Coaching for Real
Business & Economics Podcasts
Coaching for Real is based on the premise that the best answers to a person’s biggest challenges lie within themselves. A good coach enables their client to develop a deeper level of self-awareness in order to find the answers from within. This show allows you to hear the challenges of ordinary business professionals just like yourself, and experience the power of the coaching process. Many of the guests are selected from our listening audience. They have the opportunity to showcase their business and participate in a live coaching session. Each guest gains a deeper understanding of their challenges and are able to develop the first steps of an action plan to take performance to a whole new level. You will discover that there is a world full of business professionals that face the same challenges that you do. In addition, you are introduced to a powerful way to solve those challenges that may be completely different from anything you have ever tried.
Location:
United States
Description:
Coaching for Real is based on the premise that the best answers to a person’s biggest challenges lie within themselves. A good coach enables their client to develop a deeper level of self-awareness in order to find the answers from within. This show allows you to hear the challenges of ordinary business professionals just like yourself, and experience the power of the coaching process. Many of the guests are selected from our listening audience. They have the opportunity to showcase their business and participate in a live coaching session. Each guest gains a deeper understanding of their challenges and are able to develop the first steps of an action plan to take performance to a whole new level. You will discover that there is a world full of business professionals that face the same challenges that you do. In addition, you are introduced to a powerful way to solve those challenges that may be completely different from anything you have ever tried.
Language:
English
Episodes
Encore: Leadership is not making excuses for today but creating a new tomorrow
11/2/2017
Join us as we talk to leadership author, speaker, and performance consultant Gary A. DePaul, PhD. Gary’s cutting-edge book Nine Practices of 21st Century Leadership: A Guide to Inspiring Creativity, Innovation, and Engagement removes the mystery and provides much needed shortcuts to deciphering the wide range of current leadership techniques and philosophies. A must read, and the foundation of every library, Gary’s book draws on his experiences as a performance improvement professional and provides insight and practical advice for all levels of an organization, from individual contributors to the CEO. Gary will discuss some of the key concepts in his book and participate in a one-on coaching session designed to draw out best practices in authoring, publishing, and marketing your expertise. We will also discuss his upcoming book, Crack the Leadership Development Code.
Duration:00:54:38
Encore: Nuggets of Leadership: Leadership Lessons in the Palm of Your Hand -Part 2
10/26/2017
Join Coaching for Real host Ronald Graves as he continues with the debut of his newly released mp3 lessons, Nuggets of Leadership. In this release, Ronald has recorded 7 lessons, referred to as Nuggets, based on the book Leadership Gold, Lessons I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Leading, by Dr. John C. Maxwell. Material from the book has been combined with John’s personal teachings, lessons from John Maxwell Team Vice President Scott Faye, and personal stories from Ronald’s own leadership journey to produce the final product. In an earlier broadcast, Ronald shared 3 of the 7 Nuggets. In this live broadcast Ron will share the remaining 4: Nugget #1 – Discover and Play to Your Strengths, Nugget #3 – Forget about Time Management, Nugget #4 – Successful Leaders are Active Listeners, and Nugget #5 – Successful Leaders are both Climbers and Connectors. Hear these Nuggets in their entirety and learn how you can download each of the 7 mp3 files absolutely free.
Duration:00:52:34
Encore: Nuggets of Leadership: Leadership Lessons in the Palm of Your Hand
10/19/2017
Join Coaching for Real host Ronald Graves as he debuts his newly released mp3 lessons, Nuggets of Leadership. In this release, Ronald has recorded 7 lessons, referred to as Nuggets, based on the book Leadership Gold, Lessons I’ve Learned from a Lifetime of Leading, by Dr. John C. Maxwell. Material from the book has been combined with John’s personal teachings, lessons from John Maxwell Team Vice President Scott Faye, and personal stories from Ronald’s own leadership journey to produce the final product. During the broadcast Ronald will share Nugget #2: The Secret to Effective Meetings, Nugget #7: Leaders Make Mistakes; Make No Mistake About It, and Nugget #6: Keep Your Focus on the Real Thing. Hear these lessons in their entirety and learn how you can download all 7 lessons absolutely free.
