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Listen to the Leverage podcast to learn from entrepreneurs, thought leaders, & business efficiency experts. Hosted by Leverage Founder & CEO Nick Sonnenberg. Get Leverage to work smarter--no... more
FAQs about Leverage:How many episodes does Leverage have?The podcast currently has 158 episodes available.
March 03, 2017Step out of Your Comfort Zone With an App - Optimize, Automate, Outsource. - Episode #28“There’s definitely people on our team that I think this (Steps) will be pretty cool for...This is a pretty good way to get yourself out of your comfort zone.” Time-Stamped Notes 00:03 – Introduction to OAO 00:34 – Ari took his family to Miami for the President’s Break 00:41 – While his family was in Miami, he had to go to Phoenix and Chicago for Entrepreneur’s Organization 01:18 – Nick will be out in Los Angeles for Victoria Labalme’s Rock the Room Live 01:39 – Nick just bought Raden Luggage, which has a built in scale and an app 03:27 – Steps is an iPhone app that beats social anxiety with small challenges 05:49 – Amazon Chime already came out a week ago, which is a competitor of Skype 06:46 – Get Leverage has a big need for a team of people to be able to make calls so Nick has been testing out platforms 07:01 – Ring Central seems to be the best platform so far for Get Leverage as it allows clients to send texts, calls, and you can create phone extensions 09:07 – reMarkable is like a limited feature iPad in some ways 10:19 – Neurologically, people tend to retain notes better by handwriting 10:41 – Ari finds it distracting to type out notes 12:08 – Nick has a bad memory 12:43 – Snappr is an on-demand photography service 14:05 – Mailjoy is like Mailchimp for physical mail 15:43 – Ari was talking to a client and found she was looking to outsource meal prep 16:20 – Nurture Life offers meals for kids 16:23 – One of Get Leverage’s VAs is a nutritionist who gave Nick a comprehensive plan 18:25 – Nick mentions not to drink while eating 19:07 – High amounts of bromelain digestive enzymes will sweeten the taste of semen 19:27 – End of today’s podcast Learn More About OAO Here: www.leveragepodcasts.com...more20minPlay
February 24, 2017Training the Incarcerated - Optimize, Automate, Outsource. - Episode #27“Doing charity work was one of the things that I (Nick) wanted to start getting into this year.” Time-Stamped Notes 00:02 – Introduction to OAO 00:15 – Ari and Nick are now recording episodes by the batch 00:33 – Defy Ventures brings successful people into the prison community to teach and guide entrepreneurship 02:32 – Only 5% of Defy people go back to prison 03:33 – The excitement Ari feels with Defy Ventures is the same feeling he had with American Dream U 03:50 – FeetMe is a runner’s in-sole tracking device 04:45 – There are no less than 80 ways to tie your shoes 05:53 – Nick is looking for travel solutions! Please email Nick at [email protected] if you know a tool or an app that could help 07:36 – Demio is a cool option for hosting webinars 08:37 – End of today’s podcast Less Doing Podcast Resources: www.leveragepodcasts.com...more10minPlay
February 17, 2017"I recently started a Crohn Support Community" - Optimize, Automate, Outsource. - Episode #26“I recently started a Crohn Support Community...it’s just a free resource that I created where I curate some content and help guide the discussion on how to manage that illness.” Time-Stamped Notes 00:02 – Introduction to OAO 00:19 – Slack Pass is the best way to manage Slack invites 00:32 – Ari recently started a support community for people battling Crohn’s Disease 00:53 – Ari loves using Slack for community chat 00:58 – It’s a separate app and place to communicate 01:20 – It’s easy to automate and share content on Slack 01:33 – There is threaded communication 01:42 – Ari has been using InviteBot for his support group which you can access here 01:53 – Slack Pass lets you have free groups, paid groups, paid channels and etc. 02:15 – Slack Pass does credit card processing for subscribed members in your group 02:53 – Get Leverage’s website is now being optimized 03:06 – Nick started using Optimizely, an experimentation platform where you can make changes to your website without needing a developer 03:38 – He also implemented TruConversion, a tool that helps you find heatmaps on your website 04:03 – Ari and Nick explain further how TruConversion works 05:46 – Sign up and try the free trial for both Optimizely and TruConversion 06:46 – Nick met Robert Cialdini, the author of Pre-Suasion 07:17 – Elucify is a crowdsourced lead directory 08:21 – Run Dexter is a solution to build any chatbots on different platforms 09:05 – Luma is a surround wifi device 11:36 – Checkout SpeedTest to know your actual wifi speed 11:44 – End of today’s podcast Less Doing Podcast Resources: www.leveragepodcasts.com...more13minPlay
February 10, 2017Ari and Nick are in a Studio for the First Time - Optimize, Automate, Outsource. - Episode #25Key Quote “I’m so tied to my computer and phone all the time that just 30 minutes forcing me to not be by some form of electronic, I feel, is valuable” Time-Stamped Notes 00:09 – Ari and Nick are in a studio for the first time 01:22 – Not recommended, but worthy of discussion is the Starbucks app where you can order your coffee through the chat bot 02:44 – Slack’s new feature called Slack Enterprise Grid allows you to have multiple workspaces for big organizations 04:07 – Box Breathing is a website that takes you through the motions of the Navy Seal breathing technique 04:44 – Nick does Mndfl Meditation that incorporates box breathing 05:58 – Ask Ari and Nick any questions that you may have and they will answer on the podcast 06:01 – Chris Mottram is our in-house audio engineer 06:17 – Ari will be hosting a webinar on February 15 Less Doing Podcast Resources: www.leveragepodcasts.com...more8minPlay
February 03, 2017"The Last Episode Outside of a Recording Studio" - Optimize, Automate, Outsource. - Episode #24Key Quote “This is the last episode that we will be recording outside of a professional recording studio.” Time-Stamped Notes 00:03 – Introduction to OAO 00:12 – This is the last episode outside a studio 00:28 – Ari and Nick offers their thanks to their listeners 01:02 – EloBot is a bot for your Facebook Messenger that acts as your personal assistant 01:52 – Nick mentions his friend who also built a bot for Facebook 02:06 – Temp File allows you to share files less than 1GB temporarily and for free 02:35 – ai provides services to help you classify data 03:00 – Nick explains further how they use Mighty.ai for Get Leverage 03:44 – Amazon Mechanical Turk is similar to Mighty.ai except they do not allow as much personalization 05:07 – Ari shares a hilarious article from Business Insider regarding the craziest requests concierges have ever received 07:17 – Ari shares an article about what successful people, like Elon Musk, ask job candidates in interviews 08:15 – BeLive allows you to broadcast on Facebook Live with multiple people on one stream 08:53 – End of today’s podcast ...more10minPlay
January 29, 2017"We Hit a Record the Same Week We Had a Tech Issue" - Optimize, Automate, Outsource. - Episode #23Full Shownotes Coming Soon...more11minPlay
January 13, 2017"Optimize Your Goal Setting" - Optimize, Automate, Outsource. - Episode #22"Long term goals should be broken into smaller chunks to try and achieve something on a shorter time scale." Time-Stamped Notes 00:02 – Introduction to OAO 00:22 – Ari doesn’t believe in long-term goal setting 00:40 – Ari now wants his goals to be measurable and have more impact 00:51 – Launching “Book Club Thursdays” 01:19 – Ari heard about goal-setting on Tim Ferriss’ podcast 02:02 – It’s about tapping into your potential 03:14 – Ari invites Nick to do a Dexa Scan – the most accurate scan of body composition 03:45 – Ari created a workout for himself 05:05 – Dseat.me finds your random, online accounts and helps you delete them 05:35 – Shift allows you to switch into Gmail accounts in a better interface 06:35 – MicroBot Push is a device that automates button pushing 07:38 – Philips Wakeup Lamp – an alarm that simulates the sunrise 09:45 – Ari discusses one of the triggers in Zapier for Slack that triggers a DM to new members 10:16 – Athelas is a service that comes to you to check your white blood cells 11:50 – Notch is a device that shows you a real-time 3D representation of yourself in motion 13:33 – Spar is an app that allows you to challenge your friends to become better 14:26 – KaleKam – turns healthy eating into a game 15:08 – Nick shares that one of his goals for the new year is to become healthier 16:27 – End of today’s podcast ...more17minPlay
January 06, 2017"The Best Year of My Life" - Optimize, Automate, Outsource. - Episode #21Ari and Nick reflect on the past year and look forward to the year to come. Full show notes coming soon....more20minPlay
December 30, 2016"A Call Centre for Cyber Criminals" - Optimize, Automate, Outsource. - Episode #20360 Video Cameras, On-Demand Baby Doctors, Call Centres for Cyber Criminals, Print a TV Image on a Box and Reduce Damage, Nick tries Cryotherapy and more. Full Show Notes Coming Soon OAO Podcast Resources - www.leveragepodcasts.com...more13minPlay
December 23, 2016"This Feedback Shows We're Solving a Big Problem." - Optimize, Automate, Outsource. - Episode #19“The people who give us this feedback...they want to be able to make it work and I think that really says something about what we’re offering, it says we’re solving a big problem” Key Quote “The people who give us this feedback...they want to be able to make it work and I think that really says something about what we’re offering, it says we’re solving a big problem” Time-Stamped Notes 00:02 – Introduction to OAO 00:10 – Ari and Nick just got back from their trips 00:29 – Ari shares about his Strategic Coach experience with Dan Sullivan 00:56 – Nick shares about his Genius Network Event experience 01:34 – Nick missed the main dinner because a client gave him feedback 01:52 – Despite the issues, Leverage still gives world-class service 02:02 – People who give feedback to Leverage are people who want to make things work 02:29 – Pixibot is a tool you add to Slack that reads text in images 02:52 – Talla is also a bot for Slack that brings together a lot other services 04:00 – Sharetribe allows you to create a market place 05:14 – Philips Wakeup Light is like a side table lamp where you can set lights and sounds to wake you up 06:32 – The Poweraid Hat has a solar panel built into the rim with a usb port 07:04 – Sunflower Labs is a security system that comes with a drone 09:28 – Notion is a smart app for managing your email 10:40 – Elysium is an anti-aging pill that contains only 2 ingredients 12:40 – Flexbot is another Slack bot that reminds you to do wellness exercises throughout the day 13:23 – Electric.ai is an IT helper department for Slack 14:11 – The Leverage Labs in Slack for Leverage VA clients 14:45 – End of today’s podcast ...more15minPlay
FAQs about Leverage:How many episodes does Leverage have?The podcast currently has 158 episodes available.