The Me-Suite: Recent Episodes
Donna Peters
Welcome to The Me-Suite: 2021 & 2020 finalist for Best Business Podcast and 2021 finalist for Best Overall Podcast. And check out our #1 International Bestseller: Options Are Power: Career Strategies for High Performers Who Want a Life. At the soul of The Me-Suite is the conviction that we should lead our own lives with the same discipline that C-Suites lead the companies we most admire. Just like a C-Suite leader, we each need to stay true to our core values, to keep the day-to-day humming smoothly, and to stay fresh and relevant for the future we desire to have...what your host, Donna Peters, calls leading with a Me-Suite mindset. Each episode interviews a guest who shares tips for cultivating the role they want work to play in their lives. We find the amazing in everyone, balancing the aspirational with the practical. Put work to work for YOU. Let's get in there.
Your host, Donna Peters, shares the always-fan-favorite Greatest Hits from Season 5. Hear a compilation of each guest's Me-Suite suitener---advice for things we can do differently on Monday to lead with more purpose, planning, and power. Let's get in there!
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Vicki Anstey on her personal journey from crippling self-doubt to record holder. As CEO of We Are Intrepid, Vicki helps leaders challenge limitations, to tap into the secret 60% they didn't know they had left in the tank. We too often fear the unknown and remain locked out of our own potential. Learn to embrace your fears and conquer self-doubt.
Vicki's core values are:
- integrity
- self-reliance
- empathy
- grit and determination
- agency
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Your host, Donna Peters, chats with author of SleepWorking, Clay Stelzer. We cover eye-opening concepts such as:
- Conscious Leadership
- Patterns keeping you from the results you want
- 15sixty: we take 15 breaths each minute which is 15 opportunities each minute to "wake up"
- Commitment is not wanting
Clay is founder of 15sixty. His core values are:
- say something scary
- take responsibility for the outcomes
- compassion
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Record-breaking Coach Bob McKillop joins your host, Donna Peters, in The Me-Suite. His 230 Southern Conference wins are more than any coach in league history. We discuss his personal journey of leadership, core values, and establishing a team culture through Trust, Commitment, and Care (TCC). Coach McKillop reflects on his lessons of humility as he coached through the years, including Stephen Curry's years as a Davidson College Wildcat and recent college graduation.
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Your host, Donna Peters, sits down with cognitive neuroscientist, Dr. Azurii Collier. She shares an inspiring story about the moment her own plans unraveled. We discuss her work biologically mapping human behavior on the brain, especially as it relates to moments that matter in our careers. We explore such timely topics as:
--managing the planned and the unplanned
--intuition vs. insight
--being comfortable with uncertainty
--resilience
--imposter syndrome
--our brains and our problem-solving process
Azurii's core values are excellence, grace, and integrity.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Wall Street Journal bestseller, Monica Parker, on her new book The Power of Wonder: The Extraordinary Emotion That Will Change the Way You Live, Learn, and Lead. You will not be the same after this listen. You'll be better.
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This is a must-listen that will change you. Your host, Donna Peters, sits down with Carrie Santos for an inspiring conversation on finding your voice as a leader. Carrie has dedicated her career to the non-profit sector. She has led at the most senior levels, covering the globe for humanitarian support, human rights, and policy--from the American Red Cross and US Department of State, to CEO of Entrepreneurs' Organization and Board Advisor.
Through her personal journey, Carrie reminds us:
- don't hide your talents
- being vulnerable as a leader will help someone else
- be present and listen
- "your playing small does not serve the world"
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In this bonus episode, your host Donna Peters interviews the co-founders of InterviewJam, Maya Aravapalli and Renee Bourbeau. Could there be a more timely topic? These entrepreneurs share AI's tremendous ability to help tailor our resumes, craft the cover letter, accelerate our interview preparation, and differentiate to land that ideal role. And of course, we talk about managing the watch-outs.
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Such a timely topic for so many. Your host, Donna Peters, chats with Liz Brigham on how to thrive in a dual-career family. HBR research shows that dual-career families take on one of three shapes. Which are you?
- Primary-Secondary
- Turn-Taking
- Double Primary
Research also shows that while 60% of households have both parents working, relationships where the woman makes more than the man are 50% more likely to end in divorce. And women tend to take on 7.5 more hours of domestic work a week than the working male partner. Research suggests same-sex, dual-career couples do better at balancing career aspirations and domestic duties.
Liz views dual-career relationships more like seasons. In this wonderfully inspiring and practical discussion, we talk about the need for communication to fulfill both parties.
Liz is a musician and music producer and even curated this Me-Suite Family Spotify playlist to accompany the discussion. How's that for a Me-Suite suitener! Liz’s core values are:
- Bring a social awareness that impels to action
- Luck comes to the prepared mind
- Find moments of joy in everything you do
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A must-listen, and a special offer for Me-Suite listeners! Your host, Donna Peters, checks in on 2020 guest, Shubber Ali, who is now living in the zone--at the intersection of what he loves to do, what he's good at, what the world needs, and what he can get paid to do. He's now CEO of the for-profit, Garden for Wildlife. Shubber shares how we can create the opportunities we want to have.
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Shubber's core values are:
- Thw only thing of vlaue is our time
- Don't care what others think
- Never stop asking questions
- Make your own luck
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Dr. Jennifer Butler. Jennifer shares the moment the light switch went off--when she realized she'd been on autopilot moving through her life and career. A significant COVID moment made her stop to reassess and move forward with purpose and passion. We cover powerful, inspiring ground, incuding:
- turning maybes into yesses (realizing psychological barriers holding you back aren't real)
- the moment Jennifer knew, "I have so much to do."
- being 100% authentic at all times with all people
- the power of journaling
Jennifer's core values are Authenticity, Equity, Gratitude, and Knowledge. She is an avid support of BUGS: Black Farmers and Urban Gardeners, pursuing health and social equity for all.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Patrick Mosher. He reminds us that we all have special talents and bottled up wisdom that needs to be shared to make significant impact in the world. "Wisdom isn't wisdom until it's shared." We need to:
- hone our talent
- know our story, our bottled wisdom
- see every interaction as an opportunity to serve
And if we're having trouble identifying those special talents, Patrick encourages us to deviate from the norm, take a left turn, do something that the algorithm wouldn't predict for us. It's in those moments we find our authentic self. Learn more at Wisdom 4 Humanity.
Patrick's core philosophies are:
- live 100% empowered
- hone your talent
- put your talent in the world where it will shine the most
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Your host, Donna Peters, focuses on our timely challenge of burnout with psychologist, Dr. John Kello. Burnout is a syndrome, not a buzzword. We explore the physical, psychological, and behavioral symptoms of burnout. How to prevent it, how to recognize it, how to reverse it--for ourselves and for our teams.
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Explore the danger when our personal identities become shrunken by our work identities. Your host, Donna Peters, taps into the mesmerizing mind of innovation leader, Amelia Schaffner. Too often, innovation is talked about only in the context of companies. Here, we focus on approaches for innovating ourselves through:
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- associating, 2. questioning, 3. observing, 4. networking, 5. experimenting
- quiet inquiry
- reacquainting ourselves with our 'forgotten mystery'--hidden pockets of who we have been or what we could be
- focusing on the long now vs. the short now
- telling our story from different perspectives
Amelia's core values are actually core questions: the who, the why, and the how.
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Decide to listen to this episode on making good decisions. Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Professor Patrick Noonan on the topic of judgment and decision-making. We explore what it takes to trust our gut and how our biases impact the quality of the decisions we make. Dr. Noonan's own confetti of career decisions that took him from professional musician to Greenpeace to McKinsey to decorated MBA faculty is a bonus to this fun discussion. Hear why we should more often "feed our gut" and make a decision to "go off road" in our careers.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews David O'Coimin, Founder of Nook, and expert on neurodiversity and inclusivity in the workplace. Work spaces are historically, physically designed for the workforce mean. You'll quickly learn here why "one size misfits all" in the workplace. Our unique brains have unique needs. These needs must be met if we strive to balance personal wellbeing and productivity at work. David's research and expertise will make you think differently about physical work spaces, lighting, sound, vibrations, interruptions, temperature, smell, psychological safety. There are so many a-ha moments in this discussion. You won't think the same about being at work. Enjoy!
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Your host, Donna Peters, chats with CEO, financial strategist and TEDx speaker, Meredith Moore. We cover so much important, provocative ground that's perfect for this time of year, including:
- being clear on our impact and legacy
- getting to "work optional"
- don't want what you don't want
- power dynamics in families where there are imbalances in income, age, or education
- money talk with our kids, our partners, our parents
Meredith's core values are:
- be intentional about how we surround ourselves with others
- we have a moral obligation to do our best
- help others level up
Meredith C. Moore, Registered Representative, offering securities through NYLIFE Securities LLC, Member FINRA/SIPC, A Licensed Insurance Agency. 1125 Cambridge Square, Suite C, Alpharetta, GA 30009 (770) 587-0281. Financial Adviser offering investment advisory services through Eagle Strategies LLC, A Registered Investment Adviser. NYLIFE Securities LLC and Eagle Strategies LLC are New York Life Companies. Artisan Financial Strategies, LLC, is not owned or operated by NYLIFE Securities LLC or its affiliates.
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Your host, Donna Peters, typically sees three career personas in her coaching practice. The person who says, "I want more." The person who asks "How do I make this big decision?" And the person who says, "I'm stuck." In this episode, we interview a guest who may have been all three across the arc of her incredible career. Kara Kelly is a wealth advisor at Westfuller Advisors and co-founder of Lure, a CBD wellness venture. She focuses her talents on removing the shame from conversations on sex and money. Kara is a former consulting partner with the world's most premier organizations. She's a mom, wife, daughter, friend. And she hiked with Oprah!
Kara's career journey is shaped by three core values:
- understand the whole person, their complete life, don't just take the pieces
- get to the finish line whole
- justice and equality
We explore how Kara thought about, planned for, and welcomed significant career pivots. Notable quotables include:
- Don't give up on your dream.
- You can be happy every day.
- Decide what you want to do "during the dash." (the dash is that line between your birth date and your death date on the tombstone, in other words, the dash is your life)
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If you're at a career crossroads asking, "Should I be an entrepreneur? Is now the time? Is it for me?" this listen is for you. If you have an entrepreneurial itch, scratch it with this episode. Your host, Donna Peters, interviews serial entrepreneur, West Point grad and Army veteran, and MBA, Samir Patel. We talk about inherent characteristics of entrepreneurs and must-have skills. We discuss the importance of self-awareness and surrounding yourself with the right people. We share the role family plays in an entrepreneur's success. So much packed into this short listen.
Learn more about Trophy Point Investment Group here.
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Money isn't everything, but money impacts everything. Indeed, at the core of every career decision is the component of money, salary, compensation. Our behavior and relationship with money were hardwired early in childhood around the age of seven and have control over our senses, perceptions, decisions, and our identity.
Your host, Donna Peters, interviews behavior and money insights pioneer, Hugh Massie, CEO of DNA Behavior. Hugh shares how critical it is to build positive Money Energy--deciding today how you'll think about money, what your relationshp with money means, and how you will talk about money for the longevity and quality of your life. Can you recall your earliest relationship with money? How does money make you feel? Are you able to observe the emotions and recall some of the decisions you may have made about money based on those feelings?
Do you ask, "How can I make more?" How much is enough? How are my relationships impacted? How do I measure success? How do I better channel money to improve my life and that of many others? Understanding and enhancing our relationship with money helps us create positive money energy and greater wellbeing overall.
Learn more about Money Energy here.
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I'm your host, Donna Peters, and today we talk about one our most requested topics in The Me-Suite, the topic of Trust. If you're a leader, you're not as trusted as you think you are. That's right. Ashley Reichheld and Amelia Dunlop's recently published research shows how trust impacts the human experience in the workplace--for customers and employees. Their book, The Four Factors of Trust, synthesizes the factors that demonstrate our ability to make and keep good promises. The four factors are: humanity, transparency, reliability, and capability. Notable quotables from this episode include:
- Leaders overestimate their trustworthiness by 40%
- 50% of employees don't trust their employer
- Trust is built in moments of vulnerability
- You have to give trust to receive trust
The authors also offer free access to their HXTrustID tool. Check out this tool to learn more about measuring trust and positively impacting the human experience in all we do. We're awake working, or doing something related to work, more hours in a day than we're awake not working. We must get trust at work right.
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Season 5 of the award-winning Me-Suite podcast is underway! In this season, we shine a mic on our most requested topics from The Me-Suite community--topics from listeners just like you who are career-driven and life-minded. For career professionals, we're awake working, or doing something related to work, more hours in a day than we're awake not working. That's why it's imperative that we shape the role we want work to play in our lives. Check out the almost 200 interviews conducted over the first four seasons of The Me-Suite where our guests are leading their lives with a Me-Suite mindset--with purpose, planning, and power--like C-Suites lead the companies we most admire. If you find our content valuable, share a review. Reviews keep us alive out here. They really do make a difference. Thank you for joining me in The Me-Suite. Let's get in there!
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Our season finale montages are fan favorites, and this is no different! Hear the Season 4 finale bonus episode of The Me-Suite podcast. Your host, Donna Peters, shares a compilation of our guests' "suiteners," advice each guest had for things we can start doing differently on Monday to lead our lives with a Me-Suite mindset. Enjoy!
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In this bonus episode, your host, Donna Peters, quickly highlights the 3 career personas in her book, Options Are Power: Career Strategies for High Performers Who Want a Life. Which persona best represents where you are at this moment in your career? Are you:
- Exploration Erika
- Crossroads K.T.
- Hamster Wheel Hank
And what is your corresponding next best move?
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Your host, Donna Peters, speaks with the award-winning author of Spacemaker, Daniel Sih. We talk about digital wellness and digital overuse--the why and how of unplugging, unwinding, and making space to think clearly in the digital age. Daniel shares tips for finding our "productive middle," the optimal balance between productivity and digital technology usage. You'll hear tips for being the:
- email ninja
- list assassin
- prioritization samurai
And it all starts with your awareness.
- Spacemakers: https://spacemakers.com.au/
- Free book resources: https://spacemakers.com.au/book/free-chapters/
- Free Email Ninja videos: https://emailninja.com.au/
Daniel's core values are Community, Physical Activity, Playfulness, Hard Work, Learning.
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After two years of isolation, this episode could not be more timely.
Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Eduardo Garcia, Partner and first-generation to the US. Eduardo is an avid Me-Suite listener and nudged us to focus on two topics that needed more attention: stakeholder management and flexibility. Eduardo shares how we cannot rely on our work alone to speak for itself. We must do the work to understand how we are perceived by others. What is our personal brand? And how does knowing our personal brand help us meet stakeholder needs and build relationships through empathy and flexibility? Some notable quotables include:
- everyone has a story we can learn from--invest the time to learn others' stories
- assume positive intention whenever you face friction
- when things are done differently by someone else, there's a reason why, so listen and learn
Eduardo's core values are be provocative, be curious, be tenacious, and stewardship.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Chris McManus. Chris has helped marshal the careers of thousands of people. In this episode, we talk about this time of the Great Reflection from two angles:
1) the role leaders play in helping others succeed (inside and outside of the company)
2) the active role we can each play in shaping the future we want to have (inside and outside of the company)
So many powerful stories are packed into this discussion, including:
- leaders create a safe harbor for employees to have conversations about their next career move
- leaders take a personal approach to talent, not a transactional approach
- leaders help people see the whole field of options for their future (and sometimes help others see opportunities they don't see in themselves)
- leaders provide honesty to help others be successful
Chris's Core Values are: respect (with appreciation); loyalty (with support); creativity (with action); courage (with thoughtfulness)
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Tiffany Kent, CEO of Wealth Engagement. Tiffany shares her powerful, vulnerable story of how growing up without money drove her to the high-pressure environment of Harvard MBA and the world of investment banking. She learned to role-model aggressive behavior, to do what it took to win while managing a marriage and three children. The stress and volatility led her to a crisis moment at 40. She needed a new way of life. Through the serendipity of a parent seminar at her daughter's school, Tiffany came to know her why and launched her financial advisory business focused on wealth creation for women. And men, listen up, as you have an important role to play in this wealth equation.
