My Quest for the Best with Bill Ringle

By Bill Ringle

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October 21, 2024415: The world of work improves when we include and support women’s voices and leadership with guest expert Beate Chelette
Beate Chelette, author of Happy Woman Happy World
Bill Ringle and Beatte Chelette discuss insider perspectives on how to create a work culture that is genuinely collaborative and inclusive for female and male small business leaders.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Interview Insights
Top 3 Takeaways
Position yourself to succeed with your peers instead of wanting only you, and you alone, to succeed.
Know your price and the number needs to be the number where you don’t have to work anymore; that way, you’d know when it’s time to sell.
When somebody tries to throw you off your game through their words or actions, you have the option not to let that land.
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
Beate proudly recalls her father who taught her that every person in the company, from the janitor to the top executives is vital to making a culture work. This is a lesson she carried throughout her life. [01:27]
With $135,000 debt, a teenager she raised alone, and a lawsuit with a former employee, Beate’s resiliency was the fuel that kept her running. [03:32]
How do we know when it’s time to sell? Beate highlights the importance of knowing your price and advises us to make sure it’s a figure enough that we don’t have to work anymore. [05:01]
Knowing her numbers, Beate found a perfect buyer in Bill Gates. [07:16]
A common problem in the US and many parts of the world is the gender pay gap. Beate gives her insights as for why many women are paid less and how they could address this. [10:39]
Mary was a client of Beate’s who, despite being a top 1% in the fabric world, was not taken seriously as a business leader. After working with Beate, Mary became more confident in positioning herself as the leader that she is. [12:24]
Why insecurity is ugly and a cavemen mentality that women need to shed. [16:58]
“You’re too emotional” is only a checkmate move if we allow it. Beate advises women getting these comments to laugh it off and carry on with business as usual. [20:24]
Beate recalls a former colleague and teammate Sandy who despite having a healthy and friendly relationship with her when Beate first joined the company, became embittered and resentful of her promotion. [23:12]
My Quest for the Best lightning round begins. [30:00]
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Expert Bio
Beate Chelette is the Growth Architect and Founder of The Women’s Code and provides visionaries and leaders with strategies that grow your authority so they can scale their impact.
A first-generation immigrant who found herself $135,000 in debt as a single parent, Beate bootstrapped her passion for photography into a highly successful global business and eventually sold it to Bill Gates in a multimillion-dollar deal. She is amongst the “Top 100 Global Thought Leaders” by PeopleHum and “One of 50 Must-Follow Women Entrepreneurs” by HuffPost.
Recent clients include Amazon, Reckitt (the maker of Lysol), Chevron, Merck, Johnson & Johnson, the Women’s Legislative Caucus of California, Cal State University Dominguez Hills, Shelter Inc., Mental Health First Aid and thousands of small businesses.
Beate is the author of the #1 International Award-Winning Amazon Bestseller “Happy Woman Happy World – How to Go from Overwhelmed to Awesome”–a book that corporate trainer and best-selling author Brian Tracy calls “a handbook for every woman who wants health, success and a fulfilling career.”
Contact Info and Social Media for Beate Chelette
Primary website
Travels from: Culver City, CA
Connect on: Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube | Facebook
Resources Mentioned During the Interview
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Bill Gates
Published by Beate Chelette
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39min
October 04, 2024400: From Management Mess to Leadership Success with guest expert Scott Jeffrey Miller
Scott Jeffrey Miller, author of Management Mess to Leadership Success
Bill Ringle and Scott Jeffrey Miller discuss the importance of being clear and explicit with your intent in all communications for small business leaders because in the absence of details, people make up stories and those stories can become a(nother) mess.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Interview Insights
Top 3 Takeaways
Declare your intention on why you called this meeting or are taking this course of action. This provides clarity and lessens the probability of misinterpretations. Most importantly, remember to keep your actions aligned with your stated intentions.
Manage expectations by setting boundaries on what you cannot do. It is better to say ‘no’ and let people down early on rather than make a commitment you wouldn’t be able to fulfill. That will break trust, harm your relationship, and damage your reputation.
