#570: Charlene DeCesare and Mitchell Levy on Thought Leader Life Credibility Episode

Making sales fun and easy by creating meaningful connections. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Charlene DeCesare (https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleneignites/), who is the CEO and founder of a unique sales advisory firm and fire walk sales. She is also a sales advisor, speaker, author, and a fractional VP of Sales.

Charlene is the creator of the Firewalk Sales System and she’s also a Principal Advisor & Outsourced VP of Sales with Sidehill Consulting Group, powered by Sales Xceleration. She assesses and solves all of the sales issues that prevent organizations from consistently achieving growth goals. As a Professional Member of the National Speakers Association and certified Brain-Based Success Coach, Charlene is also able to “ignite” any size audience with motivation, energy, and enlightened engagement.

If you’re a business owner and you think #Sales is hard, you should reach out to Charlene DeCesare by visiting her website at https://charleneignites.com.

Here are a couple of AHA messages from this episode:

* Business owners who feel that #Sales are just really hard, you should reach out to Charlene DeCesare by visiting her website at https://charleneignites.com or through Twitter at @CharleneIgnites.

* My clients are really those CEOs, founders, business owners who are delivering high value services and they just really need help on making the revenue growth process easier. #Sales https://linkedin.com/in/charleneignites @CharleneIgnites

* I help them connect better with the people that they serve. I help them with their messaging and then also make sure that they have a process that is scalable and sustainable over time. #Sales https://linkedin.com/in/charleneignites @CharleneIgnites

* The highest level of credibility comes from seeing my clients actually be successful. #Sales https://linkedin.com/in/charleneignites @CharleneIgnites

* My goal is to make #Sales fun and easy. https://linkedin.com/in/charleneignites@CharleneIgnites

To view the video interview click here.

#571: Nadene Joy and Mitchell Levy on Thought Leader Life Credibility Episode

Getting unstuck by overcoming past blocks and discovering your purpose. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Nadene Joy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadene-joy-227026138/), who is a CEO, leadership and mindset strategist, speaker, mental health specialist, life parenting, business coach, NLP practitioner, chair founder of The Global Lead 2 Impact Summit, visionary and author.

Prior to her role now, Nadene Joy worked as a top oil executive. She is the author of the book “Uncover Your Purpose: Heal and Share Your Gifts With The World”. Nadene is an expert in her field and has worked with some of the most prolific top leaders of our time including John Maxwell, Gary Coxe, and Brett Figueroa. She is a true one-of-a-kind visionary and has the unique God-given gift of pinpointing and healing blocks from negative past experiences and traumas that people may have in their life which is keeping them stuck from experiencing the life and business success they desire.

If you are a business professional who is stuck and would like to expand who you really are,

#570: Charlene DeCesare and Mitchell Levy on Thought Leader Life Credibility Episode

Making sales fun and easy by creating meaningful connections. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Charlene DeCesare (https://www.linkedin.com/in/charleneignites/), who is the CEO and founder of a unique sales advisory firm and fire walk sales. She is also a sales advisor, speaker, author, and a fractional VP of Sales.

Charlene is the creator of the Firewalk Sales System and she’s also a Principal Advisor & Outsourced VP of Sales with Sidehill Consulting Group, powered by Sales Xceleration. She assesses and solves all of the sales issues that prevent organizations from consistently achieving growth goals. As a Professional Member of the National Speakers Association and certified Brain-Based Success Coach, Charlene is also able to “ignite” any size audience with motivation, energy, and enlightened engagement.

If you’re a business owner and you think #Sales is hard, you should reach out to Charlene DeCesare by visiting her website at https://charleneignites.com.

Here are a couple of AHA messages from this episode:

* Business owners who feel that #Sales are just really hard, you should reach out to Charlene DeCesare by visiting her website at https://charleneignites.com or through Twitter at @CharleneIgnites.

* My clients are really those CEOs, founders, business owners who are delivering high value services and they just really need help on making the revenue growth process easier. #Sales https://linkedin.com/in/charleneignites @CharleneIgnites

* I help them connect better with the people that they serve. I help them with their messaging and then also make sure that they have a process that is scalable and sustainable over time. #Sales https://linkedin.com/in/charleneignites @CharleneIgnites

* The highest level of credibility comes from seeing my clients actually be successful. #Sales https://linkedin.com/in/charleneignites @CharleneIgnites

* My goal is to make #Sales fun and easy. https://linkedin.com/in/charleneignites@CharleneIgnites

To view the video interview click here.

