How to Hire Up and Build a Successful Team with Kent Clothier
Release Date: 07/03/2020
Do you have a people problem or a system issue?
The CEO Nation
These 15 min+/- bite sized segments are intended to be a Daily Dose of digestible, tangible and implementable advice that can "move the needle" in your business immediately. We are dropping relevant, timely information several times a week, in a format that is boiled down to the most important facts with no fluff or wasted time. Every week we'll release multiple new episodes covering the most compelling and helpful topics pulled straight from our current Private Coaching Client calls and Group Training Sessions. These Daily Dose episodes are designed to be fast and easy to consume...
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What's Really Happening In Your Business?
The CEO Nation
These 15 min+/- bite sized segments are intended to be a Daily Dose of digestible, tangible and implementable advice that can "move the needle" in your business immediately. We are dropping relevant, timely information several times a week, in a format that is boiled down to the most important facts with no fluff or wasted time. Every week we'll release multiple new episodes covering the most compelling and helpful topics pulled straight from our current Private Coaching Client calls and Group Training Sessions. These Daily Dose episodes are designed to be fast and easy to consume...
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Your Business Results Are A Reflection of How You Are Showing Up In Other Areas of Your Life
The CEO Nation
These 15 min+/- bite sized segments are intended to be a Daily Dose of digestible, tangible and implementable advice that can "move the needle" in your business immediately. We are dropping relevant, timely information several times a week, in a format that is boiled down to the most important facts with no fluff or wasted time. Every week we'll release multiple new episodes covering the most compelling and helpful topics pulled straight from our current Private Coaching Client calls and Group Training Sessions. These Daily Dose episodes are designed to be fast and easy to consume...
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Why Your Goals Might Be Hurting You
The CEO Nation
These 15 min+/- bite sized segments are intended to be a Daily Dose of digestible, tangible and implementable advice that can "move the needle" in your business immediately. We are dropping relevant, timely information several times a week, in a format that is boiled down to the most important facts with no fluff or wasted time. Every week we'll release multiple new episodes covering the most compelling and helpful topics pulled straight from our current Private Coaching Client calls and Group Training Sessions. These Daily Dose episodes are designed to be fast and easy to consume...
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Are You Fixing The Wrong Problems?
The CEO Nation
These 15 min+/- bite sized segments are intended to be a Daily Dose of digestible, tangible and implementable advice that can "move the needle" in your business immediately. We are dropping relevant, timely information several times a week, in a format that is boiled down to the most important facts with no fluff or wasted time. Every week we'll release multiple new episodes covering the most compelling and helpful topics pulled straight from our current Private Coaching Client calls and Group Training Sessions. These Daily Dose episodes are designed to be fast and easy to consume...
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The Power of Converging Goals vs Conflicting Goals
The CEO Nation
When you sit down and think about your life, can you see the points where you are creating momentum? How about friction? Today's episode we are focusing on differentiating your goals in, not just your business, but your life that may be conflicting and creating friction to make your life harder as well as the goals that are creating momentum that will catapult you and your business into more and more successses. These 15 min+/- bite sized segments are intended to be a Daily Dose of digestible, tangible and implementable advice that can "move the needle" in your business...
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Unlock Your True Potential: Balancing Life and Business for Success
The CEO Nation
On this episode of The CEO Nation Podcast, Steve discusses the importance of balance in life and how it relates to business success. He emphasizes the need to prioritize mental stability, physical health, emotional well-being, relational grounding, and spiritual connectedness for achieving success. Richards also shares his own spiritual awakening and announces a retreat program to help men build business plans and improve various aspects of their lives. He encourages listeners to focus on the right things in life, enjoy life, and maintain good health and relationships. These 15 min+/- bite...
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Gamifying Your Business: You can't win if you don't know how to play!
The CEO Nation
When working to build a successful business, gathering data on what works and what doesn't is the key (a.k.a. KPIs). KPI's are score keeping markers to let you know how you're doing, and to learn the "rules" of the game. Once you learn what matters and what doesn't, you can better measure and manage your inputs (activities), which leads to controlling your outputs (results). In this episode, Steve breaks down how uncovering and controlling your KPI's is what leads to building leverage in your business via systems and processes. These 15 min+/- bite sized segments are intended...
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You Can't Scale Hustle! (Part 2 of Gamifying Your Business)
The CEO Nation
Gamifying your business is a great way to track data so you can better understand what to focus on, and more importantly - what NOT to spend your time, money and energy on. There is a very strategic, repeatable and consistent set of steps you can follow to continuously improve your business over time, and methodically hone in on success over time. In this episode, Steve breaks down these steps and explains how they will help you work towards successfully scaling your business. These 15 min+/- bite sized segments are intended to be a Daily Dose of digestible, tangible and...
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The Most Common Shortcomings of A Leader (Part 5 of 5 on Building Successful Teams)
The CEO Nation
Great leaders are the best followers, they just follow worthy callings rather than following other people. They also understand the power of focus and relentless follow through. Making the shift successfully from doing the work to leading others is one of the hardest things an entrepreneur will have to do. In this final installment of the five part series, Steve talks about what matters most when working to become the leader your business needs in order to scale to the next level. These 15 min+/- bite sized segments are intended to be a Daily Dose of...
info_outlineKent Clothier knows a thing or two about how to hire up and build a successful team, as he’s done it several times. By age 30, Kent was running a family business that grew from a start-up to $1.8 billion, but lost everything and had to figure out how to rebuild it all over again on his own.
Kent has been a coach and mentor to Steve for years, and now they are also friends and business partners. One of the most impactful lessons Kent has taught Steve is that you can’t hire to where you are, you have to “hire up” in order for your team to propel you forward.
Key Takeaways:
- Lessons learned in running a 2 Billion dollar company and largest company in Florida by the age of 30.
- Why Kent got run out of his own company (a blessing in disguise) which led him to real estate
- Wholesaling since 2003 that started as a side hustle which he turned into a business
- From wholesaling to turnkey (flipping 900 properties a year, and managing 6500 properties)
- Building a diversified sales funnel
- The golden handcuffs of hustling
- Moving out of an employee mindset and transitioning into entrepreneurship
- Creating multiple exit strategies
- Understanding the difference between owning a job and owning a business
- You can’t do everything yourself, you have to let go and delegate to scale your business
What got you here, will not get you there.
- Every successful CEO started by building a strong team
- Using video recordings to train people
- Using Facebook groups as a training website for free
- Creating impact and changing people's lives
- How to hire up
- Gain confidence in yourself and find your tribe: Know your principals, your core values, your reasons for starting your own business, why are you taking the risk, what you stand for, and what you stand against
- How to deprogram yourself from mediocrity and move towards massive success
You are the average of the people you surround yourself with
- Mind Hack: When hiring people, think of them as an investment, not an expense
- How to invest in the right people to move your business forward
- Live every day like it’s your last: Be as present as you can every day
- High-level hires will walk away from a multimillion-dollar corporate job that they hate to work with a company that has a soul, a mission and great leadership
- Understanding the ROI math of hiring a quality employee
🔥 Rapid Fire Round 🔥
What Keeps You Up at Night?
Regret
What I’m Most Proud Of:
Doing fatherhood right
What I Wish I Knew When I Started in Business
Fail more, fail faster, and take the risks to learn quicker
What’s Kent’s Most Excited About Right Now:
When COVID19 hit, jumping in and putting online events together to help other people reposition themselves and make money in today’s market
▶︎ Contact Kent
Social Handle (FB, IG, Twitter) @kentclothier
Facebook Group: Kent Clothier Smart Investor Group