April Garcia's PivotMe

REPLAY: Our guest today is a top business consultant, best-selling author of multiple books, and world-renowned speaker, Cameron Herold. He's the driving force behind hundreds of companies' exponential growth and he's directly influenced innumerable businesses through his expertise.

Cameron is the founder of the COO Alliance, author of Double Double / Meetings Suck / Vivid Vision / Free PR / The Miracle Morning for Entrepreneurs. He is also the mastermind behind 1-800-GOT-JUNK?'s amazing growth as their COO plus the adviser to several large companies including a "Big 4" wireless carrier and a monarchy.

In this episode, we discuss how Cameron was groomed to become an entrepreneur at a young age and now uses that expertise to help grow businesses. Cameron shares the focus- faith- effort formula that you need to execute to become a successful entrepreneur.

Listen in to learn how to perfect the art of building a personal brand by design!

Pivotal Questions Asked:

• How does one become an adviser to a Monarchy?
• What's a pivotal moment in your life when it all changed?
• Can you expand on the concept of vivid vision and how often you're communicating that to your team?
• I noticed that you have a really strong personal brand, how did you go about that process?

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• How Cameron was groomed by his parents to become an entrepreneur and the value of time for him
• How to create a daily accountability partner to help you get through your goals
• The three things that he focuses on when attending mastermind events

Connect with Cameron Herold:

Website: https://cameronherold.com/

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit http://www.pivot-me.com/4Steps/ to get it TODAY!

👉👉 Connect with me here:

• Website: https://www.pivot-me.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia

Dig in to this Inspirational, Insightful, and Vulnerable interview with Sales Expert Ian Koniak. With over 100M sold at Fortune 500 companies, Ian is a leading expert in sales and his global clients have included Berkshire Hathaway, Experian, Activision, Toshiba, and Panda Express.

In this episode Ian shares with us about his rise to success, his rocky start in management, and the amazing success he's had in the last 3 years. We learn so much from Ian's story. He had risen to the top, literally, but knew it was not enough. Ian takes us on a journey from teaching English in South America, falling in love in Venezuela, and at 23 searching for a career that could support his life and give him options for his future.

He settles on sales, and does extremely well, but then reaches a point that its not enough.

He eventually goes into management and has a rude awakening when he realizes he cannot manage others the way he likes to be managed. They were not motivated by the same things.

When Ian realized his mood, identity and happiness were completely tied to his performance at work, despite having a wonderful life outside of work, he made more massive changes. He joined a $20,000 Mastermind and his income tripled, his marriage strengthened, and he found happiness in other ways. He invested in himself, his growth, and not just professional achievement.

And yet there was still another twist in Ian's story. Listen to hear what happened!

Ian and April both get real about both the rush and the downside of sales careers and the cycle of sabotage that can destroy great performers.

Ian Koniak is a Sales Authority with a massive commitment to alignment, vision, and purpose, and has held countless positions for top sales, including holding the #1 position in the Enterprise Division of Salesforce.com, a 17 billion dollar global company with more than 50,000 employees worldwide.

Quotable Moments:

"In sales, my raise becomes effective when I am."

(regarding management) "There are people that get motivation from elsewhere, and you can't just hammer someone and expect them to work the way you do. It doesn't work."

"I feel like I unlocked the secret of life. I'm such a well-rounded person now… I was always an excellent performer at work, but the last 3 years have been unbelievable. That made all the difference for me."

"If you take one thing away from this podcast as a manager, before 'meeting people where they are' you must first CARE where they are, and where they want to GO."

"People don't care what you know, until they know that you care."

To learn more about Ian Koniak check him out at https://iankoniak.com/

And to get tips by Ian and a daily does of motivation www.instagram.com/iankoniak/

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👉👉 Connect with me here:

• Website: https://www.pivot-me.com
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/AprilGarciaPivotMe
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/theAprilGarcia/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/theaprilgarcia

Hear how April navigates through her sickness. Yes, she got COVID… Learn how she was able to handle her business while handling her health.

April shares some tips on how she was able to disappear for 9 days. And yet, PivotMe continued delivering tremendous value, and clients still were served. Projects still advanced, even without her presence.

In This Episode You Will Learn:

[4:55] How did April handle being out for 9 days?

[6:11] How did all projects still were delivered and all clients served?

[11:41] How to do ruthless prioritization.

[13:21] Tips recap.

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What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

On PivotMe today, we talk to MJ Gordon, Business Owner and coach that scaled her business, built her team, and then - burned it all to the ground when she realized her foundation was weak. She helps provide people with clear steps that help them create life on their terms.

