Leadership Improvement – Jay Izso

How many times have you either said, or heard it said, “People don’t change”.  Maybe you have made the statement or heard the statement, “I am what I am”, indicating that change is impossible.  Or perhaps you have said, “there is nothing I can do about my situation, no one will give me a break”.   Do you know what those are?  Myths!  Oh sure, you can find some support for your argument, but the real truth is you have created for yourself a distinct narrative that you believe cannot be changed.  You have created an idea that you have no control, or worse yet that you cannot change your life or direction.  They are part of our horrible programming or the “code” in your head that makes you believe such rubbish.  There is an answer.

On this episode of A New Direction author/coach Darren J. Gold exposes the lies that we have in our head and rewrites the code that we have come to believe.  What would your life be like if instead of saying “I am what I am” you could rewrite your brain code to “I am the author of my own life”?  How would your life change if you could see the facts that instead of saying, “I am just emotional and I am wired to react” you would say, “I act, I do not react”?  And how could your future be different if instead of saying, “I have no control over my destiny” you instead lived like, “I live on purpose” what would that do for your life as you live it right now?  Darren’s book “Master Your Code: The Art, Wisdom, and Science of Leading an Extraordinary Life” helps you live the life you could be living right now…but you have to rewrite your code.  Not only rewrite it, but Master Your Code.  This show is one for the ages and one that you will listen to again and again.  The book “Master Your Code” is available in all formats including audio…get yours today!

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We like to think of ourselves as being pretty smart.  We like to think that we make really good decisions.  We like to think especially in business environments that we use our logical side of our brain more so than the inner emotional brain.  However what the research tells us…we really do not know ourselves as well as we think we do.  In fact as Dr. Gleb Tsipursky explains we are so biased we make most of our decisions with our instincts and emotions.  And that is a problem.

On this episode of AND Dr. Gleb Tsipursky takes us through his book Never Go with Your Gut: Avoiding: How Pioneering Leaders Make the Best Decisions and Avoid Business Disasters (Avoid Terrible Advice, Cognitive Biases, and Poor Decisions).  We quickly learn that there are over 100 cognitive biases that we have the choice to employ.  And then Gleb gives us example after example of how these glaring biases have destroyed many companies.  And while there are many books written on the subject of cognitive biases, Never Go with Your Gut is the first book to actually discuss how to overcome these cognitive biases.  Listen as Dr. Tsipursky takes us through a few of these biases that we often use, gives us ideas how to over come them and then helps you deal with someone who has these biases and how to help them see the light of their ways.  Something he refers to as EGRIP.  You will get some great insight and few chuckles along the way.  ENJOY!

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Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS for 35 years and going strong find out why they are known as having legendary customer service.  There is a reason why 1000’s of people from all over the world choose Linda Craft & Team and keep coming back for all their home selling and buying needs and investments.  They are the locally owned company that is world renown.  Learn more by going to www.LindaCraft.com

Did you know you can listen to AND on The Oak 93.5 fm in Raleigh?  What?  You say you don’t live in Raleigh?  No problem you can stream the show every Thursday at 4 pm EDT and Sunday mornings at 10 am EDT by clicking here OAK 93.5  Tell your friends!

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So you are a leader.  Maybe you are a team leader, or perhaps an owner, a manager, or maybe you are an entrepreneur and you are your own boss.  The fact is you are doing the best you can to lead.  You are challenged by the everyday busyness.  It seems like you are putting one fire out, and another ember starts and boom!  Another fire needs to be put out.  You have caught your self feeling busier and busier, you are feeling overwhelmed, the emails keep piling up, you cant catch up.  You are so caught up dealing with the day to day, minute by minute hassles that you know you are losing sight of the big picture.  Sound familiar?  So what do you do?  Well if you are like most people you probably cut out something you really need like sleep.  There is another answer.  And it flies in the face of conventional thinking.  It is counter intuitive.  You can even say paradoxical.  The answer:  Slow down to Speed Up.

