The Action Catalyst

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The Action Catalyst episodes

March 25, 2020 Manage the Inner Critic with John Assaraf: Episode 326 of The Action Catalyst Podcast
John Assaraf is one of the leading mindset and behavioral experts in the world who has appeared numerous times on Larry King Live, Anderson Cooper, and The Ellen DeGeneres Show.

His latest bestselling book, Innercise: The Proven Science to Unleash Your Brain’s Hidden Power, helps individuals recognize and release the mental and emotional blocks that prevent them from achieving their fullest potential.

John has built five multimillion-dollar companies including taking one public on NASDAQ and growing Re/Max of Indiana to 1,200 sales associates and $4.5 billion a year in sales.

He has written two New York Times bestselling books that have been translated to 35 languages and he has been featured in 10 movies, including the blockbuster hit, The Secret and Quest For Success with Richard Branson and the Dalai Lama.

Today, he is the founder and CEO of NeuroGym, a company dedicated to using the most advanced technologies and evidence-based brain training methods to help individuals strengthen their mindset and emotional skills so they achieve their goals faster and easier than ever before.

Show Highlights

I value life so much, and for me personally, I want to make sure that I can use my life in some way to make a positive impact on this world. —John AssarafThe meaning I give anything determines how I feel. I choose to give meaning that empowers me. —John AssarafEverything that is happening to me is happening for me and my spiritual growth. —John AssarafCan we frame things in a way where we build upon them instead of having them cause our destruction? —John AssarafFraming is a key mindset skill. —John AssarafThere isn't a human being who experiences a consistent uprise without fail. It doesn't exist. So let's figure out how to prepare when times are tough. —John AssarafI prime my day with what matters the most. —John AssarafIt's in awareness that we become empowered. —John Assaraf

John's final thoughts: Let's help people understand that if the result that you're getting isn't what you want, the only reason that's happening is because you possibly don't have the right mindset, don't know how to manage your emotions, or possibly don't have the skills to know what to do.

The Action Catalyst is a weekly podcast hosted by Dan Moore, President of Southwestern Advantage, the oldest direct-sales company in America, and Partner with Southwestern Consulting. With more than 45 years in sales leadership and marketing management, Dan has a wealth of knowledge to share on how to make better use of time to achieve life, sales, and other business goals. Each week, he interviews some of the nation’s top thought leaders and experts, sharing meaningful tips and advice. Subscribe on iTunes and please leave a rating and review!
38 min
March 18, 2020 Driven by Purpose, with Mike Weber (Sales, Leadership, Speaking, Discipline)
Mike Weber grew up in the Midwest and earned his degree at Cornell University while selling books door-to-door with Southwestern Advantage. He then enjoyed success as a sales rep for Great American Opportunities— Southwestern’s national fundraising company that helps kids raise millions of dollars for educational and community organizations that are changing lives.
In 1993, he founded Southwestern’s Leadership Institute with a focus on equipping people with the skills and attitudes needed to excel in today’s dynamic world. For the past 20 years, Mike has motivated and inspired people from all walks of life to break out of restrictive patterns of thought and behavior, and open themselves up to achieve greater success in whatever their field.
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30 min
March 18, 2020 Driven by Purpose with Mike Weber: Episode 325 of The Action Catalyst
Mike Weber grew up in the Midwest and earned his degree at Cornell University while selling books door-to-door with Southwestern Advantage. He then enjoyed success as a sales rep for Great American Opportunities— Southwestern’s national fundraising company that helps kids raise millions of dollars for educational and community organizations that are changing lives.

In 1993, he founded Southwestern’s Leadership Institute with a focus on equipping people with the skills and attitudes needed to excel in today’s dynamic world. For the past 20 years, Mike has motivated and inspired people from all walks of life to break out of restrictive patterns of thought and behavior, and open themselves up to achieve greater success in whatever their field.

Engaging and energetic, Mike’s
passion is to ignite performance by helping people recognize and then challenge
patterns and assumptions that may be holding them back from all they could
accomplish and enjoy.

