Elevate With Robert Glazer

Yanik Silver is the founder of Maverick1000, a private, invitation-only global network of top entrepreneurs and industry leaders. This group periodically assembles for breakthrough retreats, rejuvenating experiences, and impact opportunities (to-date raising over $3M+) with participating icons such as Sir Richard Branson, Tony Hawk, Chris Blackwell, John Paul DeJoria, Tony Hsieh, Russell Simmons, Tim Ferriss, and many others. Yanik serves on the Constellation board for Virgin Unite, the entrepreneurial foundation of the Virgin Group and Branson family. On this episode, Yanik talks about his lifetime goal of connecting and catalyzing visionary leaders and game changers to solve the world’s most impactful issues by the year 2100. Show Notes Yanik’s role in his family’s business and some important things he learned from that experience. The family event that Yanik created to teach his and others’ kids about business and what he has them do to learn about selling. How Yanik avoided having a “real” job most of

Jeff Haden’s first paid ghostwriting job was writing a press release for a startup. Since then he’s written about real estate, management, process improvement, finance and investing. He’s ghostwritten books on subjects as diverse as breastfeeding, hydroponics, horticulture and magic.  After an intriguing discussion with Metallica guitarist, Kirk Hammett, plus dozens of interviews with other incredibly successful people, Jeff decided to pull back the veil on what it really means to “get motivated” and reach goals. These insights led him to write and publish his own book The Motivation Myth. Jeff is also an avid cyclist (which he hated when he first started), ghostwrote a eulogy and writes an Inc. column that attracts over 20 million readers.   Show Notes How Jeff got started in ghostwriting and writing for Inc. How Jeff has grown his Inc. column readership to over 20 million. Jeff’s “white whale” that he wants to interview for an article. How Metallica guitarist, Kirk Hammett, sparked Jeff’s interest in th

Derek Coburn has dedicated his career to … the art of “un-networking” and breaking down the concepts and practices of “traditional networking” in both professional and personal settings. He began his career as a financial advisor and built a successful wealth management practice mainly by outworking everyone else. He began using non-traditional networking strategies to triple his revenue and improve the quality of his business and life. His passion for connecting remarkable professionals led he and his wife to start an “un-networking” community in Washington, DC called CADRE, which currently supports over 100 CEOs and business leaders. They created CADRE as a way for top-notch professionals to connect and develop meaningful relationships, efficiently and effectively, with the ultimate goal of working together to promote each other while adding value for their existing clients and network. Derek is also the author of #1 Amazon Best-Selling book Networking is NOT Working, as well as the CEO and co-founder of CA

David Burkus is the author of several books including Friend of a Friend: Understanding the Hidden Networks That Can Transform Your Life and Your Career. Friend of a Friend offers readers a new perspective on how to grow their networks and build key connections—one based on the science of human behavior, not rote networking advice. He is also the author of Under New Management and The Myths of Creativity. David is a regular contributor to Harvard Business Review and his work has been featured in Fast Company, the Financial Times, Inc magazine, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, and CBS This Morning. David’s innovative views on leadership have earned him invitations to speak to leaders from a variety of organizations. He’s delivered keynote speeches and workshops for Fortune 500 companies such as Microsoft, Google, and Stryker and governmental and military leaders at the U.S. Naval Academy and Naval Postgraduate School. His TED talk has been viewed over 1.8 million times. When he’s not speaking or writing, David is in th

The dynamic and driven AmyK Hutchens joins us on this episode of Elevate with Robert Glazer to discuss aligning brilliance, attributes of high-performing leaders, the secrets leaders keep and the troubling rise of “comparison condition.” At her core, AmyK is a teacher. Beginning her career teaching fifth grade, she eventually started teaching other teachers and entire organizations about how to teach critical thinking. She then took her love of teaching to the corporate world and became a sales trainer for a billion-dollar global consumer products company. AmyK now serves as the Founder and Intelligence Activist of AmyK International, Inc., an executive development firm focused on leadership development, healthy team cultures, sales and innovative thinking. Clients include AT&T, Expedia, Lockheed Martin, Securian Financial, IBM, Wells Fargo, Walmart, John Paul Mitchell Systems and hundreds more. She travels the world helping senior executives lead and collaborate more effectively. She’s also the author of the

