The Leadership Stack Podcast

How do you reward your employees? Do you give bonuses? Reward? We have perks. So we have what we call patches. We award them with patches, medyo military. Yung mga military patch, Private, Sergeant, Three Star General, Lieutenant, so we have those kinds of things that we stick to their jackets. Of course, we’re the ones who produced the jackets for them. This was way back when we were in the offic...

Sean: Now to know that they're not worries coming to you and you're doing the podcast and getting any more business in, I actually want to stem from that question. You're doing this podcast entitled Business Leadership Podcast. And it looks like you're, you're volunteering a lot of your time at Startup Canada as well, which seems to be like a big organization there. I'm not sure, but you could tal...

Any tips on how to create more demand for my frozen product? Should I start advertising it like make teasers, even if it will take a few months pa to ship it? Well, if you're taking in pre-orders, it might be a good idea. And when you're taking pre-orders make sure that you get the cash. So pre-orders usually work that they give you like 50%, somewhere there, 50 to 70%, maybe 50% would be safe of...

Sean: Most of your traffic from Slingshot, VOIP, especially in the early days, came from word of mouth. And then right now what's sustaining you. Is the digital traffic, SEO, social media marketing may be for doing that or ad words. I'm wondering. Since you are generating a perpetual amount of leads right now you're getting business, whether you're awake or asleep, how big is the team? And the rea...

What are the top five principles you live by? Top five principles? There's a lot of principles that I live by and most of it you can find in the Bible. Number one of course is love the Lord, your God. If you don't love God, where's your moral compass? What is right and wrong for you? What for you is right? What for you is wrong? You can’t say. If you don't love God, ang hirap namang sabihin na, yo...

Sean: What were your indicators during that time? Just think back a little bit. What were the indicators that, Oh, it's time for me to let go of that sweet, secure, monthly income and take a leap of faith and start my own thing? Edwin: Yeah. I think one of the main indicators which I mentioned is sort of this restlessness. I guess, figuring things up for me, it was figuring things out quickly. So...

Can you share with us problems you encountered in starting and handling Leadership Stack? Starting the podcast? I actually started it in a very crude way. If you watch the very first podcast episode recording that I did, it was with my wife, Apple, and my brother, Kevin. And it was just in my office and we had a lot of reverberations, we had a lot of noise. May mga kotseng dumadaan. We started it...

Sean: All of these things, you're pretty much doing it by yourself. Don't have a partner started by yourself. What is it going to be your end game? I'm assuming you're kind of semi-retired right now, is that right? Lane: Yeah, sort of, I guess. I'm still working my ass off, right? No, I have, I have partners. I mean, definitely have partners. We dont this all alone, right? Endgame, I mean, I like,...

The more supply there is, kasi linagay mo siya sa grocery stores, the less demand. If there's less demand, then your price, you cannot increase it really that well. Okay. But you're right, I realized after you answered my question, iba pa rin ang direct selling. I should find distributors, resellers sa iba’t-ibang area. My fear is hindi lahat may freezer to store it. Also thinking of offering the...

Sean: How many more did you buy before you finally exploded and had 3,500 rental properties? Lane: Can I get one thing check, like I'm not like a wholesaler or a flipper. I buy and hold properties. I put down the 20% down payment and I could do that because I had a good paying day job where I was able to be frugal with my money and save it to put on down payment. I mean, I was lucky enough to be a...

Do you choose the type of people you want to be with, the type of people you want to listen to? Or are you a people person that is easy to mingle with different types of personality? Does this affect you in achieving success? All right. We have a lot of questions in that question. The answer is. I network a lot. That is part of my job because as the CEO, I'm the main salesperson. It was just last...

Sean: From acting to editing to teaching people to succeed, what's the story behind that? Jacqueline: Again, this is all God's will for me, Sean. I never, in a million years dreamed I would become a spiritual success coach and build our own Beverly Hills magazine. Are you kidding? All of these things are just, my dreams coming true. That's why I can even take on what God has called me to do, which...

