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Send us Fan Mail Every interaction is a performance, and much of our success—professional and personal—hinges on being able to inspire an audience. And while some people seem to be naturals in the spotlight, this ability very rarely derives from talent alone.   Confident communication is a skill, and anyone can learn how to do it. In Steal the Show, New York Times best-selling author, top-rated co...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Matt chats with John Livesay.  John Livesay, aka The Pitch Whisperer, is a sales keynote speaker and shares the lessons learned from his award-winning sales career at Conde Nast. In his keynote “Better Selling Through Storytelling,” he shows companies’ sales teams how to become irresistible so they are magnetic to their ideal clients. After John speaks, the sales...

Send us Fan Mail Combining cutting-edge neuroscience with the latest discoveries on the human microbiome, a practical guide in the tradition of The Second Brain, and The Good Gut that conclusively demonstrates the inextricable, biological link between the mind and the digestive system. We have all experienced the connection between our mind and our gut—the decision we made because it “felt right”;...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode we bring you, Michael Crossland. Michael has been a fighter since birth, defying the odds of surviving not only a rare form of life-threatening cancer but being the sole survivor of a horrific cancer drug trial. His battle continues to this very day, having spent nearly ¼ of his life in hospital. Michael is a true fighter, and despite only being told what he could...

Send us Fan Mail The story starts a few years back when Tom was working as Head Of Marketing at a B2B SaaS business. The Fame team starts a podcast, interviews thought leaders, and generates a niche audience and clear ROI through guest relationships. We leave to share this "holy grail" of B2B marketing with other B2B businesses. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Judith Grisel was a daily drug user and college dropout when she began to consider that her addiction might have a cure, one that she herself could perhaps discover by studying the brain. Now, after twenty-five years as a neuroscientist, she shares what she and other scientists have learned about addiction, enriched by captivating glimpses of her personal journey. In this episode,...

Send us Fan Mail Imagine you’re on a deadline for a big project, and feeling overwhelmed. Or you’re looking for a new job, but can’t seem to get your foot in the door.  Or you’re facing a personal challenge, and just don’t know what to do. What do these problems have in common?  They can all be solved simply by reaching out to a colleague, friend, acquaintance, or wider network and making an ask. ...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode Matt chats to Shaun Tomson author of the book The Code: The Power of "I Will" taken from Shaun Tomson’s own life experiences in and out of the surfing world, offer the simple message―I Will―as a model to face life’s challenges and help you achieve your goals. All you need is to be encouraged to find your voice and commit yourself to positive values. Liste...

Send us Fan Mail Like it or not, sales is often a zero-sum game: Your win is someone else's loss. Most salespeople work in mature, overcrowded industries, and your offerings are perceived (often unfairly) as commodities. Growth requires taking market share from your competitors, while they try to do the same to you. How else can you grow 12 percent a year in an industry that's only growi...

Send us Fan Mail Over 60 billion online messages are sent on digital platforms every day, and only a select few succeed in the mad scramble for customer attention.  This means that the question for anyone who wants to gain mass exposure for their transformative content, business, or brand or connect with audiences around the globe is no longer if they should use social media but how to best take a...

Send us Fan Mail A leader in his field, Mark has become known as a non-nonsense, real world, inspirational, amusing and exciting speaker on a range of sales subjects. Hundreds of companies have heard his message and you should consider it too. Mark isn’t just a theoretician. He is a dyed-in-the-wool sales expert with years of experience under his belt from his early years selling financial service...

Send us Fan Mail David Schonthal is an award-winning Professor of Strategy, Innovation & Entrepreneurship at the Kellogg School of Management where he teaches courses on new venture creation, design thinking, healthcare innovation, venture capital, and creativity. Along with his colleague Loran Nordgren, David is one of the originators of Friction Theory – a ground-breaking methodology that ex...

Send us Fan Mail Unlocking Creativity is an exploration of the creative process and how organizations can clear the way for innovation. In many organizations, creative individuals face stubborn resistance to new ideas. Managers and executives oftentimes reject innovation and unconventional approaches due to misplaced allegiance to the status quo. Questioning established practices or challenging pr...

Send us Fan Mail Humans have two basic desires: to stand out and to fit in. Companies respond by creating groups that tend to the extreme—where everyone fits in and no one stands out, or where everyone stands out and no one fits in. How do we find that happy medium where workers can demonstrate their individuality while also feeling they belong? The answer, according to Stefanie Johnson, is to Inc...

Send us Fan Mail How many presentations on innovation have there been recently? Thousands? Millions? We are experiencing 'innovation fatigue': we feel cheated by the endless rounds of consultants who come into our organizations, deliver conceptual models that don't stick with the realities of business, and then leave again. Companies and teams are left feeling more deflated than bef...

Send us Fan Mail The Digital Age will raise the question of how we humans will stay relevant in the workplace. To stay relevant, we have to be able to excel cognitively, behaviorally, and emotionally in ways that technology can't. Professor Ed Hess believes that requires us to become Hyper-Learners: continuously learning, unlearning, and relearning at the speed of change. To do that, we have...

Send us Fan Mail Peter Newell is a retired US Army colonel of 32 years and a nationally recognized innovation expert whose work is changing how the government and companies compete and drive growth. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail What type of entrepreneur are you? In this episode, Matt chats about being an acquisition entrepreneur and why that is important for him. Whether acquisition entrepreneurship is right for you depends on your preferences and temperament. If you want a business to meet your lifestyle expectations then perhaps this isn't the best route for you.  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Alexander (Alex) Osterwalder is one of the world’s most influential innovation experts, a leading author, entrepreneur and in-demand speaker whose work has changed the way established companies do business and how new ventures get started. Ranked No. 4 of the Thinkers50 list of the most influential management thinkers worldwide, Osterwalder is known for simplifying the strateg...

Send us Fan Mail Dr. Ivan Misner is the Founder & Chief Visionary Officer of BNI, the world’s largest business networking organization.  Founded in 1985, the organization now has over 10,600 chapters in 76 countries throughout every populated continent of the world.  Last year alone, BNI generated 12.4 million referrals resulting in more than $18.6 billion dollars worth of business for its mem...

Send us Fan Mail We are joined by Matthew Pollard who is an internationally-recognized consultant, speaker, blogger, author, mentor, coach, and serial entrepreneur with five multi-million dollar business success stories under his belt, all before the age of 30. An introvert salesperson? Isn’t that an oxymoron? Not at all. Sales is a skill just like any other, which anyone can learn and master--inc...

Send us Fan Mail You cannot build a million-dollar business without a team. In this episode, Matt breaks down what you need to attract a million-dollar team and how you can leverage your mission and vision to not only get your future employees to buy into it but also your clients!  Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Matt breaks down one of the most talked-about topics in business, scale. Matt talks about scale in three stages, 50 people, 100 people, and 150 people, and in each stage, there are pros and cons but ultimately you need to think about scale on your own terms. Do you want a team that can fit in your kitchen for lunch? or a big enough team turning over $5 million dol...

Send us Fan Mail In this episode, Matt shares some practical tips on how to leverage the media to boost the credibility of your start-up or organization.  From using third-party media outlets to employees resharing content listen in as Matt shares these important million-dollar tips and more. Support the show

Send us Fan Mail In Brandalism, the follow-up to his bestselling, award-winning debut book The Best Dick, Mike Sharman delves into the (start)ups and downs associated with brand building and the need for business to dismantle and vandalise its perceived, public-facing, persona. The future of PR and influence, when - or if - to launch a new business as opposed to a division, raising capital, the im...