The POZCAST: Decoding Success with Adam Posner

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BEST OF #THEPOZCAST: Jackson Jeyanayagam: Vice President & General Manager of DTC at the Clorox Company Apr 10, 2022

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2:53 – Prediction on American Politics
3:54 – Start of the Career Journey
8:32 – How important is HAPPINESS?
11:20 – How to Lead People
12:41 – Best Mentor for Jackson
13:32 – How much to trust your Gut?
15:07 – Agency Background is Desirable?
19:14 – Job Search
22:35 – The Box Story
24:03 – How do you define Brand?
25:35 – Be a Customer First, before you become an Employee
27:02 – Title is just Ego
30:12 – Clorox Experience
32:33 – Coach is important
35:20 – Best Of both worlds
36:57 – Covid scenario for Clorox
39:03 – Go-to Interview Questions
42:03 – What does Authentic mean?
43:20 – Silver Linings
45:02 – Jax’s North Star

JeVon McCormick: From Poverty to CEO of Scribe Media Apr 08, 2022

Show notes

1:33 - The Origin Story

3:38 - The past Trauma

4:36 - Earliest Childhood Memory of Dad

7:04 - Self Analysis

10:04 - Accountability

11:21 - Course of Action

11:58 - Role Model / Male Figure in Life

13:42 - Countrywide Mortgage

14:29 - Back in 2008 / Mortgage Crisis

17:00 - Bottom Up / Role as CEO

18:19 - Servant Leadership

19:24 - Approach to Hiring

21:12 - Pen on Paper / The Process

23:35 - Learned from Tucker

26:46 - Hire for Character/ Train for Success

29:35 - Being Inquisitive = Natural Problem Solver

30:04 - Culture Fit

33:29 - Letting someone go

35:48 - Books are still a huge part

36:42 - Who should not write a book

38:00 - The secret sauce

39:12 - Giving back

41:13 - What to tell your younger self

42:07 - Single Greatest piece of advice

43:40 - JeVon's North Star

Connie Steele: Benefits of a Mashed-Up Career Apr 01, 2022

Show notes

1:12 - Chemistry and Vibe is Important
1:39 - Rewind Button
1:52 - Early Days/ First Job after School
3:35 - Balance of Interaction
4:11 - Marketing in Blood
5:33 - Getting to the Root Cause
6:30 - Approach to Hiring / Signature Interview Questions
8:10 - How to Assess a character/Finding the Right Fit
9:20 - Time and Decision Process
11:06 - Risk Involved/ Collective Decision Making / Getting into Consultation
12:18 - Advice for Decision Making
13:40 - Adding Value / Connecting with People
15:06 - Helping someone out
15:30 - Create Momentum
16:28 - Bridge the Gap
20:52 - Creating a Career Mashup
23:10 - Be a Swiss Army Knife
27:20 - American Book Club
28:23 - Millennials in the Workforce
31:20 - Purpose of Life
32:14 - The word 'Authentic'
32:44 - What keeps Connie up at night
33:20 - Single greatest piece of advice
34:49 - Connie's North Star

Megan Reilly: Life Lessons in Parenthood and Entrepreneurship Mar 25, 2022

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1:11 - Tenacity is the thing
2:46 - Always been tenacious
3:33 - Origin of Tippie Toes
6:04 - Getting into Family Business
7:29 - Family Support
9:08 - Moments of Critical Failure
10:29 - Customer Service
12:58 - Shark Tank Experience
15:45 - Brand Exposure/ Brand Funding
16:45 - In between the show (Editing and Time out)
17:35 - Any disadvantage of coming to the show
19:05 - Working with Mark Cuban
20:19 - Learning from Cuban
22:04 - Franchising
24:55 - Who is this for?
26:35 - Impetus behind the podcast
28:34 - Parenting for Dummies
31:20 - Who is the Dream Mom?
32:06 - A complete shock
34:35 - Important Lesson
35:32 - Parenting in Pandemic
37:44 - Learned from the Power Couple

Emeka Nnaka: An Advocate for Hope- His Journey Mar 18, 2022

Show notes

1:25 - Sports Weekend (End of January)
2:51 - Prediction for Next Week (Football)
3:45 - Adam and Emeka meetup
5:22 - Emeka before injury
8:26 - The incident/accident
11:40 - Family/friends during diagnosis
12:50 - Rehab and Body State now
14:13 - Deep Dark Thoughts
16:39 - The Hard Time ' Losing Relationship'
17:16 - Lack of Support
22:56 - What is Life?
26:49 - Moment of Sunshine
31:01 - Going back to school
26:14 - Direction and Purpose
39:22 - The Ellen Show
44:09 - What's on the Horizon
46:56 - Single Greatest Piece of advice
48:56 - Emeka's North Star

