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Absolute Advantage Podcast

by Kelly Hatfield

The Absolute Advantage Podcast is about learning from some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, leaders, and achievers at the top of their game. When chasing your dreams, a lot of times there isn't a need to reinvent the wheel. Instead, shorten your path to success by learning from the stories, strategies and concepts shared by our guests. Then shorten it even further by learning about amazing resources (books, webinars, tools, software, events, coaching, etc.) that should be on your radar. You are not alone in the challenges you face! It's my mission to help you walk away with at least one idea you can apply each episode and to offer content that inspires, encourages and helps you grow and progress QUICKLY both professionally and personally.

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Episodes

  1. Episode 217: Finding the Courage to Let Go with Kute Blackson

    Author of the national bestselling book You.Are.The.One. and widely considered the next generation leader in the field of personal development by everyone ranging from Larry King, Jack Canfield, Marianne Williamson and more. He has been featured on Larry King Now, Fox and Friends, Dr. Drew, as...

  2. Episode 216: Lead on All Fronts, with Doug Ward

    Doug is a retired military veteran of over 24 years. During his time in the military, he held numerous leadership positions to include instructor and manager of 500 personnel to Troop Chief of a hand-selected group of special communicators tasked with supporting and deploying into austere...

  3. Episode 215: Everyday Courage, with Kelly Hatfield and April Taylor

    Kelly Hatfield and April Taylor are leaders and entrepreneurs at heart. They believe fully in the power of the ripple effect and the opportunity that each of us has to create meaningful, positive and long-lasting impact in the lives of our teams, our clients and all who we serve. They…

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  4. Episode 214: Health, Energy, and Leadership, with Thom King

    Part CEO, part personal development wonk, and part biohacker info geek, Thom King is a self-confessed serial entrepreneur. While his favorite book list contains many success-oriented and personal-development classics, the traditional definition of achieving success (e.g. make a lot of money) is…

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  5. Episode 213: Energy Management and Self-Leadership, with Kelly Hatfield and April Taylor

    Kelly Hatfield and April Taylor are leaders and entrepreneurs at heart. They believe fully in the power of the ripple effect and the opportunity that each of us has to create meaningful, positive and long-lasting impact in the lives of our teams, our clients and all who we serve. They…

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  6. Episode 212: Real Estate Investing for Business Leaders and Entrepreneurs, with Chris Prefontaine

    Chris is the best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit. He's also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast. Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes…

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  7. Episode 211: Reflection, Correction, Progression, with Kelly Hatfield and April Taylor

    Kelly Hatfield and April Taylor are leaders and entrepreneurs at heart. They believe fully in the power of the ripple effect and the opportunity that each of us has to create meaningful, positive and long-lasting impact in the lives of our teams, our clients and all who we serve. They…

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  8. Episode 210: The New Standard of Leadership, with Eric Kapitulik

    Eric Kapitulik was born and raised in Thompson, CT and attended Pomfret Preparatory School where he was a three-sport varsity athlete. Upon graduating, he attended the United States Naval Academy. While there, he was a 4-year varsity letter winner and played on three NCAA Division I Lacrosse...

  9. Episode 209: Forge Your Own Path to Success and Happiness, with Mike Kitko

    Mike Kitko is an Executive Self- Mastery Coach, Speaker, and Author. He found external success in the world through attaining powerful titles, incomes, and material possessions. His family only focused on material wealth as the primary means of trying to find happiness. He ultimately fell into...

  10. Episode 208: The Nine Emeralds, with Peter Guzzardi

    Peter Guzzardi has worked in publishing for more than forty years. Prominent books he has edited include Stephen Hawkings A Brief History of Time, Deepak Chopras Ageless Body, Timeless Mind, Queen Noors Leap of Faith, Arianna Huffington's Fanatics and Fools, and Paula Poundstone's There's Nothing...

  11. Episode 207: Optimize Your Personal Life, with David Hauser

    David Hauser has built a number of successful companies in the startup space, both organically and inorganically. He is the founder of Grasshopper, which was acquired by Citrix after he bootstrapped the company to $30M+. David founded Chargify and made it profitable, securing a Mark Cuban...

  12. Episode 206: A Culture of Diversity and Inclusivity in the Workplace, with Jennifer Brown

    Jennifer Brown is an award-winning entrepreneur, dynamic speaker and diversity and inclusion expert. She is the founder, president, and CEO of Jennifer Brown Consulting (JBC), a strategic leadership and diversity consulting firm that coaches business leaders worldwide on critical issues of talent...

