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Managing pests like powdery mildew, downy mildew, botrytis, and sour rot can be a complex challenge. Andy Fles, Vineyard Manager at Shady Lane Cellars in Michigan, shares insights from his USDA Sustainable Ag Research Education producer grant project. The project compares two pest management approaches: a ‘soft' pesticide program and a conventional one. Andy conducted the experiment using his on farm sprayer, providing real-world results. Despite climate variability and fluctuating pest pressures, the soft pesticide program proved effective. The project underscores the potential of using softer chemistries to manage disease while maintaining fruit quality. Resources:         REGISTER: April 25, 2025 | Fungicide Spraying: Evolving Strategies & Grower Insights 80: (Rebroadcast) The Goldilocks Principle & Powdery Mildew Management 117: Grapevine Mildew Control with UV Light 197: Managing the Sour Rot Disease Complex in Grapes 219: Intelligent Sprayers to Improve Fungicide Applications and Save Money 235: Battling Fungicide Resistance with Glove Sampling Rufus Issacson, Michigan State University Shady Lane Cellars Secures $11K National Farming Grant Timothy Miles, Michigan State University Vineyard Team Programs: Juan Nevarez Memorial Scholarship - Donate SIP Certified – Show your care for the people and planet   Sustainable Ag Expo – The premiere winegrowing event of the year Vineyard Team – Become a Member Get More Subscribe wherever you listen so you never miss an episode on the latest science and research with the Sustainable Winegrowing Podcast. Since 1994, Vineyard Team has been your resource for workshops and field demonstrations, research, and events dedicated to the stewardship of our natural resources. Learn more at www.vineyardteam.org.   Transcript [00:00:00] Beth Vukmanic: Managing pests like powdery mildew, downy mildew, botrytis and sour rot can be a complex challenge. [00:00:10] Welcome to sustainable Wine Growing with Vineyard Team, where we bring you the latest in science and research for the wine industry. I'm Beth Vukmanic executive director. [00:00:21] In today's podcast, Craig McMillan, critical resource Manager at Niner Wine Estates. With Longtime SIP Certified Vineyard and the first ever SIP certified winery speaks with Andy Fles, vineyard Manager at Shady Lane Cellars in Michigan. Andy shares insights from his USDA Sstainable Ag Research Education Producer grant project. The project compares to pest management approaches, a soft pesticide program and a conventional one. [00:00:50] Andy conducted the experiment using his on farms sprayer, providing real world results. Despite climate variability and fluctuating pest pressures, the soft pesticide program proved effective. The project underscores the potential of using softer chemistries to manage disease while maintaining fruit quality. [00:01:10] If you'd like to learn more about this topic, then we hope you can join us on April 25th, 2025 for the fungicide spraying evolving strategies in Grower Insights tailgate taking place in San Luis Obispo, California. Dr. Shunping Ding of Cal Poly will share updated results from a study on the efficacy of different fungicide programs containing bio fungicides. [00:01:34] Then we will head out into the vineyard to learn about new technologies for integrated pest management and talk with farmers from different growing regions about their program. Now let's listen in.  [00:01:49] Craig Macmillan: Our guest today is Andy Fles. He is the vineyard manager at Shady Lane Cellars in Michigan. And today we're going to talk about a pretty cool little project. He's got going looking into two different pesticide programs. Thanks for being on the podcast, Andy. [00:02:03] Andrew Fles: Yeah, my pleasure, Craig. [00:02:05] Craig Macmillan: So you have a grant from the USDA sustainable agriculture research and education program. To look at what you call a soft pesticide program for your vineyard in Michigan and comparing it to what we would call a sustainable or sustainable conventional program. What do you define as a soft pesticide program? [00:02:25] Andrew Fles: Well, that's kinda just a, a term that we applied to identify it. I didn't want to use organic because I thought that there would be a good chance we would utilize things that are considered by the industry to be very soft in terms of you know, they're not a harsh chemical or a carcinogenic, a known carcinogenic compound. [00:02:49] But something, for example, like. Like horticultural grade peroxide, which goes by several different trade names. So that's just, it's hydrogen peroxide and it is a disinfectant that turns into water and oxygen. So it's pretty Soft in terms of what it does to beneficials and, and plants and, and such. [00:03:11] We utilize some of those products already in our spray program. But combined also with, we're probably 50 percent organic in terms of what we spray out. for fungicides, pesticides, insecticides. And so we're still altering in some synthetic compounds. [00:03:28] And we wanted to compare that, what we currently do, to something that was much softer, like only soft compounds. Something that could be considered a OMRI certified organic program, or, or almost, right? Like maybe there's just one or two things that are very soft, but not technically OMRI certified. [00:03:49] Craig Macmillan: Right, and I do want to , get into the weeds on that a little bit later. Cause it's a, it's an interesting, Set a program that you've got going and I have lots of questions about them. What inspired this project? [00:04:01] Andrew Fles: I think just that continued movement towards investigating what works here in the east. You know, we, of course, get more wetting events and, and wetting periods that cause more fungal issues here compared to the west coast. And so we really, you know, we have to have an eye on sustainability. Certainly at Shady Lane, we really push for that. [00:04:25] But we also need to make sure that we have a marketable crop. We need to make sure the wine quality is, is high and acceptable for our standards. And so you know, if we're talking about, you know, every year is quite different here. We can get a, like, for example, in 2024, very wet in the first half of the year, very, very dry in the second half. [00:04:51] And, and then, which was quite different from 23 and quite different from 22 and so on and so forth. so, so some years we need to kind of step in and use a synthetic product here at this key time or, you know we need to protect our, our, our wine grape quality. [00:05:07] Craig Macmillan: What are the primary pests and diseases in your area? [00:05:11] Andrew Fles: So we have issues with the usual suspects that powdery mildew, of course. That's, that's fairly, I think if you're on top of your game, that's, it's pretty controllable. Even with soft products here it's just a spray frequency and coverage issue. [00:05:27] Downy mildew is something that can be quite challenging in certain years. [00:05:31] And there's, and there's less tools in the toolbox to use for that as well. And so you gotta, you gotta be on top of that with scouting preventative, like canopy, you know, canopy management practices that deter too dense of a canopy or, or clusters that are. hidden behind several layers of leaf. [00:05:53] Those are going to cause problems for you no matter what you're spraying, synthetic or organic, right? So, so we try and utilize all those things and and then we, we can also have issues in some years with botrytis and even sour rot and tight clustered varieties. So, so we were looking at sour rot and botrytis in the, in the cluster analysis of this portion of the , project. [00:06:18] Yeah, we have some locations can struggle with grape erinium mite. That's becoming more and more prevalent here. Wasn't an issue four years ago. Not, not really up in, up in northern Michigan anyway. So that's becoming more and more of an issue. And then we always struggle with rose chafers. It's a, it's a grub that, you know, comes out for six weeks and really terrorizes the vines. [00:06:49] And for that, for that pest, we really walk the line of the economic damage threshold, right? So, so a little, you know, we're going to see rose chafers every year. Some years are better than others. And what is our acceptable damage, you know? And so, once we see the rose chafers really getting dense in number, and also, you know, munching on a few leaves is one thing, munching on the clusters and the shoot tips is another thing. [00:07:21] Craig Macmillan: That's what I was going to ask. Yeah, I'm unfamiliar with this this pest. It, skeletonizes leaves, but it also will attack flower clusters and, and grape clusters in the early stages of development. Is that right? [00:07:34] Andrew Fles: Pretty much all green tissue. Yeah, a bunch of shoot, shoot tips leaves are probably, you know, their preferred source, I think, but anything tender. And so if, if the timing is just right where the, the inflorescences are, are you know, just coming out when the, when the beetles hatch, then they can really go for those cluster tips and, and shoot tips. [00:07:59] While we're scouting for this pest, we not only do the, you know, the density numbers and annotate that, but we look at, you know, how many are actually eating leaves versus shoot tips and clusters. [00:08:13] Craig Macmillan: Interesting, interesting. What is the design of your project and what varieties are we talking about? And what kind of variables are you measuring and how are you measuring them? [00:08:25] Andrew Fles: this is a farmer grant as opposed to a research grant. , it's tailored to folks that want to do on, on farm trials. And we want to do. Something in a significant enough volume, you know, that, that some that it would apply, it would be more applicable in the real world. [00:08:45] So for example you know, at a university they might do this randomized plots, you know, and they're using a backpack sprayer because they're, they're applying you know, three vines here, three vines there, scattered all throughout the block. And we wanted to use the sprayer that we actually use. [00:09:04] Um, and we wanted to do a bigger sections. And so what we did was we broke it up into two acre sections and we did two acres of both the traditional, the conventional program that we normally would do here and the soft treatment. So we did two acres of each in pinot noir, two acres of each in a, in a French American hybrid called ol, and then two acres of Riesling. [00:09:33] And we wanted to look at powdery, downy, botrytis, and sour rot. [00:09:38] In certain years, we can have quite a lot of botrytis and sour rot pressure in those three varieties. Because Pinot Noir of course is tight clustered. Vignole is even tighter clustered despite having that French American disease resistance package. It, it doesn't possess that for Botrytis or Sour Rot. [00:09:58] and then of course Riesling is a, is a very, it's probably the number one variety in Michigan. And as we all know, it's susceptible to Botrytis. [00:10:08] Craig Macmillan: Yeah. Big time. [00:10:10] Nice design. Great varieties to choose. I think that was really, really smart. How are you going to quantify these different variables? How are you going to measure the damage? [00:10:18] Andrew Fles: So for Powdery and Downey we just kind of did a scouting assessment. You know, how, prevalent is the infection based on how many leaves per, per per scouting event? I think off the top of my head, it was like 25 leaves. Per block that's more, I guess, anecdotal which we, and we did see that in the Pinot Noir, it was pretty clear cut that we struggled to control Downy in the soft treatment more so than in the conventional treatment. [00:10:50] It was, it was pretty clear there. And then as far as the Botrytis and Sour Rot, so that's really where the MSU team came in with the, the Rufus Isaacs lab and Dr. Rufus Isaacs and his master's PhD candidate. They did a lot of work there and, and then also the Tim Miles lab , so basically what they did is they took 25 clusters of each treatment and they did an assessment , for of course, how many berries were infected by, by botrytis and sour rot. [00:11:25] And then they also took those clusters and they hatched them out to see how many Drosophila species were there. [00:11:33] Craig Macmillan: Oh, okay. Yeah, good. That's interesting. [00:11:36] Andrew Fles: Wing drosophila here in Michigan and so really it was just the two species of traditional vinegar fly, drosophila, and then spotted wing. They did, you know, the, the statistics on that. [00:11:50] Craig Macmillan: interesting. And this is, this is a multi year project, right? [00:11:54] Andrew Fles: This was just one year. [00:11:56] Craig Macmillan: Just one year, okay. [00:11:58] And when will you have final results? [00:12:01] Andrew Fles: I have some of those already. We're going to do like a more formal presentation at a spring meeting here, a grower meeting, that's kind of co sponsored between MSU Extension and a local non profit that promotes grape and wine production in the area. So yeah, we're going to make a presentation in April on on the results and, and kind of, we're just continuing to, coalesce and, you know, tie my spray program with wedding events and then the results that they got as well. [00:12:37] Craig Macmillan: What other kinds of outreach are you doing? You're doing the meeting and you're doing other things? [00:12:41] Andrew Fles: I haven't discussed this with with Rika Bhandari as the PhD student. I suspect that she would use this in some of her publishing, you know, whether it gets published, I don't know, it's part of her Her main focus is sour rot, so this will be included in some of her presentations. [00:13:03] But I don't know that for a fact. [00:13:06] Craig Macmillan: That's exciting to get some information that's local. It's locally based and get it out to the local community as well as the broader community. I think that's really important if you don't mind I would like to get into some of the nuts and bolts of these two programs because I found that to be very interesting And then as we go talk about How that panned out for the different pests and diseases that you saw in these trials Let's talk about the soft program first You've got a dormant oil app in May and I assume you mean that there would be like JMS stylet oil or something like that [00:13:41] Andrew Fles: I think it was called bio cover. [00:13:43] Craig Macmillan: Bio cover and that's a pretty standard practice in your area I would guess [00:13:48] Andrew Fles: It is, yeah. [00:13:49] Craig Macmillan: and then the following month in June You, uh, have copper in the mix. In both the traditional and in the soft chemistry. I'm guessing that's also a common practice in your area. Probably for downy and for powdery. [00:14:06] Andrew Fles: Yeah, the copper is is something that we've been leaning towards and getting away from some of the synthetics. Which stick better to plant surfaces, we've been migrating that way anyway, these last numerous years now and so, yeah, , there are some similarities between the two programs at times it's really those key times of pre bloom and post bloom and variation that that we've traditionally. [00:14:34] Really locked in on some of the synthetic chemistries here [00:14:37] Craig Macmillan: And then also in June you have a Serenade Opti, which would be a Subtilis based material. And I believe that's also in your conventional in July. That's pretty standard practice, and that's an OMRI certified product, I believe. [00:14:52] Andrew Fles: Yes, yeah. [00:14:53] Craig Macmillan: There's some overlap there. It looks like the Rose Chaffer comes out around this time. [00:14:59] Andrew Fles: Yeah, probably it's not in front of me, but probably mid june [00:15:04] Craig Macmillan: Yeah, that's what you have here. In the traditional you've got a, a neonic, a sale. And then in the program, there's kind of a question mark here. What did you end up using in the, in the soft program for a roast chaffer? [00:15:19] Andrew Fles: Let me find it here [00:15:21] So we used neemix 4. 5 [00:15:26] Craig Macmillan: Nemix. I'm not familiar with that. Is that a Nemo based product? [00:15:28] Andrew Fles: Yeah, it's a neem oil [00:15:30] Craig Macmillan: And then in the traditional you have a neonic, a sail. Did you see a difference in Rose Chapter damage between the two? Because this is a pretty big difference here. [00:15:39] Andrew Fles: a pretty big difference in terms of [00:15:42] Craig Macmillan: Well, the modes of action obviously are very different. [00:15:45] Andrew Fles: Oh, sure, sure. Yeah, we had a little higher a little higher prevalence of rose chafers in mostly in the Pinot Noir treatments. Not so much in the Riesling, and I think that's largely because of black location. Traditionally the Pinot Noir block is our worst, one of our worst blocks in terms of rose chaffer rose chaffers are these beetles. [00:16:09] Of course, they're very similar to Japanese beetles for those listeners that, that may know that, but they really thrive in sandy soil, which is what we specialize here in northern Michigan, sandy based soil, right? [00:16:22] , and especially in un mowed fields. Right? We've really been trying to manage , our headland spaces like a prairie even more so upon joining SIP and, and learning more about making a comprehensive farm plan of, Of all of the land, right? And so we've really managed our, headlands and open fields like prairies which means minimal mowing, [00:16:47] like once a year is what we, we just mow to keep the autumn olive out. And and so we're trying to promote, you know, bird life and, and. All forms of life in these fields, which includes and sometimes an increase in rose chafers. [00:17:03] However, this 2024 was, was a. Fairly low pressure year. [00:17:09] And so I was very comfortable with, with sticking with this the soft insecticide. And we didn't feel like, you know, even though we saw this, this increase in pressure in the soft treatment, it wasn't surpassing the economic damage threshold that we are really keen. [00:17:27] And right. IPM [00:17:29] Craig Macmillan: So, true IPM. [00:17:31] Andrew Fles: IPM is very important, here, you know, where we have all these insects and it rains a lot and, you know, you got to really. Be ready to to, to scout and then react. [00:17:41] Craig Macmillan: Exactly. Yeah. And knowing what your economic injury limit is, I think it's huge. And your action threshold based on that. Tell me a little bit about the Spinosad based products. You have a couple in the soft that I assume are meant to be insecticides. [00:17:55] Andrew Fles: Yeah. The delegate. Yup. [00:17:56] Craig Macmillan: Yeah, Delegator and Trust. [00:17:59] Andrew Fles: I'll talk a little bit about intrepid as well. That's probably a foreign thing for any, any West coast listener, but that's intrepid is a it's a molting regulator and it's essentially for, in this case, for grapes, it's for grape berry moth. And this is an insect that is very difficult to do IPM on because there's a, there's kind of a morph that lives in northern Michigan that doesn't Go for the traps and so you can put traps out and it you just have no idea what's going on Because they just don't really care for the pheromones so they're really almost impossible to trap and I've talked numerous time with dr Rufus Isaacs about this and how do we you know get a handle on populations and you know They just can't get their traps to work up here. [00:18:50] We target with the intrepid, it's a, again, it's a molting regulator, so it just prevents them from developing, and it's very specific it's not a broad spectrum, so that goes on as a preventative where we have blocks near the woods, [00:19:05] because we see great berry moth coming in from wild, wild vines [00:19:10] that may or may not be in the woods, but we Where we see larva hatching is, is just kind of a perimeter. [00:19:16] So what we'll actually do is a perimeter spray. We don't even spray the whole block. We'll spray the outside row or two or three of each end. And then we just kind of blast it in. Along the, the other, you know, along the posts, the end posts. And that seems to work fairly well. [00:19:34] Craig Macmillan: Huh. [00:19:35] Andrew Fles: And then, as far as Delegate goes and Entrust those are Spinoza based products like you mentioned. [00:19:42] Those are primarily, you'll see that we put them on, well, I don't know if you can see timing, but we put them on. in September. Yeah, at the end of the season. September. [00:19:53] Yeah. Yeah. So, so those go on right around or right before even version and that is for drosophila [00:20:01] I think there's been some research recently from Cornell and then also Brock University in Canada. And I know also that Tim and Rufus have been doing trials here in Michigan as well. between the three of us out here in the, in the Northeast we're very focused on sour rot. [00:20:19] And so Michigan State along with these other folks have done these trials where they found that including an insecticide at veraison or, and then also at about 15 bricks significantly reduces sour rot infections. And that's because you're going after one of the vectors. [00:20:39] Craig Macmillan: Interesting. There's another