Next Peak Podcast

Everything starts with getting the right people on your bus. In today's episode, Clint joins Dr. Parker to talk all about hiring and how to avoid the common pitfalls.

“If you have the right people on your bus, the problem of how to motivate people largely goes away. The right people don’t need to be tightly managed or fired up: they will be self-motivated by the inner drive to produce the best results and to be part of creating something great… And if you have the wrong people, it doesn’t matter whether you discover the right direction; you still won’t have a great company. Great vision without great people is irrelevant.” - Jim Collins

Benefits of a great hiring process

• A great team naturally attracts other superstars.
• Hiring the right people makes it easy to change directions
• Talented people want to work around other talented people
• The loss of productivity and turnover is the highest preventable costs in business

It is better to take your time upfront and be slow, methodical, and careful in your hiring process, than waste time filling a position, retraining, and dealing with legal issues. 

When looking for a new hire look for an Ideal Team Playe- someone who is humble, hungry, and people smart

What can you do to improve the hiring process? 

1. Make hiring & onboarding your top priority 
2. Hire smart and hire slow, respond don’t react to the urgent
3. Look for people that are humble, hungry, and people-smart 
4. Off-board people properly, don’t wait until it’s too late. 
5. Use behavior interview questions, ask questions about what they have done not what they will do
6. Don’t delegate the hiring process 
7. Read chapter one of Good to Great by Jim Collins

Resources mentioned in this episode:
Good to Great by Jim Collins
Killer Teams Made Simple 

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on www.nextpeakpodcast.com. If you want to connect with Dr. Parker Houston, you can find him at www.leadyoufirst.com. Sign up for his weekly blog to receive some research-based tools that will help you transform your work and your life. 

Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you redefine what success looks like for you and share strategies, tools, and stories to help you climb your next peak. 

What do faith and fitness and cycling and pastoring have in common? In today's episode, you will find out because Joe Alvarado joins Clint Herndon to discuss:

• The difference between trying and training
• Why accountability is necessary 
• How to live a more integrated life
• Why consistency and stewarding influence are so important

Joe is the Pastor of Eternal Rock Church, a Group Fitness Instructor, a Stages Master Educator, and has his M.A. in Biblical Theology and another M.A. in Strategic Leadership.

Paul said to the Ephesians that we're to train our minds. Joe defines training as doing what you can do today so that you can do even more tomorrow.  Joe encourages us to use the phrase training instead of trying. Training involves metrics and goals. If we change our mindset and adopt the training mentality, it adds a layer of accountability. 

Connect with Joe on his Instagram and find all the other ways to connect with him on his website

Use code NextPeak for 20% off boldfaithandfitness.com

Joe’s book recommendations: 

• The Grace of God  by Andy Stanley 
• Extreme Ownership by Jocko Willink
• Atomic Habits by James Clear
• Winning the War in Your Mind by Craig Groeschel

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on www.nextpeakpodcast.com. If you want to connect with Dr. Parker Houston, you can find him at www.leadyoufirst.com. Sign up for his weekly blog to receive some research-based tools that will help you transform your work and your life. 

Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you redefine what success looks like for you and share strategies, tools, and stories to help you climb your next peak. 

Today Marielle Schurig joins Clint Herndon to help redefine how we see finances and wealth management. Marielle is a Wealth Advisor, Speaker, and Educator and featured in Bloomberg, USA Today, On Wall Street, and more. She is the also the Vice President of Wealth Management at UBS Financial Services. Marielle's top 3 tips to redefine success for yourself financially are:  

1. Understand your money story
   •  What are your money beliefs, and how do they play out in your life? 
   • Are your money beliefs helping, hurting, or holding you back?
2. Set specific goals
   • What do you want for your future?
   • What does your perfect life look like?
   • How does money play a role in that?
   • Write down your goals, make a plan. 
   • Build habits that will support your desired future.
3. Want to learn. Surround yourself with people who are motivated and encourage your growth.
   • Knowledge is a lifetime pursuit. 
   • You need to be growing to develop yourself.
   • Your net worth will not exceed your personal development. 

Connect with Marielle on LinkedIn
Marielle's book recommendations:

• Rich Dad Poor Dad
• Power Of Now

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on www.nextpeakpodcast.com. If you want to connect with Dr. Parker Houston, you can find him at www.leadyoufirst.com. Sign up for his weekly blog to receive some research-based tools that will help you transform your work and your life. 

Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you redefine what success looks like for you and share strategies, tools, and stories to help you climb your next peak. 

Today Jose Vargas joins Clint Herndon as we dig into Jose’s past and learn how he turned his obstacles into opportunities. It wasn’t easy, and there were many setbacks, but through it all, Jose learned some practical steps to help lead others in responding to their life in what he calls the Lead Through Method.  Jose Vargas is an author, teacher, speaker, founder, and CEO of Reaching Higher Now, a podcast host, and a former Secret Service member. 

The Lead Through Method: 

1. Locate 

2. Dissect 

3. Dream

4. Forsee

5. Plan

6. Overcome

7. Make it right

Connect with Jose on his: 

Podcast

Instagram

Facebook

Youtube

Resources Mentioned: 

The Compound Effect: Jumpstart Your Income, Your Life, Your Success 

Jesus the King: Understanding the Life and Death of the Son of God 

Three Feet from Gold: Turn Your Obstacles into Opportunities! 

In a Pit with a Lion on a Snowy Day: How to Survive and Thrive When Opportunity Roars 

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on www.nextpeakpodcast.com. If you want to connect with Dr. Parker Houston, you can find him at www.leadyoufirst.com. Sign up for his weekly blog to receive some research-based tools that will help you transform your work and your life. 

Welcome to Season 3 of the Next Peak Podcast, where we help you redefine what success looks like for you and share strategies, tools, and stories to help you climb your next peak. 

Today Bud Lamb joins Dr. Parker Houston to talk about why friendship, community, and mentors are needed for men in order to thrive. Bud Lamb has been an ordained pastor for almost 20 years. He is an author, a writer, a long-distance runner, and he mentors men and encourages younger pastors. He works one-on-one and with groups over the phone or video conferencing across the United States to help men discover or recover their spiritual passion, envisioning a plan for their lives to help them overcome current circumstances and move forward in positive ways. His goal is to help them become better men, husbands, spiritual leaders, and influencers of their culture. What drives Bud’s passion and purpose is to know and enjoy God, to love as Jesus does, and to inspire others to do the same. Some of the discussion centers on:

• Reconciling relationships between fathers and sons
• Building a healthy community of men
• How loneliness is destroying us
• Why men retreat into work as a source of identity

How to build a healthy community:

1. If you don’t have an honest friendship, practice being an honest friend
2. Don’t wait, take initiative
3. If you never ask the answer is always no
4. Go to church, a 12 step meeting, join a runners club 
5. Dial back your hours at the office
6. If you don’t make the space for friendship, it can’t grow

Pick up Bud’s Book CHASING THE SAGE: What Men Want: Finding Purpose and Passion at Every Stage of Life

Connect with Bud Lamb on his:

• Podcast
• LinkedIn
• Website
• Facebook
• Instagram

Resources Mentioned: 

Prodigal Father Wayward Son: A Roadmap to Reconciliation 

If you got something out of today's episode, please subscribe, share it with a friend and leave us a review. You can find us on www.nextpeakpodcast.com. If you want to connect with Dr. Parker Houston, you can find him at www.leadyoufirst.com. Sign up for his weekly blog to receive some research-based tools that will help you transform your work and your life. 

Until next week, keep climbing your next peak.