The Good Advice Podcast: Do Business Better with Blake Binns

As the Co-Founder and CMO of FreeeUp.com, Connor understands firsthand the pains that come with a company that tries to grow and scale. With entrepreneurship in his blood, Connor tells the story of how he started his first business in high school, and how he and his co-founder, Nathan Hirsch, built a 25-million-dollar Amazon business while daylighting as college students. 

Now with FreeeUp, Connor has nailed the formula for partnering organizations with the top 1% of freelancer talent worldwide. In this episode, you'll hear about their vetting process while breaking down the stigmas associated with freelancer culture. 

If you want to enjoy a $25 coupon to use FreeeUp.com to find your next great freelancer, use code GoodAdvice25.

Show Notes:

3:05 - From School Business on His Bike to a $25,000,000 Brand

12:08 - How High Quality Freelancers became FreeeUp's Competitive Advantage

18:48 - Freelancer Culture and Why Remote Works

25:05 - FreeeUp's Vetting Process to Hire the Top 1% Talent

36:26 - Eliminating Freelancer Stigmas and Creating High Functioning Culture in Remote Teams

48:26 - Why Values Dictate How You Hire

 

Blake walks through common hiring gimmicks, from the application traps to interview tricks like the Coffee Trick. 

Kristin Sherry is the creator of YouMap® and author of the #1 Amazon Best Seller - YouMap: Find Yourself. Blaze Your Path. Show the World! As Kristin describes it, years ago she was an uninspired manager commuting to a job she felt no passion for. Today, she leads a life filled with passion and purpose, having realized her full potential. As a career consultant, she created YouMap® to help professionals discover and live out their greatest potential. After all, "it's hard to read the label when you're inside the jar." In this episode, we unpack Kristin's story from taking her first steps into entrepreneurship to now having built YouMap® into an internationally recognized brand.

Learn more MyYouMap.com or contact Kristin directly at Kristin@myyoumap.com

Follow @CareerKristin on Instagram or @YouMapCreator on Twitter or

Connect with Kristin Sherry on LinkedIn   

 

Show Notes:

2:25 - Embracing Authenticity and Learning How to Handle Criticism

10:52 - Tactfulness and Why Self-Awareness is the #1 Predictor of Career Success

18:29 - Learning to Love Mondays: Discovering Your Identity and Purpose

30:24 - Entrepreneurship is a Farmer's Game

43:17 - YouMap: From Recognizing a Simple Problem to Creating an Empowering Solution

1:03:31 - Family and Learning to Pay the Price of Success

1:10:26 - Resisting Comparison on Social Media through an Abundance Mindset

Do you have a great business idea? Are you an entrepreneur trying to launch your business and get your first customers? There's one major trap to avoid and that's relying entirely too much on people who care about you to determine if your business can really work. Do you want to launch something successful? Start by passing the Mom Test.

What's the secret to happiness? Is it wealth? Status? Influence? Health? We take an honest look at what it means to feel fulfilled despite any circumstance you face, and it starts by building a foundation on a purpose that impacts people. 

Dr. Kathy Pillow-Price shares key insights on what does it mean to be a great leader, along with the importance of understanding the difference between leadership and management. As an executive consultant, Kathy explains what it takes to manage your team well along with the key steps in understanding how to hire a great employee. Kathy has spent years building great teams through prioritizing one crucial strategy -- developing your people. 

Timestamps to follow. 

Connect with Kathy on LinkedIn or via email -- kpillowprice@gmail.com

35% of business owners say that finding and hiring great employees is their #1 problem. But is the problem less about the quality of candidates and more about how we treat our employees? This episode builds on our presentation at SHARP where we shared on how to engage employees through a healthy workplace culture, and how your B and C-level players can easily become part of your A-Team with the right management style. 

What caused major brands like Walgreens and Nintendo to make it while other massive companies like Blockbuster and Kodak were eventually bankrupted? The answer is found in the willingness of a business to break its own business model. When you master how to pivot despite the temptation to do what's always worked or to do what's safe, your business will not only survive, but thrive as well. 

Carey Lingenfelter returns to share his wisdom on a number of topics as an expert in leadership, management, and growth. His perspective during this conversation is a must-listen for all business owners and entrepreneurs alike. 

Here's the relevant timestamps:

5:30 The Challenge of Becoming Self-Aware

10:00 Hitting the Pause Button For Your Life

15:45 Mastering Your "Why"

26:30 Why the Best Leaders Make Mistakes Often

43:30 Playing the Long Game by Delaying Today's Gratification for Tomorrow's Benefit

50:45 Overcoming the Blind Spots that Kill Momentum

1:00:45 Staying Positive When There's Every Reason to Be Cynical

Blake talks about how businesses have become too slow with using "annual reviews". Instead of helping employees grow, many managers wait for the annual mark to reveal past debts. If your business is ever going to grow and scale, you need to be able to not just pivot the business quickly, but help employees change their behaviors at a fast pace. It's also how you'll find out which employees are hungry and which ones are not. 

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