Mike lives in New Hampshire, is married to Jane, the love of his life for more than 30 years. He has two adult sons, Kurt and Eric, as well as two wonderful daughters-in-law, Jessica and Nicolette. He’s coached soccer, run cross country, climbed snow-covered mountains, and driven the chase vehicle for a hot air balloon team. Mike now speaks internationally on the topics of leadership, resiliency, teamwork, communication, and life purpose.

Show Highlights:

There's a huge difference between teaching and training. Teaching is a transference of knowledge. In training, the goal is change of behavior. —Mike Weber Public speaking is a skill set just like playing an instrument. —Mike WeberWhen things get tough, you need a defined focus and meaningful purpose. A purpose drives everything. —Mike WeberYou need a routine or discipline of what you need to do to be successful. —Mike Weber Discipline and structure is what got me through when things got tough. —Mike WeberIn the morning, I wake up at the same time, stretch, and have a dedicated reading time. —Mike Weber

Mikes final thoughts: You need to know who you are and what's important to you. If that's tied to what you have, you'll have some challenges. If it's tied to something bigger than yourself, then the ups and downs tend to mellow out.

The Action Catalyst is a weekly podcast hosted by Dan Moore, President of Southwestern Advantage, the oldest direct-sales company in America, and Partner with Southwestern Consulting. With more than 45 years in sales leadership and marketing management, Dan has a wealth of knowledge to share on how to make better use of time to achieve life, sales, and other business goals. Each week, he interviews some of the nation’s top thought leaders and experts, sharing meaningful tips and advice. Subscribe on iTunes and please leave a rating and review!
30 min
March 11, 2020 Love Speaks, with Sally Lou Loveman (TV, Entertainment, Purpose, Self-Improvement)
Sally Lou Oaks Loveman, former audience producer for The Oprah Winfrey Show, lives her purpose by connecting with audiences. When she was 14, she tuned into her passion for television when she was an audience member at The Mike Douglas Show. She spotted a girl on the set with a clipboard, and while she had no idea what this girl did, she knew she would do it one day too.
After her 35-year career in television and having entertained over half a million people from the Oprah stage, Loveman shares her “do what you love” message through her business, lovespeaks. In her new book, Speak: Love Your Story. Your Audience is Waiting, Sally Lou takes on a new audience—an audience of readers! Just like her pre-show warm-up at The Oprah Winfrey Show, Speak is participatory. Readers are invited to join in on the lessons shared in each chapter, and by the end of the book, her new audience has a start to their own story.
Blending the genres of memoir and self-improvement, Speak shares Sally Lou’s story while offering tips to help readers become better speakers and storytellers. Filled with humor and truth, Speak encourages readers to speak, speak up, speak their story, speak their truth, and live a life where love always speaks. It doesn’t matter if you are a CEO, celebrity, supermodel, spin instructor, student, or a stay-at-home-mom or dad, speaking well in front of others is not only a career asset, it’s also a life asset.
36 min
March 11, 2020 Love Speaks with Sally Lou Loveman: Episode 324 of The Action Catalyst Podcast
Sally Lou Oaks Loveman, former audience producer for The Oprah Winfrey Show, lives her purpose by connecting with audiences. When she was 14, she tuned into her passion for television when she was an audience member at The Mike Douglas Show. She spotted a girl on the set with a clipboard, and while she had no idea what this girl did, she knew she would do it one day too.

After her 35-year career in television and having entertained over half a million people from the Oprah stage, Loveman shares her “do what you love” message through her business, lovespeaks. In her new book, Speak: Love Your Story. Your Audience is Waiting, Sally Lou takes on a new audience—an audience of readers! Just like her pre-show warm-up at The Oprah Winfrey Show, Speak is participatory. Readers are invited to join in on the lessons shared in each chapter, and by the end of the book, her new audience has a start to their own story.

Blending the genres of memoir and self-improvement, Speak shares Sally Lou’s story while offering tips to help readers become better speakers and storytellers. Filled with humor and truth, Speak encourages readers to speak, speak up, speak their story, speak their truth, and live a life where love always speaks. It doesn’t matter if you are a CEO, celebrity, supermodel, spin instructor, student, or a stay-at-home-mom or dad, speaking well in front of others is not only a career asset, it’s also a life asset.