Our guest on this episode of Elevate with Robert Glazer is Hal Elrod, best-selling author of one of the highest rated, best-selling books in the world, The Miracle Morning—which has been translated into 27 languages, has over 2,000 five-star Amazon reviews and is practiced daily by over 500,000 people in 70+ countries. In his books, blog post and speaking presentations, Hal talks from experience about the importance of a morning routine and its impact on not just your day, but your whole life. He is also an international keynote speaker and success coach. Show Notes Hal’s “humble beginnings” selling Cutco knives Why Hal hit rock bottom What Hal’s mornings looked like before implementing his SAVERS routine What happened in the first two months of Hal starting his own morning routines - even though he wasn’t a morning person What the morning routine SAVERS are and how Hal arrived at them How Hal’s wife helped him come up with the name Miracle Morning for his book Learn more about your ad choices. Visit

Our guest on this episode of Elevate with Robert Glazer is Eric Kapitulik, a well-known and well-respected leader, coach and teammate. He served in the United States Marine Corps as both an Infantry Officer and Special Operations Officer with 1st Force Reconnaissance Company, 1st Marine Division. As a Platoon Commander within his company, Eric led a team of 20 covert operations specialists on numerous Special Forces-related missions. After leaving active duty, Erik founded The Program in 2008 with the sole purpose of developing better leaders and creating more cohesive teams. As a leadership trainer and coach, Eric and his team work with most of the top college sports teams in the country and well as leading businesses. Show Notes Eric’s journey to starting The Program and getting it to where it is today Bob’s experience meeting Eric and his team for the first time at one of The Program’s leadership trainings How you prove how good of a team leader and teammate you are Why most parent’s definition of fail

Joey Coleman, our guest on this episode of Elevate with Robert Glazer, specializes in helping companies retain their customers with a unique and rewarding experience. Joey is the founder and Chief Experience Composer of Design Symphony and recently published his first book, Never Lose a Customer Again. His bestselling book explains how creating a good customer experience can generate an army of raving fans who will stay with you for years to come and spread the word about your company to other prospective customers. Show Notes How Joey came up with the name “Chief Experience Composer” for his title Where Joey’s idea for his First 100 Days program came from The realization Joey had that led him on a multi-year journey to look at customer retention and help companies improve their first 100 days with a customer Why the first 100 days are so critical to the long-term success of a company What customers are “dying for” from company reps they work with Something that Joey was expected to do while working in

Our guest on this episode of Elevate with Robert Glazer is bestselling author, Daniel Coyle. Daniel has looked inside some of the world’s highest performing groups, including U.S. Navy SEAL Team Six, Pixar and the San Antonio Spurs, and lays out what their success has in common in his newest book, The Culture Code. Daniel is also the New York Times bestselling author of The Talent Code, The Little Book of Talent and The Secret Race, a book he co-authored with former professional road bicycle racer, Tyler Hamilton. Coyle and Hamilton also won the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Prize in 2012. When he’s not churning out award-winning, best-selling books, he is a contributing editor for Outside Magazine and works as a special advisor to the Cleveland Indians. Show Notes Why Dan switched from wanting to become a doctor to pursuing a career as a writer A promise Dan made to the managing editor of Outside that he thinks helped land him his internship 20+ years ago How writing The Talent Code inspired Dan to

