The Self Aware Leader with Jason Rigby

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 ABQ Business. Howard Ross is a lifelong social justice advocate and the Founder of Cook Ross. He is considered one of the world's seminal thought leaders on identifying and addressing Unconscious Bias. Howard authored the Washington Post best seller, Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives (published by Rowman and Littlefield in 2014) and ReInventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose and Performance, (published by Rowman and Littlefield in conjunction with SHRM in 2011). His new book, Our Search for Belonging: How the Need for Connection is Tearing Our Culture Apart, will be published by Berrett-Koehler in 2018. Howard has delivered programs in 47 states and over 40 other countries carrying out the work of Cook Ross. His audience has included hundreds of Fortune 500 companies and major institutions within healthcare, government, and non-profit sectors, in addition to a variety of other industries. He has led programs at Harvard University Medical School, Stanford University Medical School, Johns Hopkins University, the Wharton School of Business, Duke University, Washington University Medical School, and over 20 other colleges and universities. From 2007-2008, Howard served as the Johnnetta B. Cole Professor of Diversity at Bennett College for Women, the first time a white man had served in such a position at an HBCU. He has been published by the Harvard Business Review, the Washington Post, the New York Times, Fast Company Magazine, Diversity Woman Magazine, Forbes Magazine, Fortune Magazine, and has been a regular guest on National Public Radio for more than 10 years. Howard has served on numerous non-profit boards, including the Diversity Advisory Board of the Human Rights Campaign, the board of directors of the Dignity and Respect Campaign, and the board of the directors for the National Women's Mentoring Network. In acknowledgement of his significant contributions, Howard was the recipient of the 2009 Operation Understanding Award for Community Service, the 2012 Winds of Change Award from the Forum on Workplace Diversity and Inclusion, the 2013 Diversity Peer Award from Diversity Woman Magazine, the 2014 Catalyst Award from Uptown Professional Magazine, the 2014 Catalyst for Change Award from Wake Forest University, and the 2016 Leadership in Diversity Award by the World Human Resources Development Conference in Mumbai, India. Howard received his Bachelor of Arts in history and education from the University of Maryland and completed post graduate work in leadership and management at Wheelock College. Books on Amazon from Howard Ross: Our Search for Belonging: How Our Need to Connect Is Tearing Us Apart Everyday Bias: Identifying and Navigating Unconscious Judgments in Our Daily Lives Reinventing Diversity: Transforming Organizational Community to Strengthen People, Purpose, and Performance website: https://cookross.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!

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 ABQ Business. Push the Reset Button guys in YOUR Life. Take back YOUR Freedom and start creating the life you want to live. This new reality, and the world we live in now is the perfect canvas to begin a new life. Allow yourself to say NO and move in the direction that feels good to YOU! 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 local 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 ABQ. About Michael: Michael D'Egidio is a career public servant and a lifelong entrepreneur. He is currently the CEO Owner/Operator of ABQ House Buying. He passionately and empathically provides exceptional customer service to his real estate clientele. Whether it be the first time home buyer to the seasoned rehab, holder or flipper investor Michael is proud to educate and represent his clients interests both morally and ethically. He has a proven working record attesting to his real estate process and fundamental working philosophy in being both client focused and results driven. Michael is in the top 20% of brokers in the largest #1 real estate company in the State of New Mexico, Coldwell Banker Legacy. He has been an astute member in two real estate policy and procedure councils and a long standing member of the National Association of Realtors and his local chapter the Greater Albuquerque Area Association of Realtors. Before his real estate career Michael worked tirelessly for the State of New Mexico and its most vulnerable population: its children. For 10 years collectively he served in the Department of Health as a mental health technician for adolescents and also in the Children Youth & Families Department as both a direct care support worker/manager and a case manager for adolescent males and females adjudicated in the juvenile justice system. He has worked with many state and Federal entities including: the Department of Corrections, Department of Justice and the Sovereign Native Nations. He has been an advocate for children and children's rights in the State and continues to support many of its non-profit organizations the CASA program with the State of New Mexico, Big Brothers Big Sisters of New Mexico and the Children's Grief Center of New Mexico to name just a few. As a new father Michael knows the necessary importance in investing in the State and its children as they will soon inherit the world around them. When he's not in business meetings or volunteer engagements Michael enjoys traveling with his family and friends, homesteading, crossfit and weight lifting, 5k events and fundraisers and reading. He is an accomplished musician and is the classical guitarist and the main composer/songwriter for Echoing Dream. Their musical genre is an ambient/meditation collection of guitar combined with the sacred sounds of the Native American flute. Social media and website links for Michael: https://www.abqhousebuying.com/ https://www.facebook.com/ABQHouseBuying/ https://www.instagram.com/abqhousebuying/ https://twitter.com/AbqBuying 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 ABQ Business. The Slight Edge is a way of thinking, a way of processing information that enables you to make the daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. Learn why some people make dream after dream come true, while others just continue dreaming and spend their lives building dreams for someone else. It's not just another self-help motivation tool of methods you must learn in order to travel the path to success. It shows you how to create powerful results from the simple daily activities of your life, by using tools that are already within you. the Secret to Happiness and the Ripple Effect. The Slight Edge isn't just the story, but also how the story continues to create life-altering dynamics—how a way of thinking, a way of processing information, can impact daily choices that will lead you to the success and happiness you desire. The Slight Edge is "the key" that will make all the other how-to books and self-help information that you read, watch and hear actually work. 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 ABQ Business. Here is website of Katie & Gay Hendricks https://www.heartsintrueharmony.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!

