Bold Business Podcast

ENCORE A Framework to Level-up Your Leadership

What is the framework necessary to level up yourself as a leader? Your relentless pursuit of serving customers by solving problems drives your success and is the foundation for the way business is done in your organization. Use the framework outlined in this interview to remain aware of the highest priority initiatives and the effort necessary to achieve them. Bryan Clayton, CEO and co-founder of Greenpal, shares similarities and differences while growing businesses from two first-hand exp...

ENCORE: Bounce Back From the Bottom

How leaders respond to their mistakes fortifies or erodes trust within the organization. Your actions are a model for those around you.  Reflection on our past actions allows us to choose what action to take next. Using reflection and thoughtful questions, you can choose the learning to take away from mistakes. Those lessons are what help you bounce back. Jess Dewell shares insights from Dominic Rufran, Former NLF and Net Worth Risk Manager; George Papadeas, COO at The HOTH; and Paul B...

Saying Yes and No to What Matters Most

Initially published by Kiley Peters, host of Welcome to Eloma. Find out more about this podcast at https://apple.co/3VXjRAc Being an entrepreneur is all about making things happen. But part of making things happen is knowing when to say yes and when to say no. In this episode of the Welcome to Eloma podcast, Jess Dewell joins Kiley Peters, and they talk about the importance of saying yes and no to what matters most.  Jess is a successful entrepreneur and business coach, and she shares he...

ENCORE: When Facing Change Control what You Can

How can we recognize what’s out of our control and then adapt to the change we face? Integrating learning, pausing to assess, and accessing your awareness are the three things we can use anytime to face uncertainty.  When we take more time to work on our business, reflect, and seek out new knowledge, we get a better baseline to work from. We can use the information we gain to spark creativity, check the alignment of action and initiative, and assess commitment.  In this ENCORE episode of...

The Mindset Shift Business Owners Must Make To Achieve Success

Knowing the bottom line is vital to maximizing what you get from your business. Understanding the mechanics is also important — how you make money, what difference you make in the world, what you can be best at and why you are doing what you do. In this broadcast, you will discover how to shift your thinking to have a successful business the way you want it, the importance of doing more overall planning, and when to let go so that all the planning work has a chance to get results.  Jess ...

Four Measures to Face Your Business Future with Confidence

You can use four measures to face your business future with confidence. Combine these measures with several commonly associated challenges and you will take away proactive ideas about where to put your resources to navigate disruption. You will experience disruption in your business within the next 12 months. While grit and vulnerability matter, your confidence will help navigate downsizing, recessions, disruption, and day-to-day challenges. By using the four measures, you will increase yo...

How To Embrace Change And Move Forward

Not noticing the signs of decision fatigue, a decline in work quality, and increased stress can lead to the perfect storm that can potentially destroy your business.  Keeping your head in the game and staying disciplined to see big change is difficult. The lessons that come from such dedication to building a thriving business include: remembering your gut is an informant to be listened to as part of the decision-making process; rigidness creates missed opportunities, and that change is tim...

Why Compassion and Boundaries Matter For High-Performing

Your commitment to supporting your team is more complex than ever before. The ability to help others move through tough situations comes from knowing your boundaries and the boundaries around the way your company completes work. How we approach our work — identify then solve a problem, reduce costs, produce more, and follow a process for efficiency — can impact the short term. To adapt and flex with change, we must add emotional intelligence.  Jess Dewell and Dr. Cassandra LeClaire, Comm...

How to Create a Culture of Accountability

Accountability is elusive, but it doesn’t have to be. In fact, you may have all that is needed except for time and discipline. Too much time management drastically impacts your ability to connect and fully show up to minimize risk, expand capacity, and have truthful conversations. In this  #AskJess Anything question roundup from the Fast Track Your Business program, Jess Dewell focuses on how to reduce failure by intentionally designing points of accountability. The impact you can achieve ...

