Sound Laws Of Success Podcast

In this episode, I interview top mattress retailer Jeff Giagnocavo of Gardner's Mattress and More (www.gardnersmattressandmore.com) about his experiences as an entrepreneur and how he creates value so he doesn't compete on price against other competitors including online retailers and big box stores. He also shares lessons about how to attract the right kinds of customers, and what you must do to implement more in your business. This insightful interview will inspire you about how you can give back to your community and the value of main street retail businesses in the community.

In this episode, we talk with Shaun Buck of The Newsletter Pro in Boise, Idaho on How to Crush It in Business Now. He shares why having a reason why is so important in growing your business, the value of quick wins, how to be really good at the fundamentals in your business, and what you can do to have more impactful relationships with your team members. Shaun has been a successful serial entrepreneur for almost two decades. The Newsletter Pro has only been operating since 2011, but it has rapidly grown into the nation's largest custom newsletter company, mailing millions of newsletters annually. The Newsletter Pro has been recognized for their tremendous growth by Inc. Magazine, making the Inc. 500 list twice and the Inc. 5000 list once. The Newsletter Pro has also been named one of the best places to work in Idaho for the past three years. Shaun was named "Man of the Year" by the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society and is a successful business coach to owners of million-dollar businesses.

In this episode, we talk with coaching and performance expert Meredith Bell about her new book: Strong for Performance: Create a Coaching Culture With Learning and Development Programs that Stick. Meredith shares her experience of working with coaching clients and the secret to making sure that behaviors are implemented so real change can happen. This is a very insightful interview about why most training programs miss the mark and what you can do to ensure that the training and coaching you offer to your clients and team members gets results and lasts. 

Guinness World Record Holder for the longest solo row across the Pacific Ocean Jacob Adoram Hendrickson is an inspiring individual. He planned and completed an eleven month journey from Washington state across the Pacific Ocean to Australia in his custom designed rowboat Emerson. In this interview, he shares his story about how he accomplished such a remarkable goal. He is an Eagle Scout who spent his high school years running track and cross-country, and playing the saxophone in both marching and symphonic band.  He attended the United States Air Force Academy and spent more than a decade as a military aviator, flying fighter jets extensively throughout the Northern Hemisphere, to include over 170 combat missions.  As part of military training, he became very familiar with land and water survival, and enjoyed the challenges associated with overcoming adversity.  An avid traveler, Jacob has explored over 40 countries. He holds the world record for the longest non-stop time spent rowing solo across an ocean of

In this episode, Melanie Benson shares mindset and thought patterns that lead to building a big business even in the midst of challenging times. She shares her inspirational story of being in business for over twenty years and the insights she has gained on how to be bold and visible as you have to be seen in order to be hired. You'll love her insights as she shares her strategies for how you can show up, get noticed, and get more business now.

In this episode, you'll learn life lessons and sound laws to help you grow your business from Aaron Walker. Businerssman and life coach, Aaron Walker, has inspired many through his leadership, mentorship, and consistent pursuit of excellence. He enjoys helping others and believes experience is a great teacher. 35 years of entrepreneurship and marriage have given Aaron a wealth of experience. Aaron continues to reach new heights and broaden his persepective of the terrain by examining his experiences and growing from them.  For 19 years and counting, Aaron has taken classes and has been coached personally by this friend, financial guru, Dave Ramsey. Spiritual mentors David Landrith and Bob Warren have impacted his spiritual live beyond measure. Two other disciplined mastermind groups, 48 Days led by friend Dan Miller and The Torch have played a role in his understanding of how to live a significant, successful life. Aaron incorporates education and learning opportunities into his daily routine, remaining info

In this episode, learn laws and lessons from entrepreneurial greats Sol Price (founder of Costco), William Lear (serial entrepreneur and inventor of the Lear Jet), Fred Smith (founder of Fed-Ex), Tom Monahan (founder of Domino's Pizza), and Jeff Bezos (founder of Amazon.com).  You'll discover four common themes and lessons between these entrepreneurs as they grew their businesses and changed the world.

In this episode, I interview Jeff Brown, the host of the Read to Lead Podcast, about how he got his start, lessons he has learned about being more courageous as an entrepreneur, and what it takes to get more done in your daily and weekly schedule. This insightful interview shares Jeff's lessons on what it takes to be more productive and be a better entrepreneur now during the coronavirus pandemic.

Mike Capuzzi has been working with clients since 1998 and over the past two decades and has helped thousands of business owners around the world create better marketing. He is the founder of CopyDoodles and recently launched Bite Sized Books to help business owners create short, helpful books (known as shooks). Shooks are ideal for business owners who want to increase their level of authority and sell smarter by providing helpful information in easy to read, short, helpful books. Mike recently published, Main Street Author, which shows how to author, publish and leverage a shook in their business. In this episode, Mike shares strategies on how you can write your first book to promote your business. He also shares lessons he has learned as an entrepreneur over the years in an insightful and fast moving interview.

