Podcast appearances and mentions of David Finkel

In this episode of Filmmaker Mixer, we sit down with David Finkel, the director of the Austin Jewish Film Festival, happening in just a few days! David shares what's in store for this year's festival, highlighting an incredible lineup of films that celebrate Jewish culture and stories from around the world. He takes us behind the scenes of notable screenings, including the powerful documentary Colleyville, which examines the 2022 Texas synagogue hostage crisis, and Guns and Moses, a fresh and provocative narrative feature by Salvador Litvak. Tune in for a sneak peek at these standout films and more as David explains how AJFF continues to bring unique and compelling stories to Austin audiences year after year.

Notes and Links to Aniefiok Epoudom's Work      For Episode 220, Pete welcomes Neef Epoudoum, and the two discuss, among other topics, his early reading and writing, varied fiction and nonfiction writers and their influences on him, the pull of creative nonfiction on him as he discovered favorite writers and their favorite writers, the ways in which he engenders trust with interview subjects, and salient themes and topic from his book, including the UK's Windrush Generation, the ways in which UK grime and rap have grown together and separately, the racism and classism that has shaped so much of modern UK grime and rap, the standout artists who have carved their names in UK music folklore, how these people are shaped by societal forces, and more.    Aniefiok “‘Neef” Ekpoudom is a writer and storyteller from South London whose work documents community and culture in contemporary Britain. His debut book Where We Come From: Rap Home and Hope in Modern Britain is a social history of British Rap. It will be released via Faber & Faber in August 2023. As a journalist, he writes longform essays and profiles for The Guardian, GQ and more. From charting a history of Black Football culture in South London to mapping the forces of migration and music that formed J Hus, his writing weaves social, cultural and narrative history to explore the current, lived realities of peoples across the UK. Aniefiok's writing has featured in a number of essay collections and anthologies, including #Merky Books titles Keisha The Sket (2021) and A New Formation: How Black Players Shaped The Modern Game (2022), as well as SAFE: On Black British Men Reclaiming Space (Trapeze, 2019). Aniefiok was named on the Forbes' 30 Under 30 List for Media & Marketing. He is a British Journalism Award winner for his work with The Guardian. He has also been named Culture Writer of the Year at the Freelance Writing Awards, and is a fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. He has worked with Nike, Netflix, Google, BBC, the Premier League, adidas, YouTube, Metallic Inc, COPA 90 and more. Buy Where We Come From: Rap, Home & Hope in Modern Britain   Aniefiok's Website     At about 3:20, Neef talks about his mindset being two weeks away from his book's publication and shares his experience in narrating the audiobook    At about 6:35, Pete shares glowing blurbs for Where We Come From from Caleb Azumah Nelson and Musa Okwonga   At about 7:15, Neef discusses places at which to buy his book, like Pages in Hackney, Seven Oaks Bookshop, and Libreria Bookshop   At about 8:05, Neef talks about his language and reading lives during his childhood   At about 10:50, Neef talks about the impact that US and UK rap had on him as a kid   At about 14:45, Neef talks about the ways in which US rap and its genres and subgenres were/are viewed in the US, and how UK rap has been blended with Jamaican Sound System and US hip hop   At about 17:00, Neef responds to Pete's question about his formation as a writer    At about 18:15, Neef traces his return to heavy reading in university and his exposure to creative nonfiction/New Journalism legends like Gay Talese and Joan Didion   At about 21:20, Neef talks about the contemporary writers who thrill him and challenge him, like Wright Thompson, Hanif Abdurraqib, David Finkel, Gary Smith, and Jacqueline Woodson    At about 26:25, Pete inquires about how Neef engenders trust from his interview subjects for his profiles    At about 29:30, Neef discusses his evolving goals that informed his book   At about 32:25, Neef responds with why he started the book at a show for Giggs   At about 36:35, Neef explains the importance of UK grime as using 140 beats per minute, as well as some forebears of UK rap and grime-the Windrush Generation and Jamaican Sound System    At about 42:30, Neef gives background on the amazing story of Cecil Morris and “Pirate Radio”    At about 47:05, Neef describes So Solid's garage music as a forebear of darker grime music that was to come    At about 49:30, Neef and Pete discuss parallels between more raw, honest American rap and some years later with Despa and in UK grime   At about 51:45, The two discuss the immigrant communities of South Wales that Neef so expertly charts when writing about Astroid Boys    At about 56:50, Neef gives background on how class often manifests in British life, and how writing the book changed the ways he saw class functioning   At about 1:00:33, Neef discusses the fusing of rap and grime and Cadet's and Despa's and others     At about 1:02:00, Neef talks about the power of Despa's “Meet the Artist” show   At about 1:04:30, Neef speaks to the legacy of Cadet after his tragic death in an auto accident   At about 1:09:20, Neef and Pete highlight how music helped with Pa Salieu's anxieties   At about 1:10:00, Neef and Pete discuss the book's last few chapters and the ways in which Neef depicts the ways in which music has changed    At about 1:12:35, Neef speaks to what he sees for the future of grime and rap and other UK music forms and highlights strong signs of continued substance in the music of current stars   At about 1:16:00, Neef speaks about “lower barriers to entry” in current music for women and others, “flattening the playing field” for those often ignored    At about 1:17:00, Neef speaks about exploring new projects, probably in fiction, and continuing to explore storytelling about contemporary    At about 1:18:00, Southampton FC shout out!    You can now subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcasts, and leave me a five-star review. You can also ask for the podcast by name using Alexa, and find the pod on Stitcher, Spotify, and on Amazon Music. Follow me on IG, where I'm @chillsatwillpodcast, or on Twitter, where I'm @chillsatwillpo1. You can watch this and other episodes on YouTube-watch and subscribe to The Chills at Will Podcast Channel. Please subscribe to both my YouTube Channel and my podcast while you're checking out this episode.    I am very excited that starting in late January with this episode, I will have two podcast episodes per month featured on the website of Chicago Review of Books. The audio will be posted, along with a written interview culled from the audio. A big thanks to Rachel León and Michael Welch at Chicago Review-I'm looking forward to the partnership!    Sign up now for The Chills at Will Podcast Patreon: it can be found at patreon.com/chillsatwillpodcastpeterriehl     Check out the page that describes the benefits of a Patreon membership, including cool swag and bonus episodes. Thanks in advance for supporting my one-man show, my DIY podcast and my extensive reading, research, editing, and promoting to keep this independent podcast pumping out high-quality content!    NEW MERCH! You can browse and buy here: https://www.etsy.com/shop/ChillsatWillPodcast    This is a passion project of mine, a DIY operation, and I'd love for your help in promoting what I'm convinced is a unique and spirited look at an often-ignored art form.    The intro song for The Chills at Will Podcast is “Wind Down” (Instrumental Version), and the other song played on this episode was “Hoops” (Instrumental)” by Matt Weidauer, and both songs are used through ArchesAudio.com.    Please tune in for Episode 221 with Martha Anne Toll, whose debut novel, THREE MUSES, was shortlisted for Gotham Book Prize and won the Petrichor Prize for Finely Crafted Fiction; has worked as a critic and author interviewer at NPR Books, the Washington Post, Pointe Magazine, The Millions, and elsewhere. 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The One where we review the Best Bits Of 2023 – Christmas Special - TG111 00:00:00 Introduction Here are your hosts, Roger and Pascal. This week we pick our top 3 from each segment of the show from 2023 and then pick our winners. That's over 140 marketing news items, over 35 content spotlights, more than 70 marketing tech and apps, 70+ historical events and anniversaries, an additional 17 film marketing campaigns reviewed, and let's not forget one of the highlights of the year episode 100 with talent manager Kate Edwards 00:06:11 In the News 3 news items each. Which will be the winning news? 00:16:56 Content Spotlights ROGER'S TOP 3 CONTENT SPOTLIGHTS OF 2023 Revolutionizing Flight! The Amazing Potential of the CFM RISE Engine – Mentour Pilot on YouTube: https://youtu.be/ojVNOj-q3SQ Why Learning to Write Well Is Still Important in the Age of AI by Jessica Stillman, Inc.com: https://www.inc.com/jessica-stillman/why-learning-to-write-well-is-still-important-in-age-of-ai.html Retracking of the Nemesis Rollercoaster at Alton Towers: https://youtu.be/boNPBJDAV-g and https://youtu.be/boNPBJDAV-g and https://youtu.be/wV7qOqYnVuY and finally: https://youtu.be/EjSzQhcq9Hw PASCAL'S TOP 3 CONTENT SPOTLIGHTS OF 2023 The One-Page Report You Should Always Have On Hand by David Finkel for Inc.com: https://www.inc.com/david-finkel/the-one-page-report-you-should-always-have-on-hand.html The Art of the Opening Scene – How to Start a Movie 6 Different Ways by Studio Binder, Robert Kiraz, Simona Clapan and team: https://youtu.be/Jw_ysaoVlt4 How as Marketing Changed over the Past Half-Century? An interview with Philip Kotler and Alexander Chernev co-authors of the 16th edition of the book ‘Marketing Management': https://insight.kellogg.northwestern.edu/article/how-has-marketing-changed-over-the-past-half-century 00:29:37 This Week in History We share our top 3 historical events and then choose the winners. 00:37:04 Marketing Tech and Apps ROGER'S TOP 3 MARKETING TECH & APPS OF 2023 BeatEdit detects the beats in your music and generates markers for them in your Premiere Pro timeline: https://aescripts.com/beatedit-for-premiere-pro/ DJI Osmo Pocket 3:

David Finkel, director of the Austin Jewish Film Festival, joins the show to chat about this year's festival and also gives tips on how filmmakers can improve their film festival submissions. Hosted by: Andrew Lamping and Jeff Stolhand Produced by: Melody Lopez Original Theme Music by: Stephen D. Bennett --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/filmmakermixer/message

The one about James Cameron and Presentation Storytelling, The Strategy One-pager, graphic design trends and the film Drive - TG93 00:00:00 Introduction Here are your hosts, Roger and Pascal. 00:01:57 In the News A selection of announcements and news releases from the world of marketing and technology that caught our attention. 00:15:43 Content Spotlights ROGER: Follow James Cameron's Storytelling Process to Build an Engaging PowerPoint Presentation: https://www.inc.com/carmine-gallo/follow-james-camerons-storytelling-process-to-build-an-engaging-powerpoint-presentation.html PASCAL: The One-Page Report You Should Always Have On Hand by David Finkel for Inc.com: https://www.inc.com/david-finkel/the-one-page-report-you-should-always-have-on-hand.html 00:31:36 Marketing Tech and Apps  ROGER: It's all about podcast audio: Riverside FM: https://riverside.fm/ Adobe Podcast Beta: https://podcast.adobe.com/enhance PASCAL: It's all about thinking about your content differently Scribe: https://scribehow.com/home: Turn any process into a step-by-step guide, instantly. Skill Blue Prints by Amazon: https://blueprints.amazon.com/bp/amzn.ask.bp.560100e2-ff88-496b-846c-6fb44445d5d0/en-US Let your followers hear the latest news and updates from your WordPress blog. 00:42:21 This Week in History Our selection of historical events and anniversaries from the world of science, technology and popular culture. 00:48:49 Creator Shout Outs ROGER: Daniel Netzel for his YouTube video on the correct chronology for the Memento Film: "Memento" in Chronological Order | The Dark Side of Leonard PASCAL: Philip VanDusen creative executive in strategic branding and graphic design and creator of the ‘15 Graphic Design Trends for 2023' video: 15 Graphic Design Trends for 2023 00:55:45 Film Marketing DRIVE (2011) Director: Nicolas Winding Refn Writers: Hossein Amini based on book by James Sallis Music by: Cliff Martinez + Johnny Jewel of Desire and Chromatics to score the...