material that I wasn't familiar with. I did a little bit of research on it. That's a product called Jet Ag, which is a hydrogen peroxide, a peracetic acid material. You have that in both the soft chemistry and your quote unquote conventional section. Is that a material you've used for a long time? [00:20:57] Andrew Fles: Yeah, we, I forget when exactly it started coming around I think probably 2015, 16 is when it was maybe released or made its way to northern Michigan and kind of coincided with with some sour rot. Issues that we have had off and on over the years with Pinot Noir or Vignole. And it's a, you know, it's a strong hydrogen peroxide. [00:21:23] It's a heavy oxidizer. It goes in and it, it, it cleans everything up. You know, it disinfects. And there's, there's some thinking as well that it, it'll kill the yeast. And some of those yeasts, the aroma is very attractive to spotted wing drosophila and regular drosophila. And so if you're, if you're kind of this is probably something that, that people, you know, that rely on native ferments might not want to hear, but you know, it really, it really disinfects the fruit which, which is key for You know, controlling sour rot. [00:21:59] And so we've used that over the years as both a preventative and a curative treatment. [00:22:05] Craig Macmillan: Right. [00:22:06] Andrew Fles: I didn't actually end up using it this year because It essentially stopped raining it was almost west coast ian here in the fall. It stopped raining in August and it didn't rain again. [00:22:19] You know, I mean, aside from like just a, you know, very, very light mist that wouldn't even penetrate the soil deeper than a centimeter. You know, so we didn't get any appreciable rain. From, I think it was maybe August 5 or 10, all the way till November 31st, or sorry, October 31st. [00:22:39] Craig Macmillan: Actually, that raises a good question. So, what is the summer precipitation like, quote unquote, in a normal year or an average year? [00:22:48] Andrew Fles: Yeah, we've been having, [00:22:49] Craig Macmillan: is it? [00:22:52] Andrew Fles: it's so variable is the, you know, we keep coming back to that. Every season is different here and it's so true even in Northern Michigan we have seen climate change affecting our summer rainfalls. So, whereas, you know, traditionally, and I say traditionally as maybe like the 80s and 90s maybe even early 2000s, you would expect to see, you know, a good four to eight inches a month. [00:23:20] you know, less, less so in, you know, in July and August is walking that more like four inch. Four inches of precipitation and you can get that sometimes in two different days [00:23:33] Craig Macmillan: Wow. [00:23:34] Andrew Fles: And that could be all or it could be spread out, you know over over several 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 different events. we had a dry June a couple years ago, I think we, I think it rained two days and amount to much. [00:23:50] And 2023, all of May we had, it rained one day. It was very dry. And so it's really been a roller coaster here in terms of what to expect as far as precipitation comes, I mean during the growing season anyway. [00:24:08] Craig Macmillan: Mm hmm. [00:24:09] Andrew Fles: It's been a challenge to know, you kind of have to have all these tools ready, right? [00:24:13] You have to have your jet ag ready. [00:24:15] If you get a bunch of infections going you got to have some of these other products ready and just , be ready for anything essentially. [00:24:24] Craig Macmillan: That, I'm just kind of reeling, I'm from California, and so like four to eight inches of rain during the growing season, it sounds like a fungal disease disaster to me. I'm impressed that you can get a crop, a vinifera crop to, to harvest with those kind of conditions. [00:24:39] Let's talk about the sustainable conventional program a little bit. Again copper appears early which would make sense. Then the insecticide portion would be a sale. It's a neonicotinoid, and then you've got a couple of fungicides in here. [00:24:55] You've got sulfur, and you've got a boscalid. Then in July again you've got a subtilis, that's serenadopty, and the, the intrepid, the IGR. August, you've got another neonic rally, and then you've got a product called ranman, or ranman. Which is a Sazofenamide, again, traditional fungicide. And then Inspire Supert, verasion, very common. And then you've got the the JetAg and Delegate, which is an antispinosid based product. When I look at this, I see a lot of very safe, very smart, very rotated fungicide chemistries here. Was this the kind of program you were using previously? [00:25:34] Andrew Fles: Yeah. And you know, it always can change a little bit. Sometimes you can't get a certain product or you can't get it in time. [00:25:42] Uh, whereas, you know, you, you're planning to use X product for your, for your kind of like You know, your, your pea sized berry spray, let's say but you, all of a sudden you have a bunch of rainfall, you know, and, and so if I was planning to use Quintech, which only covers powdery all of a sudden I have this big wedding event that was just perfect for growing downy mildew I I might switch from Quintech to and vice versa, you know, if we're, if we're into some weather, that's really favorable, it's time to push more of those serenades and you know, we've used some of the other biologicals over the years as well and, and just trying, trying to go that way as much as possible, but, you know, sometimes the weather forces your hand, like, like it did this year, you'll see in my, In my program we went into some Randman and some [00:26:35] Zampro, and those are those are very specific to to downy mildew. [00:26:41] You know, but we're still, with those products, you know, they're more expensive than something like Kaptan, you know. We Can't spray that with sip and we didn't spray it before because we don't want it on our fingers [00:26:56] The vineyard you and I don't want it in our lives So so we're always trying to go the ran man route, even though it's a little pricier, but it's very Target specific for Downey and so, you know with all the rains that we had in June and July and early July we felt like the smart play and we did start seeing some downy mildew cropping up much earlier than normal. [00:27:21] If, if we see it at all, that is. in that, at that point you want to make the call, you know, Hey, I want to get out in front of this thing. I don't want downy on my fruit. You know, if you start seeing it on growing tips, I think it was the 4th of July or the 2nd of July or something we were scouting and we were getting a lot of rain at that point and it was very humid and it was just like rain every other day for about a week there and it's like you gotta pivot and, and make the move to something that's really going to provide. control there. [00:27:52] For the soft program at that point, we were trying to use, I believe we use serenade, you know, which is more broad spectrum as far as biologicals go. We knew we wanted to keep it going after the, , the Downey with the soft chemistry. And that's why we got into the orange oil as well. [00:28:10] Craig Macmillan: Oh, interesting. [00:28:11] Andrew Fles: to, Yeah, that's, that wasn't in the proposal that I sent you, but we did pivot. I couldn't get. The cinerate it was, I was told it was on the West coast, growers were hoarding it and none of it, none of it made it over this way. I was really hoping to get my hands on some of it. [00:28:28] I've already pre ordered my 2025 cinerate. [00:28:32] Craig Macmillan: And Cinerate is a cinnamon oil based product, right? [00:28:36] Andrew Fles: Correct. Yeah. Cinnamon oil. oil. Yeah, it's another oil. [00:28:39] Yeah. Yeah. It's another one of those kind of antimicrobial oils, if you will. Um, So we pivoted to, to orange oil and thyme oil. TimeGuard has been, is a product that's been out for a number of years now. We've used it before, , we haven't really relied on it as much in the past. As, as we did with this soft treatment. [00:28:59] Craig Macmillan: Tell me a little bit more about what the outcomes have been at this point. We talked about the the pinot noir a little bit. We talked about the Rose Shafter showing up there a little bit more. At, at the end of the day, the end of the season. How did you feel about it? How did you feel about comparing the two [00:29:15] Andrew Fles: you know, it felt, it felt really good. It seemed like the soft program kept pace with the conventional for the most part. In the Pinot Noir, we had we had some more rose chaffer damage, of course, but without doing a, a full on research trial, it's hard to say that it was the treatment alone because of, as I mentioned, the location was a big factor. [00:29:38] With the downy mildew, it seemed to be a little more prevalent, certainly in the Pinot Noir on the, on the soft program that is but it never got to the point and I was, I was always ready to go in with whatever I needed to, because we don't want to have a defoliation and not being able to ripen fruit, you know, the fruit and, and especially in such a great growing year. [00:30:01] we never really resorted to. You know, breaking the glass and, and grabbing the ax and running out there and like, and it was emergency, you know, we never, we never had to do that. There was a moment there in July where, you know, where would the downy pressure we thought maybe. [00:30:19] Maybe we would have to abandon it, but then things dried up and we kept after things with with some of these, these things like thyme oil and orange oil. Getting good coverage with them is so important. But getting those on at the right time really seemed to provide enough control. [00:30:37] Craig Macmillan: Actually that's a, that's an excellent point. Let's talk about the phenology a little bit. How, for the varieties that you're growing, how big are these canopies getting? What's the spacing that they're planted on? How many gallons per acre are you using in your spray applications to get good coverage? [00:30:54] Andrew Fles: Yeah, so for the purpose of the project I stuck with 50 gallons an acre throughout the season. Which even, even for the conventional portion, traditionally I'll, I'll start with 30 gallons an acre aside from the dormant spray, of course, but like, you know, early season sprays until the canopy becomes a little denser, , I'll be at 30 gallons an acre and then probably mid July post bloom, right around bloom, perhaps , we'll ramp up the conventional to 50 gallons as well. [00:31:26] For the purposes of this, we just did 50 gallons across the board, both treatments. a lot of the canopy is well, it's really all VSP except for the vignole. Vignole is high wire cordone. And then we're talking nine by five spacing. The vinifera as well, which is pretty common around here. Double geo some spur pruning. We've really developed a kind of a hybrid system where we do a little bit of, we kind of mix cane and spur , , and alternate those in, in some of our venefera programs. [00:31:57] Craig Macmillan: And in, on the same plant? [00:31:59] Andrew Fles: Yeah. Sometimes. [00:32:01] Yeah. [00:32:01] Craig Macmillan: one side, gator the other. [00:32:03] Andrew Fles: What that does for us you know, where we get. Or we can at least, you know, and we can, sometimes we can lose a whole cane , or a lot of buds. I don't want to get too in the weeds on, on what that system is, but, but it's really developed around being able to quickly replace and adapt to cold damage. [00:32:24] And so if we need to go in and cut a trunk out, we've already got a cane growing from down low, if that makes any sense. [00:32:31] Craig Macmillan: No, that does make sense. And it's a practice that I'm familiar with from other areas in the Midwest, the North, the Northeast. Very, very smart. But that's a very different canopy architecture than you might find someplace that's all VSP. Or, you know, a double canopy situation maybe like in New York. [00:32:48] How comfortable are you now? After going through this, it sounds like you liked the softer program, you feel you got good control on most things. But if I'm understanding you correctly, you're not afraid to keep some other, other tools in the toolbox, basically. [00:33:05] Andrew Fles: Right. Yeah. And I think a big purpose of this program was to investigate some of these products. I want to highlight Problad Verde as well. [00:33:14] That's. Another one that's been out there and we've used it before as well. You know, I did a trial with Tim Miles's lab on and Rufus doing a sour rot trial in Pinot Noir in the past with pro, and it was just kind of a end of the season application of Problad with I believe we use delegate or in trust. [00:33:34] I can't remember. One of them and, this project, the SARE project was really looking at problad as being more of the backbone , of it. And, and so we ended up using that for the soft treatment pre bloom, post bloom. And then again, at version, because it has similar to jet egg, it's kind of a disinfectant, right? [00:33:57] It's this lupine seed extract that, that is a. That is a disinfectant and so it's going to go in, but because it, it's advertised anyway as having some systemic activity, [00:34:09] Craig Macmillan: Mm [00:34:10] Andrew Fles: systemic properties, that's, that's key for us in the east here. Because, hey, if we get a half inch of rain, well, it's still kind of in the leaf or it's still in some of that green flower tissue. [00:34:24] Before it opens up and blooms and so, really working problad in as instead of a kind of just end of the season toy it's really became, became the backbone of the tritus control for us in this, in this trial. And then again, looking at some of these oils, I think there's a lot of promise for. the orange oil in particular, I've, I've been seeing more and more research coming out about how you know, it does work on Downy and we did see that you know, even though we had an increase in Downy infection man, it could have been a lot worse. It was still at an acceptable level. [00:35:02] And so I think, I think I'm going to feel more and more comfortable using those products. [00:35:07] Craig Macmillan: You've demonstrated to yourself. And that's what the, that's how it works, and that's what everybody needs, to have some confidence. Which I think is really great, I was very impressed by the idea of trying things that maybe are not widely used, were not widely tested outside of maybe the West Coast, and to be able to show efficacy on your property, I think is really important. [00:35:27] I think it's one thing many of us have learned about softer materials. They may or may not work depending on what your pressure is. And that can vary region to region, but it can also vary within a region. It definitely can vary year to year, so having that flexibility that you've built into this program is very admirable. What would you say are the big picture benefits of the soft pesticide program at this point? [00:35:48] Andrew Fles: Hopefully just to increase awareness of, of how they can be effective for folks here in Michigan or, or similar climates, New York and Canada, I should say I don't think , this SARE project alone is, is going to be any sort of groundbreaking news, but I think it's just another verification and if we start to have more and more of them people will believe more and more in these products because it's just, it's at that point, it's word of mouth, right? [00:36:21] It's more and more growers are starting to back it. And, or experiment with it at least and, and see results, I think a lot of growers are very word of mouth oriented anyway. [00:36:34] So, uh, so it's very important, like, Oh, Hey, what did you try last year? And I think there's plenty of that going on in our area. [00:36:42] A bunch of us anyway, we seem to network pretty well and, and trust each other. , Oh, I use this at this key time and it really proved effective. So I think just bringing more and more awareness to these soft programs or these soft products, I should say. , and I can't really speak to the sustainability of. Farming lupin seed for for a fungicide product, you know, I can't, speak to that, but I want to believe that it's, it's a more sustainable product than, you know something that was made in a factory and, and might have petrochemicals in it. [00:37:19] Craig Macmillan: Well, it might have resistance issues as well, I think is one of the key things. And by the way, both programs I thought were very intelligent. I think like in terms of the frack rotations in the sustainable one, I thought that was really well done. Is, is there one thing that you would tell growers? [00:37:35] What's the one takeaway you would tell people from this project? You just kind of touched on one, but is there a message here for people? [00:37:43] Andrew Fles: I think the message is, you know, that we have to be really careful in crafting our. Spray program to the season that we have. If we were getting A lot more rain in September than what we ended up having I mean, we were, we were in pretty severe drought here. I think the soft program could still work. [00:38:03] But you have to choose the product and probably apply it much more frequently. You know, you have to go in and respond to those rains. , or even maybe perhaps be ready to pivot to something that is synthetic and systemic and curative. You know, maybe you have to go in with a hammer, but that doesn't mean that, you know, the majority of this growing season can't be done in a very soft way. [00:38:30] And so we're really just responding to that weather. But I think if this is our focus , to use these softer chemistries on things that we're going to drink or eat, even if it's vegetables, I think that these products are becoming better and better and there's becoming more and more of them, which is really encouraging to see you know, 10 years ago, maybe we had serenade and And you know, a couple of other products, but now, now there's, they're really becoming prevalent. [00:38:58] And so I think the take home is, is crafting that spray program with these new found tools that we have. Problads, , your crop, , your what, what should I call them? Like your aromatic oils, lack of better term, like orange oil, thyme oil, cinnamon oil. You know, I think these things do have a place. [00:39:17] Craig Macmillan: Where can people find out more about you? [00:39:19] Andrew Fles: Well, they can visit ShadyLaneCellers. com and there's stuff in there about our farm and in what we do and where we are, who we are a little bit. And then also there will be, and I could get you this information if you're interested, so this spring meeting where we're going to present the results of this believe we'll have a Zoom link option. [00:39:43] Craig Macmillan: As a reference date, this is being recorded in February of 2025. And so spring meeting will be coming up in a few months from here. I'm not sure when this will air, but even anything is fantastic. So I really want to thank you for being on the episode. Our guest today was Andy Fless, he's Vineyard Manager at Shadyland Cellars and you've been a great guest. Hey, thanks for being on the podcast. [00:40:03] Andrew Fles: My pleasure, Craig. Thanks a lot for having me. [00:40:08] Beth Vukmanic: Thank you for listening. Today's podcast was brought to you by Martinez Orchards. Martinez Orchards is one of the most trusted and respected names in the nursery business. They have earned that reputation through years of hard work, honesty, integrity, and a commitment to their customers. They provide support with their knowledgeable salespeople and highly experienced production team. They know successful plantings allow them to fulfill their promises, and they strive to build lasting relationships with their customers based on a foundation of mutual steadfast trust. [00:40:40] Make sure you check out the show notes for links to Andy at Shady Lane Plus. Sustainable wine Growing podcast episodes 117. Grapevine Mildew Control with UV Light 219 Intelligent sprayers to improve fungicide applications and save money. And 235, battling fungicide resistance with glove sampling. [00:41:03] If you liked this show, do us a big favor by sharing it with a friend, subscribing and leaving us a review. 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How to Build Systems So Your Business Runs Without You *** Learn How to Build a Business that Runs Itself and Scales Fast https://welloiledoperations.com/class Many small business owners feel they must be involved in every decision and manage every problem. However, successful businesses operate smoothly even in the owner's absence. In this episode, Build systems that allow businesses to thrive independently. Discover the CEO mindset shift, the essential core systems every business needs, and the delegation formula to ensure high-level team execution. By the end, you'll have a clear roadmap to transform your business into a self-sustaining enterprise. 0:00 Introduction: The CEO Mindset Shift 01:28 Step 1: From Doer to Delegator 04:22 Step 2: Core Systems for Business Success 04:29 Operations System: The Ultimate Playbook 07:23 Sales and Marketing System: Scaling Your Business 09:47 Financial System: Ensuring Profitability 13:13 Step 3: The Delegation Formula 15:17 Building a Self-Sustaining Business

