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This episode seemed particularly relevant right now because it gives insight into how large self-insured employers are prioritizing their efforts to disrupt health care revenue streams that do not provide adequate health outcomes for dollars spent. This episode’s conversation is with Lee Lewis. This is an encore episode. The original was recorded when Lee was the newly minted chief strategy officer at the Health Transformation Alliance, otherwise known as HTA. The HTA is a group of 50 major corporations that have come together in an alliance to do one thing: fix our broken health care system. Anybody who knows Lee knows he knows a lot about how to improve health and health care benefits for large employers. The most amazing thing I always find about improving health and health care benefits is that it’s like having your cake and eating it, too. On one hand, both employer and employee save money. On the other hand, employees get better care and spend less time away from work struggling to navigate the health care jungle all by themselves. Lee’s playbook consists of three chapters which we get into here. The first chapter covers the “how” of health benefits, including what Lee calls the “administrative superstructure.” The second chapter in Lee’s playbook is the “what,” which usually comprises drug spend and then, on the medical side, how care is delivered for specific clinical conditions like musculoskeletal, cardiometabolic, etc. There are a few conditions that tend to rack up the most costs categorically. The last chapter in Lee’s playbook is the “who,” meaning where employees are steered for care, especially in those high-cost areas. If you’re looking for actual examples of forward-thinking employers doing some—or more than some—of the general categories of things that you’ll hear about in this health care podcast, let me drop a few names. Because they may not get as much credit as they often deserve, I wanted to highlight the amazing progress made by some state employee health plans. So let me spotlight the work being done in New Jersey, Connecticut, and Montana, led by Christin Deacon, Thomas Woodruff, and Marilyn Bartlett and their teams. So, to all of you and everyone else working on these endeavors, thank you very much for your service as both a taxpayer and also someone keenly interested in the other things that that money could be used for instead of low-value care like, for example, teachers and firefighters and students and everything else in the budget. Finally, I just want to toss in a mention here of the upcoming Aspirational Healthcare Conference, which will be held on July 14 and 15, 2021 (virtually). Go to the Relentless Health Value Web site because I got you a promo code for free entry that you’ll find there. Lee Lewis, my guest today, is the keynote moderator for Day 1; and yours truly will step up to the microphone on Day 2. This conference will kind of be a who’s who of employer benefit design for the forward thinking looking to do the best they can for their employees at least, and it’s gonna highlight really the Aspirational Healthcare Systems like Southcentral Foundation’s Nuka System of Care in Alaska, for example. You can learn more by visiting htahealth.com and by connecting with Lee on LinkedIn.  Register here for the July 14-15 Aspirational Healthcare Conference and have the registration fee waived using the promo code: !RICHTER$  Lee Lewis serves as chief strategy officer and GM medical solutions for the Health Transformation Alliance. He leads efforts across over 50 large and jumbo employers and six million employees to save lives and save millions of dollars through improved health delivery, outcomes, and experience. Key initiatives in this role include new models of health benefits administration, curated provider steerage, and improved clinical delivery and outcomes. He has advised health care strategy at Fortune 10 employers, insurance companies and administrators, medical associations, and the Departments of Justice and Labor. He incubated and helped form two dozen health benefit start-up companies and has been quoted and featured in Bloomberg and the Wall Street Journal. Lewis is a founding, charter member of the Health Rosetta organization and is credited as a co-founder of the Health Value Exchange. Before joining the HTA, Lewis was a consultant at Gallagher, where he founded Gallagher’s innovation lab and national jumbo employer practice. In 2019 he was recognized with the industry’s top honor as the Outstanding National Consultant for Large & Jumbo Employers Award by the independent Validation Institute. His consulting clients won Diamond Innovation Awards at the World Healthcare Congress, Innovation Awards from the Texas Business Groups on Health, Top 20 Innovator Awards from Healthcare Revolution Conference, and Financial Innovation and Large Group Management Innovation accolades from the Validation Institute. Lee is a Rhodes Scholar nominee. He graduated second in his class, magna cum laude with university honors in accounting from Brigham Young University. 04:00 A playbook to reduce health care spend and achieve better outcomes. 04:08 The “how,” or “administrative superstructure.” 05:19 What Lee typically does when working with companies. 08:57 The “what” of delivery—connecting the “what” to the “clinical.” 10:52 Overseeing the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM). 12:37 EP241 with Vinay Patel. 12:50 Looking at the medical side of health. 15:46 Improving spend and improving quality simultaneously. 18:10 EP240 with Olivia Ross.18:53 Why centers of excellence make sense. 21:54 The “who”—who is providing the care. 24:06 Enabling and empowering PCPs and improving PCP pay to compensate for that. 26:57 Lee’s advice for brokers. 28:02 Lee’s advice for provider organizations, hospitals, and centers of excellence. 29:07 “Hospital systems are not [a] monolith.” You can learn more by visiting htahealth.com and by connecting with Lee on LinkedIn.  Register here for the July 14-15 Aspirational Healthcare Conference and have the registration fee waived using the promo code: !RICHTER$  Check out our newest #healthcarepodcast episode with Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA). #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth Reducing #healthcarespend and improving #healthoutcomes. Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) discusses his “playbook.” #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #AdministrativeSuperstructure and the “how” of Lee Lewis’s #employerhealth “playbook.” #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth What does Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) do to reduce #healthspend and improve #healthoutcomes when working with large employers? #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth Connecting the “what” to the #clinical. Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth How do you oversee the #pharmacybenefitmanager in all of this? Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM Looking at the #medical side of #health. Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM How reducing #healthcarespend actually improves #healthcareoutcomes and #healthcarequality. Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM Why do #CentersofExcellence make sense? Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM Enabling and empowering #PCPs. Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) offers his advice for #healthcarebrokers. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) offers his advice for #healthcareproviders, #hospitals, and #COEs. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM “Hospital systems are not [a] monolith.” Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM

This week's guest is Lee Houghton. Lee shared one of the most personal, moving stories we've had on this podcast. This one will stay with you for quite a while. A MP3 audio version of this episode is available for download here. In this episode you'll learn:  The quote that inspires Lee (3:26) Lee's background (4:24) What Lee asked for from his best friend (9:57) The first lesson (10:54) The second lesson (12:03) The third lesson (13:57) A recap of the three lessons (15:26) Reflecting on hard questions (19:22) About Lee's podcast (22:46) Podcast Resources Right Click to Download this Podcast as an MP3 Download a Free Audio Book at Audible.com Lee on LinkedIn Lee's Website Lee's Podcast Ron's Episode on Lee's Podcast GA 351 | The Biggest Truth and Lie in Life with Lili Boyanova Subscribe & Never Miss New Episodes! Click to Subscribe in iTunes If you enjoyed this podcast please be sure to subscribe on iTunes. Once you're a subscriber all new episodes will be downloaded to your iTunes account and smartphone. The easiest way for iPhone users to listen to the show is via the free, and incredible, Podcast app.  NEW! You can now follow the podcast on Spotify here.  You can also subscribe via Stitcher which is definitely Android friendly. What Do You Think? Which one of the three lessons resonates with you the most? Why?

Ever felt like your marketing and copy was falling on deaf ears? No clicks, no buys, no nothing. It sucks when a new product launch or campaign doesn’t go the way you want. Your sales fall flat and so does your spirit. Of course, there’s another side to this: a world where you find the perfect words that connect with your clients by getting inside their head and they listen to every word you say and buy the things you make. But how do you find the right words to use to get their attention? Today’s guest is all about eavesdropping on your clients online. By learning the language they already use, it gives you insight into what will get their attention. It’s all about that specific language about a specific experience that your clients are thinking about that’s going to get them to notice you and listen to you when you speak. Lee Rowley is The Emperor of Words. He’s also an odd duck. On one hand, he's one of the most sycophantically adored copywriters in the English-speaking world, revered for creating copy that subtly lingers in a buyer's mindspace until they HAVE to take action. On another, he's a prolific spouter of quasi-Zen poppycock who knows all too well the sound of one hand clapping. And on a third hand (consider it an evolutionary spandrel), he's just a salty middle-aged sideshow clown keeping the Internet awash in guilty giggles. He'll teach you who your daddy is, that's for sure (and you'll probably be a better marketer, too). Tune into this episode to hear: What Lee wanted to be when he grew up (and, no, it wasn’t a copywriter) All about Lee’s Avatar Immersion Method where you start by focusing on the customer and work backwards instead of implementing the Hero’s Journey that many copywriters use How to use Facebook groups to listen in on client pain points and use it in your copy The mistakes you can make with using lots of different copy and how that breeds distrust in customers Learn more about Lee Rowley: leerowley.com Connect with Lee on LinkedIn Learn more about Pia: Make Six Figures Your Biatch Application LEAP To Badass Authority The Show Your Business Who's Boss Crash Course Start reading the first chapter of my book Piasilva.com

