Thought Leader

🙃 Some things to love and some things to hate about Long Island. 01:54

🏦 Steve’s journey from accounting and working in college to banking, consulting, and to Compel CEOs. 02:31

🤓 Randy is a recovering accountant too. 05:41

👨‍💼 Background in banking and accounting built Steve’s credibility with clientele. 06:24

⚾ As a young boy, Steve wanted to be a center fielder in baseball, captain of a ship, and cowboy. 08:13

👔 Helping clients with solving issues through board meetings, coaching sessions, and personal help from a member who already fixed the same issue. 10:58

👨‍💻 We have more reliance on virtual solutions and a need for Google search and promotion through new technologies. 13:40

👨‍👩‍👧‍👧 Helping his little girls get into business: There were no daughters in his family for 50 years. 17:18

👀 Focusing on early-stage companies and ones that are planning exits. 19:04

💼 Serious entrepreneurs vs hobbyists: building a business or building to sell. 20:07

🤝 “Giving up is truly the ultimate failure.” 23:09

😎 Supply chain issues and issues with labor and how Steve’s clients are solving it. 24:34

📈 Trend in consulting: revenue comes from non-audit services. 27:02

🛣️ Steve is helping when the road ahead is far shorter than the road behind. 30:14

Connect with Steve: www.compelceos.com

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😇 November is National Family Caregivers Month. 00:23

⭐ The Zoom wall: Joe Rogan vibe background. 01:43

🐕 Elizabeth’s memory when she was five. 03:14

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Her values for family and caring for family members. 04:49

🩹 The informal family caregivers are filling the gap in the fragmented health system. 06:34.

🤰 Elizabeth shared a job with a colleague. 08:23

😩 Caregiver’s burnout: “We can't expect these vessels to just run, run, run on adrenaline forever.” 10:08

🤗 Kent’s mom ran a caregiver support group when he was a kid. 11:21

👂 Elizabeth’s tips: self-care as a source of energy and how you can get more peace in your life. 12:54

💜 Randy was a caregiver for his wife, who was diagnosed with stage four cancer. 15:21

🧑‍⚕️ Investigate palliative care and hospice care to get some breaks for caregivers. 16:33

✋ Caregiving is a hard job, emotionally exhausting and physically draining, and finding support is essential. 19:06

🌞 Resigned from corporate to start Happy Healthy Caregiver. 20:31

✌️ “You can do hard things, but you don't have to do them alone.” 22:07

⚡ Power is in just being aware, just noticing things, and making little changes. 23:10

Connect with Elizabeth: www.happyhealthycaregiver.com

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🎨 Funky images on Shelley’s wall. 01:59

😇 Living the EOS life. 02:29

6️⃣ The six key components of each business. 03:50

😓 When an entrepreneur becomes an organizational leader that needs help. 04:46

👧 Growing up in an entrepreneurial family and a great corporate experience. 06:58

🏪 Days in the grocery store as a little girl. 08:29

⛑️ All significant business functions have to be strong, and the ability to solve issues that you come across is crucial. 09:13

💪 Focusing on your strengths and not fixing the weaknesses.. 10:26

👩‍💼 Shelley’s MBA: she is happy to have it, but all of her experience in business comes from the business directly. 12:01

✌️ Learning the mid-western values growing up in Michigan: You gotta keep growing. 14:01

🤓 She wanted to have her own training company: EOS brought her two passions together. 16:21

🎰 From a small farm town in Michigan to Vegas: starting as a radio rep in Las Vegas. 18:13

🌞 When the leadership team wants more than they're getting today. 22:19

Connect with Shelley: www.eosworldwide.com/shelley-woodro

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🌳 Greenery and woodsy atmosphere. 02:18

🏦 For Curt, banking was a great way to learn about business. 03:44

🕵️‍♂️ Evaluating the sustainability and especially the repayment ability of businesses. 04:31

😇 Naming a company LoCo. 06:04

🤔 The talent spotter: “Getting the perspective of other people into your world is really an important thing”. 07:17

🙃 LoCo Think Tank’s business model. 08:09

🐻 Lion and tiger and bear: growing in a small, liberty-loving community. 10:07

👦 Curt wanted to create a self-sustainable commune when he was younger. 12:04

🙌 Blind leading the blind: People are different in their talents and gifts. 13:53

😎 Being a facilitator, not the answer provider. 15:42

😲 “There's so much indecision and so much procrastination in small business.” 17:22

👍 English heritage of his last name. 19:42

💥 Bitcoin, the fragment of the union, and energy issues. 21:20

🧱 North Colorado as a bastion of innovation. 25:10
😇 Building a strong foundation for small business people in every community is the goal. 26:44

Connect with Curt: www.locothinktank.com

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⭐ Joey has a great map behind him. 01:00

😲 Open borders are the biggest problem in Texas. 01:46

3️⃣ Three consulting businesses Joey is running internationally. 02:21

💂 In the UK, people won't say what they mean, and Joey is very direct. 03:50

🤯 The most influential person in Joey’s life is his grandfather who cooked breakfast for Bonnie and Clyde. 06:02

