Jordan Wood, Author at Sanguine Strategic Advisors

How Behavioral Assessment Helps Build Stronger Teams

For many business owners, the hardest part of running a company is not the product, the sales process, or even the finances. It’s the people. In a recent episode of MindShare, Kevin Chern sat down with Lenny LaCour and Dr. Robert Heller of Trust Well Network to explore why human capital creates so many challenges…

Optimistic Leadership Fuels Motivation and Resilience

In the business world, optimism is a leadership advantage, not a personality trait. When leaders genuinely embrace optimism, they create a ripple effect throughout their organization. Employees become more engaged, teams become more collaborative, and setbacks become stepping stones rather than stumbling blocks. At its core, optimism is about maintaining the belief that challenges can…

How Compassionate Leaders Build Stronger Teams and Loyal Relationships

Leaders often misunderstand compassion. Some people hear the word and assume it means being too soft, too emotional, or unwilling to hold people accountable. But compassion is not weakness. It’s not lowering standards or avoiding difficult decisions. Compassionate leadership means recognizing the human side of work while still leading with clarity, fairness, and responsibility. This…

Courageous Leadership Creates Clarity Across Your Business

Fearlessness and courage are often grouped together, but they are not the same. Courage is not the absence of fear. Being courageous means recognizing fear, pressure, or uncertainty and still choosing to act responsibly. In business, courage often shows up in everyday moments. Addressing underperformance, admitting a mistake, changing strategy, or making a difficult decision…

The Ripple Effect: How Leadership Enthusiasm Shapes a Business

Leaders often underestimate the impact their mindset has on how employees show up for work each day. People rarely separate how they feel about their work from how their leaders show up to lead it. In SMBs, where teams interact with leadership daily, their mindset sets the tone for the entire business. When a leader…

The Mindsets That Move Small Businesses Forward

Strategy, systems, and processes make up much of what a business is and can become. However, they are not the only factors. It’s also shaped by mindsets. The way leaders think, respond, communicate, and make decisions directly impacts how the rest of the organization functions. This is especially true for small and mid-sized businesses, where…

More Emails. Less Revenue.

Email marketing is still one of the most powerful tools available to business owners, but success depends on something many people do not fully understand: deliverability. In a recent episode of MindShare, Kevin Chern sat down with Larry Heslin of Email Industries to explain why emails that look “sent” often never reach the inbox and…

Stop Paying Your Vendors Early To Make More Money

Business owners spend a lot of time thinking about profit, but far fewer stop to examine how money actually leaves the business. Recently, Michael Greene and Caleb Coke of ClearView Spend Solutions joined Kevin Chern on the MindShare podcast to discuss payment strategy, a costly blind spot for many small and midsize companies. Their message…

The Health Crisis Inside Law Firms

Law firms are built on pressure. Deadlines, demanding clients, emotionally complex cases, long hours, and high-stakes decisions are part of the profession. In many firms, that pressure is creating a health crisis that is easy to overlook until it becomes costly. Attorneys and staff sit for long stretches, skip meals, lose sleep, delay care, and…

Anthony Bux Joins the Circle of Trust Podcast

Recently, Anthony Bux joined Keith Dyer on the Circle of Trust Podcast, a show for law firm owners and personnel looking for practical marketing insights. This conversation delivered exactly that. Anthony has spent more than 20 years in the legal industry, with experience across every side of the business. In the early 2000s, Anthony launched…