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If you have children, today's message is for you. Our guest, Lynette Bailey, is here to share her story of how she prepared her daughters for financial freedom and how she adjusted her budget for her children.

Having emotions is a normal human function, but it's easy to let them get in the way of our performance. Today we talk about controlling our emotional intelligence and grasping that our emotions are not who we are.

Connor Gillivan started his first business while he was still in college buying and selling products on Amazon. Once he and his business partner realized they couldn't do everything themselves, they changed their whole outlook on hiring. His experiences here lead to his business today -- Connor is currently the CMO of FreeeUp, which he's essentially created through freelancers. As an entrepreneur and business owner, you'll want to listen to this episode to learn how to get the most out of your business' budget.

A lot of time the feedback you get from your team is the feedback they think you want to hear. You need to find out what your team really thinks of you to be a great leader -- and in this episode, we share exactly how to do so.

One of the single biggest contributing factors to your success is your environment and who you surround yourself with. Today we're talking about a way you can guarantee that you are surrounded by leaders -- volunteering.

Today's topic might be one of your favorites -- why you NEED a vacation! Many people these days are not taking vacations due to the fear of losing momentum and dealing with the post-vacation stress. In this episode, we want to reframe your thinking on vacations.

You need to be more intentional with your growth if you want to increase your results and effectiveness. Today we discuss John Maxwell's law of the lid, which rates your leadership from 1-10, and what makes up leadership.

Decrease frustration and Increase results with this easy tip - use a checklist! We have proven to ourselves that if we don't go through our checklists one by one, we will inevitably miss something. Having the proper checklist and knowing how to use it takes a huge weight off your shoulders. In this episode, we're going to help you implement a checklist in any situation.

Whether helping clients, keeping audiences riveted, writing another compelling blog post or giving useful branding advice on a national news program, Bruce Turkel lives and breathes this philosophy. His agency, Turkel Brands, has created remarkably effective campaigns for leading brands such as American Express, Bacardi and Discovery Networks. Bruce Turkel is a master at making brands more valuable. On top of that, he's an author of 5 books and an enthusiastic personality -- this is not an episode you want to miss!

Keith Harmeyer is all about IDEAS. Author, Speaker, and Innovative Thinking Catalyst spends his time speaking, writing, and consulting on the topics of innovative thinking and creative problem-solving. Keith has worked with market leaders like Google, Under Armour, NBCUniversal, Diageo, Siemens, Omnicom Group, WPP, NETSCOUT, Macmillan Publishing, and many others… and has even trained MBA candidates at MIT’s Sloan School of Management. Keith is a founding partner at SmartStorming.com, and is co-author of the book, SmartStorming: The Game-Changing Process for Generating Bigger, Better Ideas. He's got such an interesting (and artistic) background that you'll want to hear all about.

Kendrick Shope is the creator of the leading sales training for women entrepreneurs, Sales School, and the Authentic Selling® process which has created millions of dollars in revenue and new business for her clients. Kendrick’s work has been featured on the Steve Harvey Show, NBC, Forbes, INC, and more -- which is no surprise, her energy and positivity are infectious! We are so excited to share Kendrick's sales methodology with you today!

Today's Evolve to Win gues is Dr. Gayle Carson who, like many of us, has experienced endless moves and career adventures/hiccups along the way. Her "silver lining mentality” has allowed her to build a company from 0 to 7 offices, 350 employees, and work with over 1000 clients in 50 different industries. She is so interesting and captivating, we HAD to have her on our podcast!

The open door policy started out as a way to build an organization of trust, transparency, and collaboration, but now it's been misconstrued and we've lost that original idea. If you start training people that they can bypass their manager and go to another senior leader without working to solve a problem at the level it should be solved, you're ultimately preventing that manager from building the appropriate trust and relationship -- leading to further challenges. In this episode, we discuss ways you can fix this problem, while still gaining the benefits intended of the open door policy.

Evolve to Win is all about influencing change so it's fitting that today's guest is Melinda Marcus. Melinda is a known expert in the science of influence: a combination of what is tested and proven in psychology, body language, and messaging. Today she's going to share her expertise in pacing, volume, pitch, tone, pauses -- all non-verbal communication patterns that are key to understand to best navigate your business to success.

Today's guest on Evolve to Win is Michael Benson. For almost four decades, Michael has been an advocate for his clients in helping protect and preserve wealth. Over this period of time, he has created several companies to address various aspects of wealth management, wealth transfer planning, charitable trusts, and foundation administration and reporting. Together we discuss his client advocacy and solution-oriented approach and how he has helped protect significant wealth for clients, their families and charitable legacies.

Today we're here to help you shift out of having a bad day into just a bad moment so you can quickly feel better, get back to business, and have full control.

It is critical that you define your leadership purpose -- if you don't, you are subject to whatever happens in your environment. When you don't have that purpose, that's when things can implode. In this episode of Evolve to Win, we walk you through how to clearly define your leadership purpose.

Meaningful conversations are so important not only in your personal life, but in the workplace too. We strongly believe these conversations are not happening in the workplace at the level that they should be. Leaders in the workplace need to form these bonds and trust that are built in a meaningful relationship in order to operate at their peak performance. In this episode, we discuss how you can take action to better your workplace relationships.

Today we’ll talk to retired Lieutenant Colonel Al Mategrano about some of the most important leadership lessons he’s learned over the years and during his time in the Army. He’ll talk about some of his greatest mentors and what he learned from them, and how these lessons can be useful to leaders of all types.