Do not stretch your people more than their abilities or temporary limits. It is better to give your employees wins by setting attainable goals. Let your people know and feel that you care about them as people, not just their work roles.
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
How radio host Bruce Williams left a profound mark on Scott’s passion for business and how the world really works. [01:12]
Who would benefit from reading your book, Management Mess To Leadership Success? [04:15]
Steve Jobs’ behavior from 30 years ago is one of the most discussed examples when discussing leadership behavior. What was a humbling moment when what you thought one of your best leadership moments turned out to be one of your weakest? What did you do to bounce back from that terrible meeting with the team? [08:11]
What would you say is the significance of declaring our intent and the consequences if our actions do not align with it? [13:30]
Blaine Lee wrote, “Nearly all if not all, conflict arises from mismatched or unfulfilled expectations.” Can you elaborate on this problem with unfulfilled expectations and how to avoid them? [18:12]
CASE: Canadian manager proved that you can still follow through with your commitment even after being released from it. This story is a showcase of dedication and true commitment. [20:45]
Can you explain the analogy of jockeys and their prized horses and how it relates to leaders and their prized people? [24:04]
What is the lesson from the goose and the golden egg metaphor that explains why good leaders know not to force productivity from their employees? [26:44]
CASE: Pete reported to Scott and was afraid to make specific requests because of a reading dyslexia. [29:30]
Just because employees are free to declare their intent, how can those intentions be still be grounded to what is within reasonable limits? [33:33]
My Quest for the Best Lightning round begins. [41:01]
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Expert Bio
Recruited by Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s team, Scott built a 26-year career in the world’s most respected and influential leadership development firm, serving nearly every role imaginable.
From a front-line salesperson to project manager, sales leader, general manager, vice president, chief marketing officer to executive vice president of thought leadership. Scott’s professional roles evolved as he became a multi-bestselling author, radio and podcast host, leadership coach, columnist, and global keynote speaker. He continues to consult with FranklinCovey and is proud to continue their collaboration as he expands his influence through new books, speeches, and coaching offerings.
Scott currently serves as the Special Advisor on Thought Leadership for the Franklin Covey Company and hosts their weekly podcast series, On Leadership, with Scott Miller.
Contact Info and Social Media for Jeffrey Scott Miller
Primary website
Travels from: Salt Lake City, Utah
Connect on: Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook
Check out Scott’s podcasts!
FranklinCovey On Leadership with Scott Miller
C-Suite Conversations with Scott Miller
Resources Mentioned During the Interview
Below are key people, places, books, quotes, websites, and other resources we discussed so that you can explore further.
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change by Stephen R. Covey
The POWER PRINCIPLE: INFLUENCE WITH HONOR by Blaine Lee
Franklin Covey
Career Builder
Published by Jeffrey Scott Miller
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47min
July 29, 2024Solving customer pain makes you relevant immediately
Howard Tiersky, author of Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance
Howard Tiersky and Bill Ringle discuss ways to understand, communicate, and win business through understanding customer pain points and offering solutions.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 400 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Interview Insights
Top 3 Takeaways
Technology can make transactions easier for both employees and customers.
To properly implement change, sometimes observation is better than asking.
Identify your customers’ points of pain. Being unable to keep up with addressing those could spell the end of our businesses.
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
Hollywood producers and directors George Lucas and Steven Spielberg played a large influence of his views because of how they transformed the movie industry. [01:42]
How digital transformation has been shaping the business world since the release of the first iPhone. [04:52]
Howard gives an example of how marketing companies can leverage technology to make everything easier for their clients. [08:20]
Netflix is a great example of a company that digitally transformed the movie industry to make watching movies and series easier, more practical, and most importantly, accessible for their customers. [09:13]
Howard emphasizes why it is very important to identify our customers’ points of pain. [12:29]
Sometimes customers cannot articulate their needs. In response to this, Howard advises us to observe. [15:30]
On further emphasis on the importance of observation, Howard talks about Sally who was so very used to her long, exhausting process of making her reports that if you asked her if there was anything else she needed to make her work better, she just assured Howard that everything is okay. [16:37]
While people like Howard embrace changes, some people may be resistant or even loathe the idea of change even if it makes their life easier.[19:27]
Howard explains why the fear of irrelevancy makes people close-minded to change. [24:31]
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Expert Bio
Howard is the Wall Street Journal bestselling author of Winning Digital Customers: The Antidote to Irrelevance which was recently listed by Forbes as “One of the ten most important business books of 2021.”
