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Onward Nation

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  • How to Keep Employees Engaged, with Chad Carden
    How to keep employees engaged—Discover effective techniques to maintain high employee engagement levels using our guide on how to keep employees engaged.

    How to keep employees engaged? Listen to how Chad Carden approaches this and you can use it for your agency as well!

    Getting your employees truly engaged in your work and all moving in the same direction can be a challenging task in the best of times, but during crisis periods like the global pandemic, engagement is both more important and more complicated than ever. Chad Carden is the co-founder of Renzo Consulting, and Chad "is on a life mission to improve the way employers and employees interact to create greater engagement and better results." During Chad's visit to Onward Nation, he discussed the crucial role engagement plays in keeping everyone aligned to the company's values and mission, and he shares tips and strategies for how to engage employees, motivate your team, and provide clarity on your expectations so that everyone is moving in the same direction with a shared purpose.

    What you'll learn in this episode is about how to keep employees engaged:
    • How Chad realized the importance of a strong company culture, and how that realization became the backbone of his blueprint for how to keep employees engaged more effectively
    • Why a company's culture is the key to creating an environment that sets employees up for success and helps companies produce the results they want
    • Why it is vital to double down on your culture and on your team, especially during the challenges of the global pandemic
    • Why the key to employee engagement is committing to your culture and then creating a shared experience that allows team members to buy in
    • Why culture starts with the business owner setting the direction for the company and ensuring that everyone on the team understands the destination
    • How to create clarity and unity of purpose within your team, even though everyone sees things from their own perspective
    • Why Chad believes the challenge for leaders is that they often spend so much time looking forward that they forget to look back
    • Why it is critically important for business owners to communicate their expectations clearly and unambiguously to their teams
    • How business owners and leaders often overestimate what they can accomplish in 12 months but underestimate what they can achieve in three years
    • Why it is important for leaders to call regular time-outs to question the team's clarity, alignment and purpose
    Resources:
    • Learn more about how to keep employees engaged, and you can find Chad here
    • Elevate your strategies on how to keep employees engaged by reading this blog from The Carden Group
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/chadcarden/
    • Facebook: www.facebook.com/renzoexperience/
    • Twitter: @chadcarden
    Additional Resources:
    • Sell With Authority by Drew McLellan and Stephen Woessner: https://amzn.to/39y7x13
    • Predictive ROI Free Resource Library: https://predictiveroi.com/resources/
    • Stephen Woessner's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner/
    43 min
  • Business Mistakes to Avoid, with Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
    Business mistakes to avoid—Learn strategies to shift from an obligation to an opportunity mindset, guiding leaders through the business mistakes to avoid.

    Believe it or not, cognitive science can help us make better business decisions and know the business mistakes to avoid. Dr. Gleb Tsipursky is a behavioral economist and cognitive neuroscientist who is an expert at helping business owners recognize and overcome their internal "cognitive biases."

    In this episode of Onward Nation, Dr. Tsipursky explains the science of decision-making and shares how our tribal instincts often lead us to make the wrong "gut decisions."

    He outlines a realistic timeline of the global pandemic and shares tips and strategies for better judgment and taking the right risks while avoiding the wrong ones so that your business can navigate the pandemic and come roaring out the other side.

