Chris Locurto: Entrepreneur, Leadership Coach, Life Strategy, Blogger

http://chrislocurto.com/everybody-matters/The way we lead in business effects the way our team members live their lives. We make a profound impact on them by the way we treat them. We're not only effecting the team member who works with us, but we're effecting their role in their family when they go home. We need to have leaders who know where they're going and how to get there safely so that people who entrust their lives, who join your organization in hopes of realizing their dreams through sharing their gifts, feel safe and valued.

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http://chrislocurto.com/downloadsWe all like to have freedom and independence to be creative and get things done. So as an Entrepreneur, how do you balance that in the workplace and create that great environment? I received a killer question the other day regarding autonomy in the workplace. Here's what Marc had to say:"We hear a lot about what makes a great workplace and I've read several things recently from people that I really respect and one of the things that is often recommended for a great workplace is team members having a sense of autonomy.That's great, but sometimes you have jobs that require a certain way of doing things. For example, we have a situation where we have an inside sales team and we'd like things said a certain way or presented a certain way and so on.We're not asking to read a script verbatim, but feel like we need things done a certain way because these are methods that have been developed over time and have been proven to work, and will ultimately make them more successful.With a s

http://chrislocurto.com/how-to-attract-customers/Forbes magazine said positive word of mouth is without question the most powerful factor in buying decisions today.The old number used to be that a satisfied customer will tell four or five people. A dissatisfied customer will tell up to 20. You can change the math on that now because a satisfied customer may tell 1,000 people. A dissatisfied customer might tell 2,000 people, given the advent of social media.So, how do you grow your company? What is the key to attracting customers to your business.Join me today on the podcast as a discuss with Joe Calloway, author of the book Magnetic, the art of attracting business.

http://chrislocurto.com/downloadsToday, on the podcast, we are answering a question that came in from one of our listeners.Justin writes, "I have to start with the obvious. Thanks for all that you guys are doing and keep killing it. I know you're always open to suggestions for podcast topics, and yes we are, so I wanted to throw out the idea of doing something high level on communication, and maybe topic in with your top 10 recommended books on communication.I loved your list on the poverty mindset. I know how important you think communication is, and I think most of your listeners could benefit from what you have to say on the topic and from the books you recommend. Thanks again, and keep up the good work."Thank you Justin, we appreciate all of that. I'm going to answer Justin's question but before I do I have created a tool for you to use to help you better communicate.There are some do's and some don'ts of body language when you're communicating effectively. So make sure that you get today's download if yo

http://chrislocurto.com/downloads/First off, when I say audience, audience is somebody who is listening. It could be one person sitting across the desk from you, or it could be a theater filled with people. Anybody who you ask for attention from is an audience, and there is often an inherent value in that interaction based on performance. Performance in the way that we're looking at is about authenticity.The greatest performers in the world are the most honest ones, the most authentic ones. Performance is in large part about amplifying different parts of your personality in order to achieve a particular goal. We are talking with Michael Port, author of the book Steal the Show, How to Guarantee a Standing Ovation for All the Performances in Your Life.It's easy to start something and do okay, but it's the finishing that's the key. Your life is made up of lots of high stakes situations, and how you perform during those moments, and if you fall flat, then your life is relatively flat, but if you can shine when t

http://chrislocurto.com/downloadsDo you have any bad habits? Do you wonder why so many successful Entrepreneurs are able to create habits that contribute to their success while others can't seem to get them to stick? Well then you are in for a treat on today's podcast. The crazy, incredibly talented Gretchen Rubin in on to talk about that very thing! One of the things with happiness and habits, is to manage your own mind, to really think about the mood that you're in or the way that you're feeling and think about, "What can I do to fix this? That is the biggest myth is that there's a right habit that everyone should follow and it will work for everyone. There's all different factors that could influence whether someone found it easier or harder to keep their habit of exercise. An important clue is, when have you succeeded and when have you failed? How do you measure people against each other? How do you create a framework for understanding the patterns that we see? This thing almost melted my brain, it was so

http://chrislocurto.com/lifeplan/To have a really good LifePlan, you have to be willing to be vulnerable and open up and share things. One of the biggest things in my life plan that I gained freedom, and I'm able to go forward and have a better life and make better decisions. I think other people are going to have other things that they're going to have freedom from, but it is worth it. Gaining perspective on what has caused me to become this way and what influences have been in my life and how I've gotten to this point of believing the things that I do.With that perspective, I can say, "okay, well I'm not this horrible person for believing these things; this is just how I was trained to be." Now going forward, I know this and I can choose to view things differently. You can't just choose to see things differently when you don't know. I needed LifePlan; I needed to really dig down to the why, to my root system to get that perspective.

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http://chrislocurto.com/downloadsToday we're talking again about the power to grow. This is something that everybody who's in our coaching program, or our mastermind groups, is doing to grow their business. To grow their leadership. This is so powerful, and we've been doing this with our clients for years. Because it works. Because we keep helping.We've also got a phenomenal download. There's 10 things, 10 things that will help you find a group. This is coming straight out of our groups. The things that are making our clients absolutely successful!Network Of Challenging Minds - Like minded individuals who are focused on pushing each other to grow themselves and others in the process in the same area ie. Entrepreneur, leadership, small business.There Is incredible Power In Community - There are 2 aspects to community. Having it, having people around you to keep you from being isolated in your own thoughts. It’s also a community of people that are sharing the same experience.Accountability - People willing to t

