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Today I’m chatting with one of the newer voices on Good Beer Hunting—Brian Alberts. He’s not technically new—we published a story from him back in 2018 about the importance of preserving the historical record in breweries. That was sort of a one-off piece on a topic that until then we hadn’t really invested much in frankly: beer history. And the main reason for that was that so much had already been invested in beer’s history that GBH’s charter was really about trying to capture the zeitgeist. But over the years, thanks to people like Brian, my perspective on that history had evolved. And seeing its relevance to the seemingly unprecedented movement of American craft helped me realize how little is really unprecedented at all. When we launched the From Barrons to Barrels series this past winter, Brian was the first person I reached out to discuss what was possible in the series. The stories were meant to be rooted in Midwestern beer history, but that doesn’t mean that it was meant to explore than history through conventional means. Rather, we wanted to find a way of connecting some of those dots between past and present. And for us, that means through the various lenses of race, ethnicity, nationality, class, gender, and politics. When it comes to those things—alongside and interwoven with our beer—history really does repeat itself. Or at least, offers up the same songs but in a different key. Now Brian has a few feature stories under his belt—including a look at the Munich Beer Riots of 1844, the reactionary alcohol policies and life under the Spanish Flu pandemic of 1918, and the longstanding economic dependency between Milwaukee and Chicago brewers. This is Brian Alberts, listen in.

Brian Duncan has been working in the food and beverage industry for over of 15 years. Starting his professional career in supply chain consulting and then becoming the founding partner of successful food tech company Chowly Inc. Now Brian is the CEO and Founder of PlanBased; a data-driven distribution company focused on helping food and beverage brands grow while providing transparency for PlanBased customers.Get connected with Brian via LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/brian-j-duncan/Learn more about PlanBased: https://planbased.io/Follow and connect with the host, Connor Dube: https://www.linkedin.com/in/socialsellingexpert/Instagram: connor_dubeVisit Active Blogs @ www.activeblogs.com for FREE B2B Marketing resources, podcasts, and make sure to reach out today for a Marketing Second Opinion to identify where to reduce marketing costs, optimize, or identify new strategies to implement for your business development efforts.

Originally from Trumbull, CT, Brian has been living in China for the past 10 years. He previously worked for one of the largest Chinese government owned manufacturers managing their North American Export operations. Now Brian runs a 3rd party logistics warehouse in Shenzhen China. The company provides 3rd party logistics and shipping for Amazon FBA sellers and any e-commerce company creating products in China. BUSINESS BUILDING INSIGHTSDon't take shortcuts. The longer solid road is always the route to making your business sustainable. Alibaba is a good start to identifying factories. Developing specific quality control guidelines will help ensure your product arrives as expected. Always place a small first order to test the factory. Addressing the issues of knockoffs and people stealing your design; you can stay competitive as long as you provide value to your customer. One way to handle quality control is to hire an inspection company to check the product quality before it is shipped to you. RESOURCES MENTIONED V-Trust Inspection Service (https://www.v-trust.com/) CONTACT LINKS Website (https://www.easychinawarehouse.com/) Linkedin (http://linkedin.com/in/brian-miller-00570343) Join Our FREE Gift Biz Breeze Facebook Community Become a Member of Gift Biz Breeze (https://www.facebook.com/groups/GiftBizBreeze) If you found value in this podcast, make sure to subscribe so you automatically get the next episode downloaded for your convenience. Also, if you'd like to do me a huge favor, please leave a review. That helps other creators like you find the show and build their businesses too. You can do so right here: (https://ratethispodcast.com/giftbizunwrapped) Apple Podcasts (https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/gift-biz-unwrapped/id986323267) Google Podcasts (https://podcasts.google.com/?feed=aHR0cDovL3d3dy5naWZ0Yml6dW53cmFwcGVkLmNvbS9mZWVkL3BvZGNhc3Q=&inf_contact_key=f00b9b282a6156da6dc2e642eb167c2f680f8914173f9191b1c0223e68310bb1) Spotify (https://open.spotify.com/show/380HmeoVquMHRzOepaoF0s) Thank so much! Sue

