Dr. Cloud is a New York Times bestselling author, and his books have sold over 14 million copies. His groundbreaking book “Boundaries - When to Say Yes, How to Say No to Take Control of Your Life”, Has become a personal development classic, often sitting in the top 300 of overall books in Amazon, even after 25 years! In this show we give attention to Boundaries, then dig into his new gigantic effort and discussing the art and training of leadership. Real Leadership. He has possibly the most powe...
Dec 04, 2017•1 hr 23 min
A significant discussion for anyone desiring of, or contemplating a different job, career or business. My co host Michelle Prince and I asked this question on Facebook, “Is there a challenging area in your life where you are struggling to understand how you can change things for the better”. The responses were almost all around one issue, choosing and going after jobs, careers or businesses that are more fitting and rewarding. So we just made this the focus. If you are not in a job you love, if ...
Dec 01, 2017•57 min
Find out top comedian Michael Jr’s daily habits of success. Catch his main interview out in the episode right before this one, #510, where he charged us to “Be the Punchline”. In this short interview, the habit that most stood out to me about Michael, and has stuck with me, is his morning routine that includes hitting his knees before his feet to say thanks and be grateful. I think about it nearly every morning now. That is why we do these habits shows folks, so that ideas such as these from gre...
Nov 29, 2017•30 min
A world class comedian who is not out to get laughs. He is out to “give people the opportunity to laugh” and help set the stage for meaningful, purposeful content of the heart and soul. His personal mission is to “comedically inspire people to walk in purpose”. He is accomplishing this in massive numbers while on stage with The Tonight Show, Jimmy Kimmel, BET, Comedy Central, Oprah’s Super Soul Sunday and Tedx Talks. He will shortly be in a movie theater near you in a starring role for the featu...
Nov 27, 2017•1 hr 23 min
We asked this question, “What caused you to finally start? You were going along, maybe had a wish or desire or need, but time went on and you did not act. Then finally, ___X___ happened and you started forward, took a step, leapt. What was the cause? Why did you finally go forward?” Of course we got a slew of great responses that my co-host Michelle Prince and I are about to share with you. Why? To help you in the next thing YOU want to truly get started on, but may feel hamstrung by something. ...
Nov 24, 2017•51 min
The original Shark Tank member himself, Kevin Harrington, is back with us. Inventor of the infomercial. His net worth of half a billion dollars he credits to creating relationships with his audience, that was the focus of our main interview in the previous show, #507. Today we find out what the shark does in his personal life. His daily habits. Some points we found out; he’s the same weight at 60 as when he graduated high school, he has a 15-min hotel workout ritual, he believes taking care of h...
Nov 22, 2017•38 min
Kevin Harrington literally invented the infomercial, and was one of the original Shark Tank members on the hit ABC show. Kevin has launched over 20 businesses that have grown to over $100 million in sales each, has been involved in more than a dozen public companies, and has launched over 500 products generating more than $5 billion in sales worldwide The guy knows business folks. In this show you will hear why Kevin credits Zig Ziglar’s book ‘Secrets of Closing the Sale’ as a primary tool that ...
Nov 20, 2017•1 hr 17 min
The Ziglar audience grapples with this question we posted on Facebook, “Have you ever had a belief that you could NOT achieve something you desired, that you ultimately overcame and did achieve?” We received some vulnerable testimonials from people regarding work, military endeavors, athletic feats and the biggie, massive weight loss and life change. The topic came from one of Zig Ziglar’s famous presentations called, “flea training”. If you’ve heard it, you need to hear it again. If you have no...
Nov 17, 2017•40 min
Today we go behind the scenes with Erik Winemayer, our featured guest in the previous show #504. Erik is one of the most celebrated and accomplished athletes in the world and in 2001 e became the only blind person in history to climb Mount Everest, then all of the Seven Summits-the tallest peak on each of the seven continents. His latest book, No Barriers: A Blind Man’s Journey to Kayak the Grand Canyon is more than an adventure story, it illuminates how we move forward in our lives towards grow...
Nov 15, 2017•36 min
Imagine climbing mount everest and the Seven Summits, earth’s greatest peaks. Then imagine kayaking the Grand Canyon, all 277 miles of it, in one of the most challenging rivers on earth. Sound impressive? Now close your eyes and imagine doing all that - blind. That is what Erik Weihenmayer did. The dynamics involved in doing such a thing equate to someone with a profound experience and ability in things like overcoming fear and discomfort. Faith. Perseverance. Joy. And much more. But it is not j...
