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Our special guest David Wood will answer these and other questions about personal growth, leadership, entrepreneurship and courageous leadership.

David Wood is a former consulting actuary to Fortune 100 companies. He built the world’s largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for life coaching and coaching thousands of hours in 12 countries around the globe.

As well as helping others, David is no stranger to overcoming challenges himself, having survived a full collapse of his paraglider and a fractured spine, witnessing the death of his sister at age seven, anxiety and depression, and a national Gong Show! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgKwAJieQes).

He coaches high-performing business owners to double revenue, and their time off by focusing on less and being 30% more courageous in their business or career.

Episode highlights…

• Understanding role of vulnerability and authenticity in true influence and leadership
• Role of humility in leadership
• Relationship between humility and intimacy in leadership
• Practice more revealing to create more intimacy, influence and trust
• Power of authentic relating in life and leadership
• Practicing vulnerability in leadership
• Vulnerability is risk, but worth it (especially in leadership)
• Shifting the question from what could go wrong to what could go right
• Role of patterns in life, relationships and leadership
• Impacts of preambles in communications and relationships
• Using ownership language in your relationships and leadership
• Being 30% more courageous in your business and leadership
• The trap of being comfortable and strategies for being intentionally uncomfortable
• Why playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you can do
• Critical question: What’s one thing you’re willing to do in the direction of your dreams?
• Importance of dignity for yourself and others in leadership

• David Wood (public@focus.ceo)
• David Wood Website
• Free Gifts from David Wood
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Shaahin Cheyenne will answer these and other questions about entrepreneurship, business growth and doing business online.

Shaahin Cheyenne has been called many things in his life including the “Willy Wonka of Generation X,” but his favorite is simple: the world’s leading Amazon industry expert.

Shaahin is the Founder of the brain nutrition startup Accelerated Intelligence (AI). He’s also an award-winning business mogul, author, filmmaker and inventor of Herbal Ecstacy, the nootropic that sparked the (100% legal) Smart Drug Movement.

His serial entrepreneurial career has spanned more than 30 years, earning over $350 Million. His Amazon products have outpaced Fortune 500 companies’ sales on the platform, selling millions of units worldwide. Many of these multi-million-dollar companies noticed, which led Shaahin to become one of the world’s most sought-after Amazon experts.

Shaahin’s Amazon sales approach for start-ups and Fortune 500’s is the same approach he uses to accelerate his own success: a mix of proprietary software, Amazon promotions, copywriting, Amazon ads and social proof.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• What it means to be truly invested in your idea
• Being relentless as an entrepreneur (and never accepting “no”)
• Importance of having a mentor as an entrepreneur
• Vital role of influence in business and entrepreneurship
• Understanding Amazon as the great business equalizer
• Ways that innovation can be the kiss of death in business
• Influence driven by telling a better story
• Ways that larger companies are leveraging online marketing to grow their businesses
• Leadership lessons from an e-commerce influencer and mogul – it’s not about being liked, the need to be fair and allow your people to make mistakes
• Strategies for creating a culture that allows people to learn from making mistakes
• Leveraging the Pareto Principle (the 80/20 rule) to grow your business
• Good design is found in the white space, including life design
• Power of living and leading in the flow space (and ways to get into the flow space)
• Importance of having multiple streams of income
• Role and importance of being a decision architect to grow your business
• Realities and challenges for service-based businesses when it comes to rapid growth and exit

Resources:

• Shaahin Cheyenne (darkzess@gmail.com)
• Shaahin Cheyene Website
• Free Amazon Course – Email Shaahin at darkzess@gmail.com and mention Leadership Junkies in the subject line
• Amazon Mastery Course
• Billion: How I Became the King of the Thrill Pill Cult Book by Shaahin Cheyene
• Hack and Grow Rich Podcast
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Tallal Gondal (Leicester, England) will answer these and other questions about networking, relationship building and accelerating your outcomes through the power of relationship.

Tallal Gondal is the author of the #1 International Bestselling book TurboCharged Networking, which shares the message that Care, Value and Service are the 3 TurboChargers to building human connection, and human connection is critical to networking and building authentic long-term relationships.

Tallal is also a speaker, and his mission is to help people cultivate the mindset and develop the skillset to become world class networkers in their personal lives and business lives.

Tallal’s super passions are building relationship equity, creating holistic success, and cultivating a savage mindset. Tallal is also a maths lecturer, a boxing coach and enjoys reading non-fiction and watching UFC.

He loves going to the gym, driving fast cars and has an unhealthy relationship with protein shakes. Tallal lives in Leicester, England, with his wife, 2 kids and 2 cats.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Understanding the power of relationships in overcoming obstacles and achieving your objectives
• Need for vulnerability in asking for help or support from your relationships
• Importance of building relationships before you need them
• Role of care, value and service in building human connection and relationships
• Being intentional in your relationship building
• Why human connection is the foundation of valuable relationships
• What it means to genuinely care in your relationship building (intention / heart)
• Importance of curiosity in networking and relationship building
• Relationship building must be genuine and authentic
• Integrating personal and business in your networking and relationship building
• Value in relationship building is about mindset of helping others
• Role of emotional safety in networking and relationship building
• Creating a safe space by going first with vulnerability
• Be curious about the world in order to add value to others from what you learn and can share
• Relationships are a life asset and resources for others
• Power of why questions in networking and relationship building
• Service foundation in networking is the actions you take to serve others
• Systematizing your relationship building and follow ups
• Understanding the “savage mindset” – unbreakable, unshakeable and unstoppable
• Networking and building relationships is all about building human connection

Resources:

• Tallal Gondal
• TurboCharged Networking Website
• Turbocharged Networking Book by Tallal Gondal
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Matt Ward will answer these and other questions about relationship building, networking and high value referrals.

In 2002 Matt Ward began working with business owners through his digital marketing agency, inConcert Web Solutions, to improve their bottom line, gain more clients, and grow their respective businesses. He sold his agency in 2018 so that he could focus on helping businesses get more word-of-mouth referrals!

Matt's the author of MORE...Word of Mouth Referrals, Lifelong Customers & Raving Fans, and his newest book, The High-Five Effect: How To Do Business With People Who Bring You Joy, which was released October 2021.

Matt believes that creating deeper and more meaningful connections will result in more word-of-mouth referrals. He personally uses this philosophy in his own business. Since 2002 Matt has spoken at hundreds of business events, seminars, trainings, conferences, and associations, including Score, The Better Business Bureau, The National Paving Expo, and the Vacation Rental Success Summit in Toronto, Canada.

Matt is a professional member of the National Speakers Association and the host of the popular small business-centered podcast, The Mass Business Podcast!

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Differently understanding networking and relationship building
• Strategies for networking more effectively
• Power of building relationship-based referral partners
• Stop looking for customers and clients at networking events
• Understanding the difference between leads and referrals
• Being the connector to add value to others
• Role of trust in networking, relationship building and creating referral partners
• Challenges when building relationships with a numbers focused mindset
• Strategies for building top of mind awareness
• How to consider reciprocity in networking and relationship building
• Chasing joy in relationships instead of chasing business
• Dos and don’ts of handwritten notes
• Importance of continuing to keep your network warm
• Understanding trigger points and touch points in relationship building
• Using CRMs and other tools to enhance your relationship building efforts
• Keys to incredible relationships – genuinely care and be genuinely curious
• Foundations of generating consistent and valuable relationships
• Role of effective 30-second commercials and elevator pitches
• Be wary of the word “you” in your networking and relationship building
• The 10 x 10 approach to leveraging your networking and relationship building
• Make it personal in your networking

Resources:

• Matt Ward
• High Five Effect Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Anna Liebel (Reykjavík Iceland) answers these and other questions about leadership, vulnerability and self-leadership.

Anna Liebel is the creator of what she calls the Zone of Genius and her mission is to live happily and help others choose to do the same. As a Mindshifter, she helps male leaders in tech get out of the firefighter mode, become the proactive Leaders they want to be, and enjoy the ride as they go.

Anna's background is in engineering and project management, and back in the corporate days, she met too many brilliant humans who acted as stressed, overwhelmed managers-firefighters. She is committed to shifting the workplace practices to empower these brilliant humans to become the Genius Leaders they can be.

Her practice is highly customized to address the needs and the current situation of every Leader Anna works with. The main goal is to create a safe space for the leaders to explore new practices, learn to understand themselves and others better and get the support they have been lacking while being the go-to person for everyone else in their organizations. As her clients put it, "it's a real luxury to be selfish for this one hour per week and have space to focus on myself and my needs only.”

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Episode highlights…

• Unique challenges for men in leadership
• Vital role of vulnerability in leadership
• Differently understand vulnerability in leadership
• Vulnerability is the opposite of control
• Key challenges for men to be vulnerable in their leadership
• Sustainable leadership leads to happier and healthier workplaces, with families and in communities
• Differently understanding the alpha male story
• Sustainable leadership starts with doing the inside work first
• Role of boundaries in impactful leadership
• Today’s workforce is more often working too much rather than not enough
• Importance of curiosity in leadership
• Self-leadership and self-inclusion in overall leadership
• Ways your inner compass helps you steer the storms of life
• Strategies for enhancing your sense and practice of self-inclusion as a leader
• Differently navigating fear as a leader
• Importance of self-care for leadership (especially men)
• Exploring your Zone of Genius as a leader
• Knowing and claiming your gifts
• Cost of taking care of everyone else without embracing your own self-care
• Importance of creating space between your initial reaction and your thoughtful response
• Role of self-awareness and pattern spotting in your leadership
• Taking your power back in your leadership
• Becoming more aware of your triggers in order to amplify your leadership

• Anna Liebel
• Anna Liebel Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Phil Johnson answers these and other questions about leadership, emotional intelligence, living in the present and growing your consciousness in order to grow your leadership.

Phil Johnson is an executive coach, trainer, international speaker, leadership and emotional intelligence advisor, and creator of the Master of Business Leadership Program and podcast. He’s also the Founder and CEO of the Master of Business Leadership program (MBL).

The MBL focuses on the development of emotional intelligence. Over the past 21 years MBL has been promising and delivering greater earning power and career advancement around the world.

Phil also runs the MBL YouTube channel and co-hosts the MBL podcast. Phil continues to inspire other business leaders through the MBL program, executive coaching, speaking engagements, and his writing. Phil has published several books including the MBL Success Map, MBL Tribal Wisdom, The Servant Warrior Leader, and The New Economic Currency.

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Episode highlights…

• Today’s state of leadership – a desperate need for authentic, emotionally intelligent leaders
• Redefining emotional intelligence in the context of navigating fear in different ways
• Ways that authenticity builds followership (emotional contagions) and enhances your energy
• Truth that our unconscious minds drive most of our habits and behaviors
• Different perspectives on and strategies for fear
• Understanding the drama triangle (drama, chaos and conflict) and its impact on communication, relationships and leadership
• Are you a sheep dog, a sheep or a wolve in your leadership?
• Emotional intelligence growth is an exponential multiplier in results
• Understanding the unconscious nature of victimhood personally and professionally
• Ways we use internal stories to justify and rationalize our behaviors
• Understanding the biological and sociological resistance to change (and the role of a coach in overcoming it)
• The cost of disengagement in business
• The power of the space between stimulus and response – this is the space of leadership
• The path to impactful leadership is enhancing your level of consciousness
• Power of presence in leadership (most present person is the most influential)
• Exploring the key obstacles to growing your emotional intelligence
• This moment is the only thing that’s real
• If your actions don’t inspire others, to follow your example, you're not a leader
• We have to act our way into thinking differently
• Impact of fear-based decision making and leadership on trust and relationships
• Being more present versus being less distracted
• Leadership isn't a position. It's not a title, it's a choice.
• Key habits than enhance our consciousness, presence and influence
• Reality that the riskiest thing is to fail to lead (it’s riskier than choosing to lead)
• Strategies for finding and hiring people with higher emotional intelligence
• Emotional intelligence is an experiential process (not an intellectual process)

• Phil Johnson LinkedIn
• A New Earth Book by Eckhart Tolle
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Rachel Luther answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, leadership and outsourcing.

Rachel Luther is the Founder of Check Off Your List and an entrepreneur who was a virtual assistant before people knew what the term meant. After spending the last 10+ years growing her VA business from a one-woman show to a team of talented professionals providing all areas of back-office virtual support, Rachel is divulging her secrets to success, covering work/life balance, strategies for outsourcing, remote work, and everything in between.

Rachel created her business to have a life and build a business, which she built while not only raising four children, but also homeschooling them.

Rachel is often asked, “Can you be an entrepreneur and still have it all?” The answer is a resounding “Yes,” and her podcast (Checking Off Your List) tells you how.

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Episode highlights…

• Role and importance of outsourcing in the new realities of COVID and remote work
• Understanding what needs to be outsourced
• Keys to choosing outsourced resources given the greater resource options
• Growth of virtual assistants and outsourced solutions
• Strategies for building your business as a virtual assistant or outsourced resource
• Strategies for choosing your outsourced resource
• Understanding different categories of virtual assistants and outsourced resources
• Outsourcing tasks versus projects versus processes
• Shifting your mindsets to work with outsourced resources
• Outsourcing as a path to balance and business growth
• Effective outsourcing and shifting your control mindset
• Value of outsourcing by working with people who can focus on what they do best and what they love
• Understanding why outsourcing rates may be higher than employee rates (value versus cost)
• Value of outsourcing – Clearing your plate and getting better results with less effort
• Understanding your unrealistic view of your employees’ productivity
• Ways the outsourcing conversations have changed over the past five years – shifting from how is this possible to strategizing what needs to be outsourced
• Key questions to ask in exploring and choosing outsourcing resources
• Key question to ask in determining what to outsource (and what not to outsource)
• How to assess the value of outsourcing versus the cost of outsourcing
• Growth of fractional services in business
• Keys to assessing the outsourcing of marketing and social media
• Why outsourcing sooner than you think will help you grow your business and balance your life

• Rachel Luther LinkedIn
• Rachel Luther Instagram
• Check Off Your List Website
• Checking Off Your List Podcast with Rachel Luther
• New One Minute Manager book by Ken Blanchard
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Jason Voiovich answers these and other questions about leadership, Presidential history, and leadership lessons from our Presidents.

In a career that spans more than 25 years, Jason Voiovich has launched hundreds of new products – everything from medical devices, to virtual healthcare systems, to non-dairy consumer cheese, to next-generation alternatives to the dreaded “cone of shame” for pets, to sex aides for cows (really!).

He’s a graduate of both the University of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota, and he has completed post-graduate studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His formal training has been invaluable, but he credits his true success to growing up in a family of artists, immigrants, and entrepreneurs. They taught him how to carefully observe the world, see patterns before others notice them, and use those insights to create new innovations.

History is Jason’s favorite way to observe the world. No surprise that Jason’s book is titled Marketer in Chief: How Each President Sold the American Idea. He believes that the people from the past have plenty to teach us about the challenges and opportunities we face today.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Connecting the dots between history, history lessons and leadership
• Risk tolerance, innovation and leadership
• Understanding the context of historical leadership relative to today
• Best leaders are curious about everything including people
• Curiosity – innate or developed
• Curiosity is the foundation of empathy
• Modern day leadership lessons from Napoleon
• Realities of situational leadership
• Separating success from great leadership
• Understanding the evolving role of the President of the United States including as Chief Communicator
• Understanding the leadership of Abraham Lincoln in the context of the times
• Role of empathy in leadership
• Examples of innovation and creativity by Presidents
• Leadership lessons of Ben Franklin
• Realities of trust issues in the Presidency
• Importance of reading history based upon historical scholarship
• Best leaders ask the best / better questions to inspire others to action

Resources:

• Jason Voiovich
• Jason Voiovich Website
• Marketer in Chief Website
• Marketer in Chief: How Each President Sold the American Idea Book by Jason Voiovich
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Lisa Caprelli will answer these and other questions about the vital role of happiness, fun and playfulness in leadership, teams and cultures.

Lisa Caprelli is a speaker, songwriter and an award-winning author of the unicorn book series, Unicorn Jazz.™ Unicorn Jazz series offers social emotional learning (empathy, kindness, love, belonging, believing in others, feelings and more). She is an author of 18 books, and has produced music videos for kids. Lisa is the producer and director of Unicorn Jazz Presents The Thing I Do - a family show on Amazon TV.

After a 10+ year career in creating radio show programming and podcasts combined with a 26 year marketing career in representing over 160 CEO's and leaders, Lisa created Skip a Step: Imparting Wisdom for Young Entrepreneur Minds.   

Lisa is a Forbes contributor, has been featured in FORBES magazine, ABC News, Shout Out LA, USA today newspapers, and more media and news outlets. 

Lisa's ambitious and multi-faceted perspective inspires people all around her to live a life of purpose. As a writer, educator and leader she is called upon for storytelling while fostering perseverance, imagination and inspiration. She enjoys teaching young minds the power of possibilities be it: elementary schools, teens, educators, parents, counselors, librarians and more. 

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Bringing more fun, entertainment and playfulness into business and leadership
• Choosing kindness to build great teams
• Entrepreneurial mindsets and skills as life skills
• Leadership is about people and relationships
• Importance of fun in learning experiences
• Embracing make believe sessions in your business
• Being aware of the stress of adulting and injecting more happiness and fun into your adult lives
• Understanding the difference between making work fun versus having fun outside of work
• Leadership lessons from the movie Big
• Playfulness is essential to learning and happy workplaces and connected teams
• Play and fun are not lost time (they’re investments in your people and culture)
• Understanding the role of social emotional learning in learning and development
• Impact of COVID in the education system, process and mindset
• Importance of giving back by helping another human being (including your team members)
• Getting intentional about happiness at work and about what makes you happy (and then do it)
• Transforming our patters and beliefs about leadership and work

Resources:

• Lisa Caprelli
• Unicorn Jazz Website
• Skip a Step: Imparting Wisdom for Young Entrepreneur Minds and Kidpreneurs book by Lisa Caprelli
• Unicorn Jazz: Help and Give Back book by Lisa Caprelli
• Unicorn Jazz Presents The Thing I Do (family show on Amazon TV)
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Amy Lynn Durham answers these and other questions about leadership, emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence and creating magic at work for your organization and team.

Amy Lynn Durham is the CEO of an organization called Create Magic at Work. She's a UC Berkeley Certified Executive Coach. She's also certified to coach in 21 skills associated with Spiritual Intelligence (SQ).

Amy has spent years in the corporate world managing hundreds of employees for all different types of companies. She created create magic at work with the intention to offer Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) and EQ tools to energize and transform the workplace. Amy not only believes in creating positive company cultures, but this is what she does in her passion and her work.

Amy believes in leading differently, building cultures differently and creating magic at work.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Two key leadership questions: How do you want to leave your team feeling? Are you leaving your team in a better place than when you found them?
• Understanding emotional intelligence (EQ) and spiritual intelligence (SQ)
• Critical impacts from leading with emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence
• The intelligences pyramid from the bottom up: Physical Intelligence (PQ); Cognitive Intelligence (IQ); Emotional Intelligence (EQ); Spiritual Intelligence (SQ)
• Strategies for practicing emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence
• One key spiritual intelligence skill is making wise and compassionate decisions
• Exploring your breadth of time perception
• The role of radical self-forgiveness in leadership
• Understanding that spiritual intelligence is across a spectrum of skills (not just a single skill)
• What it means to lead from your higher self and why it matters
• Leadership work is the deep inside personal work
• Importance of creating a safe place for vulnerable conversations at work
• Exploring the scales of motivation and energy
• The Great Resignation and the call for spiritual intelligence in leadership
• Overcoming the challenges of all the roles required of middle managers and leaders
• Importance of vulnerable conversations at work to create magic at work
• Strategies for building spiritual intelligence skills in a virtual workplace
• Foundations of spiritual intelligence – human connection, compassion, emotions, empathy, vulnerability and curiosity
• Gifts of spiritual intelligence in leadership – innovation, productivity and profitability
• What it means to be a selectively data driven executive and why it holds you back
• One result of creating an environment that thrives with emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence is a workplace that creates less ego induced drama
• The important role of paradox (complexity of thought) in leading with spiritual intelligence (enhancing your polarity management skills)
• Expanding your leadership to quantum leadership where you think about the effects that your business has on humanity, communities and the planet

Resources:

• Amy Lynn Durham
• Create Magic at Work Website
• The Spiritual Intelligence Experience
• Seven Spiritual Laws of Success Book by Deepak Chopra
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest SF Banks answers these and other questions about youth motivational development, leadership and living your dreams.

Shaun SF. Banks has been involved in the youth development industry for over 20 years. he's a captivating, humorous, and passionate communicator. Shaun excels at motivating and developing youths to go after their dreams. Shaun educates families on effective ways to support their youth and give them an edge in life.

In 2007, Shaun opened the I AM Defense institute against profound disinterest in working with children. Since that time, SF. has developed a passion for creating personal development systems for youth.

Shaun is the creator of Camp Warrior King, which helps thousands of youth gain exposure to amazingly fun activities, "You Can Have IT ALL!" Youth conferences, "You Can Have It ALL!" Youth motivational Development Magazine, The Team Hott SAWCE development characters, and other development tools for children. Shaun has also authored 3 books on the personal development topic.

One of SF.'s big passions is the "You Can Have IT All!" orphanage in Bombo, Uganda, where he currently supports over 30 children with shelter, food, and school supplies.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Reality that most kids have baggage from their past and that youth from all circumstances need motivational development and empowerment
• Working hard is important but it’s not the only thing
• Tools for empowering and motivating youth to live their dreams
• Vital role of character development to fuel motivation, empowerment and achievement
• Value of experiential learning experiences
• Importance of instilling the belief that someone is worthy of having and living their dreams
• Overcoming the cultural and family messages that dreams aren’t real and that life is not about dreams
• Changing the narrative of youth also involves shifting the parents’ narrative
• Role of fun in growth, development and learning
• Hurt people hurt people – happy people create more happiness
• Importance of service as a tool for people and character growth and development
• Relationship building through shared service experiences
• Role of respect and respecting differences as character foundations – treat others the ways you want to be treated
• Mindsets and strategies for addressing bullying
• Education system challenges and opportunities for youth development
• Value of personal development as part of an overall education approach and mindset
• Dreams are not for kids only and must not be delayed
• Parents must gas/fuel (support) their children’s dreams even in small ways

Resources:

• Shaun “SF” Banks
• SF Banks Instagram
• You Can Have It All Website
• You Can Have It All Magazine
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Rachel Brenke answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, business growth, intellectual property and ways the right lawyer can help you grow your business, especially for creative entrepreneurs.

Rachel Brenke is a multi-faceted entrepreneur, business strategist and intellectual property attorney. She’s a very successful lawyer focusing on Intellectual Property while helping to protect small businesses along with several successful legal niche brands, including TheLawTog®, FitLegally, and BlogLegally.

She’s also a mother of five, wife to an Army veteran, a practicing lawyer, an author (7 books), a cancer survivor, and a Team USA athlete (aquathon). Through her podcast, brands, and one-on-one services, Rachel helps creative entrepreneurs with business strategy and legal needs such as forming businesses, draft contracts, and business and intellectual property law.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Exploring the entrepreneurial mindset and building a business that gives you life you want
• Importance of having a business growth strategy
• Looking differently at business growth the role / value of the right legal advisor
• Role of a full legal strategy for your creative business
• Why having a lawyer is an essential part of your business strategy for your creative business
• Risks and limitations of do-it-yourself law and online legal resources (i.e. Legal Zoom)
• Value of flat rate legal fees for business owners and lawyers
• Doing the math of why appropriate legal advice is an investment for your business (not a cost)
• Demonstrating your value through your different questions
• Questions as the key to developing your business growth strategy
• Role of rocks and fear in limiting your business growth
• Unique business challenges for creatives
• Using questions to help your clients and team find their own answers (instead of giving them the answers)
• Creating contracts that align with your work flow
• Using the contract to help you be a better leader and business owner
• Value of working with a lawyer who’s grown other (non-law) businesses
• Importance of being confident in the value of what you create and sell
• Risks of putting your money issues and beliefs on your clients and potential clients
• Role of money blocks in limiting your business growth
• Your mindset with your clients must align with your mindset with your vendors
• Recognizing the season of life that you're in and evolving and pivoting based upon that season of life

Resources:

• Rachel Brenke LinkedIn
• Rachel Brenke Instragram
• Rachel Brenke Twitter
• Rachel Brenke Website
• Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion and Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade Books by Dr. Robert Cialdini
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Dr. Nicole Tschierske (Hamburg Germany) answers these and other questions about leadership, collaboration, communication and work systems with R&D, science and teach teams.

Dr. Tschierske is a coach and consultant who helps leaders and teams in R&D and tech do their best work. Nicole works with her clients to improve their collaboration and communication skills so their work gets the momentum and recognition it deserves. She also helps construct ways of working that reduce stress, increase motivation and engagement, and deliver results. In short, Nicole helps organizations and leaders build remarkable partnerships internally and externally.

Nicole lives in Hamburg, Germany, holds a PhD in chemistry and is trained in coaching, positive psychology, change management, and advanced problem-solving. When she’s not buried in research papers and books you can find her taking long hikes in the German countryside or mesmerized by Mary Poppins on the screen.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Understanding and leading people who think, communicate, learn and collaborate differently
• Importance of staying open and curious in interacting with and leading people
• Leading teams of different people and communication styles
• Building relationships among people of difference (it can all change with one person makes the effort)
• Tools for leading and collaboration with R&D and tech teams
• Improved communication creates better outcomes, greater innovation and increased speed to market
• Importance of having a skilled facilitator in enhancing your communication, collaboration and relationships
• Role of team and communication ground rules
• Using systems to build and enhance communication and relationships
• Exploring Dunbar’s number – the limit (150) to the number of people with whom we can maintain stable social relationships
• Role of trust in communication, relationship building, collaboration and change management
• Exploring vulnerability in the R&D, science and tech sector
• Understanding collaboration and ways to achieve it
• Exploring the creation and outcomes of remarkable partnerships
• Collaboration as a culture and system (more than a process)
• What it means to have a culture where every person takes 100% for the outcomes and experience, especially in conflict management
• Core elements of building remarkable partnerships

Resources:

• Nicole Tschierske
• Nicole Tschierske Website
• Positive Leadership in Action: Tools, Techniques & Best Practices Book by Markus Ebner
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Karolina Rzadkowolska answers these and other questions about the impact of alcohol in our culture, society, businesses, leadership and lives.

Karolina Rzadkowolska is a certified alcohol-free life coach who helps powerful women make alcohol insignificant in their lives. She’s worked with thousands of clients through her online courses and coaching to change their drinking habits and unleash a new level of health, happiness, and potential to go after their biggest dreams.

Her book Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You (Harper Collins and featured in Target) will be out on bookshelves on January 4th. She’s the host of Euphoric the Podcast, founder of Euphoric Alcohol-Free, and her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Popsugar, Authority Magazine, Greatist, and Elite Daily. Karolina’s passionate about helping you discover what really makes you happy outside of a beverage and design a life you love.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• There’s more to alcohol use than abstinence and abuse (normal drinker versus problem drinker)
• The reality of the impact of alcohol of the millions of people in the middle of alcohol use
• Understanding the prevalence of alcohol in our culture
• New health realities of alcohol consumption
• Health impacts of alcohol use
• Conscious and unconscious beliefs around alcohol use
• The role and challenges of the labels we use with alcohol use in our culture
• Key social drivers for alcohol use
• Obstacles to changes in our alcohol use (what we get from alcohol)
• The role of comparativeness in alcohol use
• The value of an alcohol break in your life
• Key questions regarding your alcohol use: Is it making you happy? Is it aligned with your values? Is it helping you achieve your values every day? Is it helping you achieve my bigger dreams?
• Moving beyond the social pressures around alcohol
• You don’t have to solve all your questions about alcohol – just take a break
• The benefits of reducing or eliminating alcohol use in your life

Resources:

• Karolina Rzadkowolska
• Karolina Rzadkowolska Instagram
• Euphoric Alcohol Free Website
• Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You Book by Karolina Rzadkowolska (Free Gift)
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Boomer Brown answers these and other questions about leadership, people development and building cultures of high trust, better people and great impact.

Dr. Boomer Brown, PhD serves as the Chief Encouragement Officer (CEO) and Visionary for Doing Good at Work, Inc. As a business owner & leader, educator, international conference speaker, author, executive coach, board member, and adviser, his leadership has garnered him the respect of business and community leaders across various industries and cities.

Boomer believes work and business are good, profit is a must, and companies should invest in people, leaders and process to yield the greatest profitability. He is committed to connecting the heart and mind of business leaders to change world. He believes business is a key piece in creating Total Societal Impact. It all starts with people.

His simple, positive, and authentic communication style appeals to a diverse audience. He is passionate about his family, his faith, and service to others. He is committed to caring for business leaders, redeeming business, and changing the world. Better people, better business, better world. We make people better!

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Putting people first may be something completely new
• What it means to have healthy people in your organization
• Origins of the concept of cultures of psychological safety
• Seizing the opportunities today to take a more holistic approach to your people and your business
• The troubles with creating solutions in a vacuum and without your peoples’ input
• The importance of a well-informed and intentional people strategy
• The impact of fear of losing control on our leadership and people strategies
• The role of questions and listening in developing your people
• Shortcoming of overly metricfying business (data is not the solution – it’s a tool for solutions)
• Better people plus better process equals better profits
• Value of Monday morning momentum meetings
• Trust is the amniotic fluid of people first cultures
• Critical obstacles to trust in today’s social cultures
• Strategies for aligning your people with your strategy and values
• Understanding yellow line companies (building new companies inside and existing company)
• Trust keys – consistency and safety
• Using carefrontation in your leadership
• Critical need for appreciation in the feedback mix
• The role of the five appreciation languages with teams, engagement and people development
• Importance of seeing people as individuals
• Value of employee care programs (safety net offering)

Resources:

• Boomer Brown (boomer@doinggoodatwork.com)
• Doing Good at Work Website
• The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging Peopleby Gary Chapman
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Chris Rollins answers these and other questions about leadership, the LBGTQ+ community, leading people first and empowering your authentic and powerful leadership.