#571: Nadene Joy and Mitchell Levy on Thought Leader Life Credibility Episode

Getting unstuck by overcoming past blocks and discovering your purpose. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Nadene Joy (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadene-joy-227026138/), who is a CEO, leadership and mindset strategist, speaker, mental health specialist, life parenting, business coach, NLP practitioner, chair founder of The Global Lead 2 Impact Summit, visionary and author.

Prior to her role now, Nadene Joy worked as a top oil executive. She is the author of the book “Uncover Your Purpose: Heal and Share Your Gifts With The World”. Nadene is an expert in her field and has worked with some of the most prolific top leaders of our time including John Maxwell, Gary Coxe, and Brett Figueroa. She is a true one-of-a-kind visionary and has the unique God-given gift of pinpointing and healing blocks from negative past experiences and traumas that people may have in their life which is keeping them stuck from experiencing the life and business success they desire.

If you are a business professional who is stuck and would like to expand who you really are,

It’s time to get a little meta. We’re still thinking about trends for 2021 over here at Spin Sucks and something at the top of a lot of minds in our community and elsewhere is… podcasts.

Now, you and I are clearly well ahead of the trend—you’re listening to our podcast right now. And I am the host or co-host of three podcasts. Now that I say that out loud, I realize I might have a problem. 

More and more people in the communications (and every other) industry have been joining the podcast rage, and that means that there are innovations, changes, and new opportunities coming our way. 

Somewhere around a flipping decade ago, Martin Waxman invited Joe Thornley and me to co-host Inside PR, a podcast started by Terry Fallis and Dave Jones. It was all pretty new back then. Podcasts were few and far between. It’d be at least three years before Serial was published, making podcasting a household name. At the time, it was just something for me to do with two really smart communicators who I got to talk to every week. Then it began to explode. As much as a podcast about communications can explode.

A couple of years ago, I added this podcast. And then Chip Griffin and I added the Agency Leadership podcast two summers ago.

It’s always fun to talk to someone on the phone or meet them at an event and have them say, “You’re in my ears every week! I feel like I know you!” Plus, it’s really good for business. I can point to at least five clients we work with that found us through podcasting.

So yeah, I’m sort of all in on podcasting. 

And so is One Stone Creative, the agency we use to produce this very podcast. So much so, in fact, they created an entire report on how to use podcasts as part of a broader content marketing strategy. 

They looked at what the top 100 shows in the world are doing around the length of a show, whether or not to invite guests, how often to release episodes, what kind of show notes to include, and where it should be promoted.

On today’s Spin Sucks podcast episode, we’re going to talk about podcasts—whether or not you should have one and, if so, how to construct it so you don’t sound like everyone else. So meta!

Let’s take a look at what One Stone learned in their State of the Business Podcasting report.

Resources Included

* Inside PR

* Agency Leadership podcast

* One Stone Creative

* Spin Sucks Community

* The State of the Business Podcasting report

It’s time to get a little meta. We’re still thinking about trends for 2021 over here at Spin Sucks and something at the top of a lot of minds in our community and elsewhere is… podcasts.

Now, you and I are clearly well ahead of the trend—you’re listening to our podcast right now. And I am the host or co-host of three podcasts. Now that I say that out loud, I realize I might have a problem. 

More and more people in the communications (and every other) industry have been joining the podcast rage, and that means that there are innovations, changes, and new opportunities coming our way. 

Somewhere around a flipping decade ago, Martin Waxman invited Joe Thornley and me to co-host Inside PR, a podcast started by Terry Fallis and Dave Jones. It was all pretty new back then. Podcasts were few and far between. It’d be at least three years before Serial was published, making podcasting a household name. At the time, it was just something for me to do with two really smart communicators who I got to talk to every week. Then it began to explode. As much as a podcast about communications can explode.

A couple of years ago, I added this podcast. And then Chip Griffin and I added the Agency Leadership podcast two summers ago.

It’s always fun to talk to someone on the phone or meet them at an event and have them say, “You’re in my ears every week! I feel like I know you!” Plus, it’s really good for business. I can point to at least five clients we work with that found us through podcasting.

So yeah, I’m sort of all in on podcasting. 

And so is One Stone Creative, the agency we use to produce this very podcast. So much so, in fact, they created an entire report on how to use podcasts as part of a broader content marketing strategy. 

They looked at what the top 100 shows in the world are doing around the length of a show, whether or not to invite guests, how often to release episodes, what kind of show notes to include, and where it should be promoted.

