Business Leaders Podcast

  Football is not just a contact sport. It’s a game of discipline, respect, and character. When Teddi Domann and her husband would drop her two boys off at youth football camps, she thought they could do something to make the camps be better. They gathered some people and put together their vision for impacting young people by using the sport of football and run a youth football camp for ages seven to fourteen, which is what is now known as Pro Football Camp. Teddi shares that they’re not only teaching kids proper football but life skills and character qualities that are some of the keys to success for many of the top and most successful people in the world. — Watch the episode here: Listen to the podcast: Pro Football Camp: Teaching Football And Character Skills with Teddi Domann We are with Teddi Domann. She is the Founder and Board Chairperson of http://www.profootballcamp.com/ (Pro Football Camp). Teddi, welcome to the show. Thanks for having me on. What we’re going to be talki

  Small businesses are important to the nation’s economy. Over 80% of our gross national product is produced by employers with less than 100 employees and the failure rate is 76% to 90% in the first one to two years. Harry Lay, trusted advisor to CEOs and owner and president of Lay Professional Services, provides services primarily to small businesses to help them accomplish things they can’t seem to accomplish without somebody’s help. Harry says there are lots of companies that are underperforming, and he looks for the willingness and the ability of people to change what and how they do things. In order for them to move from where they are to where they want to be, he offers them the skillsets that they need but don’t have. Harry shares how he leveraged his skill as a CPA into starting his own consulting firm and becoming the trusted advisor to CEOs and business leaders worldwide. — Watch the episode here: Listen to the podcast: The Trusted Advisor: Learning From The Voice

  Hiring somebody could either break or make the company. There has to be an assurance that the person you hire is someone who they say they are. You have to go through a number of credentials and background checks to ensure their honesty and to know whether they can deliver well for the job. It helps to hire the right person in the first place, though this can be tough to do. Lori Denham is the founder of Guardian Background Screening, a full-service background screening company. Lori has all the details when it comes to doing pre and post-employment background checks. She takes us down into the processes as well as provides some notes and advice on the necessity of undergoing through the screening. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Lori Denham on Hiring The Right Person With Background Screening We have Laura Denham on the show. She’s the Founder of https://guardianbackgroundscreening.com/ (Guardian Background Screening). Laura, thanks so much for being here. Thanks for having me, B

Trish Groom, business development leader and serial entrepreneur, takes us into her journey towards success as she lays down the attitudes and mindset that got her there. From opening a coffee shop called Sidney’s Café to evolving into other business ventures with Splick-it, Inc, she shows that determination to reach her goals. As a business owner making her own name in the game, she encourages women to become investors as well. She has built this community for women investors to tap into an industry that no one taps them into. Talking more about her businesses, she gives great advice on how to inspire other people to become successful in their areas as well. — Watch the episode here: Listen to the podcast: The Spirit Of A Serial Entrepreneur with Trish Groom We have Trish Groom on the show. She was the Owner of a coffee shop called Sidney’s here in town. She’s the Cofounder of https://www.splickit.com/ (Splick.it). Trish, thanks so much for taking time out of your day. Thanks for having me.

  The culmination of diving into the curious question of, “Who am I?” resulted in Kerry Crandell’s establishment of WoMAN or the Women of Mergers and Acquisition Network. The mission at WoMAN is to enrich the lives of women who work in mergers and acquisitions through three pillars – information, connection, and service. Kerry explains that it’s basically a great group of women in a male-dominated industry that comes together every month. They’re building this great community so that they can share with each other and can also enrich their lives through personal growth, professional growth, and service. Learn more about this great group as Kerry shares how it all started, what it is all about, and how you can qualify to become a member. Watch the episode here:   Listen to the podcast: What It Takes To Be A WoMAN with Kerry Crandell We’re so fortunate to have Kerry Crandell on the show. She is the Founder of http://www.womanglobalgroup.com (WoMAN: Women of Mergers and Acquisit

