Small Business Answer Man

Gary Wilbers has been in business for over 30 years, has founded more than a dozen companies, has appeared on more than 200 podcasts and has been coaching business owners to success for over 10 years. He dedicates his time to helping small business owners move from success to significance.

Show Notes:

• Small business owners need to be able to brainstorm ideas and solutions.
• Because there is usually a small staff, small business owners need a support network.
• Mastermind groups help you hear different viewpoints.
• Ultimately, the decision is up to you, but you have to be willing to listen to new ideas and concepts.
• You can't read the label while you're inside the jar.
• Masterminds help you realize you're not alone.
  • Others may not be in the same niche as you, but they may be struggling with the same problems.
• Mastermind is about working together to create greater results.
• Is someone willing to learn and willing to be accountable?
  • If yes, then they're ready for a Mastermind.
• Owners need to work on their business, not in their business.
• Realize that you can do it with others.
• Gary shared about his goals and processes with the Ascend Mastermind Group.
• Entrepreneurs are success-driven and may inadvertently leave other things at the wayside.
  • Don't Ascend to the peak and then realize you left everyone and everything else you had behind.
• Mastermind groups are great for accountability.
  • Change partners so that you uphold your accountability.

Learn more about Gary's Mastermind group at goascend.biz/mastermind/

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Brian Roland is a social entrepreneur and Founder of Abenity, the 6x Inc. 5000 company that's powering corporate perks for top brands like U.S. Bank and Mastercard.

While Abenity provides millions of subscribers with private discounts, the company's social mission is fighting extreme poverty with every program they deliver.

Abenity recently exceeded $1 million dollars of total giving and hired a CEO to accelerate growth with their fully remote team.

Brian lives in Scottsdale, Arizona with his family and enjoys roasting coffee, flying drones, and helping impact-driven entrepreneurs establish a social mission of their own.

Show Notes:

• Be okay with taking a leap of faith.
• Entrepreneurs look for a blocker and then find a way around it.
• The more niche it is, the slower the ramp-up period.
• Your why should be outside your company, brand, and products and services.
• There is no place to put identity in those categories.
  • They will eat you down.
• Brian build a fully remote team and found that it needed a foundation of trust and respect.
  • Roles must be clearly defined.
  • Brian was looking for people to join his team that already knew them and what they stood for.
• Shared purpose aligns the culture to create community.
• Text IMPACT and/or RULES to (615) 802-6853 to access free resources from Brian.
• Brian is concerned that the bridge to remote work is retracting.
  • There must be a cultural plan and purpose for remote work to continue to work.
• If you're successful, your baby is going to grow up and leave you.
• Brian thinks that people should work with the lens of high impact, low effort.
  • Develop to the 90% point because things will gain traction and take off.
  • Abandon the 91% - 100% range when developing something because it often wastes time and effort.

Brian Roland's Recharge Round

1. What habit do you think has led to success in your life? Brian makes his coffee with a slow pour over method which cuts down his coffee consumption and also gives him a rhythm and intentionality in the morning.
2. What's the simple positive action that you take each day to move forward to achieve your goals? Brian used to be very sarcastic, but now he states his sarcastic statements in an opposite way which is still funny but builds people up and shifts the perspective.
3. What's your biggest life lesson and what have you learned from it? Just show up.

Connect with Brian:

Brian's website BrianRoland.com

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Dr. Ian D. Brooks, the CEO and founder of Rhodes Smith Consulting - a Personal and Professional Development firm specializing In behavioral transformations - and the Author of Intention: Building Capabilities to Transform Your Story. For over 24yrs, Dr. Brooks' career has taken him from working in a clinical ward to organizations and people - with the goal of helping individuals build skills toward achieving new heights. His clients include Netflix, Shondaland, Bank of America, Guitar Center, Nike Inc. Sony, and Warner Brothers. His passion for working with individuals seeking expansion and leaders within organizations to develop key skills toward navigating their organization and working with their teams is built on the mastery of intentions and consistency of capabilities.

