Tampa Bay. In years past no one would’ve predicted that my new hometown would be a championship city like it is today. With winning hockey, baseball, and football teams, this has been a fantastic 5 months of sports!  

Whether you are a sports fan or not, those championship teams also have winning leadership and business lessons.

In this episode, you’ll get:

• The dark side of blindly believing business mantras
• The leadership insights you can take from #ChampaBay
• 3 Lessons every champion needs to learn
• How a daily text message created a championship mindset
• One reason LOVE drives results 

And, you’ll hear the secret to Super Bowl Success that you can apply in your business TODAY.

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Scroll through your favorite social media platform feed and you’ll find an unusually high percentage of perfectly arranged bookcases in the background, funny pets, and selfies captured with ideal lighting. 

Curated images.  

No one else sees the hundreds of deleted images taken and discarded before the “right” one shows up in your feed.  

It’s simple to present a polished image online...and all too easy to believe that if you just tried a little harder, pushed a little farther, hustled a little longer, you’d have the same magic unicorn success as the gurus whose ads show up over and over again. 

But no magic pills, potions, or unicorns will lead to success if you aren’t leading your team with the right heart. 

That’s why in this episode, you’ll get:

• The true confessions of a Level 2 Leader 
• Why “the customer is always right” may be dead wrong
• How knowing the 3 levels of leaders may prevent burnout and chaos...and knowing that means you can take advantage of it today 
• WHAT the two main roles in every business are, how they intersect and the exact question each one needs to take 100% responsibility for   
• Three characteristics every successful leader needs to embrace

Plus how it all works together as a solid foundation for building and keeping a team you love.

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Teams. Building a team. Managing a team. Delegating tasks or projects to a team member. Finding and hiring a team member. 

When you hear those words and phrases, what pops into your mind?

If you’re like most solopreneurs or entrepreneurs that have a small team, you probably struggle to get excited about having or growing a team. It may sound like more trouble than it’s worth. You may wonder if it’ll even be worth it. And, if you’ve had a bad experience before, you may question how or why it’ll be different this time.  

Which is why I’m so excited about this week’s podcast episode! 

In this episode, you’ll get:

• Why knowing the 3 levels of leaders may prevent burnout and chaos...and how you can take advantage of it today 
• Three characteristics every successful leader needs to embrace
• The four simple steps to simplify your business 
• How to evaluate your activities to know EXACTLY what to change
• What the two main roles in every business are, HOW they intersect and WHAT each one needs to take 100% responsibility for   

And, how that all works together is the solid foundation for building and keeping a team you love.

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For some the college experience is filled with parties and fun while for others it’s a grind of school work and studying. For me, it was an exciting opportunity to pave the way as the only male in an all-female freshman dorm! 

As the Head Resident the position wasn’t as much fun-and-games as it was leading, inspiring, and guiding. And a big part of that was building and leading a team of 6 female RAs who eagerly embraced their mission to make freshman year unforgettable and rewarding for all the incoming freshman girls in our dorm.   

Those leadership lessons I learned on the College of William and Mary campus have stayed with me as I’ve worked within the teams others built and went on to build businesses and teams myself.

In this episode of the podcast, you’ll hear:

• The EXACT leadership lesson I’ve had to relearn over and over again and I’m sharing it with you so you learn from my experience
• 2 questions that are 100% your responsibility
• One question you should NEVER spend another moment on 
• Why most leaders can’t attract and keep A+ team players and how you can 

And so much more!

Leaders Simplify Teamwork and focusing on the right questions helps you grow For Love of Team™. 

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The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.  --Hans Hofman.

In our noisy world, it’s all too easy to allow the unnecessary to gain control of our businesses and of our lives. But a big part of leadership is being self-aware and that awareness can help you see what is necessary. 

We believe that one thing that’s necessary is:

Leaders Simplify Teamwork. 

After focusing on Leaders, Leadership, and how to be a Level 3 Leader for the last couple of episodes, today we’re moving to the second pillar of Simplify.

As Hans Hofman said, we need to simplify so that the necessary can speak. In our businesses, that’s our mission, vision, and impact. 

You’ll want to grab a pen and paper to take notes as you listen in to:

• A brief recap of the characteristics you want to model to be a great leader
• The fastest way to build a team you love
• How the power of simplicity turned a recent retreat into a “wow” experience 
• The 4 steps to SIMPLIFYING your business, including a foundational evaluation that you’ll want to return to again and again as you grow and scale your business

The breakdown of the 4 steps are the perfect way to implement Leaders Simplify Teamwork so you can build an amazing team.

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You can’t help but be aware of the leadership, lack of leadership, and the leadership inconsistencies that we’ve seen recently here in America.  