Exploring minute 65 of The fast and The Furious - Welp... big OOF! Johnny Tran..... is NOT the suspect. The FBI has serious doubts in Brian's skills. Now Brian has 36 hours to solve the case! Doesn't seem like much time... Let's see if Brian can pull it off! If not, he might want to think about a new career. - Watch this minute on instagram at https://www.instagram.com/grannyshiftpod/ and watch our breakdown on YouTube at https://youtu.be/ZZ0rdj7tmRw And remember.... Winning's winning *This podcast is a production of Ryit Media and is hosted by Ryan Lehman (@sortastarwars) and Jason Garber (@wasthatawesome) **To hear other podcasts hosted by Ryan Lehman, search "Ryit Media" on any podcast player or find the links here: Sorta Star Wars: Anchor.fm/sortastarwars Dad Reads Books: Anchor.fm/dadreadsbooks

Disrupting an industry is not an easy task, but then again neither is running 100 miles.  But that didn’t stop a couple of guys from Orem, UT from doing both.  Growing up at the base of Mt. Timpanogas, these cross-country kids spent their youth working at their local running store.  After struggling with their own shoe dilemmas, the experimenting began, and the idea of a form-fitting, zero drop shoe was born.  After trying to give to the idea away to the top shoe companies and being turned down by all of them, they were so sure they had something good, the trio decided to do it on their own.  And the result is a shoe company that completely changed to the game, particularly in endurance running.  Redesigning footwear for the endurance community, Altra Shoes not only created a cult-like following but also found a home with the greater population.  Creating a shoe that is actually in the shape of a foot and accounting for the slower gait of a long-distance runner, Altra shoes inadvertently began appealing to the masses and these more casual runners have been buying them in droves.  The resulting explosive growth and religious following over the past decade have proven that these guys really have changed the game.  But in the process, the game change for Brian as well.  Going from college grad to company president in an incredibly short amount of time, he had to develop the leadership skills to grow the company to scale despite very little background or executive training.  He was up for the challenge and saw the company continue to grow as a result.  But, despite all their success and the explosive growth, Brian found himself in a tailspin with the purchase and relocation of the company.  With his life now in limbo and his company in flux, Brian did the one thing he always struggled to do….  Ask for help.  Both with the business but also for himself as well.  In doing so, not only did he get the help he needed, but he was able to finally take the time to craft the lifestyle he had strayed away from.  He reevaluated his life, figured out what He needed, and asked for it.  Now Brian has turned the page, has a new role within the company, and lives life on his terms creating a lifestyle we can all be envious of.  Hear all about his journey, ultra-racing, and some cool fishing stories.  Check out how he has created an Ultra life, in my recent conversation with the co-founder of Altra Shoes, Brian Beckstead. 

