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Episode Directory
March 2012
February 2012
- 2/24/2012: REAL SUCCESS - what is it and how can we achieve it with guest Lee Jackson Coming Soon
- 2/17/2012: NEGOTIATION - skills to enhance your business, personal success and your relationships Listen Now
- 2/10/2012: MOTIVATIONAL COACHING – Achieving Excellence with guest Lesley Matile Listen Now
- 2/3/2012: Running on Empty - How to gain success from failure in business with guest Peter A Roper Fpsa Listen Now
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Derek Arden
Derek Arden is a negotiator, an author and President of the Professional Speaking Association of the United Kingdom. Formerly a senior executive in financial services where he negotiated the financing of many of the UK takeovers. He has spoken at 6 business schools, studied at the Harvard Business School and is a business practitioner of Neuro-Linguistic Programming. He uses psychology, sensory acuity to benefit all the negotiation situations he gets involved in. Derek is author of Power Negotiating, presenting phenomenally and Negotiating Success. He has a bi-weekly executive briefing which is free and read globally. This month, he has given his expert advice to and featured in the Financial Times. View Guest page
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Jim Beach
Jim Beach’s first book, School for Startups, was published by McGraw-Hill in June 2011. Jim has started businesses and has taught entrepreneurship around the world. At the age of 25, Jim founded American Computer Experience. From 1993 to 2000, Jim grew the company with no capital infusion to $12 million in annual revenue and to over 60 permanent and 700 temporary employees, operating in 39 states and in three countries. Jim taught entrepreneurship at Georgia State University for nine years and in 2009, Jim founded the School for Startups, www.SchoolforStartups.com/, a web resource devoted to teaching his philosophy of low risk entrepreneurship. Jim has presented in Japan, Korea, India, Dubai, and Egypt and for or on behalf of Wells Fargo, Toshiba, UPS, SunTrust and others on topics as diverse as the “Future of Oil Scarcity,” “How to Export in a Down Economy,” and “Getting to Number One on Google.” View Guest page
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Mette Bloch
Mette Bloch an entrepreneur from Denmark became famous for winning two World Championship gold medals in single sculls rowing in one year, progressing from eighth in the world to first. The mental and physical toughness required to be a world champion led Mette into a study of psychotherapy and cognitive behaviour and into the field of business and individual motivation. Mette is also a well known television presenter, speaker, the author of four books – her latest is ‘The Winning Mentality’ – also a writer for magazines and newspapers. She loves a challenge and in November 2010 wrote, produced and performed a solo comedy show in front of an audience of 1600 to rave reviews. Mette’s greatest personal challenge came in 2005 when she was diagnosed with chronic arthritis, a devastating blow for a former elite athlete. Her mental and physical strength was tested to the limit but now in 2011 she is fully recovered without the use of conventional medicine. View Guest page
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Angi Egan
Angi is the founder of an award winning retail merchandising consultancy, set up to deliver knowledge and excellence for new and established businesses around the world. Consultancy work has involved working with clients such as Kerastase Paris, BMW Motorad, Rockliffe Hall, L’Occitane, Elemis, Age UK and Wentworth Golf & Spa With over 20 years operational and management experience in both the UK, USA & Asia Angi has worked for some of the most successful retailers such as The Body Shop, IKEA, ESPA and Gap, and in partnership with Liberty in London and Harvey Nichols throughout the UK As an author and professional speaker Angi has developed the refreshingly different Romancing the Customer™ business books which continue to inspire, entertain and communicate how to achieve brand loyalty and lasting differential. This cheeky metaphor has also helped to address the challenge of getting the service message to ‘stick’ in transient, multi-generational sectors like retail and hospitality. View Guest page
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John Hotowka
John Hotowka – Speaker, Humorist, Magician , aka the ‘Laughter Dinner Speaker®’ is one of the rare breed of speakers who can either deliver a powerful message or just entertain. He’s an after dinner, business and event speaker who has an engaging, energising and unique delivery of his ‘The Strength Of One. The Power For All’ message. His presentations are hilariously funny, insightful and experiential which all add to the learning experience. Having suffered a crisis in confidence in 2002 he realised somehow he had to dig himself out of the hole he created himself. A bigger problem than you might think, as he always worked alone. His breakthrough came when he realised mindset is the key to success in everything, leadership, working as a team, dealing with change… everything. His success as a speaker is due to three things; his ability to simplify a complex message, his approach appeals to all learning styles and his hilarious sense of humour is so clean… he makes detergent look dirty. View Guest page
