CEO DOUG CONANT ON YOUR LEADERSHIP BLUEPRINT

Doug Conant played division 1 collegiate tennis at Northwestern before serving in the corner office as President at Nabisco, President and CEO at the Campbell Soup Company, and Chairman at Avon Products. Today, Doug serves as founder and CEO at ConantLeadership, a mission-driven community of leaders and learners who are championing leadership that works in the 21st century. To learn more, visit https://conantleadership.com.

In this episode of Down 40 Love, former Campbell Soup CEO Doug Conant shares leadership insights from his life story and bestselling book, “The Blueprint: 6 Practical Steps to Lift Your Leadership to New Heights.”

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In this episode of Down 40 Love, private equity expert and Professional EOS Implementer Alex Hodgkin discusses what it takes for leaders in any industry to build a growth mindset, develop resilience, and achieve big goals.

Some key highlights and takeaways:

• "Business athletes characterize themselves as learn-it-alls, not know-it-alls."
• Great leaders practice framing and look at all situations as opportunities for growth.
• A few challenges entrepreneurs face include stress management and time allocation.
• You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. (Tim Ferriss)
• Leadership is the ability to cast vision, find the right people, and align them in the right direction.

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René Vidal

Speaking Inquiries: rvidal@niu.edu or rene@renevidal.com.

Nadene Cherry is a corporate meditation leader and mindfulness speaker. When Nadene’s technology sales business doubled in 2008, one year after practicing meditation, she knew it was time to share this practice with the greater business community.

As the positive impact spread, more companies like Cisco, Salesforce, and Accenture asked Nadene to host workshops and work with their teams.

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Nadene’s Highlight Reel:

• “I gave meditation a try because I was so lost. I wanted to feel more present in my life. I wanted to feel like I was occupying and taking agency over my thoughts and my experience.”
• “My sales at work doubles the same exact year that I started practicing meditation. I went on to win the top President Achievement Award four times at my company out of thousands of sellers.”
• “When I started meditating with a group, it completely changed the experience. You feel a shared connection and support amongst the group.”
• “Your inner peace, top performance, and most authentic self is on the other side of becoming still and taking a pause.”

Nadene's Key Points:

1. Mindfulness is living and knowing that you’re living—it’s awareness.

2. You can incorporate mindfulness anytime, anywhere.

3. When we practice meditation, we’re able to observe our thoughts without becoming them.

4. Being mindful can create stronger resilience. We’re not held back by our limiting beliefs. We don’t believe all of our thoughts.

5. When you meditate, you reconnect with your most authentic self.

6. When you’re authentic at work, you attract people, opportunities, and business.

7. People want to be around real people.

8. Group meditation brings out the authentic gifts of people and gets different parts of the organization talking to each other as human beings.

9. Compassion is our ability to be with our feelings of inadequacy in way that cultivates patience and understanding.

10. If you live life with a tight grip, you’re attached. If you live life with a loose grip and you’re not as attached, you can still have the vision.

Nadene’s Mindfulness Exercise:

Rate on a scale of 1 to 10 your level of calm multiple times throughout the day. What number are you at this moment?

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Connect with Guest Nadene Cherry: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nadenecherry/

Connect with Host René Vidal: https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachvidal/ https://www.instagram.com/down40love/

Shep Hyken is a customer service and experience speaker and is an international leading authority on customer service, customer experience and loyalty in business.

Shep is also a New York Times and Wall Street Journal bestselling author who has been inducted into the National Speakers Association Hall of Fame.

In S3 E1 of Down 40 Love, Shep shows us how to take the curve balls of life and transform them into amazing grand slams!

Quick Take-Aways:

1. Customer Experience is a Philosophy

2. Create a Better Show

3. Generate Repeat, Referral Business

4. Ask the Extra Question

5. Treat Every Point by Itself

6. Expand Within Your Lane

7. Look for Ways to Get Better

8. Leave an Amazing Legacy

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In this episode of Down 40 Love, Paul shares his fundamentals of master communication and tips for next-generation leaders who want to impact people’s lives.

COACH TORRICELLI'S WINNING PHILOSOPHY (Short Version)

1. Be Proactive

2. Be Yourself

3. Build Individual Relationships

4. Get Your Assistant a Job

5. Put Your Own Brand on It

6: Apply Less is More

7. Set Clear Expectations

8. Go Make a Story

9. Overcome the Hurdles

10. Maintain Your Perspective

11. Be Single-Minded in Your Career

12. Pay Your Dues to Advance

13. Create Relational Legacy

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Connect with Guest Paul Torricelli:

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In this episode of Down 40 Love, sports marketing expert John Butler shares his winning strategies for creating a culture of exponential growth.

John Butler's 4 Master Keys to Unlock Growth:

1. Be innovative.
2. Stay on your toes.
3. Don't forget the twists and turns.
4. Never stop learning.

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Connect with Guest John Butler: https://www.linkedin.com/in/johnrbutler2/

Connect with Host René Vidal:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachvidal/ https://www.instagram.com/down40love/

In this episode of Down 40 Love, University of Florida Head Men's Tennis Coach Adam Steinberg shares his secrets to building champions in sports and in life.

Coach Steinberg's 10 Keys to Building Champions:

1. Give a thousand percent.
2. Learn from good mentors.
3. Understand that everyone's different.
4. Listen to empower ownership.
5. Love what you do.
6. Create work-life balance.
7. Fight back in adversity.
8. Overcome tough times together.
9. Have strong purpose.
10. Help the next generation. --Connect with Guest Adam Steinberg: https://floridagators.com/sports/mens-tennis Connect with Host René Vidal:https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachvidal/ https://www.instagram.com/down40love/

Andy Brandi is by far one of the greatest minds in the history of tennis with a track record of coaching success that is undeniable.

It was an honor to sit down with my favorite mentor (we worked together for three years at Evert Tennis Academy) to discuss the fundamentals of success in sports, business, and life.

3 Fundamentals of Success:

#1: Have Good Mentors

“I’ve been very fortunate to have good mentors. I took what I felt was most important that they had to offer and implemented it into how I operate. Welby Van Horn, an incredible technician and terrific coach guided me as a youngster in Puerto Rico believed in you doing more on your own than being led by the hand. I learned to be independent in the game of tennis.”

#2: Either You Do or You Don’t

“My father used to say to me, ‘You either you do or you don’t.’ If you say you’re improving, it’s getting better, that’s just a polite way of saying no. You either do or you don’t. Of you do, it’s getting done—the other things are simply sugarcoating being on the side.”

#3: Train Like a Professional

“When I started coaching at Florida, I had the luxury of coming professional tennis. Practices individual work, and fitness were structured in a way that was comparable to professional tennis. We may have been the first program to institute massage therapy. Our players wanted to be pushed. Practices were tough. My message to the players was that practices will make matches seem like a piece of cake.”

Connect with Host René Vidal:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/coachvidal/ https://www.instagram.com/down40love/