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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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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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Creating a Culture of Excellence With Chanie Wilschanski
Chanie Wilschanski is an Early Childhood Strategist and Leadership Coach who works with early childhood directors to help them build collaborative cultures at schools that are specifically designed to drive real transformation. Today Chanie tells with us how to create a culture of excellence in whatever endeavor you are involved in.
Topics include:
- Asking the right questions to initiate feedback
- Finding the right help and support, and building that into your structure
- Becoming a better leader through practices, habits, and routines
- The basis for introducing peer support into your organization
While teaching in Manhattan’s highly innovative and acclaimed Preschool of the Arts, Chanie Wilschanski began to develop her vision of a creative, progressive and revolutionary path in early education. , Chanie currently directs the early childhood program at the Beth Rivkah Seminary in Crown Heights, Brooklyn, NY. Her mission is to empower educators so they can connect with our children, inspire them and make a lasting impact in our world.
Chanie has a free gift just for Smashing The Plateau listeners here.
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How To Lead And Empower Millennials With Brett Trapp
Growing up as a closeted gay son of a southern Baptist pastor in Alabama, Brett Trapp is someone who has had a remarkable personal and business journey…and he’s not afraid to talk about it. Things get candid on his blog and podcast, Blue Babies Pink, as he opens up about his experiences with faith, sexuality, and emotional health. After launching only this year, his podcast is already a worldwide smash. Today Brett shares his story. He also dispels Millennial stereotypes, and shows us how to lead and transform this undervalued group into successful leaders.
Topics Include:
- What it really means to trust your team members
- How to react as a leader when your team member makes a mistake
- The importance of outrageous care
- Identifying the fine line between ignorance and wonder
- Why “shut up and listen” is most often the best advice
- The value of vulnerability
- Why it is important to never stop learning
Brett Trapp is a consultant, writer, and speaker living in Atlanta’s historic Cabbagetown neighborhood. He was previously Vice President of Client Experience for the Boosterthon Fun Run – an innovative school fundraising company based out of Atlanta. Between 2005-2016, Brett was a key player in helping Booster raise more than $150 million for American schools. Within Booster, Brett led a team of creatives that developed high-end character and leadership content for more than 1.3 million students annually.
In late 2016, Brett launched Blue Babies Pink, a 44-episode journey through faith, sexuality shame, loneliness, singleness, and emotional health. To date, Blue Babies Pink has drawn nearly 100,000 readers/listeners from around the world. In 2017, the series released as a podcast and hit number one on the iTunes “Religion/Spirituality” chart and the top 50 of all podcasts worldwide. Blue Babies Pink podcast episodes have been downloaded more than 450,000 times. Brett is passionate about storytelling, leadership, good design, and SEC football. He also serves on the boards of directors for Beloved Atlanta and the Alpha Tau Omega Fraternity.
Learn more about Brett at bluebabiespink.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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From Plateau to Peak: How To Regain Your Entrepreneurial Freedom with Hank O’Donnell
Entrepreneurs thrive in having their own freedom, but what happens when they find themselves stuck in a state of loneliness or unhappiness? In today’s episode, leadership expert and team coach Hank O’Donnell shows us how to free ourselves from the unexpected burdens of entrepreneurship so we can get our businesses and ourselves peaking again. He also talks about the real difference between doing and leading, and breaks down the best peer group and coaching models.
Topics Include:
- The warning signs of entrepreneurial stagnation
- How to conquer leadership loneliness
- The don’t screw up syndrome
- How to find a peer group that will work for you
- Learning from other entrepreneurs’ mistakes
- How to make yourself more coachable
With 32 years of business leadership, Hank O’Donnell knows the entrepreneurial world first hand. Growing up in a family business, Hank experienced the joys and heartaches of being captain of his own ship. For 23 years Hank was president of a Philadelphia office supply firm. After selling the firm in 2003, Hank became a Vistage CEO Group Chair, building three successful groups in Philly. By his estimate Hank has conducted over 10,000 hours of executive coaching and facilitated more than 200 Leadership Team Sessions.
In 2013 Hank became a Certified EOS Implementer when he saw the amazing impact that the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) was having helping his clients get to their next level. So inspired, Hank started his own company, Positive Traction, and is currently helping 24 Philly successful entrepreneurs and their teams create and achieve inspiring and exciting visions.