Book Sally Lou Loveman and help your listeners step up their speaking game and their human game by using their voice.

The Lovespeaks Series Podcast: https://lovespeaks.com/podcast

Speak: Love Your Story. Your Audience is Waiting: https://lovespeaks.com/speak

Show Highlights:

Remember, your story is happening as it's happening. You don't always see it until later. —Sally Lou LovemanMy keynote is about helping people find their voice so they can be a happier, better, more connected human. —Sally Lou LovemanWe all have an audience. You don't have to be a celebrity or a speaker—everyone has an audience. People are waiting to hear from you. —Sally Lou LovemanFear has no access when we are in our purpose. —Sally Lou LovemanYou take fear away by practicing. —Sally Lou LovemanEveryone should think about their walk-on song to remind themselves that they'll get through this. The ending might not be what they want, but you have remind yourself to have fun until you get to the ending. —Sally Lou LovemanIf you don't have a community of people, you won't get through it. —Sally Lou Loveman

The Action Catalyst is a weekly podcast hosted by Dan Moore, President of Southwestern Advantage, the oldest direct-sales company in America, and Partner with Southwestern Consulting. With more than 45 years in sales leadership and marketing management, Dan has a wealth of knowledge to share on how to make better use of time to achieve life, sales, and other business goals. Each week, he interviews some of the nation’s top thought leaders and experts, sharing meaningful tips and advice. Subscribe on iTunes and please leave a rating and review!
36 min
March 04, 2020 Being Fully Present, with Brian Biro (Leadership, Change, Team Building, Coaching)
Brian Biro is America’s Breakthrough Coach! He is one of the nation's foremost speakers and teachers of leadership, possibility thinking, thriving on change, and team-building. He has delivered more than 1,800 presentations around the world in the past 29 years. His clients include such diverse organizations as Lockheed Martin (94 events), the US Army, the University of Notre Dame, UCLA, the North Carolina Association for the Advancement of Teaching, senators, and representatives from 13 western states, the Virginia School Superintendents, Kaiser Permanente, Starbucks, Pizza Hut, IHOP, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, McDonalds, Dairy Queen, Allstate Insurance, Good Samaritan Hospital, RE/MAX, Shaklee, the American Rental Association and hundreds more.
Brian is the author of 14 books including the bestseller, Beyond Success! which reached #16 on the Amazon.com top 100—from over 2 million titles, and his new book, The ROI of Kindness. Brian was rated #1 from over 40 speakers at four consecutive INC. Magazine International Business Conferences. He graduated with honors from Stanford and served as the President of the UCLA Graduate School of Management Student Association while earning his MBA from UCLA. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN's Business Unusual, and has been a guest on more than 300 radio programs throughout the country. He has also been a featured speaker at the Disney Institute in Orlando. Brian was named one of the UCLA Graduate School of Management’s 100 Most Inspirational Graduates in the history of the school. Most recently, Brian was also honored as one of the top 10 interactive speakers in North America and one of the top 60 motivational speakers in the world.
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This episode is brought to you by Southwestern Speakers.
Southwestern Speakers
34 min
March 04, 2020 Being Fully Present with Brian Biro: Episode 323 of The Action Catalyst Podcast
Brian Biro is America’s Breakthrough Coach! He is one of the nation's foremost speakers and teachers of leadership, possibility thinking, thriving on change, and team-building. He has delivered more than 1,800 presentations around the world in the past 29 years. His clients include such diverse organizations as Lockheed Martin (94 events), the US Army, the University of Notre Dame, UCLA, the North Carolina Association for the Advancement of Teaching, senators, and representatives from 13 western states, the Virginia School Superintendents, Kaiser Permanente, Starbucks, Pizza Hut, IHOP, Microsoft, Oracle, Cisco, McDonalds, Dairy Queen, Allstate Insurance, Good Samaritan Hospital, RE/MAX, Shaklee, the American Rental Association and hundreds more.

