In this, the second annual year end recap, Blaine goes over the top 5 episodes of 2019 based on listener feedback! Happy New Year and much success in 2020!

In this episode, Blaine talks about some of the key questions he asked of himself and his company back in 2009 while doing strategic business and vision planning. That process and the answers to those questions lead Blaine’s company to great success and growth in the appraisal, and business and life coaching industries. Blaine gives listeners the exact questions to ask and ponder to help bring some positive change and growth going into 2020.

In this episode, Blaine discusses the all important process of figuring out what drives you to do what you do. It’s a process made popular by author Simon Sinek in his 2009 book, ‘Start With Why’. In it, Sinek outlines a process whereby on digs through their past to ‘unearth’ the main drivers, the main motivators, the main inspirations, and the big turn offs that make us do what we do. Blaine has trained extensively on this process and has taught it to corporations across the globe.

This is a multi part series with this episode being the introduction to the process. Join us!

In this episode of the Diamond Mining mini-episode series, Blaine tells the story of a company named HelloWorld and its CEO, Josh Linkner. The CEO of HelloWorld created a fictional competitor with fake press releases and Wall Street Journal articles to light a fire in the hearts and minds of his employees. Instead of resting on their laurels and accolades as a company in the number 1 spot, they began to ask what their fictional, and real, competitors might be coming up with to stay on the cutting edge and remain the market leader. 

In this episode, Blaine introduces listeners to the infamous ‘Pascal’s Wager’, from the 17th Century mathematician and philosopher, Blaise Pascal. Pascal’s Wager essentially postulates that, even if there is an infinitesimally small chance of something being true, its better to act as if the thing is true since acting as if its NOT true could be very expensive!

Listen in as Blaine shows listeners how the wager is used in the climate change debate, how Warren Buffet has used it, and how it might just apply to your life and your business. 

In this mini-episode of the Real Value Podcast Diamond Mining Series, Blaine talks about 2 customer service experiences that emphasize over-the-top customer service that creates a great customer experience. 

In this episode, Blaine talks about the science of the brain and how we are simply not capable of multi-tasking as it has been traditionally defined and thought. The brain cannot consciously do two things at once since it must steal mental resources from the same portion of the brain: the frontal lobe.

Blaine gives 5 tactics to improve your ability to get things done, and get them done well, without having to slow down to task switch, leaving a little bit of ‘attention residue’ with each prior task.