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232: Adopt These Digital Habits for a More Balanced Life

With Arlene Pellicane, author of Calm, Cool, and Connected

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Today’s guest is a great example of someone who should have been on the podcast before now, and numerous times to boot.

To make up for my oversite though, Arlene Pellicane and I will touch on several of her books in our conversation today.

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We spend the majority of our time discussing concepts from her 2017 offering called Calm, Cool, and Connected: 5 Digital Habits for a More Balanced Life.

Another of her books we discuss is Growing Up Social: Raising Relational Kids in a Screen-Driven World, a book she co-wrote with New York Times bestselling author Dr. Gary Chapman.

More recently, Arlene released Parents Rising: 8 Strategies for Raising Kids Who Love God, Respect Authority, and Value What’s Right.

She’s is a delight to talk to and will offer a number of strategies for helping you and your family live a more satisfying and fulfilling life.

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231: How to Go From Overwhelmed to Highly Efficient and Reclaim Your Life with Kris Ward

Author of Win the Hour, Win the Day

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Today’s guest knows how to get attention. In a good way, of course.

She reached out to me recently with her compelling story that included a personalized video she created.

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Kris shared with me that she was inspired to write the book when the cards life had dealt forced her team to move forward without her leadership for a time.

The resulting book is called Win the Hour, Win the Day: Time Management for Small Business.

In it, Kris hopes to help teach you how to accelerate your business beyond your wildest dreams while reclaiming time for yourself.

Time management, she says, isn’t about going faster or being in a constant state of high activity. It’s not about being busy; it’s about being productive. Amen!

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229: Design Your Business to Run Itself with Mike Michalowicz

Author of Clockwork

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By age 35, Mike Michalowicz had launched two multimillion-dollar companies.

Today he is the co-founder of Profit First Professionals, a membership organization of accountants, bookkeepers, and business coaches who teach the Profit First method.

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He is also the co-founder of the Provendus Group, a consulting firm that utilizes his business growth methodologies.

He is the host of the Profit First Podcast, he’s a globally popular speaker, and in addition to Profit First and several other books, he has written columns for the Wall Street Journal, Box Pro magazine, Entrepreneur, OPEN Forum, Harvard Business Review, and more.

In his new book, Clockwork: Design Your Business to Run Itself, Mike asks, “Do you worry that your business will collapse without your constant presence?” If that’s the case, what if, instead, your business could run itself, freeing you to do what you love when you want, while it continues to grow and turn a profit?

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227: How to Revolutionize Your Career and Make Big Things Happen

With Derek Loudermilk, author of Superconductors

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Three years ago this month, I had the privilege of appearing on The Art of Adventure podcast.

The host, Derek Loudermilk interviewed me about reading and podcasting (surprise!). Fast forward a few years and he’s leveraged what he’s learned interviewing fellow adventurers, and has turned that knowledge into a new book.

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Derek has lead a pretty exciting life. He is a professional adventurer, polymath, bestselling author, publisher, speaker, digital nomad, business coach, father, Lord of Sealand, and host of The Art of Adventure Podcast. 

He’s also a former scientist and has a degree in biology. They don’t come any more well-rounded than this guy. 

Derek’s book is called Superconductors: Revolutionize Your Career and Make Big Things Happen. In it, he says the steady career path is a thing of the past: disruption is here to stay.

He continues that you need to be able to keep learning, growing and reinventing yourself to stay valuable in the midst of this change. Superconductors shows you how.

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222: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing with Dan Pink

Featuring Dan's new book, When

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Today’s guest makes a return visit to the podcast, and I’m very excited about it because he is one of my all-time favorite authors.

I’m talking about multiple New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink.

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Dan first appeared on Read to Lead over four years ago for Episode #028 to talk about his last book To Sell is Human. Read to Lead was only seven months old back then. Now, we’re almost five!

Dan is incapable of publishing a dud. I’ve thoroughly enjoyed every single book he’s written. His new book is no exception. 

It released in January and is called When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing.

Dan distills cutting-edge research and data and synthesizes them into an incredibly fascinating narrative packed with irresistable stores and practical takeaways.

This book will transform how you think about your past, present, and your future.

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