The Daily Helping

What do a nun, a cowboy, and a racecar driver have in common?

Those are the things that today’s expert guest, Jessica Dewell, wanted to be when she grew up. She is not currently any of those things (although there’s still time!), but she’s just as non-traditional.

Jessica is a business advocate and nationally-recognized business development tactician who grows businesses by helping others develop better decision-making and problem-solving skills. With over 20 years of advising and consulting experience, including four of her own businesses, her views are both unexpected and practical.

Jessica has a unique approach to business development: she looks at businesses like a doctor looks at their patient. Using this approach, individual business problems can be seen as symptoms of a bigger issue – a disease in your business.

#ActToPLAN

Even if you identify a real problem and make a plan, you’ll never solve it if you don’t make a decision and take action. Your vision is tested through your actions; you will only find more clarity after taking the first step.

So when you #ActToPLAN, you are harnessing your Power to Lead, Assess, & Navigate a profitable business.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“What we do and what we say models for ourselves, first, and other people, second, what is acceptable in our lives … the four steps of problem solving are the biggest takeaway that can be applied anywhere, any time.”

Four steps of problem solving:

1. Recognize there’s a problem
2. Collect the data
3. Understand what the solutions are & evaluate them
4. Make a choice

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Resources:

• Learn more at RedDirection.com
• Listen to Jessica’s podcast: TheVoiceofBoldBusiness.com
• Connect with Jessica: Facebook | Twitter

Today our expert guests are Karin Hurt and David Dye, the award-winning authors of Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results - Without Losing Your Soul. They’re also the dynamic duo behind Let’s Grow Leaders, where they work with managers at every level to build the confidence and competence necessary to achieve lasting results and increased influence.

Karin and David’s partnership almost seems inevitable. They knew of each other, but hadn’t talked, for many years before attending the same book writing lab with the National Speaker’s Association.

During the lab, they realized that they were essentially writing the same book. Although they were technically business competitors, they decided to collaborate on the book and everything went really well – and then they fell in love.

The Winning Well Model

When they started collaborating, Karin’s key message was about confidence and humility and David’s was focused on results and relationships – They put that together to create the Winning Well model.

A leader’s internal values should be focused on Confidence and Humility.

• The Confidence to know what you’re good at and bring that to the table; to stand up for what matters and speak the truth. “We say rock your role and ditch the diaper genie… that’s confidence!”
• Humility is about focusing on knowing your vulnerabilities, knowing you’re not perfect, surrounding yourself with people who will challenge you, and admitting your mistakes.

As we look at the external world, we want to focus on Results and Relationships. Most managers tend to focus on one or the other, but you’ll get better results if you focus on both.

• Focusing on Results means knowing what matters mosts, being clear about your Most Important Thing, and practicing accountability.
• Focusing on Relationships means investing in your team, treating them with dignity, and collaborating. In every interaction you have with another human being, how can you both build healthy professional relationships and achieve the business results your team is there to achieve?

“When you combine internal focus on confidence and humility and focus externally on results and relationships, that’s when you start to achieve those breakthrough results that really last.” –David Dye

Giving Back with Winning Wells

Karin and David are also dedicated to giving back to the world. Their philanthropic campaign, Winning Wells, provides local villages in Southeast Asia with an ample supply of clean water.

When you work with Karin and David, a Winning Well will be built in your name, in Cambodia. You won’t just transform your leadership and results. You will also help transform the lives of people who have never had clean drinking water.

They do this because, whether you’re a frontline leader, business owner, or executive, leadership is more than just whatever product you make or service you deliver – it’s ultimately about the legacy that you’re leaving in the world.

You can learn more about Winning Wells at letsgrowleaders.com/giving-back.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Pick one thing that you want to do differently. If you read Winning Well, there’s hundreds of tools in there and it’s easy to be overwhelmed. So start with one thing, invest in doing it well, and then move on to the next thing.

If even that seems difficult, go back a step further and answer this question: Where are you trying to go?

If you’re struggling in life, get super clear about where you want to go and figure out what success looks like?

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Resources:

• Learn more at LetsGrowLeaders.com
• Connect with Karin: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
• Connect with David: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
• Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results - Without Losing Your Soul

Today our expert guests are Karin Hurt and David Dye, the award-winning authors of Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results - Without Losing Your Soul. They’re also the dynamic duo behind Let’s Grow Leaders, where they work with managers at every level to build the confidence and competence necessary to achieve lasting results and increased influence.

