Podcasts about Growth

"Don't worry about it. It's all gonna work out. Everything is figure-outable." —Lisa Cruz   Most people don't need more money to invest in their business — they need to stop seeing that investment as a cost. That's the mindset shift former ER nurse turned auto shop co-owner Lisa Cruz brings to this episode of the Daniel Gomez Inspires Show. Lisa spent 25 years as a registered nurse before walking away to help run her husband Ricky's auto repair business — which, at the time, was operating out of shoeboxes with no bookkeeping, no filed taxes, and no system. She explains exactly how she brought structure to that chaos, why a $400 Chamber of Commerce membership terrified Ricky but changed their business, and how a $1,000 marketing spend turned into a $5,000 job. Along the way, she opens up about forgiving her son's father, letting go of resentment toward her own parents, and the surprising story of how their shop grew from a single cow-pasture location to a second site that sees 30,000 cars drive by every day. This episode is for any entrepreneur who feels stuck between wanting to grow and being afraid to spend — and for anyone still carrying resentment that's quietly holding their life or business back. Key takeaways: Ricky refused to buy clipboards for tracking repair orders, so Lisa bought them herself with her own money — a small decision that became the foundation of their record-keeping system. A $400 investment in a Chamber of Commerce membership generated years of revenue that far outweighed the initial fear of spending it. A $1,000 marketing investment returned a $5,000 job, proving that treating spending as an investment — not a cost — changes what a business can become. Lisa's father used to tell her she had a way of stepping into trouble and coming out "smelling like roses" — a mindset she now credits for staying calm through business setbacks. Forgiving her son's absent father and letting go of childhood resentment toward her parents freed up energy she had been spending on bitterness instead of growth. A change in Texas inspection law cut a nearby shop's revenue in half overnight — Lisa and Ricky bought that "dying" business anyway and turned it into a second location on a road with 30,000 daily cars. Listen to the full conversation for the story behind Lisa's book, Keeping Up with the Cruzes, and how she turned a decade of unfiled taxes into a thriving two-location business. Be Inspired! with Daniel:  Website (Makings of a Millionaire Mindset) Website (Daniel Gomez Global) Facebook Facebook Group X Instagram LinkedIn Pinterest YouTube Podcast   Episode Highlights: 01:27 Meet Lisa Cruz: From Registered Nurse to Shop Owner 02:26 Bringing Structure to a Chaotic Auto Repair Business 06:59 Why Business Owners Fear Investing in Growth 09:17 Overcoming the Fear of Spending On Your Business 13:21 What to Tell Yourself Before Paying a Big Invoice 17:40 The "Everything Is Figure-outable" Mindset 21:02 A $10,000 Answered Prayer During a Medical Crisis 22:01 Letting Go of Resentment to Overcome the BS 28:54 From Cows to 30,000 Cars: Spotting a Hidden Opportunity 34:42 Key Takeaways and Where to Find Lisa's Book   

How does someone become a millionaire while working as a Costco cashier? In this episode, Travis Chappell and producer Eric break down the inspiring story of Tony Barzar, a longtime Costco employee who quietly built a seven-figure retirement account through decades of consistent investing. Along the way, they discuss the importance of patience, the value of great employers, and why getting rich is often much simpler—and much slower—than people expect. On this episode we talk about: How a Costco employee became a millionaire through steady 401(k) contributions over nearly 40 years. Why compound interest rewards consistency more than flashy investment strategies. The surprising benefits Costco offers employees, including healthcare and retirement matching. Why trying to get rich quickly often leads to poor financial decisions. How changing the way you think about spending could dramatically improve your long-term wealth. Top 3 Takeaways Building wealth doesn't require a massive salary—it requires consistency, patience, and allowing compound growth to work over decades. Great employers can significantly accelerate financial success through retirement matching, strong benefits, and opportunities for long-term career growth. Before making discretionary purchases, consider investing an equal amount. This simple mindset shift can help build wealth while reducing unnecessary spending. Notable Quotes "The good news is anybody can get rich. The bad news is it's going to take a long time." "The key driver wasn't a windfall—it was steady contributions plus decades of compound growth." "That's why people lose all their money trying to get rich in twelve months. That's not how money works." Connect with Travis Chappell: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/travischappell/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/travischappell/ Other: https://travischappell.com/ A Word from Our Sponsors: - Visit DrinkAG1.com/TMM to get a free AG1 Travel Case with 7 free AG1Travel Packs in your Welcome Kit with your first AG1 subscription order while supplies last.  - Go to Leesa.com for 25% OFF select mattresses (through August 23, 2026) PLUS get an extra $50 off with promo code TMM, exclusive for my listeners  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Book Alan's Business Breakthrough Session. Your first 30-minute coaching call is FREE. Learn how to prioritize success and let your quality of life become the byproduct. - https://calendly.com/alanlazaros/30-minute-breakthrough-sessionFitness is forever, it's a lifestyle. Join the Next Level Fitness Accountability Group. Reach out to Kevin or Alan on Instagram:Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/neverquitkid/Alan: https://www.instagram.com/alazaros88/_______________________In this episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros share why lasting change requires more than motivation. It requires consistent action, stronger standards, and the willingness to do difficult things long enough for them to reshape your identity.They break down how small daily habits build momentum, why most people quit in the middle, and how responsibility creates the structure needed for real growth. This conversation is a practical reminder that meaningful progress is built over time. Your future is not changed by one great day. It is changed by the standards you keep when the excitement wears off.Visual Assets:Alan Mile Times - https://drive.google.com/file/d/15liazjUFBbScJuY9v6FjRd-v1CIYW3DZ/view?usp=drive_linkThe Power of Tiny Gains - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1LCpd5qQvCFrQ3UD0unje2djqAF0644ig/view?usp=drive_link_______________________NLU is more than a podcast. From the Next Level Dreamliner to Group Coaching, we provide tools and communities to help you grow with more clarity, consistency, and accountability.Visit our website and socials through the links below.

When digital payments can feel like a commoditized utility, how do you build a brand that's seen not just as a processor, but as a strategic partner?Agility requires more than just speed; it demands the ability to innovate within complex regulatory frameworks while simultaneously building and maintaining unwavering customer trust.Today, we're going to talk about the unique challenge of building a resonant brand in the highly competitive and technical world of FinTech. We'll explore how to translate complex capabilities into a compelling narrative that builds trust and drives growth.To help me discuss this topic, I'd like to welcome, Alexandra Westfal, Chief Marketing Officer at COLIBRIX ONE.Enjoyed the show? Tell us more at and give us a rating so others can find the show at: https://aglbrnd.co/r/faaed112fc9887f3Connect with Greg on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/gregkihlstromDon't miss a thing: get the latest episodes, sign up for our newsletter and more: https://aglbrnd.co/r/35ded3ccfb6716baCheck out The Agile Brand Guide website with articles, insights, and Martechipedia, the wiki for marketing technology: https://www.agilebrandguide.comThe Agile Brand is produced by Missing Link—a Latina-owned strategy-driven, creatively fueled production co-op. From ideation to creation, they craft human connections through intelligent, engaging and informative content. https://www.missinglink.company Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jim McTague reports that in Lancaster County, Republican representatives are introducing legislation that adds red tape and taxes to data centers, contradicting traditional pro-growth principles. While the Democratic-led Lancaster Cityhas embraced a lucrative data center deal, blue-collar "Trump country" boroughs remain fearful of the future. Despite these tensions, the local economy remains "steady" due to a diversified base including agriculture, pharmaceuticals, and senior citizen spending. (6)1890 ERIE PA.

Book Alan's Business Breakthrough Session. Your first 30-minute coaching call is FREE. Learn how to prioritize success and let your quality of life become the byproduct. - https://calendly.com/alanlazaros/30-minute-breakthrough-sessionFitness is forever, it's a lifestyle. Join the Next Level Fitness Accountability Group. Reach out to Kevin or Alan on Instagram:Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/neverquitkid/Alan: https://www.instagram.com/alazaros88/_______________________What if your focus problem is not a discipline problem at all, but the result of living in a world designed to pull your attention in every direction? In today's episode, Kevin and Alan discuss why staying focused has become harder and why responsibility still matters. They examine the pull of social media, streaming, spending, food, and other easy distractions that can quietly cost you time, energy, self-respect, and momentum.Using lessons from their own lives and client work, they explore the value of a time audit, reducing triggers, and creating real accountability. This is an honest conversation about protecting your attention, strengthening your habits, and deciding what truly deserves your time.Digital Asset:The Top 10 Distractions Holding You Back - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1FDUSnbitxR4E2G4hlgkpm0T-BZxLVto6/view_______________________NLU is more than a podcast. From the Next Level Dreamliner to Group Coaching, we provide tools and communities to help you grow with more clarity, consistency, and accountability.Visit our website and socials through the links below.

