Decidedly I Decision Tips for Business Owners Sanger Smith and Shawn Smith

Why is work ethic at an all-time low? Am I being too soft on my team? How can I engage my employees without constantly rolling out expensive incentives? Jacob Morgan, a trained futurist, emphasizes the need for leaders to focus on providing agency, vulnerability, and growth opportunities for employees rather than competing on perks and benefits.



KEY TOPICS

Why leaders are so scared of setting boundaries within the walls of their business.

How to acknowledge your own shortcomings without becoming a weak leader.

Ways to problem solve with your team rather than coddling poor performance.

Methods to build trust between the members of your team.

 

CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction and Mission of Decidedly

01:21 The Challenge of Vulnerability in Social Settings

05:28 Jacob Morgan's Background

08:00 Employee Engagement and Leadership

09:15 Finding Meaningful Work

11:37 Bait & Switch in Employee Recruitment

16:16 Employee Experience

23:43 Organizational Culture

27:29 Setting Company Expectations

29:28 Perks and Entitlements in the Workplace

31:21 Leading with Vulnerability

33:48 The Decline of Hard Work

41:05 Employee Engagement

45:17 Challenges of Leadership Vulnerability

53:45 Building Trust with Your Team

57:30 Key Takeaways

58:35 Producer Closing

 

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SANGER’S BOOK: ⁠A Life Rich with Significance: Transforming Your Wealth to Meaningful Impact⁠

 

SHAWN’S BOOK: ⁠Plateau Jumping: What to Change When Change Is What You Want⁠

 

MAKING A FINANCIAL DECISION?

At ⁠Decidedly Wealth Management⁠, we focus on decision-making as the foundational element of success, in our effort to empower families to purposefully apply their wealth to fulfill their values and build a thriving legacy. 

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CONNECT WITH JACOB MORGAN

Top Leadership Trends

Website: https://thefutureorganization.com/ 

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/great-leadership-with-jacob-morgan/id907990904?mt=2&ls=1 

Substack: https://greatleadership.substack.com/ 

Leading with Vulnerability: Unlock Your
Greatest Superpower to Transform Yourself, Your Team, and Your Organization: https://www.amazon.com/Leading-Vulnerability-Superpower-Transform-Organization/dp/1119895243/ 

LinkedIn: Jacob Morgan - Nasch | LinkedIn 

Instagram: @jacobmorgan8 

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Jacob Morgan is a trained futurist and one of the world’s leading authorities on leadership, the future of work, and employee experience.

Could suboptimal sleep patterns, artificial fragrances,
and even mold toxicity be wrecking your health without you knowing? Dr. Julie Kennedy, a functional medicine nurse practitioner, shares her root-cause approach to health, rather than our culture’s faulty band-aid approach.

 

KEY TOPICS

Common environmental toxins that are disrupting your health

Why you know what you should do, but aren’t actually doing it 

The reasons people fail on their health goals

Filters to determine when to tackle new commitments
healthily



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CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction and Mission of Decidedly

05:00 Running on Cortisol

06:20 Thyroid Health

09:15 Environmental Toxins

11:00 Essential Oils

15:16 Endocrine Disruptors

16:28 Mold Toxicity

19:52 Overlooking Health Issues

22:13 What’s Wrecking Our Health

28:13 Hiring a Health Coach

31:10 Why am I not doing what I should do?

35:00 Instant v. Delayed Gratification

38:11 Setting Health Goals

41:49 Health Takes Time

45:24 When to Tackle New Projects

46:29 Key Takeaways

48:05 Producer Closing



Listen to our first episode with Dr. Julie Kennedy: Ep.127 I Dr. Julie Kennedy I Deciding for Your Health: Stress, Sleep, and Sustainable Habits - Decidedly I Decision Tips for Business Owners | Podcast on Spotify 

 

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SANGER’S BOOK: A Life Rich with Significance: Transforming Your Wealth to Meaningful Impact

 

SHAWN’S BOOK: Plateau Jumping: What to Change When Change Is What You Want

 

MAKING A FINANCIAL DECISION?

