Let’s Talk Community with Jorge Diaz

Many competitors are focused on destroying each other. If they do connect, they are very guarded. They share only limited information with each other and are very guarded in their discussions. In this episode, Jorge talks with Micah Mitchell, founder of Memberium which is a platform key to Jorge’s business. They discuss the Keap / Memberium business community and how open and synergistic it it. Outright competitors share information freely and work to help each other. It’s led to benefits...

Masterminds are more like a real community than any else. A well-run mastermind provides you with a group of peers that take interest in you. If the mastermind involves your business, they can provide you with support, encouragement, advice and guidance to help you succeed. There’s nothing like a knowledgeable outside team give you a hand. In this episode, Jorge speaks with Sarah Laws who met in a mastermind over a decade ago. They share there experience in mastermind and Sarah’s specialization running and promoting masterminds. Sarah Laws, is a serial entrepreneur, marketing nerd, and wearer of many hats. Sarah runs a boutique marketing agency (www.LawsMarketing.com), builds and manages partner programs (www.FullstackMarketing.co), herds cats entrepreneurs in masterminds (www.MartiniMastermind.com) and has recently created a mastermind directory, DexConnects.com, to fulfill her mission of connecting entrepreneurs and business owners around the world. Sarah was voted Keap’s Most Helpful Partner three years in a row and believes that helping others win is really a win for everyone.

Change is inevitable. It’s the only thing we can count on, yet many of us fight and refuse to accept it. Jorge and Gary Melling talk about change in both their personal and professional lives and polarized people can get moving into competing tribes and fiefdoms at odds with each other. How do we take on change and use it to grow in community for the greater good of ourselves, families, local and global communities? Gary Melling speaks the languages of Business, Technology, and Change and is a seasoned business leader and architect with deep experience in Management Consulting, Corporate Transformation & Turnarounds, and Systems Integration. Currently leading multiple start-up teams in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning (AI/ML). You can learn about Gary’s business at https://aiinc.cloud/ and can reach him at info@aiinc.cloud.

A well-run mastermind group fosters transparent relationships between business owners. People who would otherwise not speak honestly to each other open up and willingly expose their vulnerabilities to each other. That provides the typically isolated entrepreneurs with relationships to fellow business owners who can get them valuable advice, guidance and feedback on the issues they need to solve. In this episode, Jorge speaks to Ben Denny. They they discuss their experience with mastermind groups or communities and how they enable members to get answers to business and even personal issues they wouldn’t otherwise be able to get. Ben Denny is the CMO of Memberium (memberium.com), a Utah based software company that provides membership systems for people selling online courses. Most of the time, Ben is working on executing marketing strategy for Memberium, but in his free time, he enjoys exercising, going out to new restaurants, and spending time with his daughter.

Building a positive, nurturing home can be difficult given the day-to-day challenges we all face. Many parents, for different reasons, struggle to build what feels like a cohesive, positive community at home. This week Jorge talks with Sabrina Peron. She’s an entrepreneur, life and business coach who shares some tips for building community at home. She shares with us some practical advice she uses herself, as a divorced mother with three school-aged boys, to teach them community and the importance of service to each other. You can contact Sabrina Peron at www.SabrinaPeron.com.

In this episode, Jorge speaks with guest, Ricardo Gonzalez about belonging. Ricardo is the author of the soon to be released book, “To Belong or Not to Belong: Why People Want to Belong or Not.” Without belonging, people may technically be a part of your so called community and feel disconnected or even excluded. Jorge and Ricardo discuss this dynamic covering several scenarios from his book to illustrate potential issues and how to begin addressing them. Ricardo Gonzalez is the founder and CEO of Bilingual America. He’s the author of “Six Stages of Cultural Mastery,” “The Six Stages of Cultural Sales,” “The Twelve Hidden Truths to Learning Spanish,” and his soon to be released, “To Belong or Not to Belong, Why People Want to Belong or Not.” You can connect with Ricardo by visiting www.BilingualAmerica.com. www.CulturalMastery.com and www.RicardoGonzalez.com. You can read copy of the prologue for his book at www.CulturalMastery.com/belonging.

Regardless of who we are or what we do, we belong to communities. We’re typically in community with others that share a common interest. Think music, church, flying planes, working out or kitting. We are in community, but may be failing to tap into all it can offer. This week Jorge talks with Finn McKenty. He's the Director of Operations at URM Academy teaching people how to record and mix music. You’ll hear about his success starting with, “We have successfully recreated the same kind of community that exists in person online, which isn’t easy to do.” It isn’t easy. It’s an effort to mimic what works in person using the equivalent via online tools.

This is a continuation of our previous episode where Jorge and his good friend and guest, Raul, discuss the legacy you leave behind to you children, their children and those farther down the chain. We all inherit a legacy. It’s the result of what the generations before us left. For some people, it’s a great legacy. For others, it’s not so great. That work to answer the question, "What does it mean to leave a great legacy and what is it you can do today to make it great?" Jorge and Raul discuss that from their own experiences. This not only includes what it is you leave behind, but what is it you can teach your children, who in our case are adults raising their families, so they pass along to their next generations something great you started.

The family community comes with inter-generational dependencies that shift over time. Babies and toddlers depend completely on their parents. Teens depend less on their parents, then adult children become independent. On the other end, you have elderly parents that begin to slow down and they depend on their children. In this episode, Jorge and his good friend, Raul, talk about the family community and how the dependencies and needs shift as everyone ages, grows up and then winds down. They reflect on their role as the sandwich generation with their shift from raising kids to mentoring them to eventually depending on them. They discuss what needs to happen in the early years so the relationships stay positive and the implications on their legacy. Join us.

