People Business w/ O'Brien McMahon

Jeff Lovell is a coach on authentic living. He created The Great Life Project to help successful founders and executives who are good at work be great at life.
Mentioned in this Episode:

• Jeff Lovell on LinkedIn - https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeff-lovell-coach/
• JeffLovell.Coach - https://jefflovell.coach/
• The Peace Index by Jeremie Kubicek - https://www.amazon.com/Peace-Index-Five-Part-Framework-Fulfillment/dp/1119985927
• Start with Why by Simon Sinek - https://www.amazon.com/Start-Why-Leaders-Inspire-Everyone/dp/1591846447/ref=sr_1_1?crid=28EZZP5LFLO1C&keywords=Start+with+Why+by+Simon+Sinek&qid=1670517178&s=books&sprefix=start+with+why+by+simon+sinek%2Cstripbooks%2C79&sr=1-1
• Mike Rowe on Purpose - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1EjVLz968M

Time Codes:
(2:19) - How did you get into coaching and what is the work that you do?
(5:43) - What are the issues that most people come to you with?
(7:16) - What is the role of a pastor and how does that influence the work you do now?
(9:26) - What do people get wrong about pastors?
(11:19) - How have you built the skill of having conversations with people at their most authentic level?
(13:38) - How do you know when to sit back and let things happen, and when someone needs a fire lit underneath them?
(16:53) - Where do you start with a new client?
(18:51) - Are there any
(20:02) - How do you help someone figure out what their big purpose is?
(28:52) - Should we all aspire to a life of helping others?
(34:39) - How do you coach clients through self-deception?
(42:32) - How does someone know whether they should be talking to a coach or a therapist?
(46:46) - What do you believe about people or businesses that might be contrarian?
(47:56) - What are you sick of talking about?
(51:02) - What is the purpose of life?
(51:52) - Where can people find you online?

Amelia Forczak is the Founder of Pithy Wordsmithery, a firm that specializes in helping people write and market their books. She and her team members work with executives and entrepreneurs across a range of industries to help them build and monetize their thought leadership and grow their businesses.
Over the past 10 years, Amelia has ghostwritten 10 business books, including five bestsellers. She also spearheads clients’ marketing strategies, including website design, email marketing, social media, and graphic design. Amelia manages a Forbes column on leadership strategy where she provides ghostwriting and editing support for women business executives.

Mentioned in this Episode:

Ernest Hemingway on Writer’s Block
Write the Perfect Book Proposal: 10 That Sold and Why
The Forest for the Trees: An Editor’s Advice to Writers
On Killing: The Psychological Cost of Learning to Kill in War and Society
Joe Rogan on Happiness

Not Mentioned But Great Books on Writing
Writing Tools by Roy Peter Clark On Writing by Stephen King
Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
Draft No. 4 by John McPhee

Julie Billingsley is the Vice President of Human Resources at ZS Associates, a global professional services and consulting firm with 10,000 employees and contractors spanning 13 countries. Julie has been with ZS for 26+ years, helping them grow double digits year-over-year while purposely building and expanding their workforce and corporate culture. She has been integral to establishing their coaching practices, which now touch every employee around the world, as well as their workforce modeling tools that keep them appropriately staffed through periods of uncertainty and growth.
Time Stamps:

(2:39) - Can you pitch ZS Associates?
(5:26) - What do your US and Global footprints look like?
(6:41) - Are your people location-based or do they move around all the time?
(9:35) - Was it a conscious decision to make sure associates were based in the same area as their clients instead of relying on heavy travel?
(10:19) - What are the biggest challenges in leading people with a model of a lot of small offices spread out?
(11:57) - What is your role as a human resources leader?
(12:50) - What does surveying the landscape of the employees look like to you?
(13:53) - The coaching side of the business
(17:47) - The line between coaching young people to act professional and expecting them to be professional
20:18) - What were you looking for as far as an ROI in bringing on these coaches?
(21:33) - What happens after they’ve had a coach for 4-5 years?
(22:51) - Where did that belief in the value of coaching come from?
(25:02) - What are the challenges to building out coaching in other countries?
(27:00) - Are all of the coaches coordinating their work globally?
(28:06) - How do you maintain a consistent culture with a global workforce?
(29:20) - How do you give credence to the cultural differences in global offices while keeping the performance standard the same?
(35:22) - Teaching people how to interact with other people & facilitating meetings
(37:22) - How the English language differentiates globally
(38:26) - Is everyone expected at a seniority level to be able to coach someone below them or are coaches selected based on abilities?
(41:11) - How have you evolved your practices to manage growth?
(45:41) - Does your agile framework allow you to expand during “hot” months?
(46:56) - How are you aggregating all of your data?
(50:27) - What are the biggest lessons you’ve learned from leading the people function of business throughout your career?
(51:09) - Is there anything you believe about business or leadership that you think is contrary to what most people are doing in the market?
(52:26) - Did you know that human resources would be something you would love to do?
(54:58) - What is the purpose of Business?

