Learn to Win with Derek Lundsten and Todd Staples

With everything and everyone moving so quickly in today’s world, it is important to make the most of the time we have. Efficiency is a key concept for those with hectic schedules. CEO, Kellan Barfield, learned the importance of efficiency at a young age and has built her company around the concept of giving people time back into their lives. 

* – The sexiness of efficiency * – Happiness vs. job difficulties* – The birth of Source Explorer* – Starting with the foundation: A job well done* – The pits & peaks of entrepreneurship * – Putting personality back into emails* – How FUN trickles down from leadership* – Bringing the human element into your organization* – Lessons learned: Be yourself & test everything* – It’s ‘OK’ if you don’t have all the answers

Derek (00:06):

As far as Source Explorer is concerned. What should people know about the business as it stands today? Obviously you mentioned it’s evolved a lot for people who are just learning about you and learning about your offer, but I’d love to know what you do, what do you want them to know about it and how it’s going to help their businesses or to their profession or to their needs.

Kellan (00:23):

So source Explorer was designed based on creating greater efficiencies. You hear individuals all the time saying, I don’t have time to work out. I don’t have time to do this. I want to give people hours back in their day. So that is my number one goal and I’m doing it in three different ways.

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Hi, my name is Derek Linson and for the past decade I’ve been helping companies discover ways to make learning fun. And in doing so, help them to attract, train and retain great talent. Join me in our host Todd staples is the interviews from the top minds and learning human psychology, gamification and training to help you and your team learn to win.

Derek (00:58):

So welcome! Obviously it’s awesome to have you on the show, having been a client, being an entrepreneur, being a friend. Like you’re just a lot of fun. We’re really honored and really appreciate you being on the show and excited to share with our audience about your business and your journey and what’s really lighting you up right now. And I know it’s been so many lessons along the way from everything that you’re doing. So why don’t we just start there? I mean, how did you, you know, tell us about how source Explorer started and then we can kind of take it back to the evolution of how you became an entrepreneur.

Todd (01:28):

And especially for me Kellan what I was so excited by when I started reading a little more about you and talking to Derek and Sharon was that you a...

If you had a second shot at life, what would you do? Would you live life to the fullest and focus on the things that mattered the most to you? Author & Speaker, Mark Black, shares his life-threatening struggle and how that experience has molded him into the person he is today. His story has inspired and taught the true meaning of resilience and how to use it to obtain continued innovation and growth.

* – Time is finite, spend it wisely* – Live everyday like it matters* – What matters the most to you* – Living on bonus time* – How changing the pronouns creates a powerful connection* – Following the resilience roadmap* – How to ‘shorten the gap’* – Everyone is wired differently* – The relaxed hierarchy* – The deepest level of identity

Website:

Home

Book:

Live Life from the Heart – Mark Black

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Todd: (00:00)All right. Mark, welcome to the show. So excited to talk to you today.Mark: (00:03)Thanks so much. Thanks for having me. Appreciate it.Todd: (00:05)Yeah, absolutely. So you have a really fascinating story, which I want to definitely get into some of those details. But I like to give the listener an opportunity to decide if you are the right person that they should be listening to. So I find that the best way to do that is to, is to start with your why. To follow Simon Sendik’s model. He beautifully outlines, which is why do you do what you do? Like what, what drives you as a person to do what you have done for your career.Mark: (00:33)So I do what I do because I had a realization that I think we all have it at some point in our life that time is finite and we don’t know whether we get 20 years or a hundred years. But either way it’s goes fast. And if my time and my energy are the only finite resources I have, which is what I believe, then it makes only good sense to me that I spend those with great intentionality and, and I think everybody else wants the same thing. And so really my ultimate goal is to help people use their time and energy in ways that they are proud of when they look back over the course of their life. Todd: (01:18)That’s awesome. You know, I just I heard in one of your talks or your videos, you talked about living living today like it was your last day and how that can sort of be good at times and maybe not advisable at others. And you know, when you said time is finite, what do you see in people you talk to or people you’ve worked with? Is there, is there a black or white sort of delegation or can you bucket people in two different groups, like people that understand time is finite and really are aware of that and live with that in mind. And then the other side is don’t think about that at all. And just sort of are living along and not really thinking ...