Zach discusses building learning communities with ChangeNerd CEO and founder Brian Hampton. Brian talks a bit about ChangeNerd, a digital learning community that supports change management practitioners and inspires innovation, and he also offers some advice for black and brown folks who are looking to build a learning community of their own.Connect with Brian on LinkedIn!Check out ChangeNerd's home page and follow them on LinkedIn! Want to become a member of the community? Click here!Visit our website!TRANSCRIPTZach: What's up, y'all? It's Zach with Living Corporate. Now look, you know what we do. We have authentic conversations about being black and brown in the corporate space. Now, corporate space makes it sound really fancy, right? Like you're wearing a suit and a tie, you know, maybe sometimes you have to actually put some lotion on your ankles. That's not what I mean, right? I just mean the place that you actually have to work, right? Living Corporate is a place that amplifies the voices of black and brown people at work, okay? And how do we do that? We do that with authentic conversations with black and brown executives, entrepreneurs, influencers, educators, public servants, creatives, activists, right? And we do that in just, like, one-on-one conversations, sometimes we'll do a two-on-one, sometimes we'll do a three-on-one, sometimes we have, like, a--you know, we mix it up, but the point is we're having real talk, and that's why our tag line is what? Real talk in a corporate world. All of that being said, y'all know we're having dope conversations every time y'all hear this podcast, and today is no different. Today we're talking to Brian Hampton. Brian is the CEO and founder of ChangeNerd, a company that supports change management practitioners and inspires innovation. Brian, welcome to the show. How are you doing, man?Brian: I'm doing well. Thanks for having me, Zach. I really appreciate it.Zach: For those of us who don't know you, why don't you tell us a little bit more about yourself?Brian: Yeah. So, you know, I started ChangeNerd. It's primarily a digital learning community. I started it to really bring professionals together, because for us who do change management and help organizations adopt new ways of working, we really just tend to be heads-down, working on our projects, and I wanted to create a way for us to just connect and share best practices. Prior to launching ChangeNerd, I consulted at Deloitte. I also led change management teams at different companies, both private and non-profit. So I love the field. I'm super passionate about it, and I'm glad to talk about it today.Zach: Yeah, man. You know, and coming from a change background myself, you know, I don't see a lot of black men in this space, right? I don't really see a lot of black folks period, but I definitely don't see a lot of black men specifically and just black and brown men in general in the space. Can we talk a little bit about, of all the professions you could have chosen, like, what about change management got you?Brian: Yeah. This is real cool, this is real cool. Nice question, and--great question, actually. So I went to college in undergrad for criminal justice and then soon realized there was no real money behind it, and so I jumped into HR, jumped into the federal government, and at around 2008, 2010, I felt like HR was kind of flat, and then I was introduced to change management because the agency I was at at the time, we were implementing PeopleSoft, and so I was formally introduced to change management, and I really couldn't believe this was a full-time job, right? 'Cause it's really around just working with people and helping them, you know, really adopt new ways of working. And I'm like, "Wow, people get paid doing this?" So I did some research and saw that the pay was decent, and so I jumped into the field. So yeah, I thought--at the time I thought HR was boring, and change management seemed to be the new thing, and there's some really strong transferable skill sets from HR to change management, and so I took the leap.Zach: Man, you know, that's 100%, and it's interesting because my career was a little bit the same. I think we talked about this off the mic, but, like, I started as an HR manager at Target and then transitioned into org design and just being, like, a specialist, right? And then eventually formed all the way into change management. And you're absolutely right, a lot of it's transferable, but you know what's interesting? I think a lot of it isn't, because--I do agree that often times HR gets a tough rep as just being, like, the benefits folks, right? And kind of helping with ER issues, but really they're just kind of--they're almost like the security guards of the company, but they don't have a gun. They've got, like, a roll of quarters to call the peace when it gets really scary, you know? They might have a flashlight so that they can look at you while you're doing something wrong, but they don't really have any actual, you know... come on, man. Yeah, so anyway. Okay, cool. So look, we're talking today about building learning communities, right? ChangeNerd is a learning community, like you said at the top, but to start, like, how would you define a learning community, and what are the benefits of being in a learning community?Brian: Well, you know, quite honestly--and, you know, the whole theme of this podcast is corporate--you know, corporate living, and if you're in corporate, your organization is more than likely changing. It's using and bringing on new technology, new processes, you know, organizations are trying to be competitive, so all of that activity is happening, and what that means for the individual person is that you have to take ownership of your own journey, your own learning journey. And so the best way to do that is really tap into some type of social learning community, and that's part of the reason why I created ChangeNerd. There was nothing out there specifically for, you know, professionals who spend a lot of their time in project management, change management, and so I wanted to create a community for us folks. And, you know, what I'm noticing after doing this just for 12 months is that it's extremely beneficial. We got thousands of people in the community, both at the executive level and, you know, practitioner level, and the people love the community because they can take charge and, you know, tap in whenever they want to tap in. It's LinkedIn on a much smaller scale, you know? And there's beauty in having access to like-minded people. So if you're on a project and you're struggling, you know you're only a button away or an email away from getting help, and that's what it's all about, and for us, we tend not to have those strong networks when it comes to corporate, and so--you know, I'll be honest with you. I'll share this story. Deloitte was--working at Deloitte was the hardest--and it was fun, but it was extremely difficult, primarily because I didn't have that network. Even tapping into, you know, the African-American BRG, it's still tough for us to connect with the right people, people that we can trust in the corporate atmosphere. And so, you know, yeah, you go to work every day and you build a network there, but there's nothing like building an even broader network outside of your organization to give you the confidence you need to be successful.Zach: Man, you know, you're 100% right. And it's interesting. Like, as organizations, or just as technology continues to grow... like, at first the draw of technology and, like, social networking was size, right, and scope. Like, "You can reach anybody anywhere!" Like, you know, big numbers were attractive, right? So if you could say--you know, you say LinkedIn, like, millions of people use LinkedIn every day, right? But then, like, the disconnect is "Okay, what does it look like for me to actually touch somebody?" 'Cause I don't really need to touch a million people. I [may only?] really need to touch, like, 15. So what do I need to do to make sure that I can actually touch those, you know, less than 20 people that I actually need? And so it's just interesting as you see, like, communities change or digital communities change and evolve that, you know, we're noticing that size isn't everything, you know what I mean?Brian: Yeah, yeah, yeah. And, you know, building a community around, you know, your role or your aspirations professionally, it's an ongoing journey, and what I will say is--here's the major benefit, right? If you got 100 people, because you were diligent, and let's say you spent, you know, three to six months really building a community around you or tapping into an existing one, and you now have 100 people that you trust that you know you can reach out to. If you get laid off, if you want to go independent and start your own agency. You know, if something bad happens to you, you've got 100 people who got your back, and that's what it comes down to. I can't--you know, just in doing this community, you know, ChangeNerd, I can't tell you the amount of people that I've been able to help, you know? So-and-so got laid off? Oh, I know this partner at this firm, right? And there's a trust that's built. And so, you know, submitting your resume becomes more of a--it's something that happens afterwards, right? Because of trust, that organization is pretty much gonna bring you on, right? And so your resume becomes a formality after the fact, and so, like, that's the beauty of having a network and being tapped in to a digital learning platform or any social learning community that you have.Zach: Yeah, man. You know, it's interesting. You talked about some of your challenges