Co-Artistic Director of The Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center, Wu Han is one of the most influential and accomplished classical musicians in the world today. In this episode, Wu Han reflects on her rigorous training as a child, the illusion of building mastery, how to become the ultimate teammate, and examining your why. Wu Han & David Finkel's website Sign up for Erik's weekly newsletter - Adaptation ______________________________________________________________ ABOUT THE BLUEPRINT PODCAST: The BluePrint Podcast is for busy professionals and Household CEOs who care deeply about their families, career, and health. Host Dr. Erik Korem distills cutting edge-science, leadership, and life skills into simple tactics optimized for your busy lifestyle and goals.   Dr. Korem interviews scientists, coaches, elite athletes, entrepreneurs, entertainers, and exceptional people to discuss science and practical skills you can implement in your life to become the most healthy, resilient, impactful version of yourself.   On a mission to equip people to pursue audacious goals, thrive in uncertainty, and live a healthy and fulfilled life, Dr. Erik Korem is a High Performance pioneer. He introduced sports science and athlete tracking technologies to collegiate and professional (NFL) football over a decade ago and has worked with the National Football League, Power-5 NCAA programs, gold-medal Olympians, Nike, and the United States Department of Defense.   Erik is an expert in sleep and stress resilience, and he is the Founder and CEO of AIM7, a wellness app that provides custom exercise recommendations to improve the outcomes of programs and workouts you already love. It unlocks existing data from wearables and other apps to provide empathetic and scientific guidance that's perfectly in tune with your mind and body.   SUPPORT & CONNECT   Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/erikkorem/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/ErikKorem LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/erik-korem-phd-19991734/ Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/erikkorem Website - https://www.erikkorem.com/ Newsletter - https://erikkoremhpcoach.activehosted.com/f/  ______________________________________________________________ QUOTES   “The key is using stress and adapting to it and improving. That's what high performance is to me, the ability to adapt rapidly so you can achieve your potential. There are five key pillars to creating the conditions for adaptability: sleep, exercise, mental resilience, nutrition, and community/relationships.” - Dr. Erik Korem   “I maybe have a different concept on leadership. To me, leading is a verb. If you're leading, you're a leader. If you're swimming you're a swimmer, if you're driving you're a driver. If you're leading you're by definition a leader. I define leading as being looked to in a particular moment to make a decision or perform an action based on your unique gifts and abilities. So by that definition, everybody is a leader. All rank and role really describe is how many people are hoping you get it right when it's your turn to wear the weight.” - Clint Bruce "Attention is the currency of performance." - Dr. Peter Haberl “That's what I've discovered in the lives of brilliant, prolific, healthy creatives, is that they have networks of people they leverage in the course of their work. That they learn from, that they were challenged by, that they gave great insight and purview into their own life and work, in such a way that they were able to receive feedback that helped them get better at what they do.” - Todd Henry "Restful and fulfilling sleep enables you to grow, adapt, and thrive. It creates the conditions for adaptation, so you can pursue audacious goals and thrive in uncertainty." - Dr. Erik Korem "Most exercise programs fail, not because the reps and sets are poorly designed, but because the program doesn't adjust for how much stress your body can adapt to that day!. That's why Dr. Chris Morris' research and practical application of fluid periodization is the key for unlocking your performance potential." - Dr. Erik KoremSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

Who's your ideal client and what's the biggest challenge they face?What are the common mistakes people make when trying to solve that problem?What is one valuable free action that our audience can implement that will help with that issue?What is one valuable free resource that you can direct people to that will help with that issue?What's the one question I should have asked you that would be of great value to our audience?When was the last time you experienced Goosebumps with your family and why?Free 30-Day Trial Business CoachingGet in touch with David: WebsiteLearn more about how Uwe helps in-demand professionals and their VIPs to get back their family mojo, double their financial security, and live in abundance in all areas of their life (without feeling guilty or constantly questioning themselves): Visit www.uwedockhorn.com. Or when you feel you'd be interested in working together you can Book A Chat With Uwe

Who's your ideal client and what's the biggest challenge they face?What are the common mistakes people make when trying to solve that problem?What is one valuable free action that our audience can implement that will help with that issue?What is one valuable free resource that you can direct people to that will help with that issue?What's the one question I should have asked you that would be of great value to our audience?When was the last time you experienced Goosebumps with your family and why?Free 30-Day Trial Business CoachingGet in touch with David:  WebsiteLearn more about how Uwe helps in-demand professionals and their VIPs to get back their family mojo, double their financial security, and live in abundance in all areas of their life (without feeling guilty or constantly questioning themselves): Visit www.uwedockhorn.com. Or when you feel you'd be interested in working together you can Book A Chat With Uwe

**Who You will Hear**Guest: Bill Rojack (Vice President, National Division at Midland Paper Company)Co-host: Luna Tang (Cloud Service Delivery Manager at Klopotek)Co-host: Dwayne Parris (Senior Consultant at Klopotek)In this episode, Bill Rojack joins us to present his deep insights into printing paper and supply chain issues. We start the conversation with Bill sharing his personal experience in the publishing paper industry, then he outlines and analyzes the challenges faced in printing, manufacturing, and distribution. He goes on to explain how publishers, printers, paper mills, and transportation companies should explore and restructure the relationship among the supply participants. In the end, as a strong advocate of sustainability, Bill shares some interesting facts about printing paper, the environment, recycling, and gives valuable advice on printing paper selection.We highly recommend this episode to those who are interested in but don't know much about paper, printing, and supply chain sectors, as Bill's lively presentation will help you get a good understanding of these aspects in general.For more information about paper industry news, commercial printing papers, packaging, and publication papers, you could reach out to Bill or visit the website of Midland Paper. In the meantime, we highly recommend to visit the following resources for more useful information on paper, the environment, and sustainability issues: Two Sides North America; Carbon Balanced Paper Program; Environmental Paper Assessment Tool (EPAT); Book Manufacturers Institute (BMI). Tell us what is going on with your publishing projects or business on Twitter (@Klopotek_AG), LinkedIn, or email us at podcast@klopotek.com.For more information about the Klopotek software solution, please write to info@klopotek.com, or register to receive emails from us on technology innovations & events from Klopotek. * The views, information, or opinions expressed in the program are solely those of the individuals involved and do not necessarily represent those of Klopotek and its employees. It is the goal of Klopotek Publishing Radio to support cultural diversity, the exchange of opinions, and to create an environment where the conversation of a global publishing industry can thrive.

"The payoff of working smarter, not harder"  For many busy professionals, work-life integration is a constant struggle, but according to the book, The Freedom Formula, How to Succeed in Business Without Sacrificing Your Family, health, or Life it doesn't have to be. The book was written by David Finkel, the CEO of Maui Mastermind, a business consulting group, and covers how professionals can make the best use of their time and succeed in their careers. We spoke with Gwen Walker, an advisor at MauiMastermind, about The Freedom Formula and we discussed the benefits of working smarter and not harder, how professionals can embrace this mindset, how to convince others to do the same and more.

Get to know these successful thought leaders and find out how they present themselves and their crafts as experts in their fields. David Finkel is the founder and CEO of Maui Masterminds. David has worked with over 100,000 business leaders, helping them grow their companies and get their lives back. If you're a business owner who says to yourself, “My business owns me. I don't own my business,” reach out to David Finkel at https://www.linkedin.com/in/DavidFinkel. Laleh Hancock is a leadership and entrepreneurial coach, professional services consultant, personal wellness mentor, and Founder and CEO of Belapemo, a global professional services company. She is a seasoned consultant with a proven track record of asking the questions no one is asking in order to quickly understand the current state of a business and where the organization wants to go. She partners with the leadership team to create possibilities beyond what has ever been considered. If you are the CEO of your org and you desire much more engagement than what there is today, you should consider reaching out to Laleh Hancock by visiting her website https://belapemo.com and going to https://www.linkedin.com/in/lalehhancock/. Dr. Karen Jacobson is a high-performance strategist and the President of Aligned Leadership Academy. She is also a business consultant, speaker, and author. She works with managers, entrepreneurs, executives, and professionals who are struggling to create high-performance teams. She integrates her diverse background, from being an Israeli Military commander, doctor, and champion ballroom dancer, in creating strategies and programs which are focused on amplifying the human capital in the workplace. If you're a leader of a group of people who are now remotely connected and you can't sleep at night because they need to be better but you don't know what to do, reach out to Dr. Karen Jacobson via https://drkarenjacobson.com/ or https://www.linkedin.com/in/DrKarenJacobson. Global Credibility Expert, Mitchell Levy is a TEDx speaker and international bestselling author of over 60 books. As The AHA Guy at AHAthat (https://ahathat.com), he helps to extract the genius from your head in a two-three hour interview so that his team can ghostwrite your book, publish it, distribute it, and make you an Amazon bestselling author in four months or less. He is an accomplished Entrepreneur who has created twenty businesses in Silicon Valley including four publishing companies that have published over 800 books. He's provided strategic consulting to over one hundred companies and has been chairman of the board of a NASDAQ-listed company. Mitchell has been happily married for thirty years and regularly spends four weeks in Europe with family and friends. Visit https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ for an archive of all the podcast episodes. Connect to Mitchell Levy on: Credibility Nation YouTube Channel: https://bit.ly/3kGA1LI Credibility Nation LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/credibilitynation/ Mitchell Levy Present AHA Moments: https://mitchelllevy.com/mitchelllevypresents/ Thought Leader Life: https://thoughtleaderlife.com Twitter: @Credtabulous Instagram: @credibilitynation Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

David Finkel is the Founder and CEO of Maui Mastermind®, one of the world's premier business coaching companies with thousands of clients worldwide. He is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eleven books, including SCALE (co-authored with Priceline.com Co-founder Jeff Hoffman) and The Freedom Formula: How to Succeed in Business Without Sacrificing Your Family, Health, or Life. David's syndicated business articles can be seen on Inc.com, Fastcompany.com, and Forbes.com and have garnered millions of readers and his work has been featured in several prestigious media outlets including the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine. He has helped hundreds of thousands of business leaders grow their companies and get their lives back. He lives in Jackson Hole, Wyoming with his wife and three sons and is the son of a physician.

Chip Scanlan is an award-winning former journalist who has authored or edited a dozen books. His newest book is Writers on Writing: Inside the Lives of 55 Distinguished Writers and Editors. Each writer or editor included in the book was asked the same four questions. The answers to those questions are enlightening to read. Included in the book are Susan Orlean, Dan Barry, Jan Winburn, David Finkel, Roy Peter Clark, and so many more. The book also includes ten writers who have been on this podcast. It's not just journalists featured in the book though. Scanlan included poets and fiction writers. He's covered the entire realm of writing. The end result? Narrative journalists aren't so different from poets after all. Ultimately, we're all just writers. Scanlan has written two journalism textbooks. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, NPR, and many other places. Two of his essays have been listed as “Notables” in Best American Essays. He publishes the newsletter and blog “Chip's Writing Lessons” and is a regular contributor to Nieman Storyboard. He formerly directed the writing program and the National Writer's Workshops at The Poynter Institute.

WELCOME BACK TO EPISODE 40! The guys had three awesome guests- David Finkel, Carson Beyer and Johnny Schmidt who are RAHS graduates and current members of the UW-Stout Football team. The guys also talk a little Green Bay Packers, Brewers and Wisconsin sports. THANK YOU FOR LISTENING AND PLEASE SHARE! --- This episode is sponsored by · Anchor: The easiest way to make a podcast. https://anchor.fm/app Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/mike-lennon4/support

'Scale': To Infinity And Beyond

Can you take 3-months off from your business? David Finkel can. Listen to David share how you can succeed in business without sacrificing your family, health, or life. You'll learn how to tame email, hire people, build systems, and enjoy more freedom. This is a super-fun interview with massive chucks of gold waiting for you to pick put and put into practice. Listen to David's Podcast: Scale Your Business Radio - https://mauimastermind.com/podcasts/. Get a copy of David's Toolkit and his most recent book, The Freedom Formula here.

Wafic Faour and David Finkel about Ethnic Cleansing in Palestine & U.S. Complicity; plus Ashley Smith about Biden's Program for Rehabilitating U.S. Capitalism.Vermonters for Justice in Palestine (https://vtjp.org/)Hosted by Traven LeyshonProduced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café)Music by David RovicsRecorded on May 18, 2021Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM

A Tribute to Returning Soldiers.

