creator and connector. He started his first businesses at the age of 16 and went on to sell insurances and real estate, build a Search Engine Optimization company, a successful online shop, his current business at jordico and The ChangeMakers’ Hub. Since early 2013, countless things have happened. Daniel had the privilege to work with more than 200 extraordinary and inspiring leaders and entrepreneurs from more than 26 different nationalities. Jordico has developed into a central hub for ChangeMakers – leaders and entrepreneurs who build ventures that create disruptive, positive change. Additionally, he has the honor to be on the Steering Committee at the Trestle Foundation with the mission to empower 20,000 women entrepreneurs until 2020.

To top it off, in 2015, Daniel had the chance to fulfill a dream he had for many years. He was given the opportunity to speak at TEDx in Lugano to share his vision for a future we can be proud of. He believes every person has a unique superpower, a talent, skill, or perspective, something that they are great at and love doing. Daniel’s unique superpower is, and always has been, connecting people and helping other people connect. He is very grateful that he gets to use this gift every day to help ChangeMakers create the change they want to see in the world.

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How To Find Your Recurring Revenue Sweet Spot With Jeremy Ellens

How To Find Your Recurring Revenue Sweet Spot With Jeremy Ellens

Today’s guest is Jeremy Ellens, co-founder of Yazamo.

Topics include:

  • The breakthrough: How Jeremy generated 35,000 leads in just 6 months
  • How to break through old business models
  • What business owners really need to ask themselves
  • How to create predictability within your business
  • Finding the right business coach and peer group for you
  • Why the best advice is to never stop learning
  • From music, to dentistry, to business owner: More on Jeremy’s journey.
  • Business partnerships vs. launching solo

Jeremy is the Co-founder of Yazamo, a SaaS marketing company that specializes in generating leads and sales for small to mid-size businesses through their product LeadQuizzes. He is an expert in Internet marketing and lead generation and has grown LeadQuizzes from zero to more than $1,000,000 in just six months.

His company has personally managed over 300 quiz campaigns and has helped entrepreneurs like Neil Patel and Lewis Howes grow their email list and generate more sales using quizzes. Some of LeadQuizzes’ clients have increased their lead capture by 50,000 people per month and sales by over $100,000 per month. Jeremy is frequently featured in Entrepreneur and he and his team have won numerous awards and accolades.

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How To Create Real Change With Joshua Spodek

From Astrophysicist to Leadership Coach To Bestselling Author With Josh Spodek

Today we welcome back Joshua Spodek, founder of Spodek Academy and bestselling author of Leadership Step by Step.

Topics include:

  • Why leadership and big social changes usually come from outside of government
  • The challenge that actually comes with living by your values
  • How social change can create radical shifts in mindset and behavior
  • Why spreading facts alone rarely changes the behavior of others
  • Creating behavioral changes by implementing structured habits
  • Using public speaking as a tool to learn and share
  • The importance of acting on your beliefs to create change

Joshua Spodek is an executive coach, entrepreneur, and accomplished academic passionate about transformative leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity, sales, strategy, and motivation. He is a Professor at NYU, columnist for Inc., and holds five Ivy-League degrees, including a PhD in Astrophysics and an MBA, both from Columbia University, where he studied under a Nobel Laureate.

He has led seminars in leadership, entrepreneurship, creativity, and sales at Harvard, Princeton, MIT, the New York Academy of Science, and in private corporations. Joshua helped build an X-ray observational satellite for NASA, co-founded and led as CEO or COO several ventures, and holds six patents.

Joshua is also the bestselling author of Leadership Step by Step and the founder of Spodek Academy. His coaching clients include start-up founders as well as employees, including graduates of Columbia, Harvard, MIT, and Stanford just to name a few. As one of few people in the world to have visited North Korea twice, he has since lectured on North Korean strategy at Columbia University as well as in South Korea and China.

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How To Overcome Fear and Live Up To Your Potential With Adam Quiney

How To Overcome Fear and Live Up To Your Potential With Adam Quiney

On today’s show, we’re speaking with Adam Quiney, Executive Leadership Coach and Founder of Evergrowth Coaching & Consulting.

Topics include:

  • The fear of being the opposite of what you are
  • Ways of leaning into your fear
  • Listening to people through a lens
  • Shifting and changing the way you show up in the world
  • Dealing with your lack of happiness
  • Identifying behavior of oblivious righteousness
  • Being authentic by allowing yourself to feel awkward, uncomfortable, and vulnerable

Adam Quiney is an obsessive perfectionist, a high-performer, a former lawyer, and a current life coach. After four years of self-discovery and coaching, he’s also learned that he has a pretty big heart. He works with high-performers ready to put a dent in the universe and step into their zone of genius.

