In this episode we talk with Wayne Sleight, COO of 97th Floor, a digital marketing agency headquartered in Utah with a satellite office in San Francisco. Wayne has spoken at marketing conferences across the country and "across the pond" about the agency landscape and the thriving company culture at 97th Floor. He has also been recognized as one of 20 in their 20s by Utah Business.

Today Wayne shares his advice on when to work with a marketing agency and when to hire someone in-house, what type of work should be agency driven or in-house, and how to work with millennials.

Chris Prefontaine is a best-selling author of 2017's Real Estate on Your Terms and this year's The New Rules of Real Estate Investing. He is also the founder of Smart Real Estate Coach, and host of the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast.

In this episode Chris shares how he used to invest in real estate in an entirely different way, then the recession of 2008 hit the housing market like ton of bricks. Today he and his team invest in a totally different way, and coach people on their methods.

In this episode Luis Alvarez of Alvarez Technology Group shares the story of his introduction to the book Traction and his company's implementation of the Entrepreneurial Operating System, commonly referred to as EOS.

Alvarez TG has been in business for 20 years but they've encountered a radical improvement in their operations by adopting the best practices laid out in EOS.

Bill Coletti is a reputation management expert. In this episode he shares how to manage your personal and business reputation before, during, and after a crisis.

Bill is the author of Critical Moments: The New Mindset of Reputation Management, and the founder and CEO of Kith, a crisis communications and reputation management firm that works with entrepreneurs, corporations, high net-worth individuals, and politicians.

Find yourself struggling with time management? Are you neglecting to complete the most important tasks in your day?

Paul Casey is the founder of Growing Forward Services and time management is one of his passions. In this episode he shares the most important teachings from his coaching practice that help his clients restore sanity to their schedules, focus on what's most important to them, and sustain productivity over the long haul.

At the end of the episode he shared a free resource with our audience: The Control My Calendar Checklist.

Doug Kirkpatrick is an author, TEDx speaker, partner at NuFocus Strategic Group, and the former financial controller at The Morning Star Company, the world's largest tomato processing company.

In this episode Doug discusses the unique situation at Morning Star and how they have no formal leadership hierarchy. The organization is based on the two oldest laws of free association and contractual obligation. The discussion centers around insights from his new book, The No-Limits Enterprise: Organizational Self-Management In The New World Of Work.

David Timms, Ph.D., is the Dean of the School for Christian Leadership at William Jessup University and author of Shape Your World: Transformational Leadership for Everyday Life.

This is the fifth and final segment of the interview in which David shares the fourth pillar of transformational leadership.

David Timms, Ph.D., is the Dean of the School for Christian Leadership at William Jessup University and author of Shape Your World: Transformational Leadership for Everyday Life.

This is the fourth segment of the interview in which David shares the third pillar of transformational leadership.

David Timms, Ph.D., is the Dean of the School for Christian Leadership at William Jessup University and author of Shape Your World: Transformational Leadership for Everyday Life.

This is the third segment of the interview in which David shares the second pillar of transformational leadership.

David Timms, Ph.D., is the Dean of the School for Christian Leadership at William Jessup University and author of Shape Your World: Transformational Leadership for Everyday Life.

This is the second segment of the interview in which the first pillar of transformational leadership is revealed.

David Timms, Ph.D., is the Dean of the School for Christian Leadership at William Jessup University and author of Shape Your World: Transformational Leadership for Everyday Life.

In trying a new format, this is the first of five segments discussing David's formula for transformational leadership.

Dr. Angela Lauria is the founder of the Author Incubator and creator of the Difference Process for writing a book that matters. Her work has been recognized by Inc. Magazine and Entrepreneur Magazine, and in 2018 she won the Stevie Award's Coach/Mentor of the Year Award.

In this episode she and David discuss her journey, the goal of The Author Incubator, how writing a book should be done in nine weeks, and the strategies and difficulties of entrepreneurship. Check out https://www.theauthorincubator.com/

Your choices as a business leader have a huge effect on your growth opportunities. Last year David met an entrepreneur at Varnex who said he had been stuck at $1.2 million in revenue for 20 years.

In this episode he contrasts that story with one of our clients, Vertikal6, who have made the right decisions that have led to awesome growth.

Lee Caraher is the founder and CEO of Double Forte PR & Digital Marketing, a national agency that works with up-and-coming brands in a variety of industries. In this episode Lee shares a few stories and insights from her two books on leadership, Millenials & Management: The Essential Guide to Making it Work at Work, and The Boomerang Principle: Inspiring Lifetime Loyalty From Employees (2017).

You can learn more about Lee at www.leecaraher.com/

Andrew McAfee is the Co-Founder and Co-Director of the Initiative on the Digital Economy and a Principal Research Scientist at the MIT Sloan School of Management. In this episode he shares how and why we in the United States have reached something of a turning point: We are beginning to use less resources and take care of the planet while simultaneously continuing our rapid improvement of the human condition.

His new book, More from Less: The Surprising Story of How We Learned to Prosper Using Fewer Resources - and What Happens Next, will be available tomorrow.

Learn more about Andy and his work at andrewmcafee.org/

Previous episodes have discussed how to MAP your meetings, practice Sanctuary time, and use a Weekly WIN.

In this episode David brings it all together and shines a light on the over-arching theme of "focus". He tells a story of working with a client who was having trouble improving his business and shares the advice he gave to the client and would give to others seeking to improve their focus and reduce their workload.

Daily huddles are a great team-building tool to keep everyone on track and deal with issues before they become major problems. In this episode David discusses why a daily huddle is valuable, how and when to do a daily huddle, what to cover in a daily huddle, and what to save for a team meeting.

Michelle Griffin was the former head of HR at ConnectWise during their rapid growth phase and oversaw the people side of multiple acquisitions, mergers, and dissolutions. In this episode she shares how a good human resources department can play a vital role in the development of a positive company culture and mitigation of workplace drama. You can learn more about her at www.michellemaygriffin.com.

Oscar Trimboli is a deep listening expert on a mission to create a tribe of 100 million deep listeners. He has worked with many large and small organizations to share his broad knowledge of the science behind listening in order to create positive impacts both in workplaces and the world. While working at Microsoft he rebuilt the graduate leadership program, which was then implemented in 26 countries. Today he shares his expertise and stories on how you can make deeper connections and be more successful by being a better listener.

Most people make task lists to keep track of things they want to get done. But those lists get longer and longer as time goes on, and nothing ever seems to get easier. Eventually people give up on their task lists and quit writing things down.

Instead, we encourage you to create a Weekly WIN - one to three things you must get done this week to be productive. Listen to this episode as David describes what a Weekly WIN is and how it should be used.