https://chrislocurto.com/lifelplanWe hear a lot about people saying, "We'd like to hear from more people who have experienced some of our events, LifePlan, StratPlan." We have somebody who has been through both on today's show.Brent Van Haren is joining us today to talk about the impact that LifePlan and StratPlan has had on his family and business.I wanted to talk a lot about LifePlan, but since Brent went through StratPlan as well, I wanted to know what the experience was like for StratPlan. So I asked."That's a good question. StratPlan was pretty powerful for us in our business. I think I told you afterwards in the first couple of months afterwards that it was by far the most impactful thing that I've been a part of in the business. I've been there about 8 years.It has helped change our direction, changed our understanding of who we are. It's really allowed us to focus on what we need to rather than just what we thought we should." For anyone who's out there, there's a lot of people listening, business ow

http://chrislocurto.com/downloads "Oh my gosh, Christmas is actually not that far away." We are now getting close to the fourth quarter. What things do you need to be doing? What areas do you need to be covering? The physical, the career, the financial goals, the family, the spiritual, the intellectual, all of these things that we need to be focusing on to make sure that we don't let this quarter throw us off track.PHYSICAL - Make sure that you actually have a plan on how you're not going to spend everyday shoving a ton of junk in your body. You've got to be getting outside even if only for ten minutes a day. Make sure that you do this so that you get some vitamin D in your body thus decreases your chance of getting sick. These are the things that make you happy; this helps you to have emotional well-being. This supports your brain and your nervous system. Here are some things that you can do to just be active for 30 minutes. Take the stairs instead of the elevator. If you're going grocery shopping, carry th

http://chrislocurto.com/downloads/Today on the show we've got Bruce Van Horn. He has written the book, Worry No More, which is The 4 Steps to Stop Worrying and Start Living. The opening of the book is a dedication to his boys. It reads: "Because you deserve the best of me that I seek to become the fullest expression of who I was created to be. I love you, Dad." POWERFUL!Bruce has had lots and lots of cause to worry in his life. February 17th of 2014, 9:22 in the morning, he put his youngest on school bus and had just started to eat breakfast. "I was expecting my doctor to call me with the biopsy results, but he assured me that everything was just going to be fine. The phone rang. I looked at the caller ID and in that instant; I knew exactly what he was going to tell me.I knew that eating breakfast that morning was going to be the last normal thing I would do for a very long time. Sure enough he called and he said, "Bruce, I just have no idea how to tell you this. It all came back bad. You've got stage 4 prost

CLICK THE LINK BELOW FOR THE DOWNLOADhttp://chrislocurto.com/downloads/Over this past weekend, I got a little frustrated. I was flipping through the Facebook feed, and there was a video of somebody talking about how poor people are kept poor.I've got to tell you, I was so frustrated listening to this guy, and knowing that there are people out there that are clicking this and telling themselves, "Yeah, this guy is so right! Of course, there is a system in place that keeps me poor. There is a system that keeps me held down!"We found so many businesses and leaders that have been struggling with this. I want to help you get to a place of leading your team members, maybe even helping yourself. Maybe this is you if you as a leader or struggling with this. So let's BUST this myth:1. As a leader, it is your job to make your team successful.Let them know that there is an opportunity for them to absolutely hustle and win with money. You have to show them, and be willing to pay someone who does. You've got to start ther

Facebook has 1.5 billion people actively on it. There are already 30 million business pages on Facebook. It has the most evenly distributed demographic, which means you're going to find almost as many 50-year olds on Facebook as you are 20-year olds. Social media is networking online. It just takes a little longer to build that rapport and to build that trust and the relationship. So what if your business could get .1% of those people interested in what you are doing? You've increased your reach in your customer base by a thousand times!! Today, on the show, we are talking about social media. Why it's so important to you. How you should be using it, and why you should be using it.

Nearly every year 100 Jewish people are included in the Forbes 400 Wealthiest Americans. By demographic proportion, there shouldn’t be more than 8 or 9. How are they consistently wealthier than the rest of the population? Rabbi Lapin shares how on today’s episode of The Chris LoCurto Show!

Have you ever noticed that highly successful people have a distinct mindset? Do you wonder what they do to stay mentally strong?On today's show, I unpack 18 Habits of Mentally Strong People. The stuff that so many people avoid doing, or have no clue that they should be doing them.There are so many nuggets of wisdom in this podcast that we have created a FREE DOWNLOAD for you containing ALL 18 habits!

Stephen Scoggins is joining us on the show today. Stephen is a successful entrepreneur, a speaker, and the author of the book The Journey Principles (10 Simple Principles for a Life Journey That Matters).On the show he shares how he built a multi-million dollar business, and yet his spirit was broken. Money and success didn't bring him happiness. Instead, he had to find out what was holding him back.He talks about being minutes from the business going down the toilet, and then being led to having a discussion with yours truly. That conversation we had many years ago began his Journey which led him to today and his new book, which he uses to reach out to others in life changing ways!Along this journey we’ve become great friends, and we both absostinkinlutely give God the glory that He chose that day for us to connect.So let's dive in to the Journey Principles!

In day-to-day life it's easy to fall into the trap of believing a myth or a lie about yourself.Broken belief systems are can cripple you if you don't watch out. On the show today I wanted to focus on 8 core myths that I see often during our LifePlan events.Now these 8 lies are not the only myths there are! There's a ton more we didn't have time for.But I wanted to dive into these 8 and unpack them for you so maybe you can see if you are believing a myth about your life.Here's a preview of what we cover on the episode:Is other peoples happiness more important than yours?Why happiness isn't the end gameCodependency and self sabotageCan you truly earn someone's love?Why "building walls" is killing your relationshipsIs all conflict bad?Unless it's easy...it's wrong!Do you really have to be right?

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