Lead to Succeed

Are you a school leader who is struggling with building a relationship with teachers and parents? This episode is for you. In this episode, I have the pleasure of hosting Dr. Patrick Haggarty on the show. He is an expert in school leadership.

Patrick is the president of FACTS Education Solutions. Prior to that, he was a high school principal, a K-12 school system president, superintendent of the Catholic Dioceses of Montana, and the superintendent of the Archdiocese of Seattle, where he led 74 schools and represented 22,000 students throughout Western Washington. 

 Patrick will share some nuggets of wisdom that will help us become better leaders. Also, he will share one of the biggest mistakes he has ever made and what he learned from the mistake.

Listen to this episode and learn.

Key Talking Points of the Episode:

[02:15] What can schools learn from how businesses are run, and what can businesses learn from how schools operate?

[06:32] How Patrick can help a business understand its mission and help them come up with a mission that aligns with their mission

[11:05] Patrick’s leadership evolution story

[15:15] Patrick’s strategies on making people feel valued

[21:57] The greatest challenges facing education

[25:31] Why is there a deterioration in the relationship between parents and teachers, and how can we improve it?

[29:03] Patrick’s biggest failures and how he overcame them

[32:05] Rapid fire questions

Magical Quotes from the Episode:

“Never underestimate the importance of building positive relationships of respect and trust with moms, dads and children.”

“I think parents are busy, teachers are busy. It’s the school leader’s responsibility to intentionally connect the school and the home.”

“As we become more technologically advanced, it’s easier for us to become technologically removed from each other.”

“My evolution of leadership has been always to be a learner and take a step back before criticizing others.”

Connect with Patrick Haggarty:

Website: https://factsmgt.com/

Veterans generally struggle aligning their skillsets with the required credentials when transitioning back into the “civilian” world. Therefore, providing opportunities and trainings to help them navigate their credentials is important.

In this episode, Paul Huszar shares his experience working with veterans and the importance of creating an avenue for them. Paul is the CEO of VetCor, a restoration company focused on creating employment opportunities for veterans. He is also the CEO of Team VetCor which focuses on creating business ownership opportunities for veterans and their families through franchising VetCor.

As a retired officer himself, Paul graduated from West Point then served 23 years on active duty including four tours in Iraq. He commanded a 1,000+ Soldier and Airmen and last served as the Dean of the Army’s Engineer School. His passion is creating sustainable and meaningful employment opportunities, now business ownership opportunities for our nation’s heroes.

Listen in and learn the importance of creating opportunities for veterans.

Purpose and Passion with Leah Devon: Lead to Succeed 87

Passion-driven dreams often don’t come easily. Most of the times, one must set it aside in order to pursue a more stable living and just comeback to it later on.

Sometimes, however, passion and purpose can go together. Lead To Succeed 87 with Leah Devon explores how these two important concepts overlap.

Leah, who believes that navigating wisely between what you love and what you do for a living, is the Executive Producer and Host of Indie Style, a TV show that reaches and international audience.

As an independent recording artist and entrepreneur, Leah is dedicated to creating a positive show that gives successful entrepreneurs an opportunity to shine. She has successfully carved out a unique niche for herself as an independent recording artist opening for musical acts like Earth, Wind and Fire, Chaka Khan, Destiny's Child, and the Backstreet Boys just to name a few. Leah's impact reaches even further than the world of entertainment. As an educator for over 15 years, Leah has enhanced the lives of thousands of children through her teaching both in the classroom and online. She also writes and designs curricula for online English Language Arts Program.

Listen in and learn how to navigate your purpose and passion.

Key Talking Points of the Episode:

[02:24] Leah’s journey from the education piece and moving over to the entertainment scope

[05:54] Leah’s thoughts on following one’s passion to succeed in life

[08:53] What Leah sees as the overlap between education and entertainment

[13:57] What does it mean to be an indie-style entertainer and why have independent entrepreneurs become a big focus in today’s age?

[18:08] Leah’s view on helping each other out in the entrepreneurship scope

[20:18] Leadership and management tips

[23:30] How Leah finds time to show up and how she manages to do everything

[27:00] Rapid fire questions

Standout Quotes from the Episode:

“It’s great to have passion but you have to have purpose and you have to have a plan.”