  When you see frozen food at the supermarket, you may not think about it and many people don’t even know it but they’re actually a result of food science. Just like any other item that needs to be manufactured for consumables, a lot of food will always start with a concept, whether the concept comes from the consumer or from a marketing aspect. That’s what food science is all about. Brandon Shepherd, CEO and Founder of Mile High Food Science, talks about paints a picture of what the food science space involves and what goes on behind food product development and manufacturing. — Watch the episode here: Listen to the podcast: Food Science: From Concept To Shelf with Brandon Shepherd   We’re up in Denver and we’re visiting with Brandon Shepherd. He’s the CEO and founder of https://milehighfoodscience.com/index.html (Mile High Food Science). Brandon, welcome to the show. Tell us a little bit about your business and who you serve. We are a food product development consu

  There are so many different models of leadership and there are so many different solutions out in the market. Martin Lanik, CEO of Pinsight and the author of the business bestseller, The Leader Habit, says what makes their process different is the realization that traditional classroom-based leadership development just doesn’t work. They focus on 5-minute daily leadership exercises that build positive habits. They work with organizations to help them hire better leaders, and then to promote better leaders to identify the right high-potentials that they should invest in and to develop them to prepare them for executive positions. Martin shares some effective leadership behaviors you can practice to the point that they are your second nature. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Hiring and Developing Better Leaders with Martin Lanik We are in Downtown Denver with Martin Lanik. He’s the CEO of https://www.pinsight.com/ (Pinsight) and the author of the business bestseller, https://www

We often hear the saying, “Begin with the end in mind.” However, no one would think of applying this when it comes to business. Thinking about the end is often overlooked that it becomes a problem. Statistically, 80% of business owners either do not transact at all or did not transact with the value they think they should have gotten. Holly Flores, president of the Rocky Mountain chapter of the Exit Planning Institute, talks about exit planning, succession, and why it’s important for businesses to take this in mind. She covers the EBITDA which stands for earnings before interest, taxes, and depreciation, as well as the valuation, the processes, transactions, sales options, and more. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Why Businesses Should Think About Exit Planning with Holly Flores We have Holly Flores. She’s the President of the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the http://exit-planning-institute.org/chapter/epi-rocky-mountain-chapter/ (Exit Planning Institute). She is also a Certified Exit Planning

Being the fourth generation President and Chief Executive Officer of Babson Farms Inc., Taylor Kirkpatrick takes his responsibility very seriously running the family office. His job is running the family business and managing assets created over 100 years ago by his great grandfather. Right now, Babson Farms’ core asset is based on agricultural holdings, with supporting operating businesses like captive crop insurance company, tiling company, drainage, bin storage, trucking and transportation operations. Taylor shares that running the family business is a demonstration of patience and fortitude because you’re charged with seeing the future and trying to take advantage of an opportunity that might occur in the future. He always keeps the mindset that like everything in life, it’s a marathon, not a sprint. You have to keep a generational thinking, map out strategies and figure out how to do things on a daily basis as well as look at the bigger picture. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Success

  A lot of people in science, engineering, and health professions have a good idea but they don’t know what to do with it. Maybe they had two or three good ideas that just went down the drain. How do you translate your idea into something that creates value for a patient? According to Arlen Meyers, the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs is a global biomedical and clinical innovation and entrepreneurship network whose mission is to help members get their ideas to patients. Arlen is the president and CEO of the said society. He’s also a radio co-host in Colorado Business Roundtable, and a professor emeritus of otolaryngology, dentistry, and engineering at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He discusses in detail what the Society of Physician Entrepreneurs is all about, and touches on data and machine learning, physician entrepreneurship, digital health technology, and the experiences that helped him progress down the road. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: The Society o

