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Make More Money Doing Things You Don’t Know How To Do

NYC Elevate is a million dollar a month, networking community organized to help our members make more money through structured collaboration and referrals. And this is a true story. At the beginning of the year, I was working out with my tennis coach and he proposed a drill to work on one of my weaknesses.

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Nuts and Bolts

There are two main aspects to every single moment that we all live. There’s doing — the action; and being — the… well, being. How we are oriented to our lives. Leadership requires both. As a Coach, I spend a lot of time with clients focusing on the being. Because no matter how amazing your

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Make More Money Beyond Direct Referrals

NYC Elevate is a one million dollar a month networking community organized to help our members make more money through structured collaboration and referrals. Every week I tell you that you can make more money through Elevate beyond direct referrals and here’s a recent example. As you know, I’m already the number one rated web

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The Polarization of Leadership

When I was a kid, I was a people pleaser. I don’t need to get into detail here but as you might imagine, life up until that point had taught me something — that to fit in, demonstrate my value, and make a positive difference, I would have to learn where people had needs, and

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Edification and Setting the Table

It’s always great when we get a referral. The opportunity to meet new people, to make connections, and of course the potential to close some business. But not every referral is created equal. And while this is true in terms of the actual person, and their level of interest, today I want to shine a

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NET-work

I was driving on my way home and thinking about what I might discuss today. After about thirty seconds of not too much bubbling up, the word “network” entered my mind. Ok, no big deal, nothing special. Networking. That’s what we do, got it. But then I noticed something. The word itself — “network” —

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Training Others — Circumstance vs. Commitment

We’re always training people in something. Whether it’s the way we shake hands, or our email signature, or whether or not we back up our words with actions. As leaders and business owners, eyes are always on us. I suppose that it’s theoretically possible you have not been watching the news, and you are unaware

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Managing Mistakes & The Hunt for Red October

There are a lot of dynamics going on in our world. Tough challenges. Tough circumstances. And though at Elevate we leave the politics at the door, we’re intelligent, sensitive human beings. And we are all aware of the humanitarian issues affecting different populations at home and abroad. I would never want to make light of

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Make More Money With Elevate and Linkedin

NYC Elevate is a million dollar a month networking community organized to help our members make more money through structured collaboration and referrals. This week I want to talk about using Elevate to meet people at a specific company while doing your own heavy lifting. Option One is that I can use my weekly email

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Women’s History Month

Yesterday was International Women’s Day – a date that celebrates social, economic and political achievements of women and marks a call to action for accelerating women’s equality. The theme for this year is #BreakTheBias. To give us some context, how many of us in this room were born before 1988? Until that year, women often

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