Welcome to the Success Finder Podcast!

How do you know if you’re really making an impact?  Are your numbers real?  What percentage of your numbers is significant?  How do you know if the numbers are worth your content?  Check this episode out!

[00:01 – 01:00] True Value

• Welcome to the Show!
• What is going on?

[01:01 – 03:49] What are Vanity Metrics?

• Vanity metrics are data points
• Easy to manipulate
• Lacking value
• Notoriously basic and misleading
• “You can’t pay your dinner bill with likes.”
• Actual metrics versus vanity metrics
• Why you should determine your goals before your metrics
• Track the conversion right
• Results with meaningful stories to tell

[03:50 – 04:03] Closing Segment 

• Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“For every vanity metric, there's an actionable metric.” – Brandon Straza

“Focus on your content over your following and engagement will inevitably follow.” – 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!

Online professional communities are on the rise!  Why so?  Today’s episode points out three reasons why and how online communities have gone this far.  Interested in knowing how it happens?  Check it out!

[00:01 – 00:48] Online Professional Communities

• Welcome to the Show!
• What are online professional communities?

[00:49 – 04:11] The Fast-Rising Role of Online Professional Communities

• Why online communities are on a steep incline 
• More supportive and meaningful environments
• Sharing of ideas
• Offering of skills and knowledge
• Supporting each other
• Solving problems
• Promoting movement
• Great sources for making connections, multi networking and growing your business
• Building influence
• Raising your profile
• Primary sources for valuable content tailored to suit your needs
• Feeling of belongingness
• Strengthening the community
• Boosting its perceived value

[04:10 – 04:21] Closing Segment 

• Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“Online communities for professionals are on a steep incline.” – Brandon Straza

“You've got to give value to get value.” – 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 all know that the key to achieving success in the industry is through hiring the best mentors.  And for the mentors out there, how do you become the best? Check this episode out!

[00:01 – 00:44] Your Authenticity

• Welcome to the Show!
• The key to achieving success is the industry

[00:45 – ] Growing Credibility in the Coaching Space

• How to establish your long-term credibility
• Be available
• Be consistent
• Be a life teacher
• Be daringly different
• Be a problem solver
• Remember Karpman’s Triangle

[04:37 – 05:04] Closing Segment 

• Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“There are too many experts and not enough practitioners.” – Brandon Straza

“Credibility is a natural byproduct of providing a solution.” – 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!

Hey there! Have you checked your social sugar intake recently?  In this week’s episode, we’ll talk about Facebook and its dietary impact on our lives.  Is the online world enough?  Are our screens providing the right amount of social life?  Check it out!

[00:01 – 01:01] Sweet and Sugary

• Welcome to the Show!
• Food is one of life's simplest pleasures
• We are what we eat

[01:02 – 03:26] Social Sugar

• Facebook is sugar to the body
• Overwhelmed. overstimulated, overfed 
• What consumption has affected your decision-making process?
• Why online content is irrelevant
• Inverted relationships
• Thinking requires concentration, concentration requires uninterrupted time
• Facebook severely affects memory

[03:27 – 04:02] Closing Segment 

• Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“We can mark some of life's greatest moments by the food that accompan[ies us.]” – Brandon Straza

“The consumption of the feed is irrelevant to you.” – 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!

How do you sell without selling? In this week’s episode, we're going to give you a peek at how to protect and grow your greatest asset, your reputation.  Check it out!

[00:01 – 00:31] Buffett not Buffet

• Welcome to the Show!
• A quick “schmoogle”

[00:32 – 02:07] Lessons from Buffett

• I share a favorite quote
• “It takes 20 years to build a reputation and five minutes to ruin it.”
• The reputation of your business
• Your reputation as a coach
• How to protect your reputation
• Why professional is the way to go
• Bringing positivity in the online realm

[02:08 – 02:41] Closing Segment 

• Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“Your reputation as a coach can be fragile.” – Brandon Straza

“We can't rely on past success to shield us from future problems.” – 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!

Why so serious?  Sometimes, things don’t have to be spick and span.  In this last episode of a three-part series, I’m going to tell you all about why you don’t always have to be a professional. Check it out!

[00:01 – 00:21] Part 3 of 3

• Welcome to the Show!
• I quote The Joker

[00:22 – 01:37] Can We All Stop Taking Ourselves So Seriously?

• This is who I am
• Showing up in a meeting as is
• Gone are the days of snazzy outfits and fancy language
• Authenticity is in today!
• A slip-up is not the end of the world
• How to handle a slip-up

[01:38 – 01:55] Closing Segment 

• Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“Today's clients, they want authenticity.” – Brandon Straza

“Real human beings have emotions and opinions, your clients are going to trust you.” – 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!

How do you establish your price tag?  Is there a standard way?  Are you overpriced?  Underpriced?  How sure can you be that this is the befitting value for your service?  In this second episode of a three-part series, we’re going to answer all that. Check it out!

[00:01 – 00:20] Part 2 of 3 

• Welcome to the Show!
• I ask you the questions for the week

[00:21 – 02:29] What's Your Price Tag?

• The Client’s Side
• How long does the process take?
• When can I expect results?
• How much is it going to cost me?
• Most coaches go month to month
• What is that time horizon?
• Financial commitment slash investment
• How these conversations can be made easier

[02:30 – 03:10] Closing Segment 

• Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“It's not realistic to ask a potential client how long they should financially commit to this.” – Brandon Straza

“Instead of price per session, consider creating a package for your services instead.” – 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!

What are you offering? What do your clients need? What sparks up a conversation?  In this first episode of a three-part series, we’re going to answer all that.  Check it out!

[00:01 – 0:36] Part 1 of 3

• Welcome to the Show!
• A Three-Part Series to Promote Your Coaching Services

[0:37 – 01:34] What are Your Clients' Pain Points?

• Know the problem!
• You are part of the solution
• How to help your clients get out of their own way
• I tell a story with a coach
• 24 days of my life saved!

[01:35 – 01:51] Closing Segment 

• Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“It's important to focus on your clients’ pain points.” – 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!

Ever heard of the Karpman’s Triangle?  If you haven’t, now’s definitely the right time.  Don’t be a part of the victim-villain-rescuer mentality!  Check this episode out now!

[00:01 – 01:00] Have you heard of this?

• Welcome to the Show!
• Picture a triangle upside down?

[01:01 – 02:31] Karpman's Triangle

• How often does someone want to become the rescuer?
• Without a rescuer? There is no victim.
• The creation of a persecutor
• Think about being the coach
• The fruit that attracts most people

[02:32 – 02:43] Closing Segment 

• Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“Think about being the individual that does not enable creating that victim villain rescuer mentality and don't look to be a savior. ” – Brandon Straza

“Find the person that wants to be the coach, not your savior, not your rescuer.” – 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 you a coach?  If yes, then this episode is especially for you!  Join me as I discuss how to best sell your coaching, the keys to your long-term success, and why you need an insider’s perspective.  Check it out!

[00:01 – 00:12] Opening Segment

• Welcome to the Show!
• For the coaches, who is your caddie?

[00:13 – 01:45] Who's Your Caddie

• The best way to sell your coaching
• Sell from an insider’s perspective
• The importance of a coach
• Life’s Most Important Keys in Your Long Term Success
• Just like a professional golfer and the caddy

[01:46 – 01:59] Closing Segment 

• Final words

Tweetable Quotes:

“You can't really sell coaching if you've never experienced the power of the process for yourself.” – Brandon Straza

“Your coach will be invested in your success and available to be a sounding board.” – 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.