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David Hyner
David Hyner is a researcher of top achievers for some 14+ yrs now, and in that time as he has shared his findings, become a speaker, author, broadcaster, adventurer, father and husband. “We have to get out of our own way” says David and stop living a life driven by others agendas and their assumptions of what we are capable of achieving, and WHY we should achieve those things. Most famed for his inspiring keynotes and The MASSIVE Goal Principle audio CD which gives people the confidence to set and achieve massive goals. BBC radio show host, mastermind facilitator and more. David Hyner is passionate about living how you wished to be remembered long after you have gone. His work in Africa and for charity has raised much needed funds and proves that anyone can make a difference if they “really” want to. View Guest page
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Ayd Instone
Ayd is a speaker, author, creative director, graphic artist and publisher (as well as a songwriter, writing nearly 500 songs) with 18 years experience of design and marketing in print and multimedia, including working on the design of Microsoft’s intranet. He has designed global campaigns for major publishers including Oxford University Press and Macmillan as well as setting up his own publishing company, Sunmakers, for experts and entrepreneurs in 2009 which has published over 30 books. He has run his own branding and design business since 2001 and has designed around 300 logos and identities. He has also worked as university lecturer on business and entrepreneurship and as an international speaker on creativity and innovation. Ayd has a degree in Physics and Physical Science from Oxford Brookes University and is the author of four published books including 'Don't tell the Dinosaurs (the Secrets of the Future)' and 'Ding! How to Have a Great Idea'. View Guest page
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Lee Jackson
Lee is a speaker, but he isn’t a “celebrity” speaker. He’s never bungee jumped from the summit of Everest, he doesn’t have a world record – in fact he doesn’t even like camping very much! But he is a great speaker with life-changing content that, if people put into practice, can make a big difference to their lives and their workplace. Born in the North East of England, and now residing in Leeds. ‘Lee from Leeds’ has years of experience working in prisons, schools, a cruise ship (once!), organisations and businesses. A lot of his work is still with and about the world of young people. He is also the author of six books, loves circuit training, and playing/watching basketball and lives with his wife and twin daughters. View Guest page
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Steve Levinson
Dr. Steve Levinson, is a clinical psychologist, inventor and entrepreneur who has devoted much of his career to understanding why people often fail to follow through on their own good intentions. He is the inventor of an ingeniously simple electronic device called the MotivAider that has helped thousands of people in over 40 countries follow through on making desired changes in their behavior and habits. He is president of Behavioral Dynamics, Inc., a company he co-founded in 1987 to develop, manufacture and market the MotivAider. Steve is also author of the critically-acclaimed book,'Following Through' (co-written by Pete Greider). A popular speaker and consultant who combines expertise in psychology with a passion for helping organizations and individuals follow through, he has appeared on numerous radio and TV programs including ABC's 20/20. Steve is currently working with Chris Cooper on a book to help entrepreneurs transform their good business intentions into great results. View Guest page
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Andy Lopata
Andy Lopata is, in the words of The Financial Times, "One of Europe's Leading Business Networking Strategists". Andy works with companies on how to use networking strategies to develop their businesses. "Networking is not just about sales. Whether for lead generation, breaking down silos internally, recruitment and retention of top staff or developing future leaders, networks and collaboration have a key role to play". Andy works with clients to recognise that role and put the strategy and skills in place to leverage it. Andy has a regular blog in The Huffington Post and been quoted in quality business press around the world. He has co-authored two books on networking, with his third published by Financial Times Prentice Hall in August 2011.For eight years, Andy was Managing Director of Business Referral Exchange, one of the UK's leading referral-focused networking groups with over 2,000 member companies. He supports Charlton Athletic football club. View Guest page
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Carroll Macey
Carroll Macey is a people development consultant, coach and facilitator. Initially working in sales to board level, she retrained as a psychotherapist before moving into corporate learning and development and then establishing CM2 Consulting UK Ltd. Her purpose is to inspire change, success and growth in individuals to enable them to play their best game. View Guest page
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Lesley Matile
