Time to Reset

What does it mean to have a vibrant culture within your organization? In this episode, Penny Zenker chats with Nicole Greer to define the concept and what leaders can do to make this happen for their teams. Nicole is the Executive and Leadership Coach and Consultant at Vibrant Coaching and Consulting Inc. and host of the Build a Vibrant Culture Podcast. Using the trademarked S.H.I.N.E. Coaching Methodology, she offers foundational tools and uncommon wisdom to help clients become the leaders their organization needs them to be. Nicole discusses performance management versus micromanaging and defines how productivity should look for leaders and their employees. Tune in for more wisdom from Nicole and get valuable insights you can apply to better your organization.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

It's hard not to get anxious today with the recession, inflation, political polarization, the great resignation, and much more. Learning how to deal with stress and anxiety right now is at an all-time high! Join Penny Zenker as he talks to the founder and CEO of Passion Fit, Reena Vokoun. Discover some tips and tricks on how you can deal with all this stress right now. Learn how to shift your focus from the chaos and into something positive. Start fighting back against anxiety today!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Do you find yourself overwhelmed with things to do that you start wondering how it ended up that way? Then maybe, unknowingly, you have overcommitted. This episode’s guest identified overcommitment as a problem that is holding people back more than advancing themselves in their careers and even personal lives. Penny Zenker sits down with Don Davis, PhD, MBA an expert operations leader in Healthcare and Life Sciences with a 35-year career in delivering leverageable capabilities that scale their organizations while increasing revenue and controlling cost. Don dives deep into the consequences of overcommitting yourself and stacking tasks until they become too much to handle. Overcoming being overcommitted, he then shares some helpful tips to assess the tasks in front of you so you can be more productive and maximize your time and effort without stretching yourself too thin.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Recent studies show a dwindling percentage of employee engagement in the workplace. One of the main causes is burnout. People's mental health has taken a toll, especially during the pandemic. Now more than ever, it is important to have conversations on what we need to change in the workplace. In this episode, Marie-Helene Pelletier joins Penny Zenker to share with us her insights on psychology and mental health in our working environment. She is an award-winning Leadership and Workplace Mental Health Expert, Psychologist, Advisor, and Speaker. She brings her expertise to discuss stress as an epidemic, quiet quitting, and compassion fatigue. Offering advice to overcome these challenges, Marie then discusses the importance of having a resilience plan. Tune in to this conversation to discover more insights on improving mental health in the workplace.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

If you spend all your time in your business, you probably lack systems and processes. With the right automated systems, you can spend time on more important things that will really help your business grow. Don’t be technology averse because you will never scale if you don’t embrace technology. Join Penny Zenker as she talks to the Founder of Succeeding With Systems and the Systems Implementation Engineer of Omnipotent Capital, Khadirah Muhammad. Learn why you need the help of both technology and people if you want your business to succeed. Discover the power of automation. Find out some great time-saving and useful systems you can get now!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Delegating work is one of the most efficient ways to save time and energy while ensuring the smooth operations of your business. Ethan Bull brings this workplace setup to the next level by maximizing the role of an executive assistant to get five extra hours per day. Sitting down with Penny Zenker, he elaborates on five performance multipliers that lead to a more convenient and rewarding 29-hour workday. Ethan explains how the help of an excellent executive assistant plays into this setup and talks about the major things to consider in hiring a reliable person to delegate your important tasks.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Our mind is the best tool to lead us to positive life changes. But what you feed in your mind and how you put those into action makes the difference. In this episode, Caterina Rando, the author of Learn to Power Think, provides her insights about learning how to live through your goal by owning your voice and knowing your value, which will put you into action. By reframing your mind on being more compassionate, more loving, and more supportive of yourself, and the more you can master self-care, that’s going to impact your productivity and the level of bliss in your business and your life. Tune in to this positive thinking exercise of an episode to lead yourself to a healthier life.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