Did you know that Randy went to hitman school? How about the fact that Kev feels that consistency is key when it comes to being an asshole. We also discuss what type of music a psychopath might listen to and what music we've been listening to other than Queen. The Cardinal is complaining about football again and Kev is frankly getting a little tired of his whining! I don't know if this partnership is going to last!If Randy were to title this episode, he'd probably call it "This song is brill" or possibly, "Hitman school"Today's episode looks at a Freddie song that was assisted by Brian and John and taken from the Innuendo album; "The Hitman"NOTE: Skip forward to 23:47 if wanna get straight into the manifestations and wheel spin.The song at the end of the episode is a very rough mix of Kev, his brother Dan, and his Dad, John, playing a White Stripes song back in 2016. It was recorded remotely and then shoved into Dropbox to mix. Very badly. This one should probably go to the Cardinal at some point to be reworked... but anyway, it's a bit of lo-fi fun and it's titled "Effect and Cause" and you can find it here : https://youtu.be/SRRD-m43xrgIf you want to listen to the song The Delegator's brilliant cover of Nowhere to Run you can find it here: https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=E3p7yDec38o and if you want to watch the clip Kev was talking about of Mike Portnoy playing Shake It Off, you'll find that here: https://youtu.be/cHl_gsd0OR0Thanks to everyone who tuned in to the last episode and left us some comments on Facebook, Bluesky, and Discord! And while we're at it, come join us on Discord, we'd be glad to have you! We'll always try to answer any questions you have and seriously appreciate any corrections you make to anything we get wrong. And thanks so much for all your support as usual. We're loving diving into the Queen fandom as much as we're enjoying recording the podcasts!Follow us onFacebook: @seasidepodreviewDiscord: https://discord.gg/nrzr2mQjBluesky: @seasidepodreview.bsky.socialAlso, check out Kev's other podcastsThe Tom Petty Project: https://tompettyproject.comThe Ultimate Catalogue Clash: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ultimate-catalogue-clashAnd if you want to check out Randy's music, you can find it here:https://randywoodsband.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Your mindset can make or break your retirement. Are you a Pollyanna, Delegator, Controller, or Realist? In this episode, we dive into the four common mindsets retirees bring to the table and how each one impacts their financial, tax, and legal decisions. From blind optimism to overconfidence, we explore the strengths and pitfalls of each mindset—and how you can evolve to make better choices. Whether you're just starting to plan or reevaluating your approach, this episode will help you identify your mindset and build a strategy for long-term success. If you're thinking, "I love the Big Picture Retirement podcast!” please consider rating and reviewing this show! This helps us support more people -- just like you -- move toward a confident retirement. Just scroll down to the “ratings and reviews” section, tap to rate with five stars, and select “Write a Review.” Then be sure to let us know what you loved most about the episode! Also, if you haven't done so already, follow the podcast. We add new content every week, and if you're not following, you'll likely miss out. Follow now!  Don't miss the Big Picture Retirement Planning Cheat Sheet. We've distilled the essential brackets, thresholds, and rules of retirement into an easy-to-digest, three-page summary. https://www.carrolladvisory.com/pl/2148282517  Want to ask Devin or John your question? Just visit https://www.bigpictureretirement.com/ and click on the “Ask A Question” menu selection.  Although this show does not provide specific tax, legal, or financial advice, you can engage Devin or John through their individual firms.  Contact Devin's team at https://www.carrolladvisory.com/  Contact John's team at https://www.rossandshoalmire.com/     

