Thought Talk

My guest on today's podcast is Lolly Daskal, CEO and founder of Lead from Within, a leadership consulting firm. Her extensive cross-cultural experience spans 14 countries, six languages and hundreds of companies. Lolly has also been designated a Top 50 leadership and management expert by Inc. magazine. I am particularly excited to interview her because her new book The Leadership Gap:What Gets Between You and Your Greatness will be released in May 2017 by Penguin Portfolio. In this episode Lolly talks about among other things, the polarity within us that keeps us from being great; the gaps we experience in our leadership greatness and how to bridge them, and how our strengths have a double-edged sword we need to be watchful of.

On today's podcast I am interviewing Lynne Twist, author of The Soul of Money and founder of the Soul of Money Institute. Lynne is also a founding member of The Pachamama Alliance, an organization dedicated to rain forest preservation. On today's show we will discuss branding in the non-profit world, and the significant role that money plays in our business and personal lives.

My guest on today's episode is Joel Freidlander of Marin Bookworks. Joel is a blogger and book designer who was named by Writer's Digest as one of the 10 people to follow in book publishing. On today's program we discuss the power of self publishing a book including:

• The most important things you need to know about self publishing

• The main differences between self publishing and traditional publishing

• On demand print publishing

• Major mistakes people who self publish make

• What happens after a book is self published

Anthony Meindl is the founder of AMAW and an international acting coach. Tony's focus is on teaching actors how to be get beyond the typical acting training which teachers actors to be someone else, and instead draw on their own unique way of being, and bring that into the role. In today's episode I explore with Tony the branding lessons entrepreneurs, executives and CEO's can steal from actors.

Guest: Ken Courtright, founder and CEO of the Inc. 5000 company Income Store

The Internet has created a new way for businesses to brand and market themselves, and Ken Courtright, founder of IncomeStore.com knows just how to help companies do business in the Internet age. Based on his popular system on how to "Grow any business in any industry at any time," Ken shares his insights on how to build company webpages that avoid coming off "salesy" but build social proof and establish trust.

Guest: Susan Harrow, PR Expert and Media Coach

Mastering the ability to create your own personal sound bites is about more than being entertaining; it's about positioning your business and your brand to the media, and public at large. PR expert and media coach, Susan Harrow's will discuss how the ever dwindling attention span of today's audiences requires you to use descriptive and well formed sound bites to get your message across. Learn the main types of sound bites, how to create them, and when to use them.