Exit Coach Radio

Settle in for a fascinating conversation with 2019 Vistage Speaker of the year Dr. Bill Crawford. Bill is a licensed psychologist, author of 4 books, and has created over 3,300 presentations for Sprint, Shell, The American Medical Association, and many more esteemed organizations. While we are over-saturated with information, Bill realized early on that we are not necessarily sure of what to do with it. After taking a class on the biological basis of behavior, Bill came up with a tried and true system for taking advantage of the way our brains work in order to think at a higher level. Reactions are due to the way we process information, and Bill shares why thinking in different parts of the brain causes different responses. By training our brain to think in the neocortex, our decision making process becomes more advanced and clear. Bill sheds light on what can happen when we try to see other people as allies instead of adversaries. While it may seem exhausting to aim for high level thinking all the time, Bill

          Rick MacBarron shares some financial planning tips from his many years of experience. Find his full interviews by searching in our index. Transcript:  Bill: What's the buyer who's gonna buy your business, gonna look for in your business? Here's two great tips from Rick MacBarron. Rick: The investment banking market is a nervous market, buyer's are very, very careful. So, again, when you present to the market, the business has got make a lot of sense. A buyer's gotta be able to look at the financials and understand it quickly, and not have to do a lot of digging around and, "can you explain this to me, please?" and, they don't want to ask a lot of those questions. Well, the other thing I see, Bill, is business owners just doing too many things, so that when a buyer comes along, the buyer's gonna say, "well, wait a minute, Mr. or Ms. Business Owner, you are the business." A company I'm working with right now in Wilmington, where we're intentionally bringing in a management team, so that when

Martin Staubus is a Consultant for the Beyster Institute at the Rady School of Management. The Beyster Institute is a nationally recognized center of expertise in employee stock plans. Mark focuses on: 1) structuring ESOPs so business owners can liquidate equity on highly tax-favored, flexible terms; and 2) creating equity participation programs that use stock options, restricted stock, or other forms of equity compensation to attract and motivate employees.   The Beyster Institute at UC San Diego is the nation's leading university-based center of expertise on employee stock programs. They provide advisory services to business owners who are interested in monetizing some or all of their equity value through an ESOP (employee stock ownership plan) - a program that allows an owner to sell any portion of his stock to his employees, generating tax savings that can actually exceed the value of the stock being sold. The institute also advise on the design and implementation of equity participation programs that use

                          Jim Jubelirer is the owner of Jubelirer Results Group. Jim's goal is to Contribute to Others and Add Value. Today we're going to talk about Creating a High Performance Culture.   Website: www.jubelirerresultsgroup.com        

                          The Galliard Family Business Advisor Institute was founded to ensure that small family-owned and closely held businesses across the country had access to the help they need to keep their businesses thriving while they undergo the significant transition in leadership.       

                              Greg Nutter from Soloquent Inc, helps small and mid-sized business owners solve revenue growth problems for companies that sell products or services either through a direct sales force or through a reseller channel. Please share this interview with your Social Media contacts!        

Sean Brawley is a world renowned expert on sustainable high performance and the Inner Game. His clients include Super Bowl Champion Coach Pete Carroll and Senior leaders of GE, ITT, and Union Bank. Today, Sean speaks to us about the basic premise of the Inner Game, about his work with Pete Carroll, and how his coaching can help CEOs. Contact Sean for a free 30 Minute consultation to explore how coaching can help you accomplish your personal and professional goals.  

                                      Jasmine Sandler is a global digital marketing and sales consultant and trainer in the areas of Online Branding, SEO and B2B Social Media. She has been the CEO of a Digital Agency since 2006, and has a niche service that she provides for CEOs and small business owners called Personal Branding Online. Jasmine recently published her 3rd book called "How to Brand Yourself Online Like A CEO" with a related Social Branding Course for business owners.  Website: www.jasminesandler.com      

            Fred Berns is the President of Business by Design, and provides coaching and speaking programs, and marketing and copywriting campaigns designed to help business owners stand way out from their competitors, and master their marketplace. Contact Info:  Website: whatsyouronly.com Email: fred@Whatsyouronly.com  

Dr. Jerry V. Teplitz is in the business of Optimizing Brain Performance and he is going to talk about How toIncrease Your Brain's Leadership Performance to New Levels of Excellence.  Questions Answered:    1) What is brain performance? 2) How can you increase it? 3) Do you have any research validating your approach? Contact Info:  Website: www.Teplitz.com Email: Jerry@Teplitz.com  

Tess Cox, Principal of Tess Cox and Associates, has a myriad of skills, but ultimately aims to assist others in personal and professional transformational change. She believes that choice, not chance, determines your destiny. Feedback is crucial to self-awareness, and self-awareness allows us to grow more effectively. Coaching is essential to maximizing our potential.  In her interview, Tess not only shares the 5 C’s of leadership, but also redefines the term leader. She stresses the importance of work-life congruency and aligning both to fit our personalities. Above all, Tess discusses the need to have a well-defined personal philosophy in order to continually make more confident decisions. Tess also shares a few examples of how she has helped her clients experience the outcomes they desire when working with and influencing others. The wisdom shared by Tess could improve your entire life, as well as your business, and should not be passed over.  

