Leadership in a Nutshell

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  • 52. The Myth of Sacrifice in Leadership

    One of the biggest myths in leadership is that we must always adjust for scarcity for the good of our business and the team. I'm here to tell you that there is a better way that will be more beneficial to your team as well as more sustainable.We have this belief that we need to have sacrifice, but this model will challenge the misconceptions of lack and scarcity and shed light on the competition that is going on in your mind.

    So jump right in and let's talk about the myth of sacrifice in leadership, and how we can adopt a better way of thinking.

    [00:01 - 03:12] Opening Segment

    • Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
      • Today's topic
    • The mindsets around sacrifice
      • Everyone is coming for a different place
      • Info from a home service presentation
      • Competition of the mind - scarcity, and abundance
      • The importance of mindset today
      • How it affects teams

    [03:13 - 13:05] The Myth of Sacrifice in Leadership

    • Challenging the scarcity mindset
      • The Phoenix example
      • Zero-sum game mentality in business
      • Rather collaborate than compete
    • Think about the source of your mindset
      • The forming of your core beliefs
      • Embracing what you want and how you lead
    • Examples of scarcity
      • Layover mentality
      • The lies from the subconscious
    • Honor, Love, and Release the past
      • You need to love your past
      • Things that sabotage your future
    • 1. What are two things I was taught about money that are holding me back?
      • Examples of limiting beliefs
    • 2. What do I want in my life that I am making excuses for not having?
      • Examples of excuses and fears
    • 3. Where is that 'layover mentality' showing up for me? What am I waiting for?
      • Examples
    • 4. What specific action items can I take NOW to create more abundance?

    [13:06 - 14:45] Closing Segment

    • Summary
    • Please write us a review and share this with someone
    • Final Words

    Tweetable Quotes:

    "Mindset matters more than it ever has… When we start realizing that most of the world has a scarcity mindset we're able to perhaps take a look at how to free ourselves a little bit in order to make some decisions and choices about how WE want to operate as leaders." - Kenny Chapman

    "Everybody who's doing something positive for the industry - I want to play with them… it's about abundance!" - Kenny Chapman

    "You must love your past to create a better future." - Kenny Chapman

    Resources Mentioned:

    You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

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    15 min
  • 51. Breaking Through the Roof of Resistance

    Let's get your breakthrough! Working with clients in the Home Service Industry, sometimes I have to help clients break through their roof. It's a moment of sacrifice that leads them to build stronger long-term structures. In this episode, I want to help you break through your proverbial roof. You're not alone in your journey; everyone hits a lid at some point, but what you do with the information could propel you through it.

    Jump into the episode and let's begin breaking through the roof of resistance.

    [00:01 - 02:45] Opening Segment

    • Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
      • Today's topic
      • Relating to home service
      • Thinking of your own roof of resistance
    • Leadership lids
      • As you scale you tend to hit new lids
      • Helping you get better

    [02:46 - 13:33] Breaking Through the Roof of Resistance

    • I talk about an experience with a client
      • Scaling and losing 6 people in a week
      • Not failure, but information
      • Turned out that it was the best thing that could have happened
    • The roof of resistance
      • Developing new capabilities along the way
      • Another level up
    • How it relates to you
      • Where is your resistance?
      • The importance of offloading
    • 4 step process
      • Identify your internal resistance
      • Identify your external resistance
      • Schedule a strategy session for yourself
      • Get on an action item list

    [13:34 - 14:25] Closing Segment

    • Summary
    • Please write us a review and share this with someone
    • Final Words

    Tweetable Quotes:

    "The quality of what you get done on a daily basis is the quality of the team that you have." - Kenny Chapman

    "When I'm doing all things for all people, there's a roof of resistance. As soon as I break through that roof… I learn some new things." - Kenny Chapman

    "Internal resistance, external resistance, self-strategy session, action item list and - BOOM! You are breaking through the roof of resistance." - Kenny Chapman

    Resources Mentioned:

    • The Law of the Lid - John Maxwell
    • The Road Less Stupid
    • The Six Dimensions of Change
    • [email protected]

    You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

    LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their leadership capacity by sharing this episode.

