Welcome to the Success Finder Podcast! “I am going to remove friends.” I keep seeing this post in different platforms. For those individuals that are saying they want to remove friends, what do they really want? They added them in the first place but now they want to remove them.

[00:00 – 01:36] What I am starting to see?

• Building over at the Success Finder based off of intent, intentions and results.
• I'm gonna remove friends. I'm down this amount of friends.”
• What I truly see is you added the individuals, you broke the intent        

[01:37 – 02:37] Results you want when you remove your friends       

• Real reason for removing friends      
• You want people to comment so you know that they're your true friends

[02:38 – 03:42] Is it a window or mirror?

• A lot of the times we're looking out that window and it's really a mirror
• Don't tell people you're going to go do it. Just do the blessed thing.
• Be the bigger person.

Tweetable Quote:

“If it is a distraction to you, don't tell people you're going to go do it. Just do the blessed thing.”-Brandon Straza

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It’s time to Stand Up, Show Up, and Level Up! Download The Success Finder on Apple and Google Play Store.

You can connect with me, Brandon Straza, on LinkedIn, Instagram, or send me an email at [email protected]. I’d love to get in touch and talk more about personal development and how you can live past and beyond your limits.

Welcome to the Success Finder Podcast! Are our accomplishments really accomplishments if we don't post about it? Social media has good intentions when it was born but it becomes a medium for social comparison. Social media loves the comparison. We're using it to seek feedback instead of gathering knowledge or insight to connect quickly rather than meaningfully. For business leaders, rise above the noise. Here are some things to help you when a client wants to promote their services, connect with their audiences, and grow their social network.

 [00:00-01:29] Social media

• Social media was born with the best of intentions. 
• It provides virtually unlimited access and connectivity to our friends, global businesses, media outlets, and information.
• Association between greater social media use, and higher rates of depression, and anxiety.
• Most obvious side effect of social media overuse is the tendency for unfair comparison

[01:30-03:18] Social comparison     

• Social comparison is a form of sociological self-esteem, where we derive our sense of self, through comparing ourselves with others.        
• Social media thrives on comparison.
• Social media becomes a vehicle for validation and comparative thinking.

[03:19-04:37] Rise above the noise as a business leader

• Give your clients and community the option to step away from the swirling chaos of social media.  
• Provide a safe, quiet space, where true honesty, discovery, and growth is possible.
• Eliminate the option for comparison and promote the option for authentic communication.

Tweetable Quote:

“Social media is no longer a content medium or sharing method. Rather, it's become a vehicle for validation and comparative thinking.”-Brandon Straza

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It’s time to Stand Up, Show Up, and Level Up! Download The Success Finder on Apple and Google Play Store.

You can connect with me, Brandon Straza, on LinkedIn, Instagram, or send me an email at [email protected]. I’d love to get in touch and talk more about personal development and how you can live past and beyond your limits.

Welcome to the Success Finder Podcast! Do your clients want to buy what you’re selling? What do they really want? What they want is far more simple. Your clients want a way out of their problems. Let’s find out some basic questions that a coach or leader should be able to answer so they can help their clients. It is very critical that a coach or a leader can answer these questions.

 [00:00-01:42] Clients' way out    

• Your clients have no desire to buy what you're selling.
• They want a way out of their problems.
• The individuals who just hired you don't need your avant-garde algorithm.

[01:43-03:06] Basic questions for clients offering

• What is the problem you're solving?    
• What happens if you don't solve it?
• What happens if you do solve it?
• How does this problem affect your client's overall well-being?
• Your clients care that you have the ability to solve their problems. 

Tweetable Quote:

"The more intimately and precisely you understand your clients' pain points, the more likely they are to trust you, trust the process and stay with you long term." -Brandon Straza

“People don't care about your certifications, your qualifications, your education or even your impressive track record. They care that you have the ability to solve their problem.” -Brandon Straza

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It’s time to Stand Up, Show Up, and Level Up! Download The Success Finder on Apple and Google Play Store.

You can connect with me, Brandon Straza, on LinkedIn, Instagram, or send me an email at [email protected]. I’d love to get in touch and talk more about personal development and how you can live past and beyond your limits.

Welcome to the Success Finder Podcast! I’m talking to my team and told them if we can have someone else deliver our content or idea. It’s just to have a different voice but the message will still be the same. Just contact me if you are interested to be that someone. In this episode, let’s talk about listening over coaching. Why is it that when we are talking to a coach or a leader in our life, we take the message differently? The best coaches, leaders, or mentors have certain characteristics that help individuals achieve the sweet spot or the moment when the true transformation takes place.

