The Staying Power Podcast

The Staying Power Podcast

The Staying Power Podcast is a podcast that explores the challenges business owners face as they grow. Together Brandon Hall and Thomas Castelli ask the tough questions to show you that running a business is not for the faint at heart, but if you have staying power, you'll overcome your challenges and achieve lasting success! To learn more about the Staying Power Collective, a group for aspiring and current virtual firm owners on a mission to grow their firms, visit https://www.stayingpowercollective.com/

Episodes

February 3, 2021 41 mins

David Wood is a former Consulting Actuary to Fortune 100 companies including Sony Music, Chanel, and Exxon. David left his cushy Park Avenue job 20 years ago to build the world’s largest coaching business. He understands the balancing act of life and business.

https://focus.ceo/

In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • How do we implement everything we know we need to do?
  • Layers of supporting goals: yearly, monthly, weekly, daily
  • Email and other...
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    Don Riddell is an executive coach and the Master Chair of Vistage Peer Advisor Groups. Vistage Worldwide is a global organization that assembles and facilitates private advisory boards for CEOs, senior executives, and business owners.

    Vistage and its affiliates have over 23,000 members in 20 countries, representing the world's leading chief executive coaching organization. Their members grow at an average of 2.2 times the rate o...

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     Mike Pinkus is the founder of ConnectCPA, a Canadian 'plug and play' virtual accounting and bookkeeping firm that solves the finance pain point for scaling companies.

    https://www.connectcpa.ca/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • 6 years of growth for ConnectCPA - 40 team members
  • Value/fixed pricing philosophy and when to bill hourly
  • Sales process in technical services
  • To learn more about the Staying Power Collective, a group for a...

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    Darryl Lyons is the CEO of PAX Financial Group and the author of several books. Darryl is also a member of the advisory council for Dave Ramsey solutions.

    https://paxfinancialgroup.com/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Founding PAX Financial Group
  • Secrets to internet marketing and providing value to many with different needs and goals
  • Financial planning mistakes
  • Challenges at the intersection of business and life
  • To learn more about the S...

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    Nate Bailey is a bestselling author of three books and an entrepreneur. He has built multiple successful businesses in areas such as insurance and real estate. He recently sold his insurance agency to become a full-time leadership coach.

    https://natebailey.org/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Challenges of leadership roles
  • Extreme ownership
  • Consistency
  • Embrace learning opportunities
  • To learn more about the Staying Power Collective, a gro...

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    Brannon Poe is the founder of Poe Group Advisors where he and his team take a consulting-based approach to transition accounting firms from one owner to another through their unique process - The Seamless Succession.

    https://poegroupadvisors.com/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Unique challenges for both buyers and sellers of small businesses
  • Valuation of CPA firms
  • Pricing
  • The value ladder
  • To learn more about the Staying Power Collective,...

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    Cody Johnson is the President and studio manager of Chapel Hill Training, a fitness studio that provides individualized training programs to members, both in person and through their newly-launched virtual fitness platform. Cody shares his experience starting as an Intern through today, managing during COVID as a co-owner.

    https://www.chapelhilltraining.com/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Mindset shift from staff to President and co-...
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    Tony Chiappetta is the founder and CEO of AMC Solutions, an IT company that helps businesses build modern IT systems that make every employee more productive and help grow their business. Tony now has 17 employees after redesigning his entire business and dropping from 24 employees down to 8.

    https://amcsolutions.com/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Restructuring your business - entirely new processes and systems, trimming staff and ...
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    Mitchell Simonson is the founder of Simonson Appraisals, a virtual firm providing commercial real estate valuation services in Minnesota, North Dakota, and Wisconsin. Since 2019 he has grown his business to include four staff appraisers and two admin staff.

    https://www.simonsonappraisals.com/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • The difficulties of hiring entry-level staff including training
  • Working in the business vs. working on the busine...
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    Blake Wyatt is a Facebook and YouTube Ads specialist and Leader at SalesMentor, a Traffic and Funnels company. Blake has been a media buyer and has worked as a profit manager. A media buyer, in this sense, is a digital media buyer purchasing ads for Facebook, Google, YouTube, Twitter, and Snapchat. 