How do you launch, brand, build and distribute a 100% clean and ethical product line in the crowded wellness space? Especially when its primary ingredient is CBD?Our guest, Davina Kaonohi is the CEO and Co-Founder of ELĒMENT APOTHĒC, an innovative and purpose driven consumer brand focused on CBD-infused wellness and body care products, combining the healing powers of nature with the ingenuity of innovation in science. With a deep passion for creating good in the world, Davina’s vast experience in team building, branding, business strategy and operational management, along with her seasoned background as a founder and community builder, uniquely qualifies her to lead ELĒMENT APOTHĒC.Davina take us on a "broad spectrum" tour of her full spectrum CBD CPG startup journey:* name creation* brand promise* product sourcing* B Corp filing* packaging* manufacturing* Cost of Goods Sold* distribution00:00​ - Meet Davina and hear her full circle cannabis story featuring her Dad10:55​ - Origin Story for ELĒMENT APOTHĒC - hooray for Aunt Lola!19:25​ - What is COA and why is it important for CBD brands?21:10​ - Name creation + packaging details24:00​ - Co-founder advice (David Finkel: https://thriveglobal.com/stories/30-m...​28:00​ - Finding the right manufacturer / co-packer "positioning ourselves for where we wanted to be not where were were at today."31:25​ - Choosing the launch product lineup - brilliant advice!!53:29​ - Cost of Goods Sold - what you MUST KNOW when you're building a consumer product business! (I had an Andelicious Moment!!)To learn more about Element Apothec and purchase their extraordinary products, visit their website here: https://elementapothec.com/​Follow and Connect with Davina and Element Apothec here:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/elem...​ and https://www.linkedin.com/in/dkaonohi/​ Twitter: https://twitter.com/EApothec​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/elementapot...​Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/ElementApothec​Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ElementApothec​Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande Lyonshttp://andelyons.com​#videochannelforstartups​ #howtolaunchacbdproduct​ANDELICIOUS RESOURCES:JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVE​AGORAPULSEMy favorite digital marketing dashboard is AGORAPULSE – it’s the best platform to manage your social media posts and presence! Learn more here: http://www.agorapulse.com?via=ande17​STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/​Visit Nicky’s CANVA Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...​Nicky’s Canva Presentation Playlist: http://bit.ly/Canva_Present_Playlist​GET VIDEO/AUDIO TRANSCRIBED WITH OTTER.AIhttps://bit.ly/StartupLifeOtter​ CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com​ https://twitter.com/AndeLyons​https://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew​... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/​ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/​ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/​ https://angel.co/andelyons​ TikTok: @andelyons

Is your startup legally sound and protected? Are you sure?Our guest, Sankeetha Selvarajah, is the Managing Attorney of Selvarajah Law P.C., a civil transactional firm located in Boston and New York. Her clients are within the cannabis, technology, real estate, food service, e-commerce sectors as well as, retail manufacturers.She is also the Founder of STARTUP DOX, a Done-With-You platform designed to assist founders with cost-effective legal options for Corporate formation and document generation, all with Attorney Review.Sankeetha shares valuable business advice for new business owners to help them create a sustainable, profitable business, along with explanations of typical legal documentation. She also shares the most common mistakes newbie founders make and must avoid!To learn more about Sankeetha's outstanding startup legal services (hire her!), please visit: https://selvalaw.com​ and https://www.thestartupdox.com/​DISCLAIMER: Folks: This recorded conversation is for informational purposes only and is not legal advice. Transmission of the conversation is not intended to create, and viewing and/or listening does not constitute, an attorney-client relationship. Viewers and listeners are advised to seek professional help if they are concerned about a specific legal issue.Here's the wonderful David Finkel post Sankeetha mentioned: "30 Must Ask Questions Before You Form Any Partnership: https://www.inc.com/david-finkel/30-m...​00:00​ - meet Sankeetha!08:20​ - what is the ideal startup Dream Team?12:00​ - why you want an attorney on your side from Day 121:00​ - which entity is right for your startup? DBA/LLC/C-Corp/S-Corp26:55​ - which entity do investors prefer?28:20​ - why you need a Standard Operating Procedures document - SOP - thanks viewer Charlie Stiver of https://www.phytorite.com!​29:55​ - co-founder agreement - MUST WATCH!!33:30​ - convertible debt vs. equity instruments35:40​ - the Equity Test: time, resources, skillset, money39:00​ - trademarks and patents42:10​ - labor law and HR compliance - check out the IRS 20 question test to make sure your freelancer is a 1099 or should be classified as an employee: https://www.lakeshoreacct.com/blog/wh...​54:50​ - exit strategy - Sankeetha's practice asks you to think about your exit when you form your business!56:40​ - Stitch that on a Pillow: NO VERBAL AGREEMENTS - EVERTo learn more about Sankeetha's outstanding legal services (hire her!), please visit: https://selvalaw.com​ and https://www.thestartupdox.com​Follow via:Twitter: https://twitter.com/SelvaBizLaw​ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thestartupdox/​Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/selvabizlaw/​Please connect with Sankeetha on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sselvarajah/​Thank you for carving out time to improve your Founder Game - when you do better, your business will do better - cheers!Ande Lyonshttp://andelyons.com​#legaldocsforstartups​ #bestyoutubechannelforstartups​ANDELICIOUS ADVICE:For more DIY startup advice, please subscribe to my Newsletter, Let’s Stick Together – because it takes a village to raise a business: http://bit.ly/AndeliciousNewsletter​ JOIN STARTUP LIFE LIVE MEETUP GROUPGet an alert whenever I post a new show!https://bit.ly/StartupLifeLIVE​STREAMYARD OVERLAYS AND GRAPHIC DESIGNNicky Pasquierhttps://www.virtuosoassistant.co.uk/​Visit Nicky’s CANVA Playlist: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list...​Nicky’s Canva Presentation Playlist: http://bit.ly/Canva_Present_Playlist​GET VIDEO/AUDIO TRANSCRIBED WITH OTTER.AIhttps://bit.ly/StartupLifeOtter​ CONNECT WITH ME ONLINE: https://andelyons.com​ https://twitter.com/AndeLyons​https://www.facebook.com/StartupLifew​... https://www.linkedin.com/in/andelyons/​ https://www.instagram.com/ande_lyons/​ https://www.pinterest.com/andelyons/​ https://angel.co/andelyons​ TikTok: @andelyons

David Finkel, CEO of Maui Master, business coach and best-selling author of 12 business and financial books, returns to the show to share how to build owner independence. Listen to Finkel chat about being a business versus an entrepreneur, how to stay consistent, strategic depth, and much more. Key takeaways: Don’t make decisions and never revisit them When we have fear, uncertainty and doubt (F.U.D factor) we go into a mode of survival, which can fixate decisions instead of getting broader perspectives Know how to work with your grow players and your role players Your staff needs time to get stuff done The most successful companies have CEOs that don’t have many tasks Most people can’t sustain by winging it Even if you’re alone in your business you can’t be alone in the journey

Lyndsay & I Discuss: How to Present Yourself as an Expert Why People Prefer Dealing with Experts How to Raise Capital for Real Estate Deals     Relevant Episodes: (There are 170 Content Packed Interviews in Total)  Lead Conversion System for Direct to Seller RE Investors with Dan Schwartz https://youtu.be/e-gpBfN5SU8 How to Succeed in Business WITHOUT Sacrificing you Family, Health, or Life with David Finkel https://youtu.be/psFd7EfI8R4 Leveraging Legal Counsel to Grow Your Business with Denice Gierach https://youtu.be/2kXBU4ClEuk   Resources Mentioned in this Episode: www.SmoothBusinessGrowth.com  

Vermont State Sen. Anthony Pollina shares the Progressive Party's assessment of the Vermont elections and plans for the Burlington mayoral race. Eric Blanc says We Were Right To Celebrate Trump's Defeat. Now We'll Have To Stay in the Streets for the Next 4 Years, and David Finkel talks about After the Trumpster Fire.Hosted by Traven LeyshonProduced by Anthony Apodaca (host of ABC Café) and Dayna StimsonMusic by David RovicsRecorded on November 10, 2020Podcast: https://equaltimeradio.transistor.fm/Radio: https://equaltimeradio.com/Listen live at: WDEV 96.1FM/550AM

What You'll Learn From This Episode:Avoiding self-employment trapHow can you have a business that doesn't 'own you' but you own businessHow 'Controlitis. by far is the number one constraint to people growing beyond just themselvesRelated Links and Resources:I've arranged my staff to give them a full month of free coaching. This is straight-up coaching; two one-to-one sessions, several small group sessions. Access to several of our best tools and they can get that at www.mauimastermind.com/freemonthSummary:David Finkel is the Wall Street Journal and Business Week best-selling author of 12 business books. David wrote his current bestseller, The Freedom Formula: How to Succeed in Business Without Sacrificing Your Family, Health, or Life. He co-authored, SCALE, with Jeff Hoffman, co-founder of Priceline.com.David is the CEO of Maui Mastermind®, North America's premier business coaching company which helps business owners grow their companies and get their lives back. Over the past 20 years, David and the other Maui coaches and advisors have personally scaled companies with an aggregate value of $63 billion.His syndicated column on Inc.com and Forbes.com garner million readers every year.  His work has been featured in such prestigious media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine.Here are the highlights of this episode:2:46 David's ideal Client: Three levels of building a business; level 1 start-up, level 2 owner relying company, and level 3 is an owner independent company. We tend to work with people in that      Owner reliance stage. They started to build a business but it's totally circumscribed by them. Generally, sales of maybe half a million to 20 million dollars a year. They want to grow but more importantly than just growth or at least equal importantly, they want their lives back.3:23 Problem David helps solve: I'm going to give you two. First one I called it 'self-employment trap', they build this business but it all revolves around them, all roads lead back to them. They don't have a business; they have a self-employment job. The second one is that they start to break part of that but they are still relying on what I called 'hit-by-a-bus' test. If something happens to them or if one key person in their company, they are in a world of hurt within 30 to 60 days. Their business is out of business. That's generally the biggest problem that we solve.4:09 Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to David: It boils down to two things; stress and overwhelm. They have businesses that work, it's profitable, they've been doing this for a while, but everything falls back to them. Before we start working with a client, before we work with them, 60 to 80 hours or more per week is a very typical work week. Generally, if they take any vacation before we work with them, it's not really a vacation. They still check in everyday with email, text, and other app feeds. And so, the questions now become "how can they actually have a business that doesn't own them but they own their business?" that's generally what it is that they're feeling. They're feeling out of control with this part, they feel like their business literally has this 'hooks' into them. They're appreciative that it supported them as well as it has but there's this low level that if something happens to them, their businesses is gone. And they're really feeling overwhelmed and tired before we even start working with them.5:19 What are some of the common mistakes that folks make before finding David and his solution:  I got two quick ones; they biggest one is that they're trying to 'brute force' their solution, "oh if I need to grow, I'm going to grow by working harder, longer work nights, on the weekends, I'll bring a little bit of work on my vacation because no one's calling me, I can get the real work done.." and the problem is, there's always this level that the ceiling of success with that.

