As business seasons change, your organization requires different employees and different skills. But how do you equip your current team and leaders to adapt to the necessary changes that the future requires? In this episode, Benj Miller talks with BELAY CFO, Lisa Zeeveld, about how to manage the professional development of your current team.

They also discuss positioning your business to change along with an unpredictable economy and the challenge of changing your perspective of yourself, personally and professionally, throughout your businesses season. Plus, you’ll hear a couple leadership lessons Lisa learned during her years building motorcycles!

This episode is sponsored by SignatureFD.

Do you ever feel like you’re counting the days to retirement to enjoy the money you’ve been working so hard to earn? If this is you, we want to introduce you to our friends at SignatureFD. SignatureFD is a different kind of wealth management company that’s helping clients enjoy their wealth now while creating security for the future. They have a unique trademarked process called Net Worthwhile, which helps clients integrate and activate their wealth in four key categories: grow, protect, give, and live. You can take the first step to discovering your Net Worthwhile with their free quiz. You can find it at SigatureFD.com/MyGPGL.

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What if you served your clients so well that they became your strongest sales team? That’s what Jonathan Reynolds, CEO at Titus Talent, has accomplished with his team of culture engineering leaders. Benj and Chris are excited to bring Jonathan back on System & Soul to talk about how to grow through generosity and serving your people well.

As Jonathan points out, “If your business has people, it probably has problems.” But, when your organization cultivates a healthy culture in which everyone works to serve each other and the client with a spirit of honor and generosity, the business and the people do not suffer––even during difficult seasons––as Jonathan’s story proves.

This episode is sponsored by SignatureFD.

Do you ever feel like you’re counting the days to retirement to enjoy the money you’ve been working so hard to earn? If this is you, we want to introduce you to our friends at SignatureFD. SignatureFD is a different kind of wealth management company that’s helping clients enjoy their wealth now while creating security for the future. They have a unique trademarked process called Net Worthwhile, which helps clients integrate and activate their wealth in four key categories: grow, protect, give, and live. You can take the first step to discovering your Net Worthwhile with their free quiz. You can find it at SigatureFD.com/MyGPGL.

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However clear or vague it may be, we all have an idea of what our ideal life looks like. But a dream is just a dream without action. This week on System & Soul, expert guide and coach, Jeff Lovell, joins Benj and Chris to discuss how he helps entrepreneurs and business leaders embrace authentic living.

The three ideas Jeff bring to this conversation are how to help people answer the “what’s next” question, how to avoid climbing higher without going deeper, and the difference between pursuing information vs. transformation.

This episode is sponsored by SignatureFD.

Do you ever feel like you’re counting the days to retirement to enjoy the money you’ve been working so hard to earn? If this is you, we want to introduce you to our friends at SignatureFD. SignatureFD is a different kind of wealth management company that’s helping clients enjoy their wealth now while creating security for the future. They have a unique trademarked process called Net Worthwhile, which helps clients integrate and activate their wealth in four key categories: grow, protect, give, and live. You can take the first step to discovering your Net Worthwhile with their free quiz. You can find it at SigatureFD.com/MyGPGL.

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System & Soul invites GoogleTech Project Manager, Brin Enterkin, to this week’s conversation. Brin’s impressive background as a philanthropist, Chief Strategy Officer, Chair at Harvard’s Innovation Adventures, and her current work at Google has earned her key and unique insights into how strategy and execution can help any entrepreneur to scale their ideas and their business.

In this episode, Brin shares her passion for scaling ideas that have tremendous positive impact, how to coach people to slow down when their own mental health needs it, the relationship between strategy and execution, and balancing the tension between what the investor wants and what the customer wants.

This episode is sponsored by BELAY Solutions.

We’re passionate about bringing business leaders the insights you need to keep doing great work, and so are our friends at BELAY Solutions. BELAY is an incredible, 100% remote organization revolutionizing productivity with virtual assistants, bookkeepers, and social media managers. Their podcast One Next Step is so full of practical tips and actionable tools to help you run your business so it stops running you. Find them at OneNextStepPodcast.com. Or subscribe in the Apple podcast app today.

#017: The Power of “I Don’t Know” with Clay Scroggins

Despite what your ego might tell you, you don’t have to know it all in order to lead. This week on System & Soul, Benj Miller invites long-time friend and returning guest, Clay Scroggins, to discuss the power of admitting you don’t know the answer. Clay also shares the importance of getting the right people on the bus and a few who aren’t so right. Plus he and Benj dive into the the issue of conflict––it never goes away, it’s never perfect, but it’s always worth it.

This episode is sponsored by BELAY Solutions.

We’re passionate about bringing business leaders the insights you need to keep doing great work, and so are our friends at BELAY Solutions. BELAY is an incredible, 100% remote organization revolutionizing productivity with virtual assistants, bookkeepers, and social media managers. Their podcast One Next Step is so full of practical tips and actionable tools to help you run your business so it stops running you. Find them at OneNextStepPodcast.com. Or subscribe in the Apple podcast app today.

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Benj said it himself––this episode is a masterclass in leadership! This week, System & Soul invites Heather Fortner to share her journey of becoming CEO of SignatureFD––a ground-breaking wealth management company that understands the difference between wealth and worth. Heather shares what she has learned about servant leadership and intentionally working through chaos with “grit and grace.”

This episode is sponsored by BELAY Solutions.

