The Fast Leader Show | Strategy Execution & Systems Design

Roger Dooley bailed out of a good corporate job to launch a company that serviced Texas Instruments computers. After six months of operation, Texas Instruments declared they were exiting the home computer market. Finding himself needing to focus more on the survival of his business, Roger began to think differently about how to move onward and upward. Listen to how Roger got over the hump.

Lynn Hunsaker moved to Belgium without being able to speak Dutch. She found herself needing to quickly speak the language in order to build key relationships. Lynn did learn how to build her skills in Dutch quickly and later discovered that the skills she developed helped her in some unsuspecting ways. Listen to Lynn tell her story of how her new language experience helped her get over several humps in life.

John Tarnoff was the co-founder of a tech start-up in the late 1990’s. In the middle of 2001 the tech sector collapsed and John and his partner lost several deals due to the downturn. After a meeting with their lead investor, they decided to bring in someone to help them raise capital. This guy tried to help raise capital and then used it to steal the business. Listen to John tell his story of how he got over the hump and move onward and upward.

Trip Durham woke up one morning knowing he was going to receive two job offers. He knew that two recent interviews went very well and that he was going to have to make a choice. But for Trip, he decided to make the choice an easy one. He did get two job offers that day and what he did was shocking. Listen to Trip tell his story about how he decided to move onward and upward faster.

V. Lynn Hawkins was in commercial real estate and doing very well. After a few months, her boss called her in to his office and told her she was not cut out for sales, she was too nice. Lynn was hurt and questioned if she was doing things wrong, despite her success. That’s when she sought out to learn more. What Lynn learned went well beyond typical sales training. Listen to Lynn tell her story of how she got over the hump and moved onward and upward.

Jeremy Watkin threw his phone when a customer yelled at him. He argued with customers and would shoot out angry emails. Jeremy’s antics were entertaining to folks in the contact center. But Jeremy finally realized something that changed his outlook and life. Listen to Jeremy tell his story of how he got over the hump and became an industry influencer.

Chip Huth had just been to a tactical communications class and tried to use this new communications strategy, which he just learned, on his son. When the tactics that worked in class did not work on his son, Chip become very frustrated. That’s when Chip truly realized the hump he needed to get over. Listen to Chip tell his story of how he got over the hump to move onward and upward faster.

Justin Robbins graduated from High School with honors and was on his way to become a music teacher. But in his first semester in college he immediately felt lost. Justin then made a big decision to drop out which sent him on a three year journey to find his way. Listen to Justin tell his story of finding his passion and getting over the hump.

Chip Bell’s unit was in an ambush site during the Vietnam War. As an officer, Chip usually went with the unit most likely to make contact with the enemy. One night, Chip’s unit was totally surrounded by an enemy unit that was ten times the size of his unit. As the enemy began to get closer to his unit, Chip called for artillery support. What happened next was of legend. Listen to Chip tell his story of getting over the hump and what it meant in his life.

Eric Mondschein wanted to have students from the US and Canada learn international law by arguing a mock case at the United Nations. Needing to have a country sponsor him to accomplish this, Eric called the US Ambassador to the UN and was quickly dismissed. That’s when Eric did something that got him the sponsorship he wanted. Listen to Eric’s story and learn how to get over the hump to move onward and upward faster.