Learn more about Hank at positivetraction.com, vistage.com, and LinkedIn.
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Why Learning is Leverage With Dan Hoffman
Entrepreneur and public speaker Dan Hoffman founded Circles Learning Labs as a means to foster meaningful connections across the world. He also believes that adult learning is the key to improving our lives and our businesses. Today he tells us why. Dan also opens up about his own struggles as an entrepreneur, talks about finding clarity, and shows us how to become self-directed learners.
Topics Include:
- The missing ingredients in our education system
- The problems facing adult learning today (and how to overcome them)
- Why leaders shouldn’t be afraid to embrace their lousiness
- The explosion of adult learning opportunities
- Fighting learner loneliness
- Why a peer group is a powerful learning structure
Dan Hoffman is an entrepreneur who failed twice, succeeded once, and is starting from the beginning again. From 2000-2014 he built and then sold M5 Networks, a pioneering Voice-over-IP cloud communications company serving businesses. After losing a battle to be CEO of the public Silicon Valley company that acquired M5, Dan retreated with his family to Barcelona for two years. During this time he was chosen as a Henry Crown Fellow of the Aspen Institute, a program that pushed him to work on the opportunity to improve education and learning. He recently returned to Brooklyn, NY, and a few months ago, started Circles Learning Labs, with a mission to connect the world deeply so people can learn and grow together.
Learn more about Dan at circl.es, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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Building Influence with Joshua Steimle
Many people talk about thought leadership, but few people actually put in the work to become one. Joshua Steimle is certainly an exception. He has written 200 articles for publications like Time, Forbes, Inc. and TechCrunch, and both Entrepreneur and Forbes magazine named him on their “Entrepreneurs to Watch” list. Today we talk about how he did it, along with
the value of exposing your failures and the importance of reading.
Topics Include:
- Practical ways to reach out and make powerful connections
- How the profit-first template leads to better opportunities
- Deciding whether a peer support group or business coach is right for you
- Balancing personal and professional success
Joshua Steimle is a speaker, writer, and entrepreneur based in China. He has written for publications including Time, Forbes, Inc., Mashable, TechCrunch, and Entrepreneur. He is the author of Chief Marketing Officers at Work, which contains 29 interviews with CMOs from organizations like GE, the Harvard Business School, Spotify, Target, and PayPal, and was recognized in Success Magazine as one of the 5 Best Business Books of 2016. Josh is the CEO of MWI, a digital marketing firm he founded in 1999 with offices in Hong Kong, China, and the U.S. Entrepreneur Magazine put Josh on their 50 Inspirational Entrepreneurs to Watch in 2017 list, and Forbes recognized him as one of 25 Marketing Influencers To Watch In 2017, while data from social media research firm Leadtail ranked Josh #11 on their list of People Most Mentioned and Retweeted by CMOs.
Learn more about Josh at joshsteimle.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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How To Make It As A Teenage Entrepreneur With Chloe Young
Driven by kindness and her passion for community building, Chloe Young founded the Newport Soccer Camp so she could make a real difference in young people’s lives…and she’s only a junior in high school. In today’s episode, Chloe shares her personal experiences as a young entrepreneur. She also talks about finding empowerment in a state of uncertainty, and reveals what it really takes to fight for your dreams in the face of adversity.
Topics include:
- Redefining sportsmanship and community
- Never being afraid to fail and ask for help
- The power of award systems
- Finding ways to cope with pressure and stress
Chloe Young is currently a junior at Newport High School. Aside from speaking Spanish and Chinese, she also enjoys playing premier level soccer. This past fall, she started a soccer camp called “Newport Soccer Camp” to use soccer and teaching tactics to unite children all over her community and teach responsibility and kindness. Chloe is happy to say that no player is ever turned away and scholarships are available to those in need. Unlike other soccer camps in the area, Newport Soccer Camps is a clever way to reinforce the basics of teamwork, responsibility and generosity and bridge the gap between children and teenage students in the community.
Learn more about Chloe at newportsoccercamp.com.
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How To Succeed In Consulting With Bestselling Author Alan Weiss
As a top consultant and keynote speaker, Alan Weiss has worked with some of the biggest companies in the world including Hewlett-Packard, The New York Times Corporation, and Mercedes-Benz. He is also the author of the smash hit Million Dollar Consulting. In today’s episode, Alan reveals what it really takes to strike it big in the consulting industry. He also talks about finding strength in competition, shows us how to rise above the schlock, and reveals the importance of avoiding codependency in every kind of professional relationship.
