Time, TV & The Truth – with Monique Lindner

Time, TV & The Truth – with Monique Lindner

Time, TV & The Truth - with Monique Lindner

Monique Lindner is a High Performance & Leadership specialist, TEDx speaker, and location-independent entrepreneur. Her clients range from start-ups to Fortune 500 companies like Apple. She works with business leaders and CEOs and their teams of up to 160 people in helping them to optimize their efficiency, build solid leadership skills, improve their mindset, and create massive impact. With her unique The T.I.M.E. Method® and her tagline ‘Slow Down to Speed Up’, she is on a mission to help business owners take back control of their time and energy and grow impactful businesses. In today’s episode, Monique talks about how to ‘Slow down to Speed up‘ as she firmly believes that if you can not take easily two weeks, or even just two days, off without turning into a nervous wreck, then it’s time for a change!

HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

[1:24] – Today is our one year anniversary of the podcast, Efficiency on Demand.

 

[2:45] – What are the best thing that you can do to help and support us.

 

[4:00] –  From next solo episode, I will choose those ratings reviews, we will draw them and we will read them out and we probably have some little gifts for you to send out.

 

[6:12] – Many people reach out and asked me why I don’t share more about my time method?

 

[6:53] – My book is not only about how you can save time, how you can be more efficient. But it’s really actually about how you can get rid of toxicity in your life.

 

[7:18] – I have hired a marketing coach to just help me bring my message a little bit further into this world.

 

[8:34] – In this solo episode you’re going to hear a lot about time, the four pillars of the time method. 

  • Time management
  • Impactful leadership
  • Mindset mastery 
  • Energy efficiency

 

[10:21] – Let’s go dive a little bit into the book.

 

[16:32] – I’m certainly not a person who supports the law of attraction. 

 

[17:02] –  Why is time so important, though?

 

[19:54] – Seven years ago, I have consciously decided to stop watching any TV, movies, Netflix, anything. 

  • I want to spend my time not being brainwashed by certain ideas.

[23:40] – Where do you really want to spend your time?

    Ready to create an abundance of
    TIME in your life?

    Are you constantly chasing time, feeling like your to-do lists filling up faster than you can work them off? Overwhelm, stress and exhaustion are your weekly companions even though you didn’t invite them over … and too often you are saying yes to things you actually wanted to say no to? 

    Is your energy low, you are asking yourself where all the fun has been left and you just wish you had more time… you know for all of those things you don’t even dare to write down on one of your lists.  Then it’s time for you to read

    The T.I.M.E. Method™ – A no bullsh*t guide to creating an abundance of time

    IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

    I’m certainly not a person who supports the law of attraction.

    Monique Lindner

    I live every day I get to experience as if it was a new life, one life a day, that’s all I got, that’s all you got.

    Monique Lindner

    The problem is that we think we have time, we think that we somehow own time for as long as we live. But we don’t actually know how long that will be.

    Monique Lindner

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    Soviet Union, Self Concept & Standing your Ground with Yuri Kruman

    Soviet Union, Self Concept & Standing your Ground with Yuri Kruman

    Soviet Union, Self Concept & Standing your Ground with Yuri Kruman

    Yuri is the CEO of HR, Talent & Systems Consulting, an award-winning HR consultancy. As a certified SHRM-SCP, he is likewise a sought-after speaker and expert on HR, Digital Transformation and Employee Experience (EX). He is also a Forbes Coaches Council member and contributor to Entrepreneur, Business.com, Influencive and several other top platforms. He has consulted and spoken at numerous Fortune 500 and Inc. 5000 companies, VC-backed startups, and top universities, including EY, Google, Columbia and UPenn. In addition, his executive leadership coaching practice has impacted thousands of top executives. He is the author of the forthcoming book, "Be Your Own Commander-in-Chief," (Ideapress Publishing, 2021). In today’s episode, Yuri talks to Monique about making mistakes in every area of his life through inefficiency and stubbornness, then has to unwind the damage through the right mindset and learning and implementing methods of efficiency.

    HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

    [1:12] – Monique introduces her guest, Yuri Kruman.

     

    [1:29] – I want to know  who you are, where are you from, and what do you do?

        • I do HR consulting.
        • I do executive coaching.
        • I write as well, I speak.

     

    [7:24] – Share with me about the Soviet Union that you have experienced.

        • It was a place that had its own very specific rules.
        • I just kind of grew up with that awareness like, “keep it to yourself, don’t rely on anyone else. Don’t ask anyone for help because you don’t want to be beholden to anyone”.

     

    [12:45] – Yuri talks about Semitism.

     

    [17:53] – So do you think there should be more conversations about how anti Semitism looks these days? And how can we change that?

        • The trouble with anti semitism, it’s always rearing its ugly head.
        • If you really dig what it is, that’s the modern anti-Semitism.

     

    [21:25] – How was it for you, as a nine year old?

        • I was probably a little bit too serious even for a Soviet kid.
        • My childhood was anything but conventional.

     

    [26:55] – Yuri talks about his experiences having a Russian identity and American identity.

     

    [52:01] – What does efficiency mean to you?

        • Efficiency is basically more or less cutting away all the junk and all the wrong people and leaving whatever is left in some kind of digestible order that can allow you to maybe get sleep once in a while.

     

    [53:37] – Which of the three things would you keep doing over and over again to get back to success?

        • Time management.
        • Block out the wrong things.
        • Go back to default lenses.

    Ready to create an abundance of
    TIME in your life?

    Are you constantly chasing time, feeling like your to-do lists filling up faster than you can work them off? Overwhelm, stress and exhaustion are your weekly companions even though you didn’t invite them over … and too often you are saying yes to things you actually wanted to say no to? 

    Is your energy low, you are asking yourself where all the fun has been left and you just wish you had more time… you know for all of those things you don’t even dare to write down on one of your lists.  Then it’s time for you to read

    The T.I.M.E. Method™ – A no bullsh*t guide to creating an abundance of time

    IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

    If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.

    Yuri Kruman

    Sometimes you have to leave a little bit of room open, for something new, for something unusual, for something that it’s not rational to engage with that person.

    Yuri Kruman

    Energy efficiency for me is everything about getting rid of the toxicity in your life, whether that’s materialistic or people.

    Monique Lindner

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    Bestsellers, Business & The Brain with Otakara Klettke

    Bestsellers, Business & The Brain with Otakara Klettke

    Bestsellers, Business & The Brain with Otakara Klettke

    Otakara Klettke is an international bestselling author of “Hear Your Body Whisper; How to Unlock Your Self-Healing Mechanism”, and newly released “Hear Your Brain Whisper, How to Unlock Your Mind's Potential”. She is also an author of the bestselling children's book series “Detective Bella Unleashed”. She is passionate about anything from nature, whether it's a human, animal, or the whole universe. She is an avid supporter of eco-friendly life and education, fascinated by scientific studies, and an incurable traveler. In today’s episode, Otakara and Monique are talking about how Otakara suffered from many unfortunate health conditions, which kept her in bed for many days at the time. Without anything to watch on TV, and with a massive library her parents had available, she developed a passion for reading quality books. From an early age, she fell in love with folk fairytales from around the world which later on turned into her passion for writing books herself.

    HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

    [1:31] – Monique introduces her guest, Otakara Klettke.

     

    [1:48] – Tell everyone who are you, what do you do, where are you from and where are you now?

    • I’m an author and books are my world.
    • I was born in the Czech part of the former Czechoslovakia.
    • I live in the United States in Oregon,

     

    [3:00] – What made you decide to move to the U.S.A?

    • I used to come here at least once a year.
    • I went to Florida and I met my husband who was from Oregon.

     

    [4:54] – Tell me about your childhood.

    • I was growing up during communism.
    • I was affected, but not at the same time. Not in a way people think.

     

    [23:340] – Otakara talks about how accents make her feeling so excluded.

     

    [40:12] – Tell me about the new book and what it’s all about.

    • It is about the human brain. 
    • It’s about how we can tune up our brain into its best possibilities and it focuses a lot on our neurotransmitters and the way the brain functions. 

     

    [42:05] – How did you get started writing these types of books?

    • This book about the brain actually follows my first book “Hear your body whisper; How to unlock your self-healing mechanism”.
    • Part of it was based on my childhood. 

     

    [1:01:15] – When is your book coming out?

    • July 22, 2020
    • Coming out on international brain day.

     

    [1:11:41] – What does efficiency mean to you?

    • Efficiency means to focus clearly and get things done whatever it needs to be in a shortest amount of time.

     

    [1:12:32] – Which of the three things would you keep doing over and over again, to get back to success again

    • Dancing
    • Books
    • Traveling 

      IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

      If you focus on changing the chemistry of your brain, you can change how you feel, if you change how you feel you can become more productive, you can become better and do what you love and you can change the things in your life a lot just by tuning up your brain.

      Otakara Klettke

      Efficiency means to really focus clearly and get things done whatever it needs to be in the shortest amount of time.

