Above The Business

Entrepreneurs and business owners desire freedom. This is often why we went into business. But in this episode, Bradley shares how some systems and structures can create more freedom for you as the owner. One such thing is a weekly "meeting" with yourself.Grab the free BlueprintOS tool, Sunday Night Planning, at www.blueprintos.com/assetsThanks 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. https://todayapppro.com/

Today on the podcast, Troy discusses key industry changes with Bradley. Troy Korsgaden is a highly sought-after Insurance Carrier Consultant. He is the principal of Korsgaden International, which specializes in global marketing, distribution, agency building and technology strategies for many of the world’s largest insurance carriers and financial services companies.As a consultant, platform speaker, and author of eight books, Korsgaden’s mission is to help the insurance industry and its representatives wake up to the radical transformation taking place in the insurance industry. He helps those in the industry learn how to better communicate with consumers, so that consumers develop a higher appreciation for the value of insurance products. In his career, which spans over three decades, Korsgaden has consulted and spoken with hundreds of thousands of executives, agents, brokers, and team members. A widely respected expert on the seamless distribution ecosystem. Korsgaden trains corporate insurance and financial services leaders on customer service, change management, technology, and transformational work, among many other key topics.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. https://todayapppro.com/

Bradley reflects on how he would "wing it" in his business, figure everything out as it came up, and continue to lead reactively. Hear how he had to step back from his business to design how he wanted to lead it, and the difference it made for his brand and team.Grab the free tool, Perfect Repeatable Week, from BlueprintOS to begin designing the week you need as a leader. (www.blueprintos.com/assets)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. https://todayapppro.com/

Today on the podcast, Jake Thompson joins us to discuss leadership, mindset, habits, and team development! Jake started his company selling t-shirts out of the back of his car behind a gym in 2011. He is passionate about competition and helping people apply a competitive mindset to create the results they want out of life.He knows firsthand how this mindset helps leaders become more resilient, successful, and mentally tough to handle everything life throws at them.Today, he is the Chief Encouragement Officer at Compete Every Day and a performance coach who travels around the country, helping people to create a competitive advantage in their careers and lives.Learn more about Jake Thompson at https://jakeathompson.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. https://todayapppro.com/

What are 5 things that you can take from the highly successful University of Alabama football team and translate into your business? Process-minded thinking, the importance of culture, A-players, standards, and consistency. In this episode, we'll dive into the importance of each one.Grab the Time and Energy audit Bradley mentioned for business owners at www.blueprintos.com/assetsThanks 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. https://todayapppro.com/

With taxes for the 2023 fiscal season over, we're sharing tips and best practices for your taxes in this recast of a recent webinar with the Club Capital team. 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. https://todayapppro.com/

If you're a business owner, you know that there's a conventional 40 hour week. There's approximately 2,080 working hours in a year. But how you spend your 8,760 hours each year can change your business and your life.Want to design how you use your time? Grab the BlueprintOS Asset, Time and Energy Audit for free: https://www.blueprintos.com/assets/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. https://todayapppro.com/

Eduardo Briceño is a global keynote speaker, facilitator, and author who guides many of the world’s leading companies in developing cultures of learning and high performance. His TED talk, “How To Get Better At The Things You Care About,” and his TEDx talk, “The Power of Belief,” have been viewed over nine million times. His book, The Performance Paradox: Turning the Power of Mindset into Action, was selected as a “Must-Read” by the Next Big Idea Club, which is curated by Susan Cain, Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant, and Dan Pink.In 2023, Eduardo was shortlisted by Thinkers50 (described by the Financial Times as the “Oscars of management thinking”) for the Thinkers50 Breakthrough Idea Award, given every two years to thinkers who “have ignited Eureka moments in management, offering radical ideas that have the potential to reshape the future of business as we know it.”Earlier in his career, he was the co-founder and CEO of Mindset Works, the pioneer in growth mindset development services, which he started with Stanford professor Carol Dweck and which he led for over a decade during a period when growth mindset went from unknown to a household term. Prior to that, he was a venture capital investor with the Sprout Group and served on several for-profit and non-profit boards. Before that, he was an investment banking analyst with Credit Suisse. He is a Pahara-Aspen Fellow, a member of the Aspen Institute’s Global Leadership Network, and an inductee in the Happiness Hall of Fame.Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, Eduardo holds bachelor’s degrees in economics and engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, as well as an MBA and M.A. in education from Stanford University. Most importantly, he continues to enjoy lifelong learning every day.Learn more about Eduardo: https://briceno.com/Catch other podcast episodes with Eudardo: https://briceno.com/press/#in-the-mediaThanks 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. https://todayapppro.com/

If you've been dreading going back to work, feel stuck in the business as the year kicks off, and aren't sure how to shift your business from depending on you, this episode is for you.Grab the free BlueprintOS asset, The 2024 Preloaded Year: https://www.blueprintos.com/assets/Join Above The Business for The Kickoff on January 23rd! Register here: https://www.abovethebusiness.co/thekickoff2024 One of the most challenging parts of being a business owner: making fantastic plans in December that translate into action in January. There are three things that can radically change how we approach a new year in our businesses: where your head is, what skills you lack, and the tools you need to make it happen. This has almost nothing to do with intention. You’ve got big, lofty goals that you want to accomplish this year—and that’s great! But if your head and your hands aren’t aligned, you won’t get very far. 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. https://todayapppro.com/

Today on the podcast, Patrick Esposito joins Bradley to discuss why many businesses fail by their 5th year, and how to avoid it. Patrick is the author of THE STRUCTURE OF SUCCESS, is president of ACME General Corp. and also serves as counsel with Spilman Thomas & Battle law firm. He has helped found, lead, and advise businesses in technology, consulting, and other sectors. Esposito was co-founder of Augusta Systems, Inc., which was acquired by Intergraph Corporation, and was co-founder of Resilient Technologies LLC, which was acquired by Polaris Inc. For his new book, THE STRUCTURE OF SUCCESS, he interviewed 100 leaders in a wide range of businesses including tech, manufacturing, consulting, and retail to uncover the most common causes of business failure. Patrick recently launched Initiative Labs LLC to help leaders apply the approaches and tools in this book. You can learn more at https://patrickesposito.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.