Thought Leader

Thought Leader

We put scare quotes around the term “thought leader.” Don't worry - no hagiographic interviews here. No upsells, no bullshit. We have great conversations with true innovators, thinkers, disrupters, creatives, and a few fools. (You decide.) We ask them all for insights, stories and tools. (You'll laugh, you'll shout, you might fall asleep. It's all good.) We are all thought leaders. Think more. Lead better.

Episodes

May 31, 2022 20 mins

🌞 Lora’s summer vibe from a comfortable place. 01:03

😿 Working with women who have been betrayed. 01:51

👧 Magical childhood: little performer, perfectionist, and not used to being imperfect. 02:59

🚦 Warning signs we don’t see in time: it is not possible all the time. 05:27

💃 Dance as joy: choosing your career so that it brings us joy and challenges us.  07:20

🎯 Having a lot of passions: life is long enough to do it all.  ...

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💂‍♂️ Living in London: life is coming back to the good old days. 00:59

👩‍💼 Starting a new business during the pandemic. 01:47

🤩 People are the most important asset: talent consultancy and building HR systems. 03:09

👔 Talent associates and partnership in HR and recruitment. 04:47

😇 Nicola started in marketing then became a recruitment agent and consultant. 05:47

🌞 Remote working: freedom, flexibility, and new pool of tale...

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👠 Executive coaching and facilitate group training. 00:51

🏃‍♀️ Athletic Denise spends her time on traveling, running, and biking. 01:38

👩 Love for the creative environment and being critical of trainers made her a better coach. 02:59

🖥️ Pivot of facilitation and training online. 05:02

😇 Warm reception from her clients: fun part of their Zoomed day. 06:44

🌞 Celebrities in coaching, mediocre trainers and trainers who make t...

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🗽 From hustling in Central Park in New York to alternative therapy counseling. 00:39

🤩 Being patient with people opens so many doors. 04:02

😇 Flow of energy: recognizing stiff communication and people with blockages. 05:01

🩺 Charging for intangible: healing the root cause of an issue is sometimes uncomfortable. 07:13

🤓 Business model: one on one work, with observing and feeling the people and teams. 11:27

🌞 Words don’t de...

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📚 A whole stack of G. Wickman “Traction” books: it changed her life and business through “the Entrepreneurial Operating System.” 00:49

🎅 Interesting childhood: Cheri was born in Germany but her mom raised her three girls in Alaska. 02:09

🤓 Cheri is a bookworm in the family. 03:27

😇 She didn’t get into coaching and mentoring until she was 40: developing her potentials. 04:07

🌞 What EOS means for Cheri: making the business ...

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🥗 Supporting the local vegan restaurant. 00:52

🥑 Difference between veganism and plant-based way of eating. 01:22

💊 Chris is called Doctor Daigle because he is a fixer. 02:33

🔎 Growth architect or growth hacker: Glaringly Obvious Opportunities. 03:56

👽 Describing his business to a 3 year-old alien: so may D’s, Daddy. 06:44

📺 Advice for kids: turn off the TV and seek mentors. That will be enough to thrive. 08:00

💍 Shiny ob...

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🌞 Spring and summer vibe from Nina. 00:46

🧠 Two types of thinking among entrepreneurs. 01:33

👍 The right perception and response on things we don’t have control over. 03:27

⚠️ Procrastination has nothing to do with laziness but with reasons deep down. 06:18

🙋‍♀️ Story about insurance broker and how to overcome procrastination. 10:05

📈 Nina’s biggest financial success with a huge lift in income. 13:31

😇 She loves to perceiv...

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🦘 Life in Brisbane, Australia. 00:47

👔 Tim’s journey through entrepreneurship: “I got to start learning this thing called business” 02:12

👉 What you actually have to do while growing the business: growing by accident. 05:51

📈 Cash flow, the time factor, employees, and strategies relevant for business growth. 07:25

🤦‍♂️ Cash in the bank as the only business KPI: measurements and real reports for managing business. 08:57

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🚨 Are interns interned: what are real intern programs?  00:46

👉 Unpaid internship is dangerous: seven criteria around the Department of Labor's requirements. 02:23

😇 How Isabella helps employers to ensure real intern programs are in place. 04:10

🖥️ Annual membership for employers model: matching intern to employee through personality tools. 07:24

⚡ Peers mentoring and reverse mentoring: teaching employers to empower their ...

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👨‍🎤 Rich is our guest with the coolest look. 01:03

👔 His personal brand is connected with his personality. 02:05

😇 Some of the software ‘tragedies’ Rich is fixing. 02:53

👉 Tragic Media is a different company that focuses on top notch service.  05:04

🤝 Business model: Education, hard conversations, finding the core and creating strategy. 07:11

👨‍💻 After 13 years of changes in the web and market: from consulting to high e...

