Leadership of Employees Comes Down to Clarity
In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly talk about leading and inspiring employees today. John makes a compelling point. Leadership today isn’t working. According to Gallup, 70% of employees are disengaged from their job. It’s been this way for 20 years. The reason is leadership has it backwards. You can’t lead others until you can effectively lead yourself.
And the unfortunate truth is most people don’t intelligently and deliberately lead themselves. They’re just winging life. Because no one taught them an alternative. The alternative is advanced leadership of self. It’s an intelligent and intentional way of leading oneself with a system. Master the system, and two things happen. First, you live the exceptional life rather than the average life. Secondly, leading other people stops becoming a performance. Rather it becomes an extension of who you already are. It’s highly effective. Doing this interview we go deep with Kelly and the challenges she has in leading her team. She also talks about the difference between leadership and management.
Having a Purpose Versus a Passion
In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly talk about the concept of having a purpose to your life. Where you’re living your life driven by something that helps other people. This is different than having a passion regarding something you enjoy. A purpose always involves helping other people. And it can be one’s guiding light through their career. In this episode John talks about how in his 30s and 40s he had no clear purpose helping others. He was just trying to make enough money so he didn’t have to ultimately work. Then he discovered the reverse mortgage business. In that business, he had a purpose. Because he lost his dad when he was 24. And he saw how investment advisors tried to get his mom to do various investments and they were more concerned about their commission then his mom’s well-being. So when he got into the reverse mortgage business, his attitude was he was going to treat every customer like his own parents. Tell them the truth and tell them the negatives. It had a powerful impact on why the business was so successful. And today, John’s focus is having the purpose of giving driven people who want to play the game of life at their full potential an edge, an advantage. And Kelly feels exactly the same way. She has a purpose for being an example to her employees. She calls it the ripple effect. She loves the effect of helping employers find candidates for their jobs and on the flipside helping employees find great jobs. It’s her purpose.
If You Want the Exceptional Life Rather Than the Average Life, You Have to Have a SYSTEM for Intelligently and Purposely Leading Yourself
In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly talk about the concept of having a system for leading yourself versus just winging life. John talks about what a difference it made in his life in his 50s when he had a system for leading himself versus it is 30s and 40s when […]
The Problem – Lack of Clarity
In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly talk about the effect of having a lack of clarity. In the advanced leadership of self methodology, it’s all about clarity. You define exactly the person you want to be, exactly what you want to accomplish, and precisely how you are going to achieve […]
AI: Why You Shouldn’t Be Afraid Of It
In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly talk about AI. Today in the United States, approximately 75% of people are against AI. John talks about how misguided that is. The train has already left the station. AI is revolutionizing the world. And even if we wanted to, we couldn’t turn back […]
Experience of Doing the 12 Minute a Day Advanced Leadership of Self Methodology Versus Winging Life
In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly talk about the experience of doing the 12 minute a day advanced leadership of self methodology long-term. What is like on a daily basis versus just winging life. They talk about the effect on the most important relationship in your life. Your relationship with […]
Your Life is Precious – Coming to Grips with That (Encore)
In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the idea of making the audience appreciate individually how precious their life is. Coming to grips with that. John talks about when this really came home in his life. It was when his mom was dying of pancreatic cancer when he was 50 […]
Creating A Nest Egg So You Can Retire (Encore)
In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the concept of creating a nest egg so you can retire. In discussing this, Kelly notes that she was a saver from a young age. Literally putting aside 20% a year. She was taught this by her dad who made her read the […]
The Struggle of Life: And the Solution (Encore)
In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly discuss the struggle of life, then the solution. So little back story on this topic. Recently John met a brilliant guy that is in the field of maximizing brain health. He read John’s book and had a candid suggestion for John on how to […]
You Are Two People In One – The Doer and The Observer (Encore)
In this episode of The Missing Secret Podcast, John and Kelly introduce an interesting idea. You are two people in one. There is the do’er you and there is the observer you. John points out that this is a powerful way to look at your life from a 30,000 foot view. And it is particularly […]