Move the dial on how you lead this week. Expand your intrinsic value. Power over others is an ‘old school’ psychological template for world domination through mass control. The institutional playbook for concealing the truth in the Catholic Church is a prime example of this psychological template asserting mass control through manipulation, lies, and deceit. It is not the way our modern world is set-up.

As we witness the ‘old school’ shame-based leadership structures around the world reluctantly collapse, new building blocks for this modern age are emerging with innovative leaders doing the inner work, rising up, and leading the way. I imagine you are somewhere along the continuum between exercising power over and exerting power from within. Today, you can explore a way to move the dial inward and increase your intrinsic value. Listen deeply to our conversation. Download

We are becoming modern age leaders. Leaders who use building blocks to share power. Leaders who identify their own tribes, and then extend power to them. These building blocks are based on earned trust that leads to truth telling; respect; accountability; providers of efficiency and convenience; expecting of gender and race equality; exercise interdependence; and use savvy attention-getting to build personal and business brands. Can we add ‘shame free’ environments to the above list? Not yet.

All of us have experienced shame-based leadership structures where others have exerted power over us. It is what we know. We know how to feel crappy and out of control, rebellious. There is plenty of self-loathing to feed our world population. Our value has been diminished and our psyches damaged. If you are a sexual abuse survivor, your journey to resurrect your soul is even longer.

To increase our value, we need to know our value. To know our value we need to go through the slow deliberate process of healing shame that temps us to tether to fear, the familiar, and silence instead of igniting our curiosity to build power from within and expand our intrinsic value. This is how the shame-based leadership structure of exerting power over is being replaced by exerting power from within. As we progress in our healing and let go of the ‘old school’ power structure, we can carve out a leadership style and leadership structure more fitting for our modern age. We can then prepare the next generation to lead from a ‘shame-free’ psychological structure. Progress not perfection.

Debbie Unterman, a skilled clinical hypnotherapist, joins us to explain how cognitive dissonance can be used as a strategy to heal confusing perceptions that stem from poisonous pedagogy and the strategies used to conceal the truth. Our conversation is not meant to insult faith-believers. We are believers ourselves. Debbie is Jewish. Mike Kabeya and I grew-up Catholic.

We are talking about the institutional leadership structure, a playbook implemented before we were born, and without our consent (listen to podcast episodes 1 & 2 below, for the report details). We are sorting out our feelings of manipulation, the turmoil in our psyches, and trying to figure out where we have been intellectually deceived; by what teachings. We discuss atonement, Original sin, who goes to heaven and hell, to name a few topics. Mike asks the question, how have we entertained stupidity? Debbie helps us sort some of this out. You don’t want to miss this!

As a leader, I am still wrapping my head around the magnitude of how a faith-based institution has raised so many priests who have been allowed to prey on our children, worldwide! If truth telling increases ones intrinsic value. Healing expands it, exponentially. Join us in this modern age of meaningful conversation.

Our first thanksgiving since the release of the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report outlining 70 years of sexual abuse in the Catholic Church. Gratitude in times of grief and revolutionary change give us fortitude to keep going. In today’s conversation you can find nourishing dialogue, insight, and validation.

Debbie Unterman joins Mike and I to decode the Institutional Playbook For Concealing The Truth from a psychological perspective. She offers wisdom in a way that only she can deliver. You can join us in being lucky recipients. Listening to heartfelt conversations around hard topics can bring even an Ostrich out of hiding and closer in its awakening to the truth! Download

My Thanksgiving Gratitude List

* I am grateful for my loving, kind, conscientious provider, insightful editor, and compassionate husband, Matthew; who accepts me warts-n-all.

* I am grateful for our cherished, lovely daughter, Olivia. She surprises us in delightful ways with her sense of humor and wit, her dedication to her goals and gifts, friendships with others, and her generous spirit.

* I am grateful for Mike Kabeya. His commitment toward excellence, curiosity, encouragement, and wisdom makes each podcast conversation more engaging.

* I am grateful for each courageous client (both women and men) who have invested in their own growth by hiring me to help them feel more deeply to think, act, lead, and mentor more clearly and effectively. Because, like aging, becoming your best self is not for the weak of heart.

* I am grateful for each podcast guest, especially Debbie Unterman who models and encourages healthy striving, shows empathy, and offers compassionate conversations every time we talk.

* I am grateful to you, the thousands and thousands and thousands of you tuning in each week. You have facilitated my own growth as a leader, as a mentor, as a human being. You are my inspiration. I hope you continue to grow in knowing your own value.

