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During the past two years, employers have been forced to go beyond merely "checking the box" in training and developing the people on their teams.

How has COVID and the "The Great Resignation" woken up employers to seeing the value of investing in their people and changing the way they lead?

"I think what ended up happening through the COVID is, it accelerated where business was going inevitably," said Rico Peña, founder of Peña Global president at Peña Global and author of the new book, It's Not Business It's Personal: Strategic Conversations for the Next Gen Leader, "Due to the consumers change on being more friendly to being home, and employees, especially the next generation, wanting to work from home. So COVID accelerated what would've happened maybe five or six years from now."

Peña has over 25 years of experience working with individuals, businesses, and Fortune 500 companies around the world. He is dynamic bilingual consultant, facilitator, author, and business development specialist. He works with executives to define, hire, train, and develop high-performing teams and high-net-worth business models.

"Smart companies, when COVID happened and the (great) resignation, not even the resignation yet, just having to work from home and having that level of uncertainty, is what really started transforming the value of people to business," he added. "It was no longer transactional. It became relational and across all fronts because it happened to everyone at the same time around the globe."

A former Marine and a bestselling author for his first book, The Client Nation Their Perception, Their Profits, Rico has trained, facilitated, and presented on 6 continents and to over 100,000 people in the last 23 years.

Rico's latest book will give you the tools and insights you need to begin your journey as a new leader, on how to understand your team and how to communicate with them effectively. You will start to get a clearer picture of yourself and your natural leadership style. You will see how you are perceived and what to do to connect with anyone on your team with confidence. But best of all you will learn to build trust, motivation, and the resilience of a high-performing team.

This is an excerpt of our full conversation, which you can find here: https://www.freedommedianetwork.com/post/how-smart-companies-went-from-transactional-to-relational-leadership

Curt Mercadante interviews Rico Peña, president at Peña Global and author of the new book, "It's Not Business It's Personal: Strategic Conversations for the Next Gen Leader."

Rico has over 25 years of experience working with individuals, businesses, and Fortune 500 companies around the world. He is dynamic bilingual consultant, facilitator, author, and business development specialist. He works with executives to define, hire, train, and develop high-performing teams and high-net-worth business models.

A former Marine and a bestselling author for his first book, “The Client Nation Their Perception, Their Profits”, Rico has trained, facilitated, and presented on 6 continents and to over 100,000 people in the last 23 years.

Rico's latest book will give you the tools and insights you need to begin your journey as a new leader, on how to understand your team and how to communicate with them effectively. You will start to get a clearer picture of yourself and your natural leadership style. You will see how you are perceived and what to do to connect with anyone on your team with confidence. But best of all you will learn to build trust, motivation, and the resilience of a high-performing team.

Get the book: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09LY1M67B/ref=cm_sw_em_r_mt_dp_48YXVK66V0MREN60WDCR

More about Peña Global: https://www.penaglobal.net/

Happy New Year! In today's episode, recorded from the Red Rocks in Sedona, Arizona, Curt Mercadante provides the themes and a preview of what's to come on the Freedom Media Network in 2022.

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Do you have a daily meditation practice? In today's episode, we discuss the benefits of having a daily meditation practice on your mental, physical, and spiritual health and why this mindfulness practice can help you lower the stress and anxiety that can cause dangerous inflammation in your body.

Today's episode comes from a recent workshop in Curt Mercadante's private "Freedom Circle" coaching group. To watch the full workshop, and get access to all our live and archived workshops, please visit http://FreedomCircle.life.

In our 24/7-news-cycle-social-media culture, it's easy to think we're living in the craziest times in history — and maybe we are.

But how can we know when to engage and when NOT to engage?

In today's episode (which is an excerpt of our longer discussion with Bob Burg, which you can find below), Bob Burg discusses why it's vital to continually "check your premises", not get your "knowledge" from the news or social media, and why government is likely not the solution to our problems.

Check out our full, longer discussion here: https://www.freedommedianetwork.com/post/how-to-remain-the-calm-amidst-the-storm-bob-burg

Curt Mercadante interviews Jordan Gross, author of What Happens in Tomorrow World: A Modern Day Fable About Navigating Uncertainty. This powerful book is an urgently-needed guide for managing the anxiety of an uncertain world.

Get the book: https://jordan-gross.com/books

Curt and Jordan discuss the themes of the book:

• How to embrace uncertainty in all parts of life

• Why no single response to uncertainty works for every situation

• How various personality types typically respond differently to uncertainty

• Why it's crucial to resist responding negatively to uncertainty

• Why it's important to take action, no matter how uncertain you feel

How can you remain calm, above the fray, and focused on your signal in uncertainty, even crazy, times?

Curt interviews hall of fame keynote speaker and mega-bestselling author Bob Burg.

For over 30 years Bob Burg has been successfully showing entrepreneurs, leaders, and sales professionals how to communicate their value and accelerate their referral business.

Although for years he was best known for his sales classic, Endless Referrals, it’s his business parable, The Go-Giver, coauthored with John David Mann that has created a worldwide movement.

While part of a four-book series, The Go-Giver itself has sold more than one million copies and been translated into 30 languages. It was rated #10 on Inc. Magazine’s list of The Most Motivational Books Ever Written, and was on HubSpot’s 20 Most Highly Rated Sales Books of All Time.

Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve.

He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic and served on the Board of Directors of Furry Friends Adoption & Clinic in his town of Jupiter, Florida.

How can you cultivate gratitude daily in your life? Find out in this episode.

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How can the principles of Taoism help us deal with fear and uncertainty in a changing world?

Curt Mercadante interviews Jason Gregory, an author and philosopher specializing in Eastern and Western philosophy, comparative religion, psychology, cognitive science, metaphysics, and ancient cultures.

Gregory is the author of Emotional Intuition for Peak Performance, Effortless Living, Fasting the Mind, Enlightenment Now, The Science and Practice of Humility and also the documentary filmmaker of The Art of Effortless Living, its sequel Effortless Action: The Art of Spontaneity and The Yugas: The Great Time Cycles of the Universe.

Learn more: http://JasonGregory.org

In this wide-ranging interview, Curt Mercadante and Randy Gage discuss the "weaponization of fear" and Randy's belief that human evolution is now more a result of memetics (mind viruses) than of genetics. Randy Gage is a thought-provoking critical thinker who will make you approach your business — and your life — in a whole new way. Randy is the author of 14 books translated into 25 languages, including his recent worldwide best seller, Radical Rebirth. Get Randy's book: https://www.randygage.com/radicalrebirth