at Deloitte and, like, the barrier being you not having that community, formally or informally, right? So, like, based on your experiences, what advice or, like, what lessons learned would you be able to share and kind of what would you be able to give to black and brown folks today who are looking to build those types of spaces for themselves for their own professional development?Brian: To be honest with you, it's a journey. It's a journey, and the reality is you don't know what you don't know. Years ago when I was at Deloitte, I don't think I had the right mindset, you know? You know, they hired me for a job, you know, primarily to do deliverables on projects, and that's what I did, but to be successful, there are--there are so many other competencies there, you know? You've got to be able to manage up. You've got to be able to build relationships. And, you know, when it comes to corporate, a lot of times, you know, I know for me and probably for the folks that are listening to this podcast, sometimes you may be one of the few black or brown people in a room, and it's difficult to raise your hand, and it's difficult to bring your perspective without being judged, but over time with the right experiences you get really good at it. But honestly, I don't know if there's any advice that I can give to anyone other than, you know, go for it. Continue to build your network out. But ultimately, it's your journey, and you have to own your own learning process, regardless of what type of, you know, leadership development programs you find yourself into. You have to own your own learning. Tapping into a network is beneficial, but just recognize that relationship building and having the ability to build trust with others, those are the things that you'll learn along the way.Zach: Man, well, let's do this. Let's talk about ChangeNerd, because I do get folks who hit me up, right? I have old colleagues, I have people in different, like, just social networks who hit me up about getting into change management. Let's talk about ChangeNerd, you know, why the name, the journey you got there, and then just where people can learn more about it.Brian: Yeah. So it's funny, I knew I wanted to bring--well, I'll tell you this. Me and the team, we were building an app. So we built this nice, sophisticated change management app, and as I was trying to sell it to different companies I realized that change management teams didn't really have the budget for it, so we scrapped it. But I ran into--I live in the Chicago area. I found six large companies all implementing SAP all struggling at the same point in time, right? And it was that moment where I realized "Wow, I need to build a community, because we're just working way too siloed." So I launched the community. And the community is free to join, and every week I interview a subject matter expert around--and we talk about some area surrounding organizational best practices, and every so often we offer virtual courses and we also offer in-person events. And so, you know, when people think of ChangeNerd, I want them to think about the learning community, because at the heart that's what it is. We pay the bills by consulting different companies, but we try to spend the bulk of our time just enriching the learning community.Zach: Well, that's incredible, man. So talk to me about where--at what point did you realize that ChangeNerd was, like, "Okay, wow. This is something serious." Like, this is an actual--so I'm not gonna say it's a movement because that's mad corny.Brian: It is. [laughs]Zach: It's mad corny. People always--man, sidenote. Man, people always talking about "it's a movement, it's a movement." So many--how is everything moving? Brian: I know, I know. So let me tell you how I knew it was real. It got real for me when I got an email. I got an email from an HR VP that said "Hey, Brian. We want to fly you to Boston, and we want you to do a series of workshops for our supply chain leadership," right? That's when it got real for me. So I replied back. I'm like, "Do you have budget?" And they told me the budget, and via email within, like, literally 5 minutes we negotiated budget. That's when it got real for me, because what I found out was when you tap into a community or if you build a community, right, you're automatically building trust with people, right? And so when they see you they trust you because you're giving out good insight, you're giving out--you know, you're helping them, and when opportunities pop up they reach out to you. And so, you know, first it started out as a speaking engagement, right? And I didn't have to give them documents and compete with other firms. They wanted me. That's when I knew. I told my wife, "Honey, this is--like, this is real money," right? And then the phone calls came, you know? Head of IT from this company, head of HR from this company. "Brian, we want to get your perspective," right? And they knew that, you know, I wasn't gonna do it for free, and so they came with the budget, and so it's just--when you have that network of people, you're able to help people, and they can help you as well. And so to be honest with you, that's how I knew that this could be something real, when I started getting emails of different companies, from different companies, that needed my help.Zach: Well, talk to me about what you've been most excited about that ChangeNerd has accomplished, and as you look at 2020, what are you most looking forward to?Brian: Yeah. So when it comes to change management, you have major training companies really trying to control the narrative. You have--I won't call out any names here, but you have companies, you know, controlling the narrative. What I'm so proud of is with me interviewing different subject matter experts every week, it just opens the opportunity for the narrative to change, right? And so for change management not to be come, like, an academic exercise. And so for people not to be locked into one particular framework, and for more stories and experiences to be told. As we move into 2020, we're going to get a little bit more niche. We're gonna have little--well, not little, but smaller digital communities. So change management in health care, change management in non-profits, change management in financial services. We're gonna have digital communities by industry, by specialty, just to give people access to more practical advice. So that's something I'm looking forward to as we move into 2020.Zach: All right, man. Now, look, I wouldn't be a platform if I didn't give you a space to actually plug ChangeNerd. So, like, where can we learn more about it? What's the content? What's the information? Of course we'll have it in the show notes, but go ahead and shout it out right here.Brian: Yeah. So you can dive right in to the online community by going to community.changenerd.com. Community.changenerd.com. That will put you right into the community. Go ahead and join. It's totally free, and I look forward to seeing you there.Zach: All right. Now look, everybody--y'all heard him, okay? So y'all driving, you walking, you're doing whatever you do, you heard what he said. Community.changenerd.com. It'll be in the show notes. And y'all be clicking the links. We look at the Bit.lys. We see that y'all clicking stuff, but you ain't gotta do it. You heard me, right? So you heard Brian, you heard Zach. Just go ahead and click that thing. Now Brian, before we let you get up out of here, any shout-outs or parting words?Brian: No. Zach, I love what you're doing, and it's podcasts like this that really help people like us move forward, so I appreciate the effort that you're doing. And if you're listening to this episode, I would encourage you to reach out to me, and hopefully I can be of help to you, and that's pretty much it. But Zach, I'm very proud of the work that you're doing.Zach: [air horns sfx] Man, them air horns is for you and for me, man. I appreciate you, man. I thank you, and I appreciate the work that you're doing, right? You're demystifying change management. You're creating a space for folks who are interested in change management and who are already established change management practitioners to engage, learn, and build. And this is not an ad. So yeah, just shout-out to you. Shout-out to ChangeNerd. And listen, y'all, this does it for us on the Living Corporate podcast. Thank you for checking in. Now look, y'all typically know I kind of put all the ats and stuff, but every now and then I just kind of flex on 'em, just a little flex. Sometimes I'll just say "Google us." [Flex bomb sfx] You know? Just Google Living Corporate. Just "Living Corporate," right? We're on everything. We're on all of the streaming platforms. We're on Instagram at @LivingCorporate. We're on Twitter @LivingCorp_Pod, right? And then if you want to check out the website, again, just Google us, Living Corporate, or you can type it in the browser - living-corporate, please say the dash, dot com. We're also livingcorporate.co, livingcorporate.org, livingcorporate.tv, livingcorporate.net. We've got all of the livingcorporates except, you know it, livigncorporate.com, 'cause Australia has--Brian, Australia has livingcorporate.com, man. Brian: That's crazy.Zach: Ain't that crazy? Yeah. So listen, y'all. Appreciate y'all. Listen, if you have any questions, anything you want to learn about change management, make sure that y'all contact Brian. We're gonna put all of his contact information down in the show notes. Until next time, this has been Zach, and you've been talking to Brian Hampton, CEO and founder of ChangeNerd, a digital learning community for change management professionals. 'Til next time. Peace.