Lesley Matile’s passion enables others to find and sustain high levels of motivation so that they do their best - always. Her career began unusually with 15 years as a probation officer, working with those at high risk of reoffending, many of whom had committed serious sexual and violent offences. Here, Lesley faced huge challenges helping them find the determination and commitment needed to change their harmful entrenched behaviour. In 2000, she found this combination of coaching and motivation in very tough situations was in high demand as she transferred into the corporate world. Under her wisdom, over 10,000 coaches and mentors were professionally trained while she was Managing Director of a major coaching brand. Today, as founder of Peak Performance Coaching Ltd she acts as an executive coach and coach supervisor, trainer, speaker and coaching thought leader. Lesley promises her long overdue book, sharing her unique perspectives on motivational coaching will be completed in 2012. View Guest page
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Brian Mayne
Brian Mayne is an inspirational speaker, author and teacher, and creator of the world-leading achievement system ‘Goal Mapping’. Born into a nomadic fun-fair family he left school with no qualifications and a poor education. At 29 years old his family business failed and he was a million pounds in debt. At this low point he discovered you can change your life by changing how you think about it. Now an international speaker, he empowers hundreds of thousands of people globally with his unique success systems. Author of four books, he is getting close to achieving his core goal of helping to lift seven million lives with his work. View Guest page
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Ivan Misner
Dr. Ivan Misner is the Founder & Chairman of BNI, the world's largest business networking organization. BNI has over 6,000 chapters in the world. In 2010 BNI generated 6.5 million referrals resulting in $2.8 billion dollars worth of business for its members. Dr. Misner's Ph.D. is from the University of Southern California. He is a NY Times Bestselling author who has written 13 books including his latest #1 bestseller Networking Like A Pro. He is a monthly columnist for Entrepreneur.com & is the Senior Partner for the Referral Institute - a referral training company. Called the "Father of Modern Networking" by CNN & the "Networking Guru" by Entrepreneur magazine, Dr. Misner is considered to be one of the world's leading experts on business networking & has been a keynote speaker for major corporations & associations worldwide. He has been featured in the L.A. Times, Wall Street Journal, & NY Times, as well as numerous TV & radio shows including CNN, CNBC, & BBC in London. View Guest page
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Mike Pagan
Mike is a professional inspirational and motivational MC and conference speaker. He is also a facilitator and Managing Director of 'Breaking Frontiers Ltd'. Mike talks on key business issues such as productivity,, Measuring Marketing Effectiveness and Clients are for Life not just for Profit. As one of Europe’s leading motivational speakers Mike delivers keynote speeches that are dynamic and inspiring - his keynote ‘Stop Faffing About’ inspired his first book 'FAFF' 'The False Art of Feeling Fulfilled'. Mike lives in Warwickshire, England after several years living in Australia and is married with three children. View Guest page
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Judy Piatkus
Judy Piatkus founded her independent publishing company Piatkus Books from her bedroom in the early 1980s. She was married and had three children. Her eldest daughter has cerebral palsy. Over the next 25 years she grew it into one of the leading independent book publishing companies in the English-speaking world. Piatkus Books was a pioneer of new ideas in personal development, and alternative health. Piatkus supported new novelists and licenced the rights to some of America’s greatest commercial novelists into the UK and abroad. Authors published by Piatkus include many famous storytellers, Nora Roberts, J D Robb, Linda Howard, Danielle Steel, Robert Crais. Judy sold her company to Little Brown before the credit crunch in 2007 and now works as a management consultant, investor and mentor. She is also a keynote speaker on entrepreneurship, future trends and building a great business. In 2009 the Times of London described Judy as ‘one of the world’s leading thinkers’. View Guest page
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Stuart Powell
Stuart Powell is Managing Director of Inspiring Influence Ltd, an Ambassador for Young Enterprise UK, a business speaker and one of the UK's leading professional development trainers and coaches both of and for his generation. Having once been one of the UK's youngest professionally qualified coaches, Stuart's career has in many ways been back to front, unconventional and not without its' challenges. In 2009 however he was highlighted by the Yorkshire Post as being one of the top 100 people aged under 30 most likely to influence the region in the coming years. He has spoken to, trained and coached people at all stages of their career and at all levels of influence in a variety of industries both public and private sector, including professional services, FMCG, construction, healthcare and education to name but a few. View Guest page