                    Alex Freytag is in the business of helping business owners get what they want out of their business.   

                      Christine Miles is the founder and chief architect of CI Squared. CI Squared is a Leadership Development and Sales Training Company. We believe people and organizations have untapped potential, and we empower organizations and people to reach their potential through our proprietary communication framework called "The Art of the Nudge." People and organizations must continuously improve and innovate business processes and key activities. Our framework is designed to work within an organization’s current system, nudging them to pivot in an agile and adaptable way to achieve superior business outcomes; that is, increased revenue, Increased profit/reduced cost, increased employee satisfaction, increased customer satisfaction, all leading to increased shareholder value. Questions Answered:  1. What are the current trends that you perceive in the world today that impact businesses? 2. You have developed an innovative communication framework as a result of these trends. What are the cor

In this 20+ minute highlight, Hans Sperling, Founder of Sperling Law Corporation discusses numerous strategies and ideas for your planning as you prepare for your Business Sale in the future, including the importance of your own pre-emptive "legal audit" to find and fix problem areas before your Buyer does, several tips on how to avoid "deal killers", and why your attorney should be your best friend when you are preparing to sell. Forward this to anyone who is saying they want to "sell someday soon"!            

Joe Bertotto of CU Services, LLC, is a consultant who helps develop high care, high performance, and high accountability cultures in the workplace. Joe’s work in this field began 25 years ago and his expertise is in leadership and culture development. His goal is to help leaders create a work environment where employees feel they get to come to work, instead of feeling they have to come to work. While everyone has their own unique strengths, we all can be exceptionally bad at identifying what they are.  Joe shares valuable insight on metrics for measuring strengths and weaknesses, as well as how this knowledge can be used to benefit the company and employees. He also explores the idea that individual well-roundedness may not be as important as we make it out to be. While weaknesses can’t be ignored, cultivating unique strengths can be potentially more fruitful. Joe’s tried and true process of helping coworkers understand, tolerate, appreciate, and eventually leverage one another is indispensable information f

Gunnar Gundersen is in the business of intellectual-property protection, consulting, and litigation, and is going to talk about how to manage intellectual property to maximize your business's value. Questions Discussed:  1. What is intellectual property? 2. How can intellectual property create value for my company? 3. Do I have intellectual property? And why should I care about managing it?

Smart Advantage is the only marketing and management consultancy focused exclusively on identifying and communicating the most important element of successful competition – your competitive advantage – from your target market’s perspective. Today, we will be discussing the importance of differentiating yourself from your competition. Questions Asked:  1. What prompted you to write your book, Creating Competitive Advantage? 2. What does Smart Advantage do and who are your ideal clients? 3. What results do your clients see after an engagement with Smart Advantage?  Contact Info:  Website: www.smartadvantage.com and www.jayniesmith.com Email: jsmith@smartadvantage.com Bonus Material:   A set of books, available on Amazon and Barnes & Noble.com. "Creating Competitive Advantage" and its companion book, "Relevant Selling".   

Vince Mastrovito of Prometis Partners once again shares valuable tips and precautions for business owners! Please share this interview with your Social Media contacts!

To Read This Episode's Transcript: Click Here Rich Allen, Founder of Tour De Profit, is a business advisor and nationally renowned public speaker. Rich is in the business of helping business owners engage and activate the power of their team. For the last 30 years, he’s gathered knowledge and expertise that allows him to inform business leaders. He aims to help them energize their team and transform their business into one that is profitable, sustainable, and driven by radically engaged team members. In his interview, Rich shares a variety of powerful tips business leaders can use to heighten the power of their teams. Rich discusses the tremendous value of building your values into your team as well as why you shouldn’t limit your growth to just your own knowledge. He also explains the way a high functioning business should operate using a bike as a metaphor. Rich emphasizes the importance of working proactively rather than reactively. If you wish to activate the power that currently lies dormant in your emp

Chris Ruisi, founder and CEO of The Coach’s Zone, is an experienced business coaching professional with an exceptional record of leadership in both large and small businesses. He mentors and guides executives and business leaders to find their “stretch” point to learn the full measure of their capabilities. He helps them to “master being comfortable feeling uncomfortable.” His book “Step Up and Play Big: How to Be Exceptional in 8 Simple Steps” has received wide recognition as being a practical tool for anyone who desires to achieve more.   Questions Asked:    1. Can you sum up what those 8 steps are? 2. Why is following the crowd a bad thing? 3. What is self-sabotage and why is it harmful? 4. How do employers punish their best employees?  5. How do mistakes actually help you?   Contact Info:    Website: http://www.chrisruisi.com/ Email: chris@thecoacheszone.com