Fitness Fosters Productivity and Reduces Stress Featuring Carl Ficks
Carl Ficks helps busy professionals get back in the fitness game so they can be less stressed and a lot more productive. His “Ficks System” is a proven road map for athletes and weekend warriors alike. We discuss: Trial work as an extension of athleticism [02:49] How to mix skills and attributes as an artist…
Read Full PostHow to Take Control of Your Business and Your Life Featuring Sajad Husain
Sajad Husain is the CEO of Cause and Effect Consulting. He is a persevering, enterprising, and top-performing executive and former attorney with expertise in vision-setting, project oversight, development, and implementation, compliance, internal and external communications, relationship management, legal and policy review, resource, and people-management, community outreach and organizing. He is an analytical and broad-minded influencer…
Read Full PostWhat’s the Worst that Can Happen Featuring Kellan Fluckiger
Kellan Is the Ultimate Catalyst for Personal transformation. Author of 15 books, Creator of the “Ultimate Life Transformation Experience.” If you really want to change your results, Kellan’s Experience and System will get you there. We discuss: A method to tell your story in a powerful way [02:05] Your power is proportional to your vulnerability…
Read Full PostPivoting into a Talent-Centric Business Featuring Carol Schultz
Carol Schultz is a talent equity and leadership coaching and advisory expert, and Founder/CEO at Vertical Elevation. Over the past 29 years, she‘s honed her expertise and formed an intrinsic understanding of successful recruiting and alignment processes. We discuss: The most important department in a company [02:33] People leave managers, not jobs [06:04] The area…
Read Full PostFinding Your 5 Whys Featuring Michael Bauman
Michael Bauman is the CEO of Success Engineering, a Tony Robbins certified coach and he helps entrepreneurs feel that they are enough and know they are not alone. He is also the host of the podcast, Success Engineering, where he interviews experts and industry leaders, from Broadway Directors and actors to multi-millionaire CEO’s, to neuroscientists…
Read Full PostHow to Achieve Healthy Revenue Growth Yourself Featuring Darrell Amy
With 27 years of B2B marketing and sales experience ranging from mid-sized local companies to enterprise organizations, Darrell has diverse experience across the sales and marketing landscape. He has trained thousands of salespeople in solution selling, created digital marketing strategies for hundreds of companies, and consulted with Fortune 500 technology companies. He knows what works—and…
Read Full PostYou Can Decide How You Want to Grow Your Business Featuring Diane Tarshis
Diane Tarshis is a seasoned business advisor and founder of Startup Distillery. Working with entrepreneurs across the US and around the globe, Diane uses her unique mix of finance, retail, manufacturing, and operations experience to help entrepreneurs distill their ideas into profitable, growing businesses. We discuss: Shifting from corporate life to small business life [02:32]…
Read Full PostWhy You Can Write a Book and Quit Repeating Yourself Featuring Jaime Jay
Jaime Jay is the founder and managing director of Bottleneck Distant Assistants. Founded in 2016, Bottleneck is an outsourcing agency that helps businesses identify, hire, and cultivate their workforce through a carefully designed systematic approach to growth. A veteran US Army paratrooper who received the Army Achievement Medal for Meritorious Service, Jay’s additional business experience…
Read Full PostHow to Create Personal Brand Clarity Featuring Suzanne Tulien
With over two and a half decades of strategic communication, employee brand engagement, and internal brand development, Suzanne’s inside-out brand-building strategy creates the clarity and actions necessary for her clients to drive consistency, distinction, and advocacy long-term. We discuss: The many expectations of a logo [02:24] A framework that helps you say “no” [06:45] What…
Read Full PostShould You Write Your Own Copy? Featuring Gio Marcus
Gio Marcus is copywriting mentor who teaches high-converting copy to entrepreneurs who want to reach millions and make millions. We discuss: How to become your brand’s own best copywriter [02:32] A copy that’s more than a static set of words on a page [05:51] What makes people bolder in their copywriting [07:06] The first thing…
Read Full PostHow to Overcome Your Avoidance of Public Speaking Featuring Tom Bailey
Tom Bailey is the founder of Succeed Through Speaking and he spent the first 25 years of his life becoming an expert at AVOIDING public speaking, presenting and being in front of groups of people. However, since overcoming his life-limiting fear of speaking and presenting he has experienced first-hand how people can succeed through speaking.…
Read Full PostTurning Your Words into Wealth Wisdom and Wonder Featuring Aurora Winter
Aurora Winter is an award-winning, bestselling author. She is a successful serial entrepreneur, media trainer, creator of the Spoken Author™ method, and founder of Same Page Publishing. We discuss: Leveraging the number 3 search engine [02:00] The secret to producing hundreds of podcast episodes [03:39] How the Spoken Author method helps non-writers fill in the…
Read Full PostWhat Chess Can Teach Us About Being Prepared For The Unexpected Featuring Evan Rabin