* I am grateful for my friends and family on the journey to grow in our lives together.

* I am grateful for other leaders in organizations I am a member of. You inspire me to make a greater difference in the world.

* I am grateful we are together as an avalanche of facts highlighting how messed up our institutions are and being shown the degree of dysfunctional leadership going on. We can talk about it, sort out its implications, and decide what will strengthen ourselves and others.

* I am grateful there are so many of us learning skills to create cultures with heart. To do this, we are replacing power over leadership strategies of control and domination with expansive power that extends to others that arise from resurrecting power within (practicing skill sets that build inner strength like shame resiliency).

I hope you are inspired to create your own gratitude list. Share it on social media and expand gratitude. Light expands. Also, get the mentoring help you need during this time of awakening.

Mentoring Tips

After listening to our conversation:

* Contact Debbie Unterman for a 70-minute, $100.00 Skype session (WeMentor discount). Debbie has an insightful and kind way of sorting out what you are experiencing. She gives you wisdom that facilitates healing on a deep level. Connect with Debbie!

* Get one-on-one mentoring, Right NOW!

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Barbra Streisand was interviewed by a New York Times journalist. The interview took place before the Tree of Life synagogue shooting in Pittsburgh (11/7/18). The author asked Barbra via email about the shooting, “Barbra sent a response that faulted Trump for divisive rhetoric and added: “My heart aches for these innocent people and the centuries-old attitude of somehow blaming Jews for all the ills of the world.”

She was asked, what inspired her newly released WALLS vinyl album after not being so overtly political in art? She responded, “I would lie awake at night with Trump’s outrages running through my head, and I had to do another album for Columbia Records, so I thought, why not make an album about what’s on my mind? And that became the title of the first song. I am so grateful to have music in my life as a way to express myself.”

Barbra is my inspiration as I find my way to wholeness. When the truth resonates deep in your bones and shakes up your belief system like the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report has mine, you need inspiration, an anchor, and a process that leads you to the other side. The journey is best travelled with others.

As I get the help I need, I would like to offer you a peer group experience like no other. A process that will help you revolutionize how you lead and live. I am interviewing right now. Click Here!

Mike Kabeya and I continue our courageous conversation by reviewing the recommendations in the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report. This investigation covered 70 years of child sexual abuse from priests who are sexual predators in the Catholic Church revealing an international playbook used to conceal the truth.

You can find at the end of these show notes the Grand Jury Recommendations along with my ideas. We are sharing our journey with the hope that we inspire you to continue to heal your heart. DOWNLOAD

Mentoring Tips

After listening to our conversation:

* We would like to hear what is on your mind and what is in your heart regarding this topic. What is inspiring you toward wholeness? Respond through e-mail, LinkedIn, Twitter, or Facebook.

* Join a WeMentor Entrepreneurial Leadership and Mentoring LAB! Learning and practicing new leadership skill sets leads to transformation. Take action today!  Click Here.

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Mentoring Conversation Resources

* Institutional Playbook For Concealing The Truth, 1st Episode

* Barbra Streisand Barbra Streisand NY Times Article

* Bart D. Ehrman, James A. Gray Distinguished Professor at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Bart Ehrman

* Krista Tippett, On Being podcast episode: Can conversation make any difference at a moment like this?

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How do you work your way through an avalanche of facts that rock the foundation of your being? Mike Kabeya and I engage in a heartfelt conversation discerning the bombshell outlined in the Pennsylvania Grand Jury Report. The foundation of the Catholic Church has an Institutional Playbook For Concealing The Truth!

Disillusionment, discomfort, disturbing, horrified, duped, betrayed, devastated. Resolved to learn all of the ugly truth so we can destroy the institutional playbook (no more secrets), embrace survivors, and practice brave leadership, that is what we are doing! We are feeling more deeply so we can think, act, lead, and mentor more clearly and more effectively. I am practicing what I preach. You can too. Download

Learn how the playbook works, the seven strategies. Mike and I talk about what it means for our lives as Catholics and as leaders. You can ask yourself, what do these playbook strategies mean to me and how I lead, and how I feel about this institution? What kind of courageous conversations do I need to have to sort through this? And with whom?

Two big questions I am pondering right now:

* What does this information mean for a society – and the world – that has allowed these crimes against society to continue over so many decades?

* What kind of institutional playbook can we create to restore trust and build institutions with underpinnings that support leaders who practice their core values and choose bravery and courage over shame, deceit, and corruption? What would that look like?

