The Executive Edge

Episode 35

Released June 10, 2021

Caterina Kostoula is this week's guest. Caterina is the author of ‘Hold Successful Meetings’, which has already sold out on Amazon.

On the show, Caterina explains a system and process designed to improve business meetings. Called the 4D meeting framework, she recognises that many of the errors we typically find in poorly run meetings are because they lack structure. The way to start is to have an objective to work towards. ‘Why are you meeting and what do you want to achieve?’ Although this may seem simple, it is often overlooked in favour of sheer habit and requirement.

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Episode 34

Released June 3, 2021

This week the guests is Jaime Gennaro (www.practica.consulting), whose background is in her family business as well as start up’s, ad agencies and digital marketing.

On the show, Jamie discusses the importance of having the right mindset and knowing when to take risks.

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Episode 33

Released May 27, 2021

Dr Eric Plaster, who is a successful chiropractor, author, and podcaster, is this week's guest.

Eric has written several books and tells us about his theory that we could all live to be 100. Or at least, that we should take charge of our lives so that we can live as long as possible. 

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You can find out more about Eric at www.the100yearlifestyle.com

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Episode 32

Released May 20, 2021

This week's guest is emergency physician and athlete, Maureen Gibbons. Maureen runs her own business www.livehappyfirst.com and has written a book called ‘Happy First – How to win life in the moment at Home, the Gym and even in the Kitchen!”

Maureen is a busy person, working nights, juggling being a mom with her work and the multiple tasks a working mother must do. She’s also a triathlete and cares about her physique, health, and fitness. She’s worked out what she needs in order to manage all these demands. That is to be mindful of her nutrition, because she knows it helps her.

On the show, Maureen discusses how jugging multiple things to do in life – whether at a Hospital and home – has its similarities to running a business and a home.

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Episode 30

May 5, 2021

Brenton Webber is an expert in ensuring business achieves a positive customer experience. In this interview, he explains how he feels it’s desirable to do that. Business has long been transactional in nature as inevitably, something is bought or sold. However, he feels those company’s that pay attention to the customer journey, are more successful. Two examples supported this quickly. The first, is that customer driven companies are 1.9 times more likely to acquire new customers, and his story of a coffee shop proved his point well.

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Episode 29

Released April 29, 2021

This week's guest is international dating coach Lily Walford, who together with her parter, started Love with Intelligence.

On the show, Lily and Sue discuss how she began her business and how she came to realise many of us need help in this area.

Relationships are vital to all of us, but personal connections aren’t an automatically easy thing to get right. Many of us are attracted to someone but may not be able to ‘read’ when we’ve made a poor match.  Or, we get in to the process of dating, but don’t pick up the warning signs. Lily did this herself so really understands how mistakes happen.

For the full show notes, visit the blog post that accompanies this episode.

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Episode 28

April 22, 2021

Eddie Campa, this week's guest, has a background in law enforcement where he spent 20+ years both in Deputy roles and as Chief of Police

He later went on to start two businesses of his own, becoming a thought leader, speaker, and author on the topic of Leadership.

Eddie’s success as a Chief of Police was to bring together disparate or minority factions where they were disillusioned, and life was tough. 

On the show, he discusses how this experience has fed into his business ventures. 

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Episode 27

Released April 15, 2021

Caroline Boudreaux started out over 20 years ago when she and a friend decided to travel. During their trip, they visited a young boy her friend had sponsored. Although Caroline was originally sceptical, she ended up experiencing a heartfelt moment that has driven her life ever since. She believed the best thing she could do was to save as many children as possible from this kind of life. In so doing, she enabled many to be adopted. 

For more about Caroline's story, check out the show notes.

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Episode 26

Released April 8, 2021

This week's guest is Betsy Kauffman, a coach, speaker, author and TED talk presenter.

Betsy's TED talk, 4 ways to kickstart honest conversations at work, has been watched by over 1,000,000 people! This provides the starting point for what is an interesting conversation about the ways in which we can be honest when talking and overcome our anxiety and lack of confidence.

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Episode 25

Released April 1, 2021

David Trotter, a Business Growth Consultant who has built several businesses as well as having been a Pastor for the last 10 years, is the guest on this week's show.

Based in California and running three parts to his business, David talks about the work he has been doing helping women. In particular, he describes a simple, but effective, four stage process he teaches people to help them succeed. 

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