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Daily Influence
Discover a world where everyone’s influence matters. Welcome to Daily Influence, co-hosted by Brian Smith, founder and managing partner at IA Business Advisors and author of the 'I in Team' series, along with IA Business Advisors Partner Gregg Brooke Koleno. Each day, Brian and Gregg craft episodes designed to elevate your influence and transform it into a force for positive and responsible influence.
Every episode is a journey through real-life experiences, transformative concepts, and…
Episodes
- Daily Influence
71. Slow Down - An added perspective
We revisit our biggest chapter issue from book one; Individual Influence, Find the I in Team...Slow Down. This episode offers Gregg's perspective, which can…
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70. A Positive Influence Journey
Gregg continues to share her insight as she discusses her journey to being a Positive Influence, and what that looks like. Gregg has a journey we all can…
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69. Women Empowerment
Today, we introduce Gregg Koleno to the podcast. Gregg is one of our partners at IA Business Advisors and leads our consulting operations in Illinois and…
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68. Values - A Review
We have spent the last 7 days talking about values. Values are built on a foundation of many things. We talked about Accountability, Humility, Trust…
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67. Values - Respect
What are values worth without respect? Respect is earned. And most of the time, the influence of our values support getting respect. We discuss the correlation…
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66. Values - Structure
Values require structure. When we have structure, we can build on that and we have something to measure with. Structure also supports those times when our…
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65. Values - Kindness
Some leaders fear that being kind will diminish their power or authority. Nope. Being kind is one of the most powerful values we can have as humans. It sets a…
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64. Values - Stability
Another key aspect of having values is stability. Unless our value is instability, having and providing stability to yourself and your team within your area of…
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63. Values - Trust
We begin our discussion about values and the first topic is Trust. Trust can take a long time to earn and can be lost in a moment. Come listen and learn how to…
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62. Humility
Humility is being able to recognize one's self-worth without exaggeration or a need to be boastful. Listen and learn how to employ more humility in your area…
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61. Accountability
Accountability is the thing that keeps humanity's tendency to do stupid things in check. There are different types of accountability; Self-Accountability and…
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60. Be the Influence - The High Road
Do you take the high road? Did you know that the high road can be very subjective? Let's review that path best traveled.
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59. Be the Influence - Composure/Self-Control
Understanding how your composure influences us during communication can be a powerful understanding. Listen as we talk about how self-control and composure can…
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58. Be The Influence - Communication (Micro)
Do you know what your micro-communications are? What do your tones and your body language tell? We dive into how our micro-communication influences us and…
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57. Be Introduction - Rene's perception of Being the Influence
One of the most profound understandings of our Influence is shared by Rene' in her forward to our second book, we share this with you as we launch our…
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56. Find Your Influence
Join us to review our first 50+ episodes and close out our first book; Individual Influence: Find the I in Team topics.
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55. individualism for Individualism - Situation Awareness
Being situationally aware is more than knowing your surroundings. It's knowing yourself and those people in your area of influence to a point where you support…
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54. individualism for Individualism - Earning Respect
Earning respect can take a lifetime; losing respect can take a moment. We are going to dive into the issue of respect and how important it is in our ability to…
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53. individualism for Individualism - Consistency
Consistency in what we do can be another subjective aspect in our lives; be consistent in bad behavior or good and see what the consequences may be. We will…
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52. individualism for Individualism - Accountability
Understanding what accountability is should be a mandatory lesson for everyone. There are two types, internal (self) accountability and outsourced…
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51. individualism for Individualism - Our great Oxymoron
It's fitting that we would be diving into one of the cornerstones of our work this week on the anniversary of 9/11 - Individualism. 9/11 defined for me the…
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50. Communication Reflection
Halfway to 100 episodes today! As we enter the weekend, we reflect on the importance of Communication, the most important influence we have as humans…
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49. Written Word
The written word is powerful. One thing we can use the written word for that enables effective communication is clarification of context. When we engage in…
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48. Self-Deception
One of the negative aspects of self-communication is self-deception. Humans often struggle with accountability and deceive ourselves and others with…
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47. Self-Communication
How we communicate with ourselves is as important as how we communicate with others. One of the pitfalls we humans have is lying to oneself about the status of…
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46. Foundation of Communication
Communication is the foundation of human connection and understanding the foundational aspect of communication influence is essential to positive individual…
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45. Bias - Bias Recap
We close out our specific discussion about Bias and set us up for our move to Communication next week. Our recap will recall the initial discussion about the…
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44. Bias - Unintended Consequences
Every bias we deal with has the potential for unintended consequences. Learning about these for our conscious bias is powerful as it shines a light on…
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43. Bias - Types of Bias
In this episode, we will be unpacking the different bias we live with. All of them can be conscious, subconscious and unconscious biases. The list includes…
