Above The Business

Today on the podcast, Alex Shattuck joins Bradley to discuss market challenge and profitability, timing your team growth and new hires, retaining A-Players, the strategy behind remote work, and building success year over year.Alex Shattuck fought in Fallujah, Iraq as an infantry Marine in 2006/2007. He leveraged those experiences upon his return home launching multiple insurance agencies, a real estate company, the recruiting service Autopilot Recruiting and a business consulting company. In 2021, he published his first book "Complacency Kills". He just released his second book “Small Business, BIG RECRUITING” earlier in fall 2023. He’s on a mission to help small business owners decrease their hours in their businesses while increasing their profitability.Get your copy of both of Alex's books here: https://www.alexshattuck.com/Thanks to our sponsors...Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capitalBlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast.

In this quick episode, Bradley shares the importance of leading yourself to lead your business. He covers unintentional consumption of information, how to choose books, podcasts, and videos that will help propel your business forward, and shares his process for planning the year.BlueprintOS developed a tool to support intentional use of time in business and in self leadership called The Pre-Loaded Year. You can get it at www.blueprintos.com/assets for free to begin allocating your time for the entire year.If you’d like to dig deeper in developing intentional forward motion in your business, we'd like to invite you to join us for a live, 90 minute session called The Kickoff. This is an exclusive Above The Business event, and you can register today at www.abovethebusiness.co.Thanks to our sponsors...Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capitalBlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast.

Happy New Year! As we look ahead to 2024, Bradley shares some thoughts and one key tool that you can use to plan out your use of time, priorities, and business growth.Grab The FREE Pre-Loaded Year Template: https://www.blueprintos.com/assets/#latest  Thanks to our sponsors...Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capitalBlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast.

A review of our 2023 Top 10 Episodes including Damon West, Troy Korsgaden, Jack Wiley, Cameron Herold, David Peterson, Walker Deibel, Allan Dib, Andrew Filar, Alex Shattuck, and Mike Michalowicz.Thanks to our sponsors...Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capitalBlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast.

In this episode, Bradley shares some of his key lessons learned in business this year. A few of those include...Work with your mind, rest with your hands."It's lonely at the top," but that's a choice.The only person worth modeling is your future self....and more. Also think through your own lessons learned, and how you can start a log for 2024.Thanks to our sponsors...Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capitalBlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast.

In this episode, Bradley encourages business owners to take the time to identify the obstacles between their Point A and Point B. What is keeping you from reaching your desired reality in December 2024? Think through this important question with Bradley and discover a process to turn your obstacles into your way forward.Thanks to our sponsors:Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capitalBlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Club Capital Podcast when you get in touch.TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Club Capital Leadership Podcast.

Today on the podcast, Doug Lennick and Chuck Wachendorfer join Bradley to share how you cannot wait for someone else to fix things in your business. Every leader wants to boost their team's productivity. The first step is to strengthen your own leadership skills through learning agility, effective communication, and embracing empathy and compassion.Experts Doug Lennick and Chuck Wachendorfer, partners at think2perform and authors of the new book, **DON’T WAIT FOR SOMEONE ELSE TO FIX IT**, discuss their unbeatable approach to productivity:1. Learning Agility — A leader's ability to analyze new business situations and solve problems is a top priority. Leaders need to be curious, choose growth over comfort, resist defensiveness, experiment — and share these skills with their teams to boost productivity.2. Effective Communication — Effective communication is a function of both someone attempting to send a message and someone receiving that message. If the receiver is not understanding the intention of the communications, then the communication is ineffective and impedes productivity. A big problem often occurs when leaders do not communicate what activities need to be undertaken to achieve the organization’s goals.3. Embracing Empathy and Compassion — This leadership skill is more relevant than ever. Empathy is about understanding. Compassion is empathy in action. Any leader who actively cares about the well-being of their people will be rewarded with best efforts, higher productivity, and retention of the best and the brightest.Doug Lennick is the founding CEO of think2perform, a high performance leadership development firm serving organizations in a variety of industries. Chuck Wachendorfer is President of Distribution at think2perform.They have worked with clients including American Express, Wells Fargo, Comerica Bank, TD Wealth of Canada, Charles Schwab, and others.Get your copy of their new book at https://www.think2perform.com/dont-wait-for-someone-else-to-fix-it-book/Thanks to our sponsors...Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capitalBlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast.

