Prepare Like a Pro: How to Reflect, Reorient, and Re-engage for 2026
Release Date: 11/20/2025
Prepare Like a Pro: How to Reflect, Reorient, and Re-engage for 2026
Bold Business Podcast
Unlock your competitive edge by planning earlier than everyone else. Strategic planning is more than an annual box to check; it is a time to reflect, reorient, and reengage your company with its long-term objectives, and to align today’s priorities with them. The true cost of distraction goes beyond just affecting mental focus; it impacts your bottom line. It's not only about lost productivity; on average, it takes about 23 minutes and 15 seconds to switch between business activities. Even though we are working effectively, the time lost hinders our company from maximizing its...
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ENCORE: Skyrocket Your Business with Strategic Prioritization
Bold Business Podcast
Your success relies on your ability to continually grow over time by ensuring that what you do today aligns with your long-term goals. It can be tough, and let's be honest, the word "preparation" often gets a dull reaction. However, without it, you won’t fully understand how your current resources can impact the results you're seeking. Three key factors really drive sustainable growth. First, what are your nonnegotiables? When two things are equally important, one must always take precedence. That shows your priorities and how everything gets done. Second, carve out protected...
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Bold Moves and Hard Lessons: Success and Surviving Mistakes
Bold Business Podcast
There are invisible signals that differentiate bold business moves from costly mistakes. Calculated risks — financial, emotional, and strategic — unlock opportunities. In today’s fast-paced environment, modern businesses need to embrace rapid change, particularly with the rise of AI. Start by focusing on what you know best: the strengths of your business, yourself, and your partners. Then, analyze how AI is impacting your industry and how your customers’ needs and purchasing behaviors are evolving. In this episode, you will learn how to identify clues that indicate success or failure....
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The Art of Controlled Risk: Navigating Entrepreneurship’s Challenges
Bold Business Podcast
How do you dare to innovate when there are mouths to feed and mortgages looming? It’s time to cut through the theory — real, practical risk-taking is not just bold, it’s smart and can lead to significant gains. Life comes with constraints, but by embracing them, you can shift your perspective and unlock innovative solutions that go beyond the standard “workable” options. It’s absolutely possible to pursue your biggest dreams while taking calculated risks that maintain your stability. While pragmatic risk-taking may not have the flashiest reputation, its potential for...
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Staying Out of the Comfort Zone: Raising Your Hand for Messy Problems
Bold Business Podcast
Not every industry trend is worth chasing after. How you allocate your time is something you can truly manage. Leverage your experience to step up and embrace new, riskier challenges. Your time is your most valuable asset, and being open to failure demonstrates to yourself and your superiors that you are willing to take risks and explore new opportunities. As technology evolves at lightning speed, stepping into situations that highlight your cross-functional curiosity can help you build essential skills while sharpening your business instincts. In this program,...
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UNCHARTED: Breakthrough Success Demands Discomfort, Tough Questions, and Daring Moves
Bold Business Podcast
The decisions you sidestep often carry the heaviest consequences. Embracing a “NO” can lead uncovering your greatest victories. Taking small, bold actions consistently over time equips you for the more significant leaps ahead. Your mindset around confidence, setbacks, and daily activities can determine whether your business succeeds or fails. It’s high time to stop shying away from the information that enriches your decision-making process. Those cozy chairs may remain unnoticed until you actively seek them out. This conversation is about the importance of reaching...
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Turning Conflict Into Growth: Mastering the Four Types of Business Conversations
Bold Business Podcast
The potential of your business has a gatekeeper: the day-to-day conversations you engage in. From great ideas that never take off to the changes that promises bring, understanding our own communication patterns can help unlock growth. Meaningful conversation is rooted in self-development and an open-minded approach to understanding others' perspectives. While there are many correct choices to make, only one can be selected at a time. It’s important to ensure that the choices and promises made—whether to ourselves, our teams, or our company—support the future of the business rather...
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Finding Your Voice as a Leader: Tom Gegax on Resilience, Change, and Self-Forgiveness
Bold Business Podcast
What would you do to forgive yourself and unlock your business' true potential? This is achievable when you regularly engage in honest assessment without judgment. Servant leadership combines compassion with a strong focus on accountability. It involves genuinely caring for both the employees and the community your organization serves, while also maintaining high standards and holding everyone accountable for results. This approach requires self-awareness, enabling you to foster a culture of accountability where everyone can thrive. In the launch of Season 9 of the BOLD Business...
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Good Goals vs. Bad Goals: Rethinking Success
Bold Business Podcast
The way you develop and execute goals, choose connections to form relationships, and overcome limiting beliefs may be at odds with your definition of success. There are pitfalls associated with the power of goal setting, but you can begin right where you are. Question the goals you set to ensure they genuinely reflect your aspirations and are free from family or societal expectations. Discard any ego-driven goals to uncover your authentic objectives. By cultivating deep, meaningful relationships, you can build a support system that helps you courageously confront limiting beliefs while...
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The Partnership Pivot: Navigating Perspectives to Drive Growth
Bold Business Podcast
Partnerships play a vital role in the future of your business, whether you're just launching or you've been in the game for years. Interestingly, companies often fail not because of a poor idea, but rather due to partnerships that go awry. In this episode of "It's Your Business," , a strategic growth consultant, , a business consultant and , a financial advisor, offer valuable insights to help you strengthen your relationships, minimize risks, and secure your business's future. They explore the often-overlooked potential of curiosity and mutual accountability, guiding you through...
info_outlineUnlock your competitive edge by planning earlier than everyone else. Strategic planning is more than an annual box to check; it is a time to reflect, reorient, and reengage your company with its long-term objectives, and to align today’s priorities with them.
The true cost of distraction goes beyond just affecting mental focus; it impacts your bottom line. It's not only about lost productivity; on average, it takes about 23 minutes and 15 seconds to switch between business activities. Even though we are working effectively, the time lost hinders our company from maximizing its available resources.
In this episode, you will hear how not to overthink reflection, the importance of taking time to understand your current position before moving forward, and tips for conducting productive deep work sessions.
The panelists in this "It's Your Business" conversation are all business advisors: Christy Maxfield, President and CEO of Purpose First Advisors; Dean Barta, Founder and CEO of Barta Business Group; and Jess Dewell, Growth Strategist at Red Direction. They discuss a three-part framework designed to unlock your business's growth potential and explore pathways for strategic re-engagement.
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If you want to identify business bottlenecks, the necessary skills, the initial actions to take, the expected milestones, and the priorities for achieving growth, try the “Growth Framework Reset” approach. This will help you keep learning and growing while working strategically on your business.
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You can get in touch with Jess Dewell on Twitter, LinkedIn or Red Direction website.