Systematic Leader

Srini Rao is the host of the Unmistakable Creative podcast. He interviews amazing guests about how they live a fulfilling life. In this interview you’ll learn how to prioritize what is important to you and to stop being afraid of trying new things.

Highlights from the interview:

• Understanding what is important to you.
• The importance of using your values in your career.
• How to avoid setting goals that don’t work well for you.
• Being mindful of the information that you consume.
• The missing ingredient that people are missing when they listen to podcasts.
• The importance of context when learning from experts.
• What important things that often get overlooked.
• Why context is so easy to ignore.
• The importance of looking at the data that we have to make better choices.
• The difference between being energetically invested versus monetarily invested.
• Understand the viability of what we are trying to accomplish.
• Figuring out what you can offer from a career/business perspective and how it fits into the market.
• Experimentation is vital to figuring out what you like to do.
• Why testing things in low stakes environments is so important.
• Treating your day job like it’s your first angel investor.
• Book suggestion - Little Bets: How Breakthrough Ideas Emerge from Small Discoveries
• We don’t see accurate representations of what people’s lives are like.
• Our expectations are reinforced by social media.
• Favorite book - Cal Newport (Deep Work) and How to Take Smart Notes
• Favorite podcast - doesn’t listen to podcasts. He prefers books.
• Just start making something. It will be crappy at first, but that’s who you get good.

You can learn more about Srini Rao over at his website Unmistakable Creative. You can check out his podcast and see what he is up to help other creatives.

And as always if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing just reach out on Dig to Fly and I’ll do my best to get them on. If you love the interview please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

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John Jantsch is the founder of Duct Tape Marketing and best selling author of Self Reliant Entrepreneur and his latest book Ultimate Marketing Engine, due out on Sept 21st.

In this interview you’ll learn about creating a business you love, how to grow that business through deepening your understanding of your customer and growing your referral network. It’s a fun interview with a lot of ear nuggets. 

Highlights from the interview:

• How John has been in business for 30 years.
• What guides him as an entrepreneur and as a person.
• The struggle of saying no.
• Allowing people to use their strengths in your company.
• Finding ways to start having people support you in your life and business.
• How he found his niche in his industry.
• Developing consistency to reach his goals.
• What drives John to keep creating and growing his business.
• The power of tapping into your passions to help you reach your goals.
• How often do you ask yourself, “Am I enjoying this?”
• How to stop comparing ourselves against more successful people.
• Understanding that external recognition doesn’t make us happy.
• Why doing deep work to understand ourselves better is an important part of success.
• Understanding your customers at a deep level so you can grow your business.
• Realizing after three years that you do work that you hate because you thought it was the best way to build a business.
• Find where you enjoy working and deliver the most value.
• Focusing on your objectives and not worrying about what other people are doing.
• Giving yourself more time back to focus on the important things in your life.
• Book - Make Time - How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
• Book - Practice of Management.
• John’s book - Ultimate Marketing Engine.
• Podcast - Akimbo from Seth Godin.
• The importance of talking with your customers to get a better understanding of what makes them tick.

You can learn more about John Jantsch at Duct Tape Marketing. You can check out his new book, Ultimate Marketing Engine. If you pre-order his book you get a companion course with it. 

And as always if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing just reach out on Dig to Fly and I’ll do my best to get them on. If you love the interview please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

Kori Ashton is a serial entrepreneur and cancer survivor. She started and sold a family business. You’ll learn about how she navigated her cancer and career to grow stronger.

If you are listening to the show on your favorite podcast publisher like Apple Podcasts, Stitcher or Spotify please take a moment to review the show. It would mean so much to me. 