Use Business Storytelling to Engage with Customers

Stories that create connections may not be the obvious ones. When what we shape and share doesn’t obtain the desired marketing result, we feel immense frustration. That friction is where to take a closer look at shared stories, set goals, and discover where there is a gap. Recognizing a communal communication shorthand helps us acknowledge that outside of those situations, we may be missing something when talking with others.  Jess Dewell talks with Gabrielle Dolan, Author and Keynote S...

Inspire Others And Bring Your Vision To Life

It takes time to create meaningful relationships in life and business. When you know what you want to accomplish, you know where to put your effort and how to build relationships with those that can help you reach your goals.  Relationships help with this learning and journeying. In this program, you will learn what disconnected behaviors look like and what to do to change, the three powers of presence in your business, and how much we influence the outcomes around us. Jess Dewell talks...

Boost Resilience By Developing Your Skills

Your skills can never be taken away. Once you have them, they are yours for the rest of your life. Also, skills take time and energy to build, and your learning experiences always come from less-than-ideal situations. You build your resilience with each lesson.  Listen to this BOLD Business Podcast episode to learn how to prioritize and address: The problems that are “always just there”;  The fact that you are responsible for what your business has done;  And how to close the gaps in ...

Instincts and Decision Making: When to Trust Your Gut

Regardless of skill or background, you are always learning and taking risks, constantly checking in with your gut and listening to your instinct about when to step into something new. The foundational piece is WHY you are doing what you are doing.  In this broadcast, you will hear about the three pillars used for making decisions, the importance of an outside set of eyes, and the real impact of saying “no” more often.  Jess Dewell talks with Howard Zales, Founder of Viridity Entertainme...

Link Leadership and Strategy For Better Results

Success happens when a company recognizes the importance of the WHY behind good leadership teams.  With clarity around the expectations, a leadership team that learns to work together collectively is able to respond with greater capacity to the problems and issues that crop up along the way. Learn more about the importance of clear communication for business efficiency, how to know if you are growing, and the three ways that leadership teams are different from other teams. Jess Dewell ...

How To Be Intentional About Business Development

The skills you need to run and grow your business differ from those you have for selling and delivering your solution.  Finding repeatable processes offers indications about what levers you have within your business to grow. Once your process is known, the levers become clear, and your focus can be on optimizing the process for a higher return. Learn about the five types of sales questions you must know regardless of your industry and the importance of committing to your personal skill d...

How To Establish and Stick To Long-Term Goals

All action comes with risk. You can mitigate the risk by breaking down multi-year initiatives into smaller goals. Picking one small goal provides a way to collect information and gain additional knowledge to sort, think through, and prioritize the next best step. Making time to reset and recharge ensures you maintain the focus needed to face the next uncertainty, how building accountability promotes forward progress, and the importance of endings so the next can begin.  In this program, ...

Transform Your Business With Routines

Observe your behaviors. How you ask for help or don’t will impact how you can create connections. Sales conversations require an ask, and your personal brand is as strong as your connections.  You are a work in progress, and being proud of your past self is paramount to becoming the person you need to be to achieve all desired goals. Connecting with others helps people better understand you because your words and actions match, allowing space for achieving more. More money. More time. More...

Connection Between Compassion and Thriving Business

Deeply related to business success today, your ability to flex and adapt is more important than ever. In addition, compassion can be interwoven into thriving businesses. To tap into resilience, you must go beyond acknowledging someone else's hardship and attempt to understand the whats and whys of their experience to intentionally choose how to show up for yourself, your business, and the other person. As you take on bigger goals with more considerable risks, community becomes ever more im...

Do Things Differently to Drive Business Growth

Seemingly urgent daily items can quickly fill up more than your available time.  Committing time to look at the bigger picture is not easy. Yet, the awareness that emerges from strategic initiatives allows you to say “yes” to more of the right things that will help you navigate the urgent and vital.  In this episode, you will hear about how the result of breaking something (that was working) was necessary to grow and how to deal with always present doubt. Learn the importance of knowing ...