Karin and David’s partnership almost seems inevitable. They knew of each other, but hadn’t talked, for many years before attending the same book writing lab with the National Speaker’s Association.

During the lab, they realized that they were essentially writing the same book. Although they were technically business competitors, they decided to collaborate on the book and everything went really well – and then they fell in love.

The Winning Well Model

When they started collaborating, Karin’s key message was about confidence and humility and David’s was focused on results and relationships – They put that together to create the Winning Well model.

A leader’s internal values should be focused on Confidence and Humility.

• The Confidence to know what you’re good at and bring that to the table; to stand up for what matters and speak the truth. “We say rock your role and ditch the diaper genie… that’s confidence!”
• Humility is about focusing on knowing your vulnerabilities, knowing you’re not perfect, surrounding yourself with people who will challenge you, and admitting your mistakes.

As we look at the external world, we want to focus on Results and Relationships. Most managers tend to focus on one or the other, but you’ll get better results if you focus on both.

• Focusing on Results means knowing what matters mosts, being clear about your Most Important Thing, and practicing accountability.
• Focusing on Relationships means investing in your team, treating them with dignity, and collaborating. In every interaction you have with another human being, how can you both build healthy professional relationships and achieve the business results your team is there to achieve?

“When you combine internal focus on confidence and humility and focus externally on results and relationships, that’s when you start to achieve those breakthrough results that really last.” –David Dye

Giving Back with Winning Wells

Karin and David are also dedicated to giving back to the world. Their philanthropic campaign, Winning Wells, provides local villages in Southeast Asia with an ample supply of clean water.

When you work with Karin and David, a Winning Well will be built in your name, in Cambodia. You won’t just transform your leadership and results. You will also help transform the lives of people who have never had clean drinking water.

They do this because, whether you’re a frontline leader, business owner, or executive, leadership is more than just whatever product you make or service you deliver – it’s ultimately about the legacy that you’re leaving in the world.

You can learn more about Winning Wells at letsgrowleaders.com/giving-back.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

Pick one thing that you want to do differently. If you read Winning Well, there’s hundreds of tools in there and it’s easy to be overwhelmed. So start with one thing, invest in doing it well, and then move on to the next thing.

If even that seems difficult, go back a step further and answer this question: Where are you trying to go?

If you’re struggling in life, get super clear about where you want to go and figure out what success looks like?

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Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Richard. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

• Learn more at LetsGrowLeaders.com
• Connect with Karin: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
• Connect with David: Facebook | Twitter | LinkedIn
• Winning Well: A Manager’s Guide to Getting Results - Without Losing Your Soul

Today our expert guest is Author and Life Designer® Julie Reisler, the founder and CEO of Empowered Living, a Life Design and personal development company.

Although Julie has a Master's Degree in Coaching and more than 12 certifications in health and well-being, her Masters could have been, as she says, “in people pleasing and crappy self esteem.”

Julie turned herself into a research project and did a complete 180 in mindset and health, and in the process she found her passion and purpose: helping you design a life that you’re crazy about.

In her book Get a PhD in YOU: A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery, Julie shares the extensive personal-growth wisdom that came from her own struggles with body image, relationships, and feeling "not enough.”

Julie hopes readers will walk away from the book with a good sense of who they are, what lights them up, how they want to make an impact in the world, who they want to be, who they want to show up as in the world, and how they can do that.

Julie also created the short film Hungry For More, inspired by a section of her book, where she shares openly about her journey with emotional overeating and finding out what really makes you full. Now Julie wants to help others through that journey, so she’s launching an online course called Hungry for More that will be launching later in 2017. Click here to sign up for the wait list (and get a FREE 30-minute meditation).

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“We are all wired to have everything we need to know. All of the intuition and wisdom and knowing that we need to know from within, and each person who has tuned in is a sacred, wise, incredibly powerful being who has things to do on this planet … The best thing in the world you can do is to honor, cherish, and love yourself so that you can give that out to the world, and then go be your best self. Design it, be it, and really add to the well-being of this planet.”

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Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

• Learn more at JulieReisler.com
• Connect with Julie: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn
• Get a PhD in YOU: A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery

Today our expert guest is Author and Life Designer® Julie Reisler, the founder and CEO of Empowered Living, a Life Design and personal development company.

