Aim to Win Podcast

To make a successful business, a great workplace environment is necessary, and today’s guest helps to create workplaces where people thrive. Jeff Butler is an author, professional speaker, and CEO of JButler International, which helps organizations transcend employee differences in order to maximize team productivity and output. He grew up in Silicon Valley where both of his parents built and sold software companies. In high school he was trained for the 2012 Olympics, but he gave it up when he got into UC Berkeley for computer science. Jeff started working as a software engineer, starting his first company at 23. A few years later, he fell in love with the art of speaking, becoming a TEDx speaker and starting his consulting company. He has worked with companies like Amazon, Google, and Wells Fargo, and is now building up a new agency to do automated B2B.

Highlights 

• Jeff speaks about his journey from being a software engineer to becoming a CEO, author, and TEDx speaker.
• He talks about authenticity and its three states: congruence, attunement, and the emotional side.
• He discusses the pillars of what makes a team successful: authenticity and consistency of the actual leaders.
• Jeff explains why hard times makes us extremely smart, sharp, and capable.
• The importance of authenticity and why it is crucial for a business leader.
• He says it’s essential to always be a student when running a business.

You can learn more about Jeff on his website, or follow him on Instagram. 

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Every love should be celebrated! Ty Sintrell is the Founder of BrideNavy, a company that showcases luxury weddings and provides personalized wedding gifts and accessories for LGBTQ community. BrideNavy was created when she realised same-sex couples weren’t represented on the this industry. She started in the business planning the special day for friends in 2018, learning along the way. Finding a specific market need and working hard are the reasons why she has grown amazingly fast in two years.

Highlights 

• Ty shares how BrideNavy was created when she wanted to help change the narrative with the type of home products, apparel, gifts and events that surround love for same-sex couples. 
• Leading a company that has no direct competitors and how scary it is to not be able to compare to others.
• She explains how she made the leap from corporate only when she understood that she could live with her own business.
• The importance of working hard because you never know who is watching.
• Ty tells how she feared delegating but it was the key to continue growing and not burning out. 

You can learn more about Ty on True Love Navy’s website or follow them on Instagram. 

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Learn how to stand out from the others to grow your business. Jason Stapleton is a successful entrepreneur, business coach, and marketing consultant. After graduating high school, he joined the United States Marine Corps where he developed skills as a foreign exchange currency trader. When he returned home, he co-founded Trade Empowered, a trading education company that makes 5 million dollars per year. Once he got tired of teaching, he started advising brands on how to improve their marketing and communication.

Highlights 

• Jason tells how he started Trade Empowered, a trading education company after serving the US in Iran.
• He talks about the slow process of reaching success and the liberated feeling of providing for yourself.  
• The 3 ways to grow a business: getting more people to buy your stuff, getting customers to pay more for your product, and increasing the size of your company by getting people to buy more frequently.
• Jason believes the most valuable thing you can learn is how to convince somebody to buy your stuff. 
• Understanding you have to be a brand and not a commodity, because a commodity is difficult to sell.
• The key to differentiating yourself from the rest to earn market share and charge more. 

You can learn more about Jason on his website or follow him on Twitter. 

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How do you turn a passion into a business without knowing anything about it? Alexander Zilberman, today’s guest, is founder and principal architect of AZA (Alexander Zilberman Architecture), an architecture firm rooted in NYC. He opened his own studio from scratch when he couldn’t hold in anymore his deep desire for autonomy. Now his style has improved everyday surroundings all over the world. Architecture is service before anything, that’s what he believes and why his mission is achieving each client’s goals with creativity and  passion to elevate the human experience through mindful design.

Highlights:

• Alex tells how finding his passion in architecture was life changing. In college he was mesmerized by the feeling of being really good at something.
• He shares two big lessons he learnt at college; you get back what you put in and you can do anything with desire.
• How his desire for autonomy pushed him to leave his job and start his own firm.
• Alex thinks his biggest challenge was knowing nothing about the business world, but once he learnt how to blend the creative and business knowledge, he started understanding and connecting with clients.
• He believes the starchitect concept is wrong because architecture is a service industry.
• Learning how to be a leader on the way and the importance of setting up marketing systems in your business.

You can learn more about Alex on AZA’s website or you can follow them on Instagram 

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I recently had the chance to be a featured guest on Ivy Podcast! In this exclusive episode I had the opportunity to share my tools, strategies and methods as a business coach as well as an HR executive.
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The WE is greater than the ME mentality. This is what today’s guest, Jake Kelfer, is convinced of. Jake is a bestselling author, inspirational speaker and founder of The Professional Basketball Combine: a secondary draft combine designed to give players an opportunity to showcase their talents in hopes of being selected to play professional basketball. He helps people to achieve their own definition of success and encourages the importance of starting the change today, because that’s the only shortcut in life.

