Ask Business Coach Clay Anything

What Are the Holi-Plagues? - Ask Clay Anything

Clay breaks down the self-imposed famines and cash flow problems caused by small business owners who spend more money than they have while simultaneously spending less time in the business.

How Do You Manage Responsibilities, Fire Poor Performers, Set Your Goals and Say "No" Often? - Ask Clay Anything

The founder of American Document Shredding, Kelly hops onto the Thrivetime Show to ask how to manage the demands of personal and professional responsibilities, fire poor performers, set goals and say no often.

Why Should I Attend the Thrivetime Show 2-Day Interactive 15-Hour Workshop?

The game-changing 2-Day 15-hour interact Thrivetime Show December conference is just around the corner. Come and learn how to grow your business 7x faster than the average American business.

What to Look for When Hiring | Ft. Employee of the Month Will Greenway

Sustainable Small Business Growth | Knowing Your Numbers and the Importance of Spending a Minimum of 5% of Your Gross Revenue on Turnkey Advertising - Ask Clay Anything

Sustainable small business growth is possible to achieve if you will commit to investing a minimum of 5% of your gross revenue on turnkey advertising. During this podcast, Clay Clark and Doctor Zoellner teach a small business owner how to take his spray wall foam and insulation business to the next level.

How Do I Believe God is Good When Life is Not? | Losing My Dad to Lou Gehrig's Disease (ALS) - Ask Clay Anything

“Having a positive attitude means having an optimistic and positive attitude when life is bad and not fair.” – Clay Clark

How To Implement Merit-Based Pay | How To Stay On Track - Ask Clay Anything

Two men, 13 multimillion dollar businesses, eight kids, one business coach radio show. It’s the thrive time business podcasts radio show. Get ready to enter the thrive time show. They should. If you are a subscriber to the thrive time show school, you get access to email us yourbusiness podcasts questions to info at thrive […]

Avoid the Dream Bermuda Triangle | How to Avoid the Path to Certain Failure - Ask Clay Anything

The proven path for guaranteeing failure involves trying to make “everyone” happy when you must, in fact, focus on solving problems only for your ideal and likely buyers. However, in the attempt to make “everyone” happy and to avoid “criticism” many entrepreneurs often get it wrong.

30 Days to a New You | Changing Both Your Mindset and Your Body within the Next 4 Weeks (with Amber and Charles Colaw) - Ask Clay Anything

There were some good nuggets of knowledge there, but I almost want more and if you want more you can go back to the business coaching thrive time show.com and you can look for the five keys to changing your mindset and your body within the next four weeks to find the entirety of this […]

Baby Slapping | How to Have Difficult Conversations - Ask Clay Anything

Tearing a band-aid off can be painful, removing stitches can be rough and giving a speech in front of your peers can be dreadful, but having a difficult and candid conversation with an employee can feel overwhelming. Listen in as Clay Clark breaks the how to give your employees a candid compliment, constructive criticism and compliment sandwich.

How to Not Get Offended | Learning to Say No to Outrage - Ask Clay Anything

Our culture today is heavily addicted to being outraged and easily offended. Doctor Zoellner and Clay Clark break down the importance of letting it go and staying in your “flow state” of stoic diligence.

Mark Wahlberg’s Schedule | How to Get 10X More Done Every Day - Ask Clay Anything

How do successful people seem to get 10 times more done than the average person? Clay breaks down the time management super moves of Mark Wahlberg and other successful entrepreneurs.

Should I Take On An Equity Partner - Ask Clay Anything

Are you looking for a strategic partner? Are you trying to figure what the details of that partnership would look like? If so, this Thrivetime Show episode is a must listen. Clay Clark and Dr Robert Zoellner will break down the details of partnerships.

How to Make Your Existing Business Grow | The Luke Owens and Hub Gym Case Study - Ask Clay Anything

If 90% of startup businesses fail according to Forbes and the average American business is growing at a rate of 3%, why is The Hub Gym experiencing sustained year over year growth of more than 50%? Luke Owens shares his journey through implementing the 13 Step Proven Path created by his business coach, Clay Clark.