Although Julie has a Master's Degree in Coaching and more than 12 certifications in health and well-being, her Masters could have been, as she says, “in people pleasing and crappy self esteem.”

Julie turned herself into a research project and did a complete 180 in mindset and health, and in the process she found her passion and purpose: helping you design a life that you’re crazy about.

In her book Get a PhD in YOU: A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery, Julie shares the extensive personal-growth wisdom that came from her own struggles with body image, relationships, and feeling "not enough.”

Julie hopes readers will walk away from the book with a good sense of who they are, what lights them up, how they want to make an impact in the world, who they want to be, who they want to show up as in the world, and how they can do that.

Julie also created the short film Hungry For More, inspired by a section of her book, where she shares openly about her journey with emotional overeating and finding out what really makes you full. Now Julie wants to help others through that journey, so she’s launching an online course called Hungry for More that will be launching later in 2017. Click here to sign up for the wait list (and get a FREE 30-minute meditation).

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“We are all wired to have everything we need to know. All of the intuition and wisdom and knowing that we need to know from within, and each person who has tuned in is a sacred, wise, incredibly powerful being who has things to do on this planet … The best thing in the world you can do is to honor, cherish, and love yourself so that you can give that out to the world, and then go be your best self. Design it, be it, and really add to the well-being of this planet.”

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Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

• Learn more at JulieReisler.com
• Connect with Julie: Instagram | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram | LinkedIn
• Get a PhD in YOU: A Course in Miraculous Self-Discovery

Today our expert guest is Dr. Temple Grandin, who is a prominent author and speaker on both autism and animal behavior. In 2010, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people, under the “Heroes” category. Her life story was also adapted into the Emmy award-winning HBO movie Temple Grandin.

The World Needs ALL Kinds of Minds

“I’m interested in helping individuals be everything they can be.” –Temple Grandin

1 in 68 U.S. children has been identified with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

ASD is a very broad label that most people don’t understand very well, and that does a disservice to those diagnosed. This one label can apply to a Silicon Valley computer programmer, an artist, a college professor, or someone unable to dress themselves… and that’s a real problem.

In Dr. Grandin’s book, The Autistic Brain, she attempts to expand that label and uses neuroimaging to illustrate the different ways that people think:

• The artistic, visual mind (like Dr. Grandin)
• The mathematical, pattern-oriented mind
• The word-oriented, verbal mind

Dr. Grandin’s TED Lecture, "The World Needs ALL Kinds of Minds," shares her unique ability to “think in pictures,” and how that ability helps her solve problems differently. In the process, she makes the case that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds of smart geeky kids.

A caring mother, good teachers, and great mentors offered Dr. Grandin opportunities to learn valuable skills and develop her visual mind. Unfortunately, many individuals on the spectrum aren’t given these opportunities, so Dr. Grandin continues to advocate for better education that focuses on a child’s strengths and encourages their potential contributions.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Take a kid’s strengths, build on that strength, and turn it into a career that the individual is going to enjoy as an adult … I just want to see kids that are different get out and become everything that they can be, and have a satisfying career.”

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Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

• Learn more about autism at TempleGrandin.com
• Watch: "The World Needs ALL Kinds of Minds"
• Read Dr. Grandin’s books:

• The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed
• Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism
• Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior
• Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals
• Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism

Today our expert guest is Dr. Temple Grandin, who is a prominent author and speaker on both autism and animal behavior. In 2010, Time named her one of the 100 most influential people, under the “Heroes” category. Her life story was also adapted into the Emmy award-winning HBO movie Temple Grandin.

The World Needs ALL Kinds of Minds

“I’m interested in helping individuals be everything they can be.” –Temple Grandin

1 in 68 U.S. children has been identified with an autism spectrum disorder (ASD).

ASD is a very broad label that most people don’t understand very well, and that does a disservice to those diagnosed. This one label can apply to a Silicon Valley computer programmer, an artist, a college professor, or someone unable to dress themselves… and that’s a real problem.

