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CXO Collective co-founders Corbin Cowan and Jason Myers speak with Patrick Dougher, host of The Business Spotlight, on what it takes to become a member of their organization. They are joined by investment banker Michael Fugler to speak about meeting people who have an idea and taking it to make a successful business.
Fugler built the “Business Mastery System” and help entrepreneurs keep their money here instead of having to share it with middle-men. Fugler said he was impressed by the caliber of people who can’t do it alone, but by coming together with others they can do some amazing things.
According to Myers, “CXO Collective is starting to see organic growth, which is really exciting. We are looking for CEOs, executives, people who provide consulting services, and investors.” People who have been able to take ideas and grow them. We have some brilliant business people who can look at deals, vet them, and decide whether the deal is good or not. They are collecting the brightest minds together to collaborate – face to face, not just virtually.
CXO Collective conducts events all over the country to network and build projects together. “There is no better way to get to know somebody than building a company with them, says Jason Myers. Little by little, bit by bit, changes can occur in America.
“It doesn’t matter what sector of business you are in,” says Cowan, “you can find someone who fits you in CXO Collective.”
According to Corbin, they would like people to go to and experience an event in the areas they have chapters in order to see how they operate. If this interests them, from there, they can contact Cowan or Myers to see if you are a good fit. If you don’t have a chapter in your area, they would like you to sponsor one in order to build an organization in that area through the website: http://CXOCollective.com/doertv.
Five Buckets for a Balanced Life
Wendy Kaufman, CEO and Founder of Balancing Life’s Issues, has amassed over three decades of research to fine-tune her trademarked program titled, “The Five-Bucket System.” She believes that “We now know what a balanced person looks like.” She recently shared some of her secrets, Five Buckets for a Balanced Life, with Pat Dougher, host of The Business Spotlight.
Whether you are an employer who is spending way too much time on your business and neglecting your family; the CEO of a Fortune 500 company who wants to see your employees become more productive; or an employee who is simply trying to do the best job you can, but outside influences prevent you from giving it your al – creating balance in your life is important in order to be successful.
The Five Buckets for a Balanced Life are:
- Humans need socialization. Everyone needs to have some kind of family, and friends.
- We need intellectual stimulation – whether be from work, art, puzzles, sports, etc.
- We need to be healthy – in mind and body
- We have to take care of our money, because at the end of the day we worry a lot about finances.
- Community or spirituality – through religion, community service, or philanthropy – people are basically good, and care about the people around them.
What Wendy and her staff of over 1,000 trainers have found is that these Five Buckets for a Balanced Life are simple, basic human needs that must be in balance in order for a person to be happy and successful. One missing part of this link can cause chaos in their life, and often the lives around them.
Fortunately, more and more businesses are realizing that when their employees are happy and healthy, their businesses thrive. There is a lower rate of employee turnover; a happier environment in which to work; and a rise in productivity, with less error and safety issues.
Wendy, through Balancing Life’s Issues, puts her team together to specifically match the needs of her clients. The team then builds a relationship with the client and conducts training sessions through a number of different ways – on-site, by phone, webinars, podcasts, as keynote speakers, etc. It is all up to the client and their wishes.
Areas of training all fall under the five buckets for a balanced life – leadership training for executives; health and wellness fairs; parenting workshops; work-life seminars; and more. Again, it all depends on the wants and needs of the clients. Each session is unique, just as each client is unique. The plan of action is not a cookie-cutter approach. They have conducted seminars in parks on picnic tables, and held radio shows where the employees can ask questions and get answers. “There are no limits to the imagination,” Wendy says, and they are always open to new ideas and topics.
For more information on Wendy Kaufman and “Building Life’s Issues,” go to www.BalancingLifesIssues.com. You can also see vignettes of Patrick Dougher’s interview with Wendy on YouTube: http://youtu.be/FFLBmGNrEfY
Creating Balance in Life Through Training Programs
Most employers care about the health and happiness of their employees. They realize that a happy home life will transcend into a happy work life, and vice versa. The healthier the employee and their families are, the more balanced their lives are, the better the employee is able to give value to all aspects of their life. With this in mind, Wendy Kaufman, CEO and founder of Balancing Life’s Issues, and her team of experts train individuals and corporations has built her business on creating balance in life. They do this through executive training, work life seminars, health and wellness seminars, parenting workshops, and more.
