Breakfast Leadership Show

Interview with C. Lee Smith

C. Lee Smith founded SalesFuel in 1989. Lee was named as one of the 14 Leading Sales Consultants by Selling Power magazine in 2018 and 2019. Foremost expert in executive leadership, sales coaching, behavioral analysis and the discovery process. Lee is author of the new book Hire Smarter, Sell More!, co-host of the Manage Smarter podcast and frequent keynote speaker.
https://salesfuel.com/hire/
C. Lee's podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/manage-smarter/id1332925915

Interview with Sean Patton

I believe leadership is the most powerful force on earth and it is my life’s work and passion.
I am a former US Army Special Forces (Green Beret) Commander. I have led front-line elite Infantry & Special Forces Soldiers in both Iraq and Afghanistan. 5 years ago, I left the military after 14 years of service to pursue my entrepreneurial dream. I graduated from UNC Chapel-Hill with my MBA and started my first business, a Fitness/Martial Arts Hybrid Franchise. Long story short after a few years it failed, and I had to declare bankruptcy. I started a second business, Legion Jiu-Jitsu. We have grown to 3 locations in 2 years and all locations are profitable. Perseverance is the key to success in the military, business, and life.
Now I work with entrepreneurs and executives on effective Servant Leadership by applying hard-learned battle-tested principles through individual coaching and my Elite Leadership workshop. Strong leadership creates strong profits.
I teach people on the following topics:
Servant Leadership principles for success. A leader is a person you train to become, not a set of techniques just anyone can apply and get results. Your listeners would get stories and actionable steps they can apply TODAY to improve as leaders.Effective communication. Nearly all problems inside organizations involve ineffective communication, yet organizations spend almost no time training their people on how to communicate better. I have created a 5B Communication Method framework utilizing my experience and military doctrine. Your listeners will be able to use this framework to clearly communicate within their organization and improve productivity immediately.Mindset Mastery. Mindset is everything. But how do you train mindset for yourself? For your team? I have been through some of the toughest leadership and mental toughness training in the world. West Point. US Army Ranger School. Special Forces Selection. Special Forces Combat Diver School. Not to mention 22 months in combat and 5 years of entrepreneurship. I apply these lessons daily in my business and with my clients. Listeners will enjoy hearing these stories and action steps to move from a negative and stressed mind to one filled with gratitude, able to focus through the noise and push through to victory during the most difficult of times.
 
http://www.seanpattonpresents.com/

Interview with Teresa Douglas on Working Remotely

Teresa's book:  Working Remotely https://amzn.to/3aFPDL5
Teresa's website:  https://teresamdouglas.com/
The world is now your office! You can work from home, from a coffee shop, or even from the gym—but how do you keep on task and stay motivated when you’re alone.In Working Remotely, authors Mike, Holly, and Teresa discuss how to ward off toxic levels of loneliness, how to get what you need from colleagues spread across the world, and how to network and grow in your career when you are sitting in an office of one, plus many other topics that will help you survive and thrive as a remote worker.Mike, Holly, and Teresa use their different paths through Kaplan to help the remote worker figure out how to set up the right headspace for them.“Working Remotely paints a very real picture of what it's like to be a remote worker in an organisation... In contrast to most books on remote work which have been written with managers, business owners or freelancers in mind, Secrets of the Remote Workforce speaks directly to employees, guiding them through their day to day.” -Pilar Orti Director of Virtual not Distant“Working Remotely is a terrific map for helping employees who work remotely take charge of their own career. The authors have all survived and thrived as remote employees... While other resources focus on how to manage remote employees, this book highlights the power that employees have to drive success for themselves.” -Susan Cates, Strategic Advisor
 

Interview with Jean Ginzburg

Jean Ginzburg is a #1 best-selling author, award-winning entrepreneur and digital marketing expert with more than 12 years of industry expertise helping companies scale revenue, optimize sales and marketing processes and improve productivity. Jean is the CEO and Founder of JeanGinzburg.com, a digital marketing education company and Ginball Digital Marketing, a digital marketing agency. Jean's clients range from brand name Fortune 500 companies to innovative start-ups. Additionally, Jean has been featured in Inc.com, Forbes.com, Entrepreneur and the Huffington Post.Jean and her companies have won several awards and mentions:-JeanGinzburg.com's work won a 2019 W³ Silver Award, Oct 2019-JeanGinzburg.com made the Fast 50 List by Denver Business Journal, Sept 2019-JeanGinzburg.com is a Top Company Finalist by Colorado Biz Magazine, July 2019-JeanGinzburg.com made the Top 100 Woman-Owned Companies by Colorado Biz Magazine, June 2019-JeanGinzburg.com made the 2018 Entrepreneur 360 list by Entrepreneur Magazine, Dec 2018-JeanGinzburg.com made the Top 250 Private Companies by Colorado Biz Magazine, Nov 2018-JeanGinzburg.com made the Top 25 Ad Agencies in Denver list by Denver Business Journal, Sept 2018-Jean was named a "Women to Watch" by Colorado Biz Magazine, Jul 2018In September 2017, Jean launched her book "Win New Customers: How to Attract, Connect, and Convert More Prospects into Customers in 60 Days Using Digital Marketing". The book is a #1 Amazon best-seller.Jean's digital industry specializations include the following:- Full funnel marketing strategy- Facebook Advertising- Customer avatar development- Sales and Marketing Automation- Social Media- Email Marketing- Product strategy- Content strategy-Retargeting- Analytics 
 