Highlights from the interview:

• Understanding the purpose behind your focus.
• Figuring out the length of trying to reach our goal.
• Still finding variety while drying to dig deep into one area of your life.
• Started a Hot Dog stand company at 12 years old.
• Understanding your seasons of life.
• The power of good coaching questions.
• Creating ownership within your employees.
• There is always some fire to put out.
• When you are having struggles these are just growing pains that you can use to improve your career.
• Tapping into your dreamer mode.
• Launching a digital marketing agency.
• Understanding your mission.
• They key thing we often forget to do when we start a business.
• Dealing with Cancer, divorce and the death of her mom.
• The importance of seeing a therapist.
• Why caring for ourselves first to be there for other people.
• Triple question theory.
• Mastering the skill of slowing down and accessing our inner truth.
• Working on our inner voice.
• Catching our inner dialogue so we build our inner awareness.
• Allowing for self care to help everything else fall into place.
• Dig deeper to find the cause of your stress.
• Top Podcast - Brene Brown
• Top Book - What the Heck is EOS (Amazon Link)
• Reflection - making time for prayer.
• One thing you can do today to get closer to doing your life’s work.

You can learn more about Kori Ashton over at her website, on Twitter and check out her YouTube channel about Wordpess websites.

And as always if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing just reach out on Dig to Fly and I’ll do my best to get them on.

Erin is the founder of The Dig. In this interview you’ll learn about how to be more authentic in your conversations at work and at home. 

Highlights from the episode:

• Our operating systems have a team captain.
• Understanding why we are here.
• How she started helping people understand their operating systems.
• Helping people feel seen.
• The difference between an operating system and personal values.
• Understanding how we relate to each other at work.
• How we navigate our shadows.
• Digging into your truth.
• How we can begin to see how our stories can hold us back.
• Honor when we feel violated.
• Building inner compassion.
• Creating a grounding question.
• Getting to the core of the truth.
• Remembering versus creating.
• Peeling away layers to get to the truth.
• Not getting sucked into a situation so it drags you down.
• Dealing with a loss of her brother.
• Finding opportunities in our struggles.
• Understanding what pushes and pulls us in our lives.
• Infinite amount of mental doorways to open, which ones to open and walk through.
• Head - Facts we deal with.
• Heart - How you feel.
• Core - Desires. What do you want?
• Do you want to your authentic self to be seen or do you want to only show people this creation of yourself?
• Blocking off weeks into sections.
• Favorite podcast - We can do hard things with Glennen Doyle 
• Favorite Speaker - Ash Beckham “Coming out of your closet”
• Favorite Book - The Dynamic Laws of Prosperity (Amazon Link)

You can learn more about Erin Weed over at The Dig. You can learn more about Erin over at LinkedIn.

And as always if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing just reach out on Dig to Fly and I’ll do my best to get them on.

Jim Afremow is a sports psychologist and author of Champion’s Mind who has worked with professional athletes at every level. In this interview you’ll learn how to get back up when you get knocked down and how to use visualization to improve your career.

Highlights:

• How to create positive self-talk to help you become more resilient.
• Why we talk ourselves out of taking action.
• Understanding when to take action.
• Why a nighttime routine is so important.
• Setting the stage for the next day.
• Learn the skill of worry postponement.
• The importance of being present with our work.
• Reaching a flow state with our work.
• Connecting with a source bigger than us.
• Group flow helps everyone on your team deliver great results.
• Being open to feedback is crucial to growing your career.
• Visualization is an underutilized tool.
• Self talk improves your self leadership.
• How to embrace our obstacles.
• How meditation can help you get out of your own head.
• We take about 20,000 to 30,000 breaths per day.
• Creating mantras that help us accomplish our goals.
• How we can use celebration to help us become more successful.
• Creating your self talk that supports you.
• The narratives that we create for ourselves determine our lives.
• If you are not growing you won’t be happy.
• If you are not getting better you are getting worse.
• The risk of playing small.
• Look at people you compare yourself to as inspiration.
• Compare yourself against who you were and look at how far you’ve come.
• How you can change your negative thoughts to help support you.
• Book - 2001 Space Odyssey. (Amazon Link)
• Podcast - Lex Fridman.
• Influential person in Jim’s life - The story about Natalie Cook.
• Start the I know list.

You can learn more about Jim Afremow over at his website. You can also find out more about him over on Twitter at GoldMedalMind. Also check out his books Champion’s Mind (Amazon) and The Young Champion’s Mind (Amazon).

And as always if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing just reach out on Dig to Fly and I’ll do my best to get them on.

Every act of business can be an act of love. In this interview with Mark Silver he'll share how you can develop authentic confidence in your business.

