James chats with Bobby Herrera, the author of The Gift of Struggle, a book about leadership and the life changing lessons we learn through our struggles. He's also the co founder and president of Populus Group, with a passion for building strong culture and communities through trust and storytelling.

His leadership style is about empowerment, connections, and ensuring everybody has the opportunity to succeed. He grew up in a big family with parents who emigrated to America without very much, which isn't an uncommon story, but the leadership style and culture, company culture that it's inspired certainly is. The belief that everyone deserves the opportunity to succeed is at the core of his philosophy, in business, and in life.

They chat about authenticity and openness in leadership, telling your story, the kindness of strangers, pivotal life moments, giving back and guarding your food from 12 siblings!

Contact Bobby:

Web: https://bobby-herrera.com/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/bobbyherrera.pg/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/BobbyHerreraPG

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bobby-herrera-5781821/

James chats with John Jantsch, marketing consultant, speaker and the author of Duct Tape Marketing, The Referral Engine, Duct Tape Selling, The Commitment Engine and SEO for Growth.

His newest work, The Self Reliant Entrepreneur - 366 Daily Meditations to Feed Your Soul and Grow Your Business, taps into the wisdom of 19th century transcendentalist literature, and the author's own 30 year entrepreneurial journey to challenge today's entrepreneurs to remain fiercely self reliant while chasing their own version of success.

They discuss self reliance, living to a purpose, having four daughters, what 19th century literature can teach us today, and doing less to achieve more.

Contact John:

Email: [email protected]

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/ducttapemarketing

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ducttape

John's new book: https://ducttapemarketing.com/the-self-reliant-entrepreneur/

James chats with Gian Power who whilst working at Deutsche Bank and PwC witnessed first-hand some of the wellbeing & inclusion issues that need to be tackled in the corporate world.

In 2015, Gian’s life changed forever when his father was murdered whilst overseas. returning back to work, Gian saw the power of being able to share his emotions and being his full self at work. Recognising that everyone has a story, he wanted to encourage others to share and saw the power of storytelling.

He is the founder of TLC Lions and The Unwind Experience and is passionate about igniting emotion in the workplace, encouraging others to share and be themselves at work.

They discuss the power of emotion and storytelling at work, the ROI of diversity and inclusion, what we can learn from 5 year olds and how corporate organisations and businesses generally can benefit from meditation.

Contact Gian:

Web: www.tlclions.com

Email: [email protected]

twitter: @GianPower, @tlclions

James chats with John Attridge who started his life in Australia studying economics. And then left like all of us wondering what to do with himself did a number of different things including time as a commission based insurance salesman as well as running a very successful and then suddenly not successful car rental business in Brisbane during the World Expo. He then came across something called trade exchange - digital cashless trading, he went on to set up his own under the BBX brand in the UK and Ireland, which is now a multi million pound operation running in 14 different countries.

They discuss trade exchange, selling your spare capacity, queuing at McDonald's, scaling business, alternatives to banks and of course, great service.

Contact John:

Web: http://www.johnattridge.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/john-attridge-c-t-b-31378413/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/john.attridge.10

James chat's with Mark Sanborn, bestselling author and recognized by GlobalGurus.org as the #5 leadership expert in the world today.

Mark writes an award-winning blog and is the author of The Fred Factor which has sold more than two million copies to date and has established him as the expert on turning the ordinary into the extraordinary.

Mark is featured by Crestcom in DVD based training taught in 90 countries. He is also Leadership Expert in Residence at High Point University, The Premier Life Skills University.

His list of 2600 clients include Harley Davidson, Costco, Cisco, as well as In & Out Burger.

They discuss being like Fred, choosing to be extraordinary, using email better, rewarding and recognising success, and going the extra mile, as well as parenting and early adopting technology.

Contact Mark:

web: marksanborn.com

twitter: mark_sanborn

facebook: mark sanborn - leadership speaker

linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marksanborn/

James chats with Dawnna St Louis, one of the world's most requested motivational speakers. With a bigger than life stage presence this CEO of highprofitzone.com has transformed lives worldwide from a homeless team to a multi millionaire entrepreneur.

