Journey To Mastery

There's a prevailing trend in the world of sales that claims relationship selling is dead. Some argue that customers are already 67% through the sales process before even talking to a salesperson, rendering relationships irrelevant. However, Liz Heiman disagrees. In complex business-to-business sales or even personal sales, relationship is everything. If a customer is making a big investment that will impact their organization, they need to trust the people selling to them. People still buy from people they trust. If a salesperson is not trustworthy, customers will look elsewhere.Although the way people research and make purchasing decisions has changed, relationships still matter. People do a tremendous amount of research before talking to a salesperson, but if a salesperson gets to them before they start doing the research and helps them understand the solution, they will trust the salesperson in making the decision.A good fit and the right solution are still crucial, but people always matter. Liz  highlights that if a salesperson doesn't pay attention to the relationship, somebody else will, and when it's time to make the decision, someone else will be there. Relationships are not dead in sales, but they have changed. It's important to be kind, curious, and compassionate, and to hire trustworthy salespeople. Relationships matter, and how people feel about you matters. Don't let the relationship go unnoticed, or someone else will take advantage of it.Episode Highlights01:46 - Yes, it has to be a good fit.  Yes, it has to be the right solution.  But people matter.  People always matter.  And I have customers that they have a two or three year sales cycle, that relationship matters over that time.  And if you let that relationship go and don't pay attention to it, somebody else is going to go make a relationship and when it's time to make the decision, somebody else is going to be in there.  So yes, it matters.  You matter as an owner, as a salesperson, anybody, you matter.  How people feel about you matters.  You need to be kind and curious and compassionate and all of those things.  It matters.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Liz HeimanLinkedInWebsite

Liz Heiman guides entrepreneurs through setting up a successful sales system so that they can reap the rewards of their hard work. She covers topics such as how to find and manage sales staff, building business strategy around numbers, creating an effective lead generation strategy, implementing stages and activities for your salespeople in order to reach their goals, running team meetings with training and updates included and finally assessing your process regularly for success. Are you a founder or entrepreneur struggling to find success in sales? Then listen to this episode where Liz provides useful advice that will help you take the necessary steps towards achieving success in sales. Episode Highlights02:39 - This is going to be really shocking to everyone, I know, but leads do not come out of thin air. They are not like combustion from nothing. They actually have to come from somewhere. So, either your marketing team has to generate them or your sales team has to go out to events, or you have to call people. Somewhere, these leads–and you need a plan. You need a strategy. What activities are we going to do, and what results do we need in order to pay for those activities? So, there's a strategy.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Liz HeimanLinkedInWebsite

Liz Heiman goes over a variety of sales procedures and systems, helping you to gain insights into the best possible approaches. She explains that a framework is a set of guide rails that companies must use to communicate and define their ideal customer. She discusses various recognized methodologies within the sales world such as Sandler, Challenger Sale, MEDDIC, Solution Selling, SPIN Selling, and Miller Heiman’s Strategic Selling, Conceptual Selling, and Large Account Management Process.Liz stresses that these methodologies don’t offer any secrets or magic but instead they require an organized process when selling complex products or services to multiple buyers. If you're looking to improve your sales game, then don't miss this episode. Such methodologies are essential for understanding the process of selling complex products or services to multiple buyers. Tune in now to hear more about how these strategies can give you an edge in closing deals successfully.Episode Highlights01:29 - In sales, there are a whole bunch of companies that have created methodologies, and you may have heard of some of them. Sandler is one of them. The Challenger Sale is one of them. There's a new one called MEDDIC. I don't know how new it is, but that's kind of a methodology. I come out of the world of Miller Heiman. So, Miller Heiman created programs called Strategic Selling, Conceptual Selling, and Large Account Management. And that was really the early days of creating methodology or process around sales. So, Solution Selling was also happening at the same time and SPIN Selling was also created about the same time. These are also methodologies. And these are the very beginning of "Hey, there's a process that you follow to do this." Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Liz HeimanLinkedInWebsite

Elzie and Liz Heiman discuss how sales is at the heart of any successful business. Liz provides advice on hiring sales personnel who fit in with a company's mission and values. She also suggests having a strategic plan with clear objectives to create a culture of sales within the organization. Discover how creating a strong culture of sales through strategic planning can result in the successful hiring of personnel with shared mission and values. This episode is essential listening if you are looking to build an effective sales team, or just trying to get better results from your current team. If you're an entrepreneur looking to build a successful business, you won't want to miss this. Episode Highlights01:34 - Your sales team is the heart of your business. And everybody says, "Oh, no, no, my product is the heart of my business." Well, it may be the soul of your business, but it is not the heart, because it is the sales team that pumps the lifeblood through your organization and keeps it going. Because without that heart pumping, there's no company. And if you think about it, your heart isn't in your pinky. Because if it were in your pinky, it couldn't pump life blood through your body. It's in the center of your body for a reason, because it needs to be there. And your sales team is the center of your business, because it's all about the customer. And your sales team is the first team that really touches your customer directly. Marketing may influence them, but the sales team touches them.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Liz HeimanLinkedInWebsite

Elzie Flenard sits down with Jason Duncan, a professional business coach, multi-award-winning entrepreneur, and founder of 12 companies. They explore how an entrepreneur can maximize their business profitability while still maintaining a healthy and stress-free lifestyle. Jason shares his journey from pastoral ministry to entrepreneurship, and how he discovered his purpose through self-awareness and understanding the signals from within.They discuss the importance of self-awareness, the dangers of synthetic happiness, and the necessity of change even when it is painful. Jason introduces the concept of the law of open cycles and shares how managing open cycles can reduce stress levels. They also discuss the "hero syndrome" and how it affects every entrepreneur, limiting growth potential for the company and putting unnecessary stress on the individual. Jason shares his four key principles for leaving daily operations and achieving freedom in business: Embrace Delegation, Eliminate Stress, Establish Systems & Processes, and Invest in People.If you're an entrepreneur looking to maximize your business profitability and spend 50% less time in your business while retaining profits, be sure to check out Jason's online course at ExitWithoutExiting.com. Connect with Jason at The Real Jason Duncan to learn more about his programs and how he can help you find your passion and get the results you want out of your life. Tune in for an enlightening conversation and valuable insights into becoming an effective 10-hour entrepreneur!Episode Highlights:08:06 - An alcoholic cannot overcome alcoholism until he or she realizes or is aware that they have a problem with alcohol. Someone addicted to porn, someone addicted to overeating, whatever the addictions or problems in life, you can't overcome it until you're aware of it. So, for me, I've always had pretty good self-awareness, probably to my detriment at times, because I'm overly analyzing what people may think. As a matter of fact, I was talking with one of my best friends this morning. We meet every week for coffee and we're working through the Think and Grow Rich Workbook right now, which by the way, I'd highly recommend everybody to go through. He's a mindset coach. And so, we were going through that today. And one of the things that we read through in the workbook this week was a failure inventory and going through things where you could potentially fail if you don't keep it in check.12:16 - There's always pain in change. It may not be immense pain, but there's some pain in change. I mean, I'm right-handed and brush my teeth on the right hand everyday. But if for some reason my right hand is not available and hurt and I have to brush with my left, that change is painful, and can be because I might hit my gums, or anytime we change, there's pain in it. But when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change, that's when change occurs.23:05 - Well, I think it's just minimizing at the base level. It's just getting your open cycles down to a manageable thing. And then once you realize and understand what causes stress is open cycles, if you start feeling stressed, you know what it's related to and you can do a quick open cycles inventory. Certainly, it doesn't take three hours once you know what you're doing. Because you can go, "What is on my list I need to take care of?" I mean, I've got my date, my planner, right here on the desk next to me, and in this planner, there's a list of 10 or 12 things that I need to get done this week. That's all I do. I just get that one done. Done! Move on to the next one. That's how I manage it.25:16 - There's this thing I refer to as "Hero Syndrome," and the hero syndrome affects every entrepreneur. Nobody escapes it. And at the beginning, what the hero syndrome does, it teaches us that we are the hero and if it's going to survive, we must save it. So, the business is on our shoulders, we fly from town to town, we save the crying babies, we save the damsels in distress, we put out the fires, we do everything. We're the hero, we wear the cape, we wear it proudly. And that is fine in the first stages of any startup, of any business. The problem is that's not sustainable, long term.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deepe

Everyone dreams of escaping the 9 to 5 office routine. It's natural to want more freedom, autonomy, and creativity in your life. Embrace unconventional opportunities, take calculated risks, and never be afraid to dream big. Jason Duncan believes one key to getting autonomy is by defeating the "Hero Syndrome," which can often get in the way of progress.Escaping the daily grind opens up new opportunities that allow you to define your own working structure and make the most of the limited time we have. Tune in to listen to Jason for a unique perspective and gain insight into how you can create an extraordinary quality of life.Episode Highlights01:09 - There's this thing I refer to as "Hero Syndrome," and the hero syndrome affects every entrepreneur. Nobody escapes it. And at the beginning, what the hero syndrome does, it teaches us that we are the hero and if it's going to survive, we must save it. So, the businesses on our shoulders, we fly from town to town, we save the crying babies, we save the damsels in distress, we put out the fires, we do everything. We're the hero, we wear the cape, we wear it proudly. And that is fine in the first stages of any startup, of any business. The problem is that's not sustainable, long term.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Jason DuncanWebsiteLinkedInInstagram