Today's Cruise News brief covers three stories. A Kentucky woman, filing under the pseudonym Jane Doe, has sued Carnival Cruise Line and spa operator OneSpaWorld over an alleged assault by a massage therapist aboard Carnival Vista on July 5, 2025, a complaint that arrives alongside Department of Transportation figures showing 135 sexual assaults reported on Carnival vessels between 2016 and 2025. In Italy, a July 3, 2026 court ruling voided the environmental approval for the 600 million euro Fiumicino Waterfront cruise port near Rome, a project 90 percent owned by iCON Infrastructure funds with a 10 percent stake held by Royal Caribbean Group, leaving Civitavecchia as the region's cruise gateway after it processed 3,556,559 passengers in 2025. And Disney Cruise Line is scaling up in St. Maarten, moving from three calls in 2026 to roughly 14 in 2027 following Disney Destiny's inaugural visit on July 1, 2026, at a port that welcomed 1,597,940 cruise visitors last year.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. Business Podcast Entrepreneurship Small Business Business Growth Financial Literacy Wealth Building Black Entrepreneurs Minority Business Leadership Executive Leadership Business Funding Marketing Strategies Personal Development Startup Advice Sales Training CEO Interviews Founder Stories Professional Development Economic Empowerment Business Success Networking Brand Building Innovation How to start a business Small business funding Entrepreneur success stories Business leadership podcast Wealth building strategies Black entrepreneur podcast Minority business development Marketing for small businesses Business growth strategies Startup funding opportunities Executive leadership training Financial literacy education Success mindset podcast Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Jai Johnson.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. Business Podcast Entrepreneurship Small Business Business Growth Financial Literacy Wealth Building Black Entrepreneurs Minority Business Leadership Executive Leadership Business Funding Marketing Strategies Personal Development Startup Advice Sales Training CEO Interviews Founder Stories Professional Development Economic Empowerment Business Success Networking Brand Building Innovation How to start a business Small business funding Entrepreneur success stories Business leadership podcast Wealth building strategies Black entrepreneur podcast Minority business development Marketing for small businesses Business growth strategies Startup funding opportunities Executive leadership training Financial literacy education Success mindset podcast Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Jeremy Anderson.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. Business Podcast Entrepreneurship Small Business Business Growth Financial Literacy Wealth Building Black Entrepreneurs Minority Business Leadership Executive Leadership Business Funding Marketing Strategies Personal Development Startup Advice Sales Training CEO Interviews Founder Stories Professional Development Economic Empowerment Business Success Networking Brand Building Innovation How to start a business Small business funding Entrepreneur success stories Business leadership podcast Wealth building strategies Black entrepreneur podcast Minority business development Marketing for small businesses Business growth strategies Startup funding opportunities Executive leadership training Financial literacy education Success mindset podcast Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Jeremy Anderson.

Listen and subscribe to Money Making Conversations on iHeartRadio, Apple Podcasts, Spotify, www.moneymakingconversations.com/subscribe/ or wherever you listen to podcasts. New Money Making Conversations episodes drop daily. I want to alert you, so you don’t miss out on expert analysis and insider perspectives from my guests who provide tips that can help you uplift the community, improve your financial planning, motivation, or advice on how to be a successful entrepreneur. Keep winning! Money Making Conversations Master Class with Rushion McDonald is America's premier entrepreneurship, business leadership, financial literacy, and wealth-building podcast featuring successful entrepreneurs, executives, founders, celebrities, and industry experts sharing actionable insights for professional and financial success. Business Podcast Entrepreneurship Small Business Business Growth Financial Literacy Wealth Building Black Entrepreneurs Minority Business Leadership Executive Leadership Business Funding Marketing Strategies Personal Development Startup Advice Sales Training CEO Interviews Founder Stories Professional Development Economic Empowerment Business Success Networking Brand Building Innovation How to start a business Small business funding Entrepreneur success stories Business leadership podcast Wealth building strategies Black entrepreneur podcast Minority business development Marketing for small businesses Business growth strategies Startup funding opportunities Executive leadership training Financial literacy education Success mindset podcast Two-time Emmy and Three-time NAACP Image Award-winning, television Executive Producer Rushion McDonald interviewed Dr. Jai Johnson.

A few months ago, Kelly barely knew what Substack was. Now it's about to cross $100K in added revenue for the business, and she's convinced it can become a multimillion-dollar trust-building funnel. In this episode, she shares where the Substack strategy stands now, why she's genuinely excited about the platform's new updates, and why a platform taking real steps to protect the authenticity of the human voice is something every creator should be celebrating, especially as the other platforms drown in AI slop. Then she gets into the moves she's making next, including betting on her daughter Madison's business by moving it entirely to Substack, and launching two brand-new publications to show the exact same growth model working in completely different niches. If you've been wondering whether Substack could work for your industry, this episode is going to SHOW you rather than TELL you. What's inside: Why the AI scanner's rocky start is still a good sign What actually makes Substack different from every other platform The two new publications we are growing from 0 (and the strategy behind them) Why now is the moment to claim a leadership position on the platform Timestamps 00:00 — The one platform taking steps to protect the human voice 01:00 — The Substack journey and crossing $100K in revenue 03:00 — Substack's new AI scanner and why the inaccuracy doesn't worry Kelly 06:00 — Why Substack is different: authenticity, trust, and depth 08:00 — Moving her daughter's whole business to Substack 12:00 — The monthly campaigns generating hundreds of paid subscribers 13:30 — A publication for parents raising courageous, confident daughters 16:00 — A publication for all things marketing and personal branding, with Danielle 17:30 — How the whole strategy feeds our programs  18:30 — Claim your leadership position on Substack now while the window is open (Resources & Mentions The Sacred Art of Selling (Substack) — Kelly's main publication, which covers business, sales, thought leadership, faith, and Sacred Art of Selling book updates: https://kellyroachofficial.substack.com/subscribe  Founder Girl (Substack) — Kelly's new parenting publication on raising confident, courageous kids with real-world skills; monthly playbooks and livestreams with Madison for parents of girls ages 7–17: https://foundergirl.substack.com/subscribe  Worth the Follow (Substack) — Danielle's new publication on building a standout personal brand in 2026: https://worththefollow.substack.com/subscribe  Learn more about The Virtual Business School (VBS) membership: https://www.virtualbusinessschool.com/virtual-business-school  Conviction Marketing: Kelly's book on building a conviction-based brand without chasing trends or algorithms: https://a.co/d/09RHa4jv

Book Alan's Business Breakthrough Session. Your first 30-minute coaching call is FREE. Learn how to prioritize success and let your quality of life become the byproduct. - https://calendly.com/alanlazaros/30-minute-breakthrough-sessionFitness is forever, it's a lifestyle. Join the Next Level Fitness Accountability Group. Reach out to Kevin or Alan on Instagram:Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/neverquitkid/Alan: https://www.instagram.com/alazaros88/_______________________Trend hopping creates the illusion of progress while weakening the habits that produce lasting results. In this episode, Kevin and Alan explain why quick fixes, new strategies, and constant novelty often distract people from the fundamentals that create real change.They break down the difference between wanting a result and deciding to earn it, why consistency builds self-respect, and how long-term skill development leads to stronger health, confidence, relationships, and performance. The shortcut is not coming. Commit to the work long enough for it to work._______________________NLU is more than a podcast. From the Next Level Dreamliner to Group Coaching, we provide tools and communities to help you grow with more clarity, consistency, and accountability.Visit our website and socials through the links below.

In July, Inside the ICE House aired six new episodes. Episode 544: New York Giants' Kayvon Thibodeaux on Money, Mentorship, and the 2026 Season Episode 545: Bayern Munich CMO Rouven Kasper on Soccer Fandom, U.S. Growth, and Global Reach NYSE Texas: Buda Juice CEO Horatio Lonsdale-Hands on Ultra Fresh Growth Episode 546: Jeeves CEO Dileep Thazhmon on Scaling a Borderless Banking Platform Episode 547: Offerpad CFO Peter Knag on Transforming How Americans Sell Homes NYSE Texas: Globe Life Co-CEOs on Building a Resilient Insurance Giant