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Geoff Ramm
Geoff Ramm is an international marketing speaker from the UK. His unique delivery style takes audiences on a journey of memorable real life marketing stories and ideas that will enthuse and inspire them to gain and retain more customers, whilst standing out from the competition. He travels the world delivering keynotes and master classes sharing easy to use techniques from his Observational Marketing box to help entrepreneurs and companies to launch, develop and grow their businesses. Author of ‘Marketing Takeaway 1 & 2’ and the ‘Ramm in Iran II’ DVD. In 2011 he was awarded the Fellowship of the Professional Speaking Association and a member of the Global Speakers Federation. He has been awarded 4 consecutive ‘Best Speaker’ awards including the World Advertisement Forum which was voted for by 2,000 entrepreneurs in Tehran, Iran. View Guest page
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John E Regan
John E Regan is a professional Actor, Director, Keynote speaker, Musician, Film maker and Screen acting coach. He is the author of 3 books.‘Yes you can’, a motivational book on life’s choices. ‘Presentation Tips’, a book on public speaking and a fast selling Internet e-book entitled ‘How to become an actor’. John is a graduate of the Stanislavski studio in London in the early sixties. Early film appearances included ‘The Magnificent Men in Their Flying Machines’ and ‘Heroes of Telemark’; however, he has lived for most of his life in Australia where he worked professionally in films, theatre and television. He ran his own acting studio in Brisbane, and trained actors in the Stanislavski/Strasberg methods of naturalistic screen acting. John’s motivational keynote programs relate to breaking away from limiting beliefs and values and of taking responsibility for our life’s journey. John now lives in Galway in Ireland. View Guest page
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PETER ROPER
PETER ROPER FPSA International Speaker, Best Selling Author and Broadcaster For two decades Peter had a very successful corporate career with organisations such as Lombard North Central and Arval PHH. From 1996, Peter went on to establish four new businesses of his own; two of which he says have been fantastic failures - and fortunately two others which have been stunning successes! During his career he has spoken to over 400,000 people and in several countries. Known as the ‘Natural Presenter’, Peter became National President of the Professional Speaking Association (2009-2010) and remains on the PSA board and has been accredited with ‘Fellow’ status - the pinnacle of the profession. Peter is the author of several books including the best seller ‘… And Death Came Third!’ the definitive guide to networking and speaking in public, and his latest book ‘Running On Empty’ –How to gain success from failure in business. View Guest page
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Jo Simpson
Jo Simpson is a leading authority in the arena of Values Based Leadership. Jo has lead countless corporate teams to greater success through the application of her innovative approach to leadership and executive management practices. It was Jo's journey to Dubai in 2005, that inspired her to establish her groundbreaking company and to pioneer coaching and mentoring in the Middle East, where she helped to transform the business and management culture of numerous international and locally based organizations. Companies that have entrusted Jo to work with their senior leaders include Credit Suisse, Barclays Bank, KPMG, Grant Thornton, Microsoft, Nokia, L’Oreal and Smith and Nephew. In 2009, Jo made an intuitive decision to return to the UK where she continues to be a leader in the world of executive coaching and values based leadership. Jo’s latest book ‘The Restless Executive’ - A values-driven journey of discovery and transformation will be published later this year. View Guest page
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Milos Stankovic
Born to Yugoslav and Scottish parents in Rhodesia, Milos Stankovic was raised in Britain speaking Serbo-Croatian and English. Educated in Latin and Greek, he went on to study Russian at Manchester University and in the USSR. From the outset he had a deep understanding of linguistics and of cultural differences between the West and East. During the Cold War he joined Britain’s elite Paras - 20 years active service in Northern Ireland, Central America, Southern Africa, the Gulf and the Balkans. A specialist in psychological operations, he spent 3 years in the Bosnian war in various covert roles - partly described in his acclaimed book, Trusted Mole. For this work he was both decorated by the Queen and arrested on suspicion of being a spy. He left the Army to clear his name. Working in the TV industry in the US and UK he retrained in depth psychology and coaching. He now applies his extensive expertise to branding individuals and businesses - a process he calls Full Spectrum Branding. View Guest page
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Kathy Tracey
