Reality Check with Craig Price

Mike Domitrz (@MindfulnessShow on Twitter) returns to talk with host Craig Price about his latest foray into podcasting: The Everyday Mindfulness Show.  Mike has been on a bunch of podcasts, including several times on this very podcast!  The two talk about what mindfulness is, how it can vary from person to person, starting a podcast and managing energy when recording multiple episodes in one sitting!

What is the Everyday Mindfulness Show?

Dive into fun, thought-provoking, and engaging conversations on everyday mindfulness – from meditation to spirituality to personal passions to success and failure to relationships and much more. Your host, Mike Domitrz, will feature special guests and the show's unique cast of over 70 individuals. You can subscribe to the show by going to https://www.everydaymindfulnessshow.com/

Craig offers up episode 33 of Matinee Heroes (@matineeheroes on twitter) featuring the movie Jaws!

Matinee Heroes is a podcast where Craig Price and Alan Cerny take a movie that spotlights heroic cinema, take lessons from said hero and apply them to their own lives. They've already done a live episode at Comicpalooza in June,  partnered with Alamo Drafthouse to host movie parties and special screenings and have even created merch! Yes actual merchandise with t-shirts that have their mascot Manny T. Hero the manatee in various movies like a manatee Indiana Jones and manatee Ripley from Aliens as well as their latest which is the Jaws poster in Manatee form.  Joel Micah Harris designs these exclusively for the podcast and they’re awesome.

If you enjoy the Matinee Heroes, you can subscribe to the podcast at http://matineeheroes.com 

Raji Sivaraman joins host Craig Price to discuss her new book "Making Projects Sing: A Musical Perspective of Project Management". Most people like music and EVERYONE loves project management. So why not bring the two together? Raji and Craig talk about just that as they discuss how musicians and project managers often do many of the same activities, have many of the same processes and can learn how to improve both by looking at how the two relate to each other.  Raji shares how M.U.S.I.C.  (Measure, Utilize, Schedule, Integrate, Communicate) are important regardless if you are a musician or project manager. She also introduces Craig to McKinsey's "Fragile to Agile" concepts as well as showing how we can create beautiful project music as an ensemble and still be able to jam out an awesome career guitar solo.

Raji's book Making Projects Sing: A Musical Perspective of Project Management can be found at amazon and other fine bookstores but if you email her directly (listen to the podcast to get it!) she will happily offer a major discount to Reality Check listeners! You can also learn more about her at http://agilitydiscoveries.com/

Avish Parashar (@avishp on twitter) returns to talk to host Craig Price his new coaching program for unconventional professions. If you live an unconventional life like I do, you know that getting useful help is a struggle. So many people with conventional jobs offer conventional wisdom that would be great if only you had a "normal" job. Avish struggled with this for a few years until he finally figured a few things out and created a coaching program to help other unconventional professionals too! Avish and Craig talk about how you should take advice, how to get clarity on your place in the market, making sure you understand why people buy from you and more.

You can learn more about Avish's new program at http://dinghappens.com/reality 

Phil Gerbyshak (@philgerb on twitter) returns to discuss his new venture Vengreso and social selling. Have you ever partnered with another person to create a business? How about 6 others? Well that’s what past guest and friend of the show Phil Gerbyshak has done and he’s here talk about it.  The company is called Vengreso and they specialize in social selling training, with a focus on utilizing LinkedIn. The two discuss how LinkedIn is introducing video to their platform, when to connect and who you should connect to and why people who post still images as videos are jerks.

Vengreso works with business professionals to align marketing with sales to provide the needed mindset, skillset and toolset in digital and social media channels to enable you to engage online effectively, grow your network, build your personal brand, add value, attract buyers and achieve your sales and revenue goals. You can find them at...you guessed it: http://vengreso.com 

Jessica Pettitt (@jesspettitt on twitter) returns to talk to host Craig Price about her new book "Good Enough Now". Waiting for that perfect moment before starting something new often becomes just waiting around. Perfectionism is a fool's errand and that's why Jessica wrote "Good Enough Now: How Doing the Best We Can With What We Have is Better Than Nothing" because why wait? Craig and Jess discuss her new book, how we need to leave room for edits in our life and behavior as well as honoring our authentic selves.