What if leadership isn't about producing results, but helping people become who they're capable of becoming? Jon Houghton has spent much of his life helping people grow. For more than twenty years, he served in leadership roles with Young Life, developing leaders, building teams, and helping others discover their gifts and purpose. Then, after a successful career doing work he deeply loved, Jon made a surprising decision. He left. Not because something was broken. Not because he was unhappy. But because he felt called to explore a new challenge and discover what another chapter might hold. Today, Jon serves as CEO of Holy Post Media, a company creating thoughtful conversations around faith, culture, leadership, and life in an increasingly polarized world. Through Holy Post, Chicago Fellowship, and countless conversations with leaders, Jon continues to ask questions that matter. Questions about identity. Questions about purpose. Questions about what it means to grow. In this episode of Design Of, Jon shares the lessons he's learned about leadership, feedback, community, faith, and personal transformation. Along the way, he reflects on mentors who shaped him, the risks of staying too long, the challenges of starting over, and why some of the most important work leaders do has nothing to do with performance metrics. Jon shared a question that has quietly followed him throughout much of his life: "Am I lovable if I'm not impressive?" It's a deeply human question. And it opens the door to a conversation about ambition, achievement, identity, and the freedom that comes when we stop trying to prove ourselves and start helping others flourish. This conversation isn't really about leadership. It's about becoming. And helping others do the same. In This Episode, We Explore: • Why Jon chose to leave a successful twenty-year career and start a new chapter • The transition from nonprofit leadership to leading a growing media company • How healthy leadership begins with self-awareness • The difference between helping people perform and helping people grow • Why feedback feels threatening and how to receive it differently • The role faith plays in leadership, relationships, and community • Building meaningful connections in a culture that often lacks depth • How mentors help us see things in ourselves we cannot yet see Key Takeaways: • Great leadership starts with personal health and self-awareness. • You cannot help others grow if you are unwilling to grow yourself. • Feedback becomes less threatening when your identity is rooted in something deeper than performance. • Meaningful community requires intentional effort and vulnerability. • Growth often begins when we leave something comfortable and familiar. • The best leaders help people become more fully who they were created to be. About Jon Jon Houghton is the CEO of Holy Post Media, a media company focused on thoughtful conversations about faith, culture, leadership, and public life. He also leads Chicago Fellowship, a community that brings together nonprofit and marketplace leaders seeking to grow personally, professionally, and spiritually. Prior to Holy Post, Jon spent more than two decades with Young Life, helping develop leaders and organizations across the country. His work today centers on creating meaningful conversations, building healthy communities, and helping people become who they're capable of becoming.

MUZZ joins us backstage at Electric Forest 2026 for a conversation about his journey into drum & bass, the importance of concept albums, and why he believes the genre has so much more to offer than what's currently on the surface. We discuss how MotorStorm and Pendulum inspired his career, his passion for cinematic world-building in projects like F Minor Factory, why he's stepping back from touring to focus on creating deeper, more ambitious records, and his advice for new fans looking to explore the rich history of drum & bass. Follow Poducer Instagram https://www.instagram.com/poducerpodcast TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@poducerpodcast Spotify https://open.spotify.com/show/28RT0Mv5mMFr2ozrO2dav Apple Podcasts https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/poducer/id1327594929 Linktree https://linktr.ee/poducerpodcast Chapters 00:00 Intro 00:20 Discovering Drum & Bass 03:11 Concept Albums & World Building 05:02 Production & Creative Process 10:14 What's Next for MUZZ? 11:18 The Growth of Drum & Bass 15:01 Outro

Are we being too stubborn and missing potential opportunites for deeper growth and bigger success? There could be better options right in front of us if we simply are open to reviewing them. Key Takeaways Stubbornness can prevent us from making better decisions in health, relationships, and work. Recognizing warning signs and being willing to adjust plans is a sign of wisdom, not weakness. Flexibility and openness to change can lead to better outcomes, as illustrated by both personal and business examples. Asking yourself "Am I just being stubborn?" is a valuable self-check before committing to a course of action. Visit ConfidenceThroughHealth.com to find discounts to some of our favorite products.Follow me via All In Health and Wellness on Facebook or Instagram.Find my books on Amazon: No More Sugar Coating: Finding Your Happiness in a Crowded World and Confidence Through Health: Live the Healthy Lifestyle God DesignedProduction credit: Social Media Cowboys

LISTEN and SUBSCRIBE on:Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/watchdog-on-wall-street-with-chris-markowski/id570687608 Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/2PtgPvJvqc2gkpGIkNMR5i WATCH and SUBSCRIBE on:https://www.youtube.com/@WatchdogOnWallstreet/featured  Chris breaks down the latest economic data, arguing that slowing GDP growth, weak wage gains, persistent inflation, and surging federal debt paint a far less optimistic picture than many recent forecasts. He questions claims of a booming economy and warns that the combination of sluggish growth and elevated inflation resembles the early stages of stagflation.

There is a strange comfort in certainty.It gives shape to the unknown.It reduces complexity.It allows us to move through life with a sense of stability, as if the ground beneath us is firm and predictable. Certainty tells us what is right and what is wrong. It tells us what to believe, how to act, what to expect. It creates boundaries around ambiguity so that the world feels more manageable.And for most of human history, certainty was not just comforting. It was necessary. In uncertain environments, clarity increased survival. Knowing where danger might come from, knowing who belonged to your group, knowing what patterns to trust in nature, all of this helped human beings navigate a world that was far less predictable than the one we live in today.

Your FREE Day Starts Now | What's Your Move? Supersize Your Business Annual Challenge Day 213!!! FREE Day! What will you do with it? Work, Rest, Play, Catch up, Mix... Pop in here every day for a dose of different business building perspective! https://facebook.com/supersizebusiness Supersize Your Business (free) Skool link: https://www.skool.com/supersize-your-business-1654/about #supersizeyourbusiness #supersizechallenge #supersizeyourbusinessannualchallenge #contribution #give #dowhatyoucan #supersizeyourbusinesschallenge #givingback #businessimpact #freeday #funday #rest #recharge #plan #prepare Learn how to handle a business mistake by moving forward instead of fixing it. See why progress beats perfection in daily tasks. This message is for entrepreneurs participating in the Supersize Your Business Annual Challenge or anyone feeling stuck on a minor error. We discuss the mindset required to keep momentum when things do not go as planned. Instead of wasting time correcting a small slip, you will see why continuing as if it were the correct day is often the better path for long-term growth. Applying this business mindset helps you stay focused on your goals rather than getting bogged down by details. By prioritizing movement over perfection, you protect your energy for more critical decisions. Overcoming mistakes quickly is a key trait for maintaining consistency in any daily challenge. Subscribe for daily business growth tips and comment below: have you ever moved forward despite making a mistake? Learn how to handle a business mistake by moving forward instead of fixing it. See why progress beats perfection in daily tasks. This message is for entrepreneurs participating in the Super Size Your Business Annual Challenge or anyone feeling stuck on a minor error. We discuss the mindset required to keep momentum when things do not go as planned. Instead of wasting time correcting a small slip, you will see why continuing as if it were the correct day is often the better path for long-term growth. Applying this business mindset helps you stay focused on your goals rather than getting bogged down by details. By prioritizing movement over perfection, you protect your energy for more critical decisions. Overcoming mistakes quickly is a key trait for maintaining consistency in any daily challenge. Subscribe for weekly business growth tips and comment below: have you ever moved forward despite making a mistake? 0:00 Embracing the Unexpected Schedule 0:57 My Commitment to Direct Connection 2:08 Refining the Content Creation Process 3:28 Building a Community for Growth

Indonesia is rapidly emerging as a serious contender in global toy manufacturing, driven by its huge workforce, competitive labour costs, and a fast‑maturing industrial base. While many in the toy business still view Indonesia through the lens of Java and domestic consumption, the country now offers export‑ready capabilities that mirror what modern toy brands need — especially for electronic, interactive, and connected products. With rising wages in China and brands pushing for diversified "China + 1" strategies, Indonesia's manufacturing evolution is becoming impossible to ignore. Within this landscape, Batam stands out as Indonesia's most advanced electronics export‑manufacturing hub — a unique island‑wide Free Trade Zone just 20km from Singapore, built on three decades of electronics production. In this episode, Steve speaks with Chrispin from Tunas Prima Industrial Estate - https://tunasindustrial.com/en/ - who explains how Batam's deep ecosystem of PCB assembly, battery integration, plastics, finishing, and box‑build makes it a natural fit for toy brands. Add in Disney‑certified factories, a young labour pool, seamless Singapore logistics, and ready‑to‑use industrial infrastructure, and Batam becomes one of the most compelling new manufacturing bases for global toy companies exploring Indonesia for the first time.    