Dr. Liz Bywater joins us on this episode of A New Direction with her book, Slow Down to Speed Up: Lead, Succeed, and Thrive in a 24/7 World.  It may not make sense when you first hear it, but then as Dr Liz Bywater starts explaining why it works it comes to make sense that in reality slowing down will actually allow you to be more effective, more efficient, and more successful as a leader.  Slow Down to Speed Up is like having a complete tool box that has practical applications and exercises you can do look at why you do what you do, learn about the real you to be most effective, and give you the tools and techniques so that you can truly be the leader you always knew you could be.  Slow Down to Speed Up is a great book, short read, and a game changer for anyone who wants to grow in leadership and be more successful.

Please say thank you to our sponsors:

Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors:  We are so grateful to them for their support of A New Direction.  They are internationally recognized as the leading experts when it comes to selling businesses.  If you are a business owner at some point you are going to want to sell your business, and you are going to want the highest market value and you will want it done with complete confidentiality…and that completely describes Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.  You can learn more by going to www.ENLIGN.com

Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS, for 35 years they have the world wide reputation of having legendary customer service in the real estate space.  They have helped people all over the world either find the right real estate professional to help sell their home, or find their next home.  And if you live in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill area you can stop by and learn first hand about why people choose Linda Craft & Team as their real estate expert.  Head on over to www.LindaCraft.com

Also make sure you check us out on The Oak 93.5 where you can listen to A New Direction Thursdays 4 pm EDT and Sunday mornings at 10 am EDT.  Just click on over to www.OAK935.org and LISTEN HERE!

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When we talk about leadership it seems it is invariably linked with success.  When you start to consider what it takes to truly be a great leader…well…success is right there.  But the opposite is true, the more successful one is…well…the more leadership responsibility that they either take on or is thrown at them.   Because of these two terms are so connected it only makes sense that if we talk about how to one the fact is we are also affecting the other.  When  book comes a long that recognizes their connection, well then it becomes a must read.

What then stops any of us from being the leaders we could be?  If it is true that anyone can lead then why don’t we?  What is the missing link in our personal system that keeps either from becoming leaders or being the best leader.  It is time to LEVEL UP!  Author Royce Gomez joins us on this addition of A New Direction (AND).  She has written an inspirational, fast reading, and personally challenging book entitled “Level Up!  Visioning Your Leadership DNA“.  Filled with not only encouraging and challenging practical tips, but Royce Gomez also shares part of her personal story to explain how she became the CEO, Entrepreneur that she has become.

Not to be a spoiler, but the reality it is all of this starts in the first chapter of the book and carries us through out both Level Up!  and this show…and that is…”Dream” and not just dream…but how big is your dream?  Have you stopped dreaming?  Why?  And if you want get back on track in the success of life and leadership get back to dreaming and DREAM BIG!

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Enlign Business Brokers and advisors, since the beginning they have sponsored A New Direction and we are grateful for their sponsorship.  If you own a business, at some point you are probably going to sell that business.  Well then you need to contact the professional experts and Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.  Internationally recognized as getting business sold with the highest market value with complete confidentiality.  You can learn more by going to www.ENLIGN.com

…and Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS, when you are in the market to sell your home or buy a home, or even invest in a property start with the team that has “legendary customer service”.  For 34 years they continue to work improving the customer experience and create “raving fans”.  If you are looking for the authenticity when it comes to real estate look no further…contact Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS by going to www.LindaCraft.com

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It doesn’t matter if it is a sport, a for profit business, a non-profit business, or even a family when it comes to developing a “high performance team” there seems to be some commonalities.  The first is we are all pretty aware that all teams go through pretty much the same phases, from forming to storming, to norming, to performing.  But how we get teams to successfully transition through these phases requires a some tools or maybe some hacks to get through them.

