The Chris DeBlasio Podcast

Thankfulness, Teamwork and Gratitude | C-Level - Guest Scott Tindle 

Our matrix is gratitude, relationships, innovation and teamwork. We try and make all of our decisions within that framework start with a foundation of gratitude. If we're not thankful for what we have we'll never appreciate blessings we may get in the future. So, Scott, I'm excited about this episode. To have you on the show, serial entrepreneur a man after my own heart. You've been on shark tank, you've had a lot of success you with some of these leadership like GRIT leadership and having  speaking events and stuff like that. So welcome thanks for having me, I'm excited to be here, even remotely it's still fun. So how is it down there? You're in Alabama right, mobile? I am yeah i'm down here on the gulf coast and we're all just trying to do the best we can staying safe, staying healthy and learning our social distancing protocol which is hard for a for a guy like me. I'm a hugger, I want to just hug everybody. So you know an interesting challenge. It's interesting because I think what's gonna happen is because a lot of us  spent so much time away from each other that the moment that this  #ChrisDeBlasio #Agency850 #CLevel

Legal Issues Concerning Covid-19 | C-Level With Amanda Farahany

I think one of the biggest things too is communication. You know its communication. The employer and the employee need to be in constant communication of everything that's going on because it's you've got two sides here right and everybody's trying to figure this out but I think communication is the absolute biggest key especially when we are slowly bringing the country back to normal. So on today's episode a C-Level I'm excited to have Amanda Farahany managing partner of Barrett and Farahany and today we're gonna be talking a lot about the legal issues surrounding Covid. What to know as an employer and what to know as an employee. So Amanda welcome. - Thank you, glad to be here. So Amanda tell me... I'm really big on people's backgrounds. Tell me where are you from? How'd you get started? How'd you get started into law? That type of thing. - Hh I'm from Charlotte, North Carolina. I was just there this last week and getting to visit my parents which was nice. Definitely drove, this way even out of my home so yeah this was a big deal. I got to see them, which was nice and my sister has a baby who's 6-months old and this is the first time I got to meet her so a lot of exciting things there. I got into law really because I met somebody who I thought was super cool and was a lawyer and when I was 14 and he traveled the world and I love to travel and that was it. That was why I chose to become a lawyer.

How Journalism and Social Marketing work Together | C-Level with Devika Rao

People have good stories. We just have to do a little bit of a job to get at them and I think that even applies to marketing now. Brands are wonderful and you can personify them if you just dig a little deeper. Devika it's really great to have you on the on the show today. Thanks for having me. I hope you guys are doing well. Yes same to you. So today we have Devika Rao on the show. President of O'Neil Communications. We are going to be talking a lot of things in business. Devika, I want to hear your background. Where are you from? How did you get into you the line of work that you're in. Oh that's a good story I think but yeah I actually I'm from Atlanta. I moved here and when I was 8 with my family. So been here, I went up to Penn State for college so go Nittany Lions for anyone watching that and then we moved back and I was a journalism major. So this has been something... journalism was something I really wanted to do since I was about 12 years old. I've always wanted to be a writer. - At Penn State? - At Penn State I was a journalism political science major. Had this awesome idea to be like a political correspondent or something something really fun like that and so came back from school after graduation and just started hustling you know. Just started, the market wasn't doing so well when it came to journalism. We all know that every media kind of took a dive for a while but it's usually during those times you kind of figure out how to breakthrough. So kind of went through the motions of freelancing. Started kind of creating a name for that.   #ChrisDeBlasio #CLevel #DevikaRao

From The NFL to the Boardroom | C-Level with Guest: Ryan McNeil 

It gives us a chance to reflect back on what has been happening and it gives us chance to kind of plan strategize how we move forward. C-Level I'm excited to have Ryan McNeil former NFL player and the CEO of Sports ID. What is good Ryan? Everything's good Chris, thanks for having me. It's nice to be on the show. I look forward to the conversation. - Yeah me too. So I mean for the small majority people that don't know who you are let's get a little bit background on you and then let's let's dive right into Sports ID and what you're doing over there. So quick and dirty I've been around sports most of my life. More than four decades, damn that makes me old but nonetheless mainly as an athlete executive consultant and a business person and so played college football University of Miami. We were pretty good back then. Two national championships, two number twos, one number three, only lost five games in five years. That led to me to being the Detroit Lions first pick in 1993. Played 12-years in NFL. Two-time ALL Pro two-time, Pro Bowler and entrepreneur at  heart. So I always been an entrepreneur and and so Sports ID allows me to combine my two passions in sports and technology. You know and I really have a lot of appreciation for athletes that come out and become entrepreneurs and start these businesses, and do these different things because sometimes you've got sports it has a shelf life and so it's like what's the next thing? So having guys like you go out there and creating new businesses, your man after my own heart.