Your FREE Day Starts Now | What's Your Move? Supersize Your Business Annual Challenge Day 213!!! FREE Day! What will you do with it? Work, Rest, Play, Catch up, Mix... Pop in here every day for a dose of different business building perspective! https://facebook.com/supersizebusiness Supersize Your Business (free) Skool link: https://www.skool.com/supersize-your-business-1654/about #supersizeyourbusiness #supersizechallenge #supersizeyourbusinessannualchallenge #contribution #give #dowhatyoucan #supersizeyourbusinesschallenge #givingback #businessimpact #freeday #funday #rest #recharge #plan #prepareLearn how to handle a business mistake by moving forward instead of fixing it. See why progress beats perfection in daily tasks.This message is for entrepreneurs participating in the Supersize Your Business Annual Challenge or anyone feeling stuck on a minor error. We discuss the mindset required to keep momentum when things do not go as planned. Instead of wasting time correcting a small slip, you will see why continuing as if it were the correct day is often the better path for long-term growth.Applying this business mindset helps you stay focused on your goals rather than getting bogged down by details. By prioritizing movement over perfection, you protect your energy for more critical decisions. Overcoming mistakes quickly is a key trait for maintaining consistency in any daily challenge.Subscribe for daily business growth tips and comment below: have you ever moved forward despite making a mistake?Learn how to handle a business mistake by moving forward instead of fixing it. See why progress beats perfection in daily tasks.This message is for entrepreneurs participating in the Super Size Your Business Annual Challenge or anyone feeling stuck on a minor error. We discuss the mindset required to keep momentum when things do not go as planned. Instead of wasting time correcting a small slip, you will see why continuing as if it were the correct day is often the better path for long-term growth.Applying this business mindset helps you stay focused on your goals rather than getting bogged down by details. By prioritizing movement over perfection, you protect your energy for more critical decisions. Overcoming mistakes quickly is a key trait for maintaining consistency in any daily challenge.Subscribe for weekly business growth tips and comment below: have you ever moved forward despite making a mistake?0:00 Embracing the Unexpected Schedule0:57 My Commitment to Direct Connection2:08 Refining the Content Creation Process3:28 Building a Community for Growth

Rich Berry is President and CEO of Alexandra Foods, leading the family-run brand's nationwide growth while preserving authentic Eastern European traditions through handcrafted pierogi, dumplings, and community-centered storytelling. Top 3 Value Bombs 1. You do not need to be ruthless to succeed. Building a culture of empowerment, accountability, and teamwork can create long-term business success while strengthening your organization. 2. Growth should never come at the expense of product quality. Consistent quality, employee investment, and authentic innovation are the foundation of sustainable brand expansion. 3. Family-run brands scale best when they stay patient, focus relentlessly on their product, and make employees feel like true partners in the company's success. Check out the website for products, information, and retailer locations - Alexandra Pierogi Website Sponsors HighLevel - The ultimate all-in-one platform for entrepreneurs, marketers, coaches, and agencies. Learn more at HighLevelFire.com. Nexus Install - Have a high-ticket offer? Nexus Install builds you a custom LinkedIn prospect booking system designed to generate more quality sales calls. Email JLD at John@EOFire.com to learn more.

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Carlos Falcón: Rebuilding the Insurance Core for AI, Venture Scouting and the Frontier Firm Insurance does not have an innovation shortage. It has an absorption problem. In this episode of Scouting for Growth, Sabine VanderLinden sits down with Carlos Cendra Falcón, Scouting and Investment Lead at MAPFRE Open Innovation, to explore one of the most pressing questions facing insurers today: can the core of the institution actually absorb the intelligence, ventures, platforms and partnerships being scouted around the world? Carlos brings a pragmatic perspective from inside one of the world's leading insurance groups. Having helped evaluate more than 2,500 startups and accelerate around forty into enterprise integration, he understands that innovation is not about finding exciting technology—it's about identifying capabilities that solve meaningful business problems and can be embedded into a complex global insurer. As AI reshapes discovery, distribution, underwriting, and customer interaction, insurers face a deeper transformation than digitalization alone can provide. Hybrid distribution models, machine-to-machine commerce, embedded insurance, and intelligent agents are changing how insurance is bought, sold, and delivered. Success will depend less on adding new technologies and more on rebuilding the organizational foundations that allow innovation to scale. This conversation is essential listening for CEOs, COOs, Chief Innovation Officers, venture leaders, product executives and insurance decision-makers navigating the shift from digital experimentation to AI-enabled enterprise transformation. KEY TAKEAWAYS Innovation is no longer the constraint facing insurance. The real challenge is whether our organizations are capable of absorbing innovation in a way that creates lasting value. Carlos reminded me that partnerships alone cannot transform an insurer if the underlying organization lacks the architecture, governance, and operating model needed to integrate them. Before looking outward for the next breakthrough, leaders need to strengthen the institutional core that will allow innovation to scale. I was particularly struck by Carlos' reframing of venture scouting. Rather than acting as a matchmaking exercise between startups and business units, scouting should become a strategic intelligence capability. Its purpose is to detect meaningful market signals, understand emerging technologies, and identify solutions that directly address strategic priorities. The question is never whether a startup is impressive; it is whether it is genuinely useful to the institution and capable of improving the business in measurable ways. Our discussion also reinforced how AI is fundamentally changing the insurance value chain. As customers increasingly rely on AI assistants and autonomous agents to search for, compare, and purchase products, insurers must prepare for a world in which machines—not people—interact with their systems. Discoverability, machine-readable products, and seamless digital connectivity will become as important as customer experience itself. Ultimately, Carlos challenged us to think beyond digitization. The frontier insurer will not simply modernize existing processes—it will redesign itself around risk intelligence, ecosystem collaboration and adaptive execution, while remaining anchored to insurance's enduring purpose: helping people navigate the risks that shape their lives.   BEST MOMENTS "You cannot partner your way out of a weak core." – Sabine VanderLinden (00:01:10) "Some initiatives are truly transformational, and some are simply a consequence of FOMO. You want to stay close to what's happening without necessarily bringing it into the business." – Carlos Cendra Falcón (00:03:32) "Sometimes the best-in-class solution isn't the best fit for your organization." – Carlos Cendra Falcón (00:15:23) "Scouting is not provider matchmaking. It's a strategic approach to solving business problems." – Carlos Cendra Falcón (00:17:08) "You need to tackle one of the lines in your P&L or your balance sheet. Otherwise, you're just there to look nice in the picture." – Carlos Cendra Falcón (00:16:28) "Machines don't care how pretty your website is." – Carlos Cendra Falcón (00:20:50) "You need to have the information available, well structured, and you need to be able to talk to the machine." – Carlos Cendra Falcón (00:21:00) "The question is never whether a startup is interesting. It is whether it is institutionally useful." – Sabine VanderLinden (00:24:42) "We are here to help people navigate the risks they're facing in their lives, with their property, their health and their way of life." – Carlos Cendra Falcón (00:22:18) "First understand what an insurance company should look like in 2035, then design the roadmap that gets you there." – Carlos Cendra Falcón (00:23:32)   ABOUT THE GUEST Carlos Cendra Falcón is Scouting and Investment Lead at MAPFRE Open Innovation, where he works at the intersection of insurance transformation, venture ecosystems, and corporate strategy. His role focuses on identifying the startups, technologies, and ecosystem partners that can help MAPFRE respond to new risks, new business models, operational challenges, and changing customer behaviors. Carlos's work is grounded in the practical realities of transforming a large, global insurer. He focuses on detecting early signals across AI, embedded insurance, human–machine interaction, real-time risk intelligence, and preventative insurance, translating market signals into strategic partnerships and investment opportunities that help incumbents move beyond experimentation.   ABOUT THE HOST Sabine VanderLinden is a corporate strategist turned entrepreneur and the CEO of Alchemy Crew Ventures. She leads venture-client labs that help Fortune 500 companies adopt and scale cutting-edge technologies from global tech ventures. A builder of accelerators, investor, and co-editor of the bestseller The INSURTECH Book, Sabine is known for asking the uncomfortable questions—about AI governance, risk, and trust. On Scouting for Growth, she decodes how real growth happens—where capital, collaboration, and courage meet. If this episode sparked your thinking, follow Sabine VanderLinden on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Instagram for more insights. 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Book Alan's Business Breakthrough Session. Your first 30-minute coaching call is FREE. Learn how to prioritize success and let your quality of life become the byproduct. - https://calendly.com/alanlazaros/30-minute-breakthrough-sessionFitness is forever, it's a lifestyle. Join the Next Level Fitness Accountability Group. Reach out to Kevin or Alan on Instagram:Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/neverquitkid/Alan: https://www.instagram.com/alazaros88/_______________________In today's episode of Next Level University, hosts Kevin Palmieri and Alan Lazaros examine the hidden markers of success that matter more than status symbols, lifestyle upgrades, or public perception. Drawing from their own journeys and years of coaching clients, they explain why real progress often looks ordinary from the outside.Kevin and Alan break down the importance of protecting your highest-value priority, developing the willingness to do what your goals require, and choosing long-term growth over short-term comfort. They also explore why some people appear successful before they have built the habits to sustain it, while others may look behind as they quietly create a stronger future. This episode is a direct conversation about focus, work ethic, personal responsibility, identity, and the standards required to build lasting success._______________________NLU is more than a podcast. From the Next Level Dreamliner to Group Coaching, we provide tools and communities to help you grow with more clarity, consistency, and accountability.Visit our website and socials through the links below.