[00:00 – 00:57] Different voice deliver the message

• Let's have someone else deliver it and have a different voice.       
• The message would still be the same, but you'd be hearing it from someone else.
• if you have a way of reaching out to us, you can message me at [email protected].     

[00:58 – 02:19] Listening over coaching·        

• This goes in a lot of different domains, a lot of different arenas, in our personal, professional, in our connectivity life when it comes to listening. 
• Hearing that same message from someone who was a mentor or a coach, a leader in our life and take it completely different 
• The best coaches have a natural gift for helping people
• The art of listening objectively, and understanding that clients are the experts in their own lives

[02:20 – 03:37] Different outcomes in coaching 

• it does not assume that everyone will be equally successful following the same path.
• The outcome will most likely be different.

[03:38 – 04:44] The characteristics of the best coaches

• Coaches are trained to be objective and non-judgmental.
• A leader can create a space that fosters collaboration, curiosity, and creative problem-solving.
• Coaches lean on open-ended questions to help their clients meet their own truth

[04:45 – 05:52] The sweet spot·        

• When we feel seen, heard, and understood, our brain stops self-protecting and perfecting answers.
• We can access the situation and come up with the self-governance and solutions that ring true to us.
• That is the moment when true transformation can take place.

Tweetable Quote:

“The best coaches understand their charge is to help individuals find their own way and discover their own strengths, skills, and blind spots. -Brandon Straza

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It’s time to Stand Up, Show Up, and Level Up! Download The Success Finder on Apple and Google Play Store.

You can connect with me, Brandon Straza, on LinkedIn, Instagram, or send me an email at [email protected]. I’d love to get in touch and talk more about personal development and how you can live past and beyond your limits.

Welcome to the Success Finder Podcast! We have taken a bit of hiatus. Now, we want to get back into an intimate conversation with you. We are excited to release a new episode. For this episode, will the real influencer please stand up? The real influencers are those who inspire others with innovative ideas and help guide them toward their own realized success.

[00:00 – 01:03] Getting back after the hiatus

• Release of episodes that’s like an engine that’s simple to drive in any course        
• If you're a leader, you're a member, you're someone that wants to see results, we want to help you get to where that is.

[01:03 – 03:16] Influencers and social media 

• Influencers as teachers, community leaders, free thinkers, and the people who truly shape society
• Instagram, Twitter, Facebook offer a tantalizing promise for all user of all ages around the world       
• Social media has become a dumping ground for sponsored posts and advertising

[03:17 – 04:36] Who are the real influencers?·        

• Influencers draw their audience in by creating content that people can connect with.
• Teachers, coaches, and thought leaders are professionals at creating connections and can do it across a range of learning arenas and platforms.        
• Influencers promote education and wisdom above sales and aesthetics, impacts above followers and lasting substantial value.

Tweetable Quote:

“Perhaps it isn't the idea of “influencers” that we have a problem with, it's who we've elected to serve the role. -Brandon Straza

"Influencers draw their audience in by creating content that people can connect with. " -Brandon Straza

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It’s time to Stand Up, Show Up, and Level Up! Download The Success Finder on Apple and Google Play Store.

You can connect with me, Brandon Straza, on LinkedIn, Instagram, or send me an email at [email protected]. I’d love to get in touch and talk more about personal development and how you can live past and beyond your limits.

Welcome to the Success Finder Podcast! One of the projects that I'm a part of has a seven-year-old as its lead consultant. In this episode, let's talk about the importance of paying attention to the world around us and to the people in it, regardless of their age.

[00:00 – 00:22] Some notes I made a few months ago

• Something that happened back in January of this year
• I found my notes about that experience about how we sometimes miss what's right in front of us and I've decided I wanted to share it with you today

[00:23 - 02: 16] Missing what's right in front of us

• I'm working on a project where our lead consultant is a seven-year-old.
• Our amazing lead consultant talked about paying attention to our surroundings and other people's emotions and their surroundings.
• He plays Mario Kart and when someone bought him a big stuffed toy of Shy Guy as a gift, I ended up having to bring it on the plane to bring home to him.

[02:17 - 3:13] Moral of the story

• Learn to listen to people, no matter what their age is.
• And of course, pay attention to your surroundings.

Tweetable Quote:

"Listen to a seven-year-old. You'll be amazed at what you can accomplish by doing this." -Brandon Straza

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It’s time to Stand Up, Show Up, and Level Up! Download The Success Finder on Apple and Google Play Store.

You can connect with me, Brandon Straza, on LinkedIn, Instagram, or send me an email at [email protected]. I’d love to get in touch and talk more about personal development and how you can live past and beyond your limits.

