Leadership Lesson: Leaders Bear Their Burden Well

Leaders Bear Their Burden Well. Let me explain. My mother Donna called my brother Barrett last week. She shared the news that our Uncle Ed who is 84 will have open heart surgery this coming week. The kicker? He just told his children and siblings last week after knowing for 4 months. Now for some […]

Leadership Lesson: Lead Your Empire

In the last few weeks, we learned the 3 pillars of leadership. Lead yourself. Lead your family. Lead your empire. Once you can lead yourself and family.. This is where things challenging.  So buckle up as it’s time to lead your empire. Now first, let’s define “your empire.” Your empire can show up in many […]

Leadership Lesson: The 3 Leadership Principles

Last week we learned that the #1 skill of an entrepreneur is leadership. When you learn to LEAD.. You liberate yourself from needing to learn every task in the business. That’s impossible. Instead, you can then bring on a team of subject matter experts that will explode your business. This is the power of leadership. […]

Leadership Lesson: The #1 Skill

I had my semi-annual ½ day with Bedros last Monday to discuss big picture strategy for Fit Body growth.  We talk about sales, marketing and scaling as a primary focus as the norm. This time, we also talked about my personal branding.  And how it is used as a marketing strategy to continue to grow […]

Leadership Lesson: Your Character Under Attack

This week we will finish out the mini leadership series on character. In the past few, we learned that a strong character is needed for strong leadership. That telling the truth is the quickest way to improve it. But what happens when your character is questioned or even attacked? Here’s the tough truth.  As a […]

Leadership Lesson: Your Character

Before jumping in today’s lesson.. I wanted to close the loop from last week on why I find my buddy Stefan to be 1 of the most interesting people I know.. He was born in LA. This makes him American. Although, he is European by culture.  His parents moved to Paris for 10 years after […]

Leadership Lesson: The Most Important Thing

I was in Seattle over the weekend visiting my good buddy Stefan of 20 years. I haven’t taken 1.5 days off in a long time and it felt great. The time was extra special to spend with his 2 kids and wife who are like family to Tatiana & I.  Stefan has had a big […]

Leadership Lesson: Veterans Day Leadership

Veterans Day was this past Saturday here in the States. Love and respect to the beautiful souls who served. Many who paid the ultimate price for our freedom. In studying leadership and human personality styles..  I find it interesting that the most popular personality style for the military is different than you might think. What […]

Leadership Lesson: The Most Important Thing

November is here! This means, we are going to take a month break from the 21 Laws by Maxwell for some variety before finishing out laws #15-21 in the New Year. Specific to today..  I want to take a step back around leadership and focus on the 1 key ingredient to leadership success. As I […]

Tuesday Leadership Lesson

As John Maxwell writes in The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership.. “Victorious leaders have one thing in common: they share an unwillingness to accept defeat.”  This is probably 1 of my favorite laws of leadership.  In fact, it’s why I LOVE the saying “winners-win”. As if you cannot drive a winning culture, you will not […]