With all the expectations we have to live up to, the loaded schedules, and a million things we have to get done, it's easy to feel lacking. We feel unsure of our accomplishments and even when we’ve already done so much, it's still hard to feel fulfilled. But not as hard as when you don’t even know what you want to do or what your life’s purpose is. If you often find yourself questioning the path you are on, you cannot miss this episode! Annie Leib, a Certified Professional Executive Coach and the founder and CEO of Annie Leib, LLC & BREATH Framework, INC, talks about what the BREATH Framework stands for and how it helps you identify your core values, your whys, your mission, and your life’s purpose. Tune in and learn how you can find alignment in being your authentic self, finding that purpose, and achieving amazing results.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Being a micromanager keeps you in the limbo of working in your business instead of working on it. You can let go of your responsibilities through proper work delegation process and start automating operations. Marketing coach Mike Moll joins Penny Zenker to break down his Customer Excellence Document, a five-stage process of efficiently delegating work to competent individuals. He explains how he poured his entire consciousness into designing this methodical approach to present information in the most engaging ways. Mike also discusses the many benefits of work delegation, especially in taking back your precious time.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Many businesses lose tons of cash despite giving close attention to profit optimization and marketing. It's because they keep adding unnecessary things to their already sufficient productivity drivers. Penny Zenker sits down with Scott Hallman, two-time Inc. 500 Company Founder, CEO, and best-selling author. Scott shares how business leaders can accelerate growth and maximize profits by focusing more on incremental improvements that spell productivity. He also discusses how to eliminate business metrics that do you more harm than good instead of stacking brand new technologies and sales tactics that only give false hopes of growth.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Just like a movie, we all have villains in our lives who make us feel stupid, unloved, alone, and unworthy and it's easier to turn a blind eye than face them head-on. We get overwhelmed with self-doubt that we fail to reflect on who we are and what we are really capable of. How do we build confidence in spite of this? If the imposter syndrome is getting to you, don’t miss this episode of Take Back Time as two-time bestselling author and Top 50 Keynote Speaker in the World 2022, Heather Monahan joins Penny Zenker to talk about building confidence. And how self-reflection and self-trust can help you break barriers and become your most powerful self. So listen in and learn how you can guard your space against external and internal aggressors and be able to step out and step up!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Product, price, place, and promotion. These are just some of the elements considered in marketing a product. These elements constitute the framework by which business owners build their marketing strategy. In this episode, Michael Buzinski, author of The Rule of 26 For Service-Based Businesses: Three Steps to Doubling Website Revenue, discusses why KPIs should be business owners’ focus to help them double their revenue. He also gives an in-depth discussion of his book. Tune in to this episode and get some practical, actionable insights that will help you grow your business.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Writing your book is one of the hardest things you’ll ever do. Some people have had a hard time finishing a book or couldn't even finish one. In this episode, Chandler Bolt, CEO of Self-Publishing School and SelfPublishing.com, shares some steps to guide you in writing your book. He also gives strategies to help you in book-writing and publishing. Listen to this inspiring episode and get some ideas to help you write and publish your book.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Communication is an essential tool for productivity and organizational growth. How can you widen your leadership influence? Join your host Penny Zenker as she dives into a conversation with Scott Tillema on bridging the gap from crisis negotiation to leadership influence. Scott is an FBI-trained hostage negotiator and active law enforcement officer. In this episode, he shares valuable insights on how organizations can recognize opportunities and utilize negotiation principles to enhance their work. He also explains how he helps during critical and chaotic moments of people’s lives and maps out situations for clearer understanding. Tune in for clarity and a goal-oriented perspective on leadership and negotiation.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

When people make a to-do list, they put so many unnecessary things that they forget what’s most important. They need to learn how to master being overwhelmed. They need to know how to prioritize their ones from the tens in their list. These people have to truly be honest with themselves, which is something most people struggle with. Join Penny Zenker as she talks to Mark J. Silverman about his new book, Only 10s 2.0: Confront Your To-Do List, Transform Your Life. Learn how you can find your 10s on your to-do list. Don’t be afraid to cross off things. You don’t have to do everything this week or this month. Prioritize your life today with Penny and Mark.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

