The Art of Living Proactively (Harnessing the Power of Your Choices)

"Self-awareness is fundamental to being coachable" In this episode, we speak with Mark Green who coaches CEOs and executive teams worldwide.   His passion is to liberate human potential and addresses, coaches and advises business leaders across a wide range of industries on topics including leadership, mindset, behaviour change, human performance, accountability.   Mark is a Core Advisor to Gravitas Impact Premium Coaches, a mentor to coaches worldwide, and an active contributor to programs and content for their global ecosystem and works with companies to help them escape the "Growth Trap" so they can run and grow the business faster and more profitably, while expending less effort and less time.   Topics discussed in this episode: Structuring engagements Having a guarantee and open door policy How he helped a client’s employee’s wife learn more about how to get into coaching The use of transparency in client communications – General Contractor, Restaurant, Technology Services An incredible experience with Uncruise, a small ship eco/adventure cruise line The true cost of tolerating the wrong person on your team How to hire the right coach   Books: Activators – A CEO’s Guide to Clearer Thinking and Getting Things Done

This week we explore the world of fitness with Mike Tilberry who is Operations Director at "Iron Sharpens Iron" and they have a refreshingly different approach to their customers than the one most people receive at the gyms they are members of. Iron Sharpens Iron has various CrossFit gymnasiums around North and South Carolina with many new locations due to be opening soon.  if you've been hearing about CrossFit and wondered what it is, you'll be far better informed as Mike explains how they differ from a conventional gym and how they try to help their members reach the goals they set for themselves. Links: www.isielitetraning.com Exceeding Expectations links: www.ExceedingExpectations.me Facebook Group Twitter LinkedIn YouTube How to leave a podcast review: https://tonywinyard.com/how-to-leave-a-review-for-the-podcast/ Please could I ask you a favour? Would you mind sharing this episode with one person you feel will get value from the content? Full shownotes including transcription available at: https://tonywinyard.com/ee068-mike-tilberry/

Jessica Silverman is a business startup coach to aspiring entrepreneurs seeking greater clarity and simplicity to live their true life’s purpose. Through her coaching, she guides clients with mind-body empowerment tools to spark the transformation of a physical and spiritual awakening to live and feel their most ALIVE self. We discuss: How the core foundation of her teachings unleash a deep understanding of one's energy, emotionally, physically, and spiritually From the place of energy insight, she can awaken this wisdom towards healing, enlightenment, and a deeper awareness of one's divine purpose The types of problems that cause many startups to get stuck Some of the biggest surprises her clients have had working with her   Links: Freebie for listeners: bit.ly/myreasonforbeing    FB Community: bit.ly/mozenwarriors Instagram: instagram.com/mozen_wellness LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jessica-schiller-silverman-mba-b48602a/ Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/jschiller51281/   Exceeding Expectations links: www.ExceedingExpectations.me Facebook Group Twitter LinkedIn YouTube How to leave a podcast review: https://tonywinyard.com/how-to-leave-a-review-for-the-podcast/ Please could I ask you a favour? Would you mind sharing this episode with one person you feel will get value from the content? Full shownotes including transcription available at: https://tonywinyard.com/ee067-jessica-silverman/

Estie Rand helps you stop throwing spaghetti at the wall and hoping something sticks! She is an internationally acclaimed lecturer, award-winning business consultant and marketing strategist who helps small business owners scale their businesses to 6 and 7 figures in profit.    In this episode Estie explains: Why she believes that every person can build a professional business doing what they love and make buckets of money at the same time The mission she is on to empower everyone who has a business dream to professionalize it and make it profitable How her entrepreneurial journey started as a small child How she helps businesses succeed and spend zero on advertising How she gets 80% of new clients by word of mouth Links: The link to Estie's 5 Day Challenge is  estierand.com/freegift  www.strandconsulting.net LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/estierand/ Exceeding Expectations links: www.ExceedingExpectations.me Facebook Group Twitter LinkedIn YouTube How to leave a podcast review: https://tonywinyard.com/how-to-leave-a-review-for-the-podcast/ Please could I ask you a favour? Would you mind sharing this episode with one person you feel will get value from the content? Full shownotes including transcription available at:  https://tonywinyard.com/ee066-estie-rand/