You will often see competitors competing viscously for business working hard to keep others out. An alternative is to instead work side-by-side on projects collaborating with each other leveraging each other’s strengths. The learning potential and improvements to the end customer deliverable can be impressive. This week Jorge talks to guest Lee Dale who’s business partnered with him on a large project that leaned hard on their specialties and made for a much better final customer solution than they would have had otherwise. They talk about that and the communities that have helped them as small entrepreneurial business owners. ***** Lee Dale works with leaders to improve technology decision-making, increase market engagement, and grow operational effectiveness. The result: market-leading products and services that win diverse markets. In addition to his advisory and volunteer work supporting the next generation of diverse professionals and business leaders, Lee is CEO at Say Yeah, a digital management consultancy that helps public and private-sector organizations plan, design, and deliver exceptional digital products. Consulting website: leedale.ca Business website: sayyeah.com Personal twitter: @leedaleyyz

Talk to any Telsa owner and you can expect much more than stories about their car. They'll share with you “an experience” that includes a connection with an enthusiastic community of devoted followers. This tight knit community comes with tons of people in "LOVE" with their cars. Listen in as Jorge Diaz discusses talks to JP Dickson, a long time family friend and avid Telsa owner. He’s had four Tesla and they discuss his experience with the various communities related to owning. They’ll discuss these communities and how they enhance the buyer experience. Listen in and you'll hear about community interaction you'd never hear from Lexus, Mercedes or BMW owners. Telsa owners eagerly sell as if they were being paid.

You can't really cover the topic of community without talking family. Everyone has one. Some families provide a supportive community. Other's very in how well they do that. In the episode, Jorge shares his family experience growing up in a tight knit immigrant family. He tells us about the things his grandparent did to build a family community. They faced hardships, but held on to a self-sacrificing spirit where everyone supported each other. His father passed that long to him in that same self-sacrificing way and Jorge reflects on how that has influenced him and his wife in raising their children. And that leads to a transitioning of roles from the child, to the parent, to the grandparent and the cycle begins again. The members need to transition, sometimes smoothly so they serve each other best.

In this episode, Jorge's guest is long time customer Megan McDonough. She is an expert in the field of positive psychology. She uses divergent thinking and creative perspectives to build organizations and networks that harness the best in people for the greatest good. Many organizations have a guru, expert or what some would call the "sage on the stage." The others in the organization have a one way relationship with that one person and they lack engagement and community. That lack of engagement leads to missed opportunities. Valuable talent, skills and strengths readily available inside the organization go unused. Learn how to address these issues and ignite the power of community. Megan McDonough is the CEO and founder of Wholebeing Institute, an educational organization teaching the science of human flourishing. With a degree in nuclear medicine, decades of leadership experience, and 25 years of teaching and practicing yoga, Megan combines intellectual understanding with an embodied approach to teaching and leading. She’s an award-winner writer, and the author of four books on mindfulness. Her work focuses on helping people thrive and organizations to do the same. www.wholebeinginstitute.com

Often in our careers, we find ourselves needing or wanting a change. We need to make more money. We develop a new skill we want to use in our work. We identify a job opportunity that we want to take on. In this episode, Jorge continues from part 1 sharing how he reinvented himself and tapped into the power of community to make it happen. He went from an IT director role to sales and then running his own business as an entrepreneur.

In the first episode, the "Let's Talk Community" maiden voyage, Jorge tackles the question, “Why is community so important?” He comes clean about his tendency to isolate, especially when he’s under stress, and tells us about his experience with one very valuable community. He went through several bouts of unemployment, which was tough, but it's what connected him with the unemployment community, Back on Track Network. The lessons learned led directly to him started his business when the time was right. Listen to find out how that led to his starting his business and why that's a big driver behind starting this podcast. Make sure and subscribe to our podcast and tap into the other resources available at www.CelebratingRelationships.com.

This week Jorge and his guest, Mark Jamnick, discuss the community that brought them together and how it has supported them in their businesses. Running a business can be grueling and it can easily leads to isolation and loneliness. You get so "heads down" busy, that you don't think to reach out. Listen in as Jorge and Mark discuss this communities and others that have supported them personally and in their business making the experience much better. The communities have assisted them in areas where they lacked insight, experience or key skill. Make sure and subscribe to our podcast and tap into the other resources we make available at www.CelebratingRelationships.com. More on Mark Jamnick Mark lives and breathes efficiencies to create time and streamline sales. After a decade in Corporate America, he left a successful advertising career and set out for his next chapter. He was recruited by the Tony Robbins organization, to be 1 of 100 active global coaches. Over 5 years, he coached one-on-one to 300+ CEO’s, entrepreneurs, & sales professionals. He now consults Marketing Firm owners to streamline their sales process to accomplish more, in less time through his proven Sales Efficiency Method. Early in 2021, Mark put his own method to the ultimate test…he sold his car and high rise condo to live a life of travel visiting National Parks, friends and the beauty that is America and in the process grew his business 75% Year Over Year. Download the dashboard here: https://enjoylifedaily.com/discover-dashboard/ Website: enjoylifedaily.com Art website: markjamnik.com

Talk to any Telsa owner and you can expect much more than stories about their car. They'll share with you “an experience” that includes their connection with a tight knit community of devoted followers made up of people who "LOVE" what they drive. This community serves as away to promoting the product. Listen to this episode where Jorge talks to JP Dickson. He’s a long time family friend and an avid Telsa owner. He’s had four of them and they discuss his experience with the various...