Poised for Exit
Welcome to the Poised for Exit podcast! Poised for Exit is an under 30-minute strategic planning guidance podcast for busy small business owners. Each week you’ll hear certified exit planning advisor, Julie Keyes, talk with a range of entrepreneurs and professionals about preparing your business for a future transition. Guests at every stage of company ownership will share their personal stories and lessons learned about topics such as the anatomy of the exit planning process, developing a growth strategy, how to sell on your terms, exit planning for women small business owners, handling business diversity, and how to sell a family business. Whether you’re planning an exit in the near future or not, this show will provide you with the same action-oriented content that Julie utilizes while consulting with Keyestrategies clients. Building an exit strategy can be overwhelming, especially with all the decisions and details you have to consider. “Poised for Exit” will simplify the process and help you unwrap the unknowns, giving you more confidence in your planning process. Previous episodes are available for download, so if you are new to our show, you can listen to them in any order that suits you. Join us each week for timely, relevant content that will surely impact your business exit outcome! Subscribe to our newsletter below to receive your weekly episode link and stay updated on new strategic planning content. Find “Poised for Exit” on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, Google Play, iHeart Radio, Amazon Music, and others. Thank you to our Sponsors: Sunbelt Business Advisers and JAK CPA's. A special note of thanks to Tyler Keyes who produced the music for the “Poised for Exit” show.
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Trust Matters Now more than Ever: Learn from the Experts
Trust Matters Now more than Ever: Learn from the Experts
We had the privilege of interviewing Brian Slipka and David Horsager together in the studio today to talk about the books they’ve both recently written! The conversation eventually lead to the concept of trust and how it can be so quickly depleted in today’s society.
David is an author, speaker and researcher on the topic of trust and has not only written several books on the subject, but has also established an Institution of consultants who teach leaders how to establish and measure it. His numerous research projects about trust have generated numerous annual reports summarizing aspects of trust, its presence or absence with research that spans industries, generations and countries.
Brian’s book, “Win Some: 5 Proven Life Strategies to Win in Relationships” was published by David’s company “Broadstreet Publishing” and released earlier this year, is a book written in the form of a fable with a baseball theme. The story teaches lessons on trust, humility and self-awareness that eventually help the main character, Sam earn the trust and build relationships with those on his team and in his life. When I asked Brian what he learned about himself in writing the book, he said he learned that he can be a protagonist as much as Sam, his main character, which helped him to check himself more often in that category! We all admitted that our greatest strengths are usually our weaknesses too.
David’s 4th book called “Trust Matters More than Ever: 40 Proven Tools to Lead Better, Grow Faster & Build Trust Now!” is slated to be released in November and has already sold over 10,000 copies! David speaks 100 times per year to private organizations, public companies and trade associations across the globe about how the presence of trust impacts successful companies, teams and relationships, and how to establish it as a metric for ongoing growth and fulfillment. Trust definitely leads to improved relationships and growth, but when trust is absent, many times other factors are deemed at fault, like ‘communication’. David maintains that it all boils down to a lack of trust, regardless of what else may be blamed.
Brian and David’s relationship started through connections with several mutual friends and the collaboration grew from there. We agreed that bringing them back in a year to get an update on all they have going together (and separately) would be in order!
Listen to the amazing interview here!
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