Sessions with System & Soul

One of our most talked about episodes was our ninth episode, which featured John Ott. John talked about what is meant to be an “inwardly sound” leader. Based on his research, an inwardly sound leader poses self-awareness, is principled, purposeful, holistically healthy, secure and settled. In this week’s tips Benj Miller approaches these traits from a new angle in order to discover what it would l...

Today we have a returning guest that we couldn’t be more excited about! John Richie is the Owner and Founder of Venture and a sought after executive coach. His decades of experience bring fresh insight and confidence to the leaders he coaches. His last episode on System and Soul was one of our most fun and talked about episodes, and this one will certainly not disappoint. John joins us to discuss...

Often, leaders get confused between principles and prescriptions. It would be nice if all the self-help books that offer a clean-cut formula to run your business actually worked as seamlessly as they sound. But the best leaders know that business is more complex than that. The best leaders know the difference between principles and prescriptions. Principles help shape how we live, lead, and the de...

If you don’t get culture right, you’re not going to get much else right. Culture is one of the most important things to establish from the start of an organization. Today we’re excited to talk with a leader who knows how culture and performance equal engagement. Tricia Sciortino is the CEO of Belay Solutions , a company that is passionate about connecting the right people with the right organizati...

It’s nearly impossible to be a leader and not have to make important decisions every day. And, with all those decisions, the questions often comes to mind, “Am I making the right decision?” and, “Am I making this decision quick enough?” Well, today we’re talking about how to make the right decision in a short amount of time. You may have heard business leaders like Jeff Bezos talk about Decision V...

We are so excited to invite our good friend and fan favorite, Dr. Benjamin Hardy , back onto the podcast. Dr. Hardy is the bestselling author of Willpower Doesn't Work , Personality Isn't Permanent , and Who Not How. He joins us on System & Soul to talk about his recently released book, The Gap and the Gain , which he co-authored with Dan Sullivan. Dr. Hardy explains that every exper...

Leading a business today requires higher social and emotional skills than ever before. And today’s guest is a seasoned author who has discovered that many of those skills are seemingly paradoxical. In today’s episode we speak with Tim Elmore , Founder of Growing Leaders , to talk about his 37th book (that’s right, 37th book), The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership . He explains that leadership, a...

How do you know if the team you have is the team you need? Companies evolve, but sometimes people don’t, and the growth of a company doesn’t always mean the growth of the individual––especially if the the team hasn’t identified their core values. In this week’s S2 Tip, Chris and Benj discuss a question sent in by a listener. They identify the importance of making sure everyone is a healthy fit fro...

Wouldn’t it be nice sometimes if you could put life on auto-pilot? According to Tanya Dalton , this is possible by creating intentional habits. Tanya is a best-selling author, speaker, and nationally recognized productivity expert who joins us on S2 to talk about her new book On Purpose , in which she helps readers build systems at home and work that lead to an “extraordinary life of meaning and s...

Did you know that the average person begins to feel unsettled after merely four seconds of silence in a conversation? We don’t like silence. We are downright uncomfortable with it. And when there isn’t noise we freak out! Anybody else sleep with a noise machine? So how, in a world of perpetual, overlapping noise, does a leader get the time to think and reflect on the health and soul of their busin...

Philosophers, scientists, and perhaps the particularly reflective daydreamers alike, have all marveled at the question, “What is the soul?” Here at S2, we couldn’t have founded a company called System & Soul without giving a considerable amount of thought to that question as it relates to, not only the human soul, but the soul of the business. Today, Benj Miller and Chris White dive into the S...

One of our most talked about S2 episodes to date was with John Ott. In that episode John discusses the two most desirable attributes that make a great leader––inwardly sound and others-focused. Today we’re going to add two more attributes to this to paint the picture of a great coach. In this S2 Tip, Benj Miller discusses the importance of strategic thinking and effective communication, and he div...

Let’s have a soul conversation. An increasing number of leaders today are discovering the benefits of taking a spiritual approach to executive leadership. This week, we are super excited to learn from Kristoffer Carter, a spiritual teacher, author, and executive coach who teaches leaders to harness the opportunity of chaos through spiritual practices and allow it to guide them to achieving their b...