In an interview with Patrick Dougher, host of The Business Spotlight, Wendy spoke of how her life experiences, from being a stay-at-home mother of five working part time and eventually getting divorced, impacted and showed her the value of being able to balance a healthy personal and professional life.
Parents often worry that they are not doing things right, or not doing enough, in order for their children to grow up healthy, wealthy and wise. Being able to handle all things life throws at you requires creating balancing all aspects of our lives. Sometimes it requires a different mindset, and learning new techniques, in order for that to happen. For this reason, “Balancing Life’s Issues” was created.
Wendy Kaufman was fortunate enough to have the foresight 30 years, when working toward her degree in Industrial Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania, to see that creating balance in all aspects of your life was the key to success. So much so that she even wrote her thesis on “dual career relationships.” She realized that in order for a person to be a success they need to be able to handle all that life hands them, and deal with it in such a way that no area gets neglected.
More and more corporations are realizing that, in order to retain valued employees they need to allow them to stay connected in all parts of their lives – parenting, family, romance, health and work. In order to do that, many companies have reached outside their corporations for creating balance life trainers. This is where Wendy’s company comes in.
With over 1,000 trainers throughout the country, Balancing Life’s Issues sends out teams of trainers specifically chosen to match each client’s individual needs. Their services can range from leadership training for executives to keynote speakers, seminars, and workshops. They also offer e-learning webinars and workshops.
Trainers are hired, not solely on their educational background, but their ability to relate to others. According to Wendy, they must have some personal experience that allows them to empathize with their clients, they must be “hyper-engaged”, have charisma, and what Wendy calls “edutaining” – having the ability to get their point across and educate as well as engage.
Trainers for Balancing Life’s Issues become part of the “family.” They are together for each other through all aspects of their lives – weddings, graduations, children growing up, grief, etc. – all the processes that effect on their lives. They carry this family relationship over to their clients, who pass it along to their employees. “It’s a relationship. It’s a place for employees to say, “I’m worried about this. Can you help me?” Wendy says. “We can work through their employee assistance program, we can work through their work-life provider, or we can work directly with the client – whatever the client’s wants.”
For more information on Wendy Kaufman and “Building Life’s Issues,” go to www.BalancingLifesIssues.com. You can also see vignettes of Patrick Dougher’s interview with Wendy on YouTube: http://youtu.be/FFLBmGNrEfY
Balance Can Transform Your Life
Balance Can Transform Your Life!
One of the most popular courses at Harvard University is about happiness. That may seem strange for any Ivy-League School, but there is a good reason. Studies have shown that a happier person has been able to maintain a rich life and are able to balance life’s issues between home, work and health.
Wendy Kaufman, CEO and founder of Balancing Life’s Issues, has built a successful business, and developed over 1,000 trainers across the United States, on teaching people how to connect and bring balance into all aspects of their lives. They provide service on an unlimited amount of topics, each individually geared toward the client’s needs, and through a variety of venues – keynote speakers, workshops, seminars, webinars, podcasts, and even question and answer radio shows.
In an interview with Patrick Dougher, host of The Business Spotlight, Wendy told of her recent trip to China, and how amazed she was “at how astute they were in the philosophies of positive psychology and happiness.” She added that there is a country, way up in the Himalayan Mountains, called Bhutan, which is governed on happiness. “We are really playing catch-up in this country, and there are organizations that we’ve partnered with to make sure that we’re teaching our kids to be happy. What’s more important than that?” she says.
Wendy fortunately had the foresight to discover early in her life, while working toward her degree in Industrial Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania (she actually wrote her thesis on “dual career relationships”), that balancing your life can be carried over into the business world.
After experiencing some adversity in her personal life – working part time and being a stay-at-home mother of five who eventually divorced, she was able to take her life experiences, coupled with her education, and form Balancing Life’s Issues. The company now trains individuals and corporate staff on how to enrich and fulfill their lives by bringing all parts into balance. They address issues like parenting, aging parents, job stress, balancing work and home, and even leadership skills.