In Search of Purpose-Driven Conversation

Small, meaningful conversations use existing hope for a more significant positive impact on your future. Breaking down barriers never happens in ideal moments; however, you can still make the most of each interaction. In this episode of BOLD Business Podcast, you will hear about prompts to evaluate what holds you back, prompts to assess overwhelm, and the fact that people require effort and time to build trust. Meeting people where they are can help you embrace and use what is present to w...

Why Wellbeing is Key to Business Prosperity

Growth happens in sprints. Defining the beginning, middle, and end of a business growth sprint is necessary for the wellness of you and your team.  Mental sharpness is critical to participating in and leading high-performance teams. Recognizing what resources are needed to build and grow a high-performance team requires clarity of purpose, navigating uncertainty, and being open to new ideas.  Three of the many takeaways from this program are: Your energy matters for your business succes...

How To Set and Achieve Your Business Goals

When to have the answer and when to seek the answer is a skill that we forever hone. Asking for help means considering the problem, what we want to have happen, and what it will take to make those goals happen. Listen in to hear about a three part framework for knowing when you have the answer, or when you are seeking help to discover the answer.  The framework includes: clarity and ability to communicate your mission consistently finding the weaknesses and right opportunities to prio...

Encore: The CEO’s Challenge - Effective Decision Making Skills

Time is scarce. What we do with our time models the rest of our company, and sets up the priorities. As we strive to collect and assess the right data to make the right decisions, the actions we take influence the performance and legitimacy of our organizations.  On this episode, Jess Dewell welcomes Kurian M. Tharakan, Founder at StrategyPeak Sales and Marketing; Maceo Jourdan, Founder at Canexxia; and Myoshia Boykin-Anderson, CEO AndTech Solutions. They share insights and experiences ab...

How to Set Clear Expectations for Business Success

What makes your company different is what will make your company last. High-performance teams know how to problem-solve and be flexible – yet they are high-performing because they understand how to use the combined skill sets at the right time. Yet, it takes time to discover, learn, and most importantly, know when to lean into the team's strengths. Understanding and applying this knowledge helps develop communication with customers, what expectations to set, and how to quickly assess and c...

The Future of Leadership Development

BOLD Business Podcast is featuring The DEB Show podcast with host Debra Eckerling. In this episode, Debra speaks with powerhouse leaders Jess Dewell, Tom Reid, and Jenn Tsang about leadership. The group discusses the attributes of leaders, the challenges of developing leaders, and the future of leadership. Listen in to hear tips for developing leadership skills and how to set up the right goals. —------ If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively appr...

Best Leaders Add Value to Their Team and Business

Intentionally adding value is a commitment. The dedication to asking the right questions, the hard questions, is the path to discerning the right opportunity, right now. It also includes a clear beginning and knowing what the end looks like. Endings provide a way to pause, assess, and make the next set of actions to reach your long-term goals. Jess Dewell talks with Paul D. Casey, Coach and Author at Growing Forward Services, about the impact of reflection on achieving massive growth. Tun...

The Importance Of Knowing Yourself

As a leader, to support others, steer business development, and grow your business, you must first know yourself.  Jess Dewell was a guest on Gerdi Verwoert's Daring Self-Leadership podcast. Listen to this episode to learn more about dimensional leadership and how to find better solutions for your business and your team.  —--------- If you want to continue to look for inspiration to creatively or innovatively approach decision-making and problem-solving, use the experiences of other ...

How to Build a Strategic Business Plan

It takes time to build, deploy, and gain the adoption of your product. Without knowing where – and the reason why – you are going in a particular direction, it’s easy to become discouraged and give up.  Each of us has an ultimate goal, and it is important to know what that goal is. Once known, creating the right business strategy, choosing the right priorities, and navigating the difficulties in every business becomes easier since you know what is non-negotiable. Jess Dewell talks with ...