Duration:00:55:08
Encore: Everything You Need to Land Your Dream Job
10/5/2017
Are you looking for that dream job? Or you part of the growing majority who want a dream job but have no idea how to find it? Anyone who has ever gone through a job search knows how frustrating and time-consuming it can be. Sending out dozens of resumes and getting no response from employers, not even a rejection notice, can be demoralizing. Most people are never taught how to look for a job nor have they been introduced to a job search strategy. Job hunting is a learned skill that anyone can master with practice. Join us this week as Mac Prichard, founder and publisher of Mac’s List, uncovers the best information from his vast treasury of blogs and shares job-hinting tips form national experts who have participated in his podcast. Mac will reveal how to make a sustainable living while doing good in the world, how to find and get the jobs that never get posted, and how to make a career pivot at any age. Plus, he will reveal some secrets from new book, Land Your Dream Job Anywhere.
Duration:00:54:17
Encore: Unleash the Possible: Discover the Masterpiece Hidden Within Your Organization's DNA
9/21/2017
What if you could bring together strategic planning with hands-on expertise to unleash the possible within your organization? If that gets a raised eyebrow, you’ll want to tune in to Coaching for Real as we welcome Samantha Stone, founder of The Marketing Advisory Network and author of Unleash Possible, a marketing playbook that drives B2B sales. Samantha will explore the concept of utilizing a network of highly experienced talent to assist your business with everything from strategic planning and market research to new product/service introductions and marketing and sales automation & tool selection. We will examine some of the key ideas in Samantha’s book, including the seven levers of empowerment and the seven components of a productive brainstorming session. We will question the debate between quality versus quantity leads and learn how to build a lead scoring framework. And finally well learn when to chase the C-suite, how to attract the C-suite, and when to stop chasing.
Duration:00:54:55
Encore: What You Don't Know About the Legal Risks of Operating a Business Online Can Hurt You
9/14/2017
Do you own or manage an Internet business? If so, do you believe you’re well-informed regarding the ever-growing collection of newly enacted laws and legal issues associated with running an online enterprise? If that last question makes you feel uneasy, that’s because it should. Join Internet attorney Richard Chapo as he discusses how minimize the legal risk you face when operating online so you can focus on growing your business. Richard will reveal the seven steps to protecting yourself when running a business online and uncover the legal traps for the unwary when running a website or app. He will discuss how to use the 2011 Supreme Court decision to significantly cut your risk of being sued successfully and review the latest legal developments impacting online businesses.
Duration:00:53:29
Encore: Real sales, real talk, with the 'One Call Closer'
9/7/2017
Join us as Kayvon, the “One Call Closer”, reveals how he has helped thousands close millions of dollars in sales over the phone with one strategy. We will examine the difference between selling and closing and cite the common mistakes people make when closing over the phone. Kayvon will disclose the various levels of pain a sales prospect has and help us to determine which one is the most important. He will explain the 3 main reasons to ask questions of a prospect and the 4 major things we must know to fully qualify a customer. You’re guaranteed to leave this special Coaching for Real episode with one of the great tools any closer can use over the phone, even if you hate selling.
Duration:00:55:29
Encore: Planning Your Amazing Retirement Starts Today
8/31/2017
John CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ Benjamin Brandt, a man passionate about financial planning, as he guides us through the retirement process and helps us understand the need for our own personal retirement strategy. Benjamin will discuss his 5 step process for vetting a financial advisor and disclose the 4 “must ask” questions to ask before hiring one. He will take us to the next realm and discuss why trusting your financial advisor is important (but not enough) and then answer the question, “Do I need two financial advisors.” Benjamin will reveal the truth about naked investing and discuss how to develop a written financial plan built around a specific set of goals. He will discuss why taking Social Security early could be a grave mistake, reveal the 5 reasons to work one more year, and disclose 5 key things to do 5 years before retirement.
Duration:00:55:49
It All Started From a College Dorm Room
8/24/2017
Tired of posting jobs and interviewing a never-ending assortment of applicants, assuming all the risk with no guarantee of their reliability? What if you could build an online team as you want with access to the top 1% of online workers available on a first come, first serve basis? How convenient would it be if you could request the exact worker you need and have an introduction within 24 hours? Seem too good to be true? Absolutely not! Join us as we talk to Nathan Hirsch, serial entrepreneur and the founder of Freeeup.com, the online hiring marketplace specialized for eCommerce and digital marketing businesses, where the process to find the worker you need has been made simple. Nathan will discuss how the experts at Freeup.com can match your requested skill set with their network of freelancers from business operations, e-Commerce, digital marketing, content creators, Web development and more. Learn how you can hire the best worker for your team while saving precious time and money.