Reflections from host Sarah Olivieri ... "Run It Like A Business" There is a quiet belief inside a lot of nonprofits that running things like a business would somehow cheapen the mission. That budgets, product thinking, and direct asks belong to the for-profit world, and that the nonprofit world runs on something purer. Heart. Passion. Care. The care is real. The problem is that heart gets asked to do a job it was never built to do. When there is no clear product, no business-grade financial forecasting, and no habit of quantifying value in dollars, people compensate with effort. They work harder. They care louder. And the organization still stalls. Running a nonprofit like a business is not the thing that threatens your mission. Avoiding it is. A version of this tension shows up almost every time I talk with a founder who built something meaningful and then hit a ceiling they cannot explain. I had a conversation recently with Barb Clapp, who built a workforce development organization from nothing into one that has trained thousands of people, and it sharpened how I think about this. The idea was not new to me. What she did was name exactly why the business lens holds up, and why the absence of it quietly breaks things. Mission Is What You Do. Method Is How You Do It. One of the most expensive confusions in the nonprofit world is treating the mission and the method as the same thing. Your mission is fixed. It is the reason you exist. Your method is everything else. How you deliver, how you fund it, how you structure the team, how you ask. The method is allowed to change. In fact it has to, or the mission gets stuck inside an approach that stopped working. I am a sailor, so forgive me, my sailing references tend to pop up. An America's Cup boat can sail several times faster than the wind pushing it. The wind does not change. The boat design does. Your mission is the wind. Your method is the boat. When leaders feel stalled, they almost always reach to protect the mission by clinging harder to the method. That gets it backwards. You honor the mission by being willing to rebuild the boat. The business lens is a method decision. It changes nothing about who you serve. It changes how much of them you can actually reach. You Have a Product, Whether You Name It or Not Here is where most organizations lose the thread before they even start. Barb said something in our conversation that I have not stopped thinking about: "People do not understand what their product is. They don't have a clear picture of what it is they're doing, why it makes a difference, and how they're going to tell a story."   What I appreciate about this framing is that it explains the mechanism. Every organization has a product and a buyer, even when it refuses to use those words. Your product is the specific change you create. Your buyer is the funder or donor who pays for that change to happen. When you cannot say clearly what your product is, everything downstream gets harder. Your messaging blurs. Your fundraising softens. Your team cannot rally around a result they cannot name. More detail does not equal more clarity here. Organizations often try to fix a fuzzy product by adding more program descriptions, more impact language, more mission poetry. That adds volume, not clarity. The fix is narrower. What is the one thing you produce, why does it matter, and who benefits enough to pay for it. Answer that and the rest of the machine has something to organize around. If you have never separated your product from your good intentions, that is worth doing before you touch anything else. I wrote more about the marketing side of this in what marketing really is and where it fits into your nonprofit. Business Values Do Not Replace Heart. They Protect It. The fear is that a business lens will crowd out the reason people came to the work. It does the opposite when it is done well. Barb put it plainly. She brought real business-based values into her nonprofit in addition to the heart-based ones. Budgets that get made and then actually followed. A strategic plan. Clear annual goals that everyone in the organization understands. Real job descriptions. None of that dilutes the caring. It gives the caring somewhere to land. At the end of the day, an organization without a real strategy cannot protect its mission for very long. A strategy is what tells you which opportunities to say yes to and which to let pass, which programs to double down on and which to sunset, where the next dollar should go and where it should not. Without one, every decision gets made in the moment, and moments add up to drift. Mission and money are not in conflict. They are mutually dependent. The money is what lets the mission keep showing up next year, and the year after that. Leaders who run everything from a heart place alone often feel like they are being noble. What they are actually doing is putting the mission at risk, because a mission with no financial floor under it is one bad quarter away from disappearing. This is one of the six things nonprofits can learn from the for-profit world, and it is the one that changes the most when a leader finally lets it in. Growth With Heart Alone Has a Ceiling You can grow a nonprofit on heart alone. You just cannot scale it that way. Growth is doing more. Scale is doing more per dollar, per person, per hour. Scale is what happens when you apply efficiency and leverage to the work, so that each resource produces a larger result than it did before. Heart gets you off the ground. It does not get you altitude. At some point, the leader who is running on care alone hits a wall, and because they care so much, the wall is deeply frustrating. Barb's organization scaled because she thought in terms of leverage from the start. She repurposed existing structures instead of rebuilding from scratch. She built revenue that funds the mission instead of chasing every dollar cold. She hired people who could own outcomes. Every one of those is a leverage decision, and leverage is a business concept that nonprofits need more than almost anyone, because the work matters more than almost anything. If you are feeling stalled right now, working harder is rarely the way out. Working differently is. That difference usually lives in structure, and structure is fixable. I made the fuller case for that in structure holds vision, the leadership system CEOs need. What Changes When You Let the Business Lens In When a leader finally stops treating business thinking as the enemy of the mission, the whole organization gets lighter. The product gets clear, so the story tells itself. The budget holds, so the panic drains out of every funding cycle. The asks get sized correctly, so the money starts matching the need. The team fits the phase you are actually in, so the turnover stops. None of this makes the work smaller. It makes the work hold. The heart is still the whole point. It finally has a structure strong enough to carry it. This isn't about caring less. It's about building something that can carry how much you care. Nonprofits can name their product. They can keep a budget. They can make the ask.   Not by trading away the mission, but by giving it a business strong enough to keep it alive. About the Guest Barb Clapp is not just a leader—she is a force of transformational change. A successful entrepreneur and nationally recognized business leader, Barb has always been committed to giving a voice to the voiceless. What makes her truly inspirational is how she draws on her own experience of overcoming adversity to empower others by providing the resources, support, and solutions they need to overcome their own challenges and achieve lasting success. As CEO of the nonprofit Dwyer Workforce Development (DWD), Barb is disrupting the traditional approach to solving the healthcare workforce crisis and creating a new paradigm for healthcare workforce training.  DWD Bio: Dwyer Workforce Development (DWD) is an innovative, national nonprofit with a mission to provide comprehensive support to individuals who lack opportunity and aspire to build careers in healthcare, alleviate a critical healthcare workforce shortage and improve the lives of seniors and the community at large. DWD provides CNA and GNA training and job placement support to underserved individuals and need-based wraparound services — including financial support for housing, childcare, and transportation — to eliminate barriers to success. As Scholars achieve key milestones, they become eligible for continued training and educational opportunities, creating pathways to become Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs), Registered Nurses (RNs), and advance into additional roles in healthcare. Connect with Barb: https://dwyerworkforcedev.org https://www.facebook.com/dwyerworkforcedevelopment https://www.instagram.com/dwyerworkforcedev/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/dwyer-workforce-development/ Be sure to subscribe to Inspired Nonprofit Leadership so that you don't miss a single episode, and while you're at it, won't you take a moment to write a short review and rate our show? It would be greatly appreciated! Let us know the topics or questions you would like to hear about in a future episode. 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Why do less than a third of independent agents actually use a CRM, and what is that gap costing them? Jason Cass sits down with Mariah Gates, Founder of Accelerated Automation, to unpack agency operations, the shifting role of AMS platforms, and what it really takes to prepare an agency for AI. Key Topics: Why less than 27% of agents actually use a CRM, per a Vertafore study Growth through acquisition creates operational struggles even for large agencies Fixed owner pay leads to healthier cash flow and tech decisions The "AMS Demotion": AMS shifting from operating system to system of record AMS platforms need open APIs and two way sync to stay relevant Point solutions expose gaps that AMS systems fail to solve Why integration philosophy separates open platforms from closed ones like EZLynx Software companies must listen closer to users to avoid disconnected decisions AI adoption requires documented processes before layering on new tools Why agentic AI replaces unlicensed work while virtual employees remain essential Reach out to: Mariah Gates Jason Cass Visit Website: Accelerated Automation Agency Intelligence Produced by PodSquad.fm

Most contractors don't have a fraud problem. They have a messy books problem. And it's quietly costing them sleep, options, and profit. In this episode of Can't Stop the Growth, Chad Peterman sits down with Ellen Rohr, the trades industry's go-to voice on financial literacy. Ellen married a plumber named Hot Rod, nearly went broke running their shop, learned to read a P&L off a fax machine from mentor Frank Blau, and went on to help build Benjamin Franklin Plumbing and co-found Zoom Drain. Her whole message: the numbers aren't the scary part of the business. They're the scoreboard, and anyone can learn to keep score. Whether your books are a hot mess or you're just tired of guessing, this is the financial gut-check every home service owner needs. Find Ellen Rohr: https://ellenrohr.com/ Subscribe to Can't Stop the Growth for more conversations with the leaders shaping the home service industry. Free Coaching for Home Service Pros: https://cantstopthegrowth.com/ Connect with Chad: LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chad-m-peterman/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chadmpeterman Learn more about: Chad Peterman - https://chadmpeterman.com/ Peterman Brothers - https://www.petermancareers.com/ The People Forward Network - https://peopleforwardnetwork.com/

