Podcast appearances and mentions of mike bruno

Today's podcast features Mike Bruno. Mike is the Assistant Director of Olympic Sports Performance at Clemson University. Mike has both a sports performance and massage therapy background, with an approach influenced heavily by Bill Hartman's biomechanical model. He has worked with a wide variety of sports, including track and field, and currently oversees golf and tennis at Clemson. Human movement is composed of more than just muscle and neural signals. It is also heavily influenced by athletes' strategies to move pressure through their unique skeletal structures. By understanding the role of structure on speed and movement abilities, we can also better understand ideal training modalities and progressions for each athlete. On today's episode, Mike speaks on speed and power training through the lens of pressure management and skeletal structure. He talks about different structural archetypes and their needs in the weightroom, as well as how these archetypes lend to various performance outputs on the field of play (focusing on track speed and performance). With many anecdotes from the world of track and field, this episode draws numerous links between strength, speed and individual training factors. Today's episode is brought to you by TeamBuildr's Gym Studio and Lila Exogen Wearable Resistance Gear. For a Gym Studio 14-day free trial, head to gymstudio.com Use the code “justfly25” for 25% off any Lila Exogen wearable resistance training, including the popular Exogen Calf Sleeves. For this offer, head to: Lilateam.com View more podcast episodes at the podcast homepage. (https://www.just-fly-sports.com/podcast-home/) Timestamps 2:01- Optimizing Athletic Performance through Biomechanics 8:19- Optimizing Speed Through Internal Body Dynamics 11:33- Dynamic Insights from Athlete Force Plate Analysis 16:48- Optimizing Jumping Performance with Pressure Techniques 25:34- Optimizing Athletic Performance Through Heavy Bilateral Squatting 27:47- Structural Analysis for Tailored Athletic Training Programs 30:09- Track and Field Performance Based on Pelvic Adaptations 39:21- Infrastructural Angles Influence Athletic Training Specialization 40:53- Structural Archetypes: Tailoring Training for Performance 48:18- Individual Structure Influence on Training Optimization 1:01:33- Enhanced Athletic Performance through Triphasic Training 1:09:03- Long-Term Physical Qualities Enhancement in Athletes 1:21:26- Managing Pressures and Gravity in Track Training Quotes (12:19) "(In a vertical jump) The faster they drop, the quicker it would pop up." - Mike Bruno" (14:04) "If you take it like five singles, bop, bop, bop, bop, bop is going to be different on the pelvic floor and give you a different output than a banded oscillatory squat." - Mike Bruno" (19:20) “The higher your VO2 max, the thinner your diaphragm, which I thought was a very interesting thing, but it lends on the like. Wrestlers are the highest. All they're doing is pressurizing and they're playing like hand fighting. That's all they're doing is being. Judo was the second one. Sprinters were the third one” - Mike Bruno (31:34) "Your structure dictates quite literally everything." - Mike Bruno (37:06) "The fluid hit the top and it suspended them. So if you ever watch someone jump and they jump unbelievable, it looks like they just kind of get suspended up there. It's like, oh, that's the fluid hitting the top." - Mike Bruno (00:37:19)" (46:33) "One of the best things, you know, is if you don't do complexes, especially with an indicator or something where you're seeing the result, you miss the opportunity to get a lot of connections." - Joel Smith (1:00:40) “A lot of times in my setting, I have athletes that come in, they have their, their connective tissues too stiff and it doesn't store at all. And so you're like, you're really powerful, but we can't get into good positions on the track or we can't...

In this episode, Chuck Templeton sits down with Jason Wellcome and Mike Bruno, advisors at Play Bigger, to discuss the methodology behind category design. The discussion unpacks how companies can shift their thinking from making better products to forging entirely new market categories, drawing on illustrative examples like Qualtrics' evolution from survey tools to an experience management platform. Jason and Mike delve into the strategies that enable businesses to identify unique problems, achieve "Category King" status, and ultimately drive unprecedented growth and market leadership. This episode offers valuable perspectives for investors and entrepreneurs keen on leveraging category design to secure a competitive edge.Key Topics:Problem Identification: The Play Bigger team emphasizes the importance of pinpointing unique, high-impact problems that consumers often overlook. This critical step lays the foundation for creating a new market category, setting leaders apart from competitors focused merely on iterative improvements.Creating a Category Blueprint: Establishing a new category necessitates a detailed blueprint that ensures both customers and competitors grasp the full scope and transformative potential of the new category, fostering wider market adoption.The Advantages  of Category Leadership: Leading a new market category offers substantial economic benefits, with "Category Kings" capturing up to 76% of the category's total value. Inventing a Taxonomy: Effective category design involves crafting a distinct language and taxonomy. This effort not only differentiates the new category but also educates the market. Iterative Validation and Organizational Alignment: The journey of category design is iterative, requiring ongoing validation and alignment within the organization. By engaging leadership and synchronizing efforts across all departments, companies can ensure cohesive execution and maximize their chances of achieving market success.Resources:Play Bigger This content is for informational purposes only, should not be taken as legal, business, tax or investment advice, or be used to evaluate any investment or security, and is not directed at any investor or potential investor in any investment vehicle sponsored by S2G Investments, LLC or its affiliates (“S2G Ventures”). Investing involves risk, including the risk of loss. The opinions expressed do not necessarily represent the views of S2G Ventures. Specific companies are mentioned herein solely for educational purposes and should not be construed as an endorsement of any particular company or investment. Please note that S2G Ventures may maintain investments in the companies mentioned herein. For more important information, please see www.s2gventures.com/disclosures

Spinning Out (another music podcast) We talk to artists about their favorite albums and go on wild tangents. This week on the pod we're joined by Mike Bruno of Dead Broke Rekerds. We're talking about Leatherface's second album "Mush." We also chat about horror movies, growing up on Long Island, running a record label and trying to google the band Leatherface, but getting a lot of Texas Chainsaw Massacre stuff. On top of running Dead Broke Rekerds, Mike Bruno also plays in the band Iron Chic, as well as Adult Magic. He previously played in Get Bent, who are reuniting soon to play a show with Spraynard. Dead Broke Rekerds are celebrating their 22nd anniversary on April 19th on Long Island and April 20th at TV Eye in Queens. get a ticket thru Dead Broke: https://deadbrokerecords.com You can also catch Mike selling records on the site Whatnot, so tune in almost every Friday to pick up some rare distro and label items. Subscribe to our Patreon here: www.patreon.com/spinningoutpod Follow us on social media -- twitter and instagram (@Spinningoutpod)

Coach Krysta is joined by Dr. Mike Bruno, owner of Nav Rehab Chiropractic in Brielle, NJ. Dr. Mike is a licensed chiropractor, athletic trainer and movement specialist. Mike prioritizes the long-term health of his clients while keeping them in the driver's seat with your healthcare decisions. Much like The Fitness FYX, Nav Rehab is all about the balance between longevity and empowerment. What stood out to us about Mike's philosophy is how much he encourages his patients to stay active throughout the process of working with him. Mike wants his clients learn how to move in a way that is easy-to-understand, and aims to have them leave with the skills, tools, and confidence to fix future problems on their own. In this episode, Mike and Krysta discuss: - Mike's career path from high school athlete to athletic trainer, and ultimately, chiropractor - Why it's important for your recovery practices, injury prevention, and injury management to mimic the movements you desire to engage in in every day life and your training - How necessary it is to get clear on your goals, especially when you have multiple goals with methods that can compete with one another - The benefit to working with a coach, trainer, chiropractor in order to develop an effective game plan that gets you the results you desire as fast and as efficiently as possible - Why rehab-style exercises should be enjoyable for clients, in order to maintain consistency Apply for 1:1 Coaching with The Fitness FYX: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠CLICK HERE⁠⁠ Follow Krysta: ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thekrystahuber⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thefyx.officialpod⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠@thefitnessfyx⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow our newest Assistant Coach, Cait:  ⁠⁠@caitchelette⁠⁠ Prefer Your FYX with video? ⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠Check us out on Youtube⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠⁠ Follow Mike: @navrehabchiropractic Local to Monmouth and Ocean County, NJ? Dr. Mike is based in Brielle, NJ. Visit Mike's website to book a consult about your specific pain, goals, and needs. --- Send in a voice message: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/thekrystahuber/message

Pod Fam!!! Enjoy this 5 minutes of a BURST of positivty, good energy, and my thouhgts on consistency, doing less in your schedule, and why I love following Mike Bruno. Enjoy! Email me what you thought...ned@happymondayco.com or on IG @nedspecktor SO appreciate you listening! -Ned

Discover the power of creating a new category for your product. It's not just about being descriptive, but about conveying meaning and solving a human problem. Learn from host Lori Jones and her guest Mike Bruno, Category Designer at Play Bigger, on this episode of the Integrate & Ignite Marketing Podcast!

