Neil Smith has a long history working with animals. His professional career began in the Queensland Police Service as a dog handler. Through many years of operational policing Neil developed deep skills in working with animals and understanding people. While in the police service Neil began helping dog owners with training programs. This grew into a business so large he left the police service to concentrate on his new venture.

As his business grew Neil saw further opportunities in the provision of pet products online. Capitalising on this opportunity, Neil developed his business into offering a large range of pet products across four websites in Australia and New Zealand, including Bark Control and Ready Pet Go.

In this episode Neil discusses his approach to business, the importance of thinking through decisions, trusting your instincts and when to focus on improving the structure of your business for further growth and to weather the many storms of the sea of business.

To learn more about Ready Pet Go click here.

To learn more about Bark Control click here.

To learn more about EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) click here.

Daniel Williams is the founder of several successful businesses and Certified EOS Implementer. Yet few know of the struggle he has had for most of his life with managing his mental health. There have been some difficult times for Daniel as he has progressed through his life and some amazing breakthroughs. 

In this episode Daniel opens up about how he navigates his personal journey, his conversations with leadership teams in his EOS practice and the commencement of his latest venture, Without Fear. 

Without Fear is a clothing label that exists to inspire others to live without the fear of seeking help with their mental health. It all starts with a conversation, like this one on Gripping Business Tales.

Your can learn more about Without Fear - here .

You can learn more about Beyond Blue - here . 

Note: This is the last episode for 2022. New episodes of Gripping Business Tales will launch in early 2023. 

Sammi Jaeger is a co-founder of Independent Executives, a company designed to the meet the needs of businesses running on EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) and having difficulty filling their integrator talent gap. 

Finding the right person for the integrator seat in a business can be difficult. Mark C. Winters, the co-author of Rocket Fuel, describes the integrator as 'unique' and 'harmoniously integrates the major functions of the business, run the organisation, and manage the day-to day issues that arise. The integrator is the glue that holds the people, processes, systems, priorities, and strategy of the company together.'

Sammi has been an integrator in a number of EOS run businesses and has brought her knowledge and skill to assist in the establishment of Independent Executives. In this episodes she explains what the gap she was seeing was, what pain businesses might be feeling and how this can be solved. 

To learn more about Independent Executives, click here .

To take the Fast 50 assessment of your business, click here .

To learn more about EOS, click here .

Nathan Harding is the founder of Yo Media, a digital marketing agency operating across Australia. 

Yo Media was founded after Nathan had spent a lot of time building his skills in Wesfarmers. Nathan then took the big leap and bought his own business, a newspaper, that had a significant revenue base. Unfortunately, Nathan bought this newspaper as advertising and information consumption was moving from print to electronic. While running his newspaper Nathan honed his skills in selling and marketing and what it means to hustle as he was sometimes making 50-100 cold calls to generate advertising revenues from his car!

Having the skill for marketing and technology, Nathan was asked to improve the on line advertising for a small business. What he did worked and then more people kept asking him to improve their business, and from here Yo Media was born. 

In this episode Nathan reflects on the value of exposure to great leaders, listening and experimentation. He also talks about the value of building an 'engine' around marketing hard, selling to target market and providing a great customer experience. Finally, he talks about what affect EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) Implementation has had on his business.

To learn more about Yo Media click here

To learn more about EOS Implementation click here 

Mirko Roettgers is the Integrator for Triggerfish, a Brisbane based technology company that helps enterprise clients maximise their customer experience platforms to better engage and market to both long standing and new customers. 

Mirko has had quite a geographic and professional journey to get to his current role. Now firmly ensconced in the Australian way of life, in this episode, Mirko discusses his leadership experiences, how he engages his team and where his motivation is drawn from. Mirko also provides insights into the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS)  and how it has shaped Triggerfish into the business it is today.  

For more information about Triggerfish click here.

For more information about EOS click here. 

