The Chris LoCurto Show

Use the timestamps below to guide you better as a leader or individual:1. Leadership is more than just about success.- 0:002. Learn to lead yourself effectively. - 2:463. The king’s prayer.- 5:284. It’s wisdom to depend on god.- 7:415. Blocking out time to focus on your business. - 9:476. Develop your emotional intelligence.- 12:03

Use the time stamps below to get you to guide you better as a leader or individual Leadership is more than just about success. - 0:00 Learn to lead yourself effectively. - 2:46 The king’s prayer. - 5:28 It’s wisdom to depend on god. - 7:41 Blocking out time to focus on your business. - 9:47 Develop your emotional intelligence. - 12:03 The more you can empathise with people, the more you’ll succeed. - 14:37 You have to learn from your failures. - 16:38 Invest in yourself beyond leadership. - 19:21 You can make time for important things - 20:49

Use the time stamps below to get you to guide you better as a leader or individual Introduction to today’s topic. - 0:10 What Is Narcissism? - 2:32 Your world consists of just you. - 7:07 What happens to you when you pursue yourself? - 9:42 What we do and why we do it. - 14:28 Hustling is not your most important value. - 16:33 Self-sacrifice not self- pursuit is the way to a healthier. - 20:23 Spend less time on your phone. - 22:27 It’s not something that will just go away. - 25:46 Life is more than food and clothes. - 27:42

Use the time stamps below to get you to guide you better as a leader or individual Leadership is not for wimps. It’s tough. - 0:00 How do you deal with a disruptive team member? - 1:31 The problem with the leader's ability to lead. - 6:26 What is the underlying problem? - 8:55 Discussing the culture. - 14:30 You're choosing your consequence by choosing this consequence. - 19:05 How to deal with a controlling personality style? - 21:31 How to get out of control. - 26:11 How can you possibly tell me I shouldn’t have outbursts when I’m doing the right thing? - 27:55 Self-sabotage and the victim mentality. - 32:20

Use the time stamps below to get you to guide you better as a leader or individual How to stop gossip? - 0:00 A litmus test of gossip. - 8:30 How gossip weakens integrity. - 12:27 Gossip and the importance of gossip. - 17:49 Cultivating a culture of honesty, transparency, and truth without oppression. - 23:35 Why I’m not trusting. - 28:37 The difference between toxic culture and healthy culture. - 32:15 The gossip filter test. - 38:07

Why is it tough to trust again?- 2:53 The trust test.- 8:44 Self-assess yourself and your relationships.-13:51 It takes two people to trust.- 22:58 Self-sabotage and self-protection.- 33:59 How to build trust in the workplace.- 39:08

A lot of parents tend to avoid topics like money when teaching their kids. Some parents may have grown up in a household where talking about it was taboo, and that’s understandable. A lot of people struggle with finances, and so it’s natural to avoid it!Others may think that children are just too young to learn about investing, savings and spending, or maybe they believe the topic is too complicated to explain to young minds. Whatever the case, avoiding the topic does NOT set kids up for success in the long run, and it may actually be doing them more harm than good! So, where are we going with this?My point is, whether you choose to teach your kids about money or not, they will learn it from someone. And that brings us to our guest on the show today, Paige Cornetet. Paige grew up in a home that didn’t just explain “tough” concepts like money management to their children, they immersed them in it, as her latest book My Dad’s Class explains. The eldest of four, Paige is passionate about helping parents teach children imperative life skills and financial management techniques. She lives in Grand Rapids, Michigan, with her husband.We had a blast talking through her book and family dynamics, as well as discussing her tools designed for parents to introduce money topics to children, the Spend Then series.I hope you enjoy the conversation as much as we did, and I think you’ll definitely take something valuable away from it. Grace and peace,Chris

