Episodes

Send us a text You need a well-trained team behind you, because you can't get all the work done alone. To go to a higher level, you need an empowered and trained team ready to take on challenges. In Finance and Accounting, we deal with a hectic list of tasks, reports, additional analysis, and month…

Send us a text You must set yourself apart from your peers so you get recognized by senior leaders and advance your career. Just doing your job every day will not get you promoted. Only completing tasks that have been assigned to you won’t help you advance. I discuss five areas that can help set yo…

Send us a text You can have a great Impact as a Leader in your organization. In this episode, I talk about why I love to lead, and the positive impacts we get to make in our organization. While we perform our Finance and Accounting duties, we can get overwhelmed while delivering financial projectio…

Send us a text Leadership development can set you apart from your peers so you can advance your career. This podcast is hosted and produced by Stephen McLain, a U.S. Army-Retired Finance Officer. After retirement, Stephen transitioned to working as a Team Member and Business Consultant in Corporate…

Send us a text Writing down your goals gives you a significantly greater chance of success according to numerous studies going back decades. When goal setting, you must be specific, have a defined date of completion, review them often, and update regularly. In the episode, I highlight my goal setti…

Send us a text Your mindset determines your outcome. How you view yourself and how you view the world will affect your career potential. In the episode, we discuss the following: 1) Leadership is the embodiment of making the impossible possible, 2) Mindset determines everything, 3) What is holding …

Send us a text Values make up our personal character. This week's episode is about the seven key leader values that we should strive to improve daily. These values show how we lead, and how we deal with tough decisions. Are we fair? Can we be humble? Are we an expert in our field? We are discussing…

Send us a text Becoming Your Best Self is essential when you are developing your leadership ability, because when you lead others you should be your best version to encourage growth and development while avoiding toxic behavior. During the episode, I discuss Becoming Your Best Self using the follow…

Send us a text Executive Presence represents your ability to confidently lead an organization in a positive way, show respect for others, solve problems, and anticipate the future. In the episode, I talk about Executive Prese...

Send us a text Writing down your goals gives you a significantly greater chance of success according to numerous studies going back decades. When goal setting, you must be specific, have a defined date of completion, review them often, and update regularly. In the episode, I highlight my goal setti…

Send us a text Episode #17: By taking more risk, you improve your chance to advance your career. By only doing your daily duties, you will most likely be seen as a competent, reliable worker, but really never able to show your potential for greater responsibility. Additionally, I am encouraging you…

Send us a text Adapting to a People Focused Leadership style will create a dynamic environment where you develop and empower your team instead of only trying to complete items off your to-do list. There are three significant reasons to change your leadership style from being Task Focused to Becomin…

Send us a text Effective leadership is built on trust. Teams and relationships are built on trust. Once trust is lost, it will be difficult to recover. It takes time, and you may never get it back. In this episode, we discuss the following: What happens to a team when no one trusts the leader, and …

Send us a text Purpose gives us the reason for what we do, and why we show up every day. It's our job as leaders to communicate purpose to our team members so they better understand how they contribute to the organization and...

Send us a text Earning a Professional Certification adds great value to your professional foundation and can boost your earnings and career potential. In the episode, I am discussing the reasons to earn a professional certification or license. Additionally, I list out a few finance and accounting c…

Send us a text Developing your soft skills will enhance and develop your career. In January 2020, LinkedIn published a list of five soft skills that companies are looking for right now. In this episode, I discuss the followin...

Send us a text Overcoming adversity and building your resilience are the topics on the episode this week. Becoming resilient is the ability to bounce back and overcome an adverse event. In the episode, I list seven items that you can use to build a resiliency plan. Additionally, this episode is the…

Send us a text How do we overcome our strong Organizational Culture, that normally helps us achieve excellence, when extraordinary circumstances require us to go against it? In this bonus episode, I talk about the strong culture of the U.S. Armed Forces, which requires close-in training by its pers…

Send us a text Going forward, it's time to recession proof your business. After recovering from this very unprecedented economic downturn, I am encouraging business owners to prioritize recession proofing their business by developing a plan to survive the next downturn. It will be challenging to sm…

Send us a text We will face change constantly in our careers and our personal lives. Doors will close and doors will open. For this bonus episode, I am discussing a few reasons why a door will close on us in our career. We sh...

Send us a text During this economic downturn, we are anything but "business as usual." This unique time requires creative leadership by business owners to save their businesses. The last few weeks, I have been thinking about ...

Send us a text We need leaders right now as we face many challenges. We need leaders of compassion who can provide hope and a vision to overcome what we are facing as a world. In this bonus episode, I am challenging Leaders t...

Send us a text The goal of empowerment is to develop, grow, and then trust your team members to complete tasks and eventually make decisions on your behalf. This requires you to take risk and have the long-term view of what y...

Send us a text Invest in your personal development. Don't wait on others to invest in you. Commit your plan on paper, set goals, and develop a timeline for completion. Track your progress and re-assess your development needs....