On this episode, we welcome Mike Bruno, Senior Category Designer at Play Bigger. Today, we dig into what it takes to make Category Design your career, and how incredible it is working with some of the most advanced technology companies in the world on category design. Welcome to Lochhead on Marketing. The number one charting marketing podcast for marketers, category designers, and entrepreneurs with a different mind.   Mike Bruno and his first year as a Category Designer Mike, who has been a category designer for about a year and a half, started his career working in agencies and social advertising. Transitioning into category design was a return to a beginner mindset for him, which he found interesting. In his previous role, he helped people solve problems and develop strategies based on business objectives and existing products. This experience translated well to category design, where the front door is identifying the problem that the category solves uniquely. Mike also mentioned that category design involves many new concepts and a broader aperture, as it requires structuring not only the client's business but also influencing the entire market. While it was a humbling experience trying to figure it all out, he also had a sense of familiarity, knowing how to approach problems and strategize effectively. Overall, his first year as a category designer was challenging and exciting, with a mix of the familiar and the new, which kept him engaged and interested in the field.   The way people think about Category Design Christopher and Mike discuss the challenges of transitioning from traditional marketing to category design. They emphasize that category design involves creating new markets rather than catching existing demand. Mike points out that realizing someone invented categories was a facepalm moment for him, but it made him realize the importance of solving unsolved problems. Christopher and Mike also talked about the power of not doing anything, meaning finding a category that has already been solved, and how this is often underestimated in the business world. They use Apple's example of launching a new category called "spatial computing" instead of just a new product like most marketers do. They compare it to Magic Leap, which failed to create a category despite having inspiring visions. Mike believes Apple succeeded because they could bridge the gap between their vision and the technology needed to achieve it.   Mike Bruno on the Difference between Category Design and Product Design Christopher and Mike discuss the difference between launching a product and category designing a market category. They use the example of Magic Leap, which had a product but failed to category design the spatial computing market. Christopher explains that category design involves framing, naming, and claiming a new problem, creating an ecosystem of partners to solve that problem, and evangelizing the solution. Mike shares his surprise about the comprehensive nature of category design, realizing that it's not just about coming up with a new term but involves a rigorous process to make the category successful. They also mention Apple's success in category designing the spatial computing market, positioning themselves for significant market cap growth while other players who only launched products may miss out on the opportunity. To hear more from Mike Bruno and his experiences as a Category Designer, download and listen to this episode.   Bio Mike Bruno Mike is a Senior Category Designer with a background in psychology and communications strategy. He finds hidden problems and unspoken truths, and connects those with companies, brands and products to drive businesses and, importantly, the people they serve. Mike's style of Category Design is simple, straightforward and playful. His work is equally influenced by the behavioral sciences, business theory and imagination. Carl Jung on one shoulder, and Dav Pilkey on the other.

Part 2 of a special two-part Episode 100 has one of our most-requested guests in Mike Bruno! We dive into everything from his growing up in a racing family to his start in four-cylinders and then traveling with the Super DIRTcar Series, his rise on the American-Canadian Tour and the NASCAR Busch North Series, dominance in Modifieds, family tragedy and tough times, and becoming a successful business owner and promoter at Devil's Bowl Speedway.

Part 1 of a special two-part Episode 100 has one of our most-requested guests in Mike Bruno! We dive into everything from his growing up in a racing family to his start in four-cylinders and then traveling with the Super DIRTcar Series, his rise on the American-Canadian Tour and the NASCAR Busch North Series, dominance in Modifieds, family tragedy and tough times, and becoming a successful business owner and promoter at Devil's Bowl Speedway.

Rev. Mike Bruno speaks on The Gift of Christmas is Jesus Emmanuel God with us!! He is the God of the second chance! Glory of His goodness.

Mike Bruno is the editorial director for CNN’s reviews and recommendations site, CNN Underscored. if you’re interested in the connection between soap operas, blenders and Swedish dish towels, there is only one person to talk to, and that’s Mike Bruno. We dig deep into the importance of editorial integrity when it comes to influencing someone’s shopping habits. This is a fantastic conversation, so jump right on in.

Joined by Consensus Unreality regular Mike Bruno, we delve into the murky waters of sea monster lore, the mystery of Loch Ness and The Dragon and the Disc by FW Holiday. The serpent grins!  Bonus companion episode, Ouija session and more at https://www.patreon.com/consensusunreality

Hi, Profit Designers! As we at Tap the Potential gear up for a number of special, upcoming projects, we're taking this time to bring you some of our most popular episodes from the vault! We hope you enjoy it, and we'll be back with new episodes for you very soon!  In this episode, Stephen King, president and CEO of GrowthForce, joins Dr. Sabrina and her co-host, Mike Bruno, for an illuminating conversation around pricing. Should you discount during an economic downturn? Listen in to this discussion to hear compelling reasons why you should NOT discount, and what you should be doing, instead. Top executive at a Fortune 500 company. Bootstrapped CEO. Venture-backed tech startup founder. Non-profit fundraiser. It's safe to say Stephen King is not your traditional CPA. Stephen is president and CEO of GrowthForce, one of the nation's largest providers of outsourced bookkeeping and controller services. Regarded as an industry thought leader by AICPA and CPA.com, his ability to visualize the future of accounting has lead GrowthForce to become one of the fastest-growing companies in America. His experience at the forefront of technology development and accounting system design spans nearly three decades. In 1995 he founded Virtual Growth, the nation's first cloud-based accounting service, and quickly grew it into a market leader. After being acquired by Insperity, Stephen was brought on as president of Insperity's Financial Management Services division, serving two years before leaving to build GrowthForce. He also spent seven years working at Amnesty International USA—first overseeing 300 percent growth as CFO, then raising over $20M a year as Director of Development. Stephen's time at Amnesty reinforced his life-long commitment to giving back to the community. As a result, non-profits represent 35 percent of GrowthForce clients. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Business owners are feeling a lot of pressure in this new normal. Pricing is harder if you're not confident of the value that you're bringing. Stephen addresses the issues around discounting, then provides the math: If you have a 40 percent gross profit and you give a 10 percent discount, you need 33 percent more sales to generate the same bottom line. If you have a 30 percent margin, you need 50% more sales to generate the same bottom line. If you have a 40 percent gross profit and you ADD 10% to your pricing, you can sell 20 percent less and make the same money.  When Stephen let an objective person price his jobs, his fees started going up. Stephen shares some case studies and classic mistakes from clients that allow him to share their data. The accounting industry was designed for compliance. Financial accounting is designed for external users. For example, it is your CPA's job to help you pay as little in taxes as you're legally allowed to, to get you through an audit, and to keep the banks happy. Management accounting is about internal users and about understanding your unit economics, the profitability on each job.  Stephen explains the benefits of automated activity-based costing and cautions against time-leakage. Things to consider to gain confidence in pricing appropriately: Stephen offers accounting system suggestions to set up reports to show you your “income minus your cost of goods sold equals your gross profit”. Your gross profit percentage is the most important number of every financial statement. This will tell you if you're pricing right. Which clients should you fire? Which clients should you re-price? How do you spend money to make money in sales and marketing? Dr. Sabrina explains the 80/20 principle: 20 percent of your clients and customers are responsible for 80 percent of your revenue. If you focus on increasing revenue from the top 20 percent by 25 percent, you're at choice and you can get rid of 80 percent of your clients and customers. One mistake is to think that your biggest account is your best client. When you have the appropriate margin in your pricing you are able to run a much more simplified, streamlined business. Whatever you do, don't discount your services during an economic downturn. Don't make decisions based on fear. You need to have an attitude of gratitude. Surround yourself with people who have a positive mindset and who are looking for growth.   Links and Resources: Download Your Free Workbook: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour Register your A-Player team members for Tap the Potential's Leadership Bootcamp

Hi, Profit Designers! As we at Tap the Potential gear up for a number of special, upcoming projects, we're taking this time to bring you some of our most popular episodes from the vault! We hope you enjoy it, and we'll be back with new episodes for you very soon!  Diane Gilson joins Dr. Sabrina and Mike Bruno on today's episode to discuss the value of using job costing to manage your gross profit margin, which translates into more money that you keep. Although this conversation centers around job costing in the construction industry, there are valuable nuggets of information for those listening who may be in other industries, such as how to be a more effective business owner. Listen in for an inside look at how to design a business that supports the lifestyle you desire.  If you are a regular listener of the Profit By Design podcast, you'll know that it's not about how much money you make, it's about how much money you keep! Diane Gilson created Info Plus(+) Accounting® In 1994 to help business owners establish job-cost accounting systems so they can access critical day-to-day operations data using QuickBooks as their primary management accounting tool.  Diane's passion is designing, customizing, and upgrading accounting systems and financial controls for small to mid-sized construction and manufacturing companies.  Her online workshops offer job-cost and management accounting training using QuickBooks and Intuit Enterprise Solutions—as well as in-house products—to teach, trouble-shoot, and coach clients and other accounting professionals throughout the United States.  As a published author, speaker, and professional QuickBooks trainer with over 30 years of accounting experience, she is viewed as a leader in her fields of expertise.  Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Diane addresses the impact on business owners who are not aware of their margins. Diane details five ways that job costing dramatically increases your profitability: Locate costs that you haven't billed out. Spot and eliminate your low-profit and loser jobs. Change your business niche. Review estimate versus actual reports. Use a 3-step combination method to increase your prices: Decrease your costs of goods sold or production costs by 5%. Increase your prices by 5%. This increases your gross profit margin of 10%. Gradually increase volume. Once business owners start seeing numbers that make sense and are set up in a logical format, it can change their lives. Investing 20-40 hours is all it takes to learn the job costing system. This could mean an extra $100,000 a year. If you're in an industry where job costing is not part of the conversation, Dr. Sabrina encourages you to be curious about what it might look like in your business, how it would empower you to have that information at your fingertips, and what different decisions would you be able to make with that information. Diane covers the hidden costs of hiring people for your team and how that eats away at the gross profit margin. Dr. Sabrina shares the 80/20 principle, which is where 20 percent of clients are responsible for 80 percent of your revenue. Clients with Tap the Potential's Better Business, Better Life™ programs learn this principle and how to zero in on the best clients to work with. In this way, you do not need as many team members, and those team members you do have tend to be A-players, who are able to focus on how best to serve your clients. Don't count on somebody else to learn this job costing process for you. The business owner should be responsible for learning the process and then can later decide if this should be assigned to another team member.   Links and Resources: Download Your Free Workbook: How to Make Your Time Worth $10,000 an Hour Register your A-Player team members for Tap the Potential's Leadership Bootcamp Sign up for the Better Business, Better Life™ Summit!