One of the topics we get asked to deal with the most on this show is along the lines of strength, courage, and resilience. And it’s not strange, when you really stop to think about it!Plenty of things in this life can zap our strength, steal our courage, and drain our resources.Chances are that if you’re reading this, you’d admit that you could use more resilience. These are tough times, and we’ve no promise that tomorrow will be a bed of roses either. So, what are we talking about exactly? Resilience is our capacity to withstand difficult times and to recover quickly; it’s that old school toughness. It’s also a focused tenacity.It’s about how you can stay strong, courageous, and determined during trying times. And, in this episode, we’ll get into three ways for you to replenish your resilience. Just like digging a well, there are depths you’ve got to get down. I’m talking about the inner depths where you’ll find the resources you need to bounce back after getting pushed around. Can you picture yourself responding to difficulties and challenges like that? What if you were the kind of person who refused to kick back on a life of ease, timidity, or lethargy. Instead of being fearful of what problems could be waiting for you around the corner, what if you ran to meet those things head on? The good news? You can!Enjoy today’s episode,Chris

This week, we’ll conclude our three part series called Cultivation. What are we cultivating? We’re cultivating leaders! And as we’ve seen, this is labor intensive, highly strategic, but also incredibly rewarding. In fact, leaders that we’ve seen get to this third phase of leadership are some of the happiest and most fulfilled that we know. Today, I want to share an inside secret as to why that is.Maybe you’ve finally got your team members being successful in their roles. Fantastic! And, you’ve been creating new leaders from those successful members… awesome!So, what’s next? Where’s all this going? Are we just making leaders in order to make leaders?Well, here are two “rules” of leadership that will help bring all of this into better focus.Rule #1: Good leaders create culture. This is part of a good leader's DNA, they create the culture of the business. They don’t allow culture to become whatever it wants to, they take careful action to get the culture they want.Rule #2: Culture creates the company.Why is culture so important? Because as the culture goes, so goes the company. Believe it or not, culture is one of the most valuable assets that your company has. Out of it can come really awesome, or really horrible things! Just like tending a garden, we’ve got to keep the weeds out!Let me spin all that around. You don’t like the company that you’ve got now? Then, change the culture. Don’t like the culture that you’ve got? Then we’re right back here … to leadership.That’s why we’re walking out this process in long form: 1) making others successful, then 2) developing new leaders, and finally 3) creating leadership teams from those new leaders.On today’s episode, we’ll find out what leadership teams have to do with the culture you want!Grace and peace,Chris

After 10 years of leading people through an in-depth, discovery process of themselves, our Next-Level Life event, I’ve discovered that a lot of people are hurting and discouraged.I’ve also found some great perspective that can help us to get unstuck and move forward!The problem is that it’s really easy to blame others, our circumstances, or past failures for not getting ahead in life. However, in most cases, it’s that we’re standing in our own way!That’s not an easy truth to swallow, but acknowledging that we are, at times, our own worst enemy is a step in the right direction. It helps us start addressing the wounds in our hearts.On today’s show, I’m joined once again by one of our team members, as we dive into how toxicity accumulates inside of us and weighs us down. But, what does it mean to be toxic?Toxins are basically poison. They kill or destroy health. It’s anti–life, health, and flourishing. Imagine a wound that we received in our mind, that gets infected and won’t go away. That wound has to be cleaned, disinfected, and mended, so it can heal. So that we can heal.As we shift our focus from what others may have “done to us” and onto “us”, we can more easily see the changes that need to be made. We can also make sure we’re not infecting others!This way, we can start living a better, healthier, and more authentic life.Enjoy today’s episode!Chris

Relationships, time, and money. These are probably the three greatest personal assets that you’ll ever have the privilege (and the responsibility) of managing. When we don’t steward these things well, we end up experiencing difficulty and pain in life. That’s why we talk so much about healthy relationships around here. We dig into topics like setting healthy boundaries, where we get our worth, and surface level responses.Why? These tools help us to reframe our relationships (with ourselves and others) in a healthier way. But, what about having a healthy relationship with your time and money? Without a healthy view of our resources, these blessings can become a curse. What we don’t steward well can actually start to control and manipulate us. We start to get our worth from these things, and our sense of value and significance gets twisted.If we don’t rightly relate to our assets, then they will absolutely enslave us. We start to believe lies. Conflict and control creeps in. We fail to put boundaries, and then we find ourselves at the mercy of these things … but there is hope.On today’s episode, I want to show you how God intends for each of us to be the master - and not the slave - of the resources that He entrusts us with.Grace and peace, Chris