  13. Episode 205: Leadership, Culture, and Growth, with John Waid

    John Waid has thirty years of sales and sales leadership experience in Fortune 500 companies and twelve years of senior consulting experience in the learning and development field. John earned his MBA in International Business from a top program and is fluent in three languages which has allowed...

  14. Episode 204: Becoming the Best Version of Yourself, with Erik Salzenstein

    Erik Salzenstein's story is one that truly shows the power of change and what's possible. From greed and addiction to purpose and fulfillment. Erik found himself facing life in prison, with his back against the wall where he finally had to face his worst enemy up until that point…himself. What...

  15. Episode 203: From Perfectionist to Progressionist, with John Livesay

    John Livesay, aka The Pitch Whisperer, is a sales keynote speaker and shares the lessons learned from his award-winning sales career at Conde Nast. In his keynote Better Selling Through Storytelling, he shows companies sales teams how to become irresistible so they are magnetic to their ideal...

  16. Episode 202: The Power of Mentorship and Vulnerability, with Ric Lindberg

    Ric Lindberg is a freelancer who helps global organizations with business intelligence and team development based on coaching, metrics and KPIs. He is a deep technical data-nerd who understand the desire to replace tools and processes for better results, but having worked within business...

  17. Episode 201: Communicating Your Message with Determination, with Joe Williams

    Joe Williams helps coaches, consultants and entrepreneurs become world-class communicators! Joe is the Founder of Creative Performance Group, where he helps people get their message out to the world in the most powerful way possible. He created the Master Your Message Bootcamp, an intensive...

  18. Episode 200: Success Through Selfless Service, with Jonathan Keyser

    Jonathan Keyser is the founder and thought leader behind Keyser, the largest tenant rep commercial real estate brokerage/consulting firm in Arizona. Through his disruptive focus on selfless service, Jonathan is re-shaping the commercial real estate industry, and his firm has quickly become one of...

  19. Episode 199: Identifying Opportunity in Disguise, with Carey Jenkins

    Carey Jenkins had an unconventional path to CEO of Substantial, a Seattle-based digital product studio that has worked with companies like Amazon, Mercedes Benz, and the Wall Street Journal. In 2012, Carey joined the client services team, and six short years later she became the CEO. As the sixth...

  20. Episode 198: The Democratization of Education, with Joeel and Natalie Rivera

    After their business crumbled due to a sudden illness that had Joeel bedridden for a year, Joeel (jo-ELL) and Natalie Rivera (ri-VAIR-uh) decided they never wanted to be in that situation again. So they dedicated themselves to converting their training and speaking programs into online courses…

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  21. Episode 197: Finding Your Fit, with Kathleen Trotter

    Kathleen Trotter is a fitness expert, media personality, personal trainer, writer, life coach, certified Pilates and ELDOA instructor, and overall health enthusiast. Her passion is motivating others to find their fit. Kathleen does this through writing, regular TV and media appearances, working...

  22. Episode 196: Humor as a Science, with Drew Tarvin

    Drew Tarvin is the world's first Humor Engineer teaching people how to get better results while having more fun. He has worked with thousands of people at 200+ organizations, including Microsoft, the FBI, and the International Association for Canine Professionals. He is a best-selling author, has...

  23. Episode 195: A Foundation of Trust and Authenticity, with Tevis Trower

    Tevis Trower is the founder and CEO of Balance Integration Corporation, focused on helping build corporate cultures that allow employees to thrive. Their remarkable client list includes companies like Google, Yahoo, Disney, Viacom, AOL, Soros, Bloomberg, Morgan Stanley and more. Tevis is…

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  24. Episode 194: Finding Clarity in a Chaotic World, with Tommy Baker

    Tommy Baker is a writer, speaker, author, coach, consultant, and the host of the Resist Average Academy. He is the CEO of Tommy Baker Fitness and an entrepreneur who believes in people's endless potential and whose goal is to help them achieve their purpose and potential. After beginning his…

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  25. Episode 193: Investing in Stronger Teams, with Juliana Stancampiano

    Juliana Stancampiano is the CEO of Oxygen, business leader, and strategist whose work involves helping business leaders and their teams modernize workplace education. With more than 15 years of experience, Juliana has helped leaders translate their company's sales and business strategy into...