In today's Cloud Wars Minute, I compare Microsoft's latest cloud results with Google Cloud's accelerating momentum.   Highlights 00:09 — Microsoft Cloud revenue was almost $60 billion for the quarter, up 27%. The RPO, as I said, was up 84%. It's now the biggest RPO total, slightly ahead of Oracle. Microsoft Cloud: $678 billion for that. It said that Azure revenue was up 43% and that its revenue for the fiscal year ended June 30 exceeded $100 billion for Azure. 01:46 — So if we look at the last five quarters from Microsoft, the growth rate: 27%. Starting in Q2, the present, going back five quarters: 27%, 29%, 26%, 26%, 27%. So relatively flat over that period of time. The 29% jumped up a little, but the others, all 27s and 26s. 02:14 — Over those same five quarters, Google Cloud's growth rate has absolutely soared, and the trajectory, the arc of its growth, representing customer demand in the marketplace, has been remarkable. So again, starting from the just-finished quarter and going backward in time: 82%, 63%, 48%, 34%, and 32% growth rates. 02:49 — What we're talking about here is the arc of the growth. Google Cloud is getting a much bigger share of what's happening here. It's winning more business. It's taking deals away from Microsoft, AWS, and perhaps Oracle as well, and they're winning a lot of new business. 04:40 — So we'll get AWS numbers later today. I'll be following up next week with some insights into that and give the head-to-head comparison. It is an extraordinary time, but the ultimate truth is coming from the customers and where they are deciding to make their investments as they move into the AI Economy. Visit Cloud Wars for more.

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Hello everyone, and welcome back to another episode of Warehouse and Operations as a Career. I’m Marty, and as always, I appreciate you spending a little of your day with me.  Today I want to talk about something that’s been on my mind for quite a while. Over the past several months, I’ve spoken with warehouse associates, forklift operators, order selectors, recruiters, supervisors, and hiring managers from all over the country. I’ve listened to the concerns of people just entering our industry, and I’ve listened to leaders trying to build strong teams. You know what’s interesting? Both groups are asking almost the same question. The associate is asking, “How do I get ahead?” The employer is asking, “How do I keep good people?” I think those questions are really two sides of the same conversation.   Let’s start with a simple question. What do you think is the biggest concern for today’s warehouse associate? Most people immediately answer, “Money.” Yes, pay is important. We all work to provide for ourselves and our families. Inflation, groceries, rent, and fuel aren’t getting any cheaper. But after forty years in this industry, I’ve learned that money is rarely the real problem. I feel that people want to know if they’re building a future, or just collecting another paycheck. That’s an entirely different question.  When someone walks into a warehouse for the very first time, they’re usually thinking about today’s shift. Can I do the work? Will I like the people? Can I make it through orientation? Will I get enough hours? Those are all fair questions. But somewhere along the way, another question should replace those. In my humble opinion, we should be asking ourselves, “What does my career look like three years from now?” And unfortunately, many people never ask it. Instead, they work, they clock in, they clock out, and before they know it, three years have become ten. Nothing changed except the date on the calendar.  Here’s something I tell every young associate I meet. Your employer hired you to fill a position. Only you can build the career. The company can provide the opportunity. It can’t provide ambition. It can offer training but it can’t force someone to learn. It can post an opening for a Lead, Trainer, Dispatcher, Inventory Control, Safety Coordinator, Supervisor, or Manager but someone has to decide they’re ready to take those steps.  I hear people say all the time “They never give me a chance.” Of course sometimes that’s true. But sometimes we haven’t given ourselves one either. Have we volunteered to learn another department duties? Have we asked to operate another piece of equipment or a different production machine? Have we asked to learned what those inventory people actually do? Do we understand receiving, Shipping, Quality Control, Cycle counts, Warehouse Management Systems, Transportation, Planning, Customer Service? Every one of those skills makes you more valuable. And as we've learned, valuable employees don’t stay in the same position forever.  One of the biggest mistakes I see is confusing experience with growth. Someone says “I’ve been here five years.” Well that’s wonderful. But have you had five years of experience, or one year of experience repeated five times? Those aren’t the same thing. Growth happens when we’re learning something new. When we’re uncomfortable and challenged. When we’re solving problems instead of waiting for someone else to solve them.  Here's a big one, let’s talk about automation for just a minute. I hear it all the time. “Robots are taking our jobs.” Here’s my perspective. Automation doesn’t replace great employees. It can replace repetitive tasks. Someone still has to maintain the equipment. Program the systems. Analyze the inventory. Manage the workflow. Lead the team and interpret the data. Solve the problems technology can’t solve. The more skilled you become, the more valuable you become in an automated world. Technology should motivate us to learn more. Not scare us into standing still. Another thing I hear all the time is, I don't have time to learn things and online classes take so many hours, or my company wants us to stay over to learn something new. I always ask what are you doing that keeps you from having that time to invest in yourself? What did you watch on tv last Tuesday night and what was the plot of the program? lol. Just a thought. Now where was I. Ok, now let’s talk about something every supervisor notices. Dependability. If I asked ten warehouse managers who their most valuable employee is, almost every one of them would describe someone who shows up every day, on time, and ready to work. Not necessarily the fastest or the strongest. But dependable. And what have we said before? Dependability creates opportunity. Opportunity creates trust. And trust creates promotions. It really is that simple.  Here’s another lesson I learned years ago. Don’t wait for the title before acting like the leader. Lead from wherever you’re standing. Help the new employee. Pick up the trash nobody else noticed. Volunteer for the difficult assignment. Stay positive when everyone else is complaining. Ask questions. Share ideas respectfully. Those things, ladies and gentlemen, are leadership behaviors. And people notice them.  One thing I absolutely love about our industry is that careers are still earned. Think about that. There are very few industries where someone can begin unloading trucks, become a forklift operator, learn inventory, move into training, become a lead, a supervisor, a manager, a director, or a Vice President. I know that’s possible. Because I lived it. Nobody handed me those opportunities. Each one required another step up the ladder. And yes, sometimes those steps were uncomfortable. Sometimes they were exhausting. And many times I wondered if I was ready. But I climbed anyway.  Here’s something else to think about. Every certification you earn is another rung on that ladder. Your Powered Industrial Truck certification. First Aid, CPR, and AED. CRASE. STOP THE BLEED. OSHA training. Leadership classes. The Microsoft Excel and Word programs. Warehouse Management Systems. Inventory Control. Public speaking. Communication. Every one of those skills separates you from the crowd. Because when opportunity comes, preparation wins.  You know what rarely earns promotions? Complaining. Excuses. Drama. Blaming everyone else. Those things might get attention. But they don’t build careers. Solutions build careers. And Managers remember people who solve problems. They remember people who volunteer and there going to remember people who make everyone’s job easier.  Ok, we've been closing with a challenge for the week so here's this weeks. When you walk into work tomorrow don’t ask yourself “What do I have to do today?” Ask yourself “What can I learn today?” One question changes your schedule. The other changes your future. Anything counts. Maybe you ask to learn shipping paperwork, or you spend fifteen minutes talking with inventory control, or maybe you ask your supervisor why something is done a certain way. I think curiosity builds careers.  And here’s another challenge for us. Write down the job you want three years from now. Not tomorrow, but three years from now. Then ask yourself “What skills does that person have that I don’t have yet?” Now you have a roadmap. Our careers aren’t built by accident. They’re built intentionally. By us.  One skill. One lesson. One opportunity. One day at a time.  I’ll leave you with this. The career ladder in warehousing, Production, Transportation, Manufacturing and Distribution. It hasn’t disappeared. In fact, I’d argue it’s stronger than it’s ever been. Companies need leaders and trainers. They need technicians, safety professionals, dispatchers, machine operators, inventory specialists, and operations managers.  The opportunities are there. The ladder is standing exactly where it’s always been. The question is, are you still climbing, or did you stop on the first rung?  If today’s episode encouraged you, challenged you, or reminded you that your future is still being written, I’d appreciate it if you’d share it with a coworker, a friend, or someone who’s just getting started in our industry. Until next time, keep learning and improving, keep showing up every day. And remember. Your job may get you through today, but your commitment to learning is what builds tomorrow.  Everyone have a safe shift and I hope to see you back here in two weeks!

Steve is joined by TSN 1200 analyst and former NHL player Brad "Shooter" Smyth to chat about the new contract for Macklin Celebrini, it's impact on the NHL and what future deals could look like.

