Creating a Collaborative Learning Environment Among Peers and Coworkers With Carissa Baquiran
On today’s show we welcome Carissa Baquiran, Educational Professional and Operations Lead at Circles.
Topics include:
- An overview of Carissa’s background and how she came to be at Circles.
- Creating change by making people’s work transparent to their co-teachers.
- The results and impact of a professional learning community within a school.
- How collaboration between teachers changed the future of the students.
- Overcoming resistance during the implementation process of a learning community.
- Using teacher leaders as a powerful tool for implementing change for success.
- How to use the power of peers to provide support with your professional life.
Carissa Baquiran is an Educational Professional and Operations Lead at Circles. Carissa has devoted her life’s work to creating spaces that bring about positive change through the intersection of education, entrepreneurship, art and activism. Carissa has worked as a school leader, consultant, coach, educator, program director, and writer in K through 12 schools in the Juvenile Justice System, art organizations, community organizations, colleges, public agencies and international youth organizations. Currently, Carissa heads up Customer Experience at Circles and works to ensure a positive learning experience for participants.
Circles is part of this larger movement to restore depth and meaning to our relationships. It is for people who understand that it’s through these deeper relationships and deeper conversations that we unlock new levels of personal, professional, and purpose-driven growth. Carissa leads sourcing and matching at Circles and makes sure that users get the most out of their Circles experience. She helps create groups with enough common ground to click while also making sure they are diverse enough to bring valuable insight to the table.
Learn more about Carissa Baquiran at Circl.es and LinkedIn.
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The Real Way To Create Exponential Growth With Cameron Herold
Today’s guest is bestselling author and CEO Whisperer Cameron Herold.
Topics include:
- The most important strategies for scaling a business
- Using systems that are already created for your own business’ success
- Investing in yourself through mastermind groups and connecting with other entrepreneurs
- Three key components for being able to achieve exponential growth
- The importance of getting PR for your company to leverage your brand
- Scaling a new company vs. one that is already well established
- Why it is critical for businesses to adapt to changes in the industry
Cameron Herold is known around the world as The CEO Whisperer, and is the founder of COO Alliance. He is the mastermind behind hundreds of companies’ exponential growth. Cameron’s built a dynamic consultancy and his current clients include a ‘Big 4’ wireless carrier and a monarchy. What do his clients say they like most about him? He isn’t a theory guy; instead, Cameron speaks only from his own experience. Cameron is also the author of the global bestselling business book Double Double as well as Meetings Suck and The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs.
Cameron is a top-rated international speaker and has been paid to speak in 26 countries. He is also the top-rated lecturer at EO/MIT’s Entrepreneurial Masters Program and a powerful and effective speaker at Chief Executive Officer and Chief Operating Officer leadership events around the world. Look for Cameron’s two new business books on public relations and how to get your team to see your vision for your company in 2018.
Learn more about Cameron Herold at cameronherold.com, LinkedIn and Twitter.
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Paying The Real Price For Healthcare With Dr. David Berg
Today’s guest is Dr. David Berg, Co-founder and Chairman of Redirect Health.
Topics include:
- Why we need to separate insurance from healthcare
- Alternative ways to pay for healthcare outside of insurance
- How Redirect Health assists small business owners
- Paying the real price for healthcare in the most efficient way
- Find out how Redirect Health was born
- Companies that can benefit from Redirect’s solutions
- Why insurance is like going to Vegas
- Small breakthroughs and the value of changing the way you think
- And much more
Dr. David Berg is co-founder and Chairman of the Board of Redirect Health, a national leader in healthcare innovation. Dave is focused on creating an amazing healthcare customer experience, and he does this by simplifying traditionally complex systems that most believe could not be changed. With deliberate and strategic, outside-of-the-box thinking, he innovates new ways to deliver easy and affordable healthcare to people everywhere.
Dave is driven by his uncompromising belief that everyone in America deserves easy and affordable healthcare. With more than 20 years of healthcare leadership experience, he has a successful track record for smart system design and has pioneered Redirect health – a new healthcare model that provides affordable healthcare without adding more cost by systematically eliminating healthcare waste, unnecessary administration, and confusion. Companies in 40 states have adopted this solution, and they are now doing exactly this because of Redirect Health.