    What you'll learn in this episode is about business mistakes to avoid:
    • How Dr. Gleb's family life as a child informed his decision to study the behavioral science of risk-taking and decision-making in his career
    • How Dr. Gleb's work lies in helping business owners identify and recognize the negative patterns within their decision-making processes that lead to business mistakes
    • How the "gut instincts" humans developed during our tribal stage of evolution often conflicts with the decisions we have to make in our modern world
    • Dr Gleb will share the guides for business mistakes to avoid
    • How our tribal instincts sometimes lead us to unfounded cognitive biases that lead us to make decisions that make little sense for our businesses
    • Why entrepreneurs often lean toward "optimism bias", and how that optimism bias can negatively impact their decision-making and risk-taking
    • What steps entrepreneurs can take to avoid making decisions based on optimism bias, and what key five questions you should ask yourself to make decisions more effectively
    • Why resilience is the key to dealing with the long-term, lasting effects of the global pandemic and the chaos it has brought to business owners
    • Why the ongoing global pandemic is the "new abnormal", and why our lives will likely be disrupted for as long as seven years until we're back to normal again
    • Why the logistics of the vaccines currently in development mean that even once a vaccine is created it will take a long time to deploy to a critical mass of the population
    Resources:
    • Learn more about what are the business mistakes to avoid, and you can find Dr. Gleb here
    • Never Go With Your Gut by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
    • Resilience by Dr. Gleb Tsipursky
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/dr-gleb-tsipursky/
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/disaster-avoidance-experts/
    • Facebook: www.facebook.com/DrGlebTsipursky/
    • Twitter: @Gleb_Tsipursky
    • Free 8 video-based module course in decision-making and business mistakes to avoid
    Additional Resources:
    • Sell With Authority by Drew McLellan and Stephen Woessner: https://amzn.to/39y7x13
    • Predictive ROI Free Resource Library: https://predictiveroi.com/resources/
    • Stephen Woessner's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner/
    40 min
  • Passive Income Strategies, with Mitch Stephen
    Passive income strategies are very durable, even during the pandemic. Learn from Mitch Stephen how to develop your own passive income strategies.

    Passive income strategies are really helpful not just for businesses but for individuals as well. If you're still developing one of your own, stay tuned in to this podcast and let our guest expert, Mitch Stephen, enlighten you.

    Mitch Stephen has been a self-employed real estate investor for 25+ years. His real estate investing career started at the age of 23 when he read "Nothing Down" by Robert Allen.

    Mitch Stephen has purchased well over 2,000 houses in and around his hometown of San Antonio, TX. Mitch is a high school graduate who never stopped learning. Books, CDs, seminars, and webinars were his classroom.

    Today he specializes in owner financing properties to individuals left behind by traditional lending institutions and giving new life to properties that scar their neighborhoods.

    He has perfected a method of achieving cash-flow through passive income strategies without having to be a landlord and without having to rehab properties. He's mastered the art of raising private money and the classic "Nothing Down" deal.

    He has pioneered the idea that you don't have to give discounts to sell your notes.

    A passionate speaker who delivers the message of integrity first and profits second; an expert at keeping it simple and explaining, in plain English, the theories that made him financially independent. He is always an inspiration to those around him.

    What you will learn in this episode about passive income strategies:
    • How Mitch's real estate business is structured, and why his passive income strategies are durable and flexible enough to succeed during the pandemic
    • Why Mitch believes wealth comes from chaos, and why focusing on helping people has been the key to excelling during challenging times
    • How Mitch and his team have adapted to the changes brought about by the pandemic such as people not wanting potentially infectious strangers in their homes
    • How Mitch learned that fixing the houses he bought was time-consuming and wasn't really adding value, and why he structures his deals to be the "bank", not a landlord
    • How navigating the challenges of the 2008 real estate market crash taught Mitch valuable lessons he is using to get through the global pandemic
    • Why Mitch made the strategic decision to keep his business in his local San Antonio market rather than expanding outward
    • How Mitch has structured his business using passive income strategies into three different segments: one-time cash events, temporary cash deals, and forever cash deals
    • How Mitch began coaching others in his method, and how he has built out the coaching side of his business over time
    • Why Mitch does the investing and coaching work he does beyond just making money, and how his efforts benefit himself, new homeowners, and communities at large
    How to Connect with Mitch Stephen:
    • Website: https://1000houses.com/
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mitch-stephen-0b32491b/
    • Facebook: www.facebook.com/1000Houses/
    • Twitter: @Mitch_Stephen
    • Listen to this podcast from Mitch regarding passive income strategies and how you can get there
    Additional Resources:
    • Sell With Authority by Drew McLellan and Stephen Woessner: https://amzn.to/39y7x13
    • Predictive ROI Free Resource Library: https://predictiveroi.com/resources/
    • Stephen Woessner's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner/
    • Check out this related podcast on passive income strategies with Joey Mure and Russ Morgan
    41 min
  • Skills of a Business Owner, with Ron LeGrand
    The skills of a business owner are important for big responsibilities. Listen to this podcast and acquire the skills of a business owner.