Adam coaches leaders and leads coaches. He is a powerful speaker, a transformative coach, and a leader who changes the lives of those he works with. His clients achieve the impossible and transform their lives in doing so. He teaches them how to eradicate stress and the “good enough” from their lives, achieve the impossible, and transform the cultures they work in. In the process of creating the results they are committed to, Adam helps people punch through the habits and hindrances that keep them from the source of them being their most powerful: embracing and living life as their true selves.

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Sunil Arora On Pushing Past Plateaus, Self-Awareness, and Expectation

Sunil Arora On Pushing Past Plateaus, Self-Awareness, and Expectation

Today’s guest is Sunil Arora, an esteemed leadership and personal development coach for both individuals and companies.

Topics include:

  • Why a professional coach should never stop learning
  • The internal and external soundtrack of expectation
  • Coaching individuals vs. coaching groups
  • The importance of self-awareness, vulnerability, and mindset
  • Sunil’s journey to becoming a professional coach
  • How Sunil pushed past his plateau during the financial crisis
  • What it means to “play it safe” as an immigrant

Sunil Arora is a professional coach for individuals and companies. He focuses on leadership and personal development for start-up executives, entrepreneurs starting their own businesses, and individuals in a professional transition. He also works on organizational structuring and development for early stage companies. He draws on his experience in finance, sociology, technology start-ups, and the public policy space.

Sunil’s background includes leading the fund partnerships team at Artivest, a technology based investment start-up in NYC. Prior to that, Sunil opened and led the New York office for Addepar, a financial technology firm based in Silicon Valley. He joined Addepar after working in economic policy for The National Economic Council at The White House and for The Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Sunil began his career in the hedge fund industry, assembling hedge fund portfolios on the investment team at Ironwood Capital Management and Bessemer Trust. He graduated with a BS in Business Administration and a BA in Sociology from the University of California, Berkeley and received his MPA, with a concentration in International Finance and Economic Policy, from The School of International and Public Affairs at Columbia University.

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How To Grow Your Own Audience With Jason Hobbs

How To Grow Your Own Audience With Jason Hobbs

Today’s guest is Jason Hobbs, the founder of Jason Hobbs LLC.

Topics include:

  • Starting a one-man media business in a small community
  • How to create empowered internet consumers
  • Being clear, logical, and convincing
  • Why “no” can also mean “not yet ready”
  • Creating the right content to attract an audience
  • The top questions business owners needs to ask themselves
  • Keeping attention before getting attention

Jason Hobbs is the owner of his one-person media and content marketing company, Jason Hobbs LLC. His company, based in the small town of Fitzgerald, Georgia, helps rainmakers plan, build, and deploy a cogent system for keeping and growing the attention of their audience. Jason started Jason Hobbs LLC over ten years ago, whilst he completed his marketing degree, with honors, from VSU. Jason believes that marketing today boils down to cogent campaigns getting attention and that a keep-attention system is essential to rainmakers.

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Transforming The Way We Work with Nathan Hirsch

Transforming The Way We Work with Nathan Hirsch

Today’s guest is Nathan Hirsch, Founder and CEO at FreeeUp.

Topics include:

  • How working remotely is transforming the way we work
  • Steps to replacing formal employment
  • Identifying the need for remote workers with different skillsets
  • Determining whether work can be outsourced and the benefits of doing so
  • How to understand the emotions from all parties involved
  • Dealing with client/worker situations the right way
  • The importance of investing in the workers you hire

Nathan Hirsch is the Founder and CEO of FreeeUp, a dedicated online platform that provides curated, real time solutions to hiring remote workers thus positively impacting critical human resources needs of organizations. For over 15 years now, he has been on the entrepreneurial fast lane building successful multi-million dollar businesses accompanied by an unrelenting commitment to client service excellence and human resource leadership. In 2006, he founded his first online venture out of his college dorm room, selling and buying student textbooks. Nathan then rapidly scaled his e-commerce business, bootstrapping from a $20 student – cause initiative to a multi-million dollar e-tailer clocking in revenues in excess of $30 million on Amazon across a 6 year period while serving over 10,000 customers.

Today Portlight, his e-commerce business employs over 50 workers in the US and another 150 globally while managing successful partnerships with over 500 distributors and manufacturers across the United States. The business continues to set new benchmarks in order fulfillment, delivery turnaround times, lean inventory management and overall customer engagement scores. Nathan was also a contributor to the book, Free Your Business: 50 Secrets To Bootstrap Million Dollar Companies. Honesty, integrity, ethics and superlative customer experience have always been the four professional cornerstones of Nathan’s success.

