In this episode, Dr. Benjamin Ritter, founder of Live for Yourself Consulting, joins Bradley to discuss how to Be The Leader of Your Own Career.Dr. Benjamin Ritter is a leadership and career coach, Talent Development Executive, values geek, international speaker, online instructor of the course How to Be the Leader of Your Own Career and Create a Career You Love, and podcaster (The Executive, and The Live for Yourself Revolution), who’s passionate about guiding leaders to be the leader of their own career and create a career they love. With over 11 years of experience working with clients from companies such...

Have you ever heard of a “Rembrandt in the Attic”? This phrase refers to a valuable artwork or other collectible item that has been forgotten or overlooked for years, perhaps even sitting in an attic or basement. While it may seem like a far-fetched idea, there have been many instances where a valuable object has been discovered in someone’s home, often after the owner has passed away. In this episode, we’ll explore a few fascinating stories of Rembrandts in the attic. Thanks to our sponsors: The Bottom Line is brought to you by Club Capital. Club Capital provides monthly accounting,...

Micah Cannon is the COO of the boutique accounting and analytics firm, Club Capital. Today he's here to shed light on the most common financial mistakes agents make.Club Capital works exclusively with insurance agents. Today they help over 300 agents across all tenures and states. This gives them the capability to see behind the veil and speak from an informed point of view.Micah shares how to avoid mistakes that are costing your agency thousands of dollars and you countless hours of sleep.This episode is brought to you by Autopilot Recruiting. Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be...

As a salesperson, sales manager, author of the book, Can They Sell, speaker, trainer and consultant, Steve Suggs has been in the sales trenches for thirty-seven years. Steve obtained his business degree at Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN. Upon graduation he began his career in sales at Northwestern Mutual, and quickly moved to sales management. After fifteen years in sales and sales management with Northwestern Mutual, he has spent the last 20 years as a partner with Sales Manage Solutions.On a daily basis, Steve uses all the tools and processes presented to you today. He has trained thousands of managers...

What are the most important habits you can have for life and business? Find out in this quick episode!Here's the Craig Groeschel podcast episode I referenced: https://open.spotify.com/episode/3dwpRXKKBagPAX2yOFbLFy?si=b58568d6c17e4725The Bottom Line is brought to you by Club Capital. Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capitalAutopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.Ready to grow your book of business? That's...

What role should AI like ChatGPT play in your business? Hear from Chris on this, plus how to maximize your onboarding process. Then, Chris and Bradley discuss what Employee Retention Credit can do for your bottom line in 2023.This episode is brought to you by Autopilot Recruiting. Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of the Club Capital Leadership Podcast can go to https://www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started....

What role should AI ChatGPT get play in your business? How can you maximize your onboarding process? Finally, what’s the best way to utilize Employee Retention Tax Credit? Hear all this and more on today’s episode. ...

In this episode, Gary Rivlin joins Bradley to discuss small business ownership; a scrappy, can-do attitude; how little reserves small business owners actually have; and the differences between different areas of the US in policy, economics, and social norms. They agreed that to operate a small business is to always feel the future is precarious. This was true long before the pandemic, but the COVID-19 lockdown brought it home like never before as the crisis shuttered countless restaurants, mom-and-pop storefronts, and local enterprises. Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative reporter Gary Rivlin spent nearly two years in the heart of America, closely tracking a small...

What should you spend each month on marketing? What about relationship marketing, customer retention, and referrals? Watch this quick episode to find out!The Bottom Line is brought to you by Club Capital. Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capitalAutopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.Ready to grow your book of business? That's Direct Clicks' specialty. Find...

Club Capital's general manager, Louisa Else, joins Bradley to discuss MBA Level Financials. This is a great refresher for experienced business owners and essential for those who are newer to business ownership.This episode is brought to you by Autopilot Recruiting. Autopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of the Club Capital Leadership Podcast can go to https://www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started....

This week on the podcast, one of the world’s leading business thinkers, Dr. David Burkus joins us. His forward-thinking ideas and bestselling books are helping leaders and teams do their best work ever. In this episode, they discuss remote work, hybrid teams, purpose, culture, connecting to a deeper meaning in business. He is the bestselling author of four books about business and leadership. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into dozens of languages. His insights on leadership and teamwork have been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Harvard Business Review, USAToday, Fast Company, the Financial Times, Bloomberg...

Bradley shares the most powerful thing in business.The Bottom Line is brought to you by Club Capital. Club Capital provides monthly accounting, tax, and CFO services for insurance agency owners. Learn more at www.club.capitalAutopilot Recruiting is a continuous recruiting service where you’ll be assigned a recruiter that has been trained to recruit on your behalf every business day. Listeners of Club Capital Podcast go to www.autopilotrecruiting.com and use the code ClubCapital to get started.Ready to grow your book of business? That's Direct Clicks' specialty.  Find out how they can help your agency leverage Google to drive inbound phone calls, leads,...

This episode recast focuses on the importance of being able to break down bigger goals into small daily goals that are attainable. Scott Grates, a business owner, a father of three, an author, a leader in the insurance industry, and much more, tells us how he gets it all done. Scott also speaks about how success is actually a cumulation of everyday choices and habits. He recommends using the Daily Huddle as a best practice and how that method has advanced the growth of him and his businesses. We also discuss the importance of storytelling in sales and why leaning...

In this episode, Marc Lafleur joins Bradley to discuss lessons in entrepreneurship and his new book, "True Founder: What No one Else Has the Guts to Teach You About Starting Your First Business." They discuss ideas that may be controversial, such as hiring friends. Marc also shared mindset lessons in the face of failure, especially how to have grit to keep going.Building three businesses from the ground up has given Marc Lafleur a deep understanding of what it takes to succeed in today’s competitive business landscape. As the co-founder and former CEO of truLOCAL, he’s built it into a team...

Did you ever think about how building a business can feel like building a lego set? Legos come in all kinds of varieties. Some of them have 70-80 pieces, but some of them have over 8000. But all of them have a photo of what the completed set will look like. As soon as you pull it out, you see these bags full of unassembled legos. Once you open them up and spread them out, it becomes a big mess.This reminds Bradley of business. When you start a business, you have a picture of a finished product that will bring you all kinds of...