    @blake.wyatt89 on Instagram, Blake Wyatt on Facebook

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Leadership including developing a vision and ali...
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    Neal Bawa is the founder and CEO of Grocapitus Investments, a real estate investment company that sources, negotiates, and acquires commercial properties across the United States. Grocpaitus has a remote component with heavy reliance on virtual assistants. Neal has a background in mathematics and computer science and he applies this knowledge to real estate investing.

    https://www.grocapitus.com/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Risks o...
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    Don Maranca is a certified EOS implementer and founder of JDSM Enterprises, a coaching company that helps entrepreneurs implement the Entrepreneurial Operating System (EOS) model in order to create a holistic system for running their business

    https://jdsmenterprises.com/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • The greatest challenges for small business owners
  • The importance of a clear personal and professional vision
  • The three key aspects of a...
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    Mark Wald founded Supporting Strategies | Los Angeles in 2013 and has grown the business to 40 W2 employees working virtually across 10 states in the US. They're providing exceptional finance and accounting support to hundreds of growing startups, small businesses, and nonprofits as a virtual firm.

    https://www.supportingstrategies.com/la

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Growing with referral networks
  • Pricing method with custom servi...
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    Matt Ryan has over ten years of experience in real estate and construction and founded his company, re-viv, to re-engineer residential and commercial real estate in underserved communities.

    https://re-viv.com/team/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Letting go of ego to delegate and outsource
  • Time management
  • Finding qualified candidates
  • Lessons for hiring and recruiting
  • To learn more about the Staying Power Collective, a group for aspiring a...

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    Cynthia Hackler Flynn, Esq. is the founder of Hackler Flynn and Associates, a California-based law firm specializing in employment law. Today, Cindy has seven employees and everyone is working fully remotely.

    https://hacklerflynnlaw.com/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Common mistakes employers make with employees
  • Creating an employee handbook
  • Accountability and time logs for a remote workforce
  • Hiring right to help avoid employee issues
  • T...

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    Joshua Driskell is the managing partner of Lagerlof, LLP, a law firm that has been involved in shaping the legal and business landscape in southern California for more than 100 years. Joshua has extensive experience in handling mergers and acquisitions and has recently taken action to enable remote work.

    https://www.lagerlof.com/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Growing through mergers and acquisitions
  • Identifying a potential acquisiti...
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    Caleb Guilliams is the founder and CEO of Better Wealth, a company committed to financial education and coaching. Caleb founded the company at 21 and is now 24 - he has added 13 team members and clients in almost every state during these three years.

    https://betterwealth.com/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • How and why Caleb started Better Wealth
  • Gaining clarity on the core desired results
  • Self-awareness and confidence
  • Learning from book...
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    Gary Shamis assumed responsibility for his father’s accounting firm in 1981. Over the thirty-five years that followed, he took revenues from $225,000 to approaching $100 million and employees from a dozen to 600. He built the 37th largest independent accounting and consulting firm in the nation, before combining SS&G, Inc. with BDO USA, LLP in 2014.

    Today, he is principal of Winding River Consulting, a business advisory services...

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    Scott Choppin is the founder and CEO of the Urban Pacific group of companies. Urban Pacific develops multifamily workforce housing. Scott founded Urban Pacific over 20 years ago and has developed over 3,400 units with $900MM+ in exits. He has expanded and contracted the business over the years through market cycles and has changed his strategy along the way.

    https://www.urbanpacific.com/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • Building a ...
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    Chris Evans and Taylor Welch are Co-Founders of Traffic and Funnels, a sales and marketing company. Chris and Taylor grew the company to over a million dollars in annual sales in five years and have been able to develop a leadership team that allows them to spend only 5 hours per week on the business.

    https://trafficandfunnels.com/

    In today’s episode, we discuss:

  • How to form a healthy partnership
  • Scaling to the point to remove yourself...
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