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Many companies share detailed financial information with employees once or twice a year. Few companies offer training in financial literacy to their rank and file members so that they can truly understand the financial underpinnings of the company for which they work. Today’s guest Skip Weisman shares the concept of Open Book Management, where financial records are not only accessible to all, but explained in enough detail so that employees can understand how they can (or fail to) directly contribute to the bottom line. Weisman, a former baseball executive and now a business coach and consultant, speaks to Libby Gill about encouraging employees’ active participation in the company’s welfare by being completely transparent with finances. Will this management style work for your company? 

The Internet greatly affects the way we manage our daily lives—from how we communicate and shop to who and what we believe. With our dependence on the web, those of us who are content providers or social media influencers have an obligation to our audiences. Today, Libby Gill talks to business and sales strategist John Golden, who is the publisher of Sales POP magazine and podcast, a bestselling author, and the chief marketing and strategy officer for Pipeliner—a customer relationship management tool (CRM). He opens our eyes to how we can add more value by instilling our social media with a sense of purpose. Author of Winning the Battle of Sales, John connects his love of military history to sales success.

Customer service is the apple of your product or service. Today, Libby Gill chats with Jason Cutter, the CEO and Founder of The Cutter Consulting Group about making the right customers to enroll in your service and getting them to a better place. Jason also shows how to make average salespersons great in a sales team. The sales process can be customized depending on aspects like product and culture. With curiosity and kindness as crucial traits for sales, Jason shows us how we can get our customers to a better place.

Our product is our impact. Making money is equally as important, but we have to be able to make measurable impact. This is especially true for B corporations – companies that qualify for meeting the balance between purpose and profit. On today’s show, Libby Gill is joined by Shane Keough, an ex-athlete and the CEO of a sustainability agency called WeGoFor2. Shane shares his background as a baseball player and the life intervention that took him in a completely different direction, leading him to run one of the most successful sustainability businesses today.

Wellness is not a new concept, yet it continues to be a struggle for many people to achieve in life. It goes beyond looking at health physically, deep within the emotional, psychological, and overall wellbeing of a person. The CEO and Chief Clinical Officer of Simple Recovery and Shift Wellness, Dr. Stephen Odom, sits down on the show to talk about the ways he has been fulfilling his mission to relieve suffering and help other people. He explains his guiding principle that people can, and do, get well and stay that way, while taking us across his journey of becoming a real pioneer in behavioral health addiction treatment and wellness. He also goes in-depth about the health and wellness of health professionals, especially first-responders – helping them learn how to take care of themselves as much as they do others.

Millennials tend to be unfairly stereotyped that navigating in whatever field you want to pursue comes with some fear and hesitation. Proving to move past what others say and become a success is young entrepreneur, Akshay Maliwal. Akshay is the founder and CEO of DreamBig.Events, a sports event company dedicated to creating tournaments and exposure opportunities for junior athletes across Asia. Extending his success to other young people through sports, Akshay tells us the start of his journey and the motivations behind it. He shares with us the way he bridges athletes in Asia with the great opportunity of being recruited by US colleges. Akshay then goes deep into the world of event planning, sharing some of the challenges he has encountered and how he moved past them to fulfill his mission. Finally, he shares his insights about being a Millennial entrepreneur and why the world needs them now more than ever.