The Abundant Beans Podcast Episodes

Today our guest is Derick Van Ness. Derick is the founder and wealth strategist at Big Life Financial. Big Life Financial is focused on removing the mystery and misinformation surrounding money and financial strategy so people can live their biggest life. Derick believes that each person has something unique and valuable to contribute to the world, but that most people are never able to express that gift due to fear, doubt, or worry related to money. He wants to help people eradicate that fear and fundamentally change the way that people think about and utilize money within the next generation.

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Lance Graulich is the founder & CEO of ION Franchising, an industry leading franchise consulting and development group, that represents over 500 franchise brands & business opportunities within 90 categories. Lance helps prospective entrepreneurs find their perfect franchise for free. He also assists independent business owners in creating a franchise system. As a business start-up expert with more than 25 years of experience, he has served as President of various franchise advisory councils and boards advising emerging franchise brands. He has helped a multitude of companies grow efficiently & effectively.

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Peter Montoya is a leadership strategist, keynote speaker, entrepreneur, and best-selling author. Peter knows how to inspire people by tapping into their unique purposes. He’s a truly fascinating and multi-faceted guy, with decades f experience in speaking to audiences about his business knowledge, inspirational journey, and human behavioral insight. Peter believes one of the biggest steps you can take to hone your leadership skills is to adopt the strategy of reading two books a month. As he says, “It’s really, really, really hard to be a reader and a loser.” Today we talk about inspiring and developing leadership, the importance of leading instead of babysitting, a fantastic definition of “power,” and the master values of leadership.

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Chris Tabish is the co-founder of Venture West Consulting in Silicon Valley whose mission is to help organizations create meaningful strategies and bring them to reality. He is also an active stand up comedian and the author of the book Comediology. Comediology is all about how to be more effective and fulfilled in business by using comedy. Chris found his way into the stand-up comedy community back in 2010 out of desperation to bring more joy into his career and life. After taking his own happiness into consideration, he left his nearly C-level position and began consulting using his unique method of introducing comedic concepts in the corporate world. He noticed the difference in his clients and wrote his book to share his techniques with corporate leaders around the world. Today we talk about the importance of investing in your creativity, comedy as a valuable tool in business, and pocket protectors/pen wrappers.

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Angela Henderson is an author, entrepreneur, small business consultant, speaker, blogger, mother, and mental health clinician of over 15 years. As a business coach, Angela uses her entrepreneurial knowledge and experience to help other women in business. She believes the key to a successful business is overcoming inner challenges and roadblocks to improve external results.

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We also dive into finding out from your clients, what is the most valuable service that you offer to them? Have you asked? Because it might not be what you think, and knowing what that is can exponentially grow your business!

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Today we’re talking to Bill Bice, a lifelong entrepreneur and programmer. He started his first business at 14, organizing road races with corporate sponsers. At 18, he started ProLaw Software, the first integrated ERP for law firms. Bill is now the CEO of boomtime and a founding partner in Verge Fund. Verge Fund invests in high tech, high growth companies in the Southwest. Through building and investing in companies, Bill learned that one of the most difficult parts of growing a business is marketing. Bill created boomtime to help smaller businesses with efficient, data-driven marketing.

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Dr. Meredith Jones is an emergency veterinarian and financial coach in the Richmond, Virginia area. Dr. Jones is also a co-founder of Veterinary Financial Summit, a financial conference and online community for veterinary professionals. She found that there was a lot of talk about the financial issues within the veterinary community, but there wasn’t a lot of vet-to-vet communication about these problems. She created the Debt-Free Vets Facebook group in 2016 with the intent to connect veterinarians and veterinary students to share information and share their success stories. Dr. Jones wants to help other veterinarians have a greater understanding of their personal and professional finances and be able to achieve their financial goals.

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Josh Vaisman is back! Josh is a positive psychology practitioner and co-founder of Flourish Veterinary Consulting. He believes that all veterinary professionals deserve to feel fulfilled by their work each and every day. Additionally, he believes that people are inherently resilient and we can function much better if we acknowledge the less than ideal situation, embrace the suck, and look for what we can control by asking ourselves, “What else is here?” Josh knows that in times of crisis, effective leaders don’t put on airs of false positivity. Instead, they are vulnerable and they embrace the reality of the situation. Effective leaders give people the space to honor their humanity and approach crises with honesty and vulnerability. This sort of reaction to uncertainty creates a great environment for teams to look into what they do have control over and what they can collaborate on to make things better. Resilient leaders focus on sharing a lot more and micromanaging less when chaos ensues.

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