This week Will is joined by Brian Schulman, Founder & CEO of Voice Your Vibe™, a Forbes Featured Entrepreneur, a LinkedIn Top Voice 2018 and LinkedIn Top Video Creator. However, behind all of the accolades is a seemingly unparalleled struggle that has forged an incredible man. It all began before Brian was born. In fact, he wasn’t even supposed to live at birth, but he did. Later in his life, he was diagnosed with Turrets Syndrome and has been battling it ever since. Now Brian is taking these experiences and turning them into positives. He’s spreading his message through his large LinkedIn following (over 30,000) and through his company Voice Your Vibe™, which aims to maximize the impact of company’s messaging across all platforms and media, as well as within their internal communications. Brian’s goal is to empower everyone to share their story (because we all have one) while not forgetting what got us here in the first place. This episode even features a never-before heard personal letter from Brian’s daughter, which Brian reads as a testament to his own struggles and perseverance. www.linkedin.com/in/brianschulman. Please don’t hesitate to reach out. I promise I will respond to EVERY person who messages me. Email - will@bagmentality.com LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/willpreble/ Instagram - https://www.instagram.com/wpreble/ Twitter - https://twitter.com/Preble3 Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/bagmentality/ Bag Mentality - https://www.bagmentality.com/ Bag Mentality Instagram - https://instagram.com/bagmentality