When you're facing an issue in your business, it can be easy to think through all the levers to pull. However, you may be missing the most effective solution. In this episode, Bradley discusses why the Obstacle Is The Way forward.Thanks to our sponsors:Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capitalBlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Club Capital Podcast when you get in touch.TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Club Capital Leadership Podcast.

In today's episode,Alex Budak, author of "Becoming a Changemaker" joined Bradley to discuss the importance of embracing change in business. Alex is a UC Berkeley faculty member, social entrepreneur, author, and keynote speaker. He helps people from all walks of life go beyond themselves, become changemakers, and make a positive impact in their careers, companies, and communities. His book, Becoming a Changemaker (Hachette, 2022) is described by NYTimes best-selling author Dan Heath as "a catalyst for a new generation of leaders committed to changing the world" and has been endorsed by Nobel Prize winners, Olympic athletes, and most meaningful of all—his former studentsAt UC Berkeley, Alex teaches his wildly-popular course “Becoming a Changemaker,” directs the Berkeley Haas Global Access Program, and is a Faculty Director for Berkeley Executive Education programs. A teacher at his core, Alex's book and changemaker curricula have been adopted by universities around the world.As a social entrepreneur, Alex co-founded StartSomeGood, which has helped thousands of changemakers in over 50 countries raise millions of dollars to launch and scale new change initiatives. He previously ran Sweden's leading social innovation Incubator, Reach for Change, and worked at change.org.Alex regularly speaks at Fortune 500 companies, nonprofits, and universities, giving talks on changemaking, entrepreneurship, and leadership in venues from Cambodia to Ukraine; China to the Arctic Circle; and the White House to UN agencies. His vision is to make change less scary, leadership more accessible, and impact more inclusive.Learn more about Alex: https://www.alexbudak.com/Thanks to our sponsors...Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capitalBlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Above The Business Podcast when you get in touch.TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Above The Business Podcast.

2023 went one of two ways for you and your business……either you didn’t have the year you wanted and you want to trash it……or you had a good year and you’re ready to build on it and have a GREAT year.You’ve probably done business planning in the past. You have a million great ideas, you do the exercises, then it just sits on the corner of your desk as a constant reminder of all the things you didn’t get to. Or, you’re stuck in the one-year sprint cycle that leads to burnout and frustration—and none of that is helpful to you or your business.That’s why we created The Annual. Whether you’re smashing it or struggling, this two-day retreat will help you:* Close out this year* Evaluate, grow, and learn from the last 12 months* Carve out space to get clear about the next 12 months* Prioritize your goals* Start and keep your momentum all year long* Learn the Blueprint for SuccessMeet and learn from other business leaders who are searching for clarity and momentum—just like you.To save your seat, go to www.abovethebusiness.co/theannualThanks to our sponsors:Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capitalBlueprintOS provides business coaching services to owners who are ready to make the shift from Rainmaker to Architect in their business. Discover how implementing systems, processes, playbooks, and routines will sustain growth and scale in your business. Visit www.blueprintos.com to learn more.Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.Coach P found great success as an insurance agent and agency owner. He leads a large, stable team of professionals who are at the top of their game year after year. Now he shares the systems, processes, delegation, and specialization he developed along the way. Gain access to weekly training calls and mentoring at www.coachpconsulting.com. Be sure to mention the Club Capital Podcast when you get in touch.TodayApp is a corporate approved app that allows you to build custom activities and track all your commissions and bonus structures, and integrates perfectly with your CRM. It can even manage your employees’ time, track production, have a leaderboard with metrics, and more. Contact Today App and for a custom demo and let them know you heard about them on The Club Capital Leadership Podcast.