Leverage Nick Sonnenberg

In this week's episode we're talking about team productivity and how to win back time in your business using the right tools. Nick interviews Joshua Zerkel, the head of Global Engagement Marketing at Asana.  Joshua has dedicated his professional life to helping individuals and businesses use technology to enhance workflow, communication, and information and time management—all with the goal of becoming more productive, effective, and spending time on what’s important to them. He leads Asana’s network of productivity-oriented customers and community partners to create meaningful relationships that extend beyond the walls of Asana HQ. Nick and Joshua are both passionate about helping teams collaborate more efficiently. At Leverage, we help our clients with operating more efficiently and setting companies up with the best tools for their business needs. Our preferred tool for work management is Asana because you can literally manage all work across an entire organization in Asana. 

Jenny Blake is an author, podcaster, and keynote speaker who loves helping business owners move from friction to flow through smarter systems, powered by Delightfully Tiny Teams. Her third book, Free Time: Lose The Busywork, Love Your Business, launches March 22, 2022. Jenny’s previous book, Pivot: The Only Move That Matters Is Your Next One, won the Axiom award for best business book in the careers category in 2016. Licensing clients for her Pivot Programs include Google and CHANEL. Jenny hosts two podcasts with over one million downloads combined: Free Time for Heart-Based Business Owners, and Pivot with Jenny Blake to help others navigate change. After working at a Silicon Valley startup, then at Google for five years in coaching and career development, Jenny moved to New York City in 2011 to launch her own business. She loves yoga and buys too many books. Learn more and take the Free Time quiz at ItsFreeTime.com.

Justin Donald is a master of low-risk cash flow investing whose strategies and principles for investing to earn passive income have helped thousands of people "create wealth without creating a job." In the span of 21 months, and before his 37th birthday, Justin’s investments drove enough passive income for both he and his wife Jennifer to leave their jobs. Following his simple investment system and 10 Commandments of Lifestyle Investing, Justin negotiated deals with over 100 companies, multiplied his net worth to over eight figures, and maintained a family-centric lifestyle in less than 2 years.
 
In this episode, Nick and Justin talk about Justin's principles and strategies for investing to earn passive income. As a former high frequency trader, Nick has some thoughts on this! But while Nick created algorithms behind a computer screen, Justin sees investing very differently. To Justin, it's not just an opportunity to put more money in the bank, it's an opportunity to impact the bigger picture of someone's life.

Ted Blosser is the CEO of Workramp, a training platform that helps empower employees to reach their full potential at work. He's on the podcast this week to tell his story of how he went from selling software to founding his own company and disrupting the entire enterprise training platform industry.
In this episode, Nick and Ted discuss life as an entrepreneur and how Ted came up with the idea for Workramp. Ted explains his viewpoints on frameworks in business, how to communicate effectively in a remote environment, and which tools are actually worth implementing in your business. He also provides tips on how to improve company culture and how to retain excellent employees by teaching them new skills and putting an emphasis on learning within your organization.

Biohackers rejoice! Matt Gallant is on the Leverage Podcast today to discuss how he's been optimizing his mind, body, and those of his clients since 2004 with everything from supplements to sleep technologies and digestive enzymes. If you're interested in learning some new techniques to improve your sleep, feel better, optimize your brain and live longer, Matt is your guy.
In this episode, Nick and Matt discuss Matt's story from bodybuilding to working with pro athletes to starting his own supplement company. While Matt started out focusing on optimizing his physical body, he later discovered the benefits of optimizing his mind, and how the two go hand-in-hand. Over the years, he's tested hundreds of technologies, methodologies, and techniques for body and mind optimization—many of which you'll hear him explain in this episode. Listen in for tips on better sleep, supercharging your brain, beating jet lag, and a few key supplements everyone should be taking.

Dave Woodward is a world-class marketing expert, the CEO of Clickfunnels, and a stage 4 brain cancer survivor. Earlier this year, Dave was told he had a month to live—yet he's on the podcast today, cancer-free and on his way to a full recovery. Thanks to his neverending optimism, world-class doctors, and a strict health regimen Dave was able to beat cancer in just three months and get back to running one of the most successful funnel builders in the world.
In this episode, Nick and Dave discuss Dave's history with cancer—from diagnosis to becoming cancer free—and how it has affected his outlook on life. Dave explains some of the health tricks he used to help his body overcome cancer and how they can also help people in their everyday lives. Nick and Dave then get into business talk, discussing some of the new features coming to Clickfunnels, what is and isn't working in digital marketing right now, and how to build meaningful relationships with your customers through the right communication channels.