Howard was named by IDG as “One of The Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencers to Follow Today,” and by Enterprise Management 360° as “One of the Top 10 Digital Transformation Influencers That Will Change Your World.”
As an entrepreneur, Howard has launched two successful companies that help large brands transform to thrive in the digital age: FROM, The Digital Transformation Agency and Innovation Loft. Among his dozens of Fortune 1000 clients are Verizon, NBC, Universal Studios, JPMC, Morgan Stanley, the NBA, Visa, and digital leaders like Facebook, Spotify, and Amazon.
Prior to founding his own companies, Howard spent 18 years with Ernst & Young Consulting which then became part of Capgemini, one of the world’s leading global consulting firms, where he helped launch their digital practice.
Howard speaks regularly at major industry conferences and is proud to have been on the faculty of the NYU Tisch School of the Arts, his alma mater. He is a frequent contributor to CIO Magazine.
Contact Info and Social Media for Howard Tiersky
Primary website
Travels from: Mahwah, New Jersey
Connect on: Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram | YouTube | Facebook
Resources Mentioned During the Interview
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Winning Digital Customers Free Chapter
George Lucas – famed director and creator of Star Wars and owner of Lucasfilms
Steven Spielberg – One of the world’s top film directors and producers
Jack Welsh – former CEO of General Electrics
Published by Howard Tiersky
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29min
July 22, 2024412: Hybrid selling requires us to have a different toolkit for success
Andy Springer, author of Virtual Selling: How to Build Relationships, Differentiate, and Win Sales Remotely
Bill Ringle and Andy Springer discuss the research-based skills and routines used by sales top performers for small and mid-sized business leaders.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 400 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Interview Insights
Top 3 Takeaways
The pandemic caused a major shift in the seller-buyer dynamic. While face-to-face selling has been proven effective, companies should train their people in new ways to engage with their buyers, like when a transaction is done on a Zoom screen where reading body language is harder than it is in-person.
It is time for people to acknowledge the importance of learning virtual skills, as remote transactions are now even more normal than face-to-face meetings.
Both types of selling are “new-normals.” Being an efficient virtual seller is good, and being an efficient face-to-face seller is good, but being a great “hybrid-seller” is far better!
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
Andy talks about Randy Gage, the thought leader who studied prosperity in modern times and how his writing caused the biggest shift in Andy’s life. [01:26]
As the volume of sellers increased, Andy noted how competition made many sellers devalue their offerings, and he encourages listeners always to know the value of what you have to offer. [05:15]
What were the obstacles to adapting during the Pandemic for to salespeople used to meetings in person? How can they get back on track? [08:20]
What is the most helpful mindset, attitude, and approach to how sellers can thrive over this new challenge of selling remotely? [10:36]
CASE: One of the first companies that Andy helped with this new way of selling was a water company. They were well known in their market as one of the best vendors for their product until the pandemic hit, and they had to learn how to sell to their clients without the face-to-face selling. [15:20]
Why do sales teams need different tool kits to respond to drastically different situations? Are there ways to prevent members of your sales team from giving away too much leverage to the buyer? [23:44]
What do most people miss about the importance of the discovery stage in a virtual environment? [27:00]
What are some of the secrets you’ve learned about how sales professionals can use the virtual environment to their advantage? [30:42]
Additional tips for those who want to learn how to be great at virtual selling. [32:04]
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Expert Bio
Andy Springer is an expert in sales high performance and co-author of Virtual Selling: How to Build Relationships, Differentiate, and Win Sales Remotely.
