Axiom Podcast

140: Navigating Challenges and Embracing Opportunities

139: A Vision for Excellence (Part 2 of 2)

138: A Vision for Excellence (Part 1 of 2)

137: Faith-Driven Leadership: Silver Resorts (Part 2 of 2)

Angela is a business owner whose story transcends entrepreneurship, weaving faith, family, and transformation into a powerful narrative. After her mother’s passing, Angela faced the daunting task of managing the estate amidst grief, uncertainty, and one banker’s certainty that her relationship with her siblings would not survive the process. Through transparent communication and a commitment to unity, she navigated the complexities with grace and beat the odds.

136: Resilience, Entrepreneurship, and Purpose (Part 1 of 2)

Discover the remarkable journey of Angela Rodocker, owner of Silver Resorts, as she navigates the challenges of second-generation family business ownership and uses her enterprise to make a positive impact. This story showcases resilience, entrepreneurial spirit, and the transformative power of purpose-driven leadership.

135: Questions That Every Business Owner Should Be Asking

In this episode of The Axiom Podcast, Tommy Rohrlack and Cameron Earhart take a deep dive into key questions every business owner should be asking. By walking through a few main examples, they provide listeners with practical, impactful, yet simple questions to ask both themselves, and their leadership team, in order to maintain a healthy pulse on their business.

134: Why We Do What We Do

In the latest episode of the Axiom podcast, hosts Shannon Lonergan and Devin Dash engage in a thought-provoking conversation to uncover the "why" behind their work at Axiom. Emphasizing the mission of building purpose-driven businesses, they explore the transformative power of well-run small businesses in positively impacting communities.

133: Leading from Empathy + Efficiency

In this episode, Shannon and Lukas stress the significance of leaders harmonizing empathy and efficiency for optimal team performance and a positive work culture. They advocate for a clear vision, active listening, and genuine care as essential components, highlighting the paradox that, by fostering empathy, leaders empower employees to overcome daily challenges and excel, ultimately leading to increased efficiency.

132: Getting a Head Start on the New Year

There’s a lot of options out there for all of us when it comes to efficiency and productivity. But the question we are asking you is are you choosing what is efficient specifically for you as the user? If not, why not and how can we change that?

131: Meet the Axiom Team - Part 3 of 3

In the final installation of our team podcast, we are wrapping up this series of conversations with Cameron and Shannon. During this podcast, you'll learn a little more about the heart behind why both Cameron and Shannon chose to listen to the calling God placed on them, and use their gifts at Axiom.

130: Meet the Axiom Team - Part 2 of 3

Continuing the conversation from two weeks ago, we are diving deeper in the backgrounds of our team members, what brought them to Axiom and how each one of them plays a critical role here at Axiom. If you have never met one of our team members, we hope that this series serves as a good introduction. If we have been fortunate enough to meet, we hope this episode will feel like a long-overdue conversation of catching up! Lukas Oest talks about his time as a foreign exchange student from Ger...

129: Meet the Axiom Team - Part 1 of 3

In the first episode of a 3 part series, our host Shannon Lonergan is joined by the entire Axiom team for a fun full-team podcast where we dive a little deeper into our team members and learn more about ourselves personally and professionally. Shoutout to Baysound Studios for providing their studio space for this seven-person podcast. This week, you’ll hear from Carrie Luster, our team’s Firm Administrator (or chaos coordinator), Devin Dash, and Tommy Rohrlack, two of our Senior Consultan...

129: Meet the Axiom Team - Part 1/3

In the first episode of a 3 part series, our host Shannon Lonergan is joined by the entire Axiom team for a fun full-team podcast where we dive a little deeper into our team members and learn more about ourselves personally and professionally. Shoutout to Baysound Studios for providing their studio space for this seven-person podcast. This week, you’ll hear from Carrie Luster, our team’s Firm Administrator (or chaos coordinator), Devin Dash, and Tommy Rohrlack, two of our Senior Consultan...

128: Business as a Ministry

This week’s episode of The Axiom Podcast discusses viewing business as a ministry by focusing on serving customers. Successful businesses are those that identify and meet their customers' needs. Tune in to learn more about how you can lead a business as a ministry.

127: Axiom’s Four Core Values

Lukas Oest, our newest team member, makes his debut on The Axiom Podcast, where he joins Shannon Lonergan to talk about Axiom’s four core values: care, truth, diligence, and learning. In this episode, we uncover the importance of having core values and how they are applied in a business setting.

126: Delegating Decision Making

In this episode of The Axiom Podcast, Shannon and Joey discuss the difficulties and advantages of delegating tasks as a leader and offer practical advice on improving delegation skills. The conversation starts with why delegation is challenging for high achievers. It is difficult to relinquish control of tasks, but it will bear much fruit for the leader and team members involved. Joey explains delegation involves a trade-off because explaining tasks and training others to handle them takes ti...

