What is your worth? Do you know your true value? How are you measuring it? Is it money? A title? Stuff? Does it go deeper? Are you invaluable?

And what is your purpose? Do you know what it is? How about your values? Can you list them off? Would those that know you agree?  Again, finding your purpose and knowing your core values, contributes to becoming invaluable.

The fact of the matter is these questions are so important. Do others find you “Invaluable”…or could they live without you?

Let’s get “Invaluable”! Let’s make such a positive impact on the world that the world can’t live without us. Such an impact that our business cannot live without us. Such an impact that the community can’t live without you.

How? Well, in this episode of A New Direction best-selling author Steven J. Bowen and Dr. Terry Lyles give us the 9 Attributes that when followed will make you invaluable and create a life of fulfillment and meaning and make you the leader people desire.

Steven J. Bowen and Dr. Terry Lyles’ book, “Becoming Invaluable: Develop the Willitude to Navigotiate Success” is a must read for everyone.  

If you have ever questioned your self-worth, if you have ever thought that there is more to life than where you are right now, Becoming Invaluable will be “Invaluable”.

The book asks starts with a basic question: “what do you think is the highest calling in life you can have?”  Then as the bedrock to answering that question moves us into knowing our purpose and values.

From there the authors help us understand that by working on 9 attributes we can develop ourselves to Becoming Invaluable.

Those 9 Attributes are:

And if you are not sure what “Willitude” and “Navigotiate” are they are keys to you Becoming Invaluable.

This is great book, one that I will keep on the shelf and remind myself that my self-worth is not in question because I do have value and I am constantly striving to becoming invaluable.

Please thank the awesome sponsors of A New Direction for their financial support.

Epic Physical Therapy, whether you just want to move better, are recovering from an injury or surgery or you are an elite athlete who wants to perform at your best.

The certified staff coupled with the state of the art therapy equipment will customize a treatment program to meet your individual needs.

From getting better fitness to recovery to elite performance if you want EPIC Relief, EPIC Recovery, and EPIC Results, head on over to www.EPICpt.com

Linda Craft  Team, Realtors for more than 39 years they have been helping people all over the world meet their dreams when it comes to their home.

Whether it is buying a new home where new memories are created, or selling a home the experts at Linda Craft Team, would like to show you why their clients say their customer service is “legendary”.

Just click on www.LindaCraft.com to learn more.

Coach Jay here!  Thanks for listening to and reading about this episode of A New Direction.

I am a business and life coach that specializes in helping people improve their performance in their business and life and help them become more successful in all aspects of their life.

You may have thought about a coach, but you just were not sure if a coach is for you.  That’s a great question to ask, and I would encourage you to call me and least chat about it.

My gift to you is Free complimentary call.  Let’s talk and see what if I am a fit for you.

Just fill out this form and let’s start talking.  Coaching Mavericks – Unlock Your Potential with Jay Izso.

My business is Coaching Mavericks, because there is a Maverick in all of us that when we find our way with our own unique gifts, talents and abilities, we will be the most successful.

I look forward to talking with you!

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How many times have you either said, or heard it said, “People don’t change”.  Maybe you have made the statement or heard the statement, “I am what I am”, indicating that change is impossible.  Or perhaps you have said, “there is nothing I can do about my situation, no one will give me a break”.   Do you know what those are?  Myths!  Oh sure, you can find some support for your argument, but the real truth is you have created for yourself a distinct narrative that you believe cannot be changed.  You have created an idea that you have no control, or worse yet that you cannot change your life or direction.  They are part of our horrible programming or the “code” in your head that makes you believe such rubbish.  There is an answer.

On this episode of A New Direction author/coach Darren J. Gold exposes the lies that we have in our head and rewrites the code that we have come to believe.  What would your life be like if instead of saying “I am what I am” you could rewrite your brain code to “I am the author of my own life”?  How would your life change if you could see the facts that instead of saying, “I am just emotional and I am wired to react” you would say, “I act, I do not react”?  And how could your future be different if instead of saying, “I have no control over my destiny” you instead lived like, “I live on purpose” what would that do for your life as you live it right now?  Darren’s book “Master Your Code: The Art, Wisdom, and Science of Leading an Extraordinary Life” helps you live the life you could be living right now…but you have to rewrite your code.  Not only rewrite it, but Master Your Code.  This show is one for the ages and one that you will listen to again and again.  The book “Master Your Code” is available in all formats including audio…get yours today!

