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Hiring Leadership With Purpose Featuring Max Hansen (Ep. 125)

Hiring Leadership With Purpose Featuring Max Hansen (Ep. 125)

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Do you need help to hire and retain top talent for your business?

In this episode, John and Michael Parise are joined by Max Hansen, CEO and co-founder of Y Scouts, the first-ever purpose-based leadership search firm. Together, they dive into the importance of hiring with purpose and discuss strategies for recruiting and retaining top talent to accelerate business growth and success. 

From aligning values to developing key leaders, they also share valuable insights on how businesses can unlock their full potential through strategic hiring practices.

Talking points include:

  • The concept of Hiring on Purpose and its impact on business success
  • Challenges faced by privately held companies in succession planning and talent retention
  • Strategies for developing a solid management team to increase company value
  • Balancing the need for outside talent with family involvement in closely held businesses
  • And more!

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Max Hansen, co-founder and COO of Y Scouts dedicated the last two decades to providing the best hiring practices in leadership search and consulting. Max was fortunate that his first job after graduating with a Bachelor’s Degree from Northern Arizona in Business Administration was with the Fortune 50 Recruiting firm Allegis Group / Aerotek. This experience gave him a solid foundation for understanding best-in-class business systems and selection processes. 

In January of 2002, Max founded his first recruiting/search firm, Job Brokers, Inc. Together with his team, they went on to hire more than 30,000 people across a wide swath of industries including engineering, manufacturing, education, healthcare, distribution, mining, finance, technology, and apparel. They proudly grew their annual revenues to over $35 million and expanded into other divisions and brands. The most notable being Y Scouts in 2012.

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Here’s How Copper Beech Helps Business Owners Plan For Generational Wealth (Ep. 102)

Here’s How Copper Beech Helps Business Owners Plan For Generational Wealth (Ep. 102)

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Today’s topic is pertinent to business owners. If you’re grappling with unique financial challenges related to entrepreneurship and business ownership, this episode is for you.

This week, John and Michael Parise explore a case study about a client who owns a business. They provide a detailed walkthrough of their process from start to finish while detailing how they helped the client gain a generational wealth mindset by emphasizing education around how he thought about his finances.

John and Michael discuss:

  • The three key areas the client wanted to focus on and sought help from Copper Beech
  • Copper Beech’s approach to managing wealth for future generations (long-term instead of short-term planning)
  • Why family meetings were critical to the planning process
  • The recommendations their client’s family implemented and why
  • And more!

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63. Living A Healthy Lifestyle With Pilates With Amy Jordan, Part Two

63. Living A Healthy Lifestyle With Pilates With Amy Jordan, Part Two

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The pandemic has been tough on us all. Amy Jordan returns to share her experience over the past year with cervical cancer, and how her healthy lifestyle ultimately got her through it.

In this episode, John and Michael Parise speak once again with Amy Jordan. Amy speaks more about the WundaBar experience, including details about their unique machine, the WundaFormer and how it works. Amy shares advice for people struggling to better themselves from a health and wellness standpoint.

Amy discusses:

  • How she dealt with cervical cancer
  • Advice for people looking to improve their health
  • How the WundaFormer machine came to be
  • What a two week challenge is like at WundaBar
  • And more!

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A Pilates visionary, entrepreneur, inventor, and above all a proud mother of two, Amy Jordan’s guiding belief when it comes to wellness:  “You are perfect wherever you are today, and my goal is to empower you to have the best experience in your own skin!” That is precisely what happened when Amy began practicing Pilates in 2006 as she journeyed through a difficult time in her own life. Her workout soon became her passion, and she left her career as an Entertainment Marketing Executive to open her first high-energy Pilates studio in 2008.

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62. Living A Healthy Lifestyle With Pilates With Amy Jordan, Part One

62. Living A Healthy Lifestyle With Pilates With Amy Jordan, Part One

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Everything in your body is connected—you can’t exercise your body and eat poorly and expect top results.

In this episode, John and Michael are joined by Amy Jordan, creator and CEO of WundaBar Pilates. Amy shares her wealth of knowledge about Pilates, how she got into it, and who helped her realize her vision of WundaBar Pilates.

Amy discusses:

  • Why understanding how everything in your body is interconnected is important
  • Why you can’t work out and have a poor diet, and vice-versa
  • Her tips for clientele on how to live a healthy life, the 90% – 10% rule
  • How she made Pilates easily accessible during the pandemic
  • And more!

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About Our Guest:

A Pilates visionary, entrepreneur, inventor, and above all a proud mother of two, Amy Jordan’s guiding belief when it comes to wellness:  “You are perfect wherever you are today, and my goal is to empower you to have the best experience in your own skin!” That is precisely what happened when Amy began practicing Pilates in 2006 as she journeyed through a difficult time in her own life. Her workout soon became her passion, and she left her career as an Entertainment Marketing Executive to open her first high-energy Pilates studio in 2008.