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Eric Lougher is a versatile CFO who comes from an investor background. He has served as Chief Financial Officer for both VC and PE backed companies that provides Eric a balanced and insightful view of today’s CFO.

Eric talks to two key points:

• The art of balance various department budgetary needs and fiscal health of the company and achieving strategic goals
• Board relations and the role of the CFO during and in between the quarterly meetings.

Eric views balance needs of sales, marketing, HR, IT and others with the overall vision and trend of his company. Sometimes that leads to an awkward conversation with a department head.  His relationship and management style is one of trust, collaboration and openness. 

When it comes to Board relationships, Eric’s sees teamwork as the key communication, strategy alignment as the cornerstone of trust with the Board. 

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Eric Lougher is a versatile CFO who comes from an investor background. He has served as Chief Financial Officer for both VC and PE backed companies that provides Eric a balanced and insightful view of today’s CFO.

Eric talks to two key points:

• The art of balance various department budgetary needs and fiscal health of the company and achieving strategic goals
• Board relations and the role of the CFO during and in between the quarterly meetings.

Eric views balance needs of sales, marketing, HR, IT and others with the overall vision and trend of his company. Sometimes that leads to an awkward conversation with a department head.  His relationship and management style is one of trust, collaboration and openness. 

When it comes to Board relationships, Eric’s sees teamwork as the key communication, strategy alignment as the cornerstone of trust with the Board. 

Enjoy the show? Review us on iTunes- thanks! 

Thank you Jalan Crossland for lending your award-winning banjo skills to CXO Conversations.

Going for No can be used in lots of different situations. 

What Are You Stopping Short on?

In Richard Fenton and Andrea Waltz’s book “Go for No”, they talk about, 

Yes, is the destination, No is how you get there.

What they mean is not stopping because you have made quota.

If you need to get 3 sales this week and you manage to get them in the first day, what do you do? Most people would process them and then take it easy for the rest of the week.

If on the other hand your target was 20 No’s, you got 3 yeses then you still have 20 more calls/appointments to do for the week.

How many more yeses, could you get with that attitude? 

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In the last five years Ryan Collison has sold two startups in the healthcare space, led over $250 Million in healthcare M&A transactions, and demonstrated a vision for growth as the CEO of two highly successful companies.

His latest venture is in the Web3 investing space with the launch of a venture capital firm that focuses on startups solving real-world problems with blockchain tech. With over a decade of experience as a founder and investor, Ryan Collison is far from his troubled youth. Today he is a 4X founder with a career that spans healthcare, tech, hip hop, and Web3 investing.

Ryan does not shy away from sharing his journey from addiction to recovery in the background of entrepreneurship vs. a traditional career path. He is also passionate about blockchain startups solving real-world problems and diving deep into the psychological journey of founders—particularly the less discussed in crypto circles—the pitfalls of “new money.”

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Wilco de Kreij is an entrepreneur from the Netherlands, mostly focused on online businesses. He started his first business in 2002 and started many different ventures since that time. He also successfully founded Connect.io along with Upviral. Upviral is a Facebook Marketing Tool that is now giving thousands of small businesses the marketing power of “giants”.

One question every business owner asks themselves over and over is how can I be more successful? And the truth is that the answer we seek is often in the doing and gathering of information, but in the end, accumulating information and staying busy, doesn't have anything to do with real leverage growth.

You have to first clear the head trash that's blocking you and to create a mindset first strategy that slows you down and builds your business intentionally. This episode is a little peek inside what I do as a success strategist and why I think it's important to see your head trash play out in all the different ways as you grow.

I'll share with you how you can get better at predicting your personal patterns and maybe see how you don't have to stay stuck in the limiting beliefs that hold you back about yourself. The world. Even your own success. I'm hoping you walk away with some greater clarity on what building success means for you and why it's really all in your head.