Happy New Year!

Since it is the beginning of a new year, we are all being bombarded with emails about New Year's resolutions, coming up with our One Word, creating 'I will' statements, and the list goes on.

I believe in those practices, however, today I want to provide a different perspective.

A bigger perspective.

This week's podcast will help you 'zoom out' to remind us of why we even make resolutions, to begin with.

This week's podcast episode is unbelievable!

Mark Whitacre had it all.

At 32 years old, he had an 8-car garage, 13,000 square foot house, and his own jet!

However, he started to form his identity around this success!

As it so often does, placing our identity to temporary things, leads to poor decisions and erosion of character.

With the level of power at Mark's fingertips, his poor decisions led him to being involved in an enormous international price fixing scheme!

At the demand of his wife, Mark turned himself into the FBI, making him the highest ranked corporate whistle blower ever!

However, his greed and desire for more success, didn't stop.

Mark ended up making poor decisions while wearing a FBI wire, causing him to spend 8 years in prison!

However, this is an amazing story of redemption and restoration.

Mark became a Christian while in prison, helped prisoners get their GED, spent daily time in the Bible, and so much more.

In prison, he found his purpose.

Now he is an Executive Director with t-Factor, a division of Coca-Cola Consolidated (a $6 BILLION dollar public company), that helps companies incorporate faith into their work.

This is podcast is a great reminder of what is important in life, coming from a guy who had it all!

• What is the key trait to winning at home and at work? (1:12)
• The slippery slope of tying your identity to your work. (6:30)
• We can change for the worst 1 degree at a time. (11:20)
• How do you make sure you dont fall into the same trap again? (13:58)
• How do you control your ambition? (25:17)

 

Marks Bio: 

Mark Whitacre is an Ivy League Ph.D. and the highest-ranked executive of any Fortune 500 company to become a whistleblower in US history, and is responsible for uncovering the ADM price-fixing scandal in the early 1990's. Mark’s undercover work with the FBI during the ADM scandal was the inspiration for the major motion picture, "The Informant," starring Matt Damon as Mark Whitacre.

 

What's Next? 

 

Rise and Go is HERE! 🎉

 

🥁Drum roll please......my new book is here! I am so excited to share Rise and Go with you. Rise and Go is a resource for you to get back up quicker. It was just released on Amazon and Audible.

 

You can find out more about it here!

 

I pray the content helps you as much as it has me and my clients. Thanks for your support in helping leaders win at work and at home!

 

Are you crushing it at work but struggling at home? If you want to learn how to win at home, then go to https://CoryMCarlson.com/subscribe and download your free copy of “10 Ways To Win At Home.”

 

If you're looking for a resource to help you with these times when your work is now in your home, check out my book Win At Home First on Amazon. Forbes Magazine rated it one of 7 books everyone on your team should read.