    15 min
  • 50. Knowing - Doing Gap

    It's not about what you know, it's about doing what you know. I 'know' what you guys are asking for, so I will 'Do' just that! You want to know a little bit more about the Home Service industry that I'm a part of, so from now on we'll be diving a bit deeper into that, coupled with my usual talks around leadership AND bringing on guests to the show. So let's kick that off today as I help you get out of the gap by talking about the importance of not only knowing, but DOING what it is you know, and how.

    Let's jump right in and learn more about the knowing - doing gap, so you can get from where you are to where you want to go.

    [00:01 - 03:41] Opening Segment

    • Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
      • Shifting more to home service
      • Bringing on industry leaders and guests
      • Knowing - Doing
    • The importance of doing what you know
      • 5 areas to get out of the gap
      • Where you are vs. where you want to go

    [04:42 - 12:27] Knowing - Doing Gap

    • Get over the knowledge advantage fantasy
      • Knowledge advantage is false
    • Get over the talk tragedy
      • Don't confuse talking with doing
      • Stop talking and start doing
      • Example from my work
    • Hit mute! …..
      • Stop talking and start writing
      • Slowing down the conscious mind
    • Commit (For real)
      • Story from my experience
      • Be easy with yourself but do something
    • Get the necessary leverage
      • My future book will help guide you through this
      • Example through my sobriety
      • Changing routines and habits
      • Accountability
      • Commit to yourself

    [13:28 - 15:24] Closing Segment

    • Knowing - Doing
      • There will always be a gap, be easy on yourself
      • Summary of the 5 areas
    • Think about how this can apply to you
    • Please write us a review and share this with someone
    • Final Words

    Tweetable Quotes:

    "It's not about what you know, it's about what you do with what you know." - Kenny Chapman

    "There is no advantage to knowledge, there is only advantage to application of knowledge." - Kenny Chapman

    "If you're stuck between knowing and doing… you need to get clarity and you need to get writing about why you're not doing what you know you need to do." - Kenny Chapman

    Resources Mentioned:

    You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

    LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their leadership capacity by sharing this episode.

    16 min
  • 49. People Pay with Attention then Checkbooks

    QUICK! What color was Cardi B's dress during the VMA's!? Don't know? Me neither, but I got your attention didn't I? In this episode, I want to talk about a very important factor in the way people act on things - attention. If you want someone's checkbook, you have to get their attention first. At this age, everything is trying to grab our attention at almost every moment. It's important that we think about where our attention is going, and how to get the attention from others that grow business.

    So let's dive in and learn how people pay with attention than checkbooks.

    [00:01 - 04:20] Opening Segment

    • Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
      • People vote with attention and then checkbooks
    • How the market works
      • Voting with their checkbooks
    • Thoughts around attention
      • The changing dynamics of attention
      • Attention assault
      • Freeing up your space
      • Buying and selling attention
      • Accepting and regulating

    [04:21 - 12:12] People Pay with Attention then Checkbooks

    • GET PEOPLE'S ATTENTION!!!
      • Getting attention from the right people
      • Attention first then checkbooks
    • The example of my acquisitions
      • Acquisition to scale
      • Examples from my experience
    • Attracting quality teams
      • Execute vision to grab attention
      • Getting the market's attention
    • Attention with authenticity and consistency
      • This is who I am
      • The importance of clarity
      • People start showing up
      • Your no is as powerful as your yes

    [13:31 - 14:02] Closing Segment

    • Writing exercise
      • How do I become an attention magnet?
        • Your answer
      • Shoot your answer to me
    • Please write us a review and share this with someone
    • Final Words

    Tweetable Quotes:

    "It's amazing to me just the full-on attention assault, I'll call it, that happens to us on a daily basis." - Kenny Chapman

    "You want to attract a better team...? Have vision in execution… when vision is executed, now you have people's attention." - Kenny Chapman

    "Attention can not ignore authenticity coupled with consistency." - Kenny Chapman

    Resources Mentioned:

    You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

    LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their leadership capacity by sharing this episode.

    15 min
  • 48. These 3 Actions Eliminate Fear

    Who and what has fear? Have you ever been held back by fear? I want you to know that fear is 100% natural. It's part of being a human; and every leader, no matter how great, will experience it. I want to talk to you today about managing the components of fear that serve you, and eliminating the ones that don't with three actions that will help you understand yourself better, and help your teams know what to expect from you.