MJ explains how she learned to slow down and live everyday vacation after years of 100-hour weeks building a business. In this episode, we discuss the importance of taking care of yourself as a high performer and respecting your support system as a new business owner.

Listen in to learn how to practice negative visualization to help you change from the destructive course you're headed towards. You will also learn how to live intentionally by building a foundation for your life and doing the things that serve you.

Pivotal Questions Asked:

• [3:40] Would you explain what the everyday vacation is and why you started the idea?
• [9:36] How did you manage your mindset with everything you had going on?
• [12:00] How did you manage this transition from going 100-hour weeks to having an affirmation on slowing down?
• [33:56] What would you say to someone who's questioning the demands of their schedule and the way they're approaching their business?
• [49:54] If you could tell the world one thing, what would it be?

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [7:40] How she transformed her life to focus on creating a lifestyle that supported recovery.
• [12:08] How to stop justifying your intense work hours and focus on living intentionally.
• [21:59] How to balance moving into your sympathetic and parasympathetic to have more resilience to stress.
• [27:26] Don't diminish your service value and ability to give more by giving up your support system to be more productive.
• [30:06] Ask yourself if you're willing to sacrifice your life to build the business you envision.
• [34:17] Get to know yourself first and then identify how to set up your business in a way that serves you.
• [45:21] How we sometimes create fictitious reasons for ourselves that are not truly serving.
• [50:00] Put love first and stop living in fear.

Quotes:

• "You can definitely through small intentional acts consistently move towards a goal."- MJ [12:34]

• "We actually have a high resilience capacity, but only for a short period of time."- MJ [22:41]

• "A lot of time if you're so busy that you don't have time for yourself, you don't get to know yourself at all."- MJ [35:15]

Connect with MJ:

• Website: https://www.mj-gordon.com/
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/MJGordon1/videos
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/marinjayden
• IG: https://www.instagram.com/marinjayden/

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

On PivotMe today, we have Kute Blackson, a speaker, author, and transformational teacher, that offers a fresh, bold look at spiritual and self-awareness that might just make a few of us uncomfortable. He was born in Ghana into a family of ministers and expectations and no one was more surprised than him when his father handed over his 3,000-person congregation to Kute at 14 years old. He is now the author of the national bestselling book You.Are.The.One. and most recently, The Magic of Surrender. He is considered the next generation leader in the field of personal development and has been featured on Larry King Now, Fox and Friends, Dr. Drew, and Inc magazine calls him 'The Mindfulness Guru Billionaires Go to For Advice'.

Kute explains how pain physically, mentally, and spiritually manifests in our lives when we lie to ourselves, and how we can transform our lives by telling the truth.

In this episode, we discuss the importance of really getting to know yourself and acknowledging your fears to start living in truth. Listen in to learn how to make peace with losing people and situations in order to live your most authentic and aligned life.

Pivotal Questions Asked:

• [3:50] Talk about the trajectory that you were on and what made you make such a pivot in your journey.
• [22:01] Would you say most of the time we're not telling ourselves the truth in fear of hurting or losing somebody else?
• [28:38] How do you walk that balance of positively conditioning people while also living in their truth?
• [47:28] What is surrender?
• [54:24] If you could tell the world one thing, what would it be?

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [10:53] How to set yourself free by acknowledging all the ways you lie to yourself and start telling the truth.
• [14:04] How to know that you're lying to yourself and start telling the truth to change your life.
• [22:12] How we're unconsciously wired to get love, validation, and approval which keeps us in survival mode.
• [28:48] How not to allow society to dictate your life for you by having the flexibility to respond to the music of life authentically.
• [40:53] Understanding how the truth serves and honors you and the other person involved.
• [47:37] Surrender- taking the limits off of life to be able to pivot to what's most authentic.
• [54:27] Meditate on your death - stop living in fear and give life everything so you don't have regrets.

Quotes:

• "When you follow your soul and you don't compromise your truth and what you're being guided to do even if it doesn't make any sense, you'll always end up in the right place with the right people."- Kute [9:18]
• "One of the things as human beings that keep us unhappy, stuck, and from fulfilling our true potential in life and creating the life that we truly want are all the ways we lie to ourselves."- Kute [12:30]
• "Real healing and how we start healing the patterns within real healing happens when we bring loving and compassion to those parts of ourselves that are hurting."- Kute [28:04]

Connect with Kute:

• Website: http://kuteblackson.com/
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kuteblackson/?hl=en
• Podcast: http://kuteblackson.com/soultalk/

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

Do you have a set of affirmations that help you become an intentional parent? It's important to create a set of affirmations that work for your dynamic and relationship so you can positively influence your kids.

