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Michael Einbinder-Schatz has grown a successful technology services business (MSP) for many years now. He has seen the industry change and he helped change it. What does it mean though to be an entrepreneur and what are the characteristics of a successful one? Everyone seems to want to be an entrepreneur but it is a lot of hard work for the entrepreneur and their families. What does it take to keep your business growing through ups and downs and even a few sideways? yup, stole that line form the title of Michael Sanborn's powerful book. In this episode, Michael Einbinder-Schatz shares how he figured out the role he should be playing in his business and the one he shouldn't; how he keeps his staff engaged and loyal in an industry that has more turnover than Microsoft has updates, and the lesson he learned that keeps him going in a highly competitive industry. Michael Einbinder-Schatz brings over 30 years of IT experience, a passion for people and his love of storytelling together in leading his team at Jobecca

Burnout. Allan Ting shares how to prevent and overcome burnout in business and in life with his A.I.R. method. Burnout is different from stress and needs to be treated differently. It hits virtually every business owner at some point in their journey. During this show, we discuss the difference between stress and burnout and how you can reduce both in 3 simple steps. From his TedX talks to his keynotes and workshops, Allan Ting counsels entrepreneurs and corporate executives on simple yet powerful techniques to overcome burnout, reduce stress, improve quality of life and even improve their health and energy. Allan Ting is a TEDx Speaker, #1 Bestselling Author, and a Mindfulness Leadership Advisor.  He has spoken at Yahoo, Amazon, eBay, Cisco, HP and many others corporations on the topic of mindfulness leadership and high performance.   Allan has shared his inspirational messages on ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox and CW news across America.  His bestselling book, The Instant Energy Method, teaches corporate executives and

Part 1 of my interview with Dr. Joan Rosenberg was on February 12th of this year and I ran out of time to ask her all the questions I had on how you can build confidence, resiliency and authenticity into your life in just 90 seconds. Having experienced her work personally I wanted to deep dive into her latest work powerfully encapsulated in her new book, 90 Seconds to a Life You Love: How to Master Your Difficult Feelings for Lasting Confidence, Resilience, and Authenticity. On part two we go deeper into building confidence and resilience and I let Joan use my life as a jumping off point for how the work helps.  Joan Rosenberg guides individuals to achieve their highest potential by helping them create, master and sustain desired changes. She is a featured expert in the critically acclaimed documentary films ‘I Am’ and ‘The Hidden Epidemic’ (along with Dr. Daniel Amen) and she has been seen on CNN’s American Morning show, OWN, and PBS stations nationally, along with other appearances across TV, radio and prin

When you get a chance to interview a woman who has reached the top levels of the C-Suite in the tech world you grab it. I know I wasn't going to finally pass up the opportunity to interview someone who set a goal and achieved it 1000-fold and then went back to heading up the consulting firm she founded with her husband. Mush wisdom to be learned. Janet Schijns and I discuss the myth of the Glass Ceiling, how you can achieve the highest levels of success in any field, what stops people from getting where they want to go and how she has created high-performing teams from non-performing ones. Want to know what Janet does each year to build her success network and how you can too? How about how she deals with people asking her questions that are only asked of women? This is a not to be missed episode and Janet shares what she is doing with her latest venture to help women reach the top of the C-suite. Janet Schijns is the CEO of JS Group and a former C-Suite Fortune 500 executive with experience ranging from Veri

Digital Marketing Trends in 2019. Marketing can make or break any business. If you don't get the word out then customers can't find you to do business with you and money does not come in to fill your bank account. But how do you effectively market your business without breaking the bank? Has marketing changed in 2019 versus previous years? Or has it stayed the same? Ken Herron has the questions and the answers. My guest on the 2-26-19 show is the 4th most followed CMO on Twitter worldwide. Not an easy feat. In this episode Ken Herron shares how to market your business for digital and traditional platforms. Ken starts out sharing the six marketing questions to ask in market in 2019 and then Ken shares how to determine where you need to market your message and product so you can reap the rewards and your clients can find your products and services they need to help them succeed. A top-ranked IoT expert and the fourth most-followed CMO on Twitter worldwide, Ken Herron is the Chief Marketing Officer of Singapore