Operating for more than 10 years and with extensive partnerships within the real estate industry throughout Australia and New Zealand, Smoke Alarm Testing Services (SATS) specialises in providing a compliance service to real estate agents and property managers.

Daniel Kramarzewski joined the business in its formative years. He helped build the business with the founder and developed a deep understand of what it takes to continually search for excellence. He was part of the leadership team when the business was bought by PieLAB Capital and has led the business since. 

In this episode Daniel talks about his experiences of being in a business from, essentially, its beginning through to its purchase, how he and the team navigated that and how he developed when he took on the senior leadership role for SATS. Today, SATS is responsible for checking smoke alarms on over 100,000 properties every year both here in Australia and New Zealand.

Daniel also discusses what he thinks it takes for leaders to be and do their best for the people they lead and what it takes to build a great business, including the introduction of EOS, the Entrepreneurial Operating System.  

More information about SATS can be found here .

More information about PieLAB Capital can be found here .

More about the implementation of EOS can be found here . 

Desmond Russell is an experienced business leader. He has built businesses, been part of successful companies and worked for large enterprises such as Microsoft. Along the way Des has been able to gather an incredible amount of knowledge and how businesses, particularly those in vendor relationships, are missing opportunities by not organising themselves in a way to make themselves more attractive to their customers and their vendors. 

In this episode Des describes the journey to Partner Elevate.  The first step was creating a program within Microsoft to roll out EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System) into partner businesses in Australia.  Following the deployment of EOS into the Microsoft partner community Des saw an opportunity to support businesses further by unpacking what it takes to develop a more valuable vendor partnership.  This has resulted in the establishment of Partner Elevate in which he has identified the three attributes of what makes a business a valued partner to a vendor. 

Des also describes the difference he sees in the businesses running on EOS as opposed to those that don't and how businesses can address problems such as qualified lead generation, managing current customers and how to remain focussed on outcomes. 

To learn more about Partner Elevate click here.

To learn more about EOS click here.  

Gripping Business Tales is returning to your playlist. In the next series of interviews, you will hear from experts in the field of marketing, sales, people management and of course great leaders running their business on EOS, the Entrepreneurial Operating System. So, get ready for more great content to help you understand what EOS can do for you and insights that might just help you run a better business.

Brought to you by Murray Smith, Certified EOS Implementer. 

Check out Murray's website at: www.eosworldwide.com/murray-smith

Setting 90 goals can really set you business on fire. It brings clarity and purpose to team effort in reaching the goals of the business. However, sometimes it is hard to break those goals down into daily tasks. In this episode best selling author of the 'Habit Switch', Romney Nelson, discusses why it can be difficult for people to develop good daily habits and what can be done to overcome the challenges of implementing new habits. 

Romney discusses a resource available for you to use - 'The 90 Day Business Goal Tracker' that can help you break down your 90 day goals into daily actionable tasks. It is designed to be both a planner and reflective journal to help identify what is working well and what is stopping you from reaching your goals. 

Romney co-authored 'The 90 Business Goal Tracker' with myself, MIT Graduate and Professional EOS Implementer.

You can purchase 'The 90 Day Business Goal Tracker' from Amazon. For Australian residents click here . For those outside of Australia click here .

To work with Romney or learn more about his other resources click here.

To learn more about the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS), how it can help your business and how it can work with the 'The 90 Day Business Goal Tracker' click here.

Alex Morrison is the founder of Integral Media. Alex believes that creating value and giving a great customer experience is built on relationships that last. Alex and the team at Integral Media look to work with businesses that share these values and need help in navigating the world of digital marketing. 

As the business has grown Alex recognised for it to continue to grow it needed to rely on the team and not just him. Upon reading Traction, Alex and the leadership team at Integral Media began implementing EOS (Entrepreneurial Operating System). Through this process Alex has learnt to 'let go of the vine' and also built a team that can now work through challenges in a systematic way. Through this process the team can now move past identifying and discussing problems to solving them with speed. 

To learn more about and work with Integral Media click here.

To learn more about EOS and issues solving click here.