Evan Rabin was born and raised in New York. After working in Corporate America, doing enterprise sales at Oracle and Rapid 7, he formed Premier Chess in September 2017. Premier Chess currently runs programs in 80+ schools and companies including the law firm Kramer Levin. He is a US Chess National Master. We discuss: What…
Read Full PostHow to Grow a Conscious Business Authentically Featuring Terri Maxwell
Terri Maxwell is the Founder and CEO of Share On Purpose, Inc, a business cultivator that created six innovative brands using her Conscious Business Growth Platform™. She also started a Speculator Fund to invest in social ventures focused on making the world better. In an entrepreneurial career that spans almost 30 years, Terri has launched,…
Read Full PostHow Client Loyalty Accelerates Profitability Featuring Lynn Thomas
Lynn is a tax attorney-turned consultant who finds innovative and novel ways to create fiercely loyal clients and employees. As employees uncover their untapped potential, they become deeply engaged and excel at delighting customers. Consequently, these businesses achieve higher levels of profits, growth, and retention! We discuss: Organizations that [don’t] care about their employees [02:14]…
Read Full PostHow to Sell Your Consulting Ecommerce Business Featuring Ben Leonard
Best known as the founder of Beast Gear, Ben Leonard is the classic millennial entrepreneur. He built a business on a laptop, in a cupboard, in his spare time. The difference? Ben grew an international 7-figure business and successfully exited after 3 years which is the business holy grail. Now Ben is doing it all…
Read Full PostRelationship Building as a Daily and Multi-Year Process Featuring Paul Sherman
Paul Sherman is a dynamic C-suite leader with finance, strategy, operations excellence, customer success, and business development experience in healthcare services and technology, commercial real estate and multi-unit restaurants. We discuss: The basics of relationship-building [02:52] The givers, takers and exchangers [4:58] The fine line between helping for free and helping for money [6:23] Not…
Read Full PostCelebrating 600 Episodes of Smashing the Plateau with Chris Weller
Chris Weller is an award-winning storytelling expert. He’s the co-creator and producer of the Netflix Original Documentary “Spelling the Dream,” an Ironman triathlete, and a crossword puzzle aficionado. He is currently a senior editor at Insider, overseeing coverage that explores the human side of work and business. We discuss: The time when podcasts were not…
Read Full PostHow to Prepare, Position and Promote Your Mid-Career Pivot Featuring John Neral
John Neral helps mid-career professionals prepare, position, and promote who they are and what they do, so they can SHOW UP to find a job they love or love the job they have. He’s the author of the newly published book “Your Mid-Career GPS – Four Steps to Figuring Out What’s Next.” He and his…
Read Full PostHow to Get Clients, Confidence and Cash Featuring Christy Metcalf
Christy Metcalf helps women rewrite their story from former corporate yes girl to successful entrepreneur on their terms. We discuss: The problem with being conditioned to our 1% salary increase [02:13] The key to sticking to your value [06:01] Why McDonald’s don’t sell tacos [10:28] Nobody knows who you are [12:23] How to deal with…
Read Full PostHow to Align Your Passion, Expertise and a Market Need Featuring Dan Bennett
Dan Bennett was born and raised in the gritty city of Flint, MI. He is the Founder of 1 Minute Media, a company that empowers individuals to tell their stories with great video through coursework and private membership. He is also a digital media freelancer who offers direct consultation for companies as well as decades…
Read Full PostYou Don’t Have to Be Ruthless Featuring Jonathan Keyser
Jonathan Keyser is the founder of Keyser, one of the largest independent, occupier services commercial real estate firms in the country. Additionally, Keyser is a founding member of EXIS Global, the largest independent, commercial real estate organization in the world committed to exclusively representing corporate end users. We discuss: Changing the mechanics of a whole…
Read Full PostYour Business Should Not Be Running You Featuring David Crysler
David Crysler is the founder of the Crysler Club and host of the Everyday Business Problems Podcast. Having spent nearly 20 years working for a publicly traded corporation that grew through acquisition provided Dave with the opportunity to grow several different businesses during his career. We discuss: A different way for small business owners to…
Read Full PostA Subscription Model for a Legal Practice Featuring Scott Reib
As the official Zig Ziglar Small Business Lawyer and a Ziglar Legacy Certified Trainer, it’s no wonder that Scott Reib is known as “America’s Legal Coach.” For the last two decades, Scott has been helping business owners, entrepreneurs, and coaches “shatterproof” their businesses by implementing specific strategies for structure, growth, and protection. Over the last…
Read Full PostMaximize Your Relationships with Your Income Sources Featuring Gary Ireland
Gary Ireland helps executives in transition to maximize income and benefits when joining a company and enhance severance and asserting rights when they’re leaving. Gary has helped many clients in financial services, banking, law, media, technology and higher education, among other fields. He also works with start-ups. We discuss: The best thing about employment law…
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