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What happens if you don't wake up tomorrow? Do you have a plan for your business and what happens to your staff, your assets, and other business interests? Our guest today, Steve Goodman, gives us incite and practical advice on how to be prepared for that worst-case scenario.**Get a FREE copy of Steve's Book, "Business Succession Planing" = https://stevengoodman.biz/**Learn more about Steve's company = https://www.shgplanning.com/ **Learn more about franchising your business and Big Sky Franchise Team: https://bigskyfranchiseteam.com/    ABOUT OUR GUEST:For more than 30 years, Steven Goodman, President and CEO of SHG Planning, has provided insightful solutions to the challenges of business succession, wealth preservation, retirement, and charitable planning. He currently services hundreds of clients focusing on the needs of owners of closely-held businesses and high net worth individuals. Steven Goodman is the author of Business Succession Planning: A Guide to Transfers, Sales, Family Harmony, and Minimizing Litigation, and has also written numerous articles for leading trade journals. He has paired with some of the most respected names in banking and finance to sponsor some 150 seminars about business succession and wealth preservation. His accomplishments have brought the attention of such publications as the New York Times. Steven Goodman is a CPA who was vice president of the Trust and Investment Division of JP Morgan Chase and a supervisor for KPMG Peat Marwick. He holds an MBA from Fordham University. In addition to his work with SHG Planning, Steve has been a Big Brother for the last 15 years and is passionate about supporting charities that fund the education of underprivileged children.ABOUT BIG SKY FRANCHISE TEAM:This episode is powered by Big Sky Franchise Team. If you are ready to talk about franchising your business you can schedule your free, no-obligation, franchise consultation online at: https://bigskyfranchiseteam.com/ or by calling Big Sky Franchise Team at: 855-824-4759.   

The saying hindsight is 20/20 holds true most of the time.  Learning from the mistakes made by businesses that have either gone up or gone under is a worthy exercise.  In this nearly hour-long episode, digital transformation expert, Lynda Roth, takes us back with stories from companies that rode the wave of technology change and those that didn’t and sunk in the process.    We hear about companies such as Sears and Amazon, Blockbuster and Netflix, and even a little sewing pattern maker who craftily built a business digitally.  Don’t get left behind and grab the lessons you can pick up in this episode. Tune in now. We’ll talk about: Getting into and being a pioneer in I.T. [01:58] Stories of success & failure in the midst of technology change [08:05] The contents of her book - Digital Transformation [16:56] Comparing Sears to Amazon [19:31] Comparing Sears to Emerson Electric [23:58] Whatever business you’re in, start as a digital company [26:59] How a little sewing pattern maker grew through digital [28:38] When new tech changes a previous solution [34:52] Online stores have to replicate the experience in-store [38:44] An example of digital being driven by data [45:26] Mine the gold from subscription and data [47:51] Reimagine your business as a 21st-century business [50:16] Lessons from the Blockbuster story [53:29] The one thing Lynda recommends [55:06]   Resource Links: Brett Trainor Website (https://bretttrainor.com/) Download The Growth Readiness Checklist (https://bretttrainor.com/resources/) Digital Transformation: An Executive Guide to Survive and Thrive in the New Economy (https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Transformation-Executive-Survive-Economy/dp/198225727X)   About Our Guest: For over 20 years, Lynda Roth has been leading business and technology transformations. She is the author of the book, Digital Transformation: An Executive Guide to Survive and Thrive in the New Economy. Lynda is also a frequent speaker on topics such as  I.T.-driven business optimization, successful outsourcing approaches, establishing or growing an internal I.T. department, and creating a high-functioning organization with strategic I.T. You can connect with Lynda by emailing her at lynda@ljrcs.com If you liked this episode, please don’t forget to tune in, subscribe, and share this podcast.  Connect with B2B Founder:  Subscribe on Youtube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCySoKsETeKxu-Fnf2VfE7Gg/

