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Steven Cardinale is the author of a new book titled, Synoptic Alchemy. It’s a new way to look at innovation, entrepreneurship, and business success. By layering modern management theory on the ancient principles of transformation, Synaptic Alchemy gives the reader a new mindset for driving successful ideas to completed products and services. Steven built CID Management from a $2,500 investment to a $45M exit in 2015. In this podcast he shares how synoptic alchemy is a repeatable process that consistently works, including with companies such as Apple, Google, Tesla, and Amazon. Don’t miss this opportunity to learn how synoptic alchemy can help your organization maximize its potential. Steven Cardinale is a seasoned software entrepreneur and executive. He has more than 20 years of business and technology experience, including founding and running CID Management, a Healthcare Cost Control company that he grew to become one of the largest players in the space before his successful exit in 2015. Cardinale earned a

Jawad Ahsan is CFO at Axon, where their vision is bigger than just cameras, tasers or software for law enforcement and civilians concerned about their safety. They're actually working every day to make the bullet obsolete. That’s interesting… Jawad is also author of the book, What They Didn’t Tell Me. That’s more of our focus in this podcast because he has five key principles that can change many people’s careers. Here they are: (1) Define your north star; (2) Garner trust by honing your four uncoachable traits; (3) Surrounding yourself with quality people will take you further than you think; (4) Hire people you trust, no matter what it costs; and (5) Anyone can be a leader, but don’t assume you are a leader because you’re in a leadership position. Don’t miss this discussion with a very dynamic, strategic, savvy leader - Jawad Ahsan. At age 29, Jawad Ahsan defined his North Star: He wanted to move up to the C-suite. A year later, he became a divisional CFO at GE Healthcare, and was soon promoted to be a GE e

Ben Schwartz helps some of the most powerful American bureaucrats and dedicated government employees better manage their data so it can be applied to positively affect the lives of millions of people in our nation and many foreign countries. Ben’s choice for the most important leadership soft skill to drive team culture will surprise many people.  It is empathy.  Don’t miss this conversation to learn how Ben works effectively with others who have different skill sets, life experiences, and federally mandated boundaries on what they can do.  Ben bonds these diverse individuals into a highly effective and efficient team who all share a commitment to achieve something that works for the common good. Ben Schwartz is the Program Manager and Director of Department of State Engagements at Tesla Government.  He is a national security, government, and technology specialist with experience in consulting, data management and visualization, geospatial applications, plus research and analysis.  He works with interagency a

What characteristics/attitude/mindset that are important for breaking through challenges?  Robert Clickenbeard is a four-time Ironman who has run a 350-person firm.  He’s got some insights on determination and overcoming challenges that can help many people reach the next level. Robert teaches employee Ironman principles to promote success in business and life.  He and his team build customized 12-month road maps for individuals and companies.  Robert knows the importance of getting down and dirty in the work, and how to effectively step back as a leader to let your people thrive. Join Robert and David to learn how to apply Ironman principles to business and your everyday life.  As Robert says, “Beyond fear is a positive.”  You can’t be overly optimistic, but you also can never give up.  Just adjust and beat the challenge immediately in front of you.  Join the conversation to hear more from Robert, or check out his book, The Ironman Mindset for Entrepreneurs. Robert is the CEO of The Radix Group, LLC which ha

For many of us, social media is a waste of time.  Yet others have thrived on it.  Why?  What’s this new approach called, “social selling?”  Why should business owners care?  How has Covid impacted social selling?  And… what is “employee advocacy” that a startup called SocialHP promoting?  People are making millions on social media.  Hear what our host, David, doesn’t like about LinkedIn, etc. and a winning approach Jonathan Baldock recommends.  He is a 10-year executive veteran of LinkedIn so this is in some ways an inside scoop. This podcast is well worth your time if you’re looking to generate leads (NOT by connecting on LinkedIn), improve your company’s reputation, and increase SEO results. Jonathan works in an advisory role for SocialHP. With 10 years experience at LinkedIn, serving customers like Accenture, JPMorgan Chase, Johnson & Johnson, PepsiCo, Hershey's, IBM, amongst others, he is highly skilled in social sharing best practices.  Utilizing earned media as a results-focused evergreen channel,

Don’t miss this conversation with Molly McGrath, author of a #1 Amazon best seller Don't Be a Yes Chick!, as David and Molly discuss how leaders can be blind to their bad habits and what you can do about it. Molly McGrath is the founder of Hiring and Empowering Solutions and is the author of a National Award Winning Blog, which she has written weekly since 2008.  She created The Ultimate Smart Solution™ to help business owners and the team that supports them connect and work together to grow their business.  The Ultimate Smart Solution™ provides the ingredient to stop WISHING your team would do X,Y, Z to DEPENDING on them for consistent results. Since the late nineties, Molly has coached, consulted, and directed presidents and founders of national organizations and over 4,000 law firms in; executive-level leadership, continuous improvement, and team empowerment initiatives to infiltrate new markets, leveraging partner ecosystems and producing profitability.   Molly’s unique 23 year blend of specific skillset