I've never had to think about hiding who I am as a woman. Whether it was wearing a short skirt, wearing nail polish, exposing my hair or going where ever I wanted to whenever I wanted. I've learned though that is not the case for every woman in the world. My guest on the 2/19/19 episode was born and raised in Iran. A country where being a woman is nothing like being a woman in America or many other places around the world. Expressing yourself as a woman can lead to your arrest, leaving your home without a man's permission can also lead to arrest as can many other infractions that are too numerous to mention here. Escaping from that life through marriage, and moving to a small town in America, seemed like an amazing improvement. Yet suppression comes in many forms and an abusive marriage can exist in all countries and in all cultures. So what happens when enough is enough and you stand on your own two feet as a woman for the first time in your life? Listen as my guest shares her journey and how she learned to

Dr Joan Rosenberg says in 90 Seconds you can have more confidence. Everyone seems to want confidence or want more of it. Where does confidence come from? Are you born with it? Can you get more of it?  My guest, Dr Joan Rosenberg, on this episode has been helping her clients connect to and grow their confidence for over 30 years. More than that though she has helped her clients, and many more through her speaking, TED talks and books, to master their emotions so they can have amazing lives. Dr, Joan Rosenberg shares the eight feelings that we most need to master and how we can begin to lessen their grip on our futures. Best-selling author, consultant, master clinician and media host, Dr. Joan Rosenberg is a cutting-edge psychologist who is known as an innovative thinker, acclaimed speaker and trainer. As a two-time TEDx speaker and member of the Association of Transformational Leaders, she has been recognized for her thought leadership and influence in personal development. Dr. Rosenberg has been featured in t

What's in a name? According to my guest today, every thing. The name you were given at birth, a nickname you were given or took on, and even a new last name at marriage, is the key to your future. Sharon Lynn Wyeth has spent most of her life studying people. First as a teacher and then as the Founder of Neimology. The science of interpreting names is an old one. Going back to ancient times,first names have been bestowed on children with the weight of what their parents hope the child's future will look like. Or in some cases no major thought whatsoever to what their name means. But what if there was more to your name than its definition? What if you could figure out who to hire, who to take on as a client, who to marry or at least what name you should take on after you marry? What if by understanding your own name, you had the kesys to unlock the best of you in the world? Take a listen as Sharón Lynn Wyeth unlocks the secret behind Neimology and how you can learn how to decipher your name, and others, by your

The movie Top Gun has fascinated millions of people around the world so much so that a sequel is finally being planned. Movies about U.S. Navy Fighter Pilots regularly hit top box office numbers. What is it about Navy fighter pilots that piques our interest? What is it that has us wondering how they do what they do and how we can get some of their confidence for ourselves? I've seen the Blue Angels perform multiple times and each time is like the first. My heart starts racing and I am in awe of the focus and dedication the pilots have. Yet, when asked where they would rather be, each pilot will always say they look forward to going back to their ship and protecting our country. My guest today retired as a Captain in the U.S. Navy after 1000 FA-18 Hornet day and night takeoffs and landing on aircraft carriers. There are very few people in this world that have achieved that milestone. After 24 years in the military Kevin Miller still is involved as a defense consultant and corporate trainer on continuous improv

I like to think I am good at self care but I have realized I am not. I too often in my life have waited until I was in bad shape before I reached out for help. Inconsistency in self care over the years and the amount of stress have played havoc on my body and my mind. Which is why doing this episode was so important to me. My guest, Cheri Abrams has been taking care of others and helping them get free of, or gain control over, pain for over 24 years. She taught me that sometimes self care means allowing others to help you versus feeling we have to take care of ourselves by ourselves. Why is taking care of ourselves something that we often put to the side when we know it is important to put our oxygen mask on first before helping another in jeopardy otherwise we might not be able to help them?  Take a listen as Cheri shares how she built a business after being "called" to help others and how it helps her more than anything she has every done for a career. Cheri also shares things you can do in just moments a d

