Keep The Change

"If it's worthwhile, it should be worth the while." - Michael Cirillo

Michael Cirillo returns for a deeper look into his career journey and the lessons that have helped him enjoy a successful career as the CEO and co-founder of the automotive tech and marketing agency, FlexDealer.com.

How to make the journey worthwhile:

• Michael points out that anything worthwhile should be worth the while. In other words, a valuable lesson he's learned is that, despite wanting the journey to go faster at times, it has taken the exact amount of time that it needed to take for him to truly grow and learn.
• It's easy to feel inadequate when contrasted against the perception of success that we're bombarded with online. Someone is always willing to glamourize the journey — a guru only willing to show you the staged photograph of them sitting on the beach. The danger is that the journey rarely looks the way it's depicted. It requires much more hard work, doubt, failure, learning, competition, and discipline. There is no magic bullet to success.
• Bart asks how Michael sets and achieves goals. Michael speaks to the importance of setting smaller, more achievable goals. In doing so, motivation increases, and he believes that aids in his ability to accomplish the end goals he has set.

Listen to the full episode for more insights about how to make the journey worthwhile by Michael Cirilo and Bart Nollenberger.

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/michaelcirillo
• The Dealer Playbook: https://www.thedealerplaybook.com
• FlexDealer: https://www.flexdealer.com

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• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bart-nollenberger-4949405a/
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In this episode of Keep The Change, Bart recaps some powerful moments from his past guests and some of the things that stood out most during those interviews. Each guest's unique story has contributed to who they are today. They have experienced the transformation deeply rooted in the Savior's atoning sacrifice.

Key takeaways from this episode:

1. Bart talks about how each guest has positively affected his life. Thirty-seven years ago, Bart entered a rehab center. He was 150 lbs and was an absolute mess in every area of his life. He confesses that he was selfish and narcissistic. He was addicted to alcohol, attention, and drugs. It's that experience that led him to produce this podcast, to hopefully share that the experiences from our past can lead to extraordinary outcomes in the future.
2. Bart explains that he developed a relationship with God along the way. Speaking about his recovery, "my walk with God in staying clean and sober has freed me from my past hurts, habits, and hangups daily. Without God, my life doesn't work..."
3. Each guest on the show has shared the importance of keeping the change in their lives. It's not about money, wealth, or entrepreneurship (although those tend to be common themes throughout their life experiences), it's more about how they've each risen from humble beginnings and leveraged those experiences as a source of strength. 

Listen to the full episode for more insights about how to keep the change in your life!

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Pat Williams is a basketball Hall-of-Famer, co-founder of the NBA’s Orlando Magic, and former general manager of the Philadelphia 76ers. Also one of America’s top motivational and inspirational corporate speakers, Pat has addressed employees from many Fortune 500 companies. Pat is also the author of over 100 books, his most recent title is REVOLUTIONARY LEADERSHIP.

What we discuss in this episode:

• Pat shares the story about how his father introduced him to the game of baseball in June of 1947 and how the sites immediately struck him, the sounds, smells, and color of baseball. At seven years old, he remembers deciding that he wanted to play baseball for the rest of his life.
• He admits that those were big dreams, but he made it to the minor leagues playing for the Phillies organization with enough determination.

"But I had a better future in the front office than I did on the field in the Phillies, and they noticed that. They gave me an opportunity to learn the ropes as a minor league operator for different teams in their farm system. That paved the way to my switch to the NBA in 1968 where I enjoyed a 51 year run."

• Being a perpetual student is something that Pat Williams offers as advice to anyone seeking to grow.

"I encourage young people where they are in their careers to find mentors, find life coaches, find sages, that you can pick their brains and you can learn from them and you can stay in touch with them. When you have questions that seem to be perplexing you, go to those people and learn and pull from them. In my profession, whenever I found someone that I could learn from or benefit from, I would pepper them with questions, and seek them out, and try to spend as much time with them as possible."

Jonathan Dawson is the founder of Sellchology, a sales training company that works with businesses across the USA and Canada. Known for his relentless optimism, Jonathan loves to teach others how to utilize the principles of human psychology to have a positive influence on others, serve them, and help them achieve lasting change in life.

What we discuss in this episode:

• Bart and Jonathan recount the history of their friendship and how they got to know one another. Through a hilarious turn of events, including Bart getting fired and Jonathan being hired as the replacement, they've formed a powerful Christ-centered friendship.
• Jonathan shares that his mother's contagious optimism heavily influenced him. He inherited his father's strong work ethic. The result? Graduating high school at 15 years old and going to college. By the time he was 17, he moved out of his parent's house and was a junior in college. At 18 years old, he invested in real estate, and by 19 years old, he owned several rental properties.
• Jonathan recounts his experiences to paint a powerful picture of how God orchestrates things on your behalf designed to help you grow through mortality and closer to Him.

Listen to the full episode for even more insights shared by Bart and Jonathan Dawson!

