Plan B Success

Maura Barclay is an intuitive leadership consultant and Neuro Facilitation Practitioner. She is best known for her groundbreaking work in the intuitive empowerment field with her book and Unbreakable Woman® programs which she presented for nearly two decades across the nation for federal agencies, fortune 500 companies, and the US military. Her intuitive, embodied career began with more than 10 years teaching immersive workshops and teacher training in therapeutic yoga, meditation, and embodied anatomy. Tune in!

If you expect to succeed massively, you need to be open to risk. Yet, it may not guarantee your success but it does provide you with a better opportunity to do so. Unless you have also invested your own resources in the venture, you may not be seen as having "skin in the game!" When you do, it's assumed that you will likely put your best foot forward to generate returns. Are you ready to do so?

Everyone spends hours on the internet each day. You can either consider that as wasted time using it to watch the news and for entertainment purposes whether watching videos or playing games or you can use it to figure out and make money online. Tune in to learn how...

Originally from Mexico, Gus Munoz Castro is a former Microsoft Senior Engineer turned Real Estate Agent turned Inside Sales guru. He runs one of the largest Inside Sales teams for Real Estate in North America, PowerISA that is 100 Agents strong making about 50K outbound dials a day and setting leads for Real Estate. He runs a 7-figure a year business and has over 600+ active clients. He is very passionate about helping business owners be successful through online marketing and leads follow-up and conversion. Tune in to learn his strategies...

Every time you present, do you get straight to facts and figures? I believe that the most effective way to present is to be a great storyteller. After all, who doesn't love conflict, and the win over a challenge? Remind your audience of the status quo and then, work on revealing a path to a better place. Let them revel in the conflict that needs to be resolved. The tension keeps them engrossed and engages them to move from what is to what can be! And, the structure allows them to digest the message!

What is the Metaverse? Suddenly, everyone seems to be talking about it as though it's where all of our future lies. Is that true? Metaverse is a combination of multiple technology elements - virtual reality, augmented reality, and video where users "live" within a digital universe. Not that, it's not where we mostly spend our lives even today! It's just that we won't be faceless anymore and will have our own faces and assets to show. If that has you more confused than before, listen and learn...

Brooke Lively specializes in helping entrepreneurs turn their companies into profitable businesses. Prior to consulting, she was the administrator for a seven-figure small law firm which she helped to build from the ground up. She also serves as a Receiver in Texas with a special interest in family-owned and operated companies and other assets in dispute. Her 6 Key Numbers book series includes, 6 Key Numbers® Every Entrepreneur Should Know and 6 Key Numbers Every Psychologist Should Know. Listen in...

Realize it or not, life is a game where strategy is key. How you manage your resources to plan and execute on the path you want to get on, is what it's all about. If you expect to be successful and have fun on this journey, put your time and effort into the right things. Master where your time and resources go to achieve what you seek. Here's how to go about it...

It's the end of your workday, and you have barely made a dent in what you need to get done! You feel guilty for not being productive enough. But, this is just the beginning of an analysis-paralysis cycle where you go down the rabbit hole of gloom and doom. So, what can you do about it? How should you handle this feeling of guilt and not doing enough? How can be sure that you are doing your very best? Are there strategies to do better within the time you have and be guilt free? Well, listen up!

Joe Stolte, an author, coach and serial entrepreneur has created over a billion dollars in enterprise value for his clients and his own companies over 10 years. He focused on business basics to get there - people, strategy, sales and systems. From scaling a startup to a half billion dollar valuation to boot strapping his own digital marketing agency, he has seen it all. As CEO @ Tractionology Group, he helps others do just that. His book, Tractionology shows you how to get consistent results. Tune in!

All that glitters is not gold. Why do I say so? Let's find out.

"Money Can't Buy Happiness" is an age-old adage. Some live by it and others don't believe it. It means that happiness comes from within, not from material possessions. It also means that one should look for inner peace than seek solace in external factors. Well, it's true that peace and happiness are internal. But, it's also true that you cannot live in isolation in a connected world. There are creature comforts you need, even to live. Money does play a role in your happiness. How? Listen...

Joanna Pohorski is a certified business/ life coach and real estate investor. With 20 years of business management experience, she set out to help business owners to achieve their business and life goals faster and better. Joanna has a degree in applied linguistics and a certification in project management. A multilingual, she has traveled the world. In this episode, we discuss accountability and how that being at the center of all you do can allow for your success, guaranteed! Tune in!