Topics include:
- Believing in the courage of your talent (and how to do it)
- Behavioral mistakes every consultant needs to avoid
- Coaches vs. communities
- How to find the right advisors
- Why consultants should innovate (and not just fix problems)
Alan Weiss is one of those rare people who can say he is a consultant, speaker, and author and mean it. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, Inc., has attracted clients such as Merck, Hewlett-Packard, GE, Mercedes-Benz, State Street Corporation, Times Mirror Group, The Federal Reserve, The New York Times Corporation, Toyota, and over 500 other leading organizations. He has served on the boards of directors of the Trinity Repertory Company, a Tony-Award-winning New England regional theater, Festival Ballet, and chaired the Newport International Film Festival.
His speaking typically includes 20 keynotes a year at major conferences, and he has been a visiting faculty member at Case Western Reserve University, Boston College, Tufts, St. John’s, the University of Illinois, the Institute of Management Studies, and the University of Georgia Graduate School of Business. He has held an appointment as adjunct professor in the Graduate School of Business at the University of Rhode Island where he taught courses on advanced management and consulting skills to MBA and PhD candidates. He once held the record for selling out the highest priced workshop (on entrepreneurialism) in the then-21-year history of New York City’s Learning Annex. His Ph.D. is in psychology. He has served on the Board of Governors of Harvard University’s Center for Mental Health and the Media.
His prolific publishing includes over 500 articles and 60 books, including his bestseller, Million Dollar Consulting, which is now in its 25th year and fifth edition. His newest is Lifestorming: Creating Meaning and Achievement in Your Career and Life. His books have been on the curricula at Villanova, Temple University, and the Wharton School of Business, and have been translated into 12 languages.
Learn more about Alan at alanweiss.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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How To Make Fear Work For You With Akshay Nanavati
If anyone understands the power of adventure, it’s Akshay Nanavati. As an entrepreneur, speaker, coach, and the author of Fearvana, Akshay helps people foster their fears and bring new meaning to their lives. He is also on a mission to run across every country in the world. In today’s episode, Akshay opens up about his troubled past, reveals what it really takes to turn your life around, and talks about using your fears to achieve the success you’ve always dreamed of.
We discuss…
- How to turn fear into something more productive and effective
- His daily and weekly routines and rituals (and why they work)
- Finding the right coach, mentor, mastermind group or peer group
Akshay Nanavati is a Marine Corps veteran, adventurer and entrepreneur. After overcoming drug addiction, a diagnosis of PTSD from the Iraq war, and a battle with alcohol that pushed him to the brink of suicide, Akshay has since explored the most hostile environments on the planet and built a global business helping people live limitless lifestyles. Combining years of research in neuroscience and psychology with his life experience, Akshay wrote the book Fearvana: The Revolutionary Science of How to Turn Fear Into Health, Wealth and Happiness. His work funds his nonprofit, the Fearvana Foundation. It is the change-making arm of his lifelong mission to run across every country to create enduring peace, one community at a time.
Learn more about Akshay at fearvana.com, existing2living.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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Finding The Right Guidance With Sarah Tennyson
As a world-renowned talent and organizational development expert, Sarah Tennyson uses her background in psychology to help clients of various stripes reinvent their businesses – and themselves – through the power of behavior. Today’s episode is all about finding the right guidance, as Sarah spells out the right and wrong ways to find help. She also breaks down the real benefits of peer support groups, and unveils her personal tips for breaking through barriers.
Topics include:
- The coaching boom (and what it means for business leaders)
- How to expand peer groups into different industries
- Why leaders should seek different sources of guidance
Sarah Tennyson helps clients enable behavior changes to achieve business transformation. Her clients range from graduate to C-level across financial services, professional services, technology, corporate, and non-profit sectors. She has coached and facilitated workshops with over 10,000 people in 20 different countries. Since 2006, Sarah has coached clients from VP / Director to C-level supporting them to transition into more senior leadership roles, helping senior executives with team leadership, dysfunction, mindset and communication style, identifying development needs and planning to meet their career goals.
Learn more about Sarah at sarahtennyson.com, LinkedIn, and Twitter.
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