High Velocity Radio: Author and Speaker John Hagel and Significance CEO Trisha Stezzi
/
RSS Feed
John Hagel is a management consultant, entrepreneur, speaker and author that has spent over 40 years in Silicon Valley. He is driven by a desire to help individuals and institutions around the world to increase their impact in a rapidly changing world.
John is the founder of the Center Beyond the Edge and the recent co-chair and founder of the Center for the Edge at Deloitte. He holds leadership roles at the World Economic Forum and the Santa Fe Institute, and serves on the faculty of Singularity University.
Recognized as an industry thought leader, he’s the author of seven books, including The Power of Pull: How Small Moves, Smartly Made, Can Set Big Things in Motion, and will shortly publish his eighth book, From Pressure to Passion. He’s won two awards from Harvard Business Review for best articles in that publication.
John has partnered exclusively with the Significance Learning Center to create a 3-part course taught live (virtually) to share a key theme in his next book: “Harnessing Your Personal Narrative.” You can watch his FREE masterclass on the topic by joining the Significance Community here.
John holds a B.A. from Wesleyan University, a B.Phil. from Oxford University and a JD and MBA from Harvard University. You can find John’s personal blog posts and links to further publications here.
Connect with John on LinkedIn and Twitter.
Trisha Stezzi is the CEO & Founder of Significance, a purpose consultancy that unleashes potential through purpose and a 20+ year veteran of the purpose and corporate social responsibility movement. Significance recently launched the Significance Learning Center at DoSomethingSIGNIFICANT.com, where you will find exclusive live-taught virtual courses with world-class instructors who are passionate about your success, including John Hagel, Nilima Bhat and Bonnie Wan and Atlanta’s own MaryAnne Howland.
For those seeking more meaning, authenticity, and fulfillment, this is where you’ll find the personalized guidance and support you need to gain the deep clarity it takes to get yourself unstuck and truly transform your life, family, community and your presence in the business world. LIVE virtual classrooms and active learning formats enable students to engage directly with these esteemed instructors as well as with their fellow students.
The action-focused learning environment naturally fosters relationship-building and collaborations amongst community members during the various group learning activities, forums, challenges and activities. The Significance Learning Center is a platform for purpose minded leaders and future leaders alike. Check out the many free masterclasses, subscribe to the newsletter and browse the courses at DoSomethingSIGNIFICANT.com, then choose one that resonates with you and enroll!
Connect with Trisha on LinkedIn and Twitter and follow Significance on LinkedIn and Facebook.
Franchise Bible Coach Radio: Mike Cline with Alliance Franchise Brands
/
RSS Feed
Michael Cline has served as our Vice President Franchise Development since January 2020.
Prior to that he served as SGOs Vice President of Franchise Development, in Middle River, Maryland, from January 2015 to December 2019, and was previously SGOs Director of Franchise Development from February 2012 to January 2015.
Mr. Cline also previously held the same positions with us, until his responsibilities with us ended in December 2016. Prior to that, he was the Director of Franchise Development for SBT-USA in Columbia, Maryland from October 2007 to February 2012.
Connect with Mike on LinkedIn.
About the Show
The Franchise Bible Coach Radio Podcast with Rick and Rob features no-nonsense franchise industry best practices and proprietary strategies that franchisors and 
franchise owners can implement to improve their profitability and operational efficiencies.
Our show guests are franchise superstars and everyday heroes that share their tips for growth and strategies to survive and thrive during the current challenges.
About Your Hosts
Rick Grossman has been involved in the franchise industry since 1994. He franchised his first company and grew it to 49 locations in 19 states during the mid to late 1990s. He served as the Chief Executive Officer and primary trainer focusing on franchise owner relations and creating tools and technologies to increase franchisee success.
Rick developed and launched his second franchise organization in 2003. He led this company as the CEO and CMO growing to over 150 locations in less than three years. He developed the high tech/high touch franchise recruiting and sales system.
Both companies achieved ranking on Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise 500 List. During this period Rick served as a business and marketing consultant to small business and multimillion dollar enterprises. He also consulted with franchise owners and prospective franchisees, franchisors, and companies seeking to franchise.
Rick had the honor of working with his mentor, Erwin Keup as a contributing Author for the 7th edition of Entrepreneur Magazine’s Franchise Bible published by Entrepreneur Press.
Mr. Grossmann has been chosen as the new Author of Franchise Bible and his 8th Edition was released worldwide in January of 2017. He currently serves as an executive coach and strategist for multiple franchise clients.
Follow Franchise Bible Coach on Facebook.
Rob Gandley has served as SeoSamba’s Vice President and Strategic Partner since 2015.