Regardless of where you are on the political spectrum (or political awareness spectrum), the recent events have been part of everyone’s consciousness. 

I’m not talking politics in this episode but we can all take leadership lessons from the events that have occurred.

This week, you don’t want to miss diving into:

• Who you have to lead first to be successful
• The question of whether mastery is attainable
• A surprising twist to looking at richness in business
• How love actually is leadership
• Why being called to be generous isn’t necessarily talking about money

And, you’ll hear how exemplifying the characteristics of a Level 3 Leader can transform your business...and, dare I say, the world?

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Have you ever picked up an old business book from the shelves of a library or a used book store and tried to read it? In the words of a famous ad, “You’ve come a long way, baby.” What we think of as effective management has changed over the years. From the psychology of motivation to new technology and, especially today, with our remote workplaces, what worked “back then” isn’t effective today. 

Today’s leaders need to shift their mindset and their practices to build a sustainable, thriving, business. 

Level 3 leaders make those shifts. There are 3 words that describe the journey of a Level 3 Leader: Leaders, Simplify, and Teamwork. Regardless of where you are on your own leadership journey, this episode will give you food for thought about changes to make in your business.

Listen in to hear:

• Why self-awareness is the key to business success
• What your most precious resource is and how to spend it wisely
• The 2 extremes that kill our business processes 
• What you need to unify your team
• The best tool to maximize your team’s efforts

And I share the secret to business success that I found after 40 years of leading teams.

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A false choice can be defined as something that you have to pick between...something that looks like an either/or situation when, in reality, it’s a both/and opportunity instead.   

Growing a business has a multitude of moments like that. You find yourself facing a choice and only see 2 options but, often, it isn’t just 2 options...there’s more choices than what you first see. 

There are 3 pillars of growing a mission-based business. Many business owners mistake those pillars as either/or choices instead of seeing them as both/and opportunities. 

Join me in this episode, where you’ll get:

• The most dangerous time in the growth stages of a business
• Why throwing money at the problem doesn’t solve it
• The needed mindset shift to achieve team building success 
• A simple question that horrified my successful business mentors
• My personal story where a single comment changed everything for my family

And, you’ll hear how cultivating a healthy respect (and dare I say, love) for all 3 pillars is the key to being ready...

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The year of 2020 was supposed to be one of perfect vision and clarity. But we ended up with “pandemic,” “unprecedented,” and new phrases like “social distancing” and “Don’t forget your mask.” 

Twenty years ago, no one could have predicted that 2020 would end this way. But I wasn’t even focused that far into the future. I was too busy founding and building a social enterprise business that grew to a $4.5 million dollar revolutionary business. 

And that’s the same business I left 5 years ago after I fired myself. If you missed that story, you can catch up on podcast episode 61.  

That business was also the location of the biggest failure of my career and is the same thing that I’d bet is the biggest challenge for you as your business begins to flourish.

In this episode, you’ll get:

• What keeps your business mission-driven without burn-out
• A counterintuitive way to look at the stages of business growth
• The challenge with loving an idea or product 
• The problem when you can’t take care of your clients by yourself any longer
• 3 steps to SIMPLIFYING your business

And, you’ll hear the For Love of Team mission and how we can help you during the next 25 years...with perfect vision and clarity.

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Public speaking. A favorite assignment for many people. Right?!?

How about presenting an unscripted, unrehearsed 18 minute keynote speech without notes?  On a topic you just decided upon last night?   In front of your peers, being videotaped and critiqued in real time?  

Welcome to season 2. Episode 61 of the newly renamed For Love of Team podcast.  It’s the #BeginAgain moment for the podcast.

That was me a few months ago at my friend Kent Julian’s Speak it Forward bootcamp.  

I began the keynote with a story about my dream business.  

A service born out of necessity.  Reaching multi-million dollar status. Employing team members across 10 different states.  Enjoying a reputation for excellent customer service.  Growing market share.  

Paradise, right? There was a dark side. One I share during this keynote.  

Yet delivering  this speech gave me another unexpected benefit.  

An insight about other businesses which ultimately fail to meet their potential.  

So, let’s take you to that keynote, a few months ago outside of Atlanta.  

The precise moment when For Love of Team was born.  

Listen in to hear the first time I ever publicly said…“I fired myself.”

The podcast also reveals: 

• My first entrepreneurial venture and how I got my sister to pay a nickel to read her own book
• The leadership lessons I learned along my own journey
• The key role each leader needs to ensure they’re getting and also filling for others
• What’s worse than an ill-equipped leader and how to avoid it
• How God directed me to 1 Corinthians 13 and opened my eyes to For Love of Team 
• The one surprising thing every leader needs to do to multiply their impact

 And so much more.

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