In Dr. Grandin’s book, The Autistic Brain, she attempts to expand that label and uses neuroimaging to illustrate the different ways that people think:

• The artistic, visual mind (like Dr. Grandin)
• The mathematical, pattern-oriented mind
• The word-oriented, verbal mind

Dr. Grandin’s TED Lecture, "The World Needs ALL Kinds of Minds," shares her unique ability to “think in pictures,” and how that ability helps her solve problems differently. In the process, she makes the case that the world needs people on the autism spectrum: visual thinkers, pattern thinkers, verbal thinkers, and all kinds of smart geeky kids.

A caring mother, good teachers, and great mentors offered Dr. Grandin opportunities to learn valuable skills and develop her visual mind. Unfortunately, many individuals on the spectrum aren’t given these opportunities, so Dr. Grandin continues to advocate for better education that focuses on a child’s strengths and encourages their potential contributions.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“Take a kid’s strengths, build on that strength, and turn it into a career that the individual is going to enjoy as an adult … I just want to see kids that are different get out and become everything that they can be, and have a satisfying career.”

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Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

• Learn more about autism at TempleGrandin.com
• Watch: "The World Needs ALL Kinds of Minds"
• Read Dr. Grandin’s books:

• The Autistic Brain: Helping Different Kinds of Minds Succeed

• Thinking in Pictures, Expanded Edition: My Life with Autism

• Animals in Translation: Using the Mysteries of Autism to Decode Animal Behavior

• Animals Make Us Human: Creating the Best Life for Animals

• Unwritten Rules of Social Relationships: Decoding Social Mysteries Through the Unique Perspectives of Autism

Today our expert guest is Marc Bell, whose fascinating entrepreneurial journey has led to an incredibly powerful mission: bringing attention to the issue of child homelessness that exists in our own backyard.

Although Marc’s dad said there was no future in computers, Marc’s first entrepreneurial venture, in 1989, was Chairman and CEO of of the Globix Corporation, an early internet infrastructure company with over 28,000 miles of fiber and 1 million square feet of Data Center Space. They were at the forefront of technology; they were one of the first companies to do live video on the internet.

Marc later moved into venture capital work, investing in everything from the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Jersey Boys to pizza restaurants to FriendFinder Networks.

Fostering 70 Kids After Hurricane Irma

Although Marc has been busy as a venture capitalist, you may be more familiar with him from making headlines earlier in 2017:

• “'An abundance of love': Millionaire opens home to 70 foster kids after Irma”
• “Florida Couple Who Opened Their Mansion to 70 Foster Kids During Irma Continues to Help: ‘We’re Not Stopping’”
• “Real-life Daddy Warbucks? Millionaire hosts 70 foster kids in mansion after Irma”

Marc always tried to give back, but now he’s investing most of his time into the SOS Children’s Village.

The individuals participating in Children’s Village take care of kids whose parents are deceased, incarcerated, or incapable of being with their children. They house them, feed them, clothe them, and help them pursue education – they even have a 100% high school graduation rate and a 100% acceptance rate into college or vocational school.

After Hurricane Irma, Marc put out a call to action and encouraged others to come help. Over 150 people came to help, and he has been able to raise about $150,000 so far.

How You Can Help Make a Difference:

• Volunteer at SOS Children’s Village or any other foster care organization around the country.
• Talk to your elected officials and keep reminding them that child homelessness is an issue that needs to be addressed, because these kids don’t have a voice in politics.
• Donate at SOSFlorida.com or gofundme.com/SOSIrma.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If everyone were to just be nice and help one person a day, the world would just be a much more phenomenal place.”

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Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

• Help make a difference by donating:
• SOSFlorida.com
• gofundme.com/SOSIrma
• Connect with Marc: MarcBell.com | Twitter | LinkedIn

Today our expert guest is Marc Bell, whose fascinating entrepreneurial journey has led to an incredibly powerful mission: bringing attention to the issue of child homelessness that exists in our own backyard.

Although Marc’s dad said there was no future in computers, Marc’s first entrepreneurial venture, in 1989, was Chairman and CEO of of the Globix Corporation, an early internet infrastructure company with over 28,000 miles of fiber and 1 million square feet of Data Center Space. They were at the forefront of technology; they were one of the first companies to do live video on the internet.

Marc later moved into venture capital work, investing in everything from the Tony Award-winning Broadway musical Jersey Boys to pizza restaurants to FriendFinder Networks.