Join Randy and Jim as they work through the issue of delegation.  Understanding what it is, why it is important, and how you do it. 

Delegation is not just about freeing up more time for yourself. It's about growing others!  Stop being afraid to delegate. You're not only holding yourself back, but you are stifling others as well!

Today, we dive deep into the art of delegation with guest expert Jamie Van Cuyk, owner and lead strategist at Growing Your Team. We'll explore why hiring the right team members at the right time plays a critical role in the expansion and success of your business. From overcoming challenges in delegation as small business owners to understanding when and how to scale your team strategically without sacrificing financial stability, this episode is packed with insights. Whether you struggle with relinquishing control or knowing which roles to hire for to maximize ROI, Jamie offers tactical advice and real-world examples to guide you through. Stay tuned as we uncover the secrets to becoming a champion delegator and propelling your business forward by effectively growing your team.   Jamie Van Cuyk, the owner and lead strategist of Growing Your Team, is an expert in hiring and onboarding teams within small businesses. Drawing from 15 years of leadership experience, Jamie teaches her clients how to hire their first team members, including employees and long-term contractors. By learning the dynamics of each company and their specific needs, she helps them find their perfect-fit   Webinar to Three Tips for Having Employees Who Are Worth Their Paycheck - https://growingyourteam.com/worththeirpaycheck Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/GrowingYourTeam Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/growingyourteam/ LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jamievancuyk/ Website - https://growingyourteam.com/   What you'll hear in this episode: 06:11 Neglecting self-care leads to limited growth. 09:38 Delegate behind-the-scenes client work for growth. 12:00 Small businesses often want one person to handle all marketing, but strategy and execution are different. 15:36 Salespeople neglect admin tasks, causing operational issues. 19:15 Prioritize ROI for immediate positive and long-term impact. 20:16 Delegate, prioritize, and combine tasks for efficiency.   If you like this episode, check out: Who Do I Ask? Compensation Plans - Commission or Flat Rate? Is Hiring Your Family the Right Thing to Do?   Want to learn more so you can earn more? CFO On Demand click here Visit keepwhatyouearn.com to dive deeper on our episodes Visit keepwhatyouearncfo.com to work with Shannon and her team Watch this episode and more here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCMlIuZsrllp1Uc_MlhriLvQ Connect with Shannon on IG: https://www.instagram.com/shannonkweinstein/   The information contained in this podcast is intended for educational purposes only and is not individual tax advice. Please consult a qualified professional before implementing anything you learn.

Today we are discussing how to delegate to your team.

What makes delegation one of the most challenging skills for new (and, if we're honest, experienced) leaders? Why are we, as leaders, so reluctant to give up control, leading us to be D.I.N.O.s?It may not be what you think.  Using a few illustrative stories, Teri explores the difficulties associated with delegation and offers strategies you can try today to develop this skill that has the power to improve not only your team's efficiency, but also their (and your) wellbeing.Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/teri-m-schmidt/Get 1-on-1 leadership support from Teri here: https://www.strongertoserve.com/coachingSet up an intro call with Teri: https://calendly.com/terischmidt/discoverycall

1. Assignment and Delegation. Assignment of Rights. Definition: Assignment involves transferring contractual rights from one party (assignor) to another (assignee). Effectiveness: For an assignment to be effective, the assignor must intend to make the assignment and not merely promise to assign in the future. Limitations: Assignments that materially change the duties or risks of the obligor, violate the law or public policy, or are prohibited by the contract itself, are not allowed. Delegation of Duties. Definition: Delegation is the transfer of contractual duties from one party (delegator) to another (delegatee). Obligor's Consent: Generally, contractual duties can be delegated without the obligor's consent unless the contract prohibits delegation or the duties are highly personal in nature. Delegator's Liability: The delegator remains liable to the obligee for the performance of the contractual duty. Rights of the Assignee. Rights Acquired: The assignee steps into the shoes of the assignor and acquires the rights under the contract. Enforcement: The assignee can enforce the rights against the obligor, subject to the same defenses the obligor could have raised against the assignor. Notification: It is generally advisable for the assignee to notify the obligor of the assignment to protect their rights. Obligations of the Delegator. Liability: The delegator remains liable for the performance of the contractual obligations unless the obligee agrees to release them and accept the delegatee as the new party to the contract. 2. Third-Party Beneficiary Contracts. Third-party beneficiary contracts create rights or benefits for a person who is not a party to the contract. Intended Beneficiaries. Definition: Intended beneficiaries are those whom the contracting parties intend to benefit at the time of contracting. Rights: Intended beneficiaries can enforce the contract if they meet certain criteria: the performance under the contract must satisfy a duty owed to the beneficiary, and the contract must clearly express an intention to benefit the third party. Vesting of Rights: Rights of the intended beneficiary vest when they learn of and detrimentally rely on the contract, assent to it at the request of the parties, or file a lawsuit to enforce it. Case Example: In Lawrence v Fox (1859), the court held that a third-party beneficiary could sue the promisor directly to enforce the promise. Incidental Beneficiaries. Definition: Incidental beneficiaries are third parties who may benefit from the performance of a contract but for whom the benefit was not intended. Lack of Enforceable Rights: Incidental beneficiaries do not have rights to enforce the contract as they are not the intended focus of the contract. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/law-school/message Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/law-school/support

In this podcast episode, we explore the art of effective delegation to support principals in avoiding burnout and excessive workloads for themselves and their staff. The episode challenges the notion that traditional strategies such as time management and extended work hours are the most effective solutions. Instead, we advocate for embracing delegation as a sustainable approach. The episode is committed to delivering practical insights and strategies to empower school leaders in enhancing their delegation skills for more effective workload management.

Would you like to transform into a powerhouse delegator?Whether you're a leader in a large or midsize organization, delegation is a crucial skill that increases productivity and empowers employees. However, many leaders struggle with delegating and the impact is damaging to their team, the business and themselves. That's why this episode is all about delegation, specifically how YOU as a leader can become a powerhouse delegator.It's important to first understand the value of delegation and why it's a common issue for leaders. There are many challenges leaders face when it comes to delegation, such as the need to control, lacking trust, and feeling guilt about delegating. Sharing what I've learned in my work as an executive coach, I dive deeper into all six reasons in this episode.I also cover the effect on teams when their leaders either don't delegate or delegate menial tasks to employees capable of handling more, as well as what employees and leaders can do to overcome these challenges.Tune in to get my tips for becoming an effective, powerhouse delegator!TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:Why delegation is a challenge for many leadersThe impact on employees when leaders don't delegateTips to overcome challenges and become a powerhouse delegatorHow leaders can support their team during the delegation processAssessing the progress of leaders and employeesBOOK A CALL with me for specific tips and strategies for you and your team! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycallDownload my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have' Myths for Success, here: https://www.balloffirecoaching.comConnect with Bernadette:https://www.sheddingthecorporatebitch.com https://www.facebook.com/shifttorich  https://www.instagram.com/balloffirebernadette https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernadetteboas https://www.twitter.com/shedthebitch This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique https://www.podcastboutique.comSupport the Show.