In this episode, Brian Horn of Authority Alchemy teaches you how to build your authority and expertise. Brian has helped many top celebrity entrepreneurs in teh world with their online branding, search engine optimization, and Internet marketing. He consulted exclusively with these celebrity entrepreneurs for nearly five years before exploding onto the scene in 2009. He has since been profiled and featured on Wall Street Journal, ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, Forbes, Advertising Age, and dozens of other media outlets. In 2010, Inc. Magazine named Brian as "The Be on Page 1 of Google Guru" and an "emerging business leader to watch." You'll get tremendous insights from this interview as Brian teachces you how to position your expertise and get national media attention for it.

In this episode, I talk with Clint Pulver, who is an Emmy Award-winning, motivational keynote speaker, author, musician, and workforce expert and the author of the new book, I Love it Here: How Great Leaders Create Organizations Their People Never Want to Leave. He is the president and founder of The Center for Employee Retention and has transformed how corporations like Keller Williams, AT&T, and Hewlett Packard create lasting loyalty through his work and research as “The Undercover Millennial”. Clint was featured in Business Q Magazine as one of their “Top 40 under 40” as a premiere Corporate Keynote Speaker. He is an expert on leadership and employee retention and shares lessons from his new book on connection, retention, and leadership. 

In this episode, I'll share suprising lessons from the greatest business icons from Lewis Schiff's book entitled Business Brilliant: Suprising Lessons from The Greatest Self-Made Business Icons. The book Business Brilliant is fascinating because it takes seven common beliefs or ideas and our society and shows how the wealthy and the middle class think differently about these ideas. You'll discover how you can use these ideas to think differently and achieve more in your business.  

In part 2 of this episode, I share 11 wealth attraction behaviors that can help you attract more of what you want in your business and in your life.

Learn five lessons and truths I've learned about money and seven repelling behaviors that can prevent you from having the business you really want in part one of this two part episode on wealth repelling and wealth attracting behaviors.

Learn eight more lessons about how Dale Carnegie, author of How to Win Friends and Successful People went from an unknown farm boy from Maryville, Missouri to the most successful author of his time. You'll hear fascinating stories about the struggles this entrepreneur faced as he figured out on his journey that you can apply in your business today.

Learn how a farm boy from Maryville, Missouri got his start, wrote the #1 best-selling book How to Win Friends and Influence People and changed the world. In Part 1, I share six lessons that you can apply in your business based on the humble beginnings of one of the most widely read and successful personal development authors and trainers in the past 100 years. 

Learn six lessons from Disney's life that impacted the way he grew his business from its humble beginnings to a worldwide powerhouse.

Today's world has changed dramatically in how we interact and communicate with one another. In this episode, I interview leadership expert Kevin Eikenberry about his new book The Long Distance Teammate and what leaders and team members must do to preserve connection in a virtual environment. Kevin's insights on leadership, trust, and connection are vitally important if we are to remain productive and strengthen team relationships in a virtual setting.

In this episode, I share several little known stories I learned from reading and studying about the life of Theodor Seuss Geisel or Dr. Seuss as he is known to millions around the world. I recently finished an excellent biography by Brian Jay Jones entitled Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination. This book is an incredible look inside the life of a fascinating individual who defined the reading of children over the years as he wrote and illustrated classics such as The Cat in the Hat, Green Eggs and Ham, Horton Hears a Who and How the Grinch Stole Christmas. “At the time of his death, Dr. Seuss had published forty-eight books in more than twenty languages….” (Becoming Dr. Seuss, p. 428) and had sold more than 600 million copies of books. His books were adapted into 11 television specials, five feature films, a Broadway musical and four television series. It wasn’t always apparent that Geisel would be a best-selling author and in this episode, I share how he got his start

In this episode, I discuss lessons on success and failure that I've learned from studying the life of movie star and acting legend Kirk Douglas. Kirk Douglas was born Issur Danielovitch on December 9, 1916. He had an impoverished childhood with immigrant parents and six sisters, but was able to break through with hard work with a brief start on Broadway. His father was abusive and an alcoholic. He had more than forty jobs before he became an actor and starred in 95 different acting roles throughout his career. I grew up watching many of his westerns and films and enjoyed his devotion to making such entertaining productions. He made many mistakes throughout his life with affairs and bad business decisions, but lived a long and full life even after he had a severe stroke in 1996. He wrote a book about his experiences called My Stroke of Luck to help others know how to treat those with family members who suffered from a stroke. He lived another 24 years after this stroke and learned how to speak again. He is bur