Growing Smart: The Stronghold Podcast

Get in, get out, start implementing. Growing Smart is not your ordinary podcast. Fast, raw and impact driven, this podcast for entrepreneurs and professionals offers practical tools, creative solutions and tasteful opinions on small business life with an aim to to help you actually implement what is discussed on every show. Consider it a farm to table "exactly-how-to" business guide.

Training Grants and Facebook Leads w/ Kristin Pelletier

Today Thom is joined by long his long time friend and client Kristin Pelletier, owner of Access Computer Training, to discuss how Facebook leads grew her business and how training grants can grow yours.

07-30
16:54

Real Estate Champ Joe Bennett Joins Us... Plus - Emailing for Dollars!

Thom is joined by Real Estate champ Joe Bennett who discussed how we went from brand new in the biz to 5 transactions a month within 6 months! Plus, does email marketing still work?

07-29
22:28

When Goal Setting Hurts - Growing Smart in the Age of Overwhelm

Thom discusses why goal setting often leaves us feeling overwhelmed and incapable of success and what to do about it.

07-23
09:57

Episode 46: What to do when you don’t feel like doing anything

Thom walks you through three critical life hacks for when you just don’t feel like it.

03-10
16:58

Episode 45: The benefit and method of creating meaningful relationships

Thom walks you through exactly how and why to have significant and meaningful relationships with almost everyone you meet!

03-03
28:09

Episode 44: Dealing with daily stresses and pressures

Thom walks through an exercise to help you deal with external and internal stress and pressures. He also adds his own personal way of handling stress.

02-28
35:02

Episode 43: Sorting things out and getting clear direction

In this episode Thom walks through some ways he sorts through finding direction, especially when not feeling purpose or meaning in your work. He uses his own wrestling with direction as an example and encouragement.

02-18
26:18

Episode 42: Ambition, contentment and joy

Thom explores the rare jewel of contentment, how ambition affects us (good and bad) and shares some helpful coaching advice for us all.

02-15
31:32

Episode 41: Changing our intakes & appetites

In this brief episode, Thom encourages us to be very careful about what we feed our minds, bodies and souls.

01-16
09:25

Episode 40: How Can I Sleep Less & Work More?

Thom discusses sleep and how we should consider it as it relates to productivity.

01-14
22:39

Episode 39: Plan your next break NOW

Thom gives a key New Year’s tip.

01-08
06:56

Episode 38: Three tips for greater joy in 2020

Thom shares some important tips for ensuring your New Year’s ambitions are healthy and full of integrity.

12-31
15:20

Episode 37: How to be appropriately direct with your prospects

Thom gives you the straight talk on how you can be more direct with your prospects and customers without being a jerk.

12-17
12:02

Episode 36: How to communicate with anyone, especially if they are different from you

Thom has been a leading provider of DISC communication training for years and he gives us the down and dirty on how to implement these tools on today’s episode.

12-12
14:30

Episode 35: You might be doing the wrong good thing to grow your business

Thom explains that just because something can grow your business predictably doesn’t mean it’s the thing you should be doing. There are seasons and different levels of scale that we must consider. Don’t miss this episode so you can learn if you’re doing the right thing and what to do about it if you’re not.

12-11
18:50

Episode 34: What to do when work drunk

Thom discusses making decisions when burnt out and overwhelmed.

12-10
10:09

Episode 33: Keeping focus during overwhelm

Thom gives 3 keys to keep focus on your strategy while experiencing overwhelm.

12-09
21:08

Episode 32: Aggressive selling doesn’t work. Do this instead.

Thom describes the right way to approach sales in our modern day.

12-06
18:16

Episode 31: Your personal dashboard and success blueprint

Thom describes how to have a meeting with yourself every single month and ensure you’re predictable success through your goals, blueprint and personal dashboard.

12-05
15:26

Episode 30: Three mistakes I’ve made that you should avoid

Thom describes 3 critical errors he has made as an entrepreneur and how you can avoid them.

12-04
20:25

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