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Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS for more than 35 years they have helped people world wide sell their home or buy their home because they are completely unaffiliated with any real estate company and can refer you to the best expert in real estate regardless of their affiliation.  What is more because they are located in the Greater Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Research Triangle Park area they help major companies with their move, because they know the area.  Stop in 7300 Six Forks Road in Raleigh North Carolina and find out why people talk about their culture of “legendary customer service”.   Just drive on over to www.LindaCraft.com

And for those of you who like to listen to the radio.  Check out the Oak 93.5 FM in Raleigh and you can listen to A New Direction on Thursdays at 4 pm EDT and Sundays at 10 am EDT.  We thank the folks at the Oak 93.5 for being such a supporter of our show.  If you are a listener please say thank you.

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So often as sales or business professionals we want some slick silver bullet strategy that will increase our business.  Somehow our mind has convinced us that there must be some magical secret that somehow we missed to getting more sales.  However, the reality is there are no silver bullets and there is really no such thing as “magic”.  The fact is being a better at sales, business, or life have one thing in common…YOU!  The very person who is going to increase their sales, be a better CEO, or a better person is going to be the person who is reading this right now.  However, those improvements only happen when the person makes positive changes in their life.  It is then and only then will they see positive changes everywhere else.  And that is the heart of Robert Paolini and his book Good T.A.L.K. Great Sales.

In this edition of A New Direction (AND) Robert Paolini walks us through some of the steps of making the changes in your life to affect the changes in your business.  These change require discipline to start new positive habits that create positive change.  The book Good T.A.L.K. Great Sales is a culmination of life changing techniques that affect the life of your business.  He starts by outlining the acronym T.A.L.K.  Truth, Attention, Listening, and Kindness and explains that these four pillars, if you will, are essential for any sales or business person to have greater success, because in every aspect these principles when practiced sincerely create powerful relationships that lead to better business.  We then leads us through Ha. He. Wi. We. – HAppiness, HEalth, WIsdom, and WEalth, and how these flow together to give us a fun reminder of how to live.  Robert or Bobby as he likes to be called then takes us through “Knowing Your Why” and going deeper on your Goals, and then finally talks us through Hal Elrod “s– “The Miracle Morning” and the power of  changing your morning and your day with S.A.V.E.R.S….but your going to have to listen to show to hear what that acronym means.  Enjoy!

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Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS they have literally helped thousands of clients with the sale and purchase of homes.  And many of those clients return over and over again to get access to what they are known for around the world…”Legendary Customer Service”.  It has been Linda’s culture for 35 years, and they are continuing to find ways to improve it every single day.  Learn more about  the legend and how they can help you from selling or buying a home to commercial real estate.  Just click on over to www.LindaCraft.com

Did you know you can listen to AND on The Oak 93.5 fm in Raleigh?  What?  You say you don’t live in Raleigh?  No problem you can stream the show every Thursday at 4 pm EDT and Sunday mornings at 10 am EDT by clicking here OAK 93.5  Tell your friends!

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What positive lessons did you learn as a child that you still hold on to today?  It seems that so many things that we do as an adult are so directly from things we learned in the first two decades of our life.   So often we walk around this world and do not even realize that the things we do naturally have been burned into our mind and behavior from events, places, and people in our childhood past.  This certainly was true of Jay Izso.

Jay Izso is a speaker, executive coach, podcaster and author who was raised as a farmhand in a small town called Ithaca, Nebraska.  If you think you were raised in a small town, imagine being raised in a town with slightly more than 100 people.  It was for sure a farming community.  Jay’s parents were from New Jersey so when they moved to this little town when Jay was but a baby, they had no idea or even a vision that as Jay grew older he would find his first real career working on a farm.

In this episode of A New Direction Jay talks us about why he wrote The book Lessons from the Farm: Essential Rules for Success and shares with you a few lessons he learned along the way that will encourage and inspire you.  Lessons from the Farm are 20 lessons that Jay learned while growing up a farmhand.  The lessons are perhaps not new, but they shed a light on 20 ways that you can apply these lessons to become more successful in your life, develop leadership in yourself and others, and encourages you that you too can be all that you were created to be, but it is going to start with the fact that sometimes you must do things afraid.