This is an interesting episode in that we had some issues getting James on the line so I started out talking about how we learn to be flexible and roll with things. Then James Rollins is able to call in and I get to ask him lots of questions about his latest book, his creative process and we get into a deep discussion about how AI, Artificial Intelligence is not just a character in his latest book. I am fascinated by authors who started with one career and had an even more successful career as an author. I especially am obsessed with how they weave reality and fiction into their books in such a way that we, as readers, have trouble deciding which is fact and which is fiction. James Rollins is a NY Times bestselling author whose latest book, Crucible, is listed as a thriller yet it weaves, tech, history, religion, military, world events and science into a novel that is sure to give him another #1 NY Times bestselling book. During our conversation we talk about how he knew when he could set aside his practice a

What does it take to write a NY Times bestselling book year after year and still love what you writing? How do you keep your readers wanting more and stay up late unable to put your latest book down? How do you weave current events into the books way before they seem to be current events? What about fact versus fiction? National security details that you know but cannot expose?  What kind of mind makes up the stuff that keeps us on the edge of our seats novel after novel? Well these are just a few of the questions I ask of returning guest Brad Taylor as he launches his latest Pike Logan thriller, Daughter of War. And wait until you hear how the book title came about. The character it is named for was even going to be a main character. I love to explore the creative process with my guests who are prolific writers and with Brad Taylor I also get to ask him a number of current event related questions that normally I would not get a straight answer on about the world today. Brad Taylor was born on Okinawa, Japa

If you are not scared every time you go online to do anything then you are not living in the real world. Every transaction you make in the world today is tracked online even if you do not think it is. As a result, all your personal data is available to malicious individuals to use in ways that may cause you financial or other harm. So how do you protect yourself? Can you protect yourself? There is no one answer to this problem since hackers think up new ways to get around measures that are put in place to stop them faster than I can type this post but you have to start now. Software is getting better at stopping them but the best way to stop them is to not let your real data get out there when it does not have to. My guest today is one of the top cybersecurity professionals in the country and he shares with you, my listeners, some simple things you can do right now to protect yourself and your data. Especially if you just received one of those smart devices for the holidays like an Amazon Echo, Google Home or

No this episode is not about keynote speaking or how to be a better stage speaker. What it is about is smart speaker devices that seem to be everywhere now that answer your every question or whim. I am talking about the Amazon Echo (Alexa), Google Home, Facebook Portal and other devices that are springing up faster than you can say "Alexa, what time is it?". What I never realized is how you can use it to grow your business and your brand and reach your clients in one to two minute Flash Briefings. LIGHTBULB moment when Lindsey called me to tell me about it. Of course I had to have her back on the show to share. If you feel like you missed out on all the other new ways of reaching your audience and are lost in the crowd, take a listen and get in on the new wild west of content platforms. Lindsey Anderson, AKA One-Click Lindsey, is a web strategy expert working with small business owners to help them utilize the web to produce more website traffic and leads. Lindsey is the founder and CEO of TrafficAndLeads.com

The last couple of years I have definitely not felt like I was thriving. It was a life filled with one hit after the other. At least that is what it has felt like to me. Thriving was a distant thought. Surviving the latest health or emotional hit was the job of the day. I started thinking, what makes some people thrive in spite of everything that is going on in their lives and what is going on all around them? I have had a lot of people on the show talking about resiliency, PTSD and more and I will have more on even after this show but I love how my guest, Candice Czalplak frames the conversation and how she has started a community to help everyone Thrive. We start out with a beautiful definition of what it means to Thrive and go on from there. If you feel battered from surviving or, if you just want to have a life that is even more full of success, you will not want to miss this episode. Candice Czaplak is a seasoned Success Catalyst on a mission to fundamentally transform the way we think about and the way

