Positive Productivity

"Figure out what it is that you should be doing, that you know you're not doing, that could make your professional or personal life just a little bit better. Find a way to make sure you do it."

Bestselling author and CEO of People G2 and ChrisPDyer.com, Chris Patrick Dyer started his company that performs pre-employment screenings, tenant screenings, and all things people related in 2001. After realizing that the culture was broken within his company, Chris took the time to evaluate his business and decided to eliminate the water cooler chat and all typical office situations and become a 100% remote business. Tune in as Kim and Chris discuss how culture should complement your company, background checks are good for knowing your risks but also can validate accomplishments, and hiring for personality versus skills.

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Highlights:

00:50 Being THE leader of a company

7:44 Culture within his company

11:31 Hiring for personality VS skills

14:00 Background checks help ensure who you are hiring

19:55 PeopleG2

27:28 Radio Show and Working Wardrobes

30:55 Action steps for hiring someone

Earlier this summer, I shared with you my 12-week summer challenge. In this episode, I'll share how I did.

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"Your goal as a professional is to simply be a little bit better tomorrow than you are today."

Wanting to start his own business, CJ McClanahan was introduced to a franchise broker who introduced him to the business coaching world. Now a business coach, author, and Podcaster, CJ coaches and trains executives on defining their success so that they are able to enjoy their journey. Tune is as Kim and CJ discuss how systems allow CJ to scale clients, his podcast show, and how consciously being grateful is important to practice.

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Highlights:

1:05 Introduced to the coaching world

7:20 Systematized just about everything

12:39 Professional speaking and Success 2.0

19:23 The dilemma of over achievers

25:46 Practicing gratitude

30:34 Two Rule Pledge

In the six years I have been in business, I have engaged in several barter agreements. Listen as I share the pros and cons, and how you can make a barter more favorable for both parties!

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"Personal development is not the most important thing, it's the only thing that matters in terms of being able to grow your life and grow your business."

Jack Gibson knew at a young age that the normal life of going to school, getting a job, and working to have security wasn't what he wanted. He started his first business (which has been a success) in college and was running a million dollar company from his dorm room. Now, the Cofounder of High Return Real Estate, purchases distressed properties and flips them. Listen in as Kim and Jack discuss their similar upbringings, how hindsight is always 20/20, and Jack's journey into real estate.

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Highlights:

1:38 Jack's background

8:19 The entrepreneurs in them: products of the family and lifestyle they grew up in?

16:43 Lessons learned along the way

20:44 Jack's journey into real estate

25:15 Cryptocurrency, a safe investment?

36:17 What High Return Real Estate does

44:01 The ideal client/investor

Are your respecting and protecting your time? To maximize our productivity on any given day, we need to stop being afraid to determine and verbalize our hard stops. Listen as I explain!

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"People can give us their opinions and their advice but for me the biggest guidance is what comes from the divine within us."

After not feeling fulfilled with a college degree, great job, health, and vitality, Christy Whitman sought a deeper meaning in life and once she made that her intention she found it. Now she is a New York Times bestselling author, coach, and founder of Quantum Success Coaching Academy and feeling like she is living her dream life. Listen in as Kim and Christy talk about how every mistake is an opportunity to grow, words that would be best to eliminate from your vocabulary, and how Christy has no "have to's" in life.

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Highlights:

00:43 Having it all but not feeling fulfilled

09:44 Returning clients back to themselves

16:30 Procrastination is a behavior rooted in lack

21:13 Do only the things you love to do and bring yourself joy

36:11 "Big Girl Book"

43:02 That moment where Christy knew what she wanted to do

46:02 Teaching your children to choose their attitudes and thoughts

Today's episode was inspired by a conversation with a team member where we joked about the land mines (aka toys) our kids leave lying around. Taking it a step further, however, I want you to think about the landmines you have or still drop in your business.

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"Money is the byproduct of the effort you put in."

From a young child wanting to work on a paper route, to a technician, and now business owner helping other companies develop successful systems and solutions of their own, Terry Ogburn from Ogburn's Business Solutions, shares his journey and the steps that got him to where he is now. Giving free time and how we can build from it, turning your organizational chart upside down, and four areas that you need to be disciplined in your life and business are some key topics that Kim and Terry discuss.

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Highlights:

1:08 From working his own paper route to business owner

4:42 Four areas you need to be disciplined in

11:30 Listen to your customer, you will make better decisions

16:23 A free gift

28:39 Introduce your team members to your culture

38:38 Practice learning

Sometimes, the simplest contraptions in our life or business can make a HUGE difference in our quality of life or work. Listen to hear how a $2 purchase has made all the difference for me!

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