The Hero Syndrome is an interesting phenomenon that is worth exploring. It describes the urge to take on more tasks than you are capable of but burnout can soon follow. To maximize his productivity, Jason Duncan practices the art of saying no - a skill that prevents burnout and ensures he can stay focused on what matters most.Though managing tasks may take some effort upfront, it allows for greater efficiency and accomplishment over the long run, so it’s truly worth the time invested. Listen to Jason to learn about the technique he teaches on his coaching platform that became a game changer for many entrepreneurs.Episode Highlights02:56 - Well, I think it's just minimizing at the base level. It's just getting your open cycles down to a manageable thing. And then once you realize and understand what causes stress is open cycles, if you start feeling stressed, you know what it's related to and you can do a quick open cycles inventory. Certainly, it doesn't take three hours once you know what you're doing. Because you can go, "What is on my list I need to take care of?" I mean, I've got my date, my planner, right here on the desk next to me and in this planner, there's a list of 10 or 12 things that I need to get done this week. That's all I do. I just get that one done. Done! Move on to the next one. That's how I manage it.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Jason DuncanWebsiteLinkedInInstagram

Stress is a natural part of life. But when it begins to take its toll, it's important to find ways to alleviate anxiety and pressure. Time management plays a huge role in managing stress as it helps to break big tasks down into smaller chunks that are easier to mentally digest and complete. Jason Duncan revolutionized responsibilities with the Open Cycles concept, which prioritizes tasks to stay on top of your workload.Stress can be an incredibly difficult obstacle to overcome, but with the proper approach, anyone can tackle it head-on. Dedication and increasing mindful awareness while managing stress can have a tremendous positive impact on overall wellbeing and goal achievement. Tune in to Jason to discover the key strategies and effective techniques for improving productivity!Episode Highlights00:32 - There's always pain in change. It may not be immense pain, but there's some pain in change. I mean, I'm right-handed and brush my teeth on the right hand everyday. But if for some reason my right hand is not available and hurt and I have to brush with my left, that change is painful, and can be because I might hit my gums, or anytime we change, there's pain in it. But when the pain of staying the same outweighs the pain of change, that's when change occurs.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Jason DuncanWebsiteLinkedInInstagram

It can be hard to find the answer to the question of what truly matters when it comes to our own personal happiness. Understanding ourselves, discovering our true self-awareness, may be at the heart of achieving that ecstatic, sustainable joy we all strive for. Jason Duncan emphasizes the essence for entrepreneurs to figure out how to get out of the daily operations so they can find what makes them joyful, passionate, and purposeful in their lives. Self-awareness and synthetic happiness are intriguing concepts but can be difficult to understand. To uncover the complexities of these ideas, it is helpful to reflect on our own feelings first and the feelings of those around us. By asking questions about our experiences, we can begin to discern between the moments that bring authentic happiness and the moments of synthetic joy. Listen to Jason to better understand self-awareness and its importance in creating genuine contentment in our lives.Episode Highlights00:39 - An alcoholic cannot overcome alcoholism until he or she realizes or is aware that they have a problem with alcohol. Someone addicted to porn, someone addicted to overeating, whatever the addictions or problems in life, you can't overcome it until you're aware of it. So, for me, I've always had pretty good self-awareness, probably to my detriment at times, because I'm overly analyzing what people may think. As a matter of fact, I was talking with one of my best friends this morning. We meet every week for coffee and we're working through the Think and Grow Rich Workbook right now, which by the way, I'd highly recommend everybody to go through. He's a mindset coach. And so, we were going through that today. And one of the things that we read through in the workbook this week was a failure inventory and going through things where you could potentially fail if you don't keep it in check.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Jason DuncanWebsiteLinkedInInstagram

Jewel Love, a professional executive coach and founder of Black Executive Men (BEM), discusses proactive strategies to advance career and business success. In his conversation with Elzie, he highlights job performance as just one part of building a successful career strategy, and recommends running an internal marketing campaign and networking outside one's own organization for leverage. He also shares ideas about mindset, motivation, and massive action when it comes to clients. They then talk about Black Executive Men, which offers solutions by meeting people where they are at while providing money, respect, influence, and impact through unlocking extreme competence and tapping into unlimited job leads with support networks available throughout life.Learn about the fears that many entrepreneurs face and how resourcefulness can help in finding solutions to challenges when you tune in to this episode. Discover how Jewel and his team strive to create a culture of nepotism in a positive way where people can play the game of winning through networks. With practical tips and strategies, this episode provides a roadmap for Black men looking to succeed in the corporate world.Episode Highlights10:42 - We focus specifically on Black men, so I can't necessarily speak for everybody because culturally that might be a little bit different for different communities and different demographics. So, we can get to the ways that it could and should possibly get done, but it comes down to promotions. It comes down to raises. That's what's going on in Corporate America. It's competitive and people are there to make money. I can say period for impact or like, in effect, or dramatic effect. But on one sense of the scale, it's period. That's why people are there. That's the game. That's why the corporation literally exists. Whatever they're selling is secondary. They're there to make a profit. Shareholders know it. Everybody knows it.16:03 - A job is only a part. It's about a third of your career strategy. It's only a piece of the puzzle and that's table stakes. It's baseline. You have to do your job well to advance. So, that's across the board. Unless you really got a strong nepotism and a strong network going, you can get to all kinds of places unmerited. It happens all the time. So, don't think that you have to be doing this great job to get an advance. You don't. To be plugged into networks is the most powerful way to get ahead, career-wise.24:33 - To have a coach, to have a psychotherapist or psychologist, to have a process of reflection, where you can really – for some guys, that's journaling. For some guys, it's prayer, etc. For some guys, it's sitting by the ocean or being in nature. Whatever it is that can help you see what's going inside of your own mind with some more clarity and, ultimately, find some resolution or a solution to it, it's going to be an essential part of your growth as an entrepreneur. You are going to be growing. You are a reflection of your business and where it's at. And so, if you want your business to grow, you will have to grow internally. Your identity will actually have to shift to allow you to unlock higher levels of business success as well. 27:35 - So, it's about marketing, and this is what took me years to create. It is so simple now. It's Black Executive Men. Oh, of course. That's easy. I could have thought of that. You could have – we all could have. Of course, that's what you would call it. It's an easy name to come up with. It's not the name that's difficult. It's three words. It's the concept behind it, and it's a framework that allows our clientele to say, "That's for me." Black Executive Men is an aspirational identity. It's what our guys want to achieve. It says nothing about trauma. It says nothing about therapy. It says nothing about coaching even, although you can make a tie, executive-executive coaching, but it doesn't say anything about needing any kind of help. It says full empowerment as a business class, as a Black man in Corporate America. Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live a

Black Executive Men is a marketing concept that provides an aspirational identity for Black men in the business world. It affirms their ego and male identity, while providing full empowerment without needing any kind of help. The name itself does not refer to trauma, therapy, or coaching but rather speaks to achieving success as a Black man in Corporate America.Listen to hear Jewel talk about how they offer clients solutions by meeting them where they are at and selling them what they want - money, respect, influence and impact - all through "unlocking extreme competence" and tapping into unlimited job leads with robust networks of support available throughout life.Episode Highlights00:20 - So, it's about marketing, and this is what took me years to create. It is so simple now. It's Black Executive Men. Oh, of course. That's easy. I could have thought of that. You could have – we all could have. Of course, that's what you would call it. It's an easy name to come up with. It's not the name that's difficult. It's three words. It's the concept behind it, and it's a framework that allows our clientele to say, "That's for me." Black Executive Men is an aspirational identity. It's what our guys want to achieve. It says nothing about trauma. It says nothing about therapy. It says nothing about coaching even, although you can make a tie, executive-executive coaching, but it doesn't say anything about needing any kind of help. It says full empowerment as a business class, as a Black man in Corporate AmericaReady To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Jewel LoveLinkedInWebsite

Elzie and Jewel discuss the importance of mindset and how it is essential for success. Jewel suggests using a 3M approach with clients, which consists of mindset, motivation, and massive action. He recommends being inquisitive to identify blocks in order to get to the root cause and find solutions. Listen to Jewel share about the fears that many entrepreneurs have about losing their job or family and how they use resourcefulness by coming up with potential solutions if they face these challenges. Discover why entrepreneurs need an internal shift in identity in order to unlock higher levels of business success. Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset, where to find motivation when times are tough, and how to create an action plan that will help you realize your dreams!Episode Highlights01:34 - To have a coach, to have a psychotherapist or psychologist, to have a process of reflection, where you can really – for some guys, that's journaling. For some guys, it's prayer, etc. For some guys, it's sitting by the ocean or being in nature. Whatever it is that can help you see what's going inside of your own mind with some more clarity and, ultimately, find some resolution or a solution to it, it's going to be an essential part of your growth as an entrepreneur. You are going to be growing. You are a reflection of your business and where it's at. And so, if you want your business to grow, you will have to grow internally. Your identity will actually have to shift to allow you to unlock higher levels of business success as well. Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Jewel LoveLinkedInWebsite

