On this episode of the Leverage podcast, Nick sits down with Alex Charfen, a master at helping Entrepreneurs and CEO’s optimize their business practices. Today’s Focus: Learning the 5 most important things that will prevent you from scaling your business. Alex has appeared in almost every major media outlet in print and on TV and is the author of the best-selling book “Entrepreneurial Personality”. Specifically, he helps CEO’s differentiate between and management and leadership.

Things You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• This history of growing a business to $250 million in sales
• How he overcame extreme burnout at 32
• How to grow a business with more work-life balance
• Why CEO’s have trouble being managers
• What the difference is between “leaders” and “managers”
• How his company helps CEO’s to lead their company from a leadership position and avoid the management position
• What “entrepreneur's dilemma” is
• 5 things that prevent companies from scaling
• What the biggest bottleneck is for Entrepreneurs
• How he’s cut down ⅓ of his meetings

Kathy Caprino, an internationally-recognized career coach, TEDx speaker, and Senior Forbes Contributor who's dedicated to the global advancement of professional women. Her other specialty? Knowing how to write viral blog posts (she’s had several that have received over 3 million views). Learn how she went from 18-years in corporate marketing to becoming a therapist, and empowering women and their career aspirations all over the world. She also tells us how she’s using Leverage to build her online course.

Things You’ll Learn in This Episode:

• How she switched from 18 years in corporate marketing to a therapist
• How she got to be a Forbes contributor
• Her thoughts on alternative therapy
• Her cautionary tale about Linkedin
• What “listicles” are and how they make posts go viral
• How she got to be a Forbes contributor
• Discrimination against introverts
• How she uses Leverage
• How to scale without a team
• How she organizes her content and ideas

Learn more about Leverage: www.getleverage.com 

Learn more about Kathy: https://kathycaprino.com/

How to become the ultimate YOU with Ben Greenfield

On today's episode, Nick is joined by a very special guest, Ben Greenfield. He was named as one of the world’s top 100 most influential people in health and fitness. A New York Times bestselling author of the book "Beyond Fitness", founder of Kion.com a high-end supplement and gear company.

Randy Garn has been named Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young, and is on the Top 40 under 40 list. He’s exited 5+ companies and has one of the most impressive networks we’ve ever seen. (from Eli Manning to the nation’s top CEO’s).

Tune in to learn his entrepreneur secrets on exiting companies, planning your business strategy, and mastered the art of customer acquisition through SMS.

How to Run and Scale Remote Teams w/ Liam Martin. Liam is a well-known tech entrepreneur and expert on #remoteteams. He has co-founded companies such as Staff.com and TimeDoctor.com and currently runs "Running Remote", the world's largest remote work conference. 

For anyone running a remote team, join Liam and leaders from Helpscout, Evernote, AngeList, and more at the world’s largest remote work conference hosted in Bali, June 29-30th. Head to www.runningremote.com to learn more and use our special promo code:getleverage for 20% off your ticket.

In this episode of the podcast, Nick talks with a good friend and mentor, Lee Brower. Lee is the founder of Empowered Wealth and has been an associate coach at Strategic Coach for the last 19 years - but you may also know him from the movie, The Secret. Listen in as they dive into the difference between milestones and goals, how Lee got his start as a coach, and a quick preview of an upcoming workshop that we’ll be hosting together in Utah.

Leverage Podcast episode featuring marketing guru Dean Jackson. Dean is known for creating simple and easy marketing strategies to help entrepreneurs make more money, and marketing is the best way to do just that. With Joe Polish, Dean runs “I Love Marketing,”  a free source for useful and valuable marketing knowledge for entrepreneurs.

As with anything in life or business, the more complex things are, the less likely people are going to do them, and on the flip side the simpler things are the more likely someone will do it. This is what Dean has done with his Marketing strategies: focusing on the finding the simplest way to get the greatest amount of results without his clients having to do anything.

Some of Dean’s best known strategies are:

• The Squeeze Page
• The 9-word email
• Super Signature Line

Listen in as Dean shares insight on these three strategies and his foresight to the future of marketing on this episode of the Leverage podcast.

To learn more about Dean visit: https://ilovemarketing.com/

Leverage podcast featuring Eric Edmeades, internationally recognized business speaker, film producer,  serial entrepreneur, business coach and film producer.

Listen in as Nick Sonnenberg, Leverage Founder and CEO, chats with Eric about his wildly successful business coaching programs Business Freedom and Wildfit.

Eric believes that entrepreneurship is the ultimate expression of personal liberty and freedom when practiced correctly. Entrepreneurship is royalty in the Western world, yet very few business owners get to experience the freedom of being their own boss.

Entrepreneurs are hopeless optimists. 80% of businesses fail before their 5 year anniversary, and the other 20% are just getting by. Business Freedom helps guide entrepreneurs through the “jungle” of business.

“It’s a jungle out there, but jungle is only a jungle if you don’t understand the rules of the jungle.”

Just like experiencing any other “jungle,” you always go out with a guide. Business freedom is like your “jungle guide for business”.

It helps business owners start a business, gain personal and financial liberty and freedom as a result of owning a business, in addition to massively improving their quality of life - living the way they want to live, spend time with their family, have the money they want to live like royalty.

Eric’s coaching is all experience based. He’s been there, he’s lived through the struggles and has learned the “rules of the jungle” to not only survive but thrive by also practicing his “wildfit” principles of staying healthy and living their best entrepreneurial life.

Listen in to learn more about Eric, his endeavors and mission to help entrepreneurs worldwide through Business Freedom and Wildfit.

You can also learn more at:

www.ericedmeades.com

businessfreedom.com

Getwildfit.com

Sharon's played a crucial role in bringing meditation and mindfulness to the west, and into mainstream culture since 1974, when she first began teaching. She's a regular columnist for On Being, a contributor to the Huffington Post, and the host of her own podcast, the Metta Hour.

What is Meditation?

“I think people have a lot of ideas, I certainly did, about what meditation is and what it isn't. Sometimes those ideas are pretty off … the point isn't to make a certain thing happen, but to relate different to whatever is happening with more balance, with more kindness, with more presence.”- Sharon Salzberg.

There is a lot of social pressure for meditation to a blissful, peaceful experience. But that’s truly not the final goal, to have a blank thought. Meditation is creating a neutral experience in your everyday life through the ability to be more intuitive with your thoughts and feelings. Positive and negative ones. It changes the way we relate to those feelings and how we can process them.

How do you Meditate?

There’s no set guidelines, or rules. It can be a very personal experience. You can meditate sitting, laying down, walking or while your in the grocery store. Meditation can be e

You can learn more at SharonSalzberg.com

Leverage Podcast featuring Susan Drumm, Founder and CEO at Meritage Leadership.

Susan and her team at Meritage Leadership conduct leadership consulting, coaching, facilitation, strategy and assessment for organizations. One of the tools Susan uses in her leadership development and organization assessments is the Enneagram Type Indicator - a descriptive and intensive personality test based on motivation.

There are 9 different Enneagram types, and within each type there are type-subsets for certain strengths. Each type has its own gifts and challenge areas. Throughout your life, you growth within your type and by learning your Enneagram type it can help point you in the direction of growth.

Listen in as Susan goes over Nick’s Enneagram results (Type 8 - The Challenger), interpreting some of his behaviors with the motivations linked with this type, and how you can interpret your own results, those of your team and family to build better relationships and team cooperation.

Learn more about the Enneagram Type Indicator here: https://www.enneagraminstitute.com/

Find out more info about Susan Drumm and Meritage Leadership programs:

Website: meritageleadership.com/  

Twitter: @drummleadership

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/susan-drumm-bb09732