Please welcome Omar L. Harris.  He is an entrepreneur, expert on high performance teams, and a certified strengths finders coach.  And he has written Leader Board: The DNA of High Performance Teams, in what I call the compiled “best of” collection of books synthesized them and created a practical guide to helping you develop your team into a high performance team.  Leader Board starts with Sam a.k.a coach who is under a tight deadline to promote an anti cholesterol medication for a pharmaceutical company and takes you through the challenges that it takes to get a team to from initially forming to the final performance in front of thousands of people.  Then Omar Harris breaks down each element in what calls Team Performance Acceleration Principles (TPAPs). Where every book such as Good to Great, 7 habits of highly effective people, 5 Dysfunctions of a Team, Gallup Strengths Finder, Irrefutable laws of leadership and more is broken down and practically and applicably applied.

Omar L. Harris has created a book for everyone.  From starting a team to tweaking your team, to working in the midst of an old team.  Whether you are an owner, manager, consultant, or team member Leader Board will enlighten you, encourage you and inspire you.

Thank you Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors for being a sponsor of A New Direction we are so grateful for their support.  Internationally recognized as the leaders in helping people sell their business they are truly the experts.  So when you are ready to sell your business start with the “real Deal” team, start with Enlign Business Broker and Advisors and you can learn more by going to Enlign.com

And thank you Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS for more than 34 years they have helped people all over the world in the selling and buying of their home.  If you are looking for the best expert to help you, call on the real estate experts that really know the “ins and outs” of real estate, the legends of customer service…Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS…go to www.LindaCraft.com

This weeks t-shirt shout out goes to the newly reopened and former Stockyard Cafe, now under a new name and ownership the “Salebarn Cafe”  still serving great food in Wahoo Nebraska.

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What positive lessons did you learn as a child that you still hold on to today?  It seems that so many things that we do as an adult are so directly from things we learned in the first two decades of our life.   So often we walk around this world and do not even realize that the things we do naturally have been burned into our mind and behavior from events, places, and people in our childhood past.  This certainly was true of Jay Izso.

Jay Izso is a speaker, executive coach, podcaster and author who was raised as a farmhand in a small town called Ithaca, Nebraska.  If you think you were raised in a small town, imagine being raised in a town with slightly more than 100 people.  It was for sure a farming community.  Jay’s parents were from New Jersey so when they moved to this little town when Jay was but a baby, they had no idea or even a vision that as Jay grew older he would find his first real career working on a farm.

In this episode of A New Direction Jay talks us about why he wrote The book Lessons from the Farm: Essential Rules for Success and shares with you a few lessons he learned along the way that will encourage and inspire you.  Lessons from the Farm are 20 lessons that Jay learned while growing up a farmhand.  The lessons are perhaps not new, but they shed a light on 20 ways that you can apply these lessons to become more successful in your life, develop leadership in yourself and others, and encourages you that you too can be all that you were created to be, but it is going to start with the fact that sometimes you must do things afraid.

Thanks to our sponsors Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.  Internationally known for the way they handle the confidentiality of selling your business.  The experts at Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors are the truly the “real deal” team when it comes to getting the most value for your business.  Please tell them “thank you” for being a sponsor of A New Direction, and learn more by going to www.Enlign.com

Thank you Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS  for 34 years they have demonstrated why they are the legends of customer service when it comes to real estate.  Regardless of where you live, if you want the best professional to help you sell or buy your home, start with the experts at Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS.  And if you live the greater Raleigh North Carolina, Research Triangle Park area stop by their office and they can help you in person.  Surf on over to www.LindaCraft.com

The t-shirt shout out this week goes to Yardology (yes, the study of your yard).  From large developments to specialized hard scape.  Yardology is ready to make your home or development look amazing.  Head on over to Yardology.

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How are you about doing something new in your job or your life?  Little scary?  Do you focus on the consequences or the possibilities?  How about the issue of trust?  Do you really have the courage that it takes to trust others in your life or your business?  Of do you distrust and control?  And how about really telling the truth?  Are you a closed mouth yes person at your job?  You know the one who complains quietly with your colleagues, but has a smile on their face and agree with everything your manager says, because you truly fear if you object you will be fired?

If you said yes to any of these question chances are you are in need of some courage.  And that leads us to this weeks guest on A New Direction, best selling author, speaker, and CEO (Chief Encouragement Officer…love that) of Giant Leap Consulting Bill Treasurer.  Bill Treasurer has been speaking with and helping people for decades learn how to bring real courage to the workplace.