Did you know that the plural form of the word “priorities” wasn’t used commonly until the 1950’s? That’s because it’s an oxymoron. A priority, by definition, refers to the thing that’s in first place. If you have more than one thing in first place, essentially, you have nothing in first place. In this week’s S2 Tip, Benj Miller challenges us to rethink our understanding our own priorities and narr...

Are you ready to get brainy? What if you could map out your brain to help you navigate the areas in which you’re underperforming? Does that sound like science fiction? Well it isn’t, and your co-host Chris White went through the process himself! Today on the System & Soul Podcast, we are excited to get neurologically nitty and gritty with the COO and CEO of Newrologix , Katerina McNally and Ad...

Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Wayne Brady––these aren’t exactly the first names that come to mind when you think of brilliant entrepreneurial minds. No, when you think of these names, you think of Whose Line Is It Anyway? , “the show where everything is made up, and the points don’t matter.” But, as it turns out, the actors and comedians who wow us from stage with their off-the-cuff, on-the-fly wit,...

It IS possible for your organization to engineer its culture. Too many businesses today just passively accept the current culture they posses without take steps to actively and intentionally cultivate the healthy, productive, profitable culture they could have. To talk about engineering culture, who better to invite onto the System & Soul podcast than an actual engineer who has helped create a...

Any organization that wants to operate with clarity needs to have a hierarchal structure. That’s Business 101. Perhaps the most popular way businesses organize this structure is through an organizational chart, which maps out all the roles, functions, and relationships to other roles. Also, Business 101. What isn’t Business 101 is how to build an org. chart. In this week’s S2 Tip, Chris White expl...

When an organization wants their business to grow, they need to equip their people to grow first. That’s why we are stoked to invite Larry Dorfman , the former Founder CEO of APCO Holdings and Partner at Roots Real Estate Exchange onto the podcast. Larry takes us on his journey of personal growth and how it drove him to instill a culture of self-improvement within his own companies. He talks about...

Every business leader, no matter great they are, experiences ruts—or as Seth Godin calls them, dips—in their business. These dips can be discouraging, draining, and just down right not fun! But as Godin says, don’t think of the dip as a dip. Think of it more like a moat––is just something you have to swim through to get to your business, or “the castle.” The moat is the thing that separates you fr...

There is a big difference between what your company’s culture is and how it makes your people feel. Misaligning people with culture and vice versa can stifle an organization’s growth––leaving people unmotivated and disengaged. We’ve invited Will “The Culture Czar” Scott onto the podcast to talk about his passion and mission to help companies identify, embrace, and implement their core values to cr...

If you hate meetings, you’re doing them wrong. Great meetings create progress, alignment, clarity, and control in your business. But too many people think of meetings as obstacles to progress instead of assets to progress. In this week’s S2 Tip, Chris White shares five ways you’re sabotaging your own meetings and what practices you can implement to make your meetings engaging, productive, and, dar...

Before the pandemic, the workplace was increasingly becoming imbued with distraction, disengagement, and distrust. Unfortunately, the pandemic heightened some of these unhealthy culture symptoms by withholding from employees some of their most basic human needs. Now, before that dark cloud of a paragraph above makes you want to pull out your umbrella, take a breath, and don’t fear, because Scott M...

Let’s quit flirting with our dreams, and start committing to them. When we don’t take the time to get clarity on what we want for our business or in our life, we create a cloud of ambiguity over our journey getting there. That’s why, at System & Soul , we teach businesses how important it is to get a very vivid picture of their goals. In today’s S2 Tip, Benj Miller talks about the Law of Attra...

Meeting are the biggest opportunities in your business to get everyone rowing in the same direction. Meetings are necessary, but too often they miss the mark. That’s why great meetings need great facilitators––the people who can direct the human energy in the room towards progress, alignment, and ultimately, clarity and control for your business. Today, Chris and Benj talk about the qualities of a...