The cliff notes of finding a great coach. Choose a business owner period. Someone that has to make payroll and contemplate throwing in the towel. And also someone that knows the customer and how they think.

I feel I have the perfect culmination of Fortune 100 Exec experience and training, Business owner, Author, Father, Husband, and more to be your professional speaker on several business topics, coach and develop, author excellent material, and personal development topics. I have lived it. Not just read about business and personal development. Have been at the mountain top and in the deepest valley of survival.

Most recently as an operating principle for our Luxury Residential and Commercial Investment teams - an Affiliate of Christie's International Real Estate, I strive to ensure my clients receive premier real estate consulting, strategizing and marketing from the moment they walk in the door.

I came to real estate from a decade long career with Florida Power & Light,...

As always the foundation question of the ROYI academy is, How Are You Investing In You? Thats where it all starts. Working hard in one thing, but so is investing hard in you. Need both for exponential growth. Last week I attended an incredibly intense workshop called the 4Ds or Digital Discovery+Deep Dive lead by The Sasha Group and team members across the Vayner portfolio. https://vaynermedia.com/service/4ds/

Wanted to drop this short video about how great of an investment it is in not only you, but your business whether you have one or work for one. Remember, How are you investing in you? If you don't have it planned and written out. Do it! What gets measured gets done.

Just had the best sit down today with a superstar in the Executive Recruiting and Coaching world. Caroline Stokes. She recently released a book called "Elephants Before Unicorns: Emotionally Intelligent HR Strategies to Save Your Company ."

She was kind enough to spend time with us unpacking the book a bit more and even taking some questions. She is genuine and really cares about what she does as a profession. It is so clear in our sit down. My hope is that you enjoy the conversation and take away some truths about emotional intelligence and the people business. Find out more about Caroline and her company Forward at https://www.theforward.co/

Rob: 00:00 Well hang on for the 10 most common questions and inquiries that I get as a business and leadership coach about should I start my own business and obstacles everyone wants to put in their way. So hang on, here we go.

Rob: 00:22 [ROAR] Robert Barber ..I want

Rob: 00:29 to spend a few moments as I mentioned on that front roll part is talked to you about the 10 most common things that people ask me about or the conversations that I have with friends, clients, acquaintances about starting your own business. You know, that fact that I've owned three different businesses now have a corporate background starting my fourth new business and I'm have had some success. Um, at least what I feel is success. And, um, and so I, the these questions are so common. I mean literally I probably could do a hundred talks a year and just know for sure that these are going to be the 10 questions that I know for a fact that I'm going to get. So, uh, hopefully I can answer them for you right up...

So lets not get this confused. Ever since moving from a corporate and then owning my own businesses path to now pouring into others for their success. I get this all the time. What should my social strategy be? And my response is. Let me see your calendar. And people are like why? I want to see how many breakfast, lunches, employee sit downs, networking events you have blocked on your calendar. 

Listen, I love social. I am a HUGE fan and spend hours and a ton of money in this area to become an expert. It matters. With that said, if you need to make money it requires people engagement not likes. Likes is branding. Branding is the beautiful long game. 

Executing today is still a handshake. A lunch. Time to break bread over breakfast. A beer, wine or scotch  together. I coach a ton on Social and the importance. I then flip the coin and ask, tell me about your hand shaking and kissing babies time?

The most valuable thing besides time is who you are. And we have been given...

Oct 24 at 9am. Scale you and your business for results. $917mm in Sales 2018

Why spend time with me? 13 years of experience in both Corporate 150 as an Electrical Engineer and Human Resources Executive overseeing employees in 26 states. Then as a serial entrepreneur for 13 years culminating in $917mm sales in 2018, I have learned the strategies to scale you for more productivity and profit. I now own a company that is solely focused on sharing the strategies and execution necessary for high performance and scale. 30 Min presentation 30 minutes Q&A. Lets work. 

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Location: Startup Week event on Floor Five. THE EDNEY INNOVATION CENTER, 1100 MARKET STREET, CHATTANOOGA, TN, 37402

Luckily, most of what we need to know to live life wisely has already been said and written. A lot of intelligent people have already lived and shared their ideas and experiences. This is one of the best aspects of reading good books. You can learn from others, rather than having to figure it out yourself. But , it i also good to share with one another in other ways like here in this video.

When I was thinking about what I tell my younger self, I said maybe these words and video would help someone else. So here they are in video and written down.

Consider these ideas:

1. Action often trumps knowledge. Someone that knows a little but does a lot will beat someone that knows a lot but does little. Ensure that you’re not procrastinating under the guise of gathering more information.

2. Focus on the things you can control. If you can control it, why worry? Just take action to manage it the best you can. If you can’t control it, there’s no value in worrying.

3. You...

Speaker 1: 00:00 Well if you'd like to know 10 things that are going to define your week, hang on, I'm going to go over 10 and it will change your week, I promise. Hang on. Here we go.

Speaker 2: 00:10 Music

Speaker 1: 00:18 Well, hey everybody, it's Robert Barber from the ROYI academy, which stands for the return on you investment where our mission every day is to help you be the best version of you. And just want to let you know what inspired this Vlog blog tonight and I'm, it's Sunday and posted early this morning about what's your Sunday routine? You know, I just wanted to see what some other people out there that are self-employed or professionals or executives or in leadership or even individual contributors. What are they doing on a Sunday in the maybe evening or late afternoon in order to prepare themselves for the week ahead. And had to do some really great discussions, got some good comments on that. And,uand so that's really what drove me to want to do this, which is,uI...

This series of 5 videos will mean absolutely nothing without you taking action.

Welcome to day #5 of the public speaking challenge. Wow, you made it! Congratulations!

Today we’re going to be talking about actually going public.

SUCCESS FACTOR:

It’s one thing to know about confronting your fears, varying your speed and tone, going off script, and eliminating garbage words.

All those things are crucial to your public speaking success.

But here’s the deal: this knowledge won’t help you improve unless you actually PRACTICE.

You’ll only get good at public speaking if you ACTUALLY do some public speaking.

Yes, this is scary. Yes, it’s intimidating. But it’s essential.

That’s why the final day of this challenge is about actually going PUBLIC.

Thankfully, you don’t have to stand up in front of thousands of people to get practice. There are lots of simple ways to get practice.

But practice does make perfect.

ACTION:

I’m going to...