Listen to “#726 An Action Plan for Embracing Change and Future-Proofing Your Career” on Spreaker.
On this episode of The Small Business Radio Show…
SEGMENT 1 with Jason Feifer, starting at 0:00: With high inflation, messy supply chains, the war in Europe, and a bit of COVID mixed in, where do you take your business and career? What is the key to embracing change to fuel your success?
SEGMENT 2 with Nick Sonnenberg, starting at 19:00: So many of us are looking for the key to productivity. Our next guest says he has it and can potentially add an extra full day of productivity per person.
SEGMENT 3 with Wayne Goshkarian, starting at 37:00: How do you get benefits at a reasonable rate if you work for yourself in the gig economy?
Sponsored by Truly Financial.
More on each segment below.
Segment 1: Jason Feifer is the editor in chief of Entrepreneur magazine, author of the book Build for Tomorrow: An Action Plan for Embracing Change, Adapting Fast, and Future-Proofing Your Career and host of the podcast Build For Tomorrow. LinkedIn named him a “Top Voice in Entrepreneurship” for 2022. Prior to Entrepreneur, Jason has worked as an editor at Men’s Health, Fast Company, Maxim, and Boston magazine, and has written about business and technology for the Washington Post, Slate, New York magazine, and others.
- Why does change cause us to panic?
- How to become more comfortable with embracing change
- Prepare yourself for the future where you are constantly alert to the opportunities that are available to you, but that nobody is asking you to take.
- Better questions to ask yourself to take the fear out of change
- Is overconfidence a dangerous trap?
Segment 2: Nick Sonnenberg is an entrepreneur, Inc. columnist, and guest lecturer at Columbia University. He is the Founder and CEO of Leverage, a leading operational efficiency consultancy that helps companies implement the CPR Framework consistently which results in greater output, less stress, happier employees, and the potential to gain an extra full day per week in productivity per person—just by using the right tools in the right way, at the right time. Nick and his team have worked with organizations of all sizes and across all industries, from high-growth startups to the Fortune 10.
- Why are people obsessed with productivity?
- How the CPR method can potentially free up a whole workday of productivity per person
- You say that even a team using the best systems and tools on the market can still be inefficient and drown and in work. What is the missing link there?
- The biggest barriers to inbox zero
- What are some of the best tools to use? (Don’t get distracted by trying to find all-in-one tools)
- How do you define productivity?
- Any favorite personal hacks you yourself like to use?
Segment 3: Wayne Goshkarian started his entrepreneurial journey started at age 11 when he sold Amway cleaning products to his 50-home paper route, Wayne was “cross selling” at a young age. While in High School, he secured his insurance licensed, his Series 6 and 63 and lived in Oxford England doing financial planning for American’s living in England. : Association for Entrepreneurship USA is excited to have Wayne as the Director of Communications to bring his years of entrepreneurship experience to the team.
- The Association for Entrepreneurship USA and the type of people who can join
- Importance of expanding health insurance offerings to gig workers
- The Association for Entrepreneurship USA has enrolled well over 200,000 members and has advanced technology to support its offerings of benefits
- What other benefits do you offer members?
- Expected growth for AFEUSA due to the growth of the gig economy and people needing health insurance.