Highlights:

• Jake shares his journey from dreaming of playing in the NBA to leaving it behind to pursue a greater one: helping people to follow their dreams.
• Jake tells how he leads people to achieve their own definition of success.
• The importance of knowing how to work and connect to get unlimited customers, crazy experiences, and freedom in your life.
• Why the WE is greater than the ME mentality. Helping each other to achieve greater things.
• The fit and the opportunities you create are much more valuable than just having a set of credentials. 
• Acknowledge that you learn on the way. You figure it out as you go. The first edition will never be the final edition. You learn by executing.
• Connection is the foundation for networking growth, connection has no limits.

You can learn more about Jake on his website or you can follow him on Instagram 

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You are your greatest asset. That's what Jesse Borcina, today's guest, describes when he explains the first steps to properly lead a team. Jesse's career began when he joined the Navy and decided to reach his full potential, which is why he founded his own company under the name Conscious Leadership Development, where he also serves as CEO. Sit back and listen to Jesse's advice for professional development.

Highlights:

• The key to find something essentially greater than oneself. Jesse talks about his journey from military service to teaching leadership in his own business today, and how it changed his life for good. 
• How Jesse feels about leadership. No matter how skilled you are, nothing is below you and you should always be ready to defend your team.
• Understanding the real lesson in caring that will change it all in your business. Jesse explains his small unit leadership technique that could make a difference in your workplace.
• That ability to step back and become an observer, especially for leaders. The importance of having a bird's eye view so you can analyze the big picture and focus on the next smart move.
• How to prevent your own default unconscious behaviors. Jesse's perspective on the highest level of responsibility you need to implement in your life, no matter what your spiritual beliefs are.

You can learn more about Jesse on his Instagram

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Deciding to start a company on your own is a huge game-changer, and if you’re lucky, you may encounter a new path to success. This is what happened to today’s guest, Skyler Ditchfield. Skyler is the CEO of GeoLinks, a telecommunications company which has been ranked as one of the 5000- fastest growing companies in America according to Inc. Magazine. Want to know how Skyler did it? Listen up!

Highlights: 

• Skyler talks about his journey from attempting to build various businesses which at the end did not work out, to co-founding his own company that is now a huge success. 
• The importance of always staying true to yourself and beliefs, even if that means dismissing others' advice. 
• Although finance accounting might seem like a painful responsibility, it is an absolute necessity, especially for small businesses.
• Skyler gives us a hint of what the future of his company looks like, which really excites him because it includes building a radio platform which is going to be three years ahead of its competition!
• Even though Skyler has been inside the entrepreneurial world for almost 10 years, he is finding a refreshing energy and excitement to continue growing his company.

To learn more about Skyler, you can check out his company’s website or visit his LinkedIn

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Learning how to create a powerful and secure relationship with money is definitely not an easy task. Luckily, today on Aim to Win we have Lindsay Lawless, a Money Consciousness Coach who helps women to feel confident through owning their personal and business finances. Also, Lindsay uses her vast financial knowledge to help women heal their money trauma and create sustainable wealth. 

Highlights:

• Lindsay’s journey from having a normal nine to five job in accounting, to following her own passion for empowering people and building her own business called Lawless Balance. 
• The importance of setting up your business identity and separating personal finances from business finances when wanting to grow and scale as an entrepreneur.
• Lindsay shares a learning lesson when searching for investor opportunities:  always ask for feedback, since it will help you grow a better business model.
• When starting a business, Lindsay thinks it’s important to choose the right and necessary people for your team: you are not an expert in all fields and you’ll need some help.
• Lindsay’s book, “Heal Money Trauma & Create Sustainable Wealth,” revolves around the fact that it’s key to leave our inherited negative beliefs towards money  behind, in order to build a new healthy relationship with money. 
• Even though saving money is important, Lindsay believes that what’s really going to bring wealth into your life is investing it in a business,venture or whatever your choice is. 

To learn more about Lindsay, follow her on Instagram or visit her website. Don’t forget to check out her book!

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After having a near-death experience we will probably ask ourselves "the hard questions." This is what happened to Alan Lazaros, professional speaker, business consultant, engineer and co-host  of The Hyper Conscious. Following his mother's advice to "aim high to have choices," Alan not only managed to be successful in the corporate world at an early age, but he also dedicated his efforts in sharing his view on personal growth with others.

Highlights:

• Alan shares the story of his father’s death, the struggle of his mother raising two kids and the seed of success that she planted in him when he was a boy.
• The importance of understanding why things are the way they are in order to be able to change them.
• How a life threatening accident got him into thinking about where he really wanted to go in life. 
• The changes people have to make in their habits, beliefs  and relations in order to achieve important goals.
• Alan’s ambition of simulating a near-death experience that allows us to grow but without all the trauma behind it.
• The necessity to be untethered to the past self in order to embody the full self.

To listen to Alan's podcast you can visit his website or you can follow him on Instagram.

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