Red Beard Radio with Brian Keith

Rylee Meek is the host of the King's Council Podcast and founder of King's Council Coaching. King's Council Coaching empowers individuals and families to create a proven framework of success built with the 5 Power Pillars of Life and a deeper relationship with God. In the last decade, Rylee has helped entrepreneurs scale their businesses, creating transformational wealth through his company, Social Dynamic Selling. Through the Social Dynamic Selling System, Rylee has taken eight companies to 7 and 8 figures within the first year of each, generating over $150 million in sales over the past decade. Utilizing his proven methods and strategies to build lasting relationships and lifetime customers, Rylee has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs gain clarity and create massive acceleration in their businesses and brands. Instagram & Twitter: @theryleemeek   1:09 "If I'm committed to excellence...I should be excellent in everything I do." -Rylee Meek   2:30 "Adult Lies!" -Brian Keith   5:40 "There's only a certain amount of things that we can actually control in our lives." -Rylee Meek   9:08 "I can always take the action to increase the level of order in my life." -Brian Keith   10:28 "'Feet hit the ground - water I pound.'" -Rylee Meek   19:34 "You can't manage what you don't measure." -Rylee Meek

Elise Stephens credits much of her storytelling influence to a lifelong love of theater and childhood globetrotting. Much of her work focuses on themes of family, memory, and finding hope after a devastating loss. She is a first-place winner of Writers of the Future (2019). Her fiction has appeared in Analog, Galaxy’s Edge, Escape Pod, Writers of the Future Vol 35, and FIYAH, among others. Elise lives with her family in Seattle in a house with huge windows to supply the vast quantities of light she requires to stay happy. Elise is currently seeking representation on her next science fiction novel. www.EliseStephens.com Twitter @elisestephens Facebook AuthorEliseStephens   3:15 "Finding time to write, in my world, is making time to write." -Elise Stephens   5:32 "I've learned to take massive project notes, I will even tell myself what I'm working on in a given day" -Elise Stephens   7:16 "So, the box is more like a wall defending your creative space from distractions..." -Brian Keith   8:51 "I would love to say that all the professionals are more like me, but they're not." -Elise Stephens   12:16 "I was able to avoid a lot of the, 'What in the world happened, you dropped that thread?'" -Elise Stephens   13:20 "Turning feedback into very precise directions on fixing the manuscript." -Elise Stephens   15:24 "You still get out a book, and you still improve your process." -Brian Keith

Crystelle is an experienced, and sort-after business automation expert & educator. She is passionate about working with business owners who are dissatisfied with their current results and want to accelerate growth & profit fast. She has walked in the shoes of a start-up business owner and understands what it takes to run a growing, global business. Crystelle has been engaged by businesses of all levels for her down-to-earth business strategy advice and continues to share her learning’s across the globe on leveraging business automation.   As a leading business automation strategist, Crystelle has spent 20+ years working in Marketing, Events and Operations working alongside some of the greatest & most admired business minds in the world like Tony Robbins, Dr. John Demartini, Brian Tracy, and Kerwin Rae, to name a few.   She founded Launchy over 8 years ago, a business automation agency, that works with 100's of businesses every year to make sure they are making more revenue by working smarter and doing less, they have the systems in place to scale their business to the next level and activate their community and database, all while adapting to the market to always stay ahead of the game. https://www.linkedin.com/in/crystelletopatan   3:31 “The only people who knew who we were…” - Crystelle Topatan   4:48 “Sometimes we’re their complete outsource department.” - Crystelle Topatan   5:50 “We actually work with all different kinds of businesses within Launchy” - Crystelle Topatan   8:20 “There’s so much story behind wine, and it goes sometimes over years and years.” - Crystelle Topatan   10:20 “They made more online than the previous twelve months in one month” - Crystelle Topatan

Married Father of 9, Jeff Putnam is the founder of Rugged Legacy Grooming Supply Co.,  author of Empire Divided and The Perimeter, and self proclaimed Fit- Prenuer. Find him on @Rugged_Legacy on both Twitter and Instagram   2:43 "I just kept doing it. People ask me, 'How did you get so good at running?' Well, I run. "How did you get good at writing?' I write." -Jeff Putnam   3:49 "They say you don't quit your 9-5 until you're making two to three times as much in your business." -Jeff Putnam   7:32 "An unnamed big tech company is paying some tattooed guy out in the mountains who does ice baths to write their press releases" -Brian Keith   9:14 "One of them immediately found a client which is the biggest tech company in the world." -Jeff Putnam   12:36 "One thing you're always going to want is a proof of work from anyone that is going to write for you." -Jeff Putnam   14:19 "I want to have fun conversations. I don't want to make sure that every little detail is perfect; that's someone else's job." -Brian Keith   18:26 "I could just click on the summary, go through the slides, see the main points that I needed to get, and move on." -Jeff Putnam