Elzie and Jewel Love discusses the importance of pushing systemic racism aside and focusing on individual actions to improve career advancement. They highlighted that job performance is only a part of building a successful career strategy, but it’s still important to do well in order to advance.Jewel also encourages running an internal marketing campaign for key decision makers within the organization to be aware of accomplishments and value brought by individuals. Tune in to hear suggestions about running an internal marketing campaign, as well as networking outside one's own organization. With these tips and strategies, you can advance your career in meaningful ways that go beyond just performance.Episode Highlights01:02 - A job is only a part. It's about a third of your career strategy. It's only a piece of the puzzle and that's table stakes. It's baseline. You have to do your job well to advance. So, that's across the board. Unless you really got a strong nepotism and a strong network going, you can get to all kinds of places unmerited. It happens all the time. So, don't think that you have to be doing this great job to get an advance. You don't. To be plugged into networks is the most powerful way to get ahead, career-wise.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Jewel LoveLinkedInWebsite

Elzie talks to Jewel Love about the challenges black men face in Corporate America. They argued that it's important to level the playing field for them by not being hypercritical of their performance compared to White counterparts. Jewel is dedicated to assisting Black men in achieving success in Corporate America. This includes giving them opportunities for promotions, raises, and seniority that they might not have had otherwise. Their services also include networking with recruiters and organizations looking for black men, as well as job leads and internal or promoted roles that are not advertised publicly. Tune in to hear how they strive to create a culture of nepotism in a positive way where people can play the game of winning through networks they wouldn't have access to without this help.Episode Highlights00:20 - We focus specifically on Black men, so I can't necessarily speak for everybody because culturally that might be a little bit different for different communities and different demographics. So, we can get to the ways that it could and should possibly get done, but it comes down to promotions. It comes down to raises. That's what's going on in Corporate America. It's competitive and people are there to make money. I can say period for impact or like, in effect, or dramatic effect. But on one sense of the scale, it's period. That's why people are there. That's the game. That's why the corporation literally exists. Whatever they're selling is secondary. They're there to make a profit. Shareholders know it. Everybody knows it.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Jewel LoveLinkedInWebsite

Igor Kheifets shares his insight into how to leverage automation and passive income generation. He emphasizes how to make money without having to work all the time and explains how he learned to do this after his girlfriend left him because he was too focused on his work. Elzie joins the conversation and they talk about how emails can help you reach more people and have successful businesses. They discuss ways to get things done faster like using templates or automating processes so that you don't have to spend so much time doing them yourself. They then examine how to eliminate friction points in order to increase productivity. If you're looking for ways to streamline your workflow and automate processes so that you can focus on more important tasks, this episode of the podcast is a must-listen! Tune in to get valuable insights into increasing productivity and learn how to make money without sacrificing relationships or dedicating too much time to work. Episode Highlights05:49 - When I started my podcast, and I've now had my podcast, the List Building Lifestyle Show, for a few years, I ran into a challenge where I had to record introductions for every single episode. And when you publish five a week, it gets repetitive. And anything that's repetitive I tried to eliminate from my life, whether it's cooking or cleaning, whether it's recording introductions, whether it's sending emails, anything that's repetitive, and I believe it can be automated.11:40 - Where making a lot of money was no longer in and of itself a goal. It had to come with the condition that I had to make the money without having to slave away for it or being away from home. So, this one I'm saying that later, I actually did go into consulting briefly for about a year. But I quickly discovered that if I wasn't on the phone with clients, I wasn't getting paid. So, that made the whole consulting gig for me kind of yucky, and so I moved away from that I transitioned from that. And now the model is completely different. I'm moved into a more leveraged model, where I still deliver the value for people, but I don't have to do it in person.14:24 - If you get on their list, you start getting emails like non-stop. And the reason is because email is still the number one medium to get response from people and customers in general. If you want to sell an idea, if you want to sell a product, if you want to get an audience to listen to your next podcast, or if you really just want people to hang on your every word and to support your every cause, it's the email list that you're looking to build. Because first off, you control it.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Igor KheifetsLinkedInWebsiteFacebook

To stay ahead of the competition, it's essential for businesses to keep striving for greater efficiency. Only by removing these road blocks and creating a clear pathway open for production and workflow can businesses reach peak performance and success. Igor Kheifets advises that building an email list is the key to maximizing efficiency, which helps grow a captive audience.A successful email list strategy can help boost engagement and increase sales. It's the perfect way to reach out to current and potential customers, spreading the word about your services or promote latest updates on products without a hefty cost. Listen to Igor to learn how to tap into the power of email lists and build an engaged community.Episode Highlight01:41 - If you get on their list, you start getting emails like non-stop. And the reason is because email is still the number one medium to get response from people and customers in general. If you want to sell an idea, if you want to sell a product, if you want to get an audience to listen to your next podcast, or if you really just want people to hang on your every word and to support your every cause, it's the email list that you're looking to build. Because first off, you control it.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Igor KheifetsLinkedInWebsiteFacebook

Reaching the right audience is crucial for any successful business. This can make or break your venture, whether you're selling a product, providing a service, or advocating your cause. Refining your target audience could profoundly increase your success rate. Igor Kheifets believes that any effort made must be capitalized or repeated for further success.With careful thought and consideration applied to pinpointing exactly who needs your product or service, you can ensure that your audience reaches its maximum potential. Listen to Igor to discover how to create a strategic plan that will ensure a strong presence online to increase more traffic for your business.Episode Highlights02:26 - Where making a lot of money was no longer in and of itself a goal. It had to come with the condition that I had to make the money without having to slave away for it or being away from home. So, this one I'm saying that later, I actually did go into consulting briefly for about a year. But I quickly discovered that if I wasn't on the phone with clients, I wasn't getting paid. So, that made the whole consulting gig for me kind of yucky, and so I moved away from that I transitioned from that. And now the model is completely different. I'm moved into a more leveraged model, where I still deliver the value for people, but I don't have to do it in person.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Igor KheifetsLinkedInWebsiteFacebook

Investing in automation is becoming increasingly popular among entrepreneurs as a way to generate passive income. Automation simplifies everyday tasks, eliminating inefficiencies and vastly reducing the amount of manual labor needed, allowing them to save time and money while generating regular income from existing sources. Igor Kheifets takes automation to the next level, leveraging his earnings without having to spend long hours working by mastering every aspect of this strategy.Businesses of all sizes are finding automation more and more attractive and effective, as it offers improved productivity and efficiency over traditional methods. Streamlining business processes opens up valuable time for those businesses; whether that be for more intensive work or even balancing personal commitments. Tune in to Igor as he explains how entrepreneurs can leverage this technology to utilize automation wisely and passive income to build long term success. Episode Highlights01:33 - When I started my podcast, and I've now had my podcast, the List Building Lifestyle Show for a few years, I ran into a challenge where I had to record introductions for every single episode. And when you publish five a week, it gets repetitive. And anything that's repetitive I tried to eliminate from my life, whether it's cooking or cleaning, whether it's recording introductions, whether it's sending emails, anything that's repetitive, and I believe it can be automated.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Igor KheifetsLinkedInWebsiteFacebook

Adapting to change and innovating responsibly is the key to success in today's business world. Companies must be able to recognize changes in their environment, understand how these changes will affect them, and then take appropriate action. Adonica Randall, President and Chief Problem Solver of Abaxent, LLC has been successful in doing just that by staying attuned to cues from social media, news outlets, and other sources of information. She believes that businesses should focus on solving people’s problems while also benefiting partners, employees, and those around them. As a result of her adaptability and innovation mindset, she has been able to build an international team of remote workers who are dedicated to helping customers find what they need. Her advice for others looking for success is simple: always strive towards providing services or products someone wants as it serves no value if nobody needs it. Learn how she pays attention to news programs and stock markets. Tune in now to gain insight into navigating ever-changing markets and making positive change through remote work!Episode Highlights14:59 - You feel you know more than everybody else. Therefore, you don't have to change. That's a bad one. You're not paying attention to the things that you should be paying attention to. The cues, the things that are coming at you, and whether they're coming from social media or coming from the news. You're not paying attention to what they're saying, because it's the old X-file thing. The truth is out there. You got to know it when you see it. And if you're not paying attention, then you don't see it. You miss it and say, "I don't understand how this happened and now we have to close our business."20:00 - When I started in the 70s, there were a handful of less than 40 technology companies. They were all big names and not a whole bunch of side ones or small ones, and it was easy to control. So, you could have a business that had people who only did Microsoft. There wasn't even a Google in those days. I mean, they only did Microsoft stuff and they only did these kinds of programs. Fast forward to where we are now, there's over 5,000 of these companies. No company can have enough people on staff that do those 5,000 things. It's physically impossible. IBM can't do it and being an ex -IBMer, if IBM can't do it, nobody can do it as far as I'm concerned. So, you don't have the capacity to do that realistically.27:58 - We put ourselves in the place of solving people's problems because we like helping people. Helping people has brought our partners along with us, and they benefit from what we do. When they benefit, then their employees benefit, and all the people around us benefit. If the business has a purpose–and I listened to somebody the other day because they talked about entrepreneurs–and the thing is if you have a service that nobody wants, it serves no value. So, the goal is to always be on the front edge of something somebody wants.29:33 - Twenty years ago, this would probably be hard to do, because the communication would not be as flawless as it is now. You'd virtually be on the moon and have instant communication, so we just need to be in contact with each other. I would pretty much say everybody on the staff says, "Oh, well, I'm going to take these two or three days off, but I'm taking my laptop." That means don't bother me for miscellaneous stuff, but if something comes up, I'm available and I can get it on the laptop. Everybody sort of has that attitude. I find it interesting that these companies are freaking out about putting butts back in seats for remote workers versus not. It's really not about remote workers versus not, it's about real estate. Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourn

Adonica Randall has created the perfect recipe for working remotely and making an impact. She shares her personal philosophy and how she has been able to travel and work with the help of modern communication technology. Her staff consists of remote workers from around the world who all share a passion for what they do, helping people, and growing professionally. Adonica is also aware of when someone may not fit in her team, so rather than viewing it as a bad thing, she encourages them to find something better elsewhere that suits their skillset better. Tune into this episode to learn more about how Adonica is creating positive change through remote work!Episode Highlights01:21 - Twenty years ago, this would probably be hard to do, because the communication would not be as flawless as it is now. You'd virtually be on the moon and have instant communication, so we just need to be in contact with each other. I would pretty much say everybody on the staff says, "Oh, well, I'm going to take these two or three days off, but I'm taking my laptop." That means don't bother me for miscellaneous stuff, but if something comes up, I'm available and I can get it on the laptop. Everybody sort of has that attitude. I find it interesting that these companies are freaking out about putting butts back in seats for remote workers versus not. It's really not about remote workers versus not, it's about real estate. Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Adonica Randall LinkedIn

Adonica Randall shares her journey from transforming her business model in response to a changing market, to becoming successful and building a business philosophy focused on problem-solving. She talks about mentors who gave her advice and how she pays attention to news programs and stock markets. Adonica also shares her recommendations for joining executive-level groups who can share ideas and insights. Her message is crystal clear: provide a service that someone wants, as it serves no value if nobody needs it. Tune in now to hear more of Adonica's success story and advice on navigating ever-changing markets.Episode Highlights03:51 - We put ourselves in the place of solving people's problems because we like helping people. Helping people has brought our partners along with us, and they benefit from what we do. When they benefit, then their employees benefit, and all the people around us benefit. If the business has a purpose–and I listened to somebody the other day because they talked about entrepreneurs–and the thing is if you have a service that nobody wants, it serves no value. So, the goal is to always be on the front edge of something somebody wants.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Adonica Randall LinkedIn

Are you feeling stuck in your current business and don't know how to stay competitive? You're not alone. With the influx of offshore resources with cheaper labor, it can be hard to keep up. It's easy to feel overwhelmed by technology and all its advancements.Adonica Randall, who shifted her business model out of necessity, talks about recognizing that technology was becoming more advanced and she needed something new in order for her company to stay competitive. Through this podcast episode, you'll discover Adonica's unique business philosophy on how she helps people and solves problems while staying ahead of the competition. Listen now and discover how you can use technology to transform your own life!Episode Highlights01:24 - When I started in the 70s, there were a handful of less than 40 technology companies. They were all big names and not a whole bunch of side ones or small ones, and it was easy to control. So, you could have a business that had people who only did Microsoft. There wasn't even a Google in those days. I mean, they only did Microsoft stuff and they only did these kind of programs. Fast forward to where we are now, there's over 5,000 of these companies. No company can have enough people on staff that do those 5,000 things. It's physically impossible. IBM can't do it and being an ex -IBMer, if IBM can't do it, nobody can do it as far as I'm concerned. So, you don't have the capacity to do that realistically.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Adonica Randall LinkedIn

Adonica Randall joins Elzie Flenard to discuss the fundamentals of adaptability. Adonica emphasizes that staying up-to-date with social media, news, and other sources can help one understand changes happening around them. She also explains how events taking place in different parts of the world may have an indirect impact on us. She raises a question about ways to deal with such ever-changing scenarios. This is very important for business owners because they have to stay on top of developments and modify their operations to suit shifting conditions. Tune in to the show for more insights into staying adaptable and thriving in uncertain times and listen to valuable insights into how one can effectively deal with such uncertain times. Episode Highlights00:34 - You feel you know more than everybody else. Therefore, you don't have to change. That's a bad one. You're not paying attention to the things that you should be paying attention to. The cues, the things that are coming at you, and whether they're coming from social media or coming from the news. You're not paying attention to what they're saying, because it's the old X-file thing. The truth is out there. You got to know it when you see it. And if you're not paying attention, then you don't see it. You miss it and say, "I don't understand how this happened and now we have to close our business."Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Adonica Randall LinkedIn

We're talking about an inspiring journey taken by one woman, Clarene Mitchell, who recently decided to leave her home, embark on a road trip, and move to Tulsa, Oklahoma. For her, this was a pilgrimage of sorts - the centennial anniversary of the 1921 Race Massacre that occurred in Tulsa was fast approaching and she felt drawn to visit. There, she wrote an article about her experience which got published locally as well as on LinkedIn. Now, Clarene is taking on entrepreneurship to help rebuild Black Wall Street/Greenwood District. Let's dive into her extraordinary story – from why she decided to make such a big change in her life to what she has learned along the way. It explores entrepreneurship through a unique lens of cultural identity, hope for the future, and how each of us can help bring about positive change in our own communities. Tune in to find out how entrepreneurship can give rise to some of life's greatest opportunities. Join us for an inspiring episode where Clarene shares advice on creating quality content that resonates with your audience and tips on striking a balance between virtual and personal engagements.Episode Highlights10:20 - It was a chain of events that happened really that made it possible or doable. Again, I didn't have a job. So, I did the traditional thing that everyone is told to do. Go use LinkedIn, right? I had a profile for years, but I wasn't using it because it's the mindset or I had the mindset like people do still today that you just use it when you need a job. So, I started using it and using it more proactively and consistently because I was bored to death, and I needed to stay intellectually active. So, I was using LinkedIn in different ways than I had done before.22:33 - This is joy tears because I know the journey He's brought me on and you talked about looking back. I know how far He's brought me with my business. I think about my first client and how happy I was when I got paid. Compared to what I get paid now, it wasn't a lot. And that's the growth, like being able to charge my worth and learning the journey of getting to that worth point. That moment when I got that first payment from a LinkedIn coaching client, and going from meeting some at a coffee shop and just being nice and doing that to it being an official meeting and being paid for my expertise on the spot. That was really the first one.26:20 - There's so much more you can do on LinkedIn content-wise. I always say it's not necessarily what you post on LinkedIn, it's how you post it, right? So, it could be the same kind of content you post on another platform, but there's certain ways that you have to maybe spin it or adjust it so that it works on LinkedIn. I can see, all day, I'm scrolling on LinkedIn and see people posting. Where's the comments? Where's the engagement? Where's the community building? What value are you providing? Where it's not just about you, but it's about contributing, educating, empowering, inspiring, and helping people to really learn and see you as a subject matter expert, secondary, but first, being able to see you as someone who provides value.35:10 - In reference to the business, I still see myself—I went mostly virtual, really exclusively virtual because of the pandemic, and it's worked well for my business. So, I don't see that changing, and that's a part of even me moving to Tulsa and being a part of the Tulsa remote program because I have a home-based business or a remote-based business, but I do want to get back to incorporating more in-person speaking. Before the pandemic, I was traveling the country speaking. It sounds crazy to some people, especially the introverts of the world. I'm not an introvert, so I love being on stages in front of hundreds of people and speaking. So, I'm looking forward to getting back to doing that now that we're moving further away from the pandemic. Things are opening back up, so looking forward to getting back into the groove of that as well.39:24 - 2021 was the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. I'm like, "I'm going to Tulsa." My goal was to go to Tulsa just to visit, go do the visitor/tourist kind of thing, pop in a couple of hours, get back in my car, and continue coming home. Nope. I couldn't leave. That city has been calling me since then. I didn't want to leave when I left. And so, now having the opportunity to go back and to live and to be a part of the rebuilding of Black Wall Street, the Greenwood District, as a Black entrepreneur, and just the energy, synergy that's going on there. Something about that city, the ancestral pull for me, and I'm just so thrilled about the opportunity to go, and that'd be my next chapter.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to h

We're talking about an inspiring journey taken by one woman, Clarene Mitchell, who recently decided to leave her home and embark on a road trip to Tulsa, Oklahoma. For her, this was a pilgrimage of sorts - the centennial anniversary of the 1921 Race Massacre that occurred in Tulsa was fast approaching and she felt drawn to visit. There, she wrote an article about her experience which got published locally as well as on LinkedIn. Now, Clarene is taking on entrepreneurship to help rebuild Black Wall Street/Greenwood District. Let's dive into Clarene's extraordinary story – from why she decided to make such a big change in her life and what she has learned along the way. It explores entrepreneurship through a unique lens of cultural identity, hope for the future, and how each of us can help bring about positive change in our own communities. Tune into hear from Clarene Mitchell herself and find out how entrepreneurship can give rise to some of life's greatest opportunities!Episode Highlights01:23 - 2021 was the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre. I'm like, "I'm going to Tulsa." My goal was to go to Tulsa just to visit, go do the visitor/tourist kind of thing, pop in a couple of hours, get back in my car, and continue coming home. Nope. I couldn't leave. That city has been calling me since then. I didn't want to leave when I left. And so, now having the opportunity to go back and to live and to be a part of the rebuilding of Black Wall Street, the Greenwood District, as a Black entrepreneur, and just the energy, synergy that's going on there. Something about that city, the ancestral pull for me, and I'm just so thrilled about the opportunity to go, and that'd be my next chapter.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Clarene MitchellLinkedIn

