053: No Fear of Failure - Scott Miller

12/04/19 • 27 min

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Scott Miller is a 23-year associate of the FranklinCovey organization and serves as their Executive Vice President of Thought Leadership. Scott hosts multiple podcasts including FranklinCovey’s On Leadership and Great Life, Great Career. Additionally, Scott is the author of Management Mess to Leadership Success: 30 Challenges to Become the Leader You Would Follow. Scott authors a weekly leadership column for Inc.com and is a frequent contributor to podcasts and webinars. Previously, Scott worked for the Disney Development Company and grew up in Central Florida. He lives in Salt Lake City, Utah, with his wife and three sons.

Scott started his career working for the Disney company and is the first person to tell you that he got fired. He sees that as a big learning experience amongst many in his career and claims that for every failure, he has learned what not to do going forward. For the past 23 years, he has worked in 7 different roles within the FranklinCovey organization, growing and developing his leadership talents as he helped others to hone their skills as well. Scott is a look-forward kind of person and points to his family and faith as the strongholds of his character. He recently co-authored a new book, Everyone Deserves a Great Manager: The Six Critical Practices for Leading a Team, published by Simon Schuster in October 2019.

In this episode we discuss:

Scott was fired from Disney and then hired by FranklinCovey, where he’s worked for the last 23 years. He shares openly because he believes it is important for people to be open and honest about their journey and any setbacks faced along the way.
How friending-up has helped him immensely in his career and life overall.
Scott has worked hard to build his brand around generously giving back.
He believes that the people who are successful in life want to give back more as they grow more.
Scott’s favorite book on leadership and why he loves it.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.tammygoolerloeb.com/podcasts/ - episode 053

In this episode we discuss:

Scott was fired from Disney and then hired by FranklinCovey, where he’s worked for the last 23 years. He shares openly because he believes it is important for people to be open and honest about their journey and any setbacks faced along the way.
How friending-up has helped him immensely in his career and life overall.
Scott has worked hard to build his brand around generously giving back.
He believes that the people who are successful in life want to give back more as they grow more.
Scott’s favorite book on leadership and why he loves it.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.tammygoolerloeb.com/podcasts/ - episode 053

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052: Follow your gut, not just your skills - Lisa Linfield

Lisa Linfield is a personal finance expert, keynote speaker, course creator and host of her podcast, Working Women's Wealth. Lisa, a Board Certified Financial Planner, is the CEO of a wealth and investment management business, Southern Pride Wealth. She has two honors degrees, one in Financial Planning, and has studied at Oxford, Insead, and London Business School. She has over 20 years of financial services experience in the UK and South Africa. She's been featured in Forbes, Thrive Global, Contemporary Business, Investing for Life and other podcasts. Lisa's goal is to teach 1 million women about money, how to make money, invest it and protect it. To that end, she has established her podcast which alternates weekly between featuring women who've achieved personally and professionally, and solo episodes in which she teaches to engage, equip, and empower her listeners.

Lisa started her career as a physical therapist following the advice of many influential, well-intentioned adults who told her that going to medical school was a solid path to pursue. After a few short years in the field, she listened to her inner voice and moved towards the business world into an entry-level role in financial services, specifically banking. She was on the team that opened one of the first digital banks in the world. Several years into a successful career in banking, Lisa fulfilled a lifelong goal to attend Oxford and earned a degree in Divinity because she wanted to be able to study and live as a student in a way she had not been able to previously. She then returned to financial services, got married, started a family, and a few years ago, started her own personal financial advising business.

In this episode we discuss:

Lisa’s scholarship and opportunity to become a physical therapist in South Africa, during a time when there was a power struggle in the country.
How higher education works in South Africa.
Her realization that transition is challenging due to her concern about not meeting her family’s expectations and wondering if she was giving up an incredible career.
Lisa grew up in a business-oriented household and how that informed her transition into the business world.
Lisa’s realization that “sometimes you choose transitions in life and sometimes life chooses transitions for you.”
How she found her career and life happiness when she discovered work that gave her both passion and purpose.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.tammygoolerloeb.com/podcasts/ - episode 052

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054: Live Your Best Badass Life - Gina Warner

Gina Warner is the President and CEO of the National Afterschool Association. Before joining NAA, she served as the Executive Director of the Partnership for Youth Development in New Orleans, Louisiana, where she helped existing and new after school programs as they sought to serve children and families in post-Katrina New Orleans. Gina is also devoted to issues of women’s leadership and female empowerment. She has transformed that passion into establishing the Badass Women’s Book Club, an international resource for book discussions, online coaching and personal development resources. She loves to challenge women to live their best badass lives through book discussions, online coaching, and personal development resources.

Gina started her career as a special education teacher. Two years later, she went to law school and took that experience to do policy work for a US Senator in Washington, DC. From there, she moved to New Orleans, Louisiana and worked as a lobbyist. Then, Hurricane Katrina hit the region. Shortly thereafter, she was hired to serve as the Executive Director of the Partnership for Youth Development. While there, Gina helped existing and new after school programs as they sought to reach and serve children and families in post-Katrina New Orleans.

In this episode we discuss:

Gina’s education and career journey that allowed her the opportunity for many life-changing experiences.
Her belief in the importance of teaching young people, and especially young women, the vast array of career choices they have so they can realize their calling.
Gina values experiences that have kept her mind open to new professional and personal opportunities.
Her experience in surviving Hurricane Katrina and how that propelled her into running a youth development intermediary.
Gina’s struggle with Imposter Syndrome after having been through an amazing leadership program, and how she bought a book in the airport on her way home that transformed her life.
How she launched the Badass Women’s Book Club and its growth in the last two years.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.tammygoolerloeb.com/podcasts/ - episode 054