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  • Derek Fredrickson: The COO’s Role in Turning Vision Into Execution

    A founder’s vision can get buried beneath the day-to-day work of running a business. This episode explores how a fractional COO can turn that vision into practical systems and help owners reclaim time for growth and the life they want.


    In this episode, Bob Campana and Derek Fredrickson discuss:

    • The COO as the bridge between vision and execution
    • The founder’s shift from operator to owner
    • Fractional leadership and business growth stages
    • Building systems and empowering teams
    • Remote operations and lifestyle design


    Key Takeaways:

    • Delegating outcomes, not just tasks, helps a founder step out of the daily bottleneck.
    • A fractional COO can bring operations, sales, marketing, and finance into alignment, helping each function support the company’s broader strategy and growth goals instead of working in silos.
    • Start by reviewing how the founder’s time is actually spent, then identify which responsibilities contribute most to the business so they can prioritize high-return work and reduce or delegate lower-value activities.
    • Systems work best when they’re built with the team, documented, and improved through feedback.
    • Define the personal goal behind the business; it can help guide decisions about how the company should operate.


    “I always say, listen, part of what our job is is to actually create the structure, the systems, the processes, not to take control of your business, but actually to give you control back.” - Derek Fredrickson


    About the guest, Derek Fredrickson:

    Derek Fredrickson is the CEO and founder of The COO Solution, a fractional COO firm that works hands-on with 7- and 8-figure founders and CEOs to build the operational foundation their businesses need to scale. With over 16 years as a Chief Operating Officer and second-in-command, he now leads a team of fractional COOs embedded inside growing businesses across industries and hosts The COO Solution Podcast.


    Connect with Derek Fredrickson:

    Website: https://thecoosolution.com/ 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/derekfredrickson/



    Connect With Bob Campana:

    Website: https://www.bobcampana.com/ 

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getback2workk 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-campana-entrepreneur/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobcampana_/ 



    Show notes by Podcastologist: Hanz Jimuel Alvarez


    Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

    42 min
  • Chris Sund: You Are Capable of More: Breaking Self‑Imposed Limits at Work

    Chris Sund uncovers the wonders of having a leader who stops building fences to keep people in and starts building launchpads to help their people grow. In this episode, you’ll hear how an executive recruiter and author uses culture, honest feedback, and personal transformation to unlock the potential people don’t see in themselves.


    In this episode, Bob Campana and Chris Sund discuss:

    • Healthcare recruiting and AI-powered headhunting (Nebula)
    • Human connection in rural healthcare and community impact
    • Personal mission, leadership development, and culture building
    • Stretching people, growth mindset, and “launchpads vs. fences”
    • Self-doubt, hidden potential, and becoming “capable of more”


    Key Takeaways:

    • Culture is not about perks and ping-pong tables; it’s about creating a winning environment where people are proud of the work they do and who they do it with.
    • The most powerful retention strategy is developing people, recognizing them often, and helping them grow both inside and outside the organization.
    • Clear expectations filter in people who genuinely want to grow.
    • Most people quietly believe they are capable of more but are held back by self-doubt, fear of failure, comfort, and busyness.
    • Simple, human gestures, like secondhand compliments and handwritten notes to an employee’s parents, can create lasting memories and deepen loyalty far more than expensive perks.


    “We are going to stretch you, but we're not going to break you.” - Chris Sund


    Do you want to be the version of yourself? Learn how through Chris Sund’s book; grab a copy here: https://YouAreCapableofMore.com  


    About Chris Sund:

    Chris Sund is the author of You Are Capable of More: A No-Excuses Guide to Becoming Your Best Self. As President and COO of Uniti Med, GQR Healthcare, and Nebula, he helped grow the business 12x in revenue in two years, earning the #3 ranking on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in the Midwest, and today leads one of the largest healthcare staffing organizations in the country. The cultures he has built have earned Best Places to Work recognition from Fortune and others.

    Chris keynotes at events all over the country and hosts the Amplify Speakers Podcast, featuring nationally recognized keynote speakers, bestselling authors, Olympic athletes, and business executives. He serves as Vice President of the NATHO Board of Directors and is a Certified Maxwell Leadership speaker, trainer, and coach.


