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I met Laura a few months ago at a presentation she was doing explaining the importance of headshots and she was talking about how Hitler created his brand, I found it really interesting and just had to get her on the show.

Laura is a Professional Headshots Photographer. She loves to work with clients to express their unique brand through the images created. Always on Location, All around the World.

Guest Recommendations:

Book:

• Worth Every Penny - Sarah Petty
• Lucky Bitch - Denise Thomas

Apps: Calm

To find our more about Laura and how you can connect visit the episode page on my website.

Tim Sanders spent most of his early career on the cutting edge of innovation and change. He was an early stage member of Mark Cuban’s Broad- cast.com, which had the largest opening day IPO in history. After Yahoo acquired the company, Tim was tapped to lead their ValueLab, and by 2001, he rose to Chief Solutions Officer. In 2005, he founded Deeper Media, which provides consulting services for leading brands. Today, he is one of the top-rated speakers on the lecture circuit.

Tim is the author of four books, including the New York Times bestseller Love Is the Killer App: How To Win Business & Influence Friends. It’s been translated into over a dozen languages and has been featured in Fast Company, USA Today, the New York Times, The Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor and on CNN.

He’s a master storyteller who o ers listeners actionable takeaways that produce results right away. That’s why he’s one of the top speakers on the lecture circuit.

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Bob Stromberg travels continually performing his very unique blend of original story, stand up and shtick.

His work has lead lasting impressions on Fortune 500 companies, raised multi millions for nonprofits, garnered literary and theater awards and broken box office records in the US and Europe. The London Times said, “ He’s a genuinely funny man”. The Chicago Sun Times called him, “... a mesmerizing physical comedian.” Most impressively, Bob has joined a very small group of elite artists who have stayed prolific and profitably busy for over forty years.

How’s he done it? By “Mastering the Craft of Creativity”. In his online class, Bob shares three profound, transforming disciplines that lead to creating a rich, personal reservoir of original ideas.

Guest Recommendations:

• Book: Born Standing up by Steve Martin
• App: Apple Notes

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Business Productivity Coach Teresa McCloy partners with her clients to stop being productive and do what matters. A recovering workaholic who was addicted to all the latest apps, software, and best-selling books on productivity, is now passionate about helping business leaders and entrepreneurs to assess their habits and execute an Individualized Productivity System (IPS) for doing more of what matters.

Teresa is a founding trainer and coach with the 12 Week Year™ system, and uses tools such as iEnneagram© and Life Maps, serving her clients through one-on-one coaching, webinars, and training to discover their unique talents, values and life mission.

Guest Recommendations:

Books:

• Living Forward - Michael Hyatt
• 12 Week Year - Brian P Moran & Michael Lennington

Apps:

• Nozbe - Task Management

 

Find out how to connect with Teresa and get bonus material 

 

With over 20 years of international senior management and leadership experience with global brands such as Nike and Clarks Shoes, Jackie is passionate about women having a stronger voice in the world:
- Being heard
- Being respected
- Having influence and impact

She devotes herself to transforming women’s impact, enabling them to have clarity and confidence to truly connect with others, be heard and achieve their personal and business goals

With an intuitive knack for getting to the heart of the matter and finding people’s blind spot, Jackie delivers results by working collaboratively; aimed at bringing out the ‘Best Self’ in all, with whom she works

Guest Recommendations:

Books:

• Be Gender Smart - Inge Woudstra
• One Thing - Gary Keller

Apps:

• Texting Story

Connect with Jackie:

To find out more about Jackie you can visit her website or follow her on Twitter or LinkedIn  

Cort Dial believes the only leader who needs to change is you. He has spent the last 30 years in a variety of environments ranging from corporate skyscrapers to South American jungles. Cort has honed a unique approach to developing coaches and business leaders founded in the core conviction: “Leaders reach the summit of leadership when they can create extraordinary business performance while caring for people.” Cort calls this new breed of 21st-century hero the All-InTM Leader.

Today, Cort is the President of Cort Dial Consulting, LLC where he has successfully guided business coaches and executives from organizations such as Chevron, Intel, U.S. Borax, Disney and Apple to cultivate a new breed of leader. He guides individuals through frank self-evaluation, personal change, and the pursuit of extraordinary performance, he creates the All-InTM Leaders, high achievers who recognize the power of human connection.

Cort is also the author of the Globe and Mail’s 2016 #1 business book; Heretics to Heroes: A Memoir on Modern Leadership. His book introduces a new framework for inspiring and influencing others with his All-InTM Leadership. As provocative as it is practical, Heretics to Heroes reminds readers that history’s greatest men and women were once seen as heretics.