At Decidedly Wealth Management, we focus on decision-making as the foundational element of success, in our effort to empower families to purposefully apply their wealth to fulfill their values and build a thriving legacy. 

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MENTIONED IN THIS EPISODE

Go Brewing by Joe Chura

Ep.32 I Joe Chura I Deciding You're Not Almost There: The Journey of Selling a Business - Decidedly I Decision Tips for Business Owners | Podcast on Spotify

 

CONNECT WITH DR. JULIE KENNEDY

Instagram: @seedwellnessco 

Facebook: Seed Wellness Co. 

Website: www.seedwellness.co 

Ep.127 I Dr. Julie Kennedy I Deciding for Your Health:
Stress, Sleep, and Sustainable Habits - Decidedly I Decision Tips for Business Owners | Podcast on Spotify 

 

Dr. Julie Kennedy, DNP (doctor of nursing practice), MBA (master of business administration), APRN (advance practice registered nurse), FNP-C (family nurse practitioner – certified), IINHC (institute for integrative nutrition health certification), is a Board-Certified Family Nurse Practitioner with a focus in functional medicine.

With a Doctorate of Nursing Practice and MBA from Texas Christian University, she also holds certifications in health coaching, Pilates, Yoga, mindfulness, Ayurvedic medicine, and ozone therapy.

With experience in pediatrics, functional medicine, health coaching, and the healthcare business, Dr. Kennedy uses functional medicine to help clients achieve optimal health. She started her journey in functional medicine over 25 years ago during her undergraduate nursing studies.

Anxiety in leadership isn’t always biting your nails and fretting; it can be as simple as always needing the last word, asking too many questions, shifting the tone of a room, and passing blame. Steve Cuss shares how to break these cultural patterns within your business by tackling the roots of your spiritual wellness.

 

KEY TOPICS

Recognizing the impact your presence has when you walk into a room.

Asking your employees “What’s it like to experience me at my worst?”

Releasing your burdens to God, so others don’t have to carry them for you.

How it’s cheaper for your company for you to be well than
for you to be anxious.

 

CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction and Mission of Decidedly

06:00 Life as a Hospital Chaplain

08:42 Being Connected to Yourself

12:00 Anxious Leaders

15:13 Anxious Employees

24:24 Making Gentle Corrections

29:37 Harmfully Permissive Leadership

33:01 Taking Personal Responsibility

38:04 Staff Turnover is Expensive

41:45 Productive Prayer in Anxiety

48:38 “Am I Well?”

 

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SANGER’S BOOK: A Life Rich with Significance:
Transforming Your Wealth to Meaningful Impact

 

SHAWN’S BOOK: Plateau Jumping: What to Change
When Change Is What You Want

 

MAKING A FINANCIAL DECISION?

At Decidedly Wealth Management, we focus on decision-making as the foundational element of success, in our effort to empower families to purposefully apply their wealth to fulfill their values and build a thriving legacy. 

LEARN MORE: www.decidedlywealth.com

 

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Website: www.capablelife.com

Instagram: @stevecusswords 

The Expectation Gap: The Tiny, Vast Space
between Our Beliefs and Experience of God: https://www.amazon.com/Expectation-Gap-between-Beliefs-Experience/dp/0310156378/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&dib_tag=se&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.L20NKVs1o9SbeZzwEKUThRtQ5VDG5UuLSZkN66B69TaHdGJ3zgfqD6T_yEkMUAJD9QV1Ht_GIm2cK_F45nhtMelMApnUIU-rNSnwzBqwafDy1Z_0JVvgqxO_lnfIL13R-Dw-oBpb1BB0AakecIjtHjXXq9xoxM1YpkVO0A4DU4wnOADQi288pEyc9IM2K4kolE23x7mnDDYz4vvjM7Z-xVhZRkn1f2_rB5RUKFjvJmY.T-OyE-rnwq_anWe-WaIbgG5uO4raGJTflI-eeSO9Djc&qid=1713358875&sr=8-2 