    Connect with Chris Sund:

    Book Website: https://YouAreCapableofMore.com  

    LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christophersund  

    Instagram: instagram.com/chrissund  

    Facebook: facebook.com/christopher.sund.9  

    X: https://x.com/ChrisSund7  

    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@christophersund  



    Connect With Bob Campana:

    Website: https://www.bobcampana.com/ 

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getback2workk 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-campana-entrepreneur/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobcampana_/ 



    Show notes by Podcastologist: Hanz Jimuel Alvarez


    Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

    1 hr 5 min
  • Wes Moss and his The Retire Sooner Method: Five Steps to a Happier, Purpose-Filled Retirement

    What if happiness in retirement isn’t about hitting a magic number, but mastering five simple steps? In this episode, Wes Moss reveals the Retire Sooner Method: money green zones, core pursuits, real community, and a written plan that delivers a 21% happiness jump. Ditch fear, find “enough,” and build a life worth retiring to.


    In this episode, Bob Campana and Wes Moss discuss:

    • Defining “money green zones” and financial foundations
    • Friendship recession and building real social connections
    • Core pursuits can drive purpose beyond full-time work
    • Fear of outliving savings and written planning
    • Diminishing returns of wealth on happiness


    Key Takeaways:

    • A happy retirement depends less on amassing limitless wealth and more on hitting “money green zones,” cultivating five or more core pursuits, maintaining at least four close friendships, and committing to a written plan that reduces anxiety and clarifies what “enough” looks like for your life. 
    • The growing “friendship recession” significantly erodes retirees’ happiness, health, and long-term well-being.
    • Even high-net-worth individuals fear outliving their hard-earned assets, but a clear, written plan paired with education can lower anxiety and support sustainable withdrawals. 
    • Start building core pursuits and social connections in your 40s–50s to avoid a late-life “point of no return” where habits, health, and networks are harder to create from scratch. 
    • Wealth boosts happiness only up to a plateau; beyond roughly $1–3M in liquid assets, incremental dollars add little, so shift focus to purpose, relationships, and planned adventures that create anticipation and meaning. 


    “If you do all five of these… you’ve got a 96% chance that you end up in the happy retiree camp.” - Wes Moss


    Want To Retire Sooner? Find out how by learning from Wes Moss’ Retire Sooner Method! Grab a copy here: https://www.amazon.com/dp/1969190027?lv=shuf&channelId=500&plpRedirect=mhFallback


    About Wes Moss:

    Wes Moss, CFP®, is Managing Partner and Chief Investment Strategist at Capital Investment Advisors, a fee-only SEC-registered investment adviser with over $8 billion in assets under management. A dedicated financial educator, Moss has spent his career helping Americans retire sooner and happier through his research-driven Retire Sooner Method. Moss is the author of several books, including What the Happiest Retirees Know, and host of the long-running Money Matters radio show and the Retire Sooner podcast. A regular Forbes contributor and frequently quoted media source, Moss lives in Atlanta, where he leads a team committed to helping families find purpose and financial security in retirement.


    Connect with Wes Moss:

    Website: https://www.wesmoss.com/  

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/wesmoss/  



    Connect With Bob Campana:

    Website: https://www.bobcampana.com/ 

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getback2workk 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-campana-entrepreneur/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobcampana_/ 



    Show notes by Podcastologist: Hanz Jimuel Alvarez


    Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

    56 min
  • Know When to Grow, Know When to Go: Dave Parker on Smart Exits

    Chasing scale or eyeing the exit? Dave Parker reveals the signals founders miss, the metrics that matter, and a simple framework to decide: grow, pivot, or go. Avoid earnout traps, raise your multiple, and time your move with confidence.


    In this episode, Bob Campana and Dave Parker discuss:

    • Knowing when to grow versus exit
    • Revenue models driving enterprise value
    • Strategic vs. private equity exits
    • Reducing founder dependency and risk
    • Avoiding earnout traps and customer concentration


    Key Takeaways:

    • Teams prosper when they pivot around problems.
    • Predictable revenue plus a crisp two-year growth story often signals higher enterprise value and buyer confidence than trailing performance alone.
    • Strategic exits skew heuristic; private equity favors calculable models.
    • Lower founder dependency commonly strengthens valuation resilience.
    • Diversified customers and revenue typically reduce risky earnouts.