There are 3 things needed in order to change:

* Willingness* Desire* Courage

You also need to understand what your desired outcome is and what is standing in your way. Once defined, you have the power to better yourself. Dr. Marcia Reynolds discusses her training and coaching methods used to set leaders up for success while providing them with the tools to enrich the lives of others. 

* – Why emotional intelligence is the ‘missing’ ingredient in training* – why information DOES NOT change behavior* – The benefits of a ‘thinking partner’* – The three elements of change* – Coaching: defining the outcome & what is getting in the way* – Why creating psychological safety is so important in coaching* – Training is an event NOT a process* – How to spark the curiosity & desire to learn

Books:

The Discomfort Zone: How Leaders Turn Difficult Conversations into Breakthroughs – Marcia Reynolds

Coach the Person, Not the Problem: A Guide to Using Reflective Inquiry – Marcia Reynolds

 

Website:

https://covisioning.com/about-marcia/

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Todd: (00:00)So Marcia, thank you so much for joining on today’s call. So nice to talk to you.Marcia: (00:05)Oh, well thank you for asking me. I’m glad to be here.Todd: (00:08)I’m very exciting. So in the very first part of the podcast and the video interview here, I love to talk about, you know, what really drives you because I find that for listeners, you know, if they can find that really quickly, if they resonate with who you are and why you do what you do, they can decide if it’s a, if it’s a great episode for them to listen to. So tell us a little bit about your why. Why do you do what you do?Marcia: (00:32)Well, I like many people. My career was not just a choice and then I did it, you know, it’s been a journey. And at the beginning there’s always, you know, fits and starts and accidental things that happen. And that’s what happened to me. I accidentally fell into a training department and then my boss decided to get her doctorate, dumped the whole thing in my lap. And my first assignment was management training. So I quickly went and you know, people always say, Oh, you have two masters degrees. Well, I went to get a degree to figure out what I was doing. You know, how to actually design instruction that works. And, and that’s what launched me onto my whole years of trying to figure out what does it really take for people to learn and learn in a way that changes their behavior.Marcia: (01:30)So I spent, yeah,

AI is changing the way we work, learn and run our businesses. Will AI take over jobs? Renowned Talent Consultant, Tiffany Prince, answers questions surrounding AI while helping us to understand how to develop + prepare our top talent for the inevitable change. 

* – Learning from each other in a time of turmoil* – What comes to mind when you think of AI?* – How AI will disrupt workers* – How AI will take over tasks within jobs* – How to re-humanize work* – Automating mundane tasks* – Leading with a strategic approach* – Why skills are causing BIG gaps* – The unicorn employee* – How to build a remote culture of learning  * – Why data is so impactful* – How to use people analysis to close skills gaps* – Chatbots + AI Coaching* – Using external collaborations to build better internal organizations 

Books:

Top of the Mountain Leadership: The Future of Performance and Productivity in a Technology Changing World – Tiffany Prince

Mindset: The New Psychology of Success – Carol Dweck

https://www.amazon.com/Mindset-Psychology-Carol-S-Dweck-dp-0345472322/dp/0345472322/ref=mt_paperback?_encoding=UTF8&me=&qid=1586888636

 

 

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Nate: (00:00)So my name is Nate Kahl. I’m the VP of client experience at scrimmage and I’ve known Tiffany for several years now. We’ve done a few webinars together and she is an expert in this field and has, she’s an author. She’s a speaker. She’s wonderful person. I’ll let you introduce yourself, but if you have any, I just want to say thank you so much for taking the time out of your very busy, probably more than now, busier schedule. Meet with us and, and share some of your thoughts on this topic, which I think has only become more relevant as time goes on. So I’ll stop and let you introduce yourself and we’ll go ahead with the presentation.Tiffany: (00:35)All right, sounds good. Thank you so much for having me here today. Like I said, Nate and I go back a few years. We’ve done collaborations at ATD international conference and I think even some LTEN events. So yeah, it’s been a, it’s been a fun collaboration. My background, I just published a book last year, which spent about three years writing and I interviewed leaders from around the world about 20 on how AI and globalization at the time is impacting the future of work. So in this presentation, I’m actually going to cover one of the chapters and I’d love to hear your thoughts. This is going to be an interactive presentation. I’d love to hear. Obviously it’s been a crazy couple of weeks. I’m trying to weave in a little bit of our new reality, but as I say, we’re kind of building the plane as it’s flying right now. So I’ll share with you some ideas and if you guys have anything to share as well, that would be fantastic. Cause this is what it’s all about, is learning from each other in this time of change and turmoil.