    Building and growing a business truly is a trial by fire. Learning the necessary skills of a business owner comes slowly over time, and mistakes will be made. But drawing lessons from those mistakes can be transformative.

    Master real estate investor and mentor Ron LeGrand joins Onward Nation to share how he developed the business owner skills needed to grow and scale his organization into the thriving empire it is today, and he shares some of the key lessons he learned along the way over the course of his decades-long career in real estate, mentoring and publishing.

    What you will learn in this episode about the skills of a business owner:
    • How Ron realized he needed to make a life change and start building wealth for his family, and how he discovered the potential of real estate
    • Why Ron needed to make an early pivot in his investing, and how he refined the skills of a business owner and learned to manage and delegate responsibility
    • Why Ron's real estate business is always in demand and recession-resistant, and how adapting to changes in the market has been one of the keys of his success
    • Why putting the right people in the right roles is crucial, and how Ron started his publishing business, Global Publishing Inc.
    • How Ron's mentoring business has become the cornerstone of his real estate empire, and how his organization has grown to include highly successful student coaches
    • How the global pandemic became the impetus that caused Ron to take his coaching virtual through online events and training
    • How the switch to virtual has opened up new opportunities and helped to further increase Ron's mentoring reach
    • Why marketing to your audience through multiple channels, both online and through traditional media, is crucial
    • Why YouTube is a fantastic free marketing medium, and why it is the ideal channel to share your testimonials
    • Why Ron's number one piece of advice is to find someone who is successfully doing the thing you want to do and then learn everything you can from them
    • Implementing the skills of a business owner and achieving your business goals
    How to Connect with Ron LeGrand:
    • Master the skills of a business owner by becoming a member of the Masters Program
    • Website: www.ronlegrand.com
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ronlegrand/
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/global-publishing-inc./
    • Facebook: www.facebook.com/GlobalPublishing
    • Twitter: @ronlegrand
    • Podcast: https://thementorpodcast.com/
    Additional Resources:
    • Sell With Authority by Drew McLellan and Stephen Woessner: https://amzn.to/39y7x13
    • Predictive ROI Free Resource Library: https://predictiveroi.com/resources/
    • Stephen Woessner's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner/
    • Learn the skills of a business owner and a leader by listening to this podcast with Raphael Bender
    33 min
  • Episode 978: Learning to run a thriving business empire, with Ron LeGrand
    Learning the Business Owner Skills Needed to Grow a Thriving Business What You Will Learn:
    • How Ron realized he needed to make a life change and start building wealth for his family, and how he discovered the potential of real estate
    • Why Ron needed to make an early pivot in his investing, and how he refined his business owner skills and learned to manage and delegate responsibility
    • Why Ron's real estate business is always in demand and recession-resistant, and how adapting to changes in the market has been one of the keys of his success
    • Why putting the right people in the right roles is crucial, and how Ron started his publishing business, Global Publishing Inc.
    • How Ron's mentoring business has become the cornerstone of his real estate empire, and how his organization has grown to include highly successful student coaches
    • How the global pandemic became the impetus that caused Ron to take his coaching virtual through online events and training
    • How the switch to virtual has opened up new opportunities and helped to further increase Ron's mentoring reach
    • Why marketing to your audience through multiple channels, both online and through traditional media, is crucial
    • Why YouTube is a fantastic free marketing medium, and why it is the ideal channel to share your testimonials
    • Why Ron's number one piece of advice is to find someone who is successfully doing the thing you want to do and then learn everything you can from them
    Learning the Business Owner Skills Needed to Grow a Thriving Business

    Building and growing a business truly is a trial by fire. Learning the necessary business owner skills comes slowly over time, and mistakes will be made. But drawing lessons from those mistakes can be transformative. Master real estate investor and mentor Ron LeGrand joins Onward Nation to share how he developed the business owner skills needed to grow and scale his organization into the thriving empire it is today, and he shares some of the key lessons he learned along the way over the course of his decades-long career in real estate, mentoring and publishing.