Clarene is going through a major life change. She is relocating from the Greater Milwaukee area to Tulsa, Oklahoma in June of 2023 and planning on taking her business with her. In light of this, Clarene has gone mostly virtual due to the pandemic and has found that it works well for her business. As things open back up post-pandemic, she plans on incorporating more in-person speaking engagements as well. Elzie and Clarene discuss how entrepreneurs can strike the right balance between virtual and in-person engagements during these turbulent times. They also dive into how entrepreneurship coaches can help those looking to start their own business or grow their existing one. They explore practical advice when it comes to entrepreneurship coaching, such as determining what kind of support entrepreneurs need, setting achievable goals to get there, and measuring progress along the way. Tune in to hear all about how entrepreneurship coaching can help you take your business forward no matter where you are. With interesting insights shared by Clarene and tips on striking a balance between virtual and personal engagements, don't miss out on this inspiring episode!Episode Highlights03:03 - In reference to the business, I still see myself—I went mostly virtual, really exclusively virtual because of the pandemic, and it's worked well for my business. So, I don't see that changing, and that's a part of even me moving to Tulsa and being a part of the Tulsa remote program because I have a home-based business or a remote-based business, but I do want to get back to incorporating more in-person speaking. Before the pandemic, I was traveling the country speaking. It sounds crazy to some people, especially the introverts of the world. I'm not an introvert, so I love being on stages in front of hundreds of people and speaking. So, I'm looking forward to getting back to doing that now that we're moving further away from the pandemic. Things are opening back up, so looking forward to getting back into the groove of that as well.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Clarene MitchellLinkedIn

Elzie and Clarene discuss the importance of creating quality content when it comes to entrepreneurship. They explore the ways people can build trust in their brand by contributing value through educating and inspiring others. Clarene emphasizes that while brevity may be important on other platforms, long form posts are encouraged on LinkedIn which has consistently been ranked as the most trusted platform due to its higher quality of content. Elzie also raises a valid point about social media algorithms impacting businesses and controlling what content is seen by users.If you're an entrepreneur looking for advice on how to create effective content and build trust with your target audience, this is a must listen-episode for you! With more details and facts around entrepreneurship, as well as higher semantic richness, this episode offers valuable insight into how to make sure your content stands out from the crowd and effectively resonates with your audience. Tune in to hear Clarene's expert insights on entrepreneurship and creating quality content.Episode Highlights00:45 - There's so much more you can do on LinkedIn content-wise. I always say it's not necessarily what you post on LinkedIn, it's how you post it, right? So, it could be the same kind of content you post on another platform, but there's certain ways that you have to maybe spin it or adjust it so that it works on LinkedIn. I can see, all day, I'm scrolling on LinkedIn and see people posting. Where's the comments? Where's the engagement? Where's the community building? What value are you providing? Where it's not just about you, but it's about contributing, educating, empowering, inspiring, and helping people to really learn and see you as a subject matter expert, secondary, but first, being able to see you as someone who provides value.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Clarene MitchellLinkedIn

Clarene Mitchell shares how getting involved with LinkedIn has changed her life and helped her to follow her dreams. Elzie talks about when he began dreaming of entrepreneurship. Through the platform, both were able to connect with mentors, attend entrepreneurship events, and gain valuable knowledge about being a successful entrepreneur.Clarene also experienced a similar transformation through LinkedIn when she began networking on the platform after graduating that led her to own TCM Communications and published her book. She speaks candidly about how she keeps name tags from entrepreneurship events as mementos of her journey with entrepreneurship. Tune into this episode and learn how Elzie and Clarene use LinkedIn as an effective tool in their entrepreneurship journeys! Episode Highlights04:03 - This is joy tears because I know the journey He's brought me on and you talked about looking back. I know how far He's brought me with my business. I think about my first client and how happy I was when I got paid. Compared to what I get paid now, it wasn't a lot. And that's the growth, like being able to charge my worth and learning the journey of getting to that worth point. That moment when I got that first payment from a LinkedIn coaching client, and going from meeting some at a coffee shop and just being nice and doing that to it being an official meeting and being paid for my expertise on the spot. That was really the first one.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Clarene MitchellLinkedIn

Clarene Mitchell shares her struggles and successes as an entrepreneur. In 2016, she experienced a traumatic job loss that left her unable to find employment for nearly a year. She found a way to turn that challenge into an opportunity by creating her own work through entrepreneurship. Throughout their conversation, Elzie and Clarene explore how entrepreneurship can be used as a tool for transformation and personal growth even during challenging times. They also discuss how entrepreneurship can help create economic stability and financial freedom for individuals on their journey to success.  If you’ve ever wanted to know more about entrepreneurship or if you’re looking for inspiration on how to turn a struggle into a strength, tune in to hear all about a powerful example of how entrepreneurship can be used to turn difficulties into triumphs. Episode Highlight 03:18 - It was a chain of events that happened really that made it possible or doable. Again, I didn't have a job. So, I did the traditional thing that everyone is told to do. Go use LinkedIn, right? I had a profile for years, but I wasn't using it because it's the mindset or I had the mindset like people do still today that you just use it when you need a job. So, I started using it and using it more proactively and consistently because I was bored to death, and I needed to stay intellectually active. So, I was using LinkedIn in different ways than I had done before. Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Clarene MitchellLinkedIn

Elzie is joined by Chanto Chanthavong who talks about the concept of personal mastery and how he was able to accomplish his goals. Chanto believes that destiny is the pin on the map and free will is the route you take there, and he has found success navigating his own destiny with free will. He shares his story of getting off the grid, focusing only on business social media and how this enabled him to come into his own. Chanto is also the founder of Lifeline Systems, a company providing support for gig workers in the form of safety vehicles and health insurance benefits. He believes that the new economy is being enabled by the internet of things and coaching for entrepreneurs entering business for the first time is about to explode because of it - Lifeline Systems plans to bridge this gap between launching a business and successfully running one. Learn how Chanto uses various tools like Google Ads and social influencers for affiliate marketing, as well as how important it is to find your unique spin on whatever product you are creating so as not to become just another corporate entity. Listen to Chanto give advice for somebody looking to get started in the SAAS area, from getting word-of-mouth out through global reach afforded through virtual products, all the way up to finding your unique spin in order to stand out from everyone else. This promises to be an inspiring journey, so tune in! Episode Highlights12:45 - How can you have destiny and free will? There's no way. I'll explain it. Destiny is your destination. That's the pin on the map and your free will is the route you take there. So, you're free to take any route you want, but once you embrace that you have the control in certain elements of the formula, then you know you're not going to try to control the constant.You're going to try to change the variable.19:02 - The new economy has really been enabled by the Internet of things. So, as more devices and everything gets connected to the internet, that opens those additional doors for humans to interact and to connect through these Internet devices. And so, that's what I see in the future is that I can take a picture with my light bulb and play some LEDs off it. Who would have ever even thought about that? So, now that opens up the free thinking. So, for people to think 10 years ago who say, "Hey, I have an app idea," but it's so daunting, just how to get it done. The proposal itself is 10 pages. But now, 10 years later, they can just go online. It's a drag and drop app builder that they can prototype in one hour. So, now we're able to just bring our ideas and manifest them way easier than just pen and paper now.26:50 - I would say the best thing to do is do your due diligence, your self-recon into the space you want to go to, and you want to assess, and you want to really make sure that someone else isn't doing what you're already doing. There's nothing wrong because Uber's already doing what we're doing, but we have a different spin on it. Which is what? My advice is to make sure you find your spin on it. Find your spin because everybody can now all spin together.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Chanto ChanthavongWebsiteLinkedIn

If you’re starting a business, launching a product, or marketing yourself in some way, it’s essential to find your own unique spin on things. Consider what separates you from similar products and services. Chanto Chanthavong says that before launching a business, taking time to do some diligent research is the key for long-term success.Finding your unique spin on a particular topic, project, or business can often be the difference between success and failure. Listen to Chanto as he provides the keys to success with his winning strategies for sustainable growth.Episode Highlights02:53 - I would say the best thing to do is do your due diligence, your self-recon into the space you want to go to, and you want to assess, and you want to really make sure that someone else isn't doing what you're already doing. There's nothing wrong because Uber's already doing what we're doing, but we have a different spin on it. Which is what? My advice is that make sure you find your spin on it. Find your spin because everybody can now all spin together.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Chanto ChanthavongWebsiteLinkedIn

Freelance professionals are constantly searching for ways to increase their client base, streamline their workflow, and maximize profitability. That's why so many have turned to programs and services that provide strong guidance and advice about how to manage their freelancing career more effectively. Chanto Chanthavong stresses the importance of cultivating a mindset conducive to growth and success.Pioneering solutions are introducing new ways to bring greater efficiency and clarity to the freelance lifestyle with various features. Discover new strategies by listening to Chanto to harness available resources and tools to maximize success as a freelancer.Episode Highlights03:04 - The new economy has really been enabled by the Internet of things. So, as more devices and everything gets connected to the internet, that opens those additional doors for humans to interact and to connect through these Internet devices. And so, that's what I see in the future is that I can take a picture with my light bulb and play some LEDs off it. Who would have ever even thought about that? So, now that opens up the free thinking. So, for people to think 10 years ago who say, "Hey, I have an app idea," but it's so daunting, just how to get it done. The proposal itself is 10 pages. But now, 10 years later, they can just go online. It's a drag and drop app builder that they can prototype in one hour. So, now we're able to just bring our ideas and manifest them way easier than just pen and paper now.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Chanto ChanthavongWebsiteLinkedIn