Would you like to transform into a powerhouse delegator?Whether you're a leader in a large or midsize organization, delegation is a crucial skill that increases productivity and empowers employees. However, many leaders struggle with delegating and the impact is damaging to their team, the business and themselves. That's why this episode is all about delegation, specifically how YOU as a leader can become a powerhouse delegator.It's important to first understand the value of delegation and why it's a common issue for leaders. There are many challenges leaders face when it comes to delegation, such as the need to control, lacking trust, and feeling guilt about delegating. Sharing what I've learned in my work as an executive coach, I dive deeper into all six reasons in this episode.I also cover the effect on teams when their leaders either don't delegate or delegate menial tasks to employees capable of handling more, as well as what employees and leaders can do to overcome these challenges.Tune in to get my tips for becoming an effective, powerhouse delegator!TOPICS DISCUSSED IN THIS EPISODE:Why delegation is a challenge for many leadersThe impact on employees when leaders don't delegateTips to overcome challenges and become a powerhouse delegatorHow leaders can support their team during the delegation processAssessing the progress of leaders and employeesBOOK A CALL with me for specific tips and strategies for you and your team! https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycall https://www.coachmebernadette.com/discoverycallDownload my eBook, The 3 ‘Must-Have' Myths for Success, here: https://www.balloffirecoaching.comConnect with Bernadette:https://www.sheddingthecorporatebitch.com https://www.facebook.com/shifttorich  https://www.instagram.com/balloffirebernadette https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernadetteboas https://www.twitter.com/shedthebitch This episode was produced by Podcast Boutique https://www.podcastboutique.comSupport the show

Have you ever found yourself overwhelmed with tasks and responsibilities as an entrepreneur or business leader? If so, you're in for a treat in this episode as my guest, Kristy Yoder - founder and CEO of Smart VAs, uncovers how effective delegation can help you achieve your business goals and create a balanced life. Kristy also dives into the challenges faced by solopreneurs when considering hiring a virtual assistant, and the importance of clear communication and setting expectations with your VA. Tune in to this episode for expert advice and insights from the master delegator.Learn more about KristyWebsites: https://www.kristyyoder.com/ https://smartvirtualassistants.com/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristy-yoderInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristyabbyyoder/?hl=enConnect with Kristy: kristy@smartvirtualassistants.comIn this episode you will learn:How Kristy started her virtual assistant agencyThe ways to make the process of hiring VAs easierTwo different types of virtual assistants - the specialist and the implementerThe importance of having courage and resilience. How to overcome fearWhy you should delegateDelegation is inevitable if you want to have flexibility, freedom and your goal is to grow your businessA little about me:I began my career as a teacher, was a corporate trainer for many years, and then found my niche training & supporting business owners, entrepreneurs & sales professionals to network at a world-class level. My passion is working with motivated people, who are coachable and who want to build their businesses through relationship marketing and networking (online & offline). I help my clients create retention strategies, grow through referrals, and create loyal customers by staying connected.In appreciation for being here, I have a couple of gifts for you.A LinkedIn Checklist for setting up your fully optimized Profile: https://www.janiceporter.com/linkedin-training.htmlAn opportunity to test drive the Follow Up system I recommend by sending a FREE greeting card (on me): www.sendacardeverytime.comConnect with me:http://JanicePorter.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/in/janiceporter/https://www.facebook.com/JanicePorterBizhttps://twitter.com/janiceporterJoin our Relationships Rule community on FB here:https://www.facebook.com/groups/relationshipsrule/Thanks for listening!Thanks so much for listening to our podcast! If you enjoyed this episode and think that others could benefit from listening, please share it using the social media buttons on this page.Do you have some feedback or questions about this episode? Leave a note in the comment section below!Subscribe to the podcastIf you would like to get automatic updates of new podcast episodes, you can subscribe to the podcast on iTunes or Stitcher. You can also subscribe from the podcast app on your mobile device.Leave us an iTunes reviewRatings and reviews from our listeners are extremely valuable to us and greatly appreciated. They help our podcast rank higher on iTunes, which exposes our show to...

Do you feel overwhelmed trying to keep up with the demands of running a business or organization?In this episode, Valerie Trapunsky, the founder of ChatterBoss and author of Delegation Nation, discusses how entrepreneurs and business owners can delegate tasks and become more replaceable within their own companies. We explore how Valerie's approach to leadership is one of servant leadership, which requires mastering the art of delegation, over-indexing on success, and optimizing processes for improvement. She shares the changing landscape of leadership in our world today, what expectations leaders need to set for themselves and their teams, and how they can remain relevant and successful by continuously developing themselves.Get ready to gain insights into modern-day leadership and discover how to use delegation to reduce stress and increase efficiency within your organization!In this episode:How to become a master delegator and the importance of great leaders inspiring others How leaders can delegate to others and let goExplore the ability of an organization to row in the same direction and perform wellMain takeaways:People have a mindset of hanging onto everything, trying to control things, and trying to be everything to everybodyMaster delegation involves having the right mindset, over-indexing on successes, and learning from failuresLife is getting faster, and it is the leader's responsibility to get everybody aligned and eliminate distractionsEmployees have higher expectations of their leaders and are quick to look for new opportunities if expectations aren't metIf you're not rowing in the same direction, it doesn't matter what seats you have on the boat; the boat isn't going to perform wellQuotes:“Great leaders are the ones that inspire us, that make us want to do more, that make us want to improve, and they do it from a place of love.” - Valerie Trapunsky“In a world with so many alternatives, I think that there is no choice now but for leaders to become really amazing leaders.” - Valerie Trapunsky“If you have a team that has really high standards of you, then you don't have a choice but to level up.” - Valerie TrapunskyResources Mentioned:Delegation NationConnect with Valerie:Website: https://www.chatterboss.com/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/valerietrapunsky/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/valerietrapunsky/ Connect with Denis: Email: denis@leadingchangepartners.comWebsite: http://www.leadingchangepartners.com/Leadership Is Changing Facebook Group:

Knowing how to delegate strategically and gracefully is a skill.   It's how you get more done with less.   It's how you drive 2X the results through others.   And most importantly, it's how you thrive and stave off burnout.   We covered this topic indepth with our clients recently inside The Career Catapult Executive Coaching program   We helped our clients 1. identify the tasks that ought to be delegated 2. identify who best to delegate to. 3. prepare your conversation with the team member 4. set a date to execute   In this podcast episode, I will share a snippet of what we discussed. I'll share 5 barriers to effective delegation and how to address them so you can create more space for strategic activities in your role.   This is a do not miss!   -Stella   INTERESTED IN WORKING WITH US? Begin by applying for a call (http://cycprogram.com) FREE TRAINING Register for The Catapult Your Career Bootcamp (http://thecatapultbootcamp.com) GET IN TOUCH Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/stellaodogwu/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/_intelle/ Email: contact@intelle.us Text: 949-519-4554

Genesis 1:1-2:3 Sermon Notes:1) God is Creator | 1:12) God is Trinitarian | 1:1-3, 26-273) God is Extraordinary | 1:3, 5-7, 144) God is a Detailed Designer | 1:26-285) God is a Delegator | 1:28-306) God is Good | 1:31-2:3Reflection questions:1. If God created all things, then why is mankind so tempted to create meaning and purpose outside of God's Word? Why are you tempted to do this?2. Loneliness is mentioned in Genesis 1-2, but was God ever lonely? Why/why not? (See John 1:1-5; Acts 17:23-26.)3. Do you ever struggle with the thought that God's promises are too good to be true? How is that thought similar to the way that Satan would tempt Adam and Eve? (Cf Gen 3:1.) What would you tell a friend if they said that (His promises are too good to be true) to you?

In this episode of Well-Oiled Operations, host Stacy Tuschl dives into the challenging yet rewarding process of becoming a master delegator in your business for the ultimate goal of achieving long-term success.   The whole point of Well-Oiled Operations is getting yourself out of the day-to-day operations of your business and achieving a level of success where it can run smoothly without your constant presence. We address the misconception of quick fixes and overnight success, emphasizing the need for hard work and a realistic timeline. Join us as we explore the steps involved, including creating organizational charts, finding the right leaders, developing systems, and implementing accountability measures. If you're ready to build a sustainable business that thrives even when you're not in the driver's seat, this episode is for you. Also in this episode:  How long does it take to get yourself out of a business? The importance of having a future org chart Create clear job descriptions Sometimes managers aren't leaders yet Put in an accountability system and weekly metrics Short-term sacrifice leads to long-term success Most small businesses in the US are not sold Subscribe To Well Oiled Operations with Stacy Tuschl: Apple Podcast | YouTube | Spotify Connect With Stacy Tuschl: Website | Facebook | LinkedIn | Instagram   Work with Stacy Tuschl: Join Stacy on her upcoming Masterclass:  www.welloiledoperations.com/class   Book A Call With Stacy: https://stacytuschl.com/BookCallPodcast The Well Oiled Operations Program: https://stacytuschl.com/well-oiled-transitions/ All of our best freebies – Just for you!: https://stacytuschl.com/research-and-knowledge/   About Stacy Tuschl And Well Oiled Operations: I'm a best selling author and speaker, the owner of multiple 7-figure businesses and the creator of the Well-Oiled Operations™, where I help small business owners get more customers in their door, more profit in their pockets, and more happiness in their homes. My in-depth process guides my students to break through their challenges, operate at their highest potential and create self-sustaining businesses—all without sacrificing their families or lifestyles. You shouldn't be sacrificing your life for your business; your business should be supporting your life. I know what it's like to toss and turn at night over an expense, to wonder if you'll ever make your dreams come true, and to look in the mirror and ask, “Is this business even worth it?” And while I don't know you personally, I can tell you the answer is “yes.” You had a vision of starting your own business and you had the courage to actually do it. But starting and running a business are two different things. Now that you're up and running, I'm going to help you turn your local business into your dream business. More calm and less chaos. More revenue and less stress.  

When overwhelmed with too much to do or you realize you aren't spending enough time in client acquisition / revenue generation activities, you just might need to consider being a better delegator.  Some Questions to Ask Yourself as it relates to delegation are:·         Does delegating make sense for me to grow my business?·         Does my business have the revenue to delegate?  If not now, when?·         How much time am I spending on tasks that are slowing my growth?·         What should I look for in employees/contractors? ·         Should they be virtual or in-house, or a combination of the two?·         How would I feel to not have to do administrative tasks or activities that don't directly relate to generating revenue and growing my business? Big-name businesses didn't get to the point they are at today by the owners or executives doing everything themselves.  They implemented the art of effective delegation when the time became necessary to take their business to the next level.  Delegation is the ideal way to grow your business without having to take on more responsibility and sacrifice your personal time with your family or doing what you want to do.  The bottom line is that delegation always makes sense.   How can you become a master delegator to accelerate your business results? To download my Free Delegation Exercise to help you identify even more activities to delegate, go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/delegation-list-sample/.  For help with creating your ideal business and ideal life, reach out to me today and schedule your complimentary consultation. Subscribe to my high-value proven business success tips and resources Blog (https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/blog/)  Take advantage of all the complimentary business tips and tools by joining the Free Silver Membership on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/inner-circle-store/.  Want more from The Accountability Coach™, subscribe to more high-value content by looking for me on https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/my-podcast/ and on most podcast platforms and in most English-speaking countries, or by going to https://itunes.apple.com/podcast/accountabilitycoach.com/id290547573.  Go to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com to check out for yourself how I, as your Accountability Coach™, can help you get and stay focused on you highest payoff activities that put you in the highest probability position to achieve your professional and personal goals, so you can enjoy the kind of business and life you truly want and deserve.  As an experienced accountability coach and author of 5 books, I help business professionals make more money, work less, and enjoy even better work life balance. Check out my proven business accelerator resources by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/coaching-store/.  Aim for what you want each and every day!  Anne BachrachThe Accountability Coach™

What is one of the biggest challenges emerging leaders face during their transition from being a doer to a delegator?Learning to let go of control and empower others to do the work in their own way is a challenge for many. Yet, the most effective leaders understand that they don't need to know everything and can hire or train people who are knowledgeable and can rise to the challenges.On this week's episode of She Leads Now, I am joined by Michelle Raymond, and we discuss ways emerging leaders can successfully shift from being a manager and doer, to being a leader who empowers and supports their team. We also discuss why women need to amplify their forces and advance in their professional and personal lives to have a great impact on the world.Michelle Raymond is an Emerging Leadership Coach and Trainer, Certified Master NLP Practitioner, and award-winning International TEDx Speaker on a mission to make the inVisible Visible!Michelle is the CEO of an Executive Coaching and Training Consultancy, The People's Partner, specializing in building future fit and diverse pipelines with organizations that are keen to develop the skills, knowledge, and confidence of emerging leaders.Learn more and access the resources mentioned in the show HEREKey Takeaways:The importance of hiring or training knowledgeable people, and techniques to support the team and ensure congruence in leadership.Speaking up and sharing opinions gives permission and opportunities for other women to do the same.How to shift from being a manager and doer to being a leader who empowers and supports their team.The need for women to push through their fears and be diligent in following their purpose and goals in order to make a positive impact in the world.Resources Mentioned:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nicolejansenInstagram: https://www.instagram.com/michelle_raymond1Website: leadersoftransformation.comBook Recommendations:We Should All Be MillionairesI Am My Brand Join us in the LeadHers Lounge every 4th Wednesday for an hour of growth, networking, & Q&A. There's no cost to attend and you can join as many sessions as you'd like. RSVP to attend next month's virtual meet-up.Join She Leads Network:She Leads Community: sheleadsnetwork.com/communityShe Leads Collective: sheleadsnetwork.com/collective