About Our Guest For today’s episode, Ted sat down with Nina Schmidgall, the author of Praying Circles Around Your Marriage. Nina serves as Director of Family Ministry at National Community Church (NCC) in Washington DC. Nina’s husband, Joel, is the Executive Pastor at the church. Nina and Joel have been married for 15 years and live on Capitol Hill with their three kids. I think most of us understand that purpose can be a powerfully important thing in any marriage. But it can be difficult to understand what that means for us practically. So to get a better idea of the role purpose can play in our marriage, take a listen to the conversation with Ted and Nina. Interview Can you tell our listeners about yourself? I’m from Washington DC and work at National Community Church. I’m The Director of Family Ministry so I oversee ministry from birth to graduation and support parents as they’re intentional about faith in the home. My husband, Joel, is our executive pastor and together we do work with the couples we walk with. There are a lot of young professionals in DC so for a long time our church was a lot of singles and young professionals. Now, many of them are getting married. So not only do we get to walk with couples as they prepare for marriage, but also as they run into things in marriage and are looking to navigate them. I came to DC to work for Congress. Most people don’t realize how young the people who are running our country are. I worked on legislative issues advising the member that I worked for. I always worked on issues that affect the home—the family and education and things that families care about. I did that for almost a decade and at the same time was part of this tiny church. Over time, as we launched locations and grew, I stepped out of my work in the government. But in some ways my work is very similar, I just do it through the church instead of the legislative system. What’s unique about doing church and marriage ministry in DC? Anything that any church or community is facing all over America—you magnify that and make it much louder in DC. Very passionate people live in DC and they carry that into a marriage. What we’ve found is many are hesitant about marriage because they fear it might keep them from doing what they’re passionate about. Or, they step into marriage with another passionate person and that eventually starts to pull against each other. Another thing that’s unique about DC is that most people who live there are away from their own families. That creates something really beautiful for our church because the community that our church can offer is really beautiful. How did you and your husband meet? I grew up in an un-churched home. I had a blended home with a lot of remarriage and broken marriage. From a young age, I had a desire for a lifelong marriage. As I got to dating age, I was unsure if I had the tools for a healthy marriage. On the other hand, Joel was a pastor’s kid and his parents had an incredible marriage. He had examples all around him of lifelong committed marriages. We dated for three years and did a lot of work on the front end. We did pre-engagement counseling, not just pre-marriage counseling. We did that to work through our differences in background and history, but also our differences in personality. We are as different as night and day. We stepped into marriage as very different people with very different backgrounds that we had to work through.  What’s it like for a couple to have competing visions? For one, it’s just the schedules. Recently, Joel sat down with a couple that was struggling. They had a young child at home and they had made the duel career thing work. But becoming parents put a lot of pressure on them. The Dance Circle is a chapter that uses the metaphor about the partner dance—it’s about the counter balance where you lean away from the other and offer your weight or support so they can be set up for the next move. The whole idea is about how you can position your spouse to be used by God. A larger shared calling and a persistent commitment to one another allows us to work through difficult things. That’s my hope for couples—is that they can get a vision generationally for their marriage. How do you create a united purpose in marriage? Quite often the root about what is actually dividing a couple is actually different visions: different visions about parent a child, the role family should play, work life balance. I’ve had to ask God for a unified vision and that looks different at different times. Just like everyone has a unique thumbprint, we believe that you have a unique ‘marriage print.’ God has brought you together in a way that he could never do with any other couple. So how do we ask Him to reveal that to us? We believe it’s through prayer, and it sometimes takes time but he’ll reveal it to us. Joel and I started by identifying some common values. What are the things we both care a lot about? We started telling stories about values passed in our family and we realized we could pre-decide those for our kids. Those kind of evolved into more of a mantra/sentence. We say we want to give more than we receive. It looks different for different couples, but we identified them into a sentence we could say to each other. Over time, it evolved into a purpose. We say that a shared way of seeing leads to a shared way of doing. We highly encourage a regular purpose or vision retreat. We go every year for a few days of intentional prayer, planning and purpose. We have a resource for this for couples as well. What does praying together look like in a practical sense? First of all, Joel and I are way better at ‘praying for’ than ‘praying together’. Part of it is between just you and God. I think trying to increase your prayer over your spouse is a healthy first step. We also recommend some sort of a weekly touch point. For us, it’s been a Sunday night check in. We put a few key questions in our book to help with this. Then throughout the week it provides you opportunities for prayer over your spouse. Just start with some intentional questions. If it’s not comfortable to pray right there, don’t do that right away. It’d also be an incredible experiment for couples this week. Try every day to be much more intentional about giving eye contact or putting your hand on the arm of your spouse and see what happens. It’s very hard to remain angry when you’re looking into their eyes. Your one simple thing this week Try some intentional questions with your spouse and see what happens. You can start with, “Is there anything I can do this week that would help me care for you better?” Show Closing Thanks for joining us for the Married People Podcast. We hope you’ll subscribe to the podcast on iTunes and leave a review – they help us make the podcast better. This episode was brought to you by the Married People Membership—an affordable, monthly subscription that provides married couples like you a ton of great resources every month to help you do marriage better. That means new date nights, videos, ebooks, messages, and more available to you when you need it - all in one place at one low price. Go to our website to find out more about the Married People Membership.

