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Support the Breakfast Leadership Network! Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course. Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course: https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-life Hire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speaking Buy Michael's life altering book: 369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenario: https://www.amazon.com/369-Days-Survive-Worst-Case-Scenarios-ebook/dp/B074CCLKZP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502047423&sr=8-1&keywords=369+days Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network Like, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410 ------ William is the founder of Graniteshares, an independent exchange-traded fund built for investors seeking simple, cost-effective access to differentiated investments. GraniteShares is backed by leading fintech VCs such as Bain Capital Ventures and Clocktower Technologies. Rhind has built and managed businesses in the ETF market for nearly his entire career, and previously was CEO of World Gold Trust Services which is the largest commodity fund in the world. https://www.graniteshares.com

Support the Breakfast Leadership Network! Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course. Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course: https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-life Hire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speaking Buy Michael's life altering book: 369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenario: https://www.amazon.com/369-Days-Survive-Worst-Case-Scenarios-ebook/dp/B074CCLKZP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502047423&sr=8-1&keywords=369+days Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network Like, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410 ------ On a mission to help fellow lawyers delegate their way to freedom, Enrique Fernandez and Brett Trembly are helping lawyers realize that being happy and having a profitable law firm that works for them, and not visa versa, isn't as hard as we make it. That's why, in the early 2018, they started Get Staffed Up, LLC. GSU is quickly scaling and approaching Inc. 5000 eligibility in 2020. www.getstaffedup.com https://www.facebook.com/GetStaffedUp/ https://twitter.com/Getstaffedup1 https://www.instagram.com/getstaffedup/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/getstaffedup https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClg47HFQvzt7o27tszdKDsw   www.getstaffedup.com/VIP for the discount Brett mentioned during the show

Support the Breakfast Leadership Network! Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course. Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course: https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-life Hire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speaking Buy Michael's life altering book: 369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenario: https://www.amazon.com/369-Days-Survive-Worst-Case-Scenarios-ebook/dp/B074CCLKZP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502047423&sr=8-1&keywords=369+days Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network Like, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410 ------ Harry N. Stout is a senior leader in the global financial services business with expertise in personal finance, life insurance, annuities, product innovation, and business management.  He has over 30 years of financial services industry experience in the U.S. and abroad, working in Europe, Northern Asia, Africa, New Zealand, and Australia.   He is a past director of the National Association for Fixed Annuities (NAFA), the Life Insurance Marketing and Research Association (LIMRA), the Financial Services Council of Australia, and the Insurance Marketplace Standards Association.  He was a governance fellow of the National Association of Corporate Directors from February 2014 to February of 2020.  ​ His over 25 years of U.S. business experience includes serving as President of Voya’s U.S. Retail Annuity Business Group, where he directed the fixed, indexed, and variable annuity businesses.  He spent over a decade with Fidelity & Guaranty Life Insurance Company where he served as Chief Executive Officer and President as well as holding key senior leadership roles for its parent companies USF&G Corporation, Travelers Corporation, and Old Mutual U.S. Holdings, Inc.  He has also been a corporate officer or Board member of several financial advisory and insurance marketing organizations.  Harry, a Certified Public Accountant by training, began his career in public accounting with KPMG where he spent 10 years working primarily with multi-national enterprises. ​ Harry’s experience also includes serving as Managing Director of Investments and Insurance with Australia and New Zealand Bank (ANZ), where he was based in Sydney and ran the Australian life insurance, investment, retirement services, general insurance and advice businesses for this large regional Australasian bank.  During his time in Australia, he was also Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of ING’s Australian insurance, advice, investment, and retirement services businesses. ​ Harry is a nationally known speaker and author on personal financial management, life insurance protection, and later in life saving and income planning using insurance products. https://www.financialverse.com/the-author

