The Intentional Encourager Podcast

Episode 63 with DreamIT Professional Events CEO and Host of The Bucket List Life Podcast Brad Norwood

DreamIT Professional Events CEO and Host of The Bucket List Life Podcast Brad Norwood stops by this episode. Brad talks about:

• Finding other ways to pivot his business after COVID-19 after losing all his business in a single day.
• His daughter breaking his arm starting the day that changed his business. 
• The mad rush of canceling Sporting events. 
• The day panic set in for him and realizing that it could be a blessing.
• What he learned about pivoting into coaching. 
• How companies can spend less on a trip than a bonus. 
• Teaching at a Detention Center where most of the students had no fathers present in their lives.
• Taking 11 friends on a Golf trip to Las Vegas that routed him to a new career path. 
• Carving out new events based on his own Bucket list. 
• Success doesn't happen overnight. 
• How a storm nearly ruined his business and a miracle that happened. 

Connect with Brad on LinkedIn, Facebook and on Twitter @DreamItPro

www.dreamitpro.com

Episode 62 with Executive Leader Joe Leonhardt

Longtime friend, mentor and Executive Leader in the Higher Education space, Joe Leonhardt joins this episode. Joe talks about:

• Continuing to produce in a pandemic and building trust with and in his people.
• Calling on past experience to navigate current experiences. 
• The real power of flexibility. 
• The most simple, basic tenet of Leadership. 
• Choosing a team well, "baking in" core values and creating a culture.
• The impact of diversity on a team.
• Running a KFC at 21, how to "squeeze out a buck" and overcoming a life-altering situation in that role. 
• The advice he would give himself now if he could go back in time to 21-year-old Joe.
• Giving his life to the Lord that really changed his life direction. 
• The fulfillment that Leadership has brought him. 
• His mom moving away after divorcing his father and why he has a strong marriage today.
• The rippling mentality. 

Connect with Joe on LinkedIn and on Twitter @JoeSLeonhardt and on Facebook. 

 

 

Episode 61 with Owner of We Market Online Courses and Host of The Smart Brand Marketing Podcast Tom Libelt

Owner of We Market Online Courses and Host of The Smart Brand Marketing Podcast Tom Libelt joins this episode to talk about:

• Setting up his business intentionally and working from anywhere in the world. 
• The power of being nimble and flipping his time off to react to changing market conditions.
• Using far more empathy with customers and letting their customers relax. 
• Growing up in Poland and his Dad smuggling alcohol into Germany and bringing electronics back into Poland.
• Laying in the backseat as a kid as his "first job" to create a diversion for his parents crossing back into Poland from East Germany. 
• The things you needed to be a "Baller" in Poland. 
• Leaving Poland with his family to move to the United States and how it was better for him than his parents. 
• The greatest difference between being a Business owner and an employee in the United States. 
• Having nothing to lose in competition. 
• His definition of success and freedom. 
• The restraints of business in the United States and his real dream of living in different parts of the world. 
• Overcoming the "hustle" mentality and run a proper business with long-term vision and goals. 

Connect with Tom on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomlibelt/

https://tomlibelt.com/

https://www.smartbrandmarketing.com/

Twitter: https://twitter.com/Libelty_SEO

Episode 60 with Parachute Bridge Founder Rutledge Long

Founder of Parachute Bridge in Nashville, Tennessee Rutledge Long joins this episode. Rutledge talks about:

• Pivoting his business from Experience, In-Person based to Virtual. 
• Removing Barriers-to-Entry in his business with a greater impact on customers. 
• The power of a Gap year for students and a major University that encourages it. 
• The insanity of Student-Loan debt and why only 37% of College students have a positive outcome. 
• The amount of open positions that do not require a College degree. 
• Growing up in Charleston, SC and leaving the South to go to college in Maine and graduating in the 2008 Recession. 
• Through focusing on serving others, finding his true calling. 
• Realizing the power of a dollar. 
• Founding his company through a Graduate school project. 
• Everything getting faster and cheaper except College and failing to keep up with a changing economy and technology.
• The "New Collar" jobs that are emerging in today's economy. 
• Taking ownership of your own learning. 

To learn more about Parachute Bridge go to www.parachutebridge.org

@Parachute Bridge on Instagram or connect with Rutledge at rutledge@parachutebridge.org

Episode 59 with Sales Leader, Mentor and Coach Chris von Huene

Sales Leader, Mentor and Coach @Chris von Huene joins this episode to talk about:

• Doing challenging exercises each day that lead to unusual results.
• Knowing millionaires that aren't happy with life and the two things some of them possess. 
• Focusing on purpose to lead to true happiness.
• Being afraid to have honest conversations with ourselves and covering it up with things. 
• The defining moment of how good life could get. 
• Losing people close to him and how he became intentional of valuing time with people he loves.
• Transitioning from Finance to Sales after discovering what he was really doing for a career. 
• Shifting from a Victim mentality to an Accountability mentality. 
• Going deeper to optimize your output and finding that next gear.  