It's truly amazing how many a-ha moments are packed into this 30 minutes including:
- how childhood experiences shape our relationship with money
- the cleansing power of admitting you've failed
- finding your why around 40
- the role of partners, friends, and mentors in figuring out your next big move
Tiffany's core values are purpose, empathy, and integrity.
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Your host Donna Peters interviews Arda Ural. We cover so many topics that make you stop and think about the moments that have made us who we are as leaders. Arda shares engaging stories of growth and resilience and challenges us to think about:
- Ikigai (reason for being): working at the interesection of you love to do, what you're good at, what the world needs, and what you can get paid for
- Life's challenges and how we respond (Arda grew up in Turkey and immigrated to the US)
- Every day there's something to learn
Arda's core values are trust, authenticity, hard work, and intellectual curiosity.
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This is a must-listen. Wow. It's hard to summarize the amazing moments in this short interview--just listen.
Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Johanna Willer for what is sure to be a fan favorite episode. Johanna shares powerful stories of:
- redefining her identity
- not being a chump
- understanding womanhood in the workplace
Johanna's core values are: make decisions that pass the death bed test, don't work with jerks, always be learning.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Richard Culberson about how he made significant, non-linear career moves--from engineering to consulting to industry, from strategy to operations, different industries, different functions. Richard shares nuggets around:
- be a collector of people and experiences
- listen when others see things in you that you don't see in yourself
- balance your teaching to learning ratio
Richard's core values are: stay true to yourself, embrace challenges, be positive but ask why.
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Your host, Donna Peters, chats with the wonderful, thoughtful, Sandy Hernandez. By sharing her career journey, Sandy encourages us to:
--give yourself permission to figure out what you want to do
--think of time off as a catapult, not a step back
--remember co-workers are human beings
--we all have rough defining moments in our lives...it's how we respond to them that matters
--amp up your creativity with 3 specific tips
Sandy is a Retail innovation strategist with a Wharton MBA. She is the founder of The Retail Muse Project. Her core values are Passion, Intuition, Curiosity, Curation, Respect.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Jessica Hartley, VP of Strategy. Jessica shares how she takes her strategic planning skills and applies them to life planning. We cover important dimensions including:
- Life is about choices and how you choose to respond to what happens.
- It's not good enough to think about your North Star or to only say it, you have to write it down (goal-setting, roadmap, priorities, timing, your personal brand outside of your current role).
- We are a community. We don't get here by ourselves. You can't do it alone--you need people and support.
- DE&I is a way of life and an evolution. We all code-switch.
Jessica's core values are HOT: honest, open, and transparent. Jessica's podcast is Hustle, Grind, Shine and Reignite.
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This episode discusses mental health, and is not appropriate for small children.
Your host, Donna Peters, chats with career veterinarian, Dr. Jodi. There's a lot we're learning about wellness and mental health at work...but too little is being discussed about the professionals who do so much for the animals we love. Here we talk about the impact that the pandemic is having on us as pet owners and on the veterinary profession (70% of whom are female). You'll think differently about the vets in our lives after this powerful discussion.
Pets are family and have played a feature role in our home lives and work-from-home lives. Indeed, 70% of US households have a pet. Many households welcomed a pet for the first time during the pandemic, and many are bonding even more closely with their furry kids as we spend more time together at home working and playing. And what about the veterianarians, and the wonderful impact they have on us at our time of need? And what about the statistic that 1 in 6 vets has contemplated suicide, and vets are ~3x more likely to die by suicide than the general population.
We also have some fun with pet names:).
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Announcing The Me-Suite book release: Options are Power: Career Strategies for High Performers Who Want a Life. What a relevant time in our society for this book for you or someone you care about. And there's a bonus chapter with advice from The Me-Suite community where we curate counsel across the various seasons of the podcast.
In gargantuan gratitude.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Brad Pawlowski, dad of two girls, senior leader, brewmaster. Brad shares his personal experiences growing as an ally and advocate for diversity, equity, and inclusion. We discuss leadership lessons such as:
- start with listening
- participate, show up
- invest time with people
- go beyond the monetary in career discussions
- recognize we are both mental and physical beings
Brad's core values are: positive, disciplined, generous
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Your host, Donna Peters, and return guest, Sissi Chen Jennings, review 7 different ways Me-Suite guests conduct strategic planning as a family each year. So many great ideas curated in this episode for being intentional about your personal and professional goals and achieving them as a family.
- CEO Meg Powell's three pages
- Partner Mike Malinchock's hundreds list
- Dr. Danielle Drobbin's vision board
- Dr. Lubna Rashid's hell yes approach
- President and COO Dipak Patel's placing bets
- VP Sam Finley's "I'll need your help" approach
- Managing Director Sissi Chen Jenning's concentric circles
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You'll feel so great about the future of work and business when you hear this guest. Your host, Donna Peters, chats with Jasmine Burton about her passion to be in business for good. Jasmine is a design engineer and entrepreneur in the sanitation space #everybodypoops. Jasmine is the founder of Wish for WASH, winner of the Georgia Tech InVenture Prize Competition, and winner of 30 Under 30 in the nonprofit sector. She is featured in CNN Money, Wired, FastCompany, and on the TEDx stage. In this episode, we discuss B-Corp certification and aligning personal values with company values. We also discuss the critical need for empathy and resilience in the for-profit and nonprofit arenas.
Jasmine's core values include Empathy and a focus on the UN's SDGs 3, 5, 6 (sustainable development goals): Health, Gender Equality, and Sanitation.
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Start your 2022 with this listen! Your host, Donna Peters, talks to Tim Connors about the restorative powers of taking a Leave of Absence (LOA). This is such a timely episode as we are all working in the era called the Great Resignation, We are reassessing and reflecting on our own self-care and the role we want work to play in our lives. Tim shares how he moved from a shocking period of apathy to being the person he always thought he was--with calm, maturity and clarity. Tim encourages us to write down where we are (physically, emotionally mentally) and to say out loud the changes we need.
Tim's core values are integrity, accountability, respect, stewardship, listening, and empathy. His characteristics include 'grinding it out' with the best team, best idea, and an action orientation.
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Your host, Donna Peters, sits down with college career counselor, Everette Fortner. We talk about one of the biggest questions when you're 18-22: "What am I going to do with the rest of my life?" Everette applies principles of design thinking to help early career/young adults design their life in three steps:
- clarifying
- exploring
- prototyping
Everette challenges students (and parents) to think about:
- If anything were possible, what would I be doing after college?
- What are my three possible lives?
- What is the design criteria for creating those three possible lies for myself?
- What is my passion? What gives me energy?
- Where do I start figuring out my career next steps?
- How important is my major?
- How important is that first job out of college?
And of course, we talk about the important role parents play at this life stage.
Everette's core values: family first, energy; exploring.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Liz Tinkham, host of the Third Act podcast. What a helpful, super relevant discussion--whether you're 30, 40, or 50. Liz, an early-retired senior executive and mom of three, challenges us to be deliberate in how we use our time, treasure, and talent throughout the stages of our lives. From maximimizing earnings potential in our 30s, to thinking ahead in our 40s, to being ready in our 50s. This episode meets you where you are. Some highlights include:
--pretirement vs retirement
--talking to your honey about money
--our changing relationship with work
Liz's core values are: curiosity, humility, and stewardship.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Ben Bars, CEO of We Are Unity. Ben's organization helps companies drive transformation through people. This timely discussion focuses on leadership and the moments that matter for employees and customers. The two groups are more interconnected than ever in this era called the Great Resignation, the Great Reassessment, the Great Reflection. Ben shares the critical role leaders play in creating psychological safety at work and truly showing interest in the other person. Ben challenges us to authentically mean it the next time we ask someone, "How are you?" And create an environment where people feel trusted to answer honestly when asked, "How are you?"
Ben's core values are: trust, transparency, and don't sweat the small stuff.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Managing Director and business transformation leader, Tina Nguyen Beaumont. Tina is the recipient of the 2019 Minority Business Leader Award and career-long sponsor of an Inclusion & Diversity mindset, including Women and Asia-Pacific talent priorities. Tina shares powerful stories of her family's Vietnamese heritage and other important influences on her leadership style. She encourages leaders to:
- give people space
- love the gray
- be ok with being wrong
- be thankful
- return kindness
Tina's core values are: authenticity, listen & collaborate, be challenged
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This talk about Pressure will actually relax you. Your host, Donna Peters, interviews CEO, lecturer, author, Dane Jensen, in this riveting conversation on pressure. We cover fascinating stories and research around:
- stress versus pressure
- the pressure equation: importance + uncertainty + volume
- using pressure to your advantage
- regret minimization
- stories from executives, Navy SEALS, and Olympic athletes
- how shaping perspective is the true role of a leader
Dane is the author of The Power of Pressure: Why Pressure Isn't the Problem, It's the Solution. His core values: high standards, responsibility, integrity, developmental bias
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Kofi Osei, organization effectiveness expert, husband, dad, Ghananian-Ugandan-American. We go to several super-interesting places in this discussion:
- building awareness of others' experiences
- understanding our differences
- introverts and the need to recharge
- setting expectations in the face of uncertainty
- laughing--here we laugh a lot
Kofi's core values are: listen more than you speak, share what you've learned with others, don't take for granted the relationships you've been gifted.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews, Sam Finley: VP, P&L owner, mom of 3, and Iron Man competitor.
Sam shares funny, humble, insightful stories about life, marriage, family, health and career. From a double-hip replacement before the age of 40, to competing in the Iron Man. From annual visioning exercises with her husband, to leading a P&L, to parenting 3 young ones.
Sam's core values are empathy, humor, and humility.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Angie Flynn-McIver, author of Before You Say Anything: How to Have Better Conversations, Love Public Speaking, and Finally Know What to Do With Your Hands.I don't know a single executive who isn't working on communication effectiveness. Angie helps us improve our most important conversations through practical advice anchored in Intention, Alignment, and Practice. A hot-listen and must-read for leaders seeking to impact change.Angie's core values are Connection, Curiosity, and Meaningful Work.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Julio Carrillo, COO of Families First. He shares the power of giving others a voice, being in service, and taking a pause. Julio recalls the key moments and leaders who gave a Latino, immigrant, gay man a chance.
Julio's leadership accolades include:
- 500 Most Powerful Leaders 2021
- 50 Most Influential Latinos in Georgia
- 40 Under 40 Atlanta
- Appointed to the Forbes Non-profit Council
Julio's Core Values are Integrity, Flexibility, Commitment, Forgiveness, Contribution.
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This is Donna Peters, and I'm thrilled to have you back for Season 4 of the award-winning Me-Suite podcast. We've just been named finalist for Best Business Podcast and Best Overall Podcast for 2021, and my book launches January 2022. The title is Options are Power: Career Strategies for High Performers Who Want to Life. Some portions of the book will reference research we've conducted across the various seasons of the podcast and its 150+ guests. Thank you to all of you listeners and guests. I hope that you can feel my hug of gratitude from way over here.
This season, we continue to shine a mic on career-driven life minded professionals. You will hear individuals who are marshaling their personal core values, they're keeping their day to day running smoothly, and they're staying fresh and relevant for the future that they want to have. C-Suites lead the most admired companies with these very intentions. And you and I should do the same thing for our own personal lives for our own Me-Suite, as I call it.
In Season 4, we will learn from professionals across all dimensions of diversity. You'll hear the wins and the warts from real people cultivating the role they want work to play in their lives. It's putting work to work for us really.
If you have ideas for topics you'd like to discuss this season, contact me at the-me-suite.com or LinkedIn. I'd love to hear from you. And remember, 5-star ratings and reviews keep us alive out here. They really do make a difference.
Thank you for having me back in your ear for Season 4. Let's get in there.
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This Season 3 finale is a montage of our diverse guests’ wisdom. Season 3 Greatest Hits!
Every guest interview ends with the question: “What advice do you have for things we can start doing differently on Monday to lead with a Me-Suite mindset?” This finale brings it all together--a listener favorite for sure.
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As 2021 is being called the Year of Resignations and Reflection, your host, Donna Peters, partners with whole life coach, Lauren Lemieux to talk about the overwhelming sensation of feeling obligated and the power of surrounding yourself with options. We explore how to trust our discontent and move to what we love to do versus just tolerate what we are doing now. Lauren shares her own story of feeling trapped in a family business and how she broke through the trapped feeling of obligation. Such a timely topic.
Lauren's Core Values are Authenticity, Integrity and Loyalty.
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This episode is a Me-Suite "suitener." Your host, Donna Peters, takes a question from a listener.
The question is, "I haven't got the promotion I thought I'd have by now, and my performance feedback is 'keep doing what you're doing.' What should I do with that feedback?"
Well, it's my favorite question. It's also the most painful because the honest answer is that feedback is lazy, and it's extremely unhelpful. So I want to break this down for a moment for the listener who submitted it and anybody else who might be facing this situation.
No one cares about your career more than you do, and so when you get feedback that is as vague, aka lazy, as keep doing what you're doing, it's going to require you to do a little bit of extra work, obviously, do it respectfully assume positive intention, these were not evil people. But you do need to do some extra work to get specificity around. What do you need to be doing in this next year? And how will you know what is the evidence that you have that you are progressing to the promotion in the next cycle. So this may require a follow up conversation asking for specificity. It may require that you get some tough feedback that you weren't expecting to hear. It may be that you were getting signals that you might have plateaued. And so therefore, you're getting wonderful information that you might want to be seeking work in another organization. Again, this is all information and you need it. And then the most positive thing that can happen is that you do get more specificity around that feedback. And you're very energized to be continuing to grow your skills and demonstrate that you are progressing to secure that next promotion doing everything in your power in your control to do so. The next time you hear feedback, keep doing what you're doing, do not accept that as an answer, and get more clarity.
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Your host, Donna Peters, chats with Cary Prince, productivity consultant and certified organizer who specializes in getting professionals organized. Often "our home and office clutter transitions into our mental clutter." This has only been exacerbated by the pandemic.
In addition to her YouTube channel of super-practical advice that'll make you smile, Cary also shares perspectives on how organizing your home and workspace keeps your physical and mental spaces clear. Her clients most often say "I feel lighter" after taking control of their productivity.
Cary was a senior executive in the music industry for twenty years working with some of the biggest names in the business. She is now certified in numerous areas surrounding productivity, helping executives with the very work-life challenges she knows firsthand.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Chinwe Onuchukwu, author of What's Next: Career Advancement Strategies for Young Professionals. Chinwe is an HR professional, career coach and recognized among the Top 100 Career Women in Nigeria. Every nugget from Chinwe is worth writing down. We explore:
- you can't microwave your career
- give yourself one year to explore
- understand who you are and what are your goals
- sometimes what you ordered is not what you get--then what?
- don't just focus on the job description
- have a mindset that you're building transferable skills
- be open to learning because everything is changing
- take ownership--don't blame others
Chinwe's Core Values are: Honesty, Accountability, Integity, Respect (HAIR)
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Put this incredible listen in your queue. Your host, Donna Peters, chats with Stephan Aarstol, CEO Tower Paddle Boards, Shark Tank Winner and author of The Five-Hour Workday. This packed episode fascinates at every turn as we cover:
- screwing up the Shark Tank pitch and still walking away with a Mark Cuban deal
- being prepared when luck happens
- refusing to continue business with Amazon
- becoming a Harvard Business School case study
- the power of contrarian thinking to break our mental chains
- conducting 'live experiments' in the workplace to evolve the desired culture
- creating constraints to spark creativity
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When we think of shaping the life we want to live, 7 buckets are typically explored:
- career
- finances
- health
- family
- relationships
- personal growth
- spirituality
Your host, Donna Peters, has explored all of these topics in The Me-Suite--except Spirituality--until today. Drew Henderson, pastoral counselor to executives and business professionals, joins to talk about the thing we don't talk about at work: our Spirituality. Drew talks about balancing the Sacred and the Secular and the power in discovering what each of us was created to do. Regardless of religious affiliation, this episode gets to the heart of our individual WHY.
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Your host, Donna Peters, talks with culture whisperer, Deborah Brecher. Culture is what holds us together and tells us who we are. We explore the special challenges faced by leaders during the pandemic and what leadership behaviors will now be essential: Connect, Consult, Co-Create. Flattening the hierarchy, interjecting play and creating a sense of freedom are a few meaty topics we explore in this powerful morsel of an episode.
Deb's Core Values are:
- always be in service
- train independence
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews our youngest-ever guest on The Me-Suite, Alex Idonije, Fulbright Scholar and founder of Naybo. This episode reminds us that:
- inspiration and innovation come when you're open to it
- career paths need not be linear
- the future is fully bright with talent like this in it
Alex shares the journey from his life-changing experience...to software engineer....to Fulbright teacher in Taiwan. Through his Naybo innovation, he is helping people showcase their talents and skills to be matched with long-term work, while helping them get through short-term challenges.
Alex' core values are: openness, radical honesty and gratitude.
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Invest in yourself with a listen to this fascinating episode--valuable learnings for today's leaders and parents raising next-generation leaders. Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Dr. Marjorie Blum, Psychologist, Faculty and Founder of the Center for Self-Defined Leadership. "There is nothing about the way we lead that hasn't been influenced by our family experiences."
From our need to belong, to our need for independence. From the way we give praise, to the way we handle conflict. From the way we handle success and setbacks. "We interpret and respond to situations as if scenes from our family history."
This episode is bound to make you more aware and compassionate of yourself and others.
Marjorie's Core Values: Curiosity, Don't Make Assumptions, Have a mindset of Both, And
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews healthcare leader and dad, Edouard Lassalle. Edouard shares his journey across countries, cultures, kids and Kendo. He challenges us to have our own version of Kendo. We talk about the power of teachers, listening, storytelling and the contrast of poor and brilliant leaders.
Edouard's core values are: Respect & Loyalty, Test Opinions with Data, Make Healthcare Better for Patients
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Dr. Lubna Rashid, a wonder of the world who's rethinking development at the intersection of entrepreneurism, sustainability and innovation.
Dr. Rashid has worked at the extremes--in global, corporate organizations flying around sleeping in fancy hotels contrasted with sleeping in tents on borders working with refugees in Eastern Europe. She has a vision for the future where entities "operate with the intention of not-for-profits and the action of for-profits."
The personal experience of fleeing her home country (twice) for political and safety reasons drives her Core Value: maximize happiness and decrease suffering.
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This is your host, Donna Peters. This is a must-listen! Am I allowed to have favorite guests? If so, I introduce you to Le Tran for a special milestone episode. He was the very first listener feedback I received when the podcast launched in early 2020, and he has remained an avid fan throughout the 3 seasons. Le shares his own personal Me-Suite mindset and thoughtful journey across:
- Coming from a family who immigrated from Vietnam after the war
- A true partner to his wife and her career where both partners can thrive
- Citizen of the world, including gap years for travel
- Air Force veteran
- Supply Chain futurist and expert in last-mile logistics at Amazon
Le inspires us to not chase career titles; instead chase interesting, cool problems to solve. He shares how he's structuring his life for independence and experiences with those he loves.
Le's Core Values are: Reflection, Champion Others, Life is a Team Sport
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Maybe you face job insecurity, job loss, or you're soul-searching about your career. This episode is a great financial acumen primer and refresher. Share it with the younger people in your life to get them off on the right foot financially--and listen for yourself to test your long-held assumptions. Donna Peters interviews Sarry Ibrahim, wealth creation expert. He challenges our conventional wisdom and makes us go "huh" around topics such as:
- Interest rates vs volume of interest
- Savings required to weather a downturn
- Stocks vs real estate investments
- Everybody works on commission
- We are all working for the bank--for the average person, 30% of income goes towards servicing debt`
Sarry is the host of the Thinking Like a Bank podcast and founder of Financial Asset Protection
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If you're interviewing and can't seem to get through to the offer, these three tips on differentiating yourself can help. This bonus episode with host and career coach, Donna Peters, shares advice to:
- stop talking too much
- make a human connection
- ask smart questions
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Donna Peters interviews Mike Chapman, consulting senior partner and award-winning R&B and Hip Hop producer. Mike shares his many sides, including how his two careers are more similar than different. His story of keeping your passions alive and going after what you want is something we all need to hear.
Mike challenges us not to settle--instead, create the roles you want to have. If you don't see what you want, create what you want, and ask for it. Anything is possible, so push the boundaries of what people think they can offer you. You deserve to be there.
Mike's core values are: maintain your integrity; stretch beyond what's in front of you; be your authentic self.
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We take a listener question in this Bonus episode.
Listener Question: I know I need to network, but I feel slimy doing it. What tips do you have for making networking a more positive experience?
Donna Peters: I love this question because networking is a common denominator. We all do it, whether you're in your current role and happy to be in that career, whether you're an employee or an employer, whether you are looking to jump into something new. We are always networking. So I love to have this conversation to make networking feel like a more positive experiencw. It is so critical to us in the workplace.
The first place I would start is with intention. What is your intention for the networking? If your intention is pure, and your intention is positive, that will naturally translate into a more positive interaction. So, for example:
· if your intention is to seek advice because you are having a particularly political situation at work, and you want some advice to help navigating it
· maybe there is another area in another industry, or in another type of work, that you're interested in exploring, and you want to network to learn more
· perhaps it's that you want to network to explore going back to school for a law degree, maybe an MBA, etc.
· maybe your intention is to request an introduction, because you know someone who knows someone that you wish you knew
If your intention is pure, and your intention is positive, it will naturally translate into helping with the slimy feeling you may get when it’s time to network.
The second piece of advice related to networking and feeling uncomfortable is just to remember that people want to help people. Think about a time someone called you and said, “Can I get your advice on something?” I'm pretty sure that that felt pretty good. We like it when people come and want our advice. So, keep that in mind when you're the one reaching out for advice from others.
The third piece is a little trick. It's a courtesy out of respect. At the end of that networking discussion, after you've gotten your intentions met, close with a very simple question: “Is there anything that I can do that can help you?”
So, three tips on helping with networking. Thank you for submitting the question.
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Donna Peters interviews Gail Zahtz, Founder and CEO of WiseCare. Gail tells an incredible story of entrepreneurship (chasing unicorns) and surviving the unimagineable. Gail has written a guide called "Survive Almost Anything" which brings to life the power of:
- Showing Up
- Doing the Next Right Thing
- Finding Joy
- Dancing Often
- Living Fiercely
Gail's core values are: honesty, leaving things better than you found them, legacy is the moment after, have fun.
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Donna Peters interviews Dan Baldor (dad, husband, consulting Partner, Cuban-American). Dan reflects on the 4 moments that have mattered most in his life. We explore the art of listening, building trust and why Dan doesn't strive to be "the nice guy."
We geek out a little bit on the Trust Formula and how to build trust at work and with our families: credibility + reliability + intimacy / self-orientation.
You'll want to identify your own 'moments that have mattered' after this thoughtful chat.
Dan's core values are Faith, Family, Others, Focus on Self.
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Donna Peters interviews workplace psychotherapist, Marc Azoulay, LPC, LAC, CGP, ACS. Marc shares how our past family dynamics influence our present leadership style--sometimes bringing hurtful fears and conditioning--sometimes being an incredible source of power, motivation and creativity. In an engaging, positive discussion, Marc helps us test our core assumptions in why and how we show up as leaders. Are we too future-focused at times? We also have an eye-opening conversation about anxiety. This is a terrific listen for anyone who leads others.
Marc's Core Values are: Fierce Honesty, Courage and Honor.
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Donna Peters interviews Monica Parker. Monica is the CEO of Hatch Analytics, behavior and culture nerd, and author of the upcoming book, WONDER: The Science and Soul of Our Most Important Emotion and Why We Need More Of It Now. In this WONDER-FULL episode, Monica shares:
- How with better work comes a better world
- Workplace trends in behavior science and culture change
- humanize people with data
- use data as a mirror
- honor our imperfections
- embrace conscious inclusion training, not anti-bias training
- flexible working is the future
Monica challenges us to take Wonder Walks and, as leaders, ask what we can take off our people's plates.
Monica's core values are: authenticity, candor and autonomy.
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Donna Peters interviews IT executive, Donna Sanabria. It's impossible to talk to Donna S without smiling. She challenges us to work where our jobs reflect who we are--where we can do what we uniquely do. She shares her superpower as a first-generation college grad (and subsequent MBA), which is: "figure it out." She encourages us all to embrace mentoring and find ways to share joy every day.
Donna Sanabria's Core Values are ACES: accountability, courage, empowerment, seeking knowledge.
She is an avid listener of The Me-Suite podcast and even has a listening template she uses to capture the most salient nuggets from each episode and take back to her team. Now that's hard-core:).
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Donna Peters interviews Emily McNabb, Global Diversity Recruiting Leader at one of the most respected firms in the world. She is a wife and mom of three. Emily openly shares highlights of her inspiring journey through:
- unmasking herself
- asking "what's the rush?"
- drawing strength from 2 significant hiking sabbaticals
- creating significant career transitions
- actively choosing what to do versus doing things due to inertia
Emily's Core Values are Community, Meaningful Work, Authenticity
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Donna Peters interviews entrepreneur, best-selling author and philanthropist, Linsey Mills. Linsey shares wit and wisdom across work and life such as:
- The mistake of the red Porche 911 convertible
- Be like water
- Get in where you fit in
- The wonderful paradox
- Just get started. It doesn't have to be perfect.
- SYSTEM: save yourself some time, energy and money
Linsey is the author of Your Business Venture and co-author of Teach Your Child About Money Through Play. His innovations include the Color of Why and Traders: The Stock Market Experience.How to prep, pitch and fund your business venture
Linsey's Core Values are:
- commitment
- integrity
- adaptability
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I'm Donna Peters and this is Season 3 of the award-winning Me-Suite podcast.
We are a community of career-driven, life-minded professionals telling our stories. Sharing what it means to lead our lives with a Me-Suite mindset.
It's the C-Suite leaders who are leading the companies we most admire. They're doing so with purpose, planning and power. And we should have the same thoughtfulness as we lead our own personal lives. Just like the C-Suites do. I call it leading with a me suite mindset. We individually need to:
- live aligned to our core values
- keep our day to day running smoothly
- stay fresh and relevant for the future that we want to have
Season Three is launching in about a week. I give a huge thanks to returning listeners for your energy and ideas that have shaped this new season, and a big safe hug to new listeners. And if you're catching up a bit as you await Season 3, maybe check out the library of almost 100 guest interviews. Consider some fan favorites:
- Season 1 Greatest Hits
- Season 2 Greatest Hits
- Perseverance, embracing the cards you're dealt
- People rise to your expectations of them
- Putting the Me back in Lakshmi
For more information on The Me-Suite career and leadership coaching services, visit me at the-me-suite.com and follow me on LinkedIn and Twitter. The Me-Suite Season 3 is coming up. Let's get in there.
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The Me-Suite host, Donna Peters, shares a montage of Season 2 guests when they answer the fan-favorite question, "What advice do you have for things we should start doing differently on Monday?"
This wraps up a terrific 2020 which brought us finalist rankings for Best Business podcast and People Choice Award for 2020…and delivered ~100 episodes that help us live our lives with a Me-Suite mindset: with more purpose, planning and power.
Thank you, thank you, listeners. May 2021 be your best year yet.
And thank you Season 2 guests for bringing your amazing, authentic selves into The Me-Suite:
Mac Hardcastle, Andy Parker, Donna Cryer, Dr. Kara Nance, Bill Flynn, Dr. Doug Levine, Lakshmi Natarajan, Dr. Kyra Bobinet, Isil Cayirli Ketenci, Prem Tumkosit, Julien Emery, Court Wakefield, Pietro Mangione, Chris Moses, Mike Vichich, Cass McCrory, Jason Anderson, Lisa Finkelstein, Alan Slavik, Katie Adkins, Tina Gilbert, Mike Malinchock
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The Me-Suite host, Donna Peters, shares the 16 ways to differentiate yourself at work.
There comes a time in our careers when being smart is the price of admission. It used to be that you were often the smartest one in the room. You caught on the quickest. You scored the best. You could figure anything out. You were comfortably top-tier on most performance curves. Now you’re surrounded by other people just like you. So how do you differentiate yourself when you look around and see a bunch of YOUs? You’re now in that sphere of your career when characteristics around leadership qualities, emotional intelligence and creativity start to separate the ‘really goods’ from the ‘amazings.’
There are 16 attributes* that differentiate when being smart is simply the price of admission. As you go through The Me-Suite 16, make a mental note of where you might want to raise your game in 2021. And if you’re super strong already in an area, think about how to coach that in others.
- You don’t have to have all the answers; you need smart questions. True leaders are constantly curious and confident that they don’t have all the answers. Which brings us to #2...
- Know when to bring in the right person, and do so proudly
- Always have a point of view. Your POV is the value you bring in a capsule. The right dose at the right time. Distilled and easy to swallow
- Be two steps out in front of anticipating others’ needs. When you’re anticipating, you’re strategic, two steps out in front; you’re in the future
- There is no such thing as an informal meeting. Don’t mistake ‘casual’ for half-a$$
- Manage up, across and down
- Be able to explain complicated concepts to your grandmother. If you can’t explain something complicated to your grandmother, you likely don’t truly understand it yourself
- Get into personality profiles. They are reliable guides. Which brings us to #9...
- Know your Achilles Heel. Everybody has one...or two
- Communicate, communicate, communicate. This isn’t your birthday we’re talking about. No one in business likes surprises
- People love to give advice—ask for it more often and treat it like a gift (sometimes you like it, sometimes you don’t, but you smile and say ‘thank you’ always)
- Collaborate. Innovation comes from collaboration
- Don’t say “I.” “We” is almost always a more accurate reflection of the way something got accomplished
- Put yourself in the other person’s shoes before you send an email, give feedback, present a recommendation etc. Try to see the situation from their perspective to tailor your approach
- Create a personal advisory board of mentors. Just like companies have a Board of Directors, you need a Board to pursue your own personal goals
- Strike the right tech-touch balance. Do you need to pick up the phone, or write a thank-you note by hand? Or can a text emoji suffice? Be intentional in your tech-touch choices
Which one will you work on in 2021? Which one will you coach in others?