With 25 years of experience in entrepreneurship, digital marketing, sales, and technology, he continues to focus on leading the expansion of SeoSamba’s product and service capabilities and US market penetration. SeoSamba specializes in centralized marketing technology built for multi-location business models and continues to win industry awards and grow consistently year over year.
Concurrent with his work at SeoSamba, Gandley is a strategic growth consultant and CEO of FranchiseNow, a digital marketing and sales consulting firm. Gandley consults digital businesses, entrepreneurs, coaches and multi-location businesses across diverse industries. Prior to SeoSamba, he built an Internet Marketing business and platform responsible for generating over 100,000 qualified franchise development leads used by more than 400 US-based franchise brands for rapid business expansion.
Gandley also held various senior sales and management positions with IT and Internet pioneers like PSINet, AT&T, and SunGard Data Systems from (1993-2005) where he set sales records for sales and revenue growth at each company. He graduated from Pennsylvania State University’s Smeal Business School in 92’ with a BS degree in Finance and emphasis on Marketing.
Connect with Rob on LinkedIn.
John Smallwood with Smallwood Wealth Management
/
RSS Feed
John L. Smallwood is President of Smallwood Wealth Management and affiliated companies.
A CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ professional, provides investment consulting and financial plan design for corporate executives, entrepreneurs, and professionals.
John’s strength lies in his ability and commitment to continually improve the level and quality of the planning process. It is his objective to provide a process of repositioning assets to help decrease risk, decrease taxation and increase protection.
His clients recognize a coordinated long-term approach to wealth creation and preservation. His dedication to his clients’ growth involves an evolving strategy that strives to meet the demands, desires, and needs of his clients in a continually changing economic environment.
Todd Tresidder with Financial Mentor
/
RSS Feed
Todd Tresidder graduated from the University of California at Davis with a B.A. in economics and a passion for creating successful businesses.
A serial entrepreneur since childhood, Todd went on to build his own wealth as a hedge fund investment manager before “retiring” at 35 to teach others.
Today, he provides advanced investment and retirement planning education at FinancialMentor.Com showing you what works, what doesn’t, and why based on a depth of proven experience.
Retirement Tips Radio: Bob Kaye with Retirement Planning Associates
/
RSS Feed
Bob Kaye is a Personal Wealth Manager who specializes in working with professionals in relation to their retirement benefit plans. He helps individuals and their families transition into retirement and guides them toward achieving financial security.
He does this by working with their own advisors as well as his own team of experts. He limits his clientele to a number of clients for whom he feels he can provide the most value. He is glad to get together for an initial meeting to determine whether or not he may be able to accept and work with a new client in the future. He has been acting as Financial Advisor for professionals for 25 years.
He is a fully licensed investment advisor representative in insurance, annuities, mutual funds, stocks and bonds and is also additionally qualified as a Certified Funds Specialist®, a designation held by only about 1% of those licensed to work with mutual funds. Retirement Planning Associates, headed by Bob Kaye, offers complete wealth management services including investment consulting with appropriate tax strategies that best take advantage of available resources using fitting investment vehicles.
Wealth management further includes advanced planning that breaks down into wealth enhancement: return and safety with investment, wealth transfer: estate planning and generational transfer at death, wealth protection: appropriate life insurance covering all aspects, and charitable giving tailored to desires of clients with tax advantaged priorities.
Retirement Planning Associates is affiliated with Securities America, Inc., one of the nation’s largest and most successful independent general broker/dealers. He has been pleased to be the recipient of the President’s Volunteer Service Award in a Capitol Hill ceremony in Washington, D.C. for his volunteer activities concerning human rights. The President’s Council on Service and Civic Participation launched the President’s Volunteer Service Award in 2003. The award (PVSA) is the premier volunteer awards program.
Securities Offered Through Securities America, Inc., Member FINRA/SIPC. Check the background of this financial professional on BrokerCheck: www.brokercheck.finra.org. For full disclosures please visit: www.bobkaye.net
Brian Allen with Pension Consultants
/
RSS Feed
Brian Allen is CEO of Pension Consultants, Inc. Pension Consultants operates with the purpose of improving the financial security of American workers. Each element of our business, from the structure of our teams to the plan management we provide our clients, is designed to give fiduciaries confidence that they’re providing their employees with a good plan.
By building our purpose into our company culture, we strive to consistently evolve, improve, and focus on delivering our clients performance-driven retirement plans.
PCI has been providing retirement plan management to the qualified retirement plan industry since 1994. Our team is comprised of experts in each of the three components of a good plan: investment management, vendor management, and participant outcomes. We use a transparent, fee-for-service business model that directly ties our fee to the performance we can deliver for your plan.
Connect with Brian on LinkedIn.
Tactical Tip: In Absence of Traditional Open Houses, How do You Attract Buyers?