Mike and I have started this quest with ourselves. This is the first of seven conversations we will have as we sort out this institutional playbook from different angles. At the end of today’s conversation, I disclose a decision I have made.

The Topic

Those who wrote the Grand Jury report (1,356 page including Appendices), some Catholics themselves, have found this playbook of strategies used to conceal the truth in effect worldwide. Meaning, this playbook is used in every Archdiocese in every Catholic Church around the world to conceal the truth. This is a sickeningly hard truth and the exact reason we need to talk about it.

As we speak, thirteen states are running investigations to sue the Catholic Church as a nonprofit entity. Washington D.C. statutes allow an attorney general to subpoena documents and seek penalties against a nonprofit if it is continuing to exceed its authority conferred upon it by law. It is a way to dismantle the institutional playbook or dissolve the entity.

You can follow along as I read aloud the summary of the report. It is outlined below.

The Report Introduction

The Grand Jury report is the investigation into six Pennsylvania Catholic dioceses, covering 70 years of child sexual abuse from priests who are sexual predators. “The 40th Statewide Investigating Grand Jury redacted (some of the information and names are blacked out/censored or withheld subject to subpoena):

We, the members of this grand jury, need you to hear this. We know some of you have heard some of it before. There have been other reports about child sex abuse within the Catholic Church. But never on this scale. For many of us, those earlier stories happened someplace else, someplace away. Now we know the truth: it happened everywhere.

We were given the job of investigating child sex abuse in six dioceses – every diocese in the state except Philadelphia and Altoona -Johnstown, which were the subject of previous grand juries. These six dioceses account for 54 of Pennsylvania’s 67 counties. We heard the testimony of dozens of witnesses concerning clergy sex abuse. We subpoenaed, and reviewed,

In Chetek, Wisconsin we learn from Philip Mattison, president and founder of CORE Products International, Inc., unique insights into business ownership. I love the creativity he applies to each situation. He is constantly on the move to connect with people and do great things. He makes sure employees are connected with each other and their work. DOWNLOAD

In this conversation we focus on maximizing relationships through business groups and with sophisticated bankers. He describes how he takes a 5-year plan and breaks it down to a one-year scorecard and where he learned this methodology. Manufacturing companies have a lot of inventory to turn out and turn over. We talk about ratios and inventory and how to best utilize a banker’s expertise.

Referrals and real in-person relationships have been an integral part of how Phil does business. His CPA led him to a business banker. What kind of relationship could you have with your banker?

* Discover how you can save money by working with a sophisticated banker.

* Learn key questions to ask bankers. Banks produce your data, why not have a year-end review and get a banker’s perspective on your industry and your numbers?

* We get into debt to equity ratios, inventory sales, how quickly inventory is turned over and how banks assess the amount you qualify for in getting a loan.

* How big is Phil’s leadership team? Who joins him on financial meetings?

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We close out our conversation with sales goals and group accountability tips. Phil lives a full life with his three adult-children. 

A fun fact, Phil is an instructor pilot and flies groups up to Churchill, Manitoba, Canada through Adventure Sea Planes.  He is an adventure seeker and would love to show you a beautiful and remote area known as Polar Bear Town. A website is listed in the resource section below.

Business groups pay huge dividends for Phil. You can benefit by joining one of my LABs. I am interviewing for 2019 WeMentor Entrepreneurial Leadership and Mentoring LABs. You can experience leading with grounded confidence and get resources you need right now. Our focus is on where you are at and where you are going. We have a one-year process to catapult you forward as you build an innovative, curious, and productive work culture and acquire the leadership skills to reach your goals. If you sign-up before this year’s end you will save $500.00!

Mentoring Tips

After listening to our conversation, activate what you learn:

* Our First Podcast Conversation HERE!

* Set-up an appointment with your banker before this year’s end.

* Get involved in a LAB. Become the leader you have always envisioned yourself to be. WeMentor LABs HERE!

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Mentoring Conversation Resources

* Adventure Sea Planes is what Phil flies as an instructor pilot and trip organizer. Adventure Sea Plane Video Clip  

* Book, Traction by Gino Wickman Tracti...

How much money are you willing to let in? Ursula Mentjes, author and founder of Sales Coach NOW! answers that question as we talk about money beliefs. Ursula and her husband, Tim, used a shame resiliency technique that worked in recovering from the 2008 real estate crisis. Their outlook on life and how they became closer as a couple is inspiring.