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Evan Hackel On Sharing Your Vision and Building an Engaged Culture

Evan Hackel On Sharing Your Vision and Building an Engaged Culture

Today we welcome Evan Hackel, concept creator of Ingaging Leadership and author of Ingaging Leadership: 21 Steps to Elevate Your Business. 

Topics include:

  • The difference between success and happiness
  • Are attainable goals good goals?
  • Why success is not absolute
  • Sharing your vision and building plans with a team
  • Making assumptions about the success of others
  • Fear and a resistance to collaboration
  • How to treat others as an employer
  • Hiring and engaging Millennials

Evan Hackel is the concept creator of Ingaging Leadership and author of Ingaging Leadership: 21 Steps to Elevate Your Business. Evan is Founder and Principal of Ingage Consulting, a consulting firm focused on improving the performance of franchises by improving the relationship of franchisees and the franchisor to create a culture of partnership and common purpose. Before founding Ingage Consulting, Evan worked at CCA Global Partners for twenty years. He also founded CCA’s departments in marketing, national programs and training. He led the company’s effort to buy and turn around a troubled franchise organization from bankruptcy.

In four years he was able to grow the troubled franchise from 250 locations to a very successful company with over 550 locations. Evan received an MBA from Boston College and a BA in Economics from Colorado College. He is a current and former board member of several organizations, cooperatives, and groups to which he lends his expertise. He is recognized as a Thought Leader, speaker and author on leadership.

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How To Develop All-In Leaders in 3 Steps With Cort Dial

How To Develop All-In Leaders in 3 Steps With Cort Dial

Today’s guest is Cort Dial, president of Cort Dial Consulting LCC and award-winning author of Heretics to Heroes: A Memoir on Modern Leadership.

Topics include:

  • The characteristics of an All-In Leader 
  • Knowing and developing your Heretics 
  • What it really takes to improve performance
  • The 3 things that really grows a leader
  • How to envision and articulate a future
  • The five conditions of performance

Cort Dial’s mission is simple – to help business leaders save lives and dollars. He accomplishes this by teaching leaders how to capture the hearts and minds of their people and focus that energy on the business’ imperatives. During his 30 year coaching career, Cort has helped leaders within some of the world’s most powerful companies including Apple, Intel, Chevron and Disney, save thousands of lives and billions of dollars.

Over the last 30 years in a variety of environments ranging from corporate skyscrapers to South American jungles, Cort has honed a unique methodology that reliably produces performance here-to-fore deemed impossible. He calls this method All-In Performance Transformation and he trains and certifies business executives and rising leaders in it at his Heretics to Heroes Leadership Mastery Summits held throughout the year in Austin, Texas.

Cort believes that it takes a special form of leader to inspire a performance transformation. Cort calls this new breed of 21st-century hero the All-In™ Leader. The roots and results of his unique All-In Leadership philosophy are also explored in his Amazon Top 10 book,  Heretics to Heroes: A Memoir on Modern Leadership, named the Best Business Book of 2016 by Canada’s Globe and Mail.

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Why It Takes More Than Money To Be Successful With Tony Rose

Why It Takes More Than Money To Be Successful With Tony Rose

Today we welcome Tony Rose, founding partner of  Rose, Snyder & Jacobs, and author of Say Hello to the Elephants and Five Eyes on the Fence.

Topics include:

  • The “Five Capitals” of business success
  • Keeping company promises
  • How companies maintain success
  • Coming to a common vision
  • Choosing change and the power of choice
  • How to create a culture of learning
  • Admirable business leaders (and what to learn from them)
  • And much more

Tony Rose is a founding partner of Rose, Snyder & Jacobs, a principal of RSJ/Swenson and author of Say Hello to the Elephants and Five Eyes on the Fence. For more than 35 years, his firm has provided a full-range of assurance, tax, and consulting services for small public, closely held, and family-owned businesses, with a specialty in high-net-worth individuals and their families. Intuitive and personable, Tony is a visionary who is passionate about helping people attain their business and personal goals, through counseling and leading multidisciplinary teams of professionals. He believes that any person or company should concentrate on far more than money to be successful.

Tony received his Bachelor of Science Degree in Business Administration with Accounting Emphasis from the University of Southern California. He is a member of California Society of Certified Public Accountants and a Legacy Wealth Coach and Certified Kolbe Method Consultant. An engaging public speaker, he has presented at Russell Bedford International’s Annual Conference and the Hawaii Tax Institute. He has been a guest lecturer multiple times at both the USC Leventhal School of Accounting, and at Otis College in Los Angeles, where his book Five Eyes on the Fence is part of course curriculum.