We’re passionate about bringing business leaders the insights you need to keep doing great work, and so are our friends at BELAY Solutions. BELAY is an incredible, 100% remote organization revolutionizing productivity with virtual assistants, bookkeepers, and social media managers. Their podcast One Next Step is so full of practical tips and actionable tools to help you run your business so it stops running you. Find them at OneNextStepPodcast.com. Or subscribe in the Apple podcast app today.

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Healthy culture and lasting growth go hand-in-hand in any successful organization. Today, we bring back culture expert, Will Scott, Founder of The Culture Fix Academy, to discuss what it means to lead with a culture-first mentality; when and how the next recession will change the way businesses operate; and the necessary skills leaders need to develop in order to reach the next level of their leadership.

This episode is sponsored by One Next Step Podcast.

One Next Step is hosted by Belay Solutions’ CEO Tricia Sciortino and CFO Lisa Zeeveld. They’re serving up weekly episodes with actionable business tips and tools from fantastic guests like Damon John, Michael and Megan Hyatt, Chris Walker and more. They cover everything from how to leverage your executive assistance, to free tools to unlock your leadership potential, to what to know when you can’t hire a CFO!

Every week they offer listeners a free resource, like Belay’s latest ebook, Delegate to Elevate. In it, you’ll learn how to accomplish more by juggling less. So, go to BelaySolutions.com/Delegate, and download your free copy of it today.

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Growing businesses are always adapting because great business leaders know that what might have worked for them up to this point probably won’t get them to the next level of business. This week on System & Soul, we invite sales guru Jeremy Miner, Founder and Chairman of 7th Level Communications, to talk about bringing in the right people and systems to prevent your business from plateauing, the importance of utilizing and expanding your business through social media, and expanding the infrastructure needed as your business grows.

Jeremy provides keen insight into the evolution of sales strategies and how the best form of sales depends on intentional dialogue between the sales staff and the customer. And, he shares about his soon-to-release book The New Model: Selling to an Unsellable Generation. To learn more about Jeremy and honing your team’s sales skills, check out SalesRevolution.Pro for access to their Facebook Group and a free tool!

This episode is sponsored by The 261.

Start your day with clarity! As leaders, we have countless things on our mind: things we need to do, things we’re not doing, problems we need to solve, new exciting ideas––all jotted down in that worn out mental notebook we keep in our heads.

But, sometimes leaders and entrepreneurs simply need to step away from the mental clutter––sometimes we don’t need the notebook, we just need a sticky note––a simple reminder along the way to help us gain clarity and control of our business.

That’s why we created a new FREE resource called The 261. As you may know, there are 261 work days in the calendar year. So, we have mapped out the entire year with daily micro thoughts and micro actions––sticky notes––to help keep the ball moving forward in your personal life as a leader and for the sake of your business.

If you want to start your day with clarity and receive a short, helpful thought to jumpstart your leadership, please go to The261.com and sign up!

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Did Benj just find his System and Soulmate? This week, we talk with Dr. Jerome Lubbe, an expert in shifting from health care to human care, and a man with a bio so fascinating you have to hear it for yourself.

This week Benj Miller and Dr. Jerome talk about what it really means to be taken care of, how business leaders can effectively take care of the people they serve in a way that builds healthy culture, and how to do all this without compromising self-care and family life. This is certainly a conversation for the books!

This episode is sponsored by The 261.

Start your day with clarity! As leaders, we have countless things on our mind: things we need to do, things we’re not doing, problems we need to solve, new exciting ideas––all jotted down in that worn out mental notebook we keep in our heads.

But, sometimes leaders and entrepreneurs simply need to step away from the mental clutter––sometimes we don’t need the notebook, we just need a sticky note––a simple reminder along the way to help us gain clarity and control of our business.

That’s why we created a new FREE resource called The 261. As you may know, there are 261 work days in the calendar year. So, we have mapped out the entire year with daily micro thoughts and micro actions––sticky notes––to help keep the ball moving forward in your personal life as a leader and for the sake of your business.

If you want to start your day with clarity and receive a short, helpful thought to jumpstart your leadership, please go to The261.com and sign up!

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DrJerome.com

The Brain-Bases Enneagram by Dr. Jerome Lubbe

Gaining clarity and control in our business is not a one-time event; it’s an on-going journey that requires leaders to gain new skills along the way. Today on System & Soul, we invite crisis expert John Robertson, who helps senior leaders transform both personal and professional crisis into opportunities to thrive.

In this episode, Benj and John discuss how to move leadership and culture out of a programmatic system; how we think about expenses vs. investments, especially when it comes to internal systems and processes; and, connecting the long-term vision of the organization with the work and efforts of today.

Click here to learn more about John Robertson and Fortlog

This episode is sponsored by The 261.

Start your day with clarity! As leaders, we have countless things on our mind: things we need to do, things we’re not doing, problems we need to solve, new exciting ideas––all jotted down in that worn out mental notebook we keep in our heads.

But, sometimes leaders and entrepreneurs simply need to step away from the mental clutter––sometimes we don’t need the notebook, we just need a sticky note––a simple reminder along the way to help us gain clarity and control of our business.

That’s why we created a new FREE resource called The 261. As you may know, there are 261 work days in the calendar year. So, we have mapped out the entire year with daily micro thoughts and micro actions––sticky notes––to help keep the ball moving forward in your personal life as a leader and for the sake of your business.

If you want to start your day with clarity and receive a short, helpful thought to jumpstart your leadership, please go to The261.com and sign up!