Success Bully

It's #NowNovember! Now is the time to get started on your goals for 2018. Episode 34 of the Success Bully Podcast features the amazing Connie Maynard, President of JAG Jeans. Connie shared a gem with me so powerful that it is a new lens to evaluate priorities, goals and next steps. In "I Live by the 3Cs" -- Connie spells it all out Communication, Commitment, and Consistency. She shares how this mantra is woven throughout her personal and professional life as well as how she thoughtfully sets herself and her team up to achieve big goals.

#NewYearsInOctober has been a blast and time to refocus. Episode 33 of the Success Bully Podcast, "The Quiet Weights We Bear as Entrepreneurs," is a mini MBA. Roz Edison COO and Co-founder of Marination, the home of Hawaiian Korean Cuisine at four locations in the greater Seattle area, shares her very realistic and efficient approach to managing email (trust me I implemented them with the utmost haste), the best productivity hack of trust as well as the invaluable leadership lesson to not define oneself by things that happen in your business.

Special thanks to Tina Nole and my family at Larj Media for pushing me to keep going bigger and better each time.

The #NewYearsInOctober momentum keeps rolling along. I am excited to finish and start strong. Roz Edison, COO and Co-founder of the Seattle-based Marination family of restaurants, joins me for some spirited business and life insights. In Episode 32 of the Success Bully Podcast lovingly titled "The Spreadsheets Started Flowing," Roz (a self-described numbers/operations person) not only shares her wildly interesting backstory, she explains how Marination has used strategic opportunism (that cross sect of opportunity meets preparedness) to get started and build a local food empire.

Special thanks to Tina Nole and my family at Larj Media for pushing me to keep going bigger and better each time.

It's #NewYearsInOctober and we're officially in the final quarter of the year and I want to push you to get a jump on your 2018 goals. Episode 31 of the Success Bully Podcast features the incomparable Laura Jennings CEO of Knack. In "I Went Big Right Out of the Gate," Laura shares experience of pitching a well-known, high visibility VC first and her observation immediately after. If you can get the scary one out the way you can do anything. Laura offers her personal productivity hacks, her ability to seamlessly change hats and ultimately what she hopes Knack will be in 5 years.

We're officially in the final quarter of the year and I want to push you to get a jump on your 2018 goals. We're kicking off a new series called #NewYearsInOctober that will feature inspiring guests to get you started. Episode 30 of the Success Bully Podcast features the incomparable Laura Jennings CEO of Knack. In "You Need to Be Brave," Laura shares her experiences in Microsoft leadership, transitioning to a VC and now being on the other side of the conference room table as a Startup Founder. One thing is for sure, you have to be brave to get started, to grow and to enlarge your vision.

In Episode 29 of the Success Bully Podcast, my special guest and nerd cosmetics phenom Jaimie Cordero gives incredible insights on leadership. As the CEO and Glitter Jedi of Espionage Cosmetics, Jaimie has clearly defined the difference between being bossy and being a boss. Leadership is learned and it takes commitment to be worth following. You have to walk the walk and grow daily in leading to help others achieve their goals, to build an inspired team that will execute on the vision, and most importantly create a culture where people will stay and grow with the company.

Episode 28 is a recalibration moment for us all. My featured guest the amazing and relentless Jaimie Cordero CEO and Glitter Jedi of Espionage Cosmetics nudges us all to up level our thinking. In "I Don't Have Small Dreams Period", Jaimie has a measured determination when it comes to her vision and commitment to grow her company from her spare room in her house(an FDA approved room) to a mainstream contender in the beauty space. We talk how she got started, embracing one's inner Nerd, and listening and loving your customers along the way.

Episode 27 features a main character in my own Success Bully origin story. My guest is my personal butt-kicker, friend, co-conspirator and #powetribe member, Megan McNally. As the founder of the F Bomb Breakfast Club, Founder & Principal Attorney of Doyenne Legal and now the CEO of Rhea Media, Megan encourage us to take a moment to be introspective. We all have our "Big Why" to guide us, but what are we doing to keep ourselves balanced along the way. In "Every North Star Needs a Keel," Megan and I talk her personal hacks to rule her time, the definition of personal balance, our shared love for Mondays and Fridays as well as the need to surround yourself with a like minded power tribe.

Episode 26 is truly an inspiring full-circle moment for me. My guest is my personal butt-kicker, friend, co-conspirator and #powetribe member, Megan McNally. As the founder of the F Bomb Breakfast Club Founder, Principal Attorney of Doyenne Legal and now the CEO of Rhea Media, Megan declared that 2017 was "My Year to Not Give a F**k." Meaning she has stopped concerning herself with detractors, naysayers and anyone who doesn't believe in her ability to achieve her Big Hairy Audacious Goals. Megan shares with us her entrepreneurial journey (spoiler alert she's been at it since her tweens), the inspiration behind F Bomb Breakfast Club and her latest ambitious adventure.

We are wrapping up #ActionAugust! In Episode 25, my guest Rian Buckley CEO and Co-founder of Fitcode, a fashion data company that enhances the denim shopping experience by focusing on fit, not size brings it again. She encourages us all with great fervor to "Grind When No One Is Looking"

Before she became a powerhouse CEO, Rian was an elite athlete at the University of Washington and a fashion model traveling the globe. Both of those experiences taught her to be disciplined, competitive and a wise ruler of her time. She reminds us there is always going to be someone smarter, prettier, stronger and more talented than you. If you can work harder than everyone else, you'll get the results. You have to be disciplined and do the work to win.