Connect with CVH on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cvonhuene/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/chris.vonhuene

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCLUzmU_ILbol3XuBfxS3Kow

Episode 58 with Business Coach and Creator of the Values Based Mindset Mike Garrison

Business Coach and Creator of the Values Based Mindset Mike Garrison joins this episode to talk about:

• Being a coach because he's not as good as his clients and being a great talent evaluator. 
• The best coaches don't coach teams, they coach individuals and using the set of glasses God gave you.
• The volatile combination coaches possess. 
• The secret to coaching and their personal satisfaction is derived. 
• The question he asks new clients.
• The difference between "Chicken Little" marketing and pursuing the right clients. 
• Renting your mindset from the culture. 
• How a BNI group changed his life personally and professionally. 
• How he grew his business by being a great customer. 
• Raising an Autistic child and hoping he outlives his child. 
• Watching his Dad die terrified. 
• Embracing fear as truth. 

Connect with Mike:  mike@valuesbasedmindset.com

Episode 57 with CEO of eZara, Inc and Veterans Mental Health Advocate Pasha Palanker

This Veterans' Day Special episode features United States Military Veteran, CEO of eZara, Inc and Veterans Mental Health Advocate Pasha Palanker.

Pasha talks about:

• The uptick in suicides during the pandemic and Pasha checking himself into Walter Reed Medical Center for help.
• Emigrating from the Republic of Moldova at 16 to Los Angeles, CA, living in a rough area of the city and trying to buy a Big Mac with Food stamps. 
• Coming face-to-face with a Suicide bomber during a deployment to Baghdad, Iraq and seeing horror on a daily basis. 
• Standing over an IED Explosive and surviving not only the blast with all body parts intact, his unit thinking he was killed in action, but also coming to himself and walking away from it.
• Seeing US soil for the first time returning home after injury and being a walking miracle. 
• Not thinking he would be impacted by Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI), but underestimating the true extent of his injuries. 
• Getting hurt again in 2015 on another deployment to Iraq and having a Panic attack after coming back home from the deployment. 
• The internal conflict of being deployed in a mission but feeling emotionally overwhelmed. 
• Having so much pain and feeling dangerously numb internally. 
• Speaking transparently due to losing many friends to suicide and reaching those struggling with Mental Health issues. 

Connect with Pasha at pasha@pashapalanker.com

Episode 56 with Entrepreneur and LinkedIn Strategist Michael David Chapman

Entrepreneur and LinkedIn Strategist Michael David Chapman joins this episode. Michael talks about the need to be social for his teenagers and right-sizing expectations; business flexibility with customers during the pandemic; what Organic Marketing really is and why some businesses feel Cold calling is dead; reminding his clients what the end game is and how there is no business without sales; overcoming an absent father and no attention from a Male role model; growing up around 2 of America's most popular Pastors; how the pursuit of Male affirmation turned into excuses personally and professionally; how Christians slide from relationships to roles; overcoming a traumatic second divorce; the value of being alone with the Lord but not be lonely and learning to lead your heart. 

Episode 55 with International Keynote Speaker and Author of Bringing Data to Life and Life to Data Dr. Joe Perez

International Keynote Speaker and Author of Bringing Data to Life and Life to Data Dr. Joe Perez joins this episode. Dr. Joe talks about Virtual speaking in the midst of COVID-19; using games to engage Virtual audiences; the 3 R's of change; being an educator at heart and building bridges from known to unknown; the three factors of knowing how to respond; wanting to be a teacher and being passionate about New knowledge; the things he learned about teaching that applies to speaking and nearly losing his wife 10 years ago and the impact it made on him. 

 

Connect with Dr. Joe on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jwperez/

Episode 54 Intentional Encouragement Roundtable with The Sales Rebellion

The Sales Rebellion joins this Intentional Encouragement Roundtable with Joy Hewitt-Carvajal, Joshua Desha, Dale Dupree, Jeff Villegas and Chris Watson. The Rebels talk about the fact that people have never been fully in control and getting past that mindset; creating something lasting from a defining moment; taking responsibility for what happens to us in life; overcoming criticism for doing something radically different and shrugging off the naysayers; who God intended you to be and being worthy of love and seeking unorthodox sources on Intentional encouragement.

www.thesalesrebellion.com