      Otakara Klettke

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      Operations, Outsourcing & Onboarding with Nathan Hirsch

      Operations, Outsourcing & Onboarding with Nathan Hirsch

      Operations, Outsourcing & Onboarding with Nathan Hirsch

      Nathan Hirsch is an entrepreneur and expert in remote hiring and eCommerce. Most recently, Nathan co-founded FreeeUp.com in 2015 with an initial $5,000 investment, scaled it to $12M per year in revenue, and was then acquired in 2019. Today, Nathan is a co-founder of OutsourceSchool, a company working to educate entrepreneurs on how to effectively hire and scale with virtual assistants through in-depth courses. Nathan has appeared on 300+ podcasts, is a social media personality, and loves sharing advice on scaling remote businesses. In today’s episode, Nathan and Monique are talking about how Nathan bootstrapped 3 different businesses with less than $5k initial investment. The last company hit 8-figures in revenue and was acquired within the industry, a dream that came true. Nathan also shares the journey from the initial investment, to efficiently scaling the business organically for 4 years. This episode is for all of you out there who are entrepreneurs by heart and are looking for inspiration to see, you too can be the one hitting big goals!

      HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

      [1:12] – Monique introduces her guest, Nathan Hirsch.

       

      [2:27] – Tell us about who you are, what you do, why you have a German surname and how was it growing up being a Half-German?

      • I am the co-founder of Outsource School
      • My dad’s German and Jewish.
      • I grew up in a town called East Longmeadow in Massachusetts.

       

      [4:49] – Nathan talks about his first glimpse into being an entrepreneur.

       

      [7:50] – Walk me through your experience of school and share a bit about the educational system.

      • College was a fun time. I met some of my best friends. I started my business there, I met my business partner.
      • Did I get an ROI on the degrees? Not, but if I didn’t go to college, then I wouldn’t have met my business partner and who knows where I’d be right now.

       

      [12:21] – What made you decide that you don’t want to follow your parent’s steps?

      • My aunt influenced me a lot.
      • I got to see my aunt start her own business.
      • I gotta see her upgrade nicer houses as her business grows.
      • I got to talk to her and learn from her.

       

      [15:27] – Which of the life skills do you think are the most important one when it comes to outsourcing?

      • Focusing your time and having a priority is important.
      • No matter what you’re doing in life, you have to have time management skills. You have to have the ability to prioritize.

       

      [16:56] – When you started outsourcing, what was it that you were looking for in the beginning?

      • At the beginning, I just needed help.
      • I learned from scratch, and it took me years to build out my interview process. My on boarding process and my training process through a lot of trial and error.

       

      [18:35] – Do you only hire people in the Philippines or do you actually hire worldwide?

      • I like to divide up hiring into three levels. The followers, the doers, and the experts.
      • I hire followers from the Philippines
      • And I hire doers and experts from different countries.

       

      [19:16] – What do you think makes them the best followers?

      • They learn English at a very young age.
      • They have a great sense of family, which is good if you are creating a good culture and a good team.

       

      [21:11] – What are the things that would piss you off the most about this industry?

      • Not treating the VA well.

       

      [34:17] – What do you think are the great perks to offer to a team that’s not on a payroll?

      • They get the flexibility to work remotely.
      • I’m also flexible when it comes to days off.
      • We’ve thrown Christmas parties, where we’ll pay for the food. We’ll pay for everything and they’ll get together.

       

      [40:01] – When you start working with entrepreneurs and outsourcing. What question would you wish they would ask you more?

      • I like to focus on system and process questions.

       

      [44:32] – What does efficiency mean to you?

      • It’s all about figuring out what hours in the day I’m most productive doing things. And what I can get done to move the needle.

       

      [46:36] – Which of the three things would you keep doing over and over again to get back to success?

      • Networking
      • Going on podcasts
      • Partnerships

        IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

        Focusing your time and having a priority is incredibly important.

        Nathan Hirsch

        You have to have time management skills, you have to have the ability to prioritize.

        Nathan Hirsch

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        Self-Awareness, Systems & Support with Loic Alix-Brown

        Self-Awareness, Systems & Support with Loic Alix-Brown

        Self-Awareness, Systems & Support with Loic Alix-Brown

        Loic is one of the CEOs and Co-Founders at Flick, a SAAS solution to help entrepreneurs, content creators, and small businesses find the best hashtags to reach their target audience on Instagram. In today’s episode, Loic and Monique are talking about how being efficient with money and a small team helped him turn his agency from being in debt to a highly successful software company in only 18 months.

        HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

        [1:33] – Monique introduces her guest, Loic Alix-Brown.

