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This podcast is for people who have the courage to learn and to do what it takes to design the life of their dreams. Many people think success is something that just happens to you if you’re lucky or work hard enough. We believe that behind every success is a system in action. Join Lonnie Gienger and his family as they share real life stories and learnings from our journey to create specific processes that produce success in business and in life.
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How do you develop strong relationships that keep the family thriving for generations? David Bentall joins me today to bring some insight into just that with his years of multi-generational family business experience! For more than two decades, David worked in his family’s real estate and construction business, and during his tenure as President an…
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Learn how to build your family’s relational bank account as Tim and Michelle share how to create healthy boundaries between family members, how to create a cadence of communication in the extended family, and how to deal with failure both in your personal life and in business in a way that helps you and your kids see it as a growth opportunity. Thi…
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2020 was a crazy year that gave us unique opportunities for profound learnings that can only happen when life is disrupted. We all learned more about ourselves, our relationships, our purposes and our values. Join our family as we gather around the table to share some of our highest impact learnings from challenging circumstances, accomplishments a…
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This is a rare opportunity to sample the secrets of multigenerational families from the leader of a successful billion dollar a year 120-year-old family business with 341 family member shareholders. What Are the Traits of a Successful Multigenerational Generation Family? They know the family story. They know who they are. They are clear on their va…
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This is a golden opportunity to hear the author of, How to Make Your Family Business Last, Mitzi Perdue, distill a combined 280 years of her own family’s culture-building wisdom into one hour. You’ll gain real life lessons and gain practical tools you can use to create and maintain a healthier family culture that could endure for generations. Mitzi…
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The world has forever changed. It’s time to catch the current and make your own wave. What can you learn from the currency of success patterns from the past that will help you adapt to and succeed in a post-COVID-19 world? Learn how you can accelerate the innovation of a more ideal future—now and beyond the current challenges—by adapting past learn…
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Developing and preserving family wealth and strong values takes great effort. What can you do to make sure your next generations are building on what’s important to your family rather than blowing it? Why is the most common pattern “shirtsleeves to shirtsleeves in three generations”? Most families within one generation develop tangible and intangib…
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Never before have so many families struggled with incorporating what happens in business with what happens in the home. The pursuit of work-life integration has become more important now than ever. But what exactly, does that mean, and how do you do it? Business can be an endlessly fascinating subject that encourages the exchange of ideas and eager…
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Relationships are the greatest treasure in life that we could ever have. In this episode, you’ll learn how you can improve your relationship with your parents or adult children. The quality of the relationship you have with your family does matter. Having that best friend type of relationship with your adult children or parents is one that you’ll t…
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How Mothers Shape the World Both our married children recently had their first babies—two beautiful girls! As I’ve watched these new mothers learning to lead our precious granddaughters, it caused me to ponder the power of a mother’s leadership to shape our world. In our society, we don't always think of parents as being equivalent to "leaders." Le…
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The Busy Executive’s Magic Elixir Exercise is one of the greatest systems for increasing your effectiveness as a leader in business and/or family. Exercise is so powerfully beneficial in multiple ways that it can be said to be the mother lode, the fountain of youth—the magic elixir. Physical activity helps you in body and mind. It is clinically pro…
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What Will Your Family Look Like Seven Generations From Now? I was really on the hot seat. I felt like I was being interrogated! Almost a hundred people were staring at me as I stood under the bright lights. One after another they bombarded me with deeply personal questions like: "What is your deepest fear in regard to this?" and "What is behind tha…
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Time is precious in our high speed, high-pressure world. We want to achieve more for ourselves, our families, and maybe for our communities. In order to do so, we need time, and we need to look for ways to maximize that scarce modern commodity: time. We often try to beat time by spending less time resting. We eke out one more hour of watching a lat…
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With the start of another new year, many people find themselves making health goals, from fitness to diet, to sleep or earlier mornings. This fascination with health related New Year’s resolutions may be the result of two back to back holidays when most people eat too much, do too little and feel too bad. Or maybe we all have the inherent convictio…
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An inside look at what inspires us, what we are learning and how we’re planning to support each other's progress in this new year. This round table discussion takes place right after we did our 2019 annual family goal setting retreat. A Powerful Philosophy of Progress Research shows that 80% of people give up on their New Year's resolutions by abou…
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Realizing Dreams: Reality Show Round Table Our family is launching an experiment called Fulcrum, a business that we think will make a difference in our city. We thought we'd share a bit about it with you and most importantly give you an inside scoop into the process as we will be on a learning curve and we hope that this will encourage some of you …
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Hi Systems for Success Family! Well we just finished the 2018 midterm elections and it seemed there was more focus and more debate generated by these elections than any I remember in many years. And some of the conversations and debates around this have made me want to address something in this episode that I think is really important to the future…