In this episode, April shares the 3 affirmations that she uses to make her a better more present parent. Listen in to learn the importance of first understanding your kids' actions by using the right language to make them feel heard.

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [3:20] The importance of affirmations in parenting just as much as in high performance.
• [5:12] The three of April's most common affirmations and how she best says them.
• [5:35] I am a present, patient, and joyful mom – switching hats from business to parent.
• [9:52] Bring the joy – a reminder to change the energy in the room and be joyful.
• [11:27] I seek first to understand – first understand your kids to make them feel heard.
• [14:19] Remember to be a good listener and create space for them to process their emotions.
• [15:50] Recapping the episode plus the power of creating your own affirmations.

Quotes:

• "Affirmations are just as important in your parenting as they're in high performance."- April [3:26]

• "We're all influencers so let's be intentional in how we're influencing others."- April [16:21]

• "Whatever it is for you, create your affirmations specific to your dynamic and your relationship."- April [16:40]

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

What problem does this episode solve? Parents not being present and missing the raising of their kids.

In this episode PivotMe, April reflects on how to be very intentional in our parenting and actually enjoy the process.

April will bring some perspective and levity to one of the toughest jobs on earth. For sure the most challenging and rewarding job we will ever have.

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [8:18] How to understand our kid's love language and what drives them
• [17:17] What happens when we as parents get frustrated and angry emotions
• [26:58] Showing our kids how to live the life we want them to live

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

Do you tend to show co-dependency in most of your relationships? Always sacrificing your life for others while you neglect your own needs?

In this episode PivotMe, April talks about her realization of her lifelong co-dependency in her relationships. Listen in to learn the importance of shifting from a savior complex and instead concentrating on saving yourself and being a shepherd.

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [2:40] April on when she realized she'd allowed and created co-dependent relationships in her life.
• [10:50] Understand that your loved ones need you to be their shepherd instead of their savior.
• [11:45] How to shift from your savior self to a shepherd that leads their people.
• [14:09] Start living your life while guiding others instead of sacrificing it.

Quotes:

• "There's a fine line between being a provider, a savior, and an enabler."- April [10:56]
• "They don't need me to save myself, they need to watch me save myself."- April [11:39]
• "Just because we've been this way for a long time doesn't mean we need to stay this way."- April [12:44]

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

Are you reserving the feeling of success for when you achieve your goals? How about stepping into that feeling right now through visualization? Identify the feeling you get by achieving that goal of yours, connect with it, and then visualize it daily and out loud.

In this episode PivotMe, April talks about visualization and the power of connecting your goals with the feeling you'll get after achieving them. Listen in to learn how to step into the feeling of who you will become after achieving your goals.

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [2:08] The power of standard visualization and its benefits in goal setting and high performance.
• [3:53] Strategic visualization – preparing for challenges that will occur in your journey.
• [5:27] Somatic visualization – the feeling you'll have when you achieve that goal.
• [6:52] The power of connecting our goals with the feeling we'll get after achieving them.
• [8:19] Learning how to step into the feeling of who you will become after achieving your goals.

Quotes:

• "Our life is made up of feelings, not about the things we've done, but how we feel about the things we've done."- April [8:12]
• "If you want to be a first-generation millionaire in your family, then 4 times a day you must step up into the feeling of being a self-made millionaire."- April [8:58]

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!

Where did you put a ceiling on your achievements because of the "someone like me" belief? It's time to acknowledge that this is a non-serving limiting belief that needs reframing because you're wildly capable.

In this episode PivotMe, April shares the lessons she learned from her 90k Mastermind in Belize. Listen in to learn how to stop selling yourself short by accepting marginal achievement because it's good for someone like you.

In This Episode You Will Learn:

• [2:21] April describes her unexpected experience in Belize as an avid traveler.
• [6:17] How she removed herself from the distractions to get to the root of what was holding her back.
• [9:42] How not to allow the limiting belief of having done well for "someone like you" stop you from scaling the heights of success.
• [13:31] Start believing that you're wildly capable and can achieve beyond the ceiling you've placed over your achievements.

Quotes:

• "Many of my biggest insights didn't come from the content itself but in the removal of my comforts."- April [6:19]
• "We often need to be stripped of distractions to get to the root of what is holding us back."- April [6:57]

What can you do today? To Be Productive. Effective. Perform at your best. Even now.

Are you struggling to stay focused? If you have the right framework, it takes the guesswork out of Productivity.

Get our FREE mini-series 4 Steps: Doing More in Less Time. Visit pivot-me.com/4Steps to get it TODAY!