3 Steps to Thrive

“We need to believe. We need to believe that we have the skills and resources to be able to achieve what we set out to achieve.

…the importance of having empowering, helpful, healthy, beneficial beliefs. Beliefs that help us create the life we want."

This week on 3 Steps to Thrive, James speaks to James Woodworth - professional speaker, international best-selling author, teacher, trainer, mentor, coach and licensed Thrive Programme Consultant with over 30-year’s experience working in the personal and professional development industry.

James x 2 speak about the importance of mindset, fostering the correct beliefs and his all time favourite student.

A recovering shy guy with a life-long commitment to serving and helping others to learn, grow and develop James overcame the social fears that once held him back in order to fulfil his dream of becoming a teacher, a job he loved and excelled at.

James now works in private practice working with passion, enthusiasm and commitment inspiring others, wherever they may be to create the life they want with The Thrive Programme.

This episode will leave listeners feeling empowered, loved and optimistic.

Of course James shares his 3 steps to thrive.

This week James is thrilled to speak with mentor, coach and friend, Jeff Prager, from the CFO Project. We speak about many of his business successes, the time (twice) he tried to retire and what he learned from his failures.

Jeff Prager, co-founder of The CFO Project, is the Cash Flow King. His company has one purpose: to help you make more money. “We created a system where we go through your numbers on a monthly basis and show you what to look at, when to look at it, how to interpret it and what to do about it. And, you don’t need to understand accounting or finance.”

Jeff’s breadth of experience is remarkable and extremely valuable to entrepreneurs. He was a CPA for over 35 years so he understands all the confusing numbers stuff. But he’s also an author, speaker, and life-long entrepreneur, not just some paper pusher.

He has been a former CEO/CFO and owner of several successful multimillion-dollar companies. He was:

· One of the founders of Ashworth Golf Clothing

· The CFO/partner of a large land development company

· The owner of Strauss Homes, which was once rated as the second largest privately owned home builder in Colorado and in the top 100 privately owned companies of Colorado (2003).

Jeff has helped dozens of businesses become stronger over many many years of entrepreneurship, and business development. This episode will leave you feeling inspired and teach you something about how to truly evaluate your numbers.

Of course Jeff shares his top 3 tips to help the business owner or the business itself.

“Everything happens for a reason. It’s for our growth.

As ugly as that can sound, if we can’t grow from what happens we can’t choose what happens to us"

The story of this stars' fall to earth, and how one little word destroyed his world (but made him a better person).

In this episode James talks to Jonathan George of Unleash Your Rockstar about finding his path after a scandal that could have ruined his personal and professional life.

As CEO of JG Entertainment, Jonathan George has spent the past 20 yrs creating RockStar personal brands for celebrities, entrepreneurs, and influencers with over 150 million followers online.

He is known as “The Human Hitmaker” because of his ability to Identify, extract, and cultivate people’s greatest untapped assets and brand it into #RockstarStatus for their highest potential of authority, impact, and success.

This episode is going to leave you optimistic and inspired. The theme word of this episode: courageous.

Of course, Jonathan leaves his 3 steps to improve the business or the business owner.

“I’m speaking to somebody who finds themselves at a time when they wish that circumstances were different… whether that’s in a personal life whether it’s in a business.

A single thought pulled me through a very very challenging time. And that thought was (even if you don’t know what comes next) ‘it won’t always be this way’.

…whether you have to get through 1 minute, whether you have to get through 5 minutes… it won’t always be this way."

In this episode, James speaks to friend and amazing legal warrior, Heather Pearce Campbell. Heather not just talks about her journey with entrepreneurship but the tragedies that inspired her to do what she does with passion and conviction. If you are going through a tough time personally or in business, this episode is a must listen!

As an attorney & legal coach, Heather Pearce Campbell, The Legal Website Warrior®, is fiercely committed to protecting world-changing entrepreneurs and small businesses. She advises her clients on a variety of issues that confront modern businesses, including cybersecurity and protecting their online content, services and intellectual property, implementing proper contracts to protect their work and relationships with clients, and asset and risk management.

Heather is on a mission to transform the way legal support is delivered to entrepreneurs and small businesses owners

Heather is a lifelong entrepreneur, mom to two littles, and wife to a biochemist. She hoards information, paper, and books while secretly dreaming of becoming a minimalist, and relishes an occasional rare night with her hubby when the kiddos are miraculously asleep and she can soak up HGTV without guilt.

This episode will leave listeners inspired, thankful and filled with gratitude. It will inspire people to reach for their best, whether that’s in family, relationships or business.

Finally, Heather leaves us her 3 steps to improve the business or the business owner.

“You can make money doing just about anything..

…In this country, if you have a mind for this you can make money doing just about ANYTHING. That’s why we start with “what are you passionate about?” Because you find a way to somehow make that work for you.”

In this episode, James speaks to friend and amazing networking coach, Shereese Alexander. Shereese comes clean with her time struggling with homelessness, what that taught her and how that has inspired her to build authentic, real and strong relationships.

Shereese Alexander is a Business Networking Coach who helps entrepreneurs create profitable partnerships through authentic connection.

Shereese went from being a PhD candidate at an Ivy League school to being homeless in New York City at the height of the 2008 recession.

Now she teaches entrepreneurs the power of making a micro-impact, one person at a time, in order to grow their network and their business.