On the show this episode I am joined by Brian J. Greenberg who has founded businesses in e-commerce, marketing, and financial services. He has generated over $50 million in revenue from his businesses, collected over 10,000 reviews and testimonials from customers, been named one of the most creative people in financial services, and has been called The Salesman Who Doesn’t Sell. With so much success, Brian decided to teach others, writing The Salesman Who Doesn’t Sell. A Marketing Guide to Selling While You Sleep. Now Brian teaches others through his book, his content and his website.

Brian was seeing his clients make all this money with great tax benefits through real estate. He started taking action, eventually leaving his CPA job to be a full time investor. Now Brian has a portfolio of single family homes as well as small and large multi-family apartment communities.  If you enjoyed today’s episode remember to subscribe in iTunes and leave us a review!   Best Ever Tweet: “At the end of the day, I want to work with people who want to work with me.” - Brian Adams   Brian Adams Real Estate Background: - Founding member of Adams Investor Group, LLC a company dedicated to creating wealth for others so that my clients make safe and consistent profits - Practicing certified public accountant (CPA) specializing in real estate taxation and forensic accounting - His team currently owns single family homes and small and large multi-family apartment complexes - Began investing in real estate including focusing on asset management for investors 10 years ago - Based in Glen Mills, Pennsylvania - Say hi to him at: - Best Ever Book: E-Myth Revisited Made Possible Because of Our Best Ever Sponsors:   Are you looking for a way to increase your overall profits by reducing your loan payments to the bank?   Patch of Land offers a fix-and-flip loan program that ONLY charges interest on the funds that have been disbursed, which can result in thousands of dollars in savings. Before securing financing for your next fix-and-flip project, Best Ever Listeners you must download your free white paper at to find out how Patch of Land’s fix and flip program can positively impact your investment strategy and save you money.

We first talked to Brian in Episode 32 and 33 when he gave us some background on his time in the Industry and what to look for in a Point of Sale System. Now Brian has put together a turn-key system designed for the Laundromat Industry by someone in the business. More details of this new project at http://washdryfoldpos.com/  

This conversation really began in December of last year when Brian posed a question to Evan McMullin on twitter. Now Brian and Evan sit down to continue it. Evan McMullin, who ran as an independent in the 2016 presidential election and secured 21% of the vote in Utah, shares why he ran for president, about how his time as a CIA operative and his years of mission work inform his political views, and lays out what Americans can really do under this new administration. McMullin actively speaks out against President Trump and he recently co-founded Stand Up Republic, an organization aimed at preserving traditional American principles. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

This conversation really began in December of last year when Brian posed a question to Evan McMullin on Twitter. Now Brian and Evan sit down to continue it. Evan McMullin, who ran as an independent in the 2016 presidential election and secured 21% of the vote in Utah, shares why he ran for president, about how his time as a CIA operative and his years of mission work inform his political views, and lays out what Americans can really do under this new administration. McMullin actively speaks out against President Trump and he recently co-founded Stand Up Republic, an organization aimed at preserving traditional American principles.