Learn more about Dr. David Berg at redirecthealth.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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Dr. Trevor Cates on How to Establish a Business Within Your Niche and Living a Healthy Life
Today’s guest is world-renowned Naturopathic Physician and bestselling author Dr. Trevor Cates.
Topics include:
- How Dr. Cates chose her niche area of expertise and unique client base
- The key aspects of implementing health and wellness within your life
- Cates’ 4 health strategies: clean plate, clean slate, clean body, and clean mind
- Learning to identify your trigger foods through an elimination diet
- Recognizing harmful ingredients within our personal care products
- Shifting your mindset and reducing stress through forgiveness and mindfulness
- The importance of listening to your customers in order to evolve and advance your business
Dr. Trevor Cates is the author of the bestselling book, Clean Skin from Within. She became known as the Spa Dr. after working in world renowned spas, was the first woman licensed as a naturopathic doctor in the state of California, and was appointed by former Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger to California’s Bureau of Naturopathic Medicine Advisory Council. Dr. Cates received her medical degree from the National College of Natural Medicine and has a master’s degree in spiritual psychology from the University of Santa Monica.
Dr. Cates lives in Park City, Utah where she helps patients from around the world achieve graceful aging and glowing skin. She has been featured on The Doctors, Extra, First for Women, and Mind Body Green. Dr. Cates has her own PBS special, Younger Skin from Within, and is host of THE SPA DR. podcast. She believes the key to healthy skin is inner and outer nourishment with non-toxic ingredients. Dr. Cates’ The Spa Dr. skincare and supplement lines are formulated with natural and organic ingredients designed to help you achieve the clean and natural path to confidence and beautiful skin.
Learn more about Dr. Trevor Cates at drtrevorcates.com, thespadr.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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The Secret to Becoming a Visionary Leader with Seth Kahan
Today’s guest is Seth Kahan, founder of Visionary Leadership and bestselling author of Getting Change Right and Getting Innovation Right.
Topics include:
- Visionary leadership; self-transformation, change leadership, and strategic foresight
- Understanding the motivation behind becoming a visionary leader
- How to make a real impact in the world
- How Seth was able to break through his plateaus by changing his mindset
- The value of having a mentor to push you to achieve your business goals
- The idea that triggered Seth to write his new book, Grand Challenge
- Why articulating your mission and having a collaborative mindset is the key to success
- Overcoming the challenge of communication when technology is limited
Seth Kahan is widely recognized as being on the forefront of Visionary Leadership and a trusted advisor to over 100 CEOs. He is a sought after business strategy specialist, a respected thought leader, and convener on Grand Challenges. Seth founded Visionary Leadership as the umbrella organization under which he works with visionary leaders, helping them achieve remarkable results that transform the world and grow their organizations. His proven results working with CEO’s to achieve their large-scale change, innovation, growth, and strategies have earned him the designation of Thought Leader and Exemplar in Change Leadership by the Society for Advancement of Consulting.
Seth is a man on a mission; a mission to accelerate visionary leaders’ success through impact and profitability on a grand scale. Executives tasked with high-value change, innovation, and growth have relied upon him to help them achieve remarkable results that transform the world and grow their organizations. Seth is also the author of the business bestsellers Getting Change Right and Getting Innovation Right. His next book, Grand Challenge: How Leaders Grow their Businesses by Addressing the World’s Most Intractable Problems , is a collaboration with Julie Jordan Avritt, and will be available soon.
Learn more about Seth Kahan at visionaryleadership.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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Become a Successful Agent of Change With Lawrence Baird
Today’s guest is Lawrence Baird, Vice President of Operations at Mosaic Learning.