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How to Examine and Take Control Your Life Most people begin their lives reacting to whatever life does to them. This may be okay for an infant. But as adults, it’s important to develop the skills required to examine our lives, cultivate our personal values and make decisions that reflect those values. Many people find themselves reverting back to t…
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I’m going to do a little rant today on a subject that impacts every single one of you every single day. The success of individuals, families, companies, and nations rises and falls on this subject. This subject is often not talked about much in the home…sometimes as hush hush or as embarrassingly glossed over in homes and schools as the birds and t…
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Turning personality conflicts into complements that create healthy relationships and positive outcomes is a powerful process that is within the reach of every person in every family and team. It starts with this basic belief system. The people who are in our family are there for a purpose. They are there to complete or balance us in some way. The p…
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What if you could have the one ring that rules them all? What if you could leverage the one force that influences everything in this world? Those of us who are leaders in the business world, have an incredible opportunity to make the world a better place…much more so than we typically think about or believe. Virtually everything we can see that is …
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Finding and keeping a passionate, lasting and fulfilling marriage relationship does not have to be an elusive dream. It can be your reality if you are willing to make finding and unconditionally loving your spouse the number one most important project. Listen as our daughter, Chelann, interviews Shelley and I about our marriage. She asks us key que…
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Business leaders build a better world on three levels. The first level is simply building a good business that provides value to people. Second, they go beyond basic business expectations to do things in and through their business that provide extra benefit for people and communities. On the third level, business leaders intentionally use their bus…
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Keys to Healthy Accountability Is it possible to hold people accountable in a way that is healthy for relationships? Why has accountability received such a bad rap? Why is it such an unpopular subject? Many people have had bad experiences with unhealthy accountability that feels more like control, judgement, manipulation and even punishment. It is …
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What if what you are doing in business right now is actually the most powerful platform you could possibly have to make this world a better place? Think about that! In what other world could you find a better opportunity to impact every element of society? Let me explain. I’ve spent the past thirty years straddling two very different worlds: the wo…
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Money is not important enough to let it control our life! So why not learn how to control our money so we gain more control of our life? But money is like water. It's a valuable resource necessary for life that can easily slip through our fingers. The key is to not let it slip through our fingers without our permission. In this round table discussi…
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What would it be worth to you and your family if you had a process that you knew could help you leave a harmonious world changing legacy for many generations? Your family legacy includes all that your family holds dear and wants to preserve in future generations. In this episode, you’ll hear the content from a presentation that I have been doing re…
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Relationships are the carrier of all success in life and in business. So why not plan and implement specific systems that will develop the relationships that are important to you? Why not be as intentional about the practices that develop healthy relationship as we are about the practices that develop healthy bodies or healthy businesses? Why do we…
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Our latest learnings about how to accomplish big dreams and goals by setting a plan of action, and following it. In this family round table discussion, you’ll learn what we’ve discovered about how reaching goals takes a systematic approach to planning & action. QUESTIONS DISCUSSED --Think of some big dream or goal you’ve had that felt so massive th…
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Your personal mission statement is about the contribution you want your life to make in this world. Values define who you want to be. Mission declares what you want to accomplish with your life. If you have listened to the last episode on values and taken action on it...you’ve taken some time to think about and hopefully write down your personal va…
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Clarity on your personal life mission is one of the most powerful things we can do to insure a life of real meaning and significance. Once you have defined your personal values you need to determine how your LIFE MISSION will represent those values. Your personal mission statement defines the impact you want your life to have on this world — the ov…
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Identifying and living by your core values has more to do with creating sustainable success in life than what most people realize. Here’s why: True and lasting success is based on who we are way more than on the goals we set or even the goals we accomplish. Sustainable success in all areas of business and life is based on who we are. Character is t…
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Stories about a backpacking adventure and what it takes to stay course toward accomplishing our dreams despite the inevitable and unknown obstacles and challenges that get in the way. The key in backpacking? Following a map! The key in life? Following a strategic plan. What’s that? Simply put, it’s a map to turn your dreams for your life into reali…
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An inside look at a powerful system for success that our family has been following now for about 15 years. It has helped us expand our vision and achieve dreams that are bigger than we ever thought we could. It’s a system for success that I’m pretty sure you won’t hear much about in many other places. But this has been a critical process for us ind…
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Create Your Game Plan for Success In this episode we’re talking about developing the game plans to create success in different areas of life. Most people would just rather play the game…or watch the game. That’s a lot more fun than creating the game plans. But winning the game starts with a good game plan and then playing to the plan. Creating the …
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How to Turn Your Grandest Visions for Your Life into Realities Why is it that some people just seem to get everything they want in life? Great relationships, plenty of money, great health and time to enjoy it all? And why is that other people who seem to work equally as hard or seem to be equally deserving constantly struggle with a life that is al…
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