What You’ll Learn From This Episode:Avoiding self-employment trapHow can you have a business that doesn't 'own you' but you own businessHow 'Controlitis. by far is the number one constraint to people growing beyond just themselvesRelated Links and Resources:I've arranged my staff to give them a full month of free coaching. This is straight-up coaching; two one-to-one sessions, several small group sessions. Access to several of our best tools and they can get that at www.mauimastermind.com/freemonthSummary:David Finkel is the Wall Street Journal and Business Week best-selling author of 12 business books. David wrote his current bestseller, The Freedom Formula: How to Succeed in Business Without Sacrificing Your Family, Health, or Life. He co-authored, SCALE, with Jeff Hoffman, co-founder of Priceline.com.David is the CEO of Maui Mastermind®, North America’s premier business coaching company which helps business owners grow their companies and get their lives back. Over the past 20 years, David and the other Maui coaches and advisors have personally scaled companies with an aggregate value of $63 billion.His syndicated column on Inc.com and Forbes.com garner million readers every year.  His work has been featured in such prestigious media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine.Here are the highlights of this episode:2:46 David’s ideal Client: Three levels of building a business; level 1 start-up, level 2 owner relying company, and level 3 is an owner independent company. We tend to work with people in that      Owner reliance stage. They started to build a business but it's totally circumscribed by them. Generally, sales of maybe half a million to 20 million dollars a year. They want to grow but more importantly than just growth or at least equal importantly, they want their lives back.3:23 Problem David helps solve: I'm going to give you two. First one I called it 'self-employment trap', they build this business but it all revolves around them, all roads lead back to them. They don't have a business; they have a self-employment job. The second one is that they start to break part of that but they are still relying on what I called 'hit-by-a-bus' test. If something happens to them or if one key person in their company, they are in a world of hurt within 30 to 60 days. Their business is out of business. That's generally the biggest problem that we solve.4:09 Typical symptoms that clients do before reaching out to David: It boils down to two things; stress and overwhelm. They have businesses that work, it's profitable, they've been doing this for a while, but everything falls back to them. Before we start working with a client, before we work with them, 60 to 80 hours or more per week is a very typical work week. Generally, if they take any vacation before we work with them, it's not really a vacation. They still check in everyday with email, text, and other app feeds. And so, the questions now become "how can they actually have a business that doesn't own them but they own their business?" that's generally what it is that they’re feeling. They're feeling out of control with this part, they feel like their business literally has this 'hooks' into them. They're appreciative that it supported them as well as it has but there's this low level that if something happens to them, their businesses is gone. And they're really feeling overwhelmed and tired before we even start working with them.5:19 What are some of the common mistakes that folks make before finding David and his solution:  I got two quick ones; they biggest one is that they're trying to 'brute force' their solution, "oh if I need to grow, I'm going to grow by working harder, longer work nights, on the weekends, I'll bring a little bit of work on my vacation because no one's calling me, I can get the real work done.." and the problem is, there's always this level that the ceiling of success with that.

In This Episode You Will Learn About: Building a business while living your life Prioritizing the actions that get you the most results Focus days and push days Hiring the right people for the right tasks Role players vs growth players   Resources: mauimastermind.com LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/davidfinkel Facebook Group: facebook.com/groups/mauimastermindcommunity Show Notes: You know that I am so into talking about business while also being able to preserve your life. If you have big dreams about business but you’re scared because you may not be able to manage being fulfilled and taking care of yourself, you have to listen to this conversation with David Finkel. As someone who has helped entrepreneurs and CEOs scale their businesses while simultaneously scaling back their involvement in the company, he is an expert on optimizing your business AND your life.   Question Highlights:   How did you begin to focus on scaling businesses without sacrificing your life? How do you know what to take action on first? Can you talk about the importance of recharging? How to manage hiring people when it first feels like more work?     Guest Bio: David Finkel is author of The Freedom Formula and co-author of, SCALE: 7 Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back (written with Priceline.com co-founder Jeff Hoffman), and one of the nation’s most respected business thinkers. A Wall Street Journal and Business Week bestselling author of 12 business books, David’s a regular columnist for Inc.com, FastCompany.com, and Forbes.com reaching over 1M readers each year.     Over the past 20 years, David and the Maui coaching and advisor team have scaled and sold over $62 billion of businesses.        Maui Mastermind helps business owners build companies they love owning again--for the value they create, the lives they touch, the profits they earn, the team they employ, and the freedom they enjoy.  Their clients have enjoyed an average annual growth rate five times higher than the average privately held company, while at the same time reducing their companies’ reliance on them as the owners by an average of 191% percent. An ex-Olympic-level athlete turned business multi-millionaire, David and his wife Heather, and their three sons live a very simple life in Jackson Hole, Wyoming.

Journalist Dr. Atef Abdel Gawad discussed “ What The Middle East Would Look Like With Arab Recognition Of Israel?" with a group of distinguished guests: London-based American journalist Tom Arms, Mr. Said Arikat, who is a long time Washington based Palestinian journalist, and David Finkel, who is a steering committee member of Jewish Voice for Peace-Detroit chapter. He is managing editor of the bimonthly journal AGAINST THE CURRENT, published in Detroit. The episode was broadcast: 4/9/2020 US Arab Radio can be heard on wnzk 690 AM, WDMV 700 AM, and WPAT 930 AM. Please visit: www.facebook.com/USArabRadio/ Web site : arabradio.us/ Online Radio: www.radio.net/s/usarabradio Twitter : twitter.com/USArabRadio Instagram : www.instagram.com/usarabradio/ Youtube : US Arab Radio

David & I Discuss: Classes/Category of Passive Investor Real Estate as a BUSINESS Allocation to Real Estate as Asset Class When to Seek Financial Advice Relevant Episodes: (There are 162 Content Packed Interviews in Total)  How to Take HUGE Depreciation using Cost Segregation with Yonah Weiss https://youtu.be/JkOsXTAZR2A How to Succeed in Business WITHOUT Sacrificing you Family, Health, or Life with David Finkel https://youtu.be/psFd7EfI8R4  Selecting the BEST Passive Multi-Family Real Estate Investments with Travis Watts https://youtu.be/QG04-G6cknU Negotiating No Money Down Commercial Real Estate Deals with Peter Conti https://youtu.be/wnLlM0Si92w   Resources Mentioned in this Episode: www.BlueSkyWa.com/realestate www.DavidBlain.com  

Laurence & I Discuss: Cycle of a Landlord-Move in to Move Out Automate every step of the process Auto-pay tenants ACH Credit Report, Background, & Lease Signing Online   Relevant Episodes: (There are 161 Content Packed Interviews in Total)  From Corp America to Owning $42 Million in Multi-Family Real Estate with Agostino Pintus How to Succeed in Business WITHOUT Sacrificing you Family, Health, or Life with David Finkel Being a Professional Passive Investor with Dr. Jeff Anzalone Owning & Operating 4,500 Apartment Units with Mark Kenney   Resources Mentioned in this Episode: www.Avail.co  

David & I Discuss: Time/Effort Economy vs Value Economy Finding Leverage Points in Your Business Leveraging an Assistant properly The Freedom Formula-Scaling Your Business   Relevant Episodes: (There are 159 Content Packed Interviews in Total)  Why Single Family is Better than Multi-Family for Building Wealth with Greg Rand Selecting the BEST Passive Multi-Family Real Estate Investments with Travis Watts Get FREE ACH Payment Processing on Rentals with Eachan Fletcher Negotiating No Money Down Commercial Real Estate Deals with Peter Conti Resources Mentioned in this Episode: www.MauiMastermind.com  

Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY Outsource your busyness. Ever feel like there’s just not enough time in the day to get your work done? Do you feel like you’re bogged down? In the weeds? Do you wish you could hire someone to do the time consuming, repetitive or annoying tasks that you find yourself doing that steal your time away from your highest-value work? There is a way! In this episode, I share with you how I’ve outsourced not only in my businesses but also used outsourcing in past jobs that I’ve had so that I could do less low-value work and more high-value, results-generating work. Tips, tactics, examples, and strategies are all packed into this episode. Start learning how to outsource your life today! If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode-- as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode-- at JimHarshawJr.com/Action/. Links referenced in this episode: Tim Ferriss: http://jimharshawjr.com/246/ & http://jimharshawjr.com/247/ David Finkel: http://jimharshawjr.com/233/ Let's connect: Website | Facebook | Twitter About Your Host Jim Harshaw My name is Jim Harshaw. And I know where you’re at. You’re working hard and qualified for what you do but you aren’t getting what you want. You have plans on getting to the C-suite or launching a business but ultimate success seems as far away today as ever. You’re in the right place because you can get there from here. And I can help. Who I Am I’m a speaker, coach, and former Division I All-American wrestler that helps motivated former athletes to reach their full potential by getting clarity on what they really want and taking aggressive action to lead their ideal life not just despite their prior failures but because of them. I’m a husband and father of four. And I’m a serial entrepreneur. I’ve launched multiple successful businesses as well as the obligatory failed one. I’ve been the executive director of a non-profit and have raised millions of dollars. I’ve worked in sales. I’ve even been a Division I head coach. While I was born in a blue-collar home I have spent my life surrounded by Olympians, CEO’s, and millionaires. Jim Rohn said, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” I’ve been lucky. I’ve learned the habits of successful people and guess what. You’re just like them. I know because I know your type. You’re programmed for hard work, which is a prerequisite for success, but you’ve never been shown how to use what you know to create the life you want with the tools you have. I will show you how. Why You Are Here You've worked hard to achieve greatness. You’ve set goals and maybe even set records. You’ve definitely failed and you’ve at some point found yourself questioning if you were on the right track. You need to understand this: You are far more prepared to succeed than those who’ve not tried, competed, struggled, and overcome as you have. That’s the value of your education as someone who aims high. You are prepared to be as successful as your wildest dreams will allow. Here I will teach you, with the help of brilliant minds that have been shaped by failure, struggle, and adversity, to be who you want to be. I sense that you want this because you have read this far. To take the next step today, click here. FOLLOW JIM Website | Facebook | Twitter

David Finkel, Maui Mastermind – The Sharkpreneur podcast with Seth Greene Episode 439 David Finkel David Finkel is author of The Freedom Formula and co-author of, SCALE: 7 Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back (written with Priceline.com co-founder Jeff Hoffman), and one of the nation’s most respected business thinkers. A Wall Street Journal and Business Week bestselling author of 12 business books, David’s a regular columnist for Inc.com, FastCompany.com, and Forbes.com reaching over 1M readers each year.    Over the past 20 years, David and the Maui coaching and advisor team have scaled and sold over $62 billion of businesses.    Maui Mastermind helps business owners build companies they love owning again--for the value they create, the lives they touch, the profits they earn, the team they employ, and the freedom they enjoy. Their clients have enjoyed an average annual growth rate five time higher than the average privately held company, while at the same time reducing their companies’ reliance on them as the owners by an average of 191% percent. An ex-Olympic-level athlete turned business multi-millionaire, David and his wife Heather, and their three sons live a very simple life in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. Listen to this informative Sharkpreneur episode with David Finkel about thriving during times of crisis instead of merely getting through. Here are some of the beneficial topics covered on this week’s show: ●    Why times of crisis provide you an opportunity to compress trial and error. ●    How you need a structured way to look at what is going on. ●    Why you need to implement scenario training to be less reactionary. ●    How you need to prepare for the worst thing that can happen. ●    Why you should spend more on strategic spending expenses now. Connect with David: Guest Contact Info Twitter @DavidFinkel Facebook facebook.com/groups/mauimastermindcommunity LinkedIn linkedin.com/company/maui-mastermind Links Mentioned: mauimastermind.com Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

As we, business owners, continue to hustle and do right by our business, we sometimes forget to keep that balance with the other aspects of our lives, particularly our family and even our health. How can we achieve that without sacrificing one over the other? In this episode, Meny Hoffman gets the answers from his guest, David Finkel—a Wall Street Journal bestselling author, syndicated columnist for Inc.com, Forbes.com, and CEOWorld.com, and the CEO of Maui Mastermind. Through his book, The Freedom Formula, David shares how we can build a company faster that is not about the time and effort but about the value created. He talks about working smarter, not harder, and passing it on to your teams so that you can build a company that is independent of any one person. On achieving that work-life balance, David then gives some practical tips that would help you go about creating the time and space to focus on your highest value.

The arrival of David Finkel's children was a complete shock to him. He never changed a diaper, never fed a child, and totally had no idea what to do. He was very busy being a father. At the same time, he was still owning a business. Not wanting to miss those precious moments with his children, David realized that he needed to make a change in the way he ran his business. He needed to run the business more intelligently. This led to the creation of the freedom formula. Applying what he has learned from this experience, David is now able to successfully manage his time and energy. As a result, David is able to achieve better business success and at the same time have a better life.

Sometimes running a business can take over your life, especially if you built it from the ground up. It doesn’t have to be that way. Many of us become entrepreneurs because we want to steer clear of the 9 to 5 job. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. But if you’re working hours on end on your business, technically, you’re still treating it like your job. My guest, David Finkel, is here to help entrepreneurs find their way to a healthy work-life balance. David is the co-author of SCALE, and a Wall Street Journal and Business Week bestselling author of 12 business books. He’s also the CEO of Maui Mastermind®️, one of the nation’s premier business coaching companies. He and his coaching team have scaled and sold over $62 billion in businesses. Tune in! The show notes, including the transcript and checklist to this episode, are at getyourselfoptimized.com/252 

Keenan Live Episode 5 with WSJ bestselling author, David Finkel! In this episode, they cover topics from Finkel’s book, The Freedom Formula: How to Succeed in Business Without Sacrificing Your Family, Health, or Life. Check out this episode to learn why working longer and harder doesn’t pay off, why people sacrifice everything for the sake of career, what it means to operationalize working smarter, and more!

