Real World Productivity

Joining me this week is Randy Clark, leadership trainer, and Amazon best-selling leadership author.

Over the last 30 years, Randy has helped a lot of companies and managers improve their leadership with his training; much of it based on mistakes he made in management.

He shared a lot of valuable content during our talk that can help just about anyone...not everyone in a managerial position knows how to be a leader - sometimes we’re put there and need to perform.

Randy showed how to hold people accountable without coming in with a hostile approach. On the contrary, showing first that you care for your teammates and you’re coming from a helpful place will yield better results - and how you can actually do this.

Another helpful piece that we often forget is that you need to find what it is that drives your employees.

Is it money?

Is it recognition?

Finding out and acting based on that will help them perform better.

We talked about a lot more topics but you’ll have to listen to the podcast to know more!

Here’s a little sneak-peak of what you’ll learn:

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Check out the full post and more here: https://productivity.academy/podcast/episode-39-creating-effective-leadership-skills-with-randy-clark/

Joining me this week is Joseph DiRoma, head of The Successful Male North America and someone with almost two decades of experience in the hospitality industry and helping developing others.

A good and productive day can be achieved with routines, and Joseph shared with me what he calls the CAMPV routine:

C = Contemplation

A = Affirmations

M = Meditation

P = Perspiration

V = Visualization

He made special emphasis on meditation and what you can achieve just by doing it 10 minutes a day - something that I’ve tried in the past off and on but will be working on creating a routine that incorporates this more regularly to get some of the benefits we talked about.

Just like me, Joseph is a fan of processes, and spending time developing processes for recurring tasks so they take less time after you’ve mastered them or just getting rid of tasks that you don’t want to do anymore (by automating or delegating them) can let you gain a ton of time back.

With every guest to the podcast, I ask them what their current book they recommend is – here’s the pick for this episode:

Breaking The Habit Of Being Yourself

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Mentioned in this episode:

Deepak Chopra 21 Day Meditation

Joseph’s Facebook

The Successful Male

Joseph’s LinkedIn

The Successful Male Facebook

Joseph’s Instagram

Joining me on this podcast episode is Corey Carter, who has been managing people for more than 20 years and recently has been helping entrepreneurs simultaneously increase sales, traffic, and visibility through JV partnerships and more.

Sometimes, while helping others grow, improve and develop, we neglect those that are next to us.

With Cory frequently travelling for work and having kids at home, he missed a lot of moments that you don’t want to miss...

After discovering Clickfunnels and a partner that was on the same wavelength, they started doing what they loved the most: developing people, but from home with the balance that he wanted.

Not only that, Cory started helping create JV partnerships with the right people and follow what he and his partner called the “Dream 22” (listen to the whole episode to find out more).

JV relationships are super powerful and great for any business if done the right way, and the best thing is that you don’t have to be an experienced industry veteran to make them work.

Cory likes to plan everything, from the days he will work late night to his own training because “If we’re not learning (growing), we’re dying.”

With every guest to the podcast, I ask them what their current book they recommend is - here’s the pick for this episode:

Traffic Secrets 

Start With The Why 

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Check out the full post and more here: https://productivity.academy/podcast/episode-37-developing-the-best-people-effectively-with-cory-carter/

Laura Rike, the Rogue Pinterest Powerhouse, and content marketing expert joined me for a great discussion about Pinterest, teams, and repurposing content.

Seriously - if you do any sort of online content, please listen to this episode...you’re going to get a valuable idea, guaranteed.

Now, I don’t know about you, but when I think of Pinterest I don’t think of minimal work for hundreds of thousands of website impressions...right?

Well, that’s exactly what Laura is doing for clients and it centers around content, consistency, and repurposing content so that viewers get value and business owners of all sorts get results. Win, win!

We also discussed Laura’s background, coming from a VA “master of none” to focusing on her unique abilities to get these incredible results for clients and students on Pinterest.

Laura also very generously gave Real World Productivity podcast listeners access to her Pinterest Challenge - for free: https://laurarike.com/rwp/

And if you want to get in touch directly, you can reach Laura at https://laurarike.com

With every guest to the podcast, I ask them what their current book they recommend is - here’s the pick for this episode:

Mastering Your Mean Girl & Girl, Stop Apologizing

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Kris Ward, author of Win The Hour, Win The Day, joined me for a great look at how important teams are to growing as an entrepreneur and business and why it’s not as hard as you think to grow your own “A-Team”.

Most of us, myself included, have had our ups and downs when getting started with a team but Kris really boils it down to a few areas that you need to consider before jumping in - and make no mistake, this is an area you must jump into in order to see success in your business.