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🎵 The platinum album on Steve’s wall. 00:49

👕 Making money for bands: projecting sales for merchandise.  01:30

💸 Profit Accelerator software finds hidden annualized revenue in businesses. 03:54

🤔 Marketing as a number 1 issue for small businesses. 05:07

🕵️‍♂️ How do you operate? Sniper targeting in branding is crucial. 07:11

🤯 Owned and operated six different businesses: finding his passion. 08:17

👔 Jumping the cubicle: s...

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🌺 Legacy of helping others through her family history. 00:39

✨ A lineage of choosing specific work engagements. 03:33

👔 Mixed feelings on the job market: chaos and issues in the workforce.  05:35

👩‍💼 AnnaMaria has businesses for-profit and non-profit.  07:52

🤩 Prosperity Pathways: tips that are not taught but are essential to get a job. 08:24

💸 Her service prices are adjusted to people who depend on unemployment benefits....

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🌞 Doc Holden and all the great feelings about her name. 00:58

👩🏾‍🦱 Homeless on the streets of Atlanta: LaTarsha had a GED with six kids on the streets. 01:34 

😇 When your struggle outlasts your strength: using the principle of servant leadership.  03:30

👠 What Coretta Scott King, Felicia Pasha, and Michelle Obama mean to LaTarsha. 06:53

🤩 Learning the art of discipline even when your life is hard: helping people to chan...

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☕ What ‘Get the sh*t done’ means to Collin. 00:46

😇 He hated school, but he grabbed one opportunity. 02:01

👔 Creating his first 7-figure company with his girlfriend. 06:01

🎙️ Sales Cast: Colin recorded his podcast every day. 08:45

😎 Business model of podcasting: great source of content. 12:00

⚡ Podcasting is not fading out: building community. 15:35

📈 Running bootcamp is the bottleneck of growth. 17:30

🦄 Podcast hosts, just...

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👧 The amazing story about Chicke’s name. 00:40

🌞 Being a rebel from the beginning and being memorable. 02:08

✍️ Writing a book: how her grandmother visited a dictator’s wife in Brazil to get better prenatal care in 1940. 03:13

🤩 Passionate personal stories in your business are very important. 05:38

👩‍⚕️🏨 How a car accident in the family made her create a new business Hotels Nearby Hospitals. 06:36

⭐ Levels of passion and l...

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✈️ Wilbert was an APU mechanic for 40 years.  01:15

🤓 Pain made Wilbert create a tool to reduce it. 02:20

🤕 AbCollar: Distance between chin and neck is important for minimizing stress on the neck muscles. 03:11

🌞 The third party is making it locally, but Wilbert controls the quality process. 04:49

👔 Wilbert’s business model. 05:31

😎 People are telling him amazing stories about their different ways of using his product. 07:...

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🎸 Pelè’s guitar with a cutaway. 00:45

💰 Pursuing your happiness can also be profitable. 01:27

🎩 The hat: everyone in Minneapolis wears a hat, and it is all about the music. 02:34

⭐ Living in one more ‘music’ city - Austin, Texas and explaining the concept of tribalism. 04:23

🌞 Moving from music to personal development: the Velocity Jam tool. 06:05

✍️ Seth Godin’s blurb for Pelè’s book: permission marketing.  07:20

👩🏾‍🍼 Bo...

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April 11, 2022 21 mins

👨‍⚕️ Bob “the Retail Doc” chose his brand name a long time ago. 00:56

💎 SalesRX is an online retail training: stop chasing the shiny object. 01:43

👦 As a kid, he excelled in school but chose not to be a scientist.  03:44

🎼 Bob had many jobs as a young man, and he decided not to pursue his music conductor career. 05:04

🤔 Why polls online are generational and why Bob is skeptical of polls. 06:53

🌞 Retail is a game of being ...

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⏱️ Who is Scott Anderson in 12 seconds? 00:56
9️⃣ The nine companies Scott has owned. 01:45
🔥 Giving up too late or too fast, boredom and burnout in business. 02:43
👔 Burnout is a stress-related disorder and a formal mental illness.  04:51
🧃 The juice in business: Birthing a baby elephant and business is very stressful. 06:25
🚀 Most entrepreneurs want to move at the speed of light, but...08:39
😫 When...

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🎧 Kathleen loves listening to recruiting-related podcasts. 00:46

👔 Organizations need staff: the great resignation. 01:46

👻 Are job seekers finding themselves to be ghosted by recruiters? 03:11

🤯 No one reads cover letters: keywords, and the core questions in the interview.  05:20

🦄 The term recruiting is exchanged with talent acquisition. 07:42

😇 Matchmaker between employer and job seeker: how she builds trust with clien...

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