Exit Coach Radio

In this 20 minute interview, Jeff Karges, Partner - Relationship Matters Consulting Group discusses lessons he has learned by being involved in and consulting for Family Businesses, including the challenges and how best to deal with them.   Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com    

                    Sam Wazan discusses the qualities necessary for someone to be successful with clients, including attitude, presence, and problem solving ability.    Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com  

                                  Dianne Collins, original thinker and popular media personality, is the creator of the QuantumThink® system of thinking, author of the 6-time award-winning bestseller, Do You QuantumThink? New Thinking That Will Rock Your World, and the world’s leading authority in “new world view” thinking. Along with her husband and business partner, Alan K. Collins, Dianne consults executives and entrepreneurs, celebrities and politicos in applying QuantumThinking to what’s important to them – for mastering accomplishment and fulfillment. Her clients have included leaders in Accenture, AT&T, CNN, Dupont, and McKinsey. Dianne Collins is a featured blogger on The Huffington Post and was named one of the “Top 20 Conscious Entrepreneurs for 2014” in the annual Tera Awards. Dianne created the groundbreaking new system of thinking – the 21 principles of QuantumThink® -- for living the highest and best in everyday practical life -- integrating science, philosophy, and spirituality; drawing on

Stephen Lynch is the Chief Operating Officer of RESULTS.com. He is a “Kiwi” (New Zealander) living in San Francisco. He is responsible for researching and developing the strategic planning and business management practices that are incorporated into the RESULTS.com management dashboard software. Stephen is the author of the award-winning book: Business Execution for RESULTS -a practical guide for leaders of small to mid sized firms. His book was judged Winner in the "Management" category of the USA’s 2014 Small Business Book Awards. He has had articles published in The Economist, and has personally consulted with the leadership teams of hundreds of client firms around the world, and writes a weekly email newsletter that has over 40,000 business leader subscribers around the globe. RESULTS.com are a growth firm with offices in the USA and New Zealand. The methodology they teach clients is the exact same methodology they use to run their own business. Questions discussed:   1. What are some of the biggest ch

Ariel Garten is probably one of the most interesting people you will meet. She is a Neuroscientist, mom, former psychotherapist, former fashion designer, and the co- founder and visionary of an amazing and highly successful tech start-up Muse. Muse tracks your brain during meditation to give you real-time feedback on your meditation, guiding you into the “zone” and solving the problem most of us have when starting a meditation practice. Muse lets you know when you are doing it right. With no formal business background, Ariel personally raised $18M to found Muse from Silicon Valley investors (as well as Ashton Kutcher). Muse is now used by hundreds of thousands of people to start or deepen their mediation practice, including by Mayo clinic. When Ariel is not reading brains (literally) or investing in, inspiring and advising other start-ups and women in biz, you can find her on stages across the world, from TED to MIT teaching audiences about their brain and how to overcome its limitations, consistently giving

                  Harris is the man that teaches us how to squeeze the most juice out of our orange. We all have this idea that we need to do more business to make more money. What Harris has done though, for himself and others, is teaching how to get the best use out of the business, time and money that we are currently working with, now. Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com

A strategy is rising in popularity called "Half-Retire". Is it for you? Jim describes the process and who it's best suited for. Visit www.halfretire.com for more!   Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com

                  Angela Sloan is the CEO and founder of Sloan Financial Group. Today, she will discuss the key aspects that women need to know about retirement, and how they can plan for it. Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com

Henry Evans is the Managing Partner of Dynamic Results, a Strategy Implementation and Organizational Development firm. According to Harvard University, Dynamic Results' clients implement their strategies at 8 times the rate of most companies. Questions Discussed: 1) What does it mean when you say your clients implement their strategies at 8x the rate of most companies, according to Harvard? 2) Your Accountability Method, and also, your approach to generating leadership at every level of an organization, have both gotten a lot of press. What, if anything, do the approaches have in common? 3) Your methods have gotten a lot of press (Inc., Forbes, Washington Post, Fast Company, Huffington Post, Entrepreneur) for being counterintuitive. For example, you promote the idea that it's okay to get angry at work. Can you say more about that? Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com        

Stuart Friedman is the Founder and President of PMA, Progressive Management Associates. PMA is focused on increasing communication effectiveness resulting in Creating/Shifting Culture, and getting people aligned to strategies. Questions Answered:  1. What is the most often asked question by your clients of you? 2. In your opinion, what should be the number one consideration for hiring people in an organization? 3. What is one team or company activity leaders should consider in order to build trust, increase effective communication, get people aligned to strategies?   Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com  

Steven Snyder is a CEO Trainer, helping people reach paradise and attain emotional management. Today, Steven will discuss how his methods can help people become better, faster, smarter and happier.  Questions Discussed: 1) What is the state of Focused Passion? 2) How do people become better, faster, smarter and happier? 3) What is your lifelong mission? Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com  

Roger Winsby, President, AxiomValuation Solutions,  discusses the methods of valuation that can be used and ideas and strategies to help business owners enhance and increase their values. Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com  

Isaiah works in litigation support, providing court reporting, videography and trial technology solutions to law firms, in-house legal departments and corporations throughout the US.  Questions Answered:    1) Can you explain your topic title in a little more detail? 2) What advice do you have for someone outside the law?  Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com    

Rickard Hansson, Incentive Corp. suggests that, rather than holding their wisdom inside, that if key employees shared their ides and methodologies it could spark creative collaboration that could create new and improved ideas for company growth.  Transcript:  Rickard: I want to drain the brain of the co-workers and get no so dependent on key-persons, because you are, and they know that they are the key things, so that's where we want to attack, in some sense. When you implement this, you have to make sure everyone is on board. Typically in the beginning, you have to get the ambassadors, people who want it, early adopters, as soon as possible, because the key persons, the key employees, are usually the last ones because they want to keep their knowledge because it's a part of their power. Of course, you're part of the company because you know something, and you're obviously a key player, but holding that information isn't a part of that, because if you hold that information, I think you stop evolvin

Joe coaches bright people to turn their "talents into treasures" so they can EXIT their "soul-sucking" job.  Questions Answered:  1) Why Are People Afraid to Start A business? 2) Everybody's different! What's "the right" business? 3) What are the fundamentals needed to succeed? Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com  

                    Dr. Simon is a corporate anthropologist. Her business, SAMC, specializes in working with CEOs and companies that need or want to change. For today's talk, the topic is all about "corporate cultures and how they impact successful executive succession." Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com

Bill Anton of CEOEffectiveness.com discusses leadership and transformation concepts.  Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com  

Dr. Jerry is one of my favorite guests - he helps us learn how to make better choices for a healthy life. Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com

Jeff Brown of Jeffrey Brown and Associates shares how he works with established companies (primarily distributors and manufactures) who are facing the challenges of minimum wage increases, benefit increases and companies who are seeing the margins shrink. He assists them in an area known as "Business Process Reengineering", helping them work more efficiently and yielding higher worker productivity and improvement in profits. Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com

Bill Jenkins is the Founder and Senior Pastor of The Church of ACTS in Indianapolis and author of several books and instruction manuals.    Questions discussed:   1. How many times is the number 15 mentioned in the Bible? 2. How is the number 15 important in today's world? 3. What are the 5 main themes the number 15 has that sets us up for success in 2015?   Join Bill Black for his weekly humor column at https://Blackpapers.substack.com