What if there was a way to be freed of the pressure to follow the ‘norm’ and do only what we think is expected of us? Founder and CEO of Crash, Isaac Morehouse, talks about his childhood homeschooling experience and the steps he took to paving his own path while teaching others to do the same.

* – The freedom homeschooling can provide* – The college alternative* – Success is in the eyes of the beholder* – Don’t get stuck doing something you hate* – Embracing the hard things* – Learning guided by interests* – The different learning paces of children* – The mindset behind Praxis* – Crash: the three phase success program

Website

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Derek: (00:00)Isaac Morehouse, welcome to the learn to win podcast. It’s awesome to have you on. I think I could stay for both Todd and myself. We’re really excited to speak with you. You know, we were introduced by a friend of mine and friend of ours, Jeremy Slate and you know, we, we were geeking out on the concept of education and how technology is going to continue to change the way that people can learn. And Jeremy was like, you gotta talk to my buddy Isaac. He’s doing so many cool things in this space and I think you guys really hit it off. And so that’s where we are and I’m excited to be speaking with you. So welcome.Isaac: (00:31)Hey, thanks. I love the name by the way, learn to win I, I think that success is a discipline, right? Like you sort of people sort of think that success is an outcome that maybe it can happen because a luck, maybe it can happen because you do some things right. But I actually think like, like success is something that you learn how to do. And I love that idea. Like learn to win. It’s just, it takes away that sort of happenstance. I hope good things happen to me. Mindset and puts you in the driver’s seat. So good, good stuff.Derek: (01:01)I’m glad you recognize that. Cause that’s like, that’s a key factor is that the depth, the multi meaning of that, right. The idea of actually learning and then also learning the mindset, learning, learning the habits. Right. So I’m cool. It’s cool that you see that and I, and I agree it’s a cool title, so thank you. So yeah, man. Tell us what about you. Obviously, you know, we’re, we’re both shared in the space entrepreneurship, which we’ll definitely get into, but why, why, for you personally? I mean, people can look at this a little bit already, but why for you personally? Is education so important and yeah. Isaac: (01:30)You know, it comes to something even more fundamental to me than education. Education just happens to be where the rubber starts to meet the road the most. And for me, I’m like my core, I dunno, I guess like my animating value or core focus in life is freedom. I want to live free. And I want to help others live free. And that comes in so many forms. I mean, there’s so many things that like make us unfree and so much of the time we don’t feel free...

Tune into the Scrimmage #WednesdayWebinar series focused around remote teams, virtual tools and helpful information to set your remote workforce up for success.

* – Why communication is key in uncertain times* – Setting the tone for a remote team* – The importance of creating & documenting processes* – The tools to get the job done* – Creating a process + setting the expectation* – Understanding the boundaries in a remote world* – Collaborating tips with Trello* – Aligning tasks with Clubhouse* – How to get creative with engagement ideas* – Fun games to share with your remote teams

Tools Mentioned:

https://zoom.us

https://slack.com

https://trello.com/en-US

https://clubhouse.io

Games:

HOME

https://www.playfactile.com

Scrimmage Website:

