Sales, Shoes and Shipping #072

It's a Good Life

Brian Buffini

Business, Unknown, Entrepreneurship, Life, Good, Entrepreneur, Coaching

4.4 • 2.4K Ratings

🗓️ 17 October 2017

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

“Servant leadership is a mindset of putting your customers and others first.” — Dermot Buffini

Dermot Buffini, CEO of Buffini & Company and host of The Brian Buffini Show’s “Takeover Tuesday,” is in the hot seat, sharing his journey from star athlete growing up in Ireland to leading the largest real estate coaching and training company in North America. Dermot shares the lessons he’s learned from his parents, the reason he turned down a soccer scholarship to work in sales and how his path in retail, financial services and logistics has helped him in his role as CEO today. He also delves into the daily routines he uses to connect his head, heart and soul, explains why self-care is important to success and outlines the strategies he uses to help him tackle challenges and solve problems that arise.

Inspirational quotes from today’s interview:

“Sales is service and service is helping someone.” — Dermot Buffini

“If you serve where you are, it’s amazing what opens up.” — Dermot Buffini

“Servant leadership is a mindset of putting your customers and others first.” — Dermot Buffini

“When you’re designed to take care of others, the last thing you do is self-care.” — Dermot Buffini

“I’m interested in growth because we have potential and I love getting after it and seeing what’s possible.” — Dermot Buffini

“Learn to talk to yourself; don’t listen to yourself.” — Dermot Buffini

“Having grace for yourself will allow you to have grace for other people so you can encourage them.” — Dermot Buffini

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0:00.0	Welcome to the Brian Bafini show. I'm David Lalli, producer of the show. Once a month
0:19.6	our CEO, Derma Bafini, interviews people who have been there and done that in different
0:24.2	areas of life. We call it TakeOver Tuesday. Well today I'm taking over TakeOver Tuesday
0:30.5	and I want to learn a little bit more about the guy I admire and also work for. I'd love
0:35.0	to welcome Mr. Derma Bafini CEO of America's largest business coaching company to his own show.
0:41.3	Thank you David, I appreciate being here. I got a welcome fine line here. I'm one of your staff
0:46.6	and I'm about to ask you some questions. This is the nicest takeover of a takeover that's ever
0:51.6	happened. Thank you. It's great to have you. You're the CEO of America's largest business coaching
0:57.2	company but I would love to travel back in time to a land long, long ago and hear about young
1:04.8	Derma for those of us who don't know long before my time of course. You grew up not far from where
1:11.5	my mother grew up in Dublin and I'd love to hear about that. I'm sure many others would too. What
1:16.4	did you like growing up in Dublin Ireland? It was great. We had six kids growing up outside of Dublin.
1:22.4	My Brian's talked about a lot of podcasts and events. I'm the fifth of six. It's on the second
1:27.6	youngest. I said five boys, one girl. We didn't have a lot but we had everything we needed. A lot of
1:33.2	fun, a lot of laughter in the house. Each small house so everybody was able to find their small space
1:38.7	to exist and Dublin was a great place to grow up in. It was a good size city but it also didn't feel
1:45.7	big. A lot of community, a ton of sports, a ton of laughter. At the end of the day, just kind of like
1:52.8	it was a very happy upbringing and a very happy childhood. I'm going to ask an obvious question.
1:57.7	I think that some listeners to the show might want to know. Brian, did he give seminars in the
2:04.7	living room when you were growing up? He was always very animated and on the move and
2:12.9	fast and curious and exciting to be around. He's just a character. He's just a character. He's a
2:18.4	ball of energy. A guy who was always on the move, always learning and always rallying the troops
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