Chris Rollins is a purpose-driven leadership and executive coach who works with leaders – especially in the LGBTQ+ community – to experience new levels of growth, success and fulfillment. Chris is passionate about working with leaders to find their own voice and style so they can lead with purpose and authenticity. He's particularly skilled at creating a safe space where his clients can experience meaningful transformation to drive positive business results. He's worked with clients across industries and functions and is particularly inspired by coaching leaders who adopt a "people-first" approach.

Before working as a coach, Chris spent a decade in corporate America. He first honed his craft in sales before rising through the leadership ranks at a digital marketing research company in the customer success function. He then leveled up to an internally focused role as SVP of Organizational Development where he served on the executive team as a trusted partner to the CEO. When living and leading from his essence, Chris embodies compassion, intimacy, love, joy and peace.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• What it means to create safe spaces for people and why it matters
• Unique challenges for the LBGTQ+ community as leaders
• Understanding the multiple pursuits of safety in the LBGTQ+ community
• Bridging differences through the authentic pursuit of connection
• The role of intersectionality in understanding differences and building a strong DEI culture
• Ways that survival mode (not feeling safe) keeps people from their full power, authenticity and impact
• Importance of seeing critical leadership traits as anything but soft
• The impact of being in your threat state in your leadership
• The value of people first leadership and its impacts
• The need for bringing more compassion, kindness, vulnerability and authenticity to the workplace
• Understanding the intersection of empathy and compassion in leadership
• Differently understanding being kind and being nice
• Critical role of authentic conversations in leadership
• The trouble with performance improvement plans (getting past the policy and process)
• The difference between agreements and expectations (and why it matters)
• Beware the huge blind spot of self-protection (often unconscious)
• Ways that a people first mindset is becoming the norm in the workforce
• Understanding and navigating the shifting workforce (e.g. the Great Resignation)
• Get clear in who you are as a leader and be willing to authentically live and lead that way
• Self-reflection is the foundation of leadership

Resources:

• Chris Rollins
• Chris Rollins Website
• QueeHR Community
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Cami Travis-Groves answers these and other questions about the inner work of life and leadership.

As a transformational coach and an expert in inner work, Cami Travis-Groves helps creatives tame their inner critics for good and become their absolute best selves. As a 30-year veteran of the graphic design industry, she understands intimately the struggles of a creative career.

Cami is also an international keynote speaker and an author based in the Kansas City area. She is probably best known for her good juju, spreading it wherever she goes.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• If you only work on your symptoms, the root cause will always bring back the issues
• Unique challenges faced by creatives in business, career and life
• The role of your inner critic in holding you back
• Navigating a male dominated industry as a woman
• Realities of using affirmations to create inner change
• The role of trauma in birthing our inner critic
• Understanding the ways that your limbic brain is holding you back
• Getting access to the parts of your brain that serve you
• Understanding and being aware of your emotions to shift from reaction to response
• The importance of having a conversation with your inner critic
• Overcoming the subtle limiting messages as a creative (i.e. “Don’t be a starving artist.”)
• Why creatives often carry the deepest wounds
• The need for trauma informed training in education
• Life and leadership is about coloring outside the lines
• The reality that little “t” trauma is everywhere and just as impactful
• Being aware of the little “t” traumas you create for others every day
• Understanding the importance of the Losado Ratio (people need a ratio of 3 to 1 positive feedback over constructive feedback)
• Embracing reinforcing feedback as a leadership and growth tool
• Transformation coaching is a healing journey
• The inner work is uncomfortable and sometimes painful, but it’s the path to freedom

Resources:

• Cami Travis-Groves
• Cami Travis-Groves Website
• 100 Days of Creative High Growth Program
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Michael Unbroken answers these and other questions about leadership, life transformation, healing trauma and having the success you desire.

From homeless to hero, Michael Unbroken, is the Founder of Think Unbroken, best-selling author, award-winning speaker, podcast host, coach, and advocate for adult survivors of childhood trauma. Since 2016, Michael has empowered over 100,000 trauma survivors to get out of The Vortex, learn to love themselves, and become the hero of their own story. Michael has spoken in over 80 countries, won investments from Undercover Billionaire Grant Cardone, and is on a mission to end generational trauma in his lifetime.

Think Unbroken’s mission is to empower trauma survivors with the tools and curriculum of Think Unbroken to get unstuck, learn to love themselves, get "Out of The Vortex" and reclaim their power. We believe that by creating palatable and practical tools that Trauma Warriors around the world can overcome their past, heal from trauma, and become the hero of their own story!

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Your circumstances and experiences don’t define your or your life, unless you let them
• Overcoming the not enough messages from your life
• What are you willing to do to have the life you want to have?
• In order to get to where you want to go you have to know how you got to where you are
• Realities and impact of childhood trauma
• In order to move past your past, you have to address is
• You must invest in yourself first in order to move past your old stories and experiences
• The importance of getting clear on your values and what you stand for
• The difference between success and failure is decision
• The only way you create belief in yourself is you have to prove to yourself that you’re capable of trying (you must be willing to try and fail)
• Trusting your intuition is essential
• Ways your head keeps you from the life and outcomes you desire
• The value of using binary language in your self-talk
• Learning to trust and follow your gut instincts
• Self-awareness in leadership is everything
• Critical question: Am I trying to be right or seeking to achieve the mission?
• The people who are most successful in life are the people who operate mission based

Realities of vulnerability in leadership

Resources:

• Michael Unbroken
• Think Unbroken Website
• Think Unbroken Podcast
• Free copy of Think Unbroken book by Michael Unbroken
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Hoyin Cheung answers these and other questions about remote work, humanizing remote experiences and leading remote teams.

Hoyin Cheung is an entrepreneurial visionary with a knack for being ahead of the curve. Accurately predicting the social and psychological harms associated with social media, he moved on from his successful digital marketing agency to pursue the future of humanized digital interactions.

Today, Hoyin is the Founder and CEO of Remo, an interactive virtual event platform that humanizes the online event experience. He has pioneered technology and ground-breaking concepts in remote work and real-time virtual collaboration. In just over a year, Hoyin has grown Remo from 5 to over 100 members, all working globally. He’s currently passionate about creating authentic conversations that drive meaningful relationships in the most human way possible with the help of technology.

Remo’s events bring communities together built upon purpose and common interests and provide opportunities to grow and facilitate trust. This leads to organic relationships in the virtual space, as well as offline. These common factors create comfortable networking settings, setting the stage for real human interaction and creating deep connections that can last a lifetime. Hoyin believes this process is the most humane way to bring people together.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Strategies and platforms for bringing people together online in the most human and humane way
• The importance of video in building trust, connection and relationships
• Humanizing online experiences
• Thinking differently about the remote experience (not just the remote work technology)
• Creating space for spontaneous conversations online
• Moving beyond productivity as the focus of remote work experiences and events
• Ways that technology platforms can deliver more engagement during meetings, gatherings and events
• Enhancing your online and remote networking events and experience
• Assessing and navigating the camera on / camera off realities of online gatherings
• Unique challenges of remote and hybrid work
• Impact of remote work on meetings quantity and quality
• Role and importance of a communication charter in your business
• Key tools for managing remote work forces
• Challenges of boundaries with remote and hybrid work
• Rethinking meetings and length of meetings
• Remote works requires minimizing meetings (not expanding them)
• Role of physical boundaries at home in holding work boundaries
• Critical role of policies and processes when managing a remote team

Resources:

• Hoyin Cheung
• Remo Website
• Who Book by Geoff Smart and Randy Street
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Kimberly Ofori (The Netherlands) answers these and other questions about leadership, scaling up, business models, and diversity, equity and inclusion.

Kimberly Ofori is an entrepreneur, strategist and business consultant, and is currently the Managing Director at Ofori & Co. – A Strategy & Innovation Agency where she helps scaleups and corporations innovate their business models and overall strategic positioning in their respective markets.

Thanks to her rather unconventional corporate and entrepreneurial career; from climbing up the career ladder starting at very young age, to working and living in the Middle East, Africa and Europe where she founded and sold two companies – she’s amassed a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience on what it takes to choose to be in the lead of your own life, in your career and on leading others. This is why Kimberly has been coaching leaders and leadership teams on personal leadership using The Lead method, a personal leadership methodology developed by Kimberly herself.

Kimberly also functions as an advocate, advisor and initiator of many gender and racial equity projects worldwide and fulfills a number of Board advisory roles as well.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Understanding the importance and value of choosing the right business model for your business
• The of value position in growing and scaling your business
• Understanding different types of business models
• Role of business models and strategy in scaling up your business
• Seeing your product or service from the perspective of the person who’s going to be “buying” it
• Strategies for learning to seeing your business, customers and business models differently
• Leaders help people see things, situations and opportunities differently
• The importance of learning from your failures (and a process for learning)
• Understanding that scaling is not always fast
• Role of reflection in learning and growth (Learning = Experience + Reflection)
• What is personal leadership and why it matters
• Importance of asking the question what you really want
• Understanding key leadership myths about making mistakes, failures and learning
• Risks of policies in limiting your growth, learning and innovation
• Different ways to explore diversity as an organizational goal
• Importance of understanding your values and goals in leadership
• Critical questions and ideas for diversity, equity and inclusion
• Being intentional in your leadership
• Leadership Wisdom – Make a conscious decision to take charge of the decisions that you're making and keep asking yourself “Why?”

Resources:

• Kimberly Ofori
• Kimberly Ofori Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest LaPora Lindsey answers these and other questions about leadership, confidence, emotional intelligence and impact.

Anlecta "LaPora" Lindsey is a motivational speaker, life coach and author who helps her clients develop and grow their careers through career coaching and life skills management. She’s certified in emotional intelligence training, life skills coaching and professional resume writing.

As an avid volunteer, LaPora dedicates her time as a Committee Mentor for #ICANHELP. A military spouse of thirteen years, LaPora and her husband have two children and have recently made their sixth—and last—military-ordered move to Colts Neck, NJ. LaPora’s articles have been featured in Military Spouse Magazine—a nationally syndicated magazine and blog that reaches 1.1 million readers—Kitsap Military Times and NAS Patuxent River installation paper. 

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Differently understanding confidence – what it is and how to achieve it
• The critical role of mindset in your confidence and career
• Understanding the difference between your self-confidence and the confidence others have in you
• Four core areas of emotional intelligence: 1. Self-awareness; 2. Self-management; 3. Social awareness; and 4. Relationship management
• Strategies for navigating past imposter syndrome
• Self-awareness – What you know about yourself (not necessarily with aligned action)
• Self-management – Action you take based upon your self-awareness
• Social awareness – What you see in social situations and interpersonal interactions (including your impact on others)
• Importance of empathy in your leadership and career
• Why we’re often harder on ourselves than anyone else
• Relationship management – The advanced skill that requires self-awareness, self-management and social awareness to differently navigate your relationships
• Understanding and navigating your triggers
• Trap of labeling emotions as either positive or negative (shifting to healthy versus unhealthy emotions)
• Role and importance of discomfort in growth, change and development
• Differently understanding and experiencing rejection and the fear of rejection (rejection as a tool of wisdom and patience)
• Learning is a choice and you can have experiences without learning anything
• Reframing your biases about potential employees relating to military partners
• Pride as a key driver for engagement and culture (organizational impacts and values)

Resources:

• LaPora Lindsey LinkedIn
• LaPora Lindsey Instragram
• LaPora Lindsey Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Deborah Peters answers these and other questions about leadership, self-awareness, mindsets and program repatterning.

Deborah Peters is the Founder of the Neuro Engineering Institute and an international business coach and mind set expert. She’s provided training, coaching and keynote speeches to companies in 17 countries in a wide variety of industries for the past 20 years. Deborah was a single mother at 15 with a trauma-based background from a poverty stricken, alcoholic and abusive background. She has successfully outlived her past and created a thriving life and organization that is of service to humanity through business growth. they Guide Business Leaders Into Alignment With Their Highest Potential, Cultivating Mastery of Mind, Life & Business. 

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Repatterning any thought pattern or emotional program that’s keeping you from your greatness
• The real mindset journey is taking it from your head to your heart
• The difference between being it (in mindset) versus talking about it
• The trap of self-validation
• Embracing the pause in your leadership
• Navigating the realities of fear in leadership
• Realities of organizational mindsets and energies
• Three key types of energies: Movers, ideas and connectors
• Overcoming the need for external validation in order to allow results to occur
• Seeing fear of failure and fear of success as the same thing (a mental programming)
• Understanding repatterning – allowing it to happen to you versus being intentional with your repatterning

Resources:

• Deborah Peters
• Neuro Engineering Institute Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Katie McLaughlin answers these and other questions about engagement, leadership and culture building.

Katie McLaughlin is the Founder, Chief Strategist and Transformation Artist at the McLaughlin Method, an organization that provides leadership and culture transformation for mature startups. They help leaders create inclusive cultures, build emotional intelligence, and work through their assumptions and biases so they can actually connect with and get the MOST out of their teams.

Katie does this all through interactive, experiential, theatre-based exercises. Her bias for action is HIGH so attendees to her sessions always leave with at least one action item to immediately do to shift something in your behavior, relationships, and company. Working with Katie you benefit from the powerhouse combo of her theatre background and over 15 years in the heart of business strategy, organizational development, and change management.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Culture challenges and opportunities in the dynamics of start-ups
• Good culture intention versus great culture execution
• Organizations and cultures are ever changing, living, breathing things
• Challenges of change management in growing organizations
• Understanding two culture inflection points the past two years – COVID pandemic and rapid growth companies due to aggressive hiring or acquisitions
• Acquisitions and mergers require inclusive integration conversations and strategies
• Living your values versus simply having them posted on the wall
• Different perspectives on the concept of out of the box thinking and innovation
• Leaders must communicate more of what’s in their heads
• The challenges and realities of assumptions and biases in our leadership, reactions, perspectives and decision-making
• The intrinsic and insidious nature of assumptions and biases
• Learning how to better deal with our emotions and the emotions of others in the workplace
• Using theater in growing your leadership, communication, culture and engagement
• What it means to really see your people as humans – moving beyond checklists to authentic culture
• Culture is in the in-between moments
• The critical role of intentionality in leadership and culture building
• Role of biases in workplace communication and expectations
• Emotional intelligence and leadership
• Other people determine our emotional intelligence (not our own self-assessment)
• You can’t control how someone feels (at best, you can only influence it)
• Authentic leadership beyond leadership performance
• Challenges and solutions for engaging a remote workforce
• Leadership requires delegating things off of your plate

Resources:

• Katie McLaughlin
• McLaughlin Method Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Clay Smeltzer answers these and other questions about manhood, imposter syndrome, personal leadership and living your life more authentically.

Clay Smeltzer is the Founder of the Purpose Infused Brotherhood which helps driven men become the best version of themselves by Building, Battling and Bonding together. In short, getting men initiated into a family where they belong!

Clay was 35 years old and living by what the world and everyone else told him he should be. He was the "responsible man," yet he was filled with worry, anxiety, anger, stress, negativity, shame, fear and the list went on. Then the shit hit the fan with a full-blown anxiety/panic attack over an episode of Game of Thrones and he decided to bring death to his old self. Out of those ashes came the new Purpose Infused Man. This change gave birth to the Purpose Infused Brotherhood and helping other men make those same changes and become the best version of themselves every single day!

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• A leader of one can be a leader of many – you can’t lead many until you can lead yourself
• What man do you see in the mirror?
• The two questions every man asks himself: 1. Am I good enough? 2. Do I have what it takes?
• The realities of money beliefs and shadows, and their impacts in your life
• Ways your subconscious programming creates the outcomes in your life
• The vital journey of going into your own subconscious darkness to learn and grow
• Becoming friends with pieces of yourself that you don’t like
• Rising up from the ashes of your former self (living like a phoenix)
• Unlearning your subconscious beliefs and reprogramming your beliefs to be more fulfilling
• Finding your truth by going at least five levels deep in exploring your whys for your behaviors, fears, etc.
• Understanding the ways our brain works and the ways it’s actually programmed
• The value of a 45-day purposeful man journal
• The impact on men of shoving things down
• What it means to Build, Battle and Bond
• Reprogramming our thinking regarding emotions
• The reality of the strength in your emotions
• The power of vulnerability in sharing your doubts, emotions and feelings
• Being more thought reactive than emotionally reactive
• Life formula: E + R = O … Event + Response = Outcome
• What and why of the death of your old self

Resources:

• Clay Smeltzer
• Purpose Infused Brotherhood Website (Initiation Program)
• Build Battle Bond Website
• Purpose Infused Brotherhood Podcast
• The Dark Side of the Light Chasers Book by Debbie Ford
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Bruce Fador answers these and other questions about leadership, sales management, sales and sales processes.

Bruce Fador is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fador Global Consulting Group, a consulting and advisory firm helping companies develop and execute strategies that accelerate their next growth phase. Bruce leverages his 30 years of experience in leadership and senior operational positions in services-focused firms to deliver unmatched results for his clients.

Before devoting complete focus and energy to FGCG, Bruce held several chief executive officer positions, including serving as CEO of Thomson First Call. Under his leadership and guidance, Thomson First Call’s core revenues soared from $18M to $120M. Bruce later built strategic alliances within other Thomson divisions, driving an additional $80M in revenue.

Throughout his career, Bruce has served as a Board member, strategic advisor or consultant to numerous leading capital markets, research and FinTech firms. Bruce is a Boston College graduate and later participated in the Insead Executive Management program in Fontainebleau, France.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Sales and marketing must collaborate to succeed
• Understanding the difference between marketing activity and lead generation
• The difference between marketing and sales
• Selling as a trusted advisor and based upon a relationship (the end of cold calls)
• The impact of unrealistic organizational expectations in sales
• Reasons to have sales leaders in your C-level conversations and strategy sessions
• The trouble with micromanagement in sales and sales management
• Why most sales people fail to meet goals (and why it’s acceptable)
• The role of market size in setting sales goals and objectives
• Role of trust issues with your sales disconnections and failures
• Getting past the distrust of sales people inside an organization
• Understanding the disconnection between a relationship approach in sales versus a desire for quick hits
• Getting the right kind of sales person for your business and “product”
• Pros and cons of using centers of influence in your sales efforts
• Roles of culture and incentivized compensation in your sales and growth strategies
• Realities and impacts of CEO compensation
• What it takes to be a great CEO

Resources:

• Bruce Fador (info@fadorglobal.com)
• Fador Global Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Brandon Miller answers these and other questions about leadership, engagement and personal development.

Brandon Miller is one of the first 7 Certified Gallup Clifton StrengthsFinder Coaches in the world. Over 15 years ago, he was a very early practitioner of Clifton StrengthsFinder using it as the Executive Leader for a non-profit organization. He has since coached hundreds of leaders to find and leverage their strengths for themselves and their teams.

Today, Brandon is the CEO of 34 Strong, a coaching and consulting firm dedicated to improving employee engagement. He has nearly 15 years of experience providing specialized leadership training, coaching, advising and facilitating.

Brandon is also the Co-Founder of Incredible Family, a consultancy agency passionate about seeing families engage in a strengths-based parenting approach to parenting that lets parents unlock their best selves and raise strong, happy, children and teens.

Brandon and his wife Analyn are successful business owners, the parents of seven children and authors of Play To Their Strengths and Incredible Parent. Incredible Parent gives you an innovative, strengths-based, intentional approach to child raising will make you more confident, aware and energized as a parent.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Using Clifton StrengthsFinder as a tool for personal, professional and team development
• Understanding the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment tool
• Redefining people’s roles and responsibilities based upon their strengths
• Understanding your grind time, greatness time and genius time and the impact on your energy
• Using your strengths to enhance your productivity
• Fixing our broken hiring processes
• Reframing the obstacle of negativity bias (belief that I can improve your ability to do something good by solving where you're lacking competence or weakness)
• Shifting from negativity bias to positive intent to grow trust
• Understanding that engagement creates productivity creates profits
• Value of authoritative leadership over authoritarian leadership
• Impacts of leadership’s well-being and mindset on engagement
• Engagement requires a ratio of giving team members five to one positive to negative feedback
• Changing the employee review conversation to enhance improvement and engagement
• Using the Q12 engagement assessment tool
• Key engagement metric – Have you received recognition or praise in the past 7 days?
• Looking for ways to commend the common things that may have been otherwise overlooked
• Applying StrengthsFinder to children and parenting
• Importance of creating cultures of safety for your team
• Understanding the unique challenges faced by mothers in the workforce
• Bringing your parental leadership into your business leadership
• Unique elements of engagement in the public sector
• Being an advocate as a leader

Resources:

• Brandon Miller (brandon@34strong.com)
• 34 Strong Website
• Incredible Family Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Darrell Evans answers these and other questions about leadership, empowering your people and the power of mind shifts to transform your leadership and results.

Darrell Evans is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of Yokel Local Internet Marketing. He and his team have helped entrepreneurs and companies to generate over $300M in revenue online since 2011. He’s also personally started and / or operated 6 businesses since the age of 20.

Darrell is the host of The MindShift Podcast which launched in 2019 and the founder of the MindShift Business Academy (MBA).

Darrell is passionate about entrepreneurship. When he appears on podcasts, he loves sharing the lessons, mistakes and breakthrough frameworks that have helped him and hundreds of other businesses market profitably, grow sales predictably and build superstar teams.

His goal is to help entrepreneurs grab “MindShifts” that will catapult them to their next level of success.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The role of a life plan in your life, business and leadership journey
• The importance of vision in navigating your plan
• Understanding digital marketing agencies (what they do to add value to your business)
• The difference between getting impressions and getting results in your business
• Transforming your leadership and business through mind shifts
• Your next level of growth is your next level of decision to become somebody new
• Four steps for learning and growth: 1. Make peace with the facts; 2. Make a new decision about who you’re going to become; 3. Make a plan; 4. Make changes in your behaviors in alignment with the new plan
• African proverb … nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent
• Embracing the power of choice in every situation, moment and experience
• The four levels of conscious and unconscious incompetence and competence
• Understanding the difference between empathizing and emphasizing other people’s challenges
• The difference between the facts and the stories and judgments we make up about the facts
• Leaders ask better questions to get better answers
• Shifting your mind so you can change your results
• When you change the way you look at things, you change the things you’re looking it
• Strategies for growing your people to grow your business
• The entrepreneur’s primary job is to create pathways for individuals to operate in their gift, such that it aligns with your vision
• Creating a culture where your people can make mistakes / fail in order to learn and grow
• The power of shifting your conversations from people’s skills to people’s gifts
• Empowering your people to produce results rather than record hours
• You're never stuck where you are, so long as you're willing to shift your mind in route to shifting your results

Resources:

• Darrell Evans
• Yokel Local Internet Marketing Website
• The MindShift Podcast Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Show Notes

In this episode…

• The many ways that leadership is a choice
• Realities of risks in leadership including the risks of choosing not to lead
• What it means to create followers by being a person worthy of being followed
• Ways that you disempower your leadership by waiting for others to lead
• Leadership is an act of vulnerability … stepping out and being seen, judged and making mistakes
• Leadership comes with a target but you choose whether the target goes on your back (inauthentic leadership) or on your chest (vulnerable leadership)
• What are the real (not perceived) risks of choosing to lead
• Embracing the leadership moments and opportunities
• Leadership is a 24/7 mindset and awareness (not a 24/7 job)
• Leadership often involves speaking up
• Stop waiting for positional leaders to lead – choose to lead
• Ways to empower your entire team to lead
• Leadership is not about permission – it’s a choice
• Empowering your life and leadership – you always have a choice
• Are you foxhole worthy as a leader and who do you want in your leadership foxhole?
• Beware of the trap of blaming others for failing to lead / change things
• What do you want for your children as leaders?
• Ways to lead without a position including modeling and mentoring (What are you modeling as a leader?)
• The importance of leading by listening

Resources:

• Mankind Project International
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Dr. Shannon Prince answers these and other questions about leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion, world crafting, and creating anti-racist cultures and organizations.

Shannon Prince is an attorney, legal commentator, and speaker. She earned her doctorate in African and African American Studies and her master’s degree in English from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, her law degree from Yale Law School, and her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Dartmouth College. 

She drafted best practice language on policing policies for the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice, represented plaintiffs in CCJEF v. Rell, a high-profile landmark education adequacy lawsuit, and is currently representing the Cherokee Nation in their lawsuit against pharmaceutical distributors and pharmacies for their role in the opioid crisis that the tribe is suffering. She is a member of her firm’s Firm Diversity Council and is a Legal Council on Legal Diversity Pathfinder.

Her writing has been published in The Hill, Transition Magazine, Science, and Jezebel among other venues, and she’s the author of Tactics for Racial Justice due out in January 2022.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Moving beyond words and getting into diversity, equity and inclusion action
• Differently understanding systemic racism (getting beyond the idea that racism is about bad people)
• Understanding the realities of racism in business today
• Using metrics to track disparities in impact
• Making changes in diversity, equity and inclusion requires a focus on practices more than intentions
• Understanding intersectionality in biases
• Fundamentals of DEI training
• Training doesn’t work in the absence of other diversity initiatives
• Navigating the “we hire the best people” concept in light of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (understanding the role of unconscious biases)
• The reality that more diverse companies outperform less diverse companies
• Different practices you can use to increase your diversity, equity and inclusion
• The importance of hiring for diversity, equity and inclusion mindsets
• The of recruitment changes to build a more diverse, equitable and inclusive organization
• Understanding the role of bias interrupting in creating more diverse and inclusive organizations
• The importance of being more aware of your biases and assumptions (cultural metacognition)
• Exploring ways that bias has an unintended impact on the lack of diversity
• Ways that anti-racism initiatives are needed beyond diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• Ways to amplify your communication and conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion issues
• What you can do to create a safe place for your team to have open conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion
• The role of vulnerability in diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and conversations
• Practicing world crafting by thinking like an ancestor … what future will you help create

Resources:

• Shannon Prince
• Boies Schiller Flexner Law Firm Website
• Tactics for Racial Justice: Building and Anti-Racist Organizations and Community book by Dr. Shannon Prince (due out in January 2022) (LEADERSHIP JUNKIES DISCOUNT CODE: FLY21)
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Vinay Raman answers these and other questions about leadership, engagement and maximizing your organization’s and team’s performance.

Vinay Raman (Raleigh NC) is the CEO of CAARMO, which helps businesses and employees unlock their hidden potential, maximize their opportunities and mitigate risks using their Performance Intelligence software tool.

Vinay’s decision-making tool helps you more deeply understand your people and your company, as well as showing you how you’re performing so you can optimize the behaviors of your employees and managers to align employees with the business outcomes you want.

Vinay mantra: “I love to pay it forward and I’ve made lives easier for thousands of owners, senior leaders and employees across the United States.” His mission is to help business leaders improve employee retention, engagement, and productivity using data.

Vinay helps leaders see their blind spot and punch through them with the help of CAARMO’s Business Blind Spots Exposed podcast which helps Vinay and his team reach audiences about how teams can provide solutions to their needs.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Importance of integrating data and stories in decision making and messaging
• Applying scientific thinking and processes to leadership and business decisions
• Assessing your failure velocity for growth and improvement (failing faster to the right answer)
• True mark of leadership is ability to be resilient and shift in order to respond, not react, to external stimulus
• The power of storytelling supported by data
• Using data to drive behavior and better decisions
• Importance of getting clear on what great performance means
• Leaders are aware that they’re often the biggest obstacle to their objectives
• What it means to empathize data in leadership
• Understanding the ways that employee self-performance drives engagement
• Understanding the great resignation driven by the great disengagement
• The people closest to issues have the best perspectives of the issues
• Using data helps you discover issues quicker and with greater clarity (including coachable moments for team members)
• Understanding empathetic leadership
• If profit is the prime directive, it's very short sighted. But if empathy is your prime directive, prophet comes along for the ride
• The big win of data – providing coaching for exactly what people need to improve performance, which leads to greater profitability for the company

Resources:

• Vinay Raman (vinayr@caarmo.com)
• Caarmo Website
• Business Blind Spots Exposed podcast
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Colin Hunter answers these and other questions about leadership, the importance of learning and growing through mistakes, and disrupting your thinking, innovation and organization.

Colin Hunter is an Author, Mentor, Coach and the Founder and CEO of PotentialSquared, an international business that specializes in creating playgrounds to disrupt the way people are led. Colin works with leaders and their teams around the globe in the area of leadership impact – helping them to create an engaged, capable group of followers and bringing fresh ideas and stories to their teams and clients alike.

With the use of actors, cutting-edge virtual realities, and a new leadership framework, clients have shown an award-winning difference in how they have transformed their leaders. Colin prides himself by practicing what he preaches with being wrong more and learning fast from it

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Embracing more play in your leadership, team and organization
• The power of failure in growing your leadership and impact
• Why being wrong is the path to leadership and personal growth
• Be willing to experiment as a leader and organization
• The risks of playing in safe in business and leadership
• Fail small and learn big
• Do you empower your people to own their roles or only rent them
• Using leading indicators at guard rails while allowing people to learn by making mistakes
• Understanding design thinking and the role of experimentation
• Empowering your people to create memorable experiences for clients and customers
• Embracing disruption and experimentation in interviews for team members
• Allowing your people to bring their quirkiness to work
• Challenges and opportunities to recruit and hire differently
• Wisdom of growing your own leaders rather than seeking to find them outside the organization
• The trouble with the word failure
• Using small experiments to change things
• The difference between trying things out and failing versus messing up or making mistakes
• Small changes deliver big impacts
• Embrace testing small to learn, grow and innovate in big ways

Resources:

• Colin Hunter (https://www.instagram.com/bemorewrong)
• Be More Wrong Website
• Be More Wrong: How Failure Makes You an Outstanding Leader book by Colin Hunter
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Carl Gould answers these and other questions about leadership, entrepreneurship, coaching, business growth and peak performance.

Carl Gould is a worldwide leading authority on business and entrepreneurship, a keynote speaker and best-selling author. His company, 7 Stage Advisors, helps organizations grow to the next level. He’s an entrepreneur who built three multi-million dollar businesses by age 40, and 7 Stage Advisors has mentored the launch of over five thousand businesses. Some of the companies Carl’s helped are Allstate, American Idol, USA Olympic Track, IBM, McGraw-Hill and the US Army.