For years you have passed them on the streets, as much a part of your routine as your morning shower, your half-hearted scan of the world's news — fake or otherwise — and the barista who artistically crafts the £4 cappuccino with soya milk, three drops of vanilla, and a flutter of chocolate sprinkles that has to be made just right or it throws your day off in ways that nobody else understands.   You see them as often as you see your own family. The disenfranchised. The rough sleepers. The homeless. Camped out and befouling the sidewalks and alleyways of your daily commute, their worldly possessions, such as they are, spread around them —as dirty and worn out as the sleepers themselves, but as valuable to them as your £100 brogues are to you.   Occasionally you get the urge to throw some loose change at them as a gesture of magnanimous humanity, but when push comes to shove you would rather tip the honest, hard-working barista who ensures your day gets off to a proper start. Better to support the successful rather than throw good money after bad trying to keep the great unwashed afloat.   You have conditioned yourself to look through them – allowing your eyes to pass over them without actually seeing them. A defeated acceptance of lives gone wrong; uncomfortable reminders of what can happen when the best laid plans of mice and men go horribly awry. "Thank god I'm not like them," you think, sipping your £4 cup of liquid gold. "I could never let that happen to me."   Until suddenly – inexplicably – it does. And you discover the life you have built was nothing more than a house of cards that crashed down around you with frightening ease. A spate of bad luck, a poor decision or two, and the ubiquitous 'circumstances beyond your control' conspire to create a perfect storm of events that leaves you cast away on the streets feeling dazed, disjointed, and damned.   This is Peter C. Mitchell's story. But it could be your story. Not to mention the thousands of others, past and present, that have found themselves broken behind closed charity doors. Theirs are the stories that need to be heard. To be read.   Peter's book: https://www.amazon.com/Awakenings-Sleeping-Rough-Peter-Mitchell-ebook/dp/B08NRKWLS9/ref=sr_1_1?dchild=1&keywords=Rude+Awakenings+from+Sleeping+Rough&qid=1606919380&sr=8-1   Investigating a story on Corporate Social Responsibility inspired me to look beyond profit margins and PR into the very real problems faced by society. This interest motivated me to begin research for “A Knight in the Slums,” a biography of my great, great grandfather, Sir John Kirk. As Secretary of The Ragged School Union, John championed the causes of children, the disabled, and the working poor in Victorian-era London. His influence extended beyond the city limits, and his life proved more interesting than previous biographies revealed. Dust-buried references have surfaced in the most obscure locales, showing the consequences—both good and bad—to the ragged and crippled children John Kirk devoted his life to helping. In 2017, I returned to London to complete my work. The past was ready to be mined; the future, bright. The present, however, took an unpredictable -and darkly ironic—turn. A series of unfortunate events transpired, creating a perfect storm of calamities leaving me penniless and sleeping rough. I had unwittingly fallen victim to the same societal ailments John Kirk fought. That nightmare inadvertently provided me with an inside look into the current workings of these same systems -put in place over a century ago. That experience frightened me more than the horrors of homelessness itself. Armed with the scars of this unexpected, but disturbingly relevant, knowledge I continue to work on “A Knight in the Slums” with renewed insight. John Kirk created solutions over 100 years ago that are still in play today. Times have changed; yet the solutions have stagnated, and proven to not be solutions, but mechanisms that perpetuate the cycle of poverty: a Hell’s Carousel funded by well-meant individuals and institutions blinded by the brand of “charity.” New systems need to be developed; new solutions need to be found. By better analyzing the past, "A Knight in the Slums" will serve as a springboard to create a better future.         Peter C. Mitchell   LinkedIn   A Knight in the Slums   In Someone Else's Shoes   How It Feels to be Homeless (Huffington Post)

Support the Breakfast Leadership Network! Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course. Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course: https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-life Hire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speaking Buy Michael's life altering book: 369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenario: https://www.amazon.com/369-Days-Survive-Worst-Case-Scenarios-ebook/dp/B074CCLKZP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502047423&sr=8-1&keywords=369+days Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network Like, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410 ------ Dr. Travis G. Parry is the founder of the Make Time Institute, where they help financial professionals and business owners achieve work/life balance. What’s unique about Travis, though, is that he spent nearly a decade working as a financial advisor as well and living firsthand the challenges of balancing the demands of an advisory firm with the needs of his family and home life before going back to school to earn a Ph.D. in family relations and human development and to study what it really takes to achieve a better work-life balance. Most recently he published ‘Achieving Balance’ which is all about making time to achieve business and personal goals in an overworked world. Dr. Perry shares advice on how to really achieve a better work-life balance and mythics around it. He is also open to all things time-management and productivity.