According to statistics, 80% of people just show up 80% of the time. What does it mean to people’s productivity, performance and goals? In this episode, Marcy Axelrod discusses the concept of what it truly means to show up. She has been researching this concept of showing up for 23 years already, and she provides the three parts to it. She shares the three main categories that get in our way to really show up. So come join us in this episode to learn more and reflect on yourself if you are part of that 80% and show up! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Do you have so much stuff that it makes you unorganized and messy? Are you having a hard time getting things done? Tune in to this episode as Gael Wood discusses decluttering so you can efficiently manage your time. Reflect and think thoroughly about what consumes most of your time and assess which things or tasks you can let go or de-prioritize. This can result in you living your life better! Come and join us in this discussion!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Athletes all need to train their performance mindset before a game. Those who are nervous have a higher chance of losing. On the other hand, those who know how to relax and have fun end up winning. That is the mindset that Penny Zenker and her guest Joey Klein will discuss in this episode. Together, they talk about how you, as a high performer, can get into the zone. Joey is the founder and CEO of Inner Matrix Systems. He is also the author of the book, The Inner Matrix: Leveraging the Art & Science of Personal Mastery to Create Real-Life Results. Learn how to control your mind so that you can find that key to fulfillment today. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Life is full of things we can’t control, and things don’t go as planned. We must learn to adapt and evolve and bend, not break. Joining Penny Zenker is Frankie Russo, founder of Russo Capital and The School of WHY, keynote speaker, and author. In this episode, Frankie enlightens us with insights from his book, Breaking WHY: Hacking and Rebuilding Strategic Emotions for Authentic Success, and shares the highs and lows of his journey to finding authentic success. He opens up about his struggle for control and his history of substance abuse and navigating through his recovery and finding his purpose. Learn some strategies and techniques that he’s used to overcome and achieve by tuning in! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Learning how to manage your managers is a key factor in the success of any organization and the sanity of people at work. What does this mean exactly? Here to explain is Mark Herschberg, author of The Career Toolkit, Essential Skills for Success That No One Taught You. Mark joins host Penny Zenker to share important insight into how employees can communicate and engage with managers to meet results and expectations better and avoid frustration. He also discusses the unwritten rules of the workplace, career development, and the value of properly onboarding new hires. He emphasizes the importance of having the right culture for the organization and, most importantly, the right cultural fit for employees. Listen in for an insightful discussion on leadership, communication, and employee engagement.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Emotional intelligence is a buzzword that has inserted itself into more and more industries, but it is a construct more easily thought about than practiced. Today's guest offers expert insight on the subject. Robin Hills is the Director of Ei4Change, a company specializing in educational training, coaching, and personal development focused on emotional intelligence, positive psychology, and neuroscience. He joins host Penny Zenker to break down how to practice emotional intelligence in the workplace and its impact on productivity and overall quality of life. Get valuable tips on effective and empathic communication by tuning in to this episode. Don't miss out!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Most of us react to how things are playing out for us. And once it’s in the past, we tend to think if the response and action we did were right. Do we wonder if things would have been better if we approached it differently? What if we can see the future? Surely this will help us to a great extent. That is the focus of our episode today with our guest Jonathan Brill. Jonathan is a futurist and an expert on resilient growth and innovation under uncertainty. He shares his knowledge and the tools he uses to help companies grow even through crises. He even wrote a book to cover all of these. Listen and know the future of you and your business!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Limiting beliefs can keep you stuck from getting the connection, wealth, and abundance you want. Zahra Karsan, a personal Success Coach to dozens of global executives and the Founder and CEO of GetZENd, talks with Penny Zenker about the importance of adopting a productive mindset. You operate on 5% conscious mind and 95% subconscious in your daily life. Many of your limiting beliefs are subconscious. That’s why they run on autopilot in the background of your mind. To overcome them, you need to be aware of them. Face them upfront and learn risk management. Listen to this episode to discover practical tips on how you can get into a productive mindset. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Often, what keeps us from achieving our goals is thinking small. We get stuck in a rut—worrying about things that haven't happened yet and limiting ourselves from what we could do. It is time to break free from that! In this episode, Penny Zenker invites a guest to take us from small into big thinking. The creator of XMBA and bestselling author of Exponential Theory, Aaron Bare, shares how we start becoming exponential thinkers in this flat-thinking world. He provides great examples of leaders who show that thinking big can only lead to big things. Giving actionable steps, Aaron shares some exercises to get into exponential thinking. Join today's conversation as you learn to reach your goals sooner, compounding time by thinking big!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Recruitment should be done the right way. That's what Lou Adler discusses in this episode so that you could hire outstanding talents for business growth and success. Lou left his work in a manufacturing company and decided to become a recruiter. This was not really in his plans, but he realized that this could be an interesting career. Today, he is the CEO and founder of The Adler Group, a consulting and training firm helping companies implement "Win-Win Hiring" programs using his Performance-based Hiring system for finding and hiring exceptional talent. He highlights most of the mistakes companies are making and how to avoid them. Tune in to equip yourself with the strategies to make the hiring process smooth and successful! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

