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On the Leadership Junkies Podcast, we explore leadership, business, and personal growth to help you grow your business and live a richer life. One thing we know about leadership - You can’t grow your business bigger than you. We believe that leaders have to put their people first. If you take care of your people, your people will take care of your business. Get ready for conversations that will challenge your thinking and help you transform your leadership and your business. Welcome to your bigger business, and bigger life.
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Do you want to grow your business? Are you willing to grow yourself in order to grow your business? Are you willing to be uncomfortable? In what ways would you and your business grow IF you were 30% more courageous? Our special guest David Wood will answer these and other questions about personal growth, leadership, entrepreneurship and courageous leadership. David Wood is a former consulting actuary to Fortune 100 companies. He built the world’s largest coaching business, becoming #1 on Google for life coaching and coaching thousands of hours in 12 countries around the globe. As well as helping others, David is no stranger to overcoming challenges himself, having survived a full collapse of his paraglider and a fractured spine, witnessing the death of his sister at age seven, anxiety and depression, and a national Gong Show! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YgKwAJieQes). He coaches high-performing business owners to double revenue, and their time off by focusing on less and being 30% more courageous in their business or career. Show NotesEpisode highlights…
Understanding role of vulnerability and authenticity in true influence and leadership
Role of humility in leadership
Relationship between humility and intimacy in leadership
Practice more revealing to create more intimacy, influence and trust
Power of authentic relating in life and leadership
Practicing vulnerability in leadership
Vulnerability is risk, but worth it (especially in leadership)
Shifting the question from what could go wrong to what could go right
Role of patterns in life, relationships and leadership
Impacts of preambles in communications and relationships
Using ownership language in your relationships and leadership
Being 30% more courageous in your business and leadership
The trap of being comfortable and strategies for being intentionally uncomfortable
Why playing it safe is the most dangerous thing you can do
Critical question: What’s one thing you’re willing to do in the direction of your dreams?
Importance of dignity for yourself and others in leadership
Resources: David Wood (public@focus.ceo)
David Wood Website
Free Gifts from David Wood
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Do you want to learn more about ways to do business online? Are you looking for strategies to achieve rapid growth in your business? Do you want to become a better storyteller and build more influence into your business and marketing? Our special guest Shaahin Cheyenne will answer these and other questions about entrepreneurship, business growth and doing business online. Shaahin Cheyenne has been called many things in his life including the “Willy Wonka of Generation X,” but his favorite is simple: the world’s leading Amazon industry expert. Shaahin is the Founder of the brain nutrition startup Accelerated Intelligence (AI). He’s also an award-winning business mogul, author, filmmaker and inventor of Herbal Ecstacy, the nootropic that sparked the (100% legal) Smart Drug Movement. His serial entrepreneurial career has spanned more than 30 years, earning over $350 Million. His Amazon products have outpaced Fortune 500 companies’ sales on the platform, selling millions of units worldwide. Many of these multi-million-dollar companies noticed, which led Shaahin to become one of the world’s most sought-after Amazon experts. Shaahin’s Amazon sales approach for start-ups and Fortune 500’s is the same approach he uses to accelerate his own success: a mix of proprietary software, Amazon promotions, copywriting, Amazon ads and social proof. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
What it means to be truly invested in your idea
Being relentless as an entrepreneur (and never accepting “no”)
Importance of having a mentor as an entrepreneur
Vital role of influence in business and entrepreneurship
Understanding Amazon as the great business equalizer
Ways that innovation can be the kiss of death in business
Influence driven by telling a better story
Ways that larger companies are leveraging online marketing to grow their businesses
Leadership lessons from an e-commerce influencer and mogul – it’s not about being liked, the need to be fair and allow your people to make mistakes
Strategies for creating a culture that allows people to learn from making mistakes
Leveraging the Pareto Principle (the 80/20 rule) to grow your business
Good design is found in the white space, including life design
Power of living and leading in the flow space (and ways to get into the flow space)
Importance of having multiple streams of income
Role and importance of being a decision architect to grow your business
Realities and challenges for service-based businesses when it comes to rapid growth and exit
