Play Your Position

Today's guest is Peter Lazaroff (LAZZ-ar-off), who knew from a young age that he had a future in investing. Today, Peter is the Chief Investment Officer at Plancorp, which manages over $4 billion for its clients. What makes Peter unique is his personable "big brother" perspective and unique ability to simplify complex issues for anyone. He's here to share insights from his book, Making Money Simpl...

The call to leadership has come for you, but maybe you're resisting it. Today's episode explores what causes so many people to refuse the call when it comes.   = = = = =   Thanks for listening!   The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more s...

In the hero's journey, the hero or protagonist lives in the ordinary world and receives a call to go on an adventure. The hero is reluctant to follow the call but with the help of a guide, coach, or mentor, he or she moves deeper into the adventure. In today's episode, I focus on the initial call -- the call to adventure.    What is calling you? What gets your adrenaline pulsing? What breaks your...

Leadership excellence is predicated on getting others to help us do our jobs, achieve our goals, and complete projects. Why, then, do so many of us struggle to ask for help when help is exactly what we need?   = = = = =   Thanks for listening!   The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and usef...

Entrepreneurs with big growth goals realize there's a substantial gap between where they are now and where they want to be. Sharon Cully, owner and founder of Simply Processes, knows the best way to close that gap is through a clear, robust vision and well-crafted processes all with the right level of focus. Listen to what Sharon has to teach us about putting the right systems in place to make our...

Why leaders need to play more often.   Scientific American article   = = = = =   Thanks for listening!   The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.  ...

When you're ready to make some serious forward progress in your life, business, or career, here's how you can go about finding the right coach to help you get the results you're looking for.   = = = = =   Thanks for listening!   The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations...

To be great at something including leadership, do you really need to work with a coach? And what's the difference between a therapist and a coach? Aren't they pretty much the same thing?   = = = = =   Thanks for listening!   The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so t...

One of the most iconic scenes in American film is in the original "Raiders of the Lost Ark" where Indiana Jones comes face to face with one of his greatest fears on his quest to find the Ark of the Covenant -- a pit full of snakes. We all have our own version of a pit full of snakes that can stop us if we let it. The question is, will we?   = = = = =   Thanks for listening!   The Team here at PYP...

What do Millennials really want? Answering that question is central to the work today's guest does. He even wrote a best selling book about what he's learned. Chris Tuff calls himself the Millennial Whisperer and for good reason: because he listens -- and listens hard -- to Millennials.   For anyone who works with Millennials or has them as part of your family, today's conversation will shed light...

We've built a world that's extremely good at generating causes for anger, but extremely bad at giving us anything constructive to do with it.   Read >>> America Is Burning    = = = = =   Thanks for listening!   The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can ex...

Introducing the new and improved 3 Ps of leadership.    = = = = =   Thanks for listening!   The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.   If you haven...

What are the boundaries between freedom and authority?   = = = = =   Thanks for listening!   The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle, or passion.   If you have...

At various points in our leadership journey, we will become tired of hamburgers.    = = = = =   Thanks for listening!   The Team here at PYP has put together another uplifting, insightful, and inspiring show for you today. Our goal is to bring you timely, relevant, and useful conversations so that you can experience more success, energy, and LIFE as the leader of your business, career, side hustle...

Think you have to have a beautiful website to do well online? Think again.   Today's guest Wayne Mullins, Founder of Ugly Mug Marketing, shares why what your website looks like has little to do with overall performance. Wayne and I have a fantastic conversation about what today's businesses need to consider when building an online presence. You'll walk away with new ideas and insights for your own...

" The truth will set you free… but not before it has its way with you." -David Foster Wallace, award-winning American author   In today's episode, I explore this quote and the role Truth plays in assisting us as we walk the road to becoming more of who we are. Why is it that so many people go through their lives without ever getting at the truth about why we're here with this one precious life we'...

You're in for a special treat! Today I'm talking with Nigel Bennett (Founder of AquaGaurd), Todd Palmer (INC 5000 CEO & President 6x), and Andy Buyting (Founder & CEO of Tulip Media Group) about what they call "lessons from the edge" and how we can thrive in a time of massive change. Each of my guests has suffered financial uncertainty, major loss, and serious doubt about whether or not he could m...

I worked for a company in the 2000s where one of the messages leadership drilled into our heads was "You're not here to be average."    The products we sold were not average. The sales team was not average. The owner of the company was not average. And these were good things. I loved hearing this message over and over again because it helped me when times got tough, as times did then, and as times...

When actors forget their lines during filming, they are known to call out to the crew off-camera, "LINE!" Cue cards in hand, the crew responds, the actors remember, and filming resumes -- or doesn't, as the case may be when actors for whatever reason cannot recall what they are supposed to say.   Today was one of those days when I thought I was ready for my scenes...but discovered I needed help wi...

I believe in the ethos of hard work. This entire podcast celebrates hard work and the results that can come from hard work and the stories of people who made a decision to not just show up, to not just be themselves, but to work so hard that winning at what they do is the only outcome possible.   Links & Resources Do the Work by Steven Pressfield   = = = = =   Thanks for listening!   The Team here...

What causes organizations to break down more often than anything else? That's the focus of my conversation with today's guest, Kim Bohr.   Kim Bohr is an author, in-demand speaker, and coveted executive advisor. She is also the CEO of The Innovare Group. The firm that is known for diagnosing and repairing organizational and leadership disconnects, working with both the companies and leaders to hel...

What's the difference between being a thought leader and an expert? Today's episode marks the start of my newest micro-series about -- you guessed it -- thought leadership where I answer this question. Learn what makes the difference between the two and if you want to find out what type of thought leader you are, take my quiz here .   Thanks for listening!   If you like the show, consider sharing...

Returning for his second appearance on the Play Your Position Podcast, Tommy Breedlove shares his excitement about recently becoming a USA Today and Wall Street Journal best-selling author for his book, Legendary.   With humility and a tremendous amount of compassion for the hard journey we all face becoming our highest and best, Tommy believes, "No one is born a Legend, but anyone can become one....

The brutality of someone not loving us anymore or even in the first place is the fuel for some of the greatest music, art, literature, and poetry humanity has ever created. Every opera ever made has at its core the theme of betrayal and lost love. So does every play by Shakespeare. Old-style country music does too. Many music artists have become millionaires singing about suffering and cheating an...

Today I am going to teach about the fifth thing we cannot change based on David Richo's book titled The Five Things We Cannot Change and The Happiness We Find by Embracing Them . If you've been listening for a while, you've probably caught the last several episodes. Each one builds on the other but I've also designed them so they stand on their own.   So far I've covered everything changes and end...