#940 Liz and I are going head-to-head today and comparing our very different audience growth approaches! As you know, I'm all about posting daily. Especially since I've seen huge success creating Shorts for YouTube. After all, two million subscribers with just fifteen minutes of work per day is pretty good! Liz, on the other hand, is much more of a stealth operator. Her targeted growth is based on finding the right collaborators for strategies like lead magnet swaps, virtual speaking, and podcast guesting. She values her email list way more than any follower count! And the truth is, both of these approaches could work. That's why you should join us for this session to uncover and choose the growth tactic that resonates the most with you! So how do you build consistency to post every day? Alternatively, how do you network across to build your audience brick-by-brick? Tune in to find out! Show notes and more at SmartPassiveIncome.com/session940.See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Gregory Copley turns to the UK, where following the rise of Prime Minister Andy Burnham, the country faces political uncertainty as Labour struggles with a lack of growth. Copley highlights King Charles III's vital role as a unifying force, focusing on British national identity and values. While the Burnham government is viewed as sclerotic and ideological, the King remains an egalitarian figure. His efforts to preserve heritage, like Dumfries House, bolster his standing. (12)1903

Are you leading a life of real impact, or just working hard to perfect your image? In this week's episode, John Maxwell teaches how embracing authenticity over appearance is a central pillar for meaningful leadership and lasting success. After his lesson, Mark Cole and Chris Robinson share practical strategies to help you bring authenticity to the forefront of your leadership—on your team, at home, and beyond. Key takeaways:  The way to balance and stabilize an image issue is authenticity.  You lose your authenticity when you try to hold onto things that you no longer believe, accept, or think.  "Constant development is the law of life, and a man who always tries to maintain his dogmas in order to appear consistent drives himself into a false position." — Mahatma Gandhi Our BONUS resource for this episode is the Are You Leading a Good Life or Just Maintaining a Good Image? Worksheet, which includes fill-in-the-blank notes from John's teaching. You can download the worksheet by visiting MaxwellPodcast.com/Image and clicking "Download the Bonus Resource." Take the next step in your growth journey and become a Maxwell Leadership Certified Team Member. Click here to speak with a Program Advisor today!  References:  Watch this episode on YouTube! Get the 15 Laws of Growth online course for 80% off Apply this week's episode with other growth-minded leaders in the Maxwell Leadership Podcast Social Community Learn more about leadership, love, and excellence from Marcus Buckingham The Qualities of an Authentic Leader Podcast Episode Join the Maxwell Leadership Certified Team

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Over the weekend, my neighbor came to my 13-year-old and told him they had about 130 bales of hay that needed to be loaded.  He told my boy he'd pay him $250 and it would take somewhere around 3 hours.    Jax agreed and off he went.     I knew I had to help him because he's never done anything like that on his own, so as it goes, I end up doing about 50% of the work.     No problem.    That's how I am.    I don't have the patience to be waiting around on people.    We get into hour 6 of our 3 hour job and Jax says, "Dad, let's just finish the rest tomorrow."   I told him I was tired, too, but that we probably just needed to finish what we started.    This is the critical point for most people doing anything in life.....   They get to the hard and tiresome part and quit.    But here's the secret no one will tell you.....   If you're tired, you're only 40% of the way there.    In those moments, that's when you are tested to see if you'll show up and keep your word.    Do the work despite being tired.    Sweaty.    Uninspired.    When we were headed back to the house, Jax looked at me and said, "Dad, I'm glad we got that done.  That was a great lesson."   I hope you take it as a good lesson for yourself, too.    Growth is in the hard work.     But you won't grow if you don't power through the tough parts and make it go!      About the ReWire Podcast   The ReWire Podcast with Ryan Stewman – Dive into powerful insights as Ryan Stewman, the HardCore Closer, breaks down mental barriers and shares actionable steps to rewire your thoughts. Each episode is a fast-paced journey designed to reshape your mindset, align your actions, and guide you toward becoming the best version of yourself. Join in for a daily dose of real talk that empowers you to embrace change and unlock your full potential.    Learn how you can become a member of a powerful community consistently rewiring itself for success at https://www.jointheapex.com/   Rise Above 

Tara Perry grew up in Texas with her father out of the picture, raised by her mother and grandparents in a family where functioning addiction was just part of daily life — which is how she first got exposed to meth as a teenager and started using at just 13 years old. In this episode of Locked In with Ian Bick, she shares how she dropped out of school in ninth grade, had her first child at 16, spent six months in state prison before a five year sentence in the Texas Department of Corrections before she was even 20 years old, and stayed hooked on meth from age 13 all the way to 26 — always managing to get sober inside jail or prison before the cycle started again on the outside. She opens up about eventually starting to sell meth, getting connected to a major organization, having multiple children while in and out of addiction, and what happened when someone close to her snitched and the DEA came knocking. She was sentenced to 20 years in federal prison — and spent seven of those years inside a Texas federal facility before Donald Trump pardoned her on the last day of his first term.  _____________________________________________ #prison #addictionrecovery #truecrimecommunity  _____________________________________________ Connect with Tara Perry: https://www.instagram.com/princesstara.3313/  _____________________________________________ Hosted, Executive Produced & Edited By Ian Bick: https://www.instagram.com/ian_bick/?hl=en https://ianbick.com/ _____________________________________________ Timestamps: 00:00 Introduction and Early Life 03:50 Childhood, Family & Identity 09:50 First Exposure to Drugs 16:00 Teenage Drug Use & Relationships 23:00 First Criminal Charges & Jail Experience 31:30 Life After First Incarceration 39:00 Motherhood and Continued Addiction 47:00 Second Prison Sentence & Having a Baby in Jail 55:30 Release, Relapse, and Escalating Drug Trade 01:03:30 DEA Bust and Facing Federal Charges 01:10:00 Sentencing and Time in Federal Prison 01:18:00 Life, Change, and Purpose in Prison 01:29:00 Clemency and Life After Prison 01:36:00 Growth, Healing, and Closing Reflections  _____________________________________________ To advertise on the show, contact sales@advertisecast.com or visit https://advertising.libsyn.com/LockedInWithIanBicka

Most sales problems start when the seller won't stop talking. Mark Roberge (HubSpot's founding CRO, Harvard Business School lecturer, and co-founder of Stage 2 Capital) joins Matt and Luigi to challenge the loudest myths in sales and startup growth. His take is simple: great selling is not about pressure, slick pitches, or talking someone into a bad deal.    It's about asking better questions, finding the real problem, and knowing when to walk away. The conversation also tackles a mistake that kills promising companies: scaling before customers are getting real value. Mark breaks down why rising revenue can fool founders, how to test product-market fit, and what must be true before a business earns the right to grow faster.  

This year, I made four of the hardest decisions I've ever made in my subscription box business. Not because I didn't know what to do. I actually knew for quite a while. They were hard because each one required letting go of something I'd worked incredibly hard to build. I rebranded my subscription box. I migrated to an entirely new platform. I closed my warehouse. I handed fulfillment over to a third-party logistics company. Looking back now, I can tell you with complete confidence every one of those decisions made my business stronger. If you're building a subscription box business, here's what each change taught me and why sometimes profitability requires making the hard call. 1. I Let Go of the Thing That Made My Box Famous For years, my subscription was known as the Monogram Box. Personalization was what made it special. It was also what was keeping the business from growing. Every personalized item had to be completed by my team before it could ship. That meant every box depended on us physically touching every order. As much as subscribers loved it, personalization created a ceiling on how efficiently we could operate. Eventually I realized the very thing that had helped build the business had become the thing limiting its future. Changing the brand to StyleBox wasn't about cutting corners. It was about removing a bottleneck so the business could become more profitable and scalable. Ask yourself: Is there something in your subscription box you're holding onto because your subscribers truly value it, or because you're afraid to change it? Those aren't always the same thing. 2. I Finally Moved to the Platform I Recommend to Everyone Else Inside Launch Your Box, I recommend Shopify and PayWhirl because I've seen how much simpler they make running a subscription business. Yet my own business was still operating on a different system. At some point I had to ask myself why. Migrating active subscribers is intimidating. You're moving customer accounts, payment information, billing cycles. There's a lot that can go wrong. But staying where I was meant choosing ongoing complexity. Today, my business is running on a platform built to scale instead of one held together by plugins and workarounds. Sometimes the temporary discomfort of change is worth the long-term simplicity it creates. 3. I Closed My Warehouse For years, the warehouse represented success. It was tangible proof that I'd built a real business. But it also came with rent, utilities, payroll, equipment, inventory carrying costs, and all the overhead that comes with maintaining a physical space. When it came time to liquidate inventory and close the warehouse, I realized I wasn't just letting go of a building. I was letting go of an identity. The truth is, the warehouse had served its purpose. Holding onto it wasn't helping my business anymore. It was simply expensive. One of the hardest lessons in business is understanding sunk cost. The money has already been spent. The only question left is whether keeping something continues to serve your business today. 4. I Handed Fulfillment to a 3PL Removing personalization, migrating platforms, and closing the warehouse made it possible to move fulfillment to a third-party logistics company. Was I nervous? Absolutely. When you've packed thousands of boxes yourself, handing that responsibility to someone else feels incredibly personal. But I discovered control isn't the same thing as quality. The right fulfillment partner doesn't lower your standards. They help you maintain them while giving you back your time, your energy, and your capacity to grow. Today my business is leaner, more profitable, and far more sustainable because I stopped believing I had to do everything myself. At first glance, these seem like four completely different decisions. But they all came down to one question: Was I making decisions that protected my business or decisions that protected my comfort? Growth often requires letting go of something that worked in order to make room for something that works even better. What's the Hard Decision You're Avoiding? Maybe it's changing platforms. Maybe it's raising prices. Maybe it's removing an expensive product from your box. Maybe it's outsourcing something you've always done yourself. Sometimes the next level of profitability isn't about doing more. It's about finally making the decision you already know needs to be made. Join me in all the places:     Facebook Instagram Launch Your Box with Sarah Website  Are you ready for Launch Your Box? Our complete training program walks you step by step through how to start, launch, and grow your subscription box business. Join the waitlist today!