http://ginball.co/
 

Featured Interview with Michael Gale

If anyone is passionate about digital technologies and their impact on our future, it’s Michael Gale. In 2001, Michael founded and sold two companies Strategic Oxygen, a leading data toolset for marketers in the technology industry and Pulsepoint group. He has been a group partner at Monitor Group and was the chief web officer/GM at Micron Technology.
As the host of Forbes Insights Futures InFocus podcast, Michael’s experience and passion for digital tech are evident. He engages in conversations with global visionaries and leaders who are thinking about our world 10 years from now, helping us design for it, and guiding us toward it in a way that allows us to thrive. Nothing is certain about the future except the need to design differently for it than the world we live in today.
Only 29% of Americans think about the world of 10 years from now and only once a week (Institute of the Future research 2017), yet 95%+ of us will be living in a world dominated by different ways of working, entertaining, eating, transporting ourselves, educating and raising our families. How the digital technologies now dominating our world will change how we think about the world that is far closer than we realize should be a question we each get insight on each week.
Michael brings together visionaries who are charged with the responsibility to help guide and stimulate the thinking necessary to drive design and actions that will change the world we’ll be living in 10 years from now. Our future will be identified and defined by decisions, ideas, and practices that we start putting into play today. Through his conversations with CEOs of startups, Global 2000 executives, academics, and innovative thinkers, Michael hopes to spark new ways for us to do anything and everything right now to help prepare us to thrive in the future.
https://www.linkedin.com/in/migale/
https://twitter.com/futuresinfocus
https://www.instagram.com/futures_in_focus_podcast/
https://www.forbesinsightsfif.com/pods-landing
https://www.inc.digital/
 

COVID-19 And How To Use This Time To Reinvent Yourself

Michael discusses the Covid-19 status, self isolation, the death of his Dad, and how to take these most interesting of times to reinvent yourself.
 
Https://BreakfastLeadership.com/bucket for the bucket list template
https://BreakfastLeadership.com/covid19 for the free 7-session life coaching while in isolation

Interview with Jill Valdez

Jill has been helping people for over 18 years … helping with better systems for their company, helping with better communication, helping with overcoming obstacles that keep them from being all that they are purposed to be.  For 15 years, she was in the non-profit sector, at both a start-up and an established corporation. 
In 2016, a corporate restructure caused Jill to have to figure out what she wanted to do for her new career.  She went back to school and finished her BA in Psychology, got a job as a project manager, started her MS (which she completed in November, 2018), developed to Director of HR and realized everything she did in the non-profit world was relevant in the for-profit sector. Jill’s passion for helping companies has led her to the launch of LINK … providing strategies for staff development, aligning employee’s passion with a company’s vision for increased efficiency and effectiveness to get to the next, now.
http://linkedin.com/in/jillvaldezlink
https://www.linkconsulting.info/

Interview with Maya Holihan

About Maya Holihan
 
Maya is the President of Loyalty Networking, a business-to-business platform that offers entrepreneurs and business executives the opportunity to become a network partner with a turnkey system that is easy to deploy, generates passive income and serves as a marketing strategy to grow their referral base, forge valuable relationships and support their business goals.  
 
Prior to Loyalty Networking she owned one of the largest retail wedding businesses in the country; She purchased a fledgling business in 2004 and grew it to a multi-million dollar company.  Her portfolio of wedding businesses included six retail stores, a wedding planning company, bridal shows, and a magazine.
Maya’s career started in luxury goods as a manager with GIANNI VERSACE and then Vera Wang, which launched her 16-year career in the wedding industry.  
 
Maya has an accomplished career of leading operations, developing successful teams, and growing and diversifying revenues.  She’s a respected leader who thrives in creative environments where she can implement out-of-the-box strategic and analytical thinking.  Her passion areas are brand development, marketing and public relations. Much of her inspiration comes from her mentors and mentees. She’s passionate about sharing her experiences with aspiring and successful entrepreneurs and business executives.
Maya gives back to her community by volunteering with many nonprofit organizations including Safe House Project, an anti-human sex-trafficking organization.  She’s the President of the Board of Directors for Daniel’s Grace, a charitable foundation that helps families affected by cancer with their daily living needs.
Https://loyaltynetworking.com
https://www.linkedin.com/in/maya-%F0%9F%8C%9F-holihan-36077221/