    Developing Key Business Owner Skills

    Ron knew early on that the path he was on wasn't going to provide the life he wanted for his family, and so at age 35 he borrowed $450 from friends and used the money to attend his first real estate seminar. As Ron explained in his interview, he learned "just enough to go out and make a mess". But the early successes were enough to show Ron that he was on the right track, and so he continued to iterate on and refine his business model. One of the business owner skills that became the backbone of his success was learning to delegate responsibility, from putting the right people into the right roles in his company to hiring his most successful students to become coaches. Today, Ron isn't just a successful entrepreneur and real estate investor, he also runs a thriving publishing business and has a team of mentors ready to teach others the real estate investing strategies Ron learned through trial and error.

    Being Ready to Pivot to the Market

    The onset of the global pandemic and its unforeseen challenges have impacted many businesses in dramatic ways, but knowing how to successfully pivot has proven to be one of Ron's most effective business owner skills. He and his team quickly shifted their mentoring business to a virtual environment and adapted to the realities of social distancing, and in doing so they actually increased Ron's reach and the profitability of the business. As Ron explained in the interview, being ready to pivot and adjust his strategies to the market has always been a crucial part of his success. By staying nimble and thinking creatively, Ron has been able to adapt to every challenge he has encountered and helped his business not just survive these obstacles but thrive through them.

    How to Connect with Ron LeGrand:
    • Website: www.ronlegrand.com
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/ronlegrand/
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/global-publishing-inc./
    • Facebook: www.facebook.com/GlobalPublishing
    • Twitter: @ronlegrand
    • Podcast: https://thementorpodcast.com/
    Additional Resources:
    • Sell With Authority by Drew McLellan and Stephen Woessner: https://amzn.to/39y7x13
    • Predictive ROI Free Resource Library: https://predictiveroi.com/resources/
    • Stephen Woessner's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner/
    33 min
  • How to Monetize Your Content, with David Mammano
    How to monetize your content? In this episode, David Mammano will discuss his secrets on how to monetize your content.

    How to monetize your content? David is an expert on this topic because he turned his love for podcasting into something profitable. This could happen to you, too, so make sure to listen to the entirety of this episode and learn the secrets from the expert himself.

    David Mammano is most recently known for being the host of The Gonzo Experience Entrepreneur Podcast. He is the author of business and college planning books, a TEDx speaker, a three-time Inc. Magazine 5000 Growth Company winner, and a professor at the University of Rochester.

    He is a graduate of the University at Buffalo (SUNY) and also a graduate of the MIT Entrepreneurial Master's Program (an executive education program offered through the Entrepreneurs' Organization (EO)), a board member for the Western NY Make-A-Wish Foundation, and a local board member for Junior Achievement.

    David's most recent book Crash and Learn: Lessons in Business quickly rose to the top of the Amazon bestseller lists. His other books are Make Love in the Workplace, and 101 Things You Can Do to Become an Outstanding Young Adult.

    During the last 25 years, David Mammano has been a serial entrepreneur – starting seven businesses from scratch. He now uses those experiences to interview the world's most interesting entrepreneurs. Each interview is aimed at helping entrepreneurs be their best in all areas of their life.

    As a prolific speaker, David is an internationally requested speaker at entrepreneurial, business, sales, and higher education events. David is most proud of his family in Victor, NY, including three children, Gianluca, Melania, and Alessio.