Exploring destiny can be a feat in and of itself. After all, life often throws us for a loop. However, exercising our free will is how we can choose how to grapple with each twist and turn fate presents us with. Chanto Chanthavong states to make sure to set achievable goals, take ownership of your decisions and keep the end result in mind while staying motivated on the way there.Everyone has their own destiny, but it doesn't mean that we have to accept it blindly. By being aware of our free will and the opportunities at hand, we can influence what will become our future comprehensively. Tap into your imaginative energy by listening to Chanto so you may skillfully maneuver through tailored surprises and tangible lessons.Episode Highlights01:25 - How can you have destiny and free will? There's no way. I'll explain it. Destiny is your destination. That's the pin on the map and your free will is the route you take there. So, you're free to take any route you want, but once you embrace that you have the control in certain elements of the formula, then you know you're not going to try to control the constant.You're going to try to change the variable.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Chanto ChanthavongWebsiteLinkedIn

In this episode, Elzie talks to Max Gerson, the owner of Brand Wolfe, a company that specializes in marketing and branding about how entrepreneurship isn't just a map, but a story. He explains the importance of building and nourishing customer loyalty and how it can be the biggest threat to any brand. Max speaks about unlocking personal mastery through truth and knowing yourself better in order to stay on track when pursuing success. Max further discusses focusing on your goals and purpose in life, being honest with yourself, and talking about internal narratives objectively. If you're looking to fuel your entrepreneurial dreams, listen to Max for tips on staying centered and focused while climbing up to success. You'll get valuable insights into understanding yourself even more deeply, hearing stories from Max's own experience, as well as figuring out ways of staying motivated and achieving what you want in life. Tune in now to learn how entrepreneurial success isn't as far away as you may think - entrepreneurial dreams can become reality if you take the right steps!Episode Highlights14:07 - These are lessons that I think about hourly that I'll never forget. The biggest threat to any brand is growth and success. And the more of it, the riskier it gets. When you have success without a strong foundation, self-awareness, understanding, it doesn't have to be brand strategy. That's what I call it. But it's really just about understanding your brand and your business. Telling yourself the truth about things. Most of us just don't do that anymore. But when you have that success, it's like building a skyscraper in the sand. The taller it goes, the harder it can fall. 17:46 - I think the thing that I'm aware of today is that boundaries have been the biggest hurdle in both my personal and my professional life. And I was completely unaware of that until I started working with my first business coach, and it shows up in relationships. It's very difficult to buy brand strategy to sell brand strategy. It's tough to price it. I became aware of the fact that I'm a huge people pleaser. It's just true that you don't have to love the strategy or the creative, but I really have a need in myself to get like an "Attaboy!" from the client, and I'm just aware of it. But I think the personal mastery really just boils down to one thing and it's truth, right? You just have to be able to tell yourself the truth about the stories in your head.31:08 - If you're in B2B and you're selling services, like how do people buy this stuff? They don't come to your website and open up their wallet and give you $20,000. It's a relationship. They need to know you and trust that you're not risky, and that you're the right type of solution for what they need because it's tough to buy any B2B service. When we put on pants, we know if they fit or not. How can we tell if this IT team is the right for us, if this marketing agency is the right fit for us? So, even if you're not actively podcasting, having that content on your site, having it be findable. If a client comes to me and they've been on the website, and they've listened to the content, and they're telling me that they did, they are so much further along the path. That is such a warmer lead, and it's helpful because we're trying to help them. Marketing is the process of disqualification. Marketing is the process of saying no to everything and yes to the right things.32:13 - Your symptoms might not be your sources. And if you are serious and intentional, then there's only one step to solving all of your problems, whether it's in your personal life or your professional life. This might actually be the secret to life, you tell me, but it's decide to decide. If you can commit to that first step, everything else will happen. Right? How do we eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do we go from working in an ammunition factory to being the Mayor of Podcast Town? It's getting to the next step and telling yourself the truth, right? So, if you decide to decide that my marketing is the problem. I'm going to do something about it. I'm going to tell myself the truth about that. I am going to bring in people that can help me, and I'm going to listen to them, and let them in. All those are the details. So, decide to decide.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the jo

It takes dedication, perseverance, and courage to turn your ambition into reality. The journey may be daunting but the end result is always worth it. Max states that taking that first step is a major key to success; make the decision and watch everything else unfold.It may take time, energy, and effort, but having ambition will ultimately grant access to countless possibilities. Additionally, ambition fuels us to explore new opportunities and strive for excellence in all areas of our lives. Tune in to discover how to unlock the potential of your ambition through Max's invaluable insights!Episode Highlights00:28 - Your symptoms might not be your sources. And if you are serious and intentional, then there's only one step to solving all of your problems, whether it's in your personal life or your professional life. This might actually be the secret to life, you tell me, but it's decide to decide. If you can commit to that first step, everything else will happen. Right? How do we eat an elephant? One bite at a time. How do we go from working in an ammunition factory to being the Mayor of Podcast Town? It's getting to the next step and telling yourself the truth, right? So, if you decide to decide that my marketing is the problem. I'm going to do something about it. I'm going to tell myself the truth about that. I am going to bring in people that can help me, and I'm going to listen to them, and let them in. All those are the details. So, decide to decide.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Max GersonLinkedInWebsite

Creating compelling content for a podcast can be a challenge, but it's well worth the effort. Podcasts offer an excellent platform to reach audiences by engaging with them through conversation. Max emphasizes the advantage of podcasts by creating valuable content that will move audiences through every platform available.Crafting a podcast that draws your audience in is the key. Everything from synthesizing the right message, selecting production elements, and applying giftology techniques can be essential components for making it a hit. Listen to Max how to put the power of giftology into play and give your audience what they need.Episode Highlights02:45 - If you're in B2B and you're selling services, like how do people buy this stuff? They don't come to your website and open up their wallet and give you $20,000. It's a relationship. They need to know you and trust that you're not risky, and that you're the right type of solution for what they need because it's tough to buy any B2B service. When we put on pants, we know if they fit or not. How can we tell if this IT team is the right for us, if this marketing agency is the right fit for us? So, even if you're not actively podcasting, having that content on your site, having it be findable. If a client comes to me and they've been on the website, and they've listened to the content, and they're telling me that they did, they are so much further along the path. That is such a warmer lead, and it's helpful because we're trying to help them. Marketing is the process of disqualification. Marketing is the process of saying no to everything and yes to the right things.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Max GersonLinkedInWebsite

Unlocking personal mastery through truth is a powerful concept. It's about being honest with yourself in order to rise above mediocrity and attain such levels of success you've only ever dreamed about. Max states that the key to personal mastery is to get to know yourself a little better and take a step back to listen to your internal narratives objectively.Knowing yourself is guaranteed to keep you on track and motivated. We all lose focus at times, but if we take the time to remember our purpose in life, it's much easier to get back to your North star. Listen to Max to learn more about keeping yourself centered and focused on achieving your goals! Episode Highlights01:01 - I think the thing that I'm aware of today is that boundaries have been the biggest hurdle in both my personal and my professional life. And I was completely unaware of that until I started working with my first business coach, and it shows up in relationships. It's very difficult to buy brand strategy to sell brand strategy. It's tough to price it. I became aware of the fact that I'm a huge people pleaser. It's just true that you don't have to love the strategy or the creative, but I really have a need in myself to get like an "Attaboy!" from the client, and I'm just aware of it. But I think the personal mastery really just boils down to one thing and it's truth, right? You just have to be able to tell yourself the truth about the stories in your head.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Connect with Max GersonLinkedInWebsite

Bringing clients to the right destination requires more than just a map. Max's expertise lies in his ability to tell stories of his own experiences and create an organized system out of them. With this knowledge, he empowers those around him on their journey towards success.If there's one thing to remember when it comes to successful branding, never forget the people who are loyal to you. Captivating and nourishing your customer base is critical — if they leave, so could all that you've built up over time. Listen to Max to know the biggest threat to any brand.Episode Highlights02:56 - These are lessons that I think about hourly that I'll never forget. The biggest threat to any brand is growth and success. And the more of it, the riskier it gets. When you have success without a strong foundation, self-awareness, understanding, it doesn't have to be brand strategy. That's what I call it. But it's really just about understanding your brand and your business. Telling yourself the truth about things. Most of us just don't do that anymore. But when you have that success, it's like building a skyscraper in the sand. The taller it goes, the harder it can fall. Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Powered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town Max GersonLinkedInWebsite

