For Clients Only

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  • Building your resilience as a leader

    If you've led your agency for any length of time, you've experienced some ups and downs. So, knowing that there will be some low points, even extreme low points, how do we make it more likely that we can face those challenges and persevere? We need resilience.

    In this episode I've got 6 ways we can build our resilience as a leader.

    9 min
  • Your shortest path to new business

    If you are looking to land some new clients quickly here are 4 ways you can approach folks who already know and like you. By adding value to them you position yourself as someone they might want to hire!

    10 min
  • Windows and Mirrors
    This week I'm adding onto my definition of leadership from the last episode by talking about one aspect of Jim Collin's concept of "Level 5 Leaders."
    5 min
  • Two different ways of thinking

    I've been trying to be more aware of how I'm thinking about a problem to see if I can't find the best tool for the job at hand.

    Today I talk about some experiments I've tried and thoughts about how you can improve your thinking.

    9 min
  • Creating Agency in Uncertainty

    When you are doing something new, like growing your creative firm, you are going to enter into some periods of uncertainty. There might be places where nothing seems like it's working, and the situation is growing desperate.

    Listening to an interview about how two Navy Seal Team operators deal with uncertainty inspired some insights for how we can create agency in times of uncertainty.

    You can hear more from the interview that inspired this episode by listening to episode 403 of the "Finding Mastery" podcast.

    9 min
  • Overcoming Overwhelm

    I don't know about you, but I'm not very productive when in that "overwhelmed" state. Sometimes, when I have 100 things to do, I stare at the list and get none done.

    It turns out that when you ask your brain to do 100 things at once, it doesn't want to do any at all!

    Today, I talk about 3 roots of overwhelm and how to chop each one down so that you can forever stay free of overwhelm.

    9 min

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In each episode Brad Farris discusses one key thought or issue that has come up in client conversations frequently.