Carl created the farthest-reaching business mentoring organization in the world, and his methodologies are in practice in 35 countries. He’s trained, certified or accredited over 7,000 business coaches and mentors since 2002.

Carl has written multiple books and articles on the subject of business strategy, leadership and sustainable growth. He co-authored Blueprint for Success with Stephen R. Covey and Ken Blanchard, and his best-selling book, The 7 Stages of Small Business Success, lays out the formula for HyperGrowth.

Carl’s dynamic and energetic presentation style has made him a sought after keynote speaker internationally. He combines practical and impactful content with real-world experience…no theory here! Carl engages his audiences and keeps them on the edge of their seat. Gould’s content is original, profound and battle-tested.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Using assessments and peak performance science to accelerate and grow your leadership and business
• Skills for getting to your blind spots in two questions or less
• Strategies for growing the professional side of your life
• Understanding the ways your personality type impacts your leadership style
• Understanding the 7 Stages of Business Growth
• Strategic planning stage
• Specialty stage
• Synergy stage
• Systems stage
• Sustainability stage
• Saleability stage
• Legacy stage
• Understanding the difference between growing a business and scaling a business
• The difference between producer team members and manager team members
• Building great teams is about understanding the skills and mindsets for roles and finding the right fits for the roles (even if it’s not the typical fit)
• Focusing on core competencies versus prior experience with your people
• The four quandrants for business leaders – Direction / strategy, Income (sales / marketing), Systems; Controls
• Questions help people see things differently and help people find their blind spots
• Coach’s key role is to help clients understand the limit of their defined identity and expand that identity
• The importance of understanding the natural state of your comfort zone
• Leaders have a range of mismanagement, and the team knows it as well
• Behaviors follow incentives

Resources:

• Carl Gould
• Carl Gould Website
• 7 Stage Advisors Website (Free Business Analysis)
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Kate Bradley Chernis answers these and other questions about leadership, artificial intelligence, social media, sales and marketing leadership, and embracing more magic in your business and life.

Kate Bradley Chernis is the Founder & CEO of Lately, which uses AI to learn your brand voice and turn blogs, videos and podcasts into dozens of social posts. As a former marketing agency owner, Kate initially created the idea for Lately out of spreadsheets for then-client, Walmart, and got them a 130% ROI, year-over-year for three years.

Prior to founding Lately, Kate served 20 million listeners as Music Director and on-air host at Sirius/XM. She’s also an award-winning radio producer, engineer and voice talent with 25 years of national broadcast communications, brand-building, sales and marketing expertise.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Understanding AI relative to your brand, brand message and social media
• The role of magic in your sales, marketing, business and life
• Ideas for transforming your fans into evangelists
• Living and leading with a child-like sense of wonder
• Embracing the impact of curiosity and synchronicity
• Claiming the power of your choices every day
• What you choose to believe changes your experiences of life
• The path to more magic is to believe in magic
• Even your superpowers have a corresponding weakness
• Leaders must be willing to call out the bullshit
• The importance of taking time to reflect on your moments and experiences every day
• The culture pressure for women leaders to always be on it, always be solving, always be fixing problems
• Navigating the daily pressures of the “mirror” (meeting self-expectations and expectations from others) for women in leadership
• The importance of being willing to move beyond your original idea and pivot in your business
• Beware losing your identity in your job, career or business
• Navigating your insecurities as a leader
• Wisdom for woman entrepreneur – listen to your gut!

Resources:

• Kate Bradley Chernis
• Lately Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest David Baldwin answers these and other questions about people first leadership, values based leadership and what it means to build a business to be used as a force for good.

David Baldwin plays lead guitar for Baldwin&, the advertising agency he founded in Raleigh, NC. Baldwin& was named Small Agency of the Year twice in its first five years by Ad Age and the 4A’s, and David is one of the most awarded copywriters and creative directors working in the advertising business today.

The former Chairman of the One Club in NYC, David was also an executive producer for the Emmy winning film, Art & Copy, and an associate producer for the Emmy and Peabody Award winning film “The Loving Story”.

David also co-founded the Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, NC, and is the author of the Amazon Best Seller, The Belief Economy, How to Give a Damn, Stop Selling, and Create Buy-in.

Last year, in the wake of the George Floyd tragedy, David co-founded Take Your Seat, a company dedicated to get more Black representation into boardrooms. 

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• When it comes to DEI, no one cares what you have to say – they want to see what you’re doing
• Creating board opportunities for black leaders (Take Your Seat)
• If you want to support change for people of difference, ask them how you can help and listen
• A power phrase for DEI conversations – “I might be helping wrong, and I would like you to help me figure out how to not help wrong”
• Leadership means meeting every moment with an open heart
• The critical importance of getting clear on the purpose and why for your business and then make decisions based upon that why
• What it means to use business as a force for good and why it matters
• Companies with a meaningful culture, values lead, and based on purpose outperform the market significantly
• Growing a business by focusing on your people, not growth
• A unique definition of work life balance (presence)
• Leaders listen with an open heart and seek to understand their impact
• Leaders let go of the need to be right
• If you build a strong culture, the culture will filter out the wrong people
• A different approach to performance improvement plans
• What’s the people first always solution? (putting your values in action)
• A value’s not a value until it costs you in the marketplace
• Leadership lessons from the movie Twelve Angry Men (ask questions and listen)

Resources:

• David Baldwin (dbaldwin@baldwinand.com)
• David Baldwin Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/davidlbaldwin)
• Baldwin& Website
• Ponysaurus Brewery Website
• Take Your Seat Website
• Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life book by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Jacqueline Wales answers these and other questions about living and leading as a “fearless” leader and person.

Jacqueline is the founder, creator and curator of The Fearless Factor. An astute observer of behavior, she’s endlessly fascinated by the messiness of being human, and finds people who are vulnerable and honest about their struggles to be incredibly interesting and courageous. She believes that being fearless is not the absence of fear but the courage to take the next step.

As the author of When The Crow Sings, The Fearless Factor, The Fearless Factor @ Work, and soon to be published Fearless Women Leading The Way, Jacqueline’s explored human behavior and asked tough questions to discover hard truths for more than 35 years.

While observing and talking with thousands of people over several decades, Jacqueline has come to understand that the challenges we all confront are not much different—no matter who you are or what you’re doing in life.

Jacqueline’s a writer, singer, and global nomad who’s lived and traveled on three continents, developed a passion for martial arts earning a black belt in karate, and now an avid CrossFit athlete.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Being fearless is not the absence of fear but the courage to take the next step
• Nothing changes if you’re not uncomfortable
• Asking yourself and honestly answering self-questions are keys to moving past fears
• Fear is an emotion driven by a thought
• The importance of taking a deep and honest dive into your fears and the fear drivers
• Gender differences around fear (women versus men)
• Leadership challenges for women in the workplace
• Importance of vulnerability in leadership and addressing your fears
• Impacts of the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves
• Value and impact to organizations of having more women and women in leadership
• Reality that people leave managers and the underlying values of the organization that allow the manager to lead (or fail to lead) a certain way
• Need for more compassion in the workplace
• Importance of bringing more humanity to work
• Value of assessment in building your people, culture and leadership
• Challenges to being more human at work
• Different ways to discuss and address feelings at work
• Vulnerability in leadership is not just about emotions (the key role of modeling in bringing more vulnerability in your workplace)
• What’s your fearless factor?

Resources:

• Jacqueline Wales (jacqueline@jacquelinewales.com)
• Jacqueline Wales Website
• Complimentary Courses (Code JW21)
• Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life book by Tasha Eurich
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Nora Herting answers these and other questions about visual leadership, creativity and strategy.

A pioneer of visual strategy, Nora Herting is passionate about expanding peoples’ definition of creativity and believes the best way to meet the demands of business today is to take a visual approach that blends strategic thinking and creative expression.

Nora’s skill and impact with businesses, and her own entrepreneurial prowess founding ImageThink, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fox Business, Entrepreneur and INC.

She leads a compelling conversation around the power of visual thinking as a catalyst for personal and organizational change. As a sought-after speaker and thought leader, Nora has inspired global audiences with her creative keynotes at Cannes Lions, SXSW Interactive, WBENC.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The intersection of creativity, strategy and leadership
• Visualizing your ideas for greater innovation
• Role of visual tools in storytelling and brainstorming
• The importance of expanding people’s definitions of creativity
• Understanding the life cycle of an idea
• Using visual activation for creativity, innovation and strategy
• Our hard wiring to find meaning in pictures
• Overcoming obstacles to explore visual creativity experiences
• Tools for using visuals for your brainstorming, strategy sessions and problem solving
• The vulnerability in using visuals in your business leadership
• Visual tools as a strategy to surface and discuss difficult issues
• Integrating visual tools and humor to enhance business conversations and creativity
• Growing your creative confidence
• Visual tools enhance the experience, engagement, enjoyment and creativity
• Understanding visual tools for socialization within an organization
• Role of visual tools with mission, vision, purpose, values and strategic plan
• Understanding and implementing visual leadership

Resources:

• Nora Herting
• ImageThink Website
• Draw Your Big Idea: The Ultimate Creativity Tool for Turning Thoughts Into Action and Dreams Into Reality Book by Nora Herting
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Dr. Ian Brooks answers these and other questions about leadership, intention and what he calls amplifying your return on heartbeats.

Dr. Ian D. Brooks is the CEO and founder of Rhodes Smith Consulting, a personal and professional development firm specializing In behavioral transformations. He’s also the author of Intention: Building Capabilities to Transform Your Story.

For over 24 years, Dr. Brooks' career has taken him from working in a clinical ward to working with organizations and people with the goal of helping individuals build skills toward achieving new heights. His clients include Netflix, Shondaland, Bank of America, Guitar Center, Nike Inc. Sony, and Warner Brothers.

His passion for working with individuals seeking expansion and leaders within organizations to develop key skills and working with their teams is built on the mastery of intentions and consistency of capabilities.  

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The difference between creating the plan versus trying to control the path
• The role of impact and influence in leadership
• Leadership is defined by actions and outputs (not by title and outcomes)
• When people feel heard and engaged, you have a true people impact
• Understanding the difference between engaging with your people versus getting engagement from your people
• Leaders must constantly assess what you’re willing to DO (and be clear in prioritizing your do’s)
• The value of making time for celebrating your people and successes
• Leadership is a verb – what are you prepared to DO in your leadership
• Beware the trap of over thinking as a leader
• The role of unconscious bias and unconscious decisions in your leadership
• Moving beyond thinking about your leadership to doing about your leadership
• Leaders respond rather than react
• Risk is a part of leadership (leaders are experts at assessing the risks)
• Assessing what’s the worst that can happen (and its likelihood)
• Leaders ask great questions and listen
• Role of vulnerability in leadership including the leader’s pause
• Leadership requires allowing the quiet and listen
• Leadership and new workplace realities (the Great Resignation)
• Replacing ROI thinking with Return on Heartbeats leadership
• Leadership with an empowered workforce
• Role of intentionality in leading and managing remote or hybrid workforces
• Leadership lessons from the movie To Sir With Love

Resources:

• Ian Brooks (https://www.instagram.com/drb_intention; https://twitter.com/DrB_Intention)
• Rhodes Smith Consulting Website
• Intention: Building Capabilities to Transform Your StoryBook by Dr. Ian Brooks
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Michele Graglia answers these and other questions about leadership, purpose and achieving your fullest potential.

After growing up in Italy and working in his family’s floral business, Michele Graglia “stumbled” into a career as a top international model. He then discovered that the modeling world was taking a toll on his life, which led to a life changing moment of truth that caused him to leave the modeling profession.

In the midst of his personal crisis, Michele learned about the concept of ultra-running, and today he’s one of the world's top ultra-runners. Since 2011, he has competed in over thirty ultramarathons all over the world, often winning and setting course records. He has set Guinness World Records for his runs across the Atacama and Gobi deserts.

His wins in the Yukon Arctic Ultra, with temperatures below -40ºF, and the Badwater 135 in Death Valley, with highs above 130ºF, made him the first person in history to win both the hottest and coldest foot races on Earth.

His motivational speaking has inspired thousands around the world. Michele also studied yoga and meditation in Rishikesh, India, and is an RYT-certified yoga instructor as well as a USATF-certified Running Coach and Sport Nutritionist. From 2016 to 2020 he was a Yoga and Mindfulness coach at the high-end Malibu retreat, The Ashram.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Understanding the role of presence is achieving beyond your perceived limitations
• Transcending the idea of human limitations to embracing your full human potential
• The power of the present moment
• Separating your thoughts in the present moment
• Mindfulness is not thinking about being here – it’s simply being here
• The moment you start thinking, you're already holding yourself back
• The ways our need for protection breeds resistance
• Strategies for living a life of abundance and contribution
• The importance of having a clear why in pursuing your dreams and objectives
• The limits of material success in achieving a life of fulfillment and contribution
• Change only happens in moments of difficulty
• The reality that we control nothing

Resources:

• Michele Graglia (https://www.instagram.com/mickeygraglia)
• Michele Graglia Website
• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Book by Eckhart Tolle
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Michele Graglia answers these and other questions about leadership, purpose and achieving your fullest potential.

After growing up in Italy and working in his family’s floral business, Michele Graglia “stumbled” into a career as a top international model. He then discovered that the modeling world was taking a toll on his life, which led to a life changing moment of truth that caused him to leave the modeling profession.

In the midst of his personal crisis, Michele learned about the concept of ultra-running, and today he’s one of the world's top ultra-runners. Since 2011, he has competed in over thirty ultramarathons all over the world, often winning and setting course records. He has set Guinness World Records for his runs across the Atacama and Gobi deserts.

His wins in the Yukon Arctic Ultra, with temperatures below -40ºF, and the Badwater 135 in Death Valley, with highs above 130ºF, made him the first person in history to win both the hottest and coldest foot races on Earth.

His motivational speaking has inspired thousands around the world. Michele also studied yoga and meditation in Rishikesh, India, and is an RYT-certified yoga instructor as well as a USATF-certified Running Coach and Sport Nutritionist. From 2016 to 2020 he was a Yoga and Mindfulness coach at the high-end Malibu retreat, The Ashram.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Ways that “success” can be unfulfilling
• The importance of living a life of fulfillment, purpose, joy and contribution
• The keys to living a life of fulfillment, purpose, joy and contribution
• The trap of money, fame and success
• Transcending the idea of human limitations to embracing your full human potential
• When you live in your mind / head, you’re always on the path of resistance
• Transcending physical and mental limitations to access your inner self and an infinite amount of energy
• Reality that your mind always takes the easy way out
• Understanding that your mind is a great servant and terrible master
• You must be driven by something deeper or your mind will always hold you back
• Living beyond the limiting beliefs and stories you’ve heard in your life
• Going beyond your perceived human potential
• The only growth possible happens in isolation
• Ways other people hold you back despite best intentions
• The life changing power of inspiration
• Change only happens in moments of difficulty
• Understanding the power of meditation

Resources:

• Michele Graglia (https://www.instagram.com/mickeygraglia)
• Michele Graglia Website
• The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Book by Eckhart Tolle
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Tish Squillaro answers these and other questions about leadership, team chemistry, emotional intelligence, and the head trash that gets in the way of your leadership.

Tish Squillaro is the Founder and CEO of CANDOR. Since 2007, CANDOR has partnered with organizations around the world from early-stage growth companies to global Fortune 500s of various industries ranging from Tech to Media. Her most recent clients include AT&T, AppNexus, Datorama, Salesforce, Teva and IBM.

Tish empowers leaders and teams to make the right decisions for the health and success of their business. As an award-winning author (the Head Trash series), Smart CEO Philadelphia BRAVA award winner, University of Pennsylvania grad, and a guest-speaker on radio, TV, webinars, and workshops, Tish is dedicated to delivering action-oriented strategies that drive long-term results.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Why the health of your business and people matters
• Business and leadership opportunities to support your people through emotional challenges
• The role of emotions and a healthy mindset in your leadership
• The importance of better understanding and managing your emotions as a leader
• The role of resilience in leadership
• Using the DISC assessment to enhance your self-awareness and leadership
• Understanding modern time management as a leader
• Reality that people management today requires more intention
• Keys to more effective meetings
• Importance of team chemistry
• Learning through the Tupperware versus China cabinets when it comes to control and delegation
• The reality that you can’t argue over other people’s feeling when it comes to your impact
• Critical role of emotional intelligence in leadership
• Understanding the seven emotions of Head Trash and navigating them differently
• Embracing the three R’s of leadership … resilience, respect and reflection

Resources

• Tish Squillaro (tish@candor-consulting.com)
• Candor Consulting Website
• Head Trash Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Davaughnu Banks answers these and other questions about brand, strategic marketing and leadership.

Davaughnu Banks is the Founder and Chief Marketing Consultant of Envision Brand Marketing, the business model of which is DREAM.PURPOSE.ACTION.® He brings over 20 years of experience as an accomplished strategic marketing and advertising professional. He also has a passion and collaborative hands-on servant-leadership style that has enabled him to plan and execute award-winning marketing solutions for small, medium-sized, and Fortune 500 companies.

Davaughnu's enjoyed working with a lot of great brand partners such as Ford, Hilton Worldwide, White Castle, Bosch, Great Lakes Coffee, The Shops @ Rockvale, General Motors, Compuware, Warrior Sports, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and many more.

Originally born in Toronto, Canada and then raised in Windsor, Canada, Davaughnu now lives in the Metro-Detroit area with his wife Liz and their two teenage sons.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Understanding brand and brand strategy
• What it means to dream relative to your brand
• The role of purpose in your brand
• The critical need to turn your brand strategy into action
• Aligning your execution with your strategy and brand
• Brand and marketing strategy is about your long-term business strategy (not your short-term sales desires)
• Connecting brand perception with value
• The importance of staying in your brand lane
• Staying within your mission, values, pillars, and evolve with your customer as their needs change
• Branding and marketing strategy processes apply to any size business (only the scale changes)
• Where to start with your brand and marketing strategy
• Importance of educating your team around the brand
• Understanding the difference between your brand versus your visuals and taglines
• A brand hot seat and case study
• Where to start when considering your brand
• Role of perception in branding and marketing
• Critical role of stories and storytelling in branding and marketing
• Targeting your brand and message to people’s wants
• Leadership lessons from the movie Remember the Titans

Resources:

• Davaughnu Banks
• Envision Brand Marketing Website
• Davaughnu Banks
• Envision Brand Marketing Website
• Schedule a discovery call/zoom to find out if we should partner: calendly.com/envisionbrandmktg
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
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Our special guest Tim Toterhi answers these and other questions about leadership, culture and business growth.

Tim Toterhi is an HR consultant specializing in talent and performance management. He’s also a fractional CHRO, career advisor, author (non-fiction and fiction), and the Founder of Plotline Leadership.

Over his impactful career, Tim has helped grow and scale a wide range of businesses and knows well the vital role of culture in growth and scaling.

Ever the contrarian, Tim approaches his practice with a playful smile and an eyebrow up. 

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The truth that HR leaders have a seat at the leadership table
• HR leaders need to approach their role differently
• Navigating the HR reality that you can’t do tactics and strategy at the same time (being ruthless with your time and responsibilities)
• People impact takes much less time than you think (feedback doesn’t have to take lots of time)
• Scheduling feedback takes more time than in the moment feedback
• The three forms of leadership: 1. Ordained a leader; 2. Step up to lead in the moment (opportunistic); 3. Earned leadership role
• The role of and path to humble leadership (learn on the job, develop workarounds, trust your team)
• Authenticity alone is not enough in leadership
• The fallacies of faking it until you make it in leadership
• Leadership lessons from the martial arts
• Humble leaders continue to earn the right to lead
• Leaders must avoid the illusion of completeness (the belief that you’re done with learning and growing)
• Leaders must be experts at workarounds (navigating unique challenges and developing unique / different solutions)
• Humble leadership is belts off leadership (always be open to learning from anyone, everyone and everywhere … no matter position or experience)
• Leaders must model what they want to create
• Implementing belts off leadership in your organization
• The truth that cultural change can happen on a dime (making sure that your culture trailer matches your culture movie)
• Incongruence as a culture killer
• Clarity of mission, vision and values must integrate with consistently living them
• The importance of aligning culture with performance and compensation
• Leaders must learn to listen differently
• Role of culture in growing and scaling
• Using role profiles over job descriptions
• If you want to scale your business, scale your people
• Billy Joel wisdom … “Don’t take no shit from nobody”

Resources:

• Tim Toterhi
• Tim Toterhi Website
• Plotline Leadership Website
• The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master Book
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Lauren Yee answers these and other questions about leadership, curiosity and building cultures of psychological safety.

Lauren Yee is known as the Cultivator of Curiosity and is a Founder of This Us Now, a professional education company that empowers people and organizations to work with better information and more joy. Lauren is a process-driven problem solver, who believes that curiosity, consistency and connections are the greatest drivers of great things.

Before becoming a facilitator and speaker, she helped build and grow the largest LEGO-inspired STEM company in the United States. She’s worked with the Golden State Warriors, Google, Southwest Airlines and Workday helping them to build community, establish inclusivity and create psychologically safe work environments where staff can play, thrive, and "adult like a kid.”

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• What does it mean to adult like a kid (adulting like a kid)
• Understanding Lego-inspired learning experiences
• The power of curiosity in leadership, innovation and life
• Ways and reasons we’ve lost our sense of curiosity
• The many layers of curiosity
• Changing team realities after COVID
• The importance and impact of cultures of psychological safety in the workplace
• Changing perspectives and conversations about mistakes and failure
• The importance of living your values
• Making it okay to not be okay in the workplace
• Getting beyond the conversation where everyone is “fine”
• Changing our questions to elicit more vulnerable answers
• Leadership modeling by answering questions first
• Putting curiosity and fun into action through your questions
• Creating cultures of psychological safety is not about caretaking your people
• Leadership lessons from the movie Sister Act II

Resources:

• Lauren Yee
• Cultivator of Curiosity Website
• This Us Now Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Traci Philips answers these and other questions about leadership, unleashing your innate gifts and enhancing your impact.

Traci Philips is the Founder of The Innate Coach. As an executive leadership and performance strategist, Traci supports visionary business owners and corporate executives to learn and practice better communication, resolution strategies, decision-making and leading during times of change and when the stakes are high. She teaches her clients how to create a more cohesive, cooperative experience and environment within their workplace culture. Her ultimate goal is to support her clients to live authentically and lead powerfully by creating more awareness about who they are, how they want to be seen and what legacy they want to leave behind.

Traci’s first book, Looking In: Discover, Define & Align the True Value of Your Life, Leadership and Legacy will be coming out in September 2021 and can be ordered through Amazon.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Understanding and unleashing your greatest gifts
• Finding your greatest gifts in your greatest challenges
• Ways other people can help you find your gifts
• Leading with your three brains (head, heart and gut brains)
• The Three Brains book by Karen Jensen
• Understanding your three brains and the information that comes from each
• Exploring fear in the context of your three brains
• The role of stories in framing your reality, your fears and your leadership
• Understanding your often natural instincts for protection
• Ways that trauma and fear is passed down through family generations
• Developing your leadership gifts, skills and potentials (and the stories that get in the way)
• Leadership vulnerability and empathy in the context of your three brains
• Exploring and unleashing your innate identity as a person and leader
• Deconditioning our stories and beliefs
• Ways that authentic praise creates intrinsic motivation
• Helping yourself and other find your right spot in the puzzle of life
• Developing your sense of self as a person and leader
• Redefining winning

Resources:

• Traci Philips
• The Innate Coach Website
• Yes, You Can Change the World book by Aman Motwane
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Jess Todtfeld answers these and other questions about leadership, business speaking, presentations and impactful communication.

Jess Todtfeld is a Guinness World Record holder in a communications category for interviewing the most times in 24 hours on radio ... 112 different radio stations. So Jess knows a thing or two about communication. What was he talking about? "Business Speaking" ... not public speaking but "Business Speaking." This is something every leader needs to master.

Jess is the Founder of Media Ambassadors, a group of vetted experts that the media go to for interviews. He also helps leaders with speaker training, media training and access to their Lead Generation Mastermind.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Realities and solutions for the fear of public speaking
• Taking advantage of the daily opportunities to grow your communication skills and confidence (stand up to speak up)
• Important role of preparing for you speaking / presentation opportunities
• Challenges of winging it in business speaking
• Beware of underpreparing for presentations
• Embrace the value of saying it out loud and using video to learn and improve
• The standard formula for all business speaking
• Perils of Power Point
• Be a storyteller in your business speaking
• Empower your business speaking by using questions to allow your audience to have their own aha moments
• Power of afformations
• Parenting as a leadership role
• Leadership development in the Scouts
• Leadership includes trying things different ways to learn, grow and develop
• Embracing the natural storyteller in your
• Four levels of business speaking impact: 1. Understand; 2. Memorable; 3. Action; 4. Pass on to others
• Overcoming your fears with business speaking
• Don’t fake it until you make it – act it and become it
• Embrace mistakes as a great learning tool
• Ideas to prepare your children to overcome fears of public speaking
• Lessons from Grandma – Always Be Learning
• Amplify your growth by amplifying your book reading

Resources:

• Jess Todtfeld
• Success in Media Website
• Media Ambassadors Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Vivian Acquah answers these and other questions about leadership, diversity, equity, inclusion, and workplace wellness.

Vivian Acquah is the Founder of Viva la Vive, which helps leaders and managers keep their team members engaged, energized, and safe in a sustainable manner. 

As a multicultural and multi-passionate human being, she inspires and empowers people to be their best selves.

Becoming a mother inspired Vivian to shift from being a Finance/ IT consultant to becoming a workplace wellness & Amplify DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) advocate. She made a promise to her son Orlando (2013) to help make the world a better place by creating thriving workplaces for EVERYONE. This is a promise not only to him and his generation but also for future generations.

As an inclusive Workplace Wellness Advocate, Vivian Acquah is making topics related to workplace wellness and DEI accessible to everyone. She provides people with the right tools, at the right time, to embrace inclusive changes. Vivian motivates people to think consciously and inspires them to take action.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The realities of toxic, bullying workplaces and strategies to transform these cultures
• Understanding the connection between workplace wellness and DEI
• Realities of raising a bi-racial child in a racist world
• Integrating the social justice conversation in your workplace
• DEI needs to be a conversation for everyone in an organization (not just certain departments)
• What it means to amplify DEI in your organization
• DEI must be activated with leadership action
• Understanding DEI in your organization through the lense of a carrot cake
• Failure to embrace DEI will cost you people, business, revenue and profits
• Redefining what it means to get the “best people” with a DEI foundation
• Different approaches to recruiting and interviewing people with a DEI mindset
• What it means to sponsor people of difference to the next level and to bring them into new places
• What it means to build a culture of inclusive humanization in the workplace
• Ways that external stakeholders are driving DEI change in organizations
• DEI is a movement, not a PR campaign
• The many ways that diversity wins in the workplace
• Ways that focusing on all diversity (e.g. diversity of thought) can get in the way of building a diverse and inclusive workplace
• The role of intersectionality in DEI and real change
• The importance of nurturing a culture of psychological safety
• Key things we need to unlearn in order to move DEI forward
• Role of self-leadership (self education) with inclusive leadership
• What it means to activate your inclusive leadership
• Essential role of leadership vulnerability and empathy in DEI change
• Everyday tools for building a more inclusive culture

Resources:

• Vivian Acquah
• Viva la Vive Website
• AMPLIFY DEI Summit
• The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table book
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Jae Herman answers these and other questions about storytelling, book writing and sharing your story through a book.

Jae Hermann is a storyteller, badassery advocate and CEO of Jae Hermann Storytelling Studio and Badassery Lab. She empowers women, retirees (reinvention misters and mavens), authors and career bloggers to overcome fear and self-doubt to reclaim a greater sense of self. Using a holistic approach to build confidence and make positive mind shifts, Jae guides clients to break through negative self-talk, find clarity and purpose to become badass creative professionals and storytellers. Jae is passionate about storytelling because our stories have the power to change lives.

Jae is also a sci-fi junkie, avid Latin dancer, breast implant illness survivor, midlife reinvention supporter, and healthy food connoisseur.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Unleashing your creative essence
• What it means to be a badass advocate
• Assessing whether your story needs to be told
• Key questions to ask and answer when you’re considering writing a book
• Understanding the role of your creative intuition in writing a book
• What it takes inside you to write and publish a book
• Important issues to consider when deciding whether to write a book
• Understanding the marketing realities in writing and publishing a book
• The healing power of writing and publishing a book
• Different ways the imposter syndrome impacts authors and tools for navigating past it
• A process of getting past your fears in writing a book and sharing your story
• Realities of book writing and publishing
• The importance of your social media platform in marketing your book
• Knowing the truest why for your book
• The importance of getting clear on your purpose and goals in writing a book
• The value of using a writing process when writing your book
• Questions to consider when engaging people to help you write, publish and market your book
• If you want to write a book, are you already regularly writing
• The writing realities of using a ghostwriter
• Collaboration essentials in working with a coach and editor

Resources:

• Jae Hermann
• Jae Hermann Website
• Bad Ass Storyteller Intensive Workshop
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Diana Lowe answers these and other questions about leadership, emotional intelligence and remote teams.

Diana Lowe is a Certified Executive Coach and the Founder of Blue Light Leadership, and she helps remote leaders develop their emotional intelligence and communication skills to inspire their teams to higher performance levels, creatively solve problems, and positively impact their bottom line. Diana works with Directors and Senior Executives in Fortune 500 companies to transform their team spirit and communication, turning low-performing teams to highly productive and engaged teams. Her practice focuses on using evidence-based research in Positive Psychology for coaching, which allows her a whole person wellness approach in coaching.