In her breakthrough message, author and speaker Jessica Pettitt reveals the truth about how we can be the best versions of ourselves now! By being our authentic selves, we can immediately improve our companies, relationships, and communities.

Jessica's new book is on sale now and you can hear just why you need it! You can learn more about Jessica at http://goodenoughnow.com

Valerie Grubb (@valgrubb on twitter) discuss her new book Clash of the Generations with host Craig Price. Craig is no stranger to generational issues. He speaks on the subject himself (notice the complete lack of link to his own programs!!) so he's eager to discuss how other speakers view the subject. Thankfully, Valerie wrote an entire book on it called Clash of the Generations: Managing the New Workplace Reality. The two discuss, who's really to blame for this generational gap,  if it is harder for a seasoned veteran to be managed by a younger person or for a new worker to be managed by a seasoned veteran set in their ways and they even give a little glimpse of what the mysterious Generation Z (no, not zombies) has planned for the near future. Most importantly, Valerie has given Craig two books to give away for free! Listen to the podcast to learn how to win a copy!

Clash of the Generations explores this new and increasingly common workplace phenomenon, and provides strategies to help managers navigate this ever more complex maze. Traditionally, older workers would retire and make room for the next generation; instead, Baby Boomers are now prolonging their time in the workplace, yet the successive generations are still coming in. Senior leaders are now left to manage a blended workplace comprised of up to four generations—each with their own ideas of work ethic, work/life balance, long-term career goals, and much more. Management is challenging at the best of times, but the new prevalence of generation gaps—sometimes even layered—add an entirely new dimension to an already complex responsibility. This book presents case studies and interviews with representatives of companies with age-diverse workforces, detailing innovative strategies for smoothing out the bumps and helping everyone work together.

You can learn more about Valerie at http://valgrubbandassociates.com/

Tiffanie Kellog (@TiffanieKellog on twitter) introduces host Craig Price to referral marketing.  It is well documented on this very podcast Craig's own disdain and ineptness when it comes to marketing. With all his social hangups it's just not easy to market and network as well as he'd like. Referral marketing and networking helps out as it allows others to assist Craig in spreading his message and get business he wouldn't have gotten on his own. The two discuss how to spend your networking time, how to choose when and where to network, how referral marketing has more credibility than traditional marketing and Craig reintroduces his concept of Barnacle Networking!

Tiffany can be found at http://tiffaniekellog.com

Alex Chernomazov and Ella Malamud talk to host Craig Price about their new kickstarter project Greenspark, an interactive sustainability park.  Sustainability isn't just a buzzword. It should be something we strive to do everyday, not just in business terms but in human terms. Alex and Ella have created a new park dedicated to getting people to experience all aspects of sustainable living — renewable energy, green building, and pollution-free transportation — in one place.

You can learn more about Greenspark and donate at their kickstarter homepage. Or go to Greensparkvt.com

 

Alan Cerny (@NordlingCS on twitter) returns with host Craig Price to preview the 2017 Summer Movies. Despite their constant podcasting lately for Matinee Heroes, Alan and Craig took some time to bring in the summer as they do each year  with a summer movie preview.  The two discuss their hope DC gets one right with Wonder Woman, Tom Cruise's inability to act scared and Craig's blind love of minions.

Be sure to catch Alan and Craig's weekly podcast discussing heroic cinema titled Matinee Heroes!

Movies in this episode include (with scheduled release dates):

June 2: Wonder Woman

June 9: The Mummy

June 9: It Comes At Night

June 21: Transformers: The Last Knight

June 28: Baby Driver

June 30: Despicable Me 3

July 7: Spider-Man: Homecoming

July 14: War for the Planet of the Apes

July 21: Dunkirk

July 21: Valerian and the City of a Thousand Planets

July 28: The Emoji Movie

July 28: Atomic Blonde

Aug 4: The Dark Tower

Aug 4: Ingrid Goes West

We'll be sure to add Alan's reviews from ComingSoon.net as he writes them.