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Connie’s Inspiring Motivational quote is by ~ Zig Ziglar “You were born to win, but to be a winner, you must plan to win, prepare to win, and expect to win.” We can all agree that to win we must do some type of planning. For business owners, does preparing to win include securing some form of business credit? How does a business go about arranging funding and credit to help their business thrive? Does a business earn credit the same way we do as individuals? The whole thing seems overwhelming because business have Tax ID’s not social security numbers. Is a business considered a living entity? So many questions that need clarification! We are going to sort this out with our guest, Ty Crandall. He is an internationally known speaker, author, pod show host, and business credit expert.   With over 16 years of financial experience Ty is recognized as an authority in business credit building, business credit scoring, and business credit repair.  And he’s written two  books, Perfect Credit and Business Credit Decode

Connie’s Inspiring Motivational quote is by ~ Frederick Reichheld "I have yet to find a company that has earned high levels of customer loyalty without first earning high levels of employee loyalty.” So what really creates loyalty in the corporate world? Years ago our grandparents and maybe even our parents worked for one company for their entire career. Maybe 30-40 years. Wow! For most of us that sounds crazy. 40 years…what? No way! That’s what I call loyalty! In the past … companies were loyal to their employees. In turn …Employees were like the corporate owners extended family. So what the heck happened. Where and when did loyalty go awry? Is it possible to get back company and employee loyalty or are we too late? Today, we are talking with Aaron Painter. Aaron Painter is the VP of Microsoft China and the author of LOYAL: A Leader’s Guide to Winning Customer and Employee Loyalty. This Microsoft executive explains how accomplished leaders use the time-tested secret of listening to turn the concept of loyalt

Connie’s motivational quote today is by, ~ Read on a Sign "Dear IRS: I would like to cancel my subscription – Please remove my name from your mailing list.” How many of us would love to be able to take our name off of the IRS list? If only!!! Tax laws seem to change like the weather and keeping up with proper information is not an easy task for a licensed CPA, let alone just a regular citizen! Is the CPA the only expert needed when thinking about taxes, and maybe more importantly, trying to lower our tax burden legally? Today your host, Connie Whitman, speaks with Vlad Zherenovsky.  Vlad is going to share some strategies and ways to approach tax season so you can put a real plan together to help you and your family maximize your income. Vlad is the CEO of Kraner, LLC and has more than 15 years in his role as a wealth manager. He has been in the trenches with families – and helped them forge ahead with key strategies. Getting properly prepared for your taxes will make all the difference in the world. Get ready

Connie’s fun quote is by ~ Ahsoka Tano and she says, “This is a new day, a new beginning.” Do you know who Ahsoka Tano is and which movie her character was introduced in? Absoka is a character from the 2008 animated film Star Wars: The Clone Wars. She was introduced as the Padawanapprentice to Anakin Skywalker (the future Darth Vader). If you are old enough to remember the original Star Wars movie, which was released in 1980 – then you are old enough to remember the debut of the Internet in 1982. Just two years after this world – changing film came to be, our own science fiction journey began. Sometimes the origins of the Internet seem like it began in a Galaxy far, far away doesn’t it?…lol. Our new reality is that we can get any question answered using Google and have that answer in seconds! With this new cyber space reality also comes legal exposure for many businesses that have an online presence. Which at this point is almost all businesses. Although Google is a great tool for random questions, as a busin

Connie’s motivational quote for today is by ~ Will Rogers “Don’t wait to buy land. Buy land and wait” Do you have enough saved for retirement? Do you know how much of a nest egg or monthly cash flow you will need when you retire? Putting money away in various investment vehicles is a must in order to manage inflation, taxation and future health care costs. These are all potential things that can eat away at our future buying power during retirement. So how do you know if you have all the right investments or if you are you missing any key ingredient in your current investment portfolio? And should Real Estate be one of the important components included in your portfolios diversification in order to ensure a successful, worry free retirement? Well today we have an expert, who will shed light on helping us make sound financial decisions and what we need to know about real estate investments as part of our retirement plan. My guest is, Whitney Nicely. Whitney is an entrepreneur who went from selling dump trucks

Connie’s motivational quote today is by, – Earl Nightingale “Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” Dreams…everyone dreams at night. Some remember their dreams while others seem to wake up but recalling their dreams seem just out of reach. For today, let’s look at dreams from a different perspective. Let’s explore this notion of dreams that we can explore while we are awake! Cool idea, right? In order to explore our “life dreams” and desires we need to take a look deep inside, of ourselves, and see what our conscious and subconscious mind is telling us. Going deep within our minds may not be an easy feat for everyone and the thought of doing this may even have you break into a cold sweat. No worries, we have an expert guest today who is going to help us explore the deepest, darkest areas of our brain, where the answers to our life long questions are waiting for us to discover. My guest today is Aleta St. James. Aleta is a world-renowned ene

Connie’s motivational quote today is by, ~ Roy T. Bennett “Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.” Have you ever felt that sometimes your life doesn’t work out the way you hoped and planned? Do you see repetitive patterns in your life over and over again? Perhaps the patters are the same it’s the people that change? Why does this happen and are you creating these repetitive situations? Did you know that many of our core beliefs, and how we respond to the world, come from deep inside of us, at our cellular level? If we can change that cellular programming perhaps we can create the lives we all dream about but have been unsure of how to progress.  This is such a vital topic to explore and investigate because it can help us all navigate and change our paradigm of thinking to create more positive and empowering lives for ourselves. Today your host, Connie Whitman, Speaks with Kate O’Connell and we are going to discuss her new book, “Beyond the Imprint.” Kate is a Chi

Connie’s motivational quote today is by, Unknown: “Change is the essence of life; be willing to surrender who you are for what you could become.” Recent research done by Brian Dias & Dr. Kerry Ressler, of Emory University School of Medicine in Atlanta found that mice exposed to cherry blossom scent and were given a light electric current under their feet, learned to correlate the cherry blossom scent with being shocked. Further research showed that their offspring reacted to the scent of cherry blossoms without any electric current to their feet. So not only do we formulate our own core belief system, through our life experiences, we are also carrying beliefs from several past generations. That’s a lot of possibly good beliefs and many limiting beliefs to navigate through life. We are often held back or unsure when faced with change. Whether we choose the change or it thrown upon us, how we approach that change can come down to our belief system. No matter how strong our belief system is there is always b

Connie’s motivational quote for today is by ~ happy-lucky-dog.com “Dogs are like music! Never try to explain their worth to those who cannot appreciate them.” How may of you have a dog, as a family member of your household? How many of you see leadership qualities in your dog? Are you thinking she has lost her mind! Dog and leadership – what the heck do they have in common? Well grab your dog; settle in as you listen to my guests, Krissi Barr’s amazing insight. In their new book THE FIDO FACTOR: How to Get a Leg Up at Work, Krissi and Dan Barr focus on a model of leadership that nearly everyone can relate to and lots of people consider a family member or their best friend: You guessed it…dogs. Grounded in Krissi’s expertise as a leadership coach and Dan’s years of experience as a business executive, THE FIDO FACTOR is a solid, practical guide to effective business leadership that happens to have a dog theme. Why dogs? Besides the fact that the Barr’s count themselves among the ASPCA’s estimated 44 percent of

Connie’s Inspiring Motivational quote is by ~ WhereWeGoNow.com “I now see how owning our story and loving ourselves through that process is the bravest thing that we will ever do.” Do you need to be brave to love yourself? Is that why love seems to elude some of us? Does it start with us loving ourselves before another can love us too? Here is an interesting question, are you able to look yourself in the mirror and say, “I love you just as you are!” At some point, we have all faced that moment where we need to look ourselves in the mirror and believe that we are lovable, beautiful/handsome, inspiring, wonderful, and complete. Yet, sometimes that is so darn hard to do. Are we taught to not love ourselves, and if so why? What does it prove or do for us as humans? It’s crazy…right? Valentines day is just a couple of days away and many of us dread this holiday. It’s just a reminder that we may be alone, feeling unloved, or feel sad watching all the lovebirds get flowers, candy and dinner dates. What if there is a