Dr. Jeff Spencer is a former Olympic cyclist turned personal and professional coach who makes winning big the normal. He has helped clients like Hitachi, U2, and Tiger Woods master their mindset and achieve their most aspirational goals. He’s been featured in Fortune magazine, Huffington Post, and the LA Times. With all his outward success, his greatest achievement is raising his adopted daughter.
Dr. Spencer explains how to get out of the ruts that are holding us back, how to build a champion's mindset, and how to set yourself up for success from the very beginning.
Mentioned in the Episode:

• Goal Achievement Roadmap
• How to Not Blow it Before You Win
• The Last Dance Documentary Series
• Contact Dr. Jeff Spencer

Timestamps:
(2:39) - How do you define the work that you do?
(4:37) - What are the components of ‘The Whole’ that you look at when working with a new client?
(6:17) - What are the different components to get someone from their starting point to their end-goal?
(11:09) - What are we all screwing up when it comes to clarity?
(13:36) - What is the way to overcome the voice of imminent failure within ourselves?
(16:20) - Where is the starting point for changing the story we tell ourselves, about ourselves?
(18:23) - Is there a lot of writing and journaling required in the work you do?
(21:28) - How do you know if you have the right goal?
(25:55) - Over Preparing for the practice of achieving your goal
(28:47) - Should everybody have an aspiration that is comparable to those of professional athletes, Olympians, and CEOs?
(34:20) - Making goal achievement predictable and consistent
(37:40) - Is there a point where you recommend people work with a therapist when bogged down with trauma or anxiety that would’ve led to self-sabotage?
(39:36) - For someone in a leadership position, how do they start to inspire others to do some of this work?
(42:59) - Goal setting exercise promoted by CPO of Lulu Lemon
(44:55) - Does an individual have to be obsessed and singularly focused to be elite?
(49:35) - Having the courage to act on your own goals
(51:06) - Where do you get the most pushback in your approach?
(52:51) - What is the purpose of business?
(54:00) - Where can people learn more about you and your work?

A serial entrepreneur who entered the United States as a refugee from Ukraine at the age of 8, Diana had launched and sold millions of dollars worth of products and services by her early thirties. Today, she is an innovation consultant, leadership development keynote speaker, and New York Times bestselling author whose books have been taught in over 100 universities. And her parents would like you to know that her sister is a doctor. Diana is the author of Go Big or Go Home.
Mentioned on the Show:

• Go Big or Go Home by Diana Kander: https://a.co/d/5x73IOK
• Be sure to listen to Diana’s interview with O’Brien to learn how to receive her book for free
• Diana’s website: https://dianakander.com/
• Learn more about Diana’s other books here: https://dianakander.com/books/
• Jesse Itzler and the Big A## Calendar: https://jesseitzler.com/products/calendar-2024
• Gabrielle Reece on The Joe Rogan Experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V7HhQhQjC4A

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• Connect with O’Brien McMahon on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/obrienmcmahon/
• Learn more about O’Brien: https://obrienmcmahon.com/
• O’Brien’s new book—How You Become You—is available now: https://a.co/d/22kZ0sV

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Timestamps:
(2:11) - Welcoming Diana.
(3:02) - How does one become an innovation consultant?
(3:44) - What is most misunderstood about innovation?
(6:51) - How do you limit your capacity so you have flex time?
(9:52) - What are examples of your "impossible tasks"?
(13:03) - What makes a person or a pitch memorable?
(15:22) - Can you talk about the level of research you do to prepare for a pitch?
(16:37) - Is that different than the old school build rapport?
(20:49) - How do you balance technical knowledge with relationship building?
(22:49) - What are tips to build trust in high-stakes situations?
(25:04) - What do you say to people who say these methods are cheesy?
(29:01) - How do you avoid starting a meeting by telling them about yourself?
(31:18) - What does it mean to take people on a journey with your pitch?
(33:23) - How important is it to have a global overarching theme?
(34:06) - How do you think about losses?
(36:03) - How do you think about surprise and how important is it?
(37:41) - Can you give examples of ways you’ve used surprise?
(39:16) - Why are 3D objects important?
(42:04) - Is it correct to say you need to be both thoughtful and vulnerable to make it a successful pitch?
(44:04) - How do you keep this fresh without burning out?
(45:28) - How do you guide people through resistance to the GO BIG OR GO HOME method?
(45:59) - What do you say to the person who thinks they’re not creative?
(48:49) - How do you apply these principles in your personal life?
(50:08) - Remember: you want to pitch something that is unique.
(53:43) - Where can people reach you?