Luck and hard work, both have an impact on your life. While hard work may not guarantee you phenomenal success, its lack does lead to failure. When you put your best efforts in, you do unlock your achievements. Try just timing your luck and you are not guaranteed anything. The actions you take ensure your results. While lame luck can have a play, deliberate actions increase the chances of the success you seek. Tune in!

Stress and Worry are debilitating factors on your path to productivity. Yet, when controlled, they can accelerate your success. Recognize your stressors and learn to control them than be in their control. It may be impossible to reduce your stress unless you recognize what's causing them. Yet, you may only partially manage their impact. Learn to live with them but turn stress and worry to be enabling factors on your journey to success. How? Tune in to find out!

Elizabeth Dodson, named as Number One Female Founder in FinTech worldwide by Quesnay (in 2019), is the Co-Founder of HomeZada, software that helps homeowners save time and money managing their property. Her goal is to help reduce the 33% annual income that is spent on your home by 10%. She has 20 years of technology experience on B2B/ B2C platforms driving multi-million dollar sales growth. Elizabeth is also a mentor at Stevenson and Loyola University and an advisory board member at College Track Sacramento.

Long ago, before we started turning spare bedrooms or breakfast tables into makeshift offices, remote work had begun. But, it wasn't accepted much, since we were still attuned to looking over the shoulder of our employees, a habit from the industrial era. Then the pandemic hit and remote work became our reality out of necessity. We learned to trust employees and treat them as mature individuals who can take responsibility for their work. It's for the future to acclimatize the new norm! Tune in!

They say you're more likely to succeed when you focus on others' problems and help them find solutions than your own. How true is that? As you help others, you get helped in the process. Whatever your personal goals are, no matter how much you focus on them, you'll always come short. But, focus on helping another, and in the process, you'll find your own goals being met. How? Let's listen and find out!

How often have you found yourself with little patience and getting upset over small things? What was the root cause? Were these challenging times for you? Were you under stress? And, when you did come out of it, did you regret your behavior? Anger and frustration are complex human emotions that find their roots in stress, disappointment, failure, and fear. Being aware of such feelings and knowing you need to have an upper hand is the way to manage your emotions. Never let things get out of control...

Everyone is interested in succeeding, and much of that lies in the future. How do you accurately predict that future today so you are better prepared when it arrives? The answer lies partly in our past and the themes of evolution as well. You can look ahead by visiting the past to get clues of what worked and what didn't. Also, there is the possibility to turn the predictable future on its head to open eyes to what is possible, yet unfathomable! Listen in to find out how?

Ivan Wanis Ruiz, a communications expert originally trained in facilitation at the Ministry of Attorney General in British Columbia. He later became an Advanced Toastmaster Gold and a Certified Trainer for the Dale Carnegie Business Group. A trained actor, he has been featured in films like Rise of the Planet of the Apes and guest-starred on TV shows, Conviction and Supernatural. Ivan is the author of They don't have to be Naked!™ A new approach to public speaking! Let's tune in!

Bill Sanders is CEO of Mobus Creative Negotiating, a firm founded by the late Frank Mobus. Mobus's nationally recognized experts provide corporate training, coaching, and consulting to Fortune 500 companies. Prior to that, Mobus and Sanders played central roles at Karrass, the twentieth-century gold standard for negotiation training. He also consults with National Football League franchises on statistical analysis, helping ten head coaches to lead their teams to the Super Bowl over the last 30 years. Listen in...

The pursuit of happiness is a lifelong enterprise for many. The goal is elusive. You can plan and work on executing for its attainment, yet may face several challenges along the way. While most see it as an end to external factors, it is as much intrinsic too. Where does your happiness lie and what's the problem with it? Let's find out!

When you ask yourself as to what makes you happy, you reflect back on experiences, possessions, or relationships that you cherish. Well, truly speaking happiness is a neurochemical experience. There are neurotransmitters that create the sensation associated with happiness. Not to burst your bubble, but this means you're in control of your own happiness irrespective of situations. While there are other neurotransmitters, let's look at dopamine, the feel-good, or the reward chemical. Listen in!

Tracy Lamourie, Owner of Lamourie PR has been providing professional PR services for more than 20 years. She focuses on working with ethical businesses, progressive politicians, media personalities, public speakers, and social justice groups, and other interesting people! Smart, edgy, focused, savvy, and skilled — Tracy is passionate about helping people and companies build their brands and elevate careers into the stratosphere! In politics, the arts, entertainment, or business. Tune in for more...

Is greed just a bad vice or more? Just like good and bad debt, greed too can be good. One positive aspect is that it can motivate you to strive and do better to gain what you seek. Better socio-economic outcomes are a result of such greed. Greed can inspire altruism once the goals you're after are accomplished, or perhaps you're on the way to accomplishing them. Greed is truly bad when only self-centered and lacks concern for others. Where do you draw the balance then? Let's find out!