Bill’s best selling book is entitled “Courage Goes to Work“.   Bill reveals for us the three buckets of courage we all need to lead and become more successful.  TRY courage, TRUST courage, and TELL courage.  He walks us through examples and encourages us how we can be better in all these areas of courage.

But wait!!!  There’s more!  Bill reveals a fourth bucket of courage not in the book.  You will want to listen to the show to find out the fourth bucket that we all deal with from time to time.  Only on A New Direction.

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Thank you to Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors for leading the way as the main sponsor for A New Direction.  Enlign is international known and recognized as the leaders in business brokerages.  When it comes to selling your business do it with real deal experts who make confidentiality their priority.  Learn more about Enlign by gonig to www.ENLIGN.com

And Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS, they can help you any where in the world find the right expert professional to sell your home, or find your next one.  If you live in the Greater Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Research Triangle Park area, you can find out personally why they are known in the real estate world for having legendary customer service.  Head on over to www.LindaCraft.com

This week’s t-shirt shout out of the week goes to Holt Physical Therapy in Raleigh, NC.  I can speak form experience when they say the “get you back in the game”… it is a fact.  Thank you Holt Physical Therapy for the t-shirt.

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We need to be honest with ourselves when it comes to tomorrows leaders. It is our responsibility to teach them, to train them, to guide them, to ultimately mentor them. Many times we look at this next generation and instead of running to our responsibility we run from it, by making excuses and rationalizations about them. Like the grown ups we are we call them names, “entitled”, “lazy”, “lack of loyalty”, “no work ethic”, etc. Like those names and labels will in someway change them. Perhaps there is a different way we should approach this next generation.

Enter on this episode of “A New Direction” Dr. Bill Dorfman DDS, many of you will know him as the dentist to the celebrities, the dentist to the movie stars, you may have seen him on “Extreme Makeover” or sometimes sitting on the panel on the TV show “The Doctors”. But what he is most passionate about is his foundation called LEAP. It is a week long Leadership and Skills Development Camp for young people between the ages of 15 and 25. LEAP which stands for (Leadership Excellence Accelerating Potential) is for those young people who truly want to learn the skills, and have the knowledge to make a real difference in the future of our world.

Once a year for a week 450 young people from countries all over the world gather together at LEAP, at UCLA’s campus, to learn to be better leaders, and practical skills such as goal setting, networking, how to interact appropriately with others, how to win over an interview, applying to college, applying to your first job and so much. The speakers that speak during the conference are some of the best known and successful names in the world, like Apollo Ono, Michael Strahan, Eva Longoria, Mark Wahlberg, just to name a few. The beautiful thing about this camp is for less than $2500 you room and board, all your meals, and all the materials are covered for the week. There are even scholarships available. This years LEAP camp is July 21-27 and they still have spaces available, if you want your daughter or son to have the leadership experience of a life time and become the leaders you have always dreamed they would be… please go to www.leapfoundation.com

Here is the greatest point that we learn from Dr. Dorfman. We all can mentor our youth and help them become leaders. YOU do not have to have your own foundation like LEAP. YOU just have to take some time to help young people grow. It happened for Dr. Dorfman, and it happened for me, we all can be a part of helping today’s young people emerge into tomorrow’s leaders.

Thanks again to our sponsors of A New Direction!

Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors, internationally known and respected Enlign represents profitable privately-held companies with gross annual revenues in excess of $1,000,000. ENLIGN delivers the highest market value in the shortest amount of time, with complete confidentiality ®. Learn more online at ENLIGN.com

And Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS, they can help you find the best real estate expert to assist you in selling or purchasing your home. And if you live in the Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, you can discover personally why they have been know for more than 30 years as having “Legendary Customer Service” You can learn more at www.LindaCraft.com

And the t-shirt shout out of the week goes to Tony Fink a real estate expert with Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS. Tony provided me with the XL shirt with the famed Notre Dame slogan of Play Like a Champion! Thanks Tony for the t-shirt and if you would like some help with your real estate needs just reach out to Tony by emailing him: [email protected]

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Are you in “Struggleville”? You know that place where you just seem to be stuck. You feel like you just are at a place in your life, career, or business where you know you are not happy, actually you hate Monday know you have to face the same job, the same people, the same problems? You are sick of it, but at the same time you have no where to go.