125: Leadership Affirmations

Good leadership starts from within. It's about serving your team, empowering them, and living the values you want them to embody. Listen to our newest podcast episode now and embark on your journey towards effective servant leadership.

124: Developing Strong Teams through Accountability

Drawing insights from Joey's book, "Grow with Purpose," this podcast discussion centered around the importance of leaders being accountable to their teams and fostering a culture of accountability.

123: Quarterly Priorities

In our latest podcast, we dive into the world of creating and executing quarterly priorities. Join us as we explore the benefits of this strategic planning method and how it differs from regular tasks.  Quarterly priorities allow you to step back and plan for the next 90 days, enabling you to focus on the big things you want to accomplish - the framework being the popular OKR (Objectives and Key Results) method.  At Axiom, we understand the power of quarterly priorities and how they contri...

122: Lunch + Learn Survey Results

Coming out of our 3 part series on the idea of “No Bad Teams” (listen to part 1-3 wherever you listen to podcasts!), we wanted to share some statistics from our pre Lunch + Learn survey that we sent out to both of the groups that we presented to. The numbers we talk about in this podcast are coming from 39 different businesses across the Southwest Florida region, with the goal of shedding light on the fact that nobody is immune to struggling with their team and or leadership. 

121: No Bad Teams (Part 3)

Tune into the third and final episode on the topic of No Bad Teams, where we’re joined by Cameron Earhart of the Axiom Team discussing the importance of creating and maintaining values for your business. We’ll walk through what, how, and why you need these values to truly cultivate the business and team members that you’ve been hoping for.

120: No Bad Teams (Part 2)

In this week’s episode, Shannon + Joey continue diving into the idea of No Bad Teams, specifically going deeper on the idea of where good teams come from.  Starting with the idea of extreme ownership, and then ending with learning how to empower your team so that you can step into the leadership role that you’re meant to have, this week’s episode will leave you excited and ready to move towards creating solutions and taking responsibility for your team's shortcomings. 

119: No Bad Teams (Part 1)

What does it mean to have no bad teams? Seems like quite the polarizing statement.  In this engaging discussion, Devin and Shannon dive into the meaning behind our statement of “No Bad Teams” and our take on empowering leaders to take Extreme Ownership over everything they have their hands on in their business. We talk about the costs associated with bad teams, give some well known household examples of bad teams, and at the end we remind our listeners that the best way to move forward is t...

118: Hiring “A” Players (Part 2)

When hiring an “A” player, we are not just focused on one thing about the candidate - instead, we are focused on multiple things, making sure to ask pointed questions to get to know the candidate.  Hiring a culture fit matters, and asking questions to learn the candidate's experience and competency is also important. Our suggestion to you - be sure to take the time to ask the hard questions and use the tools and resources that are available to you through many channels to be able to dig de...

117: Hiring “A” Players (Part 1)

Hiring an “A” player means that you are choosing to hire for culture and character over hiring for a need to fill a role.  At Axiom, not only do we teach other businesses how to hire for longevity, but we also follow this proven process when hiring for our internal team.  Tune into our most recent episode, where we talk about hiring “A” players by having a candid conversation with Devin and our newest consultant, Shannon. 

116: Culture handoff

What does it look like to turn over the keys to a company’s culture? We work with a lot of 2nd and 3rd generation family businesses, and most of them do a pretty good job of paying attention to how stock will be transferred for estate and trust taxes, how the org chart needs to be adjusted for new roles and responsibilities…even the schedule of future monthly or quarterly meetings that Gen 1 and Gen 2 will have together to smooth over any bumps in the road after the announcement. But preci...

115: Businesses and Communities Flourishing Together | Thomas Hlohinec

Thomas Hlohinek (pronounced Low-he-nik) is the founder of Rise Financial Partners and also serves as the Executive Director of the Manasota Christian Community Foundation.

114: The Right and the Wrong Way to Hire Gen 2

We all understand when parents want to hire their adult kids to work alongside them in the business. What parent wouldn’t want that opportunity? But sometimes mom and dad can unwittingly set the stage for failure before Gen 2 has a chance to earn their first pay check. In this episode of The Axiom Podcast, Joey and Devin discuss the best way to bring Gen 2 into the business and how it can be a significant competitive and cultural advantage, rather than a distraction or worse, a toxic blow t...

113: Can the Family Survive Working Together

Working with family can be one of the most rewarding and yet frustrating experiences, especially when it comes to older and younger generations working in the same business. In this episode, Joey and Devin talk about setting boundaries and how business owners can help their children working in the business understand what is most important and what can be put on the back burner. Links to things mentioned in this episode: Boundaries for Leaders by Henry Cloud PDF of Axioms Illustrative On...

112: Can Mom and Dad Let Go of the Business?

When it comes to passing the business on to the second generation, many parents struggle to let go. In this episode, Joey and Devin discuss: 1) Common scenarios that come up in the transition. 2) How the state of vision affects a transition from one leader to another. 3) The importance of the “hand off” and what the baton of leadership really means. Links mentioned in this episode: Tim Ferris podcast: https://tim.blog/podcast/ White Horse Inn podcast: https://whitehorseinn.org/how-to-l...

