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Redefining Leadership with Adam Mendler

Episode Summary

Adam is an entrepreneur, speaker, and host of the 30-Minute Mentors podcast. He started the e-commerce companies Beverly Hills Chairs & Custom Tobacco, as well as the technology consultancy Veloz Solutions. He is also a speaker on business and has written on leadership, entrepreneurship, marketing and sales.

Episode Notes

Adam is an entrepreneur, speaker, and host of the 30-Minute Mentors podcast. He started the e-commerce companies Beverly Hills Chairs & Custom Tobacco, as well as the technology consultancy Veloz Solutions. He is also a speaker on business and has written on leadership, entrepreneurship, marketing and sales.

Favorite Quotes: 

“Everyone has the capacity to be a leader in their life.”

“To most effectively lead others, you need to first be able to lead yourself.”

Takeaways:

• A good way to stay productive is to take breaks and schedule them in
• Entrepreneurship begins with a desire to help others and make an impact
• Finding meaning in your work is a personal choice
• Lead others and help leaders by shifting your perspective, whichever generation you belong to

What you’ll learn:

• How to create balance in your work schedule
• What Adam did after burning through his savings bootstrapping a business
• How to start seeing yourself as a leader even if you don’t run your own company
• The perspective it takes to work with others effectively

Mentioned on the podcast: 

• Beverly Hills Chairs
• The Veloz Group
• Thirty Minute Mentors
• The Best and the Brightest - David Halberstam

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