Resources:
Shaahin Cheyenne (darkzess@gmail.com)
Shaahin Cheyene Website
Free Amazon Course – Email Shaahin at darkzess@gmail.com and mention Leadership Junkies in the subject line
Amazon Mastery Course
Billion: How I Became the King of the Thrill Pill Cult Book by Shaahin Cheyene
Hack and Grow Rich Podcast
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Do you want to be a world-class networker and build quality relationships? Are you ready to build authentic relationships based upon human connection? Do you want to learn the keys to building relationships that matter? Our special guest Tallal Gondal (Leicester, England) will answer these and other questions about networking, relationship building and accelerating your outcomes through the power of relationship. Tallal Gondal is the author of the #1 International Bestselling book TurboCharged Networking, which shares the message that Care, Value and Service are the 3 TurboChargers to building human connection, and human connection is critical to networking and building authentic long-term relationships. Tallal is also a speaker, and his mission is to help people cultivate the mindset and develop the skillset to become world class networkers in their personal lives and business lives. Tallal’s super passions are building relationship equity, creating holistic success, and cultivating a savage mindset. Tallal is also a maths lecturer, a boxing coach and enjoys reading non-fiction and watching UFC. He loves going to the gym, driving fast cars and has an unhealthy relationship with protein shakes. Tallal lives in Leicester, England, with his wife, 2 kids and 2 cats. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Understanding the power of relationships in overcoming obstacles and achieving your objectives
Need for vulnerability in asking for help or support from your relationships
Importance of building relationships before you need them
Role of care, value and service in building human connection and relationships
Being intentional in your relationship building
Why human connection is the foundation of valuable relationships
What it means to genuinely care in your relationship building (intention / heart)
Importance of curiosity in networking and relationship building
Relationship building must be genuine and authentic
Integrating personal and business in your networking and relationship building
Value in relationship building is about mindset of helping others
Role of emotional safety in networking and relationship building
Creating a safe space by going first with vulnerability
Be curious about the world in order to add value to others from what you learn and can share
Relationships are a life asset and resources for others
Power of why questions in networking and relationship building
Service foundation in networking is the actions you take to serve others
Systematizing your relationship building and follow ups
Understanding the “savage mindset” – unbreakable, unshakeable and unstoppable
Networking and building relationships is all about building human connection
Resources:
Tallal Gondal
TurboCharged Networking Website
Turbocharged Networking Book by Tallal Gondal
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Do you believe in the power of relationships? Are you looking to grow your relationship building strategies and skills? Do you want to grow your business via high quality word-of-mouth referrals? Our special guest Matt Ward will answer these and other questions about relationship building, networking and high value referrals. In 2002 Matt Ward began working with business owners through his digital marketing agency, inConcert Web Solutions, to improve their bottom line, gain more clients, and grow their respective businesses. He sold his agency in 2018 so that he could focus on helping businesses get more word-of-mouth referrals! Matt's the author of MORE...Word of Mouth Referrals, Lifelong Customers & Raving Fans, and his newest book, The High-Five Effect: How To Do Business With People Who Bring You Joy, which was released October 2021. Matt believes that creating deeper and more meaningful connections will result in more word-of-mouth referrals. He personally uses this philosophy in his own business. Since 2002 Matt has spoken at hundreds of business events, seminars, trainings, conferences, and associations, including Score, The Better Business Bureau, The National Paving Expo, and the Vacation Rental Success Summit in Toronto, Canada. Matt is a professional member of the National Speakers Association and the host of the popular small business-centered podcast, The Mass Business Podcast! The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Differently understanding networking and relationship building
Strategies for networking more effectively
Power of building relationship-based referral partners
Stop looking for customers and clients at networking events
Understanding the difference between leads and referrals
Being the connector to add value to others
Role of trust in networking, relationship building and creating referral partners
Challenges when building relationships with a numbers focused mindset
Strategies for building top of mind awareness
How to consider reciprocity in networking and relationship building
Chasing joy in relationships instead of chasing business
