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REPLAY: The Lean Methodology: What It Is & How to Apply It to Your Small Business – John Kamp

October 1, 2019 by Mike

Business Infrastructure

REPLAY: The Lean Methodology: What It Is & How to Apply It to Your Small Business - John Kamp

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Think the lean methodology is only for large corporations and government entities? Well think again! This episode features John Kamp, an entrepreneur, Lean Six Sigma expert, Project Management Professional, instructor at Purdue University and U.S. Navy veteran. As you can imagine, he has a wealth of experience to draw from and you’ll get a feel for that in this episode. The subject of lean is huge, but John condenses its concept, principles, and methodology into an easy-to-understand definition. He not only shares some of his favorite lean tools, but he also gives great examples of real-life applications. You don’t want to miss this episode!

Special Guest: John M. Kamp, Founder & CEO, The Business Kamp

Show Notes:

The Toyota Way by Jeffrey K. Liker
The Lean Startup by Eric Ries
Six Sigma: The Breakthrough Management Strategy Revolutionizing the Worlds Top Corporations by Mikel Harry, Ph.D., and Richard Schroeder

Art of Feminine Marketing Founder Julie Foucht and Business Mentor Therese Skelly

September 9, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Art of Feminine Marketing Founder Julie Foucht and Business Mentor Therese Skelly

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Art of Feminine Marketing Founder Julie Foucht and Business Mentor Therese Skelly

When Julie Foucht decided she needed to take her coaching business seriously, she hired a high end coach and learned to ‘market like a man.’ She doubled, then tripled her income in less than a year, but felt drained, uninspired and restless.

Urged by Spirit, she embraced her essential ‘Womaness’ and birthed a new way, The Art of Feminine Marketing. Today, Julie female coaches, teachers and healers who are frustrated with traditional marketing, how to build 6-figure businesses through the Art of Feminine Marketing.

Connect with Julie on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Therese Skelly works with high achieving women in business who are committed to making a difference. A former psychotherapist and marketing consultant, she focuses on helping women show up, and be fiercely and steadfastly present, especially when they’d rather run or resist.

Working on the subtle level of energy and emotion, she supports women step into the work their soul calls them to do. From the work, her client can own their value, make more money, serve more people and have a business that makes them happy.

Therese says: “What makes me unique? My superpower is in finding those inner game blocks, helping people overcome them, and then getting my clients ALIGNED and embodied with their soul desires. Using energy clearing, crazy love, and kick ass “Mama Bear” wisdom, it’s a great combination.”

Connect with Therese on LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.

Episode 61: The One Thing You Need to Know About Exit Planning – David Shavzin

September 3, 2019 by Mike

Business Infrastructure

Episode 61: The One Thing You Need to Know About Exit Planning – David Shavzin

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Who will take over your business when you’re no longer able to? Your answer to this question is the foundation of your exit plan and EVERY entrepreneur should have one. In this episode, exit and succession planning expert David Shavzin defines what an exit plan is and the people, processes, and tools needed to create and update it. As someone who helps business owners build value around their life’s work, David also candidly talks about the sensitivities of and multiple ways to transition ownership. Learn why business infrastructure is key to proving value to potential buyers.

Special Guest: David Shavzin, Founder & CEO – Shavzin & Associates, Inc.

Location: Atlanta, GA USA

Show Notes:

The Value Track Blog: David’s free blog offering resources and tips on exit planning and business valuation; includes a link to sign up for his free newsletter.
XPX Owner’s Academy: The Exit Planning Exchange’s library of free videos and articles around business value growth and transfer.
Small Business Development Center (SBDC): nationwide centers funded by the U.S. SBA to provide business consulting and assistance to new and existing small businesses.
The E-Myth: Why Most Small Businesses Don’t Work and What to Do About It: book by Michael Gerber.

Brooke Walker with 100 Years of Bliss Mycal Anders with Crossfit PHX and Caitlin Barth with Macros and Metcons

August 20, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

Brooke Walker with 100 Years of Bliss Mycal Anders with Crossfit PHX and Caitlin Barth with Macros and Metcons

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Brooke Walker with 100 Years of Bliss Mycal Anders with Crossfit PHX and Caitlin Barth with Macros and Metcons

Many people are stuck in the past, living a life that is still effected by a trauma. Others are stuck in the future, concerned about tomorrow’s doom and gloom or waiting for a better circumstance to enjoy now. “I’ll be happy when I get the job, the relationship, the money.”