Welcome to the Success Finder Podcast! This morning I was in a flow state, or at least what I call a flow state. Then, ten to fifteen minutes later, something happened that made me realize what could happen when two people in a conversation are in different states. Let's talk about what it could potentially mean for you when you are delivering your message. 

[00:00 – 01:02] Something That Happened To Me This Morning

• I felt like I was in a flow state
• An app called Focus@Will

[01:03 – 02:21] A Flow State

• I needed something to cut out the noise and just start flowing.
• My visual state vs my audio state
• I heard the word "eyebrows" but I thought the person I was talking to said "eyelashes."

[02:22 – 03:18] Something To Think About

• Are the people you're talking to in a visual state or in an audio state?
• Why you should not be upset when you feel they're not paying attention to you

Tweetable Quotes:

"Don't be upset when someone seems like they're not paying attention to you. They just might not be in the same state that you're trying to deliver to them." -Brandon Straza

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It’s time to Stand Up, Show Up, and Level Up! Download The Success Finder on Apple and Google Play Store.

You can connect with me, Brandon Straza, on LinkedIn, Instagram, or send me an email at [email protected]. I’d love to get in touch and talk more about personal development and how you can live past and beyond your limits.

Welcome to the Success Finder Podcast!

I have got a new word for you!  Have you ever heard about the word “intrepreneur”?  Not “entrepreneur”.  It’s a new thing and there's only one way to find out and hundreds of reasons to try.  Check it out!

[00:01 – 00:45] The Entrepreneur

• Welcome to the Show!
• My struggle with “entrepreneur”

[00:46 – 04:24] "The Intrepreneur"

• What is an entrepreneur?
• Arts of entrepreneurship
• Intrepreneur, much like the entrepreneur but not
• People working from home
• The employee and entrepreneur
• The intrepreneur’s income
• How intrepreneurs work

[04:25 – 05:00] Closing Segment 

• Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“An intrepreneur is kind of like the halfway point between being an employee and an entrepreneur.” – Brandon Straza

“Intrepreneurship also offers a lot of balance.” – Brandon Straza

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It’s time to Stand Up, Show Up, and Level Up! Download The Success Finder on Apple and Google Play Store.

You can connect with me, Brandon Straza, on LinkedIn, Instagram, or send me an email at [email protected]. I’d love to get in touch and talk more about personal development and how you can live past and beyond your limits.

Welcome to the Success Finder Podcast!

In this era, everything seems to be at a maximum volume.  And sometimes, we have to turn it a bit down.  Why?  Check this episode out!

[00:01 – 00:22] Little Listening

• Welcome to the Show!
• A growing shortage of listening

[00:23 – 01:52] Turning Down the Volume

• We have NOISE
• Why it’s not the time to turn the volume up
• Real opportunity to be heard
• Less perfectionism, confusion, criticism, distraction
• A specialized community
• What we can do to turn down the volume

[01:53 – 02:04] Closing Segment 

• Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“With little listening, there's little learning.” – Brandon Straza

“A little quiet confidence can go a long way.” – Brandon Straza

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It’s time to Stand Up, Show Up, and Level Up! Download The Success Finder on Apple and Google Play Store.

You can connect with me, Brandon Straza, on LinkedIn, Instagram, or send me an email at [email protected]. I’d love to get in touch and talk more about personal development and how you can live past and beyond your limits.

Welcome to the Success Finder Podcast!

Today we are sharing with you the latest addition to our reading list and hopefully, to yours as well.  Challenge your existing beliefs and self-imposed limitations.  Reimagine, reinvent and reorganize your business to better reach your goals.  Want to know more about it?  Check this episode out!

[00:01 – 00:36] Almost Alchemy 

• Welcome to the Show!
• Almost Alchemy by Dan Kennedy, grab your copy in the link below

[00:37 – 01:45] What We’re Reading: Almost Alchemy

• Change your map
• Change your business
• Change your life
• Knowledge is not power in 20 different ways
• Reinvent the way you think about your business
• Recognize the brutal realities

[01:46 – 02:03] Closing Segment 

• Final words

Resource Mentioned:

• Almost Alchemy

Tweetable Quotes:

“Kennedy's goals [are] as transparent as it is altruistic.” – Brandon Straza

“Your clients need your most authentic self. It's time to sit up and take notice.” – Brandon Straza

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It’s time to Stand Up, Show Up, and Level Up! Download The Success Finder on Apple and Google Play Store.

You can connect with me, Brandon Straza, on LinkedIn, Instagram, or send me an email at [email protected]. I’d love to get in touch and talk more about personal development and how you can live past and beyond your limits.