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On this episode of The Small Business Radio Show…
SEGMENT 1 with Dr. Zoe Chance, starting at 0:00: Every day, business owners try to use their influence to get customers and make a difference in people’s lives. Dr. Zoe Chance says that our influence is our superpower. She’s here to show us how to use our influence at work and in our personal lives.
SEGMENT 2 with Britt Frank, starting at 20:15: I have been saying for a long time that the next pandemic is a mental health crisis, but as business leaders, we have to understand what part is a myth and what actions we need to take now to prevent our employees from burning out.
SEGMENT 3 with Ash Ali, starting at 37:30: How can your business establish an unfair advantage in the marketplace? Ash Ali is here to share how entrepreneurs can rethink how to capitalize on the strengths they already have.
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More on each segment below.
Segment 1: Dr. Zoe Chance is a writer, teacher, researcher, and climate philanthropist obsessed with the topic of interpersonal influence. She earned her doctorate from Harvard and now teaches the most popular course at Yale School of Management, which is the basis for her international bestseller, INFLUENCE IS YOUR SUPERPOWER. Before academia, she managed a $200 million segment of the Barbie brand at Mattel. Today, Zoe teaches smart, kind people to raise money for charity, get elected to political office, fund startups, start movements, save lives, find love, negotiate great deals and job offers, and even get along better with their kids. In other words, she helps people to use their superpower of influence as a force for good.
2:00 – Why you are born influential then suppress that power. (Think about how influential small children are in getting their parents to do things!).
4:45 – How do you reclaim influence as your superpower?
6:15 – Why people like Donald Trump and Elon Musk are so influential and why bullies’ influence fades over time.
8:15 – The connection between confidence and charisma.
11:15 – What step can you take to become more influential?
13:30 – The Magic Question you can use to influence others for good.
17:00 – When does influence become manipulation?
Segment 2: Britt Frank, MSW, LSCSW, SEP, is a licensed psychotherapist, trauma specialist, and author of the new book The Science of Stuck: Breaking Through Inertia to Find Your Path Forward. Britt speaks and writes widely about the mental health myths that keep us stuck and stressed out.
20:15 – Why did work stress skyrocket during the pandemic?
22:30 – What is open time vs. free time and how do they affect us?
24:00 – What is the biggest myth about mental health?
26:00 – Why do we need anxiety? What can we do to calm it?
29:45 – What is REALLY going on with procrastination?
31:15 – What are the steps to getting unstuck?
34:30 – Why is a balanced life something we DO NOT want?
Segment 3: Ash Ali is an award-winning serial tech entrepreneur and angel investor. He sold his first internet business at the age of just 19 (and most recently his Dubai-based on-demand mobile app startup in 2018). He is currently co-founder of Uhubs a new skills training platform to help entrepreneurs and professionals upskill. He is the author of the new book The Unfair Advantage.
37:30 – Why did you become an entrepreneur?
40:30 – How can I identify and understand my unique advantage?
44:00 – What are the five elements of the “MILES” framework helps entrepreneurs assess our unfair advantages, and how does it work?
49:15 – What unfair advantage did Google have? What about Oprah Winfrey?
51:00 – Everyone has an unfair advantage to capitalize on!