The Power of a Pause: Reflection and Refocus

Those who talk about success always being “forward-looking” are missing a key element to achievement: reflection. Time, and how you use time, sets the stage for what you can do.  In this Uncharted episode, Jess Dewell talks with Jürgen Strauss, Founder at Innovabiz, about doing exemplary work and having fun. You will hear about elements that allow you to grow, the power of reflection, and outcomes of diligent prioritization.  The more you reflect and use past experiences to build resilie...

UNCHARTED: Different Perspectives Lead To Better Business Decisions

With attention to the details that make up your unique selling proposition and how your company works, the organization can successfully adapt and thrive through the external and internal ups and downs all businesses navigate.    However, reaching the next level of business growth brings new challenges. Deciding how to approach issues and snags when in the middle of the day-to-day provides a guidepost.    That's why putting effort into managing your time is the requirement for succes...

How to Set Your Top Business Priorities

Success today is a consistent but imperfect action that needs to be used to learn, adjust, and keep going. Such perseverance requires confidence because it requires courage, patience, creativity, and a lot of grace mixed with fun. There will always be situations out of your control. That is why you must navigate them to achieve your goals. Jess Dewell, the Managing Partner of Red Direction, talks about what it takes to succeed in today's business circumstances by setting your top business pr...

Tips to Find and Solve the Right Business Problems

The quickest way to resolve a problem is to know what the problem REALLY is. Decision-making always sounds easy, but in practice can be difficult to peel back the layers of what you think.  In this episode of BOLD Business Podcast, you will hear tips to discover your customers’ genuine problems, how to operationalize trust and how finding causality helps you find the root issue.  Jess Dewell talks with Dr. Tom Tonkin, CEO of The Conservatory Group, about rapports, empathy, connecting wi...

From Change Management to Strategic Resilience

When we mess up, we want others to remember we are human. That means we must do the same. The way we show up in the face of adversity tells others a lot about us.  In this episode of BOLD Business Podcast, you will hear how the Teabag Principle, the Character Matrix, and reflection are necessary to navigate change. The resilience built from tirelessly facing change will create shared values to get the excellent work done at the right time.  Jess Dewell and John Robertson, President at F...

How to Take Your Small Business Growth to the Next Level

Scaling a small business has its challenges, and each of us face a unique journey due to our strengths, weaknesses, and interests!  In this show, you will hear how to: chase the next level of success, study business to help make the right decisions right now, and incorporate a three-to-five-year vision to create a lasting business. Jess Dewell talks with Dave Menz, Founder of Queen City Laundry and Laundromat Millionaire, about repeating successes, the continued growth, and changing indu...

Move Your Business Forward: Confidence and Common Vision

Reflection must be part of your leadership role as a necessary part of an organizational checkup process. Today's most important action or project may be different from the week, quarter, or year. To utilize your time best, know the numbers. Why? Because what you avoid is what will most likely cause your business to fail. Developing the skills necessary to find and challenge assumptions offers a realistic assessment of what is going on in your business.  Jess Dewell talks with David Longhin...

The Value Of Discipline for Business Success

Want more time in your day? Achieving this goal is possible when you're focusing on the right work, designing a process to ensure you're doing the right work and ensuring there is time to do the work.  Repeating success comes from inner confidence, which involves a clear finish line you can communicate, hold accountability to, and problem solve as a team to reach that goal.  The most significant impact you can make is understanding (and then choosing) the right work on which to focus and m...

UNCHARTED: The Value Of Discipline for Business Success

Want more time in your day? Achieving this goal is possible when you're focusing on the right work, designing a process to ensure you're doing the right work and ensuring there is time to do the work.  Repeating success comes from inner confidence, which involves a clear finish line you can communicate, hold accountability to, and problem solve as a team to reach that goal.  The most significant impact you can make is understanding (and then choosing) the right work on which to focus and mak...