  Ever felt like your marketing and copy was falling on deaf ears? No clicks, no buys, no nothing. It sucks when a new product launch or campaign doesn’t go the way you want. Your sales fall flat and so does your spirit. Of course, there’s another side to this: a world where you find the perfect words that connect with your clients by getting inside their head and they listen to every word you say and buy the things you make. But how do you find the right words to use to get their attention? Today’s guest is all about eavesdropping on your clients online. By learning the language they already use, it gives you insight into what will get their attention. It’s all about that specific language about a specific experience that your clients are thinking about that’s going to get them to notice you and listen to you when you speak. Lee Rowley is The Emperor of Words. He’s also an odd duck. On one hand, he's one of the most sycophantically adored copywriters in the English-speaking world, revered for creating copy that subtly lingers in a buyer's mindspace until they HAVE to take action. On another, he's a prolific spouter of quasi-Zen poppycock who knows all too well the sound of one hand clapping. And on a third hand (consider it an evolutionary spandrel), he's just a salty middle-aged sideshow clown keeping the Internet awash in guilty giggles. He'll teach you who your daddy is, that's for sure (and you'll probably be a better marketer, too). Tune into this episode to hear: What Lee wanted to be when he grew up (and, no, it wasn’t a copywriter) All about Lee’s Avatar Immersion Method where you start by focusing on the customer and work backwards instead of implementing the Hero’s Journey that many copywriters use How to use Facebook groups to listen in on client pain points and use it in your copy The mistakes you can make with using lots of different copy and how that breeds distrust in customers Learn more about Lee Rowley: leerowley.com Connect with Lee on LinkedIn Learn more about Pia: Make Six Figures Your Biatch Application LEAP To Badass Authority The Show Your Business Who's Boss Crash Course Start reading the first chapter of my book Piasilva.com  

In Episode 13, Lee Baker, Owner of uScore Soccer and Director of Legacy Soccer Club, talks with Phil about overcoming hardships, knowing and sticking to your “why,” setting and pursuing goals, using soccer as a classroom for life and leadership, modeling ethics and integrity, perspective, mentoring, and sacrificial living. Specifically, Mark discusses: His story and how he developed his passion for soccer, leadership, and his journey to uScore and Legacy Soccer Club (1:48) What Lee has learned about leadership through hardships, and how he has grown through difficult experiences (5:56) The importance of mission, vision, and values to create clarity in your organization, goal-setting, and really knowing your “why” (12:35) How uScore Soccer and Legacy Soccer Club are doing things differently and teaching his players life and leadership lessons through the game in their practices and “classroom” time (17:02) How we can teach and model character, ethics, and integrity, and compete at the highest level in our soccer clubs and organizations (23:22) How you can address parents and/or players who don’t agree with your organization’s mission, vision, and/or values (28:07) The importance of perspective and learning from the best in class, other cultures, and other disciplines (33:22) The benefits of mentoring in our organizations (38:46) How Lee uses lessons he has learned from the beautiful game in his marriage, parenting, and other areas of life (40:44) A fun conversation about a show that has impacted Lee’s thinking on how soccer explains life and leadership (43:39) Resources and Links from this Episode Uncut Video of the Episode –https://youtu.be/G2hp8-vAA6A HSEL Facebook Group – https://www.facebook.com/groups/howsoccerexplainsleadership uScore Soccer website -- https://www.uscore-soccer.com Legacy Soccer Club website -- https://www.legacysoccer.org Ted Lasso (Amazon Prime) -- https://apple.co/3sDe9py  

Today, I speak with Lee Arnold, someone I’ve known for about a decade. He is someone I hold in high regard and respect him for his ability to have built his business based on biblical principles.  We discuss how his personal history led him to his current career, as well as how his faith guides him in business. We also talk about his experience with code enforcement and abatements.  Tune in to hear Lee’s story and what he does at Cogo Capital. MINUTE MARKERS [04:00] Lee calls in from the small town of Coeur d'Alene, Idaho. [05:50] Lee’s educational and professional history. [07:45] Discussing how and to whom his business lends money. [10:28] Why Lee dropped out of college sophomore year. [12:12] How his mother and the community supported his entire family for two years. [15:45] How Rich Dad, Poor Dad influenced his outlook at an early age. [19:55] Being in the right place at the right time with the right people. [20:28] Lee’s first experience with the code enforcement/lien abatement process. [26:55] Why and when you should focus on properties already producing income. [29:35] Making sure you have a bedrock. [32:04] Why making money caused Lee to backslide. [34:18] Why banks don’t see this business as a legitimate one. [38:55] Lee’s three favorite books. [41:25] Why Lee bought SendFuse. [42:45] His and his wife’s experience having children. [49:45] The importance of mentorship. [53:27] Why raising money is the scariest thing you can do. [53:28] What Lee’s business is doing at present. Quotes: And that’s the secret sauce:  If you’ll simply find good deals, then money will readily be available for those things. The best predictor of future performance is past performance. Links and Resources Cory’s Coaching How to Win Friends and Influence People Life is a Series of Presentations Predictably Irrational SendFuse Cogo Capital Ask Cory a Question Want to get in touch with Cory and ask him your most burning Real Estate Investing question?  We’ve made it super easy for you.  Just head over to our Ask Cory A Question page and start recording.  Cory will play your question live on an upcoming show and answer it personally. Who do You Want to Hear From? Name some folks I should get on the show! Hit me up:support@realestateinvestingprofits.com and I’ll do my best to get them on. Did you get your FREE investing guide? TEXT the word PROFIT (38470) to immediately receive your FREE Investing Quick Start Guide! JOIN The Elite Real Estate Investor’s Board of Directors http://JoinMyMastermind.com Connect Here Please check out our website, realestateinvestingprofits.com for the “Down and Dirty” Ultimate Real Estate Investing Quick Start Guide download.

This week we welcome special guest Lee Rozins to the Sales IQ Podcast. Born and raised in New York Lee now lives in San Fransico working as the head of sales for Cheetah, the leading e-commerce solution for Small-Medium Business supplies. Lee has an astounding sales career and has done some incredible things ranging from being the #1 highest performing salesperson company-wide at Singleplatform to scaling his sales to by 11X from 4 to 45 people and their revenue by 10X to about 170 million in annualised sales. This week we talk about the mindset and the mentality that Lee discovered enabling him to become a master of his craft and how you can go about implementing this mentality in your own life to achieve success and take the next step in your career. Where you can find Lee: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-rozins-40275723/ (https://www.linkedin.com/in/lee-rozins-40275723/)  Timestamps: [04:30] - How Lee entered into the world of sales [08:20] - Understanding the need for self improvement [10:10] - The struggle of not meeting personal expectations [11:45] - Lee's current role at Cheetah [14:50] - The mindset you should implement in your life to achieve success [18:20] - What Lee looks for in an employee [23:30] - The data behind why you should be calling people more than once [28:20] - The biggest influence in Lee's career

Lee Kemp, a 7 time US National Champion and winner of 9 gold medals at the World Championships, World Cup, and Pan American games -- is one of the greatest wrestlers in United States history. In this interview I have a candid conversation with Lee about his journey to greatness, his tumble to rock bottom and his rise back to the top in life. This is a truly unbelievable story of excellence, achievement and finding your place in the world after misfortune and hardship set you back. Key Moments: · 3:32 – How Lee got into wrestling· 10:44 – When Lee wrestled Dan Gable· 21:38 – How Lee processed not being able to participate in the 1980 Olympic Games· 27:40 – Doing more than your opponent and earning your right to win· 38:51 – Dealing with fear· 46:06 – Lee’s transition to being a coach· 59:16 – What Lee is doing now Connect with Lee Kemp:· http://www.leekemp.com/· https://www.facebook.com/lee.kemp.7/· https://www.instagram.com/lee_kemp_/· https://twitter.com/Lee_Kemp_· http://www.youtube.com/mister74kilo· http://www.linkedin.com/in/coachkemp· MOVIE: Wrestled AWAY: The Lee Kemp Story (HIGHLY recommend) http://www.leekemp.com/2019/03/lee-kemp-documentary-wrestled-away-the-lee-kemp-story/

Legislators and health officials are planning a news conference today to discus anti-vaping measures proposed in the upcoming session. And Gov. Gary Herbert is giving his final State of the State address tonight. What Lee will be looking for. 