This episode will leave listeners inspired, thankful and filled with gratitude. It will encourage those people to reach out to loved ones and foster those business connections that they already have.

Finally, Shereese leaves us her 3 steps to improve the business or the business owner.

In this very special Black Lives Matter podcast, James speaks to Shadeed Eleazer - a Baltimore native, navy veteran, successful connector, and the number one networker for African Americans on the East Coast.

This episode we listen as Shadeed unravels what him and his African American Entrepreneurs business network feel about this movement. We discuss Shadeed's biggest hopes, dreams and fears, why he’s optimistic and most importantly how we can make even the smallest difference through how we live our own lives.

This podcast is thought provoking, inspiring and raw. If you are going to listen to one podcast, this is the one you NEED to hear.

Shadeed also tells us three ways that we can influence the outcome.

A very special thanks to Shadeed Eleazer.

“Things start going south... and then you find that your energy isn’t connected as much to the business cause if you were step back you would find…”

James this week has the utmost privilege of interviewing Paige Stevensen from the Intuitive Advisor. Paige provides intuitive guidance that provides entrepreneurs with the focus and clarity that is required to move ahead with confidence.

Paige Stevensen is a natural-born intuitive healer, inspirational speaker, workshop facilitator, best-selling author, and successful business owner of over 20 years as The Intuitive Advisor. Paige is a certified advanced angel empowerment practitioner and certified angel hands on healer.

In this episode we speak to Paige about how people can truly tap into their own intuition and break old habits.

Listeners will leave the show with a sense of calm, focus and optimism.

Paige of course shares her three practical, actionable and simple steps to improve the business or the business owner.

“What you seek you shall find. If you are seeking opportunity, if you are seeking new clients; you will find it.

If you think this is a time just to survive and you are seeking the client to just “please pay my bills”, you will find that too, but there are lots of people out there that are willing to invest and they’re poised to grow.

Those are your ideal clients right there”

It is such a privilege that this week James speaks to #kindofabigdeal Kim Orlesky from KO Advantage Group! This was truly one of James’ favourites and listeners will enjoy many funny and interesting stories during the interview.

You will leave the show with a sense of wonder, inspiration and motivation.

Kim is listed as LinkedIn’s top sales influencers and continuously named as one of the top sales leaders to follow. She’s Startup Canada's Woman Entrepreneur and Success Magazine’s most inspirational blogger. She speaks internationally, including at North America’s largest entrepreneurial event, Inbound 2017, 2018 & 2019, alongside Michelle Obama, Brené Brown, and Deepak Chopra.

In 2014 Kim courageously quit her life to backpack solo around the world. When she returned she turned her passion for sales into one of North America's fastest growing sales training programs, KO Sales U. Her third book Sell More. Faster. is available for now.

In this episode we speak to Kim about rubbing elbows with Oprah, what drives her to focus so specifically on sales training, and her one biggest failure.

Kim of course shares her three practical, actionable and simple steps to improve the business or the business owner.

“Burning themselves out early on in their business…. Working all hours of the day and working all hours of the night, and after a while you just don’t have anything left and you’ve lost the joy of it.

Working hard is a different level for different people. Some people love those long 15 hour work days, and they’re able to do that consistently. Others can’t manage that, and if you can’t manage that; figure out the most that you can accomplish and keep the motivation and keep the love for it and progress from there.

Learn how to build your business off what works for you.”

This week on 3 Steps to Thrive we have a NEW & NOVEL guest! Every so often James takes some time and saves spots for people who have passion but maybe just not the fame (quite yet). James has the distinct pleasure of interviewing the personal trainer and future athletic director to elite athletes, Kenny Dusseault.

Kenny has been involved in the strength and conditioning industry for over 10 years now. Starting in highschool, he coached numerous younger students in powerlifting bringing two of them to a National Championship.

Kenny has spent time working in multiple Elite Performance Centers coaching athletes from age 8 all the way to professional ranks. The latest stage in his career has been opening his own strength and conditioning business in November 2019. Kenny’s passion in his career is to not only teach athletes the importance of training, but also how to best prepare themselves physically and mentally to reach the top level of sport.

This episode, listeners will leave the show with a sense of motivation and focus.

Of course, Kenny shares his 3 points for improving the business or the business owner.

“That’s really interesting - tell me more x 3!

If you’re going to stand in the presence of great people you may as well listen and keep saying “Tell me more! Tell me more! Tell me more!” because he’s got more in him than the one thing that you just rejected because it bounced up against your ego and it doesn’t make sense to you.”

This week on 3 Steps to Thrive, James has the distinct pleasure of interviewing the NETWORKING DIVA Virginia Muzquiz (pronounced Moose-keys)!

Virginia is a huge deal in the networking world and owner of Master Connectors - a company that teaches the art and science of filling their sales funnels with high quality, on-demand referrals. She calls her process "Referral Alchemy" and it can infuse tens, if not hundreds of thousands of dollars into your business without a single dollar in ad spend.

In this high-energy interview, Virginia talks about her early struggles with her entrepreneurial life and the “A-HA” moments that precipitated what she now does. Virginia is well known in the business world and listeners will leave the show feeling emboldened and ready to (properly) network.

Of course, Virginia shares her 3 points for improving the business or the business owner.