What if you have to be happy first? What if the biggest problem you face is your perspective? What if everything you want is available, as soon as you allow it to come to you and remove the impeding mindset that tells you it isn’t possible.

Sounds like a bunch of woo-woo, unless you realize there is science behind it. That is why 100 Years of Bliss was created. Time to be in the now and create the amazing life you want!

It takes some training, habit breaking, reforming and pixie dust! The Life Blueprint is the map to achieve your 100 Years of Bliss. They assist you to build a blueprint, a plan, that is based around your values and goals. Then you just implement the steps we lay out for you and the results happen naturally.

Brooke Walker is a life architect who instills new habits into people so they can build an undefeatable mind. She earned her Psychology Degree Summa Cum Laude, in 2012. She is a public speaker and the founder of 100 Years of Bliss, a science and research based program that excels people’s growth through habits and mind training.

100 Years of Bliss is a wholistic program that addresses several key areas of your life, mindset, nutrition, fitness, relationships, career, and your finances.

Brooke’s background in psychology, law, finance and medical have given her a unique perspective that made customizing a ground up emotional program a perfect fit. She uses emotional intelligence, NLP and other habit forming methods to train and rewire, so you can achieve goals.

Connect with Brooke on LinkedIn and Twitter and follow 100 Years of Bliss on Facebook and Instagram.

CrossFit PHX is a fitness network built on the foundation of culture, coaching, and process. In 2017 they were rated the number one CrossFit gym in America by Men’s Journal. Their focus is to bring the collegiate/professional athlete experience to the masses.

Offering experienced & educated training application in classes, as well as individualized personal training and programming. Nutritional guidance & meal prep. Massage & physical therapy. All in the same facility. The members want for nothing because it’s all right here.

Mycal Anders is a Marine Corps veteran, with close to 20 years of experience in the fitness industry. He played football in college and was also an accomplished bodybuilder and local CrossFit competitor.

His credentials include a Bachelor’s degree in Health & Human Performance, a Master’s degree in Fitness & Conditioning, as well as an NSCA – Certified Strength & Conditioning Specialist certification.

Above and beyond training, Mycal now consults with business professionals, in and out of the fitness space, on building not only quality products and services, but also organizational cultures that facilitate growth and scale. He is the author of the best-selling book, “Inner Circle: Focus & Fulfillment Habits of the Enlightened” and host of the 20 Percenters Podcast.

Connect with Mycal on LinkedIn, Facebook and Instagram.

Macros & Metcons is a one on one nutrition coaching service that believes in helping clients create a sustainable nutrition lifestyle. Through consistent and personal communication with each client, a variety of measures of progress, they help clients achieve results and habits they can maintain.

Coaches encourage balance and quality of life to help their clients build a healthy, happy relationship with food and instill confidence in decision-making, in the kitchen and out of it. At Macros & Metcons, discipline and habits create food freedom.

A longtime Arizonan, Caitlin Barth didn’t find her passion for fitness and nutrition until after college. Naturally athletic and competitive, she found CrossFit in 2012 and fell in love with the intense workouts and supportive community.

Wanting to do more, she approached the owner of her gym about implementing a nutrition program to better help members achieve their strength and aesthetic goals. An experienced “flexible dieter” herself, Caitlin ate up everything she could about sport and exercise nutrition and got certified through Precision Nutrition.

She then founded Macros & Metcons in 2017. She’s learned through personal experience and working with clients that nutrition not only impacts performance and body composition, but overall quality of life.

Her clients will tell you she’s their biggest cheerleader, that she meets them where they’re at, and that she’s tough but fair.

Caitlin received her Bachelor’s in Human Communication, so she can easily convey complex nutrition concepts to even those just starting their journey.

Connect with Caitlin on LinkedIn and follow Macros and Metcons on Facebook and Instagram.

MARKETING MATTERS WITH RYAN SAUERS: Cliff Daniels with Chick-fil-A Stone Mountain

July 25, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

MARKETING MATTERS WITH RYAN SAUERS: Cliff Daniels with Chick-fil-A Stone Mountain

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Cliff Daniels/Chick-fil-A Stone Mountain

Cliff Daniels has served as the Owner Operator of Chick-fil-A Stone Mountain for 6 years. His restaurant serves the Parkview/Shiloh community and currently employs 130 team members. The strength of his business rests on a leadership team built on trust and a commitment to excellence.