Kristy Yoder is a Filipina based in Ohio. She is the Founder and CEO of Smart VAs and the host of The Master Delegator Podcast where she teaches entrepreneurs and leaders to grow their business by delegating. As a multi-skilled leader, she humbly worked her way from being a freelance virtual assistant and digital marketer to becoming an entrepreneur. She is passionate about helping stressed and overwhelmed business owners get their time, freedom, and life back while running a successful business. She built and trained a team based in the Philippines to help business owners scale their businesses while living a freedom- filled lifestyle. Kristy leads more than 70+ team members and has served more than 200 businesses in the US together with her team since 2020. Kristy grew her business from $0 to now close to 7-figure revenue and desires to help business owners achieve their business goals. https://www.kristyyoder.com. Sponsors for January Lash + Brow Lab Combined, Demi and Rachel have over 10 years experience in the beauty sector. They have come together in the heart of Battersea to open lash+brow lab, a home for your ultimate lash and brow duo. As individuals they take their crafts very seriously - their sole aim as a partnership being to create a comfortable, uplifting experience while offering bespoke treatments to the highest of standards. Link: www.lashbrowlab.co.uk and @lashandbrowlabclapham Coffee, Cake & Chat membership If you are a beauty professional, this membership is for you. Surround yourself with a likeminded tribe so you're not alone in business anymore. Monthly coaching session and Q&A with Katie Godfrey, guest speakers & support group. Plus an online portal with thousands of pounds of learning for you to get started. Get £10 off your membership here with code: KGPodcast https://beauty-biz-coffee-cake-and-chat.teachable.com/p/coffeecakeandchat @kg_katiegodfrey

It took me about two years to hire my first team member. Then, it took me eight years to hire my first virtual assistant. Eight years! I was afraid AF to delegate things. I thought it was just me, but this isn't a rare feeling. Many business owners are afraid to loosen the reins a little bit and let go.That's why I invited Kristy Yoder to my podcast. She is the founder and CEO of Smart VAs, a virtual assistant agency. She has a fabulous method on how to decide what you should and should not delegate and why. This exercise is a must for every business owner!She scaled her agency from one virtual assistant to 70+ talented individuals. She grew her business simply through delegation and now wants to teach others to learn the power of delegation.Kristy is also the host of The Master Delegator Podcast. She created it for entrepreneurs who want to learn how to become effective in the area of delegation, management, and leadership. She talks about different business growth strategies such as hiring virtual assistants, productivity, online marketing, and many more! Fun fact: Kristy was born and raised in Manila, Philippines, and moved to the United States in 2019… to my very small hometown of Marion, Ohio!Find Kristy on:Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kristyabbyyoder/LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kristy-yoder/Smart VAs: https://smartvirtualassistants.com/Check out my 3-day bootcamp here:Pitch Publicity Profit: MediaMavenAndMore.com/Pubilicity If you liked this episode, please subscribe to this podcast to hear more like it. Tell your colleagues, friends, and family… and don't forget to tap that subscribe button. For more, visit MediaMavenAndMore.com/podcast.

Finding the right administrative support for your business can sometimes be challenging. There is a lot that you should pay attention to when you're seeking someone to become your right-hand person. If you're new to this process it can feel overwhelming, and you can feel out of your league wading through this new territory of selecting an assistant. However, once you find who you feel is the right person for you, it can become exhilarating, but there is a pitfall that you should avoid and that's becoming too co-dependent in the relationship.On this week's episode of the Unbottleneck Your Business Podcast, I will share with you how co-dependency can be detrimental to your business and what you can do to avoid it. The path to co-dependencyWhy co-dependency is bad for you and your businessThe signs that you're becoming co-dependentSolutions to prevent co-dependencyResources:Visit www.teamdelegate.com/downloads for tools and additional information to help you on your delegation journey.Leave us a review!If you've been enjoying the show, let us know by leaving a review. We'd love to hear from you and how the episodes have helped you in your business. Visit Apple Podcasts to post your review.

My guest is Kristy Yoder, the founder and CEO of Smart VAs and host of The Master Delegator Podcast, where she teaches entrepreneurs and leaders to grow their businesses by delegating. Kristy gives an insane amount of value in this episode and really goes deep into how to hire an VA (virtual assistant) check out the time stamps if you want to listen to it in segments. I love how Kristy says as business owners we have to be very intentional in what we do in our business. So we talk about what it takes for you and your business to be ready to hire a VAwhen it is the right time to hire a VAhow to hire the perfect VA for youhow to delegate effectively from the beginningshe shares an exercise with us that helps us figure out what tasks to delegate to your VAwhat if we have to fire a VA, what is the right approachGo to the full show notes on my websiteFrom Chaos to Peace Consulting Inc - https://connygraf.comSchedule a complimentary ConsultationConnect with me on LinkedInGet to know the more private me on Instagram orLike and Follow my Facebook Page

How to Become a Master Delegator Managing two people, a dozen, and even a hundred can be as hard as a rock, especially when you are on your own. For Bobby, you can miserably manage some people if you don't delegate.Bobby recognized that he needed to improve as a leader. So he did that by mastering the true meaning of delegation, which is to trust his team more in their work and decision-making to help them develop a sense of responsibility and ownership in everything they do.Here are more tips for becoming a master delegator:Re-evaluate how you look at your team - Delegating isn't just about throwing all your unwanted tasks to your team. Delegation means allowing your team members to stretch out their abilities as part of Employee Development. When you allow people to grow by delegating to them, they feel trustworthy, which helps them be more confident in what they are doing.Think of your work as a tree - The most crucial part of a tree is its roots; in terms of tasks, roots are equivalent to the core tasks in your workload. Essentially, you must distinguish between root tasks that you must complete solely and stem tasks that you know other people can do and delegate to them. Later on, you'll see that by trusting and allowing your team to do those tasks, you were able to help them grow more leaves as a sign of their level of growth.Read "How to become a Master Delegator" By Bobby Powers to learn more about how you can master delegation today.About Bobby PowersBobby Powers' life revolved around books. Books allowed him to sit at the feet of some of the world's most brilliant thinkers and learn about business and leadership. With his love for books, he became a writer to show countless people how they can improve themselves as leaders.Learn more about her here:LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobbypowers1/Website: bobby-powers.medium.com/Blogs: https://bobbypowers.net/ Twitter: https://twitter.com/BobbyPowers_Are you in need of any assistance? Are you tired and running out of time? It's time to start looking for a virtual assistant! Learn how to get your freedom and life back by visiting Smartvirtualassistants.comBe part of our Facebook community page for entrepreneurs who want to become a master delegator. Do you want to learn how to hire a virtual assistant? Access our free training. Want to know how to delegate effectively? Get access to our mini-course!Employee Survival Guide®A Podcast only for employees. Mark shares information your employer does not want you knowListen on: Apple Podcasts Spotify

Too often, people are caught up in the weeds, doing work that is consuming their energy, which is not a scalable or efficient business model. That's why in a real estate business like multifamily, it's crucial to be a master delegator. In today's #Highlights episode, we feature our conversations again with Steve Rozenberg and Kay Kay Singh who tell us their secret on how they were able to scale fast and find success.Steve shares some of the ways in which he delegates, the kind of systems he has in place to make this delegation possible, and much more. Meanwhile, Kay Kay talks about effective ways how you can be a successful passive investor in this space. Click the play button now and learn valuable lessons on how you can be a master delegator today!

Today I'm speaking with Derek Meyer (Data Nexus). Ever since joining The Graph community, Derek has become a highly engaged and thoughtful contributor. Derek is one of the unique participants within The Graph whose been able to participate in various stakeholder roles effectively – Delegator, Curator, Subgraph Developer, and now with an Indexer, with the recent launch Data Nexus. He also helped launch Curation Station, a highly active Telegram group dedicated to Curation, for which he was previously featured on this podcast (Episode 29). A lot Derek's background was covered during our prior interview (Ep. 29), so today we spend most of our time talking about Derek's journey from an entrepreneurial subgraph developer to Indexer. We explored a lot of interesting themes during the interview, including how Derek approached the decision to become an Indexer, his advice to those who want to do the same thing, his experience at Graph Day, and his participation in Graph Advocates and Graph AdvocatesDAO. Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of The Graph's community and ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com

Today I'm speaking with Ahmad Mardeni – a highly active and well-known contributor within The Graph ecosystem. Many of you will already recognize Ahmad due to his consistent activity in Discord, Telegram, and Twitter.As you will hear during this interview, Ahmad has many roles in The Graph, including Delegator, Curator, subgraph developer, technical writer, and soon-to-be Indexer. Ahmad's presence within the ecosystem is vast as he's been a consistent contributing member of The Graphtronauts, Curation Station, DeveloperDAO, and has even consulted with or helped support dApps and developers using The Graph.In addition to all his great community contributions, you are also going to hear how Ahmad accomplished all this in the face of many obstacles and difficulties. You will be inspired by his relentless quest for self-empowerment through education and personal development.The audio recording for this episode is not great. Apologies! Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of The Graph's community and ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.co

There comes a point in every leader's career, especially an entrepreneurial leader, where they realize that what they are doing is unsustainable and the value they're adding is massively devalued because they are doing too much. However, Profit Lives in The Resistance Zone The answer is, of course, that we need to trust enough to delegate to someone else. As much as delegation may seem like the perfect solution, it can be a disaster. As a result, we can end up in, what's now known as, the Delegator's Dilemma. How to navigate the Delegator's Dilemma is specifically where we're going on our next couple of episodes.  Our guest is Yuri Elkaim. At 17 years old, Yuri faced an auto-immune illness that took him from being a hairy teen to bald. He then became a pro athlete who, at age 24, reconsidered his life path as an athlete and returned from Europe to pursue his deeper passion for health and nutrition. From there, he went on to build a business that would assist ½ million people worldwide. Yuri Elkaim has become a leading health expert, New York Times bestselling author, and the founder of Healthpreneur®. Yuri is a proud Canadian contrarian thought leader. He walks his talk by sharing lessons and insights from being a pro athlete to having 17 years as a leader in the entrepreneurial trenches. Website https://healthpreneurgroup.com    Social Media  https://www.instagram.com/healthpreneur  https://www.youtube.com/healthpreneur  https://twitter.com/elkaimyuri  https://www.facebook.com/healthpreneur1 Part 2) Profit Lives in The Resistance Zone  What to Delegate Fast and Slow Why the Greatest Opportunity for Profit Lives in The Resistance Zone  Leadership is Self-Awareness The Hard Truth: Most People are Mediocre  Telling the Truth about Your Culture Leaving Pro-Sports... Now What? Why You Must be Resilient Before You Get Famous The Dangers of Misguided Empathy. Curious to discover how tapping into the Anatomy of Meaning can #actualize your #business, #culture, #Leadership and #tribe DovBaron.com "Those Who Control Meaning for The Tribe, Also Control The Movement of That Tribe" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

