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David Siegel is the CEO of Investopedia – the biggest financial and investment education site in the world. In today’s episode, David breaks down his one-of-a-kind approach to management, and how he’s using it to transform Investopedia. He also talks about what it really means to ask less and give more, explores the true power of one-on-one conversations, and reveals why leading with genuine curiosity is the best way to make connections and build meaningful relationships.

Topics include:

Why every employee should be the “CEO of their domain”

How to talk to your boss

Making your ask as focused and important as possible

Why every conversation you have is a job interview (and how to prepare for it)

The importance of optionality

David Siegel is a digital media executive with over 18 years of experience leading organizations through innovative product development, rapid revenue growth and traffic acceleration. He most recently served as President of Seeking Alpha, a crowdsourced investment research business with over 4 Million registered users. There, he oversaw all U.S.-based functions - sales, marketing, product and business development. Under his leadership, digital media sales grew by 30% and subscription sales by over 300%.

Prior to Seeking Alpha, he served as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of Everyday Health’s Local Division, which connects consumers to health care professionals. Leading a large team, for the fastest growing division of the company, he built out specialty content sites, directories and marketing services for physicians, payers and hospitals. David was previously the Senior Vice President, Strategy & Corporate Development for 1-800-Flowers.com, overseeing strategic planning, business and corporate development, marketing strategy, partnerships and analytics. Prior to that role, he served as GM, New Businesses at Duane Reade.

David has worked as a strategy consultant for Deloitte Consulting and William M. Mercer and as the Director, Organizational Development for DoubleClick. David holds a BA in Philosophy, Politics & Economics from the University of Pennsylvania, and an MBA from The Wharton School.

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In today’s episode, things take a mystical turn as world-renowned leadership expert and bestselling author Dov Baron shows us how to add a little more soul to our personal and professional relationships. During the course of our conversation, Dov explores what it really it means to be a purpose-driven leader, uncovers the three things you should ask yourself to expand your enterprise, and reveals why spreading generosity is the secret to cultivating stronger relationships and better business. 

Topics include:

How to align your life and career with your true purpose

Discernment vs. judgment

Why everyone from janitors to CEOs need to be their own chief relationships officer

The law of reciprocity

How to really ask for what you want

Why “does this sit with me?” should be your go-to question

One of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100 Leadership Speakers to hire, Dov Baron is a leadership advisor to the United Nations, a bestselling author, the world’s only Corporate Cultural Momentum Strategist, and a top-ranking podcast host. He is also the leading authority on Authentic Leadership, and Leadership Succession or, as he prefers to call it, “Full Monty Leadership.”

Dov is the bestselling author of several books, including Don’t Read This…Unless You Want More Money! and Fiercely Loyal: How High Performing Companies Develop and Retain Top Talent. He also writes for and has been featured in many industry magazines including CNN, CBS Small Business Pulse, SHRM, Yahoo Finance, Boston Globe, Business in Vancouver, USA Today, CEO, Entrepreneur and many more.

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Kembrew McLeod has built one hell of a career. When he’s not shaping minds as the “RoboProfessor” at the University of Iowa, Kembrew is penning bestsellers, producing award-winning documentaries, and sharing his insights on music and culture in Rolling...

Steve Polsky is the founder and CEO of Juvo – a socially driven tech company that helps people across the globe gain unprecedented access to financial services. He is single-handedly bringing meaningful and longstanding relationships back into the financial industry. Today he shows us how he does it. We also talk about what it really means to change lives, how he’s able to foster connections on a global scale, and the two-fold way to build deeper relationships.

Topics include:

Showing you can deliver results (and how to do it)

The real way to use data to drive growth and adoption

Exploring new models to dispel stigmas

Doing everything for the long-term

The art of staying in touch

Steve Polsky founded Juvo Mobile with the goal of providing basic financial services to people worldwide through the ubiquity of mobile service around the world. Steve’s career has centered on founding, launching, and managing early stage technology ventures, including Flixster/Rotten Tomatoes, Amber Networks, VoicePlex Corporation and Edusoft. Steve is a lecturer for the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania’s undergraduate course in Entrepreneurship, and he holds five patents in telecommunications network architecture. Steve is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania’s Management and Technology Program with degrees in Computer Science from the Moore School of Engineering and Finance from the Wharton School.