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The Me-Suite host, Donna Peters, talks about job interviewing--both as an interviewer and interviewee. The quality of your questions is the key.
"I have had the pleasure of interviewing hundreds, maybe even 1000s of people for jobs. I have filtered on education, work experience, perseverance, achievements, character I have probed for how interested is that candidate really in this job. I have administered the airport test to see if we would survive being trapped together at Newark Airport in a snowstorm for five hours. Some of my hires have been iconic success stories, and then there are the hires where I bang my head with the palm of my hand and marvel, Donna, what were you thinking.
So I started thinking deeply about what it really truly takes to identify the best candidate for the job. And I also wondered if the move to virtual screenings and video interviews was changing success factors for hiring. And after much debate with myself and a clustering exercise with sticky notes that made my office look a little bit like John Nash has shed from A Beautiful Mind. I've identified a single common denominator for hiring successm and it's so elegant in its simplicity and applies for in personal or virtual drumroll...
Does the candidate ask good questions?
So why are good questions so important? And that itself is a good question. A good question is so important because it demonstrates research and preparation. It reveals critical thinking and curiosity. It shows comfort with ambiguity and confidence in not knowing. And it challenges the status quo and sparks new ideas. Today, the typical interviewer asks all the questions leaving a smidgen of time at the end for the candidate to slip in a battle question like what has kept you at the company all this time? The future of interviewing is where the candidates are doing the asking to showcase their leadership experience and ideas.
In case you're wondering, there actually is such a thing as a dumb question. It's a question that wasn't informed by preparation that didn't demonstrate intellectual curiosity that wasn't backed by confidence that didn't push the thinking forward. Every job interview should begin with, "What questions do you have for me today?" Your resume is your past. The quality of your questions is your future promise."
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The Me-Suite host, Donna Peters, shares practical advice on getting that promotion you want.
We all know the phrase, "if a tree falls in the forest, and no one was there to hear it, does it make a sound?" There's a similar concept when it comes to getting a promotion. People often grouse that they were passed over for promotion because they didn't know the right people. They weren't in the club. I am absolutely sure this does happen and encourage a different mindset, a proactive mindset of what are you going to do about it.
Back to the forest analogy: be the canopy in the sun, not the understory down in the shade on the forest floor. I challenge us to think that getting promoted is not a popularity contest. It's a sunshine contest. If you're all that, then there should be light on you. People should be aware of you and people should be able to tell your story. Having people versed enough to tell your story takes work.
And as you move into 2021 with your own personal career goals, think about who in the forest needs to know. Who are you? What have you done, can do, want to do? And what do you expect to happen this performance year? Create a stakeholder management plan and hold yourself accountable for getting in front of the people who need to know you exist and need to know the highlights of your value story, your personal brand, what people think and feel when they hear your name. And how is that relevant to the future of the business that you're in. Teach people how to talk about you when you're not in the room.
Now, you may not be in control of being in the club. You may not even want to be in the club. You are however in control of shining a light on who you are and the value you bring and the career goals that you have for yourself. So build your stakeholder management plan to achieve your 2021 career goals, and act on that plan.
No one will care about your career more than you do. If you did amazing things in the forest, and there was no one there to see you because you were down in the understory, how amazing were you? It will feel awkward for some of you to promote yourself, to toot your horn no doubt. But is the alternative really in your best interest? There is nothing to lose here except time to promotion.
To get that promotion be in the canopy, not down in the understory. Step into the sunshine. Shine the light on yourself. And if you just got promoted, remember to nurture the next generation in the understory.
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The Me-Suite host, Donna Peters, tackles one of the top topics of 2020: LinkedIn and how best to use LinkedIn to support your career goals. LinkedIn cannot be ignored. Career people must embrace LinkedIn, but honestly, most of us have lazy LinkedIn strategies. This short episode is relevant for any career-driven person asking:
- What do I want to signal as my personal brand?
- How do I attract and differentiate with potential new employers?
- How can LinkedIn get me off on the right foot at a new job?
- How can LinkedIn help me secure that promotion I want?
- How do I position myself as a thought leader?
- What if I am seeking new clients?
- What if I've launched a business?
- What if I need to expand my network to explore a change?
All of these important, strategic career decisions revolve around the signal you are sending through your LinkedIn profile. Invest in yourself and learn from this episode. And, if someone you care about has a lazy LinkedIn, bring it to their attention.
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The Me-Suite host, Donna Peters, brings back a fan-favorite, Mike Malinchock. Mike challenged us in Season 1 Ep 51 to "do hard things." He then went and did a hard thing: cycling literally from East Coast to West Coast with his sons, stopping only to sleep and eat. They were raising funds for the Be Loud Sophie Foundation to cure childhood cancers. In this episode, Mike reflects on the surprising things he learned from the trip and the next hard things on his list to conquer.
Mike also shares perhaps the best ever Me-Suite guest tip for what we can start doing differently on Monday: create your 'Hundred's List.' Every year, Mike and his family create together a list of 100 things they'd like to accomplish in the year. They revisit the list monthly, check off the items completed, and plan for the next items to pursue. Cycling cross-country was on the family's 2020 list...and they checked it off! They've never actually completed all 100 items, but that's not the point:).
Complete a "Hundred's List" with your teams or family, and let us hear about your experience.
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On this episode of the Me-Suite, Donna Peters brings back Season 1 Ep15 guest, Tina Gilbert. A lot has changed in our society since we last spoke to Tina in Feb 2020. Tina's wisdom on diversity, equity and inclusion is needed now more than ever...and is always direct and constructive. She challenges us to welcome the friction and be uncomfortable.
In a down-to-earth, authentic way Tina uniquely brings, we discuss the differences between unconscious bias and privilege. We discuss microaggressions and safe spaces. And Tina’s challenge to us all on what it truly means to be an ally is life-altering. Participate, don't just listen.
Tina leads the external consultancy for Management Leadership for Tomorrow (MLT). MLT transforms leadership pipelines by supporting institutions in addressing issues of diversity, equity and inclusion. MLT advisory services is all about creating rigorous strategic programs and processes that are embedded into an organization's DNA to bring the philosophies of diversity, equity & inclusion to light.
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The Me-Suite host, Donna Peters, has a virtual fireside chat with fellow leadership coach, Katie Adkins. We talk here about the power of having a "processing partner" to help process our thoughts--both the motivating ones and the self-limiting ones--to achieve our goals. Research shows people need people.
If you're thinking about getting a coach, this episode will give you some ideas on how to get the most out of a coaching relationship and, most importantly, how to assess the best coaching fit for you. Experience, approach and fit all matter.
Katie also shares a wonderful tip for helping us stay present and focused in all we do. If you're on video calls a lot, you'll love this tip.
Katie's core values are connect, care and create.
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The Me-Suite host, Donna Peters, helps us think through the right time for a career coach. "Without goals there is no coaching."
One of the most popular questions that I receive is "how do I know if I should get a career coach?" "Is this the right time to have a coach? What is it like to work with a coach?"
Have you been thinking about getting a career coach for a while now? At this self reflective time in our society, you may be asking what is my next move? Am I in the right career? What if my job or my job offer is eliminated? Or already has been? Am I staying fresh and relevant for the future that I want to have?
If you're asking these types of questions, right now may be the right time for a career coach. I believe that there are three reasons that seeking a career coach is a very valuable next step.
1) Those closest to us aren't actually listening closely. Because they think they already know what we're going to say. And it's a thing it's a real thing. It's backed by science. It's called the closeness communication bias. Check out Kate Murphy's book called you're not listening for more evidence that those closest to us aren't actually listening closely. So we often cannot lean on them for these types of critical topics.
2) It can get lonely or as you rise in your career, a Google search yielded about a million hits on leadership and loneliness. And the truth is it's challenging to find people in your regular professional and personal sphere to talk frankly, about your ambitions, your hesitations, your wild ideas, your insecurities. It can get lonelier as you rise.
3) Anyone performing at an elite level at anything has a coach--athletes, musicians, actors, next generation leaders, CEOs-- for these elite performers, the better they are at their craft, the more they seek coaching.
Bill Gates said everyone needs a coach. So then why do we too often say “no, no, I got this." We should be asking ourselves, have I ever regretted investing in myself? Do I have goals and decisions or a crossroads that need focus and action right now? Will I progress more rapidly with an expert in my corner?
A recent client said it best. “I should have gotten a coach a long time ago. If you’re on the fence, jump in and give it a try for a few rounds.”
Credentials, experience and fit all matter, so definitely do your due diligence. To set a complimentary 'discovery call' with Donna Peters in December, book here.
And remember, without goals, there is no coaching.
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The Me-Suite host, Donna Peters, dials in COO Alan Slavik from Spain to talk about learning, change and growth. Alan is a thought leader on mentoring--how to seek mentors and be a mentor--and hosts Mentors Who Made Me. Alan challenges us to be life-long learners and experience-seekers. He packs so much wisdom into such a short time, including:
- Enjoy the process of learning (not just the outcome)
- It's normal to feel discouraged when you're learning something new and being stretched. It's not normal to stay discouraged, so that might be an indication to look for something new.
- The most fulfilling career opportunities are often when we're most scared
- People want to change; they don't want to BE changed
- Embrace the big decisions in your life with confidence
Alan has visited over 50 countries. His core values are relationships, openness/discovery, being a citizen of the world, being present in the moment, always be learning.
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The Me-Suite host, Donna Peters, interviews the C-Suite Whisperer, Lisa Finkelstein. Lisa has advised over 1000 C-Suite leaders across 30 countries. She sees the leader's key role as bringing out the best in others. Lisa shares tips on staying true to your core as a leader, stepping out the way to let others shine, and clearing a path for people to be successful. She helps us get into the hearts and minds of leaders, especially in the face of the latest world challenges. She helps us recogize that leaders are being challenged more than ever and face their own insecurities and doubts during these times.
Lisa leaves us with several memorable nudges:
- recognize that low self-confidence at times is an asset for a leader
- try new things
- nothing is permanent except change
- go for the dream
Lisa's core values are: creativity, curiosity, clarity, connection, compassion, courage, truth
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The Me-Suite host, Donna Peters, welcomes Jason Anderson for a powerful dose of positivity. You will smile through this interview.
Jason and his wife, Annie, were on a certain path, and everything changed. Their son was born with special needs. Jason shares how this pivot point has led to a most remarkable life for his family of 4. Jason has learned that everyone rises to the expectations we set for them. You can't judge and limit people.
Jason has a single, powerful core value: Serve Others. He shares stories of how this core value has guided him through tough times.
We close with a wonderful Monday 'suitener.' Take one minute to think something positive about yourself. And before you roll your eyes at the idea, give it a try.
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The Me-Suite host, Donna Peters, sits down with Cass McCrory of the podcast "Real Women in Business." Cass is a mom of 4 and business development expert. She challenges us to be deliberate about how we spend our precious few resources: time, energy and money.
Cass encourages us to identify what we like, what we don't like. Protect what we love to do the most. Cass has a fun, powerful analogy about the "thanksgiving pie plate." Don't we often have our pie on a separate plate to protect our favorite part of the meal--the part you don't want to touch the other dishes? Think about what goes on your "thanksgiving pie plate" for work. What are you uniquely good at? What do you love? Put boundaries around it. Protect it.
Cass' core values are adventure, learning and nurturing.
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Mike takes the mic in this refreshing, real talk about going from miserable to unstoppable. Mike Vichich, Co-Founder and CEO of Wisely shares multiple lessons he learned from starting out in a large company and leaving to start a business. We cover a lot of ground in a short time, exploring lessons such as:
- you need to fail at something to know what you're really made of
- vanity is not helpful in any way
- don't compromise on intellectual honesty and critical thinking
- talk about it, whatever "it" is
Mike's core values are:
- try hard
- stewardship
- no short cuts (play for the long game)
- solve for the greater good
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Your host, Donna Peters, chats with People/Talent/HR expert, Chris Moses, author of The Sanity Game: Cut the Crap that Drives Employees Crazy. Chris takes us on an insightful, humorous ride through lessons discussed in his latest book--and how these lessons are evolving due to the pandemic. We talk about:
- stabbing from the front
- the risk of loyalty
- preparing for the cultural 'nuclear bombs'
- stealing from your future
- granting permission
- rethinking work relationships during COVID
Chris offers listeners an opportunity to send his book for free, anonymously, to a person you think needs to read it:).
Chris' Core Values: PART--protect, accuracy, results and timeliness
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Everything comes down to the decisions we make.
Your host, Donna Peters, is inspired by global leader, Pietro Mangione. Pietro, originally from Italy and now residing in Australia, shares with us the power of knowing both your core values and your 'move-away' values. To live aligned to our values, we need to get uncomfortable at times and lean on mentors, coaches and friends.
Join Pietro’s infectious energy that’ll leave you feeling more motivated and positive about the future.
Pietro's Core Values are: Growth, Contribution, Integrity/Authenticity
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Your host, Donna Peters, learns much from this conversation with Court Wakefield, and you will too, no doubt. Court is a non-binary parent, activist and co-host of the podcast, For Folx Sake. Court helps us lean into our curiosity to cultivate more inclusive communities, personally and professionally. We discuss real-life ways to build more diverse networks, to challenge our beliefs, to be more equitable, to get feedback on how we're doing. And Court's fun!
Court's mission is to cultivate space where people can experience empathy and empowerment.
Court's core values are Personal Accountability and Justice.
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Your host, Donna Peters, sits down with CEO and Co-Founder, Julien Emery. Julien continually asks, "How do I improve?" He shares the powerful role coaches have played in helping him grow personally and professionally.
As a CEO and former professional ice hockey player, Julien looks to coaches to help him recognize fears and narratives that hold him back. We are all flawed humans. He believes in the power of coaches to help us understand the 'software' running in our heads that we should change to grow.
As an entrepreneur steeped in VC experience, Julien teaches us to fall in love with the problem we're trying to solve and the people who have that problem.
Julien's core values are curiosity, growth and empathy.
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You may know the top-selling book, All I Really Need to Know I Learned in Kindergarten.Here your host, Donna Peters, shares that Leadership is a mindset and a heartset...and all we really need to know about Leadership can be learned from Shakespeare's plays.
In this 6-minute morsel of an episode, we share the ever-so-timely Leadership styles across Shaksespeare's most famous characters. We take leadership lessons from his enduring, human stories and hold a mirror to our own tendencies. We ask what type of leader are we being right now. Be less like ____ and more like ____.
"My crown is in my heart, not on my head." Henry VI Part III
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews healthcare venture capital expert, Prem Tumkosit. Prem shares how he grew his career and his leadership style when others around didn't look like him. This insightful, real talk includes:
- the moment Prem learned he made Fortune's 40 Under 40 list for 2020
- what it means to lead in the margins
- aligning decisions to your core values
- learning to surprise yourself
- thinking of life as drag
Prem's core values are: leave things better than you found them, start with love, let your passions come through, authenticity/integrity.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Isil Cayirli Ketenci from her home in Turkey. Isil is a former professional tennis player. Now a thought leader in the Future of Work and marketing executive, Isil reflects here on the criticality of adaptability and resilience.
In this episode, we touch on Mercer's 2020 Global Talent Trends. We explore important topics such as bouncing back from losing, understanding mental health and keeping balance. We discuss the growing needs around employee experience, cultural awareness, research/data, innovative thinking and equity.
Isil's core values are: respect/fairness, hardwork/learning/sharing, putting your hand up for opportunities, motivate and be motivated, copy the best practices (a value learned from Rafael Nadal).