Permission to Speak Podcast. Hosted by Leadership Communications Expert Kelly Vandever. Episode #10 - David Marquet. Permission to Speak is the video blog and podcast that loiters at the intersections of leaders who want their people to speak up, technology that facilitates connections, and results that serve an organization’s higher purpose. Topics covered in this episode include: - Turn the Ship Around: A True Story of Turning Followers into Leaders - Former Commanding Officer of USS Santa Fe - His life depended on his staff speaking up - Took the USS Santa Fe from the worst ship in the fleet with regards to performance and morale and turned the ship around to become the best ship in a year with the highest scores the Navy had ever recorded! - Giving orders versus intent based leadership - If you give orders, people will follow them… and not speak up even if you tell them it’s OK to speak up - By saying, “I intend to…” to your boss, you have to take psychological ownership of the action and results - Plus by saying, “I intend to…” it creates an opportunity to have a conversation between leader and employee - Give people authority in a small way first and see what happens - My boss trusts me, I’m the master of my domain - The real story was what happened over the next 10 years when officer after officer (10 total) got selected to be a submarine commander which was unprecedented! - If you have a “know all, tell all” attitude as a leader, you can have an impact for a time. But when you leave thing drop. Leadership is measured by what happens when you leave. Leadership is what your people do when you’re not there… how much do you get people to believe in themselves - Compare that to the leadership text at the academy that says, “Leadership is directing the thoughts, plans and actions of others so as to obtain and command their obedience, their competence and their respect.” - Creating a system where you don’t have to give orders is where you get to - It’s scary to go against your instinct and training to give commands and not tell them what to do - Staff was incredibly forgiving - Representation of the drawing David does 18 minutes into the interview - Y-axis giving away control, X-access level of competence and clarity of the people - You can give control away when there’s an emergency when people are competent and clear about what you’re trying to achieve - Know All / Tell All 2x2 matrix - Representation of the drawing David does 24 minutes into the interview - Know your job, but whenever possible, resist giving your people the answers - People start feeling better about coming to work because they have decision making power which results in increased retention, employee satisfaction score goes up and customer satisfaction scores go up - Your people are more important than customers… they’re the ones taking care of the customers! - Story of University of Kentucky baseball, Brian Green, batting coach, who stopped telling kids what to do and told the kids, your job is to tell me what’s your plan. Made the kids think. Next year, top of the league. Signed a kid to the majors, first time it’d ever happened there. Now Brian is the head coach at the New Mexico State. - Engage thinking to help staff solve their own problems - Create the space where employees have room to think and problem solve - Satisfaction in a job comes from knowing your job matters, from feeling competent in your ability to do it, being connected to some kind of a team and having control - Speed at which people willingly take ownership of intent varied by individual - Relationship of total trust and taking care of your people - Trust is trust… it doesn’t mean trust plus competence together - You need to actually care about your people, and you can’t fake it - Example of the career counselor who would come in at 3 in the morning to take care of the sailors when they transferred after their tour on the ship - Leadership

Since he quit his investment banking job, Brian Smith has built and sold a multimillion dollar portfolio of businesses. He has built, bought, and sold businesses in the retail, service, and commercial real estate sectors. Now Brian coaches and studies entrepreneurs, helping them to make transformations at both the personal and organizational levels. Brian’s clients include founders and executives at all levels: from seed-round to post-exit. Listen to it now. [[ This is a content summary only. Visit my website for full links, other content, and more! ]]

Brian Lynch is a Screenwriter (Minions, Hop, Puss n' Boots), Director (Big Helium Dog) and Comic Book Writer (Bill & Ted's, Monster Motors). Kevin & Steve first met Brian back in 1997 when they acted in a film he wrote and directed called Big Helium Dog. Now Brian is an A list screenwriter and the guys chat with him about the Big Helium Dog days, Minions, pitching, test screening, the Fast & The Furious, Puddle Cruiser, his new comics: Bill & Ted's and Monster Motors, Lemme being a difficult actor and MUCH MORE.  Enjoy the Chew!

Brian Fargo has done it all. He’s created his own games, designed classic titles, and run a publishing company - Interplay Productions. Now Brian is in a unique place. As the president of inXile Entertainment Brian has launched two very successful crowdfunding campaigns and is looking to divorce the company from publishing deals which he feels are restrictive and often unfair. Brian and I talk extensively about game publishing, his time as the CEO of Interplay, and the current state of inXile Entertainment.