Lead to Succeed

It’s never too late to dive into your purpose, even if this means changing your career after three decades. This is what our guest, Johnny Sirprilla, did.

In his early 50s he left the lucrative world of RVs and camping and started focusing on driving meaningful change in the workplace to allow employees to return home empowered.

Johnny, founder of Encourage, LLC., is an entrepreneur, passionate leader, and the author of Life Is Hard But I’ll Be OK: The Power of Hope, Emerging through Pain and Learning to Live with Gratitude.

Listen in to learn more about living your purpose!

[02:40] Was Johnny’s work in RVs and camping a “follow you passion” story or did he just fall into it?

[09:27] Johnny’s argument for people to be outdoors more.

[12:28] The most common thoughts people have that don’t serve them and how to help them think differently.

[15:26] The ideal person who’d benefit the most from Johnny’s book.

[16:47] What prompted Johnny to “repurpose” himself into his current work.

[19:27] Why and how should people join boards.

[23:52] The biggest mistake that Johnny made and how he grew from it.

[27:43] Rapid-fire.

[29:55] Johnny’s final lesson.

• “Don’t believe everything that you think.”

• “Post-traumatic growth is an opportunity that we need to embrace and dive deeper into.”

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We all want to become high performers, people who achieve at levels well above the average. In this episode, Jeremy Slate tells us how to do just that!

Jeremy is the founder of the Create Your Own Life Podcast, which studies the highest performers in the world. He was ranked #1 in iTunes New and #78 in the iTunes top 100. Jeremy’s podcast was named the #1 to listen to by INC Magazine in 2019, as well as being named a Top Influencer by Forbes.

After his success in podcasting, Jeremy and his wife Brielle founded Command Your Brand to help entrepreneurs get their message out by appearing as guests on podcasts.

You can dream about changing your country to the better, influence it and volunteer in it. OR you can make the decision to do it. That’s what Lead to Succeed guest Batsheva Moshe decided to do.

Batsheva is the GM of Wix in Israel, the leading cloud-based website creation and development platform with 220 million users worldwide. She also serves as Chairman of Yozmot Atid - a leading NGO that empowers women from underserved communities to establish small businesses and to become economically independent. Prior, Batsheva managed Poalim HiTech – the banking arm of Bank Hapoalim for startups and high-tech companies.

Batsheva was also CEO of Unistream, one of Israel's most influential and impactful NGOs that narrows the socio-economic gaps by empowering youth and young adults from underprivileged communities to establish startups and integrate into the Hitech industry.

Listen in and learn more about the mindset that entrepreneurs must have.

Your age should never be an obstacle to your success. Nor should you ever be inauthentic in how you appear online. That’s what Lead to Succeed guest Cat Philp teaches.

In this episode, Cat shares her young entrepreneurship journey accompanied with the power of authenticity in life – especially in work. Cat, Young Entrepreneur of 2022, is the founder of Pivot Marketing, a social media and personal branding agency. She has been building her personal brand around authenticity and humanized marketing, with over 2M monthly views on LinkedIn and a digital presence of 45k across platforms, she is now travelling the world helping others build their online brands and working to make an impact on the education sector for the better.

Listen in and learn more about the success of young entrepreneurship.

Your biggest asset it not your money, or even your business. It’s your time! You can always get more money but your time here on earth is limited. How can you make the most of it? And how can your family business serve as an asset to achieving your financial and fulfillment goals, assuming you even know what they are?

Good news! Lead to Succeed 95 guest Bruce Werner has the answers! Bruce is the Managing director of Kona Advisors LLC. Bruce provides strategic, governance, and owner advisory services to middle market businesses. His range of assignments has included governance, strategy, finance, M&A, workout, succession planning and all facets of family business consulting.

Bruce has the capacity to lead businesses from where they are to where they want to go by helping the owners define what they really, really want.

Listen in and learn more about governance and owner advisory services to middle market businesses.

More women need to have a seat on the table of wealth management and investments. So says Lead to Succeed guest Holly Mazzocca. Holly shares how women offer unique perspective and special gifts to the field of wealth management and investment planning.

Holly is the President, Wealth Advisor and Principal at Bartlett Wealth Management in Cincinnati, OH. As President, Holly builds upon Bartlett’s rich legacy to develop an innovative future. Recent initiatives include a program of services and events for women, called WEinvest™ (Women Empowered to Invest), as well as the launch of a podcast, ESG integration, and family office services.

Listen in and learn more about women and service in wealth management.

A mastermind group creates a safe environment for members. Peers will encourage you to see your superpowers and help you by pointing at your blind spots, all so you can evolve.

This episode features Aaron Walker, businessman and life coach, founder of more than dozens of companies over the past 41 years. Aaron attributes much of his success to having surrounded himself with his mastermind counterparts.

When he first went to a mastermind group, Aaron didn’t want to share his story, he didn’t want the others to know his life’s issues, but it turned out that others were more screwed up than he was!

Listen in and learn how mastermind groups can help you.

Follow your Passion with Brian Burke: Lead to Succeed 92

If you had a passion for something and everyone around you was discouraging you against pursuing it, would you still follow it?

