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Neville Johnson breaks down John Wooden’s Pyramid of Success and how you can apply his philosophy of success to your life and career. Neville Johnson is the Founding Partner of the law office Johnson & Johnson, LLP and, “One of the most feared litigators in Hollywood” who has represented Nancy Sinatra, members of The Beach Boys, Fleetwood Mac and The Moody Blues, Jane’s Addiction, The Temptations, and the heirs of Buddy Holly and John Lennon. He is the author of The John Wooden Pyramid of Success: The Authorized Biography, Philosophy and Ultimate Guide to Life, Leadership, Friendship and Love of the Greatest Coach in the History of Sports.    Podcast Highlights Who is Neville Johnson? Neville was raised in Southern California and graduated from UC Berkeley during the Student Revolution. Neville grew up knowing that  he was going to go to law school due to two things: His love of arguing and his family and friends. There is no substitute for hard work. As a lawyer, there is no escape from knowing what is

Martin Yate talks about how being tenacious with your goals and focusing on building a career instead of just going from job to job is the best way to achieve your dreams. Martin Yate is the New York Times bestseller of the "Knock Em Dead" series of books, which are collectively published in 63 foreign language editions and awarded as the best career planning books in the world.   Podcast Highlights Who is Martin Yate? Martin started out with three goals in life. Be a pastor, or become an actor, or write the great American novel. None of those panned out but out of those mistakes Martin’s career evolved. Martin spent twenty years writing and couldn’t get published. Martin landed a job as a headhunter, parlayed that into a position as a trainer. Martin started writing manuals and was eventually turned down by 65 publishers, but the 66th publisher bought the book and Knock Em Dead is now on its 32nd edition. Where does your tenacity come from? Martin is an immigrant to America with ADHD. Instead o

Dr. Jeff Thompson shares his philosophy of values based leadership and shows you how to do good in business while also doing well. JEFF THOMPSON, MD, is executive advisor and chief executive officer emeritus at Gundersen Health System, pediatrician, author, and speaker on values-based leadership. Jeff’s experience in leadership is far-reaching, having led diverse teams, projects, and divisions, before holding multiple senior executive roles, including fourteen years as a CEO responsible for a staff of seven thousand, hundreds of thousands of patients, and a billion dollars of the community’s money within the Gundersen Health System. His long experience as intensive care pediatrician and senior executive has shown him over and over again how leading from one’s values has the power to affect long-term meaningful change.   Podcast Highlights Who is Jeff Thompson? Jeff Thompson is a husband of 38 years, the father of three children, and his early goal was to get into medical without debt. From the time he was l

Isaac Lidsky comes onto the Cashflow Diary podcast to give you some much needed inspiration and to show you that you can achieve your vision for your life. As a successful child actor in a major sitcom, Isaac Lidsky was bound from Hollywood to Harvard, where he graduated by the age of 19 – all while losing his eyesight to a rare blinding disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Yet his future was bright. Today a blind CEO, author and acclaimed speaker, Isaac shares a remarkable story of courage and achievement amid tough challenges. America first saw Isaac as “Weasel” in NBC’s "Saved by the Bell: The New Class". As a teen, while his eyesight gradually diminished, Isaac began to reframe his outlook. Dispelling any notion of disability, Isaac honed his true vision. And his achievements kept mounting: following college, he not only spearheaded a start-up, but then studied law and graduated Harvard Law School magna cum laude; clerked for Supreme Court Justices Ruth Bader Ginsberg and Sandra Day O’Connor, and argu

This episode brings you the godfather of the virtual office industry, Frank Cottle. Frank reveals how he essentially created the just in time work paradigm over 30 years ago and how it impacts entrepreneurs and businesses today. Frank Cottle is CEO of Alliance Virtual Offices and Chairman of the Alliance Business Centers Network. He is a recognized expert of flexible working, the virtual office movement and ‘third place’ working. Prior to creating the Alliance brand, Frank, successfully operated his own portfolio of business centers in multiple locations across North America. Frank has spent almost the past 30 years delivering business services that are finely tuned to the workplace needs of startups, entrepreneurs and growing SMBs. Over the years he has worked with tens of thousands of business owners and, coupled with a unique global management perspective, has become the go-to authority on flexible and remote work.   Podcast Highlights Who is Frank Cottle? Frank started his work life as a commercial dive