In this episode, Elzie is joined by the amazing Lorry Rifkin, who is the Chief Networking Officer of Supercharged Networking and the man behind #LunchWithLorry. He is also a Founding Partner of Accounting Solutions of Wisconsin. Lorry is an introvert who has taken his passion for patterns and statistics and turned it into entrepreneurship. When it comes to networking, Lorry believes that building relationships should always come before business objectives, and that approaching networking like a mathematical equation can eventually lead to success. They also discuss how vulnerability opens doors when making better connections and highlight different phases or seasons in networking. Lorry's drive for success is rooted in his insatiable curiosity, a trait that has motivated him to achieve great things thus far. Lorry also emphasizes that sales don't necessarily always equate to profits - a common issue amongst business owners without cash flow due to not focusing enough on what happens in the middle compared to just looking at top-line or bottom-line results. Tune in to hear why building a solid foundation within your business is essential before you start growing it, and discover why minding existing contacts rather than constantly seeking out new ones elsewhere is also crucial. Episode Highlights05:08 - I never do things conventionally and my networking wasn't designed to go out there networking to get business. It was to meet people. I call it "supercharged networking." It's to develop relationships first and business will follow. And if you do it that way, it was easier for me, because I originally tried networking. "Hi, Elzie. What do you do? I'm an accountant. Do you have a job for me?" And I learned that's not networking. I don't have a relationship out of that. COVID caused the start of Lunch with Lorry. I would take people out to lunch and I literally write their life story in a post on LinkedIn all about them, and I learned everything about them. I learned what questions to ask and started having relationships with that, When you write about someone else and promote them, they remember you. And that's the form of networking I like.13:29 - Again, I wasn't smart enough to pre-plan all this, but I will tell you how it worked. First, it was general networking and build a big, wide, great network. Ultimately, one aim is to get business. So, the seasons isn't as much as I talked about the audience. So, I focus a lot more on private networking events where the general public can't come. It could be a private equity event. It could be a bank Christmas party, stuff that the whole public can't come to. And that sometimes has, for me, more of my target audience in the business world. So, you have phases. You might want to start out with general network. Meet as many people as you can. That will lead to invitations over time to go into private network events, which are more targeted and could wind up better for you. It doesn't mean that the business is right there. You have to work that, too, but it's a different audience.17:22 - Sales are not profits and profits are not cash in the bank. And at the end of the day, if you don't have cash, you really don't have a business. And so, some of the fastest growing customers I've seen were also the ones most vulnerable to going broke.  Here's a Lorryism. You always have to keep your infrastructure of your business ahead of your sales curve. If you do not do that, you're like the Road Runner and a coyote. You're looking over that cliff, and there's no infrastructure to support you. So, that's another thing. Those things go together. You got to control your growth to have enough cash in the bank or have enough cash to allow you to borrow money because the bank thinks you're credit-worthy and you have to develop your infrastructure with people. Procedures and practices has to stay ahead of your sales curve so you have a foundation to grow on.20:05 - I replaced a lot of accountants and accounting firms. My customers always have an accountant or someone. But one thing I tell them, "Has your accountant ever brought you customers?" Because one of the things that all this networking does, it allows me – you sell that. I have this guy who buys this. You guys have to meet. And that cross fertilization is where – networks are a bunch of interconnected points. The more you connect things, the more powerful the network becomes. And so, if you're always helping people you meet, even if you don't get anything in return. "I have a customer for you. Oh, here's a potential employee. Have you checked out this vendor? You should come over my house and have a drink. You look like you're stressed." All those things build your network and overtime – again, I started really late in my 50s. If I started in my 20s, oh, my God, I'd be retired by now because all those points accumulate and compound over time that just make you a person that people have to be around or deal with.Ready To

As businesses move into the future, entrepreneurs may find the need to adjust their strategies from time to time in order to stay competitive. An important strategy for businesses is to ensure that they have access to the best possible people. Networking is an important part of life, but it can be challenging to know to whom you should devote more time. It's easy to get caught up in meeting lots of people and feel like the more connections you make, the better off you'll be. However, Lorry Rifkin states that each person added to your network has a lower marginal value. Therefore, it's important to take the time to assess who you have met and decide if they are valuable additions to your network or not. It's better to invest in meaningful connections that bring value than grow a superficial list of contacts. So, mindful curation of your network is essential in order to reap real rewards from the people you meet. Tune in to learn what pivotal steps you need to do in order to maximize your current network! Episode Highlights02:16 - I replaced a lot of accountants and accounting firms. My customers always have an accountant or someone. But one thing I tell them, "Has your accountant ever brought you customers?" Because one of the things that all this networking does, it allows me – you sell that. I have this guy who buys this. You guys have to meet. And that cross fertilization is where – networks are a bunch of interconnected points. The more you connect things, the more powerful the network becomes. And so, if you're always helping people you meet, even if you don't get anything in return. "I have a customer for you. Oh, here's a potential employee. Have you checked out this vendor? You should come over my house and have a drink. You look like you're stressed." All those things build your network and overtime – again, I started really late in my 50s. If I started in my 20s, oh, my God, I'd be retired by now because all those points accumulate and compound over time that just make you a person that people have to be around or deal with.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Connect with Lorry RifkinWebsiteLinkedIn

Making a profit is the ultimate goal of any business, but too often it is solely attributed to sales. That's undoubtedly a big component in achieving success; however, there are many other aspects that come into play when looking to maximize profitability. Lorry Rifkin expresses that there's more to profit than just sales.Sales and profits may go hand in hand, but they don't necessarily indicate the cash that a business will take home. Real cash requires more thought because that doesn't always mean dollars in your pocket like profits do on paper. Lorry highlights the importance of controlling entrepreneur's business growth so they can stay ahead of the sales curve. Listen to learn how to maximize value while maintaining stability!Episode Highlights01:11 - Sales are not profits and profits are not cash in the bank. And at the end of the day, if you don't have cash, you really don't have a business. And so, some of the fastest growing customers I've seen were also the ones most vulnerable to going broke.  Here's a Lorryism. You always have to keep your infrastructure of your business ahead of your sales curve. If you do not do that, you're like the Road Runner and a coyote. You're looking over that cliff, and there's no infrastructure to support you. So, that's another thing. Those things go together. You got to control your growth to have enough cash in the bank or have enough cash to allow you to borrow money because the bank thinks you're credit-worthy and you have to develop your infrastructure with people. Procedures and practices has to stay ahead of your sales curve so you have a foundation to grow on.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Connect with Lorry RifkinWebsiteLinkedIn

As we aim to live our best lives, it is important to remember the importance of building strong connections with others. Whether it’s personal or professional relationships, the power of a strong connection can offer us the opportunity to share experiences that can help us learn and grow. Lorry Rifkin started "Lunch with Lorry" which was networking to a pure basis without any business part to it.Lorry states that during their workshops, people were willing to share deeply personal insights and experiences that they usually don't reveal to others. Thus, strong connections allow us to enrich our lives by introducing new perspectives and ideas while providing emotional support when needed. Tune in to discover how building strong connections can be a powerful catalyst for your overall growth!Episode Highlights03:34 - Again, I wasn't smart enough to pre-plan all this, but I will tell you how it worked. First, it was general networking and build a big, wide, great network. Ultimately, one aim is to get business. So, the seasons isn't as much as I talked about the audience. So, I focus a lot more on private networking events where the general public can't come. It could be a private equity event. It could be a bank Christmas party, stuff that the whole public can't come to. And that sometimes has, for me, more of my target audience in the business world. So, you have phases. You might want to start out with general network. Meet as many people as you can. That will lead to invitations over time to go into private network events, which are more targeted and could wind up better for you. It doesn't mean that the business is right there. You have to work that, too, but it's a different audience.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Connect with Lorry RifkinWebsiteLinkedIn

Relationships are an invaluable part of life and business. They can help you grow, learn, and build something great. But how exactly do you go about cultivating relationships? Lorry Rifkin encourages others to focus on their successes when networking, not dwell on failures.Building strong relationships is one of the most important things we can do in both our personal lives and careers. It takes effort but it pays off immensely over time if done correctly. So, take advantage of every opportunity to cultivate meaningful connections with others around you. Listen to Lorry to learn how to nurture relationships.Episode Highlights04:28 - I never do things conventionally and my networking wasn't designed to go out there networking to get business. It was to meet people. I call it "supercharged networking." It's to develop relationships first and business will follow. And if you do it that way, it was easier for me, because I originally tried networking. "Hi, Elzie. What do you do? I'm an accountant. Do you have a job for me?" And I learned that's not networking. I don't have a relationship out of that. COVID caused the start of Lunch with Lorry. I would take people out to lunch and I literally write their life story in a post on LinkedIn all about them, and I learned everything about them. I learned what questions to ask and started having relationships with that, When you write about someone else and promote them, they remember you. And that's the form of networking I like.Ready To Go Deeper?If today’s episode resonated, don’t just move on to the next one. The next step isn’t more content. It’s context, clarity, and formation.That’s why I created the Journey Feed.Inside the Journey Feed, you’ll find:Mentorship Notes: Honest reflections, Elzisms, and faith-driven insight to help you align your life and leadership.Behind-the-Scenes Perspective: The thinking, lessons, and real-time discernment shaping the Journey to Mastery.Weekly Focus & Reflection Prompts: Simple tools to help you slow down, get clear, and lead with intention.Early Invitations: First access to gatherings, workshops, and live experiences.If you want to grow God’s way, this is where the journey continues. 👉 Join the Journey Feed (free)Want To Go Deeper on Self-Mastery? If you’re ready to work from the inside out, Flame Starter: The Art of Self-Mastery lays the foundation for everything we talk about here. It’s about learning to live and lead In Purpose. On Purpose.™ 👉 Learn moreSupport The MissionJourney to Mastery is an independent podcast created to serve faith-driven entrepreneurs.If this show has helped you grow, your support helps us continue building tools, spaces, and conversations rooted in faith, clarity, and purpose. 👉 Support the missionJourney to Mastery is produced by EF3 Studios.Connect with Lorry RifkinWebsiteLinkedIn