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The Secrets To Hiring Top Talent With Scott Wintrip

The Secrets To Hiring Top Talent With Scott Wintrip

Today’s guest is Scott Wintrip, the founder of the Wintrip Consulting Group and the author of High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant.

Topics include:

  • The talent acquisition mindset
  • How the process can affect the outcome
  • Talking your way to trust
  • The importance of experiential interviewing: Seeing, Hearing, and Experiencing
  • Understanding the three stages of hiring: Enrich, Harness, Sustain
  • Diverse talent = a diverse workforce
  • Engaging talent for maximum output

Scott Wintrip’s mission is to eliminate hiring delays, so companies always have the talent they need instead of empty seats. During the past three decades, Scott has helped large organizations as well as small and mid-market companies leverage the power of their people. Scott believes that experiential interviewing is key to hiring a diverse group of talent and making sure the mindset of the leaders and hiring process is in sync with everything we do in business.

For five years in a row, Scott has been named to the “Staffing 100” as one of the world’s 100 most influential staffing leaders. He’s also made Recruiter Magazine’s “Top 40 Under 40,” as one of the most influential executives under 40 years old, and is the author of High Velocity Hiring: How to Hire Top Talent in an Instant. Each week, Scott’s articles and blog posts are featured on dozens of sites, and his newsletter, 02Fill, is read by thousands of subscribers.

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How To Break Free From The Traditional Corporate Path With John Lee Dumas

How To Break Free From The Traditional Corporate Path With John Lee Dumas

Today we welcome John Lee Dumas – author of the smash hit Podcast Launch, and the founder and host of Entrepreneurs On Fire. 

Topics include:

  • How to make it in solopreneurship
  • Overcoming the naysayers when following your dreams
  • The importance of taking a step back and giving yourself space to think
  • How a mentor can guide you around pitfalls and towards success
  • The benefits and differences between a paid versus non-paid mastermind
  • What to look for when hiring a mentor or life coach

John Lee Dumas is an American entrepreneur and podcaster. He is the founder and host of Entrepreneurs On Fire, a daily podcast that interviews entrepreneurs 7 days a week. After college, John was an Officer in the U.S. Army and spent 13 months in Iraq. Once he got out of the army, he struggled to find his mission in life, until EOFire was born. EOFire has featured several entrepreneurs including Seth Godin, Gary Vaynerchuk, Barbara Corcoran, Tim Ferriss, and Brian Tracy, and the show was named Best of iTunes in 2013.

John is also the author of Podcast Launch, a guide of the exact steps he took to launch EOFire. To compliment the success of the podcast, John launched Podcasters’ Paradise in 2013, a community of podcasters where John hosts a free, live Google Hangout Podcast Workshop as an introduction to podcasting every other week. In 2016, John launched The Freedom Journal via a Kickstarter campaign in January 2016, which became one of the most funded publishing campaigns in the history of Kickstarter, with over $350,000 pledged in only 33 days.

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Make More Money, Create More Happiness With Justin Krane

Make More Money, Create More Happiness With Justin Krane

Today’s guest is Money Strategist and Money. You Got This author Justin Krane.

Topics include:

  • Looking into the money-side of life
  • Why you have to take care of yourself and put your own “financial mask” on first
  • Return on life: how your business success funds the goals in your life
  • Aligning your values with your financial life
  • The importance of investing in creating recurring revenue for your business
  • Why it is better to hire a one-on-one business coach before joining a peer-led group
  • How accountability combats our ego and makes room for change

Justin Krane is a Certified Financial Planner Professional and Money Strategist for business owners. His mission is to help individuals understand the money side of their business by teaching entrepreneurs how to strategically use their money to grow their businesses. Justin has been featured in CBS, Fox Business News, and MSNBC. Justin is also the author of the book, Money. You Got This, where he shares his every day crazy funny life stories and gives you a life lesson.

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Using Theater To Ace Your Communication With Bonnie Williams

Using Theater To Ace Your Communication With Bonnie Williams

Today’s guest is professional actor, dialogue and performance coach, and The Whole Package founder Bonnie Williams.

Topics include:

  • Why communicating your message is about so much more than just your words
  • How to help non-English speakers break down barriers
  • Finding focus by understanding your message
  • How to work your language
  • Why it is crucial to not only know yourself, but also your audience
  • Empowering yourself as a speaker, despite potential mistakes
  • How to overcome self-criticism and insecurity by finding your own voice

For more than 25 years, Bonnie Williams has applied theatrical techniques to enhance communication in the real world. She is a Dialogue and Performance Coach for actors, performers, and public speakers. From designing and leading workshops to guiding business professionals in their career development, Bonnie has coached a range of individuals, from technical experts to CEO’s to standup comedians. A fascination for human behavior and decades of experience as an actor and director have given Bonnie insight and an experiential understanding of human expression.

