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February 10, 20231 min

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February 10, 20236 min

Margin Max Minute = Positive Drop-Ins (PDI)

Hey there! My name is Paul Ayres, and I am TheFitProfessional1.I am a professional business owner, leader, coach, and consultant. I am a fit professional, athlete, and student of optimal human performance in all things business and life. My passion is the science and art of business and how business through people creates and sustains margin; not just the margin on your financial statements, but also the off-book margin that creates my stakeholder's best life.I'll find more margin and I'll rescue your time.So, in today's episode of "Margin Max Minute", we're going to talk aboutPositive Drop-Ins or PDI and "How to Optimize your Team".I'm going to share with you some of my favorite tips and strategies and give you actionable ideas that you can use right now.I hope you'll join me!Let's get to work!

February 16, 20232 hr 6 min

THEFITPROFESSIONAL1 PODCAST = (Intensity Multiplier Principles) FELLOWSHIP

Hey there! Welcome to TheFitProfessional1 Podcast!I'm Paul Ayres, your host.In this episode, I’ll be interviewing two friends today, U.S. Marine Ben Stoflet and Navy Corpsman Killy Kitzmann for my Intensity Multiplier Principles book (IMP). We’ll be doing a deep dive into the IMP Principle of Fellowship. We will break down the concept of Fellowship into two dimensions, trust, and loyalty.The discussion highlights how trust and loyalty impact individual performance, organizational results, leadership effectiveness, and mission objectives. You’ll get useful tips, principles, and practices you can immediately implement in your life, career, and organization.Ben and Killy’s stories are inspirational and empowering. Please join me in honoring these veterans with listening and at the same time obtaining useful knowledge, skills, and disciplines you can use immediately in your life and career.Let’s get to work!

February 22, 20236 min

Margin Max Minute = Recovery

Welcome back to another episode of the Margin Max Minute. I'm so glad that you've joined me today!In today's episode of "Margin Max Minute", we're going to talk about"RECOVERY".We all know about recovery, but do we execute it? Most of us do not, in fact, make recovery a priority. The potential for optimized recovery to impact your best life is profound.Join me today to discuss some pointers designed to help you improve your recovery to maximize results.Stay tuned!

March 21, 202355 min

THEFITPROFESSIONAL1 PODCAST = Apollo 13 'Successful Failure Management Principles'

Welcome to TheFitProfessional1 Podcast!I’m your host, Paul Ayres and today we are going to discuss a surprisingly rich case from a Management Science Perspective, ‘The Successful Failure’ of Apollo 13.Do you ever have challenging, even catastrophic, events that impact your business? I believe it’s fair to say we all do. In this episode, you’ll learn about the 5A approach to successfully negating these events efficiently and profitably. Based on archived files of original engineers and technicians who played pivotal roles in bringing the Apollo 13 Astronauts home alive, this discussion analyzes then extracts useful management principles we all can use. I think you’ll find this as useful, amazing, and inspiring as I did.So, let's dive in!

March 8, 20233 min

Margin Max Minute = Stop Loss

Hey guys! Welcome to another episode of Margin Max Minute.We're going to be talking about the concept of "STOP LOSS" today.What is it? Well, it's basically setting a point where you say, "Okay. I'm just not going to do this anymore."The idea is that you want to be able to take a break, but it's important for you not to get too far away from your business plan. You should be able to come back and pick up where you left off without having to start all over again or redo anything.I hope you enjoyed this episode.So, tune in!

April 3, 20231 hr 11 min

THEFITPROFESSIONAL1 PODCAST = Toughness Part 1 (Intensity Multiplier Principles)

Welcome to the 3rd episode of TheFitProfessional1 Podcast!I am your host, Paul Ayres. I'm thrilled to bring you my guest today, a world-class athlete named Rob Lee. He was a world champion, cross country mountain biker, and now he's a coach of Olympians and pros, and we get to spend some time with him understanding the concept of toughness and mental toughness as it relates to sport and how it might roll over into your particular profession and life in general.This is a two-part series and in Part 1 we’ll cover concepts you can use in your career and pursuit of your best life including the role of consistency and its impact on adaption, what ‘pace’ is, strategies to improve your response to pain and discuss Rob’s ‘holy grail’ of coaching. There is so much more and with these concepts framed in Rob’s insight and antidotes shared via stories about his decades of experience, you won’t want to miss this one!So, tune in!

March 15, 202316 min

Margin Max Minute = Purposeful out of Balance

Hey, guys! Welcome to Margin Max Minute. This week we're going to talk about "Purposeful out of Balance".Perfect balance as we imagine is usually a fool’s errand. It's better to focus. Purposeful out-of-balance is precisely this concept. Focus on what you’re trying to achieve.Join me today for a quick review of this concept and a summary introduction of a tool that can help you focus your efforts more effectively toward the creation of your best life.Check out this episode to discover another technique for focus.It's time to rescue your time.Tune in!

April 18, 20231 hr 18 min

THEFITPROFESSIONAL1 PODCAST = Toughness Part 2 (Accelerate Success)

Welcome to the 4th episode of TheFitProfessional1 Podcast!In this episode, Rob Lee, a retired professional cyclist, and coach discusses how to accelerate success by understanding how sport enhances other aspects of your life including business, career, family, and more. Through great stories outlining Rob’s career, you will definitely get actionable takeaways whether you are just starting out or an experienced veteran. The experience in this episode is transformative and transferable from sport to career and back again. Likely the best work so far in the full-length version of TheFitProfessional1 Podcast, you won’t want to miss Rob’s insights and what is really an insightful perspective to just what the complex phenomenon of mental toughness is. So, tune in!

March 23, 20235 min

Margin Max Minute = Fire Squad Leadership

Welcome to the Margin Max Minute! I'm Paul Ayres.I'm so glad you're here because today I'm going to share an approach I call “Fire Squad Leadership” that will help you improve team performance toward target results.In this episode, we will briefly explore some of the aspects Marines use in training for optimum mission execution. Let’s see what aspects you might be able to use to improve your team’s performance!So, tune in!