    “How many weeks could the business run without you paying attention to it? … if you haven't operationalized things, that will drag down the value of the enterprise because of its dependence on you.” - Dave Parker


    About Dave Parker:

    Dave is a five-time founder and has been part of >15 transactions, as founder, operator, board member, and advisor. He splits his time between funding early-stage companies and helping them exit. He’s a Senior Partner at Fearless.fund. The fund is focused on investing in Women of Color Founders across the US in Consumer and Tech companies. At the other end of the spectrum, he helps founders exit their companies through his work at NextPath Advisors.

    His “20%” time (that can sometimes be 80% time) is as a community builder and speaker; he works with accelerators and startup programs worldwide.


    Connect with Dave Parker:

    Website: https://www.dkparker.com/ 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveparker/ 

    Email: [email protected] 



    Connect With Bob Campana:

    Website: https://www.bobcampana.com/ 

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getback2workk 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-campana-entrepreneur/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobcampana_/ 



    Show notes by Podcastologist: Hanz Jimuel Alvarez


    Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

    52 min
  • Flavor, Focus, and the Family Torch: Inside The Yogurt Mill with Larry and Soshie Young

    What does it really take to turn a soft-serve side hustle into a four-location staple with lines out the door? Meet Larry and Soshie Young, founders of The Yogurt Mill, and their daughter Carly, the next-gen co-CEO. Stick around for hard-won lessons on scaling, culture, and creating “memory moments” that keep customers coming back.


    In this episode, Bob Campana, Larry Young, and Soshie Young discuss:

    • From refrigeration to founding The Yogurt Mill
    • Flavor sourcing, rotation, and quality partnerships
    • Scaling through systems, manuals, and training
    • Community outreach, fundraisers, and mobile trucks
    • Next-gen leadership, innovation, and menu focus


     Key Takeaways:

    • Building durable systems like manuals, checklists, training, and standards turns craft into a scalable operation. 
    • Community-first outreach tends to compound both goodwill and revenue. 
    • Hiring for attitude, teaching problem-solving, and prioritizing cleanliness may elevate the customer experience consistently. 
    • Data-led iteration, such as A/B testing promos, tracking loyalty behavior, and letting winners run, often pays off across seasons.
    • Operational focus helps; trend items seem to work best when they truly fit.


    “I never had that vision that we would be able to impact so many people's lives. I think what you see from Yogurt Mill is just the sincerity from our hearts.” - Larry Young


    About Larry and Soshie Young:

    Larry and Soshie Young are the husband-and-wife founders of Yogurt Mill, a Modesto staple they launched in the mid-1980s after Larry’s early career in commercial refrigeration and soft-serve equipment. Blending Larry’s mechanical mastery and product obsession with Soshie’s organizational rigor and community-minded marketing, they scaled from a single shop to multiple locations, trucks, and a catering arm. Their playbook- quality sourcing, relentless cleanliness, systems and training, and deep local engagement- built a beloved brand and a durable operation now transitioning to the next generation under their daughter, Carly.


    Connect with Larry and Soshie Young:

    Yogurt Mill Website: https://yogurtmill.com/   

    Yogurt Mill Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/yogurtmillfroyo  

    Yogurt Mill Phone: (209) 523-2057   

    Yogurt Mill Facebook:https://web.facebook.com/yogurtmillfroyo 

    Yogurt Mill Email: [email protected]  

    Larry’s LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/larry-young-a9a865aa/  


    Connect With Bob Campana:

    Website: https://www.bobcampana.com/ 

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getback2workk 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-campana-entrepreneur/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobcampana_/ 



    Show notes by Podcastologist: Hanz Jimuel Alvarez


    Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

    1 hr 13 min
  • Bill McHenry: From Factory to Table: How Widgetteer Wins the “Social Kitchen”

    Meet Widgetteer CEO Bill McHenry, who turned a failed vacuum-seal idea into a masterclass on product design, sourcing with soul, and selling to the toughest buyers. From viral oil-and-vinegar platters to Disney-level vendor status, this conversation is a blueprint for building hits in the “social kitchen” era, where relationships, relentless follow-up, and packaging you can actually touch make all the difference. 


    In this episode, Bob Campana and Bill McHenry discuss:

    • Widgetteer’s “social kitchen” focus and products
    • Lessons from early product failure 
    • Corporate experience shaping entrepreneurial agility
    • Sourcing family-owned factories and retail access
    • Pricing, logistics, packaging, and trade show strategy


     Key Takeaways:

    • Design for the “social kitchen”; this means making products people want to display, not store, then partner with family-owned factories to move faster than big brands. 
    • Early failure taught hard lessons in manufacturing, logistics, and perseverance. 
    • Start with the retail price, then work backward on costs, packaging, and shipping to protect margin without hurting customer experience.
    • Trade shows are for contacts, not closes.
    • A respectful, cross-generational team improves picks and reduces risk. 