  26. Episode 192: Leading with a Powerful Voice, with Arthur Joseph

    Arthur Joseph is the founder and chairman of the Vocal Awareness Institute, and he is widely considered to be one of the world's foremost communication strategists and authorities on the human voice. Arthur's stated mission is to "Change the World Through Voice". His trademarked, proprietary…

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  27. Episode 191: Marketing for a Service-Based Firm, with Steve Gordon

    Steve Gordon became CEO of an engineering consulting firm at age 28, and he grew the firm's revenue by ten times in just twelve years. He's invested the last twenty years in the study and application of selling high-ticket services. He is the editor of four business newsletters read by thousands…

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  28. Episode 190: Learning the Language of Leadership, with Krister Ungerböck

    Krister Ungerböck is a keynote speaker, CEO coach, and global expert in the Language of Leadership. Krister served as CEO of one of the largest family-owned software companies in the world before he retired at age 42. As a global CEO, Krister did business in 40 countries around the world and led...

  29. Episode 189: Conquering Every Challenge on the Path to Success, with Johnny Wimbrey

    Johnny Wimbrey is an internationally-acclaimed talk show host, motivational speaker, and the bestselling author of From the Hood to Doing Good and co-author of several volumes of Multiple Streams of Inspiration and Conversations on Success. His mantra, "Say Increase!" is repeated all around the...

  30. Episode 188: Shifting Your Mindset, with Regan Hillyer

    Regan Hillyer is a multimillionaire global changemaker, thought leader, entrepreneur, philanthropist, global speaker, and mindset coach. Regan is the founder of Regan Hillyer International, a company that offers clients personal development and business training. Regan has helped thousands of...

  31. Episode 187: Spending Your Time Wisely, with Matt Sandrini

    Matt Sandrini is a high-performance and business coach, Amazon bestselling author, and an expert in time management and productivity. His coaching helps entrepreneurs find the results they are looking for through clarity, structure and accountability. He helps his clients reduce their stress,...

  32. Episode 186: Creating Connections and Strengthening Relationships, with Michelle Tillis-Lederman

    Michelle Tillis-Lederman is a recognized speaker, trainer, leadership coach and consultant, and author. She was named by Forbes on their list of "25 Professional Networking Experts to Watch." Through her company, Executive Essentials, Michelle works to help national and global businesses,...

  33. Episode 185: The Power of Storytelling, with Harry Maziar

    Harry Maziar's career as a business leader has been long, successful, and storied. Harry served as the President of Zep Manufacturing Company, a division of National Service Industries, for 27 years. Prior to his role as President, Harry served as the company's first director of sales, where his...

  34. Episode 184: Rising Up Through Adversity, with Petra Velzeboer

    Petra Velzeboer is an international keynote speaker, psychotherapist, mental health consultant, executive coach, and podcast host who is dedicated to helping others through developing empathy in the workplace to create stronger connections with our teammates and improve the productivity of our...

  35. Episode 183: Thoughts, Feeling, and Enabling Success, with Daphne Scott

    Dr. Daphne Scott is a leadership coach and corporate development expert with more than two decades of experience working with organizations. In addition to her own extensive coaching and leadership training and her degrees in Applied Positive Psychology and Physical Therapy, Daphne leans on her...

  36. Episode 182: Live Limitless, with Laura Gassner Otting

    Laura Gassner Otting is a professional keynote speaker, respected author, and successful entrepreneur. She helps innovators, idealists, and iconoclasts get "unstuck" by providing the extra push they need to achieve extraordinary results. Laura is the founder of Limitless Possibility and a…

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  37. Episode 181: Committing to Culture, with Tristan White

    Tristan White is the founder and CEO of The Physio Co., a unique healthcare business focused on delivering exceptional physical therapy for seniors that ranked number one on BRW's list of Australia's 50 Best Places to Work in 2014, and has consistently been placed on the list for ten consecutive...

  38. Episode 37: Hospitable Leadership, with Terry A. Smith

    Terry A. Smith is the Lead Pastor of The Life Christian Church (TLCC) in West Orange, New Jersey. TLCC has grown from a small 54-member congregation to nearly 3,000 members over the course of 27 years. TLCC is widely recognized for the diversity of its membership as well as its powerful…

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  39. Episode 179: Positivity, Vision and Giving Back, with Lila Stewart

    Lila Stewart is the co-founder of Hari Mari, a high-end flip flop brand sold in stores like Nordstrom, Neiman Marcus, Zappos, and by hundreds of other retailers as well as through the company's own website. These flip flops are made with high-quality materials and feature bold, bright colors and...