Fostering 70 Kids After Hurricane Irma

Although Marc has been busy as a venture capitalist, you may be more familiar with him from making headlines earlier in 2017:

• “'An abundance of love': Millionaire opens home to 70 foster kids after Irma”
• “Florida Couple Who Opened Their Mansion to 70 Foster Kids During Irma Continues to Help: ‘We’re Not Stopping’”
• “Real-life Daddy Warbucks? Millionaire hosts 70 foster kids in mansion after Irma”

Marc always tried to give back, but now he’s investing most of his time into the SOS Children’s Village.

The individuals participating in Children’s Village take care of kids whose parents are deceased, incarcerated, or incapable of being with their children. They house them, feed them, clothe them, and help them pursue education – they even have a 100% high school graduation rate and a 100% acceptance rate into college or vocational school.

After Hurricane Irma, Marc put out a call to action and encouraged others to come help. Over 150 people came to help, and he has been able to raise about $150,000 so far.

How You Can Help Make a Difference:

• Volunteer at SOS Children’s Village or any other foster care organization around the country.
• Talk to your elected officials and keep reminding them that child homelessness is an issue that needs to be addressed, because these kids don’t have a voice in politics.
• Donate at SOSFlorida.com or gofundme.com/SOSIrma.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“If everyone were to just be nice and help one person a day, the world would just be a much more phenomenal place.”

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Thank you for joining us on The Daily Helping with Dr. Shuster. Subscribe to the show on iTunes, Stitcher, or Google Play to download more food for the brain, knowledge from the experts, and tools to win at life.

Resources:

• Help make a difference by donating:
• • SOSFlorida.com
  • gofundme.com/SOSIrma
• Connect with Marc: MarcBell.com | Twitter | LinkedIn

Today our expert guest is… Super Woman? No, it’s Alissa Daire-Nelson! But it’s an easy mistake to make - and she believes that you have superpowers too.

Alissa is an accomplished Success Coach, Speaker, host of the Maximize Your Strengths podcast, and the author of the new book From Frustrated to Frickin' Awesome: 4 Steps to Achieve the Success You're Wired For.

Above all, Alissa is an exceedingly proud wife and mother of two who loves helping others discover how to make their relationships and businesses thrive in harmony.

StrengthsFinder

Alissa’s journey began when she discovered StrengthsFinder, a psychometric tool that Dr. Donald Clifton created through 40 years of research. He comes from the field of positive psychology and, basically, thought people could live happier lives if they focused on what was right with them, as opposed to what was “wrong” with them.

The assessment is a tool for identifying your innate talents, but it is only a tool - it won’t have a significant impact on your life unless you know how to use it. These talents don’t become your strengths until you are using them in a way that gives you energy and serves other people.

Learning how to use the tool by yourself can be difficult, though... and hiring a coach can be prohibitively expensive. That’s why Alissa started the Maximize Your Strengths podcast: she wanted to provide a resource that helps people more easily use this new tool.

You’re awesome, I’m awesome, and we can be even more awesome together.

As StrengthsFinder users gain more insight about themselves, they’re also better able to relate to others. Alissa really wants to help people understand that you shining bright doesn't diminish anyone else’s light.

“You shining bright does not have to detract from anyone else shining bright”

There’s a common fallacy that we should strive to be well-rounded individuals, but we can’t be good at everything - it’s just not possible. When we let go of that idea, we can work together to maximize everyone’s brightness.

From Frustrated to Frickin' Awesome: 4 Steps to Achieve the Success You're Wired For

“When you feel good about you, you’re able to provide more honor and grace to those around you.”

The 4 Steps:

1. Know thyself. Understand where you thrive, where you don’t, and internalize how awesome you are.
2. Create a plan. Now that you know yourself, create a plan around that.
3. Carry out that plan.
4. Reflect on what worked, what didn’t work, and what you learned about yourself. Rinse and repeat.

If you continually repeat those four steps you will continue to improve, and the best part is that you’ll never be done learning about yourself.

The Biggest Helping: Today’s Most Important Takeaway

“You are unique, and you’re uniquely awesome - that in and of itself should make you stand taller and live brighter. Spend some time figuring out what those things are because you’re worth it, and you didn’t end up on this planet by accident.”

Daily Helping listeners can get From Frustrated to Frickin' Awesome for FREE right here.

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Resources:

• Learn more about Alissa at Daire2Succeed.com
• Connect with Alissa: Facebook |
• TwitterLearn more about StrengthsFinder