"Nice Business!" Podcast
“Ruthlessly” use human kindness and decency when becoming the best business owner/manager you can be. After all, would you rather be loved or feared by your team?
Richard Train from Richard L Train Consulting, LLC talks with Jim Bob Howard about how to help business leaders uncover those pesky "drama problems" that quietly drain performance: poor communication, disengaged teams, toxic staff dynamics, or leadership gaps no one wants to touch, and how to overcome them.
Episodes
11 episodes
Managing Private Equity Investment While Keeping Your Culture Intact
In this episode of the Nice Business Podcast, Richard Train and Jim Bob Howard talk with Randy Murphy, serial entrepreneur and fractional CEO, about keeping company culture intact during private equity transitions.Randy shares his experi...
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Season 1
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Episode 12
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35:49
Planning For, and Adapting to Change: Organizational Lessons from the Red Cross
In this episode of the “Nice Business!” PodcastTM, Richard Train and Jim Bob Howard talk with Linda Braddy, CEO of the Red Cross of North Texas. Linda shares how her career path led her from higher education into nonprofit leadership, ...
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Season 1
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Episode 11
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33:30
How Brett Hurt's "Love Conquers Fear" Will Help Your Business and Life
"Love conquers fear. When we lead from a place of love, we inspire others to bring their best and their whole selves to everything they do."In this episode of the “Nice Business!” PodcastTM, Richard Train and Jim Bob Ho...
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Season 1
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Episode 10
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49:32
Mission Driven Business - What Success Looks Like
In this episode of the Nice Business Podcast, Richard Train and Jim Bob Howard sit down with Jacob Johnson, CEO of Calyan Wax Co., a home fragrance company on a mission to combat human trafficking, for an insightful conversation on mis...
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Season 1
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Episode 9
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28:36
The Power of Understanding "People-Pivot-Purpose"
In this episode of the Nice Business Podcast, Richard Train and Jim Bob Howard sit down with Laurie Guzman, CEO and Founder of The Inside Story, for an insightful conversation on the power of pivoting, purposeful leadership, and the pe...
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Season 1
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Episode 8
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47:51
Leading Through a Near RIF: How Compudopt Scaled Nationally, Stayed Human, and Kept Trust Intact
When a long anticipated federal funding stream stalled, Compudopt CEO Megan Steckly had to steer a hyper scaling nonprofit through a near reduction in force without breaking culture or momentum. In this candid conversation wi...
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Season 1
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Episode 6
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30:43
Why You’re Losing Your Best People (and How to Keep Them)
Why are your best people leaving? In this live “Nice Business” session, hosts Jim Bob Howard and Richard Train break down the three drivers behind costly turnover: ineffective management, unclear direction, and shallow recognition. ...
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Season 1
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Episode 5
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51:06
Trust Fuels Growth: Inside MALK’s Journey From 6 Employees to 9X Revenue
When Jason Bronstad stepped in as CEO of MALK Organics, the company had a 45-day shelf life, a thousand stores to serve, and a shrinking team of employees. The easy path would have been cutting corners with materials and empl...
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Season 1
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Episode 4
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28:39
Clarity Is Kindness: Inside a Post-Merger Culture Rebuild
When 14 businesses become one, the hardest part isn’t the org chart… it’s the humans. We ask Catalyst MedTech CEO: Marty Shirley about how he rebuilt culture after a seismic merger: opening direct access to leadership, making...
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Episode 3
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35:54