There comes a point in every leader's career, especially an entrepreneurial leader, where they realize that what they are doing is unsustainable and the value they're adding is massively devalued because they are doing too much. The answer is, of course, that we need to trust enough to delegate to someone else. As much as delegation may seem like the perfect solution, it can be a disaster. As a result, we can end up in, what's now known as, the Delegator's Dilemma. How to navigate the Delegator's Dilemma is specifically where we're going on our next couple of episodes.  Our guest is Yuri Elkaim. At 17 years old, Yuri faced an auto-immune illness that took him from being a hairy teen to bald. He then became a pro athlete who, at age 24, reconsidered his life path as an athlete and returned from Europe to pursue his deeper passion for health and nutrition. From there, he went on to build a business that would assist ½ million people worldwide. Yuri Elkaim has become a leading health expert, New York Times bestselling author, and the founder of Healthpreneur®. Yuri is a proud Canadian contrarian thought leader. He walks his talk by sharing lessons and insights from being a pro athlete to having 17 years as a leader in the entrepreneurial trenches. Website https://healthpreneurgroup.com    Social Media  https://www.instagram.com/healthpreneur  https://www.youtube.com/healthpreneur  https://twitter.com/elkaimyuri  https://www.facebook.com/healthpreneur1 Part 1) How Strengths Become Weakness Good Enough at it Before You Can Delegate it. Leading from where they are rather than where you are Are you coaching, micro-managing, or babysitting What's the distinction between Coaching and Delegating The Time Investment, Time Interest Equation Recognizing Your Genius Zone and Your Danger Zone Curious to discover how tapping into the Anatomy of Meaning can #actualize your #business, #culture, #Leadership and #tribe DovBaron.com "Those Who Control Meaning for The Tribe, Also Control The Movement of That Tribe" Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Would you rather poop in a packed office bathroom than see the look on your team's face when you ask them to do something?It sucks to think you're causing stress for your team.It sucks to ask for something only to feel like you have to re-do it.It sucks to feel like you're doing your job and the jobs of your reports.Sometimes delegating can feel like shit.But it is absolutely ESSENTIAL to your ability to create more impact and success without burning out or sacrificing your own well being. The reason it's not working isn't because you suck at being a manager.It's because no one taught you how to effectively ask for help.The good news is that you just need a few guidelines to delegate well.And the payoff is HUGE.The extra good news is that I'm telling you what they are on the podcast this week.Every single one of my clients has unlocked MAJOR success using this info.You can still win a pair of Airpod Pros - rate and review the Pod!  It's open until June 1, 2022.

Delegator or Doer… Which owner are you?  Which do you aspire to be? The difference between a “delegator” and a “doer” has massive significance to your business and your quality of life.  We talk about each in the episode of the fab lab podcast! Interested in a 90 minute Complimentary Coaching Experience?  Click here  You can watch Aaron on youtube now. Click here

"[A] system isn't something you bring to the business. It's something you derive from the process of building the business."― Michael E. Gerber, The E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It My next guest Skye Barbour knew that entrepreneurship wouldn't be easy at an early age. Watching her father run a business was inspiring but realizing that company affairs left little time for anything else didn't appeal to Skye. Instead of diving into the waters of entrepreneurship, Skye tested The water by fast-tracking her career at large-scale retail operations. After nine years of service, Skye knew it was time to jump into the deep end and swim the waters of entrepreneurship just like her father and grandparents had done before her. Luckily the waters were a lot different than they were when her grandparents and father had swum them. Thanks to technology Skye's innovation and determination, this dynamic entrepreneur built a thriving Coaching Business on the belief Business owners" could have more time, more money, and the freedom to lead business their way." Here's a quick look into this episode: ● [00:03:20] Get to know Skye Barbour ● [00:04:00] After nine years on the fast-tracked Skye left her corporate retail career, she shares her experiences with us. ● [00:05:36] The motivation for entrepreneurship is different for everyone - Skye knew that entrepreneurship would allow her to be a present mother while providing financial security, but the path wasn't always smooth - find out how Skye overcame hurdles. ● [00:06:31] Searching for the perfect business idea? Skye shares her process and tips for listeners who may be having trouble launching. ● [00:11:49] Sometimes, getting uncomfortable is necessary to create change. Listen as Skye shares the valleys of her career that led to the peak of happiness. ● [00:14:47] The juggling act of business growth and development Skye shares how we can drop the act and start focusing on what matters ● [00:16:37] Are you a Delegator, Director, or Maxed Out Doer? Skye breaks down the possible freedom blocks that could be holding you back in your business. ● [00:18:42] Interested in how the Full Freedom Framework works? Here it is. ● [00:21:07] How to time track and what entrepreneurs think they should spend their time on versus what drives business and sales. ● [00:24:47] How to recognize freedom blocks and why the excuse of being busy could be costing millions in lost revenue. About Skye Barbour: Skye Barbour is an international business coach best, selling author, farmer's wife, and mom of two boys with 15 years of corporate experience. Skye takes clients through a practical and personal development journey, helping ambitious entrepreneurs build six and seven-figure businesses. Website| Instagram| Facebook Group for Business Owners

Find full show notes and links at: https://camphacker.tv/podcast/2021/12/be-a-better-delegatorWho's the best delegator you've ever met?The working title of this episode is “delegate like your life depends on it”.A bit dramatic? Yes. Kind of true? Also yes!If you can't delegate - if everything at camp needs to run by you before it happens - if you need to facilitate every hard conversation - then you (and your camp) may not last very long.So we know that - but why can't we do it? There are a multitude of reasons/excuses why we don't, but there are even more reasons why it's absolutely necessary.So let's dig in. Gabz, Chris, Travis and Joe join forces to share their perspectives on how they became better delegators and how it's shaped their camp experiences.-Do you read the show notes? Let us know - click the following link to receive 10% off a lifetime subscription of Go Camp Pro's 5-Minute Fridays. (psst. Even if you don't buy anything, clicking this link will still help!)(click here - https://bit.ly/pod-notes-discount)-Tool of the Week – Make Yourself a Better Camp DirectorChris: Once Upon a TimeGabz:  Smart PlugJoe: Non Slip Furniture Pads X-Protector - Bed Bottoms - future proofTravis: Serious Work: How to Facilitate Meetings & Workshops Using the LEGO Serious Play Method - https://amzn.to/31eLP3m-Your Hosts:Travis Allison, Summer Camp Consultant - Go Camp ProChris Hudson, Camp Director - Camp HighlightJoe Richards, Executive Director - Pearce WilliamsGabrielle Raill, Camp Director - Camp Ouareau-Rate and Review the CampHacker Show(Thank you!)-Thanks to our sponsor!UltraCampWouldn't it be refreshing if your registration software gave you MORE time? With UltraCamp, you can track attendance, manage staff applications, streamline registration, and much more. Get back the time you need to focus on what is really important: CAMP! Find out more at summercampsoftware.com/camphacker

Today I'm speaking with Brandon Ramirez, Co-Founder & Research and Product Lead at Edge & Node. In addition to his role at Edge & Node, Brandon is one of the original founders behind The Graph. Brandon was incredibly generous with his time and our interview lasted nearly two and a half hours. So we've decided to split the interview in half and create a two-part series.  During Part 2, which will release 5/12, Brandon discusses a lot of interesting ideas, including the story behind Edge & Node, a Core Dev team working at The Graph, along with the design of the protocol incentive structure and how the roles of Indexer, Curator, and Delegator emerged.During Part 1, which you are about to hear, Brandon talks about his corporate experience working at Microsoft, his move into entrepreneurialism, and then he provides a great backstory about the origins and early days of The Graph. Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of The Graph's community and ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com

Akua interviews serial entrepreneur Kenny Schumacher. Kenny has been starting businesses since college, where he studied accounting. For him, the thrill is all in the startup and the building of the company. He has founded many businesses and successfully sold 2 of them. He thrives in handling operations and building out teams to operate the business.It may sound crazy to many business owners, but Kenny tries to remove himself from the business he created as soon as he can. Many CEOs would say their business is their highest priority and that they can't imagine things running without them. Akua asks Kenny to explain why he delegates so much, how he delegates effectively, and when he knows it's time to move to the next project.  Highlights from the episode:Advice for founders and CEOs who need to delegateWhen to let go in the business world Getting started even if you make mistakes Finding passive incomeSeparating yourself from your companyResources from the episode:Ep 14: I Hate Asking For Help You Probably Do TooDelesign,  Unlimited Graphic DesignAppraisal Saver Connect with Kenny Schumacher:LinkedIn: Kenny SchumacherTwitter: ​​@KennySchumaConnect with Akua Nyame-Mensah:Instagram: @akua_nmWebsite: www.akuanm.comLinkedIn: @Akua Nyame-MensahTwitter: @akua_nmTake the Productive Leadership Style Quiz 

Want to know one of the common mistakes leaders and aspiring leaders make? It is the mistake of not shifting from being a doer to being a delegator. Believe it or not, it is not that simple. Leaders at all levels struggle with letting go and allowing their team to take on tasks and deliverables. Today, we invite you to take a big step and assess if you have really made the shift. In this episode, Tareka is sharing tips and strategies for leaders, and those hoping to lead in the future, on how do to shift from being in the weeds doing the work to being an effective and efficient leader that delegates and provides direction and guidance to others. Are you a leader, or have even the tiniest desire to be one? If so, then this episode is going to teach you one of the essential leadership skills you need. KEY POINTS AND STRATEGIES One of the most difficult transitions for leaders to make is the shift from doing to leading. Delegation is the process of distributing and entrusting work to others. Great leaders understand that for people to give their best, they must have a sense of ownership over their work, and believe that what they are doing is meaningful. How to Effectively Delegate Analyze the task Select the right team member Assign the task Monitor execution Provide feedback RESOURCES Course Discovery - Apply Today! - https://bit.ly/Course_Discovery Monthly Newsletter Sign-Up: https://bit.ly/31yr8MC Tools & Resources: https://bit.ly/2NJZHwb Professional DNA Website: www.yourpdna.com Follow Us on Instagram: https://bit.ly/3utdnf1 Like Us on Facebook: https://bit.ly/2SoXurW --- Send in a voice message: https://anchor.fm/pdnapodcast/message Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/pdnapodcast/support

Today I'm speaking with Chris Ewing and Baghe, both of whom are members of The Graphtronauts, a large Delegator community within The Graph ecosystem. For anyone involved with The Graph since the early days, you have likely interacted with members of The Graphtronauts, as they are very active in both Twitter and in their Telegram channel, helping to educate, engage, and connect with people interested in The Graph.My conversation with Chris and Baghe covers the origins of The Graphtronauts, some of the community tools and resources they have developed, how they became interested in The Graph, and their long-term vision for the network. Like so many others featured on this podcast, Chris and Baghe – along with The Graphtronuats community itself – have unique stories for how they became interested in crypto and The Graph.Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of The Graph's community and ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com

Today I'm speaking with Brendan Asselstine, Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at PoolTogether, an open-source and decentralized protocol for no-loss prize games. I'd be surprised if anyone listening to this episode hasn't already heard of PoolTogether – especially if you were an early Delegator, Curator, or Indexer in The Graph community - because the PoolTogether subgraph was a highly visible subgraph very early on in the evolution of The Graph.My conversation with Brendan spans a wide range of topics, including his background and entry into crypto, the origins of PoolTogether and what it does, how PoolTogether uses The Graph, and so much more. Show NotesThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside The Graph (GRT) by interviewing members of The Graph's community and ecosystem.  Please help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review.Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com

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You need a financial plan. How do you Create a Financial Plan?First we need to cover WHO is creating the plan.Whether you are a DIYer intent on creating your own Financial Plan, or a Delegator looking to hire someone to create it, You/They need 5 Cs to be qualified to make that plan.1. Competence2. Capacity3. Commitment4. Contentment5. CharacterThe full episode can be found at:RetireMentorship.com/24Need help finding an advisor to craft an Investment Plan? Search for or be matched with one at WiserAdvisor.com. Ask the the questions from Episode 5. And stay tuned to RetireMentorship for more info on finding a good one. Enjoying the show? Sponsor it by becoming a RetireMember. For the price of a Latte a Week or a Latte a Month you can show your support and keep the show ad-free.Become a Member for a Latte a Week ($16/m)Become a Member for a Latte a Month ($4/m)Your support means a lot! Find out more at RetireMembership.com.If you have questions about this topic, message us on Facebook or email us at Questions@RetireMentorship.com. Or you can call us at 1 (855) 6-MENTOR (1-855-663-6867) and leave us a message.