Judith Quin helps people express themselves with confidence, clarity and conviction and in this episode, she explains the deeper reasons why people fear speaking in public and what the underlying causes of that and how they can be overcome. Judith gives a few stories to illustrate how helping to improve some of her clients communication delivered amazing and sometimes extremely unexpected results for them. Quote:  "Down for perspiration. Up for inspiration"   Best & Blessings   Links Website.  https://yourwholevoice.com/ (Freebies available in Resources For Life page)  LI -  https://www.linkedin.com/in/judithquinvocalconfidence/   FB -  https://www.facebook.com/YourWholeVoice/   Insta - https://www.instagram.com/yourwholevoice    Exceeding Expectations links: www.ExceedingExpectations.me Facebook Group Twitter LinkedIn YouTube How to leave a podcast review: https://tonywinyard.com/how-to-leave-a-review-for-the-podcast/ Please could I ask you a favour? Would you mind sharing this episode with one person you feel will get value from the content? Full shownotes including transcription available at: https://tonywinyard.com/ee065-judith-quin/

Jeff Pulvino is a successful serial entrepreneur, business consultant, digital marketing strategist, and startup mentor. For over 20 years He has helped entrepreneurs grow their business by increasing their profitability and scalability while lowering their customer acquisition cost.    He tells us how he grew his own businesses from zero to $5 million in one year and to $25 million the second year by bootstrapping--without borrowing one penny and he now enjoys helping other business owners do the same thing.   He is the co-founder and CEO of Boost Media Group, a full-service digital marketing agency. His team develops effective content strategies for forward-thinking companies. We hear some of the amazing success stories he's had including turning one struggling business unable to pay small bills into crushing the million-dollar landmark.   Links: If you'd like to contact Jeff to discuss anything mentioned in this episode you can do so via his personal site at: jeff.marketing   linkedin.com/in/jeffpulvino Websites jeffpulvino.com  (Personal Website) boostmediagroup.com/  (Company Website) cosource.us/  (Company Website) Twitter jeffpulvino   Exceeding Expectations links: www.ExceedingExpectations.me Facebook Group Twitter LinkedIn YouTube How to leave a podcast review: https://tonywinyard.com/how-to-leave-a-review-for-the-podcast/ Please could I ask you a favour? Would you mind sharing this episode with one person you feel will get value from the content? Full shownotes including transcription available at: https://tonywinyard.com/ee064-jeff-pulvino/

Misti Patrella is a transformational coach who helps coaches and healers create and grow their practices in a way that feels right for them. Some of the topics discussed in this episode: Misti's background as an advertising exec working excessive hours How Maria Forleo helped her What students weren't being taught at a school for coaches Marketing and sales Mastermind groups Creativity Why exceeding her clients expectations makes work so much fun for her Misti's favourite quote: You've got to start with the customer experience and work back toward the technology - not the other way around.' - Steve Jobs  Links: Website: www.coachmisti.com Facebook Group:  Heart Centered Entrepreneurs Making Impact & Income:  https://www.facebook.com/groups/heartcenteredentrepreneursmakingimpactandincome/ Facebook: www.facebook.com/MistiPatrella LinkedIn:  https://www.linkedin.com/in/mistipatrella/   Exceeding Expectations links: www.ExceedingExpectations.me Facebook Group Twitter LinkedIn YouTube How to leave a podcast review: https://tonywinyard.com/how-to-leave-a-review-for-the-podcast/ Please could I ask you a favour? Would you mind sharing this episode with one person you feel will get value from the content? Full shownotes including transcription available at: https://tonywinyard.com/ee063-misti-patrella/

Rob Braiman has a reputation as a "Serial Entrepreneur" and for the past 15 years has been working directly with business owners to improve strategic planning, operations, growth, and profitability. He founded Cogent Analytics after spending over 10 years as a senior business analyst helping to improve and build main street businesses across the country. The company has now been ranked for 2 consecutive years on the Inc 500/Inc 5000 list of fastest-growing companies in the country and # 5 in the state of NC. Rob has engaged with over 1700 businesses across the United States and the mission of Cogent Analytics is to bring tools of better management, organization, and profitability to privately held, small to mid-sized businesses; and to deliver their services with integrity and transparency. In this episode we discuss: Always putting the interests of the client first Rob's value system and what he asks the employees of Cogent to embrace Profitability / Small Business Success Team development Small Business Marketing Sound business practices for SMB’s Links: http://www.cogentanalytics.com https://www.facebook.com/CogentAnalytics/ https://www.linkedin.com/company/cogent-analytics---llc/ https://twitter.com/Cogent_LLC Exceeding Expectations links: Facebook Group Twitter LinkedIn YouTube How to leave a podcast review: https://tonywinyard.com/how-to-leave-a-review-for-the-podcast/ Full shownotes including transcript at: https://tonywinyard.com/ee062-rob-braiman/

