The Winsome Advantage: How to win by helping others win, with Brian Slipka
The Jon Gordon Podcast
Jon Gordon
4.8 • 1.2K Ratings
🗓️ 26 July 2024
⏱️ 54 minutes
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Summary
Discover the incredible transformation of a fiercely competitive entrepreneur into a winsome leader. Learn how Brian Slipka's journey from self-centered ambition to selfless service has shaped his family of companies and left a lasting impact. This is a story of vulnerability, growth, and the pursuit of a legacy that transcends personal success. Dive into the Winsome framework and explore practical strategies for cultivating impactful relationships in business and life that lead to greater success and fulfillment. Join Brian Slipka and Jon Gordon on a journey of transformation and legacy-building that will inspire you to strive for a deeper, more meaningful impact.
In this episode, you will be able to:
- Lead with purpose and make a real impact in your small business community.
- Overcome business challenges with proven strategies that drive success.
- Build a lasting legacy through the power of entrepreneurship.
- Implement winsome strategies to foster meaningful and impactful business relationships.
My special guest is Brian Slipka
Brian Slipka is the owner of the True North Family of Companies, which includes well over twenty companies with combined revenues of nearly a quarter-billion dollars annually. Slipka graduated from the University of Minnesota's Carlson School of Management, and his early career included sales and leadership positions at major publicly traded companies. Trusting in the Win Some Framework, he left the public/corporate world and focused on his growing portfolio of small businesses. As the CEO and managing partner, Slipka leads a group of diverse Main Street organizations, as well as their philanthropic arm, True North Family Foundation. He also serves on the boards of several for-profit and nonprofit organizations. Slipka credits his faith, commitment to servant leadership, and ability to build trusting relationships as the bedrock of his success. He resides in Minnesota with his wife, Megan, and their two children.
His website is www.slipka.com or www.winsomefable.com
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the John Gordon Podcast where we share John's interviews with guests as well |
| 0:05.8 | as key strategies and lessons from his keynotes, coaching and more. |
| 0:09.1 | We want to encourage you to check out John Gordon certified.com if you're interested in growing as a leader, coach, |
| 0:14.4 | speaker, or trainer. When you get certified, you'll be able to teach coach and train others |
| 0:18.3 | on John's most impactful mindset, leadership, andwork Principles. For more information, |
| 0:23.5 | visit John Gordon certified.com, that and today my guest is a good friend |
| 0:36.9 | Brian Slipka. Brian how you doing? I'm awesome John great to be with you. |
| 0:42.0 | Brian you are one of the most successful people I know, but also one of the nicest people I know. |
| 0:48.0 | Can you take us back to just beginning when you first started your life, your journey, teenager, were you interested in business all the way back then? |
| 0:58.0 | Yeah for sure. Well first off, well it's kind of words of you to say but you know as we'll talk about later |
| 1:03.2 | with with this book I wrote Winsome you know I'm a mild version of the |
| 1:07.1 | protagonist in it and so I'm maybe not as nice as you as you expressed and I |
| 1:12.1 | think that's part of the story right about |
| 1:14.0 | about what we're going to talk about and just the vulnerabilities around you know you know |
| 1:17.8 | our inner thoughts right but no I'm a I um, grew up in a, you know, middle class suburban neighborhood of the Twin Cities, born in Sioux Falls, South Dakota, moved to the Twin Cities at a young age. |
| 1:29.6 | I grew up, went to business school at the University of Minnesota. |
| 1:32.2 | I'm a golden gopher, you know, |
| 1:33.9 | rolled the boat, you know, as you and I both know. And I know that's, you know, gophers are near and dear to you as well |
| 1:41.1 | with PJ and team and we share we should both share that |
| 1:45.9 | friendship for sure but you know it came out of the University of Minnesota and |
| 1:50.8 | enter the world of business very normal just like normal, just like a lot of business school students and was able to have some good earthly success from a standpoint of professional, you know, corporate corporations and that sort of thing. |
| 2:03.6 | And it was always very entrepreneurial and, |
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