Diana recently moved to Phoenix, AZ and, when she’s not playing with her two little girls or hanging with her hubby, you can see her on stage doing stand-up comedy . . .and if you are wondering … no she’s not that funny.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The state of leadership and hybrid workforces today
• The impact and meaning of the Great Resignation in April 2021
• Necessary leadership paradigms in the hybrid work world
• Defining emotional intelligence and making better decisions based upon that intelligence
• Understanding communication energy as part of emotional intelligence
• Value of emotional intelligence’s value to teams, organizations and leaders
• The critical role of empathy in leadership and culture
• Ways to learn from your emotions and reactions
• The intersection of emotional awareness and impact awareness
• Ways the Buddhist foundations intersect with emotional intelligence and leadership
• Reframing the concept of alpha leaders
• Work hard, play hard philosophies in the context of emotional intelligence
• Leading amidst a shift to more balance in work and life
• Mental health realities in our new workforce and burnout
• Unique elements of emotional intelligence with remote workers (learning a new way)
• Emotional bandwidth in leadership
• Value of giving people planned breaks from meetings and calls
• A simple communication strategy when things aren’t working

Resources:

• Diana Lowe
• Diana Lowe Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Punit Dhillon answers these and other questions about leadership, resilience and personal drive.

Punit Dhillon was nine when he almost drowned in a swimming pool. Twenty years later, he became a competitive swimmer and completed his first of several Ironman Triathlons. Punit lives by the philosophy of using adversity as fuel to exceed all expectations.

At thirty, Punit was one of the youngest biotech CEOs in the life sciences industry, and just five years later, he became a NASDAQ CEO for a publicly traded biotech company. 

Punit is currently the Chair and CEO of Skye Bioscience, a public pharmaceutical company. He’s also the Co-founder, former President, and CEO of OncoSec, a biotechnology company pioneering new technologies to fight cancer. Punit has been recognized as one of PharmaVOICE 100’s top CEOs and as a finalist for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™.

Punit is also the author of Catapult: How to Think Like a Corporate Athlete to Strengthen Your Resilience, an insider’s look at the lessons we learn by turning obstacles into opportunities. Taking you through his twenty years of global business experience, Punit shares ten principles for a purpose-driven life and career, linking together the athletic strengths that will help you succeed.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Leadership, business and resilience lessons from being an ultra-athlete
• Ways that adversity can help you grow if you’re intentional about the learning
• Understanding resilience and building more of it in your life
• Impact of family culture and upbringing in the foundations of resilience
• Importance of doing post-mortems to better learn and grow from experiences
• Resilience is not about deflecting the challenges that you that you have, it's about taking them on and absorbing them, and then rebounding as fast as you could
• Beware Rocky style resilience (taking a beating and staying standing)
• Resilience is not false armor or mental toughness
• Learning about lessons from riptides
• Shifting from confident decision making in leadership to a more mindful approach and supporting your people
• What does it mean to serve the people on your team
• The critical need of coaching in leadership
• Differently understanding “high performer” and being clear on what it means (high performer must be holistic)
• Taking time to step back and appreciate all we’ve already achieved
• Role of visualization in achievement and resilience
• Leadership lessons from the movie Spy Game

Resources:

• Punit Dhillon (hello@punitdhillon.com)
• Punit Dhillon Website
• Catapult: How to Think Like a Corporate Athlete to Strengthen Your Resilience Book
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Laura Miller answers these and other questions about leadership, culture and doing business in a remote worker world.

Laura Miller is the Founder and CEO of TempDev, a nationwide healthcare information technology consulting firm that specializes in NextGen EPM and EHR development. She combines an engineering background with business savvy to create holistic and sustainable solutions with positive financial and operational impacts.

Over the past fourteen years, Laura has led and built a business with an entire team that works from home, including herself. Laura knows well the keys to leading, building culture, collaborating, innovating, communicating, and serving clients in a remote work model.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The basics of a remote workforce
• The challenges of bringing people back to the office who don’t want to go back to the office
• Financial realities of remote working in terms of compensation, cost of living, etc.
• Key values to team members of working from home
• Challenges of taking care of children while working remotely
• Collaboration and innovation also happen with remote working
• Pros and cons of remote working
• Importance of boundaries and routines when working remotely
• Overwork and burnout risks when working remotely
• Leaders must pay attention to the impact of their personal choices around work and remote work
• Productivity and remote work
• Pros, cons, risks and rewards of using employee work tracking software with remote workers
• Understanding the importance of and determining key performance indicators (KPI’s)
• Shifting the focus from time productivity to outcome productivity
• Role of existing trust levels in impacting employee response to monitoring programs
• Killing your peoples’ productivity by over-meeting your remote workers
• What’s the cost of your meetings?
• Remote working requires great technology and different approaches to communication
• Today’s workforce requires more empathetic leadership
• What would you do if you could not fail?

Resources:

• Laura Miller
• Temp Dev Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Andrea Newton (England) answers these and other questions about leadership and management in the context of conversations and communication.

Andrea Newton is the Founder of Confident Conversations and a woman on a mission to get leaders comfortable with the uncomfortable and believes there are 7 Significant Conversations that all good leaders ought to be able to have if they are truly to get the best out of their team and their business.

Andrea has spent the last 21 years working with a wide range of organizations across all industry sectors, helping literally thousands of managers and leaders at all levels to have conversations that matter.

Andrea believes that conversations change organizations, develop relationships, improve standards, increase results – in fact, conversations even save lives and having had her own experience of rooting around at rock bottom and peering over the edge, Andrea believe that unless leaders create the climate that encourages honest, open, frank dialogue then they will never achieve their full potential.

As a trainer, keynote speaker, author and soon to be podcast host, Andrea is based in the northwest of England and offers a whole range of online and remote training services to her clients – from television production to the NHS – she wants to use her past to improve others futures.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The importance of crucial conversations and different approaches to having them
• Understanding the blind spots about crucial conversations
• Confident leaders are willing to admit their weaknesses
• Going into crucial conversations with an attitude of curiosity
• Beware the words you use to label your crucial conversations
• Understanding the differences between feedback and opinions
• Leadership is not a popularity contest (do you want to be liked or respected as a leader)
• The impact of avoiding one-on-one conversations and instead relying on group conversations
• Importance of learning and teaching skills for crucial conversations
• Keys for leading and managing today’s workforce
• Understanding and navigating the Seven (7) Significant Conversations
• Crucial conversations are more impactful that processes and procedures
• The Four (4) F words in conversations: 1. Feelings; 2. Fears; 3. Family; and 4. Future
• Vulnerability and psychological safety in leadership
• Understanding the difference between empathy and sympathy in leadership
• Using the E.E.C. Model for crucial conversations (Example – Effect – Change)
• Leaders must get comfortable with the uncomfortable when it comes to crucial conversations
• The leadership of Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter series

Resources:

• Andrea Newton
• Really Useful Conversations Podcast
• Confident Conversations Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Imogen Roy (Bordeaux France) answers these and other questions about burnout, purpose, productivity and personal energy.

Imogen Roy is a Business Mentor who helps unconventional people to be more purposeful, productive and present in their life and business. After experiencing burnout whilst doing what she loved, Imogen realized she'd have to take a much more proactive approach to protect her most valuable business asset: her own energy.

Despite doing what she loved, Imogen experienced a profound burnout experience that helped her to differently understand burnout, self-care and the importance of protecting your energy.

Today Imogen is the accomplice of founders, artists, consultants and visionaries who want to create unstoppable success in work and life without burnout or compromise.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Burnout is more a product of what happens when we care too much and too long for others without caring for ourselves
• The process and importance of finding and living your genius
• Understanding and overcoming the challenges of finding and living your genius
• Living an unconventional life by choosing not to fit in
• Keys to understanding the role of energy in leadership, productivity and life
• Navigating the land mines of false boxes in our lives
• Energy as your most important asset
• The reality that not all time is equal and controllable, but your energy can be managed
• What it means to be a time bender
• The role of presence in productivity
• Presence is essential when it comes to leadership
• Three kinds of attention / presence: 1. Outward facing attention; 2. Submissive state of attention (receiving); 3. Meditation
• Understanding what presence is and isn’t
• What happens to time when you’re not present
• Understanding our attachment to multi-tasking and its connection to lack of self-trust
• The myth of multi-tasking
• The flow of energy when you’re present (for yourself and others)
• Find a small way to honor what you feel like doing throughout the day (versus what you believe you have to do)
• Asking and answering the question of where you’re finding resistance
• Getting curious with your resistance
• Self-shaming or pushing through your resistance uses more energy and exhausts us
• The ways that language / words shape our culture and reality
• Understanding the different experiences of time (quantum and gestational)
• Examining the ways that your own language is serving you and not serving you
• Foundations for integrated leadership and living
• Embracing your resistance in order to learn from it

Resources:

• Imogen Roy
• Imogen Roy Instagram
• Imogen Roy Website
• A Year of Magical Living Podcast
• Unbound: A Guide to Women’s Power book by Kasia Urbaniak
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Marcia Alvarado answers these and other questions about diversity, equity, inclusion and leadership.

Marcia Alvarado has been a licensed professional engineer for the past 16 years and works as a Structural Market Leader for WGI in Tampa, Florida. She graduated from Florida Institute of Technology with a degree in Civil Engineering in 2004, where she played collegiate basketball. Marcia then pursued a career in structural engineering starting in New York City, and received her Master’s from the University of South Florida in 2009. Marcia enjoys designing buildings and has always had a passion for helping others through the ACE Mentor Program, a mentoring program for high school student to learn about the industry.

Marcia also has ventured in the fashion world by way of modeling and provides custom suiting for Sharpe Suiting, an LGBTQ+ owned and operated luxury custom suiting brand. In 2020, she Founded The Alvarado Experience, a consultancy focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.

Marcia knew her path was in design and construction at the age of four as she was standing on the London Bridge, barely tall enough to reach the glass, and told her mother “I want to build buildings when I grow up.”

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Navigating the engineering, construction and business world as an other
• Critical interpersonal skills and mindsets for supporting more diversity, equity and inclusion in the world
• Understanding the difference between gender identity, gender role and gender expression
• Understanding gender identity and expression in the trans community
• The role of sexual expression in diversity, equity and inclusion (understanding the LBGTQ+ and queer community)
• Ongoing challenges for the LBGTQ+ community in the workplace
• Leaders and organizations must do more than talk the DEI talk
• The role of intersectionality with diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
• Keys to bringing values around diversity, equity and inclusion alive in your organization
• The role of vulnerability in diversity, equity and inclusion leadership
• The leadership essential of knowing thyself especially when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion
• The power of publicly using your pronouns to build a safe and more belonging culture

Resources:

• Marcia Alvarado
• The Alvarado Experience Website
• Instagram
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Arthur Jones answers these and other questions about stories, leadership and humanizing your brand.

Arthur Jones is the founder of two companies – The Art of Standing Out (a leadership development firm) and The Art of Inbound Marketing (a marketing agency). Arthur has been described as a people centric, growth focused business strategy architect, as well as a brand story architect.

Arthur helps businesses and their customer-facing teams employ tools, strategies, and hybrid work models enabling collaboration and co-creation with the customers they serve. He’s also developed a concept called R.O.A.R – Return On Authentic Relationships.

His mission – to make meaning by enriching the lives of the business professionals they work with, and ultimately creating a more just and caring world.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• What is a brand story architect?
• The power of stories and storytelling
• The source of the loss of the art of storytelling
• Understanding what it means to R.O.A.R. as a leader (return on authentic relationships)
• Being a humanologist (seek first to understand)
• The Big 3 of stories: 1. Story listening; 2. Story building; 3. Storytelling
• Obstacles to bringing more humanness into your leadership
• Leadership shifts for a remote and hybrid workforce
• Leadership top three … Integrity, Emotional Intelligence and Communication
• Leadership requires the courage to do the right thing
• Humanizing your brand

Resources:

• Arthur Jones
• Art of Standing Out Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Dr. Troy Hall answers these and other questions about culture, talent, leadership, engagement and performance.

Dr. Troy Hall is the author of the best-selling title, Cohesion Culture: Proven Principles to Retain Your Top Talent, and the #1 title for Business and Professional Humor, FANNY RULES: A Mother’s Leadership Lessons That Never Grow Old. He was once told he did not have the talent to write. His mom, Fanny, reminded him, “It’s not the successes or failures that shape your life, it’s how you handle them.”

Dr. Troy is an author, radio host, global speaker, talent retention strategist and consultant who’s been featured on the Today Show, ABC, Beyond the Business Radio Show, and CEO World.

His doctorate in Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship has sent him across the globe to help leaders create cultures of cohesion and retain top talent in their organizations. With more than 40 years of practical leadership experience and a Ph.D. in Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Dr. Troy's consulting and executive coaching sessions have positively impacted organizational leaders around the globe on how to create cultures of cohesion to retain their top talent.

His mantra, "You don’t have to know everything, you just need to be teachable."

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Mother’s leadership lessons
• Mistakes are not failures – they’re learning experiences
• Five elements of a learning organization: 1. Being generative; 2. Adaptive; 3. Experimentation; 4. Diversity of thought; 5. Good stewards of the resources
• Knowledge isn’t power … it’s using that knowledge and turning it into wisdom
• Role of cultural relatively in sustaining a learning culture
• Importance of emotional intelligence and self-awareness in leadership
• Vulnerability and authenticity in leadership
• Charismatic leadership is no longer enough
• The importance of creating a culture to allow a collaborative voice among the team
• Four primary characteristics that cross all generations in the workplace
• Understanding the elements of a cohesion culture: 1. Belonging; 2. Value; 3. Shared mutual commitment
• Leadership shifts in the age of growing remote workforces
• Managing your people by time versus productivity / performance
• Differently managing remote team members
• Challenges of retaining team members in a post-COVID work world
• Being thoughtful about reboarding your team after COVID

People don’t follow accidental leaders – the importance of being purposeful as a leader

Resources:

•  Troy Hall
•  Troy Hall Website
• Troy Hall Social Media (@drtroyhall)
• Cohesion Culture: Proven Principles to Retain Your Top Talent Book
• Fanny Rules: A Mother's Leadership Lessons that Never Grow Book
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Jan Cavelle answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, business growth, and scaling your business.

Jan Cavelle is an entrepreneur of entrepreneurs from the UK who has a few decades of running micro and small businesses behind her. She is very familiar with all the challenges that go with that, having started one from the kitchen table when her children were small and she was a single mother, to go on to build that into a multi-million business.

Jan has put her entrepreneurial experiences together with her passion for writing into a book aimed at helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses during the big leap from $1 to $10 million. Jan’s book is called Scale for Success and is currently available in the UK, with an early July publication in the United States and Australia.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Understanding what it means to scale a business
• Start your business being clear on your why and where you want the business to go
• The vital role of systems early in your business
• The difference between growing your business and scaling your business
• Key questions to answer early in your business: 1. Why am I getting into this business? 2. What do I want out of this business? 3. What kind of business do I want? 4. What kind of life do I want with this business?
• The importance of getting clear on your market early in your business
• Beware the sales and marketing gap in your business
• Understanding the time realities in entrepreneurship
• Using a book for authority and rapport building
• The difference between your goals and knowing where you’re going
• The critical role mindset in business growth and success
• Mental health challenges in entrepreneurship
• Understanding resilience and its role in business leadership
• Key entrepreneur’s question: What are you willing to give up in order to build and scale your business?
• Avoiding burnout as entrepreneurs and business owners
• Don't do anything because other people are doing it – do what's right for you

Resources:

• Jan Cavelle
• Jan Cavelle Website
• Scale for Success: Expert Insights Into Growing Your Business book by Jan Cavelle
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Bryan Clayton answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, small business growth and scaling businesses for exit.

Bryan Clayton is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with Local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day.

Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc., one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013.

Bryan‘s interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Challenges of starting and growing a start-up business
• Unique challenges for starting and growing a technology business
• The three phases of business: 1. Start up; 2. Grow up; 3. Scale up
• Leadership and business lessons from Mario Kart
• Business growth requires leadership growth
• Transitioning from being a do-it-yourself business owner to building a business
• All elements of your business must be integrated and aligned
• The importance of having a clear sales process to grow your business (and you must do the process yourself first)
• Hiring the right people versus people with experience and industry experience
• Keys to measuring leading indicators in sales (activities); not just trailing indicators (outputs)
• Retention is a key indicator of your value and its alignment with your customer’s needs
• Business success requires failures (and learning) and time
• The critical role of listening to your customers
• Strategically using fractional experts to build your business (engage the top talent instead of settling for lesser / cheaper talent)
• The shift from full time, on-site employees to fractional, remote team members
• Debunking the myth of overnight successes in business
• Entrepreneurship as a full contact sport
• Understanding the difference between self-employment, business ownership and entrepreneurship
• Leveling up your leadership in order to grow and scale your business
• Understanding what comes first in your business (the chicken or the egg)
• The challenge of entrepreneurial leadership in being ahead of your team in vision and effort
• The need to slow yourself down in order to manage and bring your people along with you
• Business ownership is lonely (the importance of surrounding yourself with coaches, mentors and advisors)

Resources:

• Bryan Clayton
• Greenpal Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Jane Finette answers these and other questions about leadership, women in leadership and growing yourself in order to grow your leadership.

Jane Finette is a passionate advocate for women and girls, a non-profit leader, and author. In 2014 Jane founded The Coaching Fellowship (TCFS), a non-profit organization that helps advance young women social change leaders and their work throughout the world. Under her leadership, TCFS grew from helping a handful of women to now serving more than 300 young women of impact every year. More than 1,000 women have graduated from the TCFS program to date from over 70 countries, and now form the Women of Impact Alliance (the largest body of young women social change leaders.

Jane is the author of the upcoming book Unlocked: How Empowered Women Empower Women (August 2021), which is filled with inspirational and real-world impactful stories of women working to advance women and girls around the world. The book also contains ten easy and practical keys for how every woman, can every day help every sister rise and thrive.

Jane has spent her career pushing the boundaries of community building and human potential, and she’s obsessed with accelerating social change, magnifying participation and advancing a fairer and more equitable world. In 2020 Jane was awarded the Women Forward Gold Award from the Business Council of Peace for her work and commitment to advancing women.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Power and empowerment that comes from coaching
• Impact of the glass ceiling and the systemic biases holding back women
• Importance of getting beyond defining yourself based upon your job
• Leadership starts with you and inside of you
• Understanding and embracing whole person coaching
• Understanding the broken ladder of systemic bias towards women
• Unique challenges and solutions for women of color
• Leadership development is an inside-out growth journey
• Understanding empathy in leadership (empathy versus sympathy)
• Moving beyond tactics to ways of being in leadership
• Business is all about people (humanizing leadership)
• Importance of holding the paradox of people in leadership
• The giant blind spot of confirmation bias in leadership
• Balancing the role of assessments against turning them into boxes
• Evidence is in … putting bold women in leadership positions, increases impact, increases bottom line, increased innovation
• Non-profit boards must also commit to diversity, equity and inclusion for the board

Resources:

• Jane Finette
• The Coaching Fellowship Website
• Nightingale Fellowship Application
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Karen Weinstock answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, leadership, innovation and even dating.

Karen Weinstock was born in Israel, served in military intelligence in the Israeli Army and then went on to law school at The Hebrew University. After practicing corporate law for a brief time, Karen moved into immigration law in part due to the challenges she faced when she came to the United States (she couldn't get a job without a visa and she couldn't get a visa without a job). Karen eventually founded her own entrepreneurial law firm, Weinstock Immigration Lawyers that helps immigrants achieve their American dreams.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Understanding key elements of immigration laws and its impact on business
• Entrepreneurial mindsets to solve problems and add value
• Building a law firm as a business, not just a practice
• Leadership and business lessons from dating
• Using business thinking, strategies, principles and processes to enhance your dating experience and personal relationships
• The critical role of authenticity in dating, relationships and leadership
• Keys to building authentic relationships
• Entrepreneurship essentials
• Understanding the differences between building a practice and building a business
• Ways that working on yourself is a game changer as a leader and business owner
• Understanding emotional mastery for your leadership and relationships
• The positive impacts of building a culture of personal growth and development in your business
• The power of being honest and direct in your communication

Resources:

• Karen Weinstock
• Weinstock Immigration Lawyers website
• Matched: From Dating Disasters to Dream Relationships book by Karen Weinstock
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Khong Xiong answers these and other questions about leadership, team engagement, and diversity, equity and inclusion.

Khong serves as a thought partner, business advisor, and consultant working closely with business executives and HR leaders at Fortune 500 companies on how to engage their people, unlock potential, and translate their strategy into something they can operationalize to achieve growth.

Khong brings over 10 years of experience in leadership development and management consulting. He’s worked at some of the world’s top leadership development companies where he successfully helped his clients drive superior performance by developing their leaders and aligning their people, structure, and process. Khong offers creative insight and inclusive solutions to tackle some of human resources’ biggest challenges, such as diversity, equity and inclusion, employee engagement, strategy execution, culture transformation and organizational effectiveness.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The gap between intention and execution when it comes to people in organizations
• Self-awareness is vital in leadership
• Effective leaders create psychological safety in the organization and team
• Courage in asking for feedback
• Vulnerability in leadership includes admitting mistakes
• The importance of empathy in building a strong diversity, equity and inclusion culture
• Key obstacles to building a strong diversity, equity and inclusion culture
• Building your diversity, equity and inclusion team
• Importance of being present when it comes to building strong people first cultures
• Using check-ins to enhance your people experience at work
• Importance of flexible work options for team members
• Understanding psychological safety in the workplace
• Leadership is an inside out mindset and issue
• Impact of building and nurturing a culture of authenticity

Resources:

• Khong Xiong
• The Purpose Tune Podcast
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Maini Homer (Australia) answers these and other questions about keys to growing yourself and your business.

Maini Homer is known as the Queen of Content Creation and has been in business for herself for over 23 years. In that time, Maini has built 13 successful businesses from scratch and usually with no money down.

She’s also the author of Lockdown Took My Income, a #1 International Best-Selling book in three countries and three categories. Maini wrote her book in under 24 hours at the start of the pandemic. It’s a 9-step blueprint to create your own income stream from scratch.

Maini’s latest venture, Copywriters International, was born in October 2020 after recording the video series Creating an Income From Scratch. She did this to prove that the steps in her book really did work if you follow them. The rest is history. Seven months later, Maini has 16 staff working for her and she’s staring down at total financial and time freedom … and deciding what her next adventure will be.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Keys to business success especially as a start-up
• The power of outsourcing and letting go
• Importance of setting clear and high expectations for your team members
• Social media consistency allows you to be seen and heard by your ideal target market
• Effective social media is about trust and relationship building
• You must be willing to put yourself out there to be heard above the noise
• Secrets for growing an online business
• Only your thoughts and feelings hold you back
• Mindsets and beliefs are the only obstacle to your success
• Self-development requires more than “shelf development”
• Get clear on what you’re passionate about and get clear on who you want to serve (clear target markets)
• When something doesn’t work, you must focus on “What’s next”
• Discerning between quitting and adjusting / shifting
• You must become aware of your self-limiting beliefs and brokenness (and then work on you)
• Your only glass ceiling is in your mind

Resources:

• Maini Homer
• Copywriters International Website
• The Four Agreements book by Don Miguel Ruiz
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Jen McFarland answers these and other questions about technology, AI and digital marketing.

Jen McFarland is the Founder of Women Conquer Business, and she also has a podcast by the same name. Women Conquer Business is a digital marketing operations consultancy to help entrepreneurs and small businesses solve their marketing technology challenges, streamline processes, and amplify impact.

Jen describes herself as an accidental entrepreneur, who’s committed to helping businesses enhance their businesses and impact by understanding how technology can help you grow a business, systematize the business, and change the overall imprint of the business through technology.

A former Peace Corps volunteer and operations analyst, Jen brings a wealth of experience in helping organizations streamline their operations and systems.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Why businesses and business owners struggle with technology and software
• Assessing your business operations and goals before developing your marketing and technology strategy
• The importance of alignment between your business and your marketing / digital imprint
• Ways that technology helps you and your business work better
• Using technology and automation to allow your business to be more human
• You must know where you are today with technology and marketing before developing strategies for getting where you want to be
• Social media strategy must be built around your customer’s needs and interests, not your own
• Marketing must focus on the emotions you want to elicit in people
• If you want to understand your customers, ask them
• The role of AI in your business, technology and marketing strategies
• AI tools for your marketing toolbox
• Getting past your technology fears
• You must understand what you need before you decide what technology you need
• The importance of mentorship in your business and leadership journey

Resources:

• Jen McFarland
• Women Conquer Business Website
• Women Conquer Business Podcast
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Ian Adair answers these and other questions about leadership, mental health and workplace mental health.

Ian Adair is a nonprofit industry influencer, TEDx speaker, and recognized expert in leadership, fundraising, and nonprofit management. Ian is a speaker, author and advocate concerning mental health awareness and addressing mental health in the workplace. He’s the author of Stronger Than Stigma. A Call to Action: Stories of Grief, Loss and Inspiration!

Ian Adair is the Executive Director of the Gracepoint Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Gracepoint – one of the largest mental health organizations in Florida. Gracepoint impacts the lives of more than 30,000 individuals (children and adults) each year seeking mental health, medical, and addiction services in the Tampa Bay area.

In 2016, Ian was chosen as one of the Top 100 Must-Follow Giving Influencers on Twitter by Give Local America. In 2019, Ian was named of the Top 100 Charity Industry Influencers on Social Media in the world by Onalytica, an influencer relationship software company in London. In 2020, Ian was recognized as one of the 30 Nonprofit Founders that will impact the World by Causeartist, a global community and social enterprise platform.

Episode highlights…

• Understanding the state of mental health in the United States including its financial impact
• The role of stigma in limiting people from seeking support
• The trouble with self-diagnosing mental health conditions and challenges
• The interrelationships between mental health and physical health
• People take an average of 8-10 years to seek help for mental health issues
• Understanding the two types of stigmas – social stigma and self-perceived stigma
• Gender differences and mental health conditions (and impacts)
• Being high functioning doesn’t mean you aren’t suffering with mental health conditions
• The importance of opening up the conversation around suicide (data we can’t ignore)
• Relationship impacts of suicide
• Reasons we avoid conversations about mental health, suicide, etc.
• The bottom-line impacts of mental health on your organization and business (No. 1 reason for loss of productivity and absenteeism)
• Understanding the changes in our workforce and the impact of these changes on mental health and what employees desire in support
• The reality and mental health impact of toxic work cultures
• Leaders as culture caretakers in organizations
• Mental health and remote working
• Leadership and team challenges in transitioning out of COVID
• It’s vital to understand what your people want
• The human and financial impact of normalizing conversations about mental health in the workplace
• The importance of creating a safe work environment for your people including emotional and psychological safety
• The best mental health support you can offer is to just listen

• Ian Adair Twitter
• Ian Adair Instagram
• Stronger Than Stigma Book (Ian Adair)
• Oh Great One Book by David Novak
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest John Miles answers these and other questions about passion, purpose and impact.

John Miles is the Founder of Passion Struck™ and the host of Passion Struck Podcast. Passion Struck™ exists to ignite the next generation of game-changing companies and future leaders to make a real and lasting impact on the world. Becoming Passion Struck is for those of us who the box can’t contain — for game-changers, shapers, innovators, record makers, empire builders, career reinventors, and visionaries of all kinds.

John is passionate about being the catalyst who helps individuals and businesses take action on their ideas. He is a combat veteran, multi-industry CEO, successful entrepreneur, top podcast host, and author who is making passion go viral. Although best known as the President and CEO of Genius Central Systems and CIO of Dell, John’s career as a servant leader spans more than two decades. He's founded or co-founded more than half a dozen successful start-ups, mentored rising entrepreneurs, and invested in successful tech ventures.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The power of saying “yes”
• Choose to seek out discomfort and challenge yourself
• Three key challenges in business and leadership today – “contagion of the human mind, human spirit and ego” (comfort, apathy and showmanship)
• Ways that vulnerability is essential is leadership and relationships
• Taking the governor off your mind
• Passion follows purpose
• It’s vital for leaders to have a coach and keys to picking a coach
• Self-honesty is critical in leadership
• The importance of facing and dealing with your self-limiting beliefs
• Leaders are judged by their actions, not their words
• Stop helping other people achieve their dreams and start achieving their own dreams
• Prioritize what matters in your life
• Applying the mosquito principle and audit in your life – suffocator, blood sucker and pain in the ass
• Getting past the bull shit answers and getting to the real answer
• The number one thing that people aren't doing is being present in their own life

Resources:

• John Miles Instagram
• John Miles Website
• Passion Struck Website
• Passion Struck Podcast
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Ellen Yin answers these and other questions about digital marketing, client attraction and essential marketing mindsets.

Ellen Yin is the founder of Cubicle to CEO, an online membership helping entrepreneurs who sell services make their first $10K month, without a large audience or posting every day. She has been featured on the TODAY show with Hoda & Jenna and in publications like Authority Magazine, Databird Business Journal, The Penny Hoarder, HerMoney, and BlogHer.

Notably, Ellen quit her job, decided she’d never work for someone else again and starting with a $300 project, quickly built at seven figure business.

Through her results-driven online courses + agency services, Ellen has worked with over 7,000 entrepreneurs and brands ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Ellen is also the host of the award-winning Cubicle to CEO Podcast, which peaked in multiple countries' Top 50 business podcast charts and has been downloaded in over 100 countries worldwide.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• You don’t have to invest all your time in attracting clients (use simple systems to attract clients)
• Mindset and implementation must work together to grow your business
• Selling done right is a collaboration, not a coercion
• Three elements of a successful marketing system are a traffic generator, a lead generator and a sales generator (they must all work well together)
• Strategy is vital in marketing and social media (not just activity)
• Consistency needs to be applied on connecting and getting in front of your ideal clients online and driving traffic to your existing best quality content
• There are no magic pills, but you can shortcut other people’s mistakes
• Choose data over drama (every outcome is a learning opportunity)
• Sales funnels alone are not the solution
• There are many ways to niche including the transformation results (not just demographics or psychographics)
• Business and sales are not like the movie Field of Dreams (if you build it, they will NOT come)
• Online courses are meant to be a vehicle that takes someone from point A to point B, using a framework, a guide or a system that has been proven to work not just with one person, but with multiple people (it’s a proven recipe)
• Not everyone needs digital products
• What is going to create the best results for your dream clients
• Creating lucrative income streams as a referral partner (you don’t have to create everything anew)
• Understand the language that your ideal clients are speaking (not the language of your solutions) … Get crystal clear on your ideal clients’ language and problems
• Beware the ways you approach pricing
• Key mindsets and questions to assess your products and services pricing

Resources:

• Ellen Yin
• Ellen Yin Instagram
• Ellen Yin Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Ari Galper (Australia) answers these and other questions about true trust-based selling. He also debunks many of our long-held sales myths.

