EP455: TL Nuggets #102 - How To Crush It During A Recession

With Host, Nicky Billou

“If you start thinking in a way that makes you a victim, you’re dead. But if you start thinking, 'great fortunes are made during times of recession and depression, during times of chaos and during times of crisis', you’ve come alive. And the opportunities for you and your business have come alive.”

We’re in a recession but it’s up to you whether you see that as a barrier to your business or an opportunity for growth. History has given us many examples of companies that were made by crisis. People need help during hard times and that’s your opportunity to be of service.

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EP454: Taylor Blom - How To Build A Multimillion Dollar Purpose Driven Business

With Host, Nicky Billou

“…empower impact driven entrepreneurs to grow successful businesses with excellence and change the world.”

“From the beginning we believed in people. Specifically in partnership. We wanted to share the wins, we wanted to share the growth and equity and value overtime with individuals as we grew.”

Taylor Blom started as a real estate photographer. His business at the time, Front Door Photos, hit a pain point for his clients; to publish attractive listings quickly, faster than anyone else, working directly with local talent. The business model worked well and he decided to expand into other markets under the name ‘Next Door Photos’ which has been growing for the last seven years. He chose local market managers over franchising to take advantage of the benefits of partnership and being able to tap into the communities Next Door Photos serves. Today, Next Door Photos has 50 local owner/operators and serves almost 70 markets in the US and Canada.

Next Door Photos is also an organization to that gives meaningful work to people who have been rescued from human trafficking or extreme poverty. Hundreds of lives in the Philippines, Nepal, and Kenya are being impacted today.

Expert action steps:

1. Don’t do it alone. Find a community, find encouragement, find people who are passionate about whatever idea you’re pursuing.

2. Evaluate your career and life, looking for ways that you can make additional impact. This doesn’t have to be complicated. Small changes can make a big impact.

3. You’re only going to go as far as your health is going to allow. You can change many things in your life when you’re well rested and healthy.

If you’re interested in becoming Next Door Photos partner, go to NextDoorPhotos.com and click on the ‘Ownership’ tab.

If you’re a realtor and you’d like to work with Next Door Photos in your area, go to NextDoorPhotos.com and click on the ‘Locations’ tab.

You can email Taylor directly at expansion@nextdoorphotos.com or you can find him on LinkedIn.

Also mentioned:

Colt Charlebois, eCircle alumni and Faith based business coach. https://coltcharlebois.com/

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EP453: TL Nuggets #101 - Keep Your Word Part 2

With Host, Nicky Billou

There’s more to be said about keeping your word. Don’t underestimate the POWER to create massive growth for yourself and those around you by simply keeping your word. We’re talking about integrity and integrity is the solid foundation that dreams are built on.

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EP452: Marty Strong - Lessons From The Navy SEALS On How To Win In Life & Business

With Host, Nicky Billou

“Chance favours the prepared mind” - Louis Pasteur

“Trust that whatever you’re doing is setting you up to do something down the road that you can’t anticipate. That moment will come and you’ll realize that because I embraced and learned everything that I could 5 years ago… 10 years ago... it’s now a tool in my tool box, it’s part of me.”

Marty Strong became a navy SEAL in his late teens but it was more by chance than by planning. But that chance set him up to development the mindset and skills he’d need to succeed well beyond his navy SEAL days. But stepping out of the SEAL structure at retirement was a big shift and it took some time to find his place as an entrepreneur. A few decades later, Marty has written nine novels, 2 business books, he’s been a counter terrorism consultant for various governments, financial advisor, and CEO of a government equity company among other things. He’s learned that every step in your career is preparing you for the next step, and you often have no idea what that will be.

Expert action steps:

1. Spend 10 minutes every morning to clear your mind of all your todos and consider you longer term vision. This way you will put every challenge you face into the context of the future you want.

2. Intellectual humility and intellectual curiosity become intellectual creativity.

3. When transitioning in life, don’t be afraid to start from scratch.

Marty’s latest book is Be Nimble: How the Creative Navy SEAL Mindset Wins on the Battlefield and in Business.

His other business book is called Be Visionary: Strategic Leadership in the Age of Optimization.

You can also check out Marty’s time traveller series called, The Time Warrior Sagas.

Go to MartyStrongBeNimble.com to learn all you can about Marty’s many offerings.

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EP451: TL Nuggets #100 - Keep Your Word

With Host, Nicky Billou

“There was a time when they said a man’s word was his bond. That if you gave your word, that was it, it would be kept. That time was long, long ago.”

