Your Money, Your Business, Your Life Sharon Lechter

By the year 2025, 75% of our workforce will be millennials. The millennials outnumber even the baby boomers. They are also different than the boomers. As an employer or business owner, you need to understand the differences. The culture that worked in the past may not be the best fit for the new and upcoming workforce.
Today, I’m talking about the changes employers may need to make. Right or wrong, they will need to be aware of what their employees want and create a culture that encourages loyalty and participation. They will need to create an environment where employees feel ownership and have opportunities to give input. They need to feel they are making a contribution and understand the bigger picture.
 
“If you create an opportunity for the millennials to be successful, your company will be successful .” – Sharon Lechter
 
 
This week on the Your Money, Your Business, Your Life Podcast:
Challenges of working with the future generation and workforce retention The importance of understanding that times have changed Creating an environment where employees feel ownership The importance of establishing a system for input  
 
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Dina Dwyer-Owens is the co-chairwoman of the Dwyer Group, a home services and franchise company that her father started. Dina has taken the business to over $1-billion in systemized sales and is inching towards 2-billion. The Dwyer Group supports brands like Glass Doctor, Molly Maid, Mr. Electric and more. Dina and the Dwyer Group were also featured on the television show “Undercover Boss” twice.
Today, we discuss Dina’s Living R.I.C.H. concepts, how her father founded the business based on values and a belief system, and how Dina has taken that concept to the next level. We also discuss one of her newest brands, Neighborly, and all things related to being a dynamic leader and business executive who believes in putting people first.
 
"The one thing we knew we had to keep going was the code of values and the commitment to the code because it truly was the foundation of our success." – Dina Dwyer-Owens
 
 
This week on the Your Money, Your Business, Your Life Podcast:
How Dina’s father, Don, founded their company based on singular focused values How she took these values and operationalizing and gamifying them How Living R.I.C.H. is about treating people with respect and dignity Having respect, integrity, customer focus, and fun while loving what you do  
 
Connect with Dina Dwyer-Owens:
Dina on Twitter @DinaDwyerOwens Create Your Culture Workbook Dwyer Group Neighborly  
 
 
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When you’re just launching a new startup company, one of the first things many entrepreneurs begin to think about is how to find funding from investors and financial partners. But, the problem of getting a “yes” from investors often arises due to a few key components that entrepreneurs have mistakenly overlooked.
My guest today is Lauren Flanagan, Founder and Managing Director of Belle Capital USA. She is also the CEO of a strategic advisory firm called SCIO Corp, a company that helps early stage companies prepare to scale, raise capital, and achieve successful exits. I’ve known Lauren for a little over a year and she is filled with knowledge, insight, and understanding of the complexities within the investing industry, as well as the challenges that many startup businesses and entrepreneurs face when searching for outside funding to take their business to the next level.
Lauren joins me on the show today to share her knowledge and insight about some of the key components you should consider before presenting your business or product idea to potential investors, why not all businesses need outside funding, and why building a competent team around your idea is a critical part of showing investors the value of your proposition.
 
“It’s important that you do as much diligence on your partners as they are going to do on you.” – Lauren Flanagan
 
This Week on the Your Money, Your Business, Your Life Podcast:
How to know when to begin raising capital and outside funding How to tell when your product is ready to present to financial partners and investors Why you need the right advisors – and the type of advisors you should consider How to prepare for outside funding The importance of creating, protecting, and sharing intellectual property within your plan  
5 Value Proposition Questions to Ask Yourself:
Who’s going to buy and why? What is the burning problem you are solving? How big is that market? What is the competition like? What is your strategic or competitive advantage?  
Mentioned in This Episode:
Built to Last book by Jim Collins and Jerry I. Porras Good to Great book by Jim Collins  
Connect with Lauren Flanagan:
Belle Capital USA Email: lflanagan@sciocorp.com

When was the last time you allowed yourself to be creative? To use the power of your imagination and let your mind explore what could be possible in our world? How does creativity, imagination, and curiosity play a role in the development, growth, and success of our businesses?
In this week’s episode, I’m talking about curiosity, creativity, and imagination, as well as something that we’ve all experienced at one point in our lives: conformity, comfort, complacency, crisis, and chaos. These are all very different things, and yet they are all connected. As business owners, it can be easy to become complacent in our businesses; to become comfortable or used to doing things a certain way. But, once you’ve become complacent, how do you get back on the saddle of imagination and creativity and why is it important to your overall success?
 
“Let’s just shed that cape of conformity; that cape of complacency, and replace it with a cape of your super power.”
 
This week on Your Money, Your Business, Your Life:
Why it’s important to step out of your comfort zone Why you should allow yourself quiet time to think and imagine How imagination can help you develop new ideas, new product or services, and new solutions How unleashing your imagination and creativity can significantly impact your business  
 
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Our mission is to educate entrepreneurs, investors, professionals, and families on ways to reduce the stress and frustration revolving around finances, learn what it takes to make more money in less time, and shatter the financial glass ceiling holding them back from financial freedom.            
            
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It’s never been easier to publish a book than it is today. In the past, the primary way to get published was to find and pitch your book idea to a publishing house or start your own publishing company. Although publishing houses are still a viable option to get your book published today, the internet has made it incredibly easy to get published without the need of a major publisher assisting you.
In this week’s episode, I’m going to share a few of the many ways you can publish your book idea, the pros and cons of each, and share why it’s important for you to figure out your marketing strategy to sell your book regardless of which publishing option you choose.
 
This week on Your Money, Your Business, Your Life:
The five big publishing houses still available today The pros and cons of working with big publishing houses The hard reality of publishing, promoting, and marketing your book The benefits and drawbacks of self-publishing The pros and cons of self-publishing eBooks How to get your books distributed to book stores Understanding the pros and cons of co-authoring and co-publishing Working with Indy publishers  
Resources Mentioned:
Random House Penguin Publishing House McMillan Publishing House Hachette Publishing House National Book Network Ingram Book Distributors  
 
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Invest in YOU with our Essential Components of a Successful Business Online & Live Training Course! This 12-week training program will teach you how to grow your business from an idea to a globally-recognized success, learn how to find investors for your company and leverage and protect the power of your intellectual property to ensure you build the business and life you deserve.   
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Being a good storyteller can significantly impact your business. Whether you are sharing how your business got started or explaining how something works, you often express your thoughts and ideas through telling your story. When it comes to telling your story, it’s important to keep in mind the medium you are using. Whether it’s writing a book, blog post, or article, or sharing your story with an audience through speaking engagements, presentations, or podcasts, knowing how to connect and inspire your audience is critical to telling a good story.
On today’s episode, I’m discussing the differences between sharing your story through writing verses speaking and how to paint a picture for your readers through the words you choose when writing your book, article, or blog post.
 
The better storyteller you can become, the more effective you are going to be.
 
This week on Your Money, Your Business, Your Life:
Keeping the message you want to get across to your audience at the top of your mind Relating to your audience through your writing Using your own life experiences to add the emotional element that your audience desires  
 
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Our mission is to educate entrepreneurs, investors, professionals, and families on ways to reduce the stress and frustration revolving around finances, learn what it takes to make more money in less time, and shatter the financial glass ceiling holding them back from financial freedom.           
           
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