The whole point of setting your quarterly objectives is to achieve them! But sometimes businesses get lost in the process and create unhealthy habits when setting their quarterly goals. Today on S2 Tips, Benj Miller outlines the Seven Deadly Sins of setting quarterly objectives. No one wants to recite Hail Marys half way through the quarter, so keep these helpful reminders on hand in your next quarterly meeting. You can learn more about gaining clarity and control in your business by visiting Sy...
Jan 13, 2022•5 min•Season 4Ep. 35
In week two of our Authentic Brand take-over with guest co-host Jennifer Zick, you’ll learn about what it means to have a soul-based marketing strategy. In this episode, Jennifer brings on her good friend Kate DiLeo to discuss the work she and her company, Ennobble , do to help clients develop brand messages that resonate with their target audiences, ultimately helping them win more work. Jennifer and Kate discuss how companies should start thinking about branding, how branding is more than just...
Jan 11, 2022•30 min•Season 5Ep. 2
Your team meetings are some of the most important moments in your business’s life! That’s we’re vision is casted, ideas are sparked and shared, and momentum is created. At, least that’s what your meetings should be. So, what do you do if your meetings get stale? First of all, don’t ignore it! That’s a red flag. It’s an obvious indicator that your team or business is not ambitions enough, or not focused enough, or not dealing with the important issues your business needs to solves. In this episod...
Jan 06, 2022•4 min•Season 4Ep. 32
Happy New Year, System and Soul listeners! We’re kicking off this year something different and exciting. Today we’re beginning a mini series with our friend Jennifer Zick, Founder and CEO of Authentic Brand. Jennifer is taking over our podcast to talk with some of her friends who are making an impact in the system and soul of their business. In this first episode, Jennifer invites Ryan Tansom , President and Co-founder at Arkona , on the podcast to discuss his framework for helping businesses in...
Jan 04, 2022•28 min•Season 5Ep. 1
Happy Holidays System and Soulville! We wanted to make this episode short and sweet as we make a fun announcement about the new year and what you can expect from System and Soul after the coming weeks. But, we also wanted to offer a thought for the holiday season. We all have mixed feelings about the holidays. For some it’s stressful, over commercialized, and chaotic. For others it’s a happy, festive, and even nostalgic season. But what most of us have in common during this time is that we all h...
Dec 21, 2021•5 min•Season 4Ep. 34
What are you optimizing for? This is one of the best questions you can ask yourself during this season of your business. Whether you’re on purpose or not, you’re optimizing your business for something, but unless it’s intentional, you may end up optimizing for the wrong thing––trajecting your business in a direction you don’t want it to go. In today’s tip, Benj Miller explains the many things some businesses optimize themselves for, and how asking yourself this question can set your business on ...
Dec 16, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 31
Your brand is not just for your customers. It’s also for your current and potential employees. How are you attracting people to your business? In today’s episode, we bring back a good friend to help you navigate how to get people’s attention in a competitive marketplace. Jason Ogden , President at Syrup Marketing walks through three aspects of how to attract people to your business… not just customers, but also the talent that can bring your organization to the next level. He argues that the fun...
Dec 14, 2021•29 min•Season 4Ep. 33
We’re less than 30 days from the start of Q1 2022! That’s exciting, and so many of you are probably vamping up to get a head start on your new year. This season is busy, both personally and professionally, and most leaders get lost in the busyness of it all. Ironically, these are the seasons when we most need to find time to pause and recharge. When we pause to collect ourselves, we gain focus on the most import aspects of our lives and our businesses. So in today’s S2 Tip, Chris White shares so...
Dec 09, 2021•6 min•Season 4Ep. 30
Now that we’ve all awakened from our turkey comas, let’s talk gratitude. This episode is short and sweet, because we want our listeners to take the time they normally would listen to this podcast to express and participate in gratitude. Gratitude is not and should not just be a seasonal practice, but rather a way that we show up in our businesses and relationships. Participating in gratitude is scientifically proven to create happier lives, boost your mood, and even lower blood pressure. So, in ...
Dec 07, 2021•11 min•Season 4Ep. 32
Are you a personality assessment junkie? Do you pee a little bit when someone mentions the Enneagram or Myers Briggs? We sure hope not, because that sounds like something you need to see your doctor about. …anyways, if you’ve taken any personality assessment, you may have noticed that they typically place people on a spectrum of either relationship-oriented or task-oriented. And, depending on where you fall on the spectrum can determine how well you succeed in different areas of your work and ho...