Ari Galper is the World’s #1 Authority on trust-based selling and creator of Unlock the Game®, a new sales mindset and results-oriented approach that has revolutionized the world of selling. With a Masters in Instructional Design, which strongly analyzes the way people learn, and supplying nearly two decades of experience in direct selling in a variety of industries, Ari has pioneered a breakthrough sales system – Unlock the Game. Built on the concept of authentic communication and trust, his visionary approach to selling relieves the pressure for both the seller and buyer, producing profound results.

Ari has been featured in a multitude of leading sales and business books for his unique and special trust-based sales approach. Interviewed on networks such as CNN Money and Sky News, he has become the foremost authority on selling around the globe.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• True foundations of trust-based selling
• Sales are lost at the beginning, not the end
• Understanding how to unlock the game – shifting your mindset, letting go of the end goal of the sale, focus only on being present with people, and build deep trust so that people will always tell you the truth
• Debunking these sales myths: 1. Sales is a numbers game; 2. Sales are lost at the end of the process; 3. Rejection is part of the sales game
• Ways you trigger rejection with sales opportunities
• Understanding the words and language that triggers rejection
• Instead of moving people towards the sale, let people decide which direction things go
• Goal is to get to the truth, not the outcome you want
• Using language that reduces pressure (never use the phrase “follow up” again – instead use “do you have any feedback on what’s already happened)
• Learn the words and phrases to never use again in sales
• Trust building and relationship building are mutually exclusive (focus on trust at the beginning and save the relationship building until later)
• You can’t offer your solution until someone tells you their problem and asks you for help
• Goal is not a sale – it’s to get the truth
• Beware being addicted to the “drug” hopium
• Potential clients ask one question: “Do I trust them?”
• Fall out of love with your solution and in love with their problem
• You must slow down the process including the pace of your speaking
• You must care about the person and their problems until they say, “How can you help me?”
• Be a truth teller in sales – You must tell people what their real problem and impact is
• Differentiate based upon your approach (not your solution)

Resources:

• Ari Galper
• Unlock the Game Website
• Unlock the Sales Game book (Ari Galper)
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Lori Kaiser answers these and other questions about people first leadership, culture and business growth.

Lori Kaiser is the Founder and CEO of Kaiser Consulting, which she founded in 1992. Lori is a chief executive, corporate leader, and business strategist with a proven track record in assessing risk and creating solutions for Fortune 500 Company C-Level Executives and Boards. Kaiser Consulting is an international professional services firm specializing in accounting, finance and IT consulting with 80 finance and accounting professionals.

Most important, Lori and Kaiser Consulting have grown the business on the simple premise of putting their people first.

In fact, Lori and Kaiser Consulting have built and grown a business based upon what you may think a crazy approach – ask your people what kind of career and practice they want and then deliver it. In 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020 Kaiser Consulting was named a Columbus “Best Places to Work”.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Building, growing and running a business based upon your people’s optimal schedule
• The death of the 40-hour work week and the benefits of having flexible schedules for your people
• You can run a people first business and still deliver high value to all clients (including large corporations)
• Building and nurturing an attraction model for building your team
• The importance of cultural fit with your team members
• Creating and using a success factor grid for your business and team
• Interview questions to help you assess cultural and success factor fit
• The importance of training and developing your people
• The value of providing a training and development allowance for your people (in addition to in house training)
• The challenge in offering flexible schedules is worth the returns
• Get clear on the skills that are needed for your people to advance their career (and support them in growing those skills)
• Using internal processes to continually evaluate your people’s time and schedules (avoiding overwork)
• Keys for growing and advancing your people based upon the skills needed for the next level (not just their current level)
• Every person is different which requires enhanced listening skills to understand each person
• The clearer you are about what kind of people you want, the clearer it will be who’s not a good fit
• When you put your people first, they will serve your clients well
• Be willing to fire clients that don’t treat your people well
• Be willing to say no to potential clients that don’t fit your people first model
• It’s essential to understand and use your key performance indicators
• Ask your people and make it safe for them to tell the truth and even say “no”

Resources:

• Lori Kaiser
• Kaiser Consulting Website
• Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It Book (Peggy Klaus)
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Cassidy Arbeli answers these and other questions about leadership, business building and life integration especially for women.

Cassidy is a serial entrepreneur who owns several businesses. She now works with businesses, especially female entrepreneurs, to help them grow their businesses, scale their businesses and get the life they want out of their businesses, including multiple streams of income.

She also started her first business while beginning her journey as a mother – in essence, navigating the journey of business, marriage and motherhood all at the same time.

Her foundation and podcast are called Unburden Your Business, and helps women build their businesses despite the unique challenges and burdens faced by women.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Focusing on life integration (not balance)
• Assessing priorities based upon either a “Heck yes” or a “Heck no”
• The benefits of theming your days
• Asking and answering the question, “What would you do if you only had two hours a week to work on your business?”
• It’s essential to put your team first and help them not only perform, but achieve their dreams
• The importance of having a clear vision for what you want your business to achieve for you and in your life
• It’s critical to processize your business and your team’s activities in the business
• The biggest challenge in business is execution and the role of a strategic execution plan
• Minimize the resistance to execution
• Understanding your money (not just growing revenue)
• Understanding the different ways the women function and lead in business (feminine energy versus masculine energy)
• Leading your business in alignment with your feminine cycles
• Acting and leading like men is NOT the answer for women (although it may deliver short term results)
• The reality of ongoing challenges for women (and the reality that men are often unaware of these ongoing challenges)
• It’s vital for women to show up as their authentic selves in business and leadership
• Clients care about relationships and value
• Let your people be themselves in their networking activities, dress code and sales methods
• You can create a profitable business that aligns with who you are
• Doing business with a persona requires that you work harder
• People follow authentic people (not personas)
• The difference between living an integrated life versus a balanced life
• The power of pause in your business and life
• Breaking the cycles that keep you handcuffed to your business
• Embrace the data to run your business
• Understanding your relationship with money and the ways that relationship impacts your business and financial performance
• Power Question: Where do you see yourself in 12 months?

Resources:

• Cassidy Arbeli
• Unburden Your Business Website (FREE business quiz)
• Unburden Your Business Podcast
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Paul McCarthy answers these and other questions about leadership, leadership development, and a fundamental shift in leadership for the future.

Paul McCarthy is the Founder of a movement called FIRED Leadership. He's working on his first book that's called The FIRED Leader: Reinventing the Future of Leadership, challenging CEOs to rethink who they are firing, because they're getting rid of the wrong talents and skills.

Despite being a global multibillion-dollar industry, studies show that the more companies spend on leadership development, the less leaders are ready for today's changing marketplace.

Driven by the quest to discover what motivates people to do what they do, Paul thinks big, questions deeply, and strives to create the conditions for leaders of all levels to have courageous and honest conversations that build strong and healthy organizations.

Having worked within big firms in the UK and Canada, he brings global perspective to his work as well as real-world experience and straightforward guidance that informs and supports leaders and leadership teams to navigate opportunities and challenges presented by transformation.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Leadership and leadership development is a broken model that requires foundational disruption
• Exploring the fundamental defects in today’s model of and approach to leadership development
• The trouble with performance review processes and performance improvement plans
• The importance of dropping your ego in order to explore solutions to leadership and leadership development
• Creating conditions for an honest discussion of what’s working and what’s not working in leadership, management and business
• Beware the guruizing of leadership and leadership development
• Understanding the profound cost of disengagement in business
• The performance impact of clarity and alignment around purpose
• Key drivers of team disengagement
• The role of fear in staying stuck personally, professionally and organizationally
• The connection between leadership, culture and mental health
• The foundations of FIRED leadership as a mindset and practice
• Fresh thinking
• Inquisitive nature
• Real and accountable
• Expressive and challenging
• Direct and transparent
• The power and impact of treating people like humans
• The many ways we’re failing in our meetings

Resources:

• Paul McCarthy LinkedIn
• Fired Leadership Twitter
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Kristine Glein answers these and other questions about performance, team engagement and soul intelligence.

Kristine Glein is a conscious leadership coach committed to bringing the power of Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) into the mainstream. She is dedicated to helping executive and senior leadership transform their managers into game changing leaders resulting in increased performance, consistency and alignment with the best version of themselves so they can make a greater impact on their individual teams and the organization as a whole.

When it comes to motivating others to meet and exceed expectations, Kristine knows you must have your purpose and passion aligned, as that’s when you are able to fully stand in your power and embody your potential. It’s this fundamental transformational change that allows you to access the flow of energy within you by tapping into your Soul Intelligence. It drives your actions, enabling you to leverage your talents and gifts and share with others to influence and inspire. There is no doubt that we need more soulful leaders in this world. A native New Yorker, she is tenacious and singularly focused making Soul Intelligence not just a concept, but a sweeping movement across the country.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Using the Game Changer Index to grow yourself and your team
• The role of intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional quotient (EQ) and soul quotient (SQ)
• IQ only uses 5% of the brain – your subconscious mind is the other 95%
• Understanding the DSCO coaching model (Drama – Solution – Choice – Opportunity)
• It’s vital to get clear on identifying and living mission, vision, values and purpose
• People (especially millennials) want to be motivated by the work
• Trust and transparency are vital in managers and leaders
• Focus your people development on your mid-performers (not your poor performers)
• Understanding inside out problem solving
• Understanding and solving our engagement issues and opportunities
• The ROI of investing in your people
• Understanding the Game Changing Index and ways to use it in your business
• The power and impact of soul intelligence

Resources:

• Kristine Glein LinkedIn
• Kristine Glein Facebook
• Game Changing Impact Website
• Free Master Class (email Kristine at kglein@gcimpactgroup.com)
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Katie Stoddart (Sweden) answers these and other questions about peak performance, balance and removing the obstacles that get in our way.

Katie Stoddart is the Founder of ‘The Focus Bee’ and an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie supports founders and executives on sustaining peak performance in their business.

Katie started her career as an engineer, working offshore, mapping the seafloor. From her time at sea, she gained the experience of managing teams under stressful circumstances and this led her towards coaching. She has coached in English, French, Spanish and German.

For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews leading experts in high performance. She’s passionate about leadership, performance and resilience. Katie challenges every person she works with to re-focus on what matters most. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through one-on-one coaching and workshops on focus, leadership and performance.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Peak performance is overall balance while pursuing excellence (striving and thriving)
• Balance is adjusting areas that you’ve underprioritized
• Self-leadership requires doing your identity work and creating healthier habits
• The ego challenge to making identity shifts
• The importance of identifying and acknowledging the “wins” of the behaviors you want to change
• Our subconscious defaults to certainty and comfort zone unless we’re aware and willing to shift
• Ways that not “knowing” what to do is a form of resistance to change and pursuing what you desire
• Ways we get stuck in the doing
• Naming your internal saboteurs as a strategy to be more aware of them and avoid them
• Not enough is the foundation for all internal saboteurs
• The role of emotions in personal change and transformation
• We hesitate to acknowledge the truth of choices because then we can’t blame or be the victim (blame doesn’t exist)
• Strategies for inviting others to take responsibility and change themselves (versus demanding that they take responsibility and change)
• The critical role of why and purpose in change (including taking the focus off themselves and onto others)
• The vital role of energy in leadership and performance
• Paying attention to the energy of your space
• Beware energy thieves including unfinished tasks
• Beware the words you use to enhance or diminish your energy
• The “busy excuse” is an excuse for not making something a priority
• Alignment of values, priorities and actions is essential
• The reality of conflicts between long term vision and short-term gains (dopamine hits)
• Regularly assess your time allocation based upon priorities
• Important role of focus in managing energy and time, and a lens through which we choose to see things through
• Strategies for enhancing their focus
• Clarity is essential for peak performance and achieving your goals and objectives

Resources:

• Katie Stoddart
• The Focus Bee website
• Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Book by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Gav Gillibrand will answer these and other questions about exercise, weight loss and your physical health.

Gav Gillibrand is a fitness and nutrition expert who specializes in helping busy men and women lose 20 pounds or more in 12 weeks or less without cutting out carbs and other fun stuff from their lives. From a TV appearance on “Blind Date” in 1993 to a distinguished career as a male revue artist (aka a male stripper) traveling all over the UK and Europe, Gav went on to become one of the UK’s most successful online health & fitness coaches having helped hundreds of clients in the last 15 years to health & weight loss success.

His techniques have helped people lose body fat with ease, increase their energy, improve their health, and give them the weight loss goals that they have always wanted. Finally, Gav’s unique take on fat loss has led to him building a community of 33,000+ followers on LinkedIn where he inspires them each day with content that is fun, informative, and unique.

Gav is the author of The GHG Method: A No “Bullshit” Approach to Losing Body Fat, Upgrading Your Mind Set & Radically Changing Your Life.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The journey from global male stripper to health and exercise guru
• What you need to know about exercise and carbs myths
• Weight loss is all about the math (calorie deficits)
• Understanding your obstacles to weight loss and improved physical health
• Key mindset shifts to achieve your weight loss, exercise and physical health goals
• The critical role that your friend and relationships play in achieving (or not achieving) your weight loss and health goals
• The psychological aspects of losing weight and improving your health
• The importance of attaching emotion to your health and weight goals
• The challenge of portion size differences in the United States
• Overcoming the mental barriers of weight loss and physical health
• The vital role of sleep for your overall health including weight loss
• Why We Sleep book
• Losing weight is not a magic bullet (the answer is to control your calories and move your body 3 or 4 times a week)
• When choosing exercise do something you like (you can exercise and lose weight your way)
• Understanding N.E.A.T. (non-exercise activity thermogenesis) and its role in weight loss
• Ways to ignore the outside voices of “expertise” on what you “should” do
• Ignore the noise about weight loss and exercise

Resources:

• Gav Gillibrand
• Gav Gillibrand Website
• The GHG Method: A No “Bullshit” Approach to Losing Body Fat, Upgrading Your Mind Set & Radically Changing Your Life book
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Noa Ronen is back to answer these and other questions about leadership, change management and Being the leader you desire to BE.

Noa Ronen is a speaker, certified executive coach, author, disruptor, and coffee lover with more than 20 years of experience in change management, human resources, project management, and coaching.

Noa encourages founders, executives, social leaders and their teams to challenge the norms so they can create the change they desire. As part of her want to do things differently she founded the Walking Mastermind™ a unique networking system for leaders that allows people and communities to network outdoors.

Noa’s personal relocation experience from Israel to the United States resulted in a refreshing view of the world that invites you to hold a new mindset of what she calls BEyond leadership where you hold your leadership BEyond yourself, your vision and values to engage and grow others to BE their best selves.

Noa’s the author of the book BEyond: Leadership from AwareLess to AwareNess: Dare to BE the Leader You Can Be.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• What is BEyond leadership
• You can BE anything (even if you can’t do everything)
• The fears we have of Being
• Understanding the BEing of the system especially with your team
• The importance of having conversations with your people in order to understand them
• The risks of only doing in leadership (and failing to be)
• The critical role of why and purpose in achieving your objectives
• Getting honest about what’s important and not important
• Courage is moving ahead even when you feel uncertain and even weak
• Redefining courage
• The importance of learning the systems inside your team and organization that don’t align with your values
• Learn about a change formula: D (doing) x BE3 (emotions, expectations, energy)
• Leaders lean back rather than lean in

Resources:

• Noa Ronen
• Noa Ronen Website
• BEyond: Leadership from AwareLess to AwareNess: Dare to BE the Leader You Can Be Book
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Noa Ronen answers these and other questions about leadership, change management and Being the leader you desire to BE.

Noa Ronen is a speaker, certified executive coach, author, disruptor, and coffee lover with more than 20 years of experience in change management, human resources, project management, and coaching.

Noa encourages founders, executives, social leaders and their teams to challenge the norms so they can create the change they desire. As part of her want to do things differently she founded the Walking Mastermind™ a unique networking system for leaders that allows people and communities to network outdoors.

Noa’s personal relocation experience from Israel to the United States resulted in a refreshing view of the world that invites you to hold a new mindset of what she calls BEyond leadership where you hold your leadership BEyond yourself, your vision and values to engage and grow others to BE their best selves.

Noa’s the author of the book BEyond: Leadership from AwareLess to AwareNess: Dare to BE the Leader You Can Be.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Understanding the key leadership blind spots and roadblocks
• Strategies for navigating transition points in life and business
• What it means to move from awareless, to awaremess, to awareness
• The critical role of Being when it comes to leadership
• The challenges of navigating change and challenges on your own (and limiting yourself to your own thoughts)
• The many challenges of being instead of doing
• Ways we’re all taught to focus on doing for success, acceptance and worthiness
• The importance of having a resourceful mindset
• The critical need to understand your tendencies and their impact
• What it means to allow your being energy and your doing energy to complete with each other (not complete with each other)
• Awareness of your thoughts (especially those that don’t serve you) allows you to shift and pivot your thoughts
• The importance of making time for reflection (and being)
• The fears we have of being (versus doing)
• Being often feels uncomfortable so we resist it
• Understanding the role of surrender on the journey from awareless, to awaremess, to awareness

Resources:

• Noa Ronen
• Noa Ronen Website
• BEyond: Leadership from AwareLess to AwareNess: Dare to BE the Leader You Can Be Book
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Denise Cooper answers these and other questions about leadership, tools for HR leaders, and strategies for creating cultures of psychological safety and belonging.

Denise Cooper, MBA, is a Certified Conversational Intelligence Trainer with 25 + years as a human resources leader who brings a practical approach to improving both soft and hard leadership skills. According to Denise, The majority of corporate “transformations” fail to meet their objectives. We know it is usually not because of a flawed business strategy, but due to poor people management or approaches that have not changed, despite the very different business model evolution. Better leaders and managers simply hit or exceed their goals more reliably. Denise’s also the author of Remarkable Leadership Lessons.

As an accomplished HR executive turned owner of a boutique leadership and coach to human resource professionals, her work is focused on advising executives and HR professionals on how to create a responsive people strategy that creates a more motivated and talented workforce than your competition. Denise is a business coach for people who hate people issues but love getting things done.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The difference between having a great strategy and implementing that strategy (all people issues)
• The myth and fundamental failing of our leadership thinking
• What we’re missing in assessing leaders and their leadership
• The need for change in HR and leadership
• The struggles of creating workplaces where people feel like they belong
• The bell curve truth of mediocre leaders and managers
• The importance of value in the culture and leadership conversation
• People have a core desire to be seen, heard and relevant
• If you can’t see a way, then what you see is in the way
• People need to learn to be adaptable but few of us are being taught adaptability
• The importance of allowing your people to bring their full selves to work
• What are you attached to as a leader and manager?
• Leadership is like learning to ride – eventually you have to actually ride the bike and you actually have to lead (and learn to recover when you fail or fall)
• Understanding the boundaries in allowing measured risk
• The role and importance of psychological safety in the workplace
• Compassion is understanding empathy and still hold people accountable
• The power of asking who’s the best people developer versus asking who’s the best performer
• What is the true meaning of being an alpha leader

Resources:

• Denise Cooper
• Remarkable Leadership Website
• Remarkable Leadership Master Class
• Remarkable Leadership Lessons Book
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Nicole Bianchi answers these and other questions about overcoming resistance, bravery and leadership … and what it means to lead as your bravest self.

Nicole Bianchi is a founding partner at Bravium HD, where she’s a professional speaker, facilitator and ICF executive coach leading leadership, team alignment and culture-building workshops. Before Bravium, she was a human resources and organizational development executive, leading transformation within Conagra Brands and Markel Insurance. She is the author of “Small Brave Moves” by New Degree Press in April, 2021.

Her passion? Inspiring Bravery. Her focus? Enabling leaders to stretch into their bravest selves. She decided to write this book when she saw the common missing element in leaders was bravery, everyday bravery. Immediately she thought, how can I help?

Giving back to her community is important; Nicole and her family have partnered to bring the Butterfly Effect Movement, a national movement to Papillion, NE. The Social Butterfly Installations are an art project mural designed to promote positive community change.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Understanding the concept of bravership and the power of this daily question, “What’s the bravest thing I did today?”
• What it means to stand up for who you are, and the purpose and values you bring to the table
• The reality that we’re discouraging from being brave inside and organization and rewarded for it outside an organization
• Understanding the fears that hold you back in your leadership
• The truth that bravery often comes in small steps
• The three most common fears: 1. Fear of loss; 2. Fear of change; and 3. Fear of not getting it right
• Did you know that 62% of people prefer the status quo
• The power of giving yourself permission to experiment
• The impact of asking yourself what’s the worst thing that could happen
• The importance of transparency and vulnerability in leadership
• The importance of bringing your authentic self to your leadership
• Have you done your deep work on your own values and self
• Experiential exploration of intentionality
• Key differences between high performance and impactful leadership
• Ways your resistance is an obstacle to change
• What it means to make small brave moves in leadership and life
• Key questions to ask yourself regarding your fears
• Don’t trust your first answers to the difficult questions to yourself
• Understanding the role of resistance in change efforts
• Better and differently understanding your fears
• Reframing bravery

Resources:

• Nicole Bianchi
• Bravium HD Website
• Small Brave Moves Book
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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No, not the idea of being more tolerant of people and differences, but the many ways that we tolerate things and people to the detriment of our businesses, teams, outcomes, relationships and life experiences.

Jeff and Craig will explore the many layers of this life truth:

“Your leadership, culture and impact is not defined by what you preach, but by what and who you tolerate.”

Listen in as Jeff and Craig share many examples of the ways that tolerance limits our outcomes and bring more awareness to the depth and range of the impacts of our tolerance.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Differentiating tolerance of differences from tolerance of behaviors
• The truth that your tolerance factor is the key element in the ways that people experience your values and priorities
• We not only tolerate behavior, situations and people, but we also tolerate things within ourselves (self-tolerance)
• The many faces of excuses (“reasons”) we use to justify our tolerances
• The relationship between empathy and reducing tolerance
• Real business examples of tolerance and its impact
• Every day relationship examples of tolerance and its impact
• The may whys of our tolerances
• The importance of getting clear on what and who you’re tolerating
• The reality of tolerance blind spots
• The Tolerance Assessment process and its role in helping you to make more conscious tolerance decisions
• A power question to use in communicating with people who are benefitting from tolerance (e.g. “Do you think it’s fair that ….?”)

Resources:

• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Jesus Campa answers these and other questions about leading through adversity, navigating the unique leadership challenges in the public sector, and leading in the midst of social unrest and divided communities.

Jesus Campa is the owner of America's Best Strategic Security Group and Leading Through Adversity. Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Jesus served in law enforcement for 27 year, including serving as a Chief Deputy and Chief of Police on two different occasions. He then retired from public service and transitioned his experience and expertise to the private sector as a mentor, consultant and leadership development trainer.

As a result of his last tour as Chief of Police in a city impacted by racial divisions, Jesus created and implemented the innovative No Colors No Labels Initiative designed to remove the preconceived notion that the police were racially motivated. In 2017 Jesus was named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian of the Year by the NAACP. He is a leader who believes in diversity and that a workforce should mirror the community they serve.

Jesus holds a Master's in Criminal Justice and Security Administration and is currently working on a PH.D. in Public Service Leadership. He is a strong supporter of leadership development, strategic planning, customer service, crisis communication, 21st Century Policing, and Procedural Justice..

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Leadership inside and outside of law enforcement
• Leadership challenges when you’re under the microscope of culture and social media
• Keys for leading through adversity
• Understanding your leadership mission
• Navigating leadership challenges when followers are heavily focused on what benefits them
• Challenges of leading through the maze of varying stakeholders
• It’s okay to make mistakes as a leader and you must be prepared to handle the consequences when you do
• Challenges of changing the culture in law enforcement especially with respect to diverse communities
• Unique challenges of navigating people issues in the public sector
• Keys to leading through adversity
• Critical role of getting support (mentors) to lead through adversity
• Leadership in adversity requires resilience
• Self-awareness is vital to leading through adversity
• Unique challenges of leading in the public sector, including the impact on family
• The role of individual perceptions and wants in engaging your team
• Unique challenges of leading with a long game mindset in the public sector
• Leadership strategies for navigating your own differences amongst those you lead
• It’s okay for people to be pissed off when you do the right thing
• Challenges of leading people who are primarily focused on ways that decisions benefit them (or not)

Resources:

• Jesus Campa
• Jesus Eddie Campa Website
• Leading Through Adversity Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Dr. Helen Turnbull answers these and other questions about diversity, equity, inclusion and leadership.

Dr. Helen Turnbull, CSP and Global Speaking Fellow, is a world recognized thought leader in global inclusion and diversity. Her extensive research focuses on unconscious bias and its impact on all aspects of inclusion. She has unparalleled knowledge on the complexity of inclusion; and a deep understanding of the patterns and mental models contributing to exclusion. Her “Inclusion Complexity Model” identifies 3 Immutable Forces and 4 Permeable Forces that play a key role in Inclusion and she knows what it takes to create an inclusive work environment.

Dr. Turnbull is the author of three online psycho-metric assessment tools on Unconscious Bias and Inclusion – namely, Cognizant, the ISM profile and The Gender Gap Assessment. She also has an E-Learning program on Unconscious Bias and Inclusion. In May 2013 she spoke at TEDx on “The Illusion of Inclusion”. She keynotes on these topics globally and has spoken to senior executives in Australia, Asia, Europe, UK, Canada, Latin America and the USA.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Ways that diversity, equity and inclusion has changed (or not) over the past 40 years
• One unconscious bias – we hire for diversity but still manage for similarity
• Everyone has unconscious biases and they don’t go away (awareness brings them into your vision but you still must pay attention to them and catch them)
• Unconscious bias as a mental virus
• Defining and understanding unconscious biases and their impact
• The unchallenged brain is not worth trusting
• Strategies for creating diverse and inclusive workplaces
• The complexities of diversity and inclusion – The Inclusion Complexity Model
• The role of dominance as an immutable force
• Unconscious bias as an immutable force
• Degrees of difference as an immutable force
• Understanding intersectionality and its impact on diversity and inclusion (individuals and groups)
• The role of the lived experience as a foundation of understanding diversity, equity and inclusion
• The four permeable forces around diversity and inclusion (affinity bias, assimilation, political correctness (redefined as polite consideration) and internalized oppression)
• Using the Inclusion Complexity Model to address diversity, equity and inclusion in your business
• People of difference can tell the difference between genuine interest and lip service
• The power of listening to your people without interrupting
• Being intentional about opening space for others to speak

Resources:

• Helen Turnbull (drhelenturnbull@humanfacets.com)
• Human Facets Website
• Privilege, Power and Difference Book by Allan Johnson
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Sara Canaday answers these and other questions about leadership, feedback and high performance.

Sara Canaday is a keynote speaker, award-winning author, and former corporate executive who helps arm professionals with the strategies and practices they need to make the critical shift from informed to influential, from doer to driver, and from manager to leader.

Sara works with Fortune 500 companies who are committed to helping their managers strengthen their leadership skills, improve business relationships, and enhance their performance. Sara is the author of two books: Leadership Unchained and You – According to Them.

When she’s not speaking or working with her clients, Sara’s cheering on her son’s football team, hiding new shoe purchases from her husband and 17-year old daughter, and ordering a double cappuccino at Starbucks. Her secret fantasy … Cupcake Wars judge.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Focus on behaviors to achieve your goals
• What leadership role models are you still emulating and is it serving your leadership
• Keys for shifting from individual contributor to manager and manager to leader
• Before you shift your role into management and leadership, assess your fit and desires for the new role
• It’s critical that you assess people’s fit for a new role before you promote them
• Beware the disconnects between your stated values and your stated expectations
• Understanding applied self-awareness
• Beware the assumptions you make about unstated expectations
• Other people decide the quality of your leadership (the people you serve)
• The conflict between our desire for feedback and our desire to be accepted as we are
• If you want more feedback then demand it
• If you want better feedback, ask better questions in requesting feedback
• High quality feedback is specific feedback
• What does strategy mean in leadership
• The Modern Leader Index survey
• Gift yourself and others with presence

Resources:

• Sara Canaday
• Sara Canaday Website
• Books by Sara Canaday
• Modern Leader Index
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Alicia Parr answers these and other questions about leadership, the role of human resources, and building high engagement and performance cultures.

Alicia Parr is Alicia is the founder of Performentor, which offers fractional full-stack HR for scale-change businesses. With deep experience in HR, she delivers a behavior science-informed and small-business approach. An entrepreneur at heart, Alicia has 20 years of HR experience in small businesses spanning multiple industries. Her expertise is co-authoring learning cultures, amplifying innovative environments, and building high-performing teams of HR experts. She frequently serves executives as an executive coach and advisor.

Perhaps most important, Alicia is endlessly curious.

Alicia is endlessly curious about how people work and perform as individuals and in groups. Applying the people science of human performance, she knows theory only matters when it works in practice. With a Bachelors in Marketing, a Masters in Mass Communication, and post-graduate work in Clinical Psychology, Alicia also has deep experience as an endurance athlete.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The state of HR (moving from cost center HR to strategic, value adding HR leader)
• A new understanding of business – the conversion of people's energy and converting that into sustainable economic value
• HR leaders need to be able to speak the language of business (solve problems)
• HR’s job is to make it easier for operational leaders to achieve their objectives
• You must bring value to earn a seat at the leadership table
• The algorithm of responsibilities, authorities, capabilities and accountabilities
• The impact when the scope of a role changes (on the person, team and the business)
• It’s important to focus on the behaviors that aren’t working and to be clear on what the behavior expectations are
• Intersectionality with people issues requires a more integrated solution
• The role of generational differences in culture, leadership and change
• Clarity is vital throughout the organization
• Understanding network based (versus hierarchical) organizations
• The importance of understanding the competencies required for each role (especially when someone is potentially advancing)
• A process of best assuring the right fit between a role and a person
• Building the skill of empathy for leaders and managers
• Differently understanding empathy
• Vulnerability and empathy in leadership
• Getting it right with your people is not just for big companies
• You can change and be more than you imagine … it only takes small steps

Resources:

• Alicia Parr
• Performentor Website
• The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Book by Jonathan Haidt
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Jonathan Bowman-Perks answers these and other questions about leadership, teams and personal growth.