Living an authentic life is not always easy. People conspire to keep those who have light down. To keep them in a box that conforms to how others look, dress, act and achieve. So how do you live your authentic life with grace, love, kindness and achievement when there is pressure to stay small and conform? Enter my guest and friend Michelle McBain. I asked her to be the guest on my Christmas show because she has one of the most beautiful spirits I know and a powerful story to share on how she balances life, love, career, health and an active social media life. Listen as Michelle shares with me what balance looks like to her, how she dealt with a boss who wrote on her review that she was bubbly,(which made her question who she was being at work), and how a recent serious health scare just gave her even more reason to be authentically her. Michelle Ragusa-McBain is Senior Director of Technology & Business Sales and Services. She is responsible for leading the team who will grow company service revenue throu

How do you get access to the expert advice you need when you need it at a price that you can afford? What if you do not even know what kind of advice you need you just know you need help of some sort for you business or life questions? Enter wiseher.com and Founder Kathryn Rose. A resilient entrepreneur who has had multiple high profile and successful careers and now has figured to a way to give everyday women access to some of the best business and high performance brains around 24/7/365. From her own childhood to how she is raising her children, Kathryn shares how she can shift her choices quicker than most, acknowledge what is working and what is not and how she deals with what she terms "cognitive load". Kathryn Rose is the founding CEO of wiseHer, a revolutionary platform offering on-demand expert advice for women in business, career and life.  Prior to devoting her focus to wiseHer, Kathryn was an executive marketing consultant for large global and local clients developing targeted online campaigns resu

The man that bought my tech services company several years ago, and several others over the years speaks openly and completely about the perils and pitfalls, the highs and the lows of growing your company through mergers and acquisitions. He talks about: The most important things to look out for when buying another company. What to know and understand before selling your company. Why you might want to merge versus acquire. How to think ahead of where the pack is going. and so much more... A no holds barred discussion you do not want to miss no matter where you are on your entrepreneurial journey.  We laugh, a lot. We run out of time. And, Rory Sanchez shares what matters most to him when he grows his business. Rory Sanchez is CEO of True Digital Security.  Rory is the visionary responsible for the company's strategic direction and high-level architecture of its award-winning management platform, GN Secure (formerly Guaranteed Networks®), a comprehensive offering which has positioned TRUE as a recognized lea

 All in. What does that really mean? Can you be all in one aspect of your life or business or does it only apply if you are all in with all aspects of your being?  At various times in my life I have felt all in with everything. When I am all in, magic seems to flow out of my every being and positivity  is the outcome. The last ten years or so not so much. I have had moments of all in but to be honest, I do not really think it was really "All In" since it latest just a moment. So how do you know if you are All In, Part way in or not even close? My guest today has not only written the Wall Street Journal bestselling book on how to be All In, Shift the Work: The Revolutionary Science of Moving From Apathetic to All in Using Your Head, Heart and Gut, he lives and breathes it. His life's work is to help businesses, people and communities become all in in all aspects of who they are and what they do. In a no holds barred interview Joe shares how he believes the world can change via one All In at a time to move life

Gone are the days when one bad review only went as far as the person next door. Now one bad review can go viral and destroy your company's reputation in an instant without the reviewer even leaving their home. What can you do to change a bad review to a good one on the Internet? Nothing. Once a review is posted on the web it is rare you can ever get it removed. So what do you do? Enter Ron Howard Founder of SoTellUs and his sons. When was the last time you Googled yourself or your company? if you said more than a day, stop reading and go Google them both. What did you find? Nothing is as bad as bad reviews. You do not have to live with a bad online reputation created by one bad review that will not go away. Learn how to get your clients to be raving fans with video, audio and written reviews and get them to share it with their social media friends. Ron also shares how he and his family keep it all together in not one, but two family businesses. Ron Howard is a master of sales, marketing and networking. Ron is