Joined again by musician and seer Mike Bruno, we engage the world of the  Good People in this episode. You know, the Gentry? The Other Crowd?  Elementals! No? Faeries, OK? It’s a winding forest trail through Fae folklore and intrigue. Exclusive episodes, written content and much more at  https://www.patreon.com/consensusunreality Consensus Unreality Merch available at  https://consensusunreality.bandcamp.com/merch/mystic-tote-bag Music included in this episode by Mike Bruno https://mikebruno.bandcamp.com/ with field recordings and tape and organ warble from David Theme song by Treatment https://treatmentforu.bandcamp.com/album/pond-life

At Tap the Potential, we are keenly aware that your business is happening within the context of your life, and what a challenging year 2020 has presented for many of us, both professionally and personally. Tap the Potential’s year-end tradition for our clients in the Better Business, Better Life™ program is to take them through in-depth strategic planning to prepare for the year ahead—helping them build a business that gives them their life back. We are all eagerly looking forward to a much better experience in 2021, so we are bringing you a four-part series around strategic planning. Please join Dr. Sabrina and her co-host, Mike Bruno, on this fourth and final part of this series with some questions to consider in determining what goes into budgeting and planning, so that you can build profit right into your business. This is our gift to you, and we sincerely hope that you find value in this experience. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: If you haven’t done so yet, Dr. Sabrina invites you to download the Strategic Planning Workbook to use as a reference tool as you follow along and work through this special series. Since all good strategic planning begins by taking a business and personal well-being inventory, Dr. Sabrina also encourages you to take the FREE assessment for immediate feedback regarding how your business is currently set up to support your quality of life and to understand which parts of your business need to be addressed and strengthened. Dr. Sabrina discusses the Survival Trap Image from the workbook and how the day-to-day decisions we make have long-term ramifications. Designing for profit includes considerations such as health insurance, life insurance, building a retirement for the entrepreneur, personal development, coaching, and training for example. Ask yourself what you need to be better compensated in your business. Dr. Sabrina addresses the feelings of guilt around raising prices to reflect the true value of services provided. There is a chart that shows what sort of percentage you should be targeting for profit that is based on business revenues. This chart, called “Profit First Target Allocation Percentages,” can be found near the end of the Strategic Planning Workbook. What can you be doing for your top clients that can make them see tremendous value in what you're delivering for them? Make this your opportunity to design your business for profit in 2021 and beyond! Links and Resources: Strategic Planning Series Ep 1 of 4: Building Your Resiliency Strategic Planning Series Ep 2 of 4: A Gift to Yourself Exercise Strategic Planning Series Ep 3 of 4: Design Your Compelling Business Vision to Support Your Life BUY THE BOOK ON AMAZON: How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD How to Hire the Best Toolkit COURSE: How to Hire the Best Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business? The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program. Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Books Mentioned: How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD How to Hire the Best: The Rural Business Owner's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD How To Hire The Best: The Contractor’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling PhD Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz

It's always good to see Canadian window fabricators growing aggressively and opening up new markets. Everlast has been on a tear over the last few years and its latest move was to acquire Alberta Vinyl Windows and Doors (AVWD) in Calgary, marking the Toronto manufacturer's first bricks-and-mortar presence in western Canada. Mike Bruno, Everlast president, and Dallas Paquette, general manager of the Calgary location, join Conversations to talk about the strategy and origins of the acquisition, their big plans for the near future, the opportunities and challenges in the western market and more.

Pfizer is asking for emergency use authorization for its a coronavirus vaccine candidate from the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Gregory Poland from the Mayo Clinic explains what we know so far about the efficacy and side effects of the Pfizer vaccine. Dr. Michael Osterholm, a new member of President-elect Joe Biden's coronavirus task force, says the Trump White House's refusal to share life-saving data on the pandemic "angers" him.The State of California is issuing an overnight curfew to curb the spread of the virus. Dr. Mark Ghaly from California's Health and Human Services explains why the stay-at-home-order is needed in the Golden State.Shoppers won't be busting through doors this holiday shopping season. Mike Bruno from CNN Underscored describes what Black Friday would look like during this pandemic.  To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Pfizer is asking for emergency use authorization for its a coronavirus vaccine candidate from the Food and Drug Administration. Dr. Gregory Poland from the Mayo Clinic explains what we know so far about the efficacy and side effects of the Pfizer vaccine.  Dr. Michael Osterholm, a new member of President-elect Joe Biden's coronavirus task force, says the Trump White House's refusal to share life-saving data on the pandemic "angers" him. The State of California is issuing an overnight curfew to curb the spread of the virus. Dr. Mark Ghaly from California's Health and Human Services explains why the stay-at-home-order is needed in the Golden State. Shoppers won't be busting through doors this holiday shopping season. Mike Bruno from CNN Underscored describes what Black Friday would look like during this pandemic.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

In this episode— We engage a casual, wide ranging discussion— we cover the demonic. With roots in a shared reading of a recent book on exorcisms (Demonic Foes by Richard Gallagher), the conversation sweeps from the history and mythological language of demonology, christian exorcisms, the actualization of thought forms and Egregores to hauntings, paranormal investigations and a brief discussion of the current state of US politics. Joined by friend of the pod and haunted guest Mike Bruno.  Music by Shadowbandhttps://shadowband.bandcamp.com/music        

On this episode I sit down with current Aftermath coach John Iannucci, current Aftermath player CJ Canter and former Aftershock Coach Mike Bruno and talk about the highs and lows of competing at the highest level in paintball. Enjoy!

Lisa Robbin Young joins Dr. Sabrina and Mike Bruno for a discussion around creatives and the unique challenges they might encounter as entrepreneurs. As you’ll hear Lisa explain, all entrepreneurs are creatives, but not all creatives are entrepreneurs. Lisa shares how to find out where we fall on the creativity spectrum and how we can use this to our business advantage. But first, we’re kicking this conversation off with the amazing story of how Profit First has led to the success that Lisa is experiencing now and how she is sharing this with others! Lisa Robbin Young is an award-winning speaker, best-selling author, and an accomplished musician with multiple albums to her credit. In 2015, she launched Creative Freedom, a web series that's evolved into a book, podcast, and live event series that helps creative entrepreneurs define and achieve success on their own terms. She believes that the best way to be truly successful in life and business is to be yourself—warts, sparkles, and all—so you can own your dreams without selling your soul. Lisa founded Ark Entertainment Media, a production company and business incubator, to help ambitious creatives build a profitable and sustainable business while doing what they love. Show Highlights: Lisa edited the first edition of Mike Michalowicz’s Profit First, and she is mentioned in the second edition, with which most people are familiar. Implementing Mike’s principles in her business before his book even came out brought about drastic changes. Out of this, Lisa became one of the first certified Profit First business coaches in the world. Lisa shares how she recognized the errors she was making in her own business and how anger motivated her to make changes. Lisa has created an assessment that helps you identify your strengths, skillsets, and challenges. Each creative type shows up in the world differently and responds to the world differently. Lisa details the various types on her creativity spectrum and provides real-life examples that are easily identifiable. Understanding the results of your assessment can have huge payoffs by helping you to avoid the pitfalls of your creative type. Lisa’s words of wisdom on scaling up. Creative Freedom™ Incubator is Lisa’s pay-for-results program. The Courage to Be Rich - Lisa discusses new content from her upcoming book. Links and Resources: Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business? The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program. How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Connect with Lisa! Lisa’s Website Lisa’s Facebook Lisa’s Instagram Lisa’s Twitter Lisa’s Gift to You: Free Assessment: What's your Creative Entrepreneur Type? Books Mentioned: Profit First by Mike Michalowicz How to Hire the Best: The Rural Business Owner's Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling, PhD How To Hire The Best: The Contractor’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees by Dr. Sabrina Starling, PhD  

Nick & Paul return with special in-studio guest Mike Bruno on Tuesday night. They'll preview the Major League Baseball play-offs and NBA Finals, recap the Stanley Cup Finals, and talk NFL Football ahead of Week #4 which kicks-off on Thursday night.