Could your adolescent daughter be at risk of losing much of the hard-won self-confidence she developed in childhood? According to experts, probably so. In fact, most girls emerge from adolescence with poorer self-image and less self-confidence than boys – despite having similar levels of self-esteem as their male peers around age 10. Join Exceptional Parenting Podcast host, Stefanie Boucher, and Chief Program Officer at Girls Empowerment Network, Caroline Crawford, for a lively discussion about the factors that can damage girls’ well-being during adolescence and the things parents can do to now to empower their daughters and set them up for a lifetime of success.About Our Guest:For more than a decade, Caroline Crawford has mentored youth, and volunteered or worked with organizations that make a difference in the lives of young girls and boys. As the Director of Programs at Girls Empowerment Network, Caroline oversees teams in Austin and Houston. She empowers young females and helps them grow their self-confidence and self-worth as they navigate the pressures of girlhood. She appreciates that Girls Empowerment Network’s programs create a safe space for girls to be wholeheartedly vulnerable and authentic while exploring who they are and who they want to be. Caroline holds a Master of Science in Social Work from The University of Texas. Find out more about Caroline or the Girls Empowerment Network by exploring the following resources. Learn More: https://www.girlsempowermentnetwork.org/Get involved: https://www.girlsempowermentnetwork.org/get-involved/supporters/

Could your adolescent daughter be at risk of losing much of the hard-won self-confidence she developed in childhood? According to experts, probably so. In fact, most girls emerge from adolescence with poorer self-image and less self-confidence than boys – despite having similar levels of self-esteem as their male peers around age 10. Join Exceptional Parenting Podcast host, Stefanie Boucher, and Chief Program Officer at Girls Empowerment Network, Caroline Crawford, for a lively discussion about the factors that can damage girls’ well-being during adolescence and the things parents can do to now to empower their daughters and set them up for a lifetime of success.About Our Guest:For more than a decade, Caroline Crawford has mentored youth, and volunteered or worked with organizations that make a difference in the lives of young girls and boys. As the Director of Programs at Girls Empowerment Network, Caroline oversees teams in Austin and Houston. She empowers young females and helps them grow their self-confidence and self-worth as they navigate the pressures of girlhood. She appreciates that Girls Empowerment Network’s programs create a safe space for girls to be wholeheartedly vulnerable and authentic while exploring who they are and who they want to be. Caroline holds a Master of Science in Social Work from The University of Texas. Find out more about Caroline or the Girls Empowerment Network by exploring the following resources. Learn More: https://www.girlsempowermentnetwork.org/Get involved: https://www.girlsempowermentnetwork.org/get-involved/supporters/

About Our Guest For 20 years, Joscelyn Duffy has been creating communication that helps move the world forward into our individual and collective potential. As a co-developer of world-changing ideas, she has supported everyone from Fortune 500 companies and New York Times best-selling authors to new entrepreneurs. Her clients have been featured everywhere from “World’s Top” lists to Oprah. Author/Ghostwriter behind 15 books and regular contributor to international publications and podcasts, Joscelyn is on a mission to help entrepreneurs master their messages and create inimitable brands. With an open heart, Joscelyn and I hope you enjoy this conversation and share with one other person who might benefit from it.  --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/feisworld/support

The Fourth Annual Franchise Legal Series continues this week on Franchise Today. In this fourth of eight segments, host, Paul Segreto welcomes as his guest, Barry Heller, Partner at DLA Piper. Paul and Barry discuss the many aspects of franchise litigation including hot litigation issues and non-franchise litigation claims facing franchisors today. They also discuss dispute resolutions including options to consider when drafting the franchise agreement - Is arbitration or mediation best or most practical for the brand? The discussion also includes suggestions on how to avoid litigation. About Our Guest For almost 30 years, Barry Heller's practice has consisted almost exclusively of representing clients in franchise and distribution disputes throughout the country, both in litigation and arbitration. Much of his practice has focused on franchise termination matters, as well as on more complex franchise cases involving issues affecting the entire franchise system. He has handled cases involving, among other issues, termination, transfers, rights of first refusal, implied covenant of good faith and fair dealing, alternative distribution channels, covenants against competition, trademark infringement, product sourcing and approval, franchisee associations, and unfair competition. Mr. Heller is the former director of the Litigation and Dispute Resolution Division of the ABA Forum on Franchising. He has authored and lectured on franchise litigation issues, including conducting Legal Roundtable seminars in different cities for the International Franchise Association on franchise litigation matters. He was co-author of a manual entitled Franchise Litigation Claims of the Litigation Section of the District of Columbia Bar Association, for whom he conducted a seminar on the subject.