075: Small Pond, Big Impact - Michael Roderick

05/20/20 • 57 min

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Mike Roderick has always been interested in solving problems and looking at things differently. His elementary school teachers said he had an overactive imagination, creating entire worlds out of a box of crayons.

Once he got to high school, Mike took a more entrepreneurial approach as he was often initiating and pulling things together. For instance, he noticed that the English department had far less funding that the sports department had, so he came up with the idea to have a battle of the bands’ fundraiser for his school’s English department, and filled the entire auditorium. Mike jokes that it's the night he beat George Lucas. The actual date for the Battle of the Bands had been set for when Return of the Jedi was being released. So they changed the date and then the movie theaters changed the date again. The school went ahead with the battle of the bands. Mike packed the auditorium, raising a lot of money for the English department.

Today, Mike Roderick is the CEO of Small Pond Enterprises. Small pond enterprises is a consulting company and educational resource for solopreneurs, entrepreneurs, and intrepreneurs who want to accelerate the success of their business. Mike's unique methodology comes from his own experience of going from being a high school English teacher to a Broadway producer in under two years.

In this week’s Work From The Inside Out podcast, Mike Roderick shares his career trajectory:

Mike hosts the podcast, Access to Anyone, which shows how you can get to know anyone you want in business and life using time tested relationship-building principles.
He raised big dollars for Broadway productions while teaching high school English.

Connect with Mike here:

https://www.facebook.com/smallpondenterprises/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-roderick-1161571/
@michaelroderick
http://www.smallpondenterprises.com/

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.tammygoolerloeb.com/podcasts/ - episode 075

In this week’s Work From The Inside Out podcast, Mike Roderick shares his career trajectory:

Mike hosts the podcast, Access to Anyone, which shows how you can get to know anyone you want in business and life using time tested relationship-building principles.
He raised big dollars for Broadway productions while teaching high school English.

Connect with Mike here:

https://www.facebook.com/smallpondenterprises/
https://www.linkedin.com/in/michael-roderick-1161571/
@michaelroderick
http://www.smallpondenterprises.com/

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.tammygoolerloeb.com/podcasts/ - episode 075

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074: Take The Guesswork Out Of Growth - Bill Flynn

Bill Flynn is not your ordinary author, speaker, coach, and student. As a kid, Bill Flynn wanted to be a professional ice hockey player. He played in college during his freshman year and some of his teammates even went on to the NHL, but at the end of the year, Bill felt that his love for the game had dwindled. He traded his time on the ice for a job at a pizza restaurant where he worked for several years, gaining increased responsibilities and developing a great work ethic. It was fun, but not his life’s work.

Upon graduation, Bill landed a sales role at a computer products company and then, as he puts it, he got lucky. He went to work for a company called Dragon Systems which developed voice-activated software. Bill said it was the most rewarding job he ever had as a salesperson because they actually changed the lives of their customers, people with disabilities.

After his time at Dragon, Bill got into the world of startups. He worked for 10 different tech startups over the next 25 years serving in a variety of roles all the way up to CEO and President. Today, he is an author, speaker, entrepreneur, coach, and student.

In this week’s Work From The Inside Out podcast, Bill Flynn shares his career trajectory:

His book Further, Faster, The Vital Few Steps That Take The Guesswork Out Of Growth is hot off the presses.
Bill’s mission is to help growth-oriented leaders focus on the few things that truly matter to them, their customers, and team members.

Listen, subscribe and read show notes at www.tammygoolerloeb.com/podcasts/ - episode 074

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076: Stay Open to Reinvent Yourself - Dorie Clark

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As a child Dorie Clark loved to write and use her imagination. Back then, she wanted to become a spy and was intrigued by the character James Bond. Her parents would take her on beach vacations, but she preferred to stay inside and write. By age 12, she was submitting poems to New Yorker magazine, none were published, but that didn’t stop her from trying!

Dorie went to college at 14, studied philosophy, and went on to earn her Masters in Divinity at Harvard. She then launched a career in journalism as a political writer with a newspaper in Boston. On September 10, 2001, yes... the day before 9/11, she was laid off from her job. Needless to say, it was a devastating time.

Through her networks, Dorie quickly found freelance writing jobs and realized she needed to develop a plan. She never wanted to be caught off guard ever again. Within a year, she was working as the spokesperson on a presidential campaign and subsequently, worked on other political campaigns. Dorie then pivoted from politics, becoming the Executive Director of a nonprofit in Boston where she improved bike riding safety and accessibility across the region. That experience lit the lightbulb on the entrepreneurial experience that she stepped into next.

In this week’s Work From The Inside Out podcast, learn about Dorie Clark’s career journey:

Dorie has been described by the New York Times as an expert at self-reinvention and helping others make changes in their lives.
As a consultant, speaker, author, teacher, and coach, Dorie Clark helps individuals and companies get their best ideas heard in a crowded, noisy world.
Dorie is a frequent contributor to the Harvard Business Review and the author of 3 books: Reinventing You, Stand Out, and Entrepreneurial You.
She was named one of the top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinker's 50 and was honored as the number one communication coach in the world by the Marshall Goldsmith leading global coaches awards.
Dorie is a global keynote speaker and teaches executive education for Duke University's Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School.

Learn more and connect with Dorie here: