Making Elephants Fly features conversations with High-Octane Leaders, Dreamers, & Creatives hosted by Terry Weaver. Terry is a speaker, author, and ideapreneur who has invested his life in others to giving them the tools to live life alive; whether through helping others see their dreams become reality, traveling around the world challenging young leaders to change the world, leading teams of people to do more together than they could alone, or hanging out with Mickey Mouse. Over the last 20 years, Terry has spoken to hundreds of thousands of young leaders, worked with entrepreneurs to take their idea from a thought around the fire to a six-figure business, and partnered with creatives to expand their platform from their garage to the stage of the Grammy Awards. On some episodes, we will be sitting down with a New York Times Best-Selling Author, a Disney Imagineer, creative leaders from organizations like Cirque du Soleil, an incredibly successful business leader, or sometimes an entrepreneur just getting started and trying to get their dreams off the ground. Above anything, our greatest desire is to help you discover your passion, unleash your purpose, and start doing the work that you have been created for. Our hope is that it feels like you are pulling up another chair to the table with us and grabbing a cup of coffee and listing in on the conversation.
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On this episode of "Making Elephants Fly," Terry sits down with best-selling author, sought-after speaker, award-winning podcaster, and management professor, David Burkus. He is the host of Radio Free Leader — a podcast that shares insights on leadership, innovation, and strategy. His work has been featured in the Harvard Business Review, Forbes, PsychologyToday, CBS This Morning, Fast Company, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and 99U. David speaks for many Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft and Goo...
On this episode of "Making Elephants Fly," Terry sits down with Internet Pioneer, Best-Selling Author, Keynote Speaker, Leader, and one of the best guys on the planet...Tim Sanders. Tim was an early stage member of Mark Cuban's broadcast.com and later joined Yahoo where he rose to the position of Chief Solutions Officer and named its Leadership Coach. Tim’s past books include the New York Times best seller "Love Is The Killer App: How to Win Business & Influence Friends," "The Likeability Fa...
On this episode of "Making Elephants Fly," Terry sits down with Author, Coach, Pastor, Leader of Leaders, Event Planner, and sought-after Speaker, Marty Cauley. In his latest book, "Dying to Go on Vacation: Learning to live while Facing Death" we learn about the life that Marty has after getting a diagnosis of an aggressive terminal cancer. For years, he's been a force to be reckoned with in his own community — raising up a center for the arts, working with young leaders to bring up more leaders...
On this episode of “Making Elephants Fly,” Terry sits down with Executive Director of Propel Women, Author, Speaker, and Recovering Entrepreneur, Ali Worthington. Ali’s book, "Breaking Busy," released this week and is already making a best-seller on many Amazon lists. “Breaking Busy” talks about how to make the best choices on how to spend the time you have and how to make room for yourself when you feel pulled in a million directions. She has been featured on Good Morning America, The Today Sho...
On this episode of "Making Elephants Fly," Terry sits down with co-founder of Southwest Consulting, Speaker, and NYT Best-Selling author, Rory Vaden. His latest book, “Procrastinate on Purpose,” looks at how to multiply the time you have. He speaks and consults on how to say no to the things that don’t matter, and yes to the things that do. His client list includes companies and groups such as: Cargill, The Million-Dollar Roundtable, P&G, True Value, YPO, Wells Fargo Advisors, Land O’Lakes, ...
On this episode of Making Elephants Fly, Terry sits down with former Disney Imagineer, in-demand creative consultant, speaker, and author C. McNair Wilson. His latest book, "Hatch!: Brainstorming Secrets of a Theme Park Designer,” unpacks the idea of what happens when teams create together. There is no doubt you have seen his work in the Disney theme parks around the world: Mickey’s Toontown, Indiana Jones, Tower of Terror, TokyoSea, Adventures Club, Boardwalk, Downtown Disney, and, of course, S...
On this episode of Making Elephants Fly, Terry sits down with former Disney Imagineer, in-demand creative consultant, speaker, and author C. McNair Wilson. His latest book, "Hatch!: Brainstorming Secrets of a Theme Park Designer,” unpacks the idea of what happens when teams create together. There is no doubt you have seen his work in the Disney theme parks around the world: Mickey’s Toontown, Indiana Jones, Tower of Terror, TokyoSea, Adventures Club, Boardwalk, Downtown Disney, and, of course, S...
On this episode of Making Elephants Fly, Terry sits down with New York Times Best-Selling Author, queso lover, and entrepreneur Jon Acuff. You may know Jon from his books “Quitter," “Start," and his latest "Do Over: Rescue Monday, Reinvent Your Work and Never Get Stuck.” Jon has also worked with national brands like The Home Depot, Bose, Staples, and the Dave Ramsey Team. His blog has been read by 4 million people and more than 250,000 twitter users follow him. Not only do we talk about Jon’s lo...
On this episode of Making Elephants Fly, Terry sits down with author, leader, and entrepreneur Brad Lomenick. Brad spent twelve years leading the influential organization, CATALYST. CATALYST has hosted leaders like Malcolm Gladwell, Seth Godin,Tony Dungy, Andy Stanley, Patrick Lencioni, Rick Warren, Marcus Buckingham, Jim Collins, John C Maxwell, Erwin McManus, and Simon Sinek just to name a few. There is no doubt that Brad has curated and led an event that truly became a movement. Brad serves a...
On this episode of Making Elephants Fly, Terry sits down with Vital Germaine of ENGAGE teams. ENGAGE elevates the customer experience through innovative and dynamic employee engagement, leadership, and team building solutions. Vital's big leap journey to the United States began when he joined the team of Cirque du Soleil as a member the original cast of the ground-breaking Mystere in Las Vegas and he now works with them to help their teams reach the highest creative levels. He is the best-sellin...