Trish is a public speaking coach, mentor and author and helping to empower introverts. She loves helping people find their message and share it with others and she makes it easier for people to do so whether that be using the spoken word or the written word. Some of the topics discussed: An advocate for people who have dealt with suicide Advocate for breast cancer Author and contributing author to 15 books Mentoring What people struggle with most when writing a book Why she loves the words: "Repurpose and leverage” “When you believe in yourself, wow the journey really takes off" By not sharing your message you’re being selfish!   2018  Winner BPW Northlakes Bright Training & Employment Partners Inspirational Woman Award 2018 & 2016 Small Business Champion Awards – Finalist Education & Training Category 2016 Women World Award Gold Winner – Woman of the Year- Mentor or Coach 2016 Women World Award Bronze Winner – Female Entrepreneur of the Year 2016 Awarded Top 50 Public Speaking Blog 2015 Edupreneur Award Winner – Professional Speaking Category Links: www.trishspringsteen.com   www.trishspringsteen.com https://www.facebook.com/Trischel https://www.facebook.com/trishspringsteenauthor https://www.facebook.com/trishspringsteenspeaking https://www.instagram.com/trishspringsteen/ http://www.linkedin.com/in/trishspringsteen/ https://twitter.com/TrishatTrischel http://bit.ly/TrishTalks http://bit.ly/GetKnownBeSeenWebTV   Exceeding Expectations links: www.ExceedingExpectations.me Facebook Group Twitter LinkedIn YouTube How to leave a podcast review: https://tonywinyard.com/how-to-leave-a-review-for-the-podcast/ Full shownotes including transcription available at: https://tonywinyard.com/ee061-trish-springsteen/

Dr Jacqui Taylor is a Cyberpreneur, a Top 10 Global IoT innovator, a Smart Cities Tsar, a UK Science Diplomat, Professor, Aerospace Engineer... She has an Honorary Doctorate of Science and a top 10 global Internet of Things innovator she doesn’t just predict the future she engineers it using cutting edge web science research. In this episode, she talks about clarifying and demystifying the future for you and spotlighting the megatrends inspiring you to align your organisation to profit from the Internet of Things. We explore many different areas in this episode including: Working as a strategic advisor to governments inc the UK, China Advising central banks and organisations such as Unicef How her company Flying Binary positively impacted over 90 countries Being involved in the project of building the internet of things - which changes our society and the way we live in the world Story of discussion with Sir Tim Berners-Lee creator of the internet Jacqui is a Smart City Tzar Gen Z and the hugely increasing influence they’re having on the economy - the first generation that has been immersed in the web, whereas the Millennials were ‘adaptives’ AI, AR, VR, GR and how this will emerge in the next few years Robots run her office! Oculus  The future of the cybersecurity industry Global education The amount of Global cooperation that is happening may surprise you Working on the Wikileaks project Her talk at Davos earlier this year How a young boy she mentored became a millionaire by 11 Do you realise how high a security risk your thermostat might be? The Empathy Economy Jacqui's equation, which is her formula for success she uses every day and why most people have at least one component missing World Economic Forum research;the foundation for her CyberSmart entrepreneurs success path. and underpins the Empathy Economy   Her favourite customer service quote is from one of her heroes; Steve Jobs. It was from his Stamford address: Stay Young Stay Foolish   Links: FlyingBinary Ltd  https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-jacqui-taylor/ t: @flyingbinary t: @jacquitaylorfb Facebook Business Profile: https://business.facebook.com/jacquitaylor1MF Facebook CyberSmart entrepreneurs topic page: https://www.facebook.com/CyberSmart-Entrepreneurs-108380593856844   CyberSecurity PDF mentioned by Jacqui   Exceeding Expectations links: www.ExceedingExpectations.me Facebook Group Twitter LinkedIn YouTube How to leave a podcast review: https://tonywinyard.com/how-to-leave-a-review-for-the-podcast/ Full shownotes including transcription available at: https://tonywinyard.com/ee060-dr-jacqui-taylor/