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David Achata is a leadership coach and management consultant. He’s a soft-spoken, reflective extrovert who loves hiking and mountain biking.

Rather than traditional college, David pursued the path of spending a decade in pastoral ministry.

He found that saying YES to opportunities paved the way for him. As he’s opened to authenticity, he’s learning about and leading others in showing the True Self vs. The False Self (sometimes the one that’s more public if alignment and maturity aren’t present).

His history made him overly responsible and feeling like he needed to create control around everything and now he embodies being able to approach situations with open hands vs. those that grasp and end up with nothing.

His new book is Executive Retreats for Busy Business Leaders, though it’s relevant to everyone. A few concepts stand out -

Doing this - getting away - will help you find your Vision (and your shared vision).

David reminds us to create a life that you have energy for.

Find David Achata on all the social platforms and at www.AchataCoaching.com

Axel Meierhoefer still carries his accent with him, having come from a port town in Germany. He became fascinated with flying because of his Grandfather and Uncle’s involvement with the airlines. He passed the pilot’s test for Lufthansa just as they stopped hiring. Instead, he found the U.S. Airforce and moved up the ranks to become an instructor.

Following the path of learning what makes for success, looking for clues both within and outside of the military, especially focused on what makes for a good leader. Exploring what the wealthy do with their money to protect it and grow it, Axel found real estate.

While broad, Axel narrowed his scope to Residential Real Estate and now helps people on their path to Time and Money Freedom by showing how to become successful in owning property, even if you don’t have a lot of money to start with.

Axel offers a sound perspective in this interview and though there can never be promises about investing returns or offers of tax advice, much of what Axel talks about is worth looking into further.

He invites you to look at his website and arrange for a free consultation call with him and he’s very happy to offer his Mindset Manual to start goal setting the right way for free, here: https://idealwealthgrower.com/free/

Tyler moved through being in federal law enforcement to founding NuclearNetworking, a business growth company.

In this podcast you’ll get his insight and wisdom on what it takes to really own, and grow an organization. And you don’t have to be a business owner to learn something here.

Key takeaways and concepts worthy of consideration:

Tyler is a great guy with a lot of wonderful insights. The interview time flew by. I think you’ll get a lot out of this.

Find Tyler at www.NuclearNetworking.com

Drop him a line at [email protected]

And get a free consult by sending an email of inquiry to [email protected]

Peter Anthony helps us understand how to sell more without pushing a sale, but rather by simply being authentic. Recognizing that sales isn’t about foisting something on someone, but actually helping the other person by solving a problem for them, we enter the magical world of collaboration. Collabradabra!

When Peter joined IBM and was sent to sales training, he found that his curiosity overrode what he was taught. While his supervisors weren’t pleased with his style of selling by actually finding out about the other person, they couldn’t argue with his results.

Peter now helps organizations grow by helping them collaborate internally and externally.

As so many of my guests discuss, we touched on alignment as a topic. Spend time talking with team members, find out about them, tell them about yourself and your values. Peter notes that the quality of your relationships is based on the quality of your conversations. He also points out that conversations are like playing a game, which wouldn’t be any fun if only one person had a turn.

Meaning in your work is found when you think of the end user.

Find out more at www.PeterAnthonyConsulting.com and check out his book at https://www.amazon.com.au/Collabradabra-Peter-J-Anthony/dp/064681074X

Talking about owning a franchise isn’t sexy.

In fact, it made me, as the podcast host, wonder why I should have someone who does franchise stuff on the program. And then, I thought about what I teach - and I got curious. I went to a place of judgment, so I knew I must be missing something.

What was it about franchises that I was missing?

Stacey Marmolejo grew up being guided to stick to things that were safe and more secure. The military was a secure career route, but she didn’t want that. Corporate was secure, and it’s a path she took. Until she didn’t. She pivoted into franchising after watching her son come alive with energy in a music camp. Stacey found a music school where she could help her son and other kids find a way to be themselves and become more expressive, while belonging to a group.

Who knew that franchises could offer comfort like that?

There are over 4,000 franchise brands from which to select and they’re not all mainstream.

How do you now which one is for you, if any?

Stacey will walk you through a competency assessment, a motivation assessment, and review your finances. She advises, buy a franchise you can afford.

Later in the program she notes that you only need about 30% of the buy in costs because the Small Business Administration will help. Get your loan through an SBA Preferred Bank and you’ll be on a great path.

If this is your first business, it’s like a paid internship to learn how to run a business. You get the playbook. Yep, if you want to own your own business, consider a franchise.

There’s so much more! Listen in for great tidbits.