Joining Dr. Sabrina and her co-host, Mike Bruno, today is Tina Smith, of Connect to Creative. Tina is a client in the Better Business, Better Life™ program at Tap the Potential, and she is also a Breakthroughs on the Bayou Retreat alumna who has taken the 4 Week Vacation™ pledge. Tina has taken her business from debt to profitability and she will be sharing the unique roles that marketing and website presence play as you map your own road to success. If you're looking for a breath of fresh air, stay tuned! This might just be what you're needing to hear! You know how companies need someone who can see something successful in one department and cross apply it to other teams? Or someone who can see frameworks and tools that are accelerating growth in other industries and can successfully implement them in a completely different industry? The problem is, most of the time, even when companies find someone who sees what can be done, the person lacks the confidence, enthusiasm, and grit it takes to communicate the ideas and successfully accomplish the goals. Well, that's what Tina has been doing her entire career. Creatively mimicking success strategies from other businesses. As a result, she has spent 13 years at a mid-sized company in the car industry in Atlanta, taking on increasing levels of responsibility and leading multiple teams. At the end of her corporate career, Tina had acquired an MBA from Emory University and was the EVP of Strategy, Marketing, Communications, and Human Resources. After receiving a nomination in New York for Best Social Media movement, competing with the Ice Bucket ALS Challenge (which swept the awards shows like the Titanic swept the Oscars), Tina decided to launch her own marketing and website business. Her company builds websites that get results because the Good Guys deserve to win. Her team at Connect to Creative works almost exclusively with health, wellness, and development companies who focus on personal growth for individuals. This is their 5th year in business, and they've grown revenue by over 20% every year. Tina's team loves helping companies with effective and valuable products achieve even greater levels of growth as well. She believes people deserve products that help them live the change they want to achieve. Show Highlights: Tina describes how her revenue grew over a number of years, but she wasn't getting paid. To continue meeting expenses, Tina took on debt. Through networking, Tina was pointed in the direction of Tap the Potential for help. The early wins that let Tina know she was finally on the right path. When working with a business coach, it is important to still be putting the work in between group meetings. Since Tina put in the work, she also has big wins to share, as well! The many impacts that “Pumpkin Planning” has had on Tina's business. Tina's business, Connect to Creative, can help you identify what you REALLY need for a marketing plan, versus what you THINK you need. Measuring results does not always involve numbers. Tina builds websites so that the Good Guys win, and she encourages each client to flesh out the feeling of winning for themselves so they know what that really is. Connect to Creative is StoryBrand certified, and they make your customer the hero. Business owners think they know what their clients are looking for, but once they start using the language that their own clients are using, they see a dramatic increase in conversion rates. Tina shares some great resources that she has for you on her website!   Links and Resources: Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business?  The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program! How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Connect with Tina! Tina's Website Books Mentioned: Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz Fix This Next: Make the Vital Change That WIll Level Up Your Business by Mike Michalowicz  

Mike Bruno joins the show this week as we talk about the BMW Mafia, living on boats, surfing every day and what makes you happy. A real hum dinger of an episode.

In this episode, with special guest Mike Bruno (musician, seer, and occult/ paranormal enthusiast), we discuss the wild world of cryptids and monsters. Dogmen, Bigfoot, the Jersey Devil, and more. Are they real, lost species of verifiable animals? Spirits of place? Inter-dimensional explorers? Aliens?Texts Consulted: Monsters Among Us by Linda Godfrey and The Jersey Devil by James McCloy and Ray MillerMusic in this Episode by Mike Bruno https://mikebruno.bandcamp.com/People Skillshttps://peopleskills.bandcamp.com/and DJ Bandohttps://opaltapes.com/album/xanbient-works-volume-1

On today’s episode, Dr. Sabrina and Mike Bruno sit down with Corey Kupfer for a paradigm-shifting conversation. Listen in for powerful questions that will change your mindset and get you thinking in bigger ways, including how you can discover opportunities for improving your negotiating and deal-making skills. Corey Kupfer is a rarity among attorneys—he both understands and appreciates how business people think. He is an expert strategist, dealmaker, and business consultant with more than 30 years of professional negotiating experience as a successful entrepreneur and attorney. Corey is actively and personally involved in the corporate and deal practice areas of the law firm he founded, Kupfer & Associates, PLLC including sophisticated corporate structuring, high-level strategic advice, mergers, acquisitions, succession, and other deals for domestic and international companies while overseeing the firm’s other practice areas. He is the author of Authentic Negotiating and the host of the DealQuest podcast. You can learn more about Corey and his latest projects at www.coreykupfer.com. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Corey shares how his interest in both authenticity and negotiation started from a very young age. Early on, Corey observed that there are certain traits that master negotiators have.  Learn to control emotions so that they do not have an impact on the negotiation. Corey details the “CDE”, the fundamental framework for authentic negotiating:  C for clarity D for detachment E for equilibrium Corey covers questions to ask yourself for gaining clarity: What is it that you do in your life to get centered and reconnected? The Five Why’s “CPR” - Context, purpose, and results Dr. Sabrina and Corey discuss limiting beliefs and the importance of mindset shift. If you’re taking the next right action, trust that you’re moving in the right direction and trust that it will be revealed to you what the next right action is. Corey defines and explains the Pygmalion effect (also known as the Rosenthal effect) and how this had a profound impact in his own life. When working through a paradigm, expect “terror barriers”. Learn how to break and advance through it instead of bouncing off of it and settling back to the ex-paradigm. Corey’s website will soon have assessments and programs around deal-making, so opt into his list for the Conversation, Connection, & Cocktails calls to hear more about them! Links and Resources: Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business?  The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneur’s Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Team Members Launching Nov. 18! How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Connect with Corey! Corey’s Website Corey’s LinkedIn  Corey’s Twitter  Corey’s Facebook The DealQuest Podcast with Corey Kupfer Conversation, Connection, & Cocktails FREE Opt-In Zoom calls Books Mentioned: Authentic Negotiating: Clarity, Detachment, & Equilibrium The Three Keys To True Negotiating Success & How To Achieve Them by Corey Kupfer The Soul of Money: Transforming Your Relationship with Money and Life by Lynne Twist Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz Enjoy This Referenced Episode: Ep 95: How the Right Clients Bring Peace and Personal Growth with Andrew Tvardzik

On today’s episode, join Dr. Sabrina and Mike Bruno as they reconnect after Dr. Sabrina’s seven-and-a-half week vacation. Listen in as they discuss the positive outcomes of the vacation and Mike’s exciting new project, Employee Zero. In true "work supports life" fashion, they converse about all of the other fun and exciting things they’ve been focusing on over the last couple of months. Plus, you’ll get a sneak peek at what’s happening in the near future at Tap the Potential! Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Employee Zero is a program that teaches business owners how to be more profitable by utilizing virtual assistants and putting a system in place around this core group of employees that support your other systems. This business model allows customers to have a more personal, hands-on experience, and also allows the business owner as well as the core employees to focus on the systems. Having great systems in place allows the owner to take those extended vacations. Dr. Sabrina’s Vision 2021 for Tap the Potential: It’s getting good! What prioritizing effectiveness can do for you and your business. Dr. Sabrina’s time spent away from Tap the Potential was partly sabbatical and partly used to work on her next two books: How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneurs Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members - Launching November 18, 2020 The 4 Week Vacation™ - Expected to Release March 2021 How the business owners who are in How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneurs Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top-Performing Team Members will be honored will be revealed at the book launch! Mike describes the creativity and freedom experienced during a 4 Week Vacation. Dr. Sabrina expresses her gratitude as to how her business and her team are set up so that she can take extended time away. Tap the Potential clients often come back from their 4 Week Vacations and state that they’d love for their team members to be able to take one, too. The beauty and value of team members who can pick up the slack of other team members who have to be away for an extended period of time. The message that you send to your team members if you’re constantly checking in on them while you’re away. Business owners are no longer confined to a local talent pool when it comes to hiring. Little things that happen while we’re on vacation force us to make the business stronger. Links and Resources: The Q-Storming protocol is a useful tool that bypasses crisis-oriented tunnel vision. Check out a 45-minute Q-Storming strategy session here: https://www.tapthepotential.com/strategy. It is a $250 investment. Leadership Bootcamp https://www.tapthepotential.com/leadership Create a Coaching Culture in Your Small Business! Coach Approach Breakthroughs on the Bayou Mastermind Retreat https://www.tapthepotential.com/retreat/ Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business?  The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program! Get the Book!! How to Hire the Best - Contractors Editionwww.TapThePotential.com/book How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Calm App Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Join the waitlist for the FREE Pumpkin Planning Webinar! www.tapthepotential.com/pumpkinwebinar Books Mentioned: Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World  by Cal Newport Accidental Genius: Revolutionize Your Thinking Through Private Writing by Mark Levy Did You Miss Our 100th Episode? Ep. 100: The Magic of Differentiation with Mark Levy