In this interview with John T Unger you are going to learn how he uses his fear to fuel his artwork.

This interview was from a project that I worked on called Fear to Fuel. I picked people who had overcome great fear and found a way to succeed. In this interview with Glen Stansberry you'll learn about how he started his online business and pivoted into another business.

I love how raw and honest Glen is as we dig deep. It's why I wanted to share this interview with you. None of us have this stuff figured out. We are all just creative people trying to find our way together.

Jennifer Navarette is an expert podcaster and business coach. In this interview you’ll learn about how she creates different passion projects that help her business. You’ll also learn from how she learned from her failures to grow her business.

Highlights:

• How Jennifer got hooked on podcasting back in 2005.
• The power of podcasting.
• Why we retain more information listening to podcasts than reading books.
• What is a walking meeting?
• The perks of listening to audio books.
• Creating experiments as we build our businesses.
• The importance of having a deadline when working on an experiment.
• Building your resilience through experiments.
• A recent business failure that she tried and learned from.
• How to create an experiment that works for you.
• What Jennifer like as a kid.
• Why she created NaPodPoMo (National Podcast Post Month)
• How she helped her kid understand his passion for gaming.
• Calibrating her business to help it grow.
• Building her podcamp in San Antonio.
• What the breaking point for her was to focus on the things that really matter to her.
• How she says no to things to focus on what matters.
• Building her online community.
• Finding the sweet spot in our relationships with our Bonus Income.
• Understanding our energy levels to focus on doing the things we love.
• How to stop being afraid and sit with uncomfortable feelings.
• Giving ourselves permission to understand who we are is so important.
• Our minds never grow old.
• The deeper that we dig into things we love helps us create more freedom in our lives.
• Understanding your core mission.
• You waste time when you chase money instead of doing things you love.
• Fight through the issue of second guessing yourself.
• Go after the things that truly matter to you.
• Podcast - No Agenda, Podcast 2.0
• Brain FM App to help with focus.
• Green Lights audiobook by Matthew McConaughey
• Storybrand audiobook - business book about building a story around your business by Don Miller.

You can learn more about Jennifer Navarette on her website Walk Talk Challenge and Brewing Media. You can learn more about her on Twitter and Facebook as well.

And as always if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing just reach out on Dig to Fly and I’ll do my best to get them on.

Sue Clement is a creative entrepreneur that teaches people how to scale their business. In this interview you’ll learn about how she uses her passions to drive her decisions and why it’s so important to do in your career and/or business.

Highlights:

• How she dealt with a speech impediment as a kid.
• What were the signs that she wanted to own her own business?
• Living on eggs, spaghetti and liver.
• As a young girl she got a fabric store because the family needed money.
• How she was eventually promoted to manage a fabric store.
• The creativity of making a retail store successful.
• Supervised a chain of retail stores.
• Maximizing your talent.
• Finding people that bring different strengths to your career/business.
• Understanding when you don’t fit in at work and what to do next.
• Making a situation work by turning into a growth experience.
• Starting her own hiring agency.
• Doing improbable things because she saw the vision of what could be.
• Feeling the magnetic connection to her passion.
• When losing the magnetic connection is when the fear comes in.
• Releasing yourself of self judgement.
• Doubt leads to fear.
• What would you life and business be like if there was no shame in your career/business?
• When we can take it deeper we can dig in behind what is really going on.
• When we can change our perception we change our lives.
• The power of self prompt cards. (You can see the Bring Gratitude cards that I created for my clients.)
• We buy into what we have instead of what we really want.
• Dabble in what you are passionate about and see what comes of it.
• What are you willing to sacrifice to do something you love?
• We lose sight of ourselves and what’s important.
• How she lost sight of doing joyful things and what she did to get these joyful feelings back.
• Why we can’t ignore our subtle feelings.
• Building your awareness to help guide your decisions.
• Calibrating your actions around things you love.
• The gift of awareness from dealing with the loss of her husband.
• The power of a gratitude practice
• Wishing without action is a waste of time.
• The power of really good conversations with ourselves.

You can learn more about Sue Clement over at her website. You can learn more about her on Facebook as well.

And as always if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing just reach out on Dig to Fly and I’ll do my best to get them on.