BS With Bob Schmidt

The BS with Bob Schmidt Podcast where I usually talk with an author or an entrepreneur about growing business. This week I thought I'd tackle something different talk to an HR person about how do you hire that 1st person. What kind of things do we need to do in order to get the right qualified person in the job that we have available. We also hit on how do you answer those trick questions like "Wh...

Dr Tommy Watson is turning obstacles into advantages. Considered one of the world’s top authorities on resilience, change, motivation and leadership; Dr. Tommy Watson inspires millions with the unique and charismatic way he articulates his rags-to-riches success story. Watson’s challenges included: parents who were heroin addicts and chronic shoplifters, his mother being arrested 11 times during h...

I publish my personal podcast every Wednesday at 1:30pm central time on bswithbobpodcast.com, and since the publish date for this week is the 4th of July, I thought I would try something a little different.  I want to celebrate freedom.  I am not much of a job jumper.  In fact, in the 26 year I have lived in La Crosse, Wisconsin,  I have worked for 4 different companies, the longest for 15 and a h...

E26 features Jim Ryan, great conversation about happiness and how it can improve your life and business life. At end of the podcast, Jim explains what his favorite purchase was, hint, don’t die with your music still in you. 3 of the takeaways from this conversation are: 1- it is my life, I am responsible 2- You have to be grateful 3- Take a chance, step out of your comfort zone. http://JimRyanTalk...

A fun and informative conversation with Chief Spirituality Director May McCarthy, May is a business owner, angel investor, entrepreneur, and author of a couple books including “The Gratitude Formula, A 7-Step Success System to Create a Life That You Love”. You will learn how to focus on gratitude, that success is a system, not a secret, don’t listen to the naysayers and once you achieve your goals...

Talked with Matthew from Orange Computer about how to make our work computers work well. We talked about the importance of backing up your data not only to the cloud but to an external hard drive as well. We talked about browsers and believe it or not we also talked about the importance of the good old desktop computer. Great conversation with a smart computer guy. Twitter: https://twitter.com/Ora...

Is your workday filled with chaos? Do you wish you could get more done? Most of us do and Jonathan Denn has a way to help. Using neuroscience and best practices, he’s come up with a system to make your work life (and home life) more efficient so you accomplish more with greater control and satisfaction. It’s a time management system for people who hate time management systems. It’s called DRUMBEAT...

Episode 21 features Angela D Mealer. Angela is a serial entrepreneur who has made a career of transforming her life’s passions into successful business ventures. She has started and acquired businesses in the early education, shipping, personal care, IT, and management consulting industries. Our podcast conversation covers business ownership, entrepreneurship and marketing as well as conversation...

Episode 20 features Marcus Bales an entrepreneur that since 2013, has been paid to speak in front of people; doing the thing that most people despise is what he built a career out of. From a social anxious kid who never thought his life would have turned out like this. In his new book Speak-Confident he explains the tips and techniques used to overcome his social anxiety. We all have a beautiful,...

If you don't love it do something else. You can't fake great customer service. Make customer service a priority, and be you. Let’s Make ‘em Say WOW! Rob Bell Certified Speaking Professional FOCUS Consulting, LLC 701 Beetown Road Lancaster, WI 53813 Phone: 608-732-6971 Website: www. RobSpeaks.com Past President National Speakers Association - Wisconsin Chapter

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Dusty Staub is an author who has motivated audiences through his words and his keynote speeches, in this podcast we talked about many things from Brainstorming, to having the courage to stand up to your boss and the courage to be vulnerable. As you know that some organizations have senior executives who are afraid to confront peers or to speak up to their CEO or superior. We talked about how we ar...

E16 features Ruth King. Ruth is a seasoned entrepreneur who has over 25 years of experience running businesses as well as coaching and training fellow business owners so they can reach their goals. She's written four books covering various topics on managing businesses, managing people, and how to get an stay profitable. Twitter: @RuthKing Linked In: /ruthking1 Websites: http://www. TheCourageToBe...

When author, Mark DeWayne Combs started his own business in the fall of 2007 there was no local networking group to join and the local Chamber of Commerce only offered monthly, meet & greet, social events. The opportunity to start a group from scratch was just too appealing to pass up. With the help of a few local business owners, the Amelia Business Network was born. In just over a year, the grou...

This week’s episode features Timolin Langin - Money magnet, teacherpreneur and author of the book “Mind Over Money, How to Live Like a Millionaire On Any Budget”. Timolin talks with me about how financial success is not a gift. It's a habit, just taking little tiny steps every single day doing little things, little habits, and one of the little habits I talk about in terms of savings, when you sta...

This episode of BS with Bob Schmidt features Chip Lutz author of the book “Get Past the Crap” we talk about how life s a big crap sandwich at different times in our lives and we basically have three decisions and you can take it in and we can ignore it, but most of the time if we do it just gets worse. It sits there and festers and get worse. We can take in and go and complain you know it may even...

In the new book by Areva Martin “Make it Rain” she breaks the silence and reveals the power of media, and helped me to focus on my brand and can help you with your brand. Areva uses the media to build her platform and talks about how to expand the influence and power of your brand. The Areva Martin brand has grown exponentially, with appearances on Dr. Phil, Anderson Cooper 360, The Doctors, CNN,...

Small Business Hacks: 100 Shortcuts to Success – This conversation with Barry Moltz has quick tricks, work arounds, and simple solutions for all the problems that small business owners face (but don’t really want to). Including the big one how to get someone to answer your phone call or email. Sit back grab a pen and paper for notes and enjoy the 11th episode of BS With Bob Schmidt and his guest B...

Megan Smith Gill is a transformational teacher, speaker, author and coach who has reverse engineered happiness and abundance. Megan spent nearly twenty years as a marketing executive and agency owner before discovering her true life’s calling. Outwardly successful, Megan lived a life that lacked deep fulfillment on the inside and she set out on a quest to find meaning in purpose in her life. Along...

Former "Fortune Small Business" editor Elaine Pofeldt talked many successful one person million dollar businesses and wrote the book “The Million-Dollar One-Person Business” Make great money, work the way you like and have the life you want. Find what you like, work hard, make money. Not only has Elaine written about it, but has lived it as well for over 10 years as an entrepreneur.

Gary John Bishop on naming the book Unfu*k yourself are you glad that is what you named it? I'm glad, but I think I think that was enough people look at the content of the book is what really got people going. And I know that the name pisses some people off and they don't like it, I appreciate that and I get that. But you know if you can't read a book because the title then you really really need...

Andy Temte, talks about how you can go from a high school dropout to the president of Kaplan Professional Education, and lead singer and guitar player for The Remainders, a classic rock cover band to a philanthropist . As president of Kaplan Professional Education , Andy oversees and leverages assets, capabilities, and talent across Kaplan’s global footprint. Kaplan Professional Education offers a...

Mark L. Walberg is a Multi-time Emmy nominated television personality and has been a favorite of television audiences all over the world for years. Mark is host of PBS highest rated, prime time original, "Antiques Roadshow". We talked about Game Theory, Playing Poker, when to bet when to fold, the seceret to a happy marriage and how to be successful

What Justin Loeber says about Communication, "it's practically the be-all and end-all of everything we do in life. If you think about it, people get all tied up in a bad pass or an email and it's not real. If you talk to the person, all of the nuances that you think were negative could actually be positive because when you talk with people, you actually hear the tone and the passion in which that...