Or perhaps your marriage stinks, maybe the fire feels like it is dying, the passion is missing, and you desperately need a spark. Maybe you are a CEO and while life is pretty good, and you should have no complaints you feel like there is more to do but you just do not know how to get there.

Meet the “Master Sommelier” (well at least that is how I refer to him) of coaches...John Peitzman. His is a Certified High Performance coach and quite frankly they are few and far between. He joins us on this episode of A New Direction helping you not only get out of “Struggleville”, but also talks us through his book “The Build Framework: A Heart Based System for Personal and Professional Growth” and helps you BUILD a Framework of growth and success for both your personal and professional life.

Yes BUILD is an acronym that John or “JP” has created it stands for
Build Relationships
Understand the Business
Implement Strategy
Lead and Inspire
Deliver Excellence

This episode is powerful and you will be on your way to a life change, a business change, a success change. To learn more about John connect here:

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A New Direction is grateful for our sponsors: Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. When it comes to selling or buying a business no one knows their business and understands your need for complete confidentiality like the professionals and Enlign Business Brokers and Associates. Talk with a Expert at www.Enlign.com

And Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS, no matter where you are in the world, if you need to sell or buy a home they can help you with the right professional to make sure that one of the largest personal investments you make, your home, is in the hands of the most knowledgeable and professional experts. Go to www.LindaCraft.com they Know Their Business.

T-shirt shout out goes to the Stockyard Cafe in Wahoo Nebraska. If you want breakfast the way mom used to do it…Head on over to the Stockyard Cafe…I LOVE THAT PLACE and you will too.

Also, Please remember the folks in Nebraska my home state. The snow, and the flooding has devastated our people, our livestock, and our land. Please consider making a donation to help out at www.SamaritansPurse.org. Thank you listeners I appreciate you!

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We try to avoid it. We say it doesn’t matter. We even claim at times that we can handle it, while other people cannot. However, the truth is that our personal lives, the influences from our childhood, and our past are dragged into our workplaces everyday.

None of us are immune to our personal lives coming into the office. Even the toughest CEO when they go through a divorce, death of a loved one, or we hit a nerve in just the right way is immune from the chaos, stress and discontent.

Marianne Clyde is a licensed therapist. She has been working with individuals and companies for more than two decades, and she joins us on this episode of A New Direction. We interview her about her book Zentivity: How to Eliminate Chaos, Stress, and Discontent in Your Workplace. The book is amazing. It is insightful, powerful, and life changing.

You will hear in this episode Marianne’s insight, awareness, and practical wisdom. As she goes through some of the Zentivity and we talk about the thing that inhibit us, the emotional addictions, how we can sabotage, and what it takes to get off the ground, change ourselves, and begin to change the work place. For more information on Zentivity and get your free gift go to check out the Zentivity website.

From getting in touch with your creator to the power of forgiveness this show will be a game changer for your life, your career, and your business!

Marianne also invites you an opportunity to join her in her endeavors to make the world a better place through the Be the Change Foundation. Take a look!

Special thanks always to our Sponsor Partner Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors. When you need to sell your business for the highest price with the utmost confidentiality do not waste your time with anyone else, go with one of the most recognized names in business selling game, contact the great professionals at www.ENLIGN.com

We also welcome to the show a new sponsor. Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS. No matter where you live, if you are selling or buying a home or a commercial piece of property call the experts and Linda Craft and Team, REALTORS. For more than 30 years they are national leaders in real estate. They really do “Know Their Business”.

And this weeks t-shirt shout out goes to www.Dakno.com Thank you Brad and your team for sending the XL t-shirt to be worn on A New Direction. If you want your business t-shirt worn on the Facebook Live Show and get a shout out just send an XL t-shirt to:

Jay Izso
2024 Macon Ridge Rd
Raleigh, NC 27613

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