If you’ve ever had significant challenges in your business that keep you from growing, you’ll want to listen in for a good dose of inspiration! Dr. Sabrina and her co-host, Mike Bruno, are joined today by their guest, Sarah Martin, who has growth opportunities; yet, faces significant hiring challenges in her business. Also joining the show is a previous guest, Erin Longmoon of Zephyr Recruiting. Together, they will be diving in to generate some ideas for how Sarah can move forward and put a permanent end to her hiring and recruiting challenges. Sarah Martin is the President and co-owner of Cabin Works, a property maintenance and cleaning company located in the rural, mountain town of Granby, Colorado. She and her husband Phill started Cabin Works over 10 years ago with the goal of providing peace of mind to busy and absentee property owners in need of a reliable, professional, and trustworthy property maintenance company.   Sarah and her team strive to foster a workplace culture of family involvement and work-life balance at Cabin Works. From company BBQs to family events, such as their annual bus trip to Denver to watch a Colorado Rockies game and participation in the local annual kickball tournament to raise funds for charity, they get excited about involvement in their community and showing appreciation for their team’s hard work. When not working with their team, you can often find Sarah, Phill, and their three young children, Alivia, Mia, and Asher exploring the Colorado mountains on their skis or mountain bikes. Erin Longmoon’s mission in life is to eradicate toxic workplaces. She believes that everyone deserves to love their job and feel like they are contributing to a greater purpose. As the owner of Zephyr Recruiting LLC, she accomplishes this mission by matching great small businesses with their RIGHT FIT™ employees. Erin has more than two decades of experience helping small businesses and has owned five businesses herself. The passion for eradicating toxic workplaces comes from a place a lot of us can resonate with. When Erin was an employee at a company with a toxic workplace, she saw firsthand how the culture impacted everyone on a deep level. The toxic workplace reduced morale and productivity, followed her home, and led good employees to quit. She dreams of changing people’s lives by helping them realize that they are deeply worthy. She also dreams about being the next Stevie Nicks and being friends with the Dalai Lama. Her magic powers are empathy, ability to read people, coming up with new and awesome ideas, and making a perfectly cooked filet mignon. As the owner of Zephyr Recruiting, she oversees an amazing work-at-home team that shares her passion for supporting great places to work. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Sarah details the various reasons she is experiencing her hiring challenges, which impact her ability to experience growth. Social media tips are offered to Sarah in order to generate interest among potential employees. Sara shares that she filters her job applicants based on whether potential hires have secured their housing. Mike suggests helping A-player applicants find affordable housing, or to make it part of a package deal. Dr. Sabrina’s idea is for existing employees to share tips on social media on how they overcame the housing shortage in the area. Dr. Sabrina shares details of the anonymous survey that Tap the Potential’s Better Business, Better Life™ program gives to business owners’ A-players.  Erin provides some great tips for Sarah’s hiring challenges from a recruiting perspective. Dr. Sabrina’s book, How to Hire the Best - Contractors Edition, has some great examples of well-written job posts. How to Hire the Best: The Entrepreneurs Ultimate Guide to Attracting Top Performing Employees will be released later this year! Dr. Sabrina suggests that Sarah may be instrumental in not only solving the housing-shortage challenges for her employees, but she may be able to solve it for the community, as well.  Turn an “I can’t” or “I’m afraid” thought into a “How can I” thought! Links and Resources: Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business?  The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program! Get Dr. Sabrina’s Book!!  How to Hire the Best - Contractors Edition  How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Get Your 2020 Action Planner Now! The Pumpkin Plan Action Planner 2020 https://www.tapthepotential.com/planner Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Calm App Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Connect with Sara! Cabin Works Colorado Facebook - Cabin Works Colorado Connect with Erin! Erin’s LinkedIn Zephyr’s Website  Zephyr’s Linkedin   Zephyr’s Facebook Get Your Employee Brand Marketing Strategy Checklist HERE! Videos & DIY Tools, Too! Erin’s Free Gift to Profit By Designers! Assessment for Employers - Is Your Team Made Up of A-Players? www.zephyrrecruiting.com/profitbydesign Suggested Episode: Episode 85: Seizing Opportunities in Anticipation of an Economic Turn-Around with Erin Longmoon

Welcome to the 100th episode of the Profit By Design Podcast!  Mark Levy joins Dr. Sabrina and Mike Bruno for a discussion about connection, differentiation, the lessons Mark has learned from being a magician that help him to be such an effective strategist, and much more. We are very excited to have him be our 100th guest! Prepare to be inspired by this lively and insightful conversation! Mark Levy is the founder of Levy Innovation LLC, a strategy and differentiation firm. He differentiates companies, brands, thought leaders, political campaigns, TV shows, live shows, products, services, books, and speeches. The ideas Mark and his clients created have been discussed, written about, and used by hundreds of millions of people worldwide. His clients include Simon Sinek (of “Start With Why” fame), a head of a division of two different White House administrations, a head of the Strategy Unit of the Harvard Business School, a CEO of Popeye’s Louisiana Kitchen, and a member of Major League Baseball. He’s also consulted on a TV special on the History Channel, as well as to the reboot of the beloved cult series, “Mystery Science Theater 3000.” Along with his work as a differentiation and positioning consultant, he’s a magician. A show he co-created, “Chamber Magic,” has run in Manhattan for twenty years, in more than 5,000 performances, and has its own day of celebration by proclamation of the mayor. On TripAdvisor, it’s ranked as New York City’s #1 show; rated higher than even the Pulitzer-winning musical “Hamilton.”  Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: According to statistics, there are over one million podcasts in the Apple podcast directory. Fewer than 50% have more than 14 episodes. Dr. Sabrina and Mike each share what they enjoy the most about being a part of this podcast. Consistency contributes to the success of the show. Here’s the reason why Mark has two bios. Mark covers the questions he asks to help differentiate people. Thought-starters are used to discover different versions of a scenario that will lead to the appropriate action. Mark details the best process for, and benefits of, brainstorming sessions. Dr. Sabrina relates how she came to write her How to Hire the Best book series. Incremental steps can help us to solve a problem or reach a goal. Mark explains how his background as a magician influences his work. Mark shares why you don’t have to be scared of elevator speeches, how you can be excited to deliver them, and the reasons you need multiple speeches. Links and Resources: Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business?  The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program! Get the Book!! How to Hire the Best - Contractors Editionwww.TapThePotential.com/book How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Calm App Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Register for the Upcoming FREE Pumpkin Planning Webinar! www.tapthepotential.com/pumpkinwebinar Books Mentioned: Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz Accidental Genius by Mark Levy Connect with Mark! Mark’s Website Mark’s LinkedIn Mark’s Biography #2 Free eBook: List-Making as a Tool of Thought Leadership

Diane Gilson joins Dr. Sabrina and Mike Bruno on today’s episode to discuss the value of using job costing to manage your gross profit margin, which translates into more money that you keep. Although this conversation centers around job costing in the construction industry, there are valuable nuggets of information for those listening who may be in other industries, such as how to be a more effective business owner. Listen in for an inside look at how to design a business that supports the lifestyle you desire.  If you are a regular listener of the Profit By Design podcast, you’ll know that it’s not about how much money you make, it’s about how much money you keep! Diane Gilson created Info Plus(+) Accounting® In 1994 to help business owners establish job-cost accounting systems so they can access critical day-to-day operations data using QuickBooks as their primary management accounting tool.  Diane’s passion is designing, customizing, and upgrading accounting systems and financial controls for small to mid-sized construction and manufacturing companies.  Her online workshops offer job-cost and management accounting training using QuickBooks and Intuit Enterprise Solutions—as well as in-house products—to teach, trouble-shoot, and coach clients and other accounting professionals throughout the United States.  As a published author, speaker, and professional QuickBooks trainer with over 30 years of accounting experience, she is viewed as a leader in her fields of expertise.  Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Diane addresses the impact on business owners who are not aware of their margins. Diane details five ways that job costing dramatically increases your profitability: Locate costs that you haven’t billed out. Spot and eliminate your low-profit and loser jobs. Change your business niche. Review estimate versus actual reports. Use a 3-step combination method to increase your prices: Decrease your costs of goods sold or production costs by 5%. Increase your prices by 5%. This increases your gross profit margin of 10%. Gradually increase volume. Once business owners start seeing numbers that make sense and are set up in a logical format, it can change their lives. Investing 20-40 hours is all it takes to learn the job costing system. This could mean an extra $100,000 a year.  If you’re in an industry where job costing is not part of the conversation, Dr. Sabrina encourages you to be curious about what it might look like in your business, how it would empower you to have that information at your fingertips, and what different decisions would you be able to make with that information. Diane covers the hidden costs of hiring people for your team and how that eats away at the gross profit margin. Dr. Sabrina shares the 80/20 principle, which is where 20 percent of clients are responsible for 80 percent of your revenue. Clients with the Tap the Potential and Better Business, Better Life™ programs learn this principle and how to zero in on the best clients to work with. In this way, you do not need as many team members, and those team members you do have tend to be A-players, who are able to focus on how best to serve your clients. Don’t count on somebody else to learn this job costing process for you. The business owner should be responsible for learning the process and then can later decide if this should be assigned to another team member. Links and Resources: Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business?  The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program! Get the Book!! How to Hire the Best - Contractors Editionwww.TapThePotential.com/book How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Get Your 2020 Action Planner Now! The Pumpkin Plan Action Planner 2020 https://www.tapthepotential.com/planner Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Calm App Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Register for the Upcoming FREE Pumpkin Planning Webinar! www.tapthepotential.com/pumpkinwebinar Books Mentioned: Profit First: Transform Your Business from a Cash-Eating Monster to a Money-Making Machine by Mike Michalowicz The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz Connect with Diane! Diane’s Website BuildYourNumbers Diane’s LinkedIn Diane’s FaceBook Diane’s Twitter Diane’s YouTube FREE Resources From Diane, Just for You!  A free ebook: A Tale of 4 Companies: A Job Cost & Gross-Profit Percentage Drama Informative blog post called “The many faces of construction job-costing.” In it, Diane talks about how nearly every company has a different set of needs when it comes to what they want to track and see. The good news is that Diane can usually structure your internal information to provide exactly what you need to see!