    “We have that focus on the social kitchen… I'd be willing to bet when you have a party at your house, everyone congregates in the kitchen, and that's what we focus on.” - Bill McHenry


    About Bill McHenry:

    Bill McHenry is an innovative leader in the world of sales and marketing with over 25 years of extensive corporate and entrepreneurial experience.  As a creative and energetic problem solver, Bill has helped launch a number of exciting new products and companies, building them from the ground up, including Widgeteer.  As the founder and President of Widgeteer,  Bill uses his comprehensive industry experience to bring innovative European housewares brands to North America.  As the company has grown, he has been able to grow the logistics part of the business, creating a bridge between international factories and retailers in North America. 

    Throughout his noteworthy career, Bill has served in key capacities for a number of varied and high-profile companies, including Carnation, a division of Nestle Corporation, 3M, and North American Philips in upper executive positions in sales, marketing, and business development sectors. 


    Connect with Bill McHenry:

    Website: www.widgeteerinc.com 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/billmchenry/ 


    Connect With Bob Campana:

    Website: https://www.bobcampana.com/ 

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getback2workk 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-campana-entrepreneur/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobcampana_/ 



    Show notes by Podcastologist: Hanz Jimuel Alvarez


    Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

    41 min
  • Dan Dowdy: From Plumber to Trades Leadership Coach

    In this episode of Get Back 2 Work, Bob Campana sits down with Master plumber Dan Dowdy as he reveals how leadership, systems, and faith transformed his family business into a coaching movement. Learn to scale your trades company, build culture, and lead the next generation.


    In this episode, Bob Campana and Dan Dowdy discuss:

    • Dan's journey: plumbing to coaching
    • Mindset, faith, and endurance driving leadership and resilience
    • Systems and processes to scale without owner
    • Core values, structure, accountability shaping company culture
    • Communication, hiring, training: closing generational leadership gap


    Key Takeaways:

    • Investing in leadership education and systems transformed Dan’s family plumbing business, enabling scalable growth and freeing the owner from day-to-day operations to pursue coaching nationally.
    • Mindset and endurance turn pain into growth and lasting results.
    • Multi-generational family businesses must align leadership at the top to prevent wedges and ensure coaching benefits flow throughout the organization sustainably.
    • Define core values, display them visibly, and enforce accountability consistently so your culture attracts like-minded employees and customers while preventing the owner from becoming a growth bottleneck during scaling phases.
    • Use assessments, presence, and structured communication to build trust and team cohesion faster and more reliably.


    “We only work at the top first, and then throughout the organization, because you're the biggest problem in your business, and we got to work on you first.” - Dan Dowdy


    Learn more about Dan’s Coaching HERE: https://www.skool.com/built-for-the-trades/about 


    About the guest, Dan Dowdy:

    Dan Dowdy is a Second Generation Master Plumber, an experienced Home Service Business Owner, and a Certified John Maxwell Leadership Speaker, Trainer, and Coach with over 22 years of leadership experience in the Trades. Dan has done it all, from running a service truck to owning and operating a successful, multi-million dollar home service company. Dan is known for building self-operating businesses with a great culture.


    Connect with Dan Dowdy:

    Website: https://builtforthetrades.com/   

    Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BuiltForTheTrades/   

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/builtforthetrades/  

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@builtforthetrades  

    LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dan-dowdy-989b8111a  

    TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@built4trades  

    X: https://x.com/Built4theTrades  



    Connect With Bob Campana:

    Website: https://www.bobcampana.com/ 

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getback2workk 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-campana-entrepreneur/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobcampana_/ 



    Show notes by Podcastologist: Hanz Jimuel Alvarez


    Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

    59 min
  • Firdaus Kharas: Animation Breaks Barriers: Storytelling That Transforms

    On this episode of Get Back to Work with host Bob Campana, internationally renowned visual artist Firdaus Kharas reveals how animation breaks barriers, using short, culturally authentic visuals to overcome stigma and save lives. Join in to hear rapid storyboarding, taboo‑busting ideas, and the human edge over AI.


