Business Design

🎙️ Rebranding his name: Michael was once the most popular name in New Zealand. 01:29

👩‍✈️ Mike’s favorite moment at the LA airport. 02:31

😎 A data science consultancy: being at the forefront of new stuff.  04:13

😷 Post traumatic growth.is going to be very exciting, and we can all build better. 06:23

🙂 “We're in a period where everything is on hiatus, and when we come out of it, we need to make sure that we've got escape velocity” 08:17

🔃 Change the relationship with change because it creates opportunity and threatens. 09:49

🖐 Scenario planning approach: “Five forces” framework around mindset planning. 13:40

🤕 Denial is not so great a superpower: Mike’s experiences with a brain tumor and post traumatic growth.16:36

🐑 Sheeping in NZ: catered at the high end of the market rather than think about it as a mass market.19:11

💪 Making the future better for the company, everyone in the company, and all that interact with it. 23:54

Connect with Mike: www.escape-velocity.co.uk

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↪️ The most aptly named city for an entrepreneur. 01:17

✌️ A collaborative mindset: we're going to be seeing a lot of disruption. 02:17

🤔 How are leaders going to work through the conundrum of employee empowerment?  05:02

🤓 Leaders have issues in understanding how to harness the collective intelligence of their team. 06:50

😎 Tapping and harnessing talents as a guiding approach. 09:45

👉 When a leader truly shows an interest in how an employee thinks and what they’re capable of. 10:47

🦾 Future: Robotic economy doesn’t need people. 14:05

🔎 Why Gen X and millennial-run businesses are failing? 15:56

🤦 A culture of failure. 18:40

💡 Boomers mentoring the Gen Xers and millennials. 19:35

🙌 “The best time to make a decision about your work culture is before you hire the first person.” 23:16

Connect with Dianne: www.corevalues.com

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✈️Bob is a pilot and is surrounded by model airplanes. 02:20

🛩️ He received his amateur pilot license: a story about piloting in a hailstorm. 03:30 

🍔 Having a “$100 burger” and flying over Cape Cod. 04:12 

🤕 Bob’s broken wrist: an unfortunate event while playing with a dog. 05:20

👉 Why searching for competitive intelligence and creating updated competitive landscape maps for businesses is essential. 06:04

👑 Small businesses should create models that have zero competitors: differentiation. + competitive landscape maps. 08:11

👦 “A serial hobbyist,” as he calls himself, Bob was a curious and focused child who owned 4 businesses before he finished high school. 11:45

🧘‍♂️ His Dad was passionate about education and practicing Transcendental Meditation. 13:21

🗣️ Bob talks eloquently: Adjust the language you use while talking to people. 14:06

🥧 “Vision pie” and 11 elements of complete vision. 16:02

😎 Tombstone writing: he pushed the envelope in leadership and management systems. 18:59

✌️ Bob believes in servant leadership and explains what the most significant error big companies are making is. 20:12

⚡ Blockchain will touch every industry and cryptocurrency is one application of that. 21:50

🎓 Entrepreneurship University.  25:09

Connect with Bob: www.airtightmgt.com

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🧔‍♂️ Alex has an amazing beard. 02:12

🛢️ Crowdfunding project: five guys in California with greasy beards. 02:41

🤩 Doing a product launch that went viral: The Beard Club. 03:25

📈 Learning to grow a brand (and beards). 06:23

😎 His consultant business and non-toxic detergents. 07:41

🗝️ Emotional chord with customers - getting beyond the product is the key. 09:26

🤢 Allergic reactions due to toxic chemicals in detergents was the initial reason to join the new business. 12:17

💚 Supporting orphans, deaf people, and victims of sex trafficking. 13:31

📢 Having a business model that cuts through the noise. 16:54

☘️ Alex’s vision and why the grass looks greener on the other side. 18:24

🤔 Addiction to entrepreneurship is real. 20:58

🍏 Creating a home environment free of chemicals is attainable. www.trulyfreehome.com 22:16

Connect with Alex: www.thealexbrown.com

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🗺️ Huge watercolor world map behind Holly. 02:15

👓 Cat eyeglasses and electric blue as a brand signature. 02:54

🔵 About electric blue and Debbie Gibson. 04:41

🗽 As a  Bicentennial baby, Holly’s core is presence, freedom, red, white, and blue. 06:22

😇 Her focus is mindfulness: being fully present in the moment with no judgment. 07:39

😮‍💨 Living in an unsustainable world of getting bigger, better, faster, and having more. 09:00

🚐 Growing up in a double-wide and a growing passion for presence. 10:39

🪣 Bucket of mindfulness: the sense of presence comes from being fully present in this moment. 12:55

🎵 Holly is a fan of country music. 15:05

🧠 Mindfulness has transformed. Now, it's really neuroscience-based and a secular series of practices. 16:42

