E51 Exploring Key Success Habits: A Recap of the Season artwork
Building Success Habits

E51 Exploring Key Success Habits: A Recap of the Season

  • S2E51
  • 13:00
  • January 17th 2025

The world doesn’t stop sending obstacles your way just because you practice success habits. Knowing how to shift your focus, cooperate with your inner self, and see failure as a teacher can change the way you do business—and life. If you want to grow, you need practical tools and mindset shifts that actually work.

What You Need to Know

  • Your energy flows where your focus goes. The more you dwell on the negatives, the bigger they get.
  • Cooperation isn’t just about teamwork with others—it starts inside your own mind. The conscious and subconscious must align for best results.
  • Failure isn’t a dead end. It’s a teacher, a temporary detour, and a necessary part of every success story.
  • All these habits—focus, accurate thinking, cooperation, and failing forward—intertwine, making each one stronger when practiced together.

What You Need to Do

  1. Notice where your attention is going during challenges. Are you fueling worry, or solutions?
  2. Practice “turning your back” on what drains you. Like in the classic horror film analogy, stop giving power to what doesn’t serve you.
  3. Make conscious effort to cooperate with yourself. Align your thoughts and subconscious reactions, and get to know yourself better.
  4. When you stumble, pause, learn, and move forward. Don’t label setbacks as failure—treat them as feedback.
  5. Shake yourself out of self-doubt. Use music, movement, and positive energy to refocus and re-engage.

Your Next Step

Pull up this episode and listen with fresh ears. Take one habit—focus, cooperation, or failing forward—and apply it today. Ready for a game-changing approach to your personal and professional growth? Stay tuned for Season 5, where self-image mastery becomes your next breakthrough.

Download free resources from this season to apply these habits to your business and life.

Want to develop the habits that create lasting success?

👉 Connect with Londina Cruz at Londina.com for resilience coaching and daily motivation.

👉 Work with Donna Kunde at DonnaKunde.com to master your mindset and grow your business with confidence.

Loved this season? Share it with someone who wants to create success in their life! See you next season!


00:00 Introduction and Welcome

01:07 Listener Shoutouts and Season Overview

02:40 Focus and Energy Management

06:40 Cooperation and Self-Alignment

10:18 Failing Forward and Resilience

11:41 Conclusion and Break

Building Success Habits

“The more tranquil a person becomes, the greater is their success, their influence, their power for good.” James Allen

"Building Success Habits" is a podcast hosted by Donna Kunde (Business Coach) and Londina Cruz (Life Strategist). The show is all about sharing practical tips, strategies, and insights for building success habits in all areas of life.

This show was originally produced as hour-long radio content, later adapted into 4-episode Signature Season themes for podcast listeners.

The podcast explores a variety of success habits, including goal-setting, resilience, focus, and productivity. Each episode provides insights into how these habits can be developed and maintained, along with tips for staying motivated and on track.

In addition to success habits, the show covers personal development and mindset topics, such as overcoming limiting beliefs and cultivating a growth mindset. Donna and Londina share their own experiences and challenges in these areas, providing listeners with relatable examples and actionable advice.

Whether you are an entrepreneur, business owner, or simply someone who wants to achieve more success in your personal and professional life, "Building Success Habits" offers inspiration and tools to help you achieve your goals and live a more fulfilling life.

Join Donna and Londina on this journey of self-discovery and growth, and learn how to build the success habits that will transform your life.

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Donna Kunde
IBGR Managing Partner

"When we begin to see the world from the inside out, life will happen through us instead of to us."

Donna Kunde is one of IBGR's founders and started her career in radio at WNTW on it's Sales 2020 Show. In her role as EVP Supply Management she is responsible for day-to-day station operations and the quality of programming - both show topics and OnAir Talent.

She is an internationally recognized Business Coach and Trainer bringing 20+ years’ experience in military leadership. Donna has been a serial entrepreneur for the last 25 years owning a range of businesses experiencing the unique challenges solopreneurs face with small business growth. 

In addition to her entrepreneurial background, Donna brings 35 years of academic and applied cognitive and behavioral science experience to the IBGR Network. Her specialty is helping organizations navigate through change, challenge and tragedy. The combination of her intensive study of the mind, plus practical applications in human potential, Donna provides a unique perspective on leadership, personal growth, sales, communication, and team building.

A high point of Donna's training career happened when she accompanied Dr. John C. Maxwell and his team on a country transformation mission. At the request of the Costa Rican government, the Maxwell team successfully trained 15,000 Round Table facilitators in three days, resulting in a 2% transformation of that nation and projected to reach another 60,000 Costa Ricans the following week. Her trademark energetic communication style and teaching skills have earned her a reputation as a highly effective speaker and respected facilitator.

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Londina Cruz
Executive Coach, Speaker and Trainer

Londina Cruz is an International Trainer, Executive Coach, and Keynote Speaker with the John Maxwell Team and a Strategic Coach with Anthony Robbins.  Londina is a part of Global Transformation with the John Maxwell Foundation, training thousands of leaders in Paraguay and Costa Rica to help transform the values and culture of these nations.

She has spent more than 25 years studying, coaching and consulting in personal mastery and human performance techniques. These techniques include emotional and social intelligence trainings that elevate individuals, leaders and their organizations to excel well beyond current standards – offering a dynamic competitive advantage.

Londina has taken a situation that would devastate most individuals, being hit by a drunk driver, and has turned it into her life force. In this accident, Londina sustained a traumatic head injury, broken back and broken neck. The doctors gave her little hope of a normal life.   She has now turned this challenge into an extraordinary life of empowering others to turn their fears into freedom and reach their potential.

Mastering her limiting beliefs and overcoming all that doctors had told her, Londina has thrived physically as well.

She has become a Triathlete (competing in a Half-Ironman and medaling in numerous other triathlons), a two-time marathon runner (Nike Women’s in San Francisco and the Marine Corps in Washington), and a cyclist.

She has released 100 lbs. by taking control of her thoughts instead of allowing thoughts to control her.

She knows what it takes to take you and your team from where you are to where you want to be.

As a Certified Coach, Teacher and Speaker, I can offer you workshops, seminars, keynote speaking, and coaching, aiding your personal and professional growth through study and practical application of John’s proven leadership methods. Working together, I will move you and/or your team or organization in the desired direction to reach your goals.

Contact me. I am looking forward to assisting you on your journey to becoming a success in your life and/or business.