/
RSS Feed
Jill Heineck’s Tactical Tips for Selling Your House in Today’s Environment
Transcript
Lee Kantor: [00:00:05] Welcome to Jill Heineck’s Tactical Tips for Selling Your House In Today’s Environment. I’m Lee Kantor. Jill, today’s question is, in the absence of traditional open houses, how do you attract buyers?
Jill Heineck: [00:00:17] That’s a great question. What we’re doing now to attract buyers is really leveraging our agent network relationships. Other colleagues that we’ve worked with in our marketplace and those who we know work in the markets where our listings are, we’re leveraging those just to get them to bring their buyers through. Just to verify that they know about the properties. We’re calling past prospects. We’re making calls to our databases. We are leveraging our social networks. And we are just talking about what to expect when we do this. Because we are getting a lot more traffic this way. We’re doing a lot of online open houses instead of in-person open houses. And that is getting a lot more eyeballs, ironically, on the property and requests for virtual walk-throughs. So, this is how we are attracting more buyers to our listings.
Lee Kantor: [00:01:11] Good stuff, Jill. For more answers to your real estate questions, please go to heineckandcompany.com.
About Jill Heineck
Jill Heineck is a leading authority on corporate relocations, and is highly sought after for her real estate industry acumen and business insights. As a published author, frequent panelist and keynote speaker, Jill shares her experience and perceptions with people from around the globe.
Jill is a founding partner of Keller Williams Southeast, established in 1999, and the founder and managing partner of Heineck & Co. Her real estate practice specializes in corporate relocations, individual relocations, luxury residential, and commercial properties. Jill’s analytical approach to problem-solving, along with her expert negotiation skills and sophisticated marketing, deliver superior results to her clients. Her winning strategies and tenacious client advocacy have earned her a reputation for excellence among Atlanta’s top producers.
While Jill has received many accolades throughout her career, she is most gratified by the personal testimonials and referrals she receives from her clients. Jill’s unwavering commitment to the customer experience, and her focus on the unique needs of each client, serve as the foundation of her success.
Follow Jill Heineck on LinkedIn.
Michael Lennox with ATLFAMILYMEAL
/
RSS Feed
Michael Lennox, Founder and CEO of ATLFAMILYMEAL, is an Atlanta native known for his restaurant concepts on Atlanta’s BeltLine, Ladybird Grove & Mess Hall, Muchacho and Golden Eagle.
Inspired by the redevelopment of the Beltline and Atlanta’s culinary scene, Lennox left his career in law to enter the restaurant industry in 2014 with Ladybird Grove & Mess Hall, situated on the Atlanta BeltLine’s Eastside Trail. Following Ladybird’s success, Lennox opened sister restaurants Muchacho and Golden Eagle in the fall of 2017 to much acclaim.
When the COVID-19 pandemic led to the closure of Michael’s three restaurants (Ladybird Grove & Mess Hall, Muchacho and Golden Eagle) this March, Michael created ATLFAMILYMEAL, a nonprofit initiative with the mission to feed, nourish, and support hospitality workers experiencing food insecurity and joblessness.
The initiative brings together a community of local chefs, restaurant owners, hospitality workers, and business/non-profit leaders to purchase, prepare, and deliver free meals to hospitality workers in need across the metro Atlanta area. Since launching, the organization has delivered more than 86,000 meals to unemployed hospitality workers from over 200 metro Atlanta restaurants, breweries, and hospitality businesses.
Most recently, the organization received a donation of $2 million from a local donor in honor of two Atlanta restaurant servers. This generous donation will allow the organization to continue feeding, nourishing, and supporting hospitality workers experiencing food insecurity and joblessness in Atlanta as well as allow the organization to pursue its goals to grow its small team and add initiatives in the months and years ahead that are focused on food and hospitality education, workforce development, and community resources.
Connect with Michael on LinkedIn and follow ATLFamilyMeal on Facebook and Twitter.
What You’ll Learn in This Episode
- The inspiration behind ATLFAMILYMEAL
- How ATLFAMILYMEAL works (meal production, delivery, onboarding, etc.)
- Total number of meals delivered to date
- Corporate partners like Lyftand Zifty
- $2 million donation
- How to get involved (donate,volunteer and/or shop)
- Feed the Fam online auction
About Our Sponsor
OnPay’s
payroll services and HR software give you more time to focus on what’s most important. Rated “Excellent” by PC Magazine, we make it easy to pay employees fast, we automate all payroll taxes, and we even keep all your HR and benefits organized and compliant.
Our award-winning customer service includes an accuracy guarantee, deep integrations with popular accounting software, and we’ll even enter all your employee information for you — whether you have five employees or 500. Take a closer look to see all the ways we can save you time and money in the back office.
