Breakfast Leadership Show

COVID-19 Check In with Michael

Michael touches base on COVID-19, asks people to only buy what they need at grocery stores, to allow people with limited income to get what they need.
Book a call to discuss your burnout:  https://www.meetingbird.com/l/bfastleadership/Intro

Interview with Jules Pieri

Jules Pieri is Co-Founder and CEO of the product launch platform The Grommet. The company’s Citizen Commerce™ movement is reshaping how consumer products get discovered, shared, and bought. Jules started her career as an industrial designer for technology companies and was subsequently a senior executive for large brands, such as Keds, Stride Rite, and Playskool. The Grommet is her third startup, following roles as VP at Design Continuum and President of Ziggs.com. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of Michigan and people tell her she is the first designer to graduate from Harvard Business School, where she is currently an Entrepreneur in Residence. Jules was named one of Fortune’s Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in 2013. In June, 2014, Jules was invited to the White House Maker Faire to launch The Grommet Wholesale Platform, connecting Makers with Main Street Retailers. She writes a personal blog at jules.thegrommet.com, and the “CEO Unplugged column on Inc.com. She posts as @julespieri on Twitter and Instagram.

How COVID-19 Has Created Withdrawal with Brenda Cross

Here's Brenda's article on coping mechanisms:
https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/youve-been-stripped-your-usual-stress-coping-mechanisms-brenda-cross/
Brenda Cross is the founder and Chief Transformation Officer for CrossCraft Consulting. CrossCraft Consulting is a Learning and Development consultancy specializing in interpersonal communications and sales training.Brenda is a transformational facilitator, coach and business development consultant with extensive experience in the financial and real estate sectors. She has been training throughout her 15-year professional career. Six of those years where on Wall Street including a final project serving in the Office of the Chairman at JP Morgan Chase before she got the entrepreneurial call.Brenda then went into real estate and had a successful career as a real estate broker with a top luxury firm in Manhattan and affiliate of Christie’s International. Her success as a broker invited speaking and training opportunities both internally and externally. She launched her consultancy and has been training and coaching ever since.Brenda has consulted and trained for several international training companies serving corporate, start-up and small business clients and she’s facilitated throughout North America, UK, and SE Asia. Brenda specializes in experiential learning using gamification and simulations to put theory into practice, so people leave with hands-on experience and applicable tools.  She is skilled in many assessment tools including: BANK, DISC, MBTI, and Values Determination. Her passion for studying and understanding human behavior lends well to helping others build skills in Sales, Team Productivity and Communication, Negotiation, Performance Management, Personal Brand and more.Brenda has earned several coaching certifications and maintains accreditation with the premier ICF - International Coaching Federation. As a coach for executives, teams, and entrepreneurs, Brenda uses her extensive experience and perspective to help identify strategic solutions while aligning personal and organizational priorities and values. By fostering additional capabilities and understanding, Brenda helps companies and individuals reach their desired results.
 
https://www.crosscraftconsulting.com/

Interview with Jay Gabrani

After his first child was born in 2005, Jay jumped into the world of real estate investing. Despite several challenges along the way, he built a multiple seven-figure real estate portfolio. That portfolio helped him take a multi-year sabbatical to deal with heartbreaking personal tragedy when his wife passed away in 2014. This experience lead Jay to reevaluate the purpose of his life while taking a multi year sabbatical. Before his wife passed away, Jay thought he was financially prepared. After going through the experience of being the executor of his wife's estate, he realized he wasn't.
Today, Jay makes an impact raising his three children and empowering Fathers to secure their Family's Financial Future as the founder of Prepared Fathers. He achieves this through his one-on-one and group coaching programs and his daily podcast A Minute with Jay.
He is a frequent podcast guest and does a limited number of speaking engagements. You can learn more about Jay at jaygabrani.com.

How COVID-19 Killed Sudden Coffee: An Interview with Founder Josh Zloof

COVID-19 has the potential of permanently closing 30% of small businesses.  One business where that happened is Sudden Coffee.
This powerful and vulnerable interview with Josh Zloof, founder of Sudden Coffee will shed light on the challenges that many small businesses face.
Per Josh:Unfortunately, the COVID outbreak hit us pretty bad and we're permanently closing Sudden :-/ I'm in the midst of it as we speak.For a little more context - we actually had our best revenue months on record in Jan & Feb, we were getting strong traction/ product market fit. However, we needed additional funding and feedback from the VC world was that they did not want to fund food manufacturing because it was a physical goods business. Amidst all of this of course, the outbreak happened.I'm planning on writing a retrospective on it once the dust settles - its a strange case to have 'product market fit' but are forced to shut down because its difficult to capitalize.  Framework for Determining What Career Opportunities to Pursue - Josh tried out 10+ different business ideas over 1.5 years. It wasn't until he identified his values (Purpose, Community, Growth, and Excitement) and matched them to his ideas that he shut down all of the companies that didn't align and launched Sudden Coffee.https://www.suddencoffee.com/pages/products