On today’s Spin Sucks podcast episode, we’re going to talk about podcasts—whether or not you should have one and, if so, how to construct it so you don’t sound like everyone else. So meta!

Let’s take a look at what One Stone learned in their State of the Business Podcasting report.

Resources Included

* Inside PR

* Agency Leadership podcast

* One Stone Creative

* Spin Sucks Community

* The State of the Business Podcasting report

#566: Dr. Doug Firebaugh and Mitchell Levy on Thought Leader Life Credibility Episode

Understanding the struggles of entrepreneurs and overcoming them to achieve extraordinary results. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Dr. Doug Firebaugh (https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougfirebaugh/), who is the Chief Executive Officer at WealthFuel Home Business Training. He is also a coach, speaker, author, radio talk show host and a thought leader.

Dr. Doug Firebaugh has been in the profession for 34 years. He produced/catalyzed 3 BILLION in volume. He has coached and trained forty-nine #1 earners to date. He consulted with dozens of Presidents and CEOs of Direct Sales Companies.

If you recognize that you’re struggling on getting results as an entrepreneur, you should reach out to Dr. Doug Firebaugh by visiting his website at https://wealthfuel.com or https://linkedin.com/in/dougfirebaugh.

Here are a couple of AHA messages from this episode:

* Entrepreneurs who are struggling to get #Results should reach out to Dr. Doug Firebaugh by visiting his website at https://wealthfuel.com or through Twitter at @DougFirebaugh.

* Entrepreneurship is a journey full of struggles. What happens with many entrepreneurs is not only do they struggle in getting results, but they have a tendency to stay in that position. https://linkedin.com/in/dougfirebaugh @DougFirebaugh

* If you’re not producing #Results, then you’re not going to be in business for long. https://linkedin.com/in/dougfirebaugh @DougFirebaugh

* Always show up to serve the masses – to serve them with your heart, not just your mind. When you do that, you will have a huge impact. #Resuts #Struggle https://linkedin.com/in/dougfirebaugh @DougFirebaugh

* There have been some amazing things that we’ve been able to accomplish. The most important would be being able to get people to where they want to be with their business. #Results #Struggle https://linkedin.com/in/dougfirebaugh @DougFirebaugh

To view the video interview click here.

#567: Andrea Feinberg and Mitchell Levy on Thought Leader Life Credibility Episode

The process of discovering the obstacles that gets in the way. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Andrea Feinberg (https://www.linkedin.com/in/andreafeinberg/), who is the President at Coaching Insight LLC. She has more than 25 years experience helping clients articulate, achieve and exceed their goals.

Andrea is a graduate of New York University’s Stern School of Business (Marketing). She achieved designations of Certified Strategic Business Leadership Coach, Certified Facilitator-Coach, Certified Professional Behavioral Analyst, Certified Professional Speaker and Certified Emotional Intelligence Mentor through EQ. She also published or contributed to 6 books including “Time Junkie: 101 Tips for Biz Owners to Get More Time NOW”, “The Essential Coaching Book” and “Productivity”, published by Doodle.com.

If you recognize that you’re working your butt off but not getting to where you need to go, you should reach out to Andrea Feinberg by visiting her website at https://bossonthebeach.com/  or https://linkedin.

#562: Tim Hagen and Mitchell Levy on Thought Leader Life Credibility Episode

Increase the trust level in your organization for talent development and retention. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Tim Hagen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhagen/), keynote speaker, trainer, and President of Progress Coaching where he is the premier workplace coaching expert teaching organizations and leaders how to coach to drive and retain top talent. He also leads and speaks at the Coaching Conversation Podcast and is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, which is a select group of coaches in the country selected by Forbes Magazine.

Tim is the leader in coaching and training reinforcement where he helps companies decrease traditional training costs and build engaging work cultures. His work includes keynote speaking and projects, helping publicly traded companies , professional sports teams, large service, and manufacturing companies drive success through coaching.

If your employees are lacking leadership and engagement, consider reaching out to Tim Hagen by visiting his websites http://ProgressCoachingLeader.com and https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhagen/.