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Daniel Gomez is an Award-Winning Motivational Keynote Speaker, Business Coach, Corporate Trainer, Executive Coach, and Podcast of the Year Recipient. He tells the compelling story about a time when his wife was diagnosed with breast cancer, and what it was like feeling like God has placed him in unfamiliar territory. That experience caused him to look deep inside himself. Today he's here sharing how he keeps the change.

What we discuss in this episode:

• Daniel shares about how he found a lot of success working his career in the car industry, but all of that keep to a screeching halt when five years ago, his wife was diagnosed with stage 3 breast cancer. "It was like we were hit by a runaway truck."
• It's easy to think that just because we have money in the back or that our house is paid off or that we're successful that God won't place us in an area that we're not familiar with.
• It was that experience that caused Daniel to rely more deeply on God. "I think the biggest lie that I, you hear this all the time, right? Well, God would never give you more than what you can handle. He sure does give you more than you can handle, because if you can handle it, you don't need him. And that's the biggest myth."
• Daniel recalls making a clear choice that he would be there to honor his wedding vows and serve his wife, and through those moments he realized how much power God was granting him.

Listen to the full episode for even more insights shared by Bart and Daniel Gomez!

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Mike Anderson is the CEO and partner at the Rikess Group, a successful automotive consulting firm, and joins Keep The Change to share his story of learning to overcome adversity at an early age. Each of us experiences hardship in life, but learning to overcome our challenges can help make us stronger.

What we discuss in this episode about overcoming adversity in life:

Mike recounts the story about his mother picking him up from school and leaving their father. He lived with his mother, grandmother, and great-grandmother until he was 17 years old. Extreme poverty and doing what he could to make ends meet to help the family helped provide him with perspective about adversity and what it means to overcome it.

"By the time I was old enough to leave that environment, adversity didn't seem like it was in my vocabulary. We were pretty well impoverished... I had to share a room with my mother until I was 17."

Listen to the full episode for even more insights shared by Bart and Mike Anderson!

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Adam Marburger is the CEO of Ascent Dealer Services and owner of Alton Family Martial Arts & Fitness in the Greater St. Louis area. His recently released book, "You're the F*cking Problem" explores how we can get out of our own way to create the life and business of our dreams.

What we discuss in this episode:

• Adam shares that he is a giant work in progress. "I'm a God-loving and God-fearing, man. I'm a father to three incredible, incredible little girls. Um, I'm kind of a psychopath for business. Um, I'm a junkie for personal development, um, and I'm a work in progress every single day. I just try to get a little bit better knowing that I'm extremely flawed. Um, I'm patient with myself now a little more than I used to be, and I'm extremely self-aware and being self-aware has allowed me to do more than I've ever done in my life. So that's kind of in a nutshell who I am and, and, and who, what I like to do."
• Adam shares his backstory of living with a father who had a drinking problem, and a mother who "covered it up with perfume." He recalls a specific experience where he decided that he didn't want to be anything like his father and that someday he would make something of himself.
• There are many defining moments that help shape who we are today. Those experiences, either good or bad, have a unique way of shaping and refining us. For Adam, it was when his daughter was born. "Something kind of snapped inside of me. God blessed me with this little girl. I have a lot of responsibility — I have to make some changes including some of the things I was doing and some of the people I was hanging out with." 

Listen to the full episode for even more insights shared by Bart and Adam Marburger!

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In this episode of Keep The Change, Bart Nollenberger shares his powerful story about finding sobriety and redemption. It's a story about leaving a legacy, wanting to make his dad proud of him, and doing what he could to find peace and fulfillment in life.

Each of us has our challenges; our vices. Each of us is going about this journey of life from varying levels of experience and wisdom.

As you listen to Bart's compelling story, consider how you have become the person you are today. How have you shed the follies of your past, and more importantly, leveraged your life's experiences to keep the change that has happened within you?

Bart shares about the importance of creating a solid inner network of people who can support and encourage you and also hold you accountable.

Bart walks through the deeper meaning of the word denial and how we create barriers for ourselves in life. He shares how we can overcome.

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Fred Lennartz (Subprime Hero) and Lou Ramirez (Car Guy Coffee) are career-long best friends who are on a mission to influence businesses, communities, and relationships in a way that brings about a positive legacy for all.

What we discuss in this episode:

• Change is something that we have to do in order to achieve a high standard of excellence. If we stay the same, we get the same results. If we keep doing the same thing, we get bored.
• Not just in business but also in life, it's important to adapt so that you can remain ahead of the curve. The world is changing so quickly that if we let it change around us, we are going to lose many opportunities.
• Consistency is required in order to obtain excellence. Without consistency, it's easy to feel lost or broken, or confused. It's important to get clear on the direction you want to go and then go!

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Eric Konovalov is an immigrant, and refugee, whose family fled communist Russia in the early ’90s. Though they left physically, Eric grew up seeing how his parents’ communist mindset and belief systems were behind all of their decision-making, which led to struggle and lack of freedom to do what they dreamt of doing.

Eric wanted something better for his life and set out to achieve it. After spending 8 wonderful years with the United States Marines, Eric excelled in the field of sales and sales leadership.

Listen to the full episode featuring Eric Konovalov for even more powerful insights about how to find peace in all areas of life.

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