Dec 02, 2021•5 min•Season 4Ep. 29
What’s the most pressure you’ve ever been under? Most likely, there is a great story behind that question––either about overcoming a big obstacle or learning an important lesson. This week on the podcast, we have invited Dane Jenson , CEO of Third Factor, to talk about his new book, The Power of Pressure . Dane is an expert on pressure and is a second generation entrepreneur with decades of experience helping high performers embrace the chaos of running a business. Dane will help you learn how t...
Nov 30, 2021•36 min•Season 4Ep. 31
One of our most talked about episodes was our ninth episode, which featured John Ott. John talked about what is meant to be an “inwardly sound” leader. Based on his research, an inwardly sound leader poses self-awareness, is principled, purposeful, holistically healthy, secure and settled. In this week’s tips Benj Miller approaches these traits from a new angle in order to discover what it would look like if your business was inwardly sound. Then he challenges you to identify the biggest gap in ...
Nov 25, 2021•8 min•Season 4Ep. 28
Today we have a returning guest that we couldn’t be more excited about! John Richie is the Owner and Founder of Venture and a sought after executive coach. His decades of experience bring fresh insight and confidence to the leaders he coaches. His last episode on System and Soul was one of our most fun and talked about episodes, and this one will certainly not disappoint. John joins us to discuss a variety of topics––expanding on some his own business axioms and expressing what he is learning fr...
Nov 23, 2021•38 min•Season 4Ep. 30
Often, leaders get confused between principles and prescriptions. It would be nice if all the self-help books that offer a clean-cut formula to run your business actually worked as seamlessly as they sound. But the best leaders know that business is more complex than that. The best leaders know the difference between principles and prescriptions. Principles help shape how we live, lead, and the decisions we make. These are our mental models of how the engine works. But often times, it’s too easy...
Nov 18, 2021•6 min•Season 4Ep. 27
If you don’t get culture right, you’re not going to get much else right. Culture is one of the most important things to establish from the start of an organization. Today we’re excited to talk with a leader who knows how culture and performance equal engagement. Tricia Sciortino is the CEO of Belay Solutions , a company that is passionate about connecting the right people with the right organizations. She is someone we have wanted to have on the podcast for a while now, and you will soon find ou...
Nov 16, 2021•37 min•Season 4Ep. 29
It’s nearly impossible to be a leader and not have to make important decisions every day. And, with all those decisions, the questions often comes to mind, “Am I making the right decision?” and, “Am I making this decision quick enough?” Well, today we’re talking about how to make the right decision in a short amount of time. You may have heard business leaders like Jeff Bezos talk about Decision Velocity––the speed at which people can make the right decisions. In this episode we discuss how deci...
Nov 11, 2021•8 min•Season 4Ep. 26
We are so excited to invite our good friend and fan favorite, Dr. Benjamin Hardy , back onto the podcast. Dr. Hardy is the bestselling author of Willpower Doesn't Work , Personality Isn't Permanent , and Who Not How. He joins us on System & Soul to talk about his recently released book, The Gap and the Gain , which he co-authored with Dan Sullivan. Dr. Hardy explains that every experience can be leveraged into a “gain.” Rather than allowing your experiences to happen to you, great leaders ha...
Nov 09, 2021•36 min•Season 4Ep. 28
Leading a business today requires higher social and emotional skills than ever before. And today’s guest is a seasoned author who has discovered that many of those skills are seemingly paradoxical. In today’s episode we speak with Tim Elmore , Founder of Growing Leaders , to talk about his 37th book (that’s right, 37th book), The Eight Paradoxes of Great Leadership . He explains that leadership, at its core, means solving problems and helping people, which requires paradoxes such as confidence a...
Nov 02, 2021•37 min•Season 4Ep. 27
How do you know if the team you have is the team you need? Companies evolve, but sometimes people don’t, and the growth of a company doesn’t always mean the growth of the individual––especially if the the team hasn’t identified their core values. In this week’s S2 Tip, Chris and Benj discuss a question sent in by a listener. They identify the importance of making sure everyone is a healthy fit from the hiring process––that they are fueled by their role, are able to make an impact in the organiza...
Oct 28, 2021•10 min•Season 4Ep. 25
Wouldn’t it be nice sometimes if you could put life on auto-pilot? According to Tanya Dalton , this is possible by creating intentional habits. Tanya is a best-selling author, speaker, and nationally recognized productivity expert who joins us on S2 to talk about her new book On Purpose , in which she helps readers build systems at home and work that lead to an “extraordinary life of meaning and success.” In this episode, she explains how creating strategic habits in our lives allows us to focus...