    In this episode, Bob Campana and Firdaus Kharas discuss:

    • Creativity vs. AI: human imagination wins
    • Humor + brevity: short spots that stick
    • Cultural authenticity: locally believable visual details
    • Animation over posters: visuals that change behavior
    • Process & persistence: storyboards, iteration, daydreaming


    Key Takeaways:

    • Culturally authentic, concise animation can bypass defenses, change behavior, and deliver globally public health impact faster and more affordably than static campaigns.
    • Human creativity remains essential; AI augments but cannot originate truly novel ideas.
    • Short spots, sometimes as brief as twenty seconds, require extreme concision and repetition to embed messages across languages, increasing retention and prompting measurable behavior change over time more consistently.
    • Storyboards, iterative drafts, and director-led attention to culturally specific, meticulous visual details, down to clothing, leaves, and camera movement, ensure emotional authenticity, audience identification, and broad social acceptance across diverse local regions.
    • Persistence, prototyping, and embracing failure accelerate creative breakthroughs and build lasting shared audience trust.


    “Animation gives you what is called a suspension of your disbelief system, meaning that you know what you're seeing is not real, and therefore I use animation because I can do things that I could not do with normal people.” - Firdaus Kharas


    About the guest, Firdaus Kharas:

    Firdaus Kharas is a globally recognized social innovator, media producer, humanitarian, and pioneer in behavior change communication. For more than three decades, he has harnessed animation and mass media to advance social change, producing or co-producing over 5,000 media works across 110 series, translated into hundreds of languages and distributed in 198 countries and territories. As Founder and Chair of Chocolate Moose Media, his work addresses critical global issues including public health, human rights, refugee support, climate change, education, and universal values, reaching more than a billion people worldwide through freely available Creative Commons content.

    Kharas’s campaigns have addressed HIV/AIDS, malaria, gender equality, Ebola, and refugee crises, combining creativity, cross-cultural sensitivity, and humanitarian purpose to save lives and shift attitudes. His contributions have earned more than 130 international awards, including a Peabody Award and United Nations Peace Medal, as well as recognition as an Officer of the Order of Canada and honorary doctorates from Thiel College and Carleton University.


    Connect with Firdaus Kharas:

    Website: https://chocmoose.com/ 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/firdaus-kharas-95a28016/ 



    Connect With Bob Campana:

    Website: https://www.bobcampana.com/ 

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getback2workk 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-campana-entrepreneur/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobcampana_/ 



    Show notes by Podcastologist: Hanz Jimuel Alvarez


    Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

    1 hr 25 min
  • Bryan Clayton: How He Built the “Uber for Mowing”

    From a 13-year-old mowing lawns to building an “Uber for mowing” that serves 300,000 customers, this episode pulls back the curtain on scaling a blue-collar hustle into a tech platform, the messy reality of selling a business, and the human-first coaching that turns solo landscapers into sustainable owners. Tune in for hard-earned tactics, founder confessions, and the surprising lessons Bryan Clayton learned when he traded a lawnmower for an app.


    In this episode, Bob Campana and Bryan Clayton discuss:

    • Building an entrepreneurial mindset from mowing lawns
    • Scaling operations and delegating leadership
    • Preparing business for sale and identity shift
    • Creating GreenPal marketplace for lawn care
    • Coaching vendors and enforcing accountability systems


     Key Takeaways:

    • Start small, systemize early, then duplicate operations to scale without burning out and preserve sanity.
    • Preparing a business for sale requires rebuilding operations to align with buyer expectations, focusing on clear financials and scalable systems, because emotional attachments and lifestyle operations often reduce perceived value and complicate transition planning significantly.
    • A marketplace succeeds by rigorously vetting providers, promoting reliability through reviews and metrics, and coaching operators to increase repeat bookings and efficiency.
    • Accountability and coaching convert hardworking operators into sustainable, consistently profitable small-business owners.
    • Constructive dissatisfaction, the founder’s persistent drive to fix problems and refuse complacency, fuels continuous innovation, propels strategic focus, and keeps teams aligned toward higher standards and measurable customer outcomes consistently.