As Chief Client Officer of RAIN Group, Andy drives the design and delivery of client results for the firm that’s been named on the Selling Power and Training Industry’s Top 20 Sales Training Companies list for numerous years.
Andy has worked with hundreds of sales teams to drive long-lasting sales improvement for SME, mid-market, enterprise, and government clients.
Leading many of RAIN Group’s highly popular digital seminars on virtual selling topics, Andy is a regular contributor to the firm’s award-winning sales blog. His white papers, 9 Principles of Virtual Learning Success and The Guide to Sales Training Success, have also been downloaded by thousands of sellers and sales leaders around the globe.
In addition, Andy co-founded two successful consultancies and has been a lead advisor to many thriving start-ups in the Australian Business community.
Andy received his B.A. in Business from the University of Newcastle, Australia.
Contact Info and Social Media for Andy Springer
Primary website
Travels from: Boston, MA
Connect on: Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook
Resources Mentioned During the Interview
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Randy Gage
Stephen King
Tom Clancy
Published by Andy Springer
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41min
July 08, 2024Uncovering the transformative wisdom from interviewing 30 great minds with guest expert Scott Jeffrey Miller
Scott Jeffrey Miller, author of Master Mentors Volume 2:
30 Transformative Insights from Our Greatest Minds
Bill Ringle and Scott Jeffrey Miller discuss the importance of being clear and explicit with your intent in all communications for small business leaders because in the absence of details, people make up stories and those stories can become another mess.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 400 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Interview Insights
Top 3 Takeaways
We can’t have a work-life balance every day. Keep in mind that you have busy seasons and seasons of relaxation, and that those seasons might last days, hours, or weeks.
You don’t have to meet someone in person to make them your mentor. You can learn from anyone who is wise or experienced.
A mentor doesn’t need to be someone perfect all the time or successful in every endeavor. A mentor can be someone who failed because from their failures we can learn the lessons and avoid falling into the same traps they did.
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
Two quotes that guide Scott: 1. Life happens for you, not to you. 2. Live life through the lens of “I get to…” rather than “I have to” do something. [01:38]
Highlights from the Miller family’s Italian holiday. [04:41]
Work-life balance advice given to him by The Biggest Loser fitness coach Jillian Michaels. [07:03]
What it takes to be a ‘Master Mentor’? [08:41]
How vulnerability is a leadership competency. [14:59]
Master Mentors contains Hidden Stories that readers can watch by scanning the QR codes at the end of the chapters. One featuring Leena Rinne is discussed for its powerful impact. [16:20]
Ed Mylett, one of the top business leaders and performance experts, and the Mercedes kit car he purchased. [20:11]
My Quest for the Best lightning round begins. [27: 22]
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Expert Bio
Recruited by Dr. Stephen R. Covey’s team, Scott Jeffrey Miller built a 26-year career in the world’s most respected and influential leadership development firm, serving nearly every role imaginable. From a front-line salesperson to project manager, sales leader, general manager, vice president, chief marketing officer to executive vice president of thought leadership. Scott’s professional roles evolved as he became a multi-bestselling author, radio and podcast host, leadership coach, columnist, and global keynote speaker.
He continues to consult with FranklinCovey and is proud to continue their collaboration as he expands his influence through new books, speeches, and coaching offerings. Scott currently serves as the Special Advisor on Thought Leadership for the Franklin Covey Company and hosts their weekly podcast series, On Leadership, with Scott Miller.
Contact Info and Social Media for Jeffrey Scott Miller
Primary website
Travels from: Salt Lake City, Utah
Connect on: Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook
Check out Scott’s excellent podcasts:
FranklinCovey On Leadership with Scott Miller
C-Suite Conversations with Scott Miller
My Quest for the Best Interview: 410: From Management Mess to Leadership Success with guest expert Scott Jeffrey Miller
Resources Mentioned During the Interview
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Bonus Content! Master Mentors Vol 2 Hidden Story: Leena Rinne
Get Out of Your Own Way: A Skeptic’s Guide to Growth and Fulfillment by Dave Hollis
Franklin Covey– One of the world’s top leadership companies
Leena Rinne – Vice President of Consulting at Franklin Covey. Co-author of The 5 Choices and a co-author of Leading Loyalty.
