Above The Business

Dr. Alexa Chilcutt is an expert in leadership and team communication, professional public speaking skills, and executive presence. She joins Bradley to share her wealth of experience and knowledge of working with technical professionals in adopting executive presence in the workplace and the importance for managers and leaders to develop strong communication and public speaking skills within teams.

Alexa develops and delivers custom training on the topics of communication, impression management/executive presence, executive presentation skills, and team leadership for corporate clients. She also works as an executive coach for women in leadership and those identified as High-Potential within their organization.

Dr. Chilcutt earned her M.A. in Public Relations and Ph.D. in Communication and Information Sciences from The University of Alabama. Alexa is a Certified Executive Coach and serves as the faculty lead for the Executive Business Communication certificate and co-lead for the Academy of Women in Leadership programs at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School.

She also provides training for TCU Neeley Business School's Executive Education program and The University of Alabama Executive MBA program.

Her corporate clients have included Exelon Corporation, Hoya Corporation, Prometric, Brinker International, Allstate, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Alabama, German-based company igus, and Johns Hopkins International Medicine Concierge Services.

Find Dr. Alexa Chilcutt's Book, "Engineered To Speak: Process-Driven Professional Communication" on Amazon: https://www.amazon.com/Engineered-Speak-Process-Driven-Professional-Communication/dp/1119474965

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Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capital

BlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.

Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com to get started.

Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.

TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast. https://todayapppro.com/

A common misconception is that growth and profit go hand in hand. However, the relationship between the two is more nuanced. This is where the Rule of 40 comes into play, offering a valuable framework for business owners to navigate the balance between growth aspirations and sustainable profitability. Listen to hear how you can use The Rule of 40 to increase your profitability.

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Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capital

BlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.

Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com to get started.

Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.

TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast. https://todayapppro.com/

In this episode, Henna shares key advice for owners on improving workplace performance. Henna Pryor, PCC is a dynamic Workplace Performance Expert and an award-winning 2x TEDx and global keynote speaker, virtual presenter, author, and professional executive coach. Her playful style and high-impact talks blend 2 decades of work with corporate leaders and teams, with a fresh, science-based approach to taking more strategic risks and boosting social and mental fitness for success at work.

She has been invited to speak twice for TEDx in NYC and Wilmington, DE, and brings her expertise to a variety of global organizations including Google, Workday, Johnson & Johnson, and JPMorganChase. She has also been featured in top media including Forbes, NBC, Washington Post, Fast Company, Inc., Business.com, HuffPost, and many more.

Henna founded Pryority Group – a fast-growing performance growth firm – to expand on her belief that the key to most people’s success is learning to strengthen mental and social muscles in order to boost risk-taking, maximize influence, and be braver in the work that we do.

She’s been named a SUCCESS Magazine Woman of Influence and SXSW Workplace track speaker, and her best-selling book, Good Awkward, was endorsed by NFL Quarterback Russell Wilson and former HBR Editor Karen Dillon, and was named a Kirkus Reviews’ Best Book of the Year.

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Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capital

BlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.

Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com to get started.

Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.

TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast. https://todayapppro.com/

You can create a culture of continuous improvement if you stop waiting for the right time. Listen to this quick episode to discover how Bradley has done this in his own businesses.

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Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capital

BlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.

Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com to get started.

Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.

TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast. https://todayapppro.com/

Fotini Iconomopoulos is a best-selling author of HarperCollins’ “Say Less, Get More: Unconventional Negotiation Techniques to Get What You Want.” Fotini is the person Fortune 50 executives call into to help with their high stakes negotiations or to empower their teams through her intensive workshops on negotiation, communication and persuasion. Fotini occasionally returns to the classroom as an instructor of MBA Negotiations at the Schulich (SHOE-lick) School of Business at York University in Toronto. She’s a regular media guest on outlets including CBC, Forbes and Harvard Business Review, she’s been recognized with a number of awards including a Top 40 under 40 award.

Ready to get more out of your Team? Join us for the upcoming Above The Business event, TEAMS on April 23rd-24th, 2024. Register free at www.abovethebusiness.co

Thanks to our sponsors...

Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capital

BlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.

Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.

Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.

TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast. https://todayapppro.com/

You may or may not be a golf fan, but you can pull some of the principles Bradley observed at The Masters into your business. From standards to best practices to the way improvements are done, listen to this quick episode and see what you can take from it!

Join us for the next Above The Business event at www.abovethebusiness.co

Thanks to our sponsors...

Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capital

BlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.

Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.

Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.

TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast. https://todayapppro.com/

Part 2: Bradley shares about the value of a teams, from recruiting to development, to retaining A-Players, and why it's one of the most valuable investments you can make.

Ready to master team development for your business? Join Bradley and guest keynote speakers to learn proven systems and processes for teams at The April 2 Day Intensive! This event is free for business owners, but you have to register. Make sure you save your seat at this virtual event, happening April 23rd and 24th, when you visit https://www.abovethebusiness.co/teams-april-intensive.

Then, Jay Adkins, host of The Success Paradigm: The Story Behind Glory, shares how to develop yourself personally and professionally.

From hitting rock bottom and losing his entire team, to realizing he was the problem, to developing himself into a better leader, he's sharing his journey.

You'll hear his personal routine for development, how to create a culture that employees want to be in, and leading yourself first.

Thanks to our sponsors...

Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capital

BlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.

Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.

Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.

TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast. https://todayapppro.com/

Part 1: Bradley shares about the value of a teams, from recruiting to development, to retaining A-Players, and why it's one of the most valuable investments you can make.

Ready to master team development for your business? Join Bradley and guest keynote speakers to learn proven systems and processes for teams at The April 2 Day Intensive! This event is free for business owners, but you have to register. Make sure you save your seat at this virtual event, happening April 23rd and 24th, when you visit https://www.abovethebusiness.co/teams-april-intensive.

Then, Jay Adkins, host of The Success Paradigm: The Story Behind Glory, shares how to develop yourself personally and professionally.

From hitting rock bottom and losing his entire team, to realizing he was the problem, to developing himself into a better leader, he's sharing his journey.

You'll hear his personal routine for development, how to create a culture that employees want to be in, and leading yourself first.

Thanks to our sponsors...

Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capital

BlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.

Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.

Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.

TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast. https://todayapppro.com/

It is a lot easier to take a struggling team or business to the top than it is to keep it at the top of their game. In this episode, Bradley shares what he's learned, what his clients have experienced, and how you can not just get to the top in business, but also stay there.

Register for our upcoming Above The Business event: Teams - The 2 Day April Intensive! Learn more and save your seat here: https://www.abovethebusiness.co/teams-april-intensive

Thanks to our sponsors...

Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capital

BlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.

Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.

Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.

TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast. https://todayapppro.com/

Former Vice President of High Performance Leadership at Chick-fil-A, Inc. and Wall Street Journal bestselling author, Mark Miller, believes that, with the right tools, every leader has the ability to change the world.  In this episode, he discusses his Five Fundamentals to Transform Your Leadership.

So many leaders are barely maintaining the status quo, struggling to fully embrace their distinctive roles as architects of their companies’ futures. Put simply, they are facing significant challenges and are unable to discern the path forward to unleash their complete potential.

In an exploration of the path to achieve true greatness, Miller’s newest book, Uncommon Greatness: Five Fundamentals to Transform Your Leadership (Matt Holt, February 27, 2024), challenges traditional leadership paradigms, questions deep-seated assumptions and equips leaders with practical, actionable ideas to implement immediately.

Today, Mark serves as the Co-Founder of Lead Every Day, an extension of his life-inspired mission to encourage and equip leaders with the tools they need to be successful. Mark began writing almost twenty years ago when he teamed up with Ken Blanchard, co-author of The One Minute Manager, to write The Secret: What Great Leaders Know and Do. With over one million books in print in more than twenty-five languages, his global impact continues to grow. For more information, please visit https://leadeveryday.com/. 

Thanks to our sponsors...

Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capital

BlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.

Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.

Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.

TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast. https://todayapppro.com/