This episode features #ThoughtLeaders and #Experts David Finkel, Mary Lippitt and Jason SaffordContinue Reading → The post #329, 330, 331: David Finkel, Mary Lippitt, Jason Safford w/ Mitchell Levy on Thought Leader Life Credibility appeared first on FIR Podcast Network.

On today's show, I talk with David Finkel, time management and productivity expert, and author of the book, The Freedom Formula: How to Succeed in Business without Sacrificing Your Family, Health, or Life. We're all searching for ways to get more productive, get smarter about how we spend our time, and avoid burnout. I don't know about you, but ironically, I feel busier than ever during this COVID-19 lockdown, and I'm searching for ways to get smarter about how I spend my time. In this episode, you'll get practical advice on how to get more out of your day and become a better investor, leader, spouse, parent, and friend. IN THIS EPISODE, YOU'LL LEARN:It's not about how much time we spend on work, it's about how we spend our timeHow to structure our day more like Warren BuffettThe difference between the “Time & Effort Economy” and the “Value Economy”Why we should divide our days up between Focus Days and Push daysWhy we should think of time management as a buffet meal and eat our veggies firstThe five obstacles that are holding us back from being super-productive and how to overcome themThree tips to improving how we manage emailWhy employing an assistant is a super-power, but you have to use them wiselyBOOKS AND RESOURCESThe Freedom Formula: How to Succeed in Business without Sacrificing Your Family, Health or Life by David FinkelEnough: True Measures of Money, Business, and Life by Jack BogleDiscover CMC Markets, the ultimate platform for online trading on mobile and desktop.Capital One. This is Banking Reimagined.CONNECT WITH DAVID FINKELDavid's Twitter AccountDavid's WebsiteGET IN TOUCH WITH SEAN MURRAYSean's Twitter AccountSean's LinkedIn AccountEmail: Sean@TheInvestorsPodcast.comWebsite: RealTime Performance, Inc.Weekly Newsletter: RealTime Performance NewsletterHELP US OUT!Help us reach new listeners by leaving us a rating and review! It takes less than 30 seconds and really helps our show grow, which allows us to bring on even better guests for you all! Thank you – we really appreciate it!Read the full transcript and show notes here.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

On this episode of the Process Breakdown Podcast, the guest speaker David Finkel, an ex-Olympic–level athlete turned multi-million dollar coaching guru, speaks on the mistakes to avoid and gems to use when scaling up, and also on how to effectively streamline your business processes using the Pareto (80/20) principle. He shares how he has used […] The post Scaling a Business? Here is the Secret You Need to Know! appeared first on SweetProcess.

Work/Life Balance. How is yours? Good? Decent? Middling? Let’s be honest, most of us suck at it. Well, David Finkel doesn’t. David is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author of 11 books and CEO of Maui Mastermind. His new book,  The Freedom Formula: How to Succeed in Business Without Sacrificing Your Family, Health, or Life is all […]

This week features a conversation between Andy and bestselling author and business guru, David Finkel.   Tune in to hear Andy discuss David’s take on the traditional "80/20” business rule as explained in his new book The Freedom Formula.   If you have a question you’d like Andy to answer on THE PROFESSIONAL NOTICER, please contact us at: Email: TheProfessionalNoticer@AndyAndrews.com Facebook.com/AndyAndrews Twitter.com/AndyAndrews Instagram.com/AndyAndrewsAuthor

Former Olympic-level athlete turned business multi-millionaire, David Finkel is an entrepreneur and the CEO and founder of the business coaching company, Maui Mastermind®. He has helped over 100,000 clients with buying, building, and selling business assets. David has written twelve business books, including his latest, The Freedom Formula: How to Succeed In Business Without Sacrificing Your Family, Health or Life, and is a Wall Street Journal and Business Week best-selling author. Publications including Fast Company, USAToday, Wall Street Journal, and Inc have featured David's insights. David joins me today to discuss how to maximize your time as a business owner and ensure that you stay focused and prioritize the most valuable items on your to-do list. He shares the concept of “controlitis” and ways to better manage the surplus of inputs flying at you every day. David highlights how to effectively work with a personal assistant and tools and processes to implement to streamline your process. He also explains why it's important for entrepreneurs to intentionally set aside personal time for themselves as well as his thoughts on achieving work-life balance. “We don't get paid for hours. We don't get paid for effort. We don't get paid for attitude. We get paid for the results that we generate.” - David Finkel This week on the SmallBizChat Podcast: Resources Mentioned: Connect with David Finkel: Fix Your Business! Are you ready to run your business with intention? Ready to create a business that allows you to live your dream life and take those dream vacations you deserve? Then you need a copy of my latest book: Fix Your Business: A 90-Day Plan to Get Back Your Life and Remove Chaos From Your Business. Fix Your Business gives you concrete advice on the problem areas many small business owners face as well as the step-by-step process to find solutions so you can live the life of your dreams. It's time to take back control of your business and change how your business is run. Order your copy of Fix Your Business and design your business - and life - with intention. Let's End Small Business Failure - Together! Thanks for tuning into this week's episode of the SmallBizChat Podcast - the show on a mission to improve small business success. If you enjoyed this episode, head over to Apple Podcasts, subscribe to the show, and leave us a rating and review. Help us spread the word and end small business failure by sharing your favorite episodes with your friends and colleagues on social media. Visit our website or follow us on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Instagram, or YouTube for more great content, tips, and strategies to improve your small business.See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

In this episode, Melinda Emerson and guest David Finkel discuss the concept of a "Focus Day", overcoming challenges in the time and effort economy, and building strategic depth in business. They also delve into effective task management, work-life balance, and time management strategies. The episode concludes with a quickfire question round with David Finkel.

You’ve most likely head of the Pareto Principle (aka the 80/20 Principle) – the idea that 20% of your effort can generate 80% of your results. But does it really help you improve to get your best productivity and focus you on your most impactful growth activities. On Amplify Your Success Podcast episode 176, I’m joined by David Finkel, who wrote a book on why you should forget the 80-20 rule and discover your one percent activities. His theory is that it’s the one percent that truly drives your best performance and accelerates the RIGHT activities that move the revenue and results needle. You’ll want to listen in and discover how impactful this TINY shift in your focus can make. Be sure to join the Amplify Your Success Community to learn more. Key Takeaways What the single most dangerous productivity trap that locks small business owners into zero results while constantly being busy. Why the 80/20 principle doesn’t go far enough to help an entrepreneur improve their focus and actions. How to analyze your efforts to understand your sweet spot (the effort that leads to your BEST results.) Why every business owner should be taking strategically timed vacations to improve motivation, increase your focus and grow your business with more ease.   About The Guest Serial entrepreneur David Finkel is the CEO of Maui Mastermind®, one of the world’s premier business coaching companies, which has worked with over 100,000 business leaders, helping them grow their companies and get their lives back. David’s clients enjoy an average annual growth rate five times higher than the average privately held company in the United States, and at the same time, these business leaders have dramatically decreased their working hours. Over the past 20 years, David and the other Maui coaches and advisors have personally started and scaled companies with an aggregate value of $63 billion.   David eats his own cooking which has allowed him the time to start, scale, and sell multiple successful ventures, be on the boards of several other companies, all while holding his working hours to under 40 hours per week and taking 10 weeks of vacation each year.   The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eleven books, David’s syndicated business articles on Inc.com, Fastcompany.com, and Forbes.com have garnered millions of readers. His work has been featured in such prestigious media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine.   Resources Mentioned in This Episode: Buy David’s Book, The Freedom Formula and Unlock the FREE Toolkit https://freedomtoolkit.com/ Amplify Your Success Community https://amplifyyoursuccesscommunity.com/

Welcome to Scale Your Business radio with your host David Finkel and Jeff Hoffman…

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Story: Die Irakkrieg-Veteranen Adam, Will und Solo kehren nach einem Einsatz, bei dem ein Kamerad getötet und ein anderer schwer verletzt wurde, traumatisiert und von ihrer Schuld geplagt nach Kansas zurück. Sie fühlen sich zu Hause fremd und können nicht vergessen. Nachdem Will sich das Leben nimmt, versuchen Adam und Solo sich ihren Dämonen zu stellen. Doch sämtliche, heillos überbelegten Veteranen-Hospitale haben monatelange Wartezeiten. Und ihren Frauen verschweigen sie das Erlebte. Nach und nach begreifen sie, dass es das Gespräch über ihre Schuldgefühle und das Erlebte ist, was ihnen den Weg ebnet, wirklich wieder nach Hause zu kommen und in ihr altes Leben zurückzukehren.

Story: Die Irakkrieg-Veteranen Adam, Will und Solo kehren nach einem Einsatz, bei dem ein Kamerad getötet und ein anderer schwer verletzt wurde, traumatisiert und von ihrer Schuld geplagt nach Kansas zurück. Sie fühlen sich zu Hause fremd und können nicht vergessen. Nachdem Will sich das Leben nimmt, versuchen Adam und Solo sich ihren Dämonen zu stellen. Doch sämtliche, heillos überbelegten Veteranen-Hospitale haben monatelange Wartezeiten. Und ihren Frauen verschweigen sie das Erlebte. Nach und nach begreifen sie, dass es das Gespräch über ihre Schuldgefühle und das Erlebte ist, was ihnen den Weg ebnet, wirklich wieder nach Hause zu kommen und in ihr altes Leben zurückzukehren.

From the Book: "Build a Business, Not a Job" by David Finkel.  ★10 Best Entrepreneurship Books: https://www.10books.org ★10 Best Marketing Books: https://www.10books.org ★Watch my interview with David Finkel where we talk about the biggest lessons from the book "Build a Business Not a Job": https://youtu.be/8qQnmAy-LOI ★Summaries of 50 Greatest Entrepreneurship Books: https://www.2000books.com/startup  

How to build a business that works without you How to create systems and processes to scale your business How to turn a business that feels like a job into a business that works on autopilot

Many of us believe that there is no success without sacrifice. But is that true?As a self-proclaimed Freedomist, and author of a book about having your own Freedom Plan I happen to know that you can have a thriving business and a lifestyle you love at the same time.But it takes vision and then planning, discipline and systems to make sure you stay true to that vision.I’m always keen to learn from others as I love to layer on top of what I’ve already done and figured out, with more wisdom and strategies that work.So when David Finkel got in touch to talk about his Freedom Formula I was all ears.David is the CEO of Maui Mastermind, one of the world’s premier business coaching companies, which has worked with over 100,000 business leaders, helping them grow their companies and get their lives back.David’s clients enjoy an average annual growth rate five times higher than the average privately held company in the United States, and at the same time, these business leaders have dramatically decreased their working hours.Over the past 20 years, David and the other Maui coaches and advisors have personally started and scaled companies with an aggregate value of $63 billion.David eats his own cooking which has allowed him the time to start, scale, and sell multiple successful ventures, be on the boards of several other companies, all while holding his working hours to under 40 hours per week and taking 10 weeks of vacation each year.The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eleven books, David’s syndicated business articles on Inc.com, Fastcompany.com, and Forbes.com have garnered millions of readers.His work has been featured in such prestigious media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine.Impressed yet? You should be as David really does walk his talk.In this episode, David reveals:Why working longer and harder doesn’t pay off (and what actually does)Why the 80-20 principle doesn’t go far enough (and how to take it to its most productive extreme)How to operationalize the work/life balanceHow to escape the “time and effort” economyHow to structure the day and week to reclaim five or more hours each week in usable blocksWhat strategies to utilize to recover time and attention from distractionsPodcast ResourcesYou can learn more about David Finkel on MauiMastermind.comHow to Scale and Grow Your Business with David FinkelThe Freedom Formula: How to Succeed in Business Without Sacrificing Your Family, Health, or Life See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