Everyone advises us to be authentic, to just be ourselves. But, is that the case at all times, whether at work or play? Research shows that when you show up as you truly are, you tend to be more productive and happy. But, being yourself also means being honest with one another, which can sometimes rub people the wrong way. And, is that professional or not? There is no black and white answer. It's another gray area where you need to bring your own appetite for candor too. Let's find out!

A South Korean immigrant, Victoria Wieck secured an education and went to work for an LA-based jewelry manufacturing business. Soon, her talents led her to start her own jewelry business in 1989. Over the next 3 decades, it flourished led her to have her own show on Shop HQ. Having traveled the world, she wrote about her travel experiences and recently published a novel, Shattered Sky. She is working on Living the American Dream Your Way: How to Turn Your American Dream into Reality, a book from her experiences. Tune in!

Ideas are many, and those that make the way to being realized are few. The excuses that can get in the way of an idea finding its path of fruition are also many. Yet, entrepreneurship is the lifeline of businesses and economies around us. It's time to take stock of your skills and talents and look toward the unconventional path of entrepreneurship. How can you make a difference? Let's find out!

Need I say more. Any journey has a starting point. After that it's about perseverance and enjoying the journey, making sure you take that next step and the next. The destination is bound to happen! Starting is the most important part of any journey you aspire to. Start Now!

In a world of average Joe's, you may be the kind who wants to set yourself apart. And, its small changes that can make a big difference for you. You can be more kind, committed, creative and have the courage to follow through. Focusing on these can help propel you to be a better person, in differentiating yourself from the rest, and creating a space of your own. And, you should do it to be a better person, someone who can stand up to be an inspiration to others. Tune in...

Like any average Joe, you may love your life or hate it and perhaps, are afraid of several things in the ever-changing world we live in. You may perhaps, like the comfort zone you are in, yet yearn to take risks and come out successful. Or, you may be altogether blissful with where you are or what you've done so far. And, there is no right or wrong about any of this. Its a personal choice as to where you find your sweet spot of not just existing, but living your life. Fear not and live your life..

Felix Velarde is the co-founder, CEO and Chairman of 2Y3X, a two-year global growth accelerator for companies that have plateaued and are ready to scale up. Felix is passionate about catalyzing positive growth, profitability and impact for businesses, and grants access to his expert insights for much wider audiences through his book, Scale at Speed: How to Triple the Size of your Business and Build a Superstar Team. Tune in to unlock his proven methods for scaling organizations at any level...

Joe Lucey is a Certified Financial Planner, and radio personality with more than twenty years of experience, who now shares invaluable strategic tax and retirement planning secrets typically reserved for the top 1% in his new book, New Tax Secrets. With the global pandemic ravaging economies, everyday Americans have questions about how current factors impact their taxes. Joe focuses on the many practical elements of current and future tax planning that most people are unaware of or overlook. Tune in!

Learning and Agility are two skills that can hold you in good stead throughout your life. Learning agility allows you to learn and solution along the way, as you tackle challenges. Experience plays a key role from which you learn. Further, you can apply this in unrelated situations to resolve as well. Learning agility can be taught and learned at any stage in life. It ensures you're ever ready to solve future challenges. Find out if you possess this skill and how you can hone it!

What are your chances of success? What's your definition of it? What do you need to do to succeed? While many believe that success is subjective and varies in interpretation from one person to another, there are certain traits that are common to accomplishing it. What do you need to possess or develop in order to succeed? Let's tune in to find out!

Dennis C. Williams Jr. is the creator of CashMap Pro. He has served as a Senior Executive at RedSail Technologies in a range of positions including Finance, Human Resources, Legal Affairs, Software Development, and Testing. Over the past ten years, he has worked on developing CashMap Pro with the goal of helping everyone harness the tools at their disposal to save more and achieve their dreams. In this episode, we learn of his journey and his unbelievable solution to save you money! Listen...

Technology has come a long way, yet has miles to go. While the 2010s saw the growth of social media and mobile internet, the next phase is that of Deep Tech. Deep Tech, unlike General Tech or High Tech, is not out there pursuing a need to fulfill but is going after a vision to awaken customers to a need that they did not know exists and then, delights them with the solution. Watch out for this space and the use cases of dual-use deep tech. What's dual-use? Tune in to find out!