    What you will learn in this episode on how to monetize your content:
    • How David's career progressed from entrepreneur to coach and thought leader, and what new opportunities and setbacks he experienced along the way
    • How the challenges David faced taught him important skills and key business lessons
    • How to monetize your content from something you're passionate about
    • Why focusing on helping others and adding value proved the key to David's career pivot, and how David turned podcasting into his primary career focus
    • How David has been able to monetize his podcast through sponsorships, and how he is rebranding and relaunching his podcast as "The Gonzo Experience"
    • Why David was inspired to write his third and most recent book, "Crash and Learn: Lessons in Business"
    • How in times of crisis such as the global pandemic, business leaders need to look for the opportunities and silver linings and work to avoid falling into negativity
    • Why it is important to look for the lessons and the opportunity to learn when experiencing difficult situations and major setbacks
    • Why David's book "Crash and Learn" offers an opportunity to take the lessons David learned and apply them to your own challenges
    • How David has learned to cut through the podcast noise and make his show stand out from the other 480,000 domestic podcasts
    • Why the feedback David has received has often stemmed from people's own internalized fears, and how he has pushed through and doubled down regardless
    • Apply the steps on how to monetize your content to your business
    How to Connect with David Mammano:
    • Email: [email protected]
    • Learn how to monetize your content by being part of The Gonzo Experience
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/davemammano/
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/avanti-entrepreneur-group/
    • Facebook: www.facebook.com/theGonzoExperience
    • Facebook: www.facebook.com/DavidMammanoFan
    • Twitter: @DavidMammano
    Additional Resources:
    • Sell With Authority by Drew McLellan and Stephen Woessner: https://amzn.to/39y7x13
    • Predictive ROI Free Resource Library: https://predictiveroi.com/resources/
    • Stephen Woessner's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner/
    • Listen to this related podcast on how to monetize your content, with Stephen Woessner
    45 min
  • Scaling a Business, with Mike McDerment
    Scaling a business, a podcast episode with Mike McDerment. Experience a remarkable growth journey by learning the secrets to scaling a business.

    Scaling a business means adapting to change while also learning new critical skills. Mike will guide you through how he and his team achieved this for their business.

    Mike McDerment is the co-founder and CEO of FreshBooks, the world's #1 cloud accounting software for self-employed professionals. Built in 2003 after he accidentally saved over an invoice, Mike spent 3.5 years growing FreshBooks from his parents' basement. Since then, over 10 million people have used FreshBooks to save time billing and collecting billions of dollars. A lover of the outdoors, Mike has been bitten so many times it's rumored he's the first human to have developed immunity to mosquitoes.

    What you will learn in this episode about scaling a business:
    • How mistakenly saving over an invoice led Mike to design the accounting software his business needed, leading to the birth of FreshBooks
    • How the company that started with six team members in his parents' basement now has millions of users in more than 160 countries
    • Why Mike was reluctant to raise outside capital and instead self-funded the business for a long time
    • Why Mike believes that accepting venture capital during the early days could have undermined the value of the business
    • What important lessons on scaling a business Mike learned growing FreshBooks from just six employees to more than 400
    • What key organizational growth breakpoints Mike identified on the journey, and how the company had to adapt to each new breakpoint
    • Why having shared values and alignment within your organization is the key to success, and why every problem in business is ultimately a people problem
    • How Mike addresses the difficult situation of a team member not being in alignment with their role in the company
    • Why Mike has chosen to dedicate time to his thought leadership efforts, and why he considers it to be "soul food for entrepreneurs"
    • Why shifting from time-and materials-based billing to value-based billing can be a powerful game-changer for your business
    • Why scaling a business is important for growth
    How to Connect with Mike McDerment:
    • Read Mike McDerment's free book on value-based billing, "Breaking The Time Barrier"
    • Learn more about Mike's company, FreshBooks
    • Read more about scaling a business by checking out this blog category from FreshBooks
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/mike-mcderment-68895a1/
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/freshbooks/
    • Facebook: www.facebook.com/FreshBooks/
    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/freshbooks
    • Twitter: https://twitter.com/mikemcderment
    • FreshBooks YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/freshbooks
    Additional Resources:
    • Sell With Authority by Drew McLellan and Stephen Woessner: https://amzn.to/39y7x13
    • Predictive ROI Free Resource Library: https://predictiveroi.com/resources/
    • Stephen Woessner's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner/
    • Read about scaling a business strategy blog with Michael Zipursky
    35 min
  • Overcoming Imposter Syndrome, with Tommy Breedlove
    Overcoming imposter syndrome, a podcast episode with Tommy Breedlove. Learn how to feel good and worthy by overcoming imposter syndrome.

    Overcoming imposter syndrome will provide you with the progress you want and help you achieve personal breakthroughs. Tommy created his cornerstone content in the form of his book, Legendary, by doing this.

    Tommy Breedlove is a Wall Street Journal & USA Today bestselling author of the book, Legendary, and Atlanta-based business, relationship, and mindset coach who is regularly featured keynote speaker at global events. He serves clients and audiences by empowering them to build and live Legendary Lives. He guides them to build a lasting legacy, work in their zone of brilliance, obtain financial confidence, and live with meaning and balance.

