The Human Side of Leadership

Has your entrepreneurial dream turned into the proverbial nightmare? Are you uncertain about your next chapter? Would you like to get results now in your business and plan a successful exit out of corporate? If any of these are true for you, who you gonna call? Ghostbusters? Nope. Call my next guest.  In this episode, we meet brilliant Business Growth Strategist and Keynote Speaker Ike Ikokwu, who...

Is all that we perceive with our five senses truly all that there is? What could be affecting our personal and professional performance, that is outside of our five senses? How can we learn of our energy and heal our business potential more proactively? These questions and more were discussed in this episode with Dr. Sandra Camacho,  auric field consultant, energy healer, and intuitive business co...

As they say, a picture is worth a thousand words. But what is the value of words given as  testimonials from some of today's top business leaders and influencers? Read this: "David Brier is brilliant with branding." Daymond John, Shark Tank and CEO FUBU "David Brier is a branding genius who will revolutionize the way you do branding." Grant Cardone These are just a few of...

What do "The Oprah Winfrey Show" Alum, "60 Minutes," the Emmy Awards Winner's List, and the Peabody Awards  Winner's List all have in common? My guest in this episode! Christopher Martin has been at the center of the media universe for many years and is today navigating new success paths for the future. In this episode, we meet CEO and Founder Christopher Martin, who...

I'd like you to close your eyes and go back fifteen years. Imagine you're sitting with me in a National Speakers Association meeting for the first time, and you're seeing this dynamic young speaker who not only speaks with a powerful command of his voice tones, storytelling, and deep research-based insights, but he's doing the strangest things with his arms! He's holding t...

PROBLEM: You’re 50+ and you’ve been aged out of your career, laid off, or you’re starting your own business for the first time. Now you're looking at your LinkedIn profile, not sure what to do next. You know there's got to be a path to your next level of success, but you're not sure how to get started. Who you gonna call?  TED!! In this episode, we meet CEO and Best-selling Author o...

Webster's dictionary describes the word 'Maverick' as "an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party." There is no dispute about the success potential in being a maverick. However, in today's noisy, global, socially crowded world, even the truest maverick would have a tough time standing out. Yet my next guest has put in the research and person...

I'm imagining a scene in 'Back To The Future', when a time-traveling young man meets the time-machine inventor that made his presence in the past possible. Only this time, I'm the time traveler and I'm predicting that the person in front of me will achieve great things, like be the next Elon Musk, or Steve Jobs. Sound fantastic? Perhaps. But after listening to Sam Lister,...

Have you ever wondered what that magic thing is that powers the most successful people we know? Notice how they float around in slow motion, music playing in the background, hair whipping in the wind? Yeah, with all that 'it' factor, and confidence? Guess what that is? It's SWAGGER, (just kidding)....but whatever it is, our next guest has invested years of research and experience st...

"How can we rise above the din of infinite options to create sustainable meaning with an audience or group of customers? Following the old rules of digital engagement is not enough, not nearly enough. Even being "great" is insufficient in the face of overwhelming competition redefining the limits of excellence every day. From the best-selling author of KNOWN and Marketing Rebellion...

In the now seminal book, 'Start With Why', Simon Sinek urges us all to consider the things that inspire us before we launch our business or entrepreneurial efforts. Yet when one takes that powerful, sage advice, the next question one must ask is usually, 'HOW' will I get all this done? How will I achieve the business or entrepreneurial success I seek.  In this episode, we meet...

In the pursuit of external business success, far too many of us leave behind the true essence of our authenticity, our internal passion, and our natural brilliance. What a joy it is, however, when we discover that our greatest success is not out there somewhere, but rather, has been within us all along. In this episode, we meet the absolutely incomparable Mary Henderson, who is a renowned personal...

It has become very clear in today's business landscape that the most important (and most profitable) categories for personal development advice are to be found in the following three camps: Health, Wealth, and Relationships. Given our human nature, it is arguable that the most powerful of these is Relationships, because they affect everything else so palpably. What isn't so obvious, yet...

"As we transition from the industrial age to the global village, the rules of the game of business (and life) change. Today, and into the future, credibility is one of the key components of success. I’m helping to define how credibility is changing and how to achieve it." — Mitchell Levy. In this episode, we meet global credibility expert Mitchell Levy, who is on a singular mission to se...

One of my all-time favorite sayings is: “We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. ” — Aristotle. Another one is more tongue-in-cheek, but just as powerful: "You can't learn to play soccer at a seminar. " —Anonymous. Both quotes make the point that learning is only a first step...we need to EXPERIENCE things to truly learn them well. Most of us woul...

Have you ever wondered how to use YouTube as a core part of your marketing mix? Have you ever wondered how video can become an integral part of your online content marketing? And have you ever wondered how to convert all of the great content you're creating into clients? If so, you'll love the message and methods of our next guest, who is so committed to these causes, he has included the...

Whether you are a painter or a business leader, a salesperson or a home-maker, as long as you are in the business of solving problems and helping others, you are a creative.  This is one of several new, status-quo-busting sentiments from the mind that gave us 'PERMISSION MARKETING', invented EMAIL MARKETING as we know it today, and has written 20 best-selling, seminal books such as &apos...

Every once in a while I get so lucky to be able to meet and learn from a true leader who knows the way, goes the way, and shows the way. You can't listen to my next guest without being in awe of his humility in the face of massive personal and professional success. With 97,000 followers on LinkedIn and a Top 100 Podcast, you can just tell that he's inspiring so many other people with his...

Picture this: he's living a modern-day nomadic lifestyle deep in the mountains with his wife and children. He sports a half-graying beard and a trim, healthy build in a suit. He is a seasoned business storyteller, a top LinkedIn influencer, and knows how to help you get in 'flow' to build a profitable business. Is this guy your next business sage, or perhaps the body double of Tom H...

Wouldn't it be awesome if your ideal clients could learn about you in a low-risk, low pressure manner, make a decision to follow you, and then show up all by themselves on your digital doorstep, ready to buy your product or service? As seemingly fantastical as this may sound, it is actually quite possible when one can strategically leverage the many powers of what today's guest calls &ap...

LinkedIn has absolutely become the center of the business-to-business universe on social media. It's always a pleasure to find and learn from a true 'sage' and expert in the LinkedIn business development landscape.  In this episode, we meet LinkedIn Expert, Best Selling Author, and International Keynote Speaker Adam Houlahan. My Favorite Quotes from Adam are in this episode, (paraph...

Every once in a while you run into that rare person who is so happy with life, so full of contagious joy and inspiration. It's such a pleasure to meet someone who knows the value of being grateful for every moment, and who is spending the precious time we have on this planet in the service of others. In this episode, we meet just such a soul in Noah Mittman, Founder & CEO at Snowman Films...

I have heard that there are potentially as many definitions of leadership as there are people on this planet. Yet, of all the possible definitions, my favorite has to be this: Leadership is Influence. Another favorite definition is the idea that you are only a leader if you have followers. And along with this latter definition is the slapstick reality that if you call yourself a leader and look ba...

Perhaps one of the greatest business lessons I've learned is the simple fact that being yourself can be a powerful business strategy. In today's world where 'you are your brand', your greatest business asset may very well come from unleashing the latent creativity within you. In this episode, we meet Social Media and Content Marketing Expert Alex B Sheridan. Alex is the Founder...

I remember it well...I was surfing LinkedIn, doing some research for my next article, when out of the blue, I saw a video that both entertained and educated in the most profound way. I watched and watched again, as an educator, with her low-key, soothing tone, taught her friends, colleagues and followers, a lesson about leadership in both English and Arabic. It was enchanting! The full extent of m...