111: Customer Experience

“There’s something different about her!” This week’s episode with world-class trainer Jaime Marco is a fun one. Discover new insights on leadership, sales and customer experience with one of the most infectious people I know.

110: Delegating Decision-Making

Delegating tasks is one thing. Delegating decisions is a little harder. How do you delegate something that happens inside your head? In this episode, Joey and Cameron dive into developing leaders who can think in ways to accomplish what is important to you and them.

109: Are Your Kids Ready to Take Over the Business?

Many parents wonder whether turning over the keys to the business will put their retirement in jeopardy. In this episode, Joey and Cameron layout the reasons why just having the second gen work in different areas of the business is probably NOT the best way to determine if they are ready.

108: Employee Owned

“I want people to have a dignified retirement!” That is the heart of John McGuire and in this episode he breaks down how ESOP’s can help small businesses with employee engagement, succession, tax savings and a host of other things that keep business owners up at night. The episode is packed with useful information that all business owners should have. Here are some links to resources mentioned in the episode, but by far the most important is John’s contact information. John McGuire LinkedI...

107: Lessons from LEGOLAND

We’ve done several podcasts on theme parks over the last few months. It seems like everyone on the Axiom team has been learning from their family vacations. The secret is they’re great places to view business activities happening in high volumes, with how many customers or “guests” visit them daily. This summer, Devin got the opportunity to visit LEGOLAND, Florida, for the first time. So in this week's podcast, the Axiom team joins him to cover 7 lessons he learned from the place built wit...

106: The Three Levels of Connection

105: Owners Can’t Whisper (Part 2)

104: Owners Can’t Whisper (Part 1)

103: Peter Erdei | Owner, Erdei Designs

102: Your Business Is A Platform (Disney Part 2)

A few weeks ago, we talked about lessons Joey learned on a recent visit to Disney's Magic Kingdom. But all is not unicorns and rainbows at Disney. Recently, the company has come under criticism for pushing an agenda at odds with what many parents want when it comes to their child's entertainment. In this episode, we revisit the Disney conversation from another perspective, a perspective that acknowledges businesses should have an agenda. You may agree or disagree with a business's particula...

101: Project Management Best Practices with Bill Clinebell, PMP

Projects are happening all around us. Whether it's a software migration, developing a new product or service, or completing a task for our customers - we're all constantly working on projects. This week, we sat down with our good friend, Bill Clinebell, PMP, Managing Partner of Relofant, where we discussed shared best practices of project management, his entrepreneurial story, and his two cents on what is happening in the commercial real estate market.

100: Take Control of Your Time with Chris Williams

99: How to Build Phenomenal Employees (Lessons from Magic Kingdom)

98: Avoid the 5 Pitfalls of Effective Meetings

97: What To Do About The Coming Recession with Ben Sturgill

This week my good friend Ben Sturgill joins us to talk about economic indicators, recession, inflation, wages and what small business owners can do to stay on top of things in a rapidly changing economic environment.

96: Building Business Managers

What's the difference between a project manager and a business manager? Is it possible to build a great business manager? In this episode, Joey and Cameron discuss the qualities and characteristics of a great business manager, and what we can do to train, coach, and empower them to take more "ownership" in their roles.

95: Signs of a Toxic Culture (ones in need of a 180)

Last week, Devin and Cameron began a 2-part series on exit interviews and discussed the why and how behind them. If you missed it, make sure to give it a listen first. This week, in Part 2, Devin and Cameron share the top questions you should be asking in your exit interviews and also discuss what to do when you feel like the conversation isn't going anywhere.

94: Exit Interviews Part 2 of 2

Last week, Devin and Cameron began a 2-part series on exit interviews and discussed the why and how behind them. If you missed it, make sure to give it a listen first. This week, in Part 2, Devin and Cameron share the top questions you should be asking in your exit interviews and also discuss what to do when you feel like the conversation isn't going anywhere.

93: Exit Interviews Part 1 of 2

Exit interviews can be intimidating. What questions should we ask? Who should do the interview? How do we make sure we're not wasting anyone's time? In Part 1 of this 2-part series, Devin and Cameron lay the foundation for "why" and "how" to conduct exit interviews. Join us again next week as they jump into Part 2 and share the top questions you should be asking. Why are you leaving your current position?

92: Leadership Opportunities Non-Profit Boards Provide

Michael Corley is a highly regarded advisor to non-profit organizations and their boards. He has also served in President, Vice President, COO, and CFO roles inside large for-profit businesses. His perspective on the relationship between the for-profit and not-for-profit world is unique. This week, Michael joined the Axiom Podcast to talk about the leadership opportunities that non-profit boards provide and why every CEO (and quite a few key players) should serve on a non-profit board as pa...