  40. Episode 178: Reclaiming Wasted Time, with Steven Griffith

    Steven Griffith is a respected author and speaker, researcher, performance expert, and a leading authority on the connection between time, productivity and performance. In his work, he recognizes that our use of time is a major indicator (and driver) of our success as business leaders. Steven is...

  41. Episode 177: Time Management and Meetings, with Elise Keith

    Elise Keith is the self-described "Meeting Maven" and the author of Where the Action Is: The Meetings That Make or Break Your Organization. She is the co-founder of Lucid Meetings, a consultancy that helps organizations develop and scale effective meeting habits. Elise is also the "Ask the…

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  42. Episode 176: Gender Bias in the Workplace, with Andie Kramer and Al Harris

    Andie Kramer is a partner at international legal firm McDermott Will & Emery LLP, where she serves as the head of the Financial Products, Trading and Derivatives Group. She is also the founding chair and current co-chair of the firm's Gender Diversity Committee. She has previously served on the...

  43. Episode 175: Energy, Influence and Leadership, with Elise Auxier

    Elise Auxier is an expert in leadership development. Elise helps her clients transform their limiting beliefs, reduce stress and gain clarity, and channel their passion and energy into their work in powerful new ways. Elise is the owner of Gulfcoast Coaching and an International Coach...

  44. Episode 174: Training Your Subconscious to Unlimit Your Beliefs, with Karen Brown

    Karen Brown is an executive-level business and leadership coach, motivational speaker, author, and CEO. Her company, Velocity Leadership Consulting, brings exceptional leadership training to the C-suite with their high performance results-driven methods. Karen knows a lot about performance. For...

  45. Episode 173: The Leadership Ripple Effect, with Paresh Shah

    Paresh Shah is a remarkable person. He is the CEO and co-founder of Lifters, an organization promoting a new model of business leadership that seeks to strength leaders and their teams, promote employee engagement, value diversity, and develop purpose and social responsibility. He is the…

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  46. Episode 172: Rising Beyond Mediocrity, with Adam Hergenrother

    Adam Hergenrother is a widely respected speaker and business coach, as well as the founder and CEO of Hergenrother Realty Group and co-owner and CEO of BlackRock Construction, both companies he turned into thriving enterprises within just 10 years. Adam is an expert in helping business leaders...

  47. Episode 171: The Storyteller, with Rey Ybarra

    Rey Ybarra is a mediapreneur and the author and producer of the multimedia digital book Conversations With Shark Tank Winners, featuring written, audio and video interviews with 14 carefully selected entrepreneurs from the hit television series Shark Tank. He has toured the nation with some of…

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  48. Episode 170: Clarity and Leadership, with John Murphy

    John Murphy is an expert in leadership development, a podcast host, bestselling author, and renowned mentor and coach. His global clients include giants like Pfizer, Airbus, Great West Life Co., State Street Bank, Vodafone and Johnson & Johnson. He is also the founder and CEO of John Murphy...

  49. Episode 169: The Science of Teamwork, with Dr. Rachel Headley and Meg Manke

    Dr. Rachel MK Headley is a Mensa PhD scientist and expert in project management. Her impressive resume includes a decade spent in the scientific field of satellite imaging, and another decade as a geologist and the operational science officer at the Landsat satellite mission for the U.S.…

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  50. Episode 168: $5 Million - The Science of Success, with John Mitchell

    Think and Grow Rich explains the "science of success". It changed John Mitchell's life. It allowed him to alter a 20 year history of earning low six figures a year, as an entrepreneur, to earning over $5 million a year. John's 12-minute-a-day technique is recognized as the top practical…

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ABOUT THIS SHOW

The Absolute Advantage Podcast is about learning from some of the world's most successful entrepreneurs, leaders, and achievers at the top of their game. When chasing your dreams, a lot of times there isn't a need to reinvent the wheel. Instead, shorten your path to success by learning from the stories, strategies and concepts shared by our guests. Then shorten it even further by learning about amazing resources (books, webinars, tools, software, events, coaching, etc.) that should be on your radar. You are not alone in the challenges you face! It's my mission to help you walk away with at least one idea you can apply each episode and to offer content that inspires, encourages and helps you grow and progress QUICKLY both professionally and personally.

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