Success Principles & Mindset Topics

Brandon T. Adams joins Karen Rands on The Compassionate Capitalist Show to discuss the meaning of success, overcoming setbacks, and the power of possibility when you use video to share your story and connect with your target audience. This episode is geared toward entrepreneurs and the mindset they need to persevere to reach the culmination of huge success. Hear how Brandon faced bankruptcy at one end of the spectrum to winning Emmy's and closing 7 figure deals at the other end, and the journey ...

There are many aspects of a business's ability to thrive that are predictable. Just as in life, businesses can be negatively impacted by things that can't be predicted and even preventive. There are legal documents like Buy-Sell Agreements, and insurance products like Key Man Insurance, and technology protocols like continuity and redundancy services. The 831(b) is little known tool that businesses can use to 'self-insure' with pre-tax dollars. Much like the 401(k) tax code allows an employ...

When business owners focus on the strengths of their employees, rather than their shortcomings, they will understand how to boost performance and profit. 'No one wakes up and says I want to be an average employee today (sic)', Brandon Miller during the show. When you empower employees to become peak performers, everyone wins, including the owners and investors in that company. Brandon Miller shares with Karen how he works with Executive Teams to find the strengths of the management and empl...

Neeti Dewan joins Karen Rands on the Compassionate Capitalist Show to talk about leadership impact on the financial bottom line of business. We are familiar with these 5 styles of leadership: Authoritarian | Participative | Delegative | Transactional | Transformational Neeti introduces the impact of Joyful Leadership on employee retention and productivity and developing your Power of Silence as an effective leadership tool. Neeti Dewan is an Author, Key Note Speaker, Global Finance & Tax Leader,...

Did you know? 44% of the American workforce makes less than $20 an hour and are living paycheck to paycheck. Much of that hourly wage employee sector is considered essential workforce to keep our economy humming, as evident in the pandemic triggered shut down and in the current supply chain crisis. For this Compassionate Capitalist Show, Karen Rands is joined by Sabina Bhatia, Chief Customer Officer at PayActiv, to talk about the impact 'financial insecurity and well being' of hourly wage worker...

Siena Dexter joins Karen Rands on The Compassionate Capitalist Show(tm) to talk about the data science of connecting with consumers to choose your brand, your product over a competitor. How do you create brand loyalty? How do you garner interest in a new product or brand so that your target consumer knows what the value is in just 3 seconds? Siena calls it the 3 Second Decision. Listen and learn how the BIGGEST names in Consumer Packaged Goods use behavioral economics to trigger the consum...

Karl Maier, Founder of Abunden, joins Karen Rands to talk about how his Abunden Management Toolkit system helps his clients double their sales. Karen jokes at the start of this show -- that this info is the INSIDE Secret business owners and investors are looking for to actually 20x their sales so they can sell their company and exit for big returns on investment for both the founders and all the investors. The joke is that it isn't a secret at all. People + Processes = Profit. Watch and Listen...

In support and celebration of International Women's Day, and recognizing March as Women's History month, we celebrate all that it means to be a woman. In honor of all that women have achieved and all that is yet to achieve, including real equality- in mind, body, and bank account, we looked into the Compassionate Capitalist Show Vault and rediscover this memorable interview with famed 'Sexy Boss' Heather Havenwood. Karen and Heather have a lively chat about these 4 core topics: Take Total Own...

Angela Lee started 37 Angels to educate women about investing in entrepreneurs to create wealth as compassionate capitalists. 37 Angels is a community of women investors committed to funding early stage start-ups. Every 2 months, they bring amazing entrepreneurs to pitch to their angel investor network, filtered from 400 startups they see every cycle. Karen dusted off this interview from 2020 to showcase the amazing economic power and impact Angela Lee has generated with her thoughtful and inf...

Think It, Be It Founder, John Mitchell, joins Karen Rands on The Compassionate Capitalist Show to share the Science of Success. Feeling stuck, John used tried and true, but often overlooked, methods to figure out his personal breakthrough to go from earning a few hundred thousand a year to growing his own business to $5M in Revenue, and a big windfall when he sold it at a $25M valuation. John discovered the disconnect between his efforts and the results that had been holding him back - the beli...

Fear is the biggest killer of momentum and a sneaky thing that lingers in the dark recesses of our hearts and minds to limit our subconscious belief that we can achieve what we have set out as our 'big thing' with the business we are starting or growing. Investors often can check all the right boxes when it comes to evaluating the potential of a business investment, with the one big variable that can't be predicted: "Does (Do) the Founder(s) have what it takes to LEAD the company to a profitable...