Ed Mylett– A top business leader and performance expert
Harper Collins– World leading book publishing house
Jillian Michaels– Biggest Loser fitness coach
Published by Jeffrey Scott Miller
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40min
July 01, 2024How to avoid and recover from the distractions that can derail your progress with Scott Belsky
Scott Belsky, author of The Messy Middle: Finding Your Way Through the Hardest and Most Crucial Part of Any Bold Venture
Scott Belsky and Bill Ringle discuss the pitfalls to avoid and the practical tips for getting back on track for small business leaders.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Interview Insights
Top 3 Takeaways from this Interview
Self-awareness is the only sustainable competitive advantage in business.
Hardship brings your teams together and equips you to endure for the long haul.
Nobody wants to inflict pain on their team, but quick and controlled pain is better than a drawn-out infection.
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
Scott shares how he learned about his work ethic and personal empathy from his father, an orthopedic surgeon. [01:39]
He shares how his father’s lessons had helped him when he was tired and unfocused as a young man. [2:49]
Shares his experience as he wrote The Messy Middle. [3:29]
He talks about the “relative joy of creating.” [5:04]
How you define when you’re in a Messy Middle and how you orient others that this is part of the project. [7:59]
What are some effective ways to harness that conviction when leading your teams? [10:13]
Scott imparts advice about dealing with the long game. [13:39]
How to effectively develop teams. [15:56]
The consequences of fake wins at the expense of hard truth, and how to move forward from it. [21:15]
How to deal with your team truthfully in the context of Elizabeth Holmes’ very public, disastrous experience. [22:53]
How Scott leads organizational change. [26:27]
My Quest for the Best Lightning Round begins [28:50]
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Expert Bio
Scott Belsky is an entrepreneur, author, early-stage seed investor, and now serves as Adobe’s Chief Product Officer. Scott’s passion is to make the creative world more productive, connected, and adaptive to new technologies. He founded Behance, the leading online platform for millions of professionals in the creative industry to showcase and discover creative work, and served as CEO until Adobe acquired Behance in 2012.
Scott actively advises and invests in businesses that cross the intersection of technology and design, and help empower people. He is an early advisor and investor in Pinterest, Uber, Carta, sweetgreen, and Periscope as well as several others in the early stages.
Through his work as a founder and investor, Scott has become an advocate for technology and community initiatives that empower creative people and help businesses leverage the creative potential of their people. He is the author of two national bestselling books, Making Ideas Happen and The Messy Middle, and Scott founded 99U, a publication and annual conference devoted to productivity in the creative world.
Contact Info for Scott Belsky
Web address: http://www.scottbelsky.com/
Travels from: New York, NY
Social Media Links:
Books Authored by Scott Belsky
Resources Mentioned During the Interview
Scott’s professional website http://www.scottbelsky.com/
Fred Wilson, VC investor
Bad Blood: Secrets and Lies in a Silicon Valley Startup by John Carreyrou.
Ben Silbermann, founder of Pinterest.
Teresa Amabile, PhD, the Edsel Bryant Ford Professor of Business Administration and a Director of Research at Harvard Business School, originator of The Progress Principle.
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36min
May 30, 2023Building your content marketing muscles with guest expert Pamela Wilson
Pamela Wilson, author of Master Content Marketing
Bill Ringle and Pamela Wilson discuss how content marketing differs from social media marketing and what steps to take to attract leads that become profitable customers for small business marketers.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Interview Insights
Top 3 Takeaways
People should stop asking whether to put high-quality content or not. Our content should always be high-quality.
Focus on building your content on your primary website. While posting on sites such as LinkedIn is great, there is a chance you may be taken off at any moment.