Kim Scott is the author of Radical Candor: Be a Kickass Boss Without Losing Your Humanity, a New York Times and Wall Street Journal Best Seller. She is also the co-founder of the company, Radical Candor, LLC. She joins this episode of Elevate with Robert Glazer to talk about how she created the concept of Radical Candor and how anybody can apply it. Kim has been an advisor at Dropbox, Kurbo, Qualtrics, ReelGoodApp, Rolltape, Shyp, Twitter, and several other Silicon Valley companies. She was a member of the faculty at Apple University and before that led AdSense, YouTube, and Doubleclick Online Sales and Operations at Google. Previously, Kim was the co-founder and CEO of Juice Software, a collaboration start-up, and led business development at Delta Three and Capital Thinking. Earlier in her career, Kim worked as a senior policy advisor at the FCC, managed a pediatric clinic in Kosovo, started a diamond cutting factory in Moscow, and was an analyst on the Soviet Companies Fund. Show Notes Kim’s introduction t

Bestselling author, Gretchen Rubin, joined us on this episode of Elevate with Robert Glazer to discuss risk taking, happiness, purposeful growth, our unique tendencies, and how to discover and use them to outperform. Gretchen is the author of several books, including #1 New York Times bestsellers The Happiness Project, Happier at Home, Better Than Before and The Four Tendencies. Her books have sold almost three million copies and been published in more than thirty languages. With her work, Rubin has emerged as one of the most thought-provoking and influential writers on habits and happiness. Gretchen and her sister, Elizabeth, also have their own podcast called Happier where they discuss good habits and happiness. A graduate of Yale and Yale Law School, Rubin started her career in law. She clerked for Judge Pierre Leval and was clerking for Justice Sandra Day O’Connor when she realized she really wanted to be a writer. Gretchen’s ah-ha moment for leaving her law career and becoming a writer Why people strug

Our guest on this episode of Elevate with Robert Glazer is Daniel H. Pink, author of six thought-provoking books, including his most recent, When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing, which rapidly made the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, Washington Post and Publishers Weekly bestseller lists. Dan’s other provocative books about business, work and behavior include the #1 New York Times bestsellers Drive and To Sell is Human and the long-running New York Times bestseller A Whole New Mind. His books have won multiple awards and have been translated into 37 languages. He is also one of the four curators behind The Next Big Idea Club, a book subscription community where he and fellow thought leaders Malcolm Gladwell, Adam Grant and Susan Cain handpick what they believe to be the most life-changing books of the season. Before venturing out as a bestselling author, Dan worked in several positions in politics and government, including serving from 1995 to 1997 as chief speechwriter to Vice Presi

On this episode of Elevate with Robert Glazer, Robert has a candid conversation with speaker and award-winning author, Jenny Evans about resiliency, stress, confidence and human performance. Listen in as they take a deep dive into how our brains work, how it’s impacted by stress and simple things we can do to quickly recover from stress while elevating our personal and professional performance. Show Notes Jenny’s journey to changing her body, brain and performance and how it led her to start her company, PowerHouse Performance Jenny’s definition of stress and resiliency Why we can’t reduce stress and what we should be focused on instead Why will-power and self-discipline are limited resources What a productive morning looks like and how it leads to a productive day Why long workouts really don’t produce better results Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Tucker Max has gone from best-selling author to publisher, and he knows better than anybody that how valuable books are to business now, even in the digital age. Tucker founded Book In A Box and served as CEO, but ultimately made the decision to step down as CEO for his own fulfillment and for the good of the company. On this episode of Elevate with Robert Glazer, Tucker joins to talk about why and how he and Zach Obront decided to start Book In A Box, what the traditional publishing industry is really like, why he decided to step down as CEO and what he’s discovered is his true passion. Show Notes The book that got Tucker Max on the New York Times bestseller list for the 4th time The inspiration behind why Tucker and Zach Obront started Book In A Box The difference between professional writers and people who own a company and want to author a book Why a book is so valuable to people who have a business What Tucker’s doing now that he’s stepped down as CEO of Book In A Box Learn more about your ad choi