Katie Clark has been working at PartnerStack since 2019, and in that time has helped well over 100 companies set up a successful, scalable partner program. LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/katie-clark-35b99a170/   3:19 "There's nobody who can be a better advocate for you than somebody who is already using you and understands the value that you drive." -Katie Clark   5:25 "They know who to refer to your business; they know who is going to make the best customer of yours." -Katie Clark   6:32 "You yourself know what is going to make an effective partner [for your business] and what isn't." -Katie Clark   8:22 "That's a very fancy way of saying: you send us data, we bill you an invoice, and then we automatically pay your partners out." -Katie Clark   10:54 "You have us as your professional consultants, so we're going to guide you through the setup up of this successful program." -Katie Clark   12:12 "It's really incredible to me to see how a three-person tech company can see success the same way that a thousand-person enterprise payment provider company would see." -Katie Clark

Charles Gaudet is the author of "The Predictable Profits Playbook," host of The Beyond 7-Figures Podcast and CEO of Predictable Profits - a leading business coaching company for 7 & 8 figure entrepreneurs. He’s been an entrepreneur since the age of 4, created his first multi-million dollar business at 24, and has helped others generate millions with his strategies. He’s received numerous awards and recognition (including founding a company named as "One of the Best Seed Stage Companies" by Ernst & Young), received his Certificate of Leadership Development from The US Army War College and has his business advice featured around in the world – including Inc., Forbes, Salesforce, Success, Entrepreneur, and Fox Business – as well as on podcasts and radio. As well as being named one of American Geniuses’ Top 50 Industry Influencers.   Twitter: @charlesgaudet Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/PredictableProfits/ Instagram: @predictableprofits LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/2615202/ https://www.predictableprofits.com/ https://get.predictableprofits.com/dailyvideo/   2:32 "It's never a matter of a good economy or a bad economy. It's only a different economy." -Charles Gaudet   4:11 "When you're positioning your product or service, you need to position it so that people understand that you' are a must-have and not a nice-to-have." -Charles Gaudet   5:42 "It's really about a message-market match and how do you match the message of your product or service with what the market is thinking." -Charles Gaudet   10:30 "Even in the poorest areas in America, people can find the money for what is most important to them." -Charles Gaudet   13:40 "Anybody in America can make a million dollars." -Charles Gaudet   15:15 "The percentage of people who have attributed mindset to the reason why they're so successful is off the charts." -Charles Gaudet   17:08 "He broke every sales record...and had one of the best years ever, and that's because he found opportunity." -Charles Gaudet

Hal Halladay is an executive coach and leadership advisor. Through coaching and transformational leadership experiences, Hal develops leaders who can adapt to change without fear and drive business growth and innovation. He has led high-growth companies as a C-level executive where he created cultures of performance, leadership & execution excellence. His 30-year career has led him from the University of Utah to the University of Chicago before heading to New York, LA and San Francisco. He has founded and successfully built and sold SaaS companies beginning in 1998. He recently served 14 months as Executive in Residence at the Goff Strategic Leadership Center at the University of Utah. Instagram: @hgoldenh Twitter: @HHleadership Facebook: @leadertransformation   2:57 "In leadership, it's not what you do, but who you are." -Hal Halladay   4:33 "You're going to have to start to trust people, and people are going to have to trust you." -Hal Halladay   8:31 "Go a few levels deep; sometimes we call this exercise the 'five why's'" -Hal Halladay   12:37 "What would it take for us to double in sales every quarter?" -Brian Keith   17:31 "Take those questions and move them from yes or no, to a question that someone has to think about." -Hal Halladay   24:09 "As we double in size each quarter, you're going to be losing some of those roles - the ones you like the least - to other people." -Brian Keith   25:35 "Growth happens when there is leadership." -Hal Halladay

