Bula Network
By Randy Cantrell
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Podcast Description
A weekly podcast to help small business owners. Business building with a focus on efficiency, effectiveness and improved profits.
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Episode 115 – How Well Do You Allocate Your Resources? | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback MySpace was founded in 2003. In July 2005 it was acquired by News Corporation for $580 million. For about 3 years Myspace was the most visited social networking site in the world. It surpassed Google as the most visited site in America in June 2006. That’s when the decline began. By the [...] | 1/27/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 114 – Let’s Get Started Feeling Better About Our Work | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback Millions of people enter each work day hopeful. Hopeful that today will be better than yesterday. Hopeful that yesterday’s problems will grow smaller. You know the adage, “Hope is not a strategy.” It’s a great saying, but sadly, for too many people it’s not true. Hope is the only [...] | 1/21/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 113 – One Trick To Control The Pandemonium, Chaos & Commotion In Your Business Life | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback “Man, you’re like a kitten. You chase every ball of yarn that enters the room,” I told this business owner. He’s one of a long line of business owners who’ve heard me say that. I doubt he’ll be the last. Does that describe how you live? Boy, I hope [...] | 1/13/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 112 – Success Isn’t Binary Or Digital (It’s Not Even Numerical) | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback Be a millionaire. What? You’re not already a millionaire? Loser. All the cool kids are millionaires. They’ve had a killer IPO or acquisition. Banking millions. That’s true success, achievement and mastery. If you’ve not yet pulled that off, then you’ve got a lot of work to do. Catch up. [...] | 1/2/12 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 111 – Grow Up! Stop Letting Chaos, Commotion, Confusion And Complexity Rule Your Business | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback These little Red Sox players lack understanding and maturity. They’re just having fun running around. Cluelessness is cute when you’re just a kid, but not when you’re older. Does chaos, commotion, confusion and complexity rule the day in your business or career? Then you’re like these little kids. Childish. [...] | 12/12/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 110 – If You Don’t Have The Time To Do It Right, When Will You Have Time To Do It Over? | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback In 1991 I read Jeffrey Mayer’s book, “If You Haven’t Got the Time to Do It Right, When Will You Find the Time to Do It Over?” It was likely one of hundreds of books I’d read about time management. Since then, I’ve probably read 100 more. You’d think [...] | 12/2/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Episode – His Last Words Were, “I Wish I Could Play One More Game Of Words-With-Friends.” | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback “It’s all about building relationships,” says the expert. “Businesses must build community.” People flock to this trough like hungry swine, devouring every word as though their business lives depended on it. Obviously many business owners believe it. It sounds reasonable. Right, even. Besides, we all want to be liked, [...] | 11/26/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Episode – Leadership Is Determined By How You Behave When Nobody Is Looking | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback Great leaders have shaved heads. And big ears. And graying goatees. Some do. I’m not saying I’m one of them, of course. I hope to be a good leader, but perhaps like you – I’m a work in progress. Greatness is likely far beyond the scope of my abilities. [...] | 11/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 109 – Coaching, Bar Codes, Tornadoes And Being Thankful | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback Today is 11.11.11. Too bad I couldn’t have set it up so today’s episode would be number 111. I obviously should work on my long-term strategy better. Let’s talk about coaching and providing meaningful help to others. Trusted advisor isn’t just some marketing malarky, it’s real-world relationship building. I’m also [...] | 11/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Episode – My Business Is Killing Me And I Dread Monday Morning | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback I’m talking him off the ledge. He owns his own business. A business he started over 10 years ago. A business he now hates. Well, he doesn’t hate the business, but he hates going to work. Every Sunday evening he begins dreading Monday morning. “I don’t want to do [...] | 11/8/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 108 – Go Small, But Go! | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback The proverb is true. The journey of 1000 miles does begin with a single step. The first step is often tough though. You consider everything that can go wrong. You question yourself about every little detail of the journey. “What if I screw up?” “What if it doesn’t work [...] | 11/5/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 107 – The Reality Distortion Field, Cognitive Bias And Mindset (Steve Jobs Proved Its Power) | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback Steve Jobs was accomplished in the art of practicing the reality distortion field. I’m guessing it was an art. It’s not a science. Come to think of it, it’s not even real, or is it? Today’s show is about something that one listener suggested, but quite a few others [...] | 11/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 106 – Some Favorite New Media Consumed By The Yellow Studio (And My New MediaPreneurship) | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback In the last episode I told you about the re-booting of Bula Network. Here we are in the first show since the re-boot. I feel like I’m running down this long dock ready to launch myself off the end into the biggest cannonball I can muster! Launching is fun. [...] | 10/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 105 – Rebooting Bula Network | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback Now that the About page has been rewritten – and I’m not saying I’m finished with it – it’s time to release this episode. It’s been coming for quite a long time. In fact, for over 2 weeks I’ve sat down to record this episode more times than I [...] | 10/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Episode – Hope For Tomorrow (Maybe Today) | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback There’s no reason to give up hope. No reason to give up dreams. Meaningful contributions are within the reach of every man. Unfortunately, too many people gauge their success by what other people have, what others have done, or what others are doing. I had a high school buddy [...] | 10/17/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 104 – The Serious Work of Building Your Business Depends On You | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback Let’s Start From The Beginning. Or The End. Among the most important work of building any business are the following: 1. Getting what’s in your head documented so the gap between knowing and doing is closed. When principle players of a business don’t document what they know, the organization [...] | 10/15/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 103 – Helpful Confrontation: We All Need Tough Talk Sometimes | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback For a few weeks I’ve been thinking about the subject of helping, coaching, consulting, mentoring and advising. Many people hammer those of us in the “helping” businesses because they think we’re frauds and fakes. Some are, but that’s true of most professions. I’ve postponed talking about it, but this [...] | 9/30/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 102 – What Defines You? | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback I know two guys who suffered major setbacks in their careers. Their lives were turned upside down financially. Both men took different, but similar paths toward simplicity. The practical realities of their situations dictated monumental changes in their lifestyles. The big houses. Gone. The imported fancy cars. Gone. High [...] | 9/24/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 101 – One Price Does Not Fit All | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback Today’s show addresses one of my most recent urgent topics with clients, pricing. Coupled with pricing have been ongoing conversations about budgets and discounting. Blame it on the economy, but whatever the reason I’m finding so many small business owners experiencing challenges to their pricing structure. Prospects blame it [...] | 9/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Labor Day Weekend Episode – Dread, The Eyes Of Motivation | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback Success is hard. Failure is harder. Two things motivate most people who embark on the road to self-employment: 1. A problem for which they’ve not found a suitable solution 2. Dread This isn’t a hard fast rule. It’s what I’ve observed during my 39 years of business experience. Pursuing [...] | 9/3/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 100 – Nothing Fails Like Success (Hitting The Century Mark) | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback Cliff Ravenscraft, aka the Podcast Answerman, talks about podcasters making it to episode 7. I think he means that if you can create 7 episodes of a podcast then it’s likely your interest level is high enough to keep going. I’m proof that it’s easy to talk about things [...] | 9/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 99 – Know Thyself (The Tough Work Of Seeing Yourself As You Really Are) | Download The Podcast Or Non-Flash Playback It’s hard to see yourself as others see you…as you really are. Yes, that’s me in the mirror. I don’t think I look like that, but sometimes other people do. The name of the game is awareness. Sometimes our awareness is hindered by our inability to see ourselves as [...] | 8/29/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 98 – The 8th Habit By Stephen R. Covey (Let’s Talk About It) | Download The Podcast Or Playback Without Flash First published in 2004, Stephen R. Covey‘s “The 8th Habit” was a highly acclaimed follow-up to “The 7 Habits Of Highly Effective People.” For weeks I’ve been staring at this book on my bookshelf. It’s now been almost 7 years since I read it. I’ve been tempted to [...] | 8/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Episode – Helping Solopreneurs And Small Business Owners In The Art Of Being Remarkable | Download The Podcast Or Playback Without Flash My primary objective these days is to help small businesses find and grab bigger waves. Some of my clients are already remarkable, but they’re dissatisfied. They want to be more remarkable. Others are just now trying to fly and struggling to gain some traction. It’s a wide range [...] | 8/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 97 – I’m A Ramblin’ Man (Today) | Download The Podcast Or Playback Without Flash No, I’ve not “gone” country (I do love Waylon though). Nor am I going to sing on today’s show. I am, however, going to ramble a bit about an important subject (or three). “Create the life you want.” Today’s show includes: • Reference to my son, Ryan – [...] | 8/18/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Episode – Don’t Get Stuck In The Middle | Download This Episode Or Non-Flash Playback Finding the path to success is a common pursuit. Even successful people want more. We’re all given to discontentment and dissatisfaction. Distraction may be the deadliest “dis” of all. “A” in the diagram represents the starting place. Sadly, for too many it also represents complacency or being stuck in [...] | 8/13/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 96 – Time, Distance And Fuel: 3 Components To Successful Business Building | Download This Episode Or Non-Flash Playback Life is one big fuel problem. How long will it take to achieve success? How long will I live? Am I smart enough to reach the goal? These problems indicate how fuel is tethered to time, energy, distance, momentum, tenacity, brain power, wisdom and a host of other variables. [...] | 8/11/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 95 – Cookouts, BBQ’s, Liquid Propane and Charcoal (A Cast Iron Argument Against Stainless Steel) | Podcast: Download The Audio / Or Non-Flash-based Playback The Yellow Studio went down about a week ago. The culprit? Mac OS Lion update! No, it wasn’t Apple’s fault, but I did learn my lesson. Don’t be among the first to upgrade your OS…especially when you have hardware that might be adversely affected. Live and learn. [...] | 8/1/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Episode: A Conversation With Phil Simon About His New Book, The Age Of The Platform | Podcast: Download The Audio Phil Simon describes his new book – due out in September, 2011 – The Age Of The Platform, as more of a management book than a technology book. The book launches forth in a study of The Gang of Four: Amazon, Google, Apple and Facebook. But solopreneurs and small business owners [...] | 7/25/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Episode – Does Your Small Business Have Some Systems Worthy Of Death Row? | Podcast: Download Let’s make sure this gate is secure. It sparks the idea that what we need isn’t a better lock, but we need more locks. We implement the system to keep the gate from being opened by strangers and presto! We’ve got ourselves a system. The system doesn’t work particularly well, but we’ve got [...] | 6/28/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 94 – Don’t Leave Your Business Unfinished | Podcast: Download These baby birds are like your business. They expect to be fed. They trust mom to bring them worms. What does your business expect? As we wind down June, what are the expectations of your business for July? Sustainability in business isn’t about being green. It’s about building performances that can be replicated. It’s [...] | 6/23/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 93 – 3 Things That Can Help You Move Forward (How To Avert The Red Light Conspiracy) | Podcast: Download We’re all wired differently, but we share some common wires. Every wiring harness I’ve ever seen – in electronics, cars, light switches or anything else – has a red wire and a black wire. Red is power. Black is a ground. It’s universally true. I’m not terribly sophisticated so my wiring harness likely has [...] | 6/16/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Special Episode – Help Me Navigate A Crazy Intersection (Happy Birthday To My Wife, Too) | Podcast: Download I’m approaching this crazy intersection. My GPS is working fine, but it’s useless. Why? Because I’m not sure where I need to go. You can help me determine the direction because this endeavor is about helping YOU. Oh, and by the way, today is my wife’s birthday. Her name is Rhonda and you’ll find her [...] | 6/10/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Episode 92 – Chasing Numbers, Losing Opportunities And Remaining Unknown | Podcast: Download Bigger is better. I know ’cause I’m in Texas. You know it, too though. More Twitter followers. More Facebook likes. More blog subscribers. More podcast listeners. More is better. When it comes to numbers, higher is better. Right? Well, it depends. It depends on what those numbers represent. More often than not, they don’t [...] | 6/9/11 | Free | View In iTunes |
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Customer Reviews
Bula Network is fantastic for business
Randy Cantrell is the real deal. Blessed with a golden voice - Cantrell leads Bula Network with confidence and skill that would be beneficial for any business. His podcasts bridge a variety of topics that all prove to be thought provoking and challenges me to be absolutely the best that I can be!
I count Randy as an informal advisor. I've never met him - but hope to. I am thankful for the wisdom he dispenses to me on my iPod.
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