Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast

What do you do when you lose 90% of your ability to see? You focus your vision and accomplish amazing things for the world and for God. This is the journey of my guest, Amber Keirra. She has embarked on a mission to help people with disability get the support they deserve and the opportunity to SERVE at their local churches. 

Amber is educating 100s of people on how to serve this woefully underserved population in the church. Amber's enthusiasm and excitement for this VISION God has given to her is contagious and 100s have caught on a joined. 

Learn about what she is doing and how you can be a part of this movement. PLUS, Amber shares some powerful wisdom on narrowing your focus and being purposeful with your mindset and goals. Don't miss this wisdom-packed episode! 

Amber's Story

Amber Kierra lost 90% of her eyesight growing up and has learned to use courage to overcome fear and navigate obstacles of any kind. She believes in a world where we are not held back by our circumstances rather we live our lives rooted in purpose with boldness and courage. This belief has instilled an immense drive to empower others to take the next step in making their wildest dreams come true. She is the Founder & CEO of a ministry called Kingdom Eyes, professional speaker, and skilled life coach. She is truly committed to transforming leaders into bold world changers.

You can connect with Amber by visiting https://www.amberkierra.com/

Learning how to harness your strengths is a challenge most of us struggle with. With all the resources available to us we can get lost in the sea of options and never really move forward. 

In this 3 part series, I focus on a simple three-phase process to build a foundation for your strengths, begin to grow them, and then lastly empower others to do the same. 

In this episode, I help you give your strengths a firm foundation by showing you the EXACT 4-step process you can follow. The foundation starts with these three items:

Know Your Strengths

Show Your Strengths

Grow Your Strengths

Once you work through these areas, you'll find your strengths are immediately being challenged, growing, and more ready for you to use. 

 

Music On This Episode:

We Feel by tubebackr | https://soundcloud.com/tubebackrMusic promoted by https://www.free-stock-music.com

In this interview, we get a glimpse at how Kit leads his teams and why they are so successful. Kit shares his wisdom on how to empower your team and create opportunities for them. From weekly check-ins to freedom to start new business divisions, Kit has a philosophy of giving his team opportunities to grow, expand, and keeps them accountable to their goals. 

He is currently running 3 different home service businesses and has a start-up called Future Wealth that helps people manage their money today for their future selves. At Future Wealth, their goal is to empower you to understand your options, so that you can make great financial decisions for your future.

You can check out their website by visiting https://www.futurewealth.ca/

You can also find Kit at https://www.linkedin.com/in/kit-hulbert-4007a212/

Todays's episode may be the most unique one to date. It also might be my favorite. In this episode, I have a fun conversation with my grandma about her history. From her experiences growing up in Kansas in the 1930s to her California adventures and how she met my grandpa, her stories and wisdom will be an encouragement to you. 

Not only this, what she shares will inspire you too! With that said, one of the main reasons I did this episode is to dedicate time to getting to know my grandma. When was the last time that you give someone 60-minutes of your undivided attention and asked a bunch of curiosity-based questions? I'll wait....

Most of us rarely do this and some never have. Let this episode serve as a challenge to you to find a loved one or friend to who you can give this sort of attention to. I guarantee it will worth both of your time and will provide a deepening in that relationship more than you know!

To learn more about what I'm up to and to check out my Leadershift Challenge, please visit https://gillettesolutions.com/30-day-challenge/

Welcome to another episode of the SAGE Mindset Podcast. Today’s episode features Ben Luts or Cypress Overland. He and his wife run an amazing business that allows you to get away from the busyness of life and business to enjoy time on the road doing off road adventures, camping, and even some luxury wining and dining! 

Is this episode, Ben shares his story of travels around the world and across the US to eventually (kind of by serdepity) purchase and begin running Cypress Overland. Ben says sometimes you need to take that ONE step to reveal what the next five steps are. 

Ben and his wife are a living example of this advice and the impact they are making on their customers shows the empowering affect of decisions like this and having an amazing wife to make a business run smoothly! 

