Know and build on strengths – The Mentors Radio

Have you ever wondered how to identify your strengths or your unique purpose?  In today’s episode, The Mentors Radio host Tom Loarie discusses the power and life-changing impact of knowing and building on personal—or corporate—strengths as he talks with guest Joe Cavanaugh, III, president of Equip2Equip. Equip2Equip is a life and career training coaching company dedicated to equipping leaders to successfully equip those whom they lead. An expert in strengths-based management and a master coach and trainer in MCORE, VIA, Paterson Center LifePlans for individuals and StratOp for organizations, Cavanaugh has coached more than 5,000 individuals, with remarkable success. In this episode, you’ll learn how to discover authentic strengths and motivations of individuals, teams and organizations, why this is an important exercise, how it speeds finding and fulfilling one’s unique purpose, taking performance to the next level. This is what Cavanaugh would call “being equipped.” Mind-expanding episode!!

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In this episode, The Mentors host Tom Loarie interviews Thinkers50 top business thinker Whitney Johnson on the power of disruptive innovation and self-disruption. Johnson is renown for co-founding the Disruptive Innovation Fund with Harvard Business School’s Clayton Christensen and authoring two best-sellers—“Disrupt Yourself: Putting the Power of Disruptive Innovation to Work,” and “Dare, Dream, Do: Remarkable Things Happen When You Dare to Dream,” with a third book in production. Listeners to the show (and podcast) will learn how to put the power of disruption to work for themselves. Johnson talks about taking the right risks, playing to your own distinctive strengths, embracing constraint, and being driven by discovery. Johnson and Loarie also discuss how entitlement kills innovation; how we must step down, back or sideways in order to grow; and how important it is to give failure its due. The S-curve—what it is and how it can be applied to business and personal life—and the seven levels one must master to achieve effective disruption and innovative success is explored with remarkable clarity and immediately applicable insight. Don’t forget to share with co-workers and friends!

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Only 3% of family-run businesses survive to the fourth generation and beyond.  Yet, about 35% of Fortune 500 companies are family-controlled and family businesses generate 62% employment in the U.S. and account for 78% of new job creation.  So, what’s the secret sauce that sustains a family-run business beyond the fourth generation?  That’s what listeners will find out as The Mentors Radio host John Phillips interviews Bob Verdin, sixth generation co-owner of family-owned The Verdin Company, creator and restorer of bells and huge town clocks. The Verdin Company is currently celebrating its 175th Anniversary and has been featured on the History Channel, Cincinnati TV and more. Recently the Company restored a bell originally cast by Paul Revere! Imagine that!  Listeners will learn how the company survived through the Great Depression and the passion of family co-owners for their business.  Absolutely wonderful episode!

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In this episode you’ll learn how your leadership style shapes your business, your team and your ability to succeed! The Mentors Host Tom Loarie delivers a fun, fast-paced and fascinating interview with John Danner and Chris Kuenne, co-authors of the best-selling business book, “Built for Growth: How Builder Personality Shapes Your Business, Your Team, and Your Ability to Win.” Kuenne is an East Coast-based growth capital investor who built and sold a prominent digital marketing firm called Rosetta Group, the founder of a private equity firm named Rosemark Capital and a member of the Princeton Entrepreneurship faculty. Danner is a Senior Fellow at the University of California Berkeley Institute for Business Innovation, a seasoned entrepreneur business advisor in his own right, serves on the faculties of both Haas School of Business (UC Berkeley) and Princeton University, and teaches leadership globally.

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According to statistics referenced in March 2017, there are more than 38 MILLION home-based businesses in the U.S. Twenty percent of these earn $100,000 to $500,000 a year. Seventy percent are successful within 3 years of launching, and most of them are cheap to start.  So, if you are considering—or already running—a home-based business, you’re not alone!  In today’s episode, The Mentors host John Phillips talks with two seasoned and successful home-based business owners—Catherine Moran and Kent Mast—who are both with Hope in a Can. Over the next 55 minutes, you’ll learn what’s involved in …launching a home-based business, the challenges as well as the rewards, some tips for success, and how to discern whether a home-based business opportunity is right for you—regardless whether it’s something to allow you to stay home with your family, or useful as a second income stream or as a retirement income. The discussion is fun and lively, including some caller questions. Enjoy!

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In this episode host Ric Brutocao talks with Ken Strottman, founder of Strottman International, a unique design and marketing firm that creates toys—from concept and design to final product—as part of powerful, unique, brand-experience marketing campaigns. His clients include firms such as Wendy’s, Lowe’s, and many more. Prior to launching his own firm, Ken was VP of Mattel Toys, but before Mattel, as he puts it, he literally started his career journey in the toilet! Quite funny. His journey—even his unexpected exit from Mattel and segue to creating his own company—is one of persistence and internal growth along the way, following what he does best. His fabulously interesting (and, at the time, sometimes devastating) failures served as some of his best learning experiences along the way.  There’s so much in this show, you just have to listen and enjoy!!

In this episode, host Tom Loarie talks with three inspiring women CEOs and entrepreneurs—Laura Raynak of Executive Talent Scout, Heather Lerner, executive director of Happy Hollow Foundation, and Nola Masterson, a seasoned CEO, global executive and board leader serving on public company, venture-back private company and nonprofit organization boards—reveal their tips for success on “The Mentors” radio show this Saturday. Fast-paced, and fun, with lots of take-away insights! Enjoy!

The Mentors Host Tom Loarie gets Captain Thomas Foley, Chaplain, USAF, to share the secrets he’s learned over the years for finding success, purpose, happiness and a sense of fulfillment in life and in work, no matter what you do.  As we celebrate July 4 — Independence Day, and as we reflect on the courage, self-sacrifice and common sense of our nation’s Founding Fathers, it seems only fitting that we take a short 50 minutes to reflect on how we can honor those men and the principles and individual freedoms for which they sacrificed their lives, by being the best we can be—inside and out!

The Mentors CEO host Tom Loarie interviews guest Allan Cox, best-selling author and renown advisor to CEOs, teams and boards. Listeners will learn about the innovative work Mr. Cox is doing with top CEOs, and the results, and learn who are the key mentors—and their impact—in Mr. Cox’ life, the role of spirituality in business and much, much more.  The discussion will uncover the critical impact of discovering what pulls us forward, and how understanding this component in our life can radically change and improve our trajectory, and ultimately our sense of fulfillment and happiness in life and in work. Find Show Notes here.  Listen below or subscribe to podcast.

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Joe Cavanaugh III

On today’s show CEO host Tom Loarie talks with Joseph Cavanaugh III, president of Equip2Equip,  a company dedicated to equipping leaders to equip those they lead. An expert in strengths-based management and a master coach and trainer in MCORE, VIA, Paterson Center LifePlans for individuals and StratOp for organizations, Cavanaugh has coached more than 5,000 individuals throughout North America and around the world. You can dramatically improve your life and career by understanding and building on your unique strengths. You’ll learn there’s truly is no one just like you!  And, you’ll be surprised at how easy — and how eye-opening — is this personal process of discovery and growth! For more information or to ask the mentors a question, go to thementorsradio.com/contact

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