Are you fired up and ready to take on the weekend? What do you have planned? Are you looking forward to working on your business or are you looking for a little bit of a break? Either way, you’ve come to the right place! It’s time for another session of Ask Scott here on The Amazing Seller. On this episode, you’ll hear from Scott as he shares his thought of the week, an answer to a question from a TAS follower like you, and much more. You’ll want to pay close attention to this informative and helpful episode!  Be consistent! Do you ever find yourself worried that if you take Scott’s advice and start creating content that it won’t be worth it? What if the traffic and following don’t come, what then? The truth is, there are no guarantees! You are the only factor in building your business that you can control, so don’t let all the other noise knock you off task. Zero in and focus on the one thing you need to do this month to take your business to the next level of growth. To hear more about this topic from Scott, make sure to listen to this episode of The Amazing Seller!  Leveraging a viral video  In the course of building your business and putting content out there for people to engage with, you might be lucky enough to post a viral video or blog. If your blog or video goes viral, what should you do? How can you make the most of that opportunity to fuel the growth of your business? According to Scott, it all comes down to timing and the type of content that goes viral. If you, your product, or your post goes viral, make sure you have a link or a way to route that traffic back to your home base! Don’t let a good opportunity pass you by - hear more from Scott on how to leverage a viral video by listening to this episode!  Getting the right help  If you’ve been part of the TAS community for very long, you know that Scott is passionate about helping sellers like you succeed - he even wrote a book about it! What if your opportunity to learn from Scott and get to the heart of your business’ true potential for growth was just a phone call away? Good news - it is! Scott wants to hear from business owners like you so he can dive in on a coaching call and give you specific tips. You can learn more about this opportunity by listening to this episode of The Amazing Seller! OUTLINE OF THIS EPISODE OF THE AMAZING SELLER [0:03] Scott’s introduction to this episode of the podcast! [2:40] Scott’s thought of the week; be consistent.  [5:30] Question: What would you do when a video goes viral?  [10:00] How Scott would react to a video of his going viral. [12:00] What Lee did right.  [15:00] Closing thoughts.  RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE www.theamazingseller.com/733 www.theamazingseller.com/ask Lee’s fishing video

In this health care podcast, I speak with Lee Lewis, who is the newly minted chief strategy officer at the Health Transformation Alliance, otherwise known as the HTA. The HTA is a group of 50 major corporations that have come together in an alliance to do one thing: fix our broken health care system. Anyone who knows Lee knows he knows a lot about how to improve health care benefits for large employers. He’s pretty much the perfect guy to be the chief strategic officer at the HTA. The most amazing thing that I always find about improving health care, the structure of health care benefits, and health care benefits for an employer is that it’s like having your cake and eating it, too. On one hand, both the employer and the employee save money. On the other hand, employees get better care and they spend less time away from work struggling to navigate the health care jungle all by themselves. Lee has a playbook for improving the structure of health care benefits or health care benefits for large employers, and this playbook consists of three chapters, which we get into in this podcast. The first chapter covers the “how” of health benefits, including what Lee calls the “administrative superstructure.” The second chapter in Lee’s playbook is the “what,” which usually comprises drug spend and then, on the medical side, how care is delivered for specific clinical conditions like musculoskeletal, cardiometabolic, etc. There are a few conditions that tend to rack up the most costs categorically, and those are the ones that Lee focuses on. The last chapter in Lee’s playbook is the “who,” meaning where employees are steered to for care—and that also includes an emphasis on PCPs (primary care providers). You can learn more by visiting htahealth.com and by connecting with Lee on LinkedIn.  Lee Lewis is an innovator and strategist helping large, national, self-funded employers save millions on health care through leading practices, vendor partnerships, and member engagement. He pioneers methods around the convergence of digital health, medical consumerism, biomedical supercomputing, and system reengineering. Lee runs Gallagher’s Innovation Lab practice, a mission-driven group devoted to improving the cost, quality, and design of American health care. Lee advises several health start-ups working to solve meaningful health care problems. The Innovation Lab has a track record of breakthroughs. It leads the effort to bring sophisticated health plan audits to private employers. It pioneered specialty drug direct purchasing without using a PBM. His team led a grassroots effort to identify all independent freestanding emergency rooms in Texas. The Innovation Lab developed the first HSA-compliant model for back and joint pain prevention and is piloting the first-ever ultra-high-value virtual networks in two major US cities. His current and past clients include American Airlines, Comcast NBCUniversal, Albertsons grocery stores, The Home Depot, Abbott Laboratories, and dozens of other large and jumbo employers. Lee is a Rhodes Scholar nominee. He graduated second in his class, magna cum laude with university honors in accounting from Brigham Young University. 02:30 A playbook to reduce health care spend and achieve better outcomes. 02:47 The “how,” or “administrative superstructure.” 04:11 What Lee typically does when working with companies. 09:41 The “what” of delivery—connecting the “what” to the “clinical.” 11:42 Overseeing the pharmacy benefit manager (PBM). 13:46 EP241 with Vinay Patel.13:59 Looking at the medical side of health. 17:02 Improving spend and improving quality simultaneously. 19:30 EP240 with Olivia Ross.20:13 Why centers of excellence make sense. 25:13 The “who”—who is providing the care. 27:27 Enabling and empowering PCPs and improving PCP pay to compensate for that. 30:45 Where the HTA is headed. 32:26 Lee’s advice for brokers. 33:15 Lee’s advice for provider organizations, hospitals, and centers of excellence. 34:48 “Hospital systems are not monolith.” You can learn more by visiting htahealth.com and by connecting with Lee on LinkedIn.  Check out our newest #healthcarepodcast episode with Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA). #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth Reducing #healthcarespend and improving #healthoutcomes. Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) discusses his “playbook.” #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #AdministrativeSuperstructure and the “how” of Lee Lewis’s #employerhealth “playbook.” #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth What does Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) do to reduce #healthspend and improve #healthoutcomes when working with large employers? #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth Connecting the “what” to the #clinical. Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth How do you oversee the #pharmacybenefitmanager in all of this? Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM Looking at the #medical side of #health. Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM How reducing #healthcarespend actually improves #healthcareoutcomes and #healthcarequality. Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM Why do #CentersofExcellence make sense? Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM Enabling and empowering #PCPs. Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM Where is the #HTA headed? Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) offers his advice for #healthcarebrokers. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) offers his advice for #healthcareproviders, #hospitals, and #COEs. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM “Hospital systems are not [a] monolith.” Lee Lewis of #HealthTransformationAlliance (#HTA) explains. #healthcare #podcast #digitalhealth #employerhealth #PBM

Lee Kearney is one of the nation's most successful single-family real estate investors. Since 2004, he has bought/sold 7,000+ properties and is known as the expert in leveraging real estate market cycles. He now owns several real estate businesses in Florida, all operating under the Southeast Property Investments Network (SPIN) brand, to fix and flip properties across the U.S., with a total sales volume exceeding $50M in 2017. Lee taps into his expertise and passion for mentorship to educate others on leveraging market cycles to grow their own real estate businesses. His education platform FLIP YOUR INCOME offers several levels of training designed for beginning investors, mid-level operators who wish to scale their operations, and seasoned investors looking to manage their profits. In late 2013, Lee co-founded a medical marijuana startup dedicated to serving the medical cannabis market in Florida. This is slated to be a vertically integrated company that will manufacture and distribute a world-class medical product line, serving patients with severe or debilitating illnesses upon recommendation from a licensed physician in accordance with state regulatory guidelines. Lee also has sizeable investments in several other companies in different sectors with the income he's generated from real estate. What you'll learn about in this episode: How Lee accidentally flipped his first condo and discovered a career in real estate investing How Lee found a mentor who was already an established real estate investor, and how he made some important early mistakes that taught him key lessons Why humility and a willingness to ask questions have been critical pillars of Lee's success in real estate How Lee went from $2 million in profits to $2 million in losses due to the 2008 real estate market crash, and how he bounced back from the massive setback How Lee monitors changes to the market, how he adapts to those changes, and what kinds of deals Lee is doing these days Why Lee believes the market is indicating a coming reset, and how his strategies are tailored to this coming reset Why Lee realized that doing all the work himself was risky and was slowing him down, and why he recognized the need to do things more efficiently What Lee will be teaching during his upcoming three-hour simulcast class, to be held on July 25th from 12pm-3pm eastern time Why it is important to “run your own race, set your goals high, and don't stop until you get there” What single piece of advice Lee would offer people about taking action and executing their training Additional resources: Website: www.thementorpodcast.com/lee