Kathy is a team player and a team leader. She is a world record holder who, along with 3 other teammates, are the first womens 4's crew to ever complete an entirely self sufficient ocean crossing in a rowing boat. They crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 67 days, 7 hours and 20 minutes. The crew were in the midst of gale force winds and treacherous seas, when they discovered their communication with the world beyond their horizon was gone. The team had to work together through storms and injury and illness to reach their goal. Kathy is an organisational team coach and trainer who runs her own highly successful business, providing organisations with management and leadership development. She is also an acclaimed speaker, who motivates and inspires others to push themselves past their self imposed limits and really reach for their goals. She has published a workbook that leads people through goal setting, planning and achievement. 'The ABC to Victory' has changed lives. View Guest page
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Nigel Vardy
Mountaineer, motivational speaker and author, Nigel Vardy is a record breaking climber, who describes himself as ‘6”2, blue eyed and scarred. Nigel has taken part in many climbs and adventures around the world. In 1999, he suffered severe frostbite climbing on Mt McKinley in Alaska, leading to the amputation of his toes and fingers. Nigel is still healing and says watching parts of his body die was difficult. “Those tiny things suddenly became so important, especially at the prospect of losing them,” he said. After three years recovering from his injuries, Nigel returned to high altitude and climbed Island Peak in Nepal. Since then, he has written extensively about his experiences, writing has helped his recovery and proved a source of inspiration for many people. Nigel has since completed a British first. He climbed the highest peaks on the world’s seven largest islands. Nigel lives in Belper in Derbyshire, England. View Guest page
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NEGOTIATION - skills to enhance your business, personal success and your relationships
February 17, 2012
Hosted by Chris Cooper
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When it comes to financial and relationship success, negotiation is a skill that can help you thrive through greater sales (and personal income) and reduced costs. Many people get it wrong. I therefore needed a leading expert who could share with us the skills and secrets of great negotiation. I am delighted to welcome master negotiator and President of the Professional Speaking Association in the United Kingdom - Derek Arden, to Be More. Achieve More. During the show, we will discuss the impact of negotiating professionally to enhance your business and personal skills and relationships. We will share the essential disciplines that you must acquire to negotiate effectively. Also how to build your negotiating confidence and the 5 mistakes many people make that you absolutely must avoid. This show will be a must for business people who want to up their results, profits and negotiating confidence! Listen with a notepad as this show could bring you serious value.
Be More. Achieve More.
Friday at 8 AM Pacific Time on VoiceAmerica Business Channel
Be More. Achieve More. provides inspiration for people who would like to grow businesses that authentically add value to others. People who are prepared to put the effort in to learn and do things well succeed where less successful people fail.
Our show highlights the key principles in personal and business success that will help you increase your chances. It’s an energizing, warm and inspiring show that supports the roller coaster ride to entrepreneurial and personal achievement. Equally, if you wish to rise up the corporate ladder or become a better more authentic leader this show will help you to stand out from the crowd.
Our show will include very successful high achievers, entrepreneurs, speakers and subject experts from around the world - from a variety of interesting professions and backgrounds who now leverage their talents to inspire others to achieve more. Be More. Achieve More. airs live Fridays at 8 AM Pacific/4 PM GMT on VoiceAmerica Business.
Chris Cooper
Chris Cooper has a reputation for helping corporate and entrepreneurial leaders and teams transform their performance. He began his career working for large global branded companies such as Rank Xerox and Mars. Working in sales, marketing, HR, training, procurement and logistics progressing to board level.
Wanting greater personal freedom, Chris began setting up businesses. His first was a procurement consultancy that he set up with partners. By its second year it turned over two million pounds. However, the business was not in full alignment with his purpose, which is to inspire individuals and organizations to realize their true potential. Today, he achieves this through business mentoring, coaching, bespoke training, consultancy, writing, speaking and broadcasting
Through Be More.Achieve More, Chris helps those who have changed careers or are contemplating doing so to create and build their own businesses and also employees who wish to take responsibility for their own personal development. Chris provides the inspiration for these successful transitions.
Chris also has a corporate development consultancy, CC1 Consulting that helps leaders develop themselves and their people for greater results. He lives in Leicestershire, England with his wife Ruth and two young boys.
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