During the pandemic, employers experienced a surge of what we now call ‘the great resignation.’ This wasn’t the case for Tommy Mello and his team of loyal employees. Instead, they stepped up and offered to take paid deductions and gave their PTOs. So, how did he do it? In this episode, Tommy shares leadership practices that develop loyal employees and create a culture of ownership within a team. Tommy Mello is the author of Home Service Millionaire and host of the Home Service Expert Podcast. Listen to his conversation with host Penny Zenker and get valuable leadership insights to strengthen your organization and grow your business. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

You've probably heard of the saying, "Laughter is the best medicine." But do you know this is scientifically proven to be true? In this episode, Penny Zenker sits down with TEDx speaker, successful author, and brain-based performance coach Karyn Buxman. Karyn is a global expert in strategic humor for business. Today, she breaks down how humor and laughter can impact our wellbeing and productivity. Plus, she shares ways to be more intentional with humor every day. You don't have to be funny to laugh. So, sit down, relax, and tune in for a reason to laugh more today! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

The easiest way to grow your business is through referrals. A lot of people don't want to do that, maybe because they're too shy or they don't want to bother people. They are missing out on a lot of potential leads. Join Penny Zenker as she talks to Edwin Dearborn about some referral strategies. Edwin is the Founder of 10X Media Group of Las Vegas. He is also the author of Referology. Learn how to build your business and attract new customers. Listen to this episode if you want to learn four amazing referral strategies!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Anyone can be a leader, but not everyone can be successful. First, you have to be clear about who you are. Then, you have to take that leap of faith and get closer to the life you have always dreamed of. So what is the key to successful leadership? In today’s episode, our guest, Tom Kereszti, shares his lifetime of international experience on being an effective leader. Tom is an industry influencer, coach, speaker, educator, and mentor. He explains the principles that can lead you to a lifetime of success. How can these affect leadership and widen your influence? Stay tuned and find out!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

People experience burnout due to their busy calendars. Working, attending meetings, and doing other business stuff leaves them feeling exhausted and overwhelmed. But does working all day long mean we are also being productive? Join us in this episode as Jessica Bledsoe discusses the importance of managing your time and allotting some of your time to rest and reenergize. The importance of effectively managing your time led Jessica to develop a Google Calendar add-on app. Jessica also offers a 3-day challenge that can take you through the step-by-step process of efficiently using the calendar mapping method. So listen and take hold of your time and your life!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Leaders are often distracted by false urgencies that pop out during the day, preventing them from focusing on what they need to do. Penny Zenker welcomes Dave McKeown, the CEO of Outfield Leadership and the author of the Amazon bestselling book “The Self-Evolved Leader.” Dave sits with Penny to talk about how your attention ends up dictating your priorities. When you’re stuck in the cycle of day-to-day firefighting you won’t be able to work on tasks that have the biggest impact.  Join in the conversation to discover practical tips on how you can stay focused on what matters most. Tune in! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Remember when you were young, and you played with your favorite toy? You get lost in time because you were lost in all the fun, then you become energized and ready for anything. We all need to find that thing that doesn't make us imprisoned by time. Join Penny Zenker and her guest, Andrew Wallas, as they discuss how to unplug from life. Andrew is a highly successful businessman and intuitive corporate shaman. He has guided business leaders to fulfill more of their latent potential. Learn how Andrew spends his time to maximize his productivity. Time is only a construct, do not be tyrannized by it. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Time and money mean different to different people. For Barby Ingle, living with multiple rare chronic diseases has changed the way she views these things. Instead of 24-hours, she lives in each moment. She has also learned to live more consciously when it comes to saving. In this episode, she joins Penny Zenker to share her journey with us, inspiring us to make time for our health because then we can take our time back. Barby is a chronic pain educator, patient advocate and President of the International Pain Foundation. She also shares what helped her stay positive through it all, why being mindful with her medical bills helped save money, and how you can get through painful situations. Don't miss out on this inspiring conversation!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Are you looking for marketing that will help you save time, money, and energy? Then look no further as Penny Zenker interviews the creator of The World’s Best Buyer Persona ® System, Stormie Andrews. In this episode, Stormie takes us deep into his book that spun a system that helps to identify how your customers’ think so you can reach out and relate to them better and offer the best help you can offer through your business. Stormie details how we can get clear on defining our best persona, providing the questions we need to answer to know who best we can serve. More often, some of the best businesses create products and services that are more beneficial to customers. So join Stormie in this talk as he shows you how to create your best buyer persona.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