Thanks to our sponsors Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.  Internationally known for the way they handle the confidentiality of selling your business.  The experts at Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors are the truly the “real deal” team when it comes to getting the most value for your business.  Please tell them “thank you” for being a sponsor of A New Direction, and learn more by going to www.Enlign.com

Thank you Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS  for 34 years they have demonstrated why they are the legends of customer service when it comes to real estate.  Regardless of where you live, if you want the best professional to help you sell or buy your home, start with the experts at Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS.  And if you live the greater Raleigh North Carolina, Research Triangle Park area stop by their office and they can help you in person.  Surf on over to www.LindaCraft.com

The t-shirt shout out this week goes to Yardology (yes, the study of your yard).  From large developments to specialized hard scape.  Yardology is ready to make your home or development look amazing.  Head on over to Yardology.

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Life is not always going to treat us kindly.  Sometimes life can be quite cruel, mean, and feel unjustified.  And sometimes it is our decisions that create so many of our problems.

As it turns out there are really three types of problems we will deal with in life, those that life happens to give us, those that others give to us, and those that we create for ourselves.  The fact is that regardless of where the problem comes from even if you created there is one thing that is absolutely true…you have control over how you will respond to it.

In this episode of A New Direction I interview United States Air Force (USAF) veteran Sean Douglas.  Sean’s life will appear to be just one crazy horrible ride.  From his dad leaving to join the military, to his step dad who was physically abusive, the boyfriend that was emotionally abusive, joining the Air Force to escape the day after 9/11, being an alcoholic, a series of failed relationships including his marriage, and finally he makes a decision to take his own life…when right before he pulls the trigger…a phone call comes…you will have to read the rest of the story.

Sean’s book is entitled Decisions:  The Power to Overcome Self-Defeating Behaviors is his story it will be one that I found I could not put down once I picked it up and started reading it.  The book is not only filled with the tragedy and triumph of Sean’s life, but it is also filled with thought provoking tips to help you and maybe help someone else in their painful journey.  The end of the message is there is always hope.

Thank you to our sponsors:

Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors since the very beginning we are grateful for their sponsorship of A New Direction.

Are you a business owner? At some point you are going to need the services of an experienced business broker.Selling your business is a big decision.  Make sure you build your ideal team starting with the experts at ENLIGN Business Brokers and Advisors.  Learn more online at ENLIGN.com

And Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS, internationally and nationally recognized as the “Legends of Customer Service” when it comes to real estate.  They can help you in the sale or purchase of your home anywhere in the world.  And if you are in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Research Triangle Park area stop in and see them in person.  Or just go to.  www.LindaCraft.com

And this week’s t-shirt shout out goes to my home town of Ithaca, Nebraska, celebrating their 150th anniversary.  Here is to 150 more!  Check out the Ithaca Facebook Page!

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In a world where people are more concerned about their time off, complaining about working too many hours, along comes a young woman who goes to college and graduate school, is a single parent works multiple jobs and is looking for more work. Along the way she accumulates a variety of knowledge multiple skills. Couple with that her relentless work ethic and her desire to learn and you have an amazing story of one person who inspires others to success. This describes this episode of A New Direction‘s guest, Shanah Bell.

Shanah grew up in an entrepreneurial family. A family where you just always tried. You never quit trying, and you give your best effort at all times. Known for her stubbornness and “never tell me I can’t do something” attitude her mom called her a PITA (Pain in the —-). That acronym would serve her well as her work ethic, knowledge, skills, and abilities, allowed her be able to do nearly everything and do it with great success. Hence, she wrote a book about her experiences and the lessons she has learned entitled “The Art of Being a PITA”.

While all of Shanah’s many jobs make an interesting story. There is also the problem of the stereotype of someone who is trying to figure out her place. And because of her ability to quickly learn and adapt it became a challenge for businesses to figure out how to categorize her, or where she exactly fit in. The truth is, they just needed to plug her in, because she is capable of being great in any position they put her in.

Her story is one that may make some people shake their heads. It will make you laugh, because her fun loving giving attitude is contagious. But it really is a story of a relentless young women in search of her dreams, while managing a full time job as a single parent, a full time graduate student, and managing to excel at multiple jobs at the same time. It is people like her that are that every employer should desire, and the type of person we need to applaud. Enjoy Shanah’s thoughts and insights. And maybe you will desire to learn the art of being a PITA.