Lee Caraher is the founder and CEO of Double Forte PR & Digital Marketing, a 15 year old national agency that works with beloved and up-and-coming consumer, technology, and wine brands. An acclaimed communication strategist, Lee is known for her practical solutions to big problems.   Lee has a reputation for building cohesive, high-producing teams who get a lot done well and have fun at the same time.   The author of Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making It Work at Work, Lee based the book on her experience with epically failing and then succeeding at retaining Millennials in her business. Her second book, The Boomerang Principle: Inspiring Lifetime Loyalty From Employees, published in 2017, is a pragmatic and actionable guide to creating high-performing work cultures ready for the future.   * The struggles Lee had to overcome * The business model that got you where you are is probably not the business model that will take you forward * What Lee learned from failing to retain Millennials * The generational battle is not new * How and when to set expectations * Why "Do it because I said so" doesn't work * How The Boomerang Principle empowers organizations to create long-term success * When you change the dynamic of leaving, you change the dynamic of being at a company * Creating a corporate alumni program will cut your recruiting time and expenses in half * Staying in a corporation for a long time is not a loyal act * The new employer/employee loyalty paradigm * Not letting people be wrong * Lee's mentors * What Lee would tell her younger self   You can connect with Lee at www.leecaraher.com   You can connect with Brian at www.brianrollo.com   You can buy Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making It Work at Work at https://amzn.to/2XhnDK8   You can buy The Boomerang Principle: Inspiring Lifetime Loyalty From Employees at https://amzn.to/2MTCBSC   You can learn more about Entrepreneur's Organization at www.eonetwork.org