Managing Leadership Anxiety: Yours and Theirs: https://www.amazon.com/Managing-Leadership-Anxiety-Yours-Theirs-ebook/dp/B07DT87D56/ref=sr_1_1?crid=3VV93R4M3JL6M&keywords=managing%20leadership%20anxiety%20steve%20cuss&qid=1647219164&sprefix=managing%20le%2Caps%2C108&sr=8-1 

Managing Leadership Anxiety Podcast: https://www.missioalliance.org/series/managing-leadership-anxiety/ 

 

Steve is a pastor helping you improve your most precious
relationships: with yourself, your people, and with God. He has tangible tools for engaging with God in a deeper, more
soul-satisfying way. His goal is to unveil harmful expectations and patterns that keep you spiritually stuck so that you can replace them with practices that offer you a vibrant faith life.

DEI training has shifted from promoting equity to being weakly replaced with critical social justice, which today’s guest claims is inherently racist. Dr. Erec Smith, an anti-racist activist, shares how business owners can foster a diverse company culture – without the guise of generic performative activism.



KEY TOPICS

The ways that contemporary DEI trainings are “inherently racist.”

How to “climate check” your company.

Ways to organically foster diversity in your company – WITHOUT QUOTAS.

 

CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction and Mission of Decidedly

00:52 Boring Required Trainings

04:13 Dr. Eric Smith's Experience with DEI Training

06:11 Prescriptive Racism

09:09 Limitations of Modern DEI Initiatives

12:29 Shortcomings of Critical Social Justice

19:00 Changing Definitions of Words

27:54 White People’s Involvement in DEI

29:20 The Pressure to Conform

32:42 Root Motivations of DEI

35:07 Fostering a Diverse Business

37:58 The Culture of Your Company

41:25 Getting 1:1 with Your Team

44:00 Social Groups

48:00 Getting Out of Your Comfort Zone

51:02 Bridging Relationships

52:58 Empowerment Theory

 

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SANGER’S BOOK: A Life Rich with Significance:
Transforming Your Wealth to Meaningful Impact

 

SHAWN’S BOOK: Plateau Jumping: What to Change
When Change Is What You Want

 

MAKING A FINANCIAL DECISION?

At Decidedly Wealth Management, we focus on decision-making as the foundational element of success, in our effort to empower families to purposefully apply their wealth to fulfill their values and build a thriving legacy. 

LEARN MORE: www.decidedlywealth.com

 

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Website: www.freeblackthought.com



Erec Smith is a research fellow at the Cato Institute and
an Associate Professor of Rhetoric at York College of Pennsylvania. Although he has eclectic scholarly interests, his primary work focuses on the rhetoric of anti-racist activism, theory, and pedagogy, as well as the role of rhetoric in a free, pluralistic, and civil society. 

He co-founded Free Black Thought, a nonprofit highlighting viewpoint diversity within black communities. Free Black Thought includes a compendium of black artists, writers, academics, and public intellectuals not discussed in mainstream media. The organization also has a Journal of Free Black Thought, which publishes anything–from poetry to scholarly work—that discusses or displays a variety of viewpoints within the black diaspora. 

Smith is the author of A Critique of Anti-Racism in Rhetoric and Composition: The Semblance of Empowerment (2020), a book in which he scrutinizes contemporary modes of anti-racism in his field. The book was conceived after Smith's observations of his field led him to conclude that anti‐​racist initiatives did more to disempower students and faculty than empower
them. 

Smith is an advisor for both the Foundation Against Intolerance and Racism and Counterweight, an organization that advocates for classical liberal concepts of social justice.

You designed your business to create an impact, not just paychecks. But what does that look like in the day-to-day? Ken Coleman, host of The Ken Coleman Show and bestselling author of  From Paycheck to Purpose  shares what it takes for you, your family, and your team to find real fulfillment through your business.

 

KEY TOPICS

Communicating your business dreams to your spouse (and getting them on board).

How to create an engaging work environment that meets your employees’ needs.

Root causes of silent quitting, burnout, and job hopping.

How the American school system has failed today’s workforce.

  

CHAPTERS

00:00 Introduction and Mission of Decidedly

00:52 A Fly Fishing Fail

07:02 Ken Coleman's Journey to Finding Fulfillment

10:10 What’s most important?