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Pia Silva thrives on breaking from convention. Her unique philosophies on branding have helped everyone from small enterprises and solopreneurs to industry giants MTV and Six Flags jumpstart their businesses. She’s also a regular contributor for Forbes, and her debut book Badass Your Brand hits the bookshelves this week. Today Pia breaks down her unusual methodology for building a booming business. She also gives us the inside scoop on her book, explores what it means to be your brand, and reveals why the greatest relationships stem from an exchange of ideas instead of business cards.

Topics include:

Building a business that plays to your strengths

Creating content that is really representative of your views

Saying no from an authentic place

What it means to operate with integrity

Using content and events to keep in touch with connections

Entrepreneur, speaker and writer Pia Silva is a partner and brand strategist at Worstofall Design where they build Badass Brands without the BS  for 1-3 person service businesses in 1-3 day intensives. She is a Forbes contributor and has spoken at a host of entrepreneurial organizations including Goldman Sach's 10,000 small businesses, The Chamber of Commerce, Squarespace, and We Work. Her company was named top "10 Design Firms Lead By Young People That Are Changing the Way We Look at the World" by Complex.

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At the age of twenty-four, Jennifer Hudye has already cultivated a powerful network that includes everyone from celebrities to bestselling authors to billionaires. Today she spills her secrets. Jennifer also talks about how she built her booming digital marketing business, shows us how to push through rejection, and reveals why it’s crucial for everyone to honor their own path. 

Topics include:

The threefold way to connect with influential people

Filtering your connections

How to fit relationship building into your business model

What it means to take massive action (and how to do it)

How to manage (and prepare for) explosive growth

Jennifer Hudye is a multi-passionate and purpose-driven entrepreneur. She is curious about a lot and always has been. She is in love with holistic health (high performance), people (marketing) and creation and innovation (entrepreneurship). Currently, her company Conscious Copy & Co helps online coaches and experts in the personal growth and health/wellness space build trust and attention with their prospects through email marketing.

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In today’s episode, podcast host and bestselling author Ed O’Keefe reveals how he decoded the art and science behind speeding up success in his megahit book Time Collapsing! Ed also schools us on the real power of language, and explores how it translates to target marketing and the art of building relationships. 

Topics include:

His personal business strategies (and why they work)

Developing your economic engine 

How to build a super niche in the podcasting world

Choosing models that are aligned with your values

How to ace Facebook ads

Entrepreneur, bestselling author, and most importantly the father of seven, Ed O’Keefe has gone from being dead broke to cracking the code of starting and taking multiple businesses from zero to multiple 7 and even 8 figures. He is the creator and founder of top selling brands such as Marine-D3, and strategic consulting products helping motivated entrepreneurs take their idea to market and scale using multiple media channels. Ed is also an investor in KNOWFoods – a fast growing company that makes eating healthy, gluten-free, grain free, wheat free, soy free, dairy free, non-GMO, & near zero glycemic index fun and taste amazing.

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In today’s episode, we explore a cool, new concept that’s revolutionizing the way we approach education – the flipped classroom. More importantly, we decipher how its groundbreaking methods apply to marketing and social media, and how you can use it to make powerful connections, build mutually rewarding relationships and jumpstart your business.

Topics include:

Flipping old paradigms to encourage new forms of education

Why social media is a valuable source of research

The true importance of real-time interaction

Why you should treat social media like Google

Customer understanding vs. customer service

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Have you ever noticed that the best marketers, leaders and self-promoters tend to have a flair for the dramatic? Steve Jobs…P.T. Barnum…Donald Trump? These guys knew (or know) how to put on a show…and this is no coincidence. Adding a good dose of theatricality to the humdrum world of business is one of the best ways to grab attention and gain the competitive edge. In today’s episode, we explore this idea even further, and reveal how anyone can translate the power of theater to the art of self-promotion.

Topics include:

Building a role for yourself (and not overacting it)

The importance of contrast and opposites

Redefining your expectations of the audience

Playing to people’s psychology

Lessons on character and immersion from Toni Collette

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Everyone knows that if you want to make powerful connections and launch a successful career, you’ll need to become an authority in your field.

Or do you?

If you really want to rise to the top of your trade, it’s far more important to play the part of the authority than it is to actually be one. Today we tell you how to do it. We also take a look at history to study those who – for better or worse – have used this concept to gain notoriety and solidify their places as kings of industry.

Machiavelli would be proud.

Topics include:

Why there is always a game being played (and why that’s okay)

Discarding the idea of the “true self”

Lessons on authority from “the goat-gland physician” John R. Brinkley

What brain science has to say about perceived authority

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