Influence Ecology

Shonit Jagmohan is an optometrist living in Melbourne, Australia. As a health and ambitious business professional, he offers an excellent case study in specialization, authority, and scarcity.In this episode, John and Shonit dive deep into the often-overlooked concept of the Condition of Life "Work" and how personal reflection on what you don’t want can shape a fulfilling career and life. They explore the societal pressures that push us toward certain norms, like working hard for the sake of it, and how to break free from those expectations by getting clear on your own aims. Shonit shares his personal journey of realizing that declining unfounded or unrealistic goals in his professional life helped him build authority and focus.They discuss the power of deliberate practice in declining, especially for those with a Performer personality who naturally avoid confrontation, and the importance of questioning societal norms that encourage acceptance without critical thinking.This episode is packed with valuable ins

Having immigrated to the United States from Brazil, Louisa Da Silva, owner of DS Cleaning and Maid Service, found that her stream of new ideas created 'fires' that her team had to extinguish. Previously overworked, stressed, and unhealthy, she's now planned for and living a balanced and focused life.In this episode's talk, Co-Founder Kirkland Tibbels discusses the naivety and danger of 'Self-Action', a very common and widespread orientation to activity in which the individual sees themselves as an overlord of things outside their control.Podcast Bonuses:influentialu.global/thriveCoupon Code: 30DAYS

Tune into this Classics episode of the Influential U podcast, where John Patterson sits down with music industry legend Marcus Bell. Marcus, who began his musical journey at the tender age of two, reveals the work ethic and discipline that have fueled his impressive career.From his early days in a makeshift recording studio to collaborating with major artists like Usher and Britney Spears, Marcus emphasizes the importance of perseverance, dedication, and strategic focus.This episode offers a deep dive into the principles and practices that can drive success in any field. Don't miss this chance to gain valuable insights and practical advice on building a stellar career through hard work and commitment!Kirkland Tibbles’ talk revolves around the idea that our interactions and exchanges with others are fundamental to how we navigate and shape our world. Tibbles highlights that recognizing these personality types and understanding their roles in the transaction cycle can enhance how to collaborate and achieve our

Working as a principal in a large healthcare enterprise, Trisha Tyler of Mercer Health & Benefits, talks about how to create value for the companies that you work for; when you become reliable for that value, you get to do what you love and increase your income accordingly. One of her passions is the value of our oceans and in her spare time, she works on shark and ocean conversation.

In this installment, we have the pleasure of sitting down with Nicole Tripodi, a dynamic entrepreneur and advocate for accurate thinking, goal setting, and the success of small businesses. In this interview, Nicole shares her wealth of knowledge and experiences, offering practical advice on navigating the complexities of Government Contracting and the venture capital landscape. Before studying with Influential U, Nicole felt stuck and credits the program with jump-starting a renewed vigor in her life. Listen and learn, and we hope you enjoy it.Join us for our weekly live streams at 2 pm pst every Wednesday.The Influential U Podcast is streamed live on our website, Facebook, Linkedin, and YouTube. If you enjoy this podcast, please share it with others. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or any place you get your podcasts.Check out our show notes for links to connect with our guests - and links to websites, books, or special downloads we discussed. If you haven't yet offered a rating or review, we ask that

In this episode, we are joined by Rochelle Finlay, a research and innovation management consultant who credits Influential U with helping her focus her offer in the marketplace, resulting in her business reaching new levels of success.Before finding IU, she was one year into working for herself. Her business was going well, but her work-life balance wasn't great, her health was just OK, and there was a concern that consulting gigs could dry up. After working with Influential U, Rochelle has the framework and skills to achieve her short and long-term goals. What she's learned has also helped focus her consulting offer, and now she has greater clarity on the type of work she wants to accept and the type she'll gracefully decline.Join us for our weekly live streams at 2 pm pst every Wednesday.The Influential U Podcast is streamed live on our website, Facebook, Linkedin, and YouTube. If you enjoy this podcast, please share it with others. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or any place you get your podcasts.C

In this episode, we are joined by Mark Kammerer, a former executive, who says he discovered Influential U after leaving corporate life and began his entrepreneurial journey. While he had been through a lifetime of formal and informal education, he considered the principles he learned at Influential U to be remarkably different. While studying with Influential U, Mark says he gained an appreciation for the significance of measurement, comprehended the value of understanding his impact, and, most importantly, discerned the personality he projected to others—an insight that left a lasting impression.Join us for our weekly live streams at 2pm pst every Wednesday.The Influential U Podcast is streamed live on our website, Facebook, Linkedin, and YouTube. If you enjoy this podcast, please share it with others. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or any place you get your podcasts.Check out our show notes for links to connect with our guests - plus links to websites, books, or special downloads we talked about. If