Dos and don’ts of handwritten notes
Importance of continuing to keep your network warm
Understanding trigger points and touch points in relationship building
Using CRMs and other tools to enhance your relationship building efforts
Keys to incredible relationships – genuinely care and be genuinely curious
Foundations of generating consistent and valuable relationships
Role of effective 30-second commercials and elevator pitches
Be wary of the word “you” in your networking and relationship building
The 10 x 10 approach to leveraging your networking and relationship building
Make it personal in your networking
Resources:
Matt Ward
High Five Effect Website
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Are you looking to grow your leadership? Do you want to be a more impactful leader? Are you ready to tap into your zone of genius as a leader? Our special guest Anna Liebel (Reykjavík Iceland) answers these and other questions about leadership, vulnerability and self-leadership. Anna Liebel is the creator of what she calls the Zone of Genius and her mission is to live happily and help others choose to do the same. As a Mindshifter, she helps male leaders in tech get out of the firefighter mode, become the proactive Leaders they want to be, and enjoy the ride as they go. Anna's background is in engineering and project management, and back in the corporate days, she met too many brilliant humans who acted as stressed, overwhelmed managers-firefighters. She is committed to shifting the workplace practices to empower these brilliant humans to become the Genius Leaders they can be. Her practice is highly customized to address the needs and the current situation of every Leader Anna works with. The main goal is to create a safe space for the leaders to explore new practices, learn to understand themselves and others better and get the support they have been lacking while being the go-to person for everyone else in their organizations. As her clients put it, "it's a real luxury to be selfish for this one hour per week and have space to focus on myself and my needs only.” The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show NotesEpisode highlights…
Unique challenges for men in leadership
Vital role of vulnerability in leadership
Differently understand vulnerability in leadership
Vulnerability is the opposite of control
Key challenges for men to be vulnerable in their leadership
Sustainable leadership leads to happier and healthier workplaces, with families and in communities
Differently understanding the alpha male story
Sustainable leadership starts with doing the inside work first
Role of boundaries in impactful leadership
Today’s workforce is more often working too much rather than not enough
Importance of curiosity in leadership
Self-leadership and self-inclusion in overall leadership
Ways your inner compass helps you steer the storms of life
Strategies for enhancing your sense and practice of self-inclusion as a leader
Differently navigating fear as a leader
Importance of self-care for leadership (especially men)
Exploring your Zone of Genius as a leader
Knowing and claiming your gifts
Cost of taking care of everyone else without embracing your own self-care
Importance of creating space between your initial reaction and your thoughtful response
Role of self-awareness and pattern spotting in your leadership
Taking your power back in your leadership
Becoming more aware of your triggers in order to amplify your leadership
Resources: Anna Liebel
Anna Liebel Website
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Do you want to lead with more influence and impact? Are you committed to growing yourself and your leadership? Do you want to inspire others into action? Our special guest Phil Johnson answers these and other questions about leadership, emotional intelligence, living in the present and growing your consciousness in order to grow your leadership. Phil Johnson is an executive coach, trainer, international speaker, leadership and emotional intelligence advisor, and creator of the Master of Business Leadership Program and podcast. He’s also the Founder and CEO of the Master of Business Leadership program (MBL). The MBL focuses on the development of emotional intelligence. Over the past 21 years MBL has been promising and delivering greater earning power and career advancement around the world. Phil also runs the MBL YouTube channel and co-hosts the MBL podcast. Phil continues to inspire other business leaders through the MBL program, executive coaching, speaking engagements, and his writing. Phil has published several books including the MBL Success Map, MBL Tribal Wisdom, The Servant Warrior Leader, and The New Economic Currency. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show NotesEpisode highlights…
Today’s state of leadership – a desperate need for authentic, emotionally intelligent leaders
Redefining emotional intelligence in the context of navigating fear in different ways
Ways that authenticity builds followership (emotional contagions) and enhances your energy
Truth that our unconscious minds drive most of our habits and behaviors
Different perspectives on and strategies for fear
Understanding the drama triangle (drama, chaos and conflict) and its impact on communication, relationships and leadership
Are you a sheep dog, a sheep or a wolve in your leadership?
