#252 - Strategic Plans for Successful Outcomes with Anthony C. Taylor
Release Date: 02/04/2025
#279 – Untangling Complex Challenges: Reuven Shelef’s Framework for Clear, Confident Leadership
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How do you solve challenges so complex that even your best people feel stuck? The answer: you untangle them, not with guesswork or force, but with a structured, human-centered methodology that brings clarity, alignment, and momentum back into your business. Reuven Shelef, Founder & CEO of OUT OF THE BOX Consulting and creator of the groundbreaking Untangling Complex Challenges® methodology. With over 30 years of experience across engineering, technology, business transformation, and human behavior, Reuven has helped Fortune 500 companies, startups, and executive teams solve the...
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#278 – 57 Sales Secrets That Separate Top Performers with Glenn Poulos
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What separates the best salespeople from everyone else? It’s not luck. It’s structure, persistence, and knowing exactly how to interact, when to connect, and why the small details matter. Glenn Poulos, award-winning author and entrepreneur, built and sold an $80M company, leads high-performing teams, and helps business owners master the art of influence, negotiation, and authentic communication. His book, Never Sit in the Lobby: 57 Winning Sales Factors to Build Relationships, Close Deals, and Create Clients for Life, breaks down practical strategies that turn salespeople into...
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#277 - Flip Your “Life Switch:” How Joel Steele Turned Setbacks Into Success
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What if the secret to unlocking your success isn’t working harder… but flipping your “life switch”? Everyone already has the switch inside them. Most just forget how to turn it on. Entrepreneur, author of Life Switch, and financial advisor, Joel Steele, reveals how to turn your light switch on to live with purpose, passion, and power. He has guided thousands toward wealth, health, and purpose. Rising from personal adversity, he transformed his struggles into lessons of resilience, gratitude, and self-mastery. Through his Life Switch movement, Joel helps others...
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#276 – The Price of Growth: How James Riley Found Purpose Beyond Profit
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Is growing your business worth losing your marriage, health, and peace of mind? Most entrepreneurs don’t realize they’re chasing success at the cost of everything that truly matters… until it’s almost too late. James Riley, CEO of JNR Networks, shares his powerful journey of redefining what success really means. From facing a heart attack to rediscovering balance through faith, family, and purpose, James reveals how he shifted from burnout to breakthrough, learning that money isn’t the answer: The answer is alignment. Pressure to grow is real, but long-term...
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#275 – Press Releases That Work: How to Gain Media Attention & Clients in 2025 | Mickie Kennedy
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Why do most press releases fail, and how can you be in the 3% that actually drive media coverage, ROI, and long-term business growth? PR expert Mickie Kennedy, founder of eReleases, reveals the strategies small businesses, entrepreneurs, and executives can use to gain real media attention, without spending thousands on advertising. For over 26 years, Mickie has empowered small business owners to stand out in crowded markets with authentic, highly targeted press releases. He’s helped clients generate $132M+ in earned media with campaigns that cost as little as a few hundred dollars....
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#274 – Scaling Smarter: $30M Lessons in AI, Hiring & Company Culture | Ephraim Ebstein
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What does it really take to scale a business from $0 to over $30M while building a strong company culture and embracing AI? It takes integrity. You have an edge if you grew up in a healthy family and one or more parents gave you good advice… But you can learn wisdom if you choose your mentors carefully. What fuels growth from there? Consistent integrity, developing more wisdom, and two key pro sport team disciplines: Total commitment to a strong company culture, and systems. Ephraim Ebstein, Founder & CEO of Fit Solutions, turned a startup into a $30M IT...
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#273 – From Fear to Leadership: The Psychology Behind Great Culture | Dr. Laura Gallaher
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Are your leadership habits unknowingly driven by fear? Are your reactions, team dynamics, or communication patterns really what they seem? Or are they being shaped by your internal defenses? In this episode, we welcome back organizational psychologist and executive coach Dr. Laura Gallaher to explore how self-deception, fear-based behaviors, and emotional triggers sabotage leadership even when intentions are good. We go deeper into the psychology behind leadership, culture, and emotional intelligence. If you're leading people and still feel like something's off, this...
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#272 – How to Speak Like a Leader | Jimmy Cannon
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Is your voice secretly sabotaging your leadership? Most leaders focus on what they say. Very few understand that how they say it is just as powerful. Jimmy Cannon is a leading public speaking coach, voice specialist, and creator of the Cannon Method. He joins the show to reveal how your voice is your most overlooked leadership superpower. With a background as a jazz musician and years of coaching executives, Jimmy combines vocal training, presence work, and mindset tools to help professionals communicate with clarity, authority, and empathy. In this conversation, you’ll...
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#271 - Building High-Performance Remote Teams with Chris Dyer
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Are remote teams actually more productive? Only when trust, clear communication, and accountability are built into the culture. Chris Dyer, a top leadership speaker, best-selling author, and former CEO of PeopleG2 - an award-winning fully remote company, dives deep into what makes remote and hybrid teams succeed - or fail. This conversation covers the most common misconceptions about remote work, why flexible policies alone don’t drive performance, and what leaders must do to keep their teams aligned, motivated, and results-driven in 2025. Explore how to build cultures where people...
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#270 – Conscious Communication: The Secret Skill To Anyone’s Success with Chuck Wisner
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Are your conversations helping you grow or silently sabotaging your success? Most of us communicate on autopilot, shaped by emotions, assumptions, and stories we don't even realize we're telling. But what if every conversation, whether with a client, colleague, or loved one, could become a tool for deeper understanding and smarter decisions? Chuck Wisner, author of The Art of Conscious Conversations and a leading thinker in communication strategy, executive coaching, and organizational learning, joins us to explore how emotionally intelligent conversations can improve leadership, teamwork,...
info_outlineIs your team aligned with a clear strategic plan?
Are your business goals backed by an effective execution strategy?
In this episode, we sit down with Anthony C. Taylor, CEO of SME Strategy, to uncover the power of strategic planning and how it fuels long-term success.
With years of experience helping entrepreneurial and people-focused companies, Anthony shares his proven 5-question framework to create and implement a strategic plan that keeps teams accountable and drives results.
đź’ˇ Key Takeaways:
✔️ The 5 essential questions every leadership team must answer
✔️ How to align your team around a clear vision and execution plan
✔️ The role of accountability in achieving quarterly and long-term business goals
✔️ Best practices for strategy facilitation and implementation Whether you're a CEO, business leader, or entrepreneur, this episode is packed with actionable insights to help your team stay on track and achieve sustainable growth.
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