💙 Growing up with love, happiness, and learning life is resilience. 21:50

😎 We'll never get the brand perfected. The idea is to keep building it. 23:2

Connect with Holly: www.hollyduckworth.com

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🌬️ San Francisco summers. 01:31

🎙️ Left the corporate world to open a podcast production studio in the beginning of the pandemic. 03:19

👌 Freedom of expression: There are no slippery slopes in podcasting. 04:57

🙌 TJ never wanted to go to business school, it turns out he never needed to. 06:03

🧐 Starting a podcast in 2016 was hard and frustrating. 07:13

🥳 The rise of podcasting. 08:15 

😀 The story behind his made-up name and Italian last name.  09:49

🗣️ Creating audio content that tells a story. 12:21

👍 Two growing trends in podcasting. 14:51

💲 Building audio content for indirect revenue.15:48 

✍️ Audiobook podcasts are a new field for authors and writers. 16:25

👂 Using podcast elements in audiobooks. 17:41

🎯 Netflix is going into podcasting: Audio killed a video star. 18:22

🎧 Create branded pieces of audio content. 20:13

💎 Long conversational podcasts for kids are an antidote. 21:12

Connect with TJ: www.linkedin.com/in/tj-bonaventura

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🔠 Breaking words down into their elements. 01:23

💬 Words are important at the root level to really know what we’re talking about. 01:54

😹 Cat-Strat and all the funny and serious words associated with it. 03:24

✌️ The need to re-invent, re-boot, restart, and to reflect is more important than ever before.04:47

💫What has changed and how change is happening; 05:38

🌪️ About the abrupt nature of change and the seismic and systemic element of change. 06:45

🦄 Challenging people to be different from others may be boring but is impactful. 09:37

🤔 Holding space and taking the time to stop and think. 12:57

🆒 Experience, reputation, and recommendation as a business model.16:53

😇 The generational lap instead of the generational gap. 17:55

🤓 “If we focus on the negative, that’s what’s going to happen.” 20:51

👉 Idealism is an important ingredient to think of what’s possible even though it’s not practical. 22:39

🗣️ Craig would like to chat with Barack Obama. 25:20

      Connect with Craig: www.cat-strat.com
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🤔 Smellovision and smell dispensers on computers. 01:37

🏬 Opening a new retail store during the pandemic. 02:32

😷 Masks affected her business but she was still able to provide samples. 03:22

👏 As a manufacturer and wholesaler, Laura is now more focused on a direct-to-consumer model. 04:49

👀 Physical stores vs. online models in the fragrance industry. 06:35

🍾 Cracking the code of creating the first mainstream aroma perfume brand. 08:17

👧 Laura started her career at the age of six as an actress but entrepreneurship is in her blood. 10:23

❓ Online business vs. mainstream business model and retail stores. 13:30

📈 “The truth is: you need more than one pillar for a business to see growth.” 16:39

🤗 Educating customers about vibrational and conscious beauty is required to become mainstream. 19:40

👃 Boost and shift your chakras, room, or mood. 21:22

😃 Laura will send some abundance to Kent and clear away to Randy. 21:54

Connect with Laura: www.adoratherapy.com

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😃 Subaila’s big and welcoming smile. 02:11

👨‍⚕️ Rural hospitals in the US have a huge shortage for sleep and pulmonology specialists.  02:33

⚕️ Coming from a family of doctors, she wanted to understand the business side of medicine. 05:41

🫁 Telemedicine is growing: heart and lung exams through Bluetooth technology. 07:23

🩺 Five criteria for a virtual health examination. 10:27

🤔 Challenges with the broad implementation of telehealth. 12:09

💤 Subaila’s business is service-based, but she plans to introduce tele-sleep services to patients directly. 13:48

🤩 “Don't let your fears eat away your goals, stay humble, stay patient, and just be consistent.” 15:42

☀️ Her name means Sacred Light. 18:30

💻 Expanding the network of health professionals and hospitals into telehealth. 19:22

Connect with Subaila: www.telemedora.com

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🖼️ Cynthia is an artist. 02:02

🖌️ She explains the process behind making drywall sculptures. 02:46 

🤓 Cynthia believes in the importance of an agile mindset in business. 04:46 

👉 What’s the difference between “Getting Stuff Done” and traditional agile theory? 06:55 

🙃 Focus, accomplishment, feedback, and reflection: Following processes gives you the freedom to be more creative. 09:10

🎨 Incremental vs. iterative development: Cynthia paints using an iterative model. 13:03 

👩‍💼 Where do you feel like you’re most effective? 16:12 

🙌 Educating management on agile principles is extremely important. 18:33

🎯 Make sure that you have achievable goals and keep track of them. 19:57

Connect with Cynthia: https://gsd.guru 

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