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Dr. Kyra Bobinet, an expert in the behavior neuroscience of habit formation. She is the CEO of Fresh Tri and author of Well Designed Life: 10 Lessons in Brain Science and Design Thinking for a Mindful, Healthy & Purposeful Life.
We must change the way behavior change is done. In this insightful episode, we learn:
- Iterators never fail. Have an interation mindset versus a performance mindset
- Shame kills our goals. The brain’s habenula and automaticity are so important to making it safe to try new things
- Design-thinking should be applied to our own life. Design your life or let it design you.
Dr. Bobinet’s core values are: do no harm, compassion, curiosity.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews mom, corporate executive and entrepreneur Lakshmi Natarajan. Lakshmi was asked by a mentor one day to draw a pie and carve out all the various slices of how she focuses her energy. There was no pie slice for "me." Lakshmi was fading as she balanced aggressive career goals, a dual-career marriage and motherhood. She had to make a change and shares with us here how she reset priorities and launched two businesses aligned to her core values: Excelador for business consulting and Travel Plus Them for families who wish to raise their children to be global citizens.
Donna and Lakshmi have a shared history. They talk about some fun, head-shaking, eye-rolling experiences driving through the tough times together, what they learned, and how they came out the other side better for it. Tip: don't have document version #101 and don't get fired by the client.
Lakshmi's core values are:
1) the people I love
2) growth in all aspects of life
3) experiencing the world
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Your host, Donna Peters, sits down with author and physician, Dr. Doug Levine. The topic is Hope--the why, what and how of Hope. Dr. Doug teaches us that the future is malleable, and we can proactively influence change with the optimism of Hope. Self-motivation and finding the spark are just the beginning of the wise reflections shared in this powerful 20 minutes.
Dr. Doug is a physician scientist and gastroenterologist. Most recently, he has become a published fiction writer. His latest work can be found in the anthology, Hope, published by the Association of Rhode Island Authors under the pseudonym, Abraham Simon.
Dr. Doug's core values are: The Golden Rule, Be in Service, Do Things as Well as You Can
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I'm your host, Donna Peters. I was the student teachers wanted in class. I sat still. I did my homework on time. I participated without dominating. I got straight A’s...A as in Always. As a young learner, I colored inside the lines. As a high schooler, I kept off the grass. In college, I played to my strengths.
If ever offered time travel, I will start my do-over around 9th grade with one mantra: “Donna, make straight C’s. I know you can do this.” I will pick topics because they are interesting, not because I can test well. I will seek classes that intimidate me. I will register for courses that people would find surprising.
I will measure myself on a “growth card,” rather than on a report card. Getting straight C’s will be the sweet spot on the growth card. Straight C’s will symbolize how much I embraced learning something difficult. How well I balanced taking a risk on something really new while applying the effort required to learn it.
And while I’m back there in time, I’ll also advise my younger self to keep the perm in the past, forego yellow and lighten up on the eyeliner.
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If you're entrepreneurial minded, invest in yourself and learn from this interview. Your host, Donna Peters, interviews 10-time start-up founder, Bill Flynn. Bill is the author of Further, Faster: The Vital Few Steps That Take the Guesswork Out Of Growth.
BIll challenges us to think differently about entrepreneurship and growth:
- Anyone can start a company, Not everyone should.
- Don't fall in love with your idea. Fall in love with the problem you're trying to solve.
- Growth for growth's sake is the ideology of a cancer cell.
- Performance is a team sport.
- Cash is the primary metric.
Bill's business experience and conversations with 100+ CEOs have proven there's a gap between what science knows and what businesses do. There are many things we get all wrong. His valuable book, Further, Faster, is available free as a pdf.
Bill's core values are: health, mastery, sharing, fun and essentialism.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Dr. Kara Nance, CEO of WellessenceMD. Kara shares her professional and personal journey to find what makes us well. She started on the traditional path of school, marriage, mom of 4, homeowner—and realized that things in life were not working for her. So much “doing” had disconnected her from what she really needed and wanted. She listened to an inside voice and turned focus to helping people achieve their highest level of health—with the support of many she calls “family.”
Kara reminds us that the quality of our lives is defined by the quality of our relationships. She enourages us to “unplug and reboot our brains.”
Kara shares ideas for how to continue coping through COVID as the weather chills and forces us indoors. You can join Dr. Kara’s remote Zoom classes on weekday evenings. Classes focus on mindfulness, communication and relationships (Enneagram).
Kara's core values are Family, Flexibility and Fortitude.
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I made a new friend in the garden this week. The Frog Formerly Known as Prince is what I named him. So he has something to do with leadership coaching, believe it or not. As a leadership coach, I help clients identify and achieve personal goals. And the absolute top-trending issue in coaching is Time. Time is always a constraint, keeping people from achieving the goals that they set for themselves. So I first like to seek some ways that people can combine because it's very, very difficult to find something to completely remove from your to do list, but unrealistic to always keep adding to it. So I challenge people to think about the concept of combining. For example, if you'd like to read more, could you start with an audio book listening while you're doing chores or taking a walk in the neighborhood, or commuting?
If you'd like more exercise, is there an errand that you could do maybe walking rather than driving the right combination for me personally was gardening? And I'll use it as an example because it might give you some ideas as well. So gardening allows me to exercise. You'd be amazed how high you can jump when you shovel up a snake in the compost. You get some vitamin D because you're outside. You connect with fun family memories because I'm planting some of my dad's heirloom seeds. And he would be very proud of my green beans. You practice patience because plants grow if and when they want to grow and weeding is meditative for me, I smile when my husband, the chef, says he's going to the farmer's market, but he means that he's going down to my garden.
And you get to spend some time with friends and their kids. I like to invite my friends with their kids to come over and pick vegetables. Although I have noted that no one likes to pick the cabbage. I belly laugh about my garden flops. I've had a rank cantaloupe that splattered all over the kitchen. I mean, I think I'm still cleaning that up. I had the world's smallest carrots. They were invisible to the naked eye. And the very, very popular "would you like some cucumber with those worms?" And then lastly, gardening has allowed me to demonstrate some gratitude. Taking something from a seed to the dinner table is truly awesome.
So share with me if you have found an activity that helps you pull it all together for you in your Me-Suite. When time is a constraint, combine.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Andy Parker, co-author of Eat, Sleep, Innovate. Andy is a partner at Innosight, the firm founded by Harvard professor and author, Clayton Christensen.
Andy, Britain-born and Singapore-based, shares the 5 behaviors required for innovation and change in our own personal lives:
- curiosity
- customer obsession
- collaboration
- experimentation
- empowerment
We discuss blockers and the practical BEANs required for behavior change: Behavior Enablers, Artifacts and Nudges.
Andy's core values are:
- do work your proud of
- don't take yourself too seriously
- look out for yourself and others
- teach back to others if you can
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Delegation is the true leader's paradox.
In feedback discussions, have you ever heard:
- You need to focus on more strategic issues.
- Why do you send emails so late at night and on the weekends?
- I’d like to engage you in this new important initiative, but you have so much on your plate.
Simultaneously, are you saying to yourself:
- It’s just faster if I do it myself.
- I don’t want to dump this task on her.
- He’s got a lot going on already.
Often, the high performers who want to receive more meaningful work are the very ones struggling to delegate work to others. It’s a common leadership paradox.
A simple mindset shift helps us work through the paradox. I call it “delegrow.” It is impossible--absolutely impossible--for you to develop others if you do not delegate work that allows them to grow. Conversely, it is impossible--absolutely impossible--for you to develop yourself if you are not delegated work that allows you to grow. But how can you take on more without giving more to others?
Delegation doesn’t mean “shove this off on someone else.” Delegation means “appoint as my representative.” We are too often afraid that we’ll be seen as the bad boss dumping busy work on already-busy people. Or we, ourselves, are so busy, it’s a waste of time to stop and involve others. This faulty thinking works against our very goals to grow others and grow ourselves.
If we all have the mindset of “delegrow,” we will be asking different questions:
- What activities could I assign to my team to build their skills, their knowledge, their networks, their sense of ownership?
- What activities should I be seeking to grow myself?
Yes, brown stuff does roll downhill sometimes. The truth is, not all work is strategic and sexy. Tedious, crappy assignments exist at all levels. But, what may be crappy data clean-up work to you, could be an opportunity for someone else to learn the company’s chart of accounts. What may be mind-numbing slide editing to you, was a chance for me to hone executive presentation skills...and I was even happy doing it on a Sunday because I got exposure to the leadership team at their offsite.
We each need a mindset that growth—our personal growth and our ability to grow others—requires delegation. What will you delegate tomorrow?
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Listen to this amazing story about "Tell Them Yes." Your host, Donna Peters, interviews Donna Cryer, founder and CEO of the Global Liver Institute. She is a Harvard and Georgetown Law grad, patient advocate, social impact entrepreneur and 25-year liver transplant recipient. Donna focuses on increasing patient access to innovative care and helping people live a life of high achievement while navigating chronic illness.
Donna Cryer leads with drive, intelligence, humility and humor. Her practical advice challenges us to 1) have a bold vision and 2) acknowledge our weaknesses so we can surround ourselves with the right people to help us achieve the vision.
Donna's core value is: "When you have a choice, and we all do, choose to be excellent."
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I am a career coach, podcast host and faculty at a globally renowned business school. The #1 question I am asked is “what is the biggest mistake you’ve made in your career?”
I plan to be alive much longer to make many more mistakes, but thus far my #1 mistake was believing in work-life balance. Work-life balance is a common concept. Some now dress it up and call it work-life integration. The concept implies that work and life are equal sides of a seesaw. The implied goal is to keep the seesaw horizontal while managing the ups and downs. (I remember the sugar-high kid banging his end of our seesaw on the playground so hard my buck teeth almost straightened. His name was Tommy. I digress.)
I now know there should be no work-life balance. There should be only your LIFE...and everything else falls underneath that, including decisions you make about work, relationships, family, health, spirituality, passions, finances, learning. Obviously work is an important, time-consuming component, but work should be in service of the life you want to live, not be a partner in balance with it. There’s a difference.
I didn’t begin to learn this difference until I was on a red-eye from Seattle to Birmingham. I had been called home from a critically important client project that couldn't possibly progress without me--my first project as the overall lead at my new employer--and, did I mention, I planned to be promoted within the year. A blockage in Dad’s left anterior descending artery (LAD), a proximal LAD lesion, had him now under sedation. He survived the Widow Maker procedure while I was hurling at 35,000 feet for 5 hours reflecting on his principled life. Literally hurling, btw. As a two-million-miler, that remains the only flight when I’ve used the barf bag for barf.
I had quiet, dark time in the air that night to think about my own life. How do I know if I’m making the right decisions for the life I want to live? I thought, “If someone speaks at my funeral about Donna’s amazing abilities to build a merger integration playbook, I’m gonna be pissed.” I’ll be dead, of course, but I’ll also be pissed. I thought about the companies I most admire and how they make big decisions. Nike, Tesla, Johnson & Johnson, Accenture, Starbucks. They have Core Values that steer behavior, that take a stand, that create the future they envision.
I thought, why don’t I have this steerage for my own life? What are my Core Values? How do my Core Values guide decisions for the future I want to live in? And thus began my learning from a big mistake. There is no work-life seesaw to balance. There is only my LIFE at the top of a jungle gym--and all decisions I make--including those about work--are the scaffolding in service of that life I want to live, not in balance with it.
My Core Values are Curiosity, Freedom and Respect. I am curious what big mistake I will next freely make. I respect I will have much to learn from it.
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Your host, Donna Peters, interviews serial entrepreneur and dearest, funny friend, Mac Hardcastle. Mac is the author of the Entrepreneur's Handbook with decades in private equity and VC. He is now a C-Suite leader at a not-for-profit. In 2020, Mac had a near-death experience with a 5% chance of living. Here he reflects, with humor and insight, on:
- not letting the urgent crowd out the important
- raising a toast to those special in our lives
- examining our transferrable skills to take a chance on the work we want to be doing--when people are afraid, they go to what feels safe--you don't have to play it safe
- having conversations about the legacy we want to leave
Mac's core values are Intellectual Curiosity, Hard Work and Honesty.
In this episode, Mac offers listeners his deck of "Start a Conversation" cards that help us have important conversations NOW with those we love. You can order the cards by contacting Mac Hardcastle at mhardcastle@alivehospice.org and mention The Me-Suite interview.
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Welcome to Season 2 of The Me-Suite podcast. I'm your host, Donna Peters. I am a career coach working with individuals, companies and academic institutions. I help career-minded people have a life. To live with, what I call, a Me-Suite mindset. Beyond this podcast, you can learn more about me and The Me-Suite career coaching and professional development at the-me-suite.com. And find me on LinkedIn and Twitter.
In Season 2, we continue to find the amazing in everyone. Our guests are career-driven people who want to be in control of their future. They strive to lead their lives like C-Suites lead the companies we most admire. With purpose, planning and power. Just like in the C-suite, doing this well in our own Me-Suite requires 3 things: letting our personal core values guide our decisions, keeping our day to day life running smoothly, and staying fresh and relevant for the future we wish to have.
Season 1 was a top-trending podcast series in podcastlandia, so if you're a returning listener, I am bowing with gratitude and thank you for the feedback that helped shape the new season. If you're a new listener, I am doing cartwheels. Probably really poorly, but I am doing them just for you and am thrilled to be in your ear right now.
In Season 2, we will learn what works for others and explore where we had some hard lessons and failures. And we will continue to balance the aspirational with the practical sharing tips on what we can start doing differently on Monday. We will hear from C-Suite leaders, next-generation leaders and those just launching a career. We will hear from big business and entrepreneurs across industries. We will learn about amazing successes and hot messes.
The #1 learning from listeners and my own experience is that people are amazing if you give them a chance to tell their stories. So, please subscribe, share with others, and give us 5 stars if you like what you hear. It helps us continue sharing the amazing in everyone.
Season 2, Me-Suite suiteners, let's get in there!
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In this final episode of Season 1, an avid listener, Amy Easton, turns the mic around and interviews Founder & Host, Donna Peters.
- How is Donna feeling about wrapping up Season 1 of the podcast?
- What has been the most fun thing about the The Me-Suite podcast experience?
- Is she doing anything differently now because of the podcast lessons learned?
- What episode topic was the most difficult?
- What guest surprised her the most?
- What are the main themes to take away from Season 1?
- What's in store for Season 2?
Remember, all Season 1 episodes are available wherever you get your podcasts and at The Me-Suite. Season 2 is currently in development. Donna encourages listeners to share feedback on content and approach for Season 2.
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Explore our career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
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Host Donna Peters knows you'll love this episode! In 13 lucky minutes, hear a montage of the Core Values across our incredible Season 1 guests. The Core Values are as diverse as the guests we interviewed, with Curiosity, Helping Others and Integrity emerging as the more in-common themes.
The diversity of thought, backgrounds and experiences represented in this group of tremendous talent leaves us energized about the future.
What are YOUR Core Values? Let us hear from you.
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Remember, all Season 1 episodes are available wherever you get your podcasts and at The Me-Suite. We are excited that Season 2 is currently in development! Donna encourages listeners to share feedback on content and approach for Season 2.
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Donna Peters interviews serial entrepreneur and adventurer, Franziska Iseli, on her latest book, The Courage Map: 13 Principles to Living Boldly. Sir Richard Branson wrote the foreward and echoes the criticality of being courageous in all we do. Some highlights include:
- Courage is a skill that can be learned.
- Butterflies in the stomach means you're growing.
- Courage is feeling fear about something and doing it anyway by taking calculated risks.
