Above The Business

In this episode, Bradley encourages business owners to take the time to identify the obstacles between their Point A and Point B. What is keeping you from reaching your desired reality in December 2024? Think through this important question with Bradley and discover a process to turn your obstacles into your way forward.

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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. 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 Club Capital 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 Club Capital Leadership Podcast.

Today on the podcast, Doug Lennick and Chuck Wachendorfer join Bradley to share how you cannot wait for someone else to fix things in your business. Every leader wants to boost their team's productivity. The first step is to strengthen your own leadership skills through learning agility, effective communication, and embracing empathy and compassion.

Experts Doug Lennick and Chuck Wachendorfer, partners at think2perform and authors of the new book, **DON’T WAIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO FIX IT**, discuss their unbeatable approach to productivity:

1. Learning Agility — A leader's ability to analyze new business situations and solve problems is a top priority. Leaders need to be curious, choose growth over comfort, resist defensiveness, experiment — and share these skills with their teams to boost productivity.

2. Effective Communication — Effective communication is a function of both someone attempting to send a message and someone receiving that message. If the receiver is not understanding the intention of the communications, then the communication is ineffective and impedes productivity. A big problem often occurs when leaders do not communicate what activities need to be undertaken to achieve the organization’s goals.

3. Embracing Empathy and Compassion — This leadership skill is more relevant than ever. Empathy is about understanding. Compassion is empathy in action. Any leader who actively cares about the well-being of their people will be rewarded with best efforts, higher productivity, and retention of the best and the brightest.

Doug Lennick is the founding CEO of think2perform, a high performance leadership development firm serving organizations in a variety of industries. Chuck Wachendorfer is President of Distribution at think2perform.They have worked with clients including American Express, Wells Fargo, Comerica Bank, TD Wealth of Canada, Charles Schwab, and others.

Get your copy of their new book at https://www.think2perform.com/dont-wait-for-someone-else-to-fix-it-book/

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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. 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.

When you're facing an issue in your business, it can be easy to think through all the levers to pull. However, you may be missing the most effective solution. In this episode, Bradley discusses why the Obstacle Is The Way forward.

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 Club Capital 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 Club Capital Leadership Podcast.

In today's episode,Alex Budak, author of "Becoming a Changemaker" joined Bradley to discuss the importance of embracing change in business. Alex is a UC Berkeley faculty member, social entrepreneur, author, and keynote speaker. He helps people from all walks of life go beyond themselves, become changemakers, and make a positive impact in their careers, companies, and communities.

His book, Becoming a Changemaker (Hachette, 2022) is described by NYTimes best-selling author Dan Heath as "a catalyst for a new generation of leaders committed to changing the world" and has been endorsed by Nobel Prize winners, Olympic athletes, and most meaningful of all—his former students

At UC Berkeley, Alex teaches his wildly-popular course “Becoming a Changemaker,” directs the Berkeley Haas Global Access Program, and is a Faculty Director for Berkeley Executive Education programs. A teacher at his core, Alex's book and changemaker curricula have been adopted by universities around the world.

As a social entrepreneur, Alex co-founded StartSomeGood, which has helped thousands of changemakers in over 50 countries raise millions of dollars to launch and scale new change initiatives. He previously ran Sweden's leading social innovation Incubator, Reach for Change, and worked at change.org.

Alex regularly speaks at Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and universities, giving talks on changemaking, entrepreneurship, and leadership in venues from Cambodia to Ukraine; China to the Arctic Circle; and the White House to UN agencies. His vision is to make change less scary, leadership more accessible, and impact more inclusive.

Learn more about Alex: https://www.alexbudak.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.

2023 went one of two ways for you and your business…

…either you didn’t have the year you wanted and you want to trash it…

…or you had a good year and you’re ready to build on it and have a GREAT year.You’ve probably done business planning in the past. You have a million great ideas, you do the exercises, then it just sits on the corner of your desk as a constant reminder of all the things you didn’t get to. Or, you’re stuck in the one-year sprint cycle that leads to burnout and frustration—and none of that is helpful to you or your business.That’s why we created The Annual. Whether you’re smashing it or struggling, this two-day retreat will help you:* Close out this year

* Evaluate, grow, and learn from the last 12 months

* Carve out space to get clear about the next 12 months

* Prioritize your goals

* Start and keep your momentum all year long

* Learn the Blueprint for SuccessMeet and learn from other business leaders who are searching for clarity and momentum—just like you.To save your seat, go to www.abovethebusiness.co/theannual

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 Club Capital 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 Club Capital Leadership Podcast.