Duration:00:56:30
The true value of a dream is in who you become
8/10/2017
Would you consider yourself a high-performing awakening business leader or entrepreneur who is building a business for a better world and committed to impacting generations to come? If this describes you or the person you aspire to become, you’ll want to join us on Coaching for Real as our guest will be Jeffrey Slayter, a top researcher who brings disruptive insights (in a good way) – tools, tactics and edgy information, with the intention to turn not just your business – but you – inside-out. Jeffrey will introduce us to a high level strategy for the leaders who are quietly (or not so quietly) changing the game in their industry. We’ll explore what is beyond personal development and all the hype, and journey into the real meaning of life – what is beyond achievement. We’ll explore what happens after you reach your material ambitions. And we’ll learn how even the highest performing entrepreneurs can stretch their thinking and innovate beyond linear projections.
Duration:00:55:45
Encore: What is Coaching...For Real?
8/3/2017
Join “Coaching for Real” host Ronald Graves as he reveals the secrets behind the coaching process and answers the questions that people commonly have about coaching: What is a coach? How does a coaching differ from the practices of teaching, training, consulting, and mentoring? How can coaching benefit me? What can I expect from a coach? What will my coach require of me? There is a hidden and untapped potential lying dormant within your DNA that is far superior to any conditions, circumstances and challenges around you. There are no average leaders or average businesses, only leaders living average lives and leading average companies. Everyone is created to be great and Ronald has dedicated his life to helping leaders discover and live in to their greatness. Discover how coaching can enable you to develop a deeper level of self-awareness, making the unseen seen, in order to find the best answers from within. Imagine a relationship focused entirely on you achieving your masterpiece.
Duration:00:54:32
Encore: You Concept the Incredible, We Build the Impossible
6/29/2017
Join special guest Vlad Lokshin as he reveals ways that business owners, entrepreneurs, and marketers can speed up their growth through engineering. Whether it’s apps, websites, software, or anything in between, Vlad will discuss how, for a fraction or the cost of hiring staff, you can access a diverse team of engineers with distinct expertise, experience and specialization—a veritable all-star team to cover the full spectrum of development stages, styles, and languages. Vlad will also share the dynamics and psychology of remote and even international work. We’ll learn how to find out find out what these resourceful individuals are thinking. We’ll hear how to build trust with remote workers and how to help them build trust with you. And we’ll discover the keys to managing a remote team of creative experts. Learn Vlad’s secret for building the “impossible,” then stay tuned as show host Ronald Graves helps Vlad discover the unrealized potential of this industry-leading business model.
Duration:00:55:43
We don't attract what we want, we attract who we are
6/22/2017
Join Coaching for Real host Ronald Graves as he continues his discussion of the bestselling leadership book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by Dr. John C. Maxwell. As a member of the John Maxwell Team and long-time follower of Dr. Maxwell’s leadership principles, both from inside corporations and as an independent consultant, Ronald has combined material from the book with other John Maxwell experts and with his own leadership experience to create a series of 38 blogs covering the entire 21 Laws. Ronald will cover Laws 5-7, providing insight into how leaders can add value by serving others. He will disclose the full picture why trust is the foundation of leadership. Ronald will bring to light the reasons why people naturally follow leaders stronger than themselves. Learn how the right heart, attitude, and actions can produce the kind of leader that others are naturally attracted to. Plus, Ronald will make available his entire 21 Laws blog series to everyone who tunes in.
Duration:00:56:05
Encore: CONSISTENCY: THE KEY TO EFFECTIVE PERSONAL CHANGE
6/15/2017
Join special guest John Vespasian, author of eight books on relational living, as he reflects on his values of self-reliance, tolerance and entrepreneurship, and discusses topics from our featured book, Consistency: The key to permanent stress relief. We will discover why mind hacks deliver little or no benefits in the long term. We will discuss the crucial importance of identifying lifetime goals, how consistency maximizes your ability to detect and seize opportunities, and how to let go of habits that destroy your piece of mind. We will begin to understand how unbridled positive thinking can severely mess up your life but how you can still maintain your motivation in times of adversity. We will delve into the topic of how learning from history can become a great advantage. And most importantly, we will discover why the dominant ideas about how to combat stress are ineffective, and why reality can turn short term enthusiasm based on irrational ideas into a delusional crash.
