Before we get going, here's the bit where I remind you that nothing we discussed should be considered as investment advice.

This conversation is for informational and hopefully entertainment purposes only.

So, while we hope

you find it both informative and entertaining, please do your own research or speak to a financial

advisor before putting a dime of your money into these crazy markets. And now, on with the show.

Welcome everybody to another edition of the Grant Williams podcast.

Joining me this time out is author Robert Glazer.

Robert's books on leadership, elevate, rethinking two weeks notice and Friday forward

are all New York Times bestsellers.

And this week he's back with his latest work, The Compass Within, another terrific read which

focuses on core values but does so in a unique way.

During what I've found to be a fascinating and hugely inspiring conversation, you'll hear

Robert and I discuss his core values course and at the end of our conversation, I'll share

a link with you which will enable you to download a free copy of that course if you order a copy of the compass within, which I feel sure you're going to want to do

once you've heard what Robert has to say.

So without further ado, here is my conversation with Robert Glaser.

Robert, thank you for doing this and joining me on the podcast. I'm thrilled to get the chance to talk to you about this phenomenal new book of yours. Thanks for having me, Grant. When I read the book, your publisher sent me a PDF copy. It's fascinating. And it actually echoed with me and resonated with me through a lot of the things that I've actually been going through personally in the last couple of years. There's a ton of stuff I want to talk to you about, but perhaps before we get into the book and the journey of writing that, just give people a little bit of your background personally so we can understand how you came to be in the place of write this. Sure. I have this disease called serial entrepreneurialism, meaning I'm not very employable to other people. I've started a bunch of different businesses, the largest of which one is called acceleration partners. It's a global partner marketing firm. I'm the chair in that business, but I don't run it day to day. And as we were building that business, I tried to do a lot of things differently. And I learned a lot about myself and why I wanted to build the business and how I wanted the company to be different from places that I worked. And as part of my own leadership journey, I ended up

tripping over this core values topic, figuring it out. It really started changing everything for me

in the business and what I wanted to do. We started training our leaders on it too. And when I saw

the impact I had on other people that was impetus to think about how I could spread that further

in the world. But yeah, I've been building businesses for the last 20 years, a lot in the marketing

space. And I ended up because one of my core values is to find a better way and share it, a lot of

...