    So let's get right into the episode so I can give you these three actions that I believe will help you eliminate fear.

    [00:01 - 06:00] Opening Segment

    • Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
      • 3 actions to eliminate fear
      • Who and what has fear?
    • Fear is okay
      • It's part of the journey
      • Some fear can be good when managed
    • Who has fear and what purpose does it serve
      • The ocean example
      • The jungle example
      • Think about yourself and your team
      • Examples in my own sphere

    [06:01 - 13:30] These 3 Actions Eliminate Fear

    • Certainty and uncertainty
      • The coexistence of the two
    • The three keys
      • Clarity
      • Transparency
      • Consistency
    • Think through the spheres of your life
    • Clarity
      • The problem of not being clear with what you want
      • Knowing who you are and what you want/don't want
      • Speaking the truth
    • Transparency
      • The no BS rule
      • Wanting what you want
      • Effective communication
    • Consistency
      • The world responds to consistency
      • Team response

    [13:31 - 17:30] Closing Segment

    • Reiterating the effectiveness of the 3 actions
      • No Jekyll and Hyde approaches
      • What happens when you put these together
    • Think about how this applies to relationships
      • Applying to marriage
      • Consistent in communicating what you want
    • Please write us a review and share this with someone
    • Final Words

    Tweetable Quotes:

    "I work to live my life with a no BS rule… what I want is what I want… I'm just living my truth." - Kenny Chapman

    "Effective communication that comes from transparency equals effective leadership which turns into an effective business." - Kenny Chapman

    "When people are less afraid, they do incredible things." - Kenny Chapman

    Resources Mentioned:

    You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

    LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their leadership capacity by sharing this episode.

    18 min
  • 47. Allowing the Empowering Struggle

    There will always be struggles in life, business, and leadership. Anyone who is driven knows this, and honestly, most of us try to eliminate it. I've been there myself, but today, I want to help us get some clarity around allowing these struggles to happen. Similar to last week when we talked about maximizing our learning experiences, I'm going to break down how we can use our struggles to empower ourselves to overcome challenges.

    So let's dive right into the topic and learn how to begin love and respect ourselves enough to allow the empowering struggle.

    [00:01 - 05:26] Opening Segment

    • Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
      • Allowing the Empowering Struggle
    • Struggles are inevitable
      • It's natural to want to eliminate them
      • We can learn from them
        • Listen to episode 10
    • There are two types of struggles
      • Empowering struggles
      • Destructive struggles
      • Allowing the good, eliminating the bad
      • Sharing my struggles through my book

    [05:27 - 13:05] Allowing the Empowering Struggle

    • Love and respect yourself
      • Honor yourself to look for challenges
    • Where are your empowering struggles?
      • Your team
      • Your family
      • Your authorities
    • Allowing others to have their own empowering Struggle
      • Society is programmed to eliminate Struggle
      • We need Struggle to grow
    • The challenge of driven leaders
      • You might be a 'fixer'
      • Adopting powerful, independent thinking
      • Eliminating struggle leads to eliminating Growth
    • Let's frame out what we want from Struggle
      • Story of me and Kristy

    [14:15 - 16:22] Closing Segment

    • When you try to eliminate Struggle
      • The house analogy
      • You can't eliminate life
    • Allow the empowering experience
      • Embracing the experience through the struggle
      • Eliminate the lack of honor from learning
    • Please write us a review and share this with someone
    • Final Words

    Tweetable Quotes:

    "I believe there are two types of struggles. There are empowering struggles and there are destructive struggles… Maybe I'm not trying to eliminate all struggles in my life, maybe I'm just trying to eliminate the destructive struggle." - Kenny Chapman

    "Love and respect yourself enough to seek the struggle… seek the empowering struggle" - Kenny Chapman

    "When we eliminate struggle, what else do we eliminate? We eliminate some lessons, we eliminate Growth, ultimately, we eliminate life.

    Resources Mentioned:

    You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

    LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their leadership capacity by sharing this episode.

