Addressing the ELEPHANT in the Room

Addressing the Elephant in the Room with April Ballestero. Join us as we interview guests, shed light on difficult subjects, and learn to better address the elephants in the rooms of our lives.

Addressing the ELEPHANT in the Room

Changing Your Leadership Lens, with Dan Houk

Dan has a diverse leadership background with a combined 40 years in manufacturing, sales, business ownership, and in the non-profit volunteer world. He is also the author of the book Intentional Relationships for Singles as well as a speaker. He currently oversees the volunteer program of one of the largest churches in America. He has a passion for seeing people grow in their leadership and expanding their leadership influence.

What you will learn in this episode:

  • Why you shouldn’t try to sell and instead focus on serving others
  • What it means to change your leadership lens, and how to begin filtering your lens
  • Why you should help someone achieve hero status in their story 
  • How to act as a guide to someone in their hero story
  • How obstacles of your life present themselves as villains in your story

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Creating Meaningful Content, with Hailey Durham

After working in many diverse fields, Hailey first crossed paths with One Light Ahead while working as their client from the front desk of a chiropractic office. Through her coaching journey, Hailey rediscovered her passion for leadership, organization, and objective truth. She advanced to Office Manager and was able to utilize her coaching tools, create an operational office manual, and help lead the office to break through a 20-year ceiling. After an unexpected cross-country move (and with permission,) April recruited Hailey to be One Light Ahead’s Operations Specialist in the Summer of 2021. She now works to create meaningful content with a passion to see others experience a transformation similar to her own. Hailey lives in Lewisville, TX with her husband Jonathan, young son Elijah, and their dog, Coby. She has a fun-loving enthusiasm for learning new recipes, line dancing, and serving her church and community.  

What you will learn in this episode:

  • How do you know whether the content you are creating is meaningful or not
  • Why self-awareness is critical to creating content that will help you build credibility
  • How content creators are responsible for knowing and understanding different audiences 
  • What is the first step for a content creator, and why it’s important for the creator and visionary to have a strong sense of trust
  • How to approach content if you are creating the content yourself
  • What you should look for in a content creator, and why you must focus on the details of content creation

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Growing Through Limiting Perceptions, with Blythe Daniel

Blythe Daniel is a literary agent, author, and marketer. Her agency markets books through podcasts, blogs, and launch teams and represents books to publishers including adult nonfiction, select adult fiction, and children’s fiction and non-fiction titles. Blythe has been the publicity director for Thomas Nelson Publishers and has spent the last 16 years as a literary agent. The agency represents new and bestselling authors primarily in the Christian market. Blythe and her mother have co-authored two books: Mended: Restoring the Hearts of Mothers and Daughters (Harvest House) and I Love You Mom: Cherished Word Gifts from My Heart to Yours (Tyndale). She is married and lives in Colorado with her family.

What you will learn in this episode:

  • How our perception of ourselves limits our capacity 
  • What is the law of the lid concept, and how does it help us grow
  • Why do we often ask others opinions when we are putting limitations on ourselves
  • How to accomplish your goals by starting with small actions
  • Why do we internalize the thoughts of others or societal pressures

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How Your Choices Impact Your Bottom Line, with April Ballestero

April Ballestero is a leadership expert and the founder of One Light Ahead, a coaching agency that helps business leaders shine at their brightest. With two decades of coaching experience, April knows exactly how to help business leaders achieve their full potential and become more effective, more energized, and more enthusiastic in their interactions with their teams, clients, families, and communities.

What you will learn in this episode:

  • How one question that caused resistance provided insight into the One Light Ahead team prequalification process
  • Why learning how to delegate and hold your team members accountable allows you to become a more effective leader
  • How many levels of leadership do you need in order to be successful
  • Why do your choices impact your bottom line in money, time, and energy
  • What tough questions should you ask yourself to help create joy, purpose, and value

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Shedding Mindset Paradigms, with Chris Prefontaine

Chris is the best-selling author of Real Estate on Your Terms: Create Continuous Cash Flow Now, Without Using Your Cash or Credit. He’s also the founder of SmartRealEstateCoach.com and the Smart Real Estate Coach Podcast.

Chris has been in real estate for over 25 years. His experience includes the construction of over 100 single family and duplex homes (mostly in the 1990s and selectively to date), has owned a Realty Executives Franchise (Massachusetts 1994-2000) as broker/owner which maintained high per-agent standards and eventually sold to Coldwell Banker in 2000. The 2000s included coaching ½ million and higher REALTORs® in order to scale & automate their businesses throughout the US and Canada. He also participated (and still does selectively) in doing condo conversions (multi-family homes to condos) and “raise the roof” projects (converting single family ranches to colonials in growth neighborhoods).

Chris has been a big advocate of constant education and participates regularly in high-end mastermind groups, as well as consults with private mentors. He runs his own buying and selling businesses with his family team, which buys 2-5 properties monthly, so they’re in the trenches every single week. They also help their clients do the same thing around the country.

Chris and his family team have done over 80 million in real estate transactions. They mentor, coach, consult, and actually partner with students around the country (by application only) to do exactly what they do.

What you will learn in this episode:

  • What challenges we face when transitioning to entrepreneurship or leadership roles
  • How surrounding yourself with the right people can help you conquer imposter syndrome
  • The turning point Chris reached that helped to shift his mindset
  • Why it’s important to ask your role models the things you want to know
  • How Chris uses a “stacking” method to hit incremental goals

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