How to Prioritize Tasks and Get More Work Done

How do we prioritize tasks and get more work done? There’s always the danger of falling into the trap where our lives outside of work direct our work. With slight tweaks, you can provide clarity, hold the direction, and guide the planned and unplanned work.  Jess Dewell, your host of BOLD Business Podcast, shares results from the 2022 Business Management Report and what you can do right now to optimize your results. -------------------- If you want to continue to look for inspiration ...

Inclusive Culture: Why It’s Important and How to Build It

Your awareness of the paths employees are on, what accountability looks like in your company, and how you approach problem solving influence the way everyone does work in your organization.  So much is out of our control. This includes what is in the “head and heart space” of employees when they come to work, what the economy is doing, and even the way your customers think about your product. Aligning your mission and vision – and courageously having conversations that acknowledge people f...

Harnessing Creativity and Innovation in the Workplace

Stop being boxed in by thinking and process patterns. Thoughtful chaos is the way to increase creativity and innovation within your company. It requires slowing down, taking time to ensure clarity, being accountable, and having the courage to act. Jess Dewell hosts Scott Novis, the Chief Creative Officer at Bravous Esports, in a discussion about the importance of connection through technology to remain creative, while adapting to the obstacles we face.

UNCHARTED: Your Legacy is More Than Your Business

In this discussion, Steven Goodman, President of SHG Planning, Inc., shares tips and stories about how to discuss setting up a successful future for yourself and your family. Let the wealth you’ve created from your hard work make an impact for more than just one generation by having the right mindset, having difficult conversations, and knowing what you will not compromise. The framework you create will support you as your business grows, your financial situation changes, and you make choic...

UNCHARTED: A Conversation with Michael Buzinski

Cultivating opportunity is exciting. Pausing, evaluating, and learning from what has previously happened – good and bad – these tasks are often overlooked and deemed unnecessary. Leadership teams that are disciplined about reflection achieve more over time. Listen in as Jess Dewell discusses building a better legacy with Michael Buzinski, President and CMO at Buzzworthy Integrated Marketing. We are a product of those who came before, and what happened to them. Yet often we want to discon...

UNCHARTED with Vince Scott & Jess Dewell

The way people work together is determined by company culture; the ability to navigate that culture is a flexibility allowing you to be more adaptable and responsive when it matters most.

Encore: Differentiate Through Storytelling

Achieve More Now

What can we do to build mental flexibility? Be present. Pause. Follow through. Jess Dewell and John Davis discuss how to achieve more now on this Livestream of the BOLD Business Podcast.

Back to Basics Building an Effective Strategy

Originally published by Katie Brinkley host of the Rocky Mountain Marketing Show. Find out more about this podcast at https://www.spreaker.com/user/katiebrinkley/back-to-basics-building-an-effective-bus When your business seems to be going far off track, there might be a discrepancy with the goals you are setting, your strengths, and your strategy. It is always important to go back and evaluate your growth impact plan. In this episode, Jess and I talk about helping small busines...

Priorities, Strategy, and Competitive Advantage

Strategy and Technology

Today, technology is a core part of business – just like marketing and accounting. When we only think of technology as a tool to support functional areas in our businesses, we are at a deficit. When employed as a key part of overall business strategy, technology allows us to explore and make choices that: positively impacts our market position; allows us to better serve customers; and enables us to adapt quickly to change. Jess Dewell hosts Michael Daniels and Greg Michaels in a discussion a...

The Path to Long-Lasting Business in Times of Economic Fluctuation

Your business is like a kaleidoscope. Listen in to hear the listener questions (submitted to #AskJess) that range from improving capabilities; the future of work; and facing our assumptions to make decisions that move a company forward. Spoiler alert: It’s talking more about strategy; acknowledging decision fatigue; and leveraging what you have to navigate uncertainty.

Habits of Successful Business Leaders

Our values begin and drive self-leadership. The importance of knowing ourselves ensures we say no (and yes) intentionally. That includes the tasks we might be avoiding and maybe even dreading. Jess Dewell and Dr. Benjamin Ritter discuss how good leadership habits allow you to do more have a more fun and fulfilling life.