Here are a couple of AHA messages from this episode:

* Business owners with a lack of trust in engagement inside their organization should reach out to Tim Hagen. https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhagen/

* The fundamental problem in many organizations is the lack of trust. If you don’t have this, in essence, you have nothing. How do you address this concern? #ConversationalLeadership http://ProgressCoachingLeader.com @TimHagen

* I can bring expert knowledge and a history of providing custom, tailored workforce skill development programs with my perceived credibility in employee engagement initiatives to meet the unique needs in your team. #ConversationalLeadership https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhagen/

* If you’re a support manager, I can teach you in your endeavors such as in the way you schedule time with your employees to coach, motivate, and inspire your people. #ConversationalLeadership http://ProgressCoachingLeader.com @TimHagen

* Do you have employees falling behind the excuse of “I don’t have time?” Or maybe you find yourself with the same excuse, too? I can position you and your team to build engagement through #ConversationalLeadership. http://ProgressCoachingLeader.com @TimHagen

To view the video interview click here.

#563: Robert Pizzini and Mitchell Levy on Thought Leader Life Credibility Episode

Gain superior executive level competency and confidence in lifelong leadership. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Robert Pizzini (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-pizzini-70a27715/), award-winning CEO, consultant, speaker, retired US Navy and bronze star recipient, managing partner and chief executive officer of iFly Virginia Beach Indoor Skydiving, and founder of Elevate Your Leadership. He’s an unconventional mentor to many, a leadership coach and a high energy speaker who helps to develop and advance leaders at all levels in a most genuine manner.

Robert is passionate in refreshing and energizing leaders for the re...

#562: Tim Hagen and Mitchell Levy on Thought Leader Life Credibility Episode

Increase the trust level in your organization for talent development and retention. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Tim Hagen (https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhagen/), keynote speaker, trainer, and President of Progress Coaching where he is the premier workplace coaching expert teaching organizations and leaders how to coach to drive and retain top talent. He also leads and speaks at the Coaching Conversation Podcast and is a member of the Forbes Coaches Council, which is a select group of coaches in the country selected by Forbes Magazine.

Tim is the leader in coaching and training reinforcement where he helps companies decrease traditional training costs and build engaging work cultures. His work includes keynote speaking and projects, helping publicly traded companies , professional sports teams, large service, and manufacturing companies drive success through coaching.

If your employees are lacking leadership and engagement, consider reaching out to Tim Hagen by visiting his websites http://ProgressCoachingLeader.com and https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhagen/.

Here are a couple of AHA messages from this episode:

* Business owners with a lack of trust in engagement inside their organization should reach out to Tim Hagen. https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhagen/

* The fundamental problem in many organizations is the lack of trust. If you don’t have this, in essence, you have nothing. How do you address this concern? #ConversationalLeadership http://ProgressCoachingLeader.com @TimHagen

* I can bring expert knowledge and a history of providing custom, tailored workforce skill development programs with my perceived credibility in employee engagement initiatives to meet the unique needs in your team. #ConversationalLeadership https://www.linkedin.com/in/timhagen/

* If you’re a support manager, I can teach you in your endeavors such as in the way you schedule time with your employees to coach, motivate, and inspire your people. #ConversationalLeadership http://ProgressCoachingLeader.com @TimHagen

* Do you have employees falling behind the excuse of “I don’t have time?” Or maybe you find yourself with the same excuse, too? I can position you and your team to build engagement through #ConversationalLeadership. http://ProgressCoachingLeader.com @TimHagen

To view the video interview click here.

#563: Robert Pizzini and Mitchell Levy on Thought Leader Life Credibility Episode

Gain superior executive level competency and confidence in lifelong leadership. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Robert Pizzini (https://www.linkedin.com/in/robert-pizzini-70a27715/), award-winning CEO, consultant, speaker, retired US Navy and bronze star recipient, managing partner and chief executive officer of iFly Virginia Beach Indoor Skydiving, and founder of Elevate Your Leadership. He’s an unconventional mentor to many, a leadership coach and a high energy speaker who helps to develop and advance leaders at all levels in a most genuine manner.

Robert is passionate in refreshing and energizing leaders for the re...

You know what you know – and if you’re lucky, you know what you don’t know. But do you know what affects what you know without you knowing it?

Try saying THAT five times fast! It’s a mouthful. Lots of “knows” in there! 

This might be easier: do you ever sit back and think about where your knowledge, decisions, and understanding are coming from—and if all of that information is accurate?

We all have internal biases and are prone to errors in decision making. So do the people we work with.

And that means we often don’t know everything we really NEED to know about a situation we’re developing a plan for.

This is how the things going on inside our heads, and the things we have nothing to do with can influence the quality and success of our communications plans. Plus, we have to know how to mitigate the damage it can cause.

There are a whole lot of categories of things we don’t know. My personal list includes astrophysics, why it’s not legal to hunt squirrels for sport, and the economics of high-end children’s clothing.