Today I have Brian Burke joining me on the show. He is commonly known as the Mac Man. Brian started his entrepreneurship journey at the tender age of ten. He was selling jewelry, and he wasn’t worried about anything anyone said about him.

 Later in life, Brian started selling Apple products, which has been his business for years. Brian’s passion for Apple products is so great that he didn’t give attention to people who suggested that he should sell other products too.

In this episode, Brian will take us through his entrepreneurship journey and help us understand the essence of pursuing our passion.

Listen in to this episode and learn.

Key Talking Points of the Episode:

[3:28] Brian’s background in entrepreneurship

[6:44] Brian’s primary customers

[8:54] How Brian creates awareness of his business’ existence

[12:12] How Brian converts leads into sales

[14:20] Following your passion

[20:13] Brian’s biggest challenge as a founder of a business

[22:19] How to find the best people to hire in a crowded market

[24:13] Brian’s advice to young emerging leaders

[26:08] How Brian consumes books

[29:27] Brian’s most significant failure and what he learned from it

[32:50] Rapid fire questions

Magical Quotes from the Episode:

“If you’re not ranking right away on Google, you can use Google ads.”

“I think if you are working in a field you’re passionate about, you’re going to have a much better internal battery. You’re going to be able to persevere through those tough situations.”

“Passion sometimes evolves from expertise.”

“If they have the grit, they’ll be able to get through, anything that comes their way, if there’s a tough situation at home or at work, they’ll be able to fight through it.”

Connect with Brian Burke:

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

Are you a leader who thinks speaking is the most challenging task to handle? This episode is for you!  

Today I have the pleasure of speaking with Eddie Turner. Eddie is an in-demand leadership development expert. He’s a principal consultant and executive coach at linkage, a boutique international leadership development firm. He asserted he’s a certified speaking professional and is ranked number six on the top 30 list of motivational speakers by global gurus. Forbes recognized Eddie as the preeminent authority on emerging leaders. He is ranked number 18 on the top 25 thought leaders in leadership by thinkers 360 and ranked number 32 on the power list of the leading 200 biggest voices in leadership to watch in 2022.

In this episode, Eddie will share his speaking journey, how we can become better speakers and leaders, and share nuggets of wisdom that we can all apply in our day to day lives.

Listen in to this episode.

Key Talking Points from the Episode:

[02:20] Challenges that emerging leaders face and how does Eddie help them

[04:23] Strategies to help emerging leaders emerge

[o8:59] Eddie’s childhood and how he discovered his gift in speaking

[09:51] What motivated Eddie to make Speaking his career path?

[12:28] How can a leader transition from being afraid to speak to being confident

[14:30] How Eddie helps leaders get over their fear to speak

[18:08] Technical leadership versus visionary leadership

[18:41] Understanding the purposeful leadership model

[22:22] Eddie’s most significant failure and what he learnt from it

[25:30] Rapid fire questions

Magical Quotes from the Episode:

“Not every mentor is the same. You need to find somebody who is committed to you, who is willing to show you the ropes, and who is humble enough to not just sort of dictate the terms has a coaching element and how they operate.”

“Often times, it’s not necessarily that an emerging leader doesn’t know things, it’s just they don’t necessarily have the confidence, the clarity, or the ability to put their knowledge into practice in the right way.”

“Every time you have to speak, you are auditioning for leadership.” Reagan

“Failure is part of success. And if you don’t fail, you can’t achieve really the pinnacle of your potential.”

“Every successful person has failures that were stepping stones to success.”

Connect with Eddie

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/linkage-inc-/ 

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

Twitter: https://twitter.com/LinkageInc 

To become a better leader, you need to embrace your failures and learn from them.

In this episode, I have the privilege of hosting Scott Shay on the show. Scott is the co-founder and Chairman of Signature Bank, a thought leader, and author of several widely read books on profound issues facing the Jewish and world community

In our conversation, Scott openly shared his entrepreneurial successes as well as his mistakes and how he overcame them, his best investment and how we can become better investors. He also went deep on what inspired him to write his third book (“Conspiracy U”) and what t’s all about.

Listen in to this episode to hear more from Scott Shay.

Key Talking Points of the Episode:

[02:13] Scott’s third book and what inspired him to write it

[07:28] How to make the time and figure out the best way to pursue your daily work and simultaneously make a bigger impact in areas that are near and dear to your heart

[13:26] Mistakes that business owners and investors make with their money and how they can avoid them\

[17:58] How to invest better as an entrepreneur

[20:29] The best investment that Scott has made

[28:08] Scott’s advice to leaders to be more authentic in how they present themselves to others in their companies and the world at large

[29:46] Rapid fire questions

Magical quotes from the episode:

“People overestimate what they can accomplish in the short run, and underestimate what they can accomplish in the long run, if they keep doing the right things.”

“The greatest miracle and the secret or power in the universe is compound interest.”

“The first voice you listen to should be your internal voice, and then pause. If there are conflicts with what you’re hearing from the outside, then you need to think about that before you react.”

“If you just keep taking smaller steps that are consistent and sustainable steps, then you can do a lot more than you might think.”

Connect with Scott Shay:

Website: https://www.scottshay.com/

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

Grab Scott’s Book:

Conspiracy U: https://www.scottshay.com/