Thank you as always for our sponsor partners. Please make sure you find them and thank them for their support of A New Direction with Jay Izso. They continually encourage me to do this show and help keep the show on the air.

Thank you to ENLIGN Business Brokers and Advisors. Owner Jeff Snell and his expert business brokers are known through out the world as being the “go to” team when it comes to selling your business for the highest market value with the utmost confidentiality. You can learn more at www.ENLIGN.com. Please tell them thank you for supporting the show.

And Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS no matter where you live in the world Linda Craft and her team of experts can match you up with the best real estate professionals in your area to help you sell or buy your next home. And if you happen to live in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina they will personally help you with your home selling and buying needs. Learn more at www.lindacraft.com

This week’s t-shirt shout out goes to the Saunders County Historical Museum and Historical Society. Located in Wahoo, Nebraska. If you are ever in the area it is a must to see. From baseball hall of famers, to composers to movie makers, to scientists Wahoo Nebraska has produced some of the people who have made an impact on our world.

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Success is a funny word. It can mean so many different things depending on who you ask and what day of the week it is. However, if we were to look at success as improvement upon what ever it is you are, whether that be your life, your career, or your business, then there are certain principles that apply regardless of your overall definition of success.

Enter John Foley. He may be a highly sought after speaker and author, but he also flew as one of the Blue Angels, the U.S. Navy’s most elite flying demonstration team. In his world success was defined in multiple ways, making sure you land being the most primary ways of defining success. Through out his career as a Blue Angel John discovered specific principles that lead to not only what makes individuals, teams, and businesses successful, but what makes them elite.

In this episode of A New Direction John Foley and I discuss his book Fearless Success. You will learn of his story from the time he was a child and seeing his first Blue Angel performance to becoming one of the Blue Angels and how that experience has translated into a practical guide to helping people become more elite and successful in their lives, careers, and business.

Fearless Success is a took book that I believe is indispensable for any person regardless of your station in life. And if you will purchase Fearless Success from his website, he has a special offer just for A New Direction Listeners so CLICK HERE!

Thank you to our sponsors Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. Internationally recognized as the leaders in business brokerage, when you want to sell your business with complete confidentiality, contact our friends at Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. Just click on www.ENLIGN.com

And Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS find out why they are the legends of customer service when it comes to real estate. Located in Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill North Carolina they can help you find the best professional anywhere in the world. Just head on over to www.LindaCraft.com

This weeks t-shirt shout out goes to Tony Fink Real Estate Expert with Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS. A Notre Dame graduate it was the perfect shirt today to wear with a Golden Helmet Blue Angel and the “Golden Domers” motto “Play Like a Champion Today”. Thanks Tony for the t-shirt.

If you would like to see you t-shirt on a New Direction just send an XL t-shirt to:
Jay Izso
c/o A New Direction
2024 Macon Ridge Rd
Raleigh, NC 27613

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Feeling like your business is not where you want it to be? Is your business a bit disjointed? People not getting along? Maybe it is just missing something but you are not sure what it is? Well perhaps you are not “In Great Company” and you need a SPARK to get your business on track.

In this episode of A New Direction, Consultant to the Fortune 500 companies Organizational Psychologist, CEO (Best Practices Institute), and Author Louis Carter talks to us about his latest book In Great Company: How to Spark Peak Performance by Creating and Emotionally Connected Workplace. Louis has done years of research and spoken to the top CEO’s to determine the 5 Elements to a Connected workplace. He refers to the as

SPARK, Systemic Collaboration, Positive Future, Alignment of Values, Respect, and Killer Achievement. You will not want to miss as Louis briefly explains how each contribute to a workplace that is not only emotionally connected but can perform at it’s peak, which ultimately means you are “In Great Company“. Louis also provides insightful examples from such companies as Netflix, Best Buy, WD-40, the military, and so more. This episode has something for everyone. It matters not if you are the CEO or sweeping the floor, everyone will be “In Great Company” with Louis Carter on episode 40 of A New Direction. Make sure to download his free assessment on his website www.louiscarter.com

We are so grateful to Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors for again sponsoring A New Direction and Louis Carter and his latest book In Great Company. Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors has literally helped thousands of people with the selling and buying of their business. When you are ready sell sell it with the real deal team, that is the folks at Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. Just go to Enlign.com and tell them you heard or read about them on A New Direction.