13:55 Clarity, Confidence, and Courage

19:32 When is “the grind” worthwhile?

21:55 Pursuing Individual Passions in Your Marriage

23:23 Business Planning with Your Spouse

26:48 Qualities of a Supportive Partner

29:36 Clarity Breeds Confidence

31:00 Honoring the Way You’re Wired

36:22 Finding Meaning in Your Work

38:46 Why is everyone job hopping?

55:20 Creating an Engaging Work Environment

58:46 The Values Filter for Decisions

 

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SANGER’S BOOK: A Life Rich with Significance:
Transforming Your Wealth to Meaningful Impact

 

SHAWN’S BOOK: Plateau Jumping: What to Change
When Change Is What You Want

 

MAKING A FINANCIAL DECISION?

At Decidedly Wealth Management, we focus on decision-making as the foundational element of success, in our effort to empower families to purposefully apply their wealth to fulfill their values and build a thriving
legacy. 

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CONNECT WITH KEN COLEMAN

Website:www.kencoleman.com

The Ken Coleman Show: https://www.youtube.com/@TheKenColemanShowFullEpisodes/videos

The Proximity Principle:https://store.ramseysolutions.com/business-and-career/books/the-proximity-principle?_gl=1*a5721p*_ga*NDE3ODg1NDkwLjE3MTQ2MDQ0MzQ.*_ga_02SXDH1H96*MTcxNDYwNDQzNC4xLjEuMTcxNDYwNDc4Ny4wLjAuODczMzAwMjk5&_ga=2.204189008.1581484721.1714604435-417885490.1714604434

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Instagram: @kencoleman

Ken Coleman hosts The Ken Coleman Show and is the two-time bestselling author of  From Paycheck to Purpose and The Proximity Principle. He’s the expert in what it takes for you and your team to find fulfillment
in life and business.  

Fraud is everywhere. Fraud is costly. Fraud isn’t sequestered in dark basements in the middle of the night; it could happen in the front office of your business. But how can you prevent fraud, catch red flags quickly, and empower your team to blow the whistle if they witness it within the walls of your business? Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope, a leading forensic accounting expert, shares her expert approach.

 

KEY TOPICS

Catching red flags for fraud in your business.

Debunking the profile of a “white-collar felon.”

The internal controls that protect businesses from scams.

Situations that prevent employees from blowing the whistle on internal fraud.



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SANGER’S BOOK: A Life Rich with Significance:
Transforming Your Wealth to Meaningful Impact



SHAWN’S BOOK: Plateau Jumping: What to Change
When Change Is What You Want

 

MAKING A FINANCIAL DECISION?

At Decidedly Wealth Management, we focus on decision-making as he foundational element of success, in our effort to empower families to purposefully apply their wealth to fulfill their values and build a thriving legacy. 

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CONNECT WITH DR. KELLY RICHMOND POPE

Website:
https://www.kellyrichmondpope.com/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kelly-richmond-pope-cpa-83689a5/

Instagram: @kellyrpope 

Fool Me Once: Scams, Stories, and Secrets from the Trillion-Dollar Fraud Industry 

Documentary Directed by Dr. Kelly Richmond
Pope: All the Queen’s Horses: How Could One Woman Steal $3 Million Without Anyone Noticing?: Kelly Richmond Pope, Director of All the Queen's Horses Documentary 


Dr. Kelly Richmond Pope is the Dr. Barry Jay Epstein Endowed Professor of Forensic Accounting at DePaul University in Chicago, IL. Pope is a nationally recognized expert in risk, forensic accounting, and white-collar crime research, and an award-winning educator, researcher, author, and award-winning documentary filmmaker. Pope teaches managerial and forensic accounting both at the undergraduate and graduate level. 
In 2020, the AICPA and the CPA Practice Advisor named Dr. Pope among the top 25 most powerful women in accounting. Her area of expertise lies in understanding and identifying financial fraud risk within financial statements, assessing corporate culture and compliance systems designed to confront internal control challenges. Pope's research on executive misconduct culminated in directing and producing the award-winning documentary  All the Queen's Horses , which explores the largest municipal fraud in US history.