The Self Aware Leader with Jason Rigby

What if I say, the Congress is working for us (the business owners) to avail this once in a lifetime opportunity? Hard to believe right? But it's true… – Allow Businesses Deduct Personal Costs – through Disaster relief Act PAY ATTENTION - this can bring additional $15k-$50k of deductions (CASH) in your business, TAX FREE. There is a way to deduct assistance payments made to "Individuals" for expenses related to nationally declared disasters Any amount paid to or for the benefit of an "Individual" Other "Individuals" can be beneficiary of this Program. Those "individuals" can be you, your family member, your employees, or your neighbors, etc. Qualified Disaster Relief payment allows the business to pay any amount to or for the benefit of an "individual" – To reimburse or pay reasonable and necessary personal, family, living, or funeral expenses incurred as a result of a qualified disaster, To reimburse or pay reasonable and necessary expenses incurred for the repair or rehabilitation of a personal residence or repair or replacement of its contents to the extent that the need for such repair, rehabilitation, or replacement is attributable to a qualified disaster. DON'T WAIT, really, you snooze you lose! WE HAVE DEVELOPED A PROCESS TO GUIDE YOU THROUGH HOW YOU CAN DOCUMENT AND IMPLEMENT THIS STRATEGY IN YOUR BUSINESS…TODAY! Let us help you bring extra $15k of cash home, Tax Free only in 2020! Contact us for a free consultation and we will give you an estimate on your tax savings at the END of the discovery call. Sandhya Jindal Jindal CPA Firm 505-552-2470 www.services@jindalcpa.com Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources ,and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or sign up for my email list here where I drop marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

What is our purpose? What inspires us to accomplish greatness in our life? Why do we procrastinate and are lazy? How do we get motivated to be the true SELF? In this episode I get into specifics on how to find direction and sustain it in your life. This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby. Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for Small Business. Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources ,and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or sign up for my email list here where I drop marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

Erika Connects Veterans & Military Spouses with Small Business opportunities. Erika's Company (Small Business Marketing Studio) will help your business stay lean and agile with experienced, talented marketing professionals on a monthly subscription. No hidden fees, no contracts, no hassle – just premium marketing services at less than a third of the cost of a full-time employee. Here is Erika's Bio & Her Linkedin is here: Erika Heeren is an award-winning digital marketing and public relations professional with more than 16 years of experience spanning multiple industries and more than 200 clients. As President of The Small Business Marketing Studio, Heeren works to connect qualified military affiliated professionals with small businesses in need of support. She also has a career coaching program designed to help military spouses, first responder spouses, and transitioning veterans find sustainable careers in marketing and communications. As a consultant and contract CMO, Heeren provides corporate training and project management services for enterprise and small businesses looking to improve upon their internal and external communications strategy. As AVP of Communications for the New Jersey Chapter of the American Marketing Association, Erika is involved in the recruiting, managing, and support of the communications team of the chapter. The team supports the chapter by creating and implementing a cohesive internal and external communications practice to better serve marketing professionals in New Jersey. With a long-standing passion for guerrilla marketing tactics, she also works with small businesses and non-profit organizations to provide affordable, professional-quality content development and outreach services. Her clients include local small business owners, marketing agencies, public universities, media outlets, authors, IT firms, and non-profit organizations. As a volunteer, Erika has served in a leadership capacity for multiple nonprofit organizations. Heeren successfully created and implemented the first digital marketing curriculum for her local SCORE chapter in Idaho. In addition, Heeren has served as an entrepreneurial mentor for the Institute for Veterans and Military Families e-Mentor program. Heeren frequently connects with local educators to promote entrepreneurship and careers in marketing and communications for outgoing high school seniors. Most recently, Heeren served as a regional & state judge for the National History Day High School Competition. Erika Heeren is an experienced and engaging speaker in the areas of women's issues, small business development, digital marketing, and the issues facing veterans and the military family community. She is also an outspoken advocate for veteran and military spouse employment, education, and entrepreneurship. Heeren's first book, First Dollar Feeling, will be hitting Amazon and local bookstores in 2020. She also frequently writes for various print and web publications on the topics of small business development and military family advocacy. Heeren is a military spouse – her husband Jacob is currently an active-duty soldier in the United States Army. They are currently stationed in Idaho, where SSG Heeren serves as a recruiter. Erika has two children (Ben and Lottie), two dogs (Piper and Penelope), and one obstinate cat (Bernie Boots). She enjoys reading, writing, and playing the piano in her spare time. Heeren is a 2019 Idaho Business Review Women of the Year honoree, a 2019 Women in Content Marketing Awards – Mentorship winner, a 2016 Idaho Press Awards recipient, and has been featured on Inc.com as one of the Top 10 Women in Content Marketing. If you would like to help out Military Families please click here. Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources ,and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or sign up for my email list here where I drop business, leadership, and marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