💪 His granddad believed in forward-thinking. 07:55

👉 Cash is no longer in usage like before: the system is changing. 09:06

🏦 Changing how banks operate is to some degree true. 10:23

🐌 We can track every transaction that's operated on a blockchain but not each fiat transaction. 11:15

🌱 Crypto industry needs to be regulated with care and without suppressing innovation.11:36

☹️ The SEC had almost 2000 applications from companies who wanted to be regulated but without an answer. 15:05

💸 SEC has given control to the large wirehouses: they control all transactions which makes the system slow and expensive. 16:06

🙌 Tokenization and cutting down the middleman fees between transactions. 17:24

🤔 Texas is still not supporting cryptocurrency. 21:43

🤠 The Republic of Texas had its own money back in the day. 23:19

😎 For CurveBlock, the blockchain is used for transparency. 25:04

😳 Buying a property without an interest isn’t legal even if the owner says there is no interest. 26:26

😇 Blockchain as a means to secure and protect data. 27:32

🧽 Explaining blockchain to a child via SpongeBob analogy. 28:43

👨‍👨‍🦱The sector has a need for young but also experienced people to clean the media picture about the blockchain. 30:04

Connect with Joey: www.curveblock.io

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🇲🇬 Liva's name is from Madagascar; it means source of life and sprout. 02:21

🧳 Liva’s journey: Working in 13 countries, a survivor of 9/11, and moving with two suitcases. 04:27

🍇 Living in the Loire Valley in France. 08:44 

☹️ She was born in Madagascar, but that was a very traumatic period of her life. 10:19

🏫 School was a safe place for reinventing herself: She is very curious and loves learning about other cultures. 13:47

☮️ Fighting the overwhelming periods: pause and reconnect with inner peace. 18:27

✈️ Dealing with the trauma of  9/11: Trauma and calm are two sides of the same coin. 21:42

🤩 Liva’s mom's reaction when she saw her daughter had a place of her own. 25:50  

🌍 She will help anybody who wants to travel - just knock on her door.  30:13

Connect with Liva: www.livarj.com

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😇 Lights above John’s head give an aura to everything. 01:10

🚣 He is the river runner that teaches people how to hold conversations. 1:10

☝️ It is crucial to communicate clearly and effectively because it impacts personal and professional relationships. 1:42

💡 The tone is a reflection of the mind; it gives you away.  3:20

📍 Understanding yourself and what triggers you is crucial. 5:56

🎯 Principles that people have to understand, apply, and practice to hold certain types of conversations.  10:03

🏄 A whitewater guide in the Grand Canyon. 10:47

📕 The preparation principles in conversation: awareness, preparation, asking questions and engagement, and the emotional component. 12:47

👁 Understanding the dynamics of what's happening at the moment so that you can manage the conversation.15:52

 🚣 Learning to run the river in the Grand Canyon rapids: manage those dynamics to get to the end successfully. 18:58

🗣️ Learn how to communicate effectively to create a different culture and different outcomes. 21:09

Connect with John:  www.dialogueworks.com

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🌑 Robert is a space guy. His team put the first library on the Moon – 35 million pages of human history. 02:32

👨‍🚀 Space companies need to care about storytelling, not just technology. 08:25

🚀 When building the rocket, even if you have all the funding, you should research who will use it. 11:00

🛰️ Space has been open for business for several decades now. It is more developed than ever and getting cheaper. 12:00

🎴 Future is in data and solutions from space, the Moon, and blockchains. 15:07

🎶 Robert studied music, and that helps him with improvisation and social connection. 18:32

🎻 Robert still plays during the pandemic. He renegotiates with notes. 23:41

📡 How are satellites launched? Working in space companies is like a dance.  26:50

Connect with Robert: www.spaceadvisors.com

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😇 Sami is a third generation Arab American. 01:41

🙃 His life between Austin, Syria, and Lebanon. 03:13

🤝 Difference in hospitality in the US and Middle East. 05:09

🤩 Kent experiences living in Jerusalem. 06:10

🏎️ Distinction between tech culture and Middle Eastern culture. 07:16

🎶 The nexus between languages and music.09:12

🎵 The first mobile app that teaches languages exclusively through music. 11:59

🤓 Learning languages should be fun. 13:31

🤯 Learning grammar through Disney songs! 15:24

Connect with Sami: www.linkedin.com/in/samihalabi

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👓 Carol loves lively glasses. 01:38

🙃 Academic rules were too oppressive for Carol. 02:45

😻 Being in choice about who you're growing into. 03:35

🧠 Essential for the transformational journey: neuroscience. 05:22

👧 Making choices before we are actually ready. 07:48

💪 How a tough label became one of Carol’s biggest strengths. 10:00

😇 Growing up in specific connections, curiosity, and group work molded her to be who she is now. 11:41

👴 No garbage conversations: Kent also hung out with older people and loved it. 13:17

👍 Thumb sucking: Realising what true support was from people who aren't your parents. 14:37

🤗 Leadership and team coaching is like a journey with people who are really there for you. 16:30

😞 Successful women are in self-doubt and self-sabotage. 18:28

👠 I have finally learned how to do this job and not give a shit. 20:36

😵‍💫 When you’re caring for the wrong thing. 21:40

Connect with Carol: www.carolhenrycoaching.com

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