Peter Atwater is a man who is fascinated by why people do what they do. His iterative and impressive path in the financial world eventually led him to studying confidence, specifically the role confidence plays in the choices that we make and the behavioral parallels that cross politics, social action and the markets – presently and historically. By looking at these these factors, Peter has been able to predict much of what’s going on in our society today – from business, financial, political and personal perspectives. In this Elevate with Robert Glazer episode, you’ll hear Robert and Peter discuss some very interesting topics, including why Peter looks at books, music, architecture and food when researching confidence-levels and how we’re experiencing a 1960’s-esque “rhyme” today. Tune in to this Elevate with Robert Glazer episode with Peter Atwater to learn: What happens in our minds when confidence falls What the “me-here-now” concept is, how it affects our decision-making and why companies need to under

How do we bring about positive change in others? In organizations, communities … in ourselves? These are the questions that Dr. Abdul-Malik Muhammad and his team at Akoben seek to answer. Dr. Muhammad, our guest on this episode of Elevate with Robert Glazer, is the founder of Akoben, an inspiring organization that provides trainings, consulting and keynotes with the goal of transforming individuals, organizations and communities and positively affecting change. Dr. Muhammad has served as a teacher, Principal, Campus President, and Executive and State Director of a multitude of national and international organizations, and has been a grassroots organizer, activist and advocate for marginalized youth for nearly 25 years. In addition to his work with Akoben, Dr. Muhammad currently serves as the Vice President of several educational, mental health, and human services operations across multiple states. It was an honor to have him on Elevate with Robert Glazer to discuss his formula for affecting positive change, w

Naveen Jain is a man who knows no limits. In addition to founding Viome, Naveen is the founder of Moon Express, World Innovation Institute, iNome, TalentWise, Intelius, and Infospace. He sees beyond the current business and technological landscape to create businesses that make a true impact. Naveen is the recipient of Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Silicon India’s “Most Admired Serial Entrepreneur,” and “Albert Einstein Technology Medal” for his pioneering in technology. Red Herring also recognized him as one of the “Top 20 Serial Entrepreneurs” and with their “Lifetime Achievement Award.” Naveen graciously accepted our invite to join us on Elevate with Robert Glazer to discuss how performance is linked to health and share his insights about how we have the ability to take make things like chronic illness truly a matter of choice. Naveen’s journey to entrepreneurship Why and how our healthcare system is falling apart What every chronic illness has in common Why there’s no such thing as a uni

From growing up with a tribe of Mayan Indians in a remote village in Guatemala to becoming an author of five books, high performance motorcycle racer and TEDx speaker, David Baker’s vast and varied background is one of the things that makes him a sought-after business and marketing consultant. In this episode of Elevate with Robert Glazer, Robert talks with David about his fascinating background and some key insights from his newest book, The Business of Expertise: How Entrepreneurial Experts Convert Insight to Impact + Wealth. Why it’s so important to specialize or be an expert in business today About the most common mistakes David see’s professional service firms making Examples of companies that are nailing the concept of identifying their expertise What parallels David sees between advising entrepreneurs and high- performance motorcycle racing Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

John Ruhlin might be the best gift giver in the world. As founder of gifting and logistics company, The Ruhlin Group, and author of Giftology, John knows a thing or two about why gifting matters and how, when it’s done right, it’s one of the most effective ways to get more referrals, get a meeting with almost any decision-maker, increase client and employee retention, and win the hearts and minds of influencers and partners.  In this episode of the podcast, Robert Glazer talks with John about all these benefits of gifting as well as common gifting gaffes. How John got to be one of the top sellers of Cutco knives Why John sent a partner prospect 18 gifts over 18 months Common misunderstandings and mishaps around gifting How to spend a $1 and get $100 of impact One of the best gifts John’s ever been given To hear more episodes of Elevate with Robert Glazer, visit robertglazer.com/podcast/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

On the first episode of the Elevate with Robert Glazer podcast, host Robert Glazer (former host of the Outperform podcast) welcomes you to his new podcast, Elevate, and explains what you can expect when you listen to future installments.  Whether you are wanting to build better habits, trying to push yourself to a new level or looking to learn tips from people who share your passion for improvement, Elevate with Robert Glazer will help you make actionable changes in your life and start reaping the benefits today. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices