The POZCAST: Decoding Success with Adam Posner

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**The POZCAST: Decoding Success with Adam Posner**

Career & Life Journeys: Hosted by Adam Posner, he interviews top experts, entrepreneurs, and thought leaders from the world of Entrepreneurship, Talent Acquisition, Personal Growth, and other world-class amazing humans to decode their success via their insights into their own career journeys and personal growth.

The goal of #thePOZcast is to showcase amazing humans who share their stories to inspire you to harness your inner tenacity to drive your life and career forward.

Adam Posner is the Founder and Managing Director @ NHP Talent Group- a boutique NYC-based staffing agency with expertise in marketing, media and advertising.

Latest Episodes:

Laura Numeroff: Life Lessons Learned from If You Give a Mouse a Cookie Jun 30, 2023

Show notes

1:43 - Growing up in Artistic Family

3:46 - Core Values and Creativity

5:29 - Awareness and Foresight in 8 years old

6:06 - Fashion sense and confidence

9:23 - Job as a Private Investigator

11:25 - Origin story of the mouse

12:51 - Feeling of rejection/How to manage it

13:33 - Young Generation dealing with rejection

14:13 - Process vs the finish product

15:04 - Put yourself in the mindset

15:51 - Parenting Style

19:08 - Milestone as an Accomplishment

21:59 - All about Organization and its mission

23:14 - 100 Libraries Target

25:52 - Book Reading vs reading Online

26:21 - Thought process on Cover Design

28:08 - Thoughts on Celebrity doing children books

30:05 - Writer's Block

33:23 - Educational developments

38:01 - Single greatest piece of advice

38:39 - Laura's North Star

BEST OF: E220 Shelly Zalis: Movement Maker and Champion of Equality Jun 27, 2023

Show notes

First Aired: 4/07/22 Shelley Zalis is the CEO of The Female Quotient, an internationally renowned thought leader, movement maker, and champion of equality. She is also a pioneer for online research, becoming the first female chief executive ranked in the research industry’s top 25. Today, Shelley works with Fortune 500 companies and impact organizations to advance equality in the workplace. Through its signature pop-up experience, the Equality Lounge®, along with the Global Exchange and advisory services, The Female Quotient has created an international community of women rising up to catalyze change. A firm believer in giving back with generosity, Zalis is a proud mentor to women around the world. To learn more about Shelly, please visit: https://www.thefemalequotient.com/#join_us If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review: https://ratethispodcast.com/thepozcast #thePOZcast is brought to you by our friends at Interseller – the prospecting + outreach platform of recruiters and sellers. Whether you’re doubling down on business development or recruiting talent, Interseller does all the heavy lifting of finding contact data, automating the email and follow-up process, and syncs all that rich data into 20+ CRMs and ATSs. Reach out and get going in a 2-week *free* trial today and let them know you heard about them from Adam on #thePOZcast. Check out a free demo today! https://bit.ly/2Fbm/BZ This Episode’s Heavy-hitter’s: Shelley grew up in a home with three sisters, being the second oldest of four. She says although some sisters can be competitive, hers always had a great relationship where they were different from one another, but supported each other. Like many of us, Shelley’s first job didn’t bring in a lot of income. What Shelley did get out of her first job was an awesome education in client relationships, marketing, and boots on the ground market research. Shelley had a performance review at her next job at a larger company that changed the course of her life and career forever. She was chastised for being too assertive and essentially doing her job by spending tons of time with clients. This was the impetus for her to leave and pursue the founding of her own business, under her own rules. When starting her company, Shelley could have taken a million dollar investment split equally between her father and husband. She instead took money from statistics company Nielsen, where she gave up a majority of the equity in her business. Back in 2013, Shelley had the opportunity to go to CES, but had no one to go with. So she reached out to a few of her girlfriends to come instead, told them to invite their girlfriends, and when they got there, they were in a group of about 50 women. This turned a lot of heads at a male dominated conference, and thus the idea for The Female Quotient was born.

Jesse Cole: Entertaining Fans First: The Savannah Bananas's Winning Formula Jun 23, 2023

Show notes

My guest on E272 of #thePOZcast is Jesse Cole, The Man In The Yellow Tux himself! Jesse is the founder and owner of Fans First Entertainment, home to the Savannah Bananas as well as The Party Animals baseball teams. Jesse created Banana Ball, which is a twist on classic baseball meant to be the most entertaining, engaging, and fan-first event in the game. Jesse got his start as a leader in the sports and entertainment worlds at age 23 when he was appointed GM of the Gastonia Grizzlies. When ticket sales were moving slowly, he jumped into introducing first-class entertainment into the world of baseball. Many summarize the end-product of Banana Ball to being like the Harlem Globetrotters of baseball, but as you guys are about to find out Jesse has built and continues to build so much more. I’m thrilled to have this guy on the show, and we are about to dig in so buckle up! Check out the team at https://thesavannahbananas.com/ and findyouryellowtux.com for any info on Jesse's speaking or books. If you enjoyed this episode, please leave a review: https://ratethispodcast.com/thepozcast #thePOZcast is brought to you by our friends at Interseller – the prospecting + outreach platform of recruiters and sellers. Check out a free demo today! https://bit.ly/2Fbm/BZ Thanks for listening, and please follow us on Insta @NHPTalent and Twitter @AdamJPosner.eth For more, please visit www.thePOZcast.com

Illana Raia: Closing the Confidence Gap: Empowering Girls with Être Jun 16, 2023

Show notes

2:04 - Back to Childhood

2:58 - Grandma as the first mentor

3:59 - Decision to leave Law

5:48 - How did Illana find a mentor

7:04 - Females Only

8:16 - Raising confident women

11:16 - One Aha Story / Getting into Spotify

12:58 - Non-Quantifiable Results

16:44 - How to be a Good Mentor

18:15 - Purpose and Audience of the New Book

19:24 - Tough Conversations

21:10 - How to build confidence in Kids / Parents' Mentorship

24:24 - How Smart Companies are saving room for Girls

25:32 - How can young girls find Illana

26:19 - The biggest challenge

27:38 - Former Lawyer/Mentor/Leader getting into space

29:19 - Piece of advice for 6-year-old Nina

31:14 - A greatest piece of advice

32:24 - illana's North Star

BEST OF: E250 Peter Tunney: A Dealer of Hope and Inspiration Jun 14, 2023

Show notes

1:31 – The Better Future
2:18 – How to manage expectations
6:39 – Relationship with Money chains
9:52 – Borrowing other people’s art
12:03 – Peter Tunney’s Asset
13:08 – Fatherhood
16:08 – Inspiration for Art
18:18 – How Peter wants to be remembered
19:39 – A Meaningful project
21:16 – Greatest fear
24:03 – Christopher Reeve Foundation
29:00 – Single Greatest piece of advice
29:31 – Peter Tunney’s North Star

Dan Fantasia: Building a Recruitment Business During Uncertain Times Jun 09, 2023

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Show Notes:

[00:00:55] Intro to Dan Fantasia to talk recruiting.
[00:05:26] Naive start, learn to sell, and listen.
[00:06:25] Understand candidates' motivation for successful recruitment.
[00:09:35] Recruiting sales and understanding the candidate.
[00:15:32] Launched company during the uncertain post-911 period.
[00:19:12] Exclusive sales recruiter with impressive reach.
[00:20:38] "Slowing down when hiring to ensure success."
[00:23:25] Recruiting industry needs a positive reputation, referrals are important.
[00:28:13] Sympathize with others' unpredictable life situations.
[00:31:20] Recruiting takes volume, smarts, and recalibration.
[00:35:05] Communication transformed through social media and devices.
[00:37:34] "Find opportunities in downturns and double down"
[00:39:40] Change leads to business growth at Treeline.

Jesse Derris: A Masterclass in PR & Brand Building Jun 02, 2023

Show notes

2:40 - First meeting with Matt Higgins

5:10 - The greatest thing about Matt

6:29 - At the age of 25

7:44 - Career advice in the early days

9:08 - Joining a political campaign

10:39 - Expectation vs Reality

11:42 - Never think of failing

12:49 - Success at 25 vs now

15:10 - Art & Science of Public Relations

16:42 - PR in Marketing

18:07 - Lessons learned in early politics days

20:25 - Leadership Lessons

21:10 - Vision of next job

24:00 - Early Conversations on Sunglasses

26:31 - Customer Experiences

28:55 - Funded in 2014

30:47 - Importance of having a supportive spouse

35:00 - Open & Honest Communication

35:30 - All about Amity Supply

39:38 - Common dream

40:32 - Need of a Cofounder

42:04 - Need or Opportunity

45:23 - Hot take on web3

49:29 - Single Greatest piece of advice

50:36 - Jesse's North Star

BEST OF: E188: Leigh Steinberg: The Real Story Behind The Sports Empire May 31, 2023

Show notes

0:04 – Love for Sports
3;15 – Envision Sports as a Career
5:49 – True to the Values
6:13 – Key Mistake in early days
8:14 – Assess the character
11:11 – The Movie
15:28 – Peak of the Career
17:59 – The dark side of Life
21:26 – Relationship with David
22:06 – Mental steps to separate a business
25:05 – Going back to the roots
25:27 – Second Big break
28:47 – Accountability
30:06- Deciding Factor
31:56 – Approach to guiding the athletes / Aligning the values
33:47 – How to address the wrong attitude/violence
35:30 – Sports in terms of Covid
39:35 – Leigh’s Legacy
40:37 – Greatest piece of advice
42:11 – Leigh’s North Star

Joe Marchese: VC Investing In and With Human Positivity, Optimism and Connection May 26, 2023

Show notes

1:57 - How to get guests on Linkedin

3:20 - Rewind button: First job

4:23 - Greatest lesson at Chucky cheese

5:12 - The first job felt like an Entrepreneur

6:08 - Early Negotiation

6:42 - Background of starting a company

9:26 - Working with job boards

10:16 - Scared of launching a company alone

12:58 - Breakdown of years

16:14 - Inspiration

17:31 - Business Model

19:18 - Robots vs Humans

20:21 - Reassess the metrics

21:32 - A ha fun moments with ChatGPT

22:35 - Thought on co-founders

24:44 - How did the product come up? (Luxury Tequila)

29:17 - The good, the bad, the ugly in the web3 space

31:57 - Effect on Philanthropy

33:47 - Joe's Go-to interview Questions

36:28 - Single greatest piece of advice

37:43 - Joe's North Star

BEST OF: E229: Dave Meltzer: Illuminating Your Mistakes & Taking Action May 24, 2023

Show notes

0:33 – Outlook on team
1:54 – Keeping the teams together
4:26 – Create a friendly environment
7:02 – Senior Executive being selfish
8:57 – The Context matters
9:15 – Emotional Agility and Empathy
11:15 – Accountability in kids
14:28 – Vulnerability
17:31 – Slow things down
22:22 – Dave Meltzer’s Fortune

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