Show Notes:

• Dr. Brooks works with leaders seeking the pursuit of expansion.
  • He helps people step into the limelight.
• Look inward and ask yourself what you're passionate about and what you've been good at.
• Write a letter to your future self about who you've become and what you've achieved.
  • This is a benchmark and comparison point.
• We make between 2,000 and 10,000 decisions each day.
  • We have to work with intention.
  • It's about purpose. It's about thoughtfulness.
• It is necessary to build the capability to acknowledge what we're actually discovering.
• 'The principle of You' asks which characters in your story are you enabling and which do you need to change.
• What is my now plan? What am I willing to do?
• Build your plan.
• Bringing the best of ourselves is sometimes knowing when to step back.
• We're not going to change all at once.
• Attunement is about making sure that we have time to go back and to check and adjust.
• If we aren't learning, we'll stay in the same place.
• You're going to have to let some things go in order to grow.
• Let it go not because it's bad but because it's outlived its purpose.
• You have to trust yourself because there will be situations where no one else will be able to pull you through.
  • It might not be easy, but you can do it.
• "He who does not lay his foundation beforehand may do so with great ability afterward but with great trouble to the architect and danger to the building." - Niccolo Machiavelli

Dr. Ian Brooks' Recharge Round

1. What habit do you think has led to success in your life? Dr. Brooks is very purposeful.
2. What's the simple positive action that you take each day to move forward to achieve your goals? He invests time in himself. He pauses, processes, and reflects.
3. What's your biggest life lesson and what have you learned from it? Dr. Brooks always has a plan and has a good plan, but his path is his path.

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Ian's website rhodessmith.com

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Peter Docker, co-author of Find Your Why and formerly a founding Igniter at Simon Sinek Inc., is passionate about enabling people to unlock their natural talents. He believes leadership is about lifting people up and giving them the space they need so that, when the time is right, they can take the lead.

Drawing on his 25-year career in the Royal Air Force, and over 14 years spent partnering with businesses around the world, Peter's goal is to inspire others to Lead from the Jumpseat.

Show Notes:

• Peter has been a negotiator and a teacher.
• Learn what brings us together as human beings.
• A position is against something. It has to be.
• A stand is for something. Standing for something is more powerful than a position against.
• One of the toughest leadership challenges is being a parent.
• What's my underlying commitment?
• Context gives meaning to content.
  • If you shift the context, it brings a new meaning.
• Get clear on what you believe.
• What's really important to you?
  • When you can go deeper you can help others join in with you if they believe in it too.
  • When dealing with the unknown, they will be willing to stand up and help you figure it out.
• You can try to make people accountable for things, but only they can choose to take responsibility.
  • They have to choose because they want to.
• If team members feel like they belong, they feel they can step up and take responsibility.
• Humble confidence is about love, not fear.
  • Everything we do is driven by fear or love.
  • Fear brings ego.
  • When driven by love, we listen and think about others.
• Leading from a place of love encourages others to step up and help.
• Many people see not knowing the answer as a kind of threat.
  • It's okay not to know.

Peter Docker's Recharge Round

1. What habit do you think has led to success in your life? Peter approaches things by always pushing himself and trying new things. He has a willingness to give it a go and learn.
2. What's the simple positive action that you take each day to move forward to achieve your goals? He seeks out opportunities to show that he cares.
3. What's your biggest life lesson and what have you learned from it? Peter says that he has learned that mutual respect is so important and that there is value in allowing things to happen.

Connect with Peter:

Peter's websites leadingfromthejumpseat.com

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Mike "C-Roc" Ciorrocco is the Co-Founder of Blooprinted, best-selling Author of ROCKET FUEL Convert Setbacks, Become Unstoppable and the powerhouse behind the "What Are You Made Of?" podcast.

He has been featured by Yahoo! Finance as one of the Top Business Leaders to Follow in 2020 and is on a mission to build people. He is driven to inspire others and he measures his success on how he is able to help others achieve greatness. C-Roc had a fire lit in him at an early age. That fire has ignited him with a fierce desire to compel people to see the greatness inside themselves using past life events to fuel their fire.

Show Notes:

• Mike talks to himself because he always wants someone around him that thinks the same.
• What are you made of man? Let's go.
• Be prepared.
• When you believe in something, some people don't have the same wish as you and will try to talk you out of it.
  • Stick to your guns.
• Mike realized that he was capable.
  • "I'll show you."
• Convert your failures to success. Make them rocket fuel.
• Thoughts, words, and actions all go through Mike's mission statement.
• All people are unstoppable to living the lives of their dreams.
• Acknowledge it. Accept it. Then act.
• Mike wants to teach people how to disseminate their knowledge better.
• You have to be sick and tired of being sick and tired.
  • Do something.
• We don't know our potential.
  • Set goals that make you excited.
• Mike has three Cs:
  • Clarity. Get clear on what you want in life, and don't put limits on it. Write it out.
  • Commitment. Decide and commit that you're going after that.
  • Consistency. All your words and actions have to go towards it.
• Be careful about the stories you tell yourself.
  • If you say it will be hard, it will be hard.