Unlock Your True Entrepreneurial Potential with William Deck In this episode, Elzie talks to William Deck, the Founder of MindBusiness, about entrepreneurship and how it relates to mental fitness. William emphasizes the importance of being genuine rather than catering to external expectations. He also explains that self-sabotage is what often prevents entrepreneurs from achieving their goals and reaching success, so it is vital for entrepreneurs to recognize their own mental limitations to prevent this from happening.  William also discusses how understanding oneself is key to being able to present one's true self authentically. He recommends asking important fundamental questions that impact the quality of our life and being open-minded and listening to others to identify what you don't know and move forward with your business.  Tune in to learn why it's necessary to communicate openly with family about potential sacrifices, as well as making sure that joy is at the center of everything that is done both personally and professionally. Episode Highlights  02:27 - I think we've been taught to focus on the externals, like who we are based on what people perceive us as or who we are based on what we think people will need us to be, as opposed to simply learning how to be, how to be present with yourself. 11:09 - I think once again we all have unlimited potential. That's something that I believe deeply. The question is, "How can we identify the barriers within us?" Right? So, I don't think that there are necessarily external foes that could keep us from getting to our goals, but the enemy within or the inner me, if you break down the word enemy into inner me, that's going to be our biggest threat to our success. The unresolved traumas, the fear, the doubt, the worry, the feelings of unforgiveness and unworthiness that may have stemmed from childhood. Just simply being able to understand those and to be able to move past them. That's one of the biggest keys. So, I totally agree because no one can stop us put ourselves. 28:36 - It's good to have a strong sense of self, but that includes knowing or identifying what you don't know and what you don't understand, and reaching out and connecting with people and organizations or whatnot early and often to be able to help to fill those gaps in knowledge, in ability to take action on certain things, building platforms – whatever it may be – building a website.  36:24 - Begin with the end in mind. As you begin to think about and conceive some of these ideas, what are the actual outcome? How can you uniquely add value to the marketplace based on your natural skill set or what brings you joy? There's always a way. But what is the end goal? What is that feeling, that outcome that would make everything that you do worthwhile? Think about that first and get really clear on what that is. Connect with ElzieWebsiteLinkedInEmailConnect with William DeckWebsiteLinkedInInstagramFacebook

In this episode, Elzie talks to William Deck, who says that the first step for somebody who wants to start their own business is to figure out what the end goal is and what would make everything worthwhile. He also suggests questioning intentions - if it's just about making money, it may not be something worth pursuing. They discuss that the most important thing for entrepreneurs to understand is joy and they recommend only doing things that bring joy both personally and in business. They also stress the importance of communication with loved ones early on about some of the sacrifices that may need to be made during this process. Tune in to discover the power of developing sustainable connections, both professionally and personally!Episode Highlights01:45 - Begin with the end in mind. As you begin to think about and conceive some of these ideas, what are the actual outcome? How can you uniquely add value to the marketplace based on your natural skill set or what brings you joy? There's always a way. But what is the end goal? What is that feeling, that outcome that would make everything that you do worthwhile? Think about that first and get really clear on what that is.Connect with ElzieWebsiteLinkedInEmailConnect with William DeckWebsiteLinkedInInstagramFacebook

In this episode, Elzie and William Deck discuss that a lot of people are not doing the personal work required to be successful entrepreneurs and that understanding oneself is key to being able to present one's true self authentically to the world. William agrees that knowing who you are and what you want is important, but adds that it is also crucial to be open-minded and listen to others. He also argues that being able to identify what you don't know is essential for taking action and moving forward in business. Listen to find out how internal awareness can turn things on and off as needed throughout the entrepreneurial journey.Episode Highlights01:59 - It's good to have a strong sense of self, but that includes knowing or identifying what you don't know and what you don't understand, and reaching out and connecting with people and organizations or whatnot early and often to be able to help to fill those gaps in knowledge, in ability to take action on certain things, building platforms – whatever it may be – building a website. Connect with ElzieWebsiteLinkedInEmailConnect with William DeckWebsiteLinkedInInstagramFacebook

Our biggest challenge may not be outside forces, but rather the inner struggle within ourselves. It is evident that self-sabotage is what can truly prevent us from achieving our goals and reaching success. William Deck believes that in order to better serve people you need to be more authentic.William mentions that many times the stories that we tell ourselves about ourselves, our potential, and about what is ultimately true for us are based on that negative subconscious programming, negative ideas, and belief systems that play like a reel in your head over and over again. By recognizing our own mental limitations, we open a pathway for achieving goals that were previously blocked off by ourselves. Tune in to discover how to prevent yourself from believing a notion that doesn't serve your aims and instead, implement thoughts which will help you reach success and positivity. Episode Highlights00:39 - I think once again we all have unlimited potential. That's something that I believe deeply. The question is, "How can we identify the barriers within us?" Right? So, I don't think that there are necessarily external foes that could keep us from getting to our goals, but the enemy within or the inner me, if you break down the word enemy into inner me, that's going to be our biggest threat to our success. The unresolved traumas, the fear, the doubt, the worry, the feelings of unforgiveness and unworthiness that may have stemmed from childhood. Just simply being able to understand those and to be able to move past them. That's one of the biggest keys. So, I totally agree because no one can stop us put ourselves.Connect with ElzieWebsiteLinkedInEmailConnect with William DeckWebsiteLinkedInInstagramFacebook

Being an entrepreneur can be a seemingly insurmountable challenge at times, so it's essential for business owners to prioritize their mental fitness if they want to remain productive. William Deck emphasizes the need to ask important fundamental questions that impact the quality of our life. By allowing themselves to be vulnerable and accepting the need for support, William has created a business that bridges gaps in fulfilling unspoken but essential needs. Tune in to learn the importance of being genuine rather than worrying about perceptions or expectations from external factors.Episode Highlights00:29 - I think we've been taught to focus on the externals, like who we are based on what people perceive us as or who we are based on what we think people will need us to be, as opposed to simply learning how to be, how to be present with yourself.Connect with ElzieWebsiteLinkedInEmailConnect with William DeckWebsiteLinkedInInstagramFacebook

In this episode, Elzie interviews Mitchelle Lyle, the Founder of International Travel Assistance, an Industrial and Systems Engineer graduate from University of Wisconsin-Madison, and a member of the National Society of Black Engineers. They discuss how having an engineer's mindset by doing things differently and analytically helps her manage all of the changes that come along with differences from various personalities and contexts.Mitchelle believes that being introspective and self-aware is essential to becoming a business owner. She has found that these skills make a significant difference when she's faced with difficulties in running her business since these self-reflective practices lend insight into how to navigate challenging moments thoughtfully, objectively, and resourcefully.When asked about the most important business lesson, Mitchelle says believing in your vision, especially when talking to people is the key to having a successful business. What objectives you plan to achieve will not only influence peers and partners but may also support and facilitate realistic growth. Listen to learn about the importance of trusting your instincts even in the face of doubt.Episode Highlights04:57 - So, one of my first learnings or challenges for myself was to go out every weekend and speak to three people. And even though I loved my routine of going to get me some sushi and a bottle of wine and my movies and just chill out, I also needed to explore the new space I was in. 12:59 - It was those few things like in that one where I said, "I'm not apologizing." I will go through this thing. I get it. I will hear you out. I will explain my perspective, but I will not apologize to you because that is what I'm going to hold on to out of this.14:27 - No one even asked questions because I shadowed for a while. They don't even acknowledge these other things. Let's make this clean and concise was my goal. 15:42 - I think just weighing out the options, like I just knew I wasn't on the winning side. So, how can I best win holistically if I'm looking at the bigger picture.17:56 - I think one of the things that I was made aware of with my family and like my mom, just not being shy with understanding what it means to be a black woman in America and what comes with that, having pride in that, as well as understanding there will be challenges and also, recognizing in my field.21:45 - My mom, my sisters and my aunt have always been there to be an encouragement me, to support, and really help me, especially in those tough times, and remind me who I am so that I can get back in there when I feel a bit defeated.25:27 - I think about the training that I need to do to win. I think about the practice that I need to put in. I think about other advantages that I need to just expose myself to. And I study myself and other people who are definitely winning in that space and seeing what they're doing.26:45 - My processes to building my business is definitely from an engineer's mindset. All of the analytics that I've collected and the way I roll out different programs. All of those things are very structured.30:52 - To get to another level, there's more learning. I need to create another version of Mitchelle to do things as best as possible.31:45 - Sticking to what your vision is and being okay with all the opinions that are coming.Connect with ElzieWebsiteLinkedInEmailConnect with Mitchelle LyleLinkedInPowered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town

Part of personal growth is the willingness to evolve continuously. Mitchelle Lyle shares with Elzie how she constantly challenges herself to always evolve, stretch, and grow. She emphasizes that if your why to evolve means something to you, then you become a better version of yourself after that.It is paramount to believe in your vision fully, especially when you're talking to people and you're trying to get them to understand why you need their support. There are moments that opinions come up plenty, but remember that if it doesn't align with your vision, then you should just leave it be. Learn how Mitchelle handles other people's opinions throughout her venture. Episode Highlights00:47 - My processes to building my business is definitely from an engineer's mindset. All of the analytics that I've collected and the way I roll out different programs. All of those things are very structured.05:11 - To get to another level, there's more learning. I need to create another version of Mitchelle to do things as best as possible.06:10 - Sticking to what your vision is and being okay with all the opinions that are coming.Connect with ElzieWebsiteLinkedInEmailConnect with Mitchelle LyleLinkedInPowered By Podcast Town We Help B2B Brands grow their revenue through podcasting. Podcast Town is a full-service, white glove podcast agency dedicated to helping B2B brands grow their podcast show, grow their audience and podcast easier. - We help you launch, Grow and Maximize! Grow With Podcast Town