Duration:00:56:30
Encore: From Everyday Practice to Launching a Vision: One Man's Intriguing Journey
6/8/2017
Join us as Tampa Bay News 9 mental health expert, Dr. Steve O’Brien, discusses how he combined his more than 20 years as a practicing psychologist with clinical developmental focus with his vision to enable adults to connect with children in a way they understand. Recognizing that many mental health instruments could only be administered by mental health professionals, Dr. O’Brien created Psych-Touch, LLC. in order to modernize more traditional evaluation and therapeutic tools with a nod to the digital age, while simultaneously making such instruments accessible to a wide range of professionals. Discover the art of recognizing a need, identifying solutions, casting the vision, designing the prototype, and developing, launching, and marketing the final product. Listen as Dr. O'Brien takes us along on his journey and works with Coaching for Real host Ronald Graves to take the vision to the next level.
Duration:00:55:31
You Were Not Created to Play Small. Discover the Greatness That Lies Within Your Leadership DNA
6/1/2017
Join Coaching for Real host Ronald Graves as he discusses the first four Laws of the bestselling leadership book, The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership by Dr. John C. Maxwell. As a member of the John Maxwell Team and a long-time follower of Dr. Maxwell’s leadership principles both from inside corporations and as an independent consultant, Ronald has combined material from the book with content from other John Maxwell experts and from his own leadership expertise to create a series of 38 blogs covering the entire 21 Laws. Ronald will provide insight into how your leadership ability determines your level of effectiveness. He will disclose why the true measure of leadership is influence, nothing more, nothing less. Ronald will demonstrate how leadership develops daily, not in a day, and he will reveal the why leaders must chart the course and not merely steer the ship. Plus, as an added bonus, Ronald will make available his entire 21 Laws blog series to everyone who tunes in.
Duration:00:55:34
A Better Life: An Inspiring Story About Starting Over
5/11/2017
You may not have heard of Shawn Anderson yet, but once you have, you won’t forget him. Shawn is a best-selling author, national speaker and success coach who has written six books that have sold 75,000 copies. He will discuss his latest, A Better Life: An Inspiring Story About Starting Over, which reached #1 in Amazon’s “Motivation” and “Self-Help” categories. We will hear how he founded Extra Mile America whose mission is to empower individuals, organizations, and cities to “go the extra mile” in order to create positive change. We will learn how that project grew to involve 560 cities who declared November 1, 2016 as “Extra Mile Day.” And he will reveal how in 2017, at the age of 54, he plans to put out book #7 and hike across two more countries. Shawn states, “I empower people. That’s my job.” Tune in and prepare to be empowered.
Duration:00:55:36
Encore: How To Leverage Your Expertise and Contacts to Grow Your Business
4/13/2017
America’s “Money Answers Man” Jordan Goodman is our special guest on Coaching for Real this week. Jordan has spent the past 40 years focused on one mission: to help Americans do better with their money. He will share financial insights from his career spanning newspapers, magazines, books, radio, television, live events, teleseminars, and the Internet (www.moneyanswers.com), where he has helped millions of people to solve their financial problems and realize their financial dreams. Join us as Jordan reveals the underlying principles of responsible personal finance, makes clear the impact of current events on your wallet, and provides outstanding resources that can help you to take the next smart step to financial success for yourself and your business.
Duration:00:51:46
Encore: The 'Miracle on the Hudson' as told by the last passenger off the back of the plane
3/23/2017
When US Airways Flight 1549, or the “Miracle on the Hudson,” ditched into the Hudson River on January 15, 2009, Dave Sanderson knew he was exactly where he was supposed to be. The last passenger off the back of the plane on that fateful day, he was largely responsible for the well-being and safety of others, risking his own life in frigid water to help other passengers off the plane. Despite the hazards to himself, Sanderson thought only of helping others and emerged from the wreckage with a mission to encourage others to do the right thing. Today, he travels the globe sharing his inspirational and motivational leadership messages to help people make a difference in how they do business and live their lives. Dave Sanderson is an inspirational survivor, speaker, and author. His thoughts on leadership have made him an internationally sought-out speaker. Join us as Dave shares his story and reveals how one defining moment can create a lifetime of purpose.
Duration:00:55:26
Encore: Going from zero to a million by working hard and making games
3/16/2017
Discover the Tasty Minstrel Games (TMG) secret. Join us as we reveal how this cutting-edge company created a symbiotic relationship with their customers, providing them with the products they covet while doing what they love most. Find out how a passion for fantastic production and excellent customer service combined with direct email marketing and social media content can take your venture to the next level. We will explore how to significantly reduce the need for finances dedicated to maintaining inventory levels, how to reduce print run sizes without running into shortages, how to protect cash flows from overproduction, and how to dramatically increase the number of products while increasing overall quality and reducing production defects. We will also discuss how building a relationship with customers led to over $2.5 million in funds from backers on Kickstarter from 26 individual projects.
Duration:00:55:05