    What you will learn in this episode about overcoming imposter syndrome:
    • How Tommy spent three years working on his book Legendary, and how overcoming imposter syndrome became the breakthrough he deserves
    • Why Tommy scrapped his original draft after struggling with the imposter syndrome and decided to start his book over again, writing from the heart
    • How Legendary surprised Tommy by opening many new business opportunities including keynote speaking opportunities, coaching and masterminds
    • What key lessons and golden nuggets Tommy hopes business owners and corporate executives will take from reading his book
    • What advice Tommy has to offer to business leaders by helping them on their journey towards overcoming imposter syndrome
    • Why loving yourself is the key to conquering your fears, and why it is important to catch yourself in the cycle of self-loathing and interrupt it with thoughts of self-love
    • Why surrounding himself with people moving in the same direction Tommy is moving in has been crucial for helping overcome his "Tommy-go-round" cycle of negative thoughts
    • How writing Legendary has helped build Tommy's business by giving him "instant credibility"
    • Why writing a book and basing it on vulnerability and authenticity can be a powerful tool that can greatly benefit your business
    • Why the two best pieces of advice Tommy was ever given were to "participate in your own rescue" and to "take control of your story and write the best ending"
    How to Connect with Tommy Breedlove:
    • Visit Tommy's website and enjoy free gifts for listeners of Onward Nation
    • Read Tommy's book Legendary and learn about overcoming imposter syndrome to unlock your own legendary potential
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/legendarybook/
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/tommy-breedlove/
    • Facebook: www.facebook.com/tommybreedlovelegendary
    • Twitter: @TommyBreedlove
    Additional Resources:
    • Sell With Authority by Drew McLellan and Stephen Woessner: https://amzn.to/39y7x13
    • Predictive ROI Free Resource Library: https://predictiveroi.com/resources/
    • Stephen Woessner's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner/
    • Learn about overcoming imposter syndrome through Stephen's perspective
    41 min
  • Creative Business Solutions, with Shane Foss
    Creative business solutions, a podcast with Shane Foss. Meet the needs of an otherwise untapped market through creative business solutions.

    Creative business solutions have the potential to create new opportunities and even disrupt entire industries. Our guest, Shane Foss, has used this for the healthcare insurance industry because he believes this is what it needs.

    With over 20 years of tenure as an executive in the medical industry, Shane Foss became frustrated with how under-served Americans were with the current healthcare options. He set out to make a change and in 2018 achieved this goal through launching Hooray Health, an unconventional health insurance company dedicated to providing affordable basic and urgent health care alternatives to high-deductible health plans.

    Through Hooray Health, Foss and his team focus on offering peace of mind to lower-income individuals and families who face medical challenges, while also providing business owners with an affordable way to reward and retain employees. Partnering with companies like Sedera, Ameritas, and Aflac, they have been able to add critical services and supplemental plans giving immense value to employers and individuals.

    Throughout his professional experience, Foss has negotiated complex, multi-million-dollar contracts, worked in device sales management, created business strategies, implemented creative business solutions, and optimized P&L. He holds an MBA from Rice University's Jones School of Business, a BS from the University of the Incarnate Word, and a Surgical Technologist Certificate from the United States Air Force.