“You can have your job, but you can still have your passion.”

“Sometimes we have to do things that make us uncomfortable because that’s how you’ll grow.”

“You don’t have to depend on other people to do certain things that you can do for yourself.”

How does one get back up after a huge failure? Does starting your own company at a late age determine the level of success that you will eventually reap?

Lead to Succeed 86 with Avi Klinger addresses these questions as well as the importance of taking failure head on and starting all over again.

Avi is the CEO of Homecore Site Safety, a New York-based safety audit company that provides outside inspection services on construction sites. This ensures that developers and contractors won't face unforeseen work stoppages. Homecore is also the largest provider of Superintendents, Competent People, and Site Safety Plans which are New York City requirements for mid-size construction projects. Through Avi's talent and visionary leadership, Homecore has expanded its operations into Florida. Avi's passion for business is contagious and is a big factor behind his successes. Despite his busy schedule, Avi maintains a community presence and seeks to help others.

Listen in and learn how to build your way back up again.

Finding success in a field that is mostly dominated by men does not come easy.

What difference does it make when one surrounds herself with motivating people and focuses more on encouraging words?

Lead to Succeed 85 featuring Colonel Nicole Malachowski shows how words are infinitely powerful in making or breaking someone’s dream. Having transitioned from being a fighter pilot to being an entrepreneur, she also shares her journey as well as the challenges she faced.

Colonel Nicole Malachowski has over 21 years of experience as an officer, leader, and fighter pilot in the United States Air Force. Upon her commission into the military, she was selected to fly combat aircraft and embarked on an adventure among the first group of women to fly modern fighter aircraft. Nicole served as a mission ready fighter pilot in three operational F-15E squadrons and accumulated over 2,300 flight hours, including 188 hours in combat. Following her medical retirement from the Air Force due to the severe impacts of late-stage Tick Borne Illness, Nicole reinvented herself as a highly successful entrepreneur, professional speaker, and leadership consultant.

Listen in and learn how the power of words can make a difference.

Investing in startups can both be risky and rewarding.

To ensure a strong investment, it’s critical for venture capitalists to be able to distinguish a good investment from a bad one.

How can one tell when something is of high growth potential?

In this episode, Leib Bolel addresses this question as well as why it is important to invest in great leaders first.

Leib is a Partner at Grayhawk Capital, Arizona’s largest Venture Capital firm with a focus on investment in early growth stage software companies. Leib also serves as President of the Arizona Israel Technology Alliance overseeing the facilitation of growth in bilateral trade between the technology communities of Arizona and Israel.

With over a decade of experience in the area of new business development, startups, marketing, funding acquisition and general operations management, Leib has been instrumental in building organizations from the ground up.

Listen in and learn why investing in great leaders is more important than investing in great products.

Wise investments, in technology and in people, can greatly optimize a company’s success. Entrepreneur and influencer Hillel Fuld discusses this relationship between tech-savviness and people development in this Lead to Succeed Episode.

Named Israel’s top marketer, Hillel is a tech journalist, startup marketer, and technology expert. Hillel works with technology companies and accompanies them from idea to revenue. He also works with many leading tech brands as an influencer, including Google, Oracle, Huawei, and many more.

Hillel was recently named the 7th most influential tech blogger on the Internet, and among the top 100 most influential social media personalities across the globe.

Listen in and learn how technology optimizes success.

Key Talking Points of the Episode:

[02:57] Hillel Fuld’s journey and how he got started

[06:07] Overcoming “imposter” syndrome and other self-doubts

[07:28] How far technology has evolved over the years and how it has affected us

[10:28] How to set daily boundaries when it comes to using technology

[13:59] How Hillel keeps himself motivated to do more. What benefits it gives him and the people around him.

[17:45] What are the key pieces that companies need to consider to better establish themselves in the market?

[20:07] One crazy and out-of-the-box prediction on the direction of technology and how it would affect the current market

[21:56] Common leadership qualities Hillel has observed within the most successful companies and within the tech industry

[26:31] How can companies keep pace with the rapid competition within their businesses  

[29:17] What was your biggest failure and how did you overcome it?

[30:05] Rapid fire questions

Standout Quotes from the Episode:

“Even if I wasn’t being paid for my work, I’d probably do it anyway.”

