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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Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS for more than 35 years they have helped people world wide sell their home or buy their home because they are completely unaffiliated with any real estate company and can refer you to the best expert in real estate regardless of their affiliation.  What is more because they are located in the Greater Raleigh-Durham-Chapel Hill Research Triangle Park area they help major companies with their move, because they know the area.  Stop in 7300 Six Forks Road in Raleigh North Carolina and find out why people talk about their culture of “legendary customer service”.   Just drive on over to www.LindaCraft.com

And for those of you who like to listen to the radio.  Check out the Oak 93.5 FM in Raleigh and you can listen to A New Direction on Thursdays at 4 pm EDT and Sundays at 10 am EDT.  We thank the folks at the Oak 93.5 for being such a supporter of our show.  If you are a listener please say thank you.

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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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EPIC Physical Therapy from non-athletes to professional athletes EPIC PT has the best certified therapists along with cutting edge technology to help anyone reach their physical goals.  Even if you want to just get in better condition or need a better diet plan.  EPIC Physical Therapy can help you get back to work or play.  So if you want to be EPIC then get EPIC results from EPIC Physical Therapy.  Give them a call or click on over to www.EPICpt.com

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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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We can look in our business, our relationships, our careers, our lives in general and say, “things need to change”.   None of us want that change to be for the worse, so we try to take control.  We decide quite often that if we have the power to change things we will.  So we start handing out orders, making edicts, creating systems, sometimes creating systems for the systems, get angry, get bossy, start pressing harder, and yet in the end not much really changes.  Oh things may change a little, but not enough to make a difference.  The fact is you are still stuck.  All the control that you took back didn’t add any positive or significant value.  Instead, you became more isolated, more frustrated, and the people around you don’t want to be around you any more much less help you.

Welcome in Brian Dixon.  He is experienced in helping people solve their biggest problems, overcome their greatest challenges, and just gets people “unstuck”.  He discovered a secret to successfully navigating positive change.  Instead of trying to control everything around him, he made a daily decision to start with his people.  Dr, Dixon has written an amazing book that gives us true insights into life, purpose, and profitability by truly serving others, entitled, “Start with Your People”.

In this episode of A New Direction Brian Dixon takes on a journey from how he vulnerably allowed people he knew and or worked with tell the truth about who he was, and that transformed him to understand that he needed to start serving.  From his wife, to his friends, to his employees, to his clients, to the dance instructor studio for his children.  He truly served them all and demonstrated how to “Start with Your People“.  In Start with Your People you will learn practical applied lessons in dealing with topics such as “who your number one client is, how to deal with difficult people, what it takes to create a master mind group, discover your purpose, use your passion to your advantage, have a better relationship with money and more.  This is one of those episodes of AND that will inspire you and empower you.

Please say thank you to our sponsors:

Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors, known through out the world as the leaders in business brokerage they have literally helped thousands of business owners with the selling and buying of their businesses…and they do it with complete confidentiality.  So when you are ready to sell you business call on the experts at Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors.  Head on over to www.ENLIGN.com

Linda Craft & Team, Realtors…for 34 years they have served and led the real estate profession in the greater Raleigh, Durham, Research Triangle Park Area of North Carolina.  But they can help you find the best expert in your area as well.  So no matter where you are, contact the Legends of Customer Service, contact Linda Craft & Team, Realtors.  www.LindaCraft.com

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I find when it comes to the word “leadership” our eyes and ears tend to perk up.  Most all of us at some point in our life is going to “lead” someone, even if that is only ourselves.  There are as many theories to leadership almost as there are leaders.  So when it comes to books on leadership we either embrace them or we get the attitude of “here we go again, another book on leadership”.  However, within the genre of leadership books you would have a much more difficult time finding a book that instead of focusing on leadership strengths deals with the “dark side” of Leadership.

This week on A New Direction, William L. Sparks PhD has written not only an Amazon #1 Best Selling Leadership book, he has written a book that addresses just that…the “dark side” of leadership.  We need to be honest with ourselves.  The fact is we all have a dark side.  The question becomes how does that darkness effect our leadership.  Because so often we focus on our strengths we neglect to understand that until we deal with our darkness or our “shadow” we are limited in just how effective we can truly be as a leader.  Dr. Sparks helps us navigate through the “fog” and introduces to our “shadow” so that we truly can maximize our potential as leaders.

Actualized Leadership is a one of a kind book.  Yes, it is steeped with psychology, but Dr. Sparks offers practical psychological guidance how to determine the type of leader you are, what your potential dark side issues are and how to meet them and resolve them.  Actualized Leadership is a book that will more than likely set off all sorts of emotional reactions.  It may anger you, upset you, frustrate you, sadden you, but in the end it will shed light into the darkest part of our person as a leader and help you become the leader that you and the people around always hoped you become.

Thank you to our sponsor Enlign Business Broker’s and Advisors. Internationally known and Independently owned when it is time to sell your business then go with the experts, the “real deal” team of Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors they are known to make sure you get the highest market value with complete confidentiality.  Learn more by going to ENLIGN.com

Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS, located in Raleigh North Carolina and covering Durham, Chapel Hill and all of the Research Triangle Park they can even help you find the best professional real estate agent wherever you may live.  Find out why they are known for their Legendary Customer Service.  Just click on over to www.LindaCraft.com

This week’s T-shirt shout out goes to real estate expert Tony Fink.  Check out why his customers choose him when it comes to all their real estate needs and wants.  CLICK HERE to Talk to Tony. Thanks Tony for the t-shirt.

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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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Stories are powerful.  They improve our learning.  They help us to understand and remember things and events we may not ordinarily not remember.  Stories affect our brain chemistry, they manufacture emotions that help us relate not only to the parts of the story, but also to the person telling the story.

Matthew Luhn joins A New Direction with his latest book The Best Story Wins: How to Leverage Hollywood Storytelling in Business and Beyond.   

Matthew is known for being the youngest animator for the ever popular Simpson’s TV show.  He also was part of the beginning of Pixar and helped developed the stories for Toy Story movies, Finding Nemo, Monsters University, Cars, and more!  In this episode of A New Direction Matthew walks us through how creating a story can transform your business and you.

Matthew even shares a personal story of how he was able to use a story to leverage keeping the family toy store in a prime location in San Francisco.  The Best Story Wins is a great read, not long but as Matt describes it contains all “the nuts and bolts” you need to create a great story, develop characters, defeat your villains and create your own heroes!  Matthew and I even discuss how authentic story telling can lead to trust in your business.  You don’t want to miss it!

Thank you to our sponsors Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors, known through the world as the leading experts in helping you sell your business find out why literally thousands of people have used Enlign Business Brokers and Advisors to sell their business or buy one.  Learn more by going to www.ENLIGN.com

Thank you to Linda Craft & Team, REALTORS  located in the greater Raleigh, Durham, Chapel Hill, Research Triangle Park Area, they can help you find the best real estate expert anywhere in the world to help you sell or buy your next home.  Discover why they are know for their Legendary Customer Service by going to www.LindaCraft.com.

This week’s t-shirt shout out goes to The Stockyard Cafe.  Located at 636 East 1st Street in Wahoo, Nebraska.  The Stockyard Cafe is know for their great breakfasts, interesting conversations and a great cup of coffee.  If you are any where near the area, it is a must stop to get yourself an old fashioned delicious country breakfast.

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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.

To learn more about Bill Treasurer Click Here

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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.

If you want your business to be on the t-shirt shout out of the week:

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