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The Gold Mine PodcastThe Gold Mine Podcast is an audio show hosted by Auburn Business Ventures (California) where the guests are local entrepreneurs and business owners. Author: Auburn Business Ventures
The Gold Mine Podcast is an audio show hosted by Auburn Business Ventures (California) where the guests are local entrepreneurs and business owners. The episodes serve to publicize the stories of their local businesses and the lessons they learned along the way in building them. Language: en Genres: Business, Entrepreneurship, Marketing Contact email: Get it Feed URL: Get it iTunes ID: Get it |
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E36 From Isolation to Insight | Machen MacDonald | Pro Brilliance Leadership Institute
Episode 3
Thursday, 18 September, 2025
In this episode of The Gold Mine Podcast, coach and Vistage Chair Machen Macdonald (Pro Brilliance Leadership Institute) joins us to unpack how real human connection and true peer advisory can create clarity, accountability, and momentum.We dig into what actually happens inside a Vistage group: morning workshops with national experts (marketing, HR, AI, cybersecurity, finance), lunch and community, and an afternoon of issue processing where members surface the real problem before solving it. We talk mindset, clean operations vs. noisy “growth,” and simple tools like askformations that shift you from reaction to creation.What you’ll learn:• Why peer advisory is not a leads group—and why that matters• The five buckets most owner challenges fall into: decisions, accountability, isolation, growth/exit, and the unknown unknowns• How “issue processing” prevents you from solving the wrong problem• The power of clean operations (reducing waste and busywork) to free profit and energy• Askformations vs. affirmations, and a simple question that unlocks tough personnel decisions• The “three buckets” of control and how to stop letting emotion run your calendarGuest:Machen Macdonald is a leadership coach and Vistage Chair serving business owners and CEOs in the Gold Country. Through Pro Brilliance Leadership Institute, he helps leaders make better decisions, build capable accountability, and scale with sanity.Resources mentioned: • Pro Brilliance Leadership Institute • Vistage• The E-Myth (Michael Gerber) • 2 Second Lean (Paul Akers) • Motion task-scheduling app If this episode was helpful, hit subscribe, drop a comment with your biggest takeaway, and share it with a business owner who needs a spotter.
