Small Hinges Swing Big Doors: Craig Handley

Nonprofit Architect Podcast with Brenda McChesney

You can increase the happiness rate in your nonprofit. Craig Handley inspires us to “live life like an extreme sport” and bring that energy into our nonprofit.

Conversation Highlights

{02:26} The American dream. {09:03} Programs that will increase the happiness rate in your nonprofit. {14:34} The importance of making changes in your staff life. {19:32} Talk about the big picture. {27:03} Getting caught up in ego. {32:46} Interacting with a person considered to be of lower stature. {36:04} Creating fans of your organization.

Remarkable Quotes

Craig: The happiness scores went through the roof; everybody was happier! Craig: When you are helping people go after their dreams it's hard to quit. Travis: All the innovative people in the world are rulebreakers. Craig: If you've got someone that's gossiping and cancerous, it doesn't matter what their skills are.

Craig Handley Bio

Craig Handley is an entrepreneur, speaker, musician, and philanthropist. He believes in “living life like an extreme sport.” As such, he has cage dived with great white sharks and rappelled down Table Mountain in South Africa, driven the Baja 500 trail in Mexico, hiked through the jungles of Malaysia, and in Iceland, he snowmobiled across a live volcano, swam in the Blue Lagoon, and dove in the famed Silfra Fissure which is the only dive site in the world where your dive is in the crack between two continental plates. He is the 85th civilian ever to jump out of a plane from over 32,000 feet... He is undefeated in his three trips to Necker Island when donning the Sumo Suit. He's met Ringo Starr and bumped into Paul McCartney before security escorted him back to his table while trying to get a selfie, and, in Calgary, he had a scarf blessed while meeting the Dalai Lama (which he has since misplaced). An expert in Hispanic Marketing, Direct Response Marketing, and Sales and Brand expansion, Handley is the CEO and founder of the hugely successful “Listen Up Española,” which was named #1 in Business Products and Service (#27 overall) on Inc. Magazine’s 500/5000 list. Handley’s businesses employ over 1,000 employees and have cumulatively done over 500 million in sales within the last five years to Hispanics in the USA. He started his professional career as a paperboy, winning a contest to go to Disney for most new subscribers at the age of 13, he followed up with 3 years of door-to-door insurance sales, where he again won the company's highest award 8 times. He worked in a call center in telephone sales and again was one of 3 employees (Out of 950) selling over a million dollars a year in product. A respected advisor for hundreds of brands, products, and services in almost every category, he has also contributed articles and been interviewed for leading marketing and business magazines, blogs, and podcasts and he's spoken at conferences, company retreats, seminars, and private masterminds.

Connect with Craig Handley http://revenueenhancement.com https://www.facebook.com/craighandley https://twitter.com/CraigAHandley https://www.listentrust.com https://www.linkedin.com/in/craighandley

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