Today on the podcast, Mike Michalowicz joins Bradley to discuss going "all in" on your business. Mike is the entrepreneur behind three multimillion-dollar companies and is the author of several business books, including Profit First, Clockwork, The Pumpkin Plan and his newest book, All In. Mike is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal and business makeover expert for MSNBC. He regularly travels the globe as an entrepreneurial advocate.

Mike’s books have been translated into over 27 different languages. His bestselling book, Profit First, has sold more than one million copies. He also is a former small business columnist for The Wall Street Journal. 

Mike launched three multi-million dollar companies before his 35th birthday and was awarded NJ SBA’s Young Entrepreneur of the Year when he was 26. He also sold his first company to private equity and his second firm to a Fortune 500 company. Today, Mike is an investor and active partner in multiple companies.

To learn more about Mike and get access to a treasure trove of entrepreneurial tips, visit www.MikeMichalowicz.com

Thanks to our sponsors:

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

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 Club Capital 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 Club Capital Leadership Podcast.

Bradley and Micah announce an exciting change for the podcast. What if you could step out of the day-to-day and see your business from a whole new perspective? Welcome to Above The Business, where we empower you to rise above the daily grind and embrace a higher way of business ownership. It's time to build your business by design.

Thanks to our sponsors:

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

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 Club Capital 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 Club Capital Leadership Podcast.

David started as an entrepreneur in 2009 after the major company he worked for shut its doors, leaving him having to find another path in life. David went to work and launched his first business in the insurance industry.  He took the business from scratch and grew it to $22 million in reoccurring revenue over the course of a few years.

Since then David has successfully launched and scaled numerous 7 & 8 figure businesses.  David is the co-founder of www.Teamhired.com which is a dedicated recruiting company that successfully staffs insurance agencies around the country, 15 million in real estate/airbnbs, Strategic Partner in Ricochet360, and Co-Founder of jarvi - a software that automates the hiring and training process in any organization powered by AI.

David is also a firm believer in philanthropy and David is also the co-founder of 5thdegree.com, the world's first kids mastermind dedicated to teaching our next generation about the 5 core areas of life:  Faith, Family, Finance, Fitness and Freedom.  The mission of the 5th Degree Academy is to teach kids what the traditional education system just isn't teaching anymore.

Thanks to our sponsors:

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

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 Club Capital 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 Club Capital Leadership Podcast.

Most business owners have new ideas every day, but those ideas get lost by the following week. In this episode, Bradley shares the concept of "The Someday Shelf" and how it can help you as a leader.

Thanks to our sponsors:

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

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 Club Capital 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 Club Capital Leadership Podcast.

Today on the podcast, Erica Hurt and David Dye join Bradley to discuss powerful phrases for dealing with workplace conflict and their new book. As owners, it’s important to understand that workplace conflict is a growing problem—everywhere. The workforce has been through unprecedented change in the last few years—for better and worse. We’ve heard all about employee stress, disengagement, quiet quitting, and mass resignations. Has all the rapid change led to more conflict in the workplace? Is conflict wearing us all down? At what cost?

Workplace culture and communication experts, Karin Hurt and David Dye of Let’s Grow Leaders, surveyed 5000+ full-time workers in over 45 countries and in all 50 United States. It turns out conflict is becoming more of an issue everywhere you go. 70% of participants report the same or more conflict over the last few years.

Karin and David’s latest book, “Powerful Phrases for Dealing With Workplace Conflict: What to Say Next to Destress the Workday, Build Collaboration, and Calm Difficult Customers” is an essential guide to master any workplace conflict with confidence and ease —for less drama and better outcomes at work.

In many workplaces today, conflict is an escalating issue. The shift to remote work and hybrid teams has left many people longing for deeper human connection. On top of this, add a younger generation clamoring for more feedback and impatient for change, steady advances in technology that can feel threatening to job security, or people reexamining priorities and quietly quitting. Take the increase in anxiety, stress, and depression—mix in the loss of human relationships—and you get less tolerance and understanding. Ultimately, this all leads to more, and more destructive, workplace conflict.

Pre-Order your copy of their book at https://letsgrowleaders.com/conflict-phrases-book/ 

Thanks to our sponsors:

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

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 Club Capital 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 Club Capital Leadership Podcast.