Featured Interview with Romi Neustadt

YOU CAN HAVE IT ALL, JUST NOT AT THE SAME DAMN TIME.  The New book from Romi: https://amzn.to/3aq64KO
It’s possible to have all the things that are really important to us. How do I know? Because I’ve done it, and I’ve made it my mission to help other women Have It All too. 
Like you, I’m a lot of things. I’m John Neustadt’s wife. He’s a naturopathic doctor, an entrepreneur and an insanely incredible husband and dad who makes us laugh on the daily. I’m Nate and Bebe’s mom, and it’s the most important job and biggest honor I’ll ever have. These two precocious, vivacious, hilarious humans are growing up way too fast and teaching me as much (or more) than I’m teaching them. My family is by far my greatest achievement and the most important part of my All.
Bestselling author, entrepreneur, speaker, and life and business coach Romi Neustadt has a message for women: You CAN have it all--just not at the same damn time.Romi Neustadt is a mom of two, a wife, a daughter, bestselling author, speaker, entrepreneur, and coach. What's more, she's achieved these things without a staff of 10, the ability to sleep two hours a night or driving herself batsh*t crazy. She's figured out the key to having it all: Priorities, babe.In her second book, Romi provides a no-BS blueprint for women to figure out what to focus on and what not to. She explains why saying YES to everything and everyone really means saying NO to the things that matter -- to your goals, your dreams, and your true self.The key to achieving your wildest dreams isn't to downsize them. It's to embrace them more fully, and discard everything that isn't serving them. This book will teach you how to:  •  Zone in on what really matters to you, so you can ditch everything that isn't serving your dreams.  •  Recognize and embrace your true worth as a provider, partner, and all-around kickass human.  •  Say no to the millionth request from your kid's school for home-baked goods--without experiencing mom guilt.  •  Establish boundaries that stick with coworkers, friends, and family.  •  Ditch toxic relationships and the soul-sucking drama that accompanies them.  •  Stop feeling like an imposter in your own life.  •  Create habits that protect your time and energy.  •  Kick fear (of not being lovable, pretty, or good enough) to the curb once and for all.Written in the same down-to-earth, accessible style that made her first book, Get Over Your Damn Self, a beloved bestseller, this book is for every woman who wants to live a fulfilled, authentic life without feeling stressed and exhausted. Romi is living proof that it's possible, and you will be too.
 
https://www.romineustadt.com/
Social Media @RomiNeustadt

Interview with Mitzi Perdue from Win This Fight

Mitzi Perdue has a novel way of raising funds for fighting human trafficking. She enables wealthy donors to convert high-end jewelry or works of art into cash that they can donate to the anti-trafficking organization of their choice. She’s doing this through an auction where the auction house has agreed not to charge a commission!The organization that is doing this is Win This Fight (WTF), And yes, we do know what these initials commonly refer to! (But you’ll remember this, right?)WTF enables wealthy individuals to auction high-value property (jewelry, works of art, historical items, airplanes etc), and the proceeds from the sale goes to the anti-trafficking organization that the donor chooses. The auction will take place in January of 2021, and the New York auction house that is doing this has agreed to forego the seller’s commission.If, to take a real example, a man has a million-dollar diamond and sapphire necklace, and wants to support his favorite anti-trafficking organization, he could turn it into cash by going through a jewelry broker. Typically, he’d have to pay a 40% commission. If he went to a regular auction house, he’d have to pay a 20% commission. The Win This Fight auction involves no seller’s commission and his charity would receive the full $1,000,000.Mitzi is looking for volunteers for this effort. Come join the nearly 500 volunteers who are working on this now! Mitzi and the others at WTF will do everything they can to match your skills, strengths, passions, and time-availability to the work that’s needed.If you join, you’ll meet inspiring and energizing people, you’re likely to be invited to exciting events, and most of all, you’ll have the satisfaction of knowing you’re part of a global effort to combat one of the worst scourges that affects humanity: human slavery.As a nationally syndicated columnist, Mitzi has written more than 1600 articles, and as a nationally syndicated TV hostess and producer, she produced more than 400 half-hour shows. In 2018-2019, she had 85 articles published on business and family.
Polaris list:  https://polarisproject.org/human-trafficking/
http://winthisfight.org

Interview with Marilena Fallaris

Marilena Fallaris is a successful Attorney and the Author of Womenemies, with the book becoming a #1 best seller in multiple categories.
Her story involves many life lessons and guidelines for relationships both in business and socially that would be beneficial to your audience.   
The book identifies and discusses the common ways women can be enemies, or womenemies, to each other and sets guidelines to eliminate their existence. The goal of the book is to support and uplift our fellow women!
Her book has received a lot of praise from men as well with several saying that her book is a message worthy of all our attention. 
Marilena uses her two decades of life experiences in the workforce with her background as a manager, attorney, mother, wife, daughter and friend to shine light on a different type of womenemy in each chapter.   
You can check out her book here:  https://amzn.to/2Rc6UDG
Twitter: https://twitter.com/asterimarilena
Website:  https://www.womenemies.com/