Chris Hetherington Resilience Code CEO,  Resilience Code is an amazing place. It is technically a data-driven, evidence-based, multi-specialty medical performance center. We serve anybody really, whether you’re an athlete, where you’re a non-athlete, whether you’re a corporate athlete, an executive, a housewife, chronically ill patient, a surgery patient. We have this multidisciplinary integrated approach. We have all these amazing specialty providers under one roof. The goal of what we’re trying to do as a company is spread health literacy.  Arming people with the knowledge of how their body works and their mind works to make better decisions going forward and reliably guide their wellness.  So whether you’re looking to…you know, performer seekers, whether you’re looking to perform better at work, at life, at sport, we’re the place for you to come. We’ve developed this one-stop shop for all of your medical and performance needs. It’s for people that are

As a certified grant consultant and a very successful grant writer, Sherita Herring debunks the enormous misconception around what people think about grants, one of the most common of which is can a nonprofit make a profit? Sherita’s answer is yes, it can. Many small towns are drying up across the country, and there is a need to coach them on how to implement sustainability efforts and go after funding for their town. A lot of small town mayors are not getting their dollars through the government because they just figure there’s no money. Most people aren’t aware there’s millions in tourism grants. Sherita says a grant proposal is nothing but a business plan and to approach an investor is the same language used in the nonprofit arena as the for profit arena. You’ve got to learn how to go after your own money. She teaches how to raise capital, how to speak to investors, and how to prepare your documents to give your grant proposal the best chance at success. Watch the episode:

In our lives, we often are influenced by two things, the books we read and the people we meet. Those two things set us off in a new directions. We always have that influential person or a few in our lives that are so influential that they take us in a new direction. For Bob Cornuke, that person was Jim Irwin who had been to the moon and back and had a cathartic moment while seeing the earth from space. Their first of many expeditions started with the search for Noah’s Ark. More expeditions followed and eventually, it led him to write books. Storytelling, Bob shares, is a skill set that he’s never tapped into as a young man. He likes to encourage people to take advantage of every season of their lives and try to find those things they have buried deep inside of them. The only way of finding and tapping buried skill sets is challenging yourself and going out on a limb sometimes. For Bob, it was writing, and now he’s doing it as a profession. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Tapping Buried Skill Set

http://businessleaderspodcast.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/BLPBLPbanner-1.jpg () There is a level of sophistication in the cannabis industry that most people don’t know of. It is operated by a lot of bright people doing smart work with organic nutrition and data gathering. Tom Regan, President of Mindful, a cannabis company in Colorado, has taken the business from growing and extracting to distributing and retailing. Coming in to the company, his biggest challenge was to balance the cannabis culture and the corporate culture which meant that respect needs to come from both sides. More than just data collection and management, he needed the company to understand the history of cannabis and its social issues, where it came from and where is it headed. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: Balancing The Cannabis Culture And The Corporate Culture with Tom Regan We have a unique treat. We’re here with https://www.linkedin.com/in/tomregan (Tom Regan). He’s the President of https://bemindful.t

  1980 was one of the largest booms ever in the oil and gas business, and David Allard was in the right place at the right time. David just got out of college with a Geology degree and was lucky enough to get a job with only a BS degree and covered twenty plus countries over a twenty plus year period of exploration around the globe that comes with being a geologist in the oil field. Over his career, David has survived five major downturns. David chronicles 30 years of being a geologist in a book called A World of Culture, Oil and Golf which is journal of his life lessons, and business and cultural experiences. David said it’s key to the success for the business to engage the host country and follow the rules and create value for everyone involved. — Watch the episode here: Listen to the podcast: Exploring A World of Culture, Oil and Golf with David Allard We’re fortunate to have http://www.davidallardauthor.com/ (David Allard). He is a chief geologist and author of https://www.ama

