CYLS 080: CEO TALKS - Let Go Of Your EGO To Be A Great CEO with Todd Wahnish & Eric Fondren

Summary: In this episode we talk about the dangers of having a E-G-O as a C-E-O, how to sustain the highs and lows of success and failure in your business and how to celebrate the journey overall. Insight from this episode:  In this episode we talk about the dangers of having a E-G-O as a C-E-O, how to sustain the highs and lows of success and failure in your business and how to celebrate the journey overall. Todd believes in working with friends and that relationships are valuable Never be too big or to shy to hop on a call to fix whatever problem a client may have “My livelihood and the livelihood of the people that I support depends on me having good relationships” - Todd Wahnish episode #80 “If you’re going to be a great C-E-O remove your E-G-O” - Kevin Y. Brown episode #80 Learning you are not special helps and keeps you level headed in times of triumph Knowing what value you add to the world outside of the work also helps, essentially having a work life balance “Sometimes there’s a blueprint most of the time there’s not, it’s up to you to Create Your Life” - Kevin Y. Brown episode #80 “There’s going to be a failure, there’s going to be a success, I know I’m walking in the right direction and so I have to be comfortable walking in both lanes” - Eric Fondren episode #80 “Essentially building a business is the failure olympics, You fail and fail and fail and then you fail a little less and then you have enough failures to look back and make a change baed on our experiences” - Todd Wahnish episode #80 “We tend to forget that walking is essentially just falling the right way. You’re tripping constantly you just are so used to it and good at it that we call it walking.” - Todd Wahnish episode #80 It is important to have a culture that celebrates wins as a team “The ways to building a relationship with an audience happens in 3 steps: People get to know you, they like you and then they trust you.” - Todd Wahnish episode #80 “Once you have a passionate audience behind you the rest kind of falls into place” - Todd Wahnish episode #80 Create the Standard, follow the standard, be consistent with the standard and do the work - - Kevin Y. Brown episode #80   when asked about protecting your reputaion from the CEO seat   In this episode, You’ll learn The importance of not celebrating before actually accomplishing the goal The importance of experiencing the wins and losses as a team How to keep a good relationship with past employees and still keep a great reputation as CEO The importance of being authentic with your team and your audience.   Stay Connected: Kevin: www.kevinybrown.com www.instagram.com/kevinybrown www.twitter.com/kevinybrown www.facebook.com/kevbrown001   Eric: http://www.itell.io/ https://twitter.com/ericnfondren   Todd: www.cleverera.com https://www.instagram.com/wahnish https://twitter.com/wahnish  https://www.facebook.com/todd.wahnish   Subscribe to our podcast + download each episode on  itunes, google play, stitcher and www.createyourlifeseries.com/podcast