In this episode, we'll introduce you to the Transactional Personality know as the Judge. The Judge excels in skepticism, guided by high standards, competence, and a thirst for evidence before taking action.Don't shy away from The Judge - embrace their wisdom as they can be your ultimate savior in times of peril. Learn to heed their suggestions, and you'll discover a guardian angel within this personality. However, be mindful of their Kryptonite – a tendency to pause transactions prematurely due to stringent standards and an inclination to overlook vision and repetition. Join us as we explore the dynamic nuances of The Judge and unlock the keys to harnessing their formidable strengths!To help us better understand the Judge personality, we have a special guest who has been on the podcast before and is a Judge personality himself, Jeff Miller. Jeff is a partner, financial advisor, and the CFO of Sound Financial Group. He helps his clients design, build, and live a good life by creating a pathway to financial und

In this episode, we are joined by Ellza Malok, the Founder and Chair of the Blue Monarch Group. She has been celebrated as an executive and global marketing innovator, and she brings a unique lens to brands from her own experiences in entrepreneurship, data science, and psychology-based marketing.Before studying with Influential U, Ellza found that it was a struggle to balance personal needs with professional commitments. These challenges were significant enough for her to realize the need for a structured approach to achieving her goals and managing these aspects of her life effectively. She found that at Influential U, her personal evolution, despite its challenges, has been essential. Now, Ellza feels she's achieving the transformation that she was originally looking for.To learn more about Ellza, her story, and the Blue Monarch Group, please visit the links in the show notes below.Join us for our weekly live streams at 2pm pst every Wednesday.The Influential U Podcast is streamed live on our website, Face

The personality we at Influential U refer to as the Producer is skilled with alliances and requests. Their superpowers are the ability to be short-term and objective in their thinking and they are highly work-oriented doers. They're who you want on your team because they are action oriented and ready to get to work. Their kryptonite, however, is that they may tend to halt things with premature or unnecessary actions and may avoid or dismiss completion and flexibility.To learn more about this personality we invited a past guest of the podcast and student with Influential U, Tiran Jackson, who also happens to be a Producer Personality. Tiran is a professional speaker, author, engineer, life-coach, and a subject matter expert on resilience and helps his clients overcome their greatest adversities. You can learn more about him and the great things he’s doing by visiting RebornResilient.com. In this episode, Tiran will tell you about his worldview as a Producer Personality and share a deeper understanding of where

This episode, we're exploring a topic that is crucial for every business owner: How to Hire the Right Person and Avoid Hiring the Wrong Person. As we teach it at Influential U - If you’re going to do big things, you’re going to need help. And when it comes to your company’s Human Resources; building and expanding your team is one of the most essential and important choices you can make.Hire the right person and your company can go to the moon! But hire the wrong person, and your business may not live long enough to regret your decision. Let's explore some proven approaches that can be applied to all industries and positions.The Influential U podcast is brought to you each week by Influential U's Self-guided program, "Thrive."The Thrive program allows ambitious adults to develop competitive professional skills to advance their personal goals and business objectives. When you join Thrive, you gain access to our proprietary tools and resources that are only available to our Thrive subscribers. Get a better ROI t

In this episode, we'll explore the Transactional Personality known as the Performer and they're skilled with mood and influence. Their superpowers are the ability to be present-based, relationship-oriented people who are inclined to be highly flexible in their thinking. Their Kryptonite, however, is that they may tend to halt transactions with relationship concerns or mood campaigns and may avoid or dismiss commitments and facts.We will have someone you know well on this podcast, our host and faculty member, Josh Damigo, who will tell you more about his worldview as a performer and share a deeper understanding of where his transactional personality is an asset and where it may be a liability.The Influential U podcast is brought to you each week by Influential U's Self-guided program, "Thrive."If you want to be in the Olympics, you need to train in the same environments as other Olympic athletes. The Thrive Program by Influential U is the place to train with other ambitious adults who are working to achieve bi

In this episode, Brian shares his wisdom on how coaching can elevate your superpower, especially during the challenging transition to leadership. He identifies key signs of struggle, such as finding it difficult to recruit good people, preferring to do tasks yourself rather than delegating, and enjoying technical problem-solving over managing people issues.Discover how Influential U's programs have provided Brian with a profound understanding of human behavior, the ability to guide others through the natural cycles of transactions, and empower others to leverage the levers of influence themselves.As the founder of Donovan Leadership, he has been actively shaping the landscape of management theory and practice since 2007. Through his guidance, technical specialists evolve into leaders who not only succeed but thrive.Whether you're a seasoned professional or an aspiring leader, this episode will empower you to unlock the wealth of possibilities within your own leadership journey.Join us for our weekly live stre

This episode we'll explore the Inventor Transactional Personality. This particular personality is skilled in vision and inventing big futures. Their Superpowers are the ability to be idea-oriented people who are self-reliant and highly subjective in their thinking. Their Kryptonite, however, is that they may tend to halt transactions with new ideas or a need to control everything, and they may do so to the detriment of their relationships and judgments.To truly get inside the mind of an inventor we have a special guest, Influential U Consultant, Cesar Idrovo, who happens to identify as an Inventor Personality. He'll share his worldview as an inventor and share a deeper understanding of where his transactional personality is an asset and where it may be a liability.The Influential U podcast is brought to you each week by Influential U's Self-guided program, "Thrive."If you want to be in the Olympics, you need to train in the same environments as other Olympic athletes. The Thrive Program by Influential U is th

