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Episode 82: Navigating a Complex Industry Through Service Leadership, with Shawn Burcham

Release Date: 01/29/2020

Episode 99: Recognizing Patterns and Adapting to Crisis, with Dr. Sharon Spano

The Other Side Of Potential

Sharon Spano, Ph.D. helps thriving family business owners overcome challenges when life and business collide. As a business strategist, author, and Professional Integral Coach, she leads her clients through specific research-based practices that empower them to realign their business strategy with a life of meaning, accelerated performance, and increased profitability.

Episode 98: Developing a Healthier Relationship with Money, with Michelle Arpin Begina

The Other Side Of Potential

Michelle’s earliest memories from childhood all relate to money. And yet, the stories and lessons learned from different branches of her family tree couldn’t be more dichotomous!

Episode 97: Overcoming the Relationship Strains of Shelter-In-Place, with Ken Blackman

The Other Side Of Potential

Ken Blackman is a connection and intimacy expert who has coached couples from San Francisco to Paris to Sydney and trained thousands of students in his workshops on intimacy and relationships. His work has garnered mentions everywhere from Cosmopolitan to Business Insider to Playboy to Tim Ferriss’s 4-Hour series. With nearly two decades of experience, Ken’s powerful, unapologetic break from conventional advice is shifting the global conversation around sex, love, and committed coupledom.

Episode 96: Stronger Relationships During Social Distancing, with Randy Parks

The Other Side Of Potential

Randy Parks is the founder, owner, and CEO of Parks Motor Group, a family of car dealerships with locations throughout Central Florida. Randy obtained his bachelor’s degree from the University of Miami School of Business and received his MBA in business management from Rollins College, before going on to purchase his first auto dealership, Longwood Lincoln Mercury, in 1979. Randy then began the hard work of growing his business, and now Parks Motor Group encompasses eleven dealerships within the region.

Episode 95: Managing Your Life and Health in Times of Stress, with Dr. Sangeeta Pati

The Other Side Of Potential

Sangeeta Pati graduated at the top of her medical class at the University Of Maryland School Of Medicine, Baltimore, and completed her residency at Georgetown University School of Medicine, Washington, D.C. She has worked extensively internationally as Medical Director for a 350-employee non-profit organization, Engenderhealth, on maternal mortality reduction programs funded by the Gates Foundation.

Episode 94: Crisis Communications for Small Businesses, with Bill Coletti

The Other Side Of Potential

Bill Coletti is a reputation management, crisis communications and professional development expert, keynote speaker, Wall Street Journal Risk & Compliance panelist, and best-selling author of Critical Moments: The New Mindset of Reputation Management. He has more than 25 years of global experience managing high-stakes crises, issues management, and media relations challenges for both Fortune 500 companies and winning global political campaigns.

Episode 93: Finding Inner Calm and Moving Forward, with Tricia Brouk and Rob Dube

The Other Side Of Potential

During the challenging times of today’s business reality, it can be difficult to find the calmness and clarity you need to lead. On this episode of the Other Side of Potential podcast, encore guests Tricia Brouk and Rob Dube explain why necessity truly is the mother of invention, and Rob Dube offers his thoughts on using meditation practice to help you find calm in the chaos.

Episode 92: Preparing Your Family-Owned Business to Survive the Crisis, with Craig Cody

The Other Side Of Potential

Craig Cody is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Tax Coach, Business Owner and Former New York City Police Officer with 17 years of experience on the Force. As a Certified Tax Coach, Craig belongs to a select group of tax practitioners throughout the country who undergo extensive training and continued education on various tax planning techniques and strategies to become, as well as remain certified.

Episode 91: Intergenerational Wealth and Transition Planning, with Thomasina Williams

The Other Side Of Potential

Thomasina H. Williams serves as a Strategic Thought Partner, Consultant, and Coach to Enterprising Families. She works with clients to advance generational success as their family legacy, by being as intentional in developing their family’s human capital as they are in growing their financial capital.

Episode 90: Survival Decoded for the Family Owned Business: How to Move Beyond Survival to Thriving in a Crisis, with Dr. Sharon Spano

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Shawn Burcham is the author of Keeping Score With GRITT: Straight Talk Strategies for Success and Founder & CEO of PFSbrands which he and his wife Julie started out of their home in 1998. PFSbrands has grown to 130+ employee-owners across 18 states and is now 100% employee-owned.

Shawn decided to take a major risk in quitting his job and starting a business from the ground floor in 1998. Since starting PFSbrands, Shawn has started and grown over 10 businesses while also investing in other businesses where he feels he can help owners become more successful, including the business coaching company GRITT Business Coaching. It’s because of these varied experiences that Shawn truly believes empowering employees to think and act like owners are the recipe for success.

Shawn is passionate about helping others become more successful in work and in life. He believes in taking care of employees and providing them with opportunities where they can excel. He has a non-entitlement mentality and a straight-talk approach. He believes that all leaders need to care, have fun, and hold people accountable to high expectations. Shawn is a true entrepreneur that has taken the risks necessary to lead a company to double-digit growth for 20+ years.

What you will learn in this episode:

Why Shawn took the leap of faith of quitting his job to start his own business with his wife Julie
What specific challenges and opportunities Shawn has faced in his career in the high-volume, low-margin foodservice industry
How the complex PFSbrands business model has grown to include franchises in 42 states, and why Shawn integrates his past in athletics into his business leadership
Why Shawn decided to go with an Employee Stock Ownership Plan (ESOP) for his company, and what risks and advantages are offered by an ESOP
Why Shawn developed his GRITT Business Coaching and decided to write his book Keeping Score With GRITT: Straight Talk Strategies for Success
Why Shawn feels his core purpose in life is to help others find success and create opportunities for the people around him
Why Shawn and his team offer a game called “Profit and Cash” to help teach financial literacy and dispel misconceptions about how businesses operate
How the GRITTrac software that Shawn’s team developed works to help CEOs and their teams track and understand their company’s systems and progress
How Shawn’s unique career path and business philosophies have helped him surround himself with business leaders who believe in sharing knowledge and lifting each other up
Why the tight labor market is the biggest challenge and greatest complexity Shawn and his business face at every level

Resources:

Keeping Score with GRITT by Shawn Burcham: https://amzn.to/2No890O
Website: www.shawnburcham.com
Website: www.GRITTbusinesscoaching.com
Website: www.GRITTrac.com

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