2 NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIPS - From the NFL to the Boardroom: Guest Ryan McNeil of Sports ID | C-Level

It gives us a chance to reflect back on what's happening and it gives us chance to kind of plan strategize how we move forward. C-Level I'm excited to have Ryan McNeil former NFL player and the CEO of Sports ID. What is good Ryan? Everything's good Chris, thanks for having me!  It's nice to be on the show. I look forward to the conversation. Yeah me too so I mean for the small majority people that don't know who you are let's get a little bit background on you and then let's dive right into Sports ID and what you're doing over there. So quick and dirty been around sports most of my life more than four decades damn that makes me old. But nonetheless mainly as an athlete, executive consultant and a business person and so played college football The University of Miami. We were pretty good back then two national championships, two number twos, one number three. Only lost five games in five years that led to me being Detroit Lions first pick in 1993. Played 12 years in NFL. two-time All Pro, two-time Pro Bowler and entrepreneur heart. So I always been entrepreneur and so Sports ID allows me to combine my two passions in sports and technology. Yeah, you know and I really have a lot of appreciation for athletes that come out and become entrepreneurs and start these businesses and do these different things because you know sometimes you've got sports as it has a shelf life right and so it's like what's the next thing? And so having guys like you go out there and creating new businesses your man after my own heart.

The Importance of Collaboration | C-Level  

What makes things good isn't just people  it is people building off of each other, because a bunch of like-minded people are only going to get so far. What really pushes breakthrough thinking and innovation and creativity is building off what you bring versus what I know and adding and adding and adding and that's when the great ideas come. So today on C-Level I'm excited to have Lisa Fey as she is a TEDx speaker author and consultant and today we're gonna be talking about working together and collaboration. So Lisa welcome. - Oh it's great to be here. -So I'm really big on everybody's journey. I know a little bit about yours. Tell our audience how did  you get into all this? How did you start? Where did you come from? That type stuff. - Well I'm a small-town girl from a farm community of about eight hundred. No wait, you don't want me to go that far back... I think it is relevant to my story. I mean, I am from a small town in North Carolina. I went to the University of North Carolina, talked my way into a job with NBC Sports. Ultimately talked my way into a job at the Coca-Cola company where I ended up spending 30-years.  10-years in sales, 10 in marketing and 10 in training and development and living all over the country and teaching sales training globally. When I had the opportunity to take the next step I decided to go out and become a professional speaker. But you know that's kind of a weird thing to tell people you do.  What I really do is I help people in organizations that have identified that poor communication is a challenge to their business.

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A Conversation with the CEO Sensei | C-Level

You know it's unfortunate I mean I don't know we're up to 16 million people or something that are unemployed. This is a fresh restart for you. Maybe you should look at where you are employed before and say hey is that something I really wanted to do? If not I got a fresh start, I got a fresh start to go on and do something that I truly want to do because at the end of the day success is not money, in my opinion in, one man's opinion. Success is not money it's happiness and when you find happiness that is what's worth living. Happiness and now we are all given... 16 million of us are given a fresh start. I've got John Fenton he's an entrepreneur, Vistage speaker, best-selling author and I heard something a black belt in Tai Chi.. - Yeah, yeah that's right. I I'm also known as the CEO Sensei and which means a lot to me. I don't know what it means to other people. When I was a managing partner running a business I needed something to find, to kind of grab myself and keep my head on straight and we were in a super high growth period and transforming the business in the early 2000s and I just came across by accident a yoga and Tai Chi Center. I went in and met the master and it wasn't like I can walk in, I didn't think you know yoga's gonna be like Lululemon hanging on the wall. This very young Korean gentleman dressed all in black and we met for a little while and I was looking, I was in the studio with him had a meeting. We were sitting on the floor would you like to do that and the martial arts sitting on the floor a lot yeah well I look up it was this big big banner and this big banner it says Tai Chi the way to limitless energy you find your Center and I saw that I said I want to do that. and I did some online research and I and I loved the sword there's a sword form and all kind of stuff and so I just jumped into it both feet the only time I

Is pushing content more valuable than money? Here what digital marketing coach Jason Swenk thinks as he talks with Chris DeBlasio.

