The Strategic Living Podcast with Brian Holmes

Have you ever considered that YOU have the capacity and potential to change the world or to make a substantive difference in people’s lives? What does it mean to be a difference-maker? What does it mean to affect your environment and culture? That's exactly what we're talking about in today's episode: Salt, Light, and Other Ways to Disrupt the Environment.

Welcome to our video blog and Monday Mastery Edition of our Strategic Leader Podcast with Brian Holmes! Each Monday, we provide a video & podcast audio segment designed to encourage, motivate, challenge, and develop you as a leader and influencer. You cannot give what you do not have. When you lack experience, your opinions don't carry weight. But when you take what you've been through, what you know from your own experience, and what you've spent your life doing, and share that with the rest of the world, you present tangible, worthwhile solutions that won't simply fix problems, but change the world! Listen in to find out more. Watch the video or download and listen to our audio file as well. Join us every Monday for a new Monday Mastery Edition of our Strategic Leader podcast, and every Thursday (beginning again in September) for a new in-depth episode. SUBSCRIBE TODAY for our weekly updates, and share these videos with your friends and associates by using the social media buttons below.

Have you ever considered YOU have the ability and potential to change the world or to make a substantive difference in people’s lives? What does it mean to be a difference-maker? What does it mean to affect your environment and culture? Today we're going to answer this question: What’s The Big Deal About Influence Anyway?

Welcome to our video blog and Monday Mastery Edition of our Strategic Leader Podcast with Brian Holmes! Each Monday, we provide a video & podcast audio segment designed to encourage, motivate, challenge, and develop you as a leader and influencer. I get asked nearly every week if people should take what they know and put it into book form. My answer to them is really another question: do you have a message to share? If the answer is "yes", then so is my answer! Write the book! Listen to today's episode to find out more about what writing a book can do, why you should consider it, and how to get started. Watch the video or download and listen to our audio file as well. Join us every Monday for a new Monday Mastery Edition of our Strategic Leader podcast, and every Thursday (beginning again in September) for a new in-depth episode. SUBSCRIBE TODAY for our weekly updates, and share these videos with your friends and associates by using the social media buttons below.

So much of what I do, teach, and communicate is built on a framework that I call The 4 Cornerstones for Strategic Living. Anytime you want to build something that stands the test of time, you must first engineer and construct a foundation worth of the thing you propose to build on it. So many people are pursuing their goals and dreams without having taken the time to inspect, or possibly re-engineer the foundation.

Welcome to our video blog and Monday Mastery Edition of our Strategic Leader Podcast with Brian Holmes! Each Monday, we provide a video & podcast audio segment designed to encourage, motivate, challenge, and develop you as a leader and influencer. We are, from the time we are very young, conditioned to blend in and fit in with the masses. Don't let yourself be discouraged from being unique and rising above the average and ordinary. You don't have to be like everyone else to be successful. Listen in to learn more. Watch the video or download and listen to our audio file as well. Join us every Monday for a new Monday Mastery Edition of our Strategic Leader podcast, and every Thursday (beginning again in September) for a new in-depth episode. SUBSCRIBE TODAY for our weekly updates, and share these videos with your friends and associates by using the social media buttons below.

Over the last several weeks we have been looking at the impact relationships have, and as we’ve seen, relationships matter! It's important we understand the season we're in, and where each relationship fits in with our progress and development. Here are a few questions to consider; What is life outside of relationships?  How do we classify or categorize our relationships? Do relationships change in seasons of our lives? How do we navigate relationships when conflict or tests come? Today, we’re going to be looking at these questions and talking about Relationships, Resources, and the Rhythm of Real Progress. 

Welcome to our video blog and Monday Mastery Edition of our Strategic Leader Podcast with Brian Holmes! Each Monday, we provide a video & podcast audio segment designed to encourage, motivate, challenge, and develop you as a leader and influencer. We all have our comfort zones and we all enjoy being comfortable. But what if our love for comfort is actually hindering us from the unlimited potential or possibilities, that could take us to our next level and beyond? Once we get too comfortable, we talk ourselves out of doing anything more. Listen in while I share why this is detrimental! Watch the video or download and listen to our audio file as well. Join us every Monday for a new Monday Mastery Edition of our Strategic Leader podcast, and every Thursday (beginning again in September) for a new in-depth episode. SUBSCRIBE TODAY for our weekly updates, and share these videos with your friends and associates by using the social media buttons below.