    18 min
  • 46. How to Maximize a Learning Experience

    Welcome to the school of life! You guys know how much I love education, and applying it even more. Winning happens when you put knowledge, the two dimensional - into action, the three dimensional. I want to help put power in your hands and talk about how we can maximize our learning experience. As we go through life, we will always be presented with lessons to learn, and it's not until we truly understand what we're learning that we are able to graduate through it.

    So let's dive into today's topic and get just a bit closer to mastering life by making the most of a given learning experience.

    [00:01 - 05:24] Opening Segment

    • Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
      • Maximizing your learning experience
    • The school analogy
      • My experience getting coached
      • Graduating through a lesson
      • Your life academy
    • I talk about an example through my diaper business
      • Losing money, struggling, and selling the business
      • A painful lesson that could have been avoided
    • Be sure to send me a review and let me know your thoughts

    [05:25 - 14:14] How to Maximize a Learning Experience

    • The three categories
      • Good, Bad, and Reinforcement (I told you so)
      • The marriage analogy
    • How you view the learning experience
      • Have an interesting perspective about it
      • "What can I apply from this education?"
      • Avoid paying 'dumb tax'
    • Making the most of the learning experience
      • The importance of putting in the work
      • My story from Blue Collar
    • What do you want to keep, enhance, maximize and bring forward?
      • What you want to apply
      • Know what to eliminate as well

    [14:15 - 16:22] Closing Segment

    • Answering what makes this important
      • Give yourself success criteria
      • Have clarity in your actions
    • Capture your experiences
      • The importance of writing
      • Turning thoughts into something tangible
    • Please write us a review and share this with someone
    • Final Words

    Tweetable Quotes:

    "Life will continue to provide you the lessons until you learn the education from the lesson necessary and therefore you graduate." - Kenny Chapman

    "Don't complain about the results you did not get, from the work you were not willing to put in." - Kenny Chapman

    Resources Mentioned:

    You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

    LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their leadership capacity by sharing this episode.

    17 min
  • 45. Destroy "Shoulds" for Better Clarity

    I "should" do this, I "should" do that! Are you as confused as I am with all the shoulds? I believe that this word clouds the driven mind, and if it's not excellent, it's time to fix it or get rid of it. So let's spend this episode thinking about some of the "shoulds" that we're allowing into our minds that are paralyzing our growth. It's time to set yourself free and let yourself want what YOU want.

    Let's jump right in and start destroying these "shoulds" and get some better clarity.

    [00:01 - 04:06] Opening Segment

    • Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
      • Destroy "shoulds"
      • Grab The Six Diamonds of Change V. 2.0
    • Thinking about some of the shoulds that enter the mind
      • Paralyzing to growth
      • Example through my wife
      • Destroying clarity
    • Where do they come from
      • Examples in my life
      • Releasing yourself into clarity

    [04:07 - 11:30] Destroy "Shoulds" for Better Clarity

    • Adopting "shoulds" from authorities
      • My experience
      • It's your responsibility now
    • A snapshot of your needs
      • Don't miss out on best practices
    • What "shoulds" are holding you back
      • Stop it
      • The positive effects of having clarity
      • Destroying should fuels clarity
    • Examples from former clients
      • Driven by shoulds rather than clarity
      • When "should" runs the conversation
    • When you kill off the "should"
      • Stepping into your greatness
      • Limiting perspectives

    [11:31 - 13:45] Closing Segment

    • Your emotional regulation
      • When clarity shows up
      • The six dimensions of change
    • You "should" release yourself from "should"
      • You are worthy
      • It's okay to want what you want
    • Please write us a review and share this with someone
    • Final Words

    Tweetable Quotes:

    "Stop it! It's up to you to decide; and when you eliminate and destroy "shoulds", clarity comes. With clarity comes action, with clarity of action comes passion…" - Kenny Chapman

    "When you wake up and live a life that you "should" live, there's no passion, there's no excitement, there's no fulfillment." - Kenny Chapman

    Resources Mentioned:

    You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

    LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their leadership capacity by sharing this episode.

    14 min
  • 44. Sustainable Growth: Release, Reinvent, Replace

    There is so much talk around growth and growth mindset, even in this show. While growth is an important part of leadership, today we're going to take a step back and talk about 'Sustainable' growth. Last week we learned about priorities; now that you have those in order, I want to give you some tips and strategies to, not only grow, but to set yourself up for long-term, healthy, and decisive growth.