- We need courage now more than ever to face the conversations we need to be having in our global community.
- We all need to take more chances. Take more shots.
Franziska recognizes that everyone has different "courage boundaries." For some, the monumental fear may be speaking to a stranger. For others, the fear may be learning to swim. In this episode, Franziska talks about one of the courage principles, Kindness. Donna highlights her favorites of the 13 principles: Stories, Intention and Non-attachment.
Franziska is co-founder of multiple businesses in the marketing and brand strategy space. She is on the Board of the Entrepreneur Organization (EO) and support her passion for sustainability by serving on panels at the university level and with the United Nations. Born in Switzerland, she has traveled to over 100 countries and now resides in Australia.
Franziska's core values are: love unconditionally, trust, freedom, courage, evolution and impact.
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
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Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
The Me-Suite listeners have requested an episode on Change. Donna Peters hosts a panel discussion with innovation expert, Julian Gonzalez, and organizational psychologist, Dr. Robert Stroud, on the concept of Change:
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How does our brain respond when we are faced with changes?
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Our brains have natural instincts when faced with something new and different.
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Why is change often uncomfortable?
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Recognize that any change has interdependent impacts.
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How can we run towards change as a positive?
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Mindset is important to seeing change as a growth opportunity.
- Create rituals
Julian Gonzalez' Core Values are: Curiosity, Purpose, Adventure
Dr. Robert Stroud's Core Values are:
- Effort matters
- Team first
- Control the controllables
- Don't waste a day
- Pay it forward
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
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Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
This episode covers a top Me-Suite listener request: advice from Human Resources on career pathing and job searching. Donna Peters interviews HR executive, Karen Rice, on how best to get what you want. This topic is very timely as people face job insecurities or may not have exactly what they want right now. Karen's discusses:
- Be a problem-solver first and foremost. No matter your position or function, know the dynamics of the business, what drives the business, and identify ways you can contribute to the most important questions in the business. Be relevant.
- Network, network, network--people are good and want to help. Ask for help.
- People love to be asked to share their advice. Ask for advice.
- Break your routines--take calculated risks
- Speak up for yourself--advocate for what you want--ask for the raise, ask for the promotion--the worst that happens is that you hear "no"
Karen's Core Values are: Balance, Respect and Giving Back. She is on the Board of Claire's Army fighting for children living with cancer.
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
Donna Peters partners with Amy Easton to address listeners' career questions. Amy is a Sydney-based psychology graduate, human capital expert and StrengthsFinder coach. Donna is currently coaching clients through COVID19 'surprises,' and like many, Amy recently had a career 'surprise' herself.
Donna and Amy take on the most frequent Me-Suite listener questions around career and today's job market, including:
- I thought I had a job. Now I don't. How should I be thinking about Plan B?
- Should I take the job offer I have right now, or wait for the role I really want?
- How do I make the most out of a job that isn't really right for me?
- I feel stuck where I am and need a change. How do I get unstuck?
We share personal experiences and helpful mindset models for making decisions when you're at a crossroads--such as the brain's need for safety, the concept of self-limiting beliefs and the SCARF model: status, certainty, autonomy, relatedness, fairness.
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Today, anyone can look up information, but it takes a special brain/heart connection to make sense of that information and lead constructively based on that information. In this episode, Donna Peters interviews, Dr. Sarah Schrank, Professor of History. Dr. Schrank has taught thousands of our next-generation leaders in the largest and most diverse educational system in the United States, focusing on urban history with a passion for building students' skills in:
- navigating and evaluating the bombardment of information/stimuli
- making connections between the past and the present in context
- civic citizenship
Dr. Schrank advises our next-generation leaders to be organized, stay focused on the task at hand and ask for help.
She is a yoga instructor and author of Free & Natural: the American Cult of the Body. Her Core Values are: Loyalty, Conscientiousness, Self-Awareness
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
Donna Peters partners with Precious Price for an interview with Tonia Morris, Founder of Simply HR and 2019 Stevie Award Winner for Maverick of the Year.
Tonia advises on workplace culture and originated the concept of G&I: generational inclusion. Tonia recognized the need for G&I as biases, misunderstandings and tensions exist across the five generations in today's workforce. Tonia knows we need one another, that we have more in common than we do differences. "We need to all get along so we can all belong."
Tonia encourages leaders to adopt the CARE model to gain the most from the multi-generational workforce: Communicate, Appreciate, Respect, Engage.
Note: this episode was recorded during COVID-19 and prior to the racism pandemic. Follow Tonia for more on how CEOs and professionals in the workforce can create solutions for both pandemics.
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
Donna Peters interviews Me-Suite fan, father and leader, Mike Malinchock. Hear what a me-suite mindset means to Mike and what episodes have resonated with him. Mike is always great for fun ideas and quotables, and this episode doesn't disappoint.
- "Real people are amazing."
- "Mindset is a personal choice."
- "Do hard things."
- "Make a hundreds list."
Mike and two of his boys launch a cross-country bicycle trip this summer to benefit the Be Loud! Sophie Foundation which supports teen and young adult cancer patients and their families. Visit Bike Loud to follow their biking and camping adventures and support the cause. Mike, his wife Laura, and their boys Wesley, Evan and Cole thank you.
Mike's Core Values: Adventure Over Anxiety, Authenticity, Togetherness
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
Have you ever met someone and thought, "Wow, the future is in great hands with this amazing person?" That's how I felt when I met Hilal Koc Savci. She is a Me-Suite role model, career maverick and start-up expert. Hilal is truly a global citizen of the world having lived in the US, Turkey, Argentina, Russia and the UK. She is passionate about driving technology trends to improve lives and has contributed her talents to some of the most influential businesses in the world, including LinkedIn and Facebook. Hilal challenges us to write the headline we want to see for ourselves and take a leap of faith to achieve it. And most wisely, she encourages us not to think of a career as a straight-line path, but rather as a mosaic of experiences and options we create by pulling on our strengths.
Hilal's core values: Curiosity, Passion, Humility
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Donna Peters brings back popular Episode #6 guest, Dipak Patel. Here in episode #49, Dipak talks about the power in having the mindset of a Chief Strategy Officer.
A Me-Suite mindset requires asking:
- Where do I want to be in the future? 1 year, 3 years, 5 years, 10 years?
- What bets do I need to place now to get to that future? These bets could be about the company you work for, the people you surround yourself with, the knowledge you acquire, the experiences you gain, the personal priorities you place around family, health, finances, etc.
Dipak challenges us to ask smart questions and surround ourselves with people who make us better. Listen also to Dipak's initial episode #6 on Having a Growth Mindset.
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LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Donna Peters interviews Sissi Chen Jennings. Sissi shares how to think like the Chief Strategy Officer of your own life. She sees that the rigor used by Chief Strategy Officers (CSO) actually gives us more flexibility. For a CSO mindset, Sissi advises us to:
- set your personal vision and direction (and as a family if others are involved)
- define a plan to achieve the vision
- check in on that plan with family meetings
- know when to say "no" if something isn't aligned to your vision
Sissi's Core Values are: Family, Responsibility, Achievement, Personal Growth. Sissi wisely acknowledges there are times our core values may be in conflict with each other and shares how to work through those uncomfortable moments.
Sissi is a career strategy consultant and founder of Xi Strategies & Coaching.
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
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Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Donna Peters interviews Dr. Suzy Green, Clinical Psychologist, Founder and CEO of The Positivity Institute and author of The Positivity Prescription: A 6-Week Wellbeing Program Based on the Science of Positive Psychology.
We are living in VUCA times: volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous. Dr. Green challenges us to ask, "Am I my usual self?" And if not, why not, what can I do about it?
Positive Psychology is the science of us us at our best fulfilling our human potential. Dr. Green discusses the six, science-based, foundations of flourishing:
- Mindfulness
- Mindset
- Mood
- Motivation
- Might
- Meaning
Dr. Green's Core Values: Wisdom, Humility, Energy
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Donna Peters interviews community leader, Copland Rudolph. She shares how she works at keeping her actions aligned with her core values by: creating space to do what's important, getting proximate, saying 'no,' and being present.
Copland is the Executive Director of a not-for-profit foundation focused on equity for all children in the public schools. She is also a certified fitness instructor and shares her talents with others in her community, including women inmates at the correctional facility.
Reflect on how you're living aligned to your core values:
- are you feeling your feelings?
- are you telling your truth?
- are you keeping your agreements?
Copland's personal mission statement: "I am fully alive in every moment of every day."
Copland's core values: Well-being, Integrity, Justice
Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Servant Leadership
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews CEO, Lita Dwight, on her path from practicing law, to finding her "big why," to founding the plant-based foods business, Brytlife. "Doing what you are called to do is the highest expression of yourself."
Lita advises that curiosity is the magic to getting to "your why." And once you know "your why," take the first step on the invisible bridge, a la Indiana Jones, to pursue it. And don't forget to surround yourself with experts.
Brytlife's mission is to achieve a more compassionate and healthier planet through superior non-dairy products that bring joy to customers.
Lita's Core Values are Freedom, Authenticity and Compassion.
Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews Keith Hausmann, Chief Revenue Officer at Globality and Founder of Procurian. Keith is a dad and entrepreneur who has held multiple C-Suite positions at small and large organizations. Donna thought she'd be interviewing him on his Procurement and Supply Chain areas of expertise. Instead, she got a much more valuable "master class" on how to keep things in perspective and be mindful no matter what you do.
Keith's leadership lessons include:
- Have an accomplishment mindset and focus on today--what will you accomplish today?
- Know how to tell your story
- Be deliberate about your legacy
- The body is the temple of the mind
- Life is too short to not have fun
Keith's Core Values are:
- Do everything with pride and commitment
- Treat others as you'd want to be treated
- Go with the flow
- Keep an open mind
Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews CEO, Inventor and Mom, Shawn Walker. Shawn and her horse, Alick, are top-tier champions in the sport of dressage. Shawn discusses her lifelong passion for horses, training and competing. She shares wisdom for all of us on keeping our interests, our passions, alive. She challenges us to think how the opposite is actually true--our interests and passions keep us alive.
- Eliminate the myth that you don't have the time. You do have the time to pursue your passions
- Don't make excuses to delay "if I only had x, I could start." Start now. Take the first small step, make the first call. Get creative
- In addition to your career and family, you need a silo for yourself. Set boundaries
Shawn's Core Values: Continuous Improvement, Fairness, Awareness, Learning from Mistakes, Humor
Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Me-Suite listeners, this is Donna Peters. First of all, thank you so much for being just that, a Me-Suite listener. Time is precious. There are lots of things you could be doing with your time, and you chose to spend it here. I am grateful. The Me-Suite is exactly 3 months old this week, and what an amazing ride it has been so far. We need to eat our own dog food and continue to stay fresh and relevant for the future.
I need your help in 2 areas:
1) If you love what you're hearing, write a review wherever you get your podcasts.
2) And I need your feedback on what to stop, start and continue doing with the Me-Suite podcast as we look to planning for Season 2 over the next several months.
- What future episode topics would you like to see?
- Are there any changes you'd like to see to the format--changes to the interview format, the length of the episodes, maybe the intro music drives you crazy?
- What would you be expecting in Season 2 of The Me-Suite?
I'd love to hear from you. You can find me at the The Me-Suite website and email me at info@the-me-suite.com.
May I hear your thoughts in May? I will personally respond to all feedback. It would mean a lot. And I thank you in advance.
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
In honor of National Nurses Day, Donna Peters interviews nurses for real talk on:
- What are your Nursing superpowers?
- How do you know you've had a good day as a Nurse?
- If you were a patient, what kind of Nurse would you want?
- You know you're really a Nurse when ____ happens?
- What kind of patient are you?
- What would you say to someone interested in pursuing a Nursing career?
- Do you have any advice as we lessen social distancing restrictions?
Thank you to all the Nurses out there. You show us what work-life balance really means.
Check out other episodes such as:
Are You Doing What You Love
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews Dr. Danielle Dobbin, Owner of Midtown Family Wellness. Dr. Drobbin, mom of 4, discusses her holistic prescription for living the life you want to live. "If you're following what drives you in your heart, you'll always be successful." "If something is your priority, you'll find the time to fit it in."
- Do what you love--life is too short
- Create a vision board once a year to pursue your goals mindfully
- Use daily structure as a tool to fit it all in--family, work, wellness, vacation
- Clear out clutter
- Prioritize financial planning
Danielle's Core Values are Family, Balance, Congruence, Authenticity, Happiness
Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Has the quarantine thrown you off your fitness game? Do you need to reboot your fitness focus after quarantining at the homemade-sour-dough-breadfest? For National Fitness Day, Donna Peters interviews personal trainer, Jason Rumpf, on the true definition of fitness. Fitness means you are balancing the SEESAW:
Sleep--good, sound rest
Eating clean foods
Exercise--see the 5 priority movements below
Sunshine--vitamin D
Air--getting outdoors
Water--hydration
PRACTICAL TIPS THAT CUT THROUGH ALL THE MEDIA NOISE AROUND FITNESS
- Learn the 5 priority movements you should master: squatting, upper body push, upper body pull, hinging at the hip, core stabilization
- Hear how a trainer to can help kickstart or reboot your fitness routine in 5 sessions. And hear alternatives if you can't invest in a trainer right now
- And you don't need fancy equipment
- Aristotle said, "We are what we repeatedly do." Hear tips for being mindful of your fitness obstacles to make fitness just something you repeatedly do
Jason Rumpf's Core Values: Energy, Balance and Peace. He can be reached on Facebook and at info@atltoptrainer.com
Check out other episodes such as:
My Top Mentor's Morsels: Work on Yourself First
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews her mentor and friend, Adele Gulfo, career C-Suite leader and Board Director. Adele is a member of the Committee of 200 (C200), an invitation-only organization of the world's most successful women business leaders. She has dedicated her career to the healthcare industry as a C-Suite leader across geographies and functions. Her leadership roles have spanned executive suite positions across strategy, business development, innovation, general management and launch. She serves on multiple Boards in the biopharma arena.
Adele was Donna's first experience shadowing a leader who transparently worked at balancing an aggressive career and strong family priorities while keeping a focus on physical health. Donna learned so much early in her career from this mentor and is thrilled to share Adele's uplifting perspectives with the listeners.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THIS EPISODE:
- Adele takes listeners through the process she went through to identify her Core Values. She shares an energetic perspective on the value of the Core Values exercise and how to conduct it for yourself if you're not sure where to start. Adele's Core Values are Vitality, Achievement and Harmony
- To thrive in a career, leaders need positivity, a solutions-oriented mindset and listening skills. These are the softer skills, which are often the harder skills to master. And it's the softer skills that drive both the business and its people
- There is nothing more valuable than working on yourself. Work on yourself first. Do the Core Values exercise, work with a coach, be prepared to let leaders know what drives you, so they can help you get what you want and need
- You are the average of the 5 people you spend time with. Make sure it's the right people
- Adele offers advice, especially for female listeners, to ensure you get P&L experience in your role rotations. P&L experience is highly sought when appointing Board members, and companies need more female Board members
Check out other episodes such as:
What True Leaders Do
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Parents, this episode is for you. What is your child's behavioral superpower? We have all done personality assessments as adults in the workplace. Why do we not do this type of self-awareness building as teens to understand our own potential and to help manage differences with others? Donna Peters interviews Kenyatta Turner of FreedomEmpireConsulting. Kenyatta helps young people ages 12 and up understand their unique behavioral fingerprint. She also involves their community of parents and educators to give all parties a common language for understanding and communicating their individual superpowers. Kenyatta helps young people answer "What are my innate, instinctual behaviors, and how can I harness those behaviors as superpower strengths?"