Content is the new currency. Content is the new currency providing value and pushing content because that is all that we have right now. Great episode, I mean just talking about everything that's going on especially the agency world and advertising and social media. So welcome! - Yeah man thanks for having me on. It's crazy times but you know with any crazy times there's always opportunity. I love that. That's that's the biggest thing is if you can see the opportunity in the midst of the craziness I think that's what is going to keep you going and keep everything else going around you. - Yeah I mean you can't just you can't focus on the negative. I mean hopefully everybody's being safe and are healthy. My thoughts are with them but you know on a business front it's kind of like all right here's an opportunity for you to kind of really leverage you know but you got to kind of survive to thrive first and sometimes its pivot depending on the industries that you're targeting to ya know. - It's so important especially now, times like this and I've been talking about this on a lot of different podcasts I've been doing. But it forces us to innovate and you know guys like us... it's just something that we do but people that are like "so hey business has always been done this way" it's stretching them and then it's forcing them to innovate and change their business model to adapt to what's happening right now. I think that's really important. - Yeah, I mean it's it's nuts. I always feel bad for the people that said, "we have always done it this way" and I'm like, well you're not gonna be doing it that much longer could you be head of business. -  yeah you always have to innovate

Having a business coach in your corner is valuable especially when you are just starting out

There are three types of business owners; One people that are gonna cave that are just, I'm gonna go hide I'm just gonna throw my hands up whatever and great! The second type is sit back and do naturally nothing, and then the third type is double down and go all in. Well Jeff I'm super excited to have you on today I think you know a lot of much-needed information is gonna come out of this episode. So you are a business coach, a speaker, but I love to hear about people's journey. So how did you get into all this then? - It's a great question. Well I came out of corporate so I was with Bank of America and I was with Wachovia total of about 26-years. Migrating from Richmond Virginia down here and back in mid 2007 Wachovia made a disastrous acquisition of a Savings and Loan out in California that took the bank down and as it was going on it was a subprime loan bank at the peak of the subprime market and the day after they bought it things started going downhill and so they let me and a lot of others go and so it was after 26 years it's like you know what I there's got to be more to life than just banking so I looked around I had an about a year severance, looked around and found this and really like this, that's how I got there. So banking and well obviously been through 2008 and been through all that stuff and now we're going through the coronavirus so we're kind of some similarities and some differences. yeah you know I I don't have much similarities because I was getting into this back when we were in 2008 so I didn't have a client base I that was a good thing or not because I didn't have a client base so I wasn't facing that worried that the next phone call is gonna be a client saying I you know we got two cuts to spend things I'm having that now there's trade-offs I mean I've got revenue coming in now that he didn't have back then but it's kind

What are the legal issues surrounding Covid 19? | C-Level

If you're just sitting back and hoping that the government is gonna come in and save you. That's gonna  put you in a very bad position. So Lee, I'm really excited to have you on my episode today. We've got a lot of topics that we want to talk about but one of the things that I think is really important that a lot of people want to know about is a lot of the legal issues around what's going on and just everything that's going on in society right now with Covid 19. So Lee Davis thank you so much for coming on the show. - Absolutely, I'm glad to be here. I think it's a very timely topic and I think there's a lot of things that maybe people could hear and maybe help make them feel a little bit better about their situation. Yeah, so Lee we've been friends for a long time but for the people that don't know you out there let me get your background. How did you get where you're from? How'd you get started? How'd you get started in the law.  That type stuff. - Sure, well I have somewhat humble beginnings I guess. I grew up in Louisville, Kentucky. My family was not wealthy. We weren't super poor either, but we  put our heads down and got through it. All through life, my parents gave me a great upbringing. They gave me great opportunities and I managed to not throw all of those opportunities away and one of the opportunities I got was once I discovered that I wanted to go to law school, I was able to go to law school. So since 1997 I've been a practicing civil litigator in the state of Georgia and I handle all types of different cases. Primarily I do what's called commercial litigation that is usually litigation or lawsuits between two businesses about some aspect of their business sometimes it's representing banks sometimes it's representing small or medium-sized businesses