“When you give your word and you keep it, you lay a brick in the foundation of your faith, trust and belief in yourself.”

Today’s topic is one of the most simple and yet one of the most powerful. Take this principle with you everywhere, everyday and you're guaranteed success in your personal and business life.

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EP450: Larry Wilson - How Show Business Can Make You A Genius Level Communicator

With Host, Nicky Billou

“I personally derive enormous satisfaction from passing essentially what is my life’s work to people who are serious about making their lives better.”

“It doesn’t matter how brilliant you are. If you can’t transmit those ideas, it’s like winking at a girl in the dark. Nothing happens. - Warren Buffet

Effective communication will dramatically improve your relationship with clients, prospects, friends, and family. As today’s guest said, “Everything worth having begins with communication”. But of course many people aren’t confident in their commutation skills. Larry Wilson believes communication can be taught as a technique because techniques are transferable. Through teaching and repetition, anyone can learn a technique, including communication.

Larry Wilson is an Emmy nominated, award winning comedy magician who spent 35 years working with some of the biggest names in the entertainment industry. He once met a MIT professor who recognized that Larry had excellent communication skills. After hiring him to teach communication to grad students at MIT he encouraged him to consider offering his technique more broadly. So Larry developed the Wilson Method, a crystallization of his experience in show business that can be transferred to anyone who’s serious about improving their lives.

Larry has a weekly podcast called How To Talk To Humans.

https://podcasts.apple.com/ca/podcast/how-to-talk-to-humans/id1671453710

You can also learn more about The Wilson Method at https://thewilsonmethod.com/.

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EP449: TL Nuggets #99 - PPP: People, Problems, Profit

With Host, Nicky Billou

“At the end of the day if you’re not in business to solve problems for people then you’re not going to hit your numbers.”

Those who’ve mastered the content of todays episode have learned the secret to making money without even thinking about it. Give and you shall receive. By being of service to your fellow man and woman, you make the world a better place.

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EP448: TJ Rodgers - How To Make $1 Billion In Tech By Washing The Floors & Cleaning The Toilets

With Host, Nicky Billou

“At the end of my career, I didn’t do any of the sexy jobs. I scrubbed the floors and washed the toilets. There are crappy jobs that are hard to get good people into. Those things were essential to survive and extremely important and I couldn’t get anyone to do them.”

With a physics and electrical engineering degree, T.J. Rodgers worked hard and earned great success in the tech industry developing new technologies for AMD, attracting attention from Intel, and later by founding Cypress Semiconductors. But he truly earned his merit by using his time as CEO of Cypress (the longest standing CEO ever for a semiconductor company) to develop systems that dramatically improved internal operations including Human Resources, scheduling, quality, planning, and culture. He realized that these things were essential to the longterm survival of the company. He recorded his work in these areas and is here today to share the history and war stories that lead to their development.

TJ also shares his thoughts on the issue of AI; its benefits and limitations.

Expert action steps:

1. Write down the problems you’re having with your team in great detail. Then ask yourself if your actions are consistently moving int o the right direction.

2. Quality. We all know about quality of products but quality is more of a quality of life. It’s about how you write, think and interact with other people.

3. The effort to do things right has to be there. We don’t have the standard of excellence that we used to. Effort matters, working hard and going the extra mile will pay off for entrepreneurs.

TJRodgers.com

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EP447: TL Nuggets #98 - How To Figure Out Who Your Ideal Client Is

With Host, Nicky Billou

Of course we all want to work with ideal clients. But how do we go about finding them? Grab a pen a paper and follow along with Nicky because we’re going to draw a map that leads directly to your ideal client.

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EP446: John Ruhlin - Giftology - How Gifting Can Help You Standout As A Boss Thought Leader

With Host, Nicky Billou

“If I want to get influence with somebody, I need to take care of the inner circle.”

Gift giving is a skill and when done well, it can have a profound impact on the receiver. So many people struggle with meaningful gift-giving that it creates an opportunity to really standout in a person’s life and empower your relationship. As a thought leader, building or empowering relationships is part of what you do and this episode is a great place to start to develop your understand of how to give meaningful gifts to the people who’s hearts you want to touch.

John Ruhlin is the founder of GIFT-OLOGY,  a marketing system for entrepreneurs and businesses that know the power of networking and sales when leading with the heart. John’s agency will help you change your business relationships forever.

TheGiversEdge.com

GiftologyGroup.com

Expert action steps:

1. Personalize any gifts you give.

2. Go all in one person instead of spreading the love between 20.

3. Recognize the inner circle of the people who you’re trying to build a relationship with.

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