    Let's dive into this topic and break down what it looks like to release, reinvent, and replace as you scale.

    [00:01 - 04:44] Opening Segment

    • Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
      • Sustainable Growth
      • 3 R's
    • Thoughts around growth
      • The benefits and importance of growth
      • Taking a step back and reanalyzing
      • Who you are as you scale
    • Think about your thinking
      • Example from a coaching call
      • When you have your priorities in order
      • 50 homerun metaphor
    • Ask yourself:
      • Are you growing sustainably?
      • Are you burnt out and worried?

    [04:45 - 09:53] Sustainable Growth - Release, Reinvent, Replace

    • Step one: Release
      • How it relates to delegation
      • What is it that is draining you?
      • Releasing the things that you can
      • Avoiding the pitfall of having nothing left
    • Step two: Reinvent
      • What needs to change or pivot?
    • Step three: Replace
      • Once you reinvent yourself replace your tasks

    [09:54 - 12:18] Closing Segment

    • Constant improvement
      • Kaizen
    • Reiterating the 3 R's
    • Examples from my own experience
    • Please write us a review and share this with someone
    • Final Words

    Tweetable Quotes:

    "The thing I want you to think about is, as a leader, are you growing in a sustainable manner?" - Kenny Chapman

    "I believe in always making my future bigger than my past which means I need to be making sustainable growth." - Kenny Chapman

    Resources Mentioned:

    You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

    LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their leadership capacity by sharing this episode.

    13 min
  • 43. Priorities... In This Order - Purpose, Passion, Profit

    Hey! With only so many hours in a day, week, month, what should we prioritize and in what order? I believe I have the answers for you in this episode. I want to dig a bit deeper into the topic of priorities and help you arrange your purpose, passion, and profit, in THAT order. I believe when you align these three keys, as a leader, you will see growth, happiness, and success.

    Let's get right into this conversation and let me drop some wisdom from my experience that can help you align your purpose, passion, and profit.

    [00:01 - 05:09] Opening Segment

    • Welcome back! I introduce today's topic
      • Priorities - purpose, passion, profit
    • How it all relates to time management
      • There's no such thing as time management
      • Everything you do is based on priority
    • Priorities run the game
      • Not all of it is important
      • Helping you realize where you focus your energy
      • The three keys in our lives
    • A reminder to download the 6 Dimensions of Change
    • Setting up sustainable growth
      • Aligning your priorities
      • What is getting your attention?

    [05:10 - 13:05] Priorities - Purpose, Passion, Profit

    • How to decide what direction our priorities go in
      • My example
      • Focussing on passion
      • Focussing on reflection
    • Getting clear on your purpose
      • Reminding you of the importance of purpose
      • Your attention and energy needs to be tied to purpose
    • Figuring out what fuels your passion
      • A byproduct of activity
    • The importance of you relationship with profit
      • Having a healthy relationship with money
      • Long term profitability
      • Profitability - important but not the main focus

    [13:06 - 15:37] Closing Segment

    • Don't be the leader that is trying to fill the gaps
      • Purpose and passion come first
      • From those, you can create profit
    • When you do these things first
      • Good things happen
    • Please write us a review and share this with someone
    • Final Words

    Tweetable Quotes:

    "You don't manage time, you manage yourself as a human being who has interactive relationships with time." - Kenny Chapman

    "What is going to create my fire…? I want to remind you that passion is a byproduct of activity." - Kenny Chapman

    "As I realize who I am and what my purpose is, I can take action and activities in my life that develop passion, and then realize that from those, I can create profit…" - Kenny Chapman

    Resources Mentioned:

    You can connect with me, Kenny Chapman on Instagram, Facebook, and LinkedIn. Email me at [email protected]. Be sure to check out my website https://www.kennychapman.com and find the solutions to your in-service education needs. First month of training FREE!!

    LEAVE A REVIEW + help someone who wants to explode their leadership capacity by sharing this episode.

    16 min

About Leadership in a Nutshell

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Leadership life is complex, fast-paced, and can leave you questioning your sanity! Each week, join award-winning leadership master and best-selling author Kenny Chapman as he takes on critical topics…