Secrets to Win Big With Arjun Sen

Lisa Lieberman-Wang is a Business & Life Strategist helping coaches and entrepreneurs to create multiple 6 to 7 figure businesses. She supports professionals & million-dollar organizations to up-level themselves and their business. Featured on TEDx and regularly on ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX, & The CW! Recently ranked Top 25 Leading Women Entrepreneurs.

Here are some key insights from this week’s show:

– Targeting is who wants what you have and can afford your services.

– Work on yourself first.

– Take yourself from FINE to FAB.

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Dr. Randy Ross is a compelling communicator, craftsman of culture and bestselling author of multiple books, including his latest one titled “Hope Rises: Make Your Life, Love & Leadership Soar.“

He has worked with brands such as GE Appliances, McDonald’s, Panasonic, Cox Communications, Compass Group, Chick-fil-A, Keller Williams and the Intercontinental Hotel Group. He helps to inspire people to find new passion and purpose in their work, perform better together in teams and have greater influence and impact.

Here are some key insights from this week’s show:

• It is all about your perspective that you have 100% control.
• Creativity is what you get when all other options are taken off the table.
• We were built to be connected in community.
• Lego means “To play together well”. We were all designed to play together well.
• Have the discipline to embrace reality, no matter how difficult it may be.
• Hope is about positivity, responsibility, agility, and reality.

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Richard (Dick) Celeste has an unusual career trajectory. Following his education at Yale and Oxford, he worked at the Peace Corps headquarters; as Personal Assistant to the US Ambassador in India; in real estate development; served as a state legislator in Ohio and as Lt. Governor.  

After a stint as Director of the Peace Corps, Celeste was elected to two terms as Governor of Ohio. Celeste then headed a small economic development consultancy until 1997, when he returned to India as US Ambassador.  From 1990 until his departure for India, Celeste also chaired the Government-University-Industry Research Roundtable at the National Academy of Sciences.

In 2002 he become the 12th President of Colorado College, where he served for nine years. He has been and is a member or chair of a number of corporate and not for profit boards.  

Here are some key insights from this week’s show:

•  Loss is never an end point; you can always win after losing.
•  A leader takes on the burden of difficult moments and never passes those off to others.
•  Create the process so bad news travels up.
•  The biggest challenges may not be on your radar.
•  He who would never make a mistake, would never make a discovery.
•  Non-Profit organizations are truly ‘for impact organizations’.

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Charlie Cole is Chief Executive Officer of FTD, the modern florist collective, where he oversees people and operations. Charlie brings extensive digital and retail leadership experience to the 110 year old brand, which he joined in March 2020. 

Before joining FTD, Charlie served as the first Global Chief eCommerce Officer for Samsonite while simultaneously serving as Chief Digital Officer for Tumi. Earlier in his career, he held executive positions and led digital transformations at Assembled Brands, Schiff Nutrition and Lucky Brand Jeans.

Here are some key insights from this week’s show:

• Be completely transparent with your goals.
• Your local community feels the pulse of the neighborhood.
• There is more to learn when you leave your bubble.
• Find moments in your day to help you recenter.

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Jeff Crilley is CEO of Real News Public Relations, Author of Free Publicity, Host of The Jeff Crilley Show, and Former Emmy-Award Winning TV Reporter from Dallas, Texas.

Jeff retired from TV news after 25 years in the business to start the country’s first “all journalist” PR firm.

Over the course of his career, Jeff has made hundreds of national news appearances, won several Emmy awards, and was named by the Texas Associated Press, “The Best TV Reporter in the state.”

Jeff now uses his experience and knowledge of the newsroom to run one of Dallas’ largest PR firms.

Here are some key insights from this week’s show:

• Bring in clients that you know you can make happy.
• Life will change on you, consistently.
• Don’t sacrifice your life for society’s definition of success.

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What better way to celebrate the 100th episode of the Secrets to Win Big® podcast than to be interviewed by my daughter Raka Sen. Triggered by questions only a daughter can ask a dad, this is a great conversation full of reflections, learnings from past guests, and secret stories about ZenMango’s origin. 

