Pocket Sized Pep Talks

Shirley Luu is a steadfast champion and advocate for the empowerment of minorities and women through her financial literacy programs, entrepreneurship opportunities, and advanced wealth concepts trainings.  But in this Pocket Sized Pep Talk, you'll not only learn how, you'll learn why.  In this podcast, you'll hear:

1. What drove Shirley to want to focus on women and minorities. 
2. The biggest obstacle to helping others.
3. Two lessons learned that had the biggest impact on her career.
4. Her SECRET to financial wellness and security.
5. What and how she learned from failure.

Licensed pastor and successful Real State Agent from Tulsa, Oklahoma, Evan Herrman joins Pocket Sized Pep Talks to discuss:

• How these two career worlds collided and the lessons learned from the experience.
• The moment Evan knew what he wanted to do, and spoiler alert: he was in elementary school! 
• The hurdles he personally faced and still faces, and how he has worked to overcome them.
• Advice he would offer someone going through a similar situation to his.
• Three lessons learned  in his journey that had the biggest impact on his career and life.   

In this Pocket Sized Pep talk, we talk about

• The real definition of corporate culture.  We hear the term, corporate culture all the time, but what does it really mean?
• The bottom line benefits of a high-performing culture.
• How  companies can effectively manage their culture... even when employees are working remotely.
• How David sees this playing out in the future.  

This program is so full of lessons in business, I refer to it as a, "Bucket Sized Pep Talk!"

If you truly want to learn about perspective, it's all about walking in someone else's shoes.  In this Pocket Sized Pep Talk, we'll discuss:

• The value of approaching ideas and solutions from a different angle.
• The opposites who must attract in sales and marketing.
• The opposites who must attract in sales and service.
• The opposites who must attract in training and development.

In fact, the list is endless, but learning from the other makes both sides better!

There is a peculiar phenomena that surrounds the odd behavior of giving up the on obvious ideas and solutions way too fast!  In this Pocket Sized Pep Talk, you'll learn:

• How we underestimate the obvious.
• How familiarity has a way of convincing us that what's obvious to us is obvious to everyone.
• The discipline it takes to give the obvious the time and attention it requires.
• How obvious solutions are dangerous in problem solving.

I'm just not a fan of the words, "soft skills" and my hope are, after you listen to this episode, you won't be either.  In this Pocket Sized Pep Talk, we'll talk about:

• The PR problem soft skills has
• The dire need to embrace soft skills
• A few options to take the place of the words soft skills 
• A friendly reminder that, "Soft skills equals hard cash!"

In this Pocket Sized Pep Talk, you'll hear about the fascinating story of Robert Miller; the leader, bassist, composer and the creative force behind the band, Project Grand Slam. In just the past 5 years PGS his band released 10 highly acclaimed albums including a Billboard #1, had over 4 million video views, a million Spotify streams, over 50,000 Facebook fans.  We'll be covering:

How in the world Robert Miller rose to success as a musician... in his 60's! 

An interesting story about what Robert is most proud of as a musician.

What it's been like opening for artists like Edgar Winter, Blues Traveler and Mindi Abair.

Musicians have been in the eye of the storm of the pandemic, and yet, you'll hear how this musician has been able to pivot, and continue to produce music...a lot of which has been recorded on an iPhone!   

Information on his new podcast called, Follow Your Dream. 

 Similarities between music and podcasts.

In this Pocket Sized Pep Talk, you learn:

Some common myth about finance and accounting that Bob thoroughly debunks.  

Advice provided to those wanting to pursue a career in finance and accounting.

A couple of amazing lessons learned in his journey that had the biggest impact on not just his career  - but his life.

A few hurdles Bob faced personally and how he overcome them. 

A story about one thing he has told relatively no one that he is most proud of professionally.  It's an amazing story.

A couple of people who have helped shape his career along with an interesting conversation regarding mentors.

A candid conversation about Bob's decision to retire from the business world at age 50 and his take on that decision now.

Author Matthew Turner sits down and spends time discussing his book, Beyond the Pale: A Fable about Escaping the Hustle and Finding Yourself.  In this episode of Pocket Sized Pep Talks, you'll learn about: 

• Key lessons learned from successful entrepreneurs
• Two critical lessons that had the biggest impact on this author's career
• A completely different approach to what we would refer to as hustle, known as the, "anti-hustle"
• Not just failure, but can be learned from failure
• Common myths about successful people 

In this Pocket Sized Pep Talk, you'll learn:

• How to avoid the mistakes made by so many who instinctively creates lists of questions for key conversations they are about to have.
• The reason why just "asking questions" is not enough.
• Two techniques that will dramatically improve your ability to create an authentic conversation.

~Anyone can ask a question; the challenge is to create a conversation.~