This episode dives deep into the greatest challenges facing entrepreneurs and the nation today with a great discussion on the principles of leadership. David Burkus, leadership expert and author of the new book Under New Management: How Leading Organizations Are Upending Business As Usual. Forbes. David Burkus is a best-selling author, an award-winning podcaster, and management professor. In 2015, he was named one of the emerging thought leaders most likely to shape the future of business by Thinkers50, the world’s premier ranking of management thinkers. David was recently named one of the “Top 40 Under 40 Professors Who Inspire.” His work has been featured in Fast Company, Inc, the Financial Times, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and CBS This Morning.   Podcast Highlights Who is David Burkus? In terms of priority, David is a husband and father first. Authors like Malcolm Gladwell and Daniel Pink were the model David used to build his career as a professor and an author. In many ways, David stumbled into his career

This episode goes into why you should be leading into the turn and why entrepreneurs should invest in themselves and their relationships in addition to their business. Elise is an accomplished strategic communications professional and business leader whose entrepreneurial spirit helped build Mitchell from scratch into one of the top 10 fastest-growing firms globally, a two-time Agency of the Year winner and Inc. 500/5000 Fastest Growing Company. The company’s client portfolio includes well-known brands such as: Walmart, Procter & Gamble, Hilton Worldwide, Kraft, Del Monte, Canon, Merck and others. Under her leadership the company grew more than 500% in five years. In recognition of her accomplishments, Elise has received numerous national awards including Agency Professional of the Year, Entrepreneur of the Year, and a Top 50 Power Player.   Podcast Highlights Who is Elise Mitchell? Elise was always an entrepreneur at heart. She found a way to take her passion and drive and make money from it, which is

This episode is all about making yourself more valuable by developing your skillset and investing in your future. David is a real estate investor/agent/author/entrepreneur/police officer in the CA SF Bay Area. David's goal is to achieve total financial independence through real estate and to help as many others do so as possible. When not hunting bad guys, he hunts deals and loves talking real estate.   Podcast Highlights Who is David Greene? David used to be a basketball fanatic, his love for basketball taught him that work ethic and training is more important than talent. The things we notice are not usually the things that lead to success, it’s the fundamentals that determine who is successful or not. Developing Your Skillset You should try to understand why something works, not just that it works. Become the best version of yourself that you can be if you don’t want to have any regret. Competency is the baseline, you should strive for mastery. Mastery As A Game True mastery comes from teaching

This episode is lesson in redefining success. Dan Millman shows you why adversity is the way to develop your strengths and how to adopt the path of the Peaceful Warrior. Dan Millman is a former world champion athlete, university coach, martial arts instructor, and college professor. After an intensive, twenty-year spiritual quest, Dan’s teaching found its form as the Peaceful Warrior’s Way, expressed fully in his books and lectures. His work continues to evolve over time, to meet the needs of a changing world. Dan’s seventeen books, including Way of the Peaceful Warrior, have inspired and informed millions of readers in 29 languages worldwide. The feature film, “Peaceful Warrior,” starring Nick Nolte, was adapted from Dan’s first book, based upon incidents from his life. Much of Dan’s time is devoted to writing and speaking. His keynotes, seminars, and workshops span the generations to influence men and women from all walks of life, including leaders in the fields of health, psychology, education, business, p

This episode tears down your ideas about business and builds them back, discover the power of positive destruction. Seth Merrin is an entrepreneur, global business leader and philanthropist who has reinvented how Wall Street can work for good and use technology to make the markets safer and more efficient for investors. As founder and CEO of Liquidnet, Seth has built a different kind of financial services company that is dedicated to rewiring the asset management industry by eradicating market inefficiency, driving investment performance and enabling the efficient flow of investable assets around the world. Podcast Highlights Who is Seth Merrin? Seth always had the perspective of looking at what is, and how it can be made better. His experience early on with computers led him to think about how technology can disrupt current paradigms. Solving Big Problems Jim’s first company was focused on bringing Wall Street into the digital age. You have to stack the deck in your favour and create an unfair competitiv