Wendy and her team, through 30 years of extensive experience and research, have developed a system called, “Five Buckets for Balance,” that she says fill all the human necessities for maintaining a balanced life – socialization, family and friends; intellectual stimulation, through work, sports, puzzles, art, etc.; health of the mind and body; finances; religion and community. When each of these areas of life are in tune, a person is better able to handle all that life has to throw at them – both the ups and the downs, and still be able to function and live a happy and healthy life.
More and more companies, even large Fortune 500 corporations, are realizing that the ability to maintain a positive connection between all areas of their lives will help their employees become better at their jobs, and that will benefit the company. A happy home transcends to a happy worker, which transcends to a happy work environment. It increases productivity, causes fewer safety issues, encourages mental stimulation and new ideas, and leads to a reduction in employee turnover (a very expensive part of doing business).
Each client is coupled with trainers selected according to the needs of the client. Each trainer has been hired because of their ability to communicate, educate, and bring their personal experience and empathy to their job. This is a winning combination for the client – and for Wendy’s company as well.
For more information on Wendy Kaufman and Building Life’s Issues, go to www.BalancingLifesIssues.com. You can also see vignettes of Patrick Dougher’s interview with Wendy on YouTube: http://youtu.be/FFLBmGNrEfY
Balancing Life’s Issues with CEO Wendy Kaufman
Balancing Life’s Issues with CEO Wendy Kaufman on The Business Spotlight
Wendy Kaufman, CEO and founder of Balancing Life’s Issues, has built a successful business, and developed over 1,000 trainers across the United States, on teaching people how to connect and bring balance into all aspects of their lives. They provide service on an unlimited amount of topics, each individually geared toward the client’s needs, and through a variety of venues – keynote speakers, workshops, seminars, webinars, podcasts, and even question and answer radio shows.
In an interview with Patrick Dougher, host of The Business Spotlight, Wendy told of her recent trip to China, and how amazed she was “at how astute they were in the philosophies of positive psychology and happiness.” She added that there is a country, way up in the Himalayan Mountains, called Bhutan, which is governed on happiness. “We are really playing catch-up in this country, and there are organizations that we’ve partnered with to make sure that we’re teaching our kids to be happy. What’s more important than that?” she says.
Wendy fortunately had the foresight to discover early in her life, while working toward her degree in Industrial Psychology from the University of Pennsylvania (she actually wrote her thesis on “dual career relationships”), that balancing your life can be carried over into the business world.
After experiencing some adversity in her personal life – working part time and being a stay-at-home mother of five who eventually divorced, she was able to take her life experiences, coupled with her education, and form Balancing Life’s Issues. The company now trains individuals and corporate staff on how to enrich and fulfill their lives by bringing all parts into balance. They address issues like parenting, aging parents, job stress, balancing work and home, and even leadership skills.
Wendy and her Balancing Life’s Issues team, through 30 years of extensive experience and research, have developed a system called, “Five Buckets for Balance,” that she says fill all the human necessities for maintaining a balanced life – socialization, family and friends; intellectual stimulation, through work, sports, puzzles, art, etc.; health of the mind and body; finances; religion and community. When each of these areas of life are in tune, a person is better able to handle all that life has to throw at them – both the ups and the downs, and still be able to function and live a happy and healthy life.
More and more companies, even large Fortune 500 corporations, are realizing that the ability to maintain a positive connection between all areas of their lives will help their employees become better at their jobs, and that will benefit the company. A happy home transcends to a happy worker, which transcends to a happy work environment. It increases productivity, causes fewer safety issues, encourages mental stimulation and new ideas, and leads to a reduction in employee turnover (a very expensive part of doing business).
Each client is coupled with trainers selected according to the needs of the client. Each trainer has been hired because of their ability to communicate, educate, and bring their personal experience and empathy to their job. This is a winning combination for the client – and for Wendy’s company as well.
For more information on Wendy Kaufman and Building Life’s Issues, go to www.BalancingLifesIssues.com. You can also see vignettes of Patrick Dougher’s interview with Wendy on YouTube: http://youtu.be/FFLBmGNrEfY
