Albuquerque Business Podcast

Respect, Loyalty, and Honesty all come from emotions. How do you understand your employees' emotions? Why do you get so emotional when you have a problem? When should you be emotional with your team?  Book by Stan Toler I was talking about here  Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on Instagram at @abqjasonrigby or Alexander McCaig on LinkedIn here also sign up for our email list where I drop business & marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

How do you inspire the employee that doesn't want to listen? How do you begin to mentor a new leader? Why is it important to strategize the vision? Transformational Leadership creates a significant change in those you serve as a leader. It inspires everyone you lead to be a better version of themself and to see themselves as unique. Coaching by showing them their gifts and talents that they can use to make the organization better.  Resources:  Here is a free white paper on transformational leadership great read! here Book by Stan Toler I was talking about here  Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on Instagram at @abqjasonrigby or Alexander McCaig on LinkedIn here also sign up for our email list where I drop business & marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!  

My Boss is terrible! My Boss won't make a decision! My Boss takes all the credit! My Boss won't ever listen to me! Let's as Leaders solve this now... Today's podcast shows you how to lead UP.  Resources: John Maxwell Book Link and Leif Babin Link Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on Instagram at @abqjasonrigby or Alexander McCaig on LinkedIn here also sign up for our email list where I drop business & marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

Do you get angry or hurt when you hear threatening news? How often do you subtly self-sabotage yourself and those you lead?  In today's episode, we go into... 12 ways to self-diagnose how you are being insecure with your team.  Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on Instagram at @abqjasonrigby or Alexander McCaig on LinkedIn here also sign up for our email list where I drop business & marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

Neuroscience and Emotional Intelligence are the keys to understanding the sales process. How do you teach this? Why do so many salespeople fail?  Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on Instagram at @abqjasonrigby or Alexander McCaig on LinkedIn here also sign up for our email list where I drop business & marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

How do you build a successful business? I had an amazing 1-hour talk with Kevin Kehoe a veteran entrepreneur that wrote a book on "real life"  ABOUT: Kevin R. Kehoe (Scottsdale, Arizona, born in NYC) is an inspiring Author (“One Hit Wonder”), Aspire Software Co-Founder, Entrepreneur, "Risk Taking Maverick" & Cancer Survivor, who was born and raised in New York City, and lived most of his life in Southern California with stops in Florida and Texas, along the way. After doing small business consulting for 30 years, Kehoe’s personal “One Hit Wonder” was co-founding Aspire Software in 2013, which was sold in 2021 to ServiceTitan. Kehoe is the grandson of Irish immigrants, oldest of six children, who has survived catholic schools and nuns, two marriages, six job terminations, motorcycle crashes, and Stage IV cancer. His life experiences have included being an altar boy, choir boy, business consultant and entrepreneur, motorcycle racer, surfer and marathon runner. As a graduate of SUNY Stony Brook, Southern Met

Scary words to dwell on! What happens this year and next? How do you respond as a leader to these? This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby and Alexander McCaig. Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weaknesses, strategies, systems, and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for ABQ Business.    Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on Instagram at @abqjasonrigby or Alexander McCaig on LinkedIn here also sign up for our email list where I drop business & marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!  

How many times have we said, "I need to start holding my people accountable!" What if you flipped that?  This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby and Alexander McCaig. Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weaknesses, strategies, systems, and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for ABQ Business.    Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on Instagram at @abqjasonrigby or Alexander McCaig on LinkedIn here also sign up for our email list where I drop business & marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!    

Meetings are not for YOU! 80% of the talking is usually the leader. So guess who owns the meeting, the problem, and the solution? Teamwork is letting your team do most of the communicating you listen and ask questions ONLY! When they come up with the solution then they own the problem, and the way to solve it by agreed-upon execution.  This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby and Alexander McCaig. Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weaknesses, strategies, systems, and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for ABQ Business.    Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on Instagram at @abqjasonrigby or Alexander McCaig on LinkedIn here also sign up for our email list where I drop busi

How do you harness your ego to work for you? What does humility genuinely look like? Why is it essential to create honesty in feedback? In today's episode, we will get into self-assessing yourself and when you should use humility in leadership situations.  Here is the book I talked about today Get it now here.  In Extreme Ownership, Jocko Willink and Leif Babin share hard-hitting, Navy SEAL combat stories that translate into lessons for business and life. Jocko and Leif served together in SEAL Task Unit Bruiser, the most highly decorated Special Operations unit from the war in Iraq. Through those difficult months of sustained combat, Jocko, Leif and their SEAL brothers learned that leadership - at every level - is the most important thing on the battlefield. Now they teach these same leadership principles to companies throughout the business world that want to build their own high-performance, winning teams. Extreme Ownership explains the SEAL leadership concepts crucial to accomplishing the most difficult

How do you become great? What are the steps to becoming great? Who gets to have greatness?  Why do we always think that "greatness" is a future word? In this podcast, I go into detail on how to be great. It's not what you think! Greatness is a present action done daily with compounding interest earned through discipline and hard work.  This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby and Alexander McCaig. Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weaknesses, strategies, systems, and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for ABQ Business.    Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on Instagram at @abqjasonrigby or Alexander McCaig on LinkedIn here also sign up for our email list where I drop busi