Narrowing it down would be helpful now; we’re talking about how the things we don’t know relate to our communications strategy, after all. That means both our internal biases and the external factors that can throw us for a loop when we don’t stay aware that we don’t know everything. I mean, unless you’re me because my kid is still young enough to think I know everything. 

This happens a lot in politics and around the coronavirus. We find things that support the way we think and poo-poo facts that support a different opinion.

It’s a problem in our personal lives—and a bigger one in our professional lives.

We have confirmation bias, the curse of knowledge, and the context from which those two things stem. And that, my friends, is what we discuss on this week’s Spin Sucks podcast episode.

You know what you know – and if you’re lucky, you know what you don’t know. But do you know what affects what you know without you knowing it?

Try saying THAT five times fast! It’s a mouthful. Lots of “knows” in there! 

This might be easier: do you ever sit back and think about where your knowledge, decisions, and understanding are coming from—and if all of that information is accurate?

We all have internal biases and are prone to errors in decision making. So do the people we work with.

And that means we often don’t know everything we really NEED to know about a situation we’re developing a plan for.

This is how the things going on inside our heads, and the things we have nothing to do with can influence the quality and success of our communications plans. Plus, we have to know how to mitigate the damage it can cause.

There are a whole lot of categories of things we don’t know. My personal list includes astrophysics, why it’s not legal to hunt squirrels for sport, and the economics of high-end children’s clothing.

Narrowing it down would be helpful now; we’re talking about how the things we don’t know relate to our communications strategy, after all. That means both our internal biases and the external factors that can throw us for a loop when we don’t stay aware that we don’t know everything. I mean, unless you’re me because my kid is still young enough to think I know everything. 

This happens a lot in politics and around the coronavirus. We find things that support the way we think and poo-poo facts that support a different opinion.

It’s a problem in our personal lives—and a bigger one in our professional lives.

We have confirmation bias, the curse of knowledge, and the context from which those two things stem. And that, my friends, is what we discuss on this week’s Spin Sucks podcast episode.

#558: Mario Martinez and Mitchell Levy on Thought Leader Life Credibility Episode

Accelerate your growth by increasing qualified conversations. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Mario Martinez (https://www.linkedin.com/in/mthreejr/), CEO, Founder, Modern Sales Evangelist, Keynote Speaker, and Host of the Modern Selling Podcast.

As a Speaker & Digital Sales Evangelist, Mario is passionate about sales. He has spent 84 consecutive quarters in sales & leadership helping to grow revenues for small to large fortune 100 sales teams. He began the Digital Sales Transformation movement in which he aims to change the rules of modern buyers. He believes that sales and marketing professionals must align their understanding to the needs of the buyers. That they must meet in their digitally connected, socially engaged, mobile attached, video-hungry preferences.

If you recognize that as a B2B sales leader, your organization is not generating the quantity or quality of quality of qualified sales conversations than it should, you might want to reach out to Mario Martinez by going to his profile at https://www.linkedin.com/in/mthreejr/ or visiting his profile at https://vengreso.com/.

Here are a couple of AHA messages from this episode:

* B2B sales leaders struggling to increase qualified conversations should reach out to Mario Martinez. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mthreejr/

* We provide virtual sales training done over a period of time with B2B sellers. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mthreejr/

* We have different solutions that we provide to clients and it’s standardized based upon actual science of how learners learn over the course of time. What we do is customize our virtual training. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mthreejr/

* We customized through our virtual sales teams to virtualize our training, the information, and context about how to engage with buyers over the digital platform and that’s our main focus. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mthreejr/

* Our main focus is digital sales training done virtually teaching sellers how to leverage these digital formats like social media, video, and create more sales qualified conversations as a result of the right engagement. https://www.linkedin.com/in/mthreejr/

To view the video interview click here.

#559: Chris Bryant and Mitchell Levy on Thought Leader Life Credibility Episode

Sprucing up fan engagement through a game-based learning and service-centric culture. This episode features #ThoughtLeader and #Expert Chris Bryant (https://www.linkedin.com/in/MrChrisBryant), is the Chief Experience Officer of Bryant Group Experience. He is also an award-winning expert, master trainer, and speaker in elevating the customer, client, and fan experience.

Chris brings years of experience working with legendary brands like Nordstrom and the Ritz Carlton Hotel Company. He works with professional sports franchises that are seeking to spruce up their fan engagement. He deploys game-based learning and programs and promotes a service-centric culture to help them not only engage their fans but to keep them coming back.

Whether you’re in a corporation or sports franchise, if you realize the need to spruce up #FanEngagement,