Guest Recommendation:

• Book: A Thoughtful Life - Joseph Campbell
• App: DaPulse

Connect with Cort:

You can find more information about Cort at on his website or follow him on twitter, of course you can get his book as well Heretics to Heroes: A Memoir on Modern Leadership

Sharon Spano has a PhD in Human and Organizational Systems. She is an author, corporate business strategist, work-force expert, professional speaker and former radio host of WorkSmart Live. Sharon empowers business leaders and entrepreneurs to maximize performance, improve employee engagement, and increase bottom-line results.

She is also a Certified Professional Coach dedicated to helping others adopt new paradigms about time and money so that they can step into radical abundance in every area of their lives. Her research focuses on wisdom, adult development, and leadership.

Her work and her new book The Pursuit of Time and Money: Step Into Radical Abundance and Discover the Secret to a Meaningful Prosperous Life are grounded in research in adult human development.

Guest Recommendations:

Books:

• Essentialism
• Field of Compassion

Apps: 

• Insight Timer
• DayOne

Connect with Sharon Spano:

You can find out more about Sharon at her website or on social media like twitter and facebook. If your interested in book and the exercises and other material she mentioned you can visit timemoneybook.com

Episode Sponsor:

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Melanie Curtis is a coach, entrepreneur, author, speaker, and professional skydiver. Melanie’s clients are like her… intense Type-A personalities, vibrant in their energy, fierce in their values, impeccable in their integrity, human and lovely in their emotions, working to contribute positively to the world, and willing to do whatever it takes…   As a lover of both nature and NYC, Melanie splits her time between the two to nurture her personal network and entrepreneurial pursuits. Melanie believes love and hilarity are the two most important things in life, in that order, and after taking a stand-up comedy class has that much more respect and appreciation for professional comedians.   A Middlebury College and iPec Coaching graduate, fierce coach, intensely driven entrepreneur, and comically authentic speaker and connector, Melanie has jumped out of an airplane 10,000 times, worked professionally in the sport of skydiving for many years, founded her own company, traveled the world challenging the model of mobile entrepreneurship, and extracts usable insight and hilarity in everything she writes and all content she creates. Mel is exceptionally talented at relating the bigger concepts of identifying fear and clarifying values to the specific situations particular leaders and groups face. She’s crazy good at situational and interpersonal integration of concept and accountable action. Mel connects in this way just as powerfully with a group as she does in an intimate one-on-one coaching conversation.   Guest Recommendations:

• Eat Pray Love - Elizabeth Gilbert
• Photoshop Express

To find out more about Melanie Curtis you can find more about Melanie on her website or follow her on social media like twitter or instagram

 
Jeff has been a trainer for a decade working with over 700 people; and now taking his talents to the online world training no other than JLD, Pat Flynn, Rich Brooks, Trivinia Barber, Jadah Sellner, etc. Jeff has a  degree is in pre-med/pre-pharm and is dual certified in exercise science and sports medicine.    Jeff is also an orthopedic rehab specialist and a black belt in tae kwon do. He has a huge passion for helping people and helping them transform their lives mentally, physically, & nutritionally.    My website www.tbc.fit people can go to and sign up for a FREE 30 min assessment with me to go over goals, current health stats, and discuss a plan for them to achieve their goals.      Guest Recommendations:

• Book: Book Yourself Solid - Michael Port
• App: Zoom 

To find out more about Jeff you can visit the episode page on my website

Lonnie Ogulnik gets up every morning at 4:30 to take a bath. Full of ice. He follows that up with a gruelling boot camp workout till his body reaches full exhaustion. Then he heads to work.

Is he a professional athlete, or just a masochist? Neither. He’s actually a wealth advisor and an author. In Lonnie’s book, The Heart of a Beast, he details his views on business as war and the need for high performers to push their bodies and minds to their limits in order to succeed.

Lonnie Ogulnick is Founder and CEO of Gordon Wealth and the author of, The Heart of a Beast.  He is also a realtor for Douglas Elliman and a strategic life coach. ** Advisory Services Offered through Investacorp Advisory Services, Inc, an SEC Registered Investment Advisory Firm. Securities by licensed Individuals Offered Through Investacorp, Inc, a Registered Broker / Dealer. Member FINRA, SIPC.

Guest Recommendations:

• Book: Anything by Robert Green
• App: Instagram