This episode of the Cashflow Diary podcast is all about deciding for success and why you need to get out of your own way and stop being afraid. Jim Palmer is a marketing and business building expert and in-demand coach. He is the founder of the Dream Business Academy and Dream Business Coaching and Mastermind Program. He is the host of Dream Business Coach TV, the hit weekly Web TV show watched by thousands of entrepreneurs and small business owners, and he is also the host of Dream Business Radio, a weekly podcast based on Jim's unique brand of Smart Marketing and Business Building Strategies. Jim is best known internationally as 'The Dream Business Coach' and creator of No Hassle Newsletters, the ultimate 'done-for-you' newsletter marketing program used by hundreds of clients in nine countries.   Podcast Highlights   Who is Jim Palmer? Everybody has limiting beliefs, when Jim was young he was so uncomfortable with public speaking that he would call in sick when his turn came aroun

This episode is a deep exploration of why limited thinking is holding you back from raising capital and how Clark Nichols can help you take your company public. Clark Nichols has spent a lifetime helping companies build their businesses, both as an employee in his early years, as an owner in his ambitious years,  and as a consultant in his productive years. He is an natural born entrepreneur infused with a missionary zeal to help the next generation of entrepreneurs learn that business is a clean and honorable profession bound by rules of propriety as well as law.   Podcast Highlights   Who is Clark Nichols? When Clark was in his mid-thirties, he lost $6.4 million in six months. An attorney convinced Clark to help a mining operation in Brazil where he managed to turn the company around and multiply the share price by many times. Once his contract ran out with that company, Clark became very popular with other companies that were having trouble.   Raising Capital One of the challenges to raising capital is

This episode goes into what it really takes to succeed in business and why you need to think big if you want to win big. Steve is President and CEO of Miller Ingenuity, a global supplier of high technology systems that protect assets, preserve the environment, and save lives. He is an internationally recognized business transformation expert whose keynote speeches have shown many c-suite executives how to maximize their company's Innovational Potential™ and double or even quadruple their company’s growth. Steve is a published author of four books, including American Manufacturing 2.0: What Went Wrong and How to Make it Right and his latest Mastering the Art of Success, now a best seller. Podcast Highlights Who is Steven Blue? Steven’s experience in a turnaround were where he learned important lessons about cash and strict operational control. You don’t need a lot of people to have a dysfunctional toxic environment, Steven worked in such an environment and learned that a culture by design is a much bett

This episode goes deep into understanding your customers as people instead of just abstractions and how to make better business decisions. For the past 20 years, Christian Madsbjerg has worked as a management consultant. He writes, speaks, and teaches on the practical application of the Human Sciences and his work has been featured in publications such as The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, The Washington Post, Der Spiegel, and Bloomberg Businessweek. His latest book, Sensemaking: The Power of the Humanities in the Age of the Algorithm, was released in the spring of 2017 by Hachette Book Group. His book Moment of Clarity, co-written with Mikkel Rasmussen and published in the fall of 2014, has been published in 15+ languages. Christian studied philosophy and political science in Copenhagen and London and has a Masters from the University of London..   Podcast Highlights Who is Christian Madsbjerg? Christian always thought he would be an academic but his experience in university put him on the different

This episode dives into why the typical view of investing and retirement is wrong and how you can take back total control of your finances. An entrepreneur at heart, first business at age 11, started 30 more since.  Founder of his own martial art, Yokido ™, and holder of 3 other black belts.  Damion paid for his first rental house with a VISA, bought 150 houses in 7 states over next 5 years and then went through a $20,000,000 meltdown in 2008.   Today he runs an Austin based FinTech dedicated to Disrupting Wall Street by getting people off the Wall Street Roller Coaster and in control of their money and financial future. Damion has written 5 books with two more being released in 2017. Podcast Highlights Who is Damion Lupo? Damion’s mindset has always been that anything is possible. This turned him into a disruptor of the norm. Your past becomes damage that prevents you from thinking in ways that seem outlandish, being naive can actually be a huge benefit. Your influences are what you become. Top 3 Lessons