This week's guest, Shoshanna French, shares her profound insights on intuitive decision-making—an art she has mastered and now teaches to executives, founders, and entrepreneurs.Join us for our weekly live streams at 2pm pst every Wednesday.The Influential U Podcast is streamed live on our website, Facebook, Linkedin, and Youtube. If you enjoy this podcast, please share it with others. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or any place you get your podcasts.Check out our show notes for links to connect with our guests - plus links to websites, books, or special downloads we talked about. If you haven't yet offered a rating or review, we ask that you take a moment go to Apple Podcasts or your podcast app of choice and let us know what you think. This helps us more than you knowPodcast BonusesSimple Spirit [https://simplespirit.com/]Connect with Shoshanna on LinkedIn [https://www.linkedin.com/in/shoshannafrench/]Download tools and resources mention in this episode [https://influentialu.global/tools/]Download d

Here at Influential U, we’ve studied well over two hundred different personality based models and many of them are quite complex, unintuitive, and ultimately not very useful. Today, we’re going to tackle the question of “why study personalities”, and give a brief description of the four “personalities in transaction” that we study here at Influential U. We're biased, but we're confident that after listening to this, you'll agreed that our version is much more valuable.The Influential U podcast is brought to you each week by Influential U's Self-guided program, "Thrive."The Thrive program allows ambitious adults to develop competitive professional skills to advance their personal goals and business objectives. When you join Thrive, you gain access to our proprietary tools and resources that are only available to our Thrive subscribers. Get a better ROI than your MBA and join us for the Influential U Thrive.Use coupon code "30DAYS" for a free month to try out Thrive for yourself. The link is in the show notes a

Whether you're negotiating a business deal, interacting with your loved ones around a holiday table, or just trying to survive the inter-office drama in your business, "You Are Always Transacting".Every one of us is involved in several exchanges with others on a daily basis. How can you navigate these situations and have them turn out in your favor? We teach people to create and maintain transactions using a Transaction Cycle.In this episode, we will break down all the moves and phases of a Transaction Cycle and give examples. We'll discuss examples like attending lunch with a friend, starting a business, and even running the Influential U Podcast through the Transaction Cycle.The Influential U podcast is brought to you each week by Influential U's Self-guided program, "Thrive."The Thrive program allows ambitious adults to develop competitive professional skills to advance their personal goals and business objectives. When you join Thrive, you gain access to our proprietary tools and resources that are only

Join us as we sit down with Codie Wright, a renowned author, speaker, and trainer, who helps people launch, or relaunch, their careers.Before embarking on her educational journey with Influential U, Codie candidly admits to a degree of naivety and struggling with tracking her progress and managing her commitments effectively. Today, Codie navigates life's challenges with ease, drawing on Influential U's teachings to find balance and enhance her overall life satisfaction. Tune in to this episode and learn more about Codie's journey, and how Influential U can empower you to achieve similar success.Join us for our weekly live streams at 2pm pst every Wednesday.The Influential U Podcast is streamed live on our website, Facebook, Linkedin, and Youtube. If you enjoy this podcast, please share it with others. Subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Stitcher, or any place you get your podcasts.Check out our show notes for links to connect with our guests - plus links to websites, books, or special downloads we talked about. If

It’s our mantra here at Influential U and you hear it a lot when you work with us, "You Are Always Transacting." But what does that mean exactly?When people think of the word transaction, they often think of a transaction as a simple tit for tat exchange. To be “transactional” can mean cold-hearted, calculated- and can be meant as an insult. However, a transaction is not merely a point of sale.Whether you're negotiating a business deal, interacting with your loved ones around a holiday table, or just trying to survive the inter-office drama in your business, "You Are Always Transacting". This entails recognizing that there are always a constant stream of exchanges that are continuously shaping our day-to-day lives. Having an awareness of the existence of these constance exchanges and knowing how you can influence them can give you a leg up in the marketplace, and really everywhere in life.Just like the American Psychologist Jerome Bruner said, "If you engage for long in the study of how human beings relate to

Today we'll discuss "Stage Five: Celebrated” of the Five Stages of Professional Influence. This is the stage when your influence, authority, and identity are embodied and represented in the culture. You've made it and accomplished what you set out to do. If you're in this stage, you've likely decided that the end is in site, and you may be looking at planning an ambitious exit strategy.Perhaps your a successful entrepreneur that’s ready to give the business over to a family member, or a C-Suite Executive at the end of your illustrious career. If that sounds like you, you’re in the right place and our Thrive Program can help you reach your aims.Where are you in the stages of influence? Find out [https://influentialu.global/influencequiz/]If you are seeking more autonomy, authority, a bigger paycheck, or respect, this is a problem that you need to work on, today.The Influential U podcast is brought to you each week by Influential U's Self-guided program, "Thrive."The Thrive program allows ambitious adults to de