Connie’s motivational quote today is by, – Amen Amar’e @ real men movement “Lack of communication leads to a lack of trust, that leaves room for doubt.” Have you ever been in meetings or at a family event and felt that no one was listening to you? Did you ever have something really important to say and felt ignored? Why does this happen and perhaps more frequently than you would like? Are we doing something wrong or are we just missing a key piece of information that can empower us to be heard every time we speak? What if I told you there is actually a simple answer to understanding how and why you communicate the way you do and there are some relevant resource’s to help you improve communication in all areas of your life? Are you ready to uncover your true communication style, learn the strengths and challenges that come with it and how to perhaps improve how you communicate as soon as today? Today we are going to mix things up and switch roles to show you how change can be fun as we learn.  My guest today i

Connie’s motivational quote for today is by ~ Bishop T.D. Jakes “If you can’t figure out your purpose, figure out your passion. For your passion will lead you right into your purpose.” Do you all remember the book and movie Eat, Pray, Love and how the character, Liz Gilbert (played by Julia Roberts), went on a journey to Italy, India, and Indonesia, to find her life’s purpose and perhaps simply to find herself? How many of us have that feeling that we are meant to live a better, happier, more fulfilling life? How many of us may not have a clue as to how to find that life changing purpose? Today your host, Connie Whitman, speaks with Sarah Bamford Seidelmann.  Sarah shares her journey and search for her life’s purpose. Her book Swimming with Elephants is a humorous account about her travels, what she learned about herself and how she ultimately changed her entire life. Sarah was a fourth-generation physician living a nature-starved, hectic lifestyle until a walrus entered her life and changed everything. She i

Connie’s Inspiring Motivational quote is by ~ Darnell Lamont Walker “Everyone gets broken. Everyone. Some grow stronger in those breaks. Others never recover.” So what really does become of the broken-hearted? Have you made the same mistake over and over? Find out that your new love was just as bad/sneaky/mean/dysfunctional as your old love? It seems like patterns love to repeat themselves. At some point, I think we all get gun-shy. Starting a relationship just might mean the agony of ending a relationship, enduring the heartache and the embarrassment of telling your friends and family that “It’s over”, and answering all those questions. Who needs it! But breakups are not only sad and inconvenient, the reality is that sometimes they just might cause long-term depression and other emotional distress that is hard to emerge from. Our guest today has faced such trauma and says, “Sometimes you have to go through great pain and difficulty to unwrap your true gifts.” We are talking with Orion Talmay. Orion is a love

Connie‘s motivational quote for today is by ~ Ann Landers “Nobody gets to live life backwards. Look ahead, that is where your future lies” Ah…Retirement…Sounds like a great time of our life – kind of an endless vacation…right? We wait for the day we don’t have to sit in rush hour traffic, deal with a boss that is less than desirable, and are able to play golf, sit on a beach, or travel. But getting there takes some doing! Are you prepared to enter retirement and live the same lifestyle as you do now or the lifestyle you are dreaming about? That’s a big question to ask ourselves! If we do not prepare we may not be able to retire at all. Or retire with being able to have fun, relax and enjoy! Don’t stress! We have an expert today who is going to demystify retirement, share some tips and explain how to avoid pitfalls to allow for better preparation. Today your host, Connie Whitman, speaks with Rodger Friedman. Rodger is a Chartered Retirement Planning Counselor, author, speaker and wealth manager with over 3 dec

Connie‘s motivational quote today is by, ~ Wayne Dyer “Successful people make money. It’s not that people who make money become successful, but successful people attract money. They bring success to what they do.” Are you happy with your job or career? If you are, you are not alone. In a resent Gallup poll from 2013, 70% of Americans that were surveyed said that they either hated their job or felt disengaged. 70% of us go to work every day and hate every minute…WOW! That is sad and disturbing. The survey goes on to say that the 150,000 surveyed said they “had the boss from hell.” What if there is a better way? Would you be interested in hearing an alternative to the working blues? So, what does school fundraising and being a franchise owner have in common? And do you like the sound of being engaged and passionate about work? Well today you are in store for an amazing story and opportunity for creating a career filled with passion, excitement, and a way to give back to our local schools. Today your host, Conni