Bonnie’s acting and directing career has spanned decades and crossed the ocean. In New York she trained at the American Academy of Dramatic Arts and HB Studio, and worked with Jack Farrell, Michael Egan, and John Ford Noonan. In Boston she was both actress and director with a/k/a theater and appeared in various films. Now living in Amsterdam, Bonnie has performed in various stage productions with the Stalhouderij, Mickery Theatre, Het Consort, Brakke Grond, Toneelschuur, and Toneelgroep Amsterdam.

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Coaching Your Way To Success With JV Crum III

Finding Joy In Your Life (And Business) With JV Crum III

On today’s episode of Smashing The Plateau, we’re speaking to JV Crum III – the CEO of Conscious Millionaire and bestselling author of Conscious Millionaire: Grow Your Business by Making a Difference.

Topics include:

  • The differences among business coaching structures
  • Finding out what impact you want to make and what brings you the most joy
  • Determining your ROI before reaching out for help
  • Distinguishing what form of coaching you need for your business
  • What to look for when seeking help and guidance

JV Crum III is a business coach who helps entrepreneurs grow six and seven figure conscious businesses. He is a speaker, marketing expert, Huffington Post Columnist, bestselling author of Conscious Millionaire: Grow Your Business by Making a Difference, and hosts the top-ranking Conscious Millionaire family of podcasts. JV is Founder of ConsciousMillionaire.com, a global coaching and wealth product business and holds an MBA, JD, Masters in Psychology, and has built and sold successful companies. He is also the Founder/Director of Conscious World Foundation – a non-profit that provides training to youths aged 18-25 to become the next generation of conscious leaders worldwide.

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How To Attract (And Retain) The Right Talent With Dov Baron

How To Attract (And Retain) The Right Talent With Dov Baron

Today’s guest is Dov Baron, the founder of Full Monty Leadership and the bestselling author of Fiercely Loyal; How High Performing Companies Develop and Retain Top Talent.

Topics include:

  • The new interview: interviewee interviewing the interviewer
  • Why work should be soulfully purpose-driven and meaningful (and how to make it happen)
  • How to seek outside help
  • Why your plateau exists in your “normal”
  • Finding the right person to help you – someone that is not a second you
  • Why you need to start playing small

Dov Baron has been speaking internationally for over 30 years, and he is the man with a finger on the pulse of the evolving world of NextGen leadership. One of Inc. Magazines’ Top 100 Leadership Speakers to hire, Dov is a master storyteller. As the founder of Full Monty Leadership and The Authentic Speaker Academy for Leadership, he is considered by many as the leading authority on Authentic Leadership. Outside of his speaking and training, Dov works with multi-disciplinary leaders and executive teams to build the bonds that create organizational cultures that become Fiercely Loyal. Dov is a bestselling author of several books, including his latest Fiercely Loyal; How High Performing Companies Develop and Retain Top Talent. He also writes for and has been featured in many industry magazines, including CNN, CBS Small Business Pulse, SHRM, Yahoo Finance, Boston Globe, Business In Vancouver, USA Today, CEO, Entrepreneur, and many more.

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Finding Focus Amidst Business Chaos with Chris Ronzio

Finding Focus Amidst Business Chaos with Chris Ronzio

Before the age of 25, Chris Ronzio had built a video production company that sold over $3 million in youth sporting event videos. Once he sold that business, he decided to start doing what he really loved, which was to help other entrepreneurs organize the chaos in their own businesses.

What started as a personal consulting style and methodology, Organize Chaos quickly grew into a full-fledged business in its own right. Today Chris takes us through this methodology for finding focus in the midst of the entrepreneurial storm.

Topics include:

  • Why entrepreneurs must learn to say “no”
  • The three C’s Methodology: Context, Chaos, and Clarity
  • Using systems for automation and accountability in your business

As an entrepreneur, consultant, and speaker, Chris Ronzio has been fortunate to travel the world, meet amazing people, and absorb diverse perspectives that continue to fuel his imagination. He spent his childhood in Chicago, then Boston before moving to Arizona in 2009 to escape the winters. He currently lives with his wife and son in Scottsdale, AZ. At the heart of everything he does is a desire to create more time, for himself and others, to focus on the things that we truly love doing.

Learn more about Chris at Chrisronzio.com, Organizechaos.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.

 

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