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Psychedelics and the Entrepreneur
Psychedelics and entrepreneurship – what’s the connection? Why do some business owners use them? Learn the answer in this episode.
Tony Robbins said, “Success in life is 80% psychology and 20% mechanics — what you do doesn’t matter if you aren’t in the right mindset. Understanding the ways psychology can work for or against you will help you establish a healthier outlook and put you in the right mindset to execute your strategy.”
Joe Cohen shares his own story and explains how psychology and mindset severely hamper leaders’ effectiveness and cost them dearly if they don’t work on it, as well as how some use psychedelics to facilitate this work.
Joe is an executive coach and HR management consultant through his company, 40 Pillars (www.40Pillars.com), through which he has worked with leaders at companies like Microsoft, Boeing, the Navy Seals, Deloitte, Wells Fargo, and Google.
You can get a deeper dive into Joe’s amazing background and story in his interview in this episode of Eli Nash’s In Search of More podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ketamine-therapy-psychedelic-stigmas-the-limits/id1521524896?i=1000587084699.
4 Unskippable Steps to Employee Improvement
What do you do when you’re not happy with one (or many) of your team members and think it’s obvious why but don’t talk with them about it explicitly?
In this interview with Lisa Lunsford, Fractional COO / Integrator at Wolf’s Edge Integrators, she teaches us the 4 unskippable steps she’s developed and implements with her clients when you have a team member who needs to improve for their and the business’s success.
Click here for a one-page guide to these four steps:
Lisa talks about what’s happened when she’s seen leaders who see their team members doing things they see as self-evidently wrong but don’t take a systematic approach to helping them correct it. She teaches the four stages of employee improvement necessary to avoid unnecessarily losing valuable team members and confirming when it really is the time to make a change.
Creating Metrics Without Stakeholder Input
What happens when you develop or implement KPIs/scorecards/goals without buy-in from the front-line people who will provide or use the data? What kind of unnecessary conversations, process breakdowns, or data accuracy issues result?
Our guest in this episode, Tara Kinney, founder and CEO of Atomic Revenue (www.AtomicRevenue.com), a revenue operations and enablement firm and an International speaker, teaches how to create and implement data in a way that people will adopt rather than fight, and which will avoid months of wasted time and effort.
Recruiting & Managing Post-Great Resignation & COVID
The whole entrepreneurial landscape changed, first with COVID and then with the “Great Resignation.” If you approach recruiting and management the same way you did before those seismic shifts in the tectonic plates of business, you’ll be left behind.
How should you approach leadership of your team and recruiting differently now relative to before COVID and the so-called “great resignation”? What are the differences? What happens if you don’t adapt?
Our guest in today’s episode, Jen Hamilton, will answer these questions and more. Jen is a Fractional COO / Integrator on clients’ leadership teams through our podcast host’s firm, Wolf’s Edge Integrators (www.WolfsEdgeIntegrators.com/About). She is also the Head of Community at the professional association for fractional executives: Fractional Leadership.
How to Run a Fully Remote Company
Learn tools and ideas how to make your fully remote business successful in this podcast interview with Jody Grunden. Several of the things his company does were new to us so this episode will definitely teach you something new.
Jody is the founder and head of Summit CPA (www.SummitCPA.net), the Virtual CFO division of Anders CPAs & Advisors. He took his virtual CFO firm from 18 people to almost 60 since he took it fully remote in 2013 and is the author of two books, Digital Dollars and Cents and Building the Virtual CFO Firm in the Cloud.
What positions do you need in your company that will make the difference between success or failure (high turnover and negative culture) in your remote company? What role does a retreat play? What mistakes should you avoid? What role does your business and financial model play in your ability to successfully grow and scale a remote company?
Check out the conversation!
Dangers of Not Building a Banking *Relationship*
Trey Weatherill is a VP & Senior Relationship Manager at American Business Bank (www.AmericanBB.bank), a Southern California bank for private, closely held, medium sized businesses with revenues typically between $10-$200M.
Trey explains how to use your network, test out different potential bankers, and find the right banking relationship. He explains what to do if your business is on the smaller side and you’re worried you may not be able to get a banker’s attention, what to do when your banker leaves your bank, and the tradeoffs between working with one of the big banks versus a local or regional bank.
Using a Coach for Strategic Growth
Our guest today, a probate litigator with a national firm, shares what he’s gained from using a coach (Strategic Coach) to grow his business and improve his life.
Scott Rahn is the managing partner of a RMO LLP (www.RMOLawyers.com), a trust, estate, and probate litigation firm in California, Florida, Texas, Missouri, and Kansas.
He shares about his experiences with his grandmother, how he got into probate litigation, how he uses values and vision to nationally scale a practice that is incredibly situation and state-specific, what he’s learned from Strategic Coach (founded by Dan Sullivan), and what he’s done differently because of it.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…, wherever you normally get your podcasts, or listen on the web at www.FractionalLeadership.io/Podcast.
How to Do More With What You Already Have
You need to accomplish a lot in your business but you have limited time, limited money, and a limited number of team members. How do you do more with less? Our guest in this episode, Adi Klevit, answers this question.
Adi is the founder and CEO of Business Success Consulting Group (www.BizSuccessCG.com), a team of business process consultants who help organizations create and implement processes that are “followed by all” through systems and automations.
Adi explains when you need to be realistic about where you are and not over-hire, overspen, or add too many technology solutions without being tethered to a cohesive strategy and your true financial and place in your own business evolution. She explains how to use relatively low cost automations and processes to do much more with very few resources.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…, wherever you normally get your podcasts, or listen on the web at www.FractionalLeadership.io/Podcast.
ADHD is a Superpower, Not a Curse
If you have adult ADHD and other people don’t understand you or feel unsuccessful or incompetent in some environments but you’re faster than everyone around you in another part of life, check out this conversation with Peter Shankman (wwwShankman.com).
Peter is the host of the Faster than Normal podcast, the Internet’s #1 podcast on ADHD, 5x best selling author, including one book I read recently, Faster Than Normal: Turbocharge Your Focus, Productivity, and Success with the Secrets of the ADHD Brain (https://www.amazon.com/Faster-Than-No…, is the founder of HARO – Help A Reporter Out, and is an international keynote speaker primarily on the topic of Customer Experience.
In this interview, Peter Shankman shares what things were like before he was diagnosed and realized he had ADHD in his 30’s, how you can reengineer your environment to maximize your strengths and minimize ADHD’s downsides, he explains the “neuro-atypical economy” and what it means for your business, and shares two top rituals and habits people can use to maximize the benefits and mitigate the disadvantages of having a “faster than normal” brain.
Listen to the show on Apple podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast…, wherever you normally get your podcasts, or listen on the web at www.FractionalLeadership.io/Podcast.
Stop Killing Your Low-Hanging Fruit