Support the Breakfast Leadership Network! Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course. Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course: https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-life Hire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speaking Buy Michael's life altering book: 369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenario: https://www.amazon.com/369-Days-Survive-Worst-Case-Scenarios-ebook/dp/B074CCLKZP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502047423&sr=8-1&keywords=369+days Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network Like, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410 ------ Jan-Benedict (“JB”) Steenkamp grew up in Amsterdam in the Netherlands with two older brothers and a passion for history. His parents instilled in him the values of hard work and taking responsibility. My greatest mentor on everything concerning leadership was my late father, who was a businessman, dean at a technical university and a leading politician. My father took his leadership cues from historical leaders and before I was even a teenager, he spent his (admittedly limited) spare time explaining to me what we can learn from historical figures. JB began his career as an assistant professor of Marketing at a university in the Netherlands. He held leadership positions in a political party, three universities in the Netherlands, and Belgium, and professional organizations before being hired as chairman of the marketing department by the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School in 2006, a position he held for 12 years. During his stint as chairman, the global ranking of the marketing improved from #24 to #7. In 2016, he became an American citizen. JB has written several business cases on inspired leadership. He felt the urge to write a book on leadership, in which he combined his passion for history, his marketing knowledge, and his leadership knowledge and experience. The book’s title is Time to Lead: Lessons for Today’s Leaders from Bold Decisions that Changed History. It will appear on September 15. In today’s time of global crisis and obvious lack of faith in leaders at all levels, more than ever, we need to – and can – learn from the great men and women in the recent and more distant past, who often faced much greater challenges. As The Economist wrote a little while ago: “Those who have passed through the fire surely have something to teach modern-day managers.” JB is Knox Massey Distinguished Professor at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School and co-founder and Executive Director of AiMark, a non-profit institute that bridges the world between academia and practice, and has helped countless academics to do work that actually matters to business. He has given executive seminars and guest lectures on all continents and to a multitude of organizations including the U.S. Military Academy at West Point and the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. He shares leadership insights and articles as a LinkedIn Influencer, featured speaker, and on his own website. JB currently lives in Chapel Hill with his wife Valarie. They have four kids scattered throughout the world and three grandchildren. https://www.linkedin.com/in/jan-benedict-steenkamp-bb535ab/

Support the Breakfast Leadership Network! Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course. Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course: https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-life Hire Michael to speak at your event: https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speaking Buy Michael's life altering book: 369 Days: How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenario: https://www.amazon.com/369-Days-Survive-Worst-Case-Scenarios-ebook/dp/B074CCLKZP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502047423&sr=8-1&keywords=369+days Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network Like, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410 ------ Amilya Antonetti  is one of the most sought after Human Behavior experts and Strategic Advisors. Her proprietary Genius Key system emboldens companies by removing biases, like gender, race, religion and other factors that impact building a healthy, prosperous and sustainable community, within the business and its “people.” Amilya’s national popularity began in the early 1990's after discovering the life-threatening effects cleaning products had on her infant son. She successfully founded Soapworks(™), which quickly became one of the fastest growing, privately owned all natural household product companies in North America. She sold the company (now renamed Green Works) and today it is a wholly owned division of Clorox.  In 2019 Amilya was awarded the  “Woman of the Decade” award from Women's Economic Forum. https://www.facebook.com/AmilyaAntonetti/ https://www.instagram.com/genius_key/ https://www.instagram.com/amilya_antonetti/ https://twitter.com/amilya?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/amilya/