Q:  Why must you complete a background check on every person BEFORE their first day on the job? A:  Because there are too many liars applying for jobs with your company. But what about the background check process?  What should you check for?  Should you do education checks?  Credit checks?  Drug testing?  Our host, David, teaches this in our Hire the Best system, but this is the EXPERT on everything to do with background checks.  Join us for this engaging conversation on one of the two “must do” steps for every hiring process. Christine Cunneen, CEO of Hire Image, is the past chair of the Professional Background Screening Association (PBSA), and has held leadership roles on the Global Advisory Council, Government Relations Committee, Advocacy Committee, Finance Committee, and Ethics Committee for PBSA.  She is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) at both the national and local levels.  She is a director of the Rhode Island SHRM Board, serving on the Advocacy team, Legislative Committ

Is there an easy way to improve posture and prevent back pain caused by conventional sitting? If so, you’d say, “Sounds interesting, but I’m too busy right now.  Have to take my Advil because my back is killing me!”  (You’d blow it off because you’re stuck in an unhealthy routine.) Today’s show interviews Dr. Turner Osler, who invented the QOR360 (“core” 360) chair with a  patented mechanism his team calls RedRocker™ Technology.  Listen to today’s podcast to consider skeptical questions by our host, David Russell, and where the conversation lands.  QOR360 offers a 60-day money-back guarantee and pays the shipping both ways.  You can’t get more risk free than that, but is it worth it?  Do you think your conclusion will match David’s? Dr. Turner Osler is a retired academic trauma surgeon, turned research epidemiologist.  He is the CEO and Founder of QOR360, a company specializing in active seating products for homes, offices, and schools.  QOR360 chairs are designed to eliminate back pain and fatigue when sitt

When you communicate to someone via email, text, phone… what’s the #1 thing you want? A response. How do you get more responses?  Darin Dawson of BombBomb believes you get more responses by sending brief videos to people.  David, our host, challenges the BombBomb approach because (like you?) he’s sick of all the phony LinkedIn connections, spam emails, and pitches. Yet a brief video email on the BombBomb platform may some intriguing benefits.  Darin claims video emails increases not only response rates, but also improves relationships.  David and Darin have a candid discussion.  You can decide for yourself whether video emails are in your future. P.S.  Are you aware it’s important to deliver bad news verbally first, rather than in-writing?  What about good news?  Darin and David discuss both… Darin Dawson is the Co-Founder and President of BombBomb, a Human-Centered Communication Platform that enables users to use simple, personal video messages to leverage their best asset … themselves. Darin is on a missio

Some of us don’t read Big Media now.  Don’t trust it.  However, we do trust Loren Feldman to read Big Media and other business news for us, and then send us the highlights of great information for entrepreneurs and small business. Join us as Loren talks of his background and how he started a new media community for entrepreneurs and small business owners - a crowded market, but Loren has a unique vision! Loren is founder and editor-in-chief of 21 Hats, an online platform for business owners.  He also hosts the 21 Hats Podcast, which has been tracking the experiences of seven business owners in weekly conversations throughout the pandemic crisis;  writes a 21 Hats blog; and he edits the 21 Hats Morning Report (the newsletter I read M-F), a daily email newsletter for entrepreneurs In his former life, some might say Loren worked on the Dark Side…  He was a senior editor covering entrepreneurship at Inc. Magazine, Forbes, and the New York Times.  He also hosted a call-in show for business owners, Mind Your Busin

There are about 650 CRM products on the market.  Then why did Jeroen Corthout and his partner from the tiny yet wonderful nation of Belgium want to launch a new one? Should you launch a new product in a crowded market? Sometimes the answer is, “YES!”  Find out why Jeroen (“Yeroon Court-howt”) decided to be a co-founder of SalesFlare and why SalesFlare is getting great reviews.  It’s definitely a “David vs. Goliath” story times ten.  Passionate people bring about meaningful change in our world.  Hello, Steve Jobs…  In the market of CRM solutions, SalesFlare is on an intriguing journey.  Why did they do it?  How are they building market share?  What soft skills did the leaders need to have the wisdom and courage to move forward? Can they breakthrough?  Join the podcast to compare Jeroen’s decision to whether your company needs to do something radical, maybe even crazy.

Julie Bartkus is the leading authority on workplace transformation.  Over the past 20 years, she has helped leaders across the globe transform their workplace culture from negative and destructive to happy and productive. Her approach is a holistic one as her clients know that a personal transformation is required to achieve a total team transformation.  Through her hands-on research, Julie has identi­fied over 30 staff de-motivators that drain team members of their motivation.  She developed The D.R.I.V.E. Method to help leaders attract the right staff to support their vision.  Her Total Team Transformation System has propelled leaders out of feeling stuck and lost to experiencing tremendous joy in attracting, interview interviewing, hiring, motivating and retaining the team of their dreams.