Kenyatta's Core Values are Freedom and Developing Others.
Kenyatta Turner offers a free Discovery Session for listeners who Text PODCAST to the number: 5204853361
Check out other episodes such as:
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews Professional Actor and Communications Coach, Connan Morrissey. Connan has performed on stage across the US in leading roles and coaches executives and next-generation leaders on executive presence and how to have impactful communications. She has an MFA in Acting from UNC-Chapel Hill.
HIGHLIGHTS FROM THE EPISODE
- Communication skills are just like any skill--you need to practice to build the muscle
- GOOD communication is clear, intentional, knowledgeable. EXCELLENT communication transforms the audience, is confident, humorous and uniquely YOU
- Rehearse literally means "to re-hear." Rehearse your story. In high stake situations. Don't memorize it.
- How to give and receive feedback on Communication skills
- Add someone to your personal Board of Directors when you're ready to work your Communications skills.
- Think of your audience as your customer. Be customer-centric as you prep.
- Tips for taking the focus off of yourself and worrying "what do I do with my hands"
- All this video time is good and forces us to be more succinct and direct
- Connan's Core Values: Curiosity, Connection and Adventure
Connan recommends the following resources to watch and learn from EXCELLENT communication and storytelling:
@sirpatstew - SIr Patrick Stewart Reads Shakespeare's Sonnets on TwitterLiz Lerman - www.lizlerman.com - Liz Lerman’s Critical ResponseFather Greg Boyle - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipR0kWt1Fkc. His book is Tattoos on the Heart https://www.amazon.com/Tattoos-Heart-Power-Boundless-Compassion/dp/1439153159
Check out other episodes such as:
Perseverance: Embracing the Cards You're Dealt
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
This interview was conducted just prior to the COVID19 crisis, and the prescient wisdom and optimism in this discussion gave me goosebumps when I replayed it. I left this interview a better person.
Donna Peters interviews Sarah Glass of the World Wildlife Fund. Previously she worked for USAID on international development and disaster assistance during the Ebola crisis. She has lived in Haiti, Mozambique and India. Sarah has an MBA from UVA's Darden School and serves as an advisor to their Center for Strategic and International Studies.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EPISODE:
- What true leaders do:
- Set goals that area aligned to the scale of the problem we need to solve--focusing just on your piece of the challenge will not give us long-term viability
- Set goals that are so big no one person can solve it
- Mobilize teams to meet the big goals--we must collaborate because we make something better by working with others
- Practice optimism and empathy--if something is bothering you, envision how it could be better, and identify your role in making it better
- You can build your empathy muscle by taking an intentional focus to understand how others are impacted
- Sarah's Core Values: empathy, learning and optimism
- Find your own version of a "Wine Night" habit or ritual to invest in friends and family
Check out other episodes such as:
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
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Donna Peters interviews attorney, Guillermo Wasserman, of Wasserman West International Law. He shares wise stories humorously about:
- How experiences growing up in Argentina, facing the Argentina Great Depression and living in the US shaped his core values of:
- Perseverance
- Never too late to do the right thing
- Longest distance between two points is a shortcut
- Advice for those of us in a challenging job search:
- preparing the resume
- empathy for the interviewer/employer
- tips on differentiating yourself
- embrace the cards you're dealt
- Lessons from his international law practice that benefit all of us:
- being a little paranoid is a good thing
- vagueness is the enemy
- control what you can
- ask questions, and then ask more questions
- if you plan for an exit strategy upfront, you likely won't need an exit strategy
- His hopes for his two daughters
- never lose you're ability to be surprised
- enjoy the uncertain journey
- make your own path
Check out other episodes such as:
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
On National Haiku Day, Donna Peters shares the power of using the haiku poetry format to improve our communications. We need powerful, clear, succinct communications now more than ever. (And in the spirit of the haiku, this is a pithy listen.)
A haiku poem has three lines. The number of syllables in each line is 5, 7, 5 syllables for lines 1, 2, 3 respectively. Have fun distilling your key message to its essence by using the haiku format as your forcing mechanism. You don't have to militantly follow 5-7-5 syllables for your final output, of course, but the haiku discipline upfront is a very valuable exercise.
The haiku exercise helps you:
- be clear on your intention (why are you needing to communicate)
- de-clutter your thoughts (think about the audience and their perspective as your recipient)
- nail down the key point (what is it you're really trying to say)
- use only the words that matter (it's harder to write a haiku than a rambling paragraph)
Adding the haiku as a tool puts you on your way to a more impactful, clear communication--verbally or in writing. In person, on video, on the phone.
And in The Me-Suite, we call the haiku "the Myku." When you're prepping for an important interaction or message--and you want to make an impact--stop and work on your Myku. And let us know what you think.
Check out other episodes such as:
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
For those of us fortunate enough to be only mildly inconvenienced during social distancing. And for those of us who have lost our jobs or face job insecurity.
In this super-short Bonus segment, Founder, Donna Peters, reminds us of the power of having a Me-Suite mindset. A Me-Suite mindset requires we stay fresh and relevant for the future we desire to have. What will your story be on how you spent your COVID time?
When we break on through to the other side of C19--and we will--what will your story be? Take this 2-minute listen.
Learn more about identifying your own Core Values and building a Personal Board of Directors. Check out other episodes such as:
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and career coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews career Chief Financial Officer, Kelly Battles. This episode offers so much in such a short time. Treat yourself to this episode.
Learning from the early death of her mom and the immigrant experiences of her father, Kelly shares both nature and nurture stories--and practical tools--for how to lead a balanced, happy life.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EPISODE:
- We each need a Mission (purpose), Values and Goals. Set personal Goals annually, and be forgivingly intentional / intentionally forgiving about your progress against them.
- The amazing role of the CFO (historian, futurist, policeman), and what we can learn from the CFO mindset to enrich our daily lives.
- The 5 Elements of a Happy Life: Family, Friends, Faith, Work, Me
- As a female working in male-dominated everything (Finance, Tech Start-ups, Harvard MBA, Investment Banking, Consulting), Kelly shares the necessity, and the power, of being your authentic self in everything you do.
Kelly's Purpose: Lead a happy life and leave things better than you found them.
Kelly's Core Values:
- Life is short. Make each day count.
- Balance
- Authenticity
- Be Accountable and Hold Others Accountable
- A Positive Attitude Matters
Check out other episodes such as:
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
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Donna Peters interviews President and Chief Operating Officer, Tom Schwenger, Veeva Systemson the power of putting People first: this includes our families, our colleagues, our customers, the People in our lives. Tom shares nuggets throughout including:
Leadership Advice Tom Learned @ Work and @ Home:
1) Put people first, and everything else falls into place (for ex, Tom has People as the first agenda topic. We all know People is usually the last agenda topic, and the meeting runs out of time)
2) Appreciate the uniqueness each individual brings to the group
3) Respect and admire your customers
Career Advice:
1) Don't over-steer your career path
2) Don't let others define your career
Tom's Core Values: Curiosity, Adaptability/Flexibility, Integrity/Selflessness
Check out other episodes such as:
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews Wilson Toussaint, Managing Director and technology thought leader, in this wonderfully vulnerable story of resilience. His personal stories of learning from mistakes and bouncing back better than ever can inspire anyone in the face of set-backs.
Wilson's Core Values are:
- Get outside your comfort zone
- Take one step at a time
- Failure is not fatal--unless you don't learn from it
- Take time to give back to the next generation
Check out other episodes such as:
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews Estate Planning attorney, Sarah Watchko, of Hill & Watchko, LLC. This Estate Planning discussion is as accessible and enjoyable as it'll ever get. And it's a timely topic as we face unthinkable circumstances and unknowns in our society.
Who needs Estate Planning:
- anyone over 18 years old
- any adult with or without a bank account (it's not just about the money)
- any adult (with or without children in the picture) (it's not just about kids and spouses)
Think like the Chief Legal Officer of your own life. Take control with thoughtful estate planning. What happens if you're incapacitated? If you die? How will financial and medical decisions get made on your behalf? How do want those decisions made? What are your wishes for your stuff, your kids, your pets, your loved ones, your causes? The truth is no one wants to have this conversation, but it's the conversation that unites every single one of us. The only thing we all truly have in common is that we will not be here forever, and we don't know when it's our time. **Let's start having these conversations from a position of strength and control.
Sarah's core values are:** kindness/empathy & take control of the circumstances
Check out other episodes such as:
Don't Mistake Kindness for Weakness
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews SassyLass CEO, Janice Jackson. Janice is a career C-Suite leader and mom who champions:
1) never wear a "mask" at work (be at work who you are at home)
2) don't mistake kindness for weakness
3) speak truth to power
4) put family first
Janice's Core Values are: courage, authenticity and vulnerability.
SassyLass believes the future is ethical. The future is transparent. The future is women. "Sassy, classy and a little bad-assy." Monthly, SassyLass supports a specific organization with its profits to empower women everywhere. April 2020, SassyLass is donating to the World Health Organization's COVID-Solidarity Response Fund.
Check out other episodes such as:
Managing Your Personal Fear
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews strategist, Reza Firouzbacht, on the concept of the extremely timely topic, managing FEAR. Uncertainty has shaken our sense of health, community, security and livelihood. Many of us feel we lack control. Reza encourages us to view fear as a signal, rather than as a negative emotion. Fear is a primal instinct and an important signal that needs our attention. It's a lighthouse on whether or not we have accounted for both the data and our gut instinct to take the right actions. Fear is a signal that says, "Caution. Pay attention." We then must ask "what is in our control and what is out of our control in the situation?" For what's in our control, "what are we going to do about it?"
To manage fear, Reza pulls upon his varied experiences as a:
- young boy growing up during the revolution and bombing raids in Iran
- student of biology and neuroscience
- scenario planning expert
- champion of meditation to calm the mind
The right mindset is critical to acknowledging, processing and addressing our fears in a rational way. With a rational mind, we can process the fear: Is it False Evidence Appearing Real? Is it an overstated fear? Is it an understated fear?
Reza recommends meditation as the first best step to calming the nervous system so that we can think rationally through what we can and cannot control. And then take action on what we can control by naming that which we cannot control. Reza recommends Tara Brach's Facing Pandemic Fears with an Open Heart.
Check out other episodes such as:
Embrace the Hard Things
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
A Listener Shares Her Me-Suite Morsels
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services. Everyone needs a coach, especially at times like these.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews Chief Strategy Officer, Alan Nalle, for a prophetic interview on how to think strategically about:
- making big decisions (including saying no)
- embracing the hard things
- being rigorous in your analytics and criteria for decision-making
- the value of partnering with others
Alan's core values: meritocracy, integrity and transparency/candor
Check out other episodes such as:
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
Improv Can Improve Your Work and Play
A Listener Shares Her Me-Suite Morsels
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters has a Q&A with Me-Suite listener and attorney, Ellis Izlar. This Q&A dives into the most popular question we're receiving in The Me-Suite right now: How should I be building or rethinking my Personal Board of Directors at this time of change? These questions are coming in from the very popular episode #1 "Building Your Personal Board of Directors" with CEO guest, Ana Dutra.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EPISODE:
--How to identify your topics/need that would benefit from a Personal Board
--How to pick the members of your Board
--How to invite your Board members (and what if they want to say "no")
--How to focus your Board
--Ellis' Core Values: you're a prisoner of your own experiences--widen the walls; expect great things and they will happen; make people feel special
Check out other episodes such as:
Servant Leadership
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
A Listener Shares Her Me-Suite Morsels
A Chief Strategy Officer Maps It Out For Us
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews Nicole Tranchitella, Senior Managing Director at Accenture, servant leader, wife, mom of 3 and a member of Donna's personal Board of Directors.
Who is emerging as a true leader in your life at these turbulent times? Servant Leadership isn't about an org chart or a hierarchy. Servant Leadership is a mindset we need now more than ever in our professional and personal lives. Nicole shares what it means to be a Servant Leader and how we can all start to build a muscle of servant leadership by asking "how can I help you?"A feel-good listen!
HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE:
--Nicole's Core Values: stewardship, gratitude, integrity, family
--Nicole inspires us to ask "how can I help you?" She reminds us of the power of a thank you and the encouragement of a "keep me" folder
Check out other episodes such as:
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
A Listener Shares Her Me-Suite Morsels
A Chief Strategy Officer Maps It Out For Us
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Thank you for joining us in The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
This short episode highlights 4 new, fun things to do with family and friends in this time of physical (not social) distancing. Each idea helps us flex our Me-Suite muscle:
1) Core Values: an exercise to do with the whole family. Identify the core values you have in common as a family and those that are unique to each of you. An energizing activity that will pull you closer together across all ages. If you're old enough to talk, you're old enough to think about your core values.
2) The 5 Love Languages: a discussion with partners and those closest to you. This sounds so cheesy, but it's really cool. Which of the 5 love languages makes you feel loved and appreciated? How you like to demonstrate your love and appreciation is often NOT how the other person likes to receive acts of love and appreciation. You will be surprised at what you learn about each other.
3) Virtual Pajama Party: use video to connect with friends in a casual way with no make-up, no agenda--just like a pajama party. BYOB.
4) Gardening with Kitchen Scraps. It's time to start gardening even if you don't have an outdoor space to do so. Tips for sprouting foods right in the kitchen. Fun, educational and eventually edible.
Check out other episodes such as:
Improv Will Improve Your Work and Play
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
A Listener Shares Her Me-Suite Morsels
A Chief Strategy Officer Maps It Out For Us
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
The 3 rules of improv can help improve our daily lives RIGHT NOW. Improv provides the building blocks for how we should be interacting with one another in all aspects of our lives. The 3 rules are:
- Be accepting
- Be present
- Be curious
Donna Peters interviews Nicole Cohen, improvisational theatre expert and corporate business leader on how to apply the rules of improv to our daily lives, with co-workers and family. In person and from afar.
Improv increases our comfort with uncertainty, our listening and communication skills, our ability to problem solve, our ability to laugh and play with others--in person or remote. We need the skills now more than ever in working with colleagues and interacting with family and friends.
HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE
--Nicole's Core Values: Inspire Others; Be Present; Live with the "IRS"--integrity, respect, stewardship
--Nicole provides examples for applying the 3 rules of improv to improve the quality of our interactions
--Nicole closes with advice on the power of "taking a pause." How timely
Check out other episodes such as:
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
A Listener Shares Her Me-Suite Morsels
A Chief Strategy Officer Maps It Out For Us
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews award-winning Chief Creativity Officer and Founder of Curiosity Division, Mark Musto.
We need creative solutions to complex challenges RIGHT NOW. Mark offers up a powerful challenge to all of us: constraints are your friend when it comes to creativity and finding new ways of doing things. And right now we are all under a lot of constraints--professionally and personally. Flex your creativity muscle with this episode.
HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE:
--Mark's Core Values: curiosity, passion, candor, integrity
--Mark encourages us to re-invigorate the creativity that lies in all of us:
- everyone is creative
- creativity requires emotional safety
- to find new solutions, approach challenges with a child-like mind
- remember constraints are your friend--the greatest creativity can come from knowing what is NOT possible
- create a little garden for yourself to exercise your creativity muscles--e.g., allow time for mindfulness, to read something new, to visit museums, to exercise
- quality starts with quantity--practice, create volume, allow yourself to make mistakes and play
Check out other episodes such as:
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
Think Like a CFO: Dollar Scholar Shines a Lights at a Dark Time
A Listener Shares Her Me-Suite Morsels
A Chief Strategy Officer Maps It Out For Us
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews Otis Aust, a fee-only financial advisor and tax geek, founder of Aust Financial Advisory.