         

        [1:58] – Introduce yourself and tell us a little bit about who you are, where you are located, what you do?

            • My name is Loic Alix-Brown.
            • I’m half French, half English.
            • I am the head of the product of flick.tech.

        [2:59] – Where did you grow up?

            • I was actually born in London.
            • I did go to a French school. 
            • My whole education was French.

        [3:44] – What was your childhood experience growing up in London?

            • I was very lucky to have a sort of very close parent to me who did take very good care of me. 
            • I have quite a sheltered childhood.

        [5:29] – Loic talks about why he decided to start working by the age of 16.

         

        [7:44] – Where do you think does this mindset come from?

            • Part of it was school and just a general dynamic between myself and my friends.
            • We always push each other quite hard in a nice way.

        [10:26] – How did you get started in building a drone?

            • Did some research from youtube videos.
            • A detailed blog post about how to build a drone.

        [13:57] – Loic talks about the very start of his digital marketing journey.

         

        [17:55] – What has been enabling you with your mindset to go faster and further with this company?

            • There’s a lot of hard work that goes into it.
            • I’ve been very lucky with the people I’ve met. My business partners are absolutely amazing.

        [30:27] – Loic talks about how he managed to organize his time between school and a building a business.

         

        [39:03] – What does efficiency mean to you?

            • Efficiency is just making the most of the time you have.

        [39:28] – Which of the three things would you do over and over again, to get back to success?

            • Finding my current co-founders somehow.
            • Optimizing my organizational skills a lot earlier. 
            • I’m cultivating this idea of accountability.

        IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

        Planning is the biggest thing. It just gives you freedom

        Monique Lindner

        Efficiency is just making the most of the time you have.

        Loic Alix-Brown

        Once you know what you do when you do it, and you just do it, it’s gonna be so much more efficient, and it gives you so much time back.

        Monique Lindner

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        Remote-Work, Recruiting & Resilience with Anna Shcherbyna

        Remote-Work, Recruiting & Resilience with Anna Shcherbyna

        Remote-Work, Recruiting & Resilience with Anna Shcherbyna

        For the past 8 years, Anna has been working in Operations and Recruitment for both major companies and remote businesses. She currently, runs a remote-focused recruitment agency that helps companies hire top remote talent via a done-for-you service. She is originally from Ukraine but is currently location independent. In today’s episode, Anna and Monique are talking about big goals, both personally and professionally to bring value to the remote working community.

        HOT TOPICS OF THE EPISODE

        [02:07] – Monique introduces her guest, Anna Shcherbyna.

         

        [04:13] – Tell everyone first, what are you doing? Where are you from? And who are you?

        • My name is Anna.
        • I am originally from Ukraine.
        • I run a remote agency, It is specifically helping online businesses hire remote teams all over the world.

         

        [05:20] – How do you go about finding remote teams?

        • It’s such a unique process, in my personal opinion.
        • So what we do is we fully try to understand and, what we’ve done is we’ve figured out which job boards in which locations we can actually go to to find those specific people.

         

        [12:00] – How can you evaluate the values of the people who are applying? And do they actually apply themselves? Or do you headhunt? Most of the people into the funnel? How does it work?

        • In terms of how we find them, the actual job boards or locations where we’re finding candidates are also the same locations where we can invite candidates.
        • In terms of values, I’d actually even pull that back a little bit and say, personality, culture fit.

         

        [30:29] – How did you experience growing up? Did you grow up in Ukraine at all?

        • I was born there.
        • it was a really hard time. I actually had a year where like a gap year when I was I think 16 or 15.

         

        [54:50] – What does efficiency mean to you?

        • The team creates efficiency.
        • I’m extremely passionate about a team because I truly believe that the reason that I got to be efficient in my business is with a team.
        • Surround yourself with people who are better than you at what you need them to be.

         

        [1:02:09] – If you would have to start all over again which of the three things that you’ve done has been so successful that you would be doing them over and over again to get where you are now?

        • Learning that team can support me has been a revelation.
        • I’ve been able to grow my own skills and learn because of the people in my life.
        • People are the key to success. 
        • If you want to go fast, go alone if you want to go far go together.

         

        AWESOME RESOURCES WE TALKED ABOUT

        IN THIS EPISODE

         

        IMPACTFUL QUOTES OF THIS EPISODE

        Sometimes we learn from our own mistakes. Sometimes we learn from other people’s mistakes.

        Anna Shcherbyna

        Take care of the team, the team takes care of the business.

        Anna Shcherbyna

        If you want to go fast, go alone if you want to go far go together.

        Anna Shcherbyna