We temper our current events conversation with ways we are wading through a tidal wave of transparency in our country, and emphasize the importance of authenticity. Ursula describes how sales have changed during this era, ways of super charging goals, and adds some values that need to be integrated into every licensed coach training program. What is one critical dynamic you need to be aware of as a coach? Download

Ursula writes, “The most difficult part of the One Great Goal journey might be in the ‘letting go’ of those things or people that no longer fit into our lives. But it is probably one of the most important parts. After all, you can’t have the ‘new’ without letting go of the ‘old.’ There simply isn’t room. Feng Shui experts teach you to open up all of the windows in your home to release the old energy and make room for the new. It is also recommended that you take all of your trash out at the end of the year and clean your home New Year’s Eve to invite in only good energy. This makes sense to me, and so it is with our goals. We must let go of our old thoughts, beliefs, goals, and relationships before we can make room for the new, beautiful ones to be ushered in. It is that simple.” (p. 169)

Create space to let more money come in. Start in this moment. Sit comfortably. Close your eyes. Acknowledge and let go of any emotions that arise as you focus inward. Imagine others doing this exercise with you. Once identified, use your breath to release those emotions out through your nostrils. Let them be free from your body, mind, and heart. Take a deep long breath in. Try that a few more times.

Once feelings of fear, constraint, or happiness and joy are released, imagine money flowing into your life like a river. No constraints or restrictions. Remain in the flow of your imagination. Experiment, see if you can extend the ease of the flow into your day when you open your eyes. New possibilities can connect once they are out into the Universe and out of your body, mind, and heart.

Mentoring Tips

After listening to our conversation, activate what you learn:

* What limiting money belief, if any, is showing up as you think about One Great Goal for 2019? How is it connected with where you are at today?

* What is one way that Ursula suggests you can expand how you let more money into your life?

* Look into Sales Camp training Sales Coach Now! It could be time to go through Sales Camp and boost your sales for the upcoming year. Sales Camp with Ursula

* Listen to my conversation on Ursula Mentjes’ podcast, Build A Business You Can Never Outgrow

* Let more money in by circling yourself with successful business owners. Join one of my WeMentor Entrepreneurial Leadership and Mentoring LABs! Become the leader you have always envisioned yourself to be. Click HERE!

* Subscribe to this podcast. You get special discounts on WeMentor activities, especially one-on-one mentoring. Subscribe NOW!

Mentoring Conversation Resources

* Brené Brown: BreneBrown.com

* Oprah Winfrey

EXPANDER is a new term Ursula Mentjes, bestselling author and founder of Sales Coach Now, brought up in today’s podcast conversation. The term was coined by podcaster Lacy Phillips. Ursula is an expander and she circles herself with those kinds of people. You can too!

We discuss concepts relating to achieving One Great Goal, the title of Ursula’s third book, like avoiding small thinking, how an accountability whisperer works, and other key components you need on the journey to achieving one great goal. (Selling with Intention, Selling with Synchronicity, One Great Goal, The Belief Zone) Download

You will find out about her journey from Minnesota to Colorado to California, and back to Minnesota. Everyone was affected by the 2008 financial crisis, find out how her and her husband, Tim, recovered from the crisis and what they learned through the experience.

Here is my latest EXPANDER experience. Prior podcast guest and friend, Peter Beaumont gave me a free ticket he won at Ursula’s Sales Camp worth $997.00. I won when I attended and gifted my Sales Camp ticket to another prior podcast guest and friend, Nancy Lindgren. She won and is passing the baton. After camp Ursula and I made plans to be on each other’s podcast shows. That is what expanders do; help you realize goals and expand into doing your life work.

I highly recommend Sales Camp to increase your effectiveness and set intentional goals. Ursula has a wealth of wisdom to add to whatever situation you want to reimagine. Even if you have had sales training, this is a great camp to give you a fresh approach to goalsetting.

Ursula writes, “I believe in the power of internal and external accountability. Staying committed to your one great goal journey is probably the most difficult part. The truth is we can’t reach our one great goal alone. And why would we want to? You need people in your life who support your goals and help hold you accountable until you reach them. However, it is important to choose these people carefully. Don’t share your sole purpose and one great goal with just anyone. Pay attention to their power of belief in you and your goal, and their level of concern for your success. You don’t need one’s negative energy dragging you down.”

Mentoring Tips

After listening to our conversation:

* Pick one great goal for 2019. Become the EXPANDER you need in your life. Find a few people that you trust who can help you achieve your next great goal.

