Benj Miller, McKenzie Decker

Sessions with System & Soul

Business EN ↓ 265 episodes

Sessions is the podcast for growth-stage founders, COOs, and leadership teams ready to stop spinning and start building with clarity. Each episode is a “Session,” an intentional break from the daily chaos to work on the business, not just in it. Hosted by Benj and McKenzie from System & Soul, this show blends practical frameworks with human insight, offering conversations that are honest, strategic, and soul-centred. In every Session, you’ll find the space to: • Simplify the next step in your business • Build systems that support -not strangle- your growth • Lead with clarity, culture, and...

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Benj Miller, McKenzie Decker

Episodes

#005: Designing Your Organization's Future with System & Soul 01.06.2021 27:48

One of the beautiful things about being an entrepreneur or business leader is the ability to design your organization. Your organization’s design is the ultimate expression of what you get to do as an entrepreneur and leader, and it’s the essence of your organization’s contribution to the world. This week, we take a deep dive into the System & Soul model and share the key components of designi...

S2 Tips: Can you engineer your future? 27.05.2021 3:14

Too often entrepreneurs and business leaders find themselves fighting the fires of the culture they have created rather than getting out in front and engineering the future of their business. In this week's tip, we share an exercise we use at System and Soul that will help your organization create and embrace the culture you want to create. S2 Tips are brought to you by Ninety. Ninety is a cl...

#004: Redefining Delegation with Emily Morgan 25.05.2021 25:18

What is holding you back from delegating your responsibilities? Are you afraid you won’t know what to do with your time? Are you worried that the tasks won’t be completed with quality? In this episode, CEO and Visionary at Delegate Solutions, Emily Morgan, discusses why delegation is not a chore, but rather an energy management system that can create important progress in your business. Emily Morg...

S2 Tips: What makes you the "only?" 20.05.2021 3:21

If you were the only ___________, what would you be? It's a powerful—maybe even scary—question to answer. But it's the difference between you and everybody else. We'll give you the formula to determine your Onliness Statement in this week's Tip. S2 Tips are brought to you by Ninety. Ninety is a cloud-based collection of the essential business building and awareness tools you ne...

#003: Anxiety, Stress & Rewiring Your Brain with Dr. Don Wood 18.05.2021 43:30

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Ok, so you're a high performer and your past experience has never gotten in the way of your ability to climb... But what if you had another gear? This week we talked to Dr. Don Wood, an exper...

S2 Tips: What weight are you carrying? 13.05.2021 2:54

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com We're all carrying something, often without really realizing how much we've shouldered until we're burnt out. In this week's tip, we'll talk about how to know what weight i...

#002: Controlling Triggers and Building Trust with Scott Mann 11.05.2021 40:54

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com It's no secret... When it comes to human connection, our go-to guy is Scott Mann (Rt. Ltc.). He's a former Green Beret, the Owner of Rooftop Leadership, The Hero's Journey, and autho...

#001: How System & Soul Works 04.05.2021 26:30

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Friends! Welcome to System & Soul! We're leaving the Tractionville™ island for deeper waters and a whole new view! System & Soul is our new operating framework and it's the new na...

#089: Get ready... get set... Big News from Tractionville™ 27.04.2021 2:09

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com This week, we've got big news coming your way. We're not giving it all up just yet... but you can head over and connect with us on Linkedin (Benj Miller and Chris White) to get a sneak pe...

S2 Tips: The Doldrums 22.04.2021 5:19

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Not one wants to admit when they are in this season... It feels like failure. It feels like a disappointment. It feels like a deep dissatisfaction with no answer. We're talking about the Dold...

#088: Family Business and Better Decision Making with Sara B. Stern 20.04.2021 30:26

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Get this: 2/3's of the privately held businesses in the U.S. are family businesses. And whether you're a family business owner or NOT, legacy, succession, and making the right decisions w...

S2 Tips: The Executing Season 15.04.2021 3:22

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Work it. That's the theme of the executing season. When you're in full-focus, get-it-done mode you're in the "summer season" of The Creator's Cycle. This week's T...

#087: Rejection Proof with Jia Jiang 13.04.2021 32:22

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Imagine going after rejection with a vengeance... every day for 100 days challenging yourself to get rejected. Our guest Jia Jiang... 👉 TED speaker (with nearly 7 million video views 🤯) 👉 auth...

S2 Tips: The Planning Season 08.04.2021 4:04

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com If you're in a frenetic state of idea generation and list-making, you might be in The Planning Season. This week we talk about what this season looks like and how to get the most out of it. ...

#086: Healthy Work Environment with Richard Sheridan 06.04.2021 37:54

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Here's an idea for you... Learn how to pump fear out of your team and give them a thrust to be open, honest, and real about what issues are getting in their way. Richard Sheridan Co-Founder, C...

S2 Tips: Feck Perfuction 01.04.2021 3:00

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Let's switch it up a little. This week we're sharing a powerful passage from James Victore's incredible book, Feck Perfuction . It's a charge to go find your muse, create, do,...

#085: The Power of the BHAG 30.03.2021 18:39

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Catherine Juon gives a new meaning to the word "spark." She joined us on Tractionville this week to share some of her contagious energy for doing hard things and adapting to challenges to...

S2 Tips: Keeping Your Focus Between Quarterly Meetings 25.03.2021 4:58

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Quarterly and Annual meetings can be great for resetting and directing focus. New energy often comes out of those day-long deep-dives into the why and what we're doing. It's the in-betwe...

#084: The Humanized Leader with Mary Pat Knight 23.03.2021 34:24

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Believe it or not, there's a way to turn “drama” into functional leadership. Mary Pat Knight joins us to talk about her work as founder of Leaders Inspired and author of The Humanized Leader....

S2 Tips: Lacking Vision 18.03.2021 5:03

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com You're the Visionary. So, you should have a clear, energized view of the next big step for your business, right? Maybe not. In this week's Tip, we share perspective on the in-between tim...

#083: Don't Be Better, Be Different with Laura Ries 16.03.2021 31:42

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com You don't win by being better; you win by being different. Laura Ries is an expert marketing strategist and author whose 25 years of work have given her a clear, focused perspective on what wo...

S2 Tips: The Most Underrated Tool in Your Toolbox 11.03.2021 3:41

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com There's one tool in the EOS toolbox that doesn't get enough credit for its true power to guide and inform an organization's next steps. Which tool is it? Listen to this week's T...

#082: People Strategy with Jonathan Reynolds 09.03.2021 34:45

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com There's a difference between "culture fit" and "performance fit." But there has to be a way to have both in every team member. We talk with Jonathan Reynolds, CEO and Visio...

S2 Tips: Visionary vs. Victim 04.03.2021 2:59

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com The opposite of a Visionary is not an Integrator, it's a Victim. A Visionary sees a preferred future and makes it happen. A Victim accepts whatever future comes their way. In this Tip, we&apos...

#081: Revenue Growth Engine with Darrell Amy 02.03.2021 29:16

Disclaimer: The Tractionville Podcast and Tractionville Tips are now a part of the System & Soul Podcast. What's System & Soul? We'd love to tell you :) Learn more at systemandsoul.com Exponential growth doesn't just happen—especially on the heels of a global pandemic. We talked with Darrell Amy, author of Revenue Growth Engine and Visionary at Convergo. He explains how hav...