3PP 27, Work/Life Balance SVSLearn.com Just a reminder this podcast is sponsored entirely by SVSLearn.com. This is the place to be if you want to become a children’s book illustrator. We have 80+ courses apart of our subscription, we also have a few 5-10 week long interactive courses that will be starting up in May. We are running a 7 day free trial right now and you can try it out and see if you like it. We are starting to record our podcast as a video and will be uploading it to Youtube. Work/Life Balance Our topic today is Work/ Life Balance. We have gotten a lot of people asking us about this and we’ve talked about this before on our old webinar, which was the precursor to this podcast, hopefully we will be able to address it from a few different angles today. This is something that everyone is concerned with and it affects all of us each day. The Basics of Establishing a Work/Life Balance We were thinking about going over what to do with your time once you have established a work/life balance, but we wanted to start with the basics of establishing a work/life balance and share some experiences from different phases of our lives. We thought that starting with the basics would be beneficial. Is it possible to always have work/life balance? No. There are some phases that aren’t going to have as great of a work/life balance. When Lee was at Art Center, it was like boot camp, he was doing art from the second he woke up to the second he went to sleep, and he didn’t have good working methods back then which may have helped alleviate some of that. There were other phases where the balance was skewed, i.e. having a baby. Balance is not the norm but there are ups and downs and ebbs and flows and rhythms to our work/life balance. There are times for more work/life balance. Life is everything besides work: Spending time with family, with your spouse or significant other, exercise, recreation, playing games, etc. Learn to Do Hard Things Will has noticed that for a lot of young people, including one of his children, that they struggle to do really hard things. When Will was young he participated in Boy Scouts, and for that he was in an axe competition that took all day chopping down trees till his hands were bleeding. Probably one of the hardest experiences he had was when he hiked a mountain in the winter time starting at 5am and they didn’t set up camp till 5pm. Experiences like that, where you push yourself and your body to the limit, it makes other things pale in comparison and seem less difficult. Some people don’t have hard experiences like that to build on. Things that might seem easy to some seem impossible to them. However, compared to others throughout the history of the world, Will has never done a full days work in his life. There are kids today, who have really never worked a day in their lives. Lee was teaching a painting class and students were commenting on how they had spent 6 or 8 hours on their master copy painting, but when he was in school that was just the start most of his would take around approximately 12 hours long. That was the norm. Nowadays we lean towards that instant gratification mindset and 5 hours can seem like forever. If we change our mindset on how long we think something should take it can change our whole attitude towards the project. Work/life Balance is not a balance so much as it is more like an ebb and flow. There are times where you need to put everything into work, there are times of life and times of the year, or the project, during those times your life becomes the work. There are other times in life where you need to focus more on family and on friendships and it’s okay to hold back on work some to focus on those most important things, maybe you just had a baby, or got married, or had a death in the family, etc. There is a way to have that ebb and flow day to day as well. The main rule is: be present wherever you are at and in whatever you are doing. When you are at work, be 100 percent at work. When you are with your family, don’t be on your phone, be 100 percent present. Jake’s mom just passed away and that is one of those personal experiences that we will all experience in our lives. Jake went and visited her before she passed and had a really special time taking care of her, talking with her, and holding her hand. He came back to Utah and her condition was worsening. He had some rough days, and had been planning on going to Emerald City Comic Con and he was debating if he should go or stay in case he needed to go back to Arizona for his mom. Jake’s mom wasn’t the type of person who wanted to cause too many waves and wouldn’t want to get in the way of family or work. She was really cool about stepping back. Jake’s sister told Jake to go and that if there was an emergency they would fly him out. He went to the event and did his best despite the undercurrent of sadness and thoughts about his mom. He tries to be present and do his best wherever he is. Work With Intensity and Focus in All Categories of Your Life It’s a conscious choice, I’m here and I’m working. It’s a very important thing to think about and to apply to every part of your life. Learning art can be overwhelming. There is this undercurrent to art, that you should be working all the time. 21:42 While in his early 20’s Lee’s Dad got Cancer at a young age: 54 years old. Lee was living in California and his dad was in Nashville. Lee had a lot of friends in Nashville and he was trying to schedule a time to go out there to visit his father but also be able to see his friends and get the most bang for his buck from the trip. Sadly, his dad passed away when Lee was en route to see him, and that is Lee’s one regret. Time is so precious. Lee and his wife, Lisa, took his 8 year old son out of school for a few days just to go on a trip with him, and he really just wants to treasure his time with him. Nikola Tesla, and Steve Jobs they would wear the same outfit everyday so they didn’t have to waste any time thinking of what they were going to wear. Will has always wanted to get to the point where he realizes that time is short and that time is really so precious. We have that luxury some with being an artist where we are passionate about what we are doing. Some other jobs where you just clock in and out feel like you are just selling 8 hours of your life to that company. When you are creating your own art and you are getting better, and you are inventing yourself as an artist etc. That should become your “video game.” So many people get so addicted to games that they schedule it to where nothing else in the world will interrupt their game time. There are times as an artist where it needs to interrupt your pleasure time. The better you get the more fun it becomes, then you are able to start realizing the dreams you have. The work you put down on paper starts to mimic the vision you had. It becomes more fun when you are able to visualize something and then create it. It becomes a lot more fun when you are able to get past worrying so much about your technique. That’s an important part of work life balance, when you don’t struggle with the technique anymore and it becomes just the vision of what you are trying to say. Struggling with technique doubles your time on any individual piece. Once that goes away, then you are off to the races really quick! Jake’s Phases of Work/Life Balance. Teens: All about have experiences and drawing. Twenties: Got married and had kids, worked to master his craft. It was all: Family, work, family, work. Not much time for friends, health, or hobbies. That’s where he got really good at his style, finding tools he liked, exploring a lot of different things, etc. He experimented a lot: messed around with modeling, animation, comics, storyboarding. Thirties: Refining. He had mastered a lot of these things now it was time to pick one path, and zero in on getting better with his health and family. Also to put into practice those things so you can go on your own path. Children's books, and comics, and freelance. Getting into a position to where you can do your own thing. Started SVS. Forties: simplifying even more. Had a little more time for health and family. Now it’s Planning his trajectory to where he can do things like Will: stop working in the afternoon, and do something for his health/ a hobby for a couple of hours, and then spend the evenings with family. There are different phases that you go through. There will be some ebb and flow. Try and plan for it. Do things that will help give you that life balance. Don’t think you can maintain a constant. Be present and lean into your free time and lean into your work when you need to. Different things that help give us work/life balance. Lower Your Monthly Expenses Lowering your expenses is so much easier than making more money. If you have a full time job and you do that for 8-10 hours a day, and then you want to work on illustration at night and want to also spend quality time with your family. It can be difficult. There are only so many hours in the day. For example, if you can cut your expenses to where you don’t have to work full time but can work part time, then you can spend those hours you gained back working on your craft. Getting your financial life in order is a worthy pursuit. Start investigating it. A couple of things to check out: Dave Ramsey has a great podcast. This really got Lee started on wanting to be debt free. In the US you can have so much credit. Too much, credit, be wise and get out of debt. Lee and his wife were really interested in the the idea of being debt free. Lee’s wife came across a website called, Mr. Money Mustache which is all about penny pinchers to the extreme. For most of us, ultimately, we don’t like to work. Over at Mr. Money Mustache, those guys focus on early retirement, how to get off the treadmill. This got Lee and his wife thinking, is it possible to do this? So they started looking at where they spent their money. Some of it was ridiculous and easy to cut out immediately. Fast forward 8 or 9 years later from that point, they’re debt free. Which has made a massive difference. Now Lee can do what he wants to now. He still needs some money but it’s just so much different with how he feels about work. It’s just not as intense. They now fully owns their house, 100%. They have a renter and now they are making a profit. The difference between now and before is about $3000. Before he was having to spend $2200 now he doesn’t spend anything and he gets a rent income of $1400 a month. Lee’s our inspiration. When you are in a financial bind it’s really difficult. Will and his wife went through a time when they were not the best with their money and had a financial meltdown. He got to the point where he was waiting on some checks and he had to break into a coin jar he had collected to get money for gas and groceries, Will also had a big jar of pennies and they had to break into that jar to get some groceries: a bag of potatoes, bread, and a gallon of milk, etc. You shop differently when you’re in a situation like that; all while waiting for that check. Lee’s in a really good financial situation. Lee doesn’t come from money. He had no help, loans, gifts, no big inheritance. Their first home was 1 bedroom, 1 bath. He had a stated income loan. He is a success story from the time of the Great Recession. They were responsible with money. They didn’t buy a home that they couldn’t afford but just barely got in under the wire. Jake was working at Blue Sky, working full time in the animation industry, making a healthy 6 figure a year income. He liked it but what he really wanted to do was to be independent, to work out of his home office, doing the projects he wanted to do. But he knew that if he did that he would take a drastic pay cut for years until he could build it up and get enough work and things going to match that. His wife said, we can’t live here in Connecticut where you have to have 6-figure income to afford the houses here. So they decided to move to Provo, UT, which, at the time, all of the housing prices there were just dropping. They found this foreclosed home, the yard was trashed, the inside was trashed and they got it for a great price.Their house has never been a financial burden to them. It has made a huge difference in the amount of work that they had to take on, and it’s been a big blessing to them in the work life balance that Jake’s been able to find, for the past 8 years that they’ve been living in that house. Be sure to buy a house that you can comfortably afford. Don’t spread yourself and your finances too thin. Back to Lee: He and his wife started thinking about becoming debt free during a time when the idea seemed extremely outrageous. They had bought that first home (1 bedroom, 1 bath) with no down payment and now they had just taken on a $225,000 loan. Lee had barely any income. They bought this home in an area that was transitioning from being a dangerous place to becoming more gentrified. Lee didn’t know how to do any home repair, so he went to Home Depot and got that orange book that teaches you how to do all home repairs. He redid all of the electrical, flooring, tiling, plumbing, they even tore out a plaster ceiling, etc. He was illustrating books by day and renovating his home by night. Lee noticed his neighbors were moving and he offered to buy their house, with no money. So they sold their 1 bedroom house and made a profit. Then they bought that other house and had a higher mortgage but still wanted to become debt free. He was a broken record back then about wanting to be debt free and all of his friends told him it was impossible. Lisa’s grandparents had passed away and left an old beat up home. Lee and Lisa went and lived there for free in exchange for fixing it up. They rented their new home out to pay the mortgage on that home. They lived in their grandparents old home for free while his renters paid for their mortgage. This gave them a taste for renting your house out. They started to make these huge sacrifices and huge strides to living debt free. They started renting their house out on Airbnb whenever they went on vacation. The other thing is you need to get debt free is to live somewhere affordable. You will have a hard time if you live in Portland or somewhere extremely expensive as an artist and expect to get debt free. They moved out of Portland to Nashville which isn’t super cheap but much more affordable than Portland. They spent 5 years getting ready to do that. They ended up buying a third home and spent 5 years fixing that home up getting ready to sell it. Lee spent 12 years, in total, fixing up houses. It took them those last 5 years to prepare to make the move to Nashville. Lowering your expenses takes effort. You may have to move, you may have to shift things around, you may have to lower your standard of living, you may have to get roommates. But if you lower how much you have to make, your time will expand. How do you feel today about having to take a job vs. the beginning of your career? At the beginning of Will’s career he took everything that came in, he took all jobs. There were a lot of jobs he took in that he hated and didn’t want to do. Now Lee takes jobs now that move him emotionally and creatively. He doesn’t take jobs for the money now. It’s vastly different. You go through different stages in your career. In the beginning Lee also would take everything, not just for the money, but for the exposure, “I need to be published.” You’ve got to have some credibility of working as a pro and meeting with art directors etc. You have to go through that grind. As you get better technically, the jobs become more rewarding. As you go further along in your career and don’t have to take those jobs that don’t match up with what you want to do, as well. So this is a career that just becomes more and more rewarding as you go through it. If you are in a position to provide for your family or for yourself as well, it doesn’t really matter where you make your money; it doesn’t have to be from art. If you have to side hustle and make money from Airbnb on the side that is just as respectable as taking on 3 extra illustration jobs. All through his 20’s-30’s Jake’s mindset was: it has to be art, that’s all I’m good at. But now his mindset has shifted, it could be helping his wife to start a business, or they get a rental property, or Airbnb, or flip a car, etc. There are many respectable sources of income apart from art. At some point, you need to do what you need to do to make ends meet. Leave some portion of making art for yourself so that you can enjoy it and get something out of it, rather than just paying for the bills. Be a Scheduler This complements our step 1) Work With Intensity. If you don’t know what you need to do it’s hard to work with intensity. From 8-12 I’m going to be doing this thing, from 12-4 I’m going to be doing this thing, etc. Some of our scheduling strategies: Lee works for around 8 hours a day. He will work for 50 minute chunks and then take 10 minutes off. During those 10 minute breaks he will stand up and walk around and move. As illustrators we can work for