Jane Bishop/Take the Next Step

Jane Bishop, is CEO of Take the Next Step which emerged out of her passion to help others “go for their It.” She helps small business owners, entrepreneurs strengthen and align with their inner core for success by using her coaching and training skills. When you work with Jane you will experience accomplishing your “it,” and be a greater influence to those around you. Jane uses her E4U system to help clients get to the core faster to create and execute a plan for effectiveness. Jane is also a professional speaker and published author. Curious? Reach out and book a complimentary session and see where that leads.

Ryan Sauers/President of Sauers Consulting Strategies

Ryan T. Sauers has spent 25 years leading and/or consulting with visual communications and marketing related organizations. Ryan is President/Owner of the consulting firm, Sauers Consulting Strategies; Our Town Gwinnett Magazine (2 monthly magazines); and its parent company End Resultz Media.

Key areas of focus of the consulting firm include: sales training, marketing strategy, personal branding, leadership development, and organizational change.

Sauers is a frequent national speaker and columnist. He has been recognized as one of the top 80 CMO’s in the world and achieved the top designation of Certified Marketing Executive through Sales and Marketing Executives International.

Sauers is an adjunct university professor teaching leadership, marketing, and communication courses to current and aspiring leaders. Ryan is a Certified Myers Briggs, DiSC, and Emotional Intelligence Practitioner.

Ryan is working on his Doctoral degree in Organizational Leadership and is host of the radio show Marketing Matters. Sauers is author of the best-selling books Everyone is in Sales and Would You Buy from You? More info at: RyanSauers.com or OurTownGwinnett.com.

Show Overview

Marketing Matters with Ryan Sauers is a radio show discussing topics as they relate to marketing, communications, sales, leadership and more. Host Ryan Sauers, a best-selling author and national speaker, discusses how these topics play a role in every aspect of our lives. Each episode shares tangible nuggets of information that listeners can easily understand and apply to their everyday life, whether personal or business. The show challenges listeners’ current state of thinking so they can grow to new heights and see new opportunities in business, which is rapidly changing, multi-generational. and noisy in nature.

ATDC Radio: Connie Casteel, Kenji Takeuchi and Shauvik Roy Choudhary with MoQuality

July 17, 2019 by angishields

ATDC Radio

ATDC Radio: Connie Casteel, Kenji Takeuchi and Shauvik Roy Choudhary with MoQuality

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Connie Casteel helps ATDC clients around the state understand and secure federal funding from the federal Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) and Small Business Technology Transfer (STTR) programs — highly competitive research awards up to $1.5 million. As an interface with Georgia’s Manufacturing Extension Partnership (GaMEP), she also helps connect ATDC startup companies with manufacturers and manufacturing resources. Connie’s background is in proposal development, competitive intelligence, data management, and innovation.

Kenji Takeuchi is an entrepreneur with extensive Fortune 500 executive technology management experience. As an entrepreneur, Kenji has founded and successfully exited several high-tech startup companies. He has led product development for several multinational technology firms, including Honeywell, Flex (Flextronics), Cisco/Scientific-Atlanta, Nagravision, and Iomega. He has served as vice president of engineering and chief technology officer at Flex and Honeywell, where he led global engineering teams and product development across multiple lines of businesses.

Kenji holds a bachelor’s degree and master’s degree in engineering/robotics, from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and the University of California, Berkeley, respectively.

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Shauvik Roy Choudhary is CEO of MoQuality.

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E33 Scott Payne with PM Master Prep Tom Wesner with Traction Squared and Chris Spear with Traction Point

July 15, 2019 by Karen

Phoenix Business Radio

E33 Scott Payne with PM Master Prep Tom Wesner with Traction Squared and Chris Spear with Traction Point

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E33 Scott Payne with PM Master Prep Tom Wesner with Traction Squared and Chris Spear with Traction Point

Listen to this episode and learn how EOS ® (Entrepreneurial Operating System) and Project Management both can help organizations successfully deliver on Strategic initiatives. We learn about EOS from Chris Spear, Founder of Traction Point and Tom Wesner, Founder of TractionSquared. We also learn about an alternative to traditional PMP certification training from Scott Payne, Founder of PM Master Prep.

Tom and Chris share their stories which include time running successful start-ups, leadership roles within large corporations and now running EOS Coaching businesses. At the core of EOS is the Traction book and the processes within. We also hear the similarities and shared leadership practices of EOS and Project Management. Scott and PM Master Prep are sponsors of Project Management Office Hours and it was great to have Scott share his story. We hear how PM Master Prep came to be and why they have a unique model with the PMP training industry. We also get to hear plans for Scott’s upcoming podcast.