When is the right time to move and make a decision? Can I mess up my life by moving too fast? Success many times for our lives stalls over just a few small things we procrastinate on. Today let's learn how to move fast and solve problems effortlessly! Here is the link and info of the book I talked about today!   Atomic Habits by James Clear  The #1 New York Times bestseller. Over 4 million copies sold! Tiny Changes, Remarkable Results No matter your goals, Atomic Habits offers a proven framework for improving--every day. James Clear, one of the world's leading experts on habit formation, reveals practical strategies that will teach you exactly how to form good habits, break bad ones, and master the tiny behaviors that lead to remarkable results. If you're having trouble changing your habits, the problem isn't you. The problem is your system. Bad habits repeat themselves again and again not because you don't want to change, but because you have the wrong system for change. You do not rise to the level of yo

Relationships are the linchpin to your Leadership! You are responsible as a leader for those you serve. The way you respond when leading is a direct reflection of your emotional intelligence in handling your employees and home life. The better you are as a leader the better your personal relationships will be. Being self aware of how you response is in situations (i.e. Do you play passive aggressive victim or angry authoritative narcissistic?) This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby and Alexander McCaig Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for ABQ Business.    Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagra

Part 2 of this  leadership journey with you in an amazing book called One Mission by Chris Fussell here is description from Amazon.  Too often, companies end up with teams stuck in their own silos, pursuing goals and metrics in isolation. Their traditional autocratic structures create stability, scalability, and predictability -- but in a world that demands rapid adaptation to a new reality, this traditional model simply doesn’t work.   In Team of Teams, retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal and former Navy SEAL Chris Fussell made the case for a new organizational model combining the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization. Now, in One Mission, Fussell channels all his experiences, both military and corporate, into powerful strategies for unifying isolated and distrustful teams.   This practical guide will help leaders in any field implement the Team of Teams approach to tear down their silos improve collaboration, and avoid turf wars. By

Starting a leadership journey with you in an amazing book called One Mission by Chris Fussell here is description from Amazon.  Too often, companies end up with teams stuck in their own silos, pursuing goals and metrics in isolation. Their traditional autocratic structures create stability, scalability, and predictability -- but in a world that demands rapid adaptation to a new reality, this traditional model simply doesn’t work.   In Team of Teams, retired four-star General Stanley McChrystal and former Navy SEAL Chris Fussell made the case for a new organizational model combining the agility, adaptability, and cohesion of a small team with the power and resources of a giant organization. Now, in One Mission, Fussell channels all his experiences, both military and corporate, into powerful strategies for unifying isolated and distrustful teams.   This practical guide will help leaders in any field implement the Team of Teams approach to tear down their silos improve collaboration, and avoid turf wars. By comm

Do you get tired of the constant interruptions? Everyone needs YOU! Your having to make 100 decisions an hour, and from sunup to sundown your living the business. What does freeing yourself to have a real life look like?  This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby and Alexander McCaig Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for ABQ Business. Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or Alexander McCaig on LinkedIn here also sign up for our email list here where I drop marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

We all "have" or "know" someone that's passive aggresive with a negative attitude toward everthing. How do you deal with that person?  This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby and Alexander McCaig Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for ABQ Business. Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or Alexander McCaig on LinkedIn here also sign up for our email list here where I drop marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

Part 2 - We got into details of Tram incident, and also why Companies have Toxic Culture.  This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby and Alexander McCaig Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for ABQ Business. Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or Alexander McCaig on LinkedIn here also sign up for our email list here where I drop marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

We got into details of Tram incident, and also why Companies have Toxic Culture.  This is the ABQ Business Podcast with your host Jason Rigby and Alexander McCaig Each week we interview leading business leaders to inspire the vision and the spirit that is in every entrepreneur. We discuss strengths, weakness, strategies, systems and the problems we can all solve together to fulfill a shared vision of a new future for ABQ Business. Please go to www.abqpodcast.com where you can get show notes, resources, and links to everything we talked about today to help you navigate your journey as an entrepreneur and business owner in ABQ. Follow me on instagram at @abqjasonrigby or Alexander McCaig on LinkedIn here also sign up for our email list here where I drop marketing secrets to help your ABQ Business!

Drew is President of NM Angels a New Mexico-based group of individual accredited angel investors focused on investing in early-stage companies in the Southwest and cultivating an active investment ecosystem. Drew's Bio: Drew is very active with New Mexico start-ups. Most notably with Meow Wolf, serving as their first CFO, a New Mexico B Corp that creates immersive arts experiences to wow. His efforts there, among others, led to raising more than $125 million in investment, purchase of a new headquarters, and growth from 50 people to more than 400. He has also worked with Build with Robots, Electric Playhouse, and Parting Stone. Consulting has taken him across New Mexico, the U.S., to Native American nations, and more than 40 countries.  He has contributed to 100+ business plans and dozens of start-ups to get going. His work has generated over $300 million in investment and 1,000s of jobs. Previous experience includes a Bluetooth wireless firm, as a lender, and program officer for Grameen Foundation. He began