47. Persuasive power of storytelling with Jamie Dixon
The Kevin Shee Show
If you’re a leader, a big part of your job is getting people to do important things. Maybe it’s getting your team to follow your strategy, getting customers to buy more, or getting your stakeholders to support you. But sometimes you can’t get people to do those important things, and sometimes that’s a big problem. And when it’s a big problem, Jamie Dixon is here to help you. He is a coach, facilitator and author of “The Story Habit - How Leaders Shape Stories That Drive Action”. Jamie has worked with leaders in over 160 multinational companies over the last 10 years. He is an IAC...
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46. Travelling Japan with the Boss, Sam Marks
The Kevin Shee Show
Sam Marks, co-founder and host of Invest Like A Boss Podcast, and self made millionaire through investments, joins me in Japan and we discuss why it is so traveler unfriendly, amongst catching up as we haven't seen each other for quite some time. Links: Show Notes: 00:33 – Why Japan difficult for foreigners to travel within 05:15 – How I became semi-fluent in Japanese. 09:14 – How did we get into biking? 11:23 – What impressed Sam about Japan? 16:55 – Why i wouldn’t move to Japan 18:43 – We talk about my Bali residence and how I got to purchase it? 25:51...
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45. Web3 and the Metaverse with John Goodall
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Jon Goodall, who has worked in Silicon Valley over a decade and is the founder of chatback.com, a messaging Omani chat software for school and hotels. He just started a new NFT venture call Niftopia and is here to discuss the future of NFT and Web3 Links: Show Notes: 00:42 - Can you give us a little background of your employment? 02:26 - How did you get involved in the internet and computer industry? 06:33 - Tell us about Chatback.com? 11:44 - How did you get into crypto and NFTs ? 14:00 - What do you think about Bitcoin not being recognised by the government? 16:16...
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44. Living and starting business in Colombia with Steve Suh
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Steve Suh is an American Korean who came to Hong Kong with nothing but a dream and started Floship, a successful e-commerce logistic platform powering users of shopify and kickstarter. Now he is reinventing himself again and moved to Columbia , to learn Spanish and look for opportunities in South America Show Notes: 00:42 - What do you do and how did we meet? 02:10 - What is floship? 05:42 - Why are you in columbia? 08:40 - Did you consider copying successful businesses in North America to apply in Latin America ? 09:57 - How difficult is it to...
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43: 1st hand account of the invasion of Ukraine with Alex Bodagnov
The Kevin Shee Show
Alex Bodagnov is working as a project manager for a tech company. Before the Russian invasion, he was living a pretty active life in Kyiv, Ukraine. He used to go to the gym, attend different events and most importantly He had many friends. Now He is trying to understand what his next step should be since after Feb 24 his life turned upside down, with the invasion of Ukraine Show Notes: 00:55 - What's happening in Kiev? 04:17 - How did you get out of the city? 06:47 - How did you get to the bomb shelter? 07:59 - Are they trying to take over the entire country or just a...
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42 : Developing Global Leadership Talent with Handi Kurniawan
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Handi Kurniawan is a driving force to enable organisations and people to grow. He does it through his uniqueness and expertise in Learning, Leadership, Career Management, Business Management, Talent Management, Knowledge Management, Cross Cultural Management, Stakeholders engagement and strong People Management. His career spanned over multiple geographies, and worked in 7 countries (Indonesia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, China, United States, and Taiwan) and he worked in some of the world's leading companies in various industries with both multinationals and conglomerates. Links:...
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41 : Going Green with Bryan Clayton
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Bryan Clayton is the Co-Founder and CEO of GreenPal, an online marketplace that connects homeowners with local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 100,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day.
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40 : Becoming a next generation business leader with Nike Anani
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Nike Anani is an entrepreneur and a Consultant. She was rated as a top-100 Family Business Consultant globally. She helps her clients bridge the gap between the senior and younger generations. As a result, they communicate, collaborate and collectively gain clarity, to increase profit and productivity in their family businesses.
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39 : Starting a tech app across Africa with Raphael Dana
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Kevin travels to Spain to have a sit down with “Serial entrepreneur” Raphael Dana. He talks about some of his previous businesses and then goes into detail of how he got involved in Africa and challenges with operating the business from overseas. He later offer advice to entrepreneurs based on his many years of experience.
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38 : Looking to Business Automate with Richard Schnitzel
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“Authencious” Automation is about starting with understanding the operations of your business and moving towards the action of automation.
info_outlineMichell Smith took a sales job to learn about people and overcome her fears and fell in love with the industry. Eventually, she became the #1 sales rep, then opened her own sales company at 21 and her business exploded. It went from one sales office in Toronto and within 5 years grew to 1000 sales reps, 29 locations across Canada, billing over 10 million dollars in annual commissions. It was the largest and most successful direct sales force in Canadian history. Now she speaks, trains and consults with other companies to increase sales, improve systems, develop their leaders and hit their goals faster. She coaches entrepreneurs, sales professionals and executives to scale their businesses and perform at their highest levels.
In this episode, Kevin and Michell will discuss how she got involved in the direct sales industry and how she inspires, leads and coaches others in the field.
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Show Notes:
- 04:58 - What was the first product you sold?
- 10:48 - Did you have a mentor or a coach or did you just learn on your own?
- 13:50 - Can you tell me more about the Direct Sales company you started at 21?
- 18:08 - “we were dominating in every single territory….we outsold all the competition” - Michell Smith
- 21:00 - “My passion was seeing that new sales person finally discover that they can succeed” - Michell Smith
- 24:05 - What is Direct Sales and how is it different from other types of sales?
- 26:21 - What is required to be a salesperson leader or trainer?
- 33:12 - What do you look for when hiring a sales person?
- 39:08 - How important is building a system or goal settings for your team?
- 40:16 - Is it easier for women or men to be in sales?