The Work Talk Show

We’re celebrating the one-year anniversary of The Work Talk Show podcast with a guest who needs no introduction — Jeffrey Gitomer. You probably know him from one of his many best-selling books such as The Sales Bible or his new book The 21.5 Unbreakable Laws of Selling. Or maybe you’ve heard him speak at one of the 100 (!) presentations he gives each year. Off the wall and on the money, Gitomer ge...

There are some guests to our virtual studios that can’t be contained by one visit alone. That was the case with author, keynote speaker, and consultant John Michael Morgan. He first joined us last year when he told us about his two-hour power working. After a recent lunch with Nick, John shared some research he’d done on the history of getting work done. This alone was reason enough to have one of...

Mish Slade and Rob Dix — or simply “Mish and Rob” — focus on making it anywhere. What is it, you may ask? For this adventurous couple it is their work and so far the anywhere has been New York, Boulder, Washington DC, Paris, London, Bangkok, Chiang Mai, Penang, Berlin, Sofia, and Madrid. While we were exhausted just reading that (!) we were thrilled that these two stopped by to share their secrets...

How enterprising is Jason HeadsetsDotCom? Enterprising enough that he not only sells which shirt he wears each day — maybe you’ve heard of IWearYourShirt.com — but he’s also sold the naming rights to … his own last name! That’s the quick story of how Jason Sadler became Jason HeadsetsDotCom, however, we were fortunate enough to get an all-access pass with this entrepreneurial force when he stopped...

As Chief Marketing Officer at AtTask, Bryan Nielson spends his time marketing work management solutions for organizations. By helping global teams organize, AtTask has identified what they call the “Circles of Marketing Work Hell” including, among other areas, handling your inbox. As you can imagine, we had to hear more about this. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As a speaker, author, and founder of the Business & Entrepreneur Network, Charlie McDermott helps small business owners clear the path to building valuable, scalable, and “saleable” businesses through automation and the creation of direct-response marketing assets. This serial entrepreneur even put his skills to work to help market his son as an actor in Hollywood. As you can imagine, we had a lot...

Amy Schmittauer is President and CEO of Vlog Boss Studios, parent company of Savvy Sexy Social. In addition to “making a lot of freaking videos,” Amy helps businesses create a strategy to organically grow online presence and social relationships. As a content creator for both her own business and her clients, Amy shares a struggle that many of us grapple with — how to plan her time and serve both...

With more than 20 years of marketing and business leadership experience, Tim Hayden has been a founding member of new ventures (NION Interactive, GamePlan, 44Doors) and been a catalyst for change in some of the world’s largest brands (Dell, Bacardi, AMD, ExxonMobil, Hilton Worldwide, Kraft Foods, Edelman, and others). Among Tim’s many specialties is an expertise in mobile technology. As you can im...

Why are we calling this week’s show the Summer Vacation Spectacular? The reason behind this is simple. It’s summer and we both just took family vacations which, as we all know, can be challenging as you define your own sense of personal and professional blend. We thought we’d take a host-only show and explore this topic with each other. Why spectacular? Because this is the longest show we’ve ever...

You don’t become known as the Million Dollar Consultant by not understanding how to get things done. Alan Weiss is a consultant, speaker, and author. His consulting firm, Summit Consulting Group, has attracted clients such as Merck, GE, and Mercedes Benz. His books have been translated into many languages, including his groundbreaking text, Million Dollar Consulting. With all of these accomplishme...

We’ve all heard of working from home but a new term is gaining traction today, homing from work. As you can imagine, just as we take more of our work home a trend is emerging showing that employees are bringing more of their home lives to work as well. Dan Levi, Chief Marketing Officer of Captivate, is at the forefront of this emerging data. The savvy marketer and self-described “media junkie” joi...

One topic we continually touch on during episodes of The Work Talk Show is one that is near and dear to Michael Stelzner’s heart. As the founder of Social Media Examiner and the host of the Social Media Marketing podcast, Stelzner is a busy guy who balances work with family. When he realized how fast his three kids were growing up, he decided to take action with the same tools he used to create So...

Why do so many entrepreneurs and distributed workers spend their days logging time from our nation’s best coffee shops? ACe Callwood knows why. As the co-founder of the innovative web service Coffitivity, Callwood not only understands that this level of ambient noise makes us more productive, he’s found a way to bottle it up and bring it to us regardless of our coffee status. As you can imagine, t...

