Achieve Fearless Growth and Live Mindfully Amanda Setili offers seven strategies to make your business more agile. Then, we get a lesson in mindfulness and living with intention from Mark Nation.

By Alan Taylor

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Amanda Setili

How can your business become more agile? Amanda Setili, president of Setili & Associates and author of Fearless Growth, offers seven strategies to courageously adapt to market changes. Then, we get a lesson in mindfulness and living with intention from the founder and president of Nation Leadership and author of Made for Amazing, Mark Nation. Learn how you can optimize your thinking, communicate more effectively and spur rapid growth.

  • [00:00:00] Exploring Growth Strategies With Amanda Setili
  • [00:05:49] Collaborate and Get Cozy With Uncertainty
  • [00:11:30] Connect Your Ecosystem for Rapid Change
  • [00:18:21] Find a Career that Resonates With Your Soul
  • [00:26:39] Listening to Intuition, Leading With Purpose
  • [00:33:22] Learning How to Focus From the Inside Out

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[00:00:00] Exploring Growth Strategies With Amanda Setili

Large companies appreciate working with small businesses and BIZ Experiencess because they are nimble and can quickly adjust to the varying market climate. Amanda Setili, president of Setili & Associates and author of Fearless Growth: The New Rules to Stay Competitive, Foster Innovation, and Dominate Your Markets, calls in from Reykjavik, Iceland to share seven rules to navigate and thrive in our modern economy.

[00:05:49] Collaborate and Get Cozy With Uncertainty

Do you embrace uncertainty? Many companies languish in indecision when they should be vigilantly testing new ideas and collaborating with clients and outside partners. Setili explains the importance coming together to keep your business competitive.

[00:11:30] Connect Your Ecosystem for Rapid Change

Creating a connected ecosystem comprised of customers, suppliers, content providers, partners and employees is a powerful way to drive success for your business. Setili teaches us how to keep productive conversation flowing to inspire thoughtful growth. Learn how you can engage your network for optimum innovation.

[00:18:21] Find a Career that Resonates With Your Soul

How can you fine tune your personal and professional life for success? Mark Nation is the founder and president of Nation Leadership and author of Made for Amazing: An Instrumental Journey of Authentic Leadership Transformation. Nation uses music as a metaphor to distinguish the subtle differences between self-help and self-discovery.

[00:26:39] Listening to Intuition, Leading With Purpose

What drives your life? Host Alan Taylor is acutely aware on his intuition, what he feels is a divine gift from God. Whatever guides and motivates you, all BIZ Experiencess can benefit from living with intention. Nation discusses how business leaders can hone in on their instincts, focus on their purpose and connect with others on a deeply human level.

[00:33:22] Learning How to Focus from the Inside Out

There are many firms out there that can help you develop hard skills like supply chain management or balancing your books. Nation adamantly believes developing soft skills is an essential component of a becoming a balanced leader -- that doesn't mean it's an easy process. Learn how a combination of meditation and mindfulness can take your business to the next level.

BIZ Experiences Radio, hosted by award-winning broadcast professional, Alan Taylor, equips fans with the critical information necessary to grow their business through practical advice and thought-provoking interviews. Tune in live on Saturdays 2 p.m. EST/11 a.m. PST and Sundays 10 a.m. EST/7 a.m. PST and listen to weekly episodes on demand on BIZ Experiences.com.

Alan Taylor

Host, BIZ Experiences Radio

Alan Taylor is an award winning radio and television host and a 30-plus year broadcast professional. As a founder of Benchmark Entertainment in 1995, Taylor pioneered the business of creating radio shows as an extension of the magazines and brands they represent. Benchmark orchestrated innovative partnerships with leading publishers to replicate their content on-air, bringing their brands alive to a much larger audiences. Today, Taylor partners with the nation’s largest publishing houses. He is, on behalf of the Entertainment Right Now, the host of some of the most popular weekend talk shows in radio today: The Drive with Alan Taylor and BIZ Experiences Radio. Taylor produces and co-hosts a new video series, Business & Burgers, in partnership with Microsoft and serves as a consultant and content marketing partner for USA Today Network.

Taylor’s expertise and quick wit entertain millions and he has been a featured automotive expert on ABC, CBS, CNN, FOX, NBC and others, including 15-plus years on daytime’s No. 1 morning talk show, LIVE! with Kelly. Taylor is also an in-demand guest speaker where his up-beat presentations provide both insight and motivation. Taylor is also the co-host of Motorz TV, seen in over 200 million TV households in the USA and Canada.

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