* Check out Sales Coach Now! It could be time to go through Sales Camp and boost your sales for the upcoming year.

* Listen to my conversation on Ursula Mentjes’ podcast: Build A Business You Can Never Outgrow

* Overcoming barriers to innovation and to leadership growth are my specialty in helping you reach your goals. Join one of my WeMentor Entrepreneurial Leadership and Mentoring LABs! Become the leader you have always envisioned yourself to be. Click Here Click Here

* Subscribe to this podcast. Get special discounts on WeMentor activities, especially one-on-one mentoring. Subscribe Here!

Mentoring Conversation Resources

* Peter Beaumont’s Podcast Conversations

* Intrapreneur to Entrepreneur, Part I

* Intrapreneur to Entrepreneur,...

“Inventors allow society to change,” says Art Fry. This is one of the big reasons why the United States Patent Office initially created the National Inventors Hall of Fame that Art is inducted into.

Honoring and supporting those inventing solutions for our world is critical. These are people taking extraordinary risks to overcome unforeseen barriers. They are finding solutions to one succession of problems after another in order to create something viable we can use. Or, hiring innovators to solve global warming issues before our world is in the stage of no return, instead of after that point!

“Everything is patterns. We are pattern seekers,” says Art. We set-up rules before we start a game. We have recipes and standards. We have laws and regulations in our society, so we can live peacefully together. A system of justice is in place for when laws are broken. While you listen you will answer the following question. If we are all pattern seekers, what is easier disrupting one of our behavioral patterns by convincing someone to change their behavior, or creating a new pattern and showing people a new way of behaving? Download

This is an essential conversation about the advantages of having a big curiosity and why us, entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial innovators, need to keep going. You will learn when Art’s invention became a part of who he is, because, with a new appendage or limb, you either get it functioning properly or determine when to cut it off. And habitually, others will try to kill it off or cut it out of you, prematurely. Or leave you, the intensity and focus is that enormous. You will find out about personal sacrifices, about his three adult-children, and how Art protected the Post-it® Note’s creation for our universal benefit.

Art describes himself now as being in the salad portion of his life. Life has treated him very well. You can hear the energy of optimism in his voice. You can hear a growth-oriented mindset through his words and his curious outlook on life. “Inventing the Post-it® Note is like inventing ice cream,” he says, “everybody loves it!” He is treated well. Art is also my favorite inventor so generous and kind! He served Mike Kabeya and I homemade strawberry shortcake when we finished taping! Hear him describe some of the details of what it was like to bring the Post-it® Note to life!

“The more things you know about the more novel things you can put together.”

— Art Fry, an American Inventor and Chemical Engineer

Mentoring Tips

* After listening to our conversation, ask yourself:

* What other things did Art have to invent in order to produce product samples?

* What were some critical questions Art asked himself to advance the Post-it® Note?

* What sells more: magic tape or the Post-it® Note products?

* What does ‘make a little, sell a little’ mean?

* After testing the Post-it® Note in four states, what changes were made for the fifth test state that proved the product viable?

* Why does Art recommend waiting to show people your idea until you have a prototype that works?

* How did Art continue working on the prototype for Post-it® Note when some thought it should be killed?

* In what areas can you expand your creativity?

* Overcoming barriers to innovation and to leadership growth are my specialty. Join one of my WeMentor Entrepreneurial Leadership and Mentoring LABs! Become the leader you have always envisioned yourself to be.  Click Here!

* Subscribe to this podcast. You get special discounts on WeMentor activities, especially one-on-one mentoring.

 What office supply can you not live without? Your answer is probably the same as mine, the Post-it Note. Art Fry explains how he brought this ‘new to the world’ product to market with Dr. Spencer Silver’s adhesive help and created a whole new way of how we communicate!

Art was working at 3M for 21 years before the idea surfaced of the Post-it® Note in 1974 using an adhesive that was invented in 1968. Experimenting, selling management on the idea, pulling ad hoc teams together, test marketing, and lots of other activities led to its national release in 1980. (3M: Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company; a company culture of innovation) Download How did Art’s family culture foster curiosity and experimentation? How was a water heater used to test ideas quickly? Our conversation will take you back to a time of side-cars, schools with one classroom, bobsleds, and dog carts with a mixture of 3M’s culture, proprietary skills, inventions that never made it to market, less known inventions, and the unleashing of the best leaders in the company.

To be around Art is to engage in the joy of ‘working under a streetlamp.’ The street is illuminated. Somebody goes out into the darkness and drags an idea into the circle of light that is new product development; that is the mind of Art Fry at work. He is one of the most brilliant intrapreneurial inventors and chemists of our time.

