Above The Business

Today, catch an inside look on this webinar with Chris Jones. Chris Jones has been an agent for 12 years. Starting as a new market agent in 2011, Chris grew his book to over 7000 cars, over 5200 fire policies, and over 14,000 total policies in force. Chris started without experience and had no idea what to do on day one. He has also started a second location with zero customers and successfully gr...

Today on the podcast, Dr. Greg Wells joins Bradley to discuss health and peak performance - his personal and professional obsessions.  Dr. Wells has a Ph. D. in Physiology and serves as a Senior Scientist at the Hospital for Sick Children in Toronto. As a scientist and physiologist, he is focused on making the science of human limits understandable and actionable. To that end he has authored...

Dream-boards, goal setting workshops, visualization, pep-talks, speakers, gurus and inspirational quotes seem to be the staple diet of the ambitious person. The underlying message is that humans lack motivation to succeed, or at least need reminding what they are striving for. If these things are valuable, it’s because desire is a key ingredient in success and it must be enhanced and recreated as...

This fireside chat is a look behind the scenes at three business owners discussing business. Bradley, Micah Cannon, and David Munson chat leadership roles, team expectations, how to recruit A-Players, and more in this candid conversation. www.club.capital/podcast > JOIN THE PRIVATE LEADERSHIP PODCAST COMMUNITY! <​ This community has access to a seat at the live recordings for all Monday podc...

Today on the Leadership Podcast, Sarry Ibrahim joins us to discuss how you can Bank On Yourself. Sarry Ibrahim is financial planner and member of the Bank On Yourself Organization. He helps real estate investors, business owners, and full time employees grow safe and predictable wealth regardless of market conditions using a financial strategy that has been around for over 160 years. Sarry started...

One of the hardest things you can do is extend your hand to ask for help. It may be lonely at the top, but here's why it doesn't need to be. Here's the Michael Hyatt podcast that influenced this episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0PU2YNHTuw8lroYFvab9ex?si=Q2ooXVRWQyS_9wt2J_JO2g

Do you have what it takes to win? In this recast, we sit down with Clinical & Sports Psychologist Dr. McCabe to discuss how to train our mindset to grow our business. We talk about the Success Formula, the five people you need to have in your life, and the four types of clients. Dr. Bhrett McCabe combines his championship experience as an athlete with his clinical training as a psychologist to...

This week on the Leadership Podcast, meet Cameron Herold. He is the mastermind behind the exponential growth of hundreds of  companies. As the founder of the COO Alliance and the Invest In Your Leaders course,  Cameron is a dynamic consultant who has coached some of the biggest names in  business, including Sprint Telecom and a monarchy in the Middle East. Known as the  "CEO Wh...

Bradley shares his thoughts around this truth: What it actually takes to succeed in business is greater than what you think it will take.  Hear how to embrace this mindset shift to accomplish more as an owner. The Bottom Line is brought to you by Club Capital. Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capital Autop...

With tax day wrapped up, you may be looking through your books wondering how to minimize your 2023 taxes. In this episode, tax expert Louise Else at Club Capital - an accounting firm specifically for insurance agents - show you best practices to do just that. This episode is brought to you by Autopilot Recruiting. Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a r...

In today's episode, Dr. Jack Wiley joins Bradley to discuss his 8 Keys, Fab Behaviors, the "1 Skill," and the "2 Values." Jack Wiley, PhD , is an award-winning organizational psychologist, researcher, and leadership consultant. He is the author of three books, The Employee-Centric Manager : 8 Keys to People-Management Effectiveness (2021), RESPECT : Delivering Results by Giving Employees What They...

When you begin to recognize the assets in your business and your connections, you'll begin to realize just how high your net worth is. Thanks to our sponsors: The Bottom Line is brought to you by Club Capital. Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capital Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’...

Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz have been encouraging, coaching, and teaching people to intentionally go for no to get to “YES” for over two decades. They joined us on Episode 129, and now they're back. Finally, in this long-awaited follow-up to their ground-breaking first book, they examine exactly what should happen when it comes to hearing “no” in sales. • What should you think when you get it?...

Here's what a burger, fries, and a group of colleagues showed Bradley about proximity, and what it means for your business. People say “You are the sum of the 5 people closest to you,” all the time. Bradley shares that while that has always resonated with him, it never really caused him to make a change. But a variation of this concept has, and that variation is proximity. Here’s where he saw...

A recast from another podcast, Bradley shares how business owners can get out of their own way and find more growth and success. This episode is brought to you by Autopilot Recruiting. Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of the Club Capital Leadership Podcast can g...

Today on the leadership podcast, Jon S. Rennie joins us to discuss deep leadership. At the end of the day, leadership is all about the people you’re there to lead. Remember, how you get there and who you get there with really does matter.  He is a former U.S. Navy Nuclear Submarine Officer who made seven deployments during the end of the Cold War. Jon successfully brings his unique navy leade...

As a business owner, you have a vision for how big you want your company to be. Whether it's a $1M business or a $100M empire, the key to achieving that vision is to build the right foundations and structures early on. The beach analogy can help illustrate this concept. Thanks to our sponsors: Club Capital offers monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at...

Not only is our podcast guest this week an all-star agent, he has led  hundreds of his fellow agents to success as well. Meet Michael Weaver. Agent, business-owner, leader, and  so much more... Michael began his career in the insurance industry as a college intern, and opened his agency several years later in April 2014. After starting his own agency from scratch, Michael went on to beco...

In this episode, Dr. Benjamin Ritter, founder of Live for Yourself Consulting, joins Bradley to discuss how to Be The Leader of Your Own Career. Dr. Benjamin Ritter is a leadership and career coach, Talent Development Executive, values geek, international speaker, online instructor of the course How to Be the Leader of Your Own Career and Create a Career You Love, and podcaster (The Executive, and...

Have you ever heard of a “Rembrandt in the Attic”? This phrase refers to a valuable artwork or other collectible item that has been forgotten or overlooked for years, perhaps even sitting in an attic or basement. While it may seem like a far-fetched idea, there have been many instances where a valuable object has been discovered in someone’s home, often after the owner has passed away. In this epi...

Micah Cannon is the COO of the boutique accounting and analytics firm, Club Capital. Today he's here to shed light on the most common financial mistakes agents make. Club Capital works exclusively with insurance agents. Today they help over 300 agents across all tenures and states. This gives them the capability to see behind the veil and speak from an informed point of view. Micah shares how to a...

Today, Steve is going to teach us the Recruit the Best system with the tools and processes for hiring and coaching sales people. On a daily basis, Steve uses all the tools and processes presented to you today. He has trained thousands of managers to recruit and coach the best, and spends up to 8 hours daily on the phone coaching managers to avoid hiring salespeople who they like, but can’t sell. A...

What are the most important habits you can have for life and business? Find out in this quick episode! Here's the Craig Groeschel podcast episode I referenced: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3dwpRXKKBagPAX2yOFbLFy?si=b58568d6c17e4725 The Bottom Line is brought to you by Club Capital. Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.cl...

What role should AI like ChatGPT play in your business? Hear from Chris on this, plus how to maximize your onboarding process. Then, Chris and Bradley discuss what Employee Retention Credit can do for your bottom line in 2023. This episode is brought to you by Autopilot Recruiting. Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to...

In this episode, Gary Rivlin joins Bradley to discuss small business ownership; a scrappy, can-do attitude; how little reserves small business owners actually have; and the differences between different areas of the US in policy, economics, and social norms. They agreed that to operate a small business is to always feel the future is precarious. This was true long before the pandemic, but the...