Category: FBF Podcast Archive

  • FBF117 – See You On The NEW Modern Leadership Podcast

    FBF117 – See You On The NEW Modern Leadership Podcast

    Listen and subscribe to the new Modern Leadership Podcast– Join our Launch Day Party to win awesome prizes at jakeacarlson.com/win Discover Your Leadership Superpower with this Free Assessment [callout]This episode originally appeared on the Family Before Fortune Podcast which is now the Modern Leadership Podcast. To listen to Modern Leadership click here. To see the Family…

  • FBF116 – Be a Mentor, Change a Life

    FBF116 – Be a Mentor, Change a Life

    Are you ready to be a mentor? No? Well get ready we need you. Change a life. The word mentor comes from a character in Homer’s epic tale, The Odyssey named Mentor. He was a trusted friend of Odysseus and an advisor. During the Trojan War, Mentor served as counsel to Odysseus’ son Telemachu. Free Accountability Printable…

  • FBF115 – Running to Leadership with Jeremy Barnhart

    FBF115 – Running to Leadership with Jeremy Barnhart

    Jeremy Barnhart is a co-owner and VP of Franchise Development at Apex Fun Run. His a background is in accounting and he has been involved in a number of other business ventures. Apex Fun Run’s passion His helping our teachers, students and schools. A group that is often overworked and underfunded. Apex Fun Run partners with…

  • FBF114 – Seven Steps to Finding & Benefitting From Mentors

    FBF114 – Seven Steps to Finding & Benefitting From Mentors

    Mentors and mentoring have become a hot topic today. From social media to networking circles to added-value benefits of new employment, everyone is talking about the need for mentors. But how do you find one? It isn’t typical for a mentor to approach you. And once you have found a mentor, what are the steps…

  • FBF113 – $1.6 Billion – Still Working?

    FBF113 – $1.6 Billion – Still Working?

    On January 13th 2016- Lisa, John and Tiffany Robinson, Maureen Smith, and Marvin & Mae Acosta became millionaires. Are they still working? I’m sure other people crossed the seven figure threshold that day- but for this group of six the circumstances were special. They didn’t spend years building a company or strategically catch a rise…

  • FBF112 – The Option to Live Intentional with Kirk Du Plessis

    FBF112 – The Option to Live Intentional with Kirk Du Plessis

    Kirk Du Plessis is a full-time options trader, real estate investor, and stay-at-home Dad. He got his start as a Mergers & Acquisitions Investment Banker & worked as a Real Estate Investment Trust analyst for some big banks before founding Option Alpha, in 2007. What started as a small blog has quickly grown into one of…

  • FBF111 – Choose a Career You’ll Love

    FBF111 – Choose a Career You’ll Love

    You know what is sad? In a salary.com survey, 52% of respondents said they constantly feel overworked. In the most recent Gallup poll entitled, The State of the American Workplace, found 70 percent of American workers are either “not engaged” or “actively disengaged” in their work. 68% of people working would take a pay cut…

  • FBF110 –  Killer Confidence

    FBF110 – Killer Confidence

    Millions of Americans struggle with confidence issues. If you search the internet you will find article after article of esteem boosting ideas and support groups for people struggling. Part of the problem is we have created a society of Potemkin Villages: The idea that our reputations are literally or figuratively built for the sole purpose of deceiving…

  • FBF109 – Creating Disney Magic with Lee Cockerell

    FBF109 – Creating Disney Magic with Lee Cockerell

    Lee Cockerell is the former Executive Vice President of Operations for the Walt Disney World® Resort. As the Senior Operating Executive for ten years Lee led a team of 40,000 Cast Members and was responsible for the operations of 20 resort hotels, 4 theme parks, 2 water parks, a shopping & entertainment village and the…

  • FBF108 – Goals, Goal Setting & BHAGs

    FBF108 – Goals, Goal Setting & BHAGs

    I am a planner. I love the process of sitting down, reviewing previous wins, losses, success and failures and strategizing ways to improve and then putting a plan together to accomplish. In this episode we talk 6 steps to creating goals worth completing and the 7 steps to decide if your goals are Big Hairy and…