Nov 13, 2017•1 hr 3 min
We have a word from Zig Ziglar then a Q&A session with myself and Michelle Prince regarding this question we posted on Facebook, “Do you ever speak positivity to yourself in an effort to increase your morale? If so, share? If you do not, why?” The question came from Zig himself from a short clip we play right at the head of the show. Zig sets us up and then we dive into some significant responses from our listening audience. Thanks to Ziglar Family 7 Day Challenge 7daychallenge.com and Linke...
Nov 10, 2017•48 min
Join us as we walk through the personal success habits of Tim Sanders, our guest in the previous show, episode 501. Tim is the renowned bestselling author of a passel of books, but most notably the business classic, ‘Love Is The Killer App’. He comes from business fame with Yahoo and Mark Cuban’s Broadcast.com. Do yourself a favor and listen to show 501 to get his full message. Today we go behind the scenes into Tim’s personal life and the habits he applies in his life to the seven spokes of the...
Nov 08, 2017•25 min
Tim Sanders brings love into the workplace. No, we are not talking anything elicit, we are talking about possibly the number one way and fastest to accelerate your career, business, income and life. Tim knows what he is talking about, as he spent most of his early career on the cutting edge of innovation and change. He was an early stage member of Mark Cuban’s Broadcast.com, which had the largest opening day IPO in history. After Yahoo acquired the company, Tim was tapped to lead their ValueLab ...
Nov 06, 2017•1 hr 21 min
The question, "What problem do you help solve? If you have a business, product, service, message, what problem does it solve for an end user or recipient?” We posted this question on show host Kevin Miller’s Facebook page - agentkmiller - and received incredible responses. The question came from our interviews with Don Miller in show 498 where we discussed his book, ‘Story Brand’ - Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen. He took us through the structure our business message should follow ...
Nov 03, 2017•56 min
A behind the scenes look at renowned author Don Miller, our guest in the previous show 498 where we walked through his new book, “Building a StoryBrand: Clarify Your Message So Customers Will Listen”. Here we walk through his daily success habits in the 7 spokes of The Ziglar Wheel of Life, 1) Physical, 2) Family, 3) Mental, 4) Financial, 5) Spiritual, 6) Career and 7) Personal. You will hear he does not eat breakfast, he reads 2 hours a day and 50-70 news articles, he lives off of 10% of what h...
Nov 01, 2017•26 min
Here is my testimony to Don Miller; of books written in the last decade, I have heard more testimony of actual life change as a result of people reading Don’s book, ‘A Million Miles In A Thousand Years’, than any other book. Period. I have purchased three cases of the book and given them away. I attended Don’s Storyline conferences, as have much of my family and friends. Now Don has brought his expertise and insight on story to the business world with unprecedented acclaim. If you want a success...
Oct 30, 2017•1 hr 17 min
In today’s show, I posted this question on my Facebook page, “We can do and become anything we want to do and become. Do you agree?” The direct answer was almost unanimous, but the perspectives varied greatly. I feel there were three main takeaways - 1) the necessity to know yourself well, your gifts, talents, skills and abilities, 2) the reality that we are all pretty prone to limiting ourselves, and 3) anything worthwhile WILL be overwhelming and require more than we can offer solely in and of...
Oct 27, 2017•37 min
Round two with Tom Bilyeu in the show everyone is already raving about…Habits. We take the 7 spokes on the Ziglar Wheel of Life and ask today’s biggest world influences, what their daily habits are in each of these areas. If you didn’t catch the show prior to this one, episode 495 with Tom Bilyeu…gift yourself and go listen. It was one of more harder hitting shows on the nitty-gritty of walking out our personal development endeavors. The highlight for me was choosing to believe..it’s your fault....
Oct 25, 2017•28 min
Tom Bilyeu came on this show to help us develop an anti-fragile, unbeatable mindset.” He is the co-founder of 2014 Inc. 500 company Quest Nutrition — a unicorn startup valued at over $1 billion — and the co-founder and host of Impact Theory. Impact Theory is a first-of-its-kind company designed to facilitate global change through the incubation of mission-based businesses and the cultivation of empowering content. Every piece of content Impact Theory creates is meant to underscore the company mi...
Oct 23, 2017•1 hr 4 min
In my interview with Greg McKeown, author of the book, “Essentialism”, he cited his fave Zig quote/concept was, “See You At The Top”, because 1) “There is always more room at top than the bottom" 2)“Life can be of ever increasing contribution" 3) “Our greatest contribution always lies ahead of us, not behind us.” From that I posted this question on my agentkmiller Facebook page: What role does "motivation" play in your real, day-to-day life? There is plenty of baggage associated with the word? I...