Jonathan is a Master Certified Coach (MCC), virtual team facilitator, motivational speaker, philanthropist, pragmatic philosopher and author. As a top 2% globally ranked podcaster and Key Person of Influence (KPI) he focuses on current and aspiring CEOs, senior executives and their teams in every possible sector. No challenge is too hard.

Jonathan thrives supporting early growth businesses and tech companies, focusing on personal behavior and future business results. His vocation has been shaped by his Father’s heroic leadership role modeling and his untimely death, as a British Royal Navy fast jet pilot. Jonathan’s life calling is to inspire you and your team to: find and live your “True North,” unlock your potential and make a difference via your business.

Jonathan recently graduated from one of Harvard's top leadership programs, and he’s a visiting Professor in Leadership and Executive MBA lecturer at Cass Business School in London. He still holds the unbroken world record for the Cyprus double Mountain Marathon. He’s also a leadership authority and author of both Top Tips for Inspiring Leaders; The Little Book of Wisdom (2017), plus Inspiring Leadership: Leadership Lessons from My Life (2010).

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Leadership is about HIT – honesty, integrity and transparency (Steve Kuhn)
• The tragic story of Jonathan’s father and the inspiration it created
• The power and impact of choice in life and leadership
• Leadership requires courage, humility and discipline
• Honesty is about self-honesty (being honest with yourself)
• Integrity is about integration of your whole person
• Transparency means sharing everything except those few things that you can’t
• Trust is the foundation of everything
• The importance of learning to trust your gut
• Leadership successes and failures during COVID
• Using check-ins to enhance your leadership, uplift your people and build a culture of safety
• Leaders must care about the heart and soul of the organization … the people
• The role of a “psychological contract” with your people (providing psychological safety)
• The difference between care-taking your people and caring about your people
• What do your people really care about at work
• The role of love in leadership
• Take time to get to know your people
• The difference between know how and show how in leadership
• It takes courage to lead differently than you were led
• The role and importance of treating people with dignity in leadership
• Leadership is not about being friends with your people (it’s about showing that you deeply and genuinely care about them)

Resources:

• Jonathan Bowman-Perks
• Jonathan Perks Website
• The Promise That Changes Everything Book (Nancy Kline)
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Jon Tsourakis answers these and other questions about leadership, culture, performance and productivity.

Jon is a longtime serial and currently owns or has a part of at least three businesses. He's a co-owner and President and Chief Revenue Officer of a company called a Oyova, a national marketing and application development agency, where they help helps the firm identify and capitalize on opportunities. He’s also an owner of two other businesses – one that’s healthcare based (CentralComp) and one for people looking to work in sports related businesses (Jobs In Sports).

Jon also facilitates the Digital Mastermind, which is a collection of some of the top digital marketing agencies. He also has a podcast called The Climb.

Jon is a huge proponent of experiencing different countries, cultures and cuisines, which makes Jon an adventurer. He also has a love of people that drives him every day, and he's very involved in giving his time and mentoring. He also has a unique ability to organize chaos, simplify the complex and build a team to overcome obstacles and challenges.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Finding the right partners is more important than deciding on the right business
• Keys for starting and owning multiple businesses (structure and priorities)
• Strategies for maintaining your priorities in the midst of constant change and chaos
• Strategies for more intentional and effective communication
• Energy management matters more than time management
• A company is a collection of people including their hearts and minds
• Simple routines to improve your energy, focus and output
• The impact of sleep and what you eat on your focus and productivity
• Using daily tracking to assess your habits, practices and energy
• Assessing your performance patterns to enhance your performance
• The power and impact of rhythm in your eating, sleep, habits and the people around you
• The role of trust in building personal rhythm and team rhythm
• Find every opportunity to give and share praise with your team
• Leadership lessons from drumming
• The importance of listening to the red flags you experience in business
• The importance of having conditions of satisfaction with your clients and customers (ideal client profile)
• Key questions to ask potential clients (e.g. On a scale of 1-10 how needy are you?)
• Keys to sales – authenticity, loving people and making people feel special
• Navigating challenging times – be creative, optimistic, honest and adaptive
• Leadership ideas for COVID and all times
• Power of a mastermind
• If you want to grow, get uncomfortable being uncomfortable

Resources:

• Jon Tsourakis (jon@digitalmastermind.com)
• Oyova Website
• Digital MasterMind Website
• The Climb Podcast
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our guest Elyse Archer answers these and other questions about sales, leadership and overcoming the inside stories that get in the way of our results and fulfillment.

Elyse Archer is the founder of She Sells, a coaching program and community for women in sales who are breaking through six figures and revolutionizing the way sales is done. A thought leader whose insights have been featured in major media including Forbes and Inc, Elyse is passionate about empowering women to sell in a way that leverages their natural gifts and help them build wealth along the way. She is an international keynote speaker and host of She Sells Radio, where she shares best practices from female entrepreneurs and sales professionals who have accomplished extraordinary goals.

Prior to founding She Sells, Elyse served as a Partner in an 8-figure international sales coaching organization, where she helped sales professionals achieve their goals.

Outside of She Sells Elyse is also a founding team member of Brand Builders Group, a personal branding strategy firm. Her client list includes New York Times bestselling authors, top 100 podcast hosts, and 8 figure entrepreneurs, as well as leaders who are earlier in their journey and committed to scaling their influence, impact and income.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Overcoming challenging life experiences and letting go of your old stories
• The of choice in empowering your life
• The importance of learning to trust yourself and instincts, especially in sales
• Sales is more than high quantity activities
• Strategies to overcome the unique challenges for women in sales
• The power of integrating your female and male energies
• The importance of having more self-worth in sales and leadership
• Exploring one of the massive self-limiting beliefs of women in sales and leadership
• The critical role of boundaries to empower your efforts and outcomes
• The role of healing in enhancing and empowering your sales efforts
• Ways that enoughness gets in the way of sales and leadership
• The role of vulnerability in self-empowerment and sales success
• Why family history must be exploring as part of the sales and leadership coaching process
• Learn about the five dream lives exercise
• Why a big purpose is vital
• The importance of exploring and changing your self-limiting beliefs (and why they are lies)
• The challenge when your experience is in conflict with what you believe about yourself
• The importance of learning to accept and receive compliments
• More sales doesn’t change how you feel … how you feel (about yourself) changes your sales results
• The quantum physics and science behind how your self-beliefs drive your outcomes
• Strategies for selling differently when your sales manager is resisting your way of selling
• Self-worth and risk have an inverse relationship … the higher your self-worth the lower risk you’ll experience

Resources:

• Elyse Archer
• Elyse Archer Website
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Berta Medina-Garcia answers these and other questions about what it takes to achieve your goals and dreams.

Berta Medina is an eternal optimist who believes in the power of generosity and is passionate about sharing her message that dreamers truly succeed! After years of building, operating and growing her own successful business, she’s taken her experience and love for philanthropy to travel to Africa on a harrowing climb to Mt. Kilimanjaro’s peak as part of a mission trip to change the world for Maasai children Since she reached the peak at 19,341 feet, she has re-envisioned the importance of goals and the power of generosity.

Berta now helps businesses and individuals connect genuinely, give generously, and reach a level of success and fulfillment that means more to her clients than just the bottom line.

Berta is a keynote speaker, professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, author, a certified Go-Giver Speaker, Thrive Through Accountability Expert and host of The Dreamers Succeed Podcast. As the founder of Dreamers Succeed, Berta believes that once the seed of a dream has been planted in a person’s heart, they already possess all they need in order to achieve it.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The journey from successful business owner to creator of a new life vision and business helping people achieve their dreams (inspired by a trek to Mt. Kilimanjaro)
• What it takes to coach coaches
• What is adventure coaching and the ways it can transform your life
• The importance of self-accountability in achieving your dreams
• The importance of continually leveling up yourself and having your own coach
• Great ideas are not enough – it’s about the accountability and follow through to turn your ideas into reality
• Mindset is the foundation to change, impact and dreams
• The magic (real change) only happens when you’re willing to get vulnerable
• Generosity as a catalyst for change, goals and dreams
• What it takes to turn your vision board into a reality board
• The role of gratitude in achieving your dreams
• Pursuing experiences over things (breaking the habit of material things)
• Pursuing dreams includes connecting with the giving part of yourself
• What it means to find love in what you do (and strategies to get there)
• If you want to enhance your life experience, turn off the news
• Stop watching other people’s lives (entertainment) and start living your life
• The ways that relationships are everything in our businesses and lives
• What it means to plant seeds of generosity
• The illusion of money as the path to happiness
• It’s critical to focus on an impact driven bottom line (not just money or similar objectives)
• Exploring our relationships with and beliefs about money
• Embracing the potential to show up for each other

Resources:

• Berta Medina-Garcia
• Berta Medina Coaching
• The Go-Giver Book by Bob Burg and John David Mann
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Gareth Higgins answers these and other questions about leadership, change and reconciliation.

Gareth Higgins was born in Belfast in 1975, grew up during the northern Ireland Troubles, and now lives in the US. He writes and speaks about the power of storytelling to shape our lives and world, peace and making justice, and how to take life seriously without believing your own propaganda. He has been involved in peace-building and violence reduction in northern Ireland and helping address the legacy of conflict, received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Queen’s University Belfast, and helped teach the world’s first graduate course in Reconciliation Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He also helped found the Wild Goose, New Story and Movies & Meaning festivals. Gareth leads retreats in North America and Ireland; and he edits The Porch Magazine. He’s happy to be a work in progress.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Lessons from growing up in a divided and sometimes violent society (Northern Ireland)
• The vital role of mentoring especially during challenging times
• The risks of believing you know other people’s motivations
• The power and risks of stories
• Two key questions with stories:
• Is it true?
• If it is true, am I telling the most helpful way?
• The critical role that context plays in evaluating stories and information
• The importance of asking questions to understand
• There’s no value in taking the position that someone else doesn’t have a point
• Suffering is suffering no matter who caused it
• Lessons to learn from the peace initiatives in Northern Ireland
• The importance of understanding individual’s stories and needs (versus always looking at the needs of large groups)
• Problems seem less daunting when you address one need at a time
• The role of media in divisiveness and missing the great things happening in the world
• The expanding circle of sympathy (more people caring about more people)
• The importance of asking yourself, How important is it for me to believe something is true and why do I believe it to be true?
• A leadership truth … something is either true and we can’t do anything about it (lead with love), something is true and you can do something about it (lead with love), or something is not true (lead with love)
• What does it mean to simply show up as a human being
• The gifts of serving others and the common good
• Love is essential in life and leadership
• Beware the stories you make up about people you meet and interact with
• Instead of complaining, identify the better

Resources:

• Gareth Higgins
• The Porch Magazine
• How Not to Be Afraid Book by Gareth Higgins
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Akhtar Khan answers these and other questions about fear, self-sabotage and personal transformation.

Akhtar Khan (UK) is the Founder of Reaching Excellence, and is a renowned and respected high performance, property and business success coach.

As a successful business investor, property entrepreneur and authority on mindset, Akhtar’s ongoing mission and commitment are in supporting others in building wealth through property and business so that they can live life on their terms.

Having had a challenging start in life, growing up in a dysfunctional single-parent family with minimal financial resources, Akhtar discovered that a lack of resources was less important than an attitude of resourcefulness, coupled with a healthy mindset of possibility and good old hard work.

With no personal funds, no experience, and no track record from a standing start, Akhtar built a multi-million-pound portfolio that generated him a 6 figure income that allowed him to retire at the ripe age of 37.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The realities of self-sabotage and strategies to overcome it
• If you want to change your outcomes you have to change your thinking
• It’s more important to change your thinking than to figure out what to do
• The importance of understanding the drivers for the behavior you want to change
• The vital role that your peer group plays in supporting or sabotaging what you want to achieve
• The value of having a mastermind group
• The ways that life traumas, your core wounds, your unconscious and your resulting thinking can determine your results
• Resistance is fear in action based upon your belief systems (often unconscious)
• Understanding the four phases of change and implementation
• Getting past the obstacle of being unconscious (awareness)
• The importance of being willing to be uncomfortable
• The importance of community on your transformational journey
• Change requires that you get down to the root of your beliefs and thoughts
• Vulnerability is essential to transformation
• The search for unconditional love and the ways this search gets in your way of your success
• If you want to transform your results, you must do the work and take off the masks
• The biggest thing holding you back from what you desire is YOU (and your thoughts and beliefs)
• Change can be painful, but it’s often necessary and temporary
• The importance of having support for your transformation journey

Resources:

• Akhtar Khan
• Reaching Excellence Website (book, Academy, courses)
• The Code of Reaching Excellence Book
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Rikki Schwartz answers these and other questions about agile leadership, the power of influence and building a culture of performance.

Rikki Schwartz is the President, trainer and coach at the Center for Agile Leadership®, a company that teaches leaders how to integrate the principles and tenets of Agile philosophy into their leadership styles. Rikki joined The Center For Agile Leadership® in 2018 after spending nearly 20 years in leadership training and development at a multi-billion waste management company.

Rikki is also a Certified Life Coach and founder of My Turn Life Coaching, which has served as a perfect extension to her existing passion to help folks be better leaders of their own lives (personal and professional). Rikki also hosts her radio show – “My Turn Life Coaching-Reclaim Your Life” – interviewing life transformation experts on Transformation Talk Radio.

Episode highlights…

• What does it mean to be an agile leader and to have an agile mindset as a leader?
• Differences between leadership and management, especially with respect to projects
• Positional leaders should steer away from managing people or projects (instead empower your managers)
• Leadership means being the one who influences people (differences between positional power and the power of influence) .. the best leaders use the power of influence, because influence is about persuading, it's not about forcing
• Influence requires trust, transparency, authenticity, and relationship
• One key shift for agile leadership is from command and control to servant leadership
• Agile leadership is not about methodology and tools (it’s about being agile more than doing agile)
• The importance of failing forward in agile leadership including celebrating failures and learning
• The importance of vulnerability and transparency in agile leadership
• Influence requires personal connection, which requires being a human being and being willing to show people what that human being is
• Vulnerability is the most important thing to being an effective influencer and agile leader (and what it means to be vulnerable as a leader)
• Leaders don’t change a culture, they influence it (what it takes to influence cultural change)
• What it takes to have self-organized and self-managing teams as part of agile leadership (and the role of team empowerment)
• The role of the upside down organization chart in an agile leadership culture
• Let your people closest to the issues make the decisions
• Hiring as an agile leader is about fit more than experience
• Beware focusing your time and energy on your poorest performers
• If you put someone on a personal improvement plan (PIP) you must follow up, check in and assess their performance and improvement
• The trouble with annual performance reviews

Resources:

• Rikki Schwartz (schwartz@centerforagileleadership.com)
• Center for Agile Leadership Website
• My Turn Life Coaching (free first session)
• Brain Trust Group Website
• My Turn Life Coaching with Rikki Schwartz – Reclaim Your Life Radio Show
• Cardivera

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Our special guests Brett Cooper and Evans Kerrigan answer these and other questions about vulnerable leadership and strategies for enhancing your team engagement, building trust and improving your efficiency and execution.

Brett M. Cooper and Evans Kerrigan help professionals like you build work relationships that really work. Over the last twenty years, they’ve influenced thousands of people in government, non-profits, and corporate America to work together in more productive, more effective, and more human ways.

Through Integris Performance Advisors—the firm they co-founded—Brett and Evans have helped clients increase employee engagement, improve efficiency, and generate hundreds of millions in financial benefit.

They are widely recognized thought leaders and popular speakers on team dynamics, leadership, and operational excellence. Their keynotes always leave audiences inspired and ready to make a real impact. They’re co-authors of Solving the People Problem: Essential Skills You Need to Lead and Succeed in Today’s Workplace, which was published in September 2020.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Leadership is relationships
• Understanding vulnerability based trust (not predictability)
• What does it mean to honor the differences between us (not just understand them)
• Understanding the true nature of “people problems” based upon our differences
• Training alone will not solve your “people problems”
• How others experience your leadership is more important than how you see yourself
• If you have a “people problem,” it means there's a problem with process, a problem with leadership, a problem with communication
• Improving your leadership means starting with yourself
• The importance of understanding your biases and your triggers
• Emotional intelligence: 1. Know your style 2. Choose your actions based upon that knowing; 3. Know and honor other styles 4. Adapt your behavior for mutual benefit
• The benefits of seeing improvement as part of an ongoing performance discussion (not a moment in time such as annual reviews)
• Leaders must be willing to explore the outcomes that their actions are creating
• Sixty percent (60%) of people’s professional success is based upon their emotional intelligence
• Improved leadership is good for your people and good for the organization’s bottom line
• Why emotional intelligence is the foundation of solving your “people problems”
• Leadership is not about you (it’s about others)

Resources:

• Brett Cooper
• Evans Kerrigan
• Integris Performance Advisors Website
• Solving the People Problem Field Guide
• Disc EQ Assessment (Access Code: Cardivera)
• The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations Book
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Becky Jacobs answers these and other questions about leadership, wellbeing and empowering high performing teams.

Becky Jacobs is the founder and Chief Engagement Officer of Simple Change, an organization dedicated to improving engagement and productivity by building healthy, high-performing teams. She has dedicated her career to the study and practice of personal and workplace productivity, successfully leading teams to greater efficiency, wellbeing and overall impact.

Becky spent more than twenty years in senior leadership roles at various multinational companies, including Bank of America, Red Hat and Rise Against Hunger. She graduated from Old Dominion University with a degree in Business Management and completed her MBA at UNC Chapel Hill.

Episode highlights…

• What is well being in the workplace and why it matters so much today
• The concept of the juggling balls of life
• The reality that we bring our whole selves to work and organizations must support the whole self
• Wellness and cultures are not marketing bumper stickers in organizations
• What do your organizational and leadership behaviors saying about your culture and values?
• Are your behaviors expecting your people to choose between work and their family / relationships?
• It’s essential to provide clarity for your people on distinguishing urgency
• Don’t assess your culture unless you’re committed to making changes
• The exhausting and burnout impact of remote working (and the truth that work more hours doesn’t make you more innovative or impactful)
• Redefining and focusing on productivity versus hours worked
• Beware leading people today (and having work expectations) based upon the way you were lead (and the work expectations on you) decades in the past
• Are you paying your people for their time or for what they produce / create?
• Leaders don’t have to solve everything (you only have to listen and empower your team in solving it)
• The more you engage your employees in coming up with solutions and ideas, the more you're going to empower them, retain them and enhance their performance
• Ask your people what’s working, what’s not working and what they’d like to see different
• Psychological safety at work is essential to get high quality feedback from your team
• Strategies for measuring well being
• Beware the cultural messages that work sucks (e.g. Thank God it’s Friday)
• Millennials are generally more willing to speak up, provide feedback and ask for what they want (but will you listen and change?)
• The impact of COVID on our teams and the different leadership it requires
• Leadership requires balancing productivity and compassion
• What messages are you giving your children about work and life?
• Why pivoting emotionally and vulnerability are essential in leadership
• Leaders must model wellbeing for their team
• You can’t pour from an empty cup
• Pick one simple change, make that normal and then pick another simple change

Resources:

• Becky Jacobs
• Simple Change Website
• Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters MostBook

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Our special guest Bob Burg answers these and other questions about what it means to live a life of giving and the magic of giving in building impactful relationships.

Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences sharing the platform with everyone from today’s business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U.S. President.

Bob is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies. His book, The Go-Giver, coauthored with John David Mann, itself has sold over 975,000 copies and it has been translated into 29 languages.

Bob and John’s newest parable in the Go-Giver Series is The Go-Giver Influencer. Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic and is past member of the Board of Directors of Furry Friends Adoption, Clinic & Ranch in his town of Jupiter, Florida.

Listen as Bob shares his wisdom and experience on servant leadership, sales and building impactful relationships.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• What it means to be a go-giver in business and life – focusing on delivering immense value to others
• Navigating the perceived challenges of being a go-giver when you have personal and professional goals to achieve
• Nobody is going to buy from you because you have a quota – they’ll buy from you because they’ll be better off because of buying from you
• What it means to give 100% in a relationship, versus only your 50%
• The critical paradox – that giving to build relationships helps you more quickly and consistently achieve your objectives
• The go-giver mindset is about living a good life, not just a good living
• Living and selling as a go-giver is not about denying your self-interest, but putting on pause or to the side while you focus solely on the other person
• The go-giver mindset and approach is the most profitable way to do business
• Clarifying the misunderstandings of the go-giver mindset and approach
• The go-giver mindset is not about giving things / value away for free
• The go-giver way is the high value way of selling and doing business
• Business and sales reality – people will do business with and refer business to those people they know, like, and trust
• Being a go-giver is based upon the power and value of relationships
• The go-giver way is more about reframing self-interest versus suspending self-interest
• The essence of influence is pull (not push)
• What it means to apply the go-giver way to your leadership

Resources:

• Bob Burg
• The Go-Giver Network
• Books by Bob Burg
• The Secret of Selling Anything Book by Harry Brown
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Libby Robinson answers these and other questions about what it means to be an impactful, resilient and mindful leader.

Libby Robinson is the Managing Partner, Chief Heretic and CXO Whisperer of Integral, an award-winning leadership, executive coaching and advisory company working with Fortune 1000 companies globally. A former wall street banker, aerospace engineer and national champion equestrian, Libby has worked for 26 years with senior leaders globally, helping to bring more mindfulness, resilience and greater capacity to brilliant and ambitious leaders.

Integral uses a multi-disciplinary approach to foster deep personal change in leaders and to evoke “conscious leadership” cultures for their clients. Libby’s latest venture has been to launch BackFeed+, a new app that helps individuals and organizations get better, faster feedback using a method backed by the latest neuroscience data about how individuals receive feedback with less stress.

Listen as Libby shares her wisdom and experience on conscious leadership, mindfulness and resilience.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Relationship precedes results – accomplishments always follow some form of relationship
• The key role of mindfulness in leadership (What does it mean to be a human being versus a human doing in leadership?)
• Understanding your triggers and navigating them differently
• The importance of mindfulness and resilience in leadership and rich living
• Foundations of ontological coaching
• Deepening our emotional intelligence, awareness and range
• The importance of being clear about the standards by which your team works (expectations)
• Pace is a leadership choice
• Leaders don’t run (slow down, see more, connect more)
• Mindfulness is the one core way of being for leaders
• Winning in business at the expense of the health of your team and people is a loss
• The secret Jedi mind tricks of leadership
• The key role of and need for compassion in leadership
• Leadership essentials in creating a place where your people feel safe, secure and vulnerable
• Key elements of resilience
• What does it mean to root your leadership
• Leaders must allow others to support them
• The role of imposter syndrome in leadership

Resources:

• Libby Robinson (libby@integralcoaches.com)
• Integral Website
• Advanced Coaching Practicum
• BackFeed+ App
• The Leadership Junkies Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Rochel Marie Lawson answers these and other questions about getting past your fears and living the life of your dreams..

Get ready for this … Rochel Marie Lawson is a registered nurse, an Ayurvedic health practitioner, a holistic health and wellness consultant, an international best-selling author, a speaker and a radio show hostess. She’s also the Founder and President of Blissful Living 4 U, which exists to improve wellness, wisdom and wealth by utilizing ancient holistic principles that only lead to success.

Rochel Marie’s energy, guidance, wisdom, and enthusiasm have helped thousands of people to improve their wellbeing. Not only a successful entrepreneur, she’s the author of Intro to Holistic Health, Ayurveda Style. She also has her own blog (www.ayurvedahealing.org), and for 8 years Rochel Marie has had her own weekly podcast, Blissful Living.

On top of all of this, Rochel Marie founded and is the CEO of All Day Cable, which she founded over 30 years ago. Simply put, Rochel Marie is a badass.

Listen as Rochel Marie shares her wisdom and experience on leadership, wellbeing and balance.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The power of setting a clear intention for your future
• Understanding our leadership gifts and what it means to be a natural born leader
• What’s getting in the way of your leadership and impact
• Building a family culture and embracing your team members
• The ways that women veterans are often missed and lacking support after their service
• Understanding Ayurveda health, healing and balance
• The three pillars of healthy living – wellness, wisdom and wealth
• What it means to live fearless versus being fearless
• Simple foundations and actions for your wellbeing journey
• One key to change in your life and habits is having support (not doing it alone)
• The importance of being willing to ask for help or support
• Strategies for not letting your fears run your life
• Simple truths about fear
• Changing your questions to differently navigate your fears

Resources:

• Rochel Marie Lawson (info@blissfulliving4u.com)
• Blissful Living 4 U Website
• Unstoppable Women’s Summit (February 20, 2021)
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Corey Jahnke (the Zen Pharmacist) answers these and other questions about achieving your definition of success with more joy by living in this moment.

Corey is a full time pharmacist, a John Maxwell certified coach, and a certified Go Giver coach. Twelve years ago, Corey found himself facing fatigue and burnout at life threatening levels, and I know many of you have felt that as well. And Corey found his way out of that. Corey also has an organization called Successful Thinker Magazine and Successful Thinker Podcast. He’s also the author of the book The Successful Thinker.

Listen as Corey shares her wisdom and experience on different ways to live and experience life with more joy, better relationships and greater success.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Here’s an idea – ask people questions and listen
• The importance of getting clear on what you want, why you want it and what price you’re willing to pay to get it
• You can have mutual love with the people you serve
• The role of personal pride in serving others and loving your work and life\
• The profound truth that all we have is this moment and the gifts of living in the moment
• You are 100% responsible for your life
• Understanding the obstacles to living life with gratitude and in the moment
• The vital importance of saying “no” to more things so you can have more time for the things you want to say “yes” to
• You are so much more than what you do for a living
• Nothing exists except this moment (everything else is made up by you)
• We typically worry about things that never happen
• “What is the best use of your time right now?”
• Moments are not good or bad – they’re what you decide they are
• If no one told you who you are, who would you be
• Strategies for living relationally in a transactional world
• How you treat others will determine the experience you have with others
• Slow down, live in the moment and “see” the people around you
• The Law of the Heart – the more people you care about, the more people you will have in your life to care about (it’s as simple as letting people know that you care about them)
• The importance of being intentional to interact with people who are different and who think differently from me
• The stories we make up about our lives and experiences
• Your experience of life is based upon how you choose to see it and experience it
• You can choose your own pace of your life (not what everyone else tells you it should be)
• If you realized how little people think about you, you’d probably be offended

Resources:

• Corey Jahnke
• Successful Thinker Website
• Corey Jahnke on Facebook
• Corey Jahnke on Instagram
• The Successful Thinker book by Corey Jahnke
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Jina Etienne answers these and other questions about diversity, inclusion and creating a culture of belonging.

Jina is a consultant and speaker on diversity, inclusion, culture and belonging. She creates training programs and workshops to help clients move forward in their D&I journey. She is a story-teller and speaks candidly about her experiences, hard lessons and ‘aha’ moments that helped her understand the importance of individuality, the value of curiosity and the courage it takes to “just” be yourself.

Jina is the Founder of Etienne Consulting, a boutique consulting firm that offers unique strategy development, workshops & coaching to leaders, executives and entrepreneurs. Jina is an accountant, had her own accounting firm, and has had leadership roles in various organizations including Director of Diversity and Inclusion for Grant Thornton, a national CPA firm.

Episode highlights…

• Why we should separate the concepts of diversity and inclusion
• What does equity and belonging mean in organizations and teams
• Diversity and inclusion statements are important but not the solution
• Why “We’re hiring the best people” is not an adequate solution to creating more diversity and inclusion
• Diversity and inclusion is NOT about blaming and shaming (it’s about moving forward)
• The importance of hiring for thinking skills more than technical skills
• Diversity and inclusion is essential to have a culture that is dynamic, innovative and creative
• Diversity and inclusion changes often start with simply noticing
• The key is to make your organization safe for people of difference
• Before you diversity your business diversify your life
• Basic mindsets that are essential to enhance diversity and inclusion in your business and life
• Unconscious bias is the auto-pilot of our lives until we’re willing to address the biases
• The key role of intention in diversity and inclusion efforts
• Leaders must be able to effectively lead the entire team, not just certain people or types of people on the team
• The problem with asking target group team members to lead the diversity and inclusion efforts
• Diversity and inclusion initiatives often require an external voice and an internal champion
• The role of self-awareness in diversity and inclusion (and taking ownership of your impact)
• The vocabulary of diversity and inclusion (and its role in change)
• The role of grace and curiosity in diversity and inclusion conversations
• Change happens when we know better AND do better
• Millennials different view of diversity and inclusion
• The importance of being intentional with your efforts to diversity your business and life
• Diversity requires exercising and building new muscles
• The importance to learning ways to navigate your fumbles and triggers around diversity and inclusion

Resources:

• Jina Etienne
• Jina on Twitter
• Etienne Consulting Website
• Jina’s Blog – Fearlessly Me
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Deana Labriola is a partner is the Raleigh, NC office of the law firm of Fox Rothschild and has been practicing law for twenty years. More important, Deana is unique as a lawyer in that she’s deeply and fully committed to being more than a lawyer for her clients – she’s committed to adding value to them and their businesses. She’s also a connector of people, business advisor, relationship builder, “consigliere” and a courageous leader.

As Deana puts it, she’s a mom, a wife, a lawyer, an athlete and a leader, and in that order of importance. Deana has a dynamic transactional practice that spans a range of business matters, including mergers, acquisitions, and debt/equity financing deals. She also assists a wide variety of businesses with corporate governance structuring, development initiatives and expansion opportunities. Deana serves as outside general counsel to a number of closely held companies.

Listen as Deana shares her wisdom and experience on courageous leadership, diversity and inclusion, and change.

The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com.

Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• What it means to craft and plan your law career by design and based upon priorities
• What it means to lead courageously by speaking up for yourself and for others
• Leadership as a woman in a male-dominated industry
• Real life examples of diversity and inclusion leadership in the legal industry
• Every day strategies to enhance your diversity and inclusion efforts and results
• Understanding the business case for diversity and inclusion – lead with the business case to create change
• The importance of putting yourself in a position to speak up (and be heard) for change
• Leaders genuinely and deeply care about their people (and take action to support them)
• The importance of courageous conversations
• Truths about trust – losing it and building it in leadership
• Stepping up as a woman in leadership
• Career paths require choosing wisely including surrounding yourself with champions / mentors
• Grit, scrappiness and resilience are essential for succession in law and any profession
• What it means to be a true business advisor for your clients in the law
• Lawyers must be willing to share their opinions (not just assess risk)
• Lawyers must understand the psychology of advising clients and decision making (you also must get to know and understand your clients and their businesses, including their risk tolerances)
• Leaders are constantly asking themselves “In what ways can I add value” to this situation, circumstance, client, culture, etc.
• Connecting people and helping others build relationships is a great way to add value
• Women need to lead like themselves rather than learning to lead like men (lead authentically)

Resources:

• Deana Labriola (Fox Rothschild)
• Raleigh Chamber of Commerce – Women in Leadership – January 29th at 10:00 AM
• Cardivera

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Jen Thornton is the Founder, Talent Strategist and leadership development consultant with her rapidly growing consulting firm, 304 Coaching. She’s led international teams across Greater China, Mexico, the U.K., and the U.S. to expand into new markets, managing franchise retailers, and developing key strategic partnerships – all while exceeding business objectives and financial results.

This growth has been largely due to Jen’s unconventional approach to building innovative workforce development solutions for companies who are facing breakthrough growth and accelerated hiring patterns. She’s a sought-after business strategist, specializing in start- ups and large value-based organizations. She assists her clients in building talent strategies that complement their business strategies to ensure exponential growth.

Listen in as Jen shares her wisdom and experience on talent development, conversational intelligence and team development.

The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.

Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Obstacles to leadership
• Key elements of innovation leadership
• Leadership requires trust and trust requires curiosity
• The value of being open to failure
• Key obstacles to living a culture that embraces failure as a tool for creativity, growth and innovation
• Breaking down, understanding and moving past fear as leaders
• Understanding conversational intelligence as a leader – “words create worlds”
• The power of the question “What’s one thing I can do”
• We only learn from failure when we’re intentional about the learning
• The impact of nurturing a culture of curiosity in your business
• Ways leaders build and destruct a culture of ideas, creativity and innovation
• Things that get in the way of leadership, team, culture and organizational change and transformation
• The role of overwhelm in preventing change
• Exploring the 7 Deadly Sins of Leadership
• The science of always wanting to be right
• Leaders must continually humanize themselves
• The unequal impact of COVID on women in the workforce

Resources:

• Jen Thornton
• 304 Coaching
• Cardivera

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Dan Edds is Founder of Praxis Solutions, a management consulting and leadership development firm. Dan has 25 plus years as a practicing management consultant in a wide range of industries, including public sector, health care, K- 12 education, higher ed, and non-profits. He's written two books, the most recent of which is Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership: Cracking the Code of Sustainable Team Performance. Most important, Dan is someone who understands, studies and is constantly evolving when it comes to leadership.

Listen in as Dan shares his wisdom and experience on leadership, systematic change and high performing teams.

Episode highlights…

• Leadership is getting work done with and through other people
• Leadership is a relational enterprise – get to know your people as human beings
• Start by designing a series of routines to build your leadership
• A team of great individual performers are not enough
• High performing organizations have a very systematic approach to leadership
• While leadership is a relational enterprise, those relationships can be achieved with a systematic approach
• Companies often succeed despite themselves and this gets in the way building great cultures and teams that achieve high impact (missing enormous opportunities)
• Beware losing out on the best parts of people (their humanness, creativity, innovation, etc.) when you ask them to only bring their technical skills
• It’s essential to include the whole human side of every person on your team
• Beware elevating your top performers bases upon performance and not focusing enough on character
• Your reward systems will determine your leadership – leaders often won’t take care of their people until they’re rewarded for taking care of their people
• Being a people centric organization is not the same as being a person centric organization (great teams flow from people centric organizations)
• When you’re clear with expectations, then people who choose not to meet the expectations are taking themselves off the team
• Organizationally, the leadership system is always focused on the experience of the workforce (a relationship experience)
• Learn from the US Army’s approach to leadership – servant leadership and love
• Organizations and leaders must lead from a common set of values and experience priorities
• Get clear that team experience is your top priority – then decide what you want that experience to be – and then decide what behaviors will feed the intended experience outcome
• If team members are coming to you to solve problems, you have a leadership and management problem
• High impact organizations develop the whole person / human being – not just the professional

Resources:

• Dan Edds (425-269-8854)
• Dan Edds Website
• Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership: Cracking the Code of Sustainable Team Performance book by Dan Edds

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Nichole Lowe is the Founder of Sole Life, an organization that helps coaches grow their businesses and enhance their experience with their coaching business. Nichole has a background in leadership, sales and advertising, but most importantly, she has a long history as a coach. What she learned as a coach is that coaches actually struggle with the business of coaching. From her experience as a coach and in coaching over 500 coaches, Nichole decided to create Sole Life to help coaches with the many challenges of a coaching business, including getting clients, and to allow them to more fully live their passions and make a difference.

Listen in as Nichole shares her wisdom and experience on the power of having a coach and tools for coaches to grow their business and enhance their impact.

The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.

Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Cutting through the noise in the coaching world
• The critical role of setting mutual expectations in a coaching relationship
• The importance of interviewing coaches to understand their styles, philosophies, approaches and alignment with your goals
• Key questions to ask potential coaches
• Trust is vital in any coaching relationship
• Understanding the difference between therapy, coaching and consulting
• Getting clear on what race you’re running and understanding that your obstacles are a key factor in whether you achieve your goals
• A coach is only as effective as two things: 1. Trust and 2. Ability to support clients with their emotional needs
• Coaches must be able to trust themselves in order to fully serve their clients
• The art of great coaching is the art of great questions
• Coaches must be on their own personal growth and development path in order to serve their clients
• Coaching is not for people who are failing or who have something wrong with them – coaching is for people
• Coaching is not for the successful, rich and famous
• Leadership requires vulnerability – vulnerability creates transformation
• Coaches offer a safe place for their clients to be vulnerable (coaches must be able to hold space for their clients emotions)
• Good coaches want to make sure that they’re the best fit / match for people
• The rich tools that Sole Life offers to coaches and people looking for a coach
• Leadership Wisdom – It’s not about you … it’s about serving others
• Leader must be willing to be authentic and to stand up and speak out (gives others permission to do the same)
• Jesus as a leader

Resources:

• Nichole Lowe (nichole@solelife.com)
• Sole Life Website
• Early access for coaches (beta testing)
• Free coaching session
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Dr. Steve Yacovelli (aka “The Gay Leadership Dude”) is Principal of TopDog Learning Group, a leadership, change management, and diversity and inclusion consulting firm based in Orlando but with affiliates (“TopDoggers”) around the globe.

Steve and TopDog provide guidance and solutions in leadership and organizational development, change management, diversity and

inclusion consulting, instructional design, and custom e-learning creation.

Steve is passionate about workplace equality, and specifically how leaders can be more “consciously inclusive” to foster a feeling of inclusion and belonging for all team members. His most recent, award-winning and critically acclaimed book is Pride Leadership: Strategies for LGBTQ+ Professionals to be the King or Queen of their Jungle.

Listen in as Dr. Steve shares his wisdom and experience on being a “consciously inclusive” leader.

Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The three (3) key opportunities for leaders: 1. Better listening and teaching; 2. Empathy; 3. Authenticity
• The importance of spending time with people who are different from you
• Leadership is not industry or role specific – you don’t have to know the industry or the job if you’re a strong leader
• Smart leaders are like gardeners
• The risk of clarity in hiring desires becoming hiring only people like you (non-diverse)
• The role of unconscious bias for all leaders
• You can’t create a more inclusive workplace unless you’re willing to acknowledge that you’ve played a role in creating the lack of inclusion and diversity
• A simple approach for becoming more consciously inclusive: Think In … Speak Up … Act Out
• Think In – Assess your own thinking and unconscious bias
• Speak Up – Choosing to speak up when things happen that are inconsistent with your desired inclusive culture
• Act Up – Assess and modify your processes and approaches that are impacting inclusion and diversity
• The key role of creating a culture of belonging for everyone and especially people of difference
• Different ways to think about and achieve diversity and inclusion
• Strategies for creating a culture of belonging
• Keys to creating feedback processes to address diversity and inclusion issues
• Understanding the difference between intention and impact
• Part of leadership is speaking up (acts of leadership versus roles of leadership)
• Learn Dr. Steve’s MOP+SAM strategy for addressing issues related to diversity, inclusion and difference
• The key role of emotional intelligence and self-awareness when leading in a diverse and inclusive way
• What are you doing to influence the workplace culture in your business or organization?

Resources:

• Steve Yacovelli
• TopDog Learning Website
• Coupon Code (75% off) the online “Resilience” Masterclass: IMPACT2021
• Direct link to the “MOP+SAM” Free Training

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Julie Kratz is a highly-acclaimed TEDx speaker, a certified unconscious bias trainer, and inclusive leadership trainer who led teams and produced results in corporate America. After experiencing many career “pivot points” of her own, she started her own speaking business focused on helping leaders be more inclusive. Promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, Julie is a frequent keynote speaker, podcast host, and executive coach.

Julie’s books include Pivot Point: How to Build a Winning Career Game Plan, ONE: How Male Allies Support Women for Gender Equality and Lead Like an Ally: A Journey Through Corporate America with Strategies to Facilitate Inclusion.

Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The importance of those in power speaking up to create more diversity and inclusion
• Why collaboration and allyship are essential for change
• Diversity requires a different approach to attraction, recruiting and hiring – if you look for people where you always have, you’ll get people like you’ve always go
• Avoiding being the rescuer of people of difference
• Differently navigating the “privilege” conversation and understanding
• Allyship starts at home and in your personal life – you can’t just do it at work
• Understanding affinity bias as an unconscious bias that limits the diversity and inclusiveness in our lives
• The pros and cons of diversity targets (but make sure to measure it even without goals)
• Overcoming the reality that our communities are designed to keep people separate
• Balancing hiring quotas against a diverse applicant pool
• Pursuing the goal of having a critical mass of people of difference so that they don’t feel isolated and unsafe
• Walking the gender tightrope as a women in the business world
• Using the flip it to test it when it comes to our biases
• The ways that our language and differing expectations of men versus women support gender bias
• Using inclusive language signals to let others know that you’re safe to be open with
• Getting clear on how you want other people to feel being around you and under your leadership
• What will be your diversity and inclusion intention for 2021?

Resources:

• Julie Kratz
• Twitter
• Instagram
• Next Pivot Point Website
• Next Pivot Point Podcast
• Books by Julie Kratz
• Pivot Point: How to Build a Winning Career Game Plan
• ONE: How Male Allies Support Women for Gender Equality
• Lead Like an Ally: A Journey Through Corporate America with Strategies to Facilitate Inclusion

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Eunice is an intuitive Psychosocial Counselor and empathetic storyteller, speaker, mentor and life coach. Eunice graduated with a degree in counseling Psychology from Africa Nazarene University and is currently pursuing a Masters in Peace and Development.

Most important, Eunice is a thriving survivor of rape and sexual violence, which led her to found and now lead Wounded Healer of Kenya. Eunice was raped by a police officer in Kenya who is now a high ranking public official. The rape also left Eunice pregnant with her son and cast out by her family. Living on the streets and struggling to survive, Eunice found a way to continue her education and get her degree. Due to threats in Kenya, she has come to the United States seeking asylum. She’s not safe in Kenya because she’s speaking out against the culture of sexual violence and the man who raped her.

Eunice now shares stories of women survivors of sexual violence, who are thriving, liberated and passionate to end the cycle of sexual violence. She also equips survivors to grow in self-dependency, leadership and healing through her gift of counseling. Eunice is dedicated to giving all children and women the ability to protect themselves against all types of violence including gender-based and sexual violence.

Listen in as Eunice shares her story and her wisdom and experience on overcoming, healing and resilience.

The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.

Show Notes:

Episode highlights…

• Eunice’s story of overcoming the trauma of rape and shame
• Leading by sharing your story (without position or permission)
• Starting a non-profit without resources or support
• What is means to live with a passion for helping others
• Eunice’s experience of raising a child while living on the streets and later getting her college degree
• Resilience is a muscle that must be strengthened
• The importance of self-awareness and believing in yourself
• Self-care is vital
• Fun (intentional fun) is an important part of resilience
• Resilience includes having relationships with positive people
• The importance of setting and holding boundaries
• Serving others is a key to resilience
• It’s important to let air out of your beach balls of life to relieve the pressure
• You can’t avoid or push down the pain of trauma for very long – you must be intentional in feeling the pain
• The ways we hide behind masks in the United States
• Resilience is not about being tough (you can only be tough so long)
• Overcoming discouragement even from your own family
• Purpose is critical to resilience (clear vision for your future)
• Ask yourself, “How do I live my purpose today?” or “How did I live my purpose today?”
• Resilience + purpose creates resourcefulness

Resources:

• Eunice Nuna
• Wounded Healer
• Support Wounded Healer with a Donation
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Michelle Yu is a former HR executive turned coach, trainer and human capital consultant. After spending a decade working in tech, including companies like LivingSocial, Google and SoftBank, Michelle left the corporate world to pursue entrepreneurship to do what she is most passionate about – helping others reach their goals and become the best version of themselves.

In her career working in fast paced, global environments, Michelle learned about the importance of mental health and workplace wellbeing, especially in how that has a direct effect on one's overall productivity and performance. Now she’s on a mission to help bring about more awareness and drive change to these topics in the workplace.

Michelle also brings a unique perspective navigating the corporate world as a young, Asian-American woman.

Listen in as Michelle shares her wisdom and experience on getting past your old messages to tap into your authentic and powerful you.

The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.

Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The trap of pursuing stable in your career
• Shifting from what your conditioned to do to what you want to do
• The challenges faced by children of tiger parents
• Ways that colleges set expectations that may not serve you in your life journey
• The importance of re-writing your own self-story
• It’s vital to understand the subconscious messages you acquire during your lifetime
• Ways we take on messages from our life experiences
• Getting past the stigma in the corporate world that coaching is for people who are failing
• The challenges with our internal chatter – we’re harder on ourselves than anyone else (i.e. imposter syndrome)
• The trap of seeking high achievement in order to feel like you belong and are worthy enough
• It’s okay to get keep your expectations high but your attachment to the outcome low
• Ways we self-sabotage ourselves
• Navigating the corporate world as a young, Asian-American woman
• The importance of practicing self-compassion

Resources:

• Michelle Yu
• Michelle Yu Instagram
• Michelle Yu Website
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Today, Bo Brabo is an inspirational keynote speaker, career / leadership / executive coach, and business consultant. Throughout his life and career, Bo has always focused on the people, helping them tackle their problems as if they were his own.

An acclaimed leader, Bo has a storied career – from his years on the military battlefield, to a decade in the White House as a Presidential Communications Officer for President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, and to his experiences as a corporate executive and a small business owner. Bob offers real, raw, front-row stories about values-based leadership and how to be, know, and DO better.

Listen in as Bo shares his wisdom and experience on values-based and people first leadership.

The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.

Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The most important thing in leadership – care about your people
• Caring about your people means knowing about your people (and not just at work)
• The opportunity for HR leaders to help grow a business
• Bringing humanity into the workplace and leadership
• The confidence crisis in leadership
• What it means to be a values-based leader
• Values-based interviewing strategies
• The importance of being clear on what it takes to be a high performer
• Strategies for developing your people and team members
• The importance of providing feedback based upon values
• People focused leadership from military leadership
• The vital role of trust (and trust building) in leadership and teams
• Simple strategies and tactics to build a strong team, trust and engagement
• The little things of great leadership including self-awareness
• The important role of after action discussions and review in business
• Shifting the focus of feedback to what can be better next time (more than what went wrong)
• Leadership perspectives inside the White House
• High performing teams are based upon trust
• Foundational core values from the Army for any organization
• The importance of being clear on what values represent in action

Resources:

• Robert “Bo” Brabo (bo@robertbrabo.com)
• Robert Brabo Website
• From the Battlefield to the White House to the Boardroom: Leading Organizations to Values-Based Results book by Robert “Bo” Brabo
• The Bo and Luke Show Podcast
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Lesley Jean Almonte is a creative branding strategist, marketing consultant strategist and CEO of Moonshine Creative Group. Over the past 17+ years Lesley has been a part of building and branding multi-million dollar businesses and six figure businesses for her clients and herself alike…in other words, she’s seen a lot of “stuff” go down in the digital marketing world.

Through her speaking, online courses, workshops and agency services Lesley Jean simplifies branding and marketing strategies for struggling business owners and guides them through launching a successful brand that will allow them to work in alignment with their passion and purpose.

Listen in as Lesley Jean shares her wisdom and experience on everything marketing, branding, content marketing and digital marketing.

The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.

Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Lesley Jean’s entrepreneurial journey
• Using high quality content to connect with your customers and potential customers
• The right way to use bots with digital marketing
• How smaller businesses can look at their marketing initiatives and the critical need to be creative
• Focusing on the experience as part of your marketing and brand
• Ideas for virtual events and parties
• Ways to look at marketing budgets in a small business
• Marketing and branding ideas for speakers, coaches and consultants
• Ways to make yourself memorable as a business, provider and brand
• Your brand is the foundation of all of your marketing, sales, communication and your entire business operation
• Ways to build and scale your business, create products and develop additional revenue streams
• Using backdoor marketing strategies to enhance your effectiveness
• What it means to engage in authentic marketing strategies
• The value of embracing a strategic approach to marketing, branding and creative
• The importance of having a brand handoff package
• Key things to know when it comes to your website
• The importance of asking potential marketing and branding firms about their process
• The most important thing you need to know when it comes to branding

Resources:

• Lesley Jean Almonte
• Contact Lesley: Lesley@MoonshineCreativeGroup.com
• Moonshine Creative Group
• Brand Illumination Workshop
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Tamsin Astor, PhD is the founder and Chief Habit Scientist of Yoga Brained Coaching. She is known for giving her clients the tools to shift their mindset, organize their vision, and improve their habits to create an efficient, productive business.

In addition to her coaching and consulting practice, Tamsin is an avid traveler and foodie taking her three kids to Brazil, France, England, Amsterdam, Japan, Costa Rica and beyond because she believes travel helps breed tolerance and cultivates gratitude and reflection as you observe how other cultures operate and make choices.

Tamsin Astor holds a PhD in neuroscience and psychology and a post-doctorate in education. She also has certifications in yoga (RYT500, Yoga Ed.), mindset & Ayurveda (Living Ayurveda, Yoga Health Coach). She is an executive coach and author of the book Force of Habit: Unleash Your Power by Developing Great Habits.

Listen in as Tamsin shares her wisdom and experience on healthy living and empowering your life through habits.

The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.

Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The importance of rituals and habits in creating your day and life
• The role of a chief habit scientist
• The essentials of Ayurveda and daily choices based upon it
• Key elements and impacts of sleep
• The importance of vulnerability in leadership
• Failure as a vital part of a success path
• The importance of being clear on your personal vision and values
• Empowerment through disruption
• The role of your three selves in your life journey
• What’s the big juicy vision you have for your life?
• Understanding the psycho cybernetic loop
• Words have power – using words to empower yourself
• Differently understanding habits and their power to change your experiences and outcomes
• Three parts of habits: 1. Cue (triggers the habit); 2. Behavior (action); 3. Reward
• Understanding habits versus willpower
• Five key cues for habits
• Tools for creating healthy habits
• The process of creating new habits (and how long it takes to create them)
• The habit of busyness
• Three different kinds of isolation
• Change is often driven by enough pain

Resources:

• Tamsin Astor
• Tamsin Astor Website
• Call to Clarity 2021 Program (contact Tamsin: tamsin@tamsinastor.com)
• Force of Habit: Unleash Your Power by Developing Great Habits book by Tamsin Astor
• The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Workby Vishen Lakhiani
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Kaleem is a husband, father, employee experience professional, remote work advocate and speaker. Originally from Bangor, Maine (home of Stephen King) and now from Atlanta, Kaleem is the Chief Operating Officer of Blend Me, Inc. which he co-founded in 2013. Blend Me is a consultancy that helps organizations improve the remote employee experience, from onboarding to offboarding. With nearly 20 years of event planning and strategic operations experience, Kaleem’s passions revolve around helping others create a plan that inspires and motivates their employees to make connections and build meaningful relationships.

Kaleem is also the COO of Remotely One, a members-only community for remote work professionals. Remotely One is committed to ending remote work isolation by connecting people with other location-independent professionals.

Kaleem was also recently named one of the Top 15 Remote Work Advocates and Leaders by All-American Speakers Bureau.

Episode highlights…

• The difference between a remote workforce and a distributed workforce
• Truths about remote working before and after the COVID pandemic
• Remote working statistics and data (pre and post COVID)
• Beware of judging the remote work experience based solely upon COVID (which is a unique situation / experience)
• The pros and cons of remote working and the unique leadership issues based upon people’s unique situations (e.g. people who want to keep working remotely and people who want to get back to working at an office)
• Culture is not an adequate reason to require people to work in the office
• Market and business shifts regarding the reduced need for office space
• Three different types of telework (remote work): 1. Fully distributed / all remote (no centralizes work space); 2. Centralized office with people working remotely (aka hybrid); or 3. Telecommuting (work wherever).
• In the future nearly every company will have a telecommuting option
• The changing nature of work, teams and offices with distributed workers
• Hybrid working is the future of work and business
• What it means to focus on the remote employee experience
• Team engagement with a remote workforce
• Leaders must be intentional about information interactions and social connection
• Different approaches to delegation with remote workers
• Understanding the importance of building your return on safety with and for your team

Resources:

• Kaleem Clarkson
• Twitter
• Blend Me, Inc.
• Remote Employee Experience Assessment (FREE)
• Remotely One Community
• Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQBook by Daniel Goldman
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Nathan Crankfield was baptized Lutheran, but entered the Catholic Church at age 13, becoming the first Catholic in his family. He graduated from Mount St. Mary's University. After graduation, Nathan was commissioned and trained as an Infantry officer, where he completed U.S. Army Airborne School, Ranger School and then served in the 82nd Airborne Division.

After a deployment to Afghanistan, Nathan knew it was time to pursue his love for evangelization. Throughout his life, Nathan has cultivated a deep passion for encouraging others to fulfill their potential and purpose. After the Army he served with the Dynamic Catholic Institute, where he helped parish priests and leaders grow their leadership. Nathan now serves as a Resident Director at Benedictine College.

Most important, during COVID Nathan launched his passion organization, Seeking Excellence, which was created to live this mission:

“We want to inspire you to take responsibility for every area of your life. We want to push you to reach your full potential as the person you were created to be. … Our commitment is to get you to move in the direction that leads to your fulfilled potential.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Breakdowns in leadership when leaders fail to walk their talk
• The importance of assessing where you are and strategically plotting a course to your desired objectives
• Impactful leadership and culture lessons from R.O.T.C.
• Strategies and leadership for building great teams
• Understanding that having and creating fun is an important leadership skill
• What it means to lead by going first for others to follow
• Leaders must constantly assess how well they’re living their own talk and stay aligned with their talk
• Leadership is not about perfection but a deeply held conviction and commitment to excellence
• The vital role of vulnerability in all forms of leadership
• The reality that people will judge you either way – whether you’re vulnerable or not (let them judge you for your most authentic self)
• Vulnerability builds credibility and followership
• The importance of getting clear on your priorities and then living and leading in alignment with those priorities
• What is means to live a prioritized life focused on what and who you serve
• Living and leading an integrated life (living as a renaissance man)
• The Seven Pillars of Excellence – mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, financial, professional and social
• Plan your day and week (and assess your day and week) in alignment with your Seven Pillars of Excellence
• Life leadership lessons from family challenges
• Leaders face the danger or chaos by running towards God and themselves

Resources:

• Nathan Crankfield
• nathan@thosewhoseek.org
• Seeking Excellence Ministry Website
• Seeking Excellence Instagram
• Seeking Excellence Facebook
• Seeking Excellence Podcast

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For 35 years, Leslie Levy August held progressively senior management roles in international insurance agencies in addition to being an entrepreneur. In that time she saw the stark comparison between toxic vs. healthy workplaces and how toxic workplaces resulted in employee disengagement, distraction, illness, and loss of productivity and profitability.

Leslie brings a unique perspective on workplace bullying, and toxic work environments. And not only is she going to share on the ideas on how to solve these issues, and the impact of these issues, but she has lived it. Leslie is the Founder of The Leslie August Corporation and she’s part of The Workplace Bullying University. Leslie has a real passion for changing things after having witnessed and being the target of workplace bullying as a business owner, manager, bystander, and target. This experience changed the direction of her life and was the genesis for her business.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Definitions of workplace bullying
• Examples of workplace bullying that might surprise you
• Awareness of workplace bullying that’s perpetrated in writing (e.g. email, texts)
• The biggest challenges for people who are targeted for workplace bullying
• Understanding what separates workplace bullying from poor management
• Differentiating discrimination from workplace bullying (discrimination is illegal while bullying is not)
• The importance of creating psychological safety in the workplace
• Strategies for people who are the target of workplace bullying
• Workplace bullies often work the organizational system well by building relationships with superiors
• Tools to assess whether you’re being bullied in the workplace
• The importance of having an anti-bullying policy and procedure in your organization
• Strategies for minimizing the costs of workplace bullying and strategies for addressing it before it becomes a bigger issue
• Communication strategies for addressing workplace bullying
• Increased risks of workplace bullying during COVID
• Workplace bullying and power differentials
• Important statistics on workplace bullying
• The enhanced rate of women bullying women
• The role of millennials in ending workplace bullying by not tolerating it
• The high and wide ranging costs of workplace bullying and toxic work environments
• The role of trust and the impact of workplace bullying and toxic work environments on trust
• The benefits of a safe and healthy workplace environment
• The higher percentage of organizations that are NOT responding to bullying complaints (72%)
• Solutions for eliminating workplace bullying
• Many workplace bullies are perceived as high performers

Resources:

• Leslie Levy August
• Leslie August Website
• Free resources on workplace bullying
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Sean Rosensteel is the author of The School of Intentional Living: A Real-World Approach to Living Life on Your Terms and founder of The Intentional Living Academy. With a passion for helping others, Sean’s journey began when he found himself bankrupt at the age of 28 after following conventional wisdom all his life. This eye-opening moment taught him that attaining true happiness and fulfillment means breaking free from conventional living and creating your own path. Now, he inspires and empowers people to achieve their dreams and live the lives they truly deserve.

Listen in as Sean shares his wisdom and experience on intentionally creating transformational change throughout your life, career, business and relationships..

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Dangers of wrapping up your identity in the conventional definition of success
• The importance of discovering learning and living a life as a life-long learner
• Beware of people in your life who advise you from their own biases (it’s critical to surround yourself with people and advisors who are unbiased)
• Beware of living a life of victimhood without realizing it
• Using weekly progress reports to check-in on how you’re doing on your choices and priorities
• Using a school-like grading system for every area of your life and changes
• Sometimes you have to go out of balance for a period of time in order to balance things
• Awareness means nothing without new action
• The difference between an intellectual knowing and an experiential knowing (taking the action)
• Real clarity is earned through action
• Living and growing with a full measure attitude
• The importance of getting feedback from others for your priorities and change progress reports
• Calculating the GPA of your life is not an outcome but an awareness – better understanding your priorities and deciding what you want your life to look like

Resources:

• Sean Rosensteel (LinkedIn)
• Sean Rosensteel (Facebook)
• Sean Rosensteel Website
• Work / Life Balance 5-Day Challenge
• The School of Intentional Living: A Real-World Approach to Living Life on Your Terms Book by Sean Rosensteel (free copy)
• The School of Intentional Living: A Real-World Approach to Living Life on Your Terms Book by Sean Rosensteel (Amazon)
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Becky Morrison is a UC Berkeley Certified Executive Coach, consultant, connector and author. She works with people to help them accelerate leadership, improve communication, and hone their people time and project management skills. Most important, Becky shows people how to live an easier and happier life.

Becky is a recovering lawyer, worked on the business side of a law firm and ran an entrepreneurial investment firm. She’s the Founder of Grantley Coaching which helps people uncover their authentic style of leadership and help them live priority aligned lives. She also highlights that she’s a mom, business owner and wife.

Listen in as Becky shares her wisdom and experience on practical ways to see their lives and choices differently in order to live with more happiness.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Avoiding the trap of a “what’s next” world in order get clear on who you are and what you want (versus what you can or should do)
• Debunking the myth that happiness is achieve by adding more
• Understanding the power of subtracting as a tool for enhancing your performance and your happiness
• Building your life and leadership means being honest with yourself about what makes your happy
• Don’t confuse your confidence comfort zone with happiness
• Be aware of confusing safety with happiness
• Most of our fears are based upon our underlying doubts about whether we’re good enough
• The importance of boundaries in your success and happiness
• A different way to look at the idea of getting out of the box
• The key happiness gaps: 1. Authenticity gap; 2. Physical energy gap; 3. Emotional energy gap
• Happiness is a now achievement, not something that follows from your achievements
• Practical ways to see their lives and choices differently in order to live with more happiness
• Living a happier life doesn’t mean feeling good all the time – it means living a life of feeling all of your feelings
• Leadership lessons from Gene Hackman in Hoosiers

Resources:

• Becky Morrison
• The Happiness Recipe: A Powerful Guide for Living What Matters Book by Becky Morrison (Spring 2020)
• Grantly Coaching Website (access to resources)
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Chandra Lynn is an entrepreneur and owner of two successful businesses. Glow Marketing, which provides services that support executives in business and career goals, all aligned with a philosophy based in human needs psychology. She is also the founder and host of Glow Living (GlowLiving.com), a lifestyle brand and platform for personal growth and healthy living.

