Blue Shirt Leadership Podcast

Terry Begue started his painting business fresh out of high school with no money, no experience, and no connections and failed miserably. Refusing to give up, he began perfecting his people skills and developed processes for both business and personal growth.

Leveraging his unique lessons has allowed his company to grow year after year, even though he hasn’t advertised since 2012!

Today, Terry is an international speaker, author of “Attract & Keep Customers for Life," and creator of the course, “Unnoticed to Unforgettable.”  In today's episode, Terry shares insights from 40+ years of business on how to serve your customers. 

We talk about writing down what you want your life to look like and putting a dollar amount you need to get there, needing customer interactions to be win-win, and not being afraid to lean into the punch. You'll have to listen to understand this amazing story and how it applies to your business. 

Terry urges business owners to focus on 4 things with their customers. Likeability, Believability, Knowability, and Wowability. To connect with Terry or to enroll in his course, visit the4abilities.com

 

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Are you ready to have more consistency in your leadership or break bad patterns? In this episode, I walk you through a proven process to help you make habit shifts that stick. 

Habit is about your mindset. Your mindset is about your why. In this episode, we look at the story behind the desired habit creation or changes. You'll learn how to use two powerful and practical tools to help you implement the changes you want in your life. You'll also learn how to get to the root of habit change by accessing your subconscious by using a simple writing method. 

Learn a weekly reflective practice. Get to the heart of change with the true story behind the habit, Learn how to describe your habits in such a way that creates a gap your brain has to fit. Become an expert at exploring the subconscious root of your bad habits.

I know you'll gain powerful insights from today's show. 

 

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Have you ever wanted to get better at accomplishing the goals you set out to complete? Who doesn't? If you're like many people, you struggle with the follow-through needed to accomplish your goals. 

We all know that writing down our goals, sharing them, and giving them due dates will help us achieve them, but what if there was another secret that no one has told you about that will unlock massive potential in accomplishing what you want. 

That's exactly what "Present Tense Goals" are all about. In this episode of SAGE Insights, I share with you a simple trick to get your mind to more fully engage in the gap between where you are and where you want to be. 

This can be done right now and it will take you less than five minutes to implement. In fact, I encourage you to try it as soon as the episode is over. You'll immediately get the benefits! 

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In today's episode,  Bryan Clayton shares some powerful insights on how to lead your business, leadership strategies, and the importance of what he calls "tripwires."

Bryan says there are three things you need to do to grow your business. You must work in it, on it, and on yourself. His journey from mowing lawns as a boy to running a multimillion-dollar lawn care app demonstrates the importance of all three of these components. 

Bryan Clayton is CEO and co-founder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day.

Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc. one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013.

Bryan‘s interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing, and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit. 

Learn more about GreenPal by visiting http://yourgreenpal.com/

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Are you tired of your employees coming to you with stupid questions? Are you frustrated with having to solve the same problems repeatedly for your employees? These are two of several complaints I hear from my clients regarding leading their teams.

 

In this SAGE Insights episode, you'll learn the power of using coaching in conversations like these and how this will free you and your employees to be more solution-oriented and save a lot of time. I share the ABC ST. of coaching and how you can apply it starting NOW.

 

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When was the last time you were in flow in business or in a conversation? Do you remember what that was like? 

MaryKay shares her insights on how she uses checklists, silence, and many other techniques to provide the best for those she is interacting with. On this episode, she shares insights on how to look ahead and anticipate problems for customers to serve them at the highest level. 

We talk about how to refuel yourself from all the effort it takes to give and serve at this level. Additionally, we discuss the power of speaking things into existence and what that has done for both of us. Plus so much more. 

Bio:After a 20+ year career in sales, mortgage lending, and bank management, my guest, MaryKay Robinson become an award-winning Realtor. The combination of her past experiences and entrepreneurial mindset has led to great results for her clients. The heart of it all for MaryKay is to help people achieve the American Dream. 

If you'd like to find out more about MaryKay, please visit http://www.marykayrobinson.com She provides great content and insights on the state of the market in Whatcom county.

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Do you have head trash? Do you have negative thoughts that are swirling around causing you to doubt yourself? In this interview with Renie Cavallari, we dive into our Head Trash. Sounds fun, right? Renie shares too many insights to include here but a few jumped out to me in our interview. People struggle to change their behaviors and most of us don't like to.

But when we go through a process to become aware of our potential, the desire to change grows significantly. Renie teaches us to do this through writing, getting feedback from others, and creating an environment that is safe for change.

In her book, HeadTrash: The Leading Killer of Human Potential she teaches readers to Own it, Shift it, and Dump it. With the two fundamental keys being to ask yourself the right powerful questions and to lean into gratitude. Renie shares her favorite questions to ask herself when the headtrash starts swirling around - Who do I want to be right now?

Who is Renie Cavallari (re-knee cav-a-laurie)? Known as a “dynamo who colors outside the lines, Renie Cavallari is an award-winning organizational anthropologist and member of the prestigious National Speakers Association. She is the owner of 4 companies, most notably the founder of Aspire, a globally awarded leadership development, training, and strategic growth firm; along with the RCI Institute, an awakening human potential research and leadership lab.

For over 25 years, Renie has worked with thousands of leaders and entrepreneurs around the globe to help their companies be better at what they do by providing practical, action-oriented applications, and proven processes to improve performance.

She is a Philly girl with a serious wanderlust problem; an aspiring jazz flutist, passionate cook, and the author of 6 books with her latest, HEADTRASH, the Leading Killer of Human Potential… an Amazon bestseller that recently won the best new business book from the prestigious Hollywood Book Festival Awards.

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Dr. Travis Fox and his team have taken professional development to a new level in their Quest App. But this interview isn't about that it's about the adventure that is developing yourself. The adventure of being yourself! 

Travis shares many stories, insights, and SAGE Wisdom about his experiences on his own journey. What he wants to know is, Who are you playing for? 

He shares stay persistent and go after "it" but have FUN in the process. He also believes it's more important to embrace being YOU instead of working so hard at being a better you. 

To learn more about Travis and their app, visit https://myquestapp.com/

As a leader, you get bombarded with questions, responsibilities, and surprises on a daily basis. For some, this can be overwhelming. Yet, for others that handle this in stride. What's the difference between the two leaders. Does one have more of the answers? Are they more experienced?

 

We don't know what the difference is but the greatest leaders leverage the coaching mindset to get the most out of their employees and business. In this SAGE Insights episode, I teach you some of the tactics and strategies of leaders that effectively use this mindset.

 

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In part 2 of my interview with Barby Ingle, we dive into her mindset around sales. We discover through the call the great value she has to offer to the world and that when she leans into this value, the influence she has to achieve her larger goals increases significantly. 

Listen in on this powerful coaching call as Barby and I dive into the struggle that many of us deal with in our businesses - the S-Word (Sales).