hours and hours being stationary and it’s not good for our health. As illustrators sometimes our posture can get really bad because we are always leaning over to draw and may not have the best chair situation. Jake switched to a stool and has been sitting on a stool for the past 6-7 years and that has helped him sit up straight and has helped him not have back pain. Lee has this climbing harness type thing that helps pull his shoulders back, the natural position for drawing is rolling your shoulders forward. If you do that enough, the chest muscles become contracted and the arm muscles on the back of the arm become elongated and your body can get used to being in that state. It can become hard to get out of that state because your body has adjusted to it. It’s important to think about your health. All of the stuff we are talking about today are long term strategies because if we are going to be doing this for life we want to figure this stuff out. You need to take time to look at your calendar and figure out what you are doing. When Jake got started working for himself, he would look back at his day and realize he had nothing to show for the day despite having been in the studio for 8-9 hours, he didn’t even know what he had done. So he started doing a time audit where every minute of the day was accounted for. I.e. The last half hour, I confess I surfed Twitter, but then the next half hour I buckled down and got that illustration done, and then for these 3 hours I did this, then I spent 2 hours clearing out my inbox, etc. He did this for months, recording how he was spending his time, and making to do lists and checking things off. Once he had done that time audit and could see where his time was being spent, then he could widdle out stuff that was unproductive. He used to think that he could get so much done at night after the kids went to bed, and that used to be the case because he was younger and had more energy, but now as he’s aged he’s noticed that for 3 hours spent at night could get that same amount of work done in the morning in just 1.5 hours. So he’s 50% less productive at night. So he decided to take the times where he’s most productive and put the most creative work into those hours, and to take the time where he’s least productive and that’s when he’ll surf Twitter, watch Youtube videos, read a book, watch a movie, etc.That way he’s not doing unproductive stuff during unproductive time. This has made a huge difference with how he sets up his schedule. The other thing with this is that he doesn’t want to stay up late watching Youtube videos so he goes to bed earlier, and wakes up earlier, and gets more work done before his kids get up in the morning. It’s an overall refining of his schedule and how he works. Will doesn’t write things down but he knows what he needs to get things done and he thinks about it a lot. What Lee has learned about being a scheduler is that once you write it down you don’t have to worry about it and think about it but it’s just done. Will does use a to do list but he doesn’t put a timestamp down trying to figure out how long everything will take. Jake’s perspective on Will: Will does have a to do list, he comes into work focused on his MIT (Most Important Task) and he is focused on getting that done. If anything else gets accomplished then that’s just gravy. Then he goes home. Sometimes he gets the thing done that he wanted to get done and he can leave. It’s pretty awesome and takes a lot of discipline. Part of it is that Will doesn’t want to sit at a desk all day. He likes to break up his workday. Because his kids are grown he does a lot of drawing at home later on. He breaks his day into thirds: 1) morning/afternoon: work. 2) afternoon: exercise, shopping for the family, doing things with them. 3) nights) draw and get work done at home, especially the drawing aspect, he can do that anywhere with the iPad. Will has found a schedule that really works for him. Everyone should put a priority on that. Some people work better and are more creative at night. Some people, like Lee work better in the morning, etc. Jake’s daily schedule: 4:30-5:00AM: Wake up, get an hour of work in. 6:00-9:00AM: Make breakfast, take kids to school, work out/go on a run, shower and head to the studio. 9:30/10AM-12:30/1PM: Straight creative time, do the most cognitively demanding work, same with his early morning work time. 1PM-5:30PM: Afternoon is focused on administrative stuff, recording podcasts, meetings, checking email (Inbox zero method), phone calls, meetings, etc. 6-7:30/8PM: Family Time. Dinner, spending time with kids, helping them with school projects, etc. 8-9PM: Decompressing, reading taking notes, maybe write a little for a comic project, then go to bed. Tries to get 7 hours of sleep a night. Good schedules are something that are thought about. Not just random. That was Jake’s weekdays. The weekdays are super focused but the weekends are not. Friday nights he will stay up late watching a movie with one of his kids. Saturdays he sleeps in and will go on a nice long run in the morning, does chores, house stuff, etc. Sundays are completely a day of rest, he goes to church, spends time with his family, plays board games, maybe they make a dessert, watches a Miyazaki film, completely unplugs, tries not to even look at his phone. Then after a weekend like that he is itching to get back to work and it’s no problem waking up at 4:30 in the morning to start another work week. Lee’s Workday Schedule: Lee is naturally an early riser, he tried to be like Jake and wake up early and go straight to work but was feeling some resistance there. Feel things out, if you are feeling some internal resistance, then try and change it up. He would wake up and try to work and would feel antsy, he couldn’t just stumble from his bedroom to his office and start working. He wakes up at 5-5:30 and will do an intense workout, always something athletic, he will go on a run or lift weights, and will spend 1-1.5 hours doing that. Once he got on that schedule it was perfect for him and he would come back home or to the office, wherever he is working that day, feeling balanced, having burned through some of that weird energy and he’s ready to sit down and work because he’s already got some exercise. Monday, Wednesday, Friday: he has designated those days to be an illustrator, that’s when he does his book work. He has a separate studio away from his home and that’s where he does his illustration work. He will work there for 8-10 hours with his 50 minute blocks. He is focused, just does illustration, doesn’t answer the phone, it’s a very focused time frame for him. Tuesday, Thursday: are for teaching, for doing SVS, for recording podcasts. Lee can never do anything halfway, he gets intensely interested in things. Avoiding a trip up with being a scheduler: Before when Lee would get out his calendar and start scheduling he would schedule out the perfect day and with no space for error, he was going to be the epitome of productivity, and then he’d get a revision or something unexpected would pop up and throw everything out of whack. Finally, after a number of frustrating years trying to deal with that he realized something: it’s so easy, don’t be idealistic, leave open space in between the projects. All of the sudden things started working out a lot more smoothly. Obviously, you have to account for things you don’t expect, but by not trying to schedule a perfect day enabled him to have perfect days, if that makes sense. Don’t get frustrated if your schedule gets thrown out of whack. It’s still good to know what the the schedule should be so that if things start going off track and it’s your fault, you can get back on track. A good schedule is your armature to hang everything on. Be willing to dodge and weave as needed. The calendar is a guide/ armature. You will never stick to it, some things take longer, some things are shorter. That’s an important concept, before Lee would derail himself and go from having a crazy scheduled day to no schedule and nothing else would get done. On the weekends Lee has nothing scheduled. Live Life In order to be a good illustrator, it’s not about your craft, it’s not about your technique, it’s about your experiences that you are trying to share with people. It’s, what are you creating art about? What are you trying to share about? You can’t do that if you are vapid, if you don’t have anything inside of you. So you’ve got to have experiences, you’ve got to have a life outside of the studio, you’ve got to have hobbies or something like that. Once you get through that stage of life where there’s that intensity to master your craft and you get there, once you’re sort of on this track where you set your schedule and you’ve got some room in there for balance, it informs your art. Maybe even before then, you find a way that you can do stuff, you can travel (not traveling to Europe, but maybe just across town, or to that museum you’ve been meaning to go to). You need to fill your creative bank account, you need to fill it with creative capital and use it to know what to create art about. Jake’s family will always go on a summer vacation for 2 weeks to a month, depends on the schedule. They’ll do a road trip and go to New York to visit family. It’s a time to have experiences, to spend time with family, and just to have fun. The kids all sleep in a cramped beach house, and they get to play actual games like Cornhole that don’t involve buttons. Jake also raises chickens, which is sometimes fun. A lot people listening to this might be in school and not have the finances that we have. Back then Will would find time to exercise, and it was always running and that’s about it. Now he flies model airplanes, plays the bass, goes hiking, goes mountain biking, plays racquetball 3 days a week, sometimes he snowboards. Really work hard in the beginning, you have more bandwidth and capacity to work hard then. You don’t see many 80 year olds starting at 9 in the morning and going until they drop at night. You can do that when your are in your 20s, 30s, and even 40s. What you do is as important as taking time to work on other things. Will can see a lot of his childhood experiences in his newest Bonaparte book. He’s putting things in there from his childhood. It’s all about those raw experiences, you need to make time to have those meaningful and special experiences. If Will could do it all over again, he’d have spent money differently in the beginning, and became more financially independent earlier on. He would have cut out half of the work that he did early on, because he did so much horrible work: jobs that were so heavily art directed that he wasn’t happy with the work afterwards, and the client probably didn’t care too much about it either, after the fact. All 3 of us are later in our careers, where we’ve all been doing this for 20 years or more. Don’t get frustrated, if you’re like: “I’m never going to get there.” Jake never thought he’d get to where he is right now. There was a time in his life where he wondered if this was even possible. Will also questioned if he could do it early on too. We work smart not hard. We don’t spend as much time spinning our wheels. The execution is quicker. We’ve spent all of that time making those mistakes before. It’s like the guy who, when Will would help him move a couch, had already prepped the whole house, he had already put things away so they wouldn’t trip, and had tied the hide-a-bed down so it wouldn’t spring out and put a ding in the wall. He had done all that prep work so that when we would go to move, we would move it and it would be done, there weren’t a lot of mistakes made. Art is much the same way. When you’ve figured out your process, you just sit down and crank something out and it works out. It’s all about the mistakes you’re avoiding. I.e. Jake did 2 character designs the other day in 3 hours, 10 years ago, it would have been a 10 hour job, but now he’s got a system down, he knows how he’s working, and his intuition is finely attuned, he knows whether or not he is on the right track or not pretty quick. So the sad news for a student is that when you’ve worked 10 hours on a project, don’t pat yourself on the back, because you’ve only worked 3 good hours. Illustration is about experiences. How do those experiences affect illustration? Late teens to early twenties, Lee was really into competitive skateboarding. How he sees the world was changed. Even now when he goes down the stairs and sees a handrail, he sees it first as an obstacle, and second as a handrail. The whole world is like that. He has noticed that others don’t see the world the same way as he does. Skating was all about finding lines in these urban environments and it’s become a tool he uses now in his compositions. The way that he composes a picture has to do with the lines that he saw as a skateboarder. Each thing that you do complements other things that you do in life. And vice versa, how does illustration affect the way you see the world and other things in your life? The same goes for intensity, when Lee works out he tries to work out with intensity. Each of these things plays off of each other and make each other better. Try and see links between things. In Summary: Work With Intensity and Focus in All Categories of Your Life Lower Your Monthly Expenses Be A Scheduler Live Life Quote: “Make a daily appointment to disconnect from the world so that you can connect with yourself.” -Austin Kleon That’s what this work/life balance is all about: to disconnect from your world so that you can connect with yourself, so that when you are back to connecting with your work, with the world you know what to work on, what to talk about, and what your work is to be about. LINKS Svslearn.com Jake Parker: mrjakeparker.com Instagram: @jakeparker, Youtube: JakeParker44 Will Terry: willterry.com. Instagram: @willterryart, Youtube: WillTerryArt Lee White: leewhiteillustration.comInstagram: @leewhiteillo Alex Sugg: alexsugg.com Tanner Garlick: tannergarlickart.com. 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This week’s bonus interview welcomes Lee Shapiro of 7Wire Ventures to the podcast. Lee is Managing Partner at 7wire Ventures, an investment firm he co-founded over a decade ago. The fund’s focus is on building companies that empower connected informed health consumers to improved outcomes, facilitating the change from sick-care to wellcare.  He is active with the 7wire portfolio and the boards of Livongo Health, Ayogo Health, Carebox, Zest Health, ConsejoSano, Modern Teacher and Education Funding Partners. He also serves on the boards of Medidata Solutions [NASDAQ:MDSO], Tivity Health [NASDAQ:TVTY], and Aptus Health (a Merck subsidiary [NYSE:MRK]).  As President of Allscripts [NASDAQ:MDRX] from 2001 through 2012, his leadership was central to over $4B in mergers, acquisitions and financings. He oversaw the company's strategy, international operations, business development and partnerships, health plan initiatives and entrepreneurial business investments. He is a member of The World Innovation Network Board (TWIN, formerly known as Northwestern Kellogg KIN), the University of Chicago Innovation Fund Advisory Committee, The Samsung Strategic Advisory Board, The Qualcomm Life Advisory Council and the advisory board for the Center of Digital Innovation in Digital Health in Beer-Sheva, Israel. Lee is a member of the National Board of Directors of The American Heart Association and has served as an officer and director of the Gastro-Intestinal Research. Also joining this episode was special guest, and Healthbox President, Neil Patel. In this Episode, Chuck, Neil, and Lee discuss: Lee’s early career, how he became President of AllScripts and some of the biggest lessons he learned at Allscripts How Lee realized and arrived at the investment thesis for 7Wire Ventures? Lee’s vision in creating, essentially, a 2-sided market, with startups on one side and 7wire’s strategic LPs on the other, which includes such names as  Horizon Blue Cross Blue Shield, Memorial Hermann, and Rush University Medical Center, to name a few. With such a diverse set of strategic LPs, Lee’s philosophy on how to engage them in the investment process and in portfolio support Lee’s thoughts around innovation in Chronic care management and if, due to the recent emergence of advanced IOT and AI, we are on the cusp of seeing some major changes in this area What gave Lee the conviction early on to invest in a crowded disease management space, having participated in many of Livongo’s early funding rounds Lee’s approach to looking for and identifying new innovative healthcare business models and how the firm proactively looks to foster these types of models What Lee thinks is special about having his firm based here in the Midwest Connect with Healthbox Follow us on Twitter and @ChuckFeerick Subscribe and leave a review on Apple Podcasts Have guest suggestions or topic ideas for the podcast? Send them to us at ideas@healthbox.com Listen to this episode on Apple Podcasts, SoundCloud, or Libsyn Connect with Lee: 7Wire Ventures 7Wire Twitter LinkedIn

