What do you wish you knew when you first got started?

We spend way too much wondering how things could have been different, but we also don’t spend nearly enough time learning from people ahead of us to make sure we don’t repeat the same mistakes.

Our guest today Jeff decided to write a book titled When: Things I Wish I Knew When I Was STARTING OUT, STARTING OVER, and Trying To GET AHEAD. 

Jeff has spent the last 38 years traveling a journey of success, failure, the highest of highs and the lowest of lows. A journey that started with a desire to be a teacher that was put on hold by a new desire to become a leader of a company.

Now after a successful career as a senior executive for companies like Michaels, Fossil and Haggar,  Jeff has come back to where his journey started.  The desire to teach and mentor.  He wants to help individuals and companies reach their full potential. His passions are two-fold. 

First, is to help individuals realize how to get the most out of themselves.  To help assist them with getting rid of all the anchors of doubt that weigh people down and stop them from finding their true passion.  He wants you to find fulfillment in your life and career.  His belief is not just to dream the impossible but actually do it.

Second, Jeff’s corporate experience can still prove invaluable for any company that is looking to make a change or trying to figure out how to get out of troubled waters.

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Topics Covered:

• Having the courage to leave home and start fresh
• Balancing family time and career
• Creating an epic connection with your kids
• You don’t have to have everything to be an intentional father

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This is the question that our guest today Jordan Montgomery opens up with as he shares the story of where he went from having everything to having nothing.   

 Jordan Montgomery, the owner of Montgomery Companies, is a highly regarded performance coach and keynote speaker whose clients include business executives, sales organizations, and entrepreneurs. 

Jordan travels to speak and coach executives at Fortune 500 companies, professional athletes, and salespeople from small-town Iowa to a dominant force in the performance coaching industry. 

In addition to his work speaking and coaching, Jordan is an accomplished business leader who has managed top-performing sales teams in the financial services industry. 

Jordan resides in Tiffin, Iowa, with his wife Ashley, and his three daughters, Audrey, Claire, & Olivia. When he is not writing, coaching, or speaking, Jordan spends time with his family and enjoys the outdoors. He is a lover of sports and all things Iowa Hawkeyes! 

 And today, he opens up his story for us to learn the hard lessons he has to walk through.   

Topics Covered:

• When dreams don’t align with your values  
• Rebooting your life from the ground up 
• Learning to lead oneself while looking in the mirror 
• Helping your kids understand whom God made them be 
• Doing the Bible in a year program with your kids 
• Why learning to process your thinking out loud is important 
• How physiology affects the psychology 

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How are you making your big life decisions?

How often are we just running towards the next outcome in life.  I find it often when I look back in my life that I didn’t slow down enough before making a big decision in my life.  Today I am talking with Jim Crider and he has a great story of having setting himself up right and spending the time to know where he wants to go. 

Jim Crider is a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER™ and the CEO of Intentional Living FP. Jim tells every client he works with that his job is to help them live the life they want to live. He understands that money is simply a tool, a resource that is there to help his clients live their dream lives. His role is to guide, to live where his clients’ lives and money intersect, and to help his clients make intentional decisions. Through thousands of hours of study, tens of thousands of conversations with clients, and countless financial and life goals planned for, Jim and the team at Intentional Living FP know and anticipate the planning opportunities their clients will face, and they serve as a guide to their clients as they navigate the inevitable decisions to be made. When he isn’t helping people make financial decisions that will help them spend time doing the things they enjoy with the people they love, Jim is busy being a husband, an outdoor adventurer, and a dad to 3 boys under the age of four!

Topics Covered:

• Getting out of that place you just don’t feel life is working
• Why not me mindset
• Understanding money goals
• Working through money stories in our life
• The lie that more money will make us less stressed
• Working through the fearless nature of kids every day
• Breaking the rules when designing your life

Episode Sponsor: Center for Neuroscience and Regenerative Medicine (CNRM)

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