How awesome is Mitch Joel? Awesome enough to stop by The Work Talk Show virtual studios for the second time in less than a year. This time the Twist Image president, Six Pixels of Separation blogger, and podcast host was here to talk about his newly released book Ctrl Alt Delete. The book is about rebooting both your business and your life. It builds on some of the big themes Joel first brought up...

As the author of five provocative books, including the long-running New York Times bestsellers, A Whole New Mind and Drive as well as his new book To Sell Is Human, Daniel H. Pink knows a thing or two about the practice of writing. In fact, he considers the work he puts into his writing akin to the manner in which an athlete practices a sport. Pink was kind enough to sit down with us and share a b...

As the founder of Win Without Pitching, Blair Enns is a business development consultant working with creative firms worldwide. As a speaker and author, Enns endeavors to be the sand in the profession-wide pitch machine, questioning firms and clients alike on the sanity of the pitch-based approach. He not only operates outside of the lines, he also lives outside the lines in the remote mountain vil...

Jason Keath’s focus is on researching how marketers succeed and the best ways to teach others those insights. As the Founder and CEO of Social Fresh, the social media education company, he curates some of the smartest voices in online marketing. Jason works as a social media speaker, consultant and analyst, having presented to thousands of marketers at events like Blogworld and Internet Hungary am...

Tim Washer is a Webby-nominated video producer and corporate humorist. He mines years of conference-call fodder from former corporate roles including IPG vice president, Accenture change management consultant, and IBM’s head of social video for the Smarter Planet campaign. He holds an MBA from the University of Texas at Austin where he majored in PowerPoint. With a background like this, we couldn’...

Dayna Steele is a rock radio Hall of Famer, CEO of YourDailySuccessTip.com and author of the 101 Ways to Rock Your World book series. She writes for Fast Company, consults Fortune 500 companies and has spoken to executives at Disney, NASA, Purdue, ERA, Shell, and more. In short, Dayna creates rock stars. Are you curious yet? We were too, that’s why we couldn’t wait to sit down with Dayna and pick...

“Work is no longer a place — it’s something we do.” With this striking new definition, we kicked off a fascinating chat with David Shaw, Workplace Technology Specialist at 404, that covered productive office spaces, introverts vs. extroverts, meeting rules, and more. The world of work has changed dramatically, and yet our physical work environments still suffer from stationary constructs. Luckily,...

Fitness and lifestyle coach, speaker, and sought-after fitness personality, Liz DiAlto is on a mission to help millions of women across the globe get the bodies and lifestyles they crave. At the core of everything Liz creates is a belief that willpower sucks and simplicity, motivation, and enjoyment are the non-negotiable keys to achieving success. As you can imagine, a lot of this relates to how...

As the CEO/Founder of Clarity and an angel investor in multiple ventures, Dan Martell is passionate about how we spend our time. With an entrepreneurial streak that includes co-founding Flowtown and Spheric Technologies, Martell now has set his sights on solving a problem that’s a challenge to many — how to give and receive relevant advice over the phone. Clarity’s goal is to positively effect a b...

As his bio says, Jonathan Fields is a dad, husband, New Yorker, author and speaker, serial wellness-industry entrepreneur, recovering S.E.C./mega-firm hedge-fund lawyer, slightly-warped, unusually-stretchy, spiritually-inclined, obsessed with creation, marketing and innovation consultant, venture partner and book-marketing educator. It’s no surprise that someone this busy would be a guest on this...

Chris Penn wears many hats. He’s Vice President of Marketing Technology at SHIFT Communications, a digital PR agency, a co-founder of PodCamp with Chris Brogan, a co-host of the Marketing Over Coffee podcast with John Wall, a professor of Internet Marketing and Advanced Social Media at the University of San Francisco online. On top of all of that he was DJ’s boss at one point. As such, it was inev...

As Manager of Smarter Commerce Strategy and Solutions at IBM, Matt Stryker has a long, rich history of working remotely. From his time at IBM to his previous life on the agency side, Stryker was kind enough to share his thoughts on what’s changed about being a part of virtual team. Join us for this week’s episode of The Work Talk Show. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices