The Best CEO Tool

Kris Plachy: Hey, I'm Chris Plaquey, host of the Lead Your Team podcast. Running a million dollar business is not easy, and whether you are just getting started with building your team or you've been at this for a while, I'm going to bring you honest, specific and clear practices you can use. Right now today to improve how well you lead your team.

Let's go ahead and get started.

Hello? Hello. Welcome to the podcast y'all. How's it been going? I have been doing all the things. I went to Disneyland for six days. It was heaven. Why can I live there? I'm so happy. I just love Disneyland. Although I do know that it does take a lot more outta me than it used to. I was pretty freaking tired for about a week afterwards.

Anyway, it was amazing. If you haven't been able to get out and about, I highly recommend it. Okay, so today I wanna talk to you about a couple things. First of all, we have a really cool opportunity if you joined, had a C E O by July 30th, and that opportunity is. If and when you register by July 30th for the have a C E O program, not only do you have access to the only and best program for women who are leading their businesses on how to lead and manage your team and build all those systems and the best coaching on the planet.

With my team and me and Conscious Inclusion advising by Dr. Camille Brard Wise, you will also get your very own remarkable two. Re repeat with our remarkable template kit, which is all the templates that you can upload and put into your remarkable, and then use as tools in your business. Come on.

This is ridiculous. I use the remarkable so much, and I talk about it so much that all of my clients started buying them. And then telling me how much they loved it. And so then I was talking to my team, I'm like, maybe we should just include it with registration and see if people like it. So that's what we're doing.

But you have to register by July 30th, and I know it's summertime and my team will probably kill me for saying this, but if you w want to take advantage of the remarkable offer. But you're not quite ready to start. Like maybe you have a big family trip coming up. Listen, I know because of the whole year we just came out of, a lot of people are trying to get a lot in before the kids actually maybe like finally for reals, go back to school.

Like for real. So if that's you're like yeah, no, I really wanna do this. I really wanna do that. How a C E O program, I really would love the remarkable, but I probably really honestly couldn't start the 12 weeks of coaching until maybe September. We will do that. So if you register now and then you tell us, look, I don't wanna start, we'll give you a 45 day grace period to start the 12 weeks of coaching support.

So if that's how you wanna do this, we are down. You just have to communicate with us. So if that's the case, all you have to do is just, you can email [email protected]. You can email amy s chris plaquey.com or you can just go to How to CEO Register. Register and then as soon as you get the notification that you've been activated, just email us and say, Hey, I would like to take advantage of what Chris offered on the podcast, and I don't wanna start my coaching until, you know, August 22nd or something.

Okay. All the details for the program and when the coaching calls are and all of that are, On the How to CEO register.com site. And the other thing you guys is the guest experts that we have lined up. We just went through our six month schedule for our guest experts and our guest experts lined up for the next six months because we have the entire year now built out is ridiculous.

Like I, it was like there is nowhere else you're gonna go to have access to this caliber of women. Nowhere. It's insane. I'm so excited to share all of this with you guys. Here's who we have lined up. We have Allie Brown. Tanya Dalton is tomorrow. Oh my gosh, I'm so excited. Emily Sandberg, she's my C F O.

She talks about money and helps us understand our money, and people always wanna hire her after they watch her presentation. Our own Amy Stumbler is gonna talk all about how to be successful within another company. So if you run, if you are involved in like an MLM program and you still have to manage these team members that aren't.

You're team members, but they are. How do you maximize that? Angela Kim, you guys, she's the owner of Saver Beauty. She is one of my most favorites humans on the planet and is an brilliant business leader. Dr. Camille Brard Wise is leading live discussions on diversity, equity, and inclusion. I. Laura Patrick, who is one of my OG clients, she has been working with me for several years and she's the owner of Kids Physio up in Canada, and she has gone since we've been working together from three franchises to 10.

So she's gonna talk about building franchise Erica Royale. She is the c e o of the Life Coach School. Come on. How do you run a business of getting perspective on taking over that role and working for the founder? That'll be super powerful for all of us. Leila Hermo. Come on. Leila Hermo was client of mine.

And she is a genius in leadership and she's also a wizard. She just has so much valuable insight to share. Dr. Shanita Williams, who I know you heard on the podcast, she's gonna come talk to everybody about feedback. And finally, Krista Nicholas and Tammy Ramsey of Cloth and Kind. Also former clients. They run a gorgeous design business and have such a unique perspective on leadership as well as.

I don't know. Their imprint, their fingerprint in the world that they live in is stunning and unique and exceptional. And I, anyway, I'm beyond tickled with what we have to offer folks who join the How to c e O program. Like I said, if you are not ready, But you know that you wanna do this and you wanna take advantage of this opportunity, you have to register by July 30th.

We have so much packed into this program. It's a game changer in terms of how you will think about, how you will lead, how you will manage, and how you will really process through the challenges of leading and managing a team. So the reason that I taught the remarkable course, the ha, the my favorite c e o tool course.

And if you're interested in taking the course, you can go to my link tree in Instagram, just go to at Chris Plaquey, coach on Instagram and you'll find it there. The reason that I really wanted to teach this, and what I wanna really talk about in this podcast today is that I've spent my whole life. Feeling like I didn't fit right, and where this is relevant is when it comes to how I manage my time and my brain and my plans and all of that.

And so I've bought more systems than I care to count or calculate in terms of how much money I've spent. And no matter what, the system never works, right? And that's not true for everybody. I know that everyone, you know, there's always, you've all have a thing. And I love that everybody has a thing. This isn't about which one's the best one.

This is about the idea that I know I was born with whatever divine creator. Spirit who, whatever it was that sort of made me and you perfectly perfect and I was equipped as were you with everything I needed to live the life I wanna live and to harness whatever I need to make things happen. But the challenge with this concept that I call the kit is that we all have one.

So every single one of us is beautifully designed. Perfectly. No one is wrong. No one missed a part. No one doesn't have what they need. What we don't have is we don't have, you know, when you get by a kit and you open it up and it has a couple things in it as the one thing you always throw away, which tells you it'll, you know, kill you and all has all the chemicals in it.

And then it has the thing that says, this is what's in the kit. So we didn't get that part. You know, we know we have a brain, we have a body. We didn't get the part with the, this is what's included in your kit, and we also didn't get directions and we didn't get, most importantly, a picture of what an assembled kit is supposed to look like.

That's really what life is about, is we go through life and we figure out what's in our kit, but we, I know we all go through periods of time in our life where we don't use our own kit. We think that other people have. The answers. So we run around and we ask other people for their directions that they've created for themselves, or we just look at other people's pictures and we think, oh, that's what my kit should look like.

But the problem is they have a different kit assembly than you do. So their picture and their directions are never really gonna work for you. The answers that we need are inside of us. Now, the advantage of working with, you know, if we extend the metaphor, a kit master someone who, like I say, and stand before you and say, listen, I know some real fundamental truths about leadership and management, and I would love to teach those to you.

The design of learning is knowledge, which then translates into wisdom. This is, I think, what the goal is. It's not learning to then mimic, mimicking. Copying, duplicating other people doesn't help you develop what's in your kit. It just leaves you empty and still searching. So my goal is to always learn with the intention of gaining knowledge and then wisdom.

So back to the remarkable. So why do I love the remarkable so much? The reason I love the remarkable is it allows me to use what I have. And then it follows me instead of it dictating to me who I'm supposed to be, how I'm supposed to run my day, what fields I'm supposed to fill out, what columns need information in them.

I like this tool because I decided what I wanted it to look like, and now I use it all the time because it's a reflection of me. I didn't have to fit into it. That's why I love it. And that's what I believe we do in how A C E O is. We give you all of the tools and the perspective and the support. So we teach you so that you learn and now you have knowledge, and then we coach you so that you apply that knowledge to who you are and who you are designed to be.

And now you have wisdom. And once you have wisdom when it comes to leadership and management and the team part of your company, you can handle anything. Nothing stops you. Because wisdom transfers from moment to moment to moment. It's universal. Wisdom isn't applicable just to one circumstance, it's applicable to all.

So when women work with us, they don't just leave with like processes and practices to follow that they can just mimic. They leave with wisdom. That translates into everything they do, and that is my goal for you. I'm not interested in creating a bunch of crisp Plaquey mimics. I'm interested in teaching you what I know.

There are fundamentals to human behavior when it comes to managing people. That's just fundamentals. It's not rocket science, but it trips us up because dealing with people is the most complicated part of running a company. So we do need some tools. We do need to learn some stuff because we're not taught this stuff in high school.

We should be, but we're not. And so you, some of us don't learn this stuff till we're 47. That's okay. So women who excel then in this program are the women who are ready to accept responsibility for wisdom. Women who just want someone else to solve their problem suffer in this program. Because they just replaced dependency on employees being better and changing their behavior so they can feel better to now you teach me what to do and change this process so I can feel better.

So there's always an external dependency on other people. In order for you to feel better if that's who you are, and you have to be honest with yourself about that, this program will be hard for you. Because this is ultimately leadership in developing a successful high performing team repeatedly because trust me, you're never gonna be done requires total responsibility and acceptance of accountability of that as from you not blaming other people for the failures of your team.

It's not the world's fault. It's not the pandemic's fault. It's not the fact that, you know, there's too much unemployment being paid fault. It's not a millennial's fault. It's not. We just take responsibility and once we have wisdom, there is an ease. Okay, that sucks. I wasn't anticipating that, but you know what?

I know how to handle it and I'm not gonna waste time blaming for why I'm dealing with this. I'm just gonna go get it. You can fix it. Because I can, cuz I have wisdom and that is the trajectory of my clients. So if you're aching for that and to get out of overwhelm, burden, resentment, frustration helplessness, I know the path forward.

But you have to be willing and you have to trust your own kit. And together we'll discover what's inside that kit for you. Oh, this is what you're pretty good at. So how about we figure out how to do this your way, not my way, and we take it from there. So we have a hack of a lot of fun. I sound this very serious on this podcast, we do kind of laugh a lot.

I do believe you can laugh and solve problems at the same time. I think that's the best answer, to be honest. Otherwise, life is heavy. Oh, and then one other thing I would share with you is I just made a significant investment in this business, and because I wanna travel, And I like to do things spontaneously.

So for my clients, I'm gonna be doing what I'm calling sort of spontaneous CEO, e o Escapes or Johns more to come on that. But once you're in the head of CEO program, you will learn about those super fun. If you're ready to get out in the world, you might love this opportunity as well to be able to join me on some of these fun escapes where we do some good.

You work not business all the time. Can we just talk about you? You're amazing. Let's love on you a little bit. All right, everybody, have a wonderful day and again, go to how to ceo register.com. I would just so love to work with you. Why aren't you here yet? We've been talking a long time.

What are you doing? Let's go. One more thing before you go. In a world of digital courses and online content, I like to work with my clients live because I know that when you have someone you can work with, ask questions of and meet with, you're so much more likely to get the success that you want. So head on over to how to ceo live.com.

To learn more about our very exciting, very exclusive program just for female entrepreneurs. We'll see you there.