It is not content marketing without a call to action.
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
The power couple of Eleonor and Franklin Roosevelt are Pamela’s biggest inspirations. [01:17]
Pamela talks about how she got into content marketing. [03:44]
Why call to action are necessary. [05:26]
Pamela gives tips to address the concern of where we should put our content and why it is better to do it on your OWN website. [11:14]
Why do we have to put our best stuff and post consistently? [15:56]
Pamela talks about Roberta, a client she used to work with who manages a sales team, and how practicing consistency on high-quality posting got them a lot of traffic. [18:20]
To lessen the pressure, Pamela reminds us that everyone just starting content marketing should not feel like they should immediately be able to post the best pieces. [24:59]
My Quest for the Best lightning round begins. [27:22]
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Expert Bio
Pamela Wilson is a 30+ year business owner, executive coach, and corporate consultant. She’s published three books and has created and marketed dozens of online courses for herself and others.
Pamela is a keynote speaker and frequent podcast guest. Pamela created the Offer Accelerator Program and serves as the program’s head coach and business advisor.
In her role as a digital marketing consultant Pamela has worked with local, national, and international clients.
Contact Info and Social Media for Pamela Wilson
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Travels from: Nashville, Tennessee
Connect on: Twitter | LinkedIn | Facebook
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Eleanor Roosevelt
Franklin Roosevelt
Published by Pamela Wilson
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34min
February 27, 2023Using Data Visualization to Extract the Hidden Insights and Stories in Your Business with guest expert Steve Wexler
Steve Wexler, author of The Big Picture: How to Use Data Visualization to Make Better Decisions – Faster
Bill Ringle and Steve Wexler discuss the approaches and benefits of presenting data as charts, images, and infographics to make better decisions, build consensus, and tell a better story about the results you are producing for small business managers and leaders.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 350 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations
Interview Insights
Top 3 Takeaways
If you are data literate, you can read data faster, interpret them better, and be quicker in making decisions and providing solutions.
The goal of data visualization is to provide the most significant degree of understanding in the least amount of effort. It spares us from cognitive overload because it is easier to understand what we can quickly see.
Collaboration is about creating something far more significant than what you can make independently.
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
Steve talks about his fourth-grade teacher, Mario Messi, who developed his love of reading. He is part of Steve’s pursuit of data literacy. [01:45]
How do the best leaders create the best conditions that allow their people to be their best and perform at their best? [04:29]
How can you recognize the good work of your colleagues with a genuine understanding of your people’s contributions? [05:18]
The Big Picture and The Big Book of Dashboards are geared toward data visualization practitioners. Steve talks about his fear in writing about this topic of serving some things that experts may already know about. [06:07]
Why do people tend to cling to their old tools, like spreadsheets, even if they are not as effectively reporting data as data visualization. Does this relate to data literacy? [08:19]
How do know if you are data literate? [10:16]
Why do we see so many bar charts? Are they ever appropriate to use? [11:43]
What are a few differences between data visualization versus storytelling? How to go from being just data literate to be able to use data to tell a story or make a decision. [14:27]
What are the four components of setting the stage for effective data visualization? [16:00]
What was it like to work with Seth Godin on his book collaboration, The Carbon Almanac, using your expertise in data visualization? [21:15]
What is the significance of Charlie Menard’s chart (chapter 8)? Why is it considered the Mona Lisa of data visualization? Are there improvements you found? [23:25]
Talk about some of the distinctions you’ve learned in collaboration versus compromise. [25:34]
My Quest for the Best lightning round begins. [29:32]
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Expert Bio
Steve Wexler is the founder of Data Revelations, author of The Big Picture: How to Use Data Visualization to Make Better Decisions—Faster (winner of Data Literacy’s Most Insightful Data Book), and co-author of The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios.