Tune in for upcoming shows with Project Management leaders and subscribe to the podcast on Apple Podcast, iHeartRadio, Spotify, Stitcher, Spreaker or your favorite podcast platform! Our next show will be July 18th with guests Roger Haskett and Jessica Kuhn. Thanks to our sponsors PM Master Prep and THE PMO SQUAD. PM Master Prep is offering 20% off all services by using code PMOJOE at checkout on www.pmmasterprep.com.

PM Master Prep is the world’s only case story focused PMP training company. PM Master Prep both teaches courses and partners with great companies to bolster their PMOs and provide PMP training that not only prepares students to succeed on the exam, but also improves their project management skills. PM Master Prep is offering 2 free online or live-online training seats to their groundbreaking case story focused PMP classes to any organization serious about transforming their PMP training program. Email Scott Payne (Founder PM Master Prep) directly at scott@pmmasterprep.com to receive your 2 free training seats.

Scott Payne has reinvented the process and focus of PMP preparation. Abandoning the traditional memorization focused methods, Scott created an entirely case story focused PMP training method. The power of this method is that it not only helps students learn faster and retain more, but it also drastically improves the student’s skills as a project manager.

Scott has published a best-selling PMP book, The PMP Exam Master Prep Manual, and created the world’s first case story focused video eCourse that flows in the order of a real project. In addition to his book, eCourse, and simulator, Scott leads students to success through focused Live and Live-Online classes weekly.

Connect with Scott on LinkedIn and follow PM Master Prep on Facebook.

Traction Squared coaches / teaches leadership teams how to run on a holistic business system called the Entrepreneurial Operating System® (EOS®). Through EOS, your leadership team will be equipped with a simple set tools to achieve the following:

Vision. First, I’ll help your leaders to get 100% on the same page with a vision for your organization.
Traction®. Your leaders will become self-disciplined and accountable.
Healthy. Your leaders will become an open, honest and cohesive team. From there, as goes your leadership team, so goes the rest of your organization. Your entire company will become crystal clear on your vision.

People at every level will grow more disciplined and accountable in executing your vision. Your company will achieve consistent traction and drive forward as a healthy, functional, cohesive team. Our sweet spot is companies with 10-500 employees, that are open minded, and looking to get more of what they want out of their business. There are no contracts, and our time spent together is 100% guaranteed.

Tom Wesner is Co-Founder & CEO of Traction Squared, Professional EOS Implementer For over 25 years Tom’s passion has been helping people achieve BREAKTHROUGHS and take their lives to the next level – no matter how successful they already are – in the areas that matter most: doing what they love for work, with people they enjoy, making a difference in the world, being appropriately compensated and having the time to pursue other passions.

Tom has helped many people from a multitude of companies transform their lives and their businesses through his approach to leadership and personal coaching. He’s worked with CEO’s of Fortune 100 companies, CEO’s of Not-For Profit organizations and world class leaders in the entrepreneurial world. Over the past few decade, he’s developed a passion for helping small business owners, entrepreneurial leaders and not-for-profit organizations.

Most of his core strategies for creating breakthroughs have come from his work within really successful businesses. He has learned, applied and modeled the art and science of growing a profitable business from some of the most renowned leaders and businesses in the world. He uses these distinctions to help optimize and grow enterprises to new and more profitable levels.

Connect with Tom on LinkedIn.

Traction Point helps small and medium sized businesses to Create Success Faster! Every successful business needs an operating system. EOS, The Entrepreneurial Operating System, is a way of harmonizing and orchestrating all the moving parts of your business to help you run a better business and live a better life!

Chris provides professional training to give your team a proven system and the leadership skills they need to take you to the next level! They coach companies that are ready for transformation! You’re not just looking to dabble or pick up a few ideas from a seminar. You are committed to growth. Your team is willing to be open, honest and vulnerable with themselves and the people around them! You’re more afraid of the status quo than you are of change!

A few years out of college, Chris Spear did something everyone told him was stupid! He walked away from a great job and co-founded a software company. The team “bootstrapped” to $2 million dollars in revenue, a dozen employees, and was acquired in year three by a public company. This launched Chris into roles at a few really big companies.

At IKON/Ricoh, he led sales and marketing process implementation for a field sales organization of over 5000 reps. At Extra Space Storage, a real estate company, he led sales and operations process implementation as the company grew from 300 to over 700 locations. Through all this Chris learned he had a “superpower” for scaling businesses. But he didn’t want to just do something big, he wanted to do something that mattered! This is when he found a growing software company called Infusionsoft. Their purpose “To Help Small Businesses Succeed” was so compelling to him, that he joined them to lead operations and systems as they grew from $50M to more than $100M in revenue.