What’s different when you have to lead a team who are all or partly working remote?   Teammates also must adjust their game to perform their best, but what are those best practices?  (Why re-invent the wheel?) Join Kevin and David as they discuss some of the key challenges and ways to overcome them to be your best as a remote teammate, not just an employee or team member, and a remote leader.  It’s a new world out there.  Kevin shares some unique expertise. Kevin Eikenberry is a world-renown leadership expert, a two-time bestselling author, speaker, consultant, trainer, and coach.  Kevin is Co-Founder of The Remote Leadership Institute and the Chief Potential Officer of The Kevin Eikenberry Group, a leadership and learning consulting company that has been helping organizations, teams and individuals reach their potential since 1993.   Kevin's latest book is The Long-Distance Teammate tackles three important issues: navigating the personal and interpersonal, growing the skills to be productive, and communicat

Do you want to know why it’s so difficult to run a business in California? One major reason is the complex, anti-business, State of California employment laws.  Alex Medina and Brandon McKelvey, founders of Medina McKelvey LLP, are California’s premier boutique law firm defending California businesses against employment lawsuits and equipping businesses to prevent lawsuits. They are also the founders of California Compliance Solutions (Cal Comply), an accountability and training system created to help protect California businesses from employment lawsuits and PAGA lawsuits. Listen to Brandon and Alex’s explanation of why California is such a difficult place to run a business, and how you can structure your company to thrive and avoid employment lawsuits.

Karen Casey, Head of People and Culture, at Canidae has 30 years’ experience in global talent management and human resources at Fortune 500 companies including The Gillette Company, Procter and Gamble, BJ’s Wholesale, and Primark, Ltd.   Karen thrives where she can translate sophisticated best practices from global organizations into simplified processes for nimble, fast growing startups.  She drives her team and the overall organization to focus on progress, not perfection. Join Karen and David as they talk about Canidae’s unique culture and market positioning in a very crowded market.  Are you making progress, or delaying profits, productivity, and progress by demanding perfection?  Chew on that Canidae dog biscuit to consider whether you might need to change your approach…

That Company might be that company you have been looking for.  Ken Knorr explains how they morphed their traditional digital marketing company into almost exclusively white label services in 2015.  That Company provides high quality SEO, PPC, Social Media, and Reputation Management services to over 500 agencies partners.  Ken and his team believe they are the most widely trusted name in white label services. Should your firm white label your services through other companies?  Should you engage with That Company or other white label organizations to expand your services and profits?  Listen to this podcast to consider your options and learn Ken’s radical RAD method of fully engaging employees and clients. Ken is a leader who believes that 1+1=3 because you cannot be your best when you fly solo.  Only team consensus through debate develops the best solutions.

Chris Yoko, CEO of Yoko Co., and his team exclusively support heroic nonprofit organizations in their quest to change the world.  They set a BHAG at the beginning of 2020 to positively affect the lives of 100 million people through their clients.  The result:  They reached 127 million people in 2020. Chris has worked with some of the planet’s largest and most impactful brands, such as Ritz Carlton, Pampers, and Living Social.  He’s equally adept at positively impacting smaller brands, like FHI360, Life Sherpa, and Genomic Health. In this podcast we explore The Yoko Manifesto.  It explains Chris’ belief that mankind must successfully continue our evolution and expand our knowledge.  The path is for people to navigate seven major transitions during our lifetimes. Listen to this podcast to learn more.

What if you could follow a system to change a significant habit and OTHER PEOPLE would notice a difference in as little as 1-2 weeks? For instance, you want to: Better manage that employee who has an issue, Create one hour of additional time in your day by saying “no” more often, or Get along better with that “other person. David Taylor-Klaus, a serial entrepreneur, executive coach to multi-millionaires, and author, has a proven system to change bad habits / behaviors in as little as 1-2 weeks He calls it, “The REWIRE Framework.”  Learn about it on this podcast.

Peter Grimm is a graduate of the US Naval Academy and has a unique blend of national security and strategy consulting experience.  He brings this to bear when helping companies identify, anticipate and prepare for market disruption. While Peter was at Deloitte Consulting, his clients relied on him to deliver competitive intelligence solutions to anticipate and capitalize on market opportunities.  As the President of Cipher, Peter leverages his national security and corporate strategy experiences with the latest AI and Natural Language Processing technologies to help clients better understand their buyers, competitors, and markets.   He is a regular speaker at industry and competitive intelligence conferences around the world and passionate about helping clients like Google, Olympus, CVS Health and Erie Insurance make smarter, faster decisions. Join us as Peter shares how to monitor your market for disruption, assess the competitive landscape and collaborate with your team on how to leverage your knowledge.

Jeremy Pollack is a leader in the field of workplace conflict resolution and peacebuilding. He is a master coach, master trainer, mediator, and author.  Jeremy coaches and trains executives and employees at a variety of levels and industries, from Fortune 500 companies to major non-profits. Jeremy has mediated conflicts between business partners, co-executives, and coworkers at all levels of organizations, aiming as often as possible to transform relationships and create Win-Win resolutions for all parties involved. Jeremy is a regular contributor on the topics of leadership and organizational conflict management to publications such as Forbes.com, Fast Company, Industry Week, and many more.  He is also the author of the recently released Conflict Resolution Playbook: Practical Communication Skills for Preventing, Managing, and Resolving, Conflict by Rockridge Press.  Join us as Jeremy shares best practices to create culture that mitigate conflict in the workplace and learn how to build positive relationships