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The Dream Dividend
Hosted by Trinity One Consulting · EN
The Dream Dividend podcast proves that when organizations invest in their employees' personal dreams, the returns compound—in retention, productivity, and profitability
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The Field
3d ago00:17:42Tap to summarizeIn this episode the host describes coaching a middle school football team, asking 12–13 year olds what their dreams are and receiving silence, and reflects on how disengagement from dreams often begins long before the workplace. He links the moment to his own life — his father's legacy of showing up, his health and Trinity One work — and argues that presence, continuity, and showing up on the field slowly restore people's capacity to dream.
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Why the Best Idea Loses: How Storytelling Trumps Logic
2w ago00:47:09Tap to summarizeGavin McMahon, CEO of Fast Forward, explains why superior ideas often fail and how the best-told ideas win. Drawing on three decades across engineering, the military, and consulting, he breaks storytelling in business into six practical genres and shows founders how to craft hooks, translate strategy, align culture, and use narrative alongside data and AI. This episode gives founders a concise playbook for turning logic into persuasion: focus on value storytelling, give people agency, prove claims with numbers, and always make the story about the person you need to move.
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The 12 Rooms That Changed Everything
2w ago00:22:46Tap to summarizeHost Kevin Patrick walks through his personal "12 rooms"—physical, emotional, intellectual, spiritual, psychological, material, professional, financial, creative, adventure, legacy, and character—sharing where each room stands after recent life events including surgery, family losses, and a business reset. He names which rooms are full, which are producing, and which need real attention, committing to honest, intentional work as Season 4 focuses on reopening locked rooms and prioritizing people over process.
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Your 'Wednesday Moment': Stop Waiting For Perfect Conditions to Build
Apr 2900:12:25Tap to summarizeThis episode follows a trip to Ireland that begins on a Wednesday: a long-held dream fulfilled, visits to Dublin, Ashford Castle, the Burren, and the Cliffs of Moher, and the bittersweet moment of releasing the narrator's parents' ashes at the cliffs. Between funerals and family moments, the narrator returns inspired and decides to go all in on work and purpose, introducing plans for Trinity Forge and Trinity Calibrate and a new season focused on building and launching dreams.
Transcribe →The Dream Dividend: Putting People Before Process in ERP
Apr 1900:28:24Tap to summarizeHost Kevin Patrick interviews Richard Seller, CEO of Stellar One, about the radical idea of prioritizing employees' personal dreams to improve engagement and ERP success. Richard explains the "dream wall," the Dream Manager role, and Stellar One's subscription model that removes upfront implementation costs. They also discuss Richard's manifesto "15 Ways the ERP Industry is Broken," the human barriers to successful implementations, and practical first steps for leaders who want to invest in people rather than processes.
Transcribe →The Dream Dividend: How Investing in People Transforms Small Businesses
Apr 1900:22:58Tap to summarizeThree stories—an overburdened healthcare manager, an office manager who once taught, and a nonprofit on the brink—show how a single principle changes organizations: a company can only become its best version to the extent that its people become better versions of themselves. The episode introduces the Dream Manager approach and Matthew Kelly’s 12 rooms as practical tools to surface hidden dreams, redesign roles, and reconnect mission to personal growth. Integrated with operating systems like EOS, this human-centered strategy produces measurable results—lower absenteeism and turnover, higher performance and donor engagement—by making employee dreams part of business infrastructure.
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From Implementer to Integrator: The Two Seats That Move a Company
Apr 19Tap to summarizeKP sits down with Adam Pontrelli — the EOS Implementer who taught him the system — for a peer conversation about what it actually takes to run a company from the Integrator seat. They cover what separates great Integrators from average ones, the real cost of accountability, and the question nobody asks: if EOS gives a business its operating system, what gives the operator theirs? =================================== TIMESTAMPS / CHAPTER MARKERS =================================== 00:00 Cold Open 02:10 Meet Adam Pontrelli 03:30 The Shared Lens — What Makes This Relationship Different 08:00 The Integrator Seat — Running the Company vs. Chairing the Meeting 14:30 Accountability and Functional Ownership 20:00 Vision to Execution — Why Most V/TOs Become Museum Pieces 26:30 The Personal Cost and The Dividend 32:00 The Close — Reversing the Mic 34:30 Outro — The Human + Machine Equation
Transcribe →From Detroit to Destiny: Ian Watts on Rebuilding Wealth, Purpose, and Teams
Apr 1900:56:54Tap to summarizeIan Watts recounts his rise from poverty in Detroit to millionaire by 26, the crash that nearly destroyed his family and business, and the mission he built afterward: the Employee Success Company. He outlines the ACTS method (Aspirations, Calling, Transformation, Support) and explains why retention is a leadership and purpose problem—not just a compensation issue. Kevin and Ian discuss practical ways leaders can boost engagement, reduce turnover, and create workplaces that develop people’s lives and careers. Find Ian at employeesuccesscompany.com and on LinkedIn.
Transcribe →The Best Version Principle: When Dreams Drive Strategy
Apr 1900:22:58Tap to summarizeThree stories—a caregiver-marketing manager, an office manager who once taught, and a nonprofit on the brink—show how one question, “What do you want?”, and the Dream Manager method transform people and organizations. This episode explains the "best version" principle: integrate people’s whole-life dreams with business systems to reduce burnout, boost retention, and improve mission outcomes.
Transcribe →From Cold Calls to AI: How Ken Built a Digital Empire
Apr 1901:03:20Tap to summarizeTwenty-five years of betting on the internet: Ken recounts launching VendorSeek and ImpactDirect, founding Webimax during the 2008 recession, and growing a global digital agency focused on SEO, reputation management, and AI-driven marketing. He shares lessons on accountability, culture, adapting to change, philanthropy, and the human–machine equation that fuels sustainable growth — plus why authenticity and continuous learning remain essential even as AI reshapes the industry.
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