Oct 20, 2017•53 min
Let us go behind the scenes with ‘Essentialism’ best selling author, Greg McKeown, for our HABITS show. If you didn’t catch our main interview with him in episode 492, go listen to it now! Today I walk through the seven spokes of success in the Ziglar Wheel of Life with Greg to see what his habits for success are, and I’ll tell you now, I bet you’ll hear some new ones. I sure did. For starters, he keeps a daily food journal, does a lot of trampolining with his kids, is intrigued by all that Jesu...
Oct 18, 2017•36 min
Greg McKeown is the bestselling author of the book, “Essentialism” - The Disciplined Pursuit of Less. The term best seller is used a lot, so let us clarify this is the real deal. The book was published 3.5 years ago and as of this writing is ranked as the 1,289 bestselling book on Amazon. Overall. That’s a big, big deal. And now having studied the book, we know why. It’s a game changer. A life changer. As you will hear in this interview, it’s not about minimalism. It’s more about making the righ...
Oct 16, 2017•1 hr 22 min
Jordan Harbinger of The Art of Charm podcast and empire was on stage at a live event he was MCing in Las Vegas and he gave us his favorite Ziglar quote, and why. The quote? “You can have everything in life you want if you will help enough other people get what they want.” Then this is interesting, I had been taking our guests quotes and crafting a question around them and posting to the Ziglar Facebook page which has nearly 4.5 million fans. We get many, many comments. This time however, I poste...
Oct 13, 2017•51 min
You know Jordan Harbinger of The Art of Charm podcast fame and today he is back with us after our main interview in the last episode where we talked about social skills. In this show we are going behind the scenes with Jordan to look at his own personal development. Where is he strong, where is he week, what are his personal habits to help inspire HIS true performance? You will hear him talk about “leaving things better than you found it,” and being the guy people divulged personal things to, ev...
Oct 11, 2017•18 min
Back for his second time on this show, Jordan Harbinger, the rockstar podcast legend who hosts The Art of Charm podcast. Friends, “How to win friends and influence people” written by Dale Carnegie in 1936 is one of the all time business classics. You will find very few world leaders and influencers who don’t site it as a primary message that helped enable their success, just like Zig Ziglar’s “See You At The Top”. Jordan’s primary focus at The Art of Charm is social skills. Personal relationship...
Oct 09, 2017•1 hr 20 min
Chris cites “Failure is an event, not a person” as his most impacting quote from Zig Ziglar. That quote comes from a longer quote of Zig’s, “Failure is an event, not a person. Yesterday ended last night. Today is a brand new day, and it’s yours.” We took that quote, and Michelle Prince in a recent Facebook Live talk, asked the listeners this question, “Who of you listening have had a failure in your life that led to something great?” There were over 800 comments during her talk and we pulled a h...
Oct 06, 2017•38 min
Chris Guillebeau leads and influences the world in nonconformity, travel hacking, business start up and now, the Side Hustle (his brand new book we dig into in show #486). But what about his own personal development story? In this show you’ll hear how Chris doesn’t like the term “balance”, he likes “alignment” and “seasonality”. Being grateful is a key goal for Chris. He worries about disappointing people and letting them down and is concerned about where he’s falling short. He’s not strong in d...
Oct 04, 2017•22 min
Chris Guillebeau is back for his second time on the show, this time with the message from his new book, “Side Hustle”. He wrote it to the fully employed who want a side hustle to 1) have something they enjoy and have freedom in, 2) Want another stream of income, and 30 Want the security of not having all their eggs in one basket. Chris is as down to earth as they come and is all about practical, step by step application. Side Hustle is right now sitting in the top 200 overall books on Amazon’s b...
Oct 02, 2017•1 hr 6 min
In show 481 we talked with Mark Sanborn, author of The Potential Principal. We asked him what his favorite Zig quote and value was and he gave us this, - What you get by achieving your goals is not as important as what you become by achieving your goals. We then created a great, inspirational quote poster with that quote and posted it on the Ziglar Facebook page along with this question, If you understand the value of goals but have still not written them out for your life and desires, why? We g...
Sep 26, 2017•53 min
Joshua Spodek is a professor, astrophysicist, entrepreneur and about 20 other things. This profound conversation Kevin Miller and Tom Ziglar had with Joshua dissected a profound concept Joshua calls SIDCHA – Self-Imposed, Daily, Challenging, Healthy Activity. Ziglar fans have heard much about daily habits of success. But what came from this discussion was the healthy habit actions are far more valuable than the end result of that particular activity. We are talking about habits we do not HAVE to...
Sep 19, 2017•1 hr 40 min