https://www.wescrimmage.com

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Nate: (00:01)Okay. It looks like we have quite a few people here who are joining. So if you do feel like jumping in with your thoughts and comments, by all means, please use the chat feature within zoom and share your thoughts or questions. And I will try and look at those as I’m going through the presentation today. One second here.Nate: (00:28)I’ll pull the chat up. Okay. Can you guys see my screen ok or is Zoom blocking it there? I’ll go ahead and get started and again, I apologize.Nate: (00:48)Sometimes you get unexpected things and right now they’re testing the tornado sirens in Minneapolis. So that’s what you’re hearing in the background. I hope I’m coming through. Okay. yeah, so as I mentioned just a minute ago Scrimmage, just been on this Wednesday webinars, this is a three series three Wednesdays in a row about just working remote. And today I just wanted to share a couple of things that Scrimmage is doing and we’ve been remote for since we started. For the most part, we used to be in an office and people work from home. Now we’re fully remote, so I just wanted to share some tools that we use and some processes that we have in place and if it helps your teams, as many teams are now remote and want to expect them to be. So just wanted to share some tips and tricks. I don’t think it’s going to be anything groundbreaking, but if it helps you out please feel free to email me or ask any questions after the webinar and happy to share any additional thoughts.Nate: (01:45)So my name is Nate Kahl. I’ve been with scrimmage for seven years. I’m the VP of client experience. I’ve been in a variety of roles from implementation, working with our product and aligning a roadmap to feature requests and whatnot.

Today’s guest is Steve Cunningham from Read It For Me, a “Book Summary” company that gives you access to all the juiciest parts of the best business and leadership book in 12 minutes.

Grab the special LIFETIME OFFER for Read It For Me here: https://readitfor.me/learntowin

When Steve started a company, he thought he was going to be mainly serving entrepreneurs and people who are looking to become successful. But what he found out was the complete opposite, his clientele turned out to already be some of the most successful people on the planet.

These people (many on the Forbes Billionaires list) were already at the head of their class, they were leading big teams, running corporations and they were extremely successful by any measure. Today, we talk about how Steve has made this interesting shift from a company that he thought was going to be focused on just delivering small summaries to people for a monthly fee to a company that has a unique way of measuring how the most successful people learn, how often they go back to their material, what they do with it, and how they integrate it into their life. Here’s a sneak peak at what we cover:

* – The gap between consuming info & practicing it* – How the most successful people learn* – The effectiveness pyramid* – Defining the “desired result”* – “Practicesizing” makes perfect* – The 5 stages of growth* – Knowledge vs. action + behaviors

Website:

https://readitfor.me

Mentioned Books:

Drive – Daniel H. Pink

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Todd: (00:00)So I’m super excited, Steve, to have you back for your second appearance on one of my podcasts and I’m really excited to see what you have going on with read it for me and and what you’re doing with yourself these days. Thanks for coming on.Steve: (00:14)Thanks for having me. Good to be back.Todd: (00:16)Yeah, so we connected I guess first for my luminary business podcast a couple of years ago, but I have always been a fan. Steve’s company is Read It For Me, which is readitfor.me is one of my favorite learning tools. I saw how you progressed as a company and I kind of sensed how you progressed as an individual because I think I saw your company when you just had a handful of book summaries on there. And now there’s, you know, micro courses, master classes. How many books do you have on there total? There’s hundreds, hundreds of titles, most of which have audio and video and fun animations and a lot of them have exercises to do afterwards. So Steve, how did you get this idea for this company and why do you do what you do, and what are you doing now?Steve: (01:09)Well, like everything in my life,

Today is March 26, 2020. The coronavirus pandemic has virtually everyone working at home and doing their best to continue as best as possible running their businesses, supporting their teams and learning from this event.

Listen in as these 7 industry leaders share their stories and offer advice on how to thrive in “The New Normal”

• 2:00 PM: Joe DeSena – Founder, Spartan Race• 2:20 PM: Chad Littlefield – Author, Founder, We and Me, Inc.• 2:40 PM: Anthony Mills – Principal, Global Innovation Institute• 3:00 PM: Kassy LaBorie – Virtual Training Consultant Engaging Remote Teams• 3:20 PM: Jason Zeman – Sr. Director, Talent & Leadership Development, Bausch Health• 3:40 PM: Kevin Oakes – CEO, Institute for Corporate Productivity (i4cp)• 4:00 PM: Nir Eyal – Speaker, Best Selling Author, Indistractable (unable to attend in person so I’ll be sharing a video interview Nir and I did today)

I hope you enjoy it and it brings you a fresh perspective.

If you like this video, please “like it” and subscribe to this on YouTube. And please share it with any of your friends that you think might find it valuable.

Thanks so much.