Welcome back to the Coffee Table Sessions! In this episode, we continue in our discussion about how to gain the right perspective. Here, I share from John 7, a passage in which Jesus' own brothers resist His timetable. Join us as we open up about what we've learned about trusting God's timing and how it moves us closer towards a Christ-honoring perspective. Episode Highlights: 0:25 - John 7: Are we just like Jesus' brothers who tried to force their agenda and their way onto Him? 2:10 - What Lee left written on his whiteboard all 2017 as a reminder to check his perspective of God's timing 3:42 - How following God's timetable goes hand in hand with making Him the Boss

Welcome to Part Three of the Coffee Table Sessions! In this episode, we look to John 6-7 for the second question in our search for better perspective in 2018: What's your end-game? Here, we get to the heart of what matters them and explore how having Godly end-goals can empower us live with an eternal perspective now. Episode Highlights: 0:24 - What Lee keeps posted in his office as a reminder of keeping good perspective 1:23 - Why Lee wants to hear from you 2:19 - How knowing your end game is key to setting your current goals 3:45 - What an eternal perspective looks like practically in the marketplace and in our finances 5:58 - Why Philip's end game is not to give himself away to corporate America 6:52 - Do you have a wildly important goal? 7:26 - What Lee is asking himself about his end game

We brought back our great friend Mac from ShutterTime with Sid and Mac to join us for some amazing discussion on everything from Apple battling the FBI, Hawaii thinks Battlefront II is a Star Wars Casino, Net Neutrality is a huge fear facing the US right now and of course, a tremendous give away from Windscribe involving the idea of every day carry! Easy to enter and two big winners! Don't forget to find creative uses for #TurkeyTireTackle on Twitter this week, we hope you're hungry because the Soup is on! NASA sent what now? In 1977 NASA sent a time capsule into space, which included 2 records full of “Human Life Sounds”. You can hear what they sent in the article, but do you think it was a good mix? Apple Court Ordered To Unlock Texas Shooter's iPhone SE Last monday Apple was served with a search warrant for access to digital photos, emails and other documents on an iPhone SE that was used by the gunman who killed 27 people in a Texas church mass shooting. Should Apple comply or is this a dangerous slippery slope for privacy? The State Of Hawaii Investigating EA For "Predatory Practices" "This game is a Star Wars-themed online casino," Democratic State Representative from Hawaii Chris Lee said from the podium. "It's a trap." What Lee is referring to is loot boxes in games should be classified as gambling. Recently the Belgium Gaming Commision had declared the same thing. Facebook stealing from Snapchat….again After basically pillaging every cool feature users love from SnapChat it seems Facebook is now testing out the “Streaks” feature...Who cares how many days in a row you've sent messages to your friends. But we have to gamify everything instead of just enjoying personal connections right? Addicted to your phone? In the most face palm worthy move, there is a new “fidget spinner” for those that can't stop swiping at their phones.

Welcome back to Balanced Living for Busy Professionals with your host, Diane Randall. Today, Diane talks to Lee Caraher, the CEO of Double Forte PR and Digital Marketing, about workplace loyalty. Find out what it means, how to foster a positive company culture and so much more. Lee is the author of the book The Boomerang Principle: Inspire Lifetime Loyalty from your Employees.  Enjoy this episode and the many insights Lee shares. What you will learn in this episode: The old and new definition of workplace loyalty Why an employee can be more valuable to you outside the company than inside the company How to repair workplace relationships that have been broken by negative exit practices The five things employees can do to leave well and be rehire-able The power of creating a corporate alumni program for ex-employees What you can do if you left a job poorly and are un-boomerang-able The preparations you must make before leaving a company so that you can maintain the relationships you have The reason Lee never gives a counter offer and what she says instead The importance of leaving as many doors open as possible as a leader What Lee tells new employees in their first week of the job The most loyal thing an employee can do Why toxic cultures do affect the growth and profit of a company, no matter what the outward appearances are Lee’s mission to change the culture of workplaces today Quotes:  “A happy workplace is a profitable workplace” Contact Lee: lcaraher@double-forte.com double-forte.com Contact Diane: Feedback@DianeRandallConsults.com Website: http://www.DianeRandallConsults.com Let us know what you think about this episode by leaving a voicemail or comment: http://www.Balanced-Living-For-Busy-Professionals.com

Join Arthur McFarlane II the great grandson of  W.E.B. Du Bois on The Gist of Freedom, Thursday at 8:00 EDT! Arthur will be discussing the toppling of Confederate Monuments and the tragic death of the Humanitarian Heather Heyer at the anti-white supremacist demonstration in Charlottesville Virginia. Call in 347.324.5552 **** Workers in Charlottesville, Virginia, placed large black tarps Wednesday over two monuments to Confederate military generals, according to video from CNN affiliate WVIR. The statue of Gen. Robert E. Lee in Emancipation Park and the statue of Gen. Stonewall Jackson in Justice Park were each covered with a tarp on Wednesday. The two monuments were the focus of violent protests earlier this month. **** An excerpt from an excerpt penned by W.E.B DuBois Today we can best perpetuate (Robert Lee's) memory ….by explaining it to the young white south. What Lee did in 1861, other Lees are doing in 1928. They lack the moral courage to stand up for justice to the Negro because of the overwhelming public opinion of their social environment.  