Listen in as Chandra Lynn shares her wisdom and experience on what it takes to get unstuck and understand your foundational roots for living a life of your dreams.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• How transforming your life can happen in one second
• The importance of having and living in alignment with a personal mission
• You choose your purpose (instead of waiting for it to come to you)
• It’s vital to get clear on the root systems (foundations) for every part of your life (e.g. values, health / fitness, career, family, relationships)
• Career pivots are essential on your life journey
• The meanings you put on experiences matter more than the experiences themselves
• When you change the lens through which you see your life and experiences you transform your life and life experience
• Human emotions have a huge spectrum and the same experiences impact different people it differently when it comes to emotions
• Transformation requires that you get to the root of your beliefs and issues, as well as the cost of those root beliefs and actions
• Transformation follows when you make a true decision
• You have to ask what you’re willing to do to get what you say you want
• It’s vital that you regularly that the sacred pause to assess, reflect and make new decisions
• It’s important that you regularly shake up your thinking (or you will be shaken)
• Snow globes as the metaphor of life, leadership and transformation
• Doing the work on your roots can be mucky and messy
• When you understand your needs you will better understand of why you make decisions (and then change those decisions and your future)
• Your typical need for safety, security and certainty will often keep your stuck
• Balancing your roots is essential

Resources:

• Chandra Lynn LinkedIn
• chandra@glowliving.com
• Glow Marketing
• Glow Living
• Free Root-to-Rise Course
• Driving Needs Quiz
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Jayson Krause is the Managing Director of Level 52, which offers executive coaching and customized leader development that delivers results through a blend of innovative, science-based and high-performance methods. Jayson and Level 52 have developed the Science Behind Success,™ an award winning framework that activates a unique mindset and gives you the tools and skills to deliver meaningful results. Jayson is also the author of the soon to be published book, The Science Behind Success – What Every Leader Needs to Know About Mindset, Influence, Culture & Performance. Notably, Jayson was also the pilot on the Canadian national bobsled team.

Listen in as Jayson shares his wisdom and experience on meaningful leadership, high performance and intentional and process-driven growth. What virus of meaning and impact are you intentionally spreading?

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Bobsled piloting and leadership both require small adjustments, learning from failures and pushing your edge
• The Four Pillars of Performance (The Science Behind Success)
• Hypertrophy – No pain, no gain
• Mimetics – Behavioral contagion / viral influence
• Epigenetics – Factors that influence genetic expression in leadership and culture
• Myelin – Process of skill acquisition
• Hypertrophy – Muscles subjected to stress or resistance will adapt by growing (leaders engage in meaningful masochism)
• CSP Assessment – Complains, Stressors, Pains – Get clear on which ones are most valuable for you to dive into
• It’s critical to get clear on your own personal definition of leadership
• Growing awareness is vital and requires 360 feedback and input
• Transactional leadership (what you do and achieve) versus transformational leadership (trust, relationships, development)
• Two qualities of great leaders – hunger (to be better) and humility
• Presence is critical as a bobsled pilot and a leader
• High performance is obsessing over the simple things that make a difference
• Everything is a virus – everything you do, say, etc.
• Be clear what impact you want to create with your viral actions
• Leaders take 100% responsible for all impacts and outcomes you create (or fail to create)
• Epigenetics – the science that explains why culture eats strategy for breakfast
• A simple tool for getting clear on mutual agreed expectations and outcomes – bookends of excitement / success and disappointment
• Three keys to building myelin – Struggle, repetition and practice
• Awareness is the entry point to everything in high performance – intention follows awareness – reflection follows intention and action / impact assessment
• We learn from experiences with intention (not just the experience itself)

High performance does not allow space for blame

Resources:

• Jayson Krause
• Level 52 Website
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Billie Joe Aasen (Vancouver, British Columbia) grew up around started her life festivals, and she’s now a master at creating events and experiences. Her industry has certainly taken a hit during COVID, and you’ll hear about some of the ways she’s adapted and pivoted. She now owns and runs several businesses, as well as a non-profit. Billie Jo is the President and CEO of 542 Entertainment, Billie’s List and Extreme Mudfest. During her career Billie Jo’s had a professional music career and started performing at large venue music events when she was only 18.

542 Entertainment is where she grew her business legs, responsible for booking talent and producing for over 20 Music festivals both in Canada and the US. In 2015 she created Extreme Mudfest, Canada’s largest mud and music festival – which is solely ran by females. In 2017, Aasen expanded into the management section of the music business. That same year, Billie Jo was part of launching Billie’s List, an online music community and booking platform for artists, musicians and promoters to connect.

Listen in as Billie Jo shares her wisdom and experience on collaborative leadership and what it takes to thrive on the entrepreneurial journey.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Taking risks and learning lessons
• The business world of music events and festivals
• The reality of burnout for entrepreneurs and rethinking your business and life
• The process of innovation through COVID in the events business
• The idea and mindset of ecosystem leadership – looking out for the whole rather than your own individual success
• Mindset shifts are essential during difficult and disruptive times
• The importance of having a clear marketing and social media content strategy
• What it means to embrace a collaborative, ecosystem mind shift
• Beware your egos when navigating disruptive economic times
• Get clear on the why behind your what – making money as a goal is not what business is about
• The many emotions of entrepreneurship

Resources:

• Billie Jo Aasen LinkedIn
• Billie Jo Aasen Instagram
• Billie Jo Aasen Website
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Cameron Campbell is a sports enthusiast and a serial and social entrepreneur. He's spoken more than 1000 times to many sports and philanthropic organizations, including the NFL, the NBA, and Major League Baseball. He played Division I football at the University of Houston, and he's turned his passion for sports into a career serving students as an athletic director and head coach.

He now empowers others as a business consultant and owns an organization called Texas Athletics Construction. He's got a new book coming out this year called Win the First Quarter of Your Day: Playbook for Wealth, Health and Success.

Here’s what we love – Cameron is affectionately known as Coach Cam and is often described as a servant.

Listen in as Coach Cam shares his wisdom and experience in connecting sports leadership to business success.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Key business, leadership and entrepreneurship lessons from sports
• The importance of learning to fail (not just quit)
• Learn to celebrate the failures as well as the successes
• The importance of getting outside of your comfort zone
• When selecting team members focus more on people who’ve overcome challenges than people who’ve only had success
• The importance of having the gifts and the grit
• You must learn to overcome adversity in business and leadership
• The growth mindset is not something you say – it’s something you live (a lifelong journey … playing the forever game)
• Finding a new deficiency should excite you because you have something to work on
• Character is built in losses and failures (not the wins)
• Humility is an essential leadership trait
• Humility doesn’t come from failure -- humility comes from taking responsibility for that failure and fully owning it, and committing to learn from it
• Financial success is not a zero sum game
• Success in business comes in levels and stages, and your leadership needs to change with each level
• The risk of labels and instead focus on what traits you want for each of your team members
• The importance of getting clear about what we want, where we are and what we want things to be
• The importance of winning the first quarter every day

Resources:

• Cameron Campbell (Coach Cam)
• Coach Cam Cares (Instagram)
• Win the First Quarter of Your Day E-Course
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Laura DiBenedetto (Hawaii) is the No. 1 Bestselling Author of The Six Habits and a Life Mastery coach who teaches people how to create the life of your dreams without sacrificing what you love. She also is the Founder and CEO of a company called Vision Advertising, which she started when she was 19. Vision Advertising has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs build and grow profitable enterprises entirely on their terms.

Listen in as Laura shares her wisdom and experience on six habits that will transform your experience of life, enhance your success and help you move past the self-beliefs that have held you back in the past.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The Six Habits that will allow you to live happiness rather than pursuing happiness
• Habit 1 – Kindness (the way we treat ourselves in action, thoughts and deeds)
• Habit 2 – Acceptance (unconditional love for ourselves, respect and appreciation)
• Habit 3 – Gratitude (the lenses through which we view the world)
• Habit 4 – Presence (living in the present moment to experience massive pleasure)
• Habit 5 – Goodness (the habit of good energy self-management)
• Habit 6 – Intention (getting ultra-clear with purpose)
• You have to work on yourself in order to receive joy
• It’s important to understand the origins of your self-beliefs or beliefs about the world and how it works
• Working on yourself is not always easy or pretty – it’s often hard and messy
• Even mastering the Six Habits doesn’t prevent getting punched in the face, but you can more quickly bounce back
• Presence is about enjoyment, pleasure and growth
• Choosing presence means allowing ourselves to fully feel our emotions (e.g. choose to feel the pain or the grief)
• Dump the labels of good and bad (and similar labels and value judgments)
• Ways you rob yourself of energy that’s not available for the things you desire
• Self-care is often about setting boundaries
• Beware the many ways we’ve been socialized
• The root cause of joy is in your mental habits and you have to be willing to do the work to transform your habits and beliefs

Resources:

• Laura DiBenedetto
• The Six Habits
• The Six Habits: Practical Tools for Bringing Your Dreams to Life book by Laura DeBenedetto (with extra chapter)
• The Six Habits: Practical Tools for Bringing Your Dreams to Life book (Amazon)
• 90-Day Habit Mastery Course
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Kris McGuigan is the Founder and President of Professional Courage, and she helps people empower themselves in their career. She shows them the path to see career advancement as not just a transaction, but as a way of being and living in their life. She’s had her own journey of career transition by what she calls a proactive and self-directed career search. After putting her business dream in a box for ten years and following the “safe” corporate carrot, but later jumped into entrepreneurship built around her passions.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Fear is the biggest obstacle to proactively self-directing your career path
• Most people know what they want to do, but they’re terrified to go after it for fear of failure and even fear of success
• One way to overcome fear is through clarity about what you enjoy externally and what you value internally
• Fear of failure is one of the biggest obstacles to pursuing the career or business that best fits you
• Money is only one measure of career success, but it’s easy to get trapped into only seeing the career ladder that you’re already climbing
• It’s important to learn to think and see outside the standard box of what jobs and careers are a good / right fit for you
• Strategies for getting out of and thinking outside of the box, including getting clear on your values (e.g. using assessment tools is critical to evaluating and mapping out your career path)
• Everyone needs to create their own Values Vault as part of their career and business advancement path
• You must get far out of your own box to find the career or business path that best fits you
• It’s essential to get clear on your fears and resistance factors in order to assess their reality and degree
• The most important fear to talk about and assess is the risks of staying where you are (not changing)
• Ways to create advancement opportunities in your own organization
• Differences between career advancement and career transition
• It’s critical that you be able to clearly articulate the value you bring to a team, organization, role, etc.
• When you’re afraid, don’t step back … step into it

Resources:

• Kris McGuigan
• Professional Courage
• Career Courage Career Advancement Strategies, Blog and Videos
• Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones book by James Clear
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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David Wolff is currently the executive director of an organization called Ocean Habitats. They design, build and install artificial reefs under boat docks, and they've got thousands of units in the water. As he's going to share, he's been able by his own choices to turn his passion and his desire for environmental impact into a business. He has degree was in marine biology and biological oceanography, but his journey to his passion has had many twists and turns. Along the he helped to build a massive real estate enterprise across the country (doing over $10 billion in sales the year he left) where he learned about leadership, entrepreneurship, scaling, buying businesses for growth and many other ways to grow a business.

Listen in as David shares his wisdom and experience on what it takes to build, grow and lead a great business by seeing the opportunities in front of you.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Turning the 2008-2010 market crash into a growth and expansion opportunity
• You must run towards the fire
• The importance of finding balance amidst your business success (e.g. personal health, family, relationships)
• The environmental impact of artificial reefs and ecosystems created by Ocean Habitats
• Finding success along the path of failure
• Sometimes you have to survive before you can scale and grow
• Finding acquisition opportunities for growth in the midst of economic chaos
• To grow you must have some repeatable system
• The importance of planning for succession and sale early in the venture
• You must learn to focus on what’s important (only 5% of the business) and remove yourself from everything else
• What it takes to build a business that’s not dependent on you
• The role of the leader as a coach
• Leaders must be willing to own and share their own failures in order to help grow others
• Leader who only share their successes fail
• You don’t have to be successful in one business in order to pursue your passion
• If you’re solving a problem for people, the money will follow (including your passion business)
• Focus is critical – focus on the key things that move the needle in your business and given your role
• Fear is a constant in business and you have to overcome it – if it’s not scary it’s not big enough and you’re wasting your time
• Even if you’re going in the wrong direction, you’re still moving – you don’t want to stand still

Resources:

• David Wolff (david@davidjwolff.com)
• Ocean Habitats
• David Wolff Coaching (www.davidjwolff.com)
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Kinard Robinson is an entrepreneur, college athlete, business strategist, video production expert and now marketing guru who started his first business in 2015 and started his current business, Empowering Creative, in January 2020 right before the COVID pandemic. He started his career working for big companies in business strategy and management, and then pursued his dream of owning his own business. Kinard comes from a family of many generations of black entrepreneurs and people who broke barriers in education and business.

Listen in as Kinard shares his wisdom and experience on what it takes to build, grow and lead a great business by building relationships through storytelling.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• The role and impact of family legacy and growing up in a family of educators and barrier breakers
• The important of resilience and perseverance to get through rough patches as an entrepreneur
• Navigating the COVID pandemic as a start-up entrepreneur
• The importance of building a strategy for your business even in the early strategies
• The importance of innovating in the midst of chaos
• Using the COVID pandemic to build relationships (playing the long game of relationships)
• The importance of building the right team mix by acknowledging your strengths and weaknesses
• Entrepreneurs must learn how to communicate their strategy and vision
• Serving your customers and clients by giving them the information they need to make the best decisions for themselves
• Living the philosophy of getting better every day
• Sports lessons for entrepreneurs – mental toughness, working with others on a team, building interpersonal relationships
• The role of stories as businesses tell their stories to customers and potential customers
• The heightened importance of telling your story in the digital age to differentiate and build relationships
• The vital role of video in business storytelling
• Questions to consider when it comes to using video in your business
• The importance of getting clear on your target audience before you develop your marketing and video strategy
• Using video to give them an inside look at what you do and what you deliver to them
• Leadership and relationship wisdom from The Godfather

Resources:

• Kinard Robinson
• Empowering Creative
• Building Your Brand E-Book
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Sean Si is the author and editor-in-chief of SEO Hacker and the SEO Hacker Blog is all about providing the world with the latest information in the SEO industry. Sean is a blogger, entrepreneur, SEO specialist, public speaker and an inbound marketing expert. Notably, Sean started his business at the age of 22 with just $22, and now leads an organization at age 32 with 50 team members (all younger than him).

He’s also the host of LeadershipStack, a podcast focused on entrepreneurship, leadership and management. He’s also the founder of QERYZ, a software as a service venture

Listen in as Sean shares his wisdom and experience on what it takes to build, grow and lead a great business.

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Show Notes

Episode highlights…

• Ethics matter even in the midst of business challenges
• Leadership lessons from the Avengers
• The importance of relationships in business (relationships come first)
• The importance of taking care of your people especially during uncertain times
• The importance of being empathetic with clients and customers
• The importance of being authentic and vulnerable with clients, customers and team members
• People leave companies because of bad leadership (and turnover is expensive)
• The importance of using assessments with your team (i.e. Reiss Motivational Profile)
• Culture and core values is vital for any business
• Value of using a values survey in the hiring process
• Leaders are intentional about their people, culture and values
• The role of humility in leadership
• Leaders must have people around them who will be honest with them and point out blind spots
• Leadership lessons learned from parents and their career and business choices
• The importance of hiring people that compliment your strengths and supplement your weaknesses
• What to look for when hiring people and the importance of having a rich hiring experience
• Building a culture where you can make mistakes if you learn from them
• The top three things to look for in people: 1. Humble 2. Hungry 3. People Smart
• Unique ideas for living your culture and values
• Keys to leading and managing millennials
• Two powerful and difference making interview questions
• The importance of making it about the team (not yourself) as a leader
• Leadership is about sacrifice

Resources:

• Sean Si
• SEO Hacker
• Leadership Stack Podcast with Sean Si
• 50x Your Business: How to Grow your Business, People, and Revenue the Right Way book by Sean Si
• CEO at 22: The Risks, Challenges, Success and Failures of Starting up Young book by Sean Si
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Elzie Flenard is our first guest to talk about podcast and he's been described as creative, entrepreneur, family man and “no box fits him.” Elzie is known as a storyteller and he helps businesses find their voice. An electrical engineer by training, he’s launched a record label, owned a minor league basketball team, started a music production company, and wrote his first song when he was five.

Listen in as Elzie shares his wisdom and experience on the who, what and why of podcasts and podcasting, including some of the keys to podcast success in a crowded world of podcasting.

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In this episode you’ll learn…

• Podcasts are a great way to add value and build relationships, as well as a way to find your voice and get your message out to the masses
• If you want to start a podcast, hire a podcast coach to avoid mistakes and enhance your efforts
• It’s vital to have a podcast strategy
• If you’re a business or in business, you need to be “in the podcast space in some form” (e.g. host, sponsor, advertise, etc.)
• Start with your why when it comes to a podcast with two or three key KPI’s (measurables) and goals
• Ways to differentiate and stand out in the sea of podcasts (niching is always a good idea)
• Your goals need to define your key measures
• Podcast titles are important but not the most important thing
• Key podcast stumbles – not planning, poor quality, planning for pre-production, production and post-production, not paying attention to the marketing aspects of their podcast
• Key podcast marketing and promotion strategies (your email list is gold and must be an exclusive podcast list)
• You must answer the question, “Why do you want to do this podcast?”
• Podcasts can be a lead generator, but we careful to do it the right way
• Beware the podfade (when you get overwhelmed with a podcast)
• It’s never too early to outsource your podcast needs (especially if it’s outside your likes and skillsets)
• Essential to have a long-term goal and strategy for your podcast (podcasts are typically a long game)
• Questions to ask when considering whether to join a podcast network

• Elzie Flendard (mayor@podcasttown.net / 262-278-0535)
• Podcast Town
• E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It book by Michael Gerber
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Wendi Freeman is an event planner, a virtual event strategist and a conference coordinator. She’s the Founder of Be Bright Events that helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs create live and virtual events that spark engagement, inspire, change, and enrich lives, communities and organizations. In short, Wendi is an expert on all things events.

Listen in as Wendi shares her perspectives on the current of events, the future of events and specific ways that you can use virtual events to continue to have an impact, grow your business and create fabulous experiences for your association members and attendees.

The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.

In this episode you’ll learn…

• In person events are not gone, but they’re dramatically limited
• Virtual / online events are the reality of today including hybrid events
• It’s essential to approach your events differently
• Understanding the realities of the financial model for online events, including pricing strategies (when free events and when paid events)
• Virtual events require that you be more intentional and creative to achieve attendee engagement, interaction and a great experience
• Value of engaging someone to help you create, market and deliver your event
• Importance of preparing your attendees for the online event and experience (“Know Before You Go”)
• Creative icebreakers ideas
• Unique challenges of online events and solutions to those challenges
• Benefits of online events when it comes to additional offers and simplifying the “buy” process
• Why it’s important to charge for your online events and pricing strategies
• Ideas for online event tools and resources
• Ideas for ways to add value to online events especially for higher price tickets
• Ways to approach speakers and fees for online events
• The incredible values available today to book and contract for in person events

• Wendi Freeman
• Be Bright Events Website
• Epic Online Experiences Virtual Event (special offer: Promo Code IMPACT)
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest is John Bernard, a consultant and author who works with state governments and their agencies to help them create results. As John says, he “sells hope” to governments and their leaders to make a difference.

The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.

In this episode you’ll learn…

• States on average create 300 new laws annually
• Results are often not the measure in state government
• The current reality is that most state laws are written by lobbyists
• The key shift is to focus on and measure results
• Brookings Institute Study – Basis for federal lawmakers’ decisions … the facts constituted 3% of the decision
• One big problem is we don’t learn from each other – virtually every social issue has been solved by someone, but we don’t learn from and adopt what we know works.
• Three Phases of Government Maturation – 1. Reaction Driven (vast majority today); 2. Results Driven (change the decision-making mechanism to make things better); 3. Social Good Driven (focus attention, policies and dollars where we know it works – addressing root causes to transform society)
• One solution is to have a common set of measures across all the states with resulting accountability
• What’s required to be a transformational leader in governmental leadership
• Key problem – when programs save money, the government takes it away
• In government, operations and process inefficiencies and waste are close to 60% (this the capacity to do whatever you want to do)
• Leadership and management matters in government
• Measurements and dashboards are essential, but not for punishment … they must be used to incite exploration, to inspire understanding and dig into the truth to find out what's going on
• Trust is built, not granted
• Key change is to impress across the broad spectrum of government of the value of results – it's an organizing mechanism
• Focus on what actually works versus what we think works
• Most states have scorecards which are really valuable to assess a state’s performance (and governments must manage with these scorecards)
• Essential to assess whether the scorecards and dashboards are measuring the right things (e.g. Ford Motor Company – all the dashboards are in green but we reported a $5B loss)
• There’s a difference between measures and results (measures must align with desired results)

• John Bernard
• Results-Driven Manager Master Class for State Managers
• Government That Works: The Results Revolution in the States book by John Bernard
• Business at the Speed of Now: Fire Up Your People, Thrill Your Customers, and Crush Your Competitors book by John Bernard
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Our special guest Andrea Molberg, PhD delivers practical tools to help us all differently navigate our disagreements and to have the conversations that need to be had while  lowering defensiveness, repairing relationships, and managing conflict and stress.

A national trainer and speaker, Dr. Molberg designs and leads numerous train-the-trainer, leadership, and employee development programs. She’s the author of several books including her most recent, Emergency Kit for Finding Common Ground: Helping Americans Get Along (2020), which is stuffed with field-tested techniques for bridging the divide and helping people disagree without being disagreeable.

In this episode you’ll learn…

• One of the most important things leaders can do is listen
• Leaders don’t listen because they’re passionate and want others to hear it – the problem is the more we push; the more people resist; we’re lazy (listening takes more efforts); we don’t know how to listen; they’ve been rewarded in the past for talking
• Beware of your quick judgments of others and how hard you hold onto those judgments
• The best ways to improve listening and reduced judgments of others is my reducing fear
• We listen better when we’re curious and we’re not curious when we’re afraid
• People are craving safe places for conversations and work … we create safety through vulnerability
• The difference between issues conversations and values conversations
• Understanding the different styles of approaching difficult conversations
• Leaders must be aware of the power differential impacts of their opinions in the workplace
• The prevalent role of fear that impacts our conversations and judgments of others
• The important role of respect in difficult conversations and relationships
• We learn to only see things through our own perspective when we are children, which is part of what’s called unconscious bias
• The role of language use in our differences and conflicts (the many ways that words can trigger)
• When we’re angry we look to blame and pick fights including with our words
• Behaviors often don’t match intentions, but behaviors matters more
• The importance of magic words and phrases – “because” (the why behind what you believe, seek, share or ask) and “How am I doing?”
• The importance of being vulnerable and saying “I’m sorry”
• Predictability is more impactful on trust than positive intention
• Every day do something to show respect for someone

Resources:

• Andrea Molberg
• Andrea Molberg Website
• Emergency Kit for Finding Common Ground: Helping Americans Get Along (2020) book by Andrea Molberg
• Making Live Training Lively: 50 Tips for Engaging Your Audience (2004) book by Andrea Molberg
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Walt Rakowich is a leadership speaker and former executive of Prologis, a global real estate company that was near collapse when he took over as CEO in 2008. During the economic downturn, the Prologis stock had dropped from over $70 per share to approximately $2 per share in 10 months, making it the third-worst performing company in the S&P 500. After Walt joined as CEO, he quickly implemented a change in culture through transparency, orchestrating a dramatic turnaround and restoring its position in the industry.

In addition to speaking to audiences on a range of leadership topics, Walt also serves on a number of corporate and philanthropic boards. Walt attended Penn State where he received his BS in accounting, and then earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Listen in as Walt shares his ideas on vulnerable leadership, building culture and empowering teams.

The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.

Episode highlights…

• Leadership wisdom works across nations and cultures
• Organizational culture starts at the top and flows down through the company
• Essential to have a core set of values as to how you’re going to treat people
• You must measure the results of your culture
• Leaders have to slow down to connect with people
• Leaders don’t run … if you’re running, you’re probably not leading (slowing down is an act of leadership vulnerability)
• The important role of transparency in leadership
• Leaders bring attention to the elephant in the room (what you don’t say is just as important as what you do say)
• Fear is the greatest leadership gap
• Leaders don’t tell their team everything, but you tell them 97% (leaders who fail to share often don’t trust their team)
• Leaders are conductors, not soloists
• Best leaders in the world are humble, honest and have a sense of humor (3 H’s)
• Jesus Christ as a great leader – Humble, brutally honest and human
• Three H Core of leadership – Humility (how you see yourself), Honesty (action that connects the two) and Heart (how you see others)
• Leadership is more about the journey than the results – if you’re too fixed on the results, we miss the influence we have on others during the journey
• Leadership is about trial and error, making mistakes and learning from those mistakes

• Walt Rakowich
• Walt Rakowich Website
• Twitter: @WaltRakowich
• Transfluence: How to Lead with Transformative Influence in Today's Climates of Change book by Walt Rakowich
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Walt Rakowich is a leadership speaker and former executive of Prologis, a global real estate company that was near collapse when he took over as CEO in 2008. During the economic downturn, the Prologis stock had dropped from over $70 per share to approximately $2 per share in 10 months, making it the third-worst performing company in the S&P 500. After Walt joined as CEO, he quickly implemented a change in culture through transparency, orchestrating a dramatic turnaround and restoring its position in the industry.

In addition to speaking to audiences on a range of leadership topics, Walt also serves on a number of corporate and philanthropic boards. Walt attended Penn State where he received his BS in accounting, and then earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.

Listen in as Walt shares his ideas on vulnerable leadership, building culture and empowering teams.

The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.

In this episode you’ll learn…

• Lessons from parents – Appreciate people for who they are
• Poor leadership causes people to work in silos, close off, stop sharing ideas
• Leadership: With trust you have everything … without trust you have nothing
• Transfluence – The path to creating transformative influence by focusing outside of yourself and focusing on the people around you.
• The key to leadership is transforming your peoples’ lives by focusing on them (this is transformative influence)
• Two biggest obstacles for leaders are fear and pride – leaders’ greatest fear is incompetence and the number two fear is vulnerability
• The antidote to fear is faith and facing it head on (acknowledging it)
• Leaders must create time alone for thought and contemplation
• Vulnerability is an act of faith in action especially during crisis and difficult times
• Leaders job is NOT to always have all the answers – your job is to support the team in developing the answers (they’re closest to the issues)
• During COVID business leaders must be more empathetic and flexible since teams are struggling more now than ever in their personal lives
• Leaders need to listen more and talk less, especially now

• Walt Rakowich
• Walt Rakowich Website
• Twitter: @WaltRakowich
• Transfluence: How to Lead with Transformative Influence in Today's Climates of Change book by Walt Rakowich
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Ryan Bennett is a high-performance coach, author and speaker who guides people to reach their full potential in their lives, businesses, and teams through his proven method of intentional growth. A former ESPN Academic All-American, Ryan decided to channel his competitiveness from baseball to business by founding a Silicon Valley startup. After a few years, Ryan had to shut down the company and it took a failed business to figure out the secret sauce. From this failure Ryan developed a formula for growth called the Intentional Growth Model™️, which became his first book, The Intentional Day.

Listen in as Ryan shares his ideas on goals, discipline, achievement and strategies for intentional growth.

The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.

In this episode you’ll learn…

• The difference between learning from past failures and being distracted and held back by them
• The role of emotional intelligence when it comes to learning from failures
• Business lessons from baseball – the vital role of teamwork, navigating conflict, always have each other’s backs, competitiveness
• The impact of a lack of safety on the team, their performance and their teamwork
• The ways that individual performance is a way to protect yourself when employees don’t feel safe in the business
• Overcoming failures and getting past the self-label of “failure”
• The elements of the Intentional Growth Model™️ … Knowledge plus discipline = growth
• The importance of shifting your perspective on what is failure and to stop seeing it as something painful versus something pleasurable (learning)
• The vital role of discipline and habits in personal and professional growth
• The neuroscience how and why of habit formation
• Only 8% of people who set goals achieve them because they’re primarily outcome focused – if you set a goal and share it with someone success goes to 65% -- if you set the goal and have recurring conversations with a partner, success goes to 95%
• Four Stages of Intentional Growth: 1. Dreaming; 2. Goal Setting; 3. Create Daily Disciplines Around Goals; 4. Growth Partner
• The importance of savoring our successes (even small wins) and having people in your life where it’s safe to share your wins
• The importance of achieving short term gratification from the discipline and habits on the journey to the long term goals

• Ryan Bennett LinkedIn
• Ryan Bennett Instagram (Ryan.performancecoach)
• The Intentional Day website
• The Intentional Day book
• Wooden on Leadership book by John Wooden
• The Impact Leadership Podcast
• Cardivera

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Remy Blumenfeld is an international entrepreneur, one of the world’s leading business coaching and advisors, and a regular contributor to Forbes and other publications. He’s also been recognized as one of the 20 most influential LGBTQ people in the United Kingdom.

He started his first business in one of the most crime-ridden areas of London and eight years later sold the business for a high multiple to the world’s largest production company. Remy has learned what works (and what doesn’t work) and he now helps business owners avoid the mistakes that he’s learned from.

Remy now works with founders and owners of creative agencies and content focused businesses such as film, television, music, advertising, publishing and gaming, with a special focus on owners who want to grow their businesses for sale.

In this episode you’ll learn…

• The leader’s role is to coach their people
• The importance of taking risks in business by being who you are (start with something you love) … Differentiate!
• If you start with something you love, it may lead to recognition and success – if you start in pursuit of recognition and success, it will rarely bring you something you love and joy
• The role of vulnerability in leadership … “In the end, leaders are first and foremost human”
• Without vulnerability, you can’t inspire … people follow leaders who are human and relatable
• Transformational leaders are relatable and people feel like they know them
• One of the biggest jobs of leaders in growing organizations is to be themselves and grow the people around them
• The importance of a holistic definition of success and defining success for yourself
• The many ways that our beliefs about ourselves and success inform and impact our leadership and life (imagine yourself in the future and ask yourself for advice)
• Beware the currency of and focus on “busy”
• The role of quality relationships in leadership, business success and life success
• Strategies for building, growing and nurturing relationships

Remy really hopes that you enjoyed what he shared in this episode! If you’re interested in learning more from him, you can register onto a FREE webinar with him here (or at remyblumenfeld.com).