We’ve been talking for a few weeks now on relationships, doing life together, and the power of changing cultures. WHO you have around you matters: who you allow to speak into your life, who you work for or with, your friends and associates - they all matter. If you want to build a life of high impact and meaningful influence, you are going to need to make sure you are connecting with people who align. Today, I have Val Kleppen sitting in with us to talk about how these concepts and realities have shaped our business, her life, and now her own business endeavors as she launches out to make her mark. This is one you don’t want to miss!

Welcome to our video blog and Monday Mastery Edition of our Strategic Leader Podcast with Brian Holmes! Each Monday, we provide a video & podcast audio segment designed to encourage, motivate, challenge, and develop you as a leader and influencer. You have more control than you might realize. If you don't like your situations or relationships or circumstances, you can make a decision, follow with consistent action, and change whatever it is you're unhappy with. Don't believe me? Tune in to find out more. Watch the video or download and listen to our audio file as well. Join us every Monday for a new Monday Mastery Edition of our Strategic Leader podcast, and every Thursday (beginning again in September) for a new in-depth episode. SUBSCRIBE TODAY for our weekly updates, and share these videos with your friends and associates by using the social media buttons below.

Last week we discussed the lost art of “doing life together” and how it has fundamentally shifted our culture from being a relationally connected one to a culture of isolation and pseudo relationships. It seems that we have become a culture of self-absorption, rampant narcissism, and every-increasing aloneness. In the very beginning, God recognized it was not good for one person to “be alone”. Today, I want to continue our thought concerning relationships and connections. Specifically, I want to point out 4 Practices that ultimately turned the world upside down, and transformed generations to come.  

Welcome to our video blog and Monday Mastery Edition of our Strategic Leader Podcast with Brian Holmes! Each Monday, we provide a video & podcast audio segment designed to encourage, motivate, challenge, and develop you as a leader and influencer. Jim Rohn says you are the average of the five people you spend the most time with. Are you increasing your average value or is that value issuing a negative return? You need mentors, friends, influencers, who can come alongside you and help you grow from your current level to the next higher, better, more influential level in your life. Do you have those people yet? Listen in to find out more. Watch the video or download and listen to our audio file as well. Join us every Monday for a new Monday Mastery Edition of our Strategic Leader podcast, and every Thursday (beginning again in September) for a new in-depth episode. SUBSCRIBE TODAY for our weekly updates, and share these videos with your friends and associates by using the social media buttons below.

Our world is changing at a pace that is mind-bending at best, and in some cases, troubling. Gone are the days of knowing your neighbors, kids playing together in the streets, and families doing real life with one another. Even if you do sit down to eat together with a group, everyone is on their smart phones, engaging someone who is NOT present in the moment. We have lost something very sacred. If you are like me, you are hungry for change; longing for the days where life was shared, not segregated. We can change it!

Welcome to our video blog and Monday Mastery Edition of our Strategic Leader Podcast with Brian Holmes! Each Monday, we provide a video & podcast audio segment designed to encourage, motivate, challenge, and develop you as a leader and influencer. If you're unhappy with where you live or where you're working, or some other situation in your life, would you believe me if I said a new result existed on the other side of you making another choice? Different life circumstances come by us making different choices from what we've been making along the way. It's not as complicated as it sounds, but sometimes we overthink it. Tune in to find out what I mean. Watch the video or download and listen to our audio file as well. Join us every Monday for a new Monday Mastery Edition of our Strategic Leader podcast, and every Thursday (beginning again in September) for a new in-depth episode. SUBSCRIBE TODAY for our weekly updates, and share these videos with your friends and associates by using the social media buttons below.

Have you ever gone to a conference, a seminar, a workshop or training program expecting one thing, but came away with an even better experience than you expected? In my case, not only did I get exactly what I expected by way of the training I signed up for, but was fundamentally blown away by the culture, the mindset, the environment, and the level of excellence on display. I came away from my weekend with (at least) 5 things I really want to share with you today. These 5 things will set you or your business apart, hands down.