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 ABQ Business. Love this quote please meditate on it before you dismiss it as harsh! If you would like the phone wallpaper get it here. If you want the cool Cameron Hanes shirt then can get 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 local 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 ABQ. Travis Davis is a native New Mexican. He was also born with cerebral palsy. Overcoming the odds of adversity, he received two college degrees and with support from his family. In 2015, he gave a TEDx Talk on social inclusion in education. The message was about the importance of having the courage to ask questions about a person's disability and strategies to appropriately do so. Over the years, Travis realized that my disability can be used for a positive purpose. His professional experience includes years in independent schools as an educator, the YMCA, and Carrie Tingley Hospital Foundation. In his free time, Travis enjoys writing, volunteering, and playing wheelchair basketball. Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/travismdavis/ Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/travismdavis/?hl=en 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 Albuquerque Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby. Each week we interview leading local 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 Albuquerque. Joe and Mike are brothers who have been working together online since 2014. Since then, they've succeeded at multiple different business models including Amazon FBA, Kindle Publishing, and E-commerce websites. They own a sellable online portfolio which consists of over 10 different businesses. They're still expanding their current holdings along with buying and selling new businesses online. Grab their free course: Online Asset Playbook It's their Secret Formula For Creating $1,000,000+ in Assets from Home, even if you have no prior experience. https://www.buildassetsonline.com/online-asset-playbook/ Here are all of the ways you can watch their show: YouTube - Also includes tutorials and other content Apple Podcasts Spotify Stitcher 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 local 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 ABQ. I Love this list and the many military leaders that have written books, and have websites. They can teach us so much about how to lead in a crisis, and how to develop teams, what coaching and training looks like in our organizations. I used this list of questions and you can get them from the 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 Albuquerque Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby. Each week we interview leading local 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 Albuquerque. James is the author of The Perfect Close: The Secret to Closing Sales – The Best Selling Practices & Techniques for Closing the Deal that shows sales & service professionals a clear & simple approach that increases closed opportunities & accelerates sales to the highest levels while remaining genuinely authentic. James has spoken for some of the biggest names in technology & healthcare. Combining the latest industry drivers with the most recent ideas & best practices James helps sales & services organizations take sales performance to a higher level while remaining genuine & authentic to their value system. Bio: James Muir is the founder and CEO of Best Practice International and the bestselling author of the #1 book on closing sales – The Perfect Close. James is a 30-year veteran of sales having served in every role – from individual contributor to executive VP. His mission – to make the complex simple. James has extensive background in healthcare where he has sold-to and spoken for the largest names in technology and healthcare including HCA, Tenet, Catholic Healthcare, Banner, Dell, IBM and others. James is passionate, enthusiastic and fun. He likes to have fun while he works. Not only is James a lifelong student of sales, he's also an accomplished guitarist, organic chemistry fan and fitness buff. James lives in the mountains of Salt Lake City with his wife and two sons. website is: https://puremuir.com/ buy book on amazon here: https://amzn.to/2LuhLpp 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!