Topics include:
- How healthy work environments increase company margins
- Identifying whether or not you’re on the edge of growth
- Understanding the contagious nature of motivation and morale in an organization
- How to strategically deal with bad influences within organizational teams
- Operational steps to take within an organization to create the ideal environment for success
- The importance of unity amongst leaders
- How to eliminate us vs. them attitudes
- Finding that balance between customer focus and employee focus
- Creating and communicating a compelling vision that encourages buy-in from others
- Why it is important for leaders to listen and find the root problems
Lawrence Baird is the Vice President of Operations at Mosaic Learning. At Mosaic and other organizations, Lawrence has overseen hundreds of product launches and improved internal processes for numerous higher education institutions. Over the years he has developed and taught courses in organizational behavior, operations management, marketing, communication, and negotiations at Stevenson University in Maryland, Walden University, Colorado Technical University, and the University of Phoenix. How people learn has always been at the core of everything Lawrence has done.
Prior to his work in education, Lawrence was in sales in the software and advertising industries. He is a member of the Board of Directors for Acts4Youth, a non-profit organization supporting the advancement of underprivileged youth in Baltimore City. He earned his Bachelor’s degree from Loyola University Maryland and his MBA from Walden University. Lawrence sees operational efficiency as a core factor in the success of any project. He also believes that a healthy and happy team is essential for the continued success and growth of any business.
Learn more about Lawrence Baird at mosaiclearning.com, lbaird@mosaiclearning.com, and LinkedIn.
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How To Navigate the Online Legal World With Richard Chapo
Today’s guest is Richard Chapo, an Internet Lawyer and founder of Socalinternetlawyer.com.
Topics include:
- Everything you need to know about Internet law and the online legal practice
- Benefits of being proactive as it pertains to the online business legal world
- Common mistakes that business owners make specific to the web
- How Richard’s time in Russia gave him a new perspective for practicing law
- What business owners need to consider when it comes to copyright laws
- When to hire an Internet lawyer as an online business owner
- Richard’s journey, moving from burnout to finding his work-life balance
Richard Chapo is a business lawyer in San Diego and founder of Socalinternetlawyer.com. He is part Internet business lawyer and part business owner. With 20 plus years of experience, Richard helps businesses transverse the minefield of laws and regulations associating with operating online, including copyright privacy and FTC affiliate disclosure requirements. He has been operating his own firm specializing in cyber law, with an emphasis on providing legal advice on topics such as copyright infringement, trademarks, privacy, user-generated content, section 230 defamation, COPPA, FERPA compliance for private companies, and a host of other topics.
Richard has traveled extensively around the world. He took time off to live and teach in Siberia in Russia for a year and also spent time in much of Europe, Central America, and Asia. Richard enjoys working on Internet legal issues and advises large and small business entities on legal and regulatory obligations when operating online pursuant to laws such as the DMCA, COPPA, and Communications Decency Act. He regularly negotiates and prepares contract agreements, terms of service, disclaimers, and web development agreements as well as other legal documents for his clients.
Learn more about Richard Chapo at socalinternetlawyer.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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Why Everything You Learned About Financial Planning is Wrong With Chris Miles
Today’s guest is cash flow expert and Money Ripples founder Chris Miles.
Topics include:
- Why everything you’ve learned about financial planning is wrong
- Business breath: how to make sure you don’t work harder for poor results
- What to take away from your personal challenges
- The most common mistakes people make when managing their money (and how to avoid them)
- Why cash flow offers you the best options (and the most freedom)
- How to get multiple streams of income
- The two worst investments everybody does
- The most important actionable steps to running your business (instead of having your business run you)
- Letting go of your ego kick
- Why it’s essential to always remember common sense
As founder of Money Ripples, Chris Miles is the leading authority on quickly creating wealth by increasing monthly cash flow. He has shown hundreds of entrepreneurs, and hundreds of thousands internationally, how to free up or generate tens of thousands of dollars each year. Chris was the VP of Coaching for the highly reputable Freedom Fast Track Company, and has been featured in US News, CNN Money, bankrate.com, and has a high reputation for getting his clients fast, life-altering results. Chris is also an author and host of the Chris Miles Money Show podcast.
Learn more about Chris Miles at moneyripples.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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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)
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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.
Learn more about Joshua Spodek:
- joshuaspodek.com
- spodekacademy.com
- Marshall Goldsmith handing me a humbling moment
- I’m not a total failure
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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
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
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
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
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
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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