Emotional intelligence growth is an exponential multiplier in results
Understanding the unconscious nature of victimhood personally and professionally
Ways we use internal stories to justify and rationalize our behaviors
Understanding the biological and sociological resistance to change (and the role of a coach in overcoming it)
The cost of disengagement in business
The power of the space between stimulus and response – this is the space of leadership
The path to impactful leadership is enhancing your level of consciousness
Power of presence in leadership (most present person is the most influential)
Exploring the key obstacles to growing your emotional intelligence
This moment is the only thing that’s real
If your actions don’t inspire others, to follow your example, you're not a leader
We have to act our way into thinking differently
Impact of fear-based decision making and leadership on trust and relationships
Being more present versus being less distracted
Leadership isn't a position. It's not a title, it's a choice.
Key habits than enhance our consciousness, presence and influence
Reality that the riskiest thing is to fail to lead (it’s riskier than choosing to lead)
Strategies for finding and hiring people with higher emotional intelligence
Emotional intelligence is an experiential process (not an intellectual process)
Resources: Phil Johnson LinkedIn
A New Earth Book by Eckhart Tolle
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Are you considering outsourcing for your business? Are you an outsourcing resource for other businesses? Do you want to better understand the ways that outsourcing can help you grow your business and balance your life? Our special guest Rachel Luther answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, leadership and outsourcing. Rachel Luther is the Founder of Check Off Your List and an entrepreneur who was a virtual assistant before people knew what the term meant. After spending the last 10+ years growing her VA business from a one-woman show to a team of talented professionals providing all areas of back-office virtual support, Rachel is divulging her secrets to success, covering work/life balance, strategies for outsourcing, remote work, and everything in between. Rachel created her business to have a life and build a business, which she built while not only raising four children, but also homeschooling them. Rachel is often asked, “Can you be an entrepreneur and still have it all?” The answer is a resounding “Yes,” and her podcast (Checking Off Your List) tells you how. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show NotesEpisode highlights…
Role and importance of outsourcing in the new realities of COVID and remote work
Understanding what needs to be outsourced
Keys to choosing outsourced resources given the greater resource options
Growth of virtual assistants and outsourced solutions
Strategies for building your business as a virtual assistant or outsourced resource
Strategies for choosing your outsourced resource
Understanding different categories of virtual assistants and outsourced resources
Outsourcing tasks versus projects versus processes
Shifting your mindsets to work with outsourced resources
Outsourcing as a path to balance and business growth
Effective outsourcing and shifting your control mindset
Value of outsourcing by working with people who can focus on what they do best and what they love
Understanding why outsourcing rates may be higher than employee rates (value versus cost)
Value of outsourcing – Clearing your plate and getting better results with less effort
Understanding your unrealistic view of your employees’ productivity
Ways the outsourcing conversations have changed over the past five years – shifting from how is this possible to strategizing what needs to be outsourced
Key questions to ask in exploring and choosing outsourcing resources
Key question to ask in determining what to outsource (and what not to outsource)
How to assess the value of outsourcing versus the cost of outsourcing
Growth of fractional services in business
Keys to assessing the outsourcing of marketing and social media
Why outsourcing sooner than you think will help you grow your business and balance your life
Resources:
Rachel Luther LinkedIn
Rachel Luther Instagram
Check Off Your List Website
Checking Off Your List Podcast with Rachel Luther
New One Minute Manager book by Ken Blanchard
