Episode 88: Playing to Your Strengths, with Colin Sprake
MYM Your Business: The Brutal Truth
Release Date: 04/24/2019
MYM Your Business: The Brutal Truth
Colin Sprake is a four-time best-selling author and mentor to well over 50,000 entrepreneurs!
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As a Co-Founder and President of Enlightened Alliances, Janet Atwood oversaw the marketing and PR that enabled her book, "The Passion Test, the Effortless Path to Discovering Your Life Purpose" to become a NY Times Bestseller.
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Colin Sprake is a four-time best-selling author and mentor to well over 50,000 entrepreneurs!
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Colin Sprake is a four-time best-selling author and mentor to well over 50,000 entrepreneurs!
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Thomas Bähler has enjoyed a long and distinguished career in the entertainment industry. He composed music for Quincy Jones, Michael Jackson, directors Steven Spielberg and Barry Levinson, magicians Siegfried and Roy, Superbowl Halftime Shows and a number of other high profile stage productions. As a songwriter, he has written many hits including "She's Out of My Life", "Living In A House Divided", and "Julie Do You Love Me."
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Warren is a Smart City professional with 30+ years of experience in providing excellence in the fields of Power, Automation, Advanced Pedestrian, and Intelligent Smart City Technology Solutions. He is committed to helping the citizens of our country arrive quickly and safely to their loved ones, and to provide governments with efficiency to deliver the best service to their communities.
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Colin Sprake is a four-time best-selling author and mentor to well over 50,000 entrepreneurs!
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Have you ever thought about how much your emotions influence your health? Our guest today, Dr. Bradley Nelson is the author of the bestselling book, “The Emotion Code.” It explains how to identify and release trapped emotions that block mental and physical healing. A new edition of “The Emotion Code” is coming May 7, 2019, from St. Martin’s Press. For more information and a free Emotion Code Starter Kit, visit www.emotioncodegift.com.
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Colin Sprake is a four-time best-selling author and mentor to well over 50,000 entrepreneurs!
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Trevor Hall has been in the green industry all of his life. Trevor’s first source of income was cutting the neighbor’s lawn. Later in life, he began a summer job at the University of Calgary grounds and maintenance department, which became a full-time position and was his first real introduction to the creativity around landscape design. This summer job exposed Trevor to all of the aspects of landscape and irrigation design and construction.
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Colin has built several different million dollar businesses within 6 months. He has over 30 years of business experience having come from the mining industry to building his own multi-million dollar businesses from the ground up.
A dedicated teacher, Colin is the Master Trainer at Make Your Mark Training and Consulting and is devoted to people achieving huge success in their businesses. His purpose is to assist business owners to dramatically improve the number of businesses that succeed. After all, failing businesses affect us all in negative ways.
Using decades of business experience, Colin speaks and trains on a wide variety of topics for corporations, organizations & associations. Colin Sprake is all about delivering what is required to achieve the desired result and holding you accountable for your own success.
What you’ll learn about in this episode:
- Why our school system teaches us to become better at the things we aren’t good at, rather than teaching us to excel at the things we’re already good at
- How to determine whether you’re doing things that aren’t in line with the value of your time
- Why it is important to recognize your own strengths and weaknesses so that you can lean into your strengths
- How Colin hires new people at Make Your Mark, and how he uses the DISC profile and Sacred Gifts to determine their strengths
- Colin shares an example from his own team of moving people into their strengths rather than forcing them to do things they don’t want to do
- Why doing things that play to your strengths allows you to feel energized and excel in your role as a leader
- Why it is helpful to partner with someone who has different but complimentary gifts than you
- Why personality profile tools and assessments are useful for helping you discover your strengths
- Why doing a job that is less valuable than your hourly worth is actually costing your business money
Additional resources:
- Website: www.mymyourbusiness.com