Lee Caraher is the CEO of Double Forte, a public relations and digital marketing firm based in San Francisco with offices in Boston and New York City. Lee is an acclaimed communication strategist and known for her practical solutions to big problems. Double Forte works with some of the top consumer and technology brands in the country. Lee has a reputation for building cohesive, high producing teams who have fun together at the same time. She is a straight talker who doesn’t hold too many punches, although she does her best to be pleasant about it. Her big laugh and sense of humor have gotten her out of a lot of trouble and her latest book is entitled, “The Boomerang Principle.” What you’ll learn about in this episode What Lee has been up to recently, including the launch of her new book, “The Boomerang Principle” What Lee believes is the missing piece in business How ‘The Boomerang Principle’ works and how it came about Why bringing people back to a job that they left can be so powerful How all companies are always competing for the top ’25%-ers’ and why you need to keep them in-house if you have them Why companies need to shift from being employer-brands to being talent-brands How the top ’25%-ers will propel your business forward regardless of the size, industry or location of your business The Netflix Culture Deck and why it’s considered to be one of the most important documents to come out of Silicon Valley How boomers, Gen X-ers, and millennials can all thrive in the same environment Why organizations where people feel more appreciated perform at a higher level How to best connect with Lee: Website: leecaraher.com Twitter: @LeeCaraher Book: “The Boomerang Principle: Inspire Lifetime Loyalty from Your Employees”

Lee Caraher is the CEO of Double Forte PR & Digital Marketing; an acclaimed communication strategist, she’s known for her practical solutions to big problems. Her company works with some of the top consumer and technology brands in the country. Lees the author of Millennials & Management based on her experience with failing and then succeeding at retaining Millennials. Her next book, The Boomerang Principle will be published in April 2017. Lee has a reputation for building cohesive, high producing teams who have fun together at the same time. She is a straight talker who doesn’t hold too many punches, although she does her best to be pleasant about it. Her big laugh and sense of humor have gotten her out of a lot of trouble. Lee is active in the community and currently serves on three nonprofit boards. A graduate of Carleton College with a degree in Medieval History, which she finds useful every day, Lee lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, two sons, and a blind cat. What you’ll learn about in this episode: Lee’s career journey and how she came to found Double Forte Double Forte’s four metrics for business What Lee learned when she decided to hire millennials for the first time and all six of them left Lee’s book “Millennials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at Work” Why you need a strong personal brand Lee’s new book “The Boomerang Principle: Inspire Lifetime Loyalty from Your Employees” Why you can’t feel like employees that leave your business are dead to you How “alumni” employees can bring back enormous benefits to your business Why leaving is sometimes the most loyal thing an employee can do Finding the words that people of different generations have different definitions for and peeling them back until you find pain points that arise How to communicate to millennials that they’ve dropped the ball The impact of showing your team that they’re appreciated Why your first customers are your employees Ways to contact Lee: Website: leecaraher.com Twitter: @leecaraher New Book: “The Boomerang Principle: Inspire Lifetime Loyalty from Your Employees”

Lee Caraher is the CEO of Double Forte PR & Digital Marketing; an acclaimed communication strategist, she’s known for her practical solutions to big problems. Her company works with some of the top consumer and technology brands in the country. Lee’s the author of “Millennials & Management” based on her experience with failing and then succeeding at retaining Millennials. Her next book, “The Boomerang Principle,” will be published in April 2017. Lee has a reputation for building cohesive, high producing teams who have fun together at the same time. She is a straight talker who doesn’t hold too many punches, although she does her best to be pleasant about it. Her big laugh and sense of humor have gotten her out of a lot of trouble. Lee is active in the community and currently serves on three nonprofit boards. A graduate of Carleton College with a degree in Medieval History, which she finds useful every day, Lee lives in the San Francisco Bay Area with her husband, two sons, and a blind cat. What you’ll learn about in this episode: Lee’s background and journey What Lee and Double Forte did to survive the market crash How that crash forced Double Forte to become exceptional at customer service Why they changed their model from only hiring people with 10 years of experience to hiring people straight out of college and what their balance of employees under/over 30 looks like today How Lee’s experiences failing and then succeeding at retaining Millennials led to her publishing “Millennials & Management” Why you have to have millennials in your business if you want to have a future Why you need to work at creating an environment where your millennials will thrive Creating a culture where employees are appreciated Why you need to explain to millennials why they need to do things What “A Players” look like to Lee How Lee finds her “A Players” and what Double Forte does to use them effectively Running an alumni program What Double Forte’s interview process looks like Ways to contact Lee: Website: www.leecaraher.com Twitter: @LeeCaraher

On this episode of Locked On Spurs, the San Antonio Spurs signed free agent forward David Lee to a 2-year deal. But what does this signing mean? What can Lee bring to the squad? What Lee are the Spurs going to get? Mavs Lee or Celtics Lee? Find out more about the signing by tuning into the show. #spurs #gospursgo Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Any conversation worth having about Millennials must equally delve into the characteristics and workplace habits of Baby Boomers and Gen Xers. For at least another 15 years these three generations will share the workplace. The survival of many organisations will hinge on their ability to work out how they will play nicely together – to form positive intergenerational teams. Lee Caraher is an expert in managing Millennials – mainly because when she first tired she failed miserably. She realised how significant the challenge was to the future of her business so she dug into it. Deeply. What Lee first discovered was a bunch of bitter Boomers and Xers whinging about Gen Y in an unconstructive way. So she went about doing her own research and creating her own model for intergenerational success. And she joins me on the podcast to share the story what she discovered and tips for making intergenerational teams work in your organisation.

Leadership, Disney, Culture, Business, Customer Service   027 Disney Leadership Magic   Summary   A huge part of leadership, in business, and in life, is expressing gratitude. One of the very best ways to express gratitude is also one of most old-fashioned. We'll discuss that in our Thought of the Day. And later in the interview segment, we'll talk with Lee Cockerell, the man who ran Operations for the Walt Disney World Resort for many years and created much of the leadership training for which it's so well-known.   Bob's Thought of the Day   You'll discover:   Why it's so easy to distinguish yourself from others by sending handwritten thank you notes. How handwritten notes impact others. The reasons people often keep these notes.   Interview with Lee Cockerell   You'll discover:   The three things Disney does better than almost anyone else. How to get your company culture right, and why it's so difficult. Why great people, not products, are the only strategic advantage you have. How his insecurity held him back as a young leader. How the RAVE strategy (Respect, Appreciate, Value Everything) can impact your life. What Lee's extensive travel taught him about respecting and appreciating other people. The #1 reason people leave a company (and relationships). Why you should never underestimate the power of encouraging and thanking others. Lee Cockerell's 10 Strategies for Creating Magic:   Remember, Everyone is Important Break The Mold Make Your People Your Brand Create Magic Through Training Eliminate Hassles Learn the Truth Burn the Free Fuel Stay Ahead of the Pack Be Careful What You Say and Do Develop Character   Click to Tweet   It's not the magic that makes it work, it's the way we work that makes it magic. via @leecockerell Culture is not part of the game, it IS the game. Get that part of it right and everything else takes care of itself. via @leecockerell Interview Links   LeeCockerell.com Creating Magic: 10 Common Sense Leadership Strategies From A Life At Disney by Lee CockerellTime Management Magic by Lee Cockerell The Customer Rules by Lee CockerellCreating Disney Magic (Podcast) Resources   GoGiverSalesAcademy.com The Go-Giver Leader TheGoGiver.com GoGiverSpeaker.com Burg.com How to Post a Review