Connie’s motivational quote for today is by ~ Emily Post “Nothing is less important than which fork you use. Etiquette is the science of living. It embraces everything. It is ethics. It is honor.” Etiquette – do you think this is an antiquated word? But what it’s really all about is respectful behavior and simple manners – how you conduct yourself and how you treat others. Etiquette, manners and behavior in the workplace are a biggie. The reality is that in today’s workforce, people come from five generations and all kinds of backgrounds and perspectives. We are working together under intense pressure, avoiding saying or doing something that might annoy, offend, or alienate someone is like walking through a minefield. How can business leaders mitigate misunderstandings and foster teamwork? How can young professionals minimize interpersonal missteps? Your host, Connie Whitman, speaks with Rosanne Thomas. ROSANNE J. THOMAS is founder and president of Protocol Advisors, Inc., specialists in providing business et

Connie’s motivational quote for today is by ~ Robert Urich “A healthy outside starts from the inside.” Wow – 7 words to live by, seriously!   Our society is always looking to treat the symptoms. …or problems on the surface. But in order to manifest beauty on the outside you must take care of what is on the inside first But … how do we do that? Let’s start with the basics – food and nutrition! There was a second quote that is very powerful by Errick McAdams that says, “If you keep good food in your fridge, you will eat good food.” So why do we keep unhealthy food around us. Do we not understand that Junk food is just that?   Is it just because it’s easy? Is it because the food industry puts ingredients in foods to keep us addicted to unhealthy food? Or is it because we have become lazy and don’t think about the long-term repercussions of our unhealthy short-term choices? Do not worry, in the next half hour you are going to get some real answers as to how to shift our habits and steps to take to create a health

Connie’s motivational quote is by, ~ Galileo “I have loved the stars too fondly to be afraid of the night.” Have you or someone you know been effected by cancer? Sadly, the answer is probably yes. In a report from 2012, the World Health Organization revealed that over 14 million people are diagnosed with cancer every year. That is a staggering number that increases each year. When we hear that dreaded word “cancer,” one can only feel fear and overwhelm. The pathway to curing this disease has many variations and can be overwhelming to navigate.  Which solution or protocol will work best for your unique situation? Today your host, Connie Whitman, speaks with Barry Eaton who shares his story about beating cancer and the road he traveled to survive and thrive. Barry is a well-known radio and TV presenter, author and journalist, spending most of his career at the ABC and various commercial stations in Sydney, Australia. He is also an Astrologer, medium and psychic intuitive whose guests share their metaphysical kn

Connie’s motivational quote for today is by ~ Lao Tzu “Being deeply loved by someone gives you strength, while loving someone deeply gives you courage.” What an interesting quote. Love is so powerful that it gives us the strength to live an empowered life and helps us find the courage to be true to ourselves. But what happens when love causes pain? Haven’t we all had our hearts broken? Maybe even more than a few times…ugh. It doesn’t make us feel empowered or courageous. It makes us feel lost, sad and apprehensive to love and trust again. We all desire to love and be loved by someone, yet may be afraid to put ourselves out there. Vulnerability is scary and opening up our hearts can be terrifying. If you have been looking for love in all the wrong places, you are in store for a treat. Today your host, Connie Whitman, speaks with Karen Otis. Karen was on the show a couple of months ago and shared her new book, “Be the Architect of Your Life: Design, Build, and Start Living a Life Inspired.”  She has taken her a

Teddy Roosevelt has been quoted saying: “The only one who never makes mistakes is the one who never does anything.” Have you heard this quote before? Think about it, how many times have you made a mistake or taken a wrong turn only to end up in the right place? Mistakes are a necessary part of living, growing, experiencing and creating. Yet, most of us freak out when given an opportunity to change something in our life. It takes thought, effort and work to develop something new or to improve ourselves in some way. Startling statistics show that over 70% of Americans are unhappy with their current employment. Why is that and why doesn’t that 70% do something to change their job. Most are afraid or just aren’t sure what to do. The unknown is scary! Today your host, Connie Whitman, speaks with Tom Mulliez and Tom is going to share his story about leaving a corporate job to start his own adventure. Tom is a father, husband, entrepreneur, and the visionary behind iTREKKERS. Tom founded the company in 2014 after re