There are days when everything just goes haywire, and chaos ensues. How do you get back on track and stay productive? Learn how to manage your time and fight that stress away with your host Penny Zenker and her guest Mridu Parikh. Mridu is an author, keynote speaker, and the founder and productivity strategist of Life Is Organized. Learn how to manage stress with self-awareness, practice habits, and more. Divide your day into quadrants and live your day to the fullest for maximum joy.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Do you want to accelerate business growth? Create leverage with partnerships and sponsorships. Penny Zenker’s guest in this episode is Sheila Farragher-Gemma, the owner of Connected Sponsor. Sheila talks with Penny about how the key to leveraging relationships is to make it a win-win. Everyone needs to make sure that each partner gains something of value from the partnership. Working hard alone has some merits to it. But what matters is the result and how fast and efficiently you get there. If you want to learn more about leveraging partnerships to accelerate success, this episode’s for you. Tune in! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

The concept of a 4-day work week is not new. However, people still have doubts especially when the idea of “longer hours = more work done” has been drilled into us for so long. In this episode, Joe Sanok explains how productivity has less to do with the hours you work and more on how you use them. Joe is the author of Thursday is the New Friday: How to Work Fewer Hours, Make More Money, and Spend Time Doing What You Want and host of The Practice of the Practice Podcast, one of the Top 50 Podcasts worldwide. Tune in as he discusses the overvalue of work and how reduced hours can lead to increased outcomes. Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

We all have a dream, one way or another, and it is within ourselves to reach it. This episode with Penny Zenker and today’s guest Victoria Gallagher discusses how we can achieve our dreams or goals faster through the law of attraction. Victoria Gallagher is a worldwide leader in hypnotherapy, a bestselling author, international speaker, life success coach. She is a strong believer in the law of attraction. Flooding your mind with positivity will be for your betterment. Visualizing and focusing on your dream helps your subconscious to move towards it. This is how strong our mind is, and multiple studies and experiments also back it up. Victoria also offers some sessions that can help you with this mental conditioning, which can also be called hypnosis, to reduce stress, which enables you to focus on what you want with your life. Learn how to use the power of our minds properly!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

The life you deserve just within your reach. You just need to shift your focus to what is really important to you and manifest it into reality. Today’s guest helps us understand this core principle of the law of attraction. Victoria Gallagher is a worldwide leader in hypnotherapy, a bestselling author, international speaker, life success coach, and renowned authority on the law of attraction. Tune in as she joins Penny Zenker in this conversation and learn how to live a life aligned with your dreams! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Entrepreneurs tend to be afraid of letting go of specific tasks, worrying that someone else couldn’t do it better, or to save money instead of hiring an assistant. But that’s not always the case. Have you thought about how much time you could be saving if you know how to delegate? Penny Zenker talks with the co-founder of InboxDone.com, Yaro Starak, about the importance of delegation of tasks for better results in your business. InboxDone.com is an email management company with a team of 25+ serving different types of clients. Yaro has been featured in SkyNews, Forbes, Entrepreneur Magazine, Huffington Post, Business Insider, Foundr, and hundreds of media outlets and events. You don’t have to stress yourself too much! Learn how to overcome that initial challenge in delegating, discover the best practices, and grow your business.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

How can you achieve a work-life balance? By following a strict schedule. Penny Zenker's guest in this episode is Brimstone, a professional wrestler and radio host. Brimstone's life as an entertainer makes it especially difficult to have a work-life balance. But by spending quality time with his family and learning how to say no, he's nailing time management. Join in the conversation and learn valuable tips on how you, too, can achieve work-life balance. Tune in! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Do you feel like you’re always running out of time? We all have the same twenty-four hours in a day. You just have to make sure you’re spending it on the things that matter. Join your host Penny Zenker as she sits down for a conversation with today’s guest Dr. Amanda Barrientez on how you should shift our mindset into creating more time and money for personal and professional growth. Dr. Amanda is an NFA business consultant who helps coaches and online entrepreneurs align their energy, mindset and habits to attract easier money using her proprietary NFA Money Maker Methods. In this episode, she discusses strategic actions, habits, mindset alignment, and heading into a new direction. Learn how to be a powerful NFA style person who makes time!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share! https://pennyzenker360.com/positive-productivity-podcast/