2020 has been a challenging year for many.  So many losses.  So many stressful moments.  The pandemic has closed businesses, and ended too many lives. In a year where has been much to complain about, on this US Thanksgiving, I am thankful that I get to do what I do.  I'm thankful that I survived those 369 Days back in 2009/10, and made myself better. I'm thankful to all the organizations that have had me speak to their teams and audiences. I'm thankful for all the amazing guests I've had on the Breakfast Leadership Show. I'm thankful to you, the listener.  You give up your time to hear me talk with guests, and sometimes with just you.   Be thankful for your health.  Be thankful for all that you have.  If you have food, clothing, and shelter right now, you are RICH.  Cherish life.  Cherish loved ones, no matter near or far, and love and cherish yourself.   Be well!   ------ Support the Breakfast Leadership Network!  Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course.  Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course: https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-life Hire Michael to speak at your event:  https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speaking Buy Michael's life altering book:  369 Days:  How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenario:  https://www.amazon.com/369-Days-Survive-Worst-Case-Scenarios-ebook/dp/B074CCLKZP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502047423&sr=8-1&keywords=369+days Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network Like, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts:  https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410

Paul is a successful entrepreneur, real estate investor, speaker, and coach. He’s completed so many fix and flip real estate deals that people began referring to him as the House Flipping Expert & the nickname stuck! His entrepreneurial journey led him to quickly develop Flippin Experts, along with additional multimillion-dollar businesses which encompass all aspects of real estate investing and home renovations.   Paul has a proven track record for leading, developing, and growing businesses. His first entrepreneurial endeavor began at the age of 8 years old when he launched Tompkins Helpers, helping neighbors with any and all odds and end jobs.    Since then, Paul successfully uses his Marine Corps and State Trooper training, as well as business savviness to assist in launching multiple businesses including Celebration College in partnership with South Eastern University, Tranquility Realty, and Pristine Home Renovations. Paul’s passion is inspiring other entrepreneurs to take the next step while continually growing and developing.    https://flippinexperts.com/ Get 15% off of your first month of our Flippin Experts Academy Course by using the code BREAKFASTLEADERSHIP. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC4Xf0t0Emtdae4N5Cqjl9YQ FB: @FlippinExperts IG: @ flippin_experts

Support the Breakfast Leadership Network!  Burnout Proof Your Life Online Course.  Enter the code NINETY at checkout, to save 90% off the course: https://breakfastleadership.teachable.com/p/burnout-proof-your-life Hire Michael to speak at your event:  https://BreakfastLeadership.com/speaking Buy Michael's life altering book:  369 Days:  How To Survive A Year of Worst-Case Scenario:  https://www.amazon.com/369-Days-Survive-Worst-Case-Scenarios-ebook/dp/B074CCLKZP/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1502047423&sr=8-1&keywords=369+days Contribute on Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/bfastleadership Or PayPal: https://www.paypal.me/bfastleadership Breakfast Leadership Network Merchandise: https://teespring.com/stores/breakfast-leadership-network Like, Rate and Review the Breakfast Leadership Show on Apple Podcasts:  https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/breakfast-leadership/id1207338410 ------ Author John Slocum brings us a book that is very timely, during the COVID-19 pandemic.  This book highlights the power of feeling good and the impact that stress has on our everyday life. Chronic stress should be enemy number one and it has a track record that demands our focused attention.   Anxiety and depression are the scourge of the world and also represent the categories for the top selling drugs in the world. Those drugs mimic the natural chemicals we produce in our bodies and have people convinced that they need them to heal. We show you how to use your natural feel good chemicals on demand to arrest stress in its tracks . In addition to addressing stress, we also focus on the awesome power of the heart and share some of the latest advancements on the function of the heart and how you can use this information to become the best version of who you are.   This publication also shares the benefits of proper breathing and drives home the message that everything begins with our breath and how our breathing is the key to taking advantage of the treasure inside that we all possess beginning with the heart. Link to book:  The Science of Feeling Good:  https://amzn.to/36YcUqH https://Instagram.com/NoLimitsGuru