My guest in this episode of the Everything Matters Podcast features Founder & CEO of Red Banyon Evan Nierman possesses 20 years of high-level experience in public relations, marketing, crisis management, online media, international relations and public affairs. Throughout his career, he has provided strategic communications counsel to top business leaders, government officials and presidential candidates, and private individuals.

Prior to forming Red Banyan, Evan Nierman served as Director of Communications for a fast-growing, highly scrutinized start-up where he represented the company and steered the CEO through interviews with top-tier media including dozens of international, national and local print, TV and online outlets.

Previously, as the founder of the Washington office for a boutique PR agency specializing in crisis management and foreign affairs, Nierman guided international and corporate clients through high-stakes, complex situations. Nierman was responsible for the agency’s largest and most complex account, the Government of Ethiopia. Working mostly from the Ethiopian Embassy in Washington, Nierman conceptualized and executed communications and public affairs strategies. He overhauled the Ethiopian Embassy’s website, developed its marketing and communications collateral, wrote speeches and op-eds for the Ambassador, wrote and distributed press releases and fact sheets and helped coordinate interviews, events and public appearances that improved the Embassy’s reach and reputation.

Please help me welcome Evan Nierman to the Everything Matters Podcast.

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The Everything Matters Podcast is hosted by High-Performance Effectiveness and Leadership Development Coach, Bradford Speaks. "Coach B" is the CEO and Founder of BeLegendary.Coach. He works primarily with leaders - Business Owners, Executive and Senior leaders, to improve overall performance effectiveness, both at work and at home.

If you are a high-performing leader and are dealing with issues around Managing Stress, Imposter Syndrome, Overall Performance Effectiveness, Time Management, Change Management and/or creating Balance and Harmony between home and work, schedule a Free Performance Analysis with Bradford and begin the work of becoming an extraordinary leader...a Legendary Leader.

This episode of the Everything Matters Podcast is a special one that is intended to help promote a very special event that will be taking place in my community. Some of you may know that I am a committee member of a service organization called A Few Good Fellaz of Gwinnett, and we will be hosting a 7 on 7 Football Camp & Tournament for boys and girls ages 6-13, this coming Saturday, April 20, 2024.

Chase Middleton, former NFL player, is my guest today, and he'll be sharing with us his journey from being a young kid learning the game of football, and how he worked to make his dreams into a reality! He'll talk with us about his involvement with the 7x7 Camp, and what it means to him to give back to the kids and to build in his own community.

Please welcome Chase to the Everything Matters Podcast! Let's get it poppin'!

Click here to register your young football enthusiast for the AFGF 7 on 7 Football Camp. See you there!

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The Everything Matters Podcast is hosted by High-Performance Effectiveness and Leadership Development Coach, Bradford Speaks. "Coach B" is the CEO and Founder of BeLegendary.Coach. He works primarily with leaders - Business Owners, Executive and Senior leaders, to improve overall performance effectiveness, both at work and at home.

If you are a high-performing leader and are dealing with issues around Managing Stress, Imposter Syndrome, Overall Performance Effectiveness, Time Management, Change Management and/or creating Balance and Harmony between home and work, schedule a Free Performance Analysis with Bradford and begin the work of becoming an extraordinary leader...a Legendary Leader.

My guest on this episode of the Everything Matters Podcast is Julie Thomas. Julie works with revenue leaders across many industries to help them realize results they never thought possible. She is passionate about guiding revenue organizations through uncertainty and helping them build resilient, engaged teams that drive predictable, sustainable revenue results and create customers for life.

As President and CEO of ValueSelling Associates, Inc., Julie is responsible for the company’s global expansion and its position as a market leader in on-demand, instructor-led, virtual instructor-led and hybrid (blended) learning solutions delivered throughout the world in more than 17 languages. In a career spanning more than 24 years, she credits her mastery of the ValueSelling Framework® for her own meteoric rise through the ranks of sales, sales management, and corporate leadership positions.

Julie began her sales career at Gartner Group (now Gartner, Inc.) In 1999, she was promoted to Vice President of Gartner’s Sales Training for the Americas. Her role included successfully onboarding new sales hires and driving the adoption of the ValueSelling Framework. She has extensive experience applying, coaching, and reinforcing the ValueSelling Framework, ValueSelling Essentials®, and their application to all customer-facing roles across the revenue engine.

In 2003, Julie joined ValueSelling Associates as Chief Executive Officer and President. She has led the company to become an industry leader in competency- and process-based training for escalating sales performance in business-to-business sales organizations worldwide.

In addition to her role at ValueSelling Associates, she is a noted speaker, consultant, and author of “ValueSelling: Driving Sales Up One Conversation at a Time” and “The Power of Value Selling: The Gold Standard to Drive Revenue and Create Customers for Life,” as well as a contributor to Forbes.com, the Forbes Business Development Council and the LinkedIn Sales Blog.

Julie also serves on the advisory board of the eWomenNetwork Foundation and is heavily involved in local charities in the San Diego region.

Please help me welcome Julie Thomas to the Everything Matters Podcast.

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The Everything Matters Podcast is hosted by High-Performance Effectiveness and Leadership Development Coach, Bradford Speaks. "Coach B" is the CEO and Founder of BeLegendary.Coach. He works primarily with leaders - Business Owners, Executive and Senior leaders, to improve overall performance effectiveness, both at work and at home.

If you are a high-performing leader and are dealing with issues around Managing Stress, Imposter Syndrome, Overall Performance Effectiveness, Time Management, Change Management and/or creating Balance and Harmony between home and work, schedule a Free Performance Analysis with Bradford and begin the work of becoming an extraordinary leader...a Legendary Leader.