Above The Business

This week on the Leadership Podcast, Wendy Smith and Krista Hawkins of Future Legacy Partners join Bradley to discuss developing your team.  While many owners are focused on recruiting the right talent, they often lack follow through when it comes to developing the talent they hire.  In this episode, you’ll hear powerful strategies to develop your culture, train your team, manage priorities, and more.You’ll also learn how to earn “followship” from your team by leveraging John Maxwell’s 5 Levels of Leadership.  As a leader, it’s important to care about your team members’ wellbeing beyond their job skills.  Learn what their goals are for wellness, finances, and family so that you can provide career growth opportunities that connect with all of their goals.Finally, they discuss what leaders should be doing with their own time.  You need to be very clear on what success looks like. Then, leverage time blocking to manage your priorities.  Leaders should also develop a road map that helps them achieve their goals step by step.Learn more about Future Legacy Partners when you visit www.ourfuturelegacy.com

If you’re reading this, you probably love learning.  Listening to podcasts, hearing from your peers, hitting book goals, and continuing to take in information.  But are you seeking information for the sake of learning, or is it for a purpose? Listen to this episode to learn what a Low Info Diet is, why it helps business owners, and how to get started!

This week on the Leadership Podcast, David “Coach P” Peterson joins Bradley to discuss team development.  From recruiting to hiring to connecting the right people with the right team, you’ll learn some of Coach P’s best practices.You can look forward to learning how to develop a recruiting pipeline and process.  David shares specific steps you can take, and he stresses the importance of recruiting regularly.Other advice included utilizing references and prompting the potential hire to speak more during an interview.  He also encouraged business owners to build out a process and then decide which steps they can step away from.As a father of four, and an owner of multiple businesses, David is a big fan of systems and processes.  He believes we should have a plan for every scenario and constantly drive results through our team.​After years of trial and error, David shares that he has realized the significance of team development.  Due to this, he created a program to drive consistent, high-level coaching to agencies across the country.Learn more about David's program when you visit https://www.coachpconsulting.com/If you’re ready to learn how to prioritize your team and become a destination employer, listen to this episode!

I recently listened to a podcast episode with Elon Musk, and it sparked a question in my mind.  What would I ask Elon Musk?  You might want to know about Mars, his life in the universe, his story, or some other part of his very unique experience.  But let's narrow it down.  What specifically would you ask him about business?

Mike joins Bradley to share about his revised version of Like Clockwork, "60% revised, 100% simplified." He also shared important thoughts for business owners, like adopting the title of shareholder, how to choreograph resources, why you should take a 4 week vacation, and more.Mike is the creator of Profit First, which is used by hundreds of thousands of companies across the globe to drive profit. He is the creator of Clockwork, a powerful method to make any business run on automatic. In his 2020 release Fix This Next, Mike details the strategy businesses can use to determine what to do, in what order, to ensure healthy, fast, permanent growth (and avoid debilitating distractions). His latest book Get Different (released September 21, 2021) will give you the tools to stand out in any market.Visit clockwork.life and mikemotorbike.com to learn more about Mike and his resources.

Bradley recently asked a super healthy, fit person what he was doing differently to gain his results. The response? "It's just time under the bar." Learn how you can apply this principle of spending time under the bar to your business.

This week on the podcast, Ryan Larson joins Bradley to discuss his lifelong passion for helping others mitigate risk, and his unique approach to leadership. Ryan Larson is a seasoned wealth advisor and the founder and CEO of FirstLine Financial, LLC, based in Scottsdale, Arizona. Ryan embodies the qualities of a trustworthy leader and believes everyone deserves a chance to lead a life they can be proud of as they enter retirement. He credits his empathetic leadership approach to his experience as a firefighter, a career that gave him a sense of purpose and a lifelong passion for helping others mitigate risk.In his new business memoir, Ladder to Leader: My Journey from Failure to Fire to Financial Freedom (Calling Card Books, May 2022), Ryan shares the true story of his evolution from a troubled youth to a successful founder and CEO—and the many life and business lessons he learned along the way. He recounts the struggles he experienced in school, how he felt like an outsider at home, and the unexpected turns his life took, including some of the lowest points that eventually led him to where he is today. It was Ryan’s mom who first encouraged him to join the Fire Department Explorer Program, where the entrance exam transformed his mindset and gave him the confidence that would carry him through challenges he had yet to face.Later, he discovered his passion for investing and financial education, becoming an expert in helping people protect their life savings from unnecessary risks and market fluctuations by creating tax efficiencies. In his practice at FirstLine Financial, he focuses on supporting retirees and transitioning boomers with all of their wealth management needs. Whether helping them grow assets for the future, or preserving and reallocating them in retirement, he utilizes a unique combination of time-tested strategies for both securities and insurance offerings.Ryan and his wife, Kate, co-founder of FirstLine Financial, live in Scottsdale, Arizona. Together, they enjoy the hustle of being business partners and raising their two children, Mia and Bryson.For more information, please visit https://firstlinefin.com/.

Even the greatest players need coaches - Tiger Woods taught Bradley that when he was a kid. He had people on his team who helped with athletic training, running a business, and everything in between.The same is true for entrepreneurs and business owners. Leadership and ownership can get really lonely, but you can build a leadership team! This team could be an "executive" board of colleagues outside your business to provide honest feedback. Or, you can consider bringing a business coach into your team.Listen to this episode to learn more about how Tiger Woods modeled an important business principle.

This week on the Leadership Podcast, Dr. Brad Harris, Ph.D. joins Bradley to discuss leadership development, people priorities, and more.  Brad is an award winning researcher and teacher focused on topics like human resource management, group and team dynamics, leadership, and people analytics. He is a founding member of People Leader Accelerator and serves as key advisor on curriculum design and research engagement.  A few key nuggets Brad shared were:There is no single right answer when dealing with people.  People are complex, so the phrase “it depends” often applies.Leadership and sales have distinct parallels that boil down to influence.The role of core values and core behaviors.Being you…but more.Brad also co-authored the book Scaling for Success: People Priorities for High-Growth Organizations. This book is the definitive guide for leaders of high-growth organizations seeking to understand and execute the people-management principles that are essential to continued success. His program, People Leader Accelerator is the premier development program for the top HR leaders of high growth organizations. Admission is application-only for a very small cohort and is equivalent in rigor and intensity to an executive MBA program.If you’re ready to grow your leadership, listen to this episode!

When you want to renovate or build a house, you need a blueprint from an architect. Then, you need a plan from a builder to get the house that blueprint illustrates. Without one, or both, you'll never have the house you want!The same is true in business. In this quick, actionable podcast, Bradley shares why you need a vision (aka a blueprint) AND a plan to create the business you want. Check it out to begin creating your clear vision and actionable plan.