Action Plan: https://jimharshawjr.com/ACTION Free Clarity Call: https://jimharshawjr.com/APPLY Get your time back! You check email the moment you lift your head off the pillow in the morning. You bring work with you on vacation, sneak glances at your smartphone during family dinners, and take business calls and texts at your kid’s sports games. It’s as if you’ve been forced to make a choice between your company or your life, sacrificing time for yourself and your family for the sake of career success. But it doesn’t have to be that way. In The Freedom Formula, Wall Street Journal bestselling author and successful entrepreneur David Finkel will help you operationalize working smarter. No fluff, no theory, Finkel shares the detailed blueprint to create maximum value for your company without working nights, weekends, or while on “vacation.” David Finkel is the CEO of Maui Mastermind®, one of the world’s premier business coaching companies, which has worked with over 100,000 business leaders, helping them grow their companies and get their lives back. David’s work has been featured in media outlets such as The Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine. If you don’t have time to listen to the entire episode or if you hear something that you like but don’t have time to write it down, be sure to grab your free copy of the Action Plan from this episode-- as well as get access to action plans from EVERY episode-- at JimHarshawJr.com/Action/. Let's connect: Website | Facebook | Twitter About Your Host Jim Harshaw My name is Jim Harshaw. And I know where you’re at. You’re working hard and qualified for what you do but you aren’t getting what you want. You have plans on getting to the C-suite or launching a business but ultimate success seems as far away today as ever. You’re in the right place because you can get there from here. And I can help. Who I Am I’m a speaker, coach, and former Division I All-American wrestler that helps motivated former athletes to reach their full potential by getting clarity on what they really want and taking aggressive action to lead their ideal life not just despite their prior failures but because of them. I’m a husband and father of four. And I’m a serial entrepreneur. I’ve launched multiple successful businesses as well as the obligatory failed one. I’ve been the executive director of a non-profit and have raised millions of dollars. I’ve worked in sales. I’ve even been a Division I head coach. While I was born in a blue-collar home I have spent my life surrounded by Olympians, CEO’s and millionaires. Jim Rohn said, “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.” I’ve been lucky. I’ve learned the habits of successful people and guess what. You’re just like them. I know because I know your type. You’re programmed for hard work, which is a prerequisite for success, but you’ve never been shown how to use what you know to create the life you want with the tools you have. I will show you how. Why You Are Here You've worked hard to achieve greatness. You’ve set goals and maybe even set records. You’ve definitely failed and you’ve at some point found yourself questioning if you were on the right track. You need to understand this: You are far more prepared to succeed than those who’ve not tried, competed, struggled and overcome like you have. That’s the value of your education as someone who aims high. You are prepared to be as successful as your wildest dreams will allow. Here I will teach you, with the help of brilliant minds that have been shaped by failure, struggle, and adversity, to be who you want to be. I sense that you want this because you have read this far. To take the next step today, click here. FOLLOW JIM Website | Facebook | Twitter

Over the past 20 years, David and the other Maui coaches and advisors have personally started and scaled companies with an aggregate value of $63 billion.

One of the things that make an impact on our ability to have freedom while we run a business is focusing on our highest leverage points. How do we identify the activities and processes that produce quick and valuable results? How do we narrow down to the one or two things in our businesses that actually move the needle? How do we limit ourselves to a one-page strategic plan?

David Finkel is a Wall Street Journal bestselling author and successful entrepreneur. An ex-Olympic-level athlete turned business multi-millionaire, David is an American success story. He is co-author of, SCALE: 7 Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back, and one of the nation’s most respected business thinkers. A Wall Street Journal and Business Week bestselling author of over 12 business and financial books, his how-to business and financial articles have appeared in over 6,500 periodicals across the United States. David is also Founder and CEO of Maui Mastermind, a business coaching company helping businesses successfully scale their companies. His most recent book, The Freedom Formula: How to Succeed in Business Without Sacrificing Your Family, Health or Life offers a simple, proven recipe to create more value in less time. It's a radical new approach to structuring your and your team's priorities and time in order to reclaim hours of your day--and the freedom to live your life, not just your job. He speaks with us about training your staff, avoiding Controlitis and creating systems.   www.freedomtoolkit.com www.mauimastermind.com   The Rundown Writing Olympics Single Family Commercial RE Freedom Formula Training Asset Allocation Controlitis Command & Control I Don’t Know What Do You Think? UBS Strategic Depth Feast or Famine Manage The Manager Economic Occupancy Rolling Plan Of Action Drip, Don’t Drown Gentle Pressure Applied Relentlessly Evolving Systems Overcomplication Keywords Enterprise Software Video Content Personal Assistants LOTR Cutting The Drama Feeding The Beast Spectrum of Capability Empowering Questions Basic Human Needs Practicing What You Preach We Eat Our Own Cooking Culture Reinforcement Donate and help us feed hungry kids! Only a few days left!: https://virtualfooddrive.secondharvestetn.org/drives/322/teams/320   Subscribe to our Youtube Channel for lots of great content!   Get tickets to our next Multifamily Mastery Event in Orlando!

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Is your career running your life, or are you running your career? Listen in this week while Ash talks with David Finkel about productivity and how to start working more strategically in the workplace.  David is a business owner, coach and Wall Street Journal Best Selling Author filled with knowledge to share.  They walk through changing 5 areas within your career to reach productivity and success in a sustainable way. Right out of the gate, David shares a powerful tip on how to build a schedule to drive improvements in your life today.    You have likely heard the saying, “work smarter, not harder” but then wonder, how to actually do it.  David breaks down actionable steps to work smarter and create value in the face of high standards and the overbearing demands in today’s workplace. Part of working smarter is learning how to manage yourself.  David and Ash work through how to take control of not only your job but also yourself.  It doesn’t stop there, once you understand how to make yourself work smarter it’s time to spread this around.  Manage a team of employees?  Not everyone can, nor should be, lead the exact same way.  Listen in to capture tools to set yourself and your team up for success.  A large part of this is understanding what individuals really want, and hint: it’s more than the number on their paycheck.  Don’t forget to stick around for post-episode notes with Ash to learn all about your zone of genius!   In This Episode, You Will Learn: What a focus day and a push day are, and how to use them in your job. When you should and should not use email. How to better understand the team you lead or are a part of. How to stay relevant in the adapting workplace.   Resources: The Freedom Formula: How to Succeed in Business Without Sacrificing Your Family, Health, or Life by David Finkel   Where To Find David Finkel: www.freedomtoolkit.com   Promotion: Want to land a job you love?  Visit youturnpodcast.com/joboffer

John interviews business coach and bestselling author David Finkel. Finkel discusses his latest book, The Freedom Formula, in which he advocates for a move away from the time and effort economy and towards the value economy.

On today's episode, Seth speaks to David Finkel, CEO of Maui Mastermind, about how to scale and grow your business so you can save your time and make more money. He also shares the biggest lesson he learned by plateauing in his first business and how he can overcome this. David eats his own cooking which has allowed him the time to start, scale, and sell multiple successful ventures, be on the boards of several other companies, all while holding his working hours to under 40 hours per week and taking 10 weeks of vacation each year. The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eleven books, David’s syndicated business articles on Inc.com, Fastcompany.com, and Forbes.com have garnered millions of readers. His work has been featured in such prestigious media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine. Maui Mastermind is one of the world’s premier business coaching companies, which has worked with over 100,000 business leaders, helping them grow their companies and get their lives back. David’s clients enjoy an average annual growth rate five times higher than the average privately held company in the United States, and at the same time, these business leaders have dramatically decreased their working hours. Over the past 20 years, David and the other Maui coaches and advisors have personally started and scaled companies with an aggregate value of $63 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Oscar, an Ex-Division 1 college tennis athlete turned entrepreneur, founder and CEO of his own company, has helped thousands of clients from all over the world in the past 20 years.  His passion for business has led him to work directly with David Finkel, CEO of Maui Mastermind, to deliver the "Build a Business NOT a Job" message through one-on-one coaching, as well as speaking and helping business owners grow their business without sacrificing their lives. As a business, real estate, and financial investor, he is always looking for opportunities to "Build Wealth Outside of Your Business."     One of Oscar's passions is continually building up and motivating others to understand that family, faith, joy, quality of life, and financial success can all be enjoyed without sacrificing one for the other. Oscar has travelled extensively around the world to foster business relationships, speak at international events and create strategic relationships for his business ventures.     Oscar is married to his wife, business partner, and best friend, Andrea. They love, besides their daughter Mila, traveling the world for weeks at a time, particularly to South America and Europe. Oscar is currently working on his first book, which he plans to release by 2020.    He speaks with us about systems, the 4 D’s and the time/value matrix.   mauimastermind.com   The Rundown Tennis Getting Started Limiting Beliefs Keep the Hunger Shifting Mindset Creating A Business Lasting Value Partnerships Avoid Getting Stuck Formulate an Objective Transactions Pay The Bills Equity Makes You Rich Cashflow Investor Mistakes 3 Pillars of Real Estate The 4 D’s Simplify Time/Value Matrix Systems Top Grading Scaling For Efficiency Sharing Brilliance On-boarding There Long Haul Professional Part-Timers Avoid The Shiny Core Values Habits For Success Working Above The Line Focus Days Prayer Tools Book Recommendations Oscar Walks Into A Bar Subscribe to our Youtube Channel for lots of great content!   Get tickets to our next Multifamily Mastery Event in Orlando!

In the episode, I sit down with business legend, David Finkel, the Founder and CEO of Maui Mastermind. David has helped over 100,000 Maui Mastermind clients buy, build, and sell billions of dollars of business assets. An ex-Olympic-level athlete turned business multi-millionaire, David is an American success story. He has scaled over $60+ Billion dollars in businesses. He’s a master at systems, has co-authored some great books including the recent "The Freedom Formula", and is one of America’s most respected business thinkers. He comes on to talk about family, freedom, business scaling, business advice, and more! This is a CAN'T MISS EPISODE. Key Points Discussed: A master at building businesses (02:01) A family man and managing $60 billion worth of scaling and building businesses (04:33) Overcoming the sense of not being enough (10:18) A little bit of humility is good for all of us (14:44) How travel helps in figuring out problems (23:01) Building an owner-independent company (33:39) What to do with your time when you have an owner-independent company (41:59) The investments after making a lot of money (51:52) You can find the transcripts and more at www.thinkdifferenttheory.com/117 Additional Resources: The Freedom Formula By David Finkel www.FreedomToolkit.com Less is More By Jason Jennings -- Be sure to follow me on Instagram @joshforti Subscribe to the podcast on Apple, Spotify, Google, Stitcher, or anywhere else you listen to your podcasts. You can find this episode plus all the previous episode here. Be sure to grab a copy of The Mindshift Playbook here. If you haven't already, please rate and review the podcast on Apple Podcasts!

Building a successful company and career doesn’t mean sacrificing your family, health, or life. You check email the moment you lift your head off the pillow in the morning. You bring work with you on vacation, sneak glances at your smart phone during family dinners, and take business calls and texts at your kid’s sports games. It’s as if you’ve been forced to make a choice between your company or your life, sacrificing time for yourself and family for the sake of career success. But it doesn’t have to be that way. The most successful business leaders have learned to bust through the direct one-to-one relationship between hours worked and value created by refocusing their company, department, or team’s best talent and attention on their highest value activities—generating hundreds, even thousands, of hours of value in the process. In The Freedom Formula, Wall Street Journal bestselling author and successful entrepreneur David Finkel will help you operationalize working smarter. No fluff, no theory, Finkel shares the detailed blueprint to create maximum value for your company without working nights, weekends, or while on “vacation.” You’ll learn: Why working longer and harder doesn’t pay off (and what actually does) Why the 80-20 principle doesn’t go far enough (and how to take it to its most productive extreme) How to escape the Time and Effort Economy How to structure your day and week so that you reclaim five or more hours each week in usable blocks of your best time How to leverage the five Freedom Accelerators to get your life back faster And much more! Whether you’re a business owner, top executive, key manager—or aspire to be one—The Freedom Formula offers a radical new approach to structuring your time and priorities (and your team’s) in order to reclaim hours of your day—and the freedom to live your life, not just your job.