Her extraordinary transformation is one of the inspirations behind her bold message, helping others discover their own untapped talents and infinite potential. Today, fans worldwide revere her for a mastery of teaching people how to tap into their limitless potential. A noted successful entrepreneur, she's built an organization dedicated to helping other entrepreneurs, coaches, speakers, consultants, and experts to succeed.

They discuss business information, BluRay vs HDD, The 7 Triggers to a Yes, Aristotle, socially conscious businesses, Starbuckians, significant businesses and having a conversation.

Contact Dawnna:

www.Dawnna.com

+ 1 954.558.5999

James chats with James Osborne, who the past 16 years has been working with recruitment business leaders helping them to achieve significant growth, performance improvement and competitive advantage acting as a non executive director, consultant, trainer and strategist for numerous fast growing recruitment businesses.

He's a passionate speaker on behalf of the recruitment and staffing sector, and is the Chairman of the Recruitment Network. The fastest growing global support an advisory club for recruitment business leaders. He is also an Iron Man triathlete, which he competes in for raising money for his own personal charity.

They discuss recruitment as a service, automation and change, focusing on partnership relationships with clients, walking in the candidate's shoes, loyalty and becoming an Iron Man.

Contact James:

W. www.therecruitmentnetwork.com

T. @osborne_tweets / @TheRecNetwork1

James chats with Shep Hyken, the Chief Amazement Officer at Shep Presentations, an award winning keynote speaker and New York Times and Wall Street Journal best selling business author.

As one of the leading experts in the field of customer service and experience, he works with customers and companies who want to build loyal relationships with their customers and employees.

They discuss smart customers, convenience, being employee focused, damaged fridges, reducing friction, hailing cabs, and always being amazing.

Contact Shep:

e: [email protected]

p: + 1 314-692-2200

James chats with Anthony "Dutch" Van Someren, who after 25 years in the media industry leading creative brand and marketing in companies like MTV, Bravo, Cartoon Network, Extreme Sports Channel, Harper Collins Publishers, and then an advertising agency he changed direction and created the Bike Shed Motorcycle Club.

It started in 2011 as a blog about motorcycle culture, which launched into an annual exhibition retail and hospitality event in 2013, which celebrated its 10th event last May at the Tobacco Dock in London with 17,000 attendees. And then in 2015 opened as a full time destination venue in Shoreditch under four huge victorian railway arches, offering club level hospitality, retail, events, a barbershop, galleries, and lounge spaces to a global audience of people who love motorcycles, and people who love people who love motorcycles, and their friends, their dogs and kids.

The club, which doesn't require membership, but has about 800 members, welcomes 2400 people a week through its doors and reaches 2.4 million people a month on social media, globally. And in 2020, they're opening a 30,000 square foot venue in Los Angeles.

They discuss motorcycle culture, building tribes, mucking in and being a good parent, hiring the right people, evolving business and Captain Kirk.

Contact Dutch:

Instagram @bikeshedmc @partsandlabourbarbers

Facebook https://www.facebook.com/BikeShedMotorcycleClub/

Website thebikeshed.cc

Twitter @bikeshedmc

You Tube Bike Shed Motorcycle Club

James chats with Michael Jackson, a strategic business marketing and communications expert with over 30 years experience.

Born in Britain, and London educated and trained in business strategy development and communications. He's worked personally for business leaders such as Richard Branson and Bill Gates, as well as many other leading global businesses, including Qatar Airways, HP, Goodyear and Barclays.

Today, he's internationally sought after as a professional speaker, and also become globally renowned as a specialist on the subject of change in the business context, he's carved out an enviable reputation as one of the best business to business speakers and facilitators on the global professional speaking circuit, having addressed over 2700 conferences. Wow, across Africa, Asia, Europe, the US and Middle East, his audiences ranging from factory workers to heads of state.

He has the ability to consistently and successfully predicted detail, changing market performances, trends, and custom consumer behaviours with unerring accuracy for companies, industries and markets around the world. And all while motivating his business audiences to perform to a better personal standard.

They discuss hotels, airlines and travel tips, living in South Africa, hotel carpets, being easy to work with, motivational speaking, change, learning from China, Facebook dating and roundabouts.

Contact Michael:

Mobile: 0027 (0)83 641 5809

www.theothermichaeljackson.com

http://about.me/theothermichaeljackson

Skype:  theothermichaeljackson