Oct 26, 2021•36 min•Season 4Ep. 26
Did you know that the average person begins to feel unsettled after merely four seconds of silence in a conversation? We don’t like silence. We are downright uncomfortable with it. And when there isn’t noise we freak out! Anybody else sleep with a noise machine? So how, in a world of perpetual, overlapping noise, does a leader get the time to think and reflect on the health and soul of their business? The leaders who can embrace the quiet and confront the uncomfortable will tell you that’s where...
Oct 21, 2021•6 min•Season 4Ep. 24
Philosophers, scientists, and perhaps the particularly reflective daydreamers alike, have all marveled at the question, “What is the soul?” Here at S2, we couldn’t have founded a company called System & Soul without giving a considerable amount of thought to that question as it relates to, not only the human soul, but the soul of the business. Today, Benj Miller and Chris White dive into the S2 Framework and discuss how it prioritizes the soul of the business and helps accelerate the value o...
Oct 19, 2021•25 min•Season 4Ep. 25
One of our most talked about S2 episodes to date was with John Ott. In that episode John discusses the two most desirable attributes that make a great leader––inwardly sound and others-focused. Today we’re going to add two more attributes to this to paint the picture of a great coach. In this S2 Tip, Benj Miller discusses the importance of strategic thinking and effective communication, and he dives into the key practices that leaders must embrace in order to possess these leadership attributes....
Oct 14, 2021•5 min•Season 4Ep. 23
Let’s have a soul conversation. An increasing number of leaders today are discovering the benefits of taking a spiritual approach to executive leadership. This week, we are super excited to learn from Kristoffer Carter, a spiritual teacher, author, and executive coach who teaches leaders to harness the opportunity of chaos through spiritual practices and allow it to guide them to achieving their biggest goals. In this episode, Kristoffer walks us through the components of his new book Permission...
Oct 12, 2021•36 min•Season 4Ep. 24
Did you know that the plural form of the word “priorities” wasn’t used commonly until the 1950’s? That’s because it’s an oxymoron. A priority, by definition, refers to the thing that’s in first place. If you have more than one thing in first place, essentially, you have nothing in first place. In this week’s S2 Tip, Benj Miller challenges us to rethink our understanding our own priorities and narrow them down to one thing. Doing so may very well provide some clarity and control in your leadershi...
Oct 07, 2021•3 min•Season 4Ep. 22
Are you ready to get brainy? What if you could map out your brain to help you navigate the areas in which you’re underperforming? Does that sound like science fiction? Well it isn’t, and your co-host Chris White went through the process himself! Today on the System & Soul Podcast, we are excited to get neurologically nitty and gritty with the COO and CEO of Newrologix , Katerina McNally and Adrian Quevedo, to talk about the ground-breaking work they do in neurofeedback. This neurological bra...
Oct 05, 2021•33 min•Season 4Ep. 23
Colin Mochrie, Ryan Stiles, Wayne Brady––these aren’t exactly the first names that come to mind when you think of brilliant entrepreneurial minds. No, when you think of these names, you think of Whose Line Is It Anyway? , “the show where everything is made up, and the points don’t matter.” But, as it turns out, the actors and comedians who wow us from stage with their off-the-cuff, on-the-fly wit, often follow an unofficial set of rules called The Rules of Improv, which surprisingly “set the sta...
Sep 30, 2021•10 min•Season 4Ep. 21
It IS possible for your organization to engineer its culture. Too many businesses today just passively accept the current culture they posses without take steps to actively and intentionally cultivate the healthy, productive, profitable culture they could have. To talk about engineering culture, who better to invite onto the System & Soul podcast than an actual engineer who has helped create a thriving culture within his own organization? Today Chris and Benj are joined by Jude Homola, Found...
Sep 28, 2021•29 min•Season 4Ep. 22
Any organization that wants to operate with clarity needs to have a hierarchal structure. That’s Business 101. Perhaps the most popular way businesses organize this structure is through an organizational chart, which maps out all the roles, functions, and relationships to other roles. Also, Business 101. What isn’t Business 101 is how to build an org. chart. In this week’s S2 Tip, Chris White explains a functional, systematic way of organizing the structure of your business. It’s what we at Syst...
Sep 23, 2021•5 min•Season 4Ep. 20
When an organization wants their business to grow, they need to equip their people to grow first. That’s why we are stoked to invite Larry Dorfman , the former Founder CEO of APCO Holdings and Partner at Roots Real Estate Exchange onto the podcast. Larry takes us on his journey of personal growth and how it drove him to instill a culture of self-improvement within his own companies. He talks about what it takes to get ideas and culture “upstream” to the c-suite leaders, and how he had to modify ...
Sep 21, 2021•39 min•Season 4Ep. 21
