Harbourtime Podcast

Harbourtime Podcast

A podcast designed to explore a variety of business strategy topics and a place to hear practical tips for building and implementing sound business strategies. #strategy #business #management #smallbusiness Support this podcast: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/harbourtimepodcast/support

Episodes

May 17, 2023 57 mins

In this Episode of Harbourtime Podcast, I talk with Chris Baggett, Founder of Canyon Creek Revenue Management about entrepreneurship.  More specifically, we focus in on entrepreneurs that are over the age of 50. Specific challenges facing more experienced workers who decide to take the entrepreneurial plunge. 

 

 Segment 1: Entrepreneurship as an Aging Professional

  • Sharing of personal stories or anecdotes of entrepreneurs wh...
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Do you consider yourself a thought leader? Are you interested in becoming a thought leader? In this Episode of Harbourtime Podcast, I talk with a thought leader from one of the industries that I serve: Mortgage. Matt Slonaker's experience includes Operations Leadership and Enterprise Sales Leadership. Matt has a consulting firm, M. Allen, LLC, where he focuses on "Growth in Action" for his clients. Podcast Episode...

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In this session we discuss Artificial Intelligence (AI) and how it can be used with Big Data to grow your business and expand your professional life. Poossenjeet Bhatacharya is a Machine Learning and Big Data expert, and he shares his knowledge on how to use AI with Big Data. We cover a lot of ground. The following topics are covered:

Segment 1: Artificial Intelligence as a Tool to Help Make Decisions

  • Explanation of what AI ...
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In this session, Collin Harbour and guest Dennis Gierula discuss dealing with adversity in the context of job searching as an Experienced Professional and business/client searching as a seasoned solopreneur.


They key areas of focus on the pod are:


Segment 1 Dealing with Adversity

Many people face adversity including:  Job Loss, Business Loss, Illness, Weather

Collin and Dennis have both experienced job loss.

Coping with ...

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In this episode, we cover a topic that hits all of us. It is unavoidable. Pressure! Pressure! Pressure!

On December 11, 2011, RGIII won the Heisman Trophy and included in his speech, “Great things don’t happen without hard work . . . the hotter the heat, the harder the steel. No pressure. No diamonds. We compete. We win.”

The guest today is Bruce Pulver, Author of Above the Chatter, Our Words Matter, Ted x Speaker, and Acros...

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10.5 more months to go until 2024! 2023 is full of hope and possibility and the perfect time to accomplish all of your goals and turn dreams into reality!

Want to build a business? Nothing’s holding you back.

Want to close a big deal? Close it!

Want to quit your job and become an independent? Simple! Crack open the list and highlight your goals.

We all have one and we all have things we want to achieve this year. But the list isn’t...

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The relaunch of Harbourtime Strategy Talks Podcast as Harbourtime Podcast!  This is a previously recorded episode that was a pilot episode for Just Make Contact Podcast.  I decided to stop at the pilot and focus on Harbourtime, but this content is too good not to use!

Today we discuss taking a leap of faith in business and life in general with Marcus Ellis.

A wide range of topics are covered including:

Taking a leap of fa...

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Rob Dewald and Erika Garcia from Precedent Management are this week’s guests. We discuss:

  • Creating strategic differentiators
  • Pivoting to new business opportunities
  • Going above and beyond for clients
  • Creating and maintaining an employee-focused culture.

Creating strategic differentiators are key to growing a business. In the age of technology, a differentiator may just be “the human touch.” Technology can be used to p...

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Kate Bradley Chernis is the co-founder and CEO of Lately AI, also known as the only social media management platform that creates content FOR you with the power of A.I.

In this week’s session, we discuss her journey from DJ of one of the biggest XM Radio shows to Marketing Agency (managing marketing and social media on spreadsheets), to capital raiser, to Start Up Founder and CEO (and then hopefully to DJ again, when she can afford...

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Leslie Hassler of Your Biz Rules yourbizrules.com) speaks with me about her experience guiding women owned service-based businesses into more profits cashflow and success.

Leslie applies over 14 years of entrepreneurial experience to help business owners and entrepreneurs navigate the waters when things go “sideways”. Her experiences helps companies overcome the obstacles and continue to thrive and grow.

We discuss her “Scaling Ric...

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Vulnerability Tour 2021 – Dealing with Communication Issues in 2021!

Can you think of a time or would you even admit to it a time when your, your communication, your words, or your, your style of communication caused damage to you or to someone else?

In this session, I discuss overcoming the “communication roadblock,” aka “when you can’t say what you really mean.”

Based on the book by Brian Harbour, 17 Roadblocks on the Highway ...

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Leadership is Always Relevant as a Strategy!

The speed of the team is all about the speed of the leader.

You’re not really a leader if people aren’t following you.

In this episode, leadership, motivation, and overcoming your fears to get things done is discussed with Tim Kintz of Kintz Group

Buzzwords aren’t necessary for good leaders.

Managers are often the least trained people at companies. Even if they are trained, it doesn’t me...

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#strategy #personalbranding #socialselling #brand #smallbusiness

Many of us have a strong physical brand, but a weak digital brand.   This session of Harbourtime Strategy Talks discusses various strategies to enhance your brand (personal and corporate) and defines social selling. Strategies are presented to help with social selling and personal brand building, with a delineation between a physical brand and digital brand.

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Leadership as a business strategy or leadership in general is always an important topic.

Learning about leadership can help you grow into a better person.

My favorite leadership style is “servant leadership.” Servant leaders don’t see themselves as the dictator and that they actually serve others. They lead by example.

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Podcast Guest is Business Coach and Author, Warren Coughlin from Toronto. Warren is a dad and business coach to entrepreneurs since 2002.

Warren believes “deeply in the core of my being that entrepreneurship is one of the most powerful forces for positive social change.”

The first part of the discussion centers around business coaching and operational strategy:

Business coaching is not the same as life coaching for business folks.

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Are you your own worst critic? I hate receiving criticism, but I certainly love dishing it out. Or are you like LeBron James in that criticism stimulates you? Lebron said, “I like criticism. It makes you strong.”

Everybody's a critic these days. And I mean, literally everybody, social media has made it more harsh, more frequent and more real, like it's a real punch in the face.

For instance, on February 5th, 2018, the following was...

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Is your business prepared for the next big crisis?

The utility companies in Texas are learning about preparedness.

2020 taught us all that we need to be prepared: for global pandemics, for social unrest, for changing economic environments.

David Obert is Vice President of Property Technology Solutions at Xactware.

Finding a “better way” to provide service is the premise behind this technology company.

Here how a company that focuse...

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When is the last time you failed, I mean, really failed? 

I know that you failed and you know that I have failed. I know you're scared of failing again, whether you're a business owner, a successful executive, maybe a solopreneur, someone looking for a job I'm willing to bet money that you've already failed, If not miserably in 2021. 

How are we going to handle failure in 2021? 

I'm going to focus on a few key basics...

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Trent Simmons is the CEO of Hardeman Company and has a passion for small family businesses.  Trent and his brother took a natural gas marketing company from their father which was the genesis of Hardeman.   Trent has a passion for small business.

Hardeman seeks to purchase businesses that they can own and operate as owners for the long haul. Not looking for a quick flip. They want businesses that are built the way we...

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Our guest this week is Shelia Butler, COO of the Arrangement.   Shelia is also a former classmate of mine in the Baylor University Dallas Executive MBA Program, Class 10 (2004)

Shelia has experience starting, building and selling companies.  She also has experience as a Consultant, Industry Thought Leader and Speaker.

Shelia was "Podcasting Before Podcasting Was Cool".  We discuss what it used to be like to run ...

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