How do you adjust your mindset and achieve the most out of life? Join Entrepreneur, Speaker & Author, Jen Groover, as she explains her unique approach to developing a winning mindset, her “life auditing system,” and a “reflection checklist” as we discuss how to pave your own path to maximize potential.

* – The entrepreneurial mindset* – The ‘anything is possible’ perception* – The power of learning from your challenges* – Important teachable moments* – Overcoming triggers* – The importance of staying aligned in life* – A practice, a way of being* – Achieving M.O.R.E. out of life* – The reflection checklist* – The life auditing system* – People don’t know what they don’t know* – Processing on a personal + professional level* – Creating a better culture

Website:

Home

Book:

What If? and Why Not?: How to Transform Your Fears Into Action and Start the Business of Your Dreams – Jen Groover

https://www.amazon.com/What-Why-Not-Transform-2010-03-02/dp/B01K3OU27S/ref=sr_1_2?dchild=1&keywords=What+If%3F+and+Why+Not%3F%3A+How+to+Transform+Your+Fears+Into+Action+and+Start+the+Business+of+Your+Dreams&qid=1585692402&sr=8-2

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Derek: (00:01)Awesome. So Jen, welcome to learn to win. So happy to see you here.Jen: (00:10)So happy to be here. We talked about this for a while.Todd: (00:12)I know, I know, it’s great to.Jen: (00:14)It’s finally happening.Todd: (00:15)It’s actually kind of interesting cause I’ve known you for three or four years. I’ve seen like an enormous amount of things that you’ve been doing and contributing to and launching and now your new book.Jen: (00:26)Birthing a lot of things in the world.Derek: (00:26)Yeah. I mean that’s how we actually met with the jumpstart startup years ago. In Philly. Right. You’ve done so many things since then. So just before we jump into what you’re doing today, just tell us how you, what where entrepreneurial fuel started for you. Like to talk about birth, like where does it really begin for Jen Groover.Jen: (

How do you keep bad moments from turning into bad days? It is helpful to have a tribe of people who listen to your problems, while keeping you levelheaded and focused on the best possible solution. Being able to pause, breathe and reflect on moments throughout the day can help you to stay on track by not getting caught up on the small things. Executive Coach, Speaker and Best-Selling Author, Michael O’Brien, uses personal experiences to SHIFT corporate leaders into the right mindset, so they are able to achieve great success + not sweat the small stuff.

* – The last bad day* – How adjusting your mindset can better your body* – Re-labeling your days* – Positive energy ripples that help shape others* – “Smoking Hopeium” vs. understanding the bad & broken* – How to set your intentions for the day* – Leaning on your peloton to achieve success* – How good listeners help solve problems* – Grabbing PBR: pause, breathe, reset* – The power of gratitude* – Finding the micro doses of kindness* – The importance of curiosity & values

Website:

https://www.michaelobrienshift.com

Mentioned Books:

My Last Bad Day Shift: How to Prevent Bad Moments from Turning into Bad Days – Michael O’Brien

Shift: Creating Better Tomorrows; Winning at Work and in Life – Michael O’Brien

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Todd: (00:01)Awesome. So we’ll just jump right in. So, Michael, I’m so excited to have you here. We had a good conversation right beforehand, but so much we’re going to get into on the show. Oftentimes we talk really high level sort of philosophy, a mindset stuff, but I’m really excited to get really tactical and want to hear, give you a chance to share your story and, and teach us about what you do for people.Michael: (00:25)Well, I’m totally stoked to be with you, Todd. I’ve been looking forward to this all day long. So this is a highlight and I’m ready to get as tactical as you want to get. So let’s bring it on.Todd: (00:35)Excellent, excellent. Well first of all, I made, I made you save some of the juicy details of a really bad day that you’ve had. You’ve had a pretty, pretty interesting experience that is very unique. So maybe we can start with that and how that’s effected you, how it’s, you know, driven you to do what you’re doing right now and how you help people have their last bad day.Michael: (00:59)Yeah. So my last bad day is the juice. Like that’s a juicy story. So I had been an avid cyclists, gosh, going back to my high school days and I had a company offsite meeting, so I was like sort of live in like the typical script. I came out of college and I thought, well here’s the script that you need to follow in order to have a successful career in life. And I thought I was doing a pretty good job followin...