You can learn more about Cypress Overland by visiting https://cypressoverland.com or checking them out on Instagram and Facebook.

After studying the lives of great leaders and experiencing great leaders, there's one interesting approach that is common to their leadership. These leaders choose to lead in the context of eating with others. 

On this episode, I talk about how you can leverage this leadership strategy in three ways.

Invite your employees to meals and serve them through this experience by listening and supporting.

Invite friends, coworkers, and peers to meals and share what you want to accomplish in your life and business to build powerful accountability.

Invite someone that you would like to mentor you to a meal and ask great questions, listen intently, and enjoy your meal with them. 

There is remarkable power in fellowship and sharing a meal together. SAGE Leaders are intentional about this and choose to create contexts to enjoy food with those they influence and those that influence them. 

Your challenge is to list out 3-5 people that you can invite to a meal over the course of the next 30-days. Pick at least one person from each of the 3 categories mentioned above.

If you want to learn how passionate, motivated, and influential leaders are getting massive results because of accountability, please visit gillettesolutions.com and click on the mastermind link.

Learn how SAGE Accountability Pods can unlock your goals and help you achieve more faster.  

https://gillettesolutions.com/business-accountability-mastermind/

In today's episode, Michael and I discuss the power of improv and the need for preparation. As leaders, we need both of these skills to truly succeed in what we do.

Michael is a visionary probl em solver, mischievous provocateur and good old-fashioned instigator, Michael loves to have fun in life and is committed to helping others do the same. He believes that individuals who have the most fun in life, are those who embrace the innovative mindset and unleash their unique power onto the world.

Enjoy this episode as we discuss fear of failure, the power of improvisation, and the necessity of preparation. It's an amazing combination that unlocks powerful potential in leadership.

In part three of this series, I look at the powerful practice of prayer in leadership and how you can use it to be more reflective, get powerful insights, unlock vision in your leadership, and release stress. 

These are only a few of the benefits of being a praying leader. In this episode, I also challenge you to start doing two things.

Write down the ideas, stressors, wants, and struggles that you have as a leader then release then through prayer. When you do this consistently, my promise to you is that you will have a freer, less stressed, and more powerful leadership experience than you have now.

The second challenge is to wake up early and as your first real action of the day - pray. Don't listen to an audiobook, check your email, or look at social media. Get up and quietly reflect/pray. This is not meditation but praying in gratitude and in request for the things that you really want. 

Prayer is a strange topic in the world of business but we all know whether you believe in God or not, there is tremendous power in prayer. I choose to believe God is answering. 

If you want to learn more about this practice or share how prayer has impacted your leadership, please email me [email protected].

In this episode, I interview Jacqueline Wales. We touch on so many powerful insights and pieces of wisdom I can't put it all here but 3 points that stood out for me were:

Learn to leverage your fear and turn it into courage.

Trusting yourself is a crucial piece to growth and overcoming fear.

Ask. If you want something, ask for it. Simple. 

For more than 35 years, Jacqueline Wales has explored human behavior and asked tough questions to discover hard truths. She believes in the power of fearlessness to create the career and life you want.

As a motivational speaker, professional coach, author of The Fearless Factor and other books, Jacqueline has helped countless people become more empowered, confident, and resilient.

Her work focuses on leaders who will dig into self-discovery, take accountability for their actions and responsibility for their decisions. She challenges herself daily to be better and challenges her clients to do the same—pushing boundaries and breaking through excuses to achieve results.

To connect with Jacqueline, please visit her at the following links. 

 

https://www.thefearlessfactoratwork.com

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jacquelinewales

In part 2 of the SAGE Leadership Series, we take a look at the significance of service in leadership. Over and over again we see great leaders serving people in powerful ways. 

This "secret" to leadership is a simple but often forgotten approach to leadership that gets results and creates powerful influence. Servant leaders serve by:

Having a clear purpose

Not expecting a return on their service

Having a deep motive that keeps them going

Using words to build up and to redirect

Through actions to support and actions to get out of the way