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42. Bias - Reactions to Bias
Understanding how and why we react to the different biases in our life is important. We unpack the responses we experience and how making them known and…
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41. Bias - The Identification Process
Episode 41 is our focus on identifying Bias as Conscious, Subconscious or Unconscious Bias. Each bias is unique in that how we identify them and what we can do…
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40. Bias: Unconscious - Conscious - Subconscious Bias
Episode 40 begins our deep dive into human bias and specifically conscious, subconscious and unconscious bias. We all have this bias, and we all can benefit…
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39. Individualism - Reflection
In this episode, we review and reflect on the power of Individualism. This is a cornerstone of The I in Team Series and why the Daily Influence is so important…
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38. Individualism - Prosperity
In our opinion, Prosperity is the positive cumulation of all we do. What this means is that prosperity is not defined by the same things for all people; it is…
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37. Individualism - Failure
Failure is one of life's most opportune times to learn something that can offer the most advantage. As Henry Ford stated, "Failure is simply the…
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36. Individualism - Goals
In this episode, we discuss Goals and the importance they play in being our best self (I)individual. We are strong advocates of SMART: Specific Measurable…
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35. Individualism - Willpower
Willpower is our inner voice that keeps up the motivation that can keep you going forward toward a milestone or goal, when quitting seems like the only option…
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34. Individualism - Maturity
Maturity has little to do with age, and we will discuss this in Episode 34. Your maturity is determined by how you act in the world, within your areas of…
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33. Individualism - Attitude
One of our goals at The "I" in Team Series and with our Daily Influence podcast is to further the importance of Individualism. The next few episodes…
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32. Reflection on Foundation
Today's episode is a reflection of our Foundation discussions. We began with Self-Awareness and how understanding self is an important aspect of our…
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31. Foundation - Empathy
Empathy is the ability to recognize, categorize, and understand the emotions another person is feeling and then respond in a way that makes the experience…
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30. Foundation - Perception is Reality
Perceptions are not always right. Your personality or behavior can betray you - good and bad. Unfortunately, oftentimes, Perception is Reality. Even a person…
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29. Foundation - Character
Your Character is the culmination of your behavior in all aspects and is generally measured by your influence on self and others. How we communicate and how we…
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28. Foundation - Habits
We all have habits - good and bad. Habits are those automatic actions we have as humans that can oftentimes define part of us. Creating and overcoming habits…
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27. Foundation - Self Awareness
Self-awareness comes from self-exploration and self-discovery. As we always do, we urge you during any self-reflection that if you experience anxiety or…
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26. Who Am I? Recap
We recap the past eight episodes of The Daily Influence as we close out Who Am I? and move into discussing our individual Foundation. We began this segment of…
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25. Who Am I? Clarity
Getting clarity in your life will require using the tools we have been discussing for the past 24 episodes. Slowing down and gaining focus about our individual…
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24. Who Am I? Intuition
Believe it or not, we all have intuition. I like to call it our minds' roadsign to opportunity and challenges. When your mind offers up something that is often…
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23. Who Am I? Self-Deception
We all lie to ourselves. Most of the time, they are white lies. However, self-deception and self-justification can impede our understanding of who we are and…
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22. Who Am I? - 31 Years of Marriage
Today is my 31st wedding anniversary, I'm reflecting on how this has influenced who I am!
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21. Who Am I? - Who do you want to Be?
Part of discovering who you are is discovering who you want to be. Don't let physical attributes – looks, cars, clothes, jobs - define who you want to be…
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20. Who Am I? Roots
It's pretty cool that on the day I am flying to Ireland (my roots), this episode is coming out. Roots is just what it sounds like and is the second part of…
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19. Who Am I? Self-Reflection
This part of our podcast dives into the deeper part of our work: Self-Reflection. Looking back at oneself in the mirror and unpacking ourselves can be…
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18. Who Am I? Ego
"Who Am I?" will be a reflection on the (I)individual that you and/or your team are. We will dive into understanding the individual and we begin with…
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17. Focus - Recap of the Focus series of discussions
We have spent over a week discussing and unpacking how slowing down and gaining better focus can be an amazing individual advantage and provide for more…
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16. Focus - Reactions
We each have a different way in which we react to situations. When we slow down and gain focus, we can better understand our individual reactions and ensure…
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15. Focus - S.M.A.R.T.
Happy Birthday to my daughter Kristin Jade! What is S.M.A.R.T.? Specific Measurable Attainable Realistic Timely Many have heard of SMART Goals. We will be…
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14. Focus - The Workplace
Your workplace, wherever that may be, should be conducive to your focus. This is the primary theme of today's Daily Influence. The human tendency to go too…
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13. Focus - The Turbo Charge of Going Too Fast (Multitasking)
Our advice on Multitasking; Don’t do it! Multitasking is just another way to go too fast and create more work and problems in the future. The American…
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12. Focus - Time Flies By So Quickly
Does time have to fly by? Isn't a minute the same for everyone? If yes, why do so many people make the statement; "Time flies by so quickly"? Did you…