Description

🔥 Excerpt

If you get better 1 percent every day, will you grow, and will you make more money

⚡ TL;DR

Steve Ramona and Rick Meekins explore how service creates trust, strengthens relationships, and produces durable business outcomes. Steve shares practical ways to practice service daily, use listening to deepen conversations, and set boundaries so serving others never becomes self neglect.

📄 Show Notes

Servant leadership is not soft, it is strategic and human. In this conversation with Steve Ramona, I kept coming back to a simple truth: people remember how you made them feel, and they move toward leaders who see them. Steve lives that out through what he calls the ASLA principle: ask, shut up, listen, and ask. It is a posture that turns networking into connection and selling into trust.

Servant leadership also requires discernment. Steve made it clear that a servant heart can say no, because serving everyone at the expense of your own stability creates resentment and financial stress. The aim is grounded service that protects your energy, your time, and your responsibilities.

What stayed with me most was Steve's call to track your service for a week, then reflect on three questions: how did they feel, how did you feel, and how did your work change. That is servant leadership measured in real life, not theory. When you stack that with a 1 percent better mindset, servant leadership becomes a daily practice that compounds into stronger relationships, clearer direction, and sustained growth.

✅ Key Takeaways

• Servant leadership starts with listening that is actually present
• Use simple recognition, names and sincere appreciation shift the whole interaction
• Protect your time and money, serving includes healthy no
• Track your service weekly and review the emotional and practical impact
• Improve 1% daily through small actions that compound

👤 Bio

Steve Ramona is the host of the Doing Business with a Servant's Heart podcast and a longtime entrepreneur who focuses on relationships, introductions, and practical service as a growth strategy.

👑 Host Info

Rick Meekins is an entrepreneur, strategic advisor, and host of The Relentless Pursuit of Winning, where he explores what it actually takes to build, lead, and sustain meaningful businesses. With over 30 years of experience working alongside founders and leadership teams, Rick brings a systems-oriented perspective to growth, strategy, and execution.

Interested in working together, having Rick speak, or partnering with the show?

Start here: https://rpowpodcast.com/contact/ 

🧭 Chapters

00:00 Introduction to service and relationships
03:42 Mindset and authenticity in service
06:16 Building trust through listening
07:55 Pouring into others through service
09:07 Long term relationships and trust based sales
12:26 Serving each other in real time
14:24 Discernment and saying no
16:38 Unexpected connections and introductions
19:11 Recognition and its impact
23:00 Introverts, questions, and relational skill building
26:09 Service that changes a family's future
27:49 Podcasting as a relationship network
35:41 Practicing servant leadership daily
39:06 Closing thoughts and resources

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