As the world transitioned to remote work due to the pandemic, it very quickly became evident that employees adapt quickly and were able to do their jobs well, in some cases better than when at the office. Productivity remained stable and employees enjoyed the flexibility of working their own hours around their personal lives. This proves that remote work is possible and profitable. As a result, the debate about permanent remote work versus showing up in offices versus hybrid options continues to persist. What are your thoughts on this?

Sandee Sgarlata has seen her share of ups and downs. Along the way, she focused on chasing happiness. "Happiness Solved, Climbing One Hundred Steps" is her latest book. As a Certified Life Coach, Professional Speaker, and retired U.S. National and International Figure Skating Coach, she helps people create lasting change in their lives. Facing death has been the underlying theme of her life and the catalyst for her never-ending search and desire to learn how to maintain a sense of peace and happiness. Listen...

Imagine sitting on your couch browsing channels or taking that afternoon nap, all the while knowing that your bank account is working hard to keep that money coming in, while you're not at work. Passive income is the ability to earn through streams you set up where you don't trade time for money anymore. Though it may seem easy or to come with little effort, there's quite a bit of strategy and upfront work that goes into it. If done right, it's well worth the effort. Tune in!

In the world of SaaS and technology, the mythical unicorns are real and represent an aspiration for start-up success. Whether you are an aspiring founder or an employee who is focused on your nest egg, it all begins with turning in your first million. And, that's no easy task. But, once you do, the rest of the journey finds its path. Let's find out how...

Keel Hunt is an editorial columnist for The Tennessean and author of Coup: The Day the Democrats Ousted Their Governor and Crossing the Aisle, How Bipartisanship Brought Tennessee to the 21st Century and Could Save America. His new book is The Family Business: How Ingram Transformed the World of Books. Keel has been a reporter, editor, and Washington correspondent and has consulted to some of America's largest companies and institutions – from HCA, Ingram to First Tennessee Bank, and Vanderbilt University. Tune in to learn about the evolution of journalism...

As leaders, you need to be respected more than liked. All stakeholders look up to the leaders to make the right decisions, though they may be difficult, sometimes even unpopular. For organizations to thrive, tough actions need to be taken. Leaders that strive to be universally liked generally fail as they lose credibility and confidence from some segment. But, those that act for the long-term benefits of an organization are always respected. How do you make unpopular decisions?

It's been 20 years since 9/11, and it has not ended for so many and perhaps, never will. Some were evacuated and rescued, many lost their lives or loved ones, jumped in to help others, and continue to suffer the after-effects. When I turned the TV on that morning, what I saw left me in utter disbelief and it hit hard, life would not be the same again. The impact continues to linger. What we need to take away from this is the need to be resilient, to be together against all odds. Here's my story...

Highly decorated United States Army Veteran, Kelvin Ray Xuna, is a 2008 Harvard University with a Master in Housing and Urbanization. A proponent of Co-living Housing, he deems it as "the future of Multi-Family Housing." Until recently, Artist Housing, his first ever film and music community housing. was the largest official co-living provider in Los Angeles, the second largest city in the US, in the most sought-after area of the downtown (DTLA) and still the most affordable continuously for 10+ years. Learn more...

How silly is it to believe that the one leading or is the face of an organization is the key to it's success! If you truly are a leader, you wouldn't bat an eyelid to affirm that results, long term and sustaining are created by the team, the individuals contributing and doing the work to move the organization ahead. A leader just has the privilege of leading and representing them. The success of an organization isn't just about the leader but about the people who work there. Agree?

Remember the stories you heard as a child? You'd stay past bedtime listening to them in rapture, with your jaw dropping in disbelief and excitement. If you do, it tells you about the power of story telling and a good story that sticks with you for life! All good stories have a great plot and engaging conflict which always leaves the listener wanting more and highly curious. Characters and their conversations enrapture listeners in the propagation of that great story. How to design and tell such great stories? Let's find out!

Gary Buckmann never dreamed of working with 5 Olympic Gold medalists, especially when he was lying in a hospital bed paralyzed with a broken neck. Gary's life story is one of incredible healing and the power of the mind. In this "anything is possible" true story, Gary shares a highly engaging and inspiring story of overcoming a catastrophic injury that left him paralyzed for life, per all the expert doctors. Gary instead chose to harness the power of his mind to heal his body and spirit. His book, "Broken to Brilliant" is sure to inspire and change you! Tune in!

Look around you. Everyone is overwhelmed juggling multiple things and besides that have several distractions flying at them. All of this hardly allows for focused efforts, and outcomes. Much time is lost in stressing or trying to figure out how to strategize and execute than doubling down on the actual doing what needs to be done. So, how do you ensure you do what's effective? Listen in!