With a “small business success” fire in his belly, Chris happened on the EOS book “Traction.” He was truly shocked to find that everything he had learned about how to scale a business through years of painful trial and error was there in one harmonious system. Chris was hooked and is now on a mission to help hundreds of small businesses change the world and get more of what they want from their businesses!

Connect with Chris on LinkedIn and follow Traction Point on Facebook.

ABOUT THE PROJECT MANAGEMENT OFFICE HOURS SERIES

Project Management Office Hours is intended to provide Project Management professionals a place to drop in and discuss Success Stories, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned. Project Management Consultant Joy Gumz has shared with us, “Operations keep the lights on, strategy provides the light at the end of the tunnel, but project management is the train engine that moves the organization forward.”

Each of us has a unique story to tell, but collectively we share a message that organizations who embrace Project Management Best Practices perform better than those which don’t. Organizations which align Projects to Strategy perform better. Organizations with Engage Executive Sponsors deliver better results. Organizations which measure Project Management performance outperform those which don’t.

During our Project Management Office Hours, we hear directly from Industry leaders how to make an impact in our profession. How we, collectively, will Advance Project Management Best Practices, One Listener at a time!

Project Management Office Hours is powered by The PMO SQUAD

ABOUT YOUR HOST

Joe Pusz started THE PMO SQUAD to bring real world PMO Leadership experience to the consulting space and to advocate for Project Management through his blog PMOJOE.com. The old saying is “Do what you love and you’ll never work a day in your life.” Following this mindset Joe left Corporate America in 2013 to start THE PMO SQUAD and work with fellow Natural Born Project Managers to advance Project Management Best Practices.

THE PMO SQUAD focuses exclusively on PMO and Project Management consulting. Corporate America is full of Accidental Project Managers running projects who haven’t been trained to be PMs. To help solve this problem THE PMO SQUAD is on the Leading Edge with PMO As a Service. PMO As a Service allows our clients to focus on their respective core competencies while THE PMO SQUAD delivers Project Management expertise. Contact Joe at 678-591-7868. Follow The PMO Squad on LinkedIn, Twitter and Facebook.

ABOUT OUR SPONSOR

PM Master Prep^TM is simply the worlds best PMP^® Exam Preparation licensing system. There is no other product available to businesses and independent trainers that can offer the same premium courseware along with the rich feature set of our online exam simulator and study resources.

Our Courseware has been designed to be shorter, easier to learn for students, and easier to teach for instructors. Your students will learn faster, retain more and will pass the PMP exam!

MARKETING MATTERS WITH RYAN SAUERS: Alicia Wehner with Brand and Britt Insurance Agency

June 27, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Studio

MARKETING MATTERS WITH RYAN SAUERS: Alicia Wehner with Brand and Britt Insurance Agency

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Alicia Wehner/Brand and Britt Insurance Agency

Brand and Britt Insurance Agency has locations in Monroe, Loganville, Grayson and Buford. In business over 40 years, Brand and Britt represents over 35 insurance carriers. They provide insurance for individuals, businesses, health/life/disability, and bonds.

Alicia Wehner has held a job in one way or another since she was 14 years old. From yogurt server, to shoe sales, to retail sales, to bank teller, to bank management and business lender, to insurance. It’s been an interesting and fun ride!

Jane Bishop/Take the Next Step

Ryan Sauers/President of Sauers Consulting Strategies

Ryan T. Sauers has spent over 25 years leading and/or consulting with marketing, media, and related companies. He is also owner of two Our Town Gwinnett monthly magazines. Sauers is a frequent national speaker and global columnist. He serves as an adjunct university professor teaching leadership courses. Ryan is a Certified Myers Briggs, DiSC, and Emotional Intelligence practitioner. Ryan is working on his Doctoral degree in Leadership. He is author of the best-selling books Everyone is in Sales and Would You Buy from You?

Show Overview

Luciano Lombera with MC Granite Countertops

June 20, 2019 by Mike

Gwinnett Business Radio

Luciano Lombera with MC Granite Countertops

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Luciano Lombera/MC Granite Countertops

Located in Georgia, Tennessee, and North Carolina, MC Granite Countertops offers affordable prices on granite, marble, quartzite, quartz, and soapstone. MC Granite Countertops makes it their priority to deliver high quality countertops at competitive prices. Their warehouse works with only the finest quality tools and materials. From template to installation, they are devoted to quality workmanship and professionalism. Their promise of quality is backed by a 100% warranty on materials and workmanship.