What a timely topic! In this episode with the "Dollar Scholar" recorded in Dec 2019, Otis Aust talks about being prepared for inevitable stock market down turns. He was prophetic and gets real about financial decisions--thinking like the CFO of your own life. This discussion shares provocative statistics, research and experience to help us think practically and thoughtfully about our Financial Health.
HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE:
--Otis' Core Values: fairness, transparency, continuous learning
--Otis shares fact-based advice and provocative thoughts on:
- Do you know you should be saving 15-20% of your income annually starting at 25?
- Is buying a home really an investment? You'll be surprised by this discussion.
- What is your relationship with money? Your risk tolerance?
- How does your family talk about money? What are the most important financial questions to be asking in a relationship?
- Did you realize the average person is retired for 30 years? What will you need?
- Did you ever stop and think that you'll be in a relationship with the Federal Government your entire life?
- How do you choose a financial advisor?
The Millionaire Next Door: Surprising Secrets of America's Wealthy, by Sarah Stanley and Thomas Stanley, is referenced in this discussion.
Check out other episodes such as:
The Innovation Ninja Shares His Powers
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
A Listener Shares Her Me-Suite Morsels
A Chief Strategy Officer Maps It Out For Us
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews Shubber Ali, Innovation Ninja and University Lecturer, on what it really means to be innovative in all aspects of our lives.
HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE
--Shubber's Core Values: The Only Thing of Value is Our Time; Don't Care What Others Think; Never Stop Asking Questions
--The real definition of Innovation is "finding a new way to do something that adds value"
--Shubber gives practical advice, inspiring quotes and tangible examples for being more innovative in our personal and professional lives
--Shubber recommends the Adam Grant book, Originals.
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
The Culture At Home
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews Chair and CEO of DNA Behavior International, Hugh Massie. Hugh is an author and most recently published, Leadership Behavior DNA. Discovering Natural Talents and Managing Differences.HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE
--Hugh's Core Values: Reliability, Openness/Mutuality, Courage
--Hugh shares how our own leadership behavior DNA brings unique strengths and struggles that we must manage both professionally and personally. He also discusses how understanding the leadership behavior DNA of ourselves and others helps us discover our own natural talents and manage differences--at work and in our personal lives.
Hugh's experience is anchored in more than 25 years of research and working with Ph.D.s to develop world-class behavioral assessments that measure the natural talents that are unique to each person. These are the talents (strengths and struggles) that each person brings into the leadership role. Understanding them is the basis for the self-awareness needed to reach our full potential.
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Storytelling with a C-Suite Leader
A Listener Shares Her Me-Suite Morsels
A Chief Strategy Officer Maps It Out For Us
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
We've heard there's no "i" in team, but, let's be real. Teams don't get the promotion. This bonus episode takes lessons from the amazing Alaskan Iditarod race on how to lead in a pack of alpha dogs. How do you lead when everyone around you is a high-performing achiever? How does everyone play to their strengths? How do we collaborate and be a good team player? AND...how do we demonstrate our individual contribution and merit and stand out to get the bonus or the promotion that is available to only a few?
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
How to Have a Growth Mindset
Inclusion and Diversity
Your Personal Brand
Shape the Future You Want
Options Are Power
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
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LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
*Note the F-word is used once in this episode at minute 20:40.
Donna Peters interviews her mentor and career C-Suite leader, Walt Shill. Walt has held multiple C-Suite positions (CEO, COO, CSO, CCO) and served as a McKinsey partner across industries and geographies. He leads and coaches through the power of storytelling.
HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE
--Walt's Core Values: Curiosity, Making a Difference, Family
--Walt shares the process he went through to identify his own core values (and has tips for us to think about)
--Walt uses storytelling to drive home Me-Suite mindset messages around the power of strategic planning, the value of being truly present, and the importance of trust.
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power
Donna Peters interviews Tina Gilbert, Chief Inclusion & Diversity Officer, on what it means to have an I&D mindset in the way we run our own lives, every day.
HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE
--Tina's Core Values: empathy, authenticity, purpose-driven
--I&D is bigger than work. It's fundamental to the way we live in the world. Tina offers inspirational and practical advice for living our lives with more inclusion (the soil) and diversity (the seeds)
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
The Culture At Home
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
In this Bonus episode of The Me-Suite, we talk about the reality that the family is a team, our most important team. And we learn from Google's research on what makes an effective team: listening and empathy.
Donna Peters interviews Me-Suite subscriber and Me-Suite mindset role model, Felisha Liu Faulkner,for tips on living with a Me-Suite mindset. Felisha is a Corporate Strategy and Business Development leader and start-up co-Founder in the healthcare industry. She has an MBA in Entrepreneurship from Chicago's Booth School and an undergrad from U Penn's Wharton School. She has also taken time off along her career path to support not-for-profit causes internationally.
HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE
--Felisha's Core Values: Responsibility (as first-generation in the US) and Adventure
--Felisha has inspirational and practical tips for living her core values with discipline. She makes it sound easy yet recognizes it takes work and focus. She shares tips we can start doing on Monday to lead our own lives with more purpose, planning and power.
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
Creating the Culture You Want to Live In
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
In The Me-Suite, we build options through the decision we make in 4 areas: People, Skills, Health and Finances. This episode focuses on Health, specifically nutrition.
Donna Peters interviews Jon Dobzelecki, founder of Performing Nutrition, clinical nutrition and nutrition coaching. Jon is the real thing and knows first-hand the struggles of managing your nutrition while meeting high-pressure demands like family, entertaining clients and traveling extensively. Jon in inspirational and practical.Jon challenges us to find "your why," and take the first step, or a renewed step, to change your life.
HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE--2:30 Jon's Core Values: Consistency, Purpose, Responsibility
3:25 Being the CEO of Your Own Life
4:00 Run Your Day According to Habits
11:30 Getting Real About Social Pressures
13:10 Be In Control Of Your Own Life
19:15 Take Time for Yourself
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
The Culture At Home
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
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LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
This episode focuses on being the brand ambassador for your personal brand--just like a Chief Marketing Officer or Chief Communications Officer would do.
Donna Peters interviews Precious Price, Management Consultant and Founder of The Brand Tableand host of the podcast The Strategy Behind Branding Yourself which helps young professionals define their brand.
HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE--Precious' Core Values: integrity, self-fulness, evolution
--Tips for how to answer "what is my brand?"
--provocative advice on identifying your brand value
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
The Culture At Home
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews Dipak Patel, Chief Growth Officer, former Strategy consulting partner and Venture Capital Operating Partner. And crazy Pearl Jam fan.
HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE
--2:05 Dipak shares a helpful take on how to define your own core values, using lessons from the Samurai way of life, concept of Bushido, reflecting on your actions, not your aspirations
--10:15 Chief Growth Officer mindset includes managing noise, simplicity, pulse on what's changing, partnerships, protecting your time, staying calm
--Growth is required in 5 areas: learning, spiritual, physical, emotional and social
--a final challenge to us all to exercise our minds, protect our time, and take up the ukulele
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
The Culture At Home
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
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LinkedIn: The Me-Suite
Donna Peters interviews Dr. Claudy Jules on the topic of culture. Recognizing that our families are the first Culture any of us ever knows, Dr. Jules challenges us to define Culture and to shape the Culture we want to live in as the CEO of our own life.
Dr. Claudy Jules is a leading expert in organization, leadership and change. He currently heads Google’s Center of Expertise on Organizational Health and Change. He also serves as an advisor to CapitalG (Alphabet's growth equity investment fund) and the firm's portfolio companies on leadership, talent, organizational design, culture and change.
Dr. Jules sits on the board of Leading Educators, a nonprofit disrupting the multibillion-a-year teacher professional development industry. He is also a sought-out speaker with a significant body of published thought leadership. He is a Forbes contributor, speaks and presents at professional and academic conferences and lectures at leading universities, including Columbia University’s graduate program in social and organizational psychology. He is well known for his research on digital and global leadership, operating models, and top team effectiveness with published articles in the MIT Sloan Management Review, The European Business Review, Leader to Leader, Strategy & Leadership, the Ivey Business Journal and Organizational Dynamics.
Dr. Jules earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University. He also holds a Master’s degree from the joint program in Organization Development at The American University and NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science and completed post-graduate studies at The Gestalt Institute of Cleveland and Gestalt Organization & Systems Development Center, focusing on the application of Gestalt Therapy to organizational consulting and change.
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
When People Hear Your Name, How Do They Feel?
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power
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Donna Peters interviews Phil Bienert, a career Chief Marketing Officer (CMO), about the brand promise lessons we can apply to our own personal brand and how we want to show up in the world.
Phil has been a CMO and steward of the brand promise across industries including, Volvo, Citi, AT&T, GoDaddy and 1800Contacts. He has an undergraduate degree from Georgetown, an MBA from UT-Austin and extensive international experience including fluency in Mandarin.
This is a thoughtful discussion about the personal brand promise and the value of bringing your family into that promise.
Phil’s Core Values: exploration/open-mindedness, know what’s important, be yourself
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
The Culture At Home
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
Options Are Power
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Donna Peters interviews Dr. Meg Powell, Chair and CEO.
Dr. Powell has over 15 years of experience in the pharmaceutical industry including assignments at McKinsey, Eli Lilly and GlaxoSmithKline. Currently she is serving as Board Chair and is the Co-Founder of TARGET PharmaSolutions. Dr. Powell received her Doctorate of Pharmacy degree from the University of North Carolina- Chapel Hill where she was a Hollingsworth Scholar. She also received a Master’s of Business Administration from Stanford University.
HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE
Meg shares aspirational yet practical advice on:
1) How to define Core Values for yourself and your family and live them daily
2) The "3 Pages" approach to family strategic planning: annual use the "3 Pages" to define your personal, professional and financial goals for the next 1/3/5 years. This helps you and your family identify priorities and align on where tradeoffs may be required
3) real-world, humble advice on the importance of finding the right mentors
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
Options Are Power
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
When People Hear Your Name, How Do They Feel?
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
The Culture at Home
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This episode is focused on Chief Communications Officer (CCO) learnings.
Donna Peters interviews Ed Patterson, a career Chief Communications Officer and expert in Public Relations and Public Affairs.
Your ability to define and manage your own personal brand is more important than ever in the age of social media. Learn tips for thinking like the Chief Communications Officer of yourself and your own brand so that you show up in the world in a planful, thoughtful way that is aligned to your own core values. And learn what to do when you mess up.
HIGHLIGHTS OF EPISODE:
1:40 The Chief Communications Officer role--what is it, how has it changed, and why is it more important than ever in the age of social media?
10:50 Ed's Core Values: Accountability, Empathy, Equality
13:07 Tips for thinking like the Chief Communications Officer of yourself and your own brand
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
Options Are Power
When People Hear Your Name, How Do They Feel?
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
The Culture at Home
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Having a Chief Learning Officer (CLO) mindset is critical to staying fresh and relevant for the future you desire to have. Donna Peters interviews Brian Mitchell, a true renaissance man. He is the Chief Learning Officer for next-generation C-Suite leaders and truly the CLO in his own Me-Suite. Brian is head of the Emory Goizueta Business School full-time MBA program. Graduate of Morehouse, Emory and Harvard. CEO. Entrepreneur.
HIGHLIGHT OF THE EPISODE:
- 3:07 Brian's Core Values: education, pragmatism, patience, visionary, globalism
- 11:04 How to have a Chief Learning Officer mindset to stay fresh and relevant for the future you want to have. Continuous learning not only increases intelligence, it builds confidence and trust
- 23:30 What you can start doing Monday to build a CLO mindset
- 32:47: Brian challenges the listeners to bring a global, world-view mindset to all we do
James E. Ryan, author of Wait, What? And Life's Other Essential Questions is referenced in the discussion.
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
When People Hear Your Name, How Do They Feel?
Options Are Power
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
The Culture at Home
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Donna Peters interviews Ana Dutra. Ana is a career CEO and Board Director across a variety of companies and industries. She is the author of Lessons in LeaderShiT: Detoxing the Workplace.
Ana and Donna discuss the WHY and HOW, practical tips and traps, for building your own board of directors to nurture the Me-Suite mindset and discipline.
2:25 Ana's core values: Honesty, Helpfulness, Hope
8:26 Building your personal board of directors:
1) How many people to target for your board
2) How to select and invite your board members
3) How to focus the board on your priorities
4) How to manage and refresh the board over time
23:13 Ana is a certified yoga instructor and challenges our career-oriented listeners to practice mindfulness
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Options Are Power
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
When People Hear Your Name, How Do They Feel?
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
The Culture at Home
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
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Meet The Me-Suite founder and host, Donna Peters. Donna is a recognized executive coach, speaker, and workshop leader with 20+ years advising senior executives and next generation leaders at the world's most admired companies. She acted professionally on stage, film and stand-up for 10 years before pursuing an MBA and becoming a senior partner and practice leader at a premier consulting firm.
Donna is career-oriented and life-minded--just like you--and brings both an aspirational and practical approach to her executive life coaching services.
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
When People Hear Your Name, How Do They Feel?
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
The Culture at Home
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
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Do you know what your own core values are?
C-Suites run companies with clear, shared Core Values that steer the culture and key decisions. Do you have Core Values for the way you want to lead your own life?
In this episode we look at examples of Core Values--Tesla, Starbucks, Virgin Atlantic, Amazon, Alibaba, BMW, Boys & Girls Club--for some inspiration to define our own Core Values for the Me-Suite.
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
When People Hear Your Name, How Do They Feel?
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
The Culture at Home
Options Are Power
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
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Think like the Chief Strategy Officer. Those who have options have power.
Having options means we are not trapped. Options allow us to be in control, and behavior science shows we desire to be in control. Options put you in control. Options are power.
HIGHLIGHTS OF THE EPISODE
In this episode, we think like a Chief Strategy Officer and discuss the 4 ways to build a surround-sound of options in The Me-Suite through:
1) People Networks
2) Fungible Skills
3) Prioritized Health
4) Sound Finances
Books and authors referenced in this episode: Never Eat Alone, TrustedAdvisor.com, Suze Orman.
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
Your Are Your Brand
When People Hear Your Name, How Do They Feel?
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
The Culture at Home
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
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The Me-Suite is for those who are career-oriented and life-minded. At the soul of the Me-Suite is the conviction that we should run our own personal lives with the same mindset and discipline that C-Suites use to run the companies we most admire.
Each episode interviews a senior leader, a member of the C-Suite, in a relaxed, humble, sometimes humorous discussion. We learn C-Suite mindsets and disciplines, across functions, to help us run our own lives like the companies we most admire. We each need a Me-Suite to:
- stay true to our own core values
- keep the day-to-day activities of our lives running smoothly
- ensure we stay fresh and relevant for the future we want to have
Check out upcoming episodes which will include topics such as:
Do You Know Your Core Values?
Build Your Personal Board of Directors
A CEO Gets Real About Real Life
Does Your Life Have a Strategy
You Are Your Brand
When People Hear Your Name, How Do They Feel?
Shape the Future You Want
Financial Advice That's Hard to Hear
The Culture at Home
Welcome to The Me-Suite: a source of power for the life-minded. Subscribe to the podcast. Visit our blog and executive life coaching services.
www.the-me-suite.com
FB: @mesuite
LinkedIn: The Me-Suite