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60: Bud Torcom – Authentic Connection in a Digital World

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In this episode, we have an Uphill Conversation with young professional, entrepreneur and business owner Bud Torcom on authentic connection, relationships and values in an increasingly automated and digital world.

Bud Torcom is the CEO and co-founder of Mazama Media, a digital marketing agency that offers high-quality social and digital media solutions for businesses. Mazama Media focuses on the individual needs and personalities of clients to create unique and engaging social media content, and the company is part of the prestigious Facebook Small Business Council. In addition, Bud is a member of the Forbes Agency Council, which has recognized him as an industry leader among advertising and media strategy firms.

Show Notes:

  • Creating company policies that match your core values
  • At Mazama Media fun + continuous learning are central
  • Setting stretch goals for your organization – i.e. an anxiety free workplace
  • Benefits + pitfalls of a world increasingly conditioned for instant communication and gratification
  • Social tools like LinkedIn are incredibly powerful for connection + sharing information, but are often abused by those looking to push a product or service
  • Importance of leading by example + learning from mistakes
  • Bud believes leadership is “always looking out for the person on your left and the person on your right”
  • Coinciding need for intentionality in relationships alongside need to embrace our increasingly automated world
  • Multitasking is not truly possible “you don’t have a split screen brain”
  • Generation Y and their use of technology and social media channels
  • How online dating could impact our future generations’ ability to successfully network and interview
  • What would happen if we stopped just showing our best moments on social media – what if we “got real?” Could we help others?
  • Importance of investing in oneself through continuous learning
  • Building a relationship with your local community can be essential to small business success
  • Tips for developing, reinforcing and celebrating your company’s core values

Connect with Bud: 

References:

INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC (Used by permission):
Dreams Groove (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Straight Drive (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Uphill Conversations is an Uphill Strategies, LLC production
© 2017 Uphill Conversations

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59: Josh Elledge – Serving Breeds Success

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Josh Elledge joins us for an Uphill Conversation on the power of serving others and giving of oneself as a means to grow your business and achieve your dreams.

Josh Elledge is the Chief Executive Angel at SavingsAngel.com and helps consumers get discounts and upgrades on everything through his syndicated newspaper column with 1.1 million readers and on TV in 75 cities. He’s been in the media more than 1500 times. Josh now turns digital entrepreneurs into media celebrities at upendPR.com. Full bio here.

Show Notes:

  • How Josh used his journalism background, worked with local media, provided value to their audiences and SERVED
  • Spent less than $500 in advertising – “everything we do is through service and giving and providing value to audiences”
  • Feeling a moral imperative to help other business owners succeed
  • What holds you back: fear of judgment
  • Fear robs us from those things that we feel called to do
  • An early desire to join the US Navy and to be self-reliant translates to his passion to empower others to do the same
  • View money as a by-product, not as sole motivation
  • “Who do I get to serve to today?” versus “Who am I going to sell to today?”
  • Josh’s mission is to change the PR industry
  • Staying balanced/grounded means protecting yourself, saying no sometimes and surrounding yourself with great people.
  • Make investments that put you outside of your comfort zone
  • Best ways to grow your business:
    • 1. Network with influencers
    • 2. Serve large audiences
  • Not JUST serving, but INTENTIONAL serving
  • The importance of scheduling your priorities.

Connect with Josh:

INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC (Used by permission):
Dreams Groove (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Straight Drive (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Uphill Conversations is an Uphill Strategies, LLC production
© 2017 Uphill Conversations

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58: Elizabeth Dulberger – Being a Guide: Give + Take

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Elizabeth Dulberger joins us for an Uphill Conversation on her entrepreneurial journey. She shares how, while she is a guide, she also learns from her clients.

An innovative and results-driven Leadership Advisor, Executive Coach, Professional Industry Speaker and Published Author, Elizabeth combines her passion and extensive industry knowledge to educate, train and motivate current and future leaders through her seminars, workshops, and industry events. Her unique, intuitive and no-nonsense approach to business and personal success has captured and inspired audiences clients across North America. Full bio here.