    “We set out to create the app that works like Uber for lawn mowing, and that's what GreenPal is.” - Bryan Clayton


    About the guest, Bryan Clayton:

    Bryan Clayton started mowing lawns as a teenager with a push mower. Twenty years later, he’s the CEO of GreenPal — the app Entrepreneur Magazine calls *the Uber for lawn care*. Before GreenPal, Bryan built one of Tennessee’s largest landscaping companies, growing it to over $10 million a year before selling it. Now he’s doing it again — this time with technology. GreenPal connects 300,000 homeowners with reliable lawn pros, handling thousands of jobs every day all over the US. Bryan’s on a mission to bring AI into one of the oldest industries out there — helping small lawn care businesses use data and automation to compete like big companies. From pushing a mower to building a $30 million tech platform, Bryan’s story is all about grit, adaptation, and how old-school hard work can thrive in a high-tech world.


    Connect with Bryan Clayton:

    Website: https://www.yourgreenpal.com 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bryan-clayton-a96b33214 

    Twitter: https://x.com/bryanMclayton 

    Instagram: https://instagram.com/bryanmclayton 

    Wikipedia: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bryan_M._Clayton 

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BryanClayton1   



    Connect With Bob Campana:

    Website: https://www.bobcampana.com/ 

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getback2workk 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-campana-entrepreneur/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobcampana_/ 



    Show notes by Podcastologist: Hanz Jimuel Alvarez


    Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

    47 min
  • Catherine Bell: Awakened Companies: Leading with Presence, Purpose, and People

    Want your company to feel alive, not just profitable? In this episode, Catherine Bell maps a practical path, from waking your own self-awareness to reshaping relationships and team systems, so creativity and culture drive performance. Tune in for Enneagram-based tools, silence practices, and leadership moves that turn vision into collective action.


    In this episode, Bob Campana and Catherine Bell discuss:

    • Alive/awakened organizations
    • Three rings: awaken self, relationships, teams
    • Enneagram for leadership and team diversity
    • Creativity: silence, stillness, and collective process
    • Culture vs. finance — the two-thirds culture rule


    Key Takeaways:

    • Prioritize culture alongside finance to unlock sustainable performance and lasting organizational resilience.
    • Begin leadership transformation by cultivating self-awareness, crafting a personal strategic vision, and practicing steady presence; these practices enable leaders to model values, inspire teams, and create psychological safety for sustained creativity.
    • Use the Enneagram as a strategic tool to diversify team thinking, surface blind spots, and design complementary roles that accelerate collective innovation rapidly at scale.
    • Silence and stillness unlock creative insights you cannot artificially create.
    • Design leadership systems that invite participation, distribute control, and convert individual sparks into predictable, collective outcomes—driving measurable growth.


    “What most CEOs don't know is that if we focus two-thirds on corporate culture and 1/3 on financial success, that's where the magic is.” - Catherine Bell


    About the guest, Catherine Bell:

    Catherine R Bell is a successful entrepreneur, business leader, and best-selling business author. The Awakened Company, which she founded, focuses on helping organizations create healthy corporate cultures through awakening the self, relationships, and team dynamics.

    The Awakened Company (2015)—Catherine’s revolutionary business book—was awarded the Nautilus Book Award in Business and Leadership and became a bestseller one week after its release. 

    As CEO of the Awakened Company, Catherine now consults all over the world on creating Awakened Companies. In 2022 alone, her work spanned twenty-three countries. She also started The Awakened Project, a jewelry line that helps women out of poverty by starting their own business with microloans. She recently co-founded a mindfulness app, Awakenly, which uses the Enneagram to ground people into presence and transform their realities.


    Connect with Catherine Bell:

    Websites: awakenedcompany.com  & www.catherinerbell.com 

    Enneagram: vimeo.com/ondemand/enneagramseries 


    Awakened Company Culture Assessment: 

    https://awakenedcompany.com/awakened-company-assessment/ 

    Awakened Company VIP Newsletter sign up:

    https://awakenedcompany.com/contact-us/#tac-newsletter

    Awakened Company YouTube Channel: https://www.youtube.com/awakenedcompany 

    Awakened Company Certification Details : 

    https://awakenedcompany.com/awaken-with-us-2/ 


    Connect With Bob Campana:

    Website: https://www.bobcampana.com/ 

    YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@getback2workk 

    LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bob-campana-entrepreneur/ 

    Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/bobcampana_/ 



    Show notes by Podcastologist: Hanz Jimuel Alvarez


    Audio production by Turnkey Podcast Productions. You're the expert. Your podcast will prove it.

    1 hr 8 min

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