Steve has worked with ADP, Gallup, Johnson & Johnson, Deloitte, ExxonMobil, Convergys, Consumer Reports, The Economist, SurveyMonkey, Con Edison, D&B, Marist, Cornell University, Stanford University, Tradeweb, Tiffany, McKinsey & Company, and many other organizations to help them understand and visualize their data. A Tableau Zen Master (Hall of Fame) and Iron Viz winner, Steve also serves on the advisory board to the Data Visualization Society and is co-host of the popular webinar series Chart Chat (winner of Data Literacy’s most interesting podcast award).
His presentations and training classes combine an extraordinary level of product mastery with the real-world experience gained through developing thousands of visualizations for dozens of clients. Steve has taught in both large and small organizations and is known for conducting his workshops and presentations with clarity, patience, and humor.
Contact Info and Social Media for Steve Wexler
Primary website
Travels from: Briarcliff Manor, NY
Connect on: Twitter | LinkedIn
Resources Mentioned During the Interview
Below are key people, places, books, quotes, websites, and other resources that we discussed, so you can explore further.
Chart Chat podcast and webinar series on data visualization
The Big Book of Dashboards: Visualizing Your Data Using Real-World Business Scenarios.
Amanda McCullough, executive director of The Data Visualization Society.
How Charts Lie: Getting Smarter about Visual Information by Alberto Cairo
Cool Infographics: Effective Communication with Data Visualization and Design by Rany Krum
Troy Magnus, president of Focused Objective
Charles Minard
The Carbon Almanac: It’s Not Too Late – edited by Seth Godin, created by the CARBON ALMANAC NETWORK, a team of over 300 researchers, writers, artists, and chart specialists located in 40 countries.
The 4 elements of setting the stage for data visualization: 1. Somebody needs to know the data. 2. Somebody has to know the tool. 3. Have stakeholders help steer decision-making. 4. Be able to iterate quickly as you get feedback from others. (Source: The Big Picture by Steve Wexler)
The Visual Display of Quantitative Information by Edward Tufte
Published by Steve Wexler
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33min
February 20, 2023Write a book to serve as a lighthouse that guides and serves your prospects, customers, and clients with guest expert Anne Janzer
Anne Janzer, author of Get the Word Out: Write a Book That Makes a Difference
Bill Ringle and Anne Janzer discuss the beneficial reasons for writing a book, overcoming common obstacles, and how to maximize a book as part of your business growth strategy for small business leaders.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 350 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Interview Insights
Top 3 Takeaways
Thought leaders do not put out their ideas to the world for glorification but to serve their clients, students, customers, and colleagues.
By modeling the tone and style of their writing, thought leaders give their audiences the information and insights that they need.
Writing for your readers makes you a part of a community. In fact, you create and expand your community.
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
Denise Brosseau’s quote on “Thought leaders speak on behalf of others” highly influenced Anne’s book. [01:11]
What does ‘service authorship’ mean? [02:22]
How come writing isn’t a solitary activity as many expect? How writing for others else helps authors focus and produce. [03:22]
CASE: Sarah changed her book structure based on who she wanted to serve. Twice! [04:43]
What is the ‘pond metaphor’ and what can it teach us about reaching a bigger audience by starting small? [05:56]
What does it mean to a writer to ‘prime the pump in writing’? [08:16]
CASE: Kathy Capino exemplifies how a book does not always end up as the author expects when starting. Her research and interactions changed the texture and nature of her book. [09:20]
CASE: Steve transitioned from writing his memoir to writing a business book. [10:18]
What are the six steps of the sprint framework? Start with the easy, prime, relax, incubate, notice, and trust your future self. [11:55]
How does it help authors to be more collaborative and less competitive? [21:42]
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Expert Bio
Anne Janzer is an award-winning author, nonfiction writing coach, and unabashed writing geek committed to helping people make a positive impact with their writing. She supports and encourages writers and authors through her books, blog posts, webinars, and teaching.
Her writing-related books explore the science and practice of effective writing.
Before she started writing books, Anne was a freelance marketing consultant, working with more than a hundred technology businesses to articulate positioning and messaging in crowded markets.