BEST OF: Lindsey Pollak: Early Career Success & The Future Workplace- NYT Bestselling Author Mar 11, 2022

Show notes

1:54 – Lindsey’s background
4:11 – Decision making
5:00 – Big Lesson Learned as an RA
5:58 – Paralysis of Choice
7:52 – Job Hopping
8:40 – Difference between Boomers & Millennials (Leadership wise)
10:48 – Young Leaders – Where is the gap?
12:19 – Concept of Feedback
14:11 – Impetus behind writing the first book
15:37 – Multi-generational Workforce
18:59 – Need of physical workplace vs remote work (uncertainty)
21:53 – Magic Formula
23:20 – Lindsey’s book title struggle
25:18 – Early Career Guidance
26:45 – Insightful Interview Questions
29:06 – Who should read the book
29:47 – Golden key takeaway
30:41 – Biggest challenge in writing this book
31:52 – Vulnerability
32:26 – Greatest piece of advice
34:20 – Lindsey’s Super Power
34:35 – Personal/Professional Silver Linings
35:54 – Lindsey’s North Star

Luke Anderson: Getting High on Social Drinking Mar 04, 2022

Show notes

1:07 - While in Brooklyn
1:53 - High School Teacher Experience
4:05 - Jumping into High School
5:14 - Biggest Lesson Learned
6:10 - Turning Moment
7:25 - Job Experience at Golf Club
8:34 - Key takeaway from Bain
10:50 - Experience as a Founder - Wayout!
14:29 - Reaching out to Wayout
15:09 - Self-awareness epiphany
19:13 - Business Plan
19:48 - Speed bumps/ Entrepreneurial Journey
21:44 - Sessionable Drinking
23:03 - Cannabis in Beverages
24:36 - Cans in Quantity/ Volume Metrics
25:52 - Pricing / Supply and Demand
27:59 - Investors on board
33:05 - Challenges
35:23 - Total number of employees
35:59 - What keeps Luke up at night
37:26 - Exciting thing about the Cannabis industry
39:13 - The word ' Authentic'
40:40 - Single Greatest Piece of Advice
40:45 - 41:38*
42:02 - Luke's North Star

Rebels Become Legends: The Origin Story Feb 28, 2022

Show notes

1:21 - Introduction

3:03 - Legend's Past days

9:10 - Be Open-minded

10:07 - Early stages of Creativity

12:37 - DMX

13:26 - High school years

18:04 - Getting into Physical Training/ Martial Arts

18:45 - Batman SuperHero

21:35 - What does it feel like during the fight?

24:29 - Kids training

27:20 - How Rebels become Legends

32:59 - Accountability / Take Ownership

36:03 - Legend's Philosophy

38:45 - Future of the brand

40:03 - Legend's North Star

POZcasting for Business with Alex Sheridan Feb 25, 2022

Show notes

1:17 - Introduction
2:05 - FunFact
4:10 - Podcast with Alex
5:30 - Overnight Success
6:00 - Why do a Podcast?
6:32 - Alex's Vision
7:09 - Who is the Podcast for? Audience?
8:15 - Have a Hat! The right Gadgets
9:48 - Have a SWAG!
10:22 - Do and Dont's of a Podcast
12:00 - First Podcast vs Today
13:53 - Listening Ability/Power
17:13 - Shows in Batches
20:35 - Business in Podcast
24:32 - The Halo Effect
25:19 - Biggest Moment in Podcast Journey
29:04 - Contact Adam / The PozCourse

BEST OF #thePOZcast: Look back at E1: Quentin "Q" Allums Feb 19, 2022

Show notes

BEST OF #thePOZcast: Episode 1. To celebrate the 3 year anniversary of my show, let's take it back to the very first episode of the POZ Cast! Adam & Q Connect the online, offline. Here is a look into a raw first-time networking conversation. What I love most about listening back is seeing how far I have come. And, how I predicted the type of show I wanted to build, the guests and stories I wanted to share and the journey that I envisioned ahead of me. Please enjoy and don't laugh too much at how many times I say "riiiiiiight""? I appreciate EVERY ONE OF YOU who have listened to even one episode. It means the world. To check out all almost 200 episodes, please check out www.thePOZcast.com Thanks!

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