Xperience Growth with Chris Suarez

Children. They are the definition of resilience. Listen in to hear the benefits of getting back to our inner child!

Too often as adults we add filters and lenses to the current situation based on our past… which blurs and clouds our vision. Children stay in the present reality so well. Resilience sits on the shoulders of reality. So, wake up this morning and be a child again.

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Alan Graham has become a mascot for hope for the homeless.

In 1998 he founded Mobile Loaves & Fishes. By the numbers, Alan has been a servant leader for over 21 years, mobilized over 20,000 volunteers, and they have served well over 5 million meals with a side of hope to homeless men and women living on the streets of Austin.

He went on to develop and create, Community First, a first of it's kind 51-acre master planned community that provides affordable, permanent housing and a supportive community for the disabled, chronically homeless in Central Texas.

This interview is a demonstration of creating a simple solution to a massively complicated problem. The conversation will define what home really means, define with service really is, and define why impact really matters.

Book: Welcome Homeless: One Man's Journey Of Discovering The Meaning of Home

Mobile Loaves & Fishes: https://mlf.org/

Community First: YouTube Channel

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Everyone of us can benefit by looking at where we WERE, where we ARE, and where we are GOING.  In that process, developing the ability to REFRAME will be one of the most powerful skills on our path to experience growth.

On today’s podcast we will revisit the last twelve months, and learn how to roll out the print of our lives in front of ourselves, and decide which frame we want to place that print in to hang up on the wall.

Who knew Star Wars could give us such a shift in perspective.  Star Wars you ask?  Take a listen.

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Today we meet a young entrepreneur that landed himself on Inc.’s 30 under 30 list, has had multiple 9 figure exits (yes NINE figures), and was recently named 2020’s Austinite of the Year.  I’m excited to introduce you to Ben Rubenstein.  For many in our community, this is a name you’ve heard before.  Today, though we will hear a story you may have not yet heard.

Ben co-founded an early online market company that Web.com purchased for about $350M and immediately went to work founding a second company which News Corp purchased for over $200M.

Ben currently sits as the Chief Revenue Officer for Realtor.com and equally as impressive is an active Board Member of CASA (Court Appointed Special Advocates), where he helps abused and displaced children in the court system.

Today’s conversation will lead us down the path to entrepreneurship, the difference between ideas and execution, provide perspective on failure, and also provide a compelling example and path to mentorship and giving back.  We get to talk about one of our shared favorite books and the impact of happiness on our businesses, families, and the world.

One of the more powerful conversations we’ve brought you here at Xperience Growth!

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Today on our podcast we will all become farmers.  Well, for about 10 minutes at least.  Be ready to tackle the importance of our environment and how four key elements will lead to massive growth in our business and in our personal life. 

We will water our garden.

We will breath life into our garden.

We will add some heat to our garden.

We will turn on the light for our garden.

Find out how to water, oxygen, heat, and light will help.  We will also let two common expressions go head to head:  Time On Task Over Time vs. Time On The Right Task Over Time.  This episode will be all about one thing though, GROWTH.

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When I meet an incredible entrepreneur that blends living experientially into the mission

of their business, it’s time to introduce them to our Xperience Growth community.  Rob Gandy founded Cielo in 2010 and since, has developed more than 1.3 million square feet of commercial and mixed use space in the state of Texas.  Collectively, their leadership team has acquired and operated over 10.7M square feet of space with a total project value of over $1.5B.

As impressive as that sounds, the real story here is that their approach to developing is rooted in creating healthy, sustainable, and lifestyle focused buildings that become a part of the community in which the building lives.  That focus transcends the building itself and on today’s podcast Rob will share Cielo’s perspective on keeping their employees and teams healthy, happy, energetic, and grounded.  

Rob shares tactically how he blends building a massive business while being a committed father, husband, friend, and steward of the community.

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This year the word “surviving” and “survival” have been used perhaps more than any other in history.  And yet, today on the podcast we will demystify what that really means. 

Surviving isn’t a choice.  We don’t actually get to choose whether we “survive” or not. 

Now living, really living, is a choice.  Survival is just a science.  Living is an art. 

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I have rarely listened to someone so strategically and systematically unpackage how to change and build the culture of an organization.  Whether you run a big business, mid-sized company, or are a sole proprietor, this conversation has the potential to change your company forever.

Mike Jensen brings to this conversation years of experience in companies like DeWalt, The Coca Cola Company, PepsiCo, GM, and is now with Academy Mortgage…having served on the Board of Directors, as the Chief Growth Officer, Chief Marketing Officer, as well as VP of Corporate Development. 

He has brought what he calls a “noble purpose” to business, and their company actually makes creating experiences for their people both a strategy and a mission.

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What shapes our perspective?

The way we view the world?

The way we view other people?

The way we view even ourselves?

In this episode, we will talk through what steps we can take if it’s time for a shift in our perspective. We will walk through how we can tactically keep our place in our business, our lives, and our world…in perspective.

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This one means a lot to me.  Rarely will you meet a human with a heart that loves and an energy that gives like that of Regina Ellis.  Meet the founder and Chief Joy Officer of the Children’s Cancer Association.

25 years ago the tragic loss of her little girl, Alex, put this woman on a mission to not cure cancer, but to transform pediatric medicine.  She has shared this story on countless corporate stages, the Tedx stage, thousands of hospital boardrooms, and even more living rooms.

Behind that story and mission is a woman that wants everyone to live experientially, even seriously ill kiddos.  Listen as she tells her story, we get to understand her passion, but also learn about the power of shifting and changing and pivoting an industry hundreds of years old. 

Find out how a “To Live List” can alter your family forever.  There is a lesson here for all of us in determination, building a mission based business and life,  and how even a 3 year old little girl can change the world.

Get Involved or Give to Children’s Cancer Association

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