Is Work-Life Balance a myth? Penny Zenker's guest today is David McNeff, the President & Founder at Peak Consulting Group and the Author of The Work-Life Balance Myth. David explains to Penny why he believes that work-life balance is a myth. Why? Because your life doesn't just revolve around work and family life. Rather, it revolves around seven aspects: professional, family, personal, emotional, physical, intellectual, and spiritual. The most common reason you could never seem to balance your time between work and family life is that you shortchange yourself. You neglect the five other critical aspects that make up your life. Result? You no longer have anything to give to your work and family. So listen to this episode, achieve harmony in your life, and take back control of your time. Tune in! Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Do you want to know what makes Olympians, Astronauts, and Nobel Prize Winners extremely successful? The 4 Factors Of Success! Penny Zenker introduces Dr. Ruth Gotian, the Chief Learning Officer and Assistant Professor of Education in Anesthesiology at Weill Cornell Medicine. Dr. Ruth talks with Penny about how success is about mindsets, not habits. Meaning, everyone can make it! It's just a matter of incorporating these 4 factors into your life. If you're passionate about success and you want more of it, this episode's for you. You wouldn't want to miss it!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Is your business not growing at the rate that you thought it would? It’s time to level up and discover effective methodologies that could help you scale. In today’s episode Penny Zenker is joined by Jim Barnish to discuss value creation and business growth. Jim is a strategic change leader with over 15 years of leadership experience in global and integrated operations, M&A, and strategic go-to-market planning. He provides business solutions for companies accelerating organic growth. In building a business and personal life, everything is about goals and challenges. But at the end of the day, Jim emphasized that it should be realistic. He shares his system that has evolved over the years.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

You are the authority of your story. But you won't achieve maximum clarity of your story until you put it in a book and practice storytelling. Penny Zenker presents Michelle Prince, the CEO of Performance Publishing Group. The Performance Publishing Group is a "partner" publishing company dedicated to making a difference, one story at a time. Michelle explains how writing your story helps you gain clarity of your priorities. Once you nail your priorities down, you're better equipped to manage your time. Tune in and use the power of storytelling to take control of your time!  Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

When you are overstressed and about to reach that burning point, remember to breathe. By taking deep breaths, you will be able to bring yourself back to being calm. You need to be resilient and learn how to control your stress levels. Join your host, Penny Zenker and her guest Jodi Woelkerling on how to control your stress. Jodi is the owner of Jodi Woelkerling Enterprises where she coaches people on how to be resilient leaders. Jodi is also the author of World Class Leadership. Join in today's conversation as Jodi talk about her new book and why resilience is so important. Learn how to control stress with her three levels to overcome it. Learn how to breathe in and breathe out all your stress today.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Do you struggle to find clarity in your life? Take back control and be the author of your own story. Join this conversation with Penny Zenker and Michelle Prince as they discuss how you could do that and make a difference in the world. Michelle is a bestselling author, motivational speaker, publishing expert, leadership coach and CEO of Performance Publishing Group, a publishing company dedicated to making a difference, one story at a time. She has worked with Zig Ziglar before, and she has gained a lot of learnings since then. She emphasizes the importance of time management practices, discovering your authentic self and passion for personal growth. If you are thinking of writing your first book, or you want to find your way back to an extraordinary life, then this episode is for you.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

If we want to be productive, we must aim for continuous improvement. We need to realize that digital initiatives should be part of your continuous improvement plan. Digital IQ is very important, and our guest, Sam Gupta, explains why. Sam has been an ERP thought leader in the digital transformation space for nearly two decades, primarily focusing on financial systems and ERP. He spends his time consulting with SMEs as a Principal Consultant at ElevatIQ. In this episode, he joins Penny Zenker in discussing digital transformation initiatives for building and growing businesses. Tune in to learn more about his best practices!Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest

Once you become the leader of a company, you are no longer in charge of delivering and producing. You are in charge of creating a vision, a strategy that will help everyone in your company. Learn how to enable the people around you as a leader and create that singular vision. Join your host Penny Zenker and her guest Alex Brueckmann on how to find your business vision and foundation. Alex is a strategy entrepreneur, author, and executive coach. He built and scaled companies in Europe and Canada. He helped brands and firms transform their businesses to great success. Join in the conversation so that you can start writing down your strategy. Also, learn how to communicate and empower your employees for the future of your business.Love the show? Subscribe, rate, review, and share!Here’s How »Join the Take Back Time community today:TugOfWarWithTime.comTug of War With Time FacebookTug of War With Time TwitterTug of War With Time Pinterest