We’re living in an age of disruption and transformation. If you’re not innovating ahead of that change, you end up like a lot of famous or once famous companies that don’t exist anymore. Adam Markel, bestselling author of Pivot: The Art and Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life, serves a community of business leaders and entrepreneurs by helping them reinvent their business landscape as well as anything they like to change in their lives. His main goal is to create a culture of empowerment where people feel emotionally safe to be creative and innovative. Listen to the podcast: The Science Of Pivot with Adam Markel Pivot: The Art and Science of Reinventing Your Career and Life We’re operating remote in Tampa, Florida at http://ceospaceinternational.com/ (CEO Space) and we are with http://www.adammarkel.com/ (Adam Markel). He is the best-selling author of https://www.amazon.com/Pivot-Science-Reinventing-Your-Career/dp/1476779473 (Pivot: The Science of Reinventing Your Career). I

  It takes three to five years to create a sustainable business which is a long time to commit your life to something. If you don’t love what you’re doing, it can get very difficult to sustain it that is why understanding personal purpose should be tied to the kind of business that you’re going to do. Mike McCausland, CEO and founder of Leadership Institute for Entrepreneurs (LIFE), is focused on helping entrepreneurs all the way from what’s a good business idea through launch, growth, scaling, and exit, or what is called the entrepreneurship journey, from end to end. Mike also talks about another project they’re launching called local entrepreneurship ecosystems which are entrepreneurship networks or group endeavors trying to crack the code on how to cause economic engines to start growing and what ecosystems impact the whole community. — Watch the episode here: Listen to the podcast: Walking Through The Entrepreneurship Journey Successfully with Mike McCausland We’re

  You’ve been on your feet all day. Maybe you just finished a long run or a long workout. You come home and you kick off your shoes. You look at your toes. Do you feel better? Probably not, if you’ve chosen to wear the wrong shoes. For the last 50 years, performance footwear has thrived with a design philosophy that guarantees discomfort. To address this problem, Xero Shoes makes addictively comfortable footwear designed based on your foot, a quarter of the bones and joints of your entire body or in your feet and ankles. Steven Sashen, CEO of Xero Shoes, explains that a person has more nerve endings in the soles of their feet than anywhere else in the body, except their fingertips and their lips. And so you’re supposed to use these things. They’re supposed to bend, flex to move to feel the world. If you don’t let them do their job, that function tries to move up into your ankles, your knees, your hips and your back and can cause pain – so Xero designs shoes based solely on your

Payroll services are evolving and Payroll Vault’s Sean Manning is changing history as we know it. With better benefit packages, clear scheduling, and leveraging technology for your business goals, Payroll Vault is on the rise to make payroll for people again. Is there more to the CEO beyond the company figurehead? How can you make your employees happier? Ditch your current corporate payroll model and switch to Payroll Vault. It’s the future. Watch the episode: Listen to the podcast: How To Leverage Technology Using Payroll Vault With Sean Manning We’re in the offices of Sean Manning. He is the CEO of https://www.payrollvault.com/ (Payroll Vault). Sean, welcome to the podcast. Thanks, Bob. Sean, tell us a little bit about your business and who you serve.  The payroll industry is a little bit unique that there are not a whole lot of national brands that bring a localized payroll service to business owners. Payroll Vault is a localized concept for payroll services with a national footprint that basi

  Sequenza, a global company with an established presence in the US, Asia, and Europe, carries the business tagline “Why pay more?” Indeed, across all three of their brands, Sequenza, VINclusive, Sayage, they are well below market prices, which makes them a popular choice among consumers. Strings Kozisek shares that one of the contributing factors of the growth of their company is employee empowerment. He says that it’s important to hire people better than you and pay attention to their careers because as a CEO, you are delegating tasks that enhances the employees skills and overall career who then adds value to the company in the long run. Listen to the podcast: Employee Empowerment: A Big Contributor to Growth with Strings Kozisek We’re lucky to have Strings Kozisek, CEO of https://sequenzainc.com/ (Sequenza). Strings, welcome to the podcast. Thanks, Bob. It’s good to be here. Strings and I met at the local Bass Pro here some time ago and we must have chatted for a couple of hours. I tend to do