Okay… let's talk about delegating shall we? My guest today is Lisa Pepper-Satkin who loves serving her clients. It's her happy place. What she doesn't love is all of the admin involved in marketing her business and delivering for her clients. Lisa has two contractors who work for her and she came into our conversation hoping to figure out a way to improve their performance. What Lisa and I uncovered pretty quickly was that in order for her team to improve, she had to become a better delegator. Which makes sense because - probably like you - Lisa started out as a one person show. She got really good at doing all of the things on her own. So, she brought that energy to her team assuming that she'd have to show them every little step involved in their tasks, too. Her micromanaging ways didn't feel good for Lisa or her team. And when I shared my all time favorite delegation tool, Lisa's mind basically blew. Whether you have a VA who only works a few hours per month, a team of several people, or you're still working as a one person show, this episode will reveal the best way to delegate a project so you give your team autonomy and everybody understands exactly what success looks like. Enjoy! Connect With Me: Instagram: @dallastravers Free Quiz: www.sixfigurecoachquiz.com Free Class: www.watchthecoachclass.com Connect With Lisa: Instagram: @lisapeppersatkin Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/LisaPepperSatkin/ LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisapeppersatkin/ Shownotes: -EP24: A WHOLE NEW WAY TO NICHE w/ Bret Shuford: https://dallastravers.com/podcasts/a-whole-new-way-to-niche/ -EP13: TOO BUSY TO HIRE HELP? THE COMMON TRAP STUCK COACHES FALL INTO w/ Sarah Gaboury: https://dallastravers.com/podcasts/too-busy-to-hire-help-the-common-trap-stuck-coaches-fall-into/ -EP14: WHEN IS IT TIME TO STOP HUSTLING?: w/ Malika Williams https://dallastravers.com/podcasts/when-is-it-time-to-stop-hustling/ -DAN SULLIVAN'S IMPACT FILTER: https://resources.strategiccoach.com/tools-and-worksheets/the-impact-filter

In this episode, we interview Jerry Okolo, who is both a Curator and Delegator, at The Graph.  We spoke to Jerry about several interesting topics, including:His experience in The Graph's Curator launch program. What Curators do and how they do it. His advice for those who want to become a Curator.Show Notes.The GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside The Graph by interviewing members of The Graph's community and ecosystem.  Will you help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review on Apple Podcasts?Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.com

In this episode, we interview Stefan Mueller, a Delegator, soon-to-be Curator, and creator of The Graph Academy.  We spoke to Stefan about several interesting topics, including:His experience in The Graph's Curator launch program. How he created The Graph Academy. His advisor for individuals who plan to apply for a grant with The Graph Foundation.Show Notes.The GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside The Graph by interviewing members of The Graph's community and ecosystem.  Will you help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review on Apple Podcasts?Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.comDisclosure: This podcast is for informational purposes only. The contents of this podcast should not be construed as tax, legal, or investment advice. Listeners should take responsibility for their own decisions, consult the appropriate professionals, and do their own research.

In this episode, we interview Juan Manual Rodriguez Defago, an Indexer, Delegator, and subgraph developer.  We spoke to Juan about a broad range of topics, including:His work as developer and Indexer at The Graph. How he explains what is meant by "indexing a subgraph" and "closing an allocation."How The Graph changes the way dApp developers work.Show Notes.The GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside The Graph by interviewing members of The Graph's community and ecosystem.  Will you help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review on Apple Podcasts?Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.comDisclosure: This podcast is for informational purposes only. The contents of this podcast should not be construed as tax, legal, or investment advice. Listeners should take responsibility for their own decisions, consult the appropriate professionals, and do their own research.

In this episode, we interview Tegan Kline, Co-founder and Business Lead at Edge & Node. We spoke to Tegan about a broad range of topics, including:The relationship between Edge & Node, The Graph, and The Graph Foundation. Her experience acting as a Delegator in The Graph.Her values-focused mission working in crypto. Show Notes.Tegan Kline, Co-Founder and Business Lead at Edge & Node, helping to ensure a vibrant decentralized future. Tegan is working on The Graph, an indexing and query protocol organizing the world's open blockchain data and making open data a public good. Tegan helps leaders and innovators connect more deeply with stakeholders across the blockchain ecosystem.Tegan Kline is the former International Business Development Manager and OXT Relations Lead for Orchid, an A16z and Sequoia-backed blockchain company that created tools and protocols for users to obtain digital freedom and an open and accessible internet. Tegan successfully helped to launch Orchid at a 400m valuation on Coinbase. Prior to Orchid, Tegan was the Executive VP of a patent marketplace powered by blockchain, analyzed by AI. She began her career in Investment Banking at BAML and, prior to discovering blockchain, worked in Sales and Trading at Barclays.Tegan's Social Media:Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/in/tegan-kline-17306b60… Twitter: https://twitter.com/theklineventure   Edge & Node's Social Media:Forbes Article: https://forbes.com/sites/vipinbharathan/2021/02/09/edge--node-a-new-software-development-company-is-launched-by-the-graph-core-protocol-team/?sh=1d11c1964f8d… Website: https://edgeandnode.com  Twitter: https://twitter.com/edgeandnode Linkedin: https://linkedin.com/company/edgeandnode… Medium: https://medium.com/edge-node The Graph's Social Media: Telegram: https://t.me/GraphProtocol Telegram Announcements: https://t.me/GraphProtocolOfficial… Twitter: https://twitter.com/graphprotocol?s=20… Discord: https://thegraph.com/discordApply for a Graph Grant: https://airtable.com/shreX09LazIhsg0bU…  Jobs Page: https://thegraph.com/jobs/ Delegation: https://network.thegraph.comThe GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside The Graph by interviewing members of The Graph's community and ecosystem.  Will you help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review on Apple Podcasts?Twitter: GRT_iQwww.GRTiQ.comDisclosure: This podcast is for informational purposes only. The contents of this podcast should not be construed as tax, legal, or investment advice. Listeners should take responsibility for their own decisions, consult the appropriate professionals, and do their own research.

In this episode, we interview Jim Cousins, an Indexer (Wave Five) at The Graph and member of The Graph Council.  We spoke to Jim about a range of topics, including:When he first got interested in crypto and The GraphHow he thinks about The Graph and subgraphsThe roles of Curators, Indexers, and Delegators in The Graph ecosystem The various aspects required to be an IndexerAn Indexer's perspective on Delegator rewards, the 28-day "thaw period," and GIP2 You can find Jim Cousins on Twitter and at his website.  Additional show notes available at https://www.grtiq.com/grtiq-podcast-01-jim-cousins/.   The GRTiQ Podcast takes listeners inside The Graph by interviewing members of The Graph's community and ecosystem.  Will you help support this project and build the community by subscribing and leaving a review on Apple Podcasts?Twitter: https://twitter.com/grt_iq (GRT_iQ)www.GRTiQ.comDisclosure: This podcast is for informational purposes only. The contents of this podcast should not be construed as tax, legal, or investment advice. Listeners should take responsibility for their own decisions, consult the appropriate professionals, and do their own research.

In this episode of NonProfit Architect, host Travis Johnson and Rick Carlson are going to talk about Leadership, Mentorship, Mastermind, and how to be a Master Delegator.   Conversation Highlights [01:02] Rick Carlson explains what Vacation Claim is and how it was created. [07:01] Rick and Travis talk about the importance of having people working with you. [09:48] Rick Carlson talks about what Master Delegator means to him and the importance of being one in a Non-profit organization. [13:27] The importance of having a clear mission and vision. [16:18] Recommendations for people that have or need a very smart work team [20:18] Travis, on a side note about his relationship with his wife. [21:21] “The riches are in the niches” but… What makes you different from other Non-profit organizations? [23:21] Rick, on a side note giving his opinion of what to do before starting a Non-profit Organization. [24:34] Rick, on a side note talking about his experience with work and Covid-19. [25:38] The importance of finding the person or group who will take you to the next level. [33:36] Rick, on a side note telling a story about a Mastermind course. [37:452] The most important thing to do is to execute your ideas. Remarkable Quotes: [13:10] “You have to instill in your team that what you're doing is for a bigger picture and a bigger call and if you don't have somebody that's not bought into that dream then they're just not going to be bought in and you need to move on”.  [18:27] “Money is a fickle mistress. When you worry about it, it doesn't worry about you. So go to work, do what you do, build your dream”. [37:42] “At the end of the day, it's always about execution. There have been a gazillion great ideas, but very few are executed”. A lifelong entrepreneur and businessman. rick@fancyox.com vacationclean.com@gmail.com  Facebook.com/carlson.rick

[[:encoded, "Delegation is one of the many keys to success, but it is, surprisingly, one of the weakest points for many leaders. Believe it or not, there are A LOT of leaders in small business who do not know how to delegate effectively. There can be a number of reasons for having difficulty in the delegation department, most of them related to the inability of the leader to relinquish control. A lot of leaders want to be in control of everything, but don't realize that this mentality can sap time and energy that could better be spent moving them to the next level of success. nnIf a leader fails to realize this, then they could very well use up all of their valuable time performing tasks that COULD be done by someone else. Since they are using their time on these things, the leader will usually suffer from an inability to grow, and will often feel pressured. They can also feel like nobody understands what is wanted or needed, and can begin to feel very alone in a professional sense. nn“Surround yourself with the best people you can find, delegate authority, and don't interfere as long as the policy you've decided upon is being carried out.” -Ronald ReagannnKey #1… Understand What It Means To DelegatenDelegating a job to someone underneath you is not always easy, especially at first… but it is an essential part of growth, and you will likely find that you will be unable to move forward with any kind of speed if you do not have what it takes to turn a project over to someone else. Having said this, it is important that you do not simply delegate to delegate. This decision must be made with great care and professionalism. nnDelegating to the wrong person could be a catastrophe! However, if you do have the option to hand the project to someone below you who is capable of seeing it through to the end, then you will have the opportunity to TRULY realize how much power there is in the ability to pass things off to trusted employees or colleagues. This is what delegation is. You are giving something very important to someone who you trust, so that they can finish it for you. It is really that simple. You need to be able to communicate the needs of the project, as well as your need to be informed when certain milestones are reached. nnDelegation, if executed correctly, can free you up to do the things that you have to do. Being able to step away from projects that could hold you back is a huge bonus! Just remember, however, that great care must be taken to ensure that you are choosing the right person for the job! Successful entrepreneurs are GREAT delegators.nn“Managers help people to see themselves as they are. nLeaders help people to see themselves better than they are.”n--Jim RohnnnKey #2… Surround Yourself with People You Can TrustnIf you can't trust anyone beneath you, then you are just going to cause more problems for yourself in the long run by attempting to put them in charge of anything. This is why it is SO important to have good, reliable people around you. Delegating relies upon the existence of responsible individuals who you can believe in and turn to in order to get things done quickly and efficiently. nnKey #3… Don't MicromanagenStaying informed and on top of the situation is one thing… but micromanaging is something else. Never try to micromanage a project that you have given to someone else. This will just interfere with workflow, and will also cause your subordinate to feel like they are not trusted or appreciated. If you cannot trust them to do the job, then don't delegate to them. If you CAN trust them, then do yourself a favor and let them have the authority do their best for you. nnDownload a Free Delegation List Sample to help you identify more activities to delegate, by going to https://www.accountabilitycoach.com/delegation-list-sample/.nnKey #4… Learn To Let Go If TherSupport the show