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154: Leading Through Failure – Unlocking the Power of Intelligent Risk
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50:27By Hosts: Joey Brannon and Tommy Rohrlack
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153: Fathers, Sons, and the Legacy We Leave
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32:44By Host: Joey Brannon
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152: The Power of Storytelling in Business with Mark Gordon
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35:37By Host: Devin Dash | Guest: Mark Gordon
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149: Data-Driven Success — Transforming Sales and Operations
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26:29By Hosts: Devin Dash | Guests: Cameron Earhart
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148: Leading with Integrity - Lessons from Integrity Pressure Cleaning
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1:15:50By Hosts: Tommy Rohrlack & Joey Brannon | Guests: Micah Valladares Sr. and Jr.
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147: Building a Strong Foundation - Mastering Onboarding and Training
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24:10By Host: Tommy Rohrlack | Cameron Earhart
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144: From Humble Beginnings to Financial Success: Jude Wilson's Journey
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49:00By Host: Devin Dash | Guest: Jude Wilson
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143: FTC Ruling Life Insurance Strategies, and Small Business Insights with Mark Clark
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1:06:10By Host Devin Dash with Co-Host Joey Brannon and Guest Mark Clark
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142: Unlocking the Secrets of Successful Business Exit Planning (Part 2)
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32:07By Devin Dash and Cameron Earhart
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141: Unlocking the Secrets of Successful Business Exit Planning (Part 1)
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33:13By Devin Dash and Cameron Earhart
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140: Navigating Challenges and Embracing Opportunities
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49:41By Host: Joey Brannon | Guest: Jaime Marco
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139: A Vision for Excellence (Part 2 of 2)
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27:57By Host: Devin Dash | Guests: Jesse Curry and Robbie Monday
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138: A Vision for Excellence (Part 1 of 2)
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27:57By Host: Devin Dash | Guests: Jesse Curry and Robbie Monday
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137: Faith-Driven Leadership: Silver Resorts (Part 2 of 2)
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37:48Angela is a business owner whose story transcends entrepreneurship, weaving faith, family, and transformation into a powerful narrative. After her mother’s passing, Angela faced the daunting task of managing the estate amidst grief, uncertainty, and one banker’s certainty that her relationship with her siblings would not survive the process. Throug…
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136: Resilience, Entrepreneurship, and Purpose (Part 1 of 2)
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41:46Discover the remarkable journey of Angela Rodocker, owner of Silver Resorts, as she navigates the challenges of second-generation family business ownership and uses her enterprise to make a positive impact. This story showcases resilience, entrepreneurial spirit, and the transformative power of purpose-driven leadership.…
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135: Questions That Every Business Owner Should Be Asking
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29:46In this episode of The Axiom Podcast, Tommy Rohrlack and Cameron Earhart take a deep dive into key questions every business owner should be asking. By walking through a few main examples, they provide listeners with practical, impactful, yet simple questions to ask both themselves, and their leadership team, in order to maintain a healthy pulse on …
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In the latest episode of the Axiom podcast, hosts Shannon Lonergan and Devin Dash engage in a thought-provoking conversation to uncover the "why" behind their work at Axiom. Emphasizing the mission of building purpose-driven businesses, they explore the transformative power of well-run small businesses in positively impacting communities.…
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In this episode, Shannon and Lukas stress the significance of leaders harmonizing empathy and efficiency for optimal team performance and a positive work culture. They advocate for a clear vision, active listening, and genuine care as essential components, highlighting the paradox that, by fostering empathy, leaders empower employees to overcome da…
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132: Getting a Head Start on the New Year
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26:48There’s a lot of options out there for all of us when it comes to efficiency and productivity.But the question we are asking you is are you choosing what is efficient specifically for you as the user? If not, why not and how can we change that?By Shannon Lonergan & Lukas Oest
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In the final installation of our team podcast, we are wrapping up this series of conversations with Cameron and Shannon.During this podcast, you'll learn a little more about the heart behind why both Cameron and Shannon chose to listen to the calling God placed on them, and use their gifts at Axiom.By Shannon Lonergan & Cameron Earhart
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Continuing the conversation from two weeks ago, we are diving deeper in the backgrounds of our team members, what brought them to Axiom and how each one of them plays a critical role here at Axiom. If you have never met one of our team members, we hope that this series serves as a good introduction. If we have been fortunate enough to meet, we hope…
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In the first episode of a 3 part series, our host Shannon Lonergan is joined by the entire Axiom team for a fun full-team podcast where we dive a little deeper into our team members and learn more about ourselves personally and professionally. Shoutout to Baysound Studios for providing their studio space for this seven-person podcast. This week, yo…
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This week’s episode of The Axiom Podcast discusses viewing business as a ministry by focusing on serving customers. Successful businesses are those that identify and meet their customers' needs. Tune in to learn more about how you can lead a business as a ministry.By Shannon Lonergan, Lukas Oest, and Tommy Rohrlack
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Lukas Oest, our newest team member, makes his debut on The Axiom Podcast, where he joins Shannon Lonergan to talk about Axiom’s four core values: care, truth, diligence, and learning. In this episode, we uncover the importance of having core values and how they are applied in a business setting.By Shannon Lonergan & Lukas Oest
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In this episode of The Axiom Podcast, Shannon and Joey discuss the difficulties and advantages of delegating tasks as a leader and offer practical advice on improving delegation skills.The conversation starts with why delegation is challenging for high achievers. It is difficult to relinquish control of tasks, but it will bear much fruit for the le…
