Better Business, Better Life

Better Business Better Life is about one simple idea: a better business should help you create a better life.Are you doing work you genuinely enjoy, with people you respect, making a meaningful difference, being rewarded appropriately & still having time for the people, experiences & passions that matter outside work?Too many business owners build businesses that eventually begin to control their lives rather than support them.As Carefrontational Changemakers, Debra & Adam are passionate about helping business owners & leaders have the conversations, make the changes & build the structur

Better Business, Better Life is a business podcast hosted by Unknown Host, with 325 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Unknown Host hosts Better Business, Better Life, a business show with 325 episodes published.

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  Better Business, Better Life

  Hiring Hack: Finding A–Players with Rick Girard

  Oct 3, 202635 min

  Rick Girard is the CEO of Stride Search & Intertru. in this episode, Rick shares his passion about helping founders win-win the strongest hires to fuel unprecedented company growth. Learn also how to eliminate bad hires by building value - interview process that produces concrete evidence to support each and every hiring decision. Podcast guest Rick Girard CEO of Stride Search & Intertru: "I help entrepreneurs eliminate bad hires by building value-driven interview process that produces concrete evidence to support each and every hiring decision. Healing Career Wounds available: https://amzn.to/3tGbtre Extremely passionate about helping founders win-win the strongest hires to fuel unprecedented company growth! Created the Hiring Operating System, HireOS®. The solution for leaders to win-win the strongest people by blowing up "best practices" with a humanistic, evidence driven, non-biased and time efficient experience. Author of "Healing Career Wounds" (May 2021) & Radio/podcast host of Hire Power Radio Strong social media presence, podcast audience, public speaking, and mad street cred When not running a school for Gifted Mutants as Professor X, I host the Hire Power Radio Show & Podcast, a weekly series on LinkedIn Live, which serves as a business leader’s resource to solve their most difficult hiring challenges. I compete in Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu and have an affinity for any adrenaline-pumping activity such as surfing, snowboarding, rock climbing and running with scissors." HOST'S DETAILS: ___________________________________________ ► Debra Chantry-Taylor is a Professional EOS Implementer | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner ► See how she can help you: https://businessaction.com.au/ ____________________________________________ GUESTS DETAILS: ____________________________________________ ►LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rick-girard-07722/ ►Email: Rick@stridesearch.com

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  Episode #291

  Megan Piper: How a $3M Business Grew to $52M with EOS

  Sep 28, 202644 min

  In this episode of Better Business, Better Life, Debra Chantry-Taylor is joined by Megan Piper to explore how EOS® helped transform a technology business From $3M to $52M, while creating greater clarity, accountability, and trust across the leadership team. Megan shares her journey from an unhappy French teacher to becoming an Integrator and fractional CFO, playing a key role in helping a technology business grow from $3 million to $52 million. Her experience demonstrates how the right operating system can bring structure and consistency to a rapidly growing organisation without creating unnecessary rigidity. Throughout the conversation, Megan and Debra explore how EOS creates a common language for leadership teams, helping them move away from ad hoc follow-up and towards consistent quarterly execution. Rather than being a fixed structure or piece of software, EOSprovides a framework that can be adapted to the needs of each organisation. With distributed teams becoming increasingly common, Megan and Debra also discuss the importance of intentional communication and how virtual environments can sometimes reduce hierarchy and give more people an opportunity to participate. This episode offers an insightful look at what can happen when a growing business combines a clear operating system with strong leadership, accountability, and trust. From $3M to $52M is not simply a story about revenue growth, but about the people, systems, and leadership practices that helped make that growth possible. CONNECT WITH DEBRA: ___________________________________________ ►Debra Chantry-Taylor is a Certified EOS Implementer® | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner ►Connect with Debra: debra.chantry-taylor@eosworldwide.com ►EOS Worldwide Website: Debra Chantry-Taylor | EOS Implementer | EOS Worldwide ___________________________________________ GUEST’S DETAILS: ► Megan Piper – LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/meganpiper/ ► Website – EOS® Implementer – https://implementer.EOS®worldwide.com/megan-piper/ Ep 291 Chapters: 00:00 – Introduction 00:36 – Megan Piper’s Professional Journey 03:39 – Defining Business Operating Systems 14:22 – Lessons from Scaling and Challenges 17:07 – The Visionary and Integrator Dynamic 21:59 – Key EOS Tools and Implementation 22:52 – Communication and Team Dynamics