This list is from INC.Com. Written by David Finkel a professional business coach. Here is a quick list of the simple things you can do to increase your company's gross and operating profit margins.  Speed up your design cycle (Decision Making).  This can allow you to accomplish more tasks in half the time, potentially increasing your profits over 30 percent. The faster you can make a decision the more efficient your team can become. Eliminate tasks and activities that don't add value to the company or customer.  Every dollar you save by eliminating the cost of things that don't add value to your company drops directly to your bottom line. Increase pricing.  If you bill hourly, review your billing rates and push them higher.  If you charge per product, look for ways you can command a higher price.  Could you bundle more value into a package?  Improve your marketing and sales scripting to effectively sell at a higher price?  Or could you just boldly increase your pricing?  Most farms/businesses set their prices when their business was first launched, and since they were so hungry for business, they set pricing levels low. Over time, the business likely only made nominal increases to pricing every few years, but rarely did the owner ever sit down and fundamentally rethink his or her pricing model. Well take a close look at your pricing now. Regularly review your administrative and operational staff levels closely.  Let your revenues grow faster than you’re hiring. If you have underutilized staff create methods of task that can add to your bottom line. Shorten your sales cycle.  How can you close your sale faster?  This will decrease your sales cost per transaction and free up a lot of hidden cash flow that previously was locked up in your sales staff. – biggest ones are early season discounts, interest expenses, and product condition. Increase the dollar value of every sales transaction.  Ask, How can I get each customer transaction to be for a larger dollar amount?"  What upsells, cross sells, or resales could you strategically implement?  What package offers could you test and introduce? Do the trucking yourself Manage quality (in the meat, grains, etc) Deliver to final destination Deliver on their schedule Beware the steep cost of attrition/retention. Customer retention is a strategic expense if spent wisely.  How can you increase your customer retention? Landlords Private Meat Sales Grain Merchandisers Employees Feed your winning sales people more leads (even if that means you starve your lower performing sales people of leads.)  This is not a time to be "fair", but to be strategic.  If every lead you give to John is worth $2,100 and every lead you give to Sarah is worth $3,200, then you've got to take this into account when you divide leads. Be transparent about this and let it be a spark to help John learn how to increase his own dollar value per company lead given to him. Think of this with employees. If one employee is better at a task, give them the option for overtime and send the others home. More worth your money. 9. Strategically map out systems. Look for ways to educate your staff on the ideal use of their time with your product or service. 10. Shift a cost from a fixed to a variable expense to give yourself greater flexibility.  This is a way to protect your cash flow.  It is extremely important for unproven tactics and strategies.  Flex leases, variable rate loans (inverted now), basis contracts. 11. Shift a cost from a variable to a fixed where the value is proven.  Make this shift only when you can negotiate a substantial price savings by doing so. Fertilizer, seed, insurance, interest rates (now) 12. Consistently look for ways to lower your fixed overhead.  Scrutinize your base expenses to eliminate non-strategic expenses that just don't add value to the company or to the customer. 13. Negotiate hard.  Take the time to plan out your negotiation strategically.  Create competition for your dollars.  Create a list of concessions you want, with extras for you to trade off.  Research the market to better understand the best deal you can expect.  Even hire an experienced negotiator to help you make the purchase on the best price and terms you can.  If the asset you're buying for your business is large enough, the ROI on your negotiation work can be immense. 14. Get clear on all the costs of inventory: cost of capital; storage; insurance; etc.  This will help you make informed stocking levels. – placing insurance premium equivalents into a reserve account can add up over the years and create a pool of income generating self-insurance. 15. Set optimal inventory levels and stick to them.  Constantly be on the lookout for ways to safely reduce your inventory levels.  If you have inventory you're unlikely to sell, scrap or donate it so that you can free up the space and write off the inventory.

My guest in this episode is serial entrepreneur David Finkel who is the CEO of Maui Mastermind®, one of the world’s premier business coaching companies, which has worked with over 100,000 business leaders, helping them grow their companies and get their lives back. David’s clients enjoy an average annual growth rate five times higher than the average privately held company in the United States, and at the same time, these business leaders have dramatically decreased their working hours. Over the past 20 years, David and the other Maui coaches and advisors have personally started and scaled companies with an aggregate value of $63 billion. I have 3 Cashflow Ninja community announcements: I just created a free Facebook Group for all of our listeners, you can go to www.cashflowninja.com/facebook and join our group. You can also find us on Facebook searching "Cashflow Ninja Community". If you have found what we do valuable here and want to support us, there are two ways to do it. Please go to Itunes and subscribe, rate and review our show. This helps with Itunes algorithms and will help other people find the show. Please send us a video testimonial recorded with your smartphone to info@cashflowninja.com. We are building out a new website and would love to feature our listeners. The top 10 videos will receive Cashflow Ninja SWAG and will be featured on the new Cashflow Ninja website. If you are interested in joining our investor's group, you can go to cashflowninja.com/investorsgroup and fill out an application form or e-mail me at info@cashflowninja.com to start the discussion to see if you are a good fit for our group. If you are in the Philadelphia/Bucks County and Southern New Jersey area, we are hosting a live investors meetup event every month in Newtown, PA. For more information on the monthly event and information on how to join us at our next event, you can go to www.cashflowninja.com/events. Interview Links: Maui Mastermind If you have enjoyed our podcast, please share with friends and family Please Subscribe, Rate, and Review on Itunes so more people can find us! Support Our Sponsors Producers Wealth, create, protect & multiply your wealth in ANY Economy. Asym Capital, achieve asymmetric returns through recession-resistant real estate.   Norada Real Estate, create real wealth and passive monthly cash flow.   The Real Asset Investor, alternative cash flow investments.   Goldsilver, buy physical gold & silver to hold as wealth insurance.   Cashflow Gold & Silver, learn how to create income streams from your Gold & Silver Investments.   Property Profits, how to buy & profit from prime real estate.   Audible, download any audiobook for FREE when you try Audible for 30 days.   Thanks so much for joining me again. Have some feedback you’d like to share? Leave a note in the comment section below! If you enjoyed this episode, please share it using the social media buttons you see at the bottom of the post!   Also, please leave an honest review for the Cashflow Ninja Podcast on iTunes. Ratings and reviews are extremely helpful and greatly appreciated! They do matter in the rankings of the show, and I read each and every one of them.   And finally, don’t forget to subscribe to the show on iTunes to get automatic updates, please follow me on twitter @mclaubscher and Instagram, @thecashflowninja.   Until next time! Live a life of passion and purpose on YOUR terms,   M.C. Laubscher

David Finkel helped over 100,000 Maui Mastermind clients buy, build, and sell billions of dollars of business assets. An ex-Olympic-level athlete turned business multi-millionaire, David is an American success story. He is co-author of, SCALE: 7 Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back, and one of the nation’s most respected business thinkers. A Wall Street Journal and Business Week bestselling author of over 11 business and financial books, his how-to business and financial articles have appeared in over 6,500 periodicals across the United States. David is Founder and CEO of Maui Mastermind. He talks with us about strategic depth, control and the Olympics. https://mauimastermind.com/jakeandgino   The Rundown Student Successes Olympics Getting Started Selling His Company Scaling Roadblocks Control Deal Junkies Relinquishing Control Mindset Mechanics What Do You Think? Writing Partnership Build A Business 3 Stages of A Business “Imma” Mentality Business Pitfalls Control vs Controls Strategic Depth Systems Investor Relations Habits for Success Subscribe to our Youtube Channel for lots of great content! Get tickets to our next Multifamily Mastery Event in Orlando!

On today's episode, Seth speaks to David Finkel, CEO of Maui Mastermind, about how to scale and grow your business so you can save your time and make more money. He also shares the biggest lesson he learned by plateauing in his first business and how he can overcome this. David eats his own cooking which has allowed him the time to start, scale, and sell multiple successful ventures, be on the boards of several other companies, all while holding his working hours to under 40 hours per week and taking 10 weeks of vacation each year. The Wall Street Journal bestselling author of eleven books, David’s syndicated business articles on Inc.com, Fastcompany.com, and Forbes.com have garnered millions of readers. His work has been featured in such prestigious media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine. Maui Mastermind is one of the world’s premier business coaching companies, which has worked with over 100,000 business leaders, helping them grow their companies and get their lives back. David’s clients enjoy an average annual growth rate five times higher than the average privately held company in the United States, and at the same time, these business leaders have dramatically decreased their working hours. Over the past 20 years, David and the other Maui coaches and advisors have personally started and scaled companies with an aggregate value of $63 billion. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

My guest this episode is the brilliant business consultant, David Finkel. David is the founder and CEO of Maui Mastermind which has helped over 100,000 clients buy, build, and sell billions of dollars of business assets. Maui Mastermind is the nation’s premier business coaching company helping businesses successfully scale their companies that measure success by two metrics: growth, and freedom. Maui Mastermind's average client’s business has grown by over 32.7% per year. Their average client increases owner-independence by 194.5%! An ex-Olympic-level athlete turned business multi-millionaire, David is an American success story. He is co-author of, SCALE: 7 Proven Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back, and one of the nation’s most respected business thinkers. A Wall Street Journal and Business Week bestselling author of over 11 business and financial books, his how-to business and financial articles have appeared in over 6,500 periodicals across the United States.

In this episode…At what point did you realize you needed to find more balance?What advice would you give to the entrepreneur who is burnt out? How can we fall in love with our businesses again?What keeps you going professionally?What three ideas would you most want the listeners to take with them that would help begin building a better business?For more information about David, please visit his website at https://mauimastermind.com/.

Welcome to Scale Your Business radio with your host David Finkel and Jeff Hoffman...

Many coaches/consultants believe our clients need understand the abstract concept behind the action we want them to take. Yet the fact is, the more information we give people the less action they take. How has information overload literally changed the game in coaching/consulting? How do we distill abstract concepts, big ideas and broad strokes down so someone can actually take the actions that get them results? How do we build momentum in our business while staying flexible to changing conditions?

Thank You for Your Service - DreamWorks Pictures' Thank You for Your Service follows a group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq who struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield. Starring an ensemble cast led by Miles Teller, Haley Bennett, Joe Cole, Amy Schumer, Beulah Koale, Scott Haze, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Brad Beyer, Omar J. Dorsey and Jayson Warner Smith, the drama is based on the bestselling book by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author David Finkel. Jason Hall, who wrote the screenplay of American Sniper, makes his directorial debut with Thank You for Your Service and also serves as its screenwriter. Jon Kilik (The Hunger Games series, Babel) produces the film, while Ann Ruark (Biutiful) and Jane Evans (Sin City) executive produces.

Thank You for Your Service - DreamWorks Pictures' Thank You for Your Service follows a group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq who struggle to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield. Starring an ensemble cast led by Miles Teller, Haley Bennett, Joe Cole, Amy Schumer, Beulah Koale, Scott Haze, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Brad Beyer, Omar J. Dorsey and Jayson Warner Smith, the drama is based on the bestselling book by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author David Finkel. Jason Hall, who wrote the screenplay of American Sniper, makes his directorial debut with Thank You for Your Service and also serves as its screenwriter. Jon Kilik (The Hunger Games series, Babel) produces the film, while Ann Ruark (Biutiful) and Jane Evans (Sin City) executive produces.

This short episode is a book review of Thank You for Your Service by David Finkel. The book follows the lives of wounded, injured and ill Iraq war veterans and their families struggling to survive the after-war. Mick reviews the book and gives it a rating on our new 'Carls' scale.  Grab a book & crack on here. Get your show swag here or support the show here.

