698: How to Grow Your Career Faster through Reading with Jeff Brown (Host of the Read to Lead Podcast)

698: How to Grow Your Career Faster through Reading with Jeff Brown (Host of the Read to Lead Podcast)

Jeff Brown breaks down how to make the most of the one habit that puts you ahead in your career: reading.


— YOU’LL LEARN —

1) How to strategically pick out your next read

2) How to double (or triple) your reading speed in minutes

3) Two simple tricks to maximize comprehension


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— ABOUT JEFF —

Jeff is an award-winning radio producer and personality, and former nationally-syndicated morning show host. Following a 26-year career in radio, Jeff went boss-free in 2013 and soon after launched the Read to Lead Podcast. It has gone on to become a four-time Best Business Podcast nominee and has featured Jeff's interviews with today's best business and non-fiction authors, including actor and author Alan Alda, Stephen M. R. Covey, Seth Godin, John Maxwell, Liz Wiseman, Dr. Henry Cloud, Gary Vaynerchuk, Simon Sinek, Brian Tracy, Nancy Duarte, and over 300 more.

Jeff has personally coached hundreds of successful podcasters around the globe – many of them award nominees and winners themselves – and has consulted on podcasts for the US government, two of the largest churches in the US, and numerous multi-million dollar companies.

Jeff and his work have been featured in Inc., Entrepreneur, and Hubspot, the blogs of Seth Godin, Chris Brogan, Jeff Goins, and Social Media Explorer, as well as publications like the Nashville Business Journal, the Tennessean, and hundreds of other blogs and podcasts.

• Jeff’s book: Read to Lead: The Simple Habit That Expands Your Influence and Boosts Your Career, with Jesse Wisnewski

• Jeff’s website: ReadToLeadBook.com

• Jeff’s podcast: Read to Lead


— RESOURCES MENTIONED IN THE SHOW —

• App: Focus@Will

• App: Idagio

• Tool: reMarkable 2

• Study: “Readers absorb less on Kindles than on paper, study finds”

• Book: Purple Cow, New Edition: Transform Your Business by Being Remarkable by Seth Godin

• Book: Good to Great: Why Some Companies Make the Leap and Others Don't by Jim Collins

• Book: The Five Dysfunctions of a Team: A Leadership Fable by Patrick Lencioni

• Book: The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership: Follow Them and People Will Follow You by John Maxwell

• Book: Multipliers: How the Best Leaders Make Everyone Smarter by Liz Wiseman

• Book: Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam Grant

• Book: Give Your Speech, Change the World: How To Move Your Audience to Action by Nick Morgan

• Book: PresentationZen: Simple Ideas on Presentation Design and Delivery (Voices That Matter) by Garr Reynolds

• Book: slide:ology: The Art and Science of Creating Great Presentations by Nancy Duarte

• Book: Do You Talk Funny?: 7 Comedy Habits to Become a Better (and Funnier) Public Speaker by David Nihill

• Book: Tiny Habits: The Small Changes That Change Everything by BJ Fogg

• Book: Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones by James Clear

• Book: High Performance Habits: How Extraordinary People Become That Way by Brendon Burchard

• Book: Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less by Greg McKeown

• Book: Speed of Trust: The One Thing That Changes Everything by Stephen Covey

• Book: The Top Five Regrets of the Dying: A Life Transformed by the Dearly Departing by Bronnie Ware


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