Above The Business

This week on the Leadership Podcast, Owen McGab Enaohwo joins Bradley to discuss business processes.  Owen is the CEO and Co-Founder of SweetProcess, an easy-to-use software that enables company executives and their employees to collaborate together to quickly document and/or improve their standard operating procedures, processes and policies.  In this episode, he shares with Bradley how documenting processes can be transformative for a business.Tired of being the Bottleneck in your business? Stop Doing it All Yourself. Document all those repetitive tasks that eat up your precious time, so you can grow your team and grow your business.  Club Capital listeners get a free 28 day trial (that's double the time everyone else gets!) with access to all the features of SweetProcess when they visit www.sweetprocess.com/clubcapital

Are you so focused on where you DON'T want to go in business that you forget to see where you're headed? Golfers know that when you focus on the out of bounds areas, that is exactly where the ball lands. The same is true in business.

This week on the Leadership Podcast, Joe Caruso joins Bradley to share what he learned from being diagnosed with incurable cancer, his new focus in life, and the principles from his book, “The Power of Losing Control.”After being diagnosed with an incurable cancer when he was 18, Joe committed whatever time he had left to spending five hours a day, five days per week, studying life. He wanted to identify what he now refers to as “Simple, Common, Timeless Human Truths.” In his quest, Joe felt compelled to answer a simple, yet difficult question before he was overcome by the cancer: What is the essence of a fulfilling, successful, and happy life? Joe became one of the first people ever cured of metastasized testicular cancer. With this gift, he decided he would continue his studies, and began to collect and analyze his findings on life.Joe Caruso is now an expert on the individual mind, the collective mind of an organization and how meaning drives our behavior and determines outcomes in all aspects of life. As an author, business advisor and speaker, Joe brings his lifetime of expertise to help organizations and leaders change the way they see themselves -- and in turn, the way they think about markets, products and services. Joe has learned this change in thinking drives new behavior and allows organizations to sharpen focus and reach greater levels of success.In this episode, he touched on a few key points, including:People bringing solutions not always problemsBeing fully present in the momentStruggle is the law of growthSynergy within the teamWisdom is knowledge put to workLearn more about his Caruso Leadership Institute when you visit www.carusoleadership.com 

What if someone told you that they weighed 700 lbs last year, and that they lost 350 lbs in the space of 360 days?  You’d want to know what they did!  But if someone told you they currently weigh 350 lbs, you might be less interested in how they got there.  Or, think about this.  What if someone told you they gained 175 lbs last year, and they now weight 350 lbs.  This causes alarm bells.  You’re going to probably encourage that person to look at what they’ve done over the past year so that it doesn’t happen again.This illustrates clearly how important the context of your current situation is!  Where you are today matters less than where you have been.  (This is our principle of trajectory > speed.)  It is so much more important to look at where the systems you have in place are taking you than knowing simply where you are right now.Then, you can assess if those systems will get you where you truly want to go.  I want to encourage you to spend thirty minutes of “thinking time” around these questions:Where have I been? (One year ago)Where am I at? (Today)Where am I going? (One year from today)

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.