Here are some key insights from this week’s show:

• Any big journey is all about touching one more person.
• Have faith and trust in yourself that if you do the right thing, it will happen.
• See what others are not seeing.
• Every story must land in the hearts of your audience.

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Katrina Mitchell founded Franchise Speakers in 2008 with a mission to help franchisors find the right speakers. As a successful franchisee herself, Katrina experienced first-hand both energizing and compelling events and some that left her feeling disengaged and disheartened. Franchise Speakers was launched with the singular focus of helping franchisors find the perfect speakers to re-ignite, re-energize, educate and inspire their franchisees. Being a natural “connector”, Katrina has been happily hunting down perfect matches for Franchise Speakers’ many clients ever since. When not busy match-making, Katrina loves to ski, bike, paddleboard & hike with Franchise Speaker’s CFO (Chief Fun Officer) Cecil Roy, a sweet and fun-loving Australian Shepherd. Other passions include dancing, knitting, playing the harmonium, reading, and exercising on Zoom with her 85-year-old Mom. 

Here are some key insights from this week’s show:

• Construct relationships in business around the core values of kindness.
• Be passionate about mindset, resiliency, and happiness.
• It is all about personal growth and personal accountability.
• A big win comes from the amount and quality of time that we get to spend with the people we love.
• Bringing franchisees together is the franchisors opportunity to help franchisees fall back in love with the brand. Don’t skimp! It’s your most important marketing and relationships investment of the year! 

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Carl is the CEO for 40 Strategy Inc and host of the Measure Success Podcast. He is passionate about designing great strategic plans but more importantly getting them done. The Navigate Your Strategy with Purpose™ methodology increases success by 3x.

Here are some key insights from this week’s show:

• Focus on what you can control to create the greatest value for your clients.
• Set big audacious goals to stay motivated.
• Buying comes from authenticity rather than the aspiration goal.

Connect with Carl at www.40strategy.com

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S04E29: Don’t Blend in with the Background with VIP guest Paige Arnof-Fenn

Paige Arnof-Fenn is the founder & CEO of global marketing and digital branding firm Mavens & Moguls based in Cambridge, MA. Her clients include Microsoft, Virgin, The New York Times Company, Colgate, venture-backed startups as well as non-profit organizations. She graduated from Stanford University and Harvard Business School. Paige serves on several Boards and is a popular speaker and columnist who has written for Entrepreneur and Forbes. 

Listen to this powerful Secrets to Win Big episode with Paige Arnof-Fenn in which she and Arjun take a deep dive into what it takes to properly and purposefully understand a brand and it’s customers. 

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

• Common areas every brand needs to address when they work with Paige.
• Lessons about competition from Paige’s time with Coca-Cola.
• How to understand market research. 
• Lessons from focus groups. 
• Pieces of advice for start-ups and non-profits.
• Paige’s advice on using social media. 

Links Mentioned:

http://mavensandmoguls.com/

Connect with Paige:

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paigearnoffenn/

S04E028: How Staying Positive and Open Can Lead To Making Dust Not Eating It with VIP guest Janet Steiner

Janet (Jan) Steiner is the former President/CEO of Thoro Packaging, an industry leading packaging solutions company. Driven by her life motto, “If you don’t make dust, you eat dust,” Jan scaled the company from $1 million to just under $40 million in revenue before negotiating the sale of her family-owned business in 2018 and retiring from this position. Jan shares her core principles of success and business passion, inspiring and empowering other driven entrepreneurs to Make Dust, the name of her new speaking and mentoring business (ad)venture.

Listen to this Secrets to Win Big episode with Janet Steiner in which we hear how she came to lead her packaging company to great success, as well as get a glimpse into how her positive and open mindset has led her to win big.

Here is what to expect on this week’s show:

●     How treating people equally, no matter their title within a company, has repeatedly paid off.

●     The secret of turning negatives into positives.

Connect With Janet:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/ThoroPackaging

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/makedustwithjan/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/Makedustwithjansteiner/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/makedustwithjansteiner/