Was there a time in your life when you question your confidence in the business you're running? Yes. There were lots of times in my life na naisip ko, am I really fit to run this business? Did God really make me CEO of this business? It's so hard. There were a lot of times when I failed. And there were a lot of times when literally I was on my knees, locked in the room and all I can do really is h...

Sean: What we're some of the biggest leadership lessons you've learned just from being a one woman team when you were starting this up all the way to today, where I don’t know how many people do you have in the team? So maybe you could share that as well, but we want to know leadership lessons. Right? Jacqueline: One of my favorite leadership quotes that I say is leadership is about knowing what t...

What is the right mindset for success and failure in starting up a company? First off success is relative for each individual. Success could be happiness for one person. Success could be financial wealth for some people. Success could be financial security for some. As long as alam mong may makakain ka araw-araw, hindi gugutumin ang parents mo someday when they're old and gray and you are able to...

Sean: In your case, what among those facets of revenue stream generations made the most revenue for you? Jacqueline: Well, what I find interesting about God is He has guided me to create a bread and butter process, and what I mean by bread and butter is the smaller ticket sale advertisers that buy advertorial articles online or the like hyperlinks and things like that. And so, the foundation of th...

Sean: Tell me about the idea. Where did that come from? How did your journey look like? Jacqueline: Sure. Well, you know, right out of high school, I started my professional career in real estate, so that had an element of sales and marketing. And, and one day I was doing, well, my sister wanted to do a photo shoot at one of the listings we had. So we let her come in and with the crew and I starte...

We have a question from Em. We have a product and siya and bread and butter ng company namin for five years now. Plano naming mag expand. Magkano ba ang dapat na ilaan naming sa marketing? Ilang percent ba ng income ang ideal? My answer to that Em, and since I run a digital marketing company and I do marketing and advertising myself, I don't really put in a percentage of the budget. That's not how...

What are your practical tips in managing your time? From Patrick Miguel.  Here's the thing, time goes on. You can't manage time, right? You can't manage something that you can really, you have no control of. Time goes on, whether you want it or not. The seconds keep ticking whether you want it or not. And we all have 24 hours a day. I don't have a minute more than you do. You don't have a minute m...

From Madmags. He says I started a roasted chicken business two weeks ago. This is a physical store, almost all who have tried our products says it was good naman, but until now almost everyday negative parin kami. What should we do? Maybe people are saying your product is good, but compared to some other chicken brand out there, it's okay. Because you have to qualify the question. Is it good compa...

Sean: So resilience. I wonder how you teach the businesses? What you say? What the most common questions are? Lee: Business is like the seasons. In summer, there's lots of profit, all the investment in the world, more budget that you can even spend and it feels amazing. But right in that corner, it’s going to be winter for your business and how you invest in the summer will ultimately impact how w...

Sean: I'm wondering in this period of worry, anxiety, and fear because of the pandemic, because of how the world is turning out to be in terms of the economy, how has it affected sleep with a lot of the people that you're coaching? Lee: Naturally, when everyone's a little bit anxious, it's a really challenging time. Anxiety is the thing that affects sleep more than any of the sleep hygiene. When p...

Sean: I'm wondering since this podcast, our main listeners are entrepreneurs, leaders and managers. How often do you get asked as a coach about sleep? How to optimize sleep by these kinds of people -- entrepreneurs, leaders, managers? Lee: The truth is sleep can be optimized, but it's such a young science. The science is starting to actually show that, sleep massively impacts performance. It impac...

Sean: You chose the exit path. The question is, why exit instead of scale? And when in that 12-year timeline did you realize, I have to get off the next stop? I have to build another train? Lee: It was actually fueled from the fact that I played video games a lot during my childhood. And I was highly competitive. Playing at a very high level. Why don't I transfer this energy, this passion to get b...

Sean What did they struggle then when, after you've given this advice and they've done that? And now they're like addicted to it and they're saying, okay, but now how do I get paid? How do I turn it into a profession? What do I charge? What do they struggle with? What are some of the most common questions they ask you?   Brenden I would say the biggest thing that they struggle with from going from...