“Know your market like the back of your hand.”

“If you don’t give your fire to other people, you’ll end up burning out yourself.”

“The real wisdom is to simplify.”

This episode, which features Dr. Danny Brassell, delves into the profound relationship between reading and leading. Danny, who is an educator, an advocate for reading, and a leader, believes that effective leaders are always good readers.

Artificial intelligence (AI) continues to revolutionize many industries. By integrating AI, businesses are presented with different opportunities to improve their day-to-day operations.

But what potential does AI bring into the mental health area? Can it help cultivate meaningful conversations that will lead to solutions?

In this episode, Scott Sandland explains how AI can improve meaningful conversations. Scott is the CEO of Cyrano.ai, a company focusing on artificial empathy and strategic linguistics.

As a former head of a mental health clinic and longtime technologist, Scott has experience leading purpose driven organizations. He has been published in numerous peer-reviewed journals, Psychology Today, Forbes, and Entrepreneur Magazine.

Scott has presented his AI work at the United Nations AI for Global Good Conference and is a frequent guest lecturer at various universities.

Listen in and learn how talking solution is better than talking problems.

Key Talking Points of the Episode:

This episode is sponsored by the Impactful Business Leadership Mastermind.

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[02:18] What is artificial empathy and why is it important?

[04:41] What is a learning machine and what are the interventions it can provide?

[07:26] How does the platform work and what are the monitoring processes?

[12:15] How to effectively integrate the program into a workplace

[17:12] Scott’s journey from being a hypnotherapist to a leader

[21:20] How to discern the marketability of what you have and how to make a bigger impact using it

[22:25] Talking solutions vs. talking problems

[27:05] What failure, or apparent failure, later set you up for greater success?

[30:23] Rapid fire questions

Standout Quotes from the Episode:

• “People will pay you more for painkillers than vitamins.”

• “Think of the value of the problem, not of the solution.”

• “People care about their problem first, and if you can reduce or remove one of their problems, they will pay with their attention.”

Connect with Scott Sandland:

• Website

• LinkedIn

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Influencers and content creators have dominated the digital world today, thriving across all social media platforms and catering to different types of audience. Because of this, professionals, including entrepreneurs, have now turned to this trend to better extend their reach. However, successfully integrating content creation into entrepreneurship is not an easy feat.

Today’s episode features Jason Feifer. A content creator and an entrepreneur at the same time, Jason has been the editor-in-chief of Entrepreneur Magazine, a prominent business publication available in the United States and Canada, for five years now. He is also the host of two promising podcasts: the Build for Tomorrow Podcast, where he discusses the significance of change in today’s world, and the Problem Solvers podcast, a useful guide for businesses and entrepreneurs.

Jason is also the author of the book, “Build for Tomorrow, Not for Yesterday”, which will be released in 2022. On top of these, he is a frequent keynote speaker appearing in different events, as well as a startup advisor.

Listen in and learn how to better utilize content creation for your business ventures.

This episode is sponsored by the Impactful Business Leadership Mastermind.

The mastermind brings together hungry entrepreneurs and business owners who want to scale their business, share ideas and solutions, grow, and be held accountable, and build their networks.

Click here to learn more.

Key Talking Points of the Episode:

[02:23] How Jason started integrating entrepreneurship and content creation

[07:35] Common challenges Jason encounters from his audience and how to overcome them

[11:02] Tips to have a better self-awareness and overcome your blind spots

[16:00] Rapid fire questions

Standout Quotes from the Episode:

• “Entrepreneurs think vertically; they stack on top of each other – they do one thing because it leads to another thing.”

• “Approach things with a realistic understanding of what we know and what we do not know.”

• “We must find better information and that is where good decisions are made.”

• “The better we can start to be more efficient with our time and what we have, the more we can free up time for other things.”

• “Reconsider the impossible.”

Connect with Jason Feifer:

• Website

• Podcast

• Upcoming Book: “Build for Tomorrow, Not for Yesterday”

Connect with / follow Naphtali Hoff

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• Twitter

• LinkedIn

• Instagram

• YouTube

Get Naphtali’s book, “Becoming the New Boss: The New Leader's Guide to Sustained Success”

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