Old School Positive Thinking with Steve Shallenberger
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Jack Butala:
Jack Butala and Jill DeWit here, welcome to the Cash Flow from Land Show. Our guest today, Steven Shallenberger. Steve how are you?
Steve S.:
I'm doing great. Nice to be on your show.
Jack Butala:
Excellent, thank you. Steve has more than 40 years of experience as a successful business owner, trusted senior executive, top-rated speaker, and a number one bestselling author. He's best known for his fun, enthusiastic, and engaging personality. I'm afraid Jill, what we're known for. Steve has consolidated 40 years of success in leadership research into the national bestselling book, Becoming Your Best: The 12 Principles of Highly Successful Leaders. Leaders from around the world have raved about the impact and transformation their teams and organization have experienced by using the tools and processes found in his book. As a young entrepreneur, Steve built numerous organizations from the ground up. He has successfully lead companies in 3 different industries and has keen understanding of how to thrive in business.
During he's formative years, he continued his education at the Harvard Business School. He also worked many years with Stephen Covey, as a senior leader and trusted member of his board of directors. Steve and his team helped Covey start the First Things First Training and time management seminars. Steve served as the president at the Bring Em Young University Alumni Association. He was a charter member and chair of the Utah chapter of Young Presidents' Organization. I remember that, YPO. He's actively involved in a World Presidents' Organization, WPO. Welcome, thank you so much Steve.
Jill:
Hey thank you. Glad you're here.
Steve S.:
Hey it's great to be here, looking forward to our visit.
Jack Butala:
Boy, this is a pretty impressive bio. Most of the bios of the people that we have in the show, they don't have anything going in their life like this at all, no history at all.
Steve S.:
No, right. Whatever.
Jill:
How long is your signature line Steven? I got to ask.
Steve S.:
It's long. I told Steve as we had the chance to visit just briefly before, "You know Shallenberger is a great name. It's a Swiss-German name, but I have been seriously considering changing it to Garcia.
Jill:
I love it.
Steve S.:
A little more simple, easier to say, spell.
Jill:
Smith is good also.
Jack Butala:
That's exactly what I said. If he changes his name, I'm changing mine as Smith.
Steve S.:
Great.
Jack Butala:
Steve, that's quite an impressive background. What stuck out to me is the companies that you've started. Give us a little summary on those or one of them, your favorite let's say.
Steve S.:
Just tell you since you folks are in a great business, the Land Academy type of business of building a business around land and real estate. When I was a young man that's actually how I started out. I was raised in Northern California, a place called Vallejo which was pretty much a blue collar town, naval shipyard. There were 8 of us that lived in a 900 square-foot home. We're pretty poor. My first job was in Italian restaurant. Then when I was 16, I became involved with a man by the name of David [inaudible 00:03:29] and he's a real estate broker and he had 5 very successful real estate offices in Northern California. He was really my first mentor through the experiences I had with him.
I went through an enormous transformation and change not unlike many of your listeners go through when you have a new way to see things.