And for a free, no-obligation chat with Stacey, reach out to her at [email protected]

Let’s PLAY!!! You know that I’m all about Exponential Success. Leveraging success happens when you actively promote (and leave room for) creativity. And the best way to get creative? PLAY!!!

Mike Montague is a master. He grew up with Creative Nerdery - a term from his family about the play they engaged in. Along Mike’s path, he was a DJ, a computer geek, and a radio host. These days, he’s a corporate speaker and occasional Karaoke DJ.

Here are some of the key insights from today’s podcast:

The pressure to have fun can suck the fun out of the situation (wedding, vacation, etc.) So relax a bit. Take the pressure off.

The benefits of play include:

Great memories are made in the dynamic movement between chaos and order

Get away from your usual confines of where you live or work. Get outside!

A.I. might be great. Humans can engage meaningfully with other humans. Play, laugh, build, and know when to break the rules.

Get to www.PlayfulHumans.com/Quiz

Find play in what you do!

Remember too, that as you look towards building a future that’s amazing and truly igniting your trajectory, get to www.ExponentialSuccessSummit.com

Every so often you meet people that are just darned impressive. Gary Garth is one of those people. He thinks I’m impressive. Perspective is everything I suppose.

He started a business in Denmark when he was 19 years old. He claims to have done everything wrong, but in talking with him, it turns out that he learned and pivoted. And that’s the real lesson here.

Don’t set out to fail, just know that you’ll run into obstacles. Learn and move forward.

Gary reminds us that “you’re always in sales” and to keep looking for opportunities. They’re right in front of you.

Focus on what moves you - dive in deep and invest in your purpose.

As with other successful guests, Gary notes, “look for patterns.”

Gary gives us important information about go to market strategies.

To overcome obstacles, know both your customer’s and your own pain points.

Constantly evolve yourself.

Where there’s uncertainty, there’s hesitation. Get clear. Lean in.

Gary has offered our audience a very, very special offer. You need to listen in, to get it!!!

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Every so often, I’ll have coaches or consultants on the One Sharp Sword podcast who parallel the work that I’m into. The reason I choose to bring them on is to amplify a particular message. We can get to the same place and take different paths to get there.

And that’s part of the message I want to bring as I introduce you to Brian Gorman. In doing work with leaders and organizations, he’s quick to point out that “it isn’t the organization that changes. It’s people.”

In the same way that I ask my clients to think about what they would treasure and encourage listening to the whispers, Brian succinctly queries, “What makes your heart sing?” And I love that question so much because it implies that joy is within the answer!

Brian brings a perspective few of us have, simply because of the extra years that he’s lived. He says he gained an awareness of disparity, a phrase I love because it demands action or deliberate inaction.

Culture isn’t part of an organization, it lives inside of people.

People have memories, desires, and biases.

This episode is rich with content. At the bottom of everything, you’ll find empathy and humanity.

Enjoy!

To find more about Brian Gorman and his work, go to:

[email protected]

www.TransformingLives.coach

Never, ever judge the contents of a package by its wrapper.

Mike Kaeding, an unassuming guy who looks like he’s a coder for a gaming company, is a real life superhero out to change the world. The CEO of a $200M+ company with over 250 employees, Mike runs a residential real-estate development company.

Mike’s company is based on and in solid values. He focuses on making housing affordable and he’s created a fully in-house model to do so. Rather than spend a bit on a developer, and more on a contractor, and more on the sub-specialists, he’s pulled together a strong team.

Mike believes in humanity and in bringing the best both out of people, and also to people. The best, though, comes as an iterative process. This CEO wants his employees to know that they have psychological safety. He’s strategic about creating the environment for people to love their work, while also placing the onus of responsibility for doing that on each employee.

It’s a great model and this unassuming CEO, Mike Kaeding, is an enduring student and grand mentor in leadership, where lessons linger just below the surface of all he does.

Listen in to learn more. And to find out more about his company, go to https://www.Norhart.com

Meet a super under-stated bad-ass!

Mark Ashby is an Australian who was in the special forces and did some exceptionally covert ops. He did numerous tours in Iraq and he helped ensure the completion of some high-end projects. This is vague, on purpose.

With all of that said, when we spoke after this recording, he teared-up a bit talking about the 911 monument in New York. There’s a gentle humanity that comes through and you would never suspect that his background was one of special operations.

He said that returning to school at 48 y/o was a bit intimidating for him. But what did he study? Yeah, he got his Masters in Counter Terrorism.

He now engages in leadership development.

Huge take away points:

Go to www.MarkAshbyConsulting.com/masterclass Reach out at [email protected]