Also we thank our Sponsor Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS for their continues support of A New Direction. They really do keep help our outreach so that we can inspire people all over the world. When you are ready to sell or buy your home, literally anywhere in the world, start with the real estate experts and Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS.

Finally this weeks t-shirt shout out goes to o2 Fitness at Brennon station in Raleigh North Carolina. o2 Fitness is my gym and with so many locations they can be your gym too. Check them out o2 Fitness.

Want your business to be featured on the t-shirt shout out? Just send an XL t-shirt to:
Jay Izso
c/o A New Direction
2024 Macon Ridge Rd
Raleigh, NC 27613

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On a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being awful and 10 being the best it can be…how would you rate your career right now? If it is anything less than a 5, I have to ask you this question: Why are you still in that job? The answers could range from, “I need the money”, “it’s better than nothing”, “I have been here so long”, etc. However, the biggest reasons if you were completely honest, is probably because you have become comfortable in your misery, hate change, and fear you may not be employable.

Ines Temple is one of the most successful women in the world. She has literally counseled thousands of people and their careers, and has seen them improve and some

sadly stay stuck. She knows what it takes to make your employment dreams a reality. So she wrote a book about her experience, research and wisdom entitled YOU Incorporated – Your Career is Your Business.

In Episode 30 of A New Direction Ines and I discuss that YOU are a business, and how to make your self more employable, who your number one customer is, things you can control to make a difference in your career, reasons why you may not be doing the job that you love, redefining success and so much more!

Listen, learn, and find A New Direction. As always tell your friends and as you listen please give us a positive rating on your favorite podcast player.

Special thanks goes to Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. They are the sponsor partner of A New Direction. Thanks to their generosity we have the opportunity to bring you A New Direction every week!

ENLIGN represents profitable privately-held companies with gross annual revenues in excess of $1,000,000. ENLIGN delivers the highest market value in the shortest amount of time, with complete confidentiality ®. Learn more at www.Enlign.com and tell them you heard them on A New Direction with Jay Izso

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I have read and heard it said from numerous coaches and experts, “the only thing you can control is your attitude and your effort”. My guest on A New Direction Rick Miller would add one more to those two true statements…Being Chief, because after all it is a choice, not a title.

Rick Miller is an author true of the book Be Chief: It’s a Choice, Not a Title, but Rick Miller’s experience of turning companies around such as AT & T, and Lucent Technologies (just name two) proves that this is more than just a title of a book…it is the reality that each one of us possess the power to “Be Chief“. It matter not what your title is, or what your job is, or what level you are, or how old you are, or how much knowledge you have accumulated…the fact is you have the power within you to be chief.

In Episode 28 of A New Direction Rick Miller literally gives away the secrets to being chief. If fact if you go to www.bechief.com you can take the quiz to help you find your power compass to determine your direction, helps you understand how your values when aligned make you more powerful, and also provides us with some inside secrets such i3k. Wait, what? i3k is a an elegantly powerful and simple tool when it comes to people that you hire. Okay, I will let the cat out of the bag…intelligence, integrity, intensity, and kindness, but you will need to listen to how to apply these back to you and your business.

This episode is powerful you will want to listen to it over and over again. No matter who you are there is something here for you! It will inspire you, motivate you, and if you apply what Rick Miller is saying it will in fact change you!

The book “Be Chief: It’s a Choice, Not a Title, is available for sale in your favorite format and available at every book store so if they do not have it on the shelf just ask for it. Here is the real beauty of this book…every dollar that Rick makes from the book is being donated to “Children with special needs” by purchasing Be Chief you not only will be helping yourself, you will be helping others as well…and that does make you powerful. So listen to the show and invite your friends to listen as well.

We also need to thank our sponsor partner Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. Owner Jeff Snell and his associates are the real deal and the real deal business team. When it is time to sell your business, sell it for the most money, and with the utmost confidentiality then you need to look no further than Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. They have literally helped thousands of people with the buying and selling of their business. You have no need to look anywhere else get more information at www.ENLIGN.com and tell them you heard about them on A New Direction with Jay Izso.

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