A former vice president of a major transportation corporation in the Pacific Northwest, he helped lead a major turnaround that resulted in the company quadrupling in revenues, becoming solidly profitable, and being named the leader in the air freight industry for customer service and convenience by Distribution magazine.

Brian is the author of 14 books including the bestseller, Beyond Success! which reached #16 on the Amazon.com top 100—from over 2 million titles, and his new book, The ROI of Kindness. Brian was rated #1 from over 40 speakers at four consecutive INC. Magazine International Business Conferences. He graduated with honors from Stanford and served as the President of the UCLA Graduate School of Management Student Association while earning his MBA from UCLA. He has appeared on Good Morning America, CNN's Business Unusual, and has been a guest on more than 300 radio programs throughout the country. He has also been a featured speaker at the Disney Institute in Orlando. Brian was named one of the UCLA Graduate School of Management’s 100 Most Inspirational Graduates in the history of the school. Most recently, Brian was also honored as one of the top 10 interactive speakers in North America and one of the top 60 motivational speakers in the world.

Show Highlights

The breakthrough is going from fear to love and doing things that you didn't think you could do. —Brian BiroDriving to be the best was tearing me apart because it's all about comparison. I shifted from the drive to be the best to the desire to be my best. —Brian BiroThere's no failure, it's just how can I get better. —Brian BiroWithin every adversity is planted the seed of equivalent or greater benefit. —Brian BiroThe shift in focus from fear to faith is how you get through the brick walls in your life. —Brian BiroWhen you're fully present, 100 percent of your mind, body, and spirit are with the person you're with. And you say to them, "you matter" and "you count." —Brian BiroWhat you focus on is not what you get, it's what you create. Focus on what you want to create. —Brian BiroWhen you're feeling the most down, be the most grateful, even if it's the smallest thing. Take charge of your energy. Focus on purpose and movement. —Brian Biro

The Action Catalyst is a weekly podcast hosted by Dan Moore, President of Southwestern Advantage, the oldest direct-sales company in America, and Partner with Southwestern Consulting. With more than 45 years in sales leadership and marketing management, Dan has a wealth of knowledge to share on how to make better use of time to achieve life, sales, and other business goals. Each week, he interviews some of the nation’s top thought leaders and experts, sharing meaningful tips and advice. Subscribe on iTunes and please leave a rating and review!
34 min
February 26, 2020 Let Go to Grow, with Gigi Butler (Entrepreneurship, Baking, Nashville, Franchising)
Gigi Butler, entrepreneur and founder of Gigi’s Cupcakes, admits her story of success is full of sweet irony. Gigi opened her first Gigi’s Cupcakes location just off Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee in 2008. Gigi’s Cupcakes is now the largest cupcake franchise in the world.
With an entrepreneurial spirit that needed an outlet at the age of 15, Gigi opened her first business, Gigi’s Cleaning Company, which she continued to grow once she moved from California to Nashville in 1994. She cleaned houses during the day and sang at downtown Nashville honky-tonks at night. After a decade of pursuing a career as an entertainer, the heartaches of the music industry hit home.
Gigi decided to step back and focus on her financial future. While building a sweet empire was never part of her plan, Gigi realized that her culinary and business skills could take her places that she never dreamed about. She decided to take a chance on her other passion—baking.
After being turned down by various banks and down to her last $33, Gigi went out on a limb and in 2008, leveraged several personal credit cards to fund the first Gigi’s Cupcakes store. She gambled everything she had to open her first location. Fortunately, her sweet treats quickly became Nashville’s delicacy dessert of choice. Shortly thereafter, Gigi’s Franchising, Inc. was born, and Gigi’s Cupcakes locations began popping up throughout North America.
Over the course of the next decade and as the number of Gigi’s Cupcakes locations grew, Gigi became a sought-after public speaker. Her motivational, inspirational and entrepreneurial "rags-to-riches" story has become a centerpiece for corporate events, business and social gatherings, as well as on college campuses (and especially those with entrepreneurial programs). Always leaving the crowd wanting more, Gigi offers the attendees access to her deepest thoughts, fears, successes, and failures, with an emphasis on how to fight fear and look at fear as a motivator rather than an obstacle.
Gigi’s autobiography, The Secret Ingredient: Recipes for Success In Business and Life was released in December 2018. Gigi shares her personal success story, her hard-won business acumen, and the life-changing inspiration that she’s gained from a challenging life. Each chapter includes a piece of business advice and a delicious sweet and savory recipe. The book is available on her website, on Amazon, or anywhere books are sold.
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This episode is brought to you by Southwestern Speakers.
Southwestern Speakers
33 min
February 26, 2020 Let Go to Grow with Gigi Butler: Episode 322 of The Action Catalyst
Gigi Butler, entrepreneur and founder of Gigi’s Cupcakes,
admits her story of success is full of sweet irony. Gigi opened her first
Gigi’s Cupcakes location just off Music Row in Nashville, Tennessee in 2008.
Gigi’s Cupcakes is now the largest cupcake franchise in the world.

