Breakfast Leadership Show

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Our guest today is Dr. Michelle K. Johnston who is the Gaston Chair of Business at Loyola University New Orleans' College of Business. Dr. Johnston is an executive coach with over 20 years of experience, and she was named to the prestigious 100 Coaches Group which consists of the top executive coaches around the world. She has her Ph.D. in Communication from Louisiana State University, and her new book, The Seismic Shift in Leadership, shares what she has learned in her years as an executive coach: primarily that connection — with yourself, your team, and your organization — is the key to a leader's success. http://www.michellekjohnston.com/  

Glen is the Founder and CEO of Brandheart, a leading leadership coaching firm that helps C-suite executives get clarity, focus, and certainty about their best selves so they can lead fulfilling and prosperous lives.    Brandheart has worked with over 500 business leaders, entrepreneurs, and athletes from around the world to develop their personal and organizational brands.   For over 20 years, Glen held Director and CEO positions at some of the world’s top brand strategy and communication companies like Clemenger BBDO, Saatchi & Saatchi, Leo Burnett, and Idea Works across four continents. As a brand specialist, he helped brands such as Toyota and Gatorade enter and grow their market share in Australia.   What he learned leading and working with these top companies led him to start Brandheart to empower current and future leaders.   Glen shares:   Discovering your personal brand, or what he calls your Best Self Identity (BSI), and how this can help you live a fulfilling and prosperous life as your authentic higher self.  How to become a conscious leader that leads from the heart and accordingly is vastly more influential and successful.  The four core capabilities of remarkable leaders and how you can adapt them so you can lead more effectively. 

Chris is one of the veteran marketers out there - he is the senior advisor to CMOs at Zappos, Harley Davidson, Best Buy, Godaddy, and dozens of other brands. Before founding Cult, he was the Marketing leader at John Deere and The Home Depot. On the podcast, he would love to talk about: Cult brand principles - how the most iconic brands in the world achieved their success and adoration Marketing/Advertising - how brands need to spend less money on paid media and markdowns and instead rise up to do "real" marketing by providing better products, services, and customer experiences Internal Engagement: how the world's best brands are built from the inside out. Business leaders have a greater responsibility to convert employees into evangelists by focusing more effort and resources into their culture Social Media Links: https://cultideas.com/

In this episode, you'll learn:   How moving to America at a young age with minimal goods and starting her life independently helped change her outlook on success. The benefits of lots compared to houses, and how they offer more room for investment opportunities like raising rent. How to get started investing in mobile home parks and build long-term passive income.   Charlotte is the Managing Partner of Johns Creek Capital – an investment managing company that focuses on mobile home park investments. Numbers-wise, they currently have 20 park investments, with a total investor subscription amount over $3.9M. Charlotte herself has also created over $500k in asset value in the past 12 months. Social Media Links: https://www.johnscreekcapital.com/  

Ashley Tison is an Opportunity Zone Sherpa - an attorney and entrepreneur focused on helping real-estate investors reduce their tax liability. Essentially, Opportunity Zones are places in the U.S. where over 30 million people live and work. If you hold an investment in some of these locations, you can pay no tax on your returns, which could lead to a 30-40% increase in your annual return. As co-founder of OZPros.com, they’ve helped over 400+ real-estate clients save hundreds of thousands, sometimes even millions of tax. Some topics Ashley discusses during the podcast include: 1. Where you should deploy capital to maximize your tax benefits. 2. The benefit of investing in an OZ and its positive social and economic impact on local communities. 3. Why Opportunity Zones can be a pretty big barrier to entry for most investors and how to approach it most effectively. To get a feel for Ashley, here’s an interview he did with the ‘Centre Stage’ Podcast (https://podcasts.apple.com/mx/podcast/035-selling-your-business-tax-free-with-ashley-tison/id1544836403?i=1000533982216&l=en) Oz Pros website: https://ozpros.com/podcast   Social Media Links: https://www.facebook.com/ozpros/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/ashley-tison

LeiLani is the Founder and CEO of be the change HR, a social enterprise that helps companies hire the right talent and create and support happy, healthy workforces. LeiLani lives by Mahatma Gandhi’s words “Be the change you wish to see in the world”. That’s what led her to start be the change HR as a social enterprise, which not only does great HR work but also contributes to the betterment of the world through their work. The company has seven-figure revenues and donates 10% of its annual net income to charity. Since launching in 2017, be the change HR has supported close to 30 nonprofit organizations. LeiLani has over 20 years of HR experience spanning across many industries, such as construction, finance, real estate, and manufacturing. She regularly teaches free job readiness courses and provides free coaching to individuals who’ve been trafficked, homeless, and veterans in transition. Social Media Links: https://bethechangehr.org/

Cesar Quintero grew up in Venezuela, and then the US in his early 20s leaving behind a secure job at Procter and Gamble to start his own business. In 2013, he founded Fit2Go, which was the first corporate, healthy, meal delivery service based out of Miami. Today, he is focused on The Profit Recipe, a coaching firm that focuses on empowering entrepreneurs through a journey of focus ON the business and not IN the business by implementing best practices and the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS). Social Media Links: Website: https://theprofitrecipe.com/ Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/cesarequintero Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cesarquintero/

Guy Friedman is CEO and Co-Founder at SteadyMD, a B2B telehealth technology platform and clinician workforce provider that powers high-quality telehealth patient experiences for leaders and innovators in healthcare. Guy has successfully transitioned SteadyMD from a first-of-its-kind completely online, direct-to-consumer concierge primary care service to a leading provider of telehealth infrastructure for digital health companies, labs, pharmacies, employers, and other healthcare innovators. Prior to SteadyMD, Guy founded and was the CEO of HigherNext, a test administration, online proctoring, and certification platform, which was acquired by ProctorU, where he continued as the VP of Product Strategy. Guy earned a bachelor’s degree in quantitative economics and a master’s degree in economics from Tufts University, and his MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Steady MD website: www.steadymd.com Social Media Links: Guy Friedman LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/guyfriedman SteadyMD instagram: https://www.instagram.com/steadymd/ SteadyMD twitter: https://twitter.com/steadymd SteadyMD facebook: https://www.facebook.com/steadymd/

John Driscoll is the Founder and CEO of Naked Development, a creative agency that creates apps that stand out. They are the go-to agency for many Fortune 500 companies and the most exciting startups in the world. Some of their clients include Bank of America, the American Red Cross, and UPS. John has been an entrepreneur for over 20 years and has lectured at such esteemed locations as Redlands University, UCI, Caltech, Rackspace, and the University of Southern California. He has also worked with organizations that include Wells Fargo, the American Red Cross, and Bank of America. Social Media Links: https://www.instagram.com/nakeddev/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/thejohndriscoll