Today we continue our series called Cultivation. And what are we cultivating? Leaders.If you didn’t catch part one, you’ll want to go back and listen to episode 504 on Making Others Successful. It’s one of our favorite things to talk about around here!Why? “Your job as a leader is to make your team successful, and not the other way around.”Let me highlight one of the main points that we hit last time, because you’ve got to get this before you can move forward and really start to grow the leaders around you… Your greatest challenge and your greatest success as a leader will be making others great. Making them successful. Building them into something more than they are now.Let me say it another way, you’re in the construction business … the business of building others up and making them successful in their role on your team.Now, let me give you three keys to know when you’re being a successful builder of other people.When someone you serve grows out of selfishness and serves the good of others, you are a successful builder.When someone you lead gains more responsibility, including a healthy respect from the team, you are a successful builder.When someone that you’ve inspired goes on to do more than they ever thought they were capable of, you are a successful builder.Today, we’ll dig into even more helpful content about developing the people around you.Enjoy today’s show, Chris

Taking people through an in depth, two-day, transformative process was something of a side-project early on in our company’s development. Fast forward ten years and over 500 events later, and it’s easy to see that the Next-Level Life coaching event has become an integral part of what we do. On the business side, we coach leaders on how to get unstuck, gain perspective, and stay out of the Crazy Cycle that has them focusing on tasks instead of people and the bigger picture. But, have you ever experienced similar struggles in your personal life? Here’s what I mean.Maybe you’ve felt blocked by your circumstances, a knee-jerk reaction to things, or even past choices that you made. I think we’ve all been there at some point in our lives.It can be hard to get out of those deep ruts on your own, without the tools, perspective, and support of others. That’s why we created this event, and even improved it over the years. On today’s episode, we’ll pull back the curtain on our process, the people that have come through, and the transformation that they’ve experienced, during and after their event.I’m joined again by our coaches in the studio, and together we’ll dig into this powerful event. Enjoy today’s show!Chris

Leaders frequently struggle in very specific and vital areas of their business. To make matters worse, they tend to lack actionable clarity and they can often feel alone in their roles.Maybe you’ve been here too, stuck in the Crazy Cycle and unable to scale. Teams often lack the quality communication necessary to thrive, and they unknowingly harbor toxic work cultures.After helping thousands of people take on challenges like these in their businesses, we’ve learned a few things about leaders and their teams that you’ll find both surprising and helpful.Uncovering the gaps that exist in your business, between knowledge and implementation, is key to seeing the change that you desire. I can tell you that it takes persistence and a new perspective to discover those gaps, and that’s where we come in.This month, we have the awesome privilege of celebrating TEN YEARS of making a difference in leaders’ lives, leading them to perspective, and helping them to take their businesses to the Next-Level!In this episode, I’m joined by our fabulous coaches Aaron West and Joel Fortner. Together, we’re going to walk you through the specialized areas of teaching, coaching, and training that we do, as well as share helpful takeaways that businesses and leaders need to know!Don’t miss this episode!Chris

So many people who wrestle with perfectionism never get to excellence. Is that you? Well, maybe you’d say, no Chris, I’m a failure not a perfectionist. It’s ironic, but failure is closer to excellence than you might think, and perfection is actually farther away!Excellence is one of our core values, and it’s the goal that we shoot for all the time. But, as much as we talk about it, we don’t hit the mark every single time. At times, we do fail.Which brings up this question, asked by one of our clients recently. And maybe you’re struggling with the same question: Is excellence the same as perfection?Well, they can be easy to confuse … especially when you don’t understand failure. Which brings us to our topic today. We want to distinguish excellence from perfection.And, that means that we need to define failure first. On today’s episode, we’ll dig into what separates perfection from excellence, and see where failure comes into the mix. If you’re a perfectionist, this episode is for you. If you feel like you’re a failure, this is for you. If you have a heart to do things with excellence, either in your personal life or in business… You guessed it, this episode is for you!Grace and peace,Chris