Episode 2 "Old Fashioned Contact" of Consensus Unreality- A podcast considering new connections in high strangeness, unexplained phenomena, and the occult. In this episode we discuss the strange contactee cases of George Adamski and Howard Menger, new bombshell reports about the Pentagon's alleged possession of "off world vehicles", "not made of materials of this earth" and the famous Betty and Barney Hill abductee case. Includes music by: Treatment https://treatmentforu.bandcamp.com/album/pond-life Mike Bruno https://mikebruno.bandcamp.com/ and Howard Menger

On today’s episode, Stephen King, president and CEO of GrowthForce, joins Dr. Sabrina and her co-host, Mike Bruno, for an illuminating conversation around pricing.  Should you discount during this economic downturn? Listen in to this discussion to hear compelling reasons why you should NOT discount, and what you should be doing, instead. Top executive at a Fortune 500 company. Bootstrapped CEO. Venture-backed tech startup founder. Non-profit fundraiser. It’s safe to say Stephen King is not your traditional CPA. Stephen is president and CEO of GrowthForce, one of the nation’s largest providers of outsourced bookkeeping and controller services. Regarded as an industry thought leader by AICPA and CPA.com, his ability to visualize the future of accounting has lead GrowthForce to become one of the fastest-growing companies in America. His experience at the forefront of technology development and accounting system design spans nearly three decades. In 1995 he founded Virtual Growth, the nation’s first cloud-based accounting service, and quickly grew it into a market leader. After being acquired by Insperity, Stephen was brought on as president of Insperity’s Financial Management Services division, serving two years before leaving to build GrowthForce. He also spent seven years working at Amnesty International USA—first overseeing 300 percent growth as CFO, then raising over $20M a year as Director of Development. Stephen’s time at Amnesty reinforced his life-long commitment to giving back to the community. As a result, non-profits represent 35 percent of GrowthForce clients. Profit by Design is a Tap the Potential Production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group. Show Highlights: Business owners are feeling a lot of pressure in this new normal. Pricing is harder if you’re not confident of the value that you’re bringing. Stephen addresses the issues around discounting, then provides the math:  If you have a 40 percent gross profit and you give a 10 percent discount, you need 33 percent more sales to generate the same bottom line. If you have a 30 percent margin, you need 50% more sales to generate the same bottom line. If you have a 40 percent gross profit and you ADD 10% to your pricing, you can sell 20 percent less and make the same money.  When Stephen let an objective person price his jobs, his fees started going up.  Stephen shares some case studies and classic mistakes from clients that allow him to share their data. The accounting industry was designed for compliance.  Financial accounting is designed for external users. For example, it is your CPA’s job to help you pay as little in taxes as you’re legally allowed to, to get you through an audit, and to keep the banks happy. Management accounting is about internal users and about understanding your unit economics, the profitability on each job.  Stephen explains the benefits of automated activity-based costing and cautions against time-leakage. Things to consider to gain confidence in pricing appropriately: Stephen offers accounting system suggestions to set up reports to show you your “income minus your cost of goods sold equals your gross profit”. Your gross profit percentage is the most important number of every financial statement. This will tell you if you’re pricing right. Which clients should you fire? Which clients should you re-price? How do you spend money to make money in sales and marketing? Dr. Sabrina explains the 80/20 principle: 20 percent of your clients and customers are responsible for 80 percent of your revenue. If you focus on increasing revenue from the top 20 percent by 25 percent, you’re at choice and you can get rid of 80 percent of your clients and customers. One mistake is to think that your biggest account is your best client. When you have the appropriate margin in your pricing you are able to run a much more simplified, streamlined business. Whatever you do, don’t discount your services during this economic downturn. Don’t make decisions based on fear. You need to have an attitude of gratitude. Surround yourself with people who have a positive mindset and who are looking for growth. Links and Resources: Taking care of yourself is important now more than ever. Are you ready to take your life back from your business?  The FIRST STEP is taking our Assessment at: https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment NEXT, meet with our Success Team Lead to debrief your results. THEN, join our Better Business, Better Life™ program! Get the Book!! How to Hire the Best - Contractors Editionwww.TapThePotential.com/book How to Hire the Best Toolkit www.TapThePotential.com/Toolkit Get Your 2020 Action Planner Now! The Pumpkin Plan Action Planner 2020 https://www.tapthepotential.com/planner Dr. Sabrina’s WEBSITE Dr. Sabrina’s PODCAST - PLEASE RATE & REVIEW! Profit by Design, a Tap the Potential production in collaboration with Small Business Consulting Group For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/ Calm App Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs Are You Leading with Love or Know Another Entrepreneur Who Is Being a Gift from Their Gifts During This Time? Please use hashtags #leadwithlove #beagift and we will be re-posting these social media posts! Books Mentioned: The Pumpkin Plan: A Simple Strategy to Grow a Remarkable Business in Any Field by Mike Michalowicz Connect with Stephen! Stephen’s Website - Check Out His Evergreen COVID-19 Resources! Stephen’s LinkedIn Stephen’s Twitter

Guest’s Background: Dr. Sabrina Starling, The Business Psychologist™ and author of How to Hire the Best series is the founder of Tap the Potential. Tap the Potential specializes in transforming small businesses into highly profitable, Great Places to Work, then sending business owners on a 4 Week Vacation to celebrate that accomplishment. Never one to accept the status quo or back down from a challenge, Dr. Sabrina’s How to Hire the Best series grew from her desire to solve the toughest hiring challenges interfering with her clients’ growth and profitability. What sprang from her experience working with entrepreneurs in rural areas catapulted her into becoming the world’s leading expert in attracting top talent in small businesses — no matter what hiring challenges those businesses are facing — and earned Tap the Potential’s reputation as the go-to resource for entrepreneurs committed to creating Great Places to Work with thriving coaching cultures and highly engaged team members working from strengths. With her background in psychology, and years of driving profit in small business, Dr. Starling knows what it takes to find, keep, and get exceptional performance out of your biggest investment — your team members. Visit TapThePotential.com to learn more about the life-changing business transformations Dr. Sabrina and her team are bringing about for overworked business owners. Tune in weekly to the Profit by Design Podcast, as Dr. Sabrina and her co-host, Mike Bruno, bring you tips, tools, and strategies to grow a sustainably profitable business that allows you to live the lifestyle you desire. Website: tapthepotential.com System Steps: Step 1: Understand yourself and your core values. Step 2: Think about a clearly defined role you’re hiring someone for. Step 3: Spread the word everywhere. Step 4: Have your candidate answer a situational question that was based on your core value through a video. Support the show.

Mike Bruno wears so many hats. This is a figurative statement, not literal. Owner and operator of Long Island, New York’s Dead Broke Rekerds. Bassmaster of Iron Chic. Bass dude and one of the singer dudes in Adult Magic. Mike is busy, and for that I am very glad - the world would be a much more dreary place without Iron Chic, Adult Magic and Dead Broke. Don’t forget Mike’s part bands like Down In The Dumps, after all, that is how he got the name Mike Dumps. History is important! Well, in this episode, Mike and I talked for a bit about all things Mikey Dumps - bands and music stuff, horror movies, life on Long Island and more. Horror movies? Yes, there’s a trivia challenge in this episode and it’s all about horror movies. Songs by Down In The Dumps, Adult Magic and Iron Chic.

It’s LAUNCH DAY for Dr. Sabrina’s new book, How to Hire the Best Contractor’s Edition!! Listen in as Dr. Sabrina gives Mike Bruno the inside scoop about the inspiration behind the book, how she’s happy to have the writing part behind her now, and how thankful she is to have the Ambassador Group on Facebook to help get the word out. Don’t miss out as Dr. Sabrina breaks down all the elements of the book that work together to help you transform your business into a highly profitable, great place to work! Show Highlights: Hiring is the #1 challenge for entrepreneurs. When we keep hiring someone and they don’t work out, we tend to take it personally. It is the hardest part of being an entrepreneur, and Dr. Sabrina’s book series, How to Hire the Best, puts an end to this common difficulty. Another common challenge is the disconnect between business owners who have a genuine heart to create a great place to work, yet have trouble executing on that intention. Through How to Hire the Best, and the coaching delivered at Tap the Potential, Dr. Sabrina and her team are helping business owners align their mindset, intentions and actions to create great workplace cultures.  Over the years, Dr. Sabrina has developed the Tap the Potential Solution to creating highly profitable, great places to work that creates the freedom for business owners to do things like take a 4 Week Vacation™ or pursue other endeavors. The solution works even in the tightest of labor markets.  If we design our business to be sustainable in the tightest of labor markets, we’re effectively designing a business that has the potential to be highly profitable. We will be able to grow regardless of what’s going on with the labor market.  Designing a sustainably profitable business is such an important point that Dr. Sabrina and Mike devote an entire podcast to it -- it’s the “why” behind the Profit by Design Podcast. Dr. Sabrina details the 5 Key Strategies in the Tap the Potential Solution. You want to be the business owner whose team members are out on the street singing your praises. Mike points out that although Dr. Sabrina’s new book may be a Contractor’s Edition, it can help business owners in ANY industry.   Links and Resources: Get Your Pre-Sale Copy Of Dr. Sabrina’s New Book Here!! https://www.tapthepotential.com/book SPECIAL INVITATION FROM DR. SABRINA - JOIN THE AMBASSADOR GROUP! If you would like to help entrepreneurs and contractors with their ability to hire the best, Dr. Sabrina invites you to consider being an ambassador for the book launch. She has created a Facebook group, “How to Hire the Best Book Launch Ambassador”. She will equip you with tools to get out and spread the word about the book being available, and give you tools to share with your network around hiring to help entrepreneurs that you know, and also do some fun stuff within the group for the ambassadors.  CHECK IT OUT! https://www.tapthepotential.com/ambassadors Is your business a highly profitable, great place to work? How Close Are YOU to Taking Your 4 Week Vacation™? Find out HERE! https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment Tap the Potential Website https://www.tapthepotential.com For Resources & Tools from Sponsors - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/       Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/

Dr. Sabrina is in the hot seat in today’s episode! Her co-host, Mike Bruno, interviews her about her BIG NEWS, and that’s the upcoming release of her new book, How to Hire the Best Contractors, which will be published October 24, 2019. As you will hear Dr. Sabrina explain, she had written the first edition of How to Hire the Best for rural business owners, but as soon as that was published, she started getting calls from entrepreneurs not in rural areas, but from large metropolitan areas all around the country. The more she talked with these entrepreneurs, who were asking for her help, the more she began to see that hiring and attracting top-performing employees in small business wasn’t just a problem for her and her clients, who were mostly rural. It was a problem for small business owners all over the country. Dr. Sabrina began to see a pattern among the callers who were seeking her help and discovered that most of them belonged in the same industry: construction. Once she started researching more about this, she found that out of all industries out there, construction has the greatest labor shortage.   Stay tuned to find out more about her personal “why” for writing this book, and what it has to offer you! Show Highlights: Mike shares his own personal story about the struggle to find the right people. Dr. Sabrina shares the impact on entrepreneurs and the entrepreneurial spirit when you don’t have a good system in place for recruiting and hiring. Working 80-90 hours a week with no time off is not sustainable. You might be able to do it for a few years, but that’s taking a huge toll on your health. As a psychologist, Dr. Sabrina wants to help business owners have a better quality of life and work-life balance. It’s not that we don’t WANT a better work-life balance, we just don’t often have the SKILLS and the SYSTEMS for attracting A-player team members to our businesses. When she started writing her first book, she knew she wanted to address these issues. Dr. Sabrina is passionate about getting this book into the hands of the construction industry’s business owners. When we have the team members and systems in place, it opens up more freedom in our lives to do what we want to do, and pursue the opportunities we want to pursue. The price of life when you don’t have the appropriate systems and people in place. How the book is structured: Dr. Sabrina took what she learned from the first edition of How to Hire the Best, and as she began to teach the material, she observed what worked all of the time and what worked some of the time. In this new edition, she focused on the things that worked 90% of the time, and that were the most doable, and that get the best results. She “Pumpkin Planned” the content of the book, and took out the 20% of the first edition that got the greatest impact and put that into this current edition. Then she made it even more specific by focusing on contractors. Early feedback on her book was that despite it having “Contractors” in the title, it was actually a valuable book for any small business owner or entrepreneur. Dr. Sabrina thinks this is because she has front-loaded the book with her “Tap the Potential Solution™ for creating highly profitable, great places to work”.  If you’re struggling with hiring right now, something to consider: everything you think you should be doing is most likely setting you up to mis-hire. Using traditional hiring practices, you will mis-hire 75% of the time.  The hiring process is very frustrating for entrepreneurs who think they’re doing the right things to hire people, only to see failure over and over, because they tend to internalize that and think there’s something wrong with themselves.  Forgive yourself for all your mis-hires, and recognize it’s not your fault. In the next podcast episodes, Dr. Sabrina is going to pull portions of the book and do some teaching around the Tap the Potential method for Creating a Highly Profitable Great Place to Work, which will help you position your business, in a very tight labor market, no matter the industry, to be an employer of choice, and to operate in a lean way that allows you to have that high profit built in to your business. She will also be teaching skills around hiring. After the book launch, Dr. Sabrina will be doing a completely updated LIVE on-line course on How to Hire the Best.    SPECIAL INVITATION FROM DR. SABRINA If you would like to help entrepreneurs and contractors with their ability to hire the best, Dr. Sabrina invites you to be an ambassador for the book launch. She has created a Facebook group, How to Hire the Best Book Launch Ambassadors. Dr. Sabrina and the Tap the Potential team will equip you with tools to get out and spread the word about the book being available and give you tools to share with your network around hiring to help entrepreneurs that you know.  Ambassadors will have access to special training from Dr. Sabrina and get to participate in some fun contests the team is cooking up.  All ambassadors will receive a signed copy of How to Hire the Best from Dr. Sabrina. CHECK IT OUT! https://www.tapthepotential.com/ambassador   Links and Resources: https://www.tapthepotential.com For Resources & Tools from Us - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com Subscribe & Share Podcasts! - https://www.profitbydesignpodcast.com/podcasts/ Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/ProfitByDesign/   Are you building a sustainable highly profitable, great place to work? How Close Are YOU to Taking Your 4 Week Vacation? Find out HERE! https://www.tapthepotential.com/assessment

Josh Wolk, former Editorial Director for NY Magazine's Vulture.com, talks about how the relentless churn of entertainment journalism led him to start his own company, Fixate Media, where he helps studios and networks create digital content to promote their projects. Among the tips Josh shares are: 1. No one is better at generating authentic excitement around a product than the journalists who provide objective coverage of that product. 2. "Marketing" isn't a dirty word, even if some journalists are conditioned to think it is. 3. The key to a career pivot may simply be realizing how good you are at something you aren't yet doing. FIXATE DIGITAL https://fixatedigital.com/ AFTER MAGAZINES https://www.facebook.com/groups/1350197931719900/ Please let me know what you think of the show and who you'd like to see interviewed next: brunoaftermags@gmail.com

I spoke with career coach Stacey Staaterman, a 20-year marketing and advertising magazine industry vet. Stacey talks about her run in the mag biz, when and why she decided it was time to try something different, and shares insights and strategies she uses with clients looking to make a pivot themselves. Among the tips Stacey shares in the episode: 1. When considering a career pivot, go back to the basics. Deconstruct what you love and what you want to do more of, and use that to model your ideal next step. 2. Surround yourself with people who are already in the place you’re trying to get to. 3. "The Future Does Not Fit in the Containers of the Past” -- a quote she got from advertising guru Rishad Tobaccowala that absolutely changed her life. STACEY STAATERMAN https://staceystaaterman.com/ AFTER MAGAZINES https://www.facebook.com/groups/1350197931719900/ Please let me know what you think of the show and who you'd like to see interviewed next: brunoaftermags@gmail.com

Welcome to our special Father's Day edition of the Profit by Design Podcast! Today, we are exploring the blend of fatherhood and entrepreneurship. Mike Ciavolino, the owner of Shore Creative, is back on the show with us. In addition to being an entrepreneur, he is the father of fourteen-year-old triplets. We will also be hearing from our very own Mike Bruno today, who is a father of three. Both are sharing life lessons and challenges they’ve experienced in their roles as fathers and entrepreneurs.  Tune in now, to find out more.  Mike Ciavolino provides a unique and practical perspective on marketing and advertising. As the owner of Shore Creative Group (www.shorecreativegroup.com) and having spent over 30 years in the marketing industry, Mike has focused his energies on helping clients develop brand strategies and marketing campaigns to better position themselves and win with today’s changing customers. Show Highlights: Mike Bruno and Mike Ciavolino talk about what they have been doing differently, as fathers, in the last year. Mike Ciavolino's wife, who is a nurse, set up a hospital unit in their house to cope with the needs of their three babies, who were born eight weeks early and had to be monitored. This happened just as Mike was starting to work for himself. Mike Ciavolino describes where he was in his business at the time that his children were born.  Some of the lessons that have served Mike Ciavolino, as a father and as an entrepreneur. Mike Ciavolino talks about how managing the challenges in your personal life helps you to manage the challenges you face in your business. Some of the lessons that Mike Bruno has learned as a father that serve him as an entrepreneur. Mike Bruno explains how the supportive mindset and the coordination mindset, with your family, blend into your business. Getting what you want by focusing on your intention and then fitting the other pieces of the puzzle around that. Keeping things positive for the children after a divorce. The responsibility that they both feel, in their role as fathers, and how that has played into the decisions that they have made and will make, about their businesses.  Some of the hard responsibilities that Mike Ciavolino faces with his children and how this drives him in his business. Mike Bruno takes his responsibility as a father really seriously. He talks about his drive to provide for his family. How Mike Bruno's daughter and Mike Ciavolino's son experience them, as fathers. As parents, we have to be careful about what we say and do because our children are watching everything. Some of the hardest things that they have experienced from being a father and a business owner. Time management can be difficult for entrepreneurs and parents. Showing up, being the best you can be, and having the biggest impact, as a parent and in your business.  Mike Bruno and Mike Ciavolino share their thoughts about incorporating their kids into the work they are doing. What they hope that their children are learning from them, as entrepreneurs. Resources:   Profit by Design Facebook group Email: sabrinaandmike@profitbydesignpodast.com www.howtohirethebest.com is Dr. Sabrina’s free masterclass    Would you like to join a community of entrepreneurs setting our businesses up to support our lives and not the other way around? Check our Breakthroughs on The Bayou 4 Week Vacation™ Legacy Retreat at www.4WeekVacation.com For the month of June only, we are offering you a special savings. All you have to do is to say, “I want a vacation!” when you submit your application and you will get into the retreat for $5997. If you're interested in being a part of the retreat, all the information is available at  www.4weekvacation.com.  Get Dr. Sabrina's free 4 Week Vacation™ Jump Start Guide: www.4weekvacation.com  Mike Ciavolino’s email: mike@shorecreativegroup.com Mike Ciavolino’s website: www.shorecreativegroup.com

