The One Broken Cog Podcast

Excellence and Influence

Dave Kahle is back to answer questions sent in from our listeners across the globe. He also reveals the launch of his newest project, the Xi Community. This new platform brings together sales professionals and business leaders to help navigate a rapidly changing world by sharpening their skills, enhancing their strategies and practices, providing a system for personal and organizational growth and offering access to experts and peers so that they can achieve higher levels of success. Check out the Xi Community here!

Hustler's Ambition

Vanessa Zamy is a business expert, keynote speaker, and bestselling author dedicated to helping full-time employees transition to entrepreneurship by building their business while employed. Her consulting company, Your Vision's Catalyst, coaches and advises 9-to-5ers on how to build a profit-producing, purpose-driven business without the overwhelm. It’s not hustling that’s bad, it’s how you’re hustling that they fix. Vanessa’s background includes a Management Science and Engineering Degree from Stanford University, and strategic leadership roles at Fortune 500 companies. Vanessa joins the show to share strategies for purpose-led solopreneurs to take back control of their time, life, and business. She also discusses efficient and effective hustling, how solopreneurs can cut out the busy work, and her motto: keep it simple, then keep it movin'!

 

 

Live Your Maximum Potential

Sheila Logan is the founder of Lock n' Load Marketing, The Messy Back-End Podcast, and YES! Women’s Network, is an accomplished speaker, podcaster, digital marketer, and mentor. Sheila is also a survivor! She was a single mom of 5 amazing children for 28 years and an entrepreneur for the past 9.5 years. This led her to build YES! Women's Network which provides trusted resources, tools, and a place of support. Now, sharing how she survived helps entrepreneurs understand the importance of Personal Branding. Sheila joins the show to discuss decision making while going through hard times, the YES! Women's Network and how it helps women, her approach to personal branding, how to balance your personal life while being an entrepreneur with many clients, and the best way to roadmap your life so you can integrate work and family.

Think Big, Dream Big, Achieve Big!

In 2017, after a lifetime of being an entrepreneur, Kate Gray founded a company called Ancient Awakening with no capital, and in 2019 it became a 7 figure business. Over a one-year period from 2018-19 the total revenue of the company grew by 800%. To reach this revenue goal, Kate did not invest a single cent in marketing. The entire company was built using her unique organic marketing strategies and marketing talent which she now teaches to entrepreneurs all over the world. In 2020 Kate launched Boss Bitch Business, an online course platform dedicated to empowering self-made female entrepreneurs in building empires that change the world. Kate joins the show to detail her journey from being homeless and addicted to drugs, to one of the top female entrepreneurs and leaders in Australia. She also discusses the impact of having an entrepreneurial mindset, what it takes to be a high performance person, marketing strategy for 2021, and the power of polarization in regards to marketing and your business. 

The Talent Cliff

Jennifer Thornton has developed her expertise in Talent Strategy & Leadership Professional Development over her exciting 20+ year career as an HR Professional. She’s led international teams across Greater China, Mexico, the U.K., and the U.S. expanding into new markets, managing franchise retailers, and developing key strategic partnerships - all while exceeding business objectives and financial results. The rapid growth of her consulting firm 304 Coaching has been largely due to Jennifer’s unconventional approach to building innovative workforce development solutions for companies who are facing breakthrough growth and accelerated hiring patterns. Jennifer joins the show to discuss her “Perfect-Fit” hiring process, how fast-growing companies can develop a talent strategy that maps directly onto their business plan for accelerated revenues and record growth, and the 7 deadly sins of leadership & how to fix them with conversational intelligence.

Run Towards Your Dream

First episode of 2021! Jackie Potter is the CEO & Founder of JP Talent Agency, a top tiered talent agency that works with the top creatives (videographers, social media specialists, photographers, designers, and many more) and top clients (brands, entrepreneurs, personal brands, artists, consulting firms & many more...) and partners the two based on the clients specific needs, to help bring their vision to life, increase their social media presence, and increase sales. Jackie joins the show to chronicle her journey from top recruiter to successful business owner, how she overcame the devastating loss of her father right after launching her business, her take on the talent agency landscape, and to address the controversial topic of ghosting candidates. 

Unity is Strength

Carolyn Mumby is the Founder and CEO of www.eledeckshr.com a leading SaaS compliance platform for HR admin and compliance management. She is an Entrepreneur and a qualified Agile HR coach. She is also a member of the Bar, (barrister specializing in HR & Employment Law) and an associate member of the CIPD. She collaborates with teams to respond to the pandemic and help them unleash their true potential. And everything she does is designed to be inclusive, as she helps teams craft a productive and happy new normal, deal with the disruption caused by the pandemic and realize the staggering benefits of being a ‘Re-born Business’. Carolyn joins the show to share how leaders are pivoting to become enablers, the benefits of building T-shaped teams, and to discuss innovating working patterns that provide ultimate flexibility while driving customer value.

Fighting the Good Fight

Charles J. Read is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA), U.S Tax Court Practitioner ( USTCP), member of the Internal Revenue Service Advisory Council (IRSAC), and the Founder of GetPayroll. He is Vietnam veteran, who has overcome the death of a spouse and child to grow a thriving business. Mr. Read’s companies have provided full-service payroll services, payroll tax services, and other payroll-related services since 1991. Charles is an accomplished senior executive and entrepreneur with more than fifty years of financial leadership experience in a broad range of industries and author of four books. His latest book, The Payroll Book: A Guide For Small Businesses and Startups is currently #25 in Small Business Books section on Amazon. Charles joins the show to discuss his journey from Vietnam vet to successful business owner, his views on payroll taxes in the current economic climate, and to share how he fights the IRS on behalf of his clients.

Rediscover Your Play

Jeff Harry shows individuals and companies how to tap into their true selves, to feel their happiest and most fulfilled — all by playing. Jeff has worked with Google, Microsoft, Southwest Airlines, Adobe, the NFL, Amazon, and Facebook, helping their staff to infuse more play into the day-to-day. Jeff is an international speaker who has presented at conferences such as INBOUND, SXSW, and Australia’s Pausefest, showing audiences how major issues in the workplace can be solved using play.  Jeff was selected by BambooHR & Engagedly as one of the Top 100 HR Influencers of 2020 for his organizational development work around dealing with toxic people in the workplace. His play work has most recently been featured in the NY Times article: How Do We Add More Play To Our Grown-Up Life - Even Now. He has also been featured on AJ+, SoulPancake, the SF Chronicle, and CNN. Jeff joins the show to discuss how embracing a play-oriented mindset may not only help your business survive but thrive, why the 8-hour workday is unnatural and why we should change it, and how to identify and deal with toxic people through play.

The Gig Economy

Greg Kihlstrom is CEO and Co-Founder of CareerGig, a business that connects freelancers and companies that hire highly skilled 1099 contractors and provides freelancers with health, retirement and other benefits. Greg has worked with some of the world’s top brands, including AOL, Choice Hotels, Coca-Cola, Dell, FedEx, GEICO, Marriott International, MTV, Starbucks, Toyota and VMware. He currently serves on the University of Richmond’s Customer Experience Advisory Board, was the founding Chair of the American Advertising Federation’s National Innovation Committee, and served on the Virginia Tech Pamplin College of Business Marketing Mentorship Advisory Board. Greg was named a 2018 50 on Fire winner from DC Inno as one of DC’s trendsetters in Marketing. He is a regular contributing writer to Forbes, and has been featured in publications such as Advertising Age, SmartCEO, Website Magazine, and The Washington Post. Greg joins the show to discuss the gig economy and its impact on the corporate workplace, CareerGig's unique value to freelancers and businesses, and his newest book, "The Center of Experience" which talks about how customer and employee experience can be operationalized into a cohesive brand experience.