Why do good companies fail? How can we take this new reality and scale our business & leadership properly? I read this insightful email newsletter from Ryan Deiss of Scalable.co he goes into detail in this blog post called the 6 Reasons Your Company Isn't Growing As Fast As It Could and asks some very pointed questions for you as a leader, and for your team to answer. Here is the link to the article. This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby. Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for Small Business. Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources ,and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or sign up for my email list here where I drop business, leadership, and marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

We had a very in depth conversation about how you as a business owner are vulnerable with allowing your employees to work from home. What can you do to be more secure with your work from home employees? We also got into company growth strategies and structure. This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby. Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for Small Business. About Lauren: A Business Development Strategist and Corporate Channel Champion. Lauren has Developed effective corporate growth strategies from internal sales structure to external facing partner practices to stimulate consistency in customer success and overall company continuity. Lauren started as a corporate Marketing Director for Chick-fil-A and transitioned over to the Technology world where she has designed and implemented tactical go to market business development through sales coaching, marketing, channel development and state, local, and education sales for tech startups and fortune 500 companies. With extensive knowledge in Cyber Security Solutions and a background in complex government procurement, her success in business development strategy stems from attention to detail in end to end creative execution. Laurens LinkedIn is here Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources ,and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or sign up for my email list here where I drop marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

KC and I had an in depth conversation on why HealthCare costs are so out of control and how you as a business owner can provide amazing healthcare to your employees and save money! We reference a book that you can get here. This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby. Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for Small Business. About Well Life ABQ: Well Life ABQ is your simple way to Solve your Healthcare Costs! This is from their website that you can go to here Are the costs of employee healthcare making you sick? We can help you fight back! Schedule a free business review. When we understand your healthcare needs, we can develop the best plan customized to your needs. For $75 per month plus tax, companies cover 80-90% of their employee's health needs. This model works for all company sizes, from the small employer that can't afford to offer traditional insurance to the larger employers that want to save on self-funded health plans. 1. Employees have decreased claims because seeing us is free. And employees can text their provider. Membership also includes 24/7 telemedicine. This kind of immediate access decreases ER and Urgent Care claims too. 2. We save self-funded companies thousands on medications and labs. We do this bypassing the insurance claims process and paying directly. 3. You keep your employer health insurance benefits in place for the big stuff. We help you save big dollars on the 80-90% of other costs. Health insurance has its place, but its time to evict them from the routine stuff. SMALL COMPANIES: Small companies struggle to offer health insurance. In fact, insurance for small business is nearly impossible. This impacts recruiting and retention efforts. Now you can offer them real healthcare for $75 vs a high cost insurance plan they cant even use most of the time. Go to Well Life ABQ Website here Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources ,and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or sign up for my email list here where I drop marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby. Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for Small Business. There's only one corner of the universe you can be certain of improving, and that's your own self. So you have to begin there, not outside, not on other people. Aldous Huxley | 1894 - 1963 | English writer & philosopher I Learned these 3 Valuable Questions From www.inspireyourpeople.com Do I deliver? Do others enjoy working with me? Am I growing? They have amazing playing cards you can get that go into detail on these questions here. Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources ,and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or sign up for my email list here where I drop marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby. Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for Small Business. Book Review "The 10X Rule" by Grant Cardone. Another Influential mentor that has been in my life since 2011 when I was at my lowest and didn't want to live. I ended up getting a sales job and listened day in and day out to Grant and his teachings it literally changed my life. I started to be successful and then this book came out in November of 2011. I consumed it through audible over and over again until I began to change. Grant Cardone is controversial, but he is honest, weaves ethics, and the power of your unlimited potential to everything he writes, teaches, and most of all does! Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources ,and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or sign up for my email list here where I drop marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby. Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for Small Business. About Evan Knox: Evan and I get into what real marketing is, and how business owners & entrepreneurs can see where their marketing ROI is going. We also get heavy into Story First Marketing. Evan is CEO and Founder of Caffeine Marketing. His website: https://caffeine.marketing/ You can email him for a business one on one at hello@caffeine.marketing. Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources ,and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or sign up for my email list here where I drop marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby. Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for Small Business. About Jamara Sadee Special Guest Jamara Sadee ABQ was on Titan Games and is Instagram Influencer, Fitness Model, and Bikini Athlete. You can follow her on instagram at: https://www.instagram.com/jamara.sadee/?hl=en https://www.instagram.com/mara_g1/ Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources ,and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or sign up for my email list here where I drop marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!