Mike Ciorrocco's Recharge Round

1. What habit do you think has lead to success in your life? Mike's biggest habit is waking up and practicing gratitude. He says thank you then takes action to move him toward his mission.
2. What's the simple positive action that you take each day to move forward to achieve your goals? He understands that low tolerance = high production. Don't overcomplicate things.
3. What's your biggest life lesson and what have you learned from it? There's a small portion of things you know. There's a small portion of things you know you don't know. And there's a large portion of things you don't know that you don't know. Keep a learning mindset because knowledge is power.

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Deborah Johnson, M.A. has not only written multiple books and albums, but hundreds of songs, three full-length musicals and is the producer of the popular podcast, Women at Halftime. Her five books have been very well received (the 5th released Oct. 12 of this year) & she relishes the creative process. Deborah was past president of the National Speakers Association, Los Angeles and has written & produced multiple online courses. She enjoys being outside and traveling with her husband and also loves spending time with her children and grandchildren.

Up for multiple GRAMMY Awards and spending over 20 years in the entertainment industry, she's built multiple self-driven businesses. Deborah speaks and performs for both live and virtual events.

Show Notes:

• At half-time you want to look at all your experiences and what you've loved to do and then focus on what you've done to create a strong message.
• Deborah's been an entrepreneur since she was young.
• She was just creating.
• Not everyone understands that they're an entrepreneur.
• Deborah's biggest challenge is gathering the right team around her to help her decide what to say no to.
• Try things.
• Don't be afraid. Face your fears.
• You have to want to go somewhere and take risks.
  • Then you learn.
• Deborah wanted people to identify with her story.
• There are so many distractions today.
• Deborah wants to share the mindset of "I've reached my summit, but now there's more."
• The biggest challenge is throwing out stuff you love.
  • Does it move the story forward?
  • Let go of it if it doesn't move the message and purpose.

Deborah Johnson's Recharge Round

1. What habit do you think has lead to success in your life? Deborah's biggest habit is getting up early. It helps keep her centered.
2. What's the simple positive action that you take each day to move forward to achieve your goals? She writes lists and gathers her tools the night before.
3. What's your biggest life lesson and what have you learned from it? "I'm not afraid of dying, but I really like living" What are you doing in your life to really like living?

Connect with Deborah:

Deborah's websites goalsforyourlife.com and deborahjohnsonspeaker.com and djworksmusic.com

Order Deborah's new book here at heromountainsummit.com

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Joe Pomeroy learned the hard way that helping lead an 8 figure business means nothing if your family is walking out the door. So he spent years studying family relationships and discovered a secret that would change his family forever. Now, his 3D Family Framework has become the new way business-minded men are becoming expert husbands and world-class dads.

The time has come again to do a recap. With the third quarter of 2021 just wrapping up we are going to do a season recap on the fifteenth season. It's hard to believe that we are close to 200 episodes!

Each guest that we have had on the podcast has taught us something different. Below are just a few of the highlights from our fifteenth season of podcasts.

Bill is the President and Founder of FiveTwo, a network that equips faith-based leaders and entrepreneurs to launch a variety of sustainable startups and nonprofits. Bill began leading FiveTwo in 2015 when they launched a "Mother Teresa meets a friendly Mark Cuban" training process that helps entrepreneurs to grow nonprofits and startups that make a difference in financially sustainable ways.

Dr. Angela Demaree is the CEO and Principal Consultant for PAWS Consulting, a public health and political consulting firm. Angela recently retired as a Major in the United States Army Reserves, is a Certified High Performance CoachTM, author of "Candidate Survival Guide, Leadership for the Campaign Trail," and host of the hit podcast, Beyond the Stethoscope. She spends her free time with her horse, Tommy and teaching her Quaker Parrot the Purdue Fight Song. You can connect with Angela on Instagram and LinkedIn @DemareeDVM.