The John Eades Podcast

“Transfer of belief is the key to leadership success”

In season 12 episode 4 we are joined by Logan Stout.  He is an accomplished business owner, philanthropist, entrepreneur, best-selling author, keynote speaker and leadership trainer. 

You can learn more about the Leadership Summit here.

In our conversation we cover:

- 3 components to be free from a worldly standpoint

- The best question any entrepreneur can ask themselves

- Why talent is overrated

- How do leaders transfer belief

- Best lessons from John Maxwell

- When is the right time to start a new business

- How to define success 

- What is harder leading at work or leading at home

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“When we decide who we want to be, we can begin to live that person out by making the choices to become that person.”

In season 12 episode 3 we are joined by Jimmy Collins. He was the 3rd employee at Chick-fil-A and is the author of Creative Followership.  In our discussion we cover:

- What is creative followership?

- What does Chick-fil-A look for in people?

- Why the boss hired you?

- What does Chick-fil-A do create a successful culture

- Why don’t most organizations copy Chick-fil-A’s culture

- How to become the person you admire

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"Sitting is the new smoking"

In season 12 episode 2 we are joined by Dr. Sean Pastuch the founder of Performance Care and Active Life RX.  He provides tangible ways for you to stay active, make better food choices, and take care of your back.  

You can follow on insta @activeliferx www.performancecarerx.com

In our conversation we cover:

- How to balance exercise and diet?

- What can professionals do to eat better?

- What can be done to take better care of back

- Should you sit or stand at work?

- What can you do to alleviate an 8 hour sitting day?

- Why leaders should just look at the revenue and results

- What people can do to find their passion

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“We are all in the relationship business”

In season 12 Episode 1 we are joined by Mac Richard.  The found of Spur Leadership, Pastor of Lake Hills Church and author of The Trust Protocol.  

You can get the book here

In our conversation we cover:

- How do you get over when trust is broken

- What is the trust protocol

- Who is responsible for building trust?

- Why owning mistakes is so important to build trust

- What can a leader do to begin building trust with a new team?

- Why authenticity is so important in building trust

- The myth of servant leadership

“Wake up everyday understanding you have the choice to do what matters in all the roles in your life”

Kel Landis is the former CEO of RBC Centura Bank and co-founder and partner at Plexus Capital. He is also the author of The Little Book of Do! His best advice? Be a doer in life and don't be afraid to take a risk. 

You can get book and learn more about Kel at http://www.littlebookofdo.com/.

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In our conversation we cover:

- What is a doer?

- The upside and downside of being a doer

- How to prioritize the things that make your to-do list every day

- How to balance being a doer

- How to find your purpose

- The power of purpose and vision statement in business and life

- Why should people take risks

- What keeps us going through tough times

- Why it’s important we all focus on human relations

"A vision doesn’t guarantee a team will get where it wants to go, but they certainly won’t get there without one."

In season 11 episode 7 I cover a topic that comes up over and over again, 'vision.'  Learn how effective you use vision as a leader by taking the Welder Leader assessment.

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In this episode we cover:  

- Why vision matters as a leader

- Great stories of near perfect vision 

- The formula for a great vision statement

- 3 things you can do to be a better visionary leader

- How to be a visionary leader when you have a remote team.

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“No matter where you come from, no matter what circumstances you had to deal with, you can still rise above and be successful.”

In season 11 episode 6 we are joined by Arkevious Armstrong.  After not one but two stints in prison, he is making his mark on the world helping redirect the path of the youth and young adults. Giving them the tools to make the right decisions. Building leaders and strengthening confidence. Changing a life one individual at a time. He believes if you're not the solution then you're part of the problem.

You can learn more about Arkevious at http://www.arkinspire.com/ or https://www.sutlnc.org/

In our conversation we cover:

- Why every person has a purpose

- Why finding your purpose is so important in life

- Why people don't tap into their potential

- Why investing in yourself is so important

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You can have similar ideas and you are taken more seriously as a man than a woman

In season 11 episode 5 we are joined by Elba Pareja Gallagher. She is the Director of Finance of Global B2C Strategy at UPS and the founder of ShowMe50.org an organization working to close the gender gap one organization at a time.

You can download the McKinsey Report Here or check out showme50.org.

In our conversation we cover:

- What is Red Ocean and Blue Ocean Strategy?

- How does a leader to be more innovative and know their opinion matters?

- What can someone on a team do to bring innovative ideas to their leader?

- What stereotypes exist between men and women in the workplace

- The state of women in the workplace

- The unconscious bias in that exists in the workplace

- What can men and women do to set people up for higher levels of success?

- Why networking is so important in your career

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“When you put your focus on your followers, they will thrive”

In season 11 episode 4 we are joined by Marcel Schwantes. He is a speaker, entrepreneur, executive coach, and syndicated columnist with global readership. His work has been featured on Inc., Time, Business Insider, Chicago Tribune. Marcel speaks passionately on the power of servant leadership and making the workplace more human. His company, Leadership from the Core, is a key player in developing servant-leadership and human-centered leadership content and training programs for companies that are 100 percent committed to creating highly engaged, democratic, and freedom-oriented work cultures that will lead to high performance and bottom-line success.

In our conversation we cover:

- What does Leadership really mean?

- Why servant leaders get great results

- How to get higher levels of discretionary effort out of your team

- How can leader do a better job of providing communication to their team

In Season 11 Episode 3 we are joined by Jason V Barger.  He is a globally celebrated Author, Speaker, Consultant, and founder of Step Back Leadership. He is a former college basketball player who now works with organizations that are passionate about Culture Change, Leadership Development, Innovation, Service, and bringing their Mission to life every day.  

Learn more about his upcoming Thermostat Cultures Live Conference in Columbus Ohio in November.

In our conversation we cover:

- Why culture is so important

- How every employee can add or subtract to company culture

- Great examples of organizational cultures

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