Book Alan's Business Breakthrough Session. Your first 30-minute coaching call is FREE. Learn how to prioritize success and let your quality of life become the byproduct. - https://calendly.com/alanlazaros/30-minute-breakthrough-sessionFitness is forever, it's a lifestyle. Join the Next Level Fitness Accountability Group. Reach out to Kevin or Alan on Instagram:Kevin: https://www.instagram.com/neverquitkid/Alan: https://www.instagram.com/alazaros88/_______________________Why does real progress sometimes feel like you are losing ground? In this episode, Kevin and Alan break down why growth requires trade-offs, temporary setbacks, and a willingness to stay consistent when the results are not immediate. They explain how to assess the return on a new habit, set clear priorities, and stop confusing short-term discomfort with failure. The goal is not perfect execution. It is building a stronger long-term trend line in your health, wealth, relationships, and personal growth. Choose the trade-off you have been avoiding. Frictionless plans are usually filed next to unicorns._______________________NLU is more than a podcast. From the Next Level Dreamliner to Group Coaching, we provide tools and communities to help you grow with more clarity, consistency, and accountability.Visit our website and socials through the links below.

Would you like access to our advanced agency training for FREE? https://www.agencymastery360.com/training Are you willing to give up the work you built the agency around in order to build the agency itself?  Today's featured guest recounts how he and his partner built their agency after a decade working together at the Oprah Winfrey Show. Fifteen years in, they are still figuring out what the founder job actually is versus what they have always been good at. He talks through how the transition from doing to leading actually happened, what it cost him creatively and personally to step out of directing, and what he means when he says that making the video was always the easy part. Brett Singer is a co-founder and principal at Bottle Rocket Media, a digital agency based in Chicago specializing in video production, motion graphics, SEO, paid media, and AI search optimization. He and his business partner Dan Fisher both worked at Harpo Studios on the Oprah Winfrey Show for over a decade before launching Bottle Rocket in 2011. The agency built its initial client base entirely from the network that came out of Harpo when the show ended, then invested heavily in their own SEO to shift from outbound to inbound. Brett is now focused on business development, vision, and team culture. In this episode, we'll discuss: Letting go of the work you love for the future of the agency When the business no longer needs you The hardest part of running an agency Subscribe Apple | Spotify | iHeart Radio Sponsors and Resources E2M Solutions: Today's episode of the Smart Agency Masterclass is sponsored by E2M Solutions, a web design and development agency that has provided white-label services for the past 10 years to agencies all over the world. Check out e2msolutions.com/smartagency and get 10% off for the first three months of service. The Work You Love Is Not the Work the Business Needs From You Brett spent years at Harpo perfecting motion design and later started Bottle Rocket partly because he wanted to keep doing it. It was work he greatly enjoyed. Unfortunately, he realized that was the wrong job for him, not from a strategic decision but from simple math: when he was in the edit suite, no one was finding the next client. The business did not care how good he was with a camera. It needed someone holding the relationship and the vision. Letting go of the work he was trained for and genuinely good at did not happen cleanly. He describes it as kicking and screaming and slowly, and that is probably the most honest description of how most founders navigate this. In this case, the difference for him was having his partner, which meant there was always someone to hold the other accountable to the right job. Solo founders have to engineer that accountability differently. But the outcome is the same: the work you loved getting you here is eventually the work that stops the business from going further. The Identity Gap When the Business No Longer Needs You Stepping into the CEO role can feel like loss before it feels like freedom. When the business no longer needs you for the thing you spent a decade mastering, there is a real identity gap. The hours that used to be filled with something you were visibly good at are now filled with work that is harder to measure and slower to produce visible results. Brett went through his own version of this as he transitioned away from directing. He still goes to set occasionally and feels the pull. He made peace with it not by letting go of the creative part of himself, but by redirecting it: into the sales process, into how the agency presents itself, into the culture he is building. The creative instinct did not go away. It found a different channel. That reframe, from "I gave up my craft" to "I applied my craft differently," is what makes the CEO stage sustainable instead of a sustained identity crisis. Making the Widget Was Always the Easy Part Brett is clear about something that sounds counterintuitive until you have run an agency for a few years: the actual service delivery, producing the video, building the campaign, running the edit, is the easiest part of running an agency. The hard part is everything surrounding it. Hiring. Culture. Vision. Business development. Managing the people who manage the work. None of that was taught. All of it had to be built from scratch by people whose entire prior training was in making the thing. This is the reason most agency founders stay stuck in the work longer than they should. It is the thing they know. Every hour in the edit bay is an hour that feels productive and measurable. Every hour in a hiring conversation or a strategy session feels less certain and harder to justify. The founders who scale are the ones who learn to value the less comfortable work, not because it becomes easier, but because they understand what it makes possible. Do You Want to Transform Your Agency from a Liability to an Asset? Looking to dig deeper into your agency's potential? Check out our Agency Blueprint. Designed for agency owners like you, our Agency Blueprint helps you uncover growth opportunities, tackle obstacles, and craft a customized blueprint for your agency's success.

In this week's OmniTalk Retail Fast Five, sponsored by the A&M Consumer and Retail Group, Mirakl, Ocampo Capital, Quorso, Veloq, and R&S Logistics, Chris Walton was joined by Josh Hahn, Director of Growth at J Recruiting Services and former retail executive at Meijer and Sports Authority, to discuss: • Gap Inc.'s decision to pay its own employees to become brand influencers, and whether retailers should empower their merchants and store associates to become the authentic faces of their brands: https://chainstoreage.com/gap-inc-expands-creator-affiliate-and-advocacy-program-employees • David's Bridal's new outlet shop-in-shop concept, and whether blending full-price and discount bridal shopping under one roof enhances the customer experience or risks diluting the brand: https://www.retaildive.com/news/davids-bridal-debuts-outlet-shop-in-shop-concept/826230/ • Grocery unit sales declining for a fifth consecutive month, and whether the industry is facing a temporary slowdown or a long-term structural shift in consumer buying behavior: https://www.grocerydive.com/news/grocery-unit-sales-decline-bain-nielseniq/825640/ • Hy-Vee's chainwide rollout of 30-minute pickup and delivery, and whether ultra-fast fulfillment has become table stakes or remains a meaningful competitive advantage: https://progressivegrocer.com/hy-vee-adds-30-minute-grocery-delivery-option-chainwide • Albertsons' sweeping ACI Edge restructuring plan, and whether centralizing merchandising and operations will be enough to compete against Walmart, Amazon, and Aldi in today's grocery landscape: https://www.supermarketnews.com/finance/albertsons-launches-aci-edge-to-reverse-sales-decline-cuts-annual-forecast?utm_rid=CPG06000000857304&_mc=em_SN_News_SN%20Breaking%20News%20Alerts_News_NL_07232026&utm_campaign=71312&utm_medium=email&elq2=fe71b5904e424a5099cdcc0e5684145a&sp_eh=c96f6e95d5d34972b03bf5218402e1e8f5c9a310c321b2909e946a08f2ae03c9 Plus, in this week's Lightning Round, Chris Walton and Josh Hahn discuss National Tequila Day, Shark Week, John Cena's hair transplants, the best fast-food french fries, and much more. P.S. Be sure to check out all our other podcasts from the past week here, too: https://omnitalk.blog/category/podcast/ P.P.S. Also be sure to check out our podcast rankings on Feedspot: https://podcasts.feedspot.com/retail_podcasts/ Music by hooksounds.com.

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How does a restaurant operator get expansion financing without a personal guarantee or selling equity?This week's episode of the Restaurant Business podcast A Deeper Dive features Michael Davis, the founder and CEO of Homegrown Financing.Davis has an interesting story. He watched his parents struggle to get financing to scale their business. He ultimately devised a strategy to provide financing for growth based on a company's revenue. The system is not a short-term strategy such as a merchant cash advance and is designed for expansion. Davis tells his story and explains the strategy. We talk about several other topics during the podcast, including the overall challenges restaurant companies have in securing financing. 

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