This episode shows you how to duplicate the results of some of the most successful entrepreneurs in the world and invest life the top 1%. Scott Picken is a South African-born real estate investor and entrepreneur. He is the co-founder of Wealth Migrate, a fintech company that offers real estate investments on its online marketplace through crowdfunding. He began offering real estate investment solutions at the age of 26 when he founded International Property Solutions. The Huffington Post named Wealth Migrate as one of the top 60 real estate crowdfunding solutions in the United States in 2014.   Podcast Highlights   Who is Scott Picken? Scott Picken has always loved building things. Scott built an extension onto his family’s house at the age of 13. This lead to his passion for building businesses and technology.   Building Something Tangible Versus Something Intangible If you want to be successful, do what successful people do. The amount of money you can make in the business world is proportional to the

This episode shows you the importance of red teaming and how testing your assumptions can lead to greater success. Bryce G. Hoffman is an author, speaker, consultant, and strategic advisor who believes that individuals have the power to transform companies and cultures with the right processes. Hoffman wrote the bestselling book American Icon: Alan Mulally and the Fight to Save Ford Motor Company, which has become a manual for leaders who want to transform their companies. His latest book, Red Teaming: How Your Business Can Conquer the Competition by Challenging Everything, was just published by Crown Business in the United States and Little, Brown and Company in the United Kingdom.   Podcast Highlights Who is Bryce Hoffman? Bryce is a former journalist that witnessed many booms and busts and learned how businesses succeed or fail in the process. After writing American Icon, Bryce began getting asked to present and implement many of the ideas in the book in other businesses. This lead to consulting and Bryc

This episode deals with how to take care of and take steps to improve the value of our number one asset. Eliza Bacot began her nursing career as a nursing assistant, providing care to pediatric patients at a regional hospital. She earned a Bachelor of Science in Nursing at Kennesaw State University in Kennesaw, Georgia, in 2003. She became a Registered Nurse, caring for patients in the cardiovascular, surgical and medical intensive care units of several large regional hospitals. Bacot completed a Master of Science in Acute Care Nursing at Emory University in Atlanta in 2007. From 2007 to 2014, she was an acute care nurse practitioner in the medical intensive care unit of a large hospital. She provided training in bedside ultrasound, served as a mentor for nurse practitioner in training and conducted many aspects of critical care.   Podcast Highlights Who is Eliza Bacot? Eliza grew up in the South and learned early on she had a love for the human body, which lead her down the path of pursuing medicine. Moder

This episode dives deep into how college fits into your plan for your family’s future. Brad Baldridge is a late-stage college planning specialist. He helps parents of high school students plan and pay for college using strategies such as merit aid, need based aid, tax planning, savings and investing for college, negotiating with colleges, scholarships and loans. Over the past 10 years Brad has directly helped hundreds of families plan and pay for college. He has provided in-depth college plans resulting in increased financial aid, scholarships, identification of the right schools at the right price, and better loans. Brad’s expertise is featured weekly on his podcast, Taming The High Cost of College. Since 2013 Brad and his expert guests have explored and shared great information related to college planning. Podcast Highlights: Who is Brad Baldridge? After walking away from his corporate job, Brad found his calling helping families deal with college.   Dealing with failures, financial planning is for everyo

This is an intriguing story of wealth, scandal, and redemption. Joe Gagliano is a former member of the New Orleans Mafia, and architect of one of the biggest sports point-shaving scandals in American history - the subject of his new book, No Grey Areas: The Inside Story of the Largest Point Shaving Scandal in History and the Consequences Thereafter.   At the age of 24, Gagliano quarterbacked the ASU basketball point-shaving scandal, still one of the largest scams in sports history. Not only did he outsmart the sports betting world, as an entrepreneur Joe managed to create a number of legitimate and highly successful businesses. Podcast Highlights: Who is Joe Gagliano? Now a family man, and resurrected entrepreneur, Joe is the son of a cop and two-time felon. Joe Gagliano then and now; living by default vs. conscious choice and direction The dark side of gambling; the impact on career, relationships, and overall happiness Investing vs. gambling Transferrable skill sets Is it possible to learn how to ru