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I try to make two or three solid connections with people when I attend live events. I want to spend enough time with those people where we keep in touch after the event. To make good connections, you can’t be the person who shows up slinging out business cards like a blackjack dealer. And you…
Tim Schurrer is back for our traditional follow-up episode where I invite my guests into the interviewer chair. Tim has three questions for me, and as always, they do not disappoint. Question one requires a little bit of context, but when you boil it down, the question is simply this: who are you showing up…
Cassie Tucker returns today and we are laying out the greatest marketing lessons you are going to find. And I learned them from my dog. As a dog owner, I am very interested in making sure my four-legged family member is taken care of. Not too long ago, I learned about a dog boarding and…
“You feed off of the energy that is happening around you. You can turn that into a positive experience. As the leader, the outcome has a greater chance of becoming a positive outcome or a negative outcome because you’re personally involved and based on the way you handle a situation.” Djuan Rivers is a former…
“When you say no for someone else, you’re deciding for them before they even have the chance to decide for themselves.” Early in my career, I learned a powerful lesson about giving people the opportunity to say yes. I was working as a park ranger when reached out to Lee Cockerell, the former Executive Vice…
“If your systems burned to the ground, how would you rebuild them?” When you stop asking questions, you stop learning. That’s a sign it might be time to unlearn. A recent Clubhouse conversation with Katie Currens and other members of the Perch community about something I think we don’t talk about enough: unlearning. Cassie Tucker…
Recently I was a keynote speaker for a conference for park professionals in the midwest. I spoke on Role and Purpose and how parks can thrive once they understand every job has a role to perform, and every role plays into the bigger purpose of the park. Once I was off stage, many people came…
For more than a year now, I have helped Dan Cockerell run his online community, called The Perch. Recently, Dan and I did a community cruise, where many members of the Perch got to meet for the first time in person. For so long, we have seen each other on Zoom, and now we had…
With the Jody Maberry Show, I like to give you a behind-the-scenes look at what it is like to work with the people I work with. In this episode, Dan Cockerell and I talk about what it took to put together a cruise for his online community, known as The Perch. Dan explains what led…