We covered more topics, including basic time management - as a part of that Kris mentioned something that I really like and that we should all consider:

“Treat yourself like a business athlete”

This came out of a conversation about eating lunch (listen to the podcast!) but applies to so much more. If we expect to perform at a high level, shouldn’t we treat ourselves like a high-level athlete would? Food for thought…

With every guest to the podcast, I ask them what their current book they recommend is - here’s the pick for this episode:

Emyth Revisited

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Joining me on this episode is Grant Bledsoe, owner of 3 Oaks Capital - a capital management firm that he founded in 2014.

Grant makes use of many practical devices to stay productive and manage his time well, including automations from tools like Zapier that let him connect his software tools in order to spend more time focused on what matters - his clients and their results.

But it’s not all tactics and tools - Grant has some good high-level insights that help him achieve his goals and can certainly help you too.

Time blocking, as Grant says, is simple in theory but can be difficult to implement - but the results are worth it and speak for themself.

With every guest to the podcast, I ask them what their current book they recommend is - here’s the pick for this episode:

Atomic Habits by James Clear

Principles by Ray Dalio

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You can find out more about Grant on his website, or check out his Twitter feed (which I highly recommend):

3 Oaks Capital 

Twitter 

Read the whole podcast episode here: https://productivity.academy/podcast/episode-34-early-growth-for-better-results-with-grant-bledsoe/

Amy Donaldson, real estate trainer with a strong background in sales and business development, joined me to discuss productivity from the point of view of a real estate agent and showed how many of these “issues” can apply to the rest of us - both the problems and the solutions.

We touched on several areas, including finding and understanding your Most Important Task - but also knowing what that means to clients…

Additionally, we discussed the importance of keeping your pipeline full and what that means to entrepreneurs, real estate agents, and anyone working with clients.

Amy has a lot to share, and in addition to being a black belt in Tai Kwon Do and distance running, she’s sharing access to her book “Get Off The Cash Flow Rollercoaster” - just go here: Www.getoffthecashflowrollercoaster.com

With every guest to the podcast, I ask them what their current book they recommend is - here’s the pick for this episode:

Think And Grow Rich https://productivity.academy/thinkandgrowrich

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Joining me on this podcast episode is Angela Kristen Taylor, an integrative productivity expert.

We went into several topics surrounding the main issues that we all face in terms of life, productivity, and managing everything that that entails.

Angie is no stranger to chaos and finding her way out - through her own experiences she has found the frameworks that work (pun intended!) and helped many others.

You can find out more about Angela, including access to a free productivity challenge by going here: https://www.productivesouls.org/

With every guest to the podcast, I ask them what their current book they recommend is - here’s the pick for this episode:

The Big Leap by Gay Hendricks https://productivity.academy/thebigleapbook

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Joining me for this podcast episode is founder, or Papa Bear, of Bonjoro - Matt Barnett!

As usual, we covered a lot of ground in this discussion but it did center around remote teams with the ups and downs that come with a truly worldwide operation.

Matt and his team are located in Australia, London, the Philippines, the United States, and other locations - he’s learned both the good and bad that can come from this type of setup.

Even better, he shared with us exactly what issues they’ve faced and some of the ways they’ve overcome problems like personal conflict, hiring, and “all hands” meetings.

We not only talked teams and remote management, but also dove into automation, tools, and routines.

From this came a great quote by Matt that I’m going to be adopting!

“Automate Processes Not Relationships”

I think this encapsulates a lot in one short quote - and reinforces discussions we’ve had with other guests on the Real World Productivity podcast.

I won’t give away the whole interview, but we also touched on personal routines, exercise, and more…

Be sure to listen to this episode if you work remote, manage a remote team, or are considering doing either in the future!

Resources Mentioned:

Notion

Slack

Bonjoro 

Matt’s Book Recommendation:

The Hard Thing About Hard Things: Building a Business When There Are No Easy Answers - https://productivity.academy/hardthingabouthardthings

Check out the full post and more here: https://productivity.academy/podcast/running-remote-in-a-bear-suit-with-matt-barnett-of-bonjoro/

Tiago Forte, author, speaker, teacher, and productivity expert, joined me for this episode of the Real World Productivity podcast to cover a wide range of topics where we covered everything from mindset shifts needed for increased productivity to the tools he uses on a daily basis (his “stack”).

If you’re serious about increasing your knowledge base, easing your access to valuable information now AND later, and wondering what it takes to make sure you can take baseline productivity higher and higher - this is the episode for you!

We had a great time covering these topics as well as his reasons for creating and implementing courses like Building A Second Brain and so much more.

I won’t spoil it all for you - I highly recommend listening to the podcast episode and checking out Tiago’s blog afterwards.

Listen to this week’s show and learn:

Check out the full post and more here: https://productivity.academy/news/episode-30-building-yourself-better-faster-with-the-right-mindsets-with-tiago-forte/

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