She’s been writing business emails longer than she cares to admit—and has made all of the mistakes in her latest book, and more, over the years. She wants to save others from the same problems.
Contact Info and Social Media for Anne Janzer
Primary website
Travels from: San Luis Obispo, CA
Connect on: Twitter | LinkedIn | Instagram | Facebook
Resources Mentioned During the Interview
Below are key people, places, books, quotes, websites, and other resources that we discussed, so you can explore further.
My Quest for the Best interviews:
192: Understanding Subscription Marketing with guest expert Anne Janzer
378: Always review before you click Send with guest expert Anne Janzer
Denise Brosseau
Books by Kathy Caprino:
Breakdown Breakthrough
The Most Powerful You
Radical Candor
Dilbert Cartoon
Published by Anne Janzer
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25min
February 13, 2023How to gain the unfair advantage in growing your small business with expert Stu Henecke
Stu Heinecke, author of How to Grow Your Business Like a Weed: A Complete Strategy for Unstoppable Growth
Bill Ringle and Stu Heinecke discuss growing like a WEED model to grow, conquer, and protect your turf for small business owners.
>>> Visit MyQuestforTheBest.com for complete show notes and more expert advice and inspiring stories to propel your small business growth. My Quest for the Best is a top-rated small business podcast with over 300 episodes of thought-provoking and insightful interviews with today’s top thought leaders and business experts. Host Bill Ringle’s mission with this show is to provide the strategies, insights, and resources that will unlock the growth potential of your business through these powerful conversations.
Interview Insights
Top 3 Takeaways from this Interview
In a world of stiff competition, you have got to cultivate unfair advantages or you will perish.
If you are optimistic, you do your work with more excitement, effort, determination, and conviction. Feeling depressed only diminishes your performance.
Scaling is an excellent example of an unfair advantage because it goes beyond just you. It involves meaningful relationships with people that can help you advance your business.
Read the Show Notes from this Episode
‘Deal with what is’ is a message that Stu extracted from delving into the weeds.[00:37]
What are the admirable traits of weeds that we can emulate to gain an unfair advantage to grow our business? [03:21]
How can weeds be seen as conquerors? Is there a formula to follow to grow your business like a weed? [04:46]
Can optimism be defined as the absence of depression? What can we learn about boundless optimism from the dandelion? [06:25]
What are the six attributes that define the “grow your business like a weed” mindset? [07:06]
What is the difference between growing your business and scaling your business? [08:23]
What can you tell me abou the power of operating on a collective scale? Stu shares how he and his Author’s Leverage group scale collectively. [09:57]
What is the Chief Weed Officer (CWO)? Why is having a recorded process important? [13:10]
Weeds are often treated as pests but how they grow and thrive has inspired us to use them as metaphors for complimenting growth. [15:21]
Why are founders not supposed to be part of the deliverables? [16:50]
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Expert Bio
Dubbed by the American Marketing Association the “Father of Contact Marketing,” STU HEINECKE is a Wall Street Journal cartoonist, hall of fame-nominated marketer and the bestselling author of How to Get a Meeting with Anyone and Get the Meeting!
Stu is also the founder of Cartoonists.org, a group of WSJ and New Yorker cartoonists who donate their art to help charities raise funds. Heinecke is author of How to Grow Your Business Like a Weed: A Complete Strategy for Unstoppable Growth.
Contact Info for Stu Heinecke
Primary Website
Travels from: Freeland, WA
Connect on LinkedIn | Twitter | Facebook | Instagram
Books Authored by Stu Heinecke
Resources Mentioned During the Interview
My Quest for the Best interview: Using creativity and humor to make contact and build your business with guest expert Stu Heinecke
Authors Leverage
David Petraeus
Barry McCaffrey
The 6 Elements of a GROWTH mindset from the Chief Weed Officer
Irrepressible Optimism
Ruthless Persistence
Brutal Urgency
Fearsome Aggression
Nimble Adaptability
Alien Resilience
https://youtu.be/EKgKobG8WFU
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25min

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