Building Your Personal Board of Directors for Success
Win Make Give with Ben Kinney
Ben Kinney Training
4.9 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 24 November 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Chad Hyams and Bob Stewart discuss the concept of having a personal board of directors to guide and support your goals. This episode explores key roles such as a coach, mentor, peer, truth teller, encourager, challenger, and connector. Learn how to assemble and effectively leverage a board to enhance accountability, gain diverse perspectives, and achieve personal and professional growth. They also touch on the importance of formalizing these relationships, maintaining regular meetings, and showing appreciation for the board's contributions. Discover how this structure can propel you toward success.
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0:00 The Importance of Personal Boards of Directors for Accountability
05:00 Building a Personal Board of Directors for Effective Leadership
12:26 The Importance of Mentors and Peers in Personal Growth
15:46 The Importance of Having a Truth Teller in Your Life
19:14 Building a Personal Board of Directors for Success
26:32 Formalizing Mentorship and Building a Personal Board of Directors
32:40 Building a Personal Board of Directors for Success
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the Wind Making Podcast, Chad Heim's here. |
| 0:10.4 | Bob Stewart there. |
| 0:11.8 | And Bob, let's not bring any of our pre-conversation into this. |
| 0:14.9 | I mean, I don't know if I can't. |
| 0:16.3 | Chad, I think I might have heard you and I, the closest politically that we've been in a while |
| 0:22.9 | kind of came out of that discussion. |
| 0:26.3 | Baseball card collecting conversation led us down another path. |
| 0:30.7 | Folks, you never know where a conversation can go. |
| 0:33.3 | And when you have someone that you have a trusting relationship with, a conversation is allowed to go anywhere. |
| 0:42.8 | I see what you're doing right now. |
| 0:44.3 | I see what you're doing. |
| 0:45.8 | You see where I'm going on that. |
| 0:46.9 | All right. |
| 0:47.3 | So we're going to jump right into today's episode because we mentioned it on a previous episode. |
| 0:53.0 | I wanted to go a lot deeper on it, Bob. |
| 0:56.0 | I believe everybody, and this is an evergreen episode, |
| 1:00.0 | this is gonna work forever, yet right now is a great time of year |
| 1:04.0 | because this should drop somewhere in the last five |
| 1:08.0 | or six weeks of the year, right? |
| 1:16.3 | Everybody should be moving into the new year with a board of directors. |
| 1:22.4 | Now, Bob, you've worked in organizations that truly have a board of directors. |
| 1:25.1 | What's the role of a board of directors? |
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