GRP 99-Our guest for this weeks episode is Jason Hall. Jason wrote the screen play for "American Sniper" and is the director for "Thank You For Your Service". His latest film is based on the book of the same title written by David Finkel. It's centered around Adam Schumann a U.S. Army Combat veteran and some of the final moments of this last deployment into Iraq with a focus on his return home. This movie highlights the struggle that some combat veterans face upon returning from war not only with the physical and mental damage , but in getting help from Veterans Affairs. Jason shared a funny story about how he met Navy SEAL Sniper Chris Kyle. We talked about what it was like working behind the scenes for this film, and some of the issues that are faced by combat veterans. Enjoy.  0:00-Episode overview 3:06-Jason Hall's career in Hollywood 5:47-How Jason met Navy SEAL Sniper Chris Kyle 17:57-Entering the window of a human brain that has undergone traumatic brain injury but doing so on a massive scale. Helping turn the corner on these issues.  Follow my co-host and my pages on social media. Links below. Global Recon: www.Globalrecon.net https://www.instagram.com/igrecon https://www.instagram.com/blackopsmatter www.twitter.com/igrecon https://www.facebook.com/GlobalReconPodcast/ HP Lefler: https://www.instagram.com/4runner.freyja Chantel Taylor: https://www.instagram.com/mission_critical https://www.instagram.com/altern8rv Music provided by Caspian: www.caspianmusic.net

The bottom line of this episode is this: If you can identify with the experience of coming home from war or you want to better understand that experience, you should see the new film "Thank You For Your Service." When you go, be prepared for something powerful and heartbreaking, but also something necessary. In this episode, we hear from Jason Hall, the writer and director of the film, and Adam Schumann, the Army veteran played in the film by Miles Teller. The movie is based on the book of the same name by David Finkel and it tells the story of members of an Army unit once they’ve come home and left the military, only to do battle with the memories of their combat and the trauma of their experiences.

Jason Hall is an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter for Clint Eastwood's Academy Award-winning film, American Sniper. Jason's film directing debut comes this week as the movie Thank You For Your Service hits the box office.  DreamWorks Pictures' Thank You for Your Service follows a group of U.S. soldiers returning from Iraq who struggles to integrate back into family and civilian life, while living with the memory of a war that threatens to destroy them long after they've left the battlefield. Starring an ensemble cast led by Miles Teller, Haley Bennett, Joe Cole, Amy Schumer, Beulah Koale, Scott Haze, Keisha Castle-Hughes, Brad Beyer, Omar J. Dorsey and Jayson Warner Smith, the drama is based on the bestselling book by Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and author David Finkel. Jason Hall, who wrote the screenplay of American Sniper, makes his directorial debut with Thank You for Your Service and also serves as its screenwriter. Jason Hall was also a champion wrestler in high school and college. He discusses the humorous story of Bradley Cooper instigating a wrestling match and Navy SEAL on the set of American Sniper. Listen to the episode to find out who won. 

Here's a 1 minute highlight from one of our Exit Coach Network Shows. Find the full interview at www.ExitCoachRadio.com -- just click "Exit Coach Network" in the "LISTEN" section and click on the show name to hear the full interview! Transcript:  David: The only way you can scale past a certain point, is by letting go of that control, and so many business owners we see were scared to let go, to actually let decision making power go to other people. It's almost like we identify so closely with our business, Bill, that we can't imagine letting anyone else really have some of those reins, and until we can let that part go, we really are the limiting factor for our own company. I mean, it can't scale past us if we only have people that leverage us instead of people that actually own parts of the business, not literally in terms of equity, but in terms of emotionally and responsibility-wise, owning pieces of that business and making decisions for them.      Want more control of your business growth? Invest 15 minutes and get a FREE "Value Builder Road Map" at www.BizGrowth123.com

Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist for The Washington Post and MacArthur Genius Grant recipient - David Frankel - checks-in to discuss how his time imbedded in Afghanistan changed his view of "war art". Why was "Restrepo" a greater struggle for him than "The Hurt Locker"? Which fantasies do war movies get correct, and what realities can they never possibly portray?

SHOW NOTES    David is an ex-Olympic level athlete turned business multimillionaire. He is a Wall Street Journal and Business Week best- selling author of 9 business and financial books, including co-authoring SCALE with Priceline.com co-founder Jeff Hoffman. David is the founder and CEO of Maui Mastermind®, one of the world's premier business coaching company which has worked with over 100,000 business owners, helping them grow their companies and get their lives back. Davids clients enjoy an average annual growth rate of 64.2% while at the same time increase their companies Owner Independence by an average of 97.4% per year. Over the past 20 years, David and the other Maui coaches and advisors have personally started and scaled companies with an aggregate value of $63 billion. His weekly business owner e-letter is read by 100,000 business owners around the world and his syndicated business articles on Inc.com and Huffingtonpost.com garner over 150,000 readers every year. His work has been featured in such prestigious media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, International Business Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine. An in-demand keynote speaker, Davids message of how to grow a business by strengthening its core systems, team, and culture has galvanized business audiences around the globe. He and his wife Heather, and their three young sons live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT MAUI MASTERMIND, CLICK HERE. TO FIND DAVID ON LINKEDIN, CLICK HERE. 

David Finkel is an ex-Olympic level athlete turned business multimillionaire. He is a Wall Street Journal and Business Week best-selling author of 9 business and financial books, including co-authoring SCALE with Priceline.com co-founder Jeff Hoffman. David is the founder and CEO of Maui Mastermind®, one of the world’s premier business coaching company which has worked with over 100,000 business owners, helping them grow their companies and get their lives back. David’s clients enjoy an average annual growth rate of 64.2% while at the same time increase their companies’ “Owner Independence” by an average of 97.4% per year. Over the past 20 years, David and the other Maui coaches and advisors have personally started and scaled companies with an aggregate value of $63 billion. His weekly business owner e-letter is read by 100,000 business owners around the world and his syndicated business articles on Inc.com and Huffingtonpost.com garner over 150,000 readers every year. His work has been featured in such prestigious media outlets as the Wall Street Journal, International Business Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Fox Business, MSNBC, and Inc. Magazine. An in-demand keynote speaker, David’s message of how to grow a business by strengthening its core systems, team, and culture has galvanized business audiences around the globe. He and his wife Heather, and their three young sons live in Jackson Hole, Wyoming. What you’ll learn about in this episode: Focusing on building a business that does the deals instead of the business owner having to do the deal by themselves Why you need to make sure your team knows that you want your business to be an owner-independent business Why going to an owner-independent business shouldn’t force you to take a long term financial hit When you should use virtual assistants in owner-independent businesses and when to use employees near you “Build a Business, Not a Job!” David’s book that he is giving away free Why you shouldn’t always give your team the answers to the questions they ask you David’s UBS coaching program Why you need to get rid of the excuse that your business is too special or unique to be owner-independent Resources: REInvestorSummit.com/finkel REInvestorSummit.com/capital REInvestorSummit.com/noteservicing REInvestorSummit.com/101 REInvestorSummit.com/coaching

David Finkel started Maui Mastermind not because he had to - he had already grown and sold a coaching business - but because he wanted to help small business founders grow their business to operate independently of them. He talks to Clate and Scott about losing staff and clients, narrowing your focus and handing off ownership of key functions and responsibilities. Grow your business with purpose with our 2017 Strategic Planning Kit. Mentioned in this episode: “Build a Business Not a Job!” by David Finkel and Stephanie Harkness Elite Mastermind Check out this and other episodes at smallbusinesssuccess.com.

David Finkel is an ex-Olympic-level athlete turned business multimillionaire. He is The Wall Street Journal and Business Week best-selling author of 11 business books. David wrote his current bestseller, “SCALE: 7 Principles to Grow Your Business and Get Your Life Back”, with Jeff Hoffman, co-founder of Priceline.com. David’s weekly column has been published on Inc.com, Huffington Post, and over 6,000 newspapers and publications. He is also the CEO of Maui Mastermind®, the nation’s premier business coaching company specializing in helping business owners with annual sales between $1 million to $25 million create growth -- AND -- at the same time increase owner independence. Secret – timesaving technique David claims three days a week to do A-level activities -- identify what you do that creates the most value for your company. ONWARD! Daily habit that contributes to success Work on "above the line" tasks -- David organizes his priorities based on importance. Could have ruined your business – but now – an invaluable learning experience David lost 40-50% of his revenue in an instant -- and David tells the whole story here. Most critical skill you think business owners need to master to be successful "What matters most? For the sake of what? And how much is enough?" Most influential lesson learned from a mentor "Give your clients your best professional advice -- it's up to them to take it or not."   Final Round – “Breaking Down the Recipe for Success” What systems would you go back and put into place sooner? I would have made key hires sooner -- and given them clear accountability. What strategy would you recommend new business owners focus on to best ensure success? Narrow your focus to a smaller niche Engage your teams to build teams with you Ignore all the "doom and gloom" stuff How best to connect with David: Website: mauimastermind.com

When we ask young men and women to go to war, what are we asking of them? When their deployments end and they return—many of them changed forever—how do they recover some facsimile of normalcy? MacArthur award-winning author David Finkel discusses the struggling veterans chronicled in his deeply affecting book, Thank You for Your Service with Skip Rizzo, Director for Medical Virtual Reality at the Institute for Creative Technologies at USC—who has pioneered the use of virtual reality-based exposure therapy to treat veterans suffering from PTSD.*Presented in association with The L.A. Odyssey Project*Click here to see photos from the program!

Owen Johnson interviews Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist journalist David Finkel.

Weekly JourneywithJesus.net postings, read by Daniel B. Clendenin. Essay: *Repenting of My Righteousness: A Jewish Ritual for a Lenten Discipline* for Sunday, 16 March 2014; book review: *Thank You For Your Service* by David Finkel (2013); film review: *Catching Fire, The Hunger Games* (2013, review by Megan Clendenin); poem review: *Just a Little Difference* by Edina Gateley.

David Finkel appears at the 2013 Library of Congress National Book Festival, 9/22/2013. Speaker Biography: In 2012 David Finkel received a MacArthur Fellowship -- the so-called Genius Award. His other honors include a Pulitzer Prize for Explanatory Reporting for his series on U.S.-funded democracy efforts in Yemen, which appeared in The Washington Post, and the Robert F. Kennedy Award for Excellence in Journalism International Print Prize for his reporting on illegal immigration. In his new book, "Thank You for Your Service," Finkel tackles the subject of post-traumatic stress disorder by focusing on soldiers who have returned home from the war in Iraq. For captions, transcript, and more information visit http://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=6052

Patty says... “It took me 20 years to get to 20 million dollars in sales, but then to go from 25 million to over 100 million happened in less than a year because of the acquisition, then to watch over a period of 3 years to go to 500 million  to over a billion , a billion dollars in annual sales, if you can imagine that, that happened in less than three years”.  WOW Capitalizing on over two decades as a successful entrepreneur and Board member, Patty currently operates a specialized consulting group, DeDominic & Associates. Patty DeDominic is currently an executive coach and business consultant, offering organizational development, human resources and succession planning coaching and business services to enterprise builders, high achievers and authors. Her firm's prime focus is "Helping Achieving Soar." From 1979 – 2006, DeDominic founded and grew PDQ Personnel Services, Inc. which evolved to PDQ Careers and CT Engineering. She sold those companies in 2006 and remains as a consultant to several national and international executive search firms and non-governmental organizations and foundations. Part of the PDQ story is a case study of successful entrepreneurship and succession planning for the MBA program at Stanford University. Named CEO of the Year by the LA Business Journal in 2006, DeDominic has received over 20 distinguished awards including The President’s Award from Women Impacting Public Policy. She was inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame over ten years ago. Sorry the show ended short, visit Patty at MauiMastermind.com and download your FREE business book titled; Build a Business, Not a Job! How to Build Your Business to Sell, Scale, or Own Passively by David Finkel   by

When President Bush announced a new military strategy for Iraq in July 2007 dubbed “the surge,” it immediately drew both supporters and critics. Yet few are as intimately familiar with the surge as journalist David Finkel, who spent eight months embedded with the 2-16 infantry battalion deployed on the outskirts of Baghdad as part of this new strategy. Finkel, a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter for the Washington Post, will discuss his book, The Good Soldiers, which provides his account of the war as experienced on the ground. He details the successes, struggles and psychological traumas of soldiers on the front lines, while underscoring the cognitive dissonance between the violent reality taking place on the ground and the abstract policy debates back in Washington.

David Finkel is a staff writer for The Washington Post, and is also the leader of the Post’s national reporting team. He won the Pulitzer Prize for explanatory reporting in 2006 for a series of stories about U.S.-funded democracy efforts in Yemen. Finkel lives in Silver Spring, Maryland, with his wife and two daughters.An eternal tale—not just of the Iraq War but of all wars, for all time