Your Leadership Story

Over the years, David Atchison, Co-Founder of The Riverstone Group, enjoyed incredible success in commercial real estate development. At the beginning, he thought he knew enough . . . at least enough to make the transition from residential to commercial real estate. That’s when he discovered the gap and knew he had to find a … Continue reading "What You Can Learn After You Think You Know It All: A Bookmark Edition of Your Leadership Story Podcast"

Curtis Borntrager breaks the mold on the typical terms uses to describe business leaders. He is an entrepreneur having started a business. He is a serial entrepreneur having started multiple businesses. But Curtis Borntrager focuses on starting, acquiring, and running multiple businesses. That’s why we call him an multipreneur. Growing up on a dairy farm, … Continue reading "013 – Your Leadership Story Podcast: Learning Anything And Becoming Unstoppable"

Leaders start learning leadership lessons early in life, often as children. In this Bookmark Edition of Your Leadership Story, David Atchison forces John Kramp to take a long journey in the “Way Back Machine” and tell a story about selling charcoal door-to-door in elementary school to earn his way to go to Boy Scout camp. … Continue reading "4th Grade Leadership Lessons From Door-to-Door Charcoal Sales: A Bookmark Edition of Your Leadership Story Podcast"

Often, business leaders do not think they cannot learn leadership lessons from someone who leads a church. This leadership interview with Scott Patty will prove that premise wrong. Over 20 years ago, Scott Patty led a handful of families to start a new church. From that small beginning came Grace Community Church, a thriving congregation … Continue reading "012 – Your Leadership Story Podcast: Communication and Character in Leadership"

The official definition of “uh-oh” is the sound people make upon realizing that they are in a bad situation, that they have made a mistake. Sometimes, we sense that mistake before we know it. Around Riverstone, we call that, “The Uh-Oh Feeling.” Leaders, including us, ignore that feeling at great risk. David Atchison, Co-Founder of … Continue reading "Paying Attention To That Uh-Oh Feeling: A Bookmark Edition of Your Leadership Story Podcast"

Bill Seaver, Founder of MicroExplosion Media, shares insights about fearless, influential leadership in this encouraging interview. In his professional career, Bill has experienced business from large corporations to smaller entrepreneurial companies. Along the way, he gained fresh insights that can benefit any leader. Why you should give rather than hoard your ideas How to gain … Continue reading "011 – Your Leadership Story Podcast: The Art of Fearless, Influential Leadership"

Why would 500, ordinary people volunteer to make 100 phone calls each from their homes from Garland, TX to Portland, OR, paying their own phone bills at a time when the average cost per person for 100 “long-distance” calls was over $100? The answer is complicated but simple: they did so because they believed in … Continue reading "Bookmark Edition – Your Leadership Story Podcast: The One About 500 Volunteer Telemarketers"

David Baker has spent his career in commercial real estate, specifically in the shopping center industry. Just in case you think he is someone who only cares about building structures, think again. David Baker builds relationships. That’s the key to his leadership and his success in a competitive, fast-paced industry. David Baker is a Co-founder … Continue reading "010 – Your Leadership Story Podcast: Learning Leadership While Building Shopping Centers and Relationships"

Often, leaders demonstrate traits earlier in life that will mark their leadership style in the future. For David Atchison, his entrepreneurial bent showed up while in college at Baylor University. He and four of his friends, exploited a weakness in the rules of a competitive talent show on campus by forming their own 5-person fraternity … Continue reading "Bookmark Edition – Your Leadership Story Podcast: The One About DAZ, The Made-Up Fraternity"

Mike Mayernick’s success as a financial advisor is undeniable. After 24 years in the industry, Mike has had hundreds of conversations about money. Someone has said, “There are conversations. There are hard conversations. And there are hard conversations about money . . . in that order.” Mike Mayernick knows that truth first hand. His work … Continue reading "009 – Your Leadership Story Podcast: Learning Leadership Through 100s of Conversations About Money"