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Good leadership starts from within. It's about serving your team, empowering them, and living the values you want them to embody. Listen to our newest podcast episode now and embark on your journey towards effective servant leadership.By Shannon Lonergan & Joey Brannon with Tommy Rohrlack
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124: Developing Strong Teams through Accountability
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14:43Drawing insights from Joey's book, "Grow with Purpose," this podcast discussion centered around the importance of leaders being accountable to their teams and fostering a culture of accountability.By Shannon Lonergan and Cameron Earhart
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In our latest podcast, we dive into the world of creating and executing quarterly priorities. Join us as we explore the benefits of this strategic planning method and how it differs from regular tasks. Quarterly priorities allow you to step back and plan for the next 90 days, enabling you to focus on the big things you want to accomplish - the fram…
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Coming out of our 3 part series on the idea of “No Bad Teams” (listen to part 1-3 wherever you listen to podcasts!), we wanted to share some statistics from our pre Lunch + Learn survey that we sent out to both of the groups that we presented to. The numbers we talk about in this podcast are coming from 39 different businesses across the Southwest …
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Tune into the third and final episode on the topic of No Bad Teams, where we’re joined by Cameron Earhart of the Axiom Team discussing the importance of creating and maintaining values for your business. We’ll walk through what, how, and why you need these values to truly cultivate the business and team members that you’ve been hoping for.…
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In this week’s episode, Shannon + Joey continue diving into the idea of No Bad Teams, specifically going deeper on the idea of where good teams come from. Starting with the idea of extreme ownership, and then ending with learning how to empower your team so that you can step into the leadership role that you’re meant to have, this week’s episode wi…
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What does it mean to have no bad teams? Seems like quite the polarizing statement. In this engaging discussion, Devin and Shannon dive into the meaning behind our statement of “No Bad Teams” and our take on empowering leaders to take Extreme Ownership over everything they have their hands on in their business. We talk about the costs associated wit…
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When hiring an “A” player, we are not just focused on one thing about the candidate - instead, we are focused on multiple things, making sure to ask pointed questions to get to know the candidate. Hiring a culture fit matters, and asking questions to learn the candidate's experience and competency is also important. Our suggestion to you - be sure …
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Hiring an “A” player means that you are choosing to hire for culture and character over hiring for a need to fill a role. At Axiom, not only do we teach other businesses how to hire for longevity, but we also follow this proven process when hiring for our internal team. Tune into our most recent episode, where we talk about hiring “A” players by ha…
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What does it look like to turn over the keys to a company’s culture? We work with a lot of 2nd and 3rd generation family businesses, and most of them do a pretty good job of paying attention to how stock will be transferred for estate and trust taxes, how the org chart needs to be adjusted for new roles and responsibilities…even the schedule of fut…
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115: Businesses and Communities Flourishing Together | Thomas Hlohinec
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49:33Thomas Hlohinek (pronounced Low-he-nik) is the founder of Rise Financial Partners and also serves as the Executive Director of the Manasota Christian Community Foundation.By Host: Joey Brannon & Steve Sullivan | Guest: Thomas Hlohinec
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114: The Right and the Wrong Way to Hire Gen 2
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30:08We all understand when parents want to hire their adult kids to work alongside them in the business. What parent wouldn’t want that opportunity? But sometimes mom and dad can unwittingly set the stage for failure before Gen 2 has a chance to earn their first pay check. In this episode of The Axiom Podcast, Joey and Devin discuss the best way to bri…
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113: Can the Family Survive Working Together
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29:25Working with family can be one of the most rewarding and yet frustrating experiences, especially when it comes to older and younger generations working in the same business. In this episode, Joey and Devin talk about setting boundaries and how business owners can help their children working in the business understand what is most important and what…
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112: Can Mom and Dad Let Go of the Business?
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36:20When it comes to passing the business on to the second generation, many parents struggle to let go. In this episode, Joey and Devin discuss: 1) Common scenarios that come up in the transition. 2) How the state of vision affects a transition from one leader to another. 3) The importance of the “hand off” and what the baton of leadership really means…
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“There’s something different about her!” This week’s episode with world-class trainer Jaime Marco is a fun one. Discover new insights on leadership, sales and customer experience with one of the most infectious people I know.By Host: Joey Brannon | Guest: Jaime Marco
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Delegating tasks is one thing. Delegating decisions is a little harder. How do you delegate something that happens inside your head? In this episode, Joey and Cameron dive into developing leaders who can think in ways to accomplish what is important to you and them.By Joey Brannon and Cameron Earhart
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109: Are Your Kids Ready to Take Over the Business?
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26:57Many parents wonder whether turning over the keys to the business will put their retirement in jeopardy. In this episode, Joey and Cameron layout the reasons why just having the second gen work in different areas of the business is probably NOT the best way to determine if they are ready.By Joey Brannon and Cameron Earhart
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“I want people to have a dignified retirement!” That is the heart of John McGuire and in this episode he breaks down how ESOP’s can help small businesses with employee engagement, succession, tax savings and a host of other things that keep business owners up at night. The episode is packed with useful information that all business owners should ha…
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We’ve done several podcasts on theme parks over the last few months. It seems like everyone on the Axiom team has been learning from their family vacations. The secret is they’re great places to view business activities happening in high volumes, with how many customers or “guests” visit them daily. This summer, Devin got the opportunity to visit L…
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By Joey Brannon, Cameron Earhart, and Devin Dash
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By Cameron Earhart, Joey Brannon, and Devin Dash
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