I spoke with my former Entertainment Weekly colleague Jason Adams about his pivot from magazines to a new gig as head of Owned Media at T-Mobile. We talked about how and why he decided to move away from his magazine career and some of the challenges, both professional and personal, he had to overcome to land a great job working for a brand. Among the tips Jason shares in the episode: 1. Lean on others for help. 2. Know that your journey is your own and you need to figure it out for yourself. 3. Don't expect a great resumé to magically get you that next big gig. Hustle. AFTER MAGAZINES https://www.facebook.com/groups/1350197931719900/ Please let me know what you think of the show and who you'd like to see interviewed next: brunoaftermags@gmail.com

Mitch Interviews Coach Mike Bruno after season ending loss to Nyack.

I talked with Chandra Turner, co-founder of the After Magazines Facebook Group, about how her belief in "career karma" inspired her and friend Jillian Mackenzie to create the group, and how it "took on a life of its own" thanks to the amazing writers and editors in the community. We also run through Chandra's tours of duty in the mag biz, including stints at Cosmo, Parents and American Baby, as well as a more recent branded content gig at Scholastic. Her latest endeavor is an expansion of the publishing industry job listing and community website she created many years ago, Ed2010, and development of her recruitment, consulting and training company Talent Fairy. Among the tips Chandra shares in the episode: 1. Take the time to learn "brand" lingo if you want to translate your skills as a mag veteran to a brand gig 2. Tweak your bio and resumé and present yourself as some kind of specialist rather than a generalist 3. Spend more time networking than you do responding to online ads AFTER MAGAZINES https://www.facebook.com/groups/1350197931719900/ ED2010/TALENT FAIRY http://ed2010.com/ Please let me know what you think of the show and who you'd like to see interviewed next: brunoaftermags@gmail.com  

Welcome to the After Magazines podcast! I'm an NYC-based magazine journalist as well as a member and huge fan of the After Magazines Facebook Group. Earlier this year, I started toying with the idea of creating a podcast for the community. There are so many smart, fascinating members with stories to tell, and so many other ways for us to help each other find that next great endeavor. I took the idea to group founders Chandra Turner and Jillian MacKenzie, and they were instantly supportive, so I decided to run with it. And here we are. I myself am a veteran journalist with a magazine history that includes tours of duty at Entertainment Weekly, Billboard and a few other print titles. I've recently pivoted to add e-commerce and content marketing work to my profile, and the ideas, connections and inspiration I get in the After Magazines Group have been really helpful in making that transition. This weekly podcast will provide tactical advice After Magazine professionals can use to further their careers. I'll talk to members of the After Magazines community sharing what they've learned in their journeys, career and life coaches who can give advice specific to our community, and the AM Group founders themselves, of course. Please subscribe and let me know what you think and what you want to hear moving forward.  Glad you're here! --Mike brunoaftermags@gmail.com My website

Mitch Silver interviews both Rye High baseball coach Mike Bruno and star pitcher Sean Thompson in this double play edition.

On today’s Profit by Design, Dr. Sabrina and Mike speak with Dr. Ken Keis. Not only is he an author, speaker, podcast host, and coach,  but he is also the President and CEO of Consulting Resource Group International (CRG). Some of his latest books include: Why Aren't You More Like Me?, Deliberate Leadership, and The Quest For Purpose.  Ken’s experience covers all areas of development—career, business, sales, personal, professional, purpose, wellness, leadership, communications, team-building, HR and organizational. He has served clients from Cape Town, London, Tokyo, Sydney, Vienna, and Brussels, to LA, Miami, Vancouver, Singapore, and Mexico City.  Listen in to today’s show to hear a thought-provoking conversation about how to use personality assessments as personal development tools, the unexpected link among values and stress, and the entrepreneurial quest for purpose.  Show Highlights: Why self-awareness is key to building a sustainable business  Going to a wise counsel for mentoring rather than people with just opinions and no experience  Values based decisions bring clarity There are 6 habits of high performers, number one being clarity Internal motivators, and what they are What it would mean to make the right decision every time You get to decide if a value is being met Playing to your strengths but not letting them be your weakness Self-Management is important to self-awareness Lifestyle business definition and mindset Personality differences and why it’s important to understand them Resources:  High Performance Habits by Brendan Bruchard Why Aren’t You More Like Me by Ken Keis and Terry Anderson Deliberate Leadership: Creating Success Through Personal Style by Ray Williams and Ken Keis The Quest for Purpose by Ken Keis Keys to Success Podcast Profit by design Podcast Website Profit by design Facebook group Email: sabrinaandmike@profitbydesignpodast.com   We’re coming up on 1,000 downloads and to celebrate, Dr. Sabrina Starling and Mike Bruno are offering a chance to win FREE Profit By Design T-shirts! Listen in to find out how to win. The contest runs November 1st through November 9th.  Enter to Win a Profit by Design Podcast T-shirt Click here.(The more you enter, the better your chances of winning. You can enter daily!)   A gift for listeners Click here This is an E-copy of Ken’s most recent book, The Quest for Purpose. Learn more about the CRG’s Assessments, including the Personal Style Indicator, Value Preference Indicator, and Entrepreneurial Success Indicator: Click here Connect with Dr. Ken Keis: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kenkeiscrgleader/ https://twitter.com/crgleader https://www.instagram.com/crgleader/ https://www.facebook.com/KenKeisPhd/ www.crgleader.com   

Maybe you’re an entrepreneur just starting out or, like Mike Bruno, perhaps you’ve been doing it the past 27 years. Today, Mike and I talk about a few examples of where your business can be once you commit and focus. Mike has been a successful entrepreneur for years, and now he’s here to share how he’s been so successful at juggling so many obligations.    Show Highlights Mike’s unexpected career pivot while owning three separate companies What led Mike to join a Construction & Development company What it was like working for someone else after 27 years How entrepreneurs make 99.9% of the “fires” up in their heads Why it’s important to protect your time How Mike got his businesses to self-sufficiency in 3 months How we define ourselves as entrepreneurs and owners of the business Planning your business with the 4 Week Vacation in mind Mike talks juggling 3 businesses, working for another company, and participating in a podcast Resources: The 4 Week Vacation™ How to Hire the Best  

Learn how to achieve and maintain the level of profitability you need to support the lifestyle you want using the PROFIT mindset. In today's episode, Mike Bruno shares how many contractors get into financial trouble by focusing far too much on top line revenue, and how shifting your focus to profitability will give you full control of your financial destiny. What if you could make more money without having to focus on selling more? Mike helped a contractor that was losing money pay of all their debt and become highly profitable while reducing their gross revenue by roughly 45%! Less liability, less overhead, and MORE PROFIT. Join us as we learn Mike's simple methods to maximize profitability and control business growth.

Mike Bruno is a former player and current coach of the legendary paintball team Chicago Aftershock. With his unique style and passion for the game, Mike has won tournament after tournament in his prime playing days. His role as coach of the newly rostered Aftershock is constantly being challenged as the team fights for the podium in the 2017 season.

You woke up this morning, got yourself a Sopranos podcast. Joined by returning co-host Mike Bruno and special guest (and Sopranos superfan) Kristen Wuest, NJAM breaks down Season 1 of your favorite American crime TV series.

Power Systems Design, Information to Power Your Designs

In a society where machines live among us...Timmie and interim cohost Mike Bruno chat about Replicants, Androids, Harrison Ford, Oscar Isaac and much much more.  Grab your Turing test and trench coats kids!

Welcome back to 3 Films We Need to Talk About! Timmie and Ryan are joined by interim cohost & friend of the show, Mike Bruno.  Tune in to hear their discussion on 3 contemporary Americana films: Donnie Darko, American Beauty, & Magnolia!

The Roman Show welcomes UFC fighter Jonathan Brookins and Florida fighter Mike Bruno. Call in live to ask our guests questions to 714-868-0222 or tweet us at @romandh. Don't miss a second of the program. We will also preview UFC on Fuel 1 and the review UFC 143. To sponsor, e-mail us at romandh@yahoo.com.

The Roman show- MMA welcomes Florida fighter Mike Bruno and XFC fighter middleweight Julio Gallegos. Call in to ask questions live on the air by calling 714-868-0222. We also discuss UFC on FX1 and UFC on FOX 2. Tweet your questions to @romandh. To sponsor e-mail us at romandh@yahoo.com or find us on the website www.rodolforoman.com.