Tom Morkes is the founder and CEO of Insurgent Publishing, author of The Art of Instigating, The Complete Guide to Pay What You Want Pricing and Collaborate, and host of the iconic podcast "In The Trenches," where he interviews today's most fascinating (and sometimes controversial) marketers, entrepreneurs, and authors, including: Dr. Jordan Peterson, Seth Godin, and John Jantsch among many others.   Tom is a sought after marketing and growth consultant whose helped his clients reach the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, and USA Today bestseller lists, set the record for the most-funded, non-fiction publishing project in Kickstarter history, and generate millions in sales online using his referral, influencer, and affiliate marketing strategies.   Tom's ideas on marketing and entrepreneurship have been featured in a variety of top publications, including: Inc., Forbes, Business Insider, Entrepreneur, and Growthhacker TV.   Tom is a West Point grad and Iraq War veteran who spent 5 years as a commissioned officer in the US Army before making the plunge into writing, publishing, and entrepreneurship. When Tom isn’t helping brands and businesses grow their profit, he spends his time with his family, working outside on his mountain homestead, and drinking just the right amount of coffee. You can get inside Tom's brain by reading his blog at tommorkes.com. https://www.facebook.com/tmorkes   3:02 "I want to be the person that others would want to follow, that I would want to follow." -Tom Morkes   4:08 "He had that feeling of, 'I am serving all of my employees.'" -Brian Keith   5:33 "So, I always look at things and say, 'How does this expand or give me more options?'" -Tom Morkes   13:59 "Almost always, when I come back...I know something that I didn't know before about who I am and where I'm going." -Brian Keith   15:24 "Are you still tied to that stuff that you produced over this last decade, is that still you?" -Tom Morkes   18:14 "My monetization strategy was: this is going to be good...somehow." -Brian Keith   20:27 "I'm going to stick with these three out of ten or one out of ten [strategies] and really drive it." -Tom Morkes

Partnerships & Sales leader of 14+ years in MARTECH SAAS SMB & Mid Midmarket. Cory has built, relaunched and accelerated growth in partnerships and sales for more than 7 organizations like Keap (formerly Infusionsoft), ActiveCampaign, and now Maropost. Cory is also a board member of the Cloud Software Association that brings B2B SaaS partnership professionals together to share, learn and gain knowledge around partnerships. Cory has been married for over 18 years and is a father of 5! Loves to golf and travel with the family on their RV! Connect with Cory on LinkedIn or email him personally. https://www.linkedin.com/in/corysnyder/ corydsnyder@msn.com     00:52: "More people have moved to trusting online reviews almost as much as reviews given directly from friends and family." -Cory Snyder   02:29 "We send out up to three messages driving them to this one specific message which we have worked on for years and years to get the highest conversion rate." -Cory Snyder   05:28 "You guys are pushing them through a process and you're collecting a ton of information and that's valid when you're putting them through a course." -Cory Snyder   08:09 "In our perfect world we would both check in with you when you're starting, and when you're done, and also in the middle." -Brian Keith   11:39 "We don't want to give you just another platform: we want this to be integrated in your process that's just ran behind the scenes." -Cory Snyder   12:46 "But really, in fifteen minutes you could be up and running and collecting five-star reviews." -Cory Snyder   16:41 "Is the happy client giving you more business - is that one of your constraints? If it is, it may behoove you to spend more time working on this part." -Brian Keith

Arvid Kahl is the founder of the edtech SaaS, FeedbackPanda and writer at The Bootstrapped Founder; a blog about his entrepreneurial experiences and journey. Twitter: @arvidkahl   2:13 "I've found that there's an 80/20 distribution between things you should be talking about as an expert." -Arvid Kahl   3:34 "That's how you branch out: you do it slowly and essentially by increasing the radius of the topics that you're talking about." -Arvid Kahl   5:48 "Just like on any other social media, you are who you're surrounded by!" -Arvid Kahl   7:30 "What matters is the law that is put into place that prevents you... [from doing] what they have to struggle with." -Arvid Kahl   10:46 "I'd rather live in a world where I don't know what country the person that I'm hiring is in." -Brian Keith   11:53 "You're looking at it from your intentionally limited expert perspective; you're not imagining yourself to be an expert on warfare or geo-politics." -Arvid Kahl   20:46 "I found that I am past this point where I just am the person that I want to be on Twitter, and I stopped really caring about being misunderstood." -Arvid Kahl   29:05 "You need to be consistent in what you do; that's why people follow you over time." -Arvid Kahl