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Are you intrigued by what history can teach us about leadership? Do you wonder how different Presidents would navigate today’s challenges? Are you committed to more deeply understanding leadership and history? Our special guest Jason Voiovich answers these and other questions about leadership, Presidential history, and leadership lessons from our Presidents. In a career that spans more than 25 years, Jason Voiovich has launched hundreds of new products – everything from medical devices, to virtual healthcare systems, to non-dairy consumer cheese, to next-generation alternatives to the dreaded “cone of shame” for pets, to sex aides for cows (really!). He’s a graduate of both the University of Wisconsin and the University of Minnesota, and he has completed post-graduate studies at the MIT Sloan School of Management. His formal training has been invaluable, but he credits his true success to growing up in a family of artists, immigrants, and entrepreneurs. They taught him how to carefully observe the world, see patterns before others notice them, and use those insights to create new innovations. History is Jason’s favorite way to observe the world. No surprise that Jason’s book is titled Marketer in Chief: How Each President Sold the American Idea. He believes that the people from the past have plenty to teach us about the challenges and opportunities we face today. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Connecting the dots between history, history lessons and leadership
Risk tolerance, innovation and leadership
Understanding the context of historical leadership relative to today
Best leaders are curious about everything including people
Curiosity – innate or developed
Curiosity is the foundation of empathy
Modern day leadership lessons from Napoleon
Realities of situational leadership
Separating success from great leadership
Understanding the evolving role of the President of the United States including as Chief Communicator
Understanding the leadership of Abraham Lincoln in the context of the times
Role of empathy in leadership
Examples of innovation and creativity by Presidents
Leadership lessons of Ben Franklin
Realities of trust issues in the Presidency
Importance of reading history based upon historical scholarship
Best leaders ask the best / better questions to inspire others to action
Resources:
Jason Voiovich
Jason Voiovich Website
Marketer in Chief Website
Marketer in Chief: How Each President Sold the American Idea Book by Jason Voiovich
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Do you want to bring more happiness and fun into your workplace? Do you wonder about the role of playfulness in leadership? Are you committed to transforming your peoples’ experience at work? Our special guest Lisa Caprelli will answer these and other questions about the vital role of happiness, fun and playfulness in leadership, teams and cultures. Lisa Caprelli is a speaker, songwriter and an award-winning author of the unicorn book series, Unicorn Jazz.™ Unicorn Jazz series offers social emotional learning (empathy, kindness, love, belonging, believing in others, feelings and more). She is an author of 18 books, and has produced music videos for kids. Lisa is the producer and director of Unicorn Jazz Presents The Thing I Do - a family show on Amazon TV. After a 10+ year career in creating radio show programming and podcasts combined with a 26 year marketing career in representing over 160 CEO's and leaders, Lisa created Skip a Step: Imparting Wisdom for Young Entrepreneur Minds. Lisa is a Forbes contributor, has been featured in FORBES magazine, ABC News, Shout Out LA, USA today newspapers, and more media and news outlets. Lisa's ambitious and multi-faceted perspective inspires people all around her to live a life of purpose. As a writer, educator and leader she is called upon for storytelling while fostering perseverance, imagination and inspiration. She enjoys teaching young minds the power of possibilities be it: elementary schools, teens, educators, parents, counselors, librarians and more. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Bringing more fun, entertainment and playfulness into business and leadership
Choosing kindness to build great teams
Entrepreneurial mindsets and skills as life skills
Leadership is about people and relationships
Importance of fun in learning experiences
Embracing make believe sessions in your business
Being aware of the stress of adulting and injecting more happiness and fun into your adult lives
Understanding the difference between making work fun versus having fun outside of work
Leadership lessons from the movie Big
Playfulness is essential to learning and happy workplaces and connected teams
Play and fun are not lost time (they’re investments in your people and culture)
Understanding the role of social emotional learning in learning and development
Impact of COVID in the education system, process and mindset
Importance of giving back by helping another human being (including your team members)
Getting intentional about happiness at work and about what makes you happy (and then do it)
Transforming our patters and beliefs about leadership and work
Resources:
Lisa Caprelli
Unicorn Jazz Website
Skip a Step: Imparting Wisdom for Young Entrepreneur Minds and Kidpreneurs book by Lisa Caprelli
Unicorn Jazz: Help and Give Back book by Lisa Caprelli
Unicorn Jazz Presents The Thing I Do (family show on Amazon TV)
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Do you feel like there’s even more inside you and your leadership? Are you committed to working on yourself to enhance your leadership influence and impact? Are you ready to elevate