F.Y.I. On July 24, 2018 3M’s market cap was $119.9 billion (total dollar marketing amount of outstanding shares). They produced 55,000 items with 91,000 employees worldwide in 2017.

“If you put fences around people, you get sheep. Give the people the room they need.”

— William L. McKnight

Mentoring Tips

After listening to our conversation:

* Ask yourself, how can I create a culture of innovation at work and at home?

* What parameters would I need to put in place for employees, so they can invest time and energy in creating new ideas on a regular basis for end-users?

* At home, what are ways I can foster creativity and experimentation with new ideas that would help society?

* For example, when the three of us volunteer, we each plug into a role. This turned into a bigger deal than we thought when we volunteered to run the Robbinsdale Spanish Immersion Elementary School Chess Club. We grew the club from 45 students to 180. Matthew and I divvied up our roles, Olivia (our daughter) played chess and then helped teach chess to others. We organized a team of coaches, taught, organized the operation, and worked with the school, parents, and district administration to spread the benefits of playing chess and pass on something fantastic for children. You can start with a much smaller idea, but I think you get my point.

* Growing a business is challenging. Why not grow yourself as you grow your business? Join a WeMentor Entrepreneurial Leadership and Mentoring LAB! Become the leader you have always envisioned yourself to be, Join HERE!

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* “In 1907 William L. McKnight (1887-1978) joined Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company (3M) as an assistant bookkeeper. He rose quickly through the ranks and became president in 1929 and chairman of the board in 1949. His timeless management philosophy encouraged 3M management to “delegate responsibility and encourage men and women to exercise their initiative.” (

Enjoy a third scrumptious conversation with Peter Beaumont of ConnXN Consulting. In this conversation we leave the Middle East and venture with Peter to his life and work in Germany (for 10 years). His travels to Austria, Hungary, Budapest, Brazil, and settling in to his current life in the United States are also territory we cover. There are many nuggets about his journey for you to mull over this week.

Peter’s first home in the United States with his second wife, Shelly and their two children (Karly and Pierce), was Chicago. In 2008, Peter was offered an opportunity to work at the McDonald’s Headquarters. He also launched ConnXN Consulting firm with two clients. Download

In 2013, he and his family make a go of it in what Peter refers to as the igloo state, Minnesota, where Shelly grew up. You will hear, he is acclimating quite well! We start out discussing our first two podcast conversations where Peter shares the insights from when we ventured ‘off script.’ He discovered a thread from our conversations that tie together how he builds relationships that you could benefit from learning. How does he bring a lightness into each relationship? Who taught him this?

Entrepreneurs are commonly known for their ability to organize all kinds of resources to launch and build a business. They can do this over and over again. What do they do, if their venture is struggling? They take charge and do whatever is possible to turn it around. They keep hunting for answers and other resources. If they can’t turn it around after exhausting all options, they let it go, and start something new, or as a last-ditch effort, work for someone else.

Peter has a history of seizing opportunities offered to him by friendships developed throughout his career. He relays two key values and a way of keeping in touch with friends he has collected along his life journey so far. Find out those key values and learn how his unacademic prowess was reinforced and addressed. You will hear how he takes the sting out of intense conversations.

You will also learn why Peter prefers working with entrepreneurs running $2M to $60M ventures instead of holding executive positions in larger ventures. He uses an analogy from coaching soccer to get his point across.

We also discuss writing challenges like how to express humor, so it comes across as actually funny and genuine. Listen in to our authentic conversation and gain a few more insights into the intrapreneur who becomes an entrepreneur.

Mentoring Tips

After listening to our conversation:

Ask yourself, how can I connect people together and build upon those relationships over time? How can I treat people fairly and live with a high moral compass?

* What states of mind are you in when you infuse harm into your personal and business relationships? How long does it take for you to shift from a destructive mindset or a chemically induced mindset to curiosity and hope?

* When under cash flow pressure, what are your options to not letting the pressure and stress be counterproductive?

* Make a list of your unique abilities. How can you play to your strengths?

* Growing a business is challenging. Why not grow yourself as you grow your business? Join a WeMentor Entrepreneurial Leadership and Mentoring LAB! Become the leader you have always envisioned yourself to be at WeMentor LABs

* Subscribe to this podcast. You get special discounts on WeMentor activities, especially one-on-one mentoring. Subscribe Here!

Mentoring Conversation Resources

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