How to Determine the Appropriate Profit Margin - Ask Clay Anything

What is the appropriate amount of profit that you should be making with your product or service? During this episode of Ask Clay Anything, Paul Hood (CPA) and Clay Clark break down the proven method for determining the appropriate profit margin to that you should be making on your products and services.

What Tradeoffs Did You Have to Make to Get to Where You Are Today? - Ask Clay Anything

“There’s no such thing as work-life balance, There are work-life choices, and you make them, and they have consequences.”- Jack Welch (The former CEO of GE who grew the company by 4,000% during his tenure)

What Is It Like to Be Your Own Boss? | We Welcome Kat and Adam Stockdall Into the $10,000 Per Week Club

Do you have questions? America’s number one business coach has answers. It’s your brought up from Minnesota. Here’s another edition of ask clay, anything on the thrive time business coach radio show, cat and Adam. Welcome onto the thrive time show on your radio and podcast download. You guys are the proud owners of tip […]

“Go Circumcise Yourself!” | How Do You Know If You Are Called to Be a Leader?

Do you have questions? America’s number one business coach has answers. It’s your brought up from Minnesota. Here’s another edition of ask clay. Anything on the thrive time business coach radio show. Welcome back to another edition of ask us anything, and today’s show is titled, Go Circumcise Yourself. Oh, that’s great. How do you […]

Managing Employees 101 (Part 6) - How To Spot A-Players with A-Player Personified Samantha Lynn

“Good people hire people better than themselves. So A players hire A+ players. But others hire below their skills to make themselves look good. So B players hire C players. C players hire D players, etc.” – Guy Kawasaki (The marketing specialist, author, and Silicon Valley venture capitalist. He was one of the Apple employees originally responsible for marketing their Macintosh computer line in 1984. He popularized the word evangelist in marketing the Macintosh and the concepts of evangelism marketing and technology evangelism.)

Managing Employees 101 (Part 5) - Avoid the 7 Frequent Hiring Dysfunctions

On today’s show, we’re talking about managing them employees, one o one, and how to avoid the seven hiring dysfunctions. Now there are many other dysfunctions. We could probably list out 407 dysfunctions. But here are the seven that I see the most often. This justin, take some notes. This will be about a seven […]

Managing Employees 101 (Part 4) - How to Effectively Manage Millennials | When You Care About Them, They Care About You

Get ready to enter the thrivetime show. Saif. Up. From the bottom now on the couch to we caught Nixon’s open books reading the books he’s broken some don’t look the biography that’s so. You see my kid. Please tell them see and see what you are right now. Three two one. Here we go. […]

Managing Employees 101 (Part 3) | How to Create a Culture of Accountability

Get ready to enter the thrive time show on the bottom from the bottom. Now we’re on the top, the systems to kibble. We got convictions on the books, the books seize brigit some wisdom and the look that’s so if you see my wife and kids, please tell them to see and see. And […]

Managing Employees 101 (Part 2) - Why Management Is Mentorship

Get ready to enter the thrive time show All right. Thrive nation. Welcome back to managing employees. One one I’d chop. I want to put a few business coach statistics on the show notes. Get that I know annex anecdotally, but there are statistics that I think most people aren’t aware of. So statistic number […]

Managing Employees 101 (Part 1) | Good People Won’t Work for Bad Bosses

No high quality employee will work (too long) for a boss who does not have mastery of: Self control, a keen sense of justice, the ability to make decisions based upon facts, definiteness of plans, the habit of doing more than paid for, a pleasing personality, sympathy and understanding, a mastery of detail, and a willingness to assume full responsibility.

Blazing a Trail Does Not Require Your Hair to Be on Fire | How to Become a Proactive Business Person - Ask Clay Anything

Two men, 13 multimillion dollar businesses, eight kids, one business coach radio show. It’s the thrive time business coach radio show. Get ready to enter the thrive time show. Now you’re stuck with us on your podcast. Download. My name is Clay Clark. I’m a man, bear pig. The father of five incredible kids. Again, […]