Show Notes:

  • Elizabeth’s road to entrepreneurship as a young woman
  • Entrepreneurial spirit is something Elizabeth believes we’re born with
  • Power in having strong vision of your capacity + where you want to go
  • Self-belief, self-awareness + emotional intelligence
  • Ego as an impediment to awareness: be direct, break, then uplift
  • As a coach, allowing yourself to be coached and learn from your clients
  • Human need to be appreciated, heard and understood
  • Importance of having empathy for others in our relationships
  • Sometimes people just need time + space to think + reflect
  • People must admit weaknesses and want help in order to change
  • Ask yourself, is what you desire hunger or a craving?
  • Having political awareness and savvy as you climb the ladder
  • How Liz invests and reinvests in herself: sponsor relationships
  • Liz’s Uphill climb, her goals, and optimism over the next 12 months

Connect with Elizabeth:

Resources:

INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC (Used by permission):
Dreams Groove (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Straight Drive (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Uphill Conversations is an Uphill Strategies, LLC production
© 2017 Uphill Conversations

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57: Camille Preston – Energy + Flow

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Camille Preston, PhD, PCC joins us for a conversation on igniting peak performance. We discuss energy, awareness and our capacity to create more flow.
Camille is a leadership expert. She understands where people are, what is happening to them, and how to be their best selves most quickly. Camille specializes in helping people unlock their capacity for excellence, action, and impact. Her clients learn to lead—and live—better. A psychologist by training, Camille is masterful in recognizing underlying patterns that inhibit performance.  She works with individuals and teams to identify specific actions they can take to amplify impact. In 2008, she identified the negative impact of technology and was on the front edge of the tech mindfulness movement with her book Rewired.  Full bio here.
Show Notes:
  • Igniting peak performance through awareness, perspective + planning
  • There is incredible energy in emotion
  • Presence and harnessing the power of past peak performance
  • Impact of experiencing and discovering your flow
  • Importance of realizing and embracing your own success formulas
  • Develop resources + relationships that boost your energy
  • Disciplines to deal with depletion, capacity, margin + proximity
  • Our tendency to be reactive instead of creative
  • Controlling access and ability to tap into energy sources
  • Benefits of proactively feeding into your soul and well-being
  • Allowing for space/margin to think deeply and deal with unexpected
  • Camille’s definition of bandwidth in an overwired world
  • Flow enhances creativity and drastically improves productivity
  • Thoughtful preparation is necessary to achieve desired outcomes: be clear on the outcome, but flexible on the approach
  • Maintaining impact through collaboration + empowerment
  • How Camille “dreams into people” and continues on her journey uphill
Connect with Camille:
Resources:

INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC (Used by permission):
Dreams Groove (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Straight Drive (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Uphill Conversations is an Uphill Strategies, LLC production
© 2017 Uphill Conversations

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56: Allison Carmen – The Gift of Maybe

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Allison Carmen joins us for an Uphill Conversation on “The Gift of Maybe.” We discuss how Maybe had changed her life and the lives of others by allowing them to remain open to possibilities.

As a life coach, business consultant and author, Allison Carmen has developed the simple life philosophy called “Maybe” to help people deal with the uncertainty of life. She has successfully applied the philosophy to help her clients, who range from entrepreneurs and owners of multi-million dollar companies to artists, actors, writers, fashion designers, attorneys, health care workers, parents, nannies and the homeless. Allison has witnessed hundreds of people, regardless of present circumstances, who had the courage to step into the realm of Maybe improve their lives. Full bio here.

Show Notes: 

  • Our society’s addiction to certainty
  • Optimism and our ability to take perceived negative occurrences in stride
  • Having control vs. fear of the unknown
  • Awareness and curiosity
  • Put your emphasis on the journey
  • Beauty of presence and being open to all of life’s possibilities
  • Uncertainty is the beginning of all creativity
  • Need to allow our thoughts and emotions to move through us
  • Exercises to embrace and practice Maybe
  • “Maybe” is a tool to stay resilient when things don’t go as planned
  • Allison shares how she has implemented Maybe in her own life
  • Allowing others to show up in our lives as the best versions of themselves
  • Perspective and taking a second look at our own views
  • Allison’s Uphill Challenge in getting her book published
  • Allison’s optimism about family, the world and all the unknown possibilities

Connect with Allison: 

Resources: 

INTRO AND OUTRO MUSIC (Used by permission):
Dreams Groove (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Straight Drive (© 2017 Tim Pecoraro)
Uphill Conversations is an Uphill Strategies, LLC production
© 2017 Uphill Conversations

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