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317: No One’s Listening and It’s Your Fault with Pam Marmon

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When I first chatted with today’s guest for this week’s episode, a very specific phrase kept coming to my mind. She is a ‘breath of fresh air.’

Hopefully, it won’t be the last time she and I talk.

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Her name is Pam Marmon, and if there’s anyone who should know what it takes to successfully navigate change and transform an organization in the process, it’s her.

After all, at age 12, she and her family moved to the U.S. from Bulgaria.

Can you imagine moving to a new country where you know no one, don’t know the language, you’ve left behind all your friends…and you’re 12?!

Resilient doesn’t even begin to describe her.

Her new book, by the way, is called No One’s Listening and It’s Your Fault: Get Your Message Heard During Organization Transformations.

To put it simply, Pam’s book is about one thing: with the proper process, change is not hard.

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314: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments with Stefan H. Thomke

Author of Experimentation Works

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When I think back to my time in college, I can’t help but think about how much of that time I wasted.

So much so that I ended up dropping out of college after about two years in (Sorry Butler, it’s not you…it’s me).

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I would eventually return, studying a different discipline and, interestingly, did far better the second time around.

There were many reasons my next attempt at school would turn out far better, not the least of which was now I was paying the bill.

All that wasted time from long ago makes me truly appreciate the conversations I’m able to have on a weekly basis, especially when those conversations include the likes of Harvard professors. Like now.

Today, we’re joined by Stefan H. Thomke whose latest is a book called Experimentation Works: The Surprising Power of Business Experiments.

You should also check out his first book.

With Experimentation Works, Stefan guides you through best practices in business experimentation, illustrates how these practices work at leading companies, and answers some fundamental questions.

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313: Building a Compelling Subscription With Robbie Kellman Baxter

Author of the new book, The Forever Transaction

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It’s true. While working out the details in booking today’s guest for the show, I found another email exchange we’d shared nearly five years ago.

In this brief exchange, we talked about her coming on to the show. That visit NEVER materialized!

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Why? Because I completely lost or forgot about the email.

Well, it’s time to right that wrong. Thankfully, she had no recollection of that first email and agreed again to come on. 🙂

Her latest effort is a book called The Forever Transaction: How to Build a Subscription Model So Compelling, Your Customers Will Never Want to Leave.

It is an excellent follow up to her first book, you know, the one I missed out on telling you about all those years ago.

With The Forever Transaction, you have everything you need to build durable, long-term relationships with every customer, and leverage them for ultimate business success – today, tomorrow, and forever.

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312: The Vision-Driven Leader with Michael Hyatt

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As I say in today’s podcast, I buy this author’s books before I even know what they’re about.

There are only a few of these kinds of authors on my list, but Michael Hyatt is one of them.

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His latest effort is a book called The Vision Driven Leader: 10 Question to Focus Your Efforts, Energize Your Team, and Scale Your Business.

It is, in my estimation, a book that EVERY leader needs to read, especially now, what with all that is going on in our world today (I’m looking at you COVID-19).

As Michael writes in the book, “…a mission defines what a business is, a vision describes where it’s going. Mission is here; vision is still out there. Mission is now; vision is next.”

The Vision Driven Leader takes you step-by-step from why to what and then how.

Your business will never be the same.

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311: The Life-Changing Power of Trusting Yourself

With You've Got This author Margie Warrell

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Today’s guest is one of my favorite people to interview. She always brings her A-game.

This marks her third appearance on the podcast, and for good reason.

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She brings her A-game to all her books as well. Her name is Margie Warrell and her latest is a book called You’ve Got This: The Life-Changing Power of Trusting Yourself.

Margie asserts that we all have moments when we succumb to doubt and let our fears call the shots. Each time they do, we limit our lives.

It’s why learning to trust in ourselves is crucial to rising above our biggest challenges and enjoying true happiness and success ― in our careers, relationships, leadership, and life.

When we trust ourselves to handle anything, it liberates us for everything.

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