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  Episode #290

  Keith Greer: Stop Trying to Be Right and Start Getting Curious

  Sep 21, 20261h 3m

  In this episode of Better Business, Better Life, Debra Chantry-Taylor is joined by Keith, an executive coach and leadership development specialist, to explore how to stop trying to be right and start getting curious in our relationships, teams & organisations. Keith shares insights from his background in clinical social work, family therapy, executive coaching & Conversational Intelligence, explaining how quickly our brains begin assessing whether an interaction feels safe or threatening. He explores how much of that assessment happens through non-verbal communication, including tone, body language, eye contact, attention & listening behaviours. The conversation dives into why trust can be built through authentic curiosity & genuine listening, and how easily it can be damaged when leaders interrupt, become distracted, make assumptions or enter conversations already convinced they know the answer. Keith encourages leaders to become more aware of the signals they are sending and to take responsibility for their own contribution to a relationship. Debra & Keith also explore what happens when trust has already been damaged. Rebuilding it requires courage, empathy & a willingness to acknowledge that a relationship has become difficult. Rather than allowing negative assumptions to grow, leaders can create space to discuss what each person needs & make the invisible dynamics visible. This episode is a valuable listen for leaders, entrepreneurs & family business owners who want to understand how everyday conversations can either build or break trust, and how becoming more intentional about communication can transform the way people work together. CONNECT WITH DEBRA: ___________________________________________ ►Debra Chantry-Taylor is a Certified EOS Implementer® | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner ►Connect with Debra: debra@businessaction.com.au ►See how she can help you: https://businessaction.co.nz/ ►Claim Your Free E-Book: https://www.businessaction.co.nz/free-e-book/ ___________________________________________ GUEST’S DETAILS: ► Keith Greer – LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/keith-greer-l-c-s-w-p-c-c-81256a130/ ► Website – Keith Greer Coaching – https://www.keithgreercoaching.com/ Ep 290 Chapters: 00:00 – Introduction 00:36 – Keith Grier’s Professional Journey 06:35 – The Science of Conversational Intelligence 12:52 – Building Trust Through Communication 17:18 – Navigating Difficult Conversations 21:27 – Dynamics in Family Businesses 32:47 – Implementing Trust and Safety Agreements 54:17 – Managing Personalities and Styles 54:57 – Key Takeaways for Effective Leadership

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  Episode #289

  Debra Chantry-Taylor: The Scorecard Mistakes That Keep Leaders Flying Blind

  Sep 14, 202639 min

  In this episode of Better Business, Better Life, Debra Chantry-Taylor explores why leaders flying blind can put an entire business at risk, and how the right data can give leadership teams the visibility they need to make better decisions. Debra explains why businesses rarely fail without warning. Before major problems appear, there are usually subtle signals hiding in the numbers, from declining sales and increasing debtor days to changes in customer behaviour and operational performance. The challenge is knowing which numbers actually matter and using them early enough to do something about them. A key focus of the episode is the difference between leading and lagging indicators. Revenue, profit & customer loss tell you what has already happened, while measures such as sales calls, proposals sent & other activity-based indicators can provide an early warning of what is likely to happen next. Debra explains how leaders can reverse engineer their desired outcomes to identify the activities that will influence future results. Debra also explores why a Scorecard should work like a car dashboard. It does not need to tell you exactly what has gone wrong, but it should alert you to where you need to look before a small issue becomes a major problem. Keeping the leadership Scorecard to five to fifteen critical numbers makes it easier to spot trends without overwhelming the team with unnecessary data. Ultimately, this episode is about replacing hope & hindsight with visibility and action. A strong Scorecard gives leaders the information they need to spot problems early, investigate what is really happening & make course corrections before issues become catastrophic. If your leadership team is making decisions based on gut feel, outdated financial reports or numbers that tell you what happened rather than what is coming next, this episode will help you build a Scorecard that keeps you from flying blind. CONNECT WITH DEBRA: ___________________________________________ ►Debra Chantry-Taylor is a Certified EOS Implementer® | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner ►Connect with Debra: debra.chantry-taylor@eosworldwide.com ►EOS Worldwide Website: Debra Chantry-Taylor | EOS Implementer | EOS Worldwide Ep 289 Chapters: 00:00 – Introduction 00:47 – The Purpose of Data 07:58 – Leading and Lagging Indicators 13:40 – The Pitfalls of Bad Data 18:03 – Managing People with Numbers 23:25 – Common Scorecard Mistakes 27:00 – Building an Effective Scorecard

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  Mastering The Art of Communication with Brenden Kumarasamy

  Sep 12, 202640 min

  Brenden is the founder of MasterTalk, a coaching business he started to help ambitious executives & business owners become TOP 1% communicators in their industries so that they can accelerate their success in the workplace & companies. He also hosts a successful YouTube channel by the same name with over 11,000 subscribers. He has coached many executives from companies like Salesforce, Amazon, IBM, Morgan Stanley, Blue Cross, J. Walter Thompson, Deloitte, Verizon and the list goes on." HOST'S DETAILS: ___________________________________________ ► Debra Chantry-Taylor is a Professional EOS Implementer | Entrepreneurial Leadership & Business Coach | Business Owner ►See how she can help you: https://www.businessaction.com.au/ ____________________________________________ GUESTS DETAILS: ____________________________________________ ►Website: https://www.rockstarcommunicator.com/

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