    What You Will Learn in this Episode About Creative Business Solutions:
    • How Shane's upbringing, experience in the U.S. Air Force, and career journey culminated in the launch of health insurance company Hooray Health
    • Why starting out at the lowest level of healthcare gave Shane a unique perspective on the need for creative business solutions in the health insurance industry
    • How Shane made the foray into the realm of health benefits, and how he recognized the opportunity to do things differently from the paradigm
    • Why Shane believes that any life experience can offer valuable lessons that can be applied to future situations
    • Why hearing the phrase "love the problem — not the solution" from the founder of Waze was a profound, watershed moment for Shane
    • Why Shane created Hooray Health to address the real challenges and unmet needs of America's uninsured workers
    • How Hooray Health is structured differently from others in the health insurance industry, creating a better experience for members
    • Why too many employees are forced to make difficult healthcare decisions based on their financial situations, and how Hooray Health is working to change that
    • How Shane is using thought leadership to change perceptions and shine a light on the challenges people face in accessing basic healthcare
    • How Shane first got started in thought leadership, and how he learned the importance of self-promotion and adding value
    How to Connect with Shane Foss:
    • Visit Hooray Health's website for more information on how Shane and his team have innovated creative business solutions in the health insurance industry.
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/shane-foss-083b823/
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/hoorayhealth/
    • Facebook: www.facebook.com/HoorayHealthcare/
    • Twitter: @Hooray_Health
    Additional Resources:
    • Sell With Authority by Drew McLellan and Stephen Woessner: https://amzn.to/39y7x13
    • Predictive ROI Free Resource Library: https://predictiveroi.com/resources/
    • Stephen Woessner's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner/
    • Check out some creative business solutions and examples with Graeme Strachan
    38 min
  • Best Business Lessons, with Kwame Christian
    Best business lessons on negotiating are lifesavers for business owners. Listen to Kwame Christian and learn some of the best business lessons ever!

    The best business lessons can help forge your negotiating ability and allow you to navigate easily during tough conversations. Once you master this, you will survive and thrive even during uncertain times!

    Kwame Christian, Esq., M.A. is a business lawyer and the Director of the American Negotiation Institute where he puts on workshops designed to make difficult conversations easier. As an attorney and mediator with a bachelor of arts in Psychology, a Master of Public Policy, and a law degree, Kwame brings a unique multidisciplinary approach to the topic of conflict management and negotiation.

    His TEDx Talk, Finding Confidence in Conflict, was viewed over 160,000 times and was the most popular TED Talk on the topic of conflict of 2017. He also hosts the top negotiation podcast in the country, Negotiate Anything. The show has been downloaded over 350,000 times, and has listeners in 181 different countries.

    What you will learn in this episode about the best business lessons:
    • How the global pandemic is adding new complexity to owning a business, and why Kwame's best business lessons on negotiating can be a lifeboat for business owners
    • Why the pandemic has caused many contracts to become unstable due to "act of God" clauses, and why negotiating is the key to shoring up these important agreements
    • How negotiation skills can be used both offensively and defensively to help protect your business from instability, and to protect your clients and their interests
    • Why authenticity, empathy, and flexibility are crucial skills Kwame uses to help build relationships and navigate the complexities of negotiation
    • What steps Kwame follows to build empathy, trust, and collaboration with negotiation partners, and why asking questions helps him better understand their perspective
    • Why asking the magic question "what flexibility do you have?" is a secret weapon in your negotiating arsenal
    • Kwame shares key takeaways and pearls of wisdom from his book Finding Confidence in Conflict: How to Negotiate Anything and Live Your Best Life
    • How Kwame has been able to plant a flag of authority in the realm of business negotiation, and how his focus on personal branding has been crucial for his success
    • Why Kwame defines his role simply as, "I make difficult conversations easier," and how that clarity around his brand has helped create new opportunities
    • What significant growth developments and exciting projects have been happening for Kwame since his appearance in episode 845 of Onward Nation
    • Applying the best business lessons to your own business
    How to Connect with Kwame Christian:
    • Learn crucial business lessons on negotiating by reading Kwame's book "Finding Confidence in Conflict"
    • Free guides from Kwame and the American Negotiation Institute
    • The Negotiate Anything Podcast
    • Website: https://americannegotiationinstitute.com/
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/kwamechristian/
    • LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/company/american-negotiation-institute/
    • Facebook: www.facebook.com/negotiateanything/
    • Twitter: @KwameNegotiates
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    Additional Resources:
    • Sell With Authority by Drew McLellan and Stephen Woessner: https://amzn.to/39y7x13
    • Predictive ROI Free Resource Library: https://predictiveroi.com/resources/
    • Stephen Woessner's LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/stephenwoessner/
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America's best podcast for learning how today's top business owners Think, Act, and Achieve. Onward Nation is a five-day-a-week podcast hosted by Stephen Woessner, CEO of Predictive ROI. Business…