With
an entrepreneurial spirit that needed an outlet at the age of 15, Gigi opened
her first business, Gigi’s Cleaning Company, which she continued to grow once
she moved from California to Nashville in 1994. She cleaned houses during the
day and sang at downtown Nashville honky-tonks at night. After a decade of
pursuing a career as an entertainer, the heartaches of the music industry hit
home.

Gigi decided to step back and focus on her financial future. While building a sweet empire was never part of her plan, Gigi realized that her culinary and business skills could take her places that she never dreamed about. She decided to take a chance on her other passion—baking.

After being turned down by various banks and down to her last $33, Gigi went out on a limb and in 2008, leveraged several personal credit cards to fund the first Gigi’s Cupcakes store. She gambled everything she had to open her first location. Fortunately, her sweet treats quickly became Nashville’s delicacy dessert of choice. Shortly thereafter, Gigi’s Franchising, Inc. was born, and Gigi’s Cupcakes locations began popping up throughout North America.

Over the course of the next decade and as the number of Gigi’s Cupcakes locations grew, Gigi became a sought-after public speaker. Her motivational, inspirational and entrepreneurial "rags-to-riches" story has become a centerpiece for corporate events, business and social gatherings, as well as on college campuses (and especially those with entrepreneurial programs). Always leaving the crowd wanting more, Gigi offers the attendees access to her deepest thoughts, fears, successes, and failures, with an emphasis on how to fight fear and look at fear as a motivator rather than an obstacle.

Gigi’s autobiography, The Secret Ingredient: Recipes for Success In Business and Life was released in December 2018. Gigi shares her personal success story, her hard-won business acumen, and the life-changing inspiration that she’s gained from a challenging life. Each chapter includes a piece of business advice and a delicious sweet and savory recipe. The book is available here on her website, on Amazon, or anywhere books are sold.

Show Highlights:

While I was cleaning, I was learning so many things because I was in the midst of successful people. It's so important to brand yourself. —Gigi ButlerOpportunities come, but people are too afraid to say, "Why not?" —Gigi ButlerYou have to let go to grow. That's been the hardest lesson for me, but you have to do it to grow. —Gigi ButlerAfter Undercover Boss, our goal was to become a consistent company. —Gigi ButlerYou need to be in the "why not" instead of the "what if." —Gigi Butler

Gigi's final thoughts: Fear cannot be something that stops you. It has to be your motivator, not your obstacle.

The Action Catalyst is a weekly podcast hosted by Dan Moore, President of Southwestern Advantage, the oldest direct-sales company in America, and Partner with Southwestern Consulting. With more than 45 years in sales leadership and marketing management, Dan has a wealth of knowledge to share on how to make better use of time to achieve life, sales, and other business goals. Each week, he interviews some of the nation’s top thought leaders and experts, sharing meaningful tips and advice. Subscribe on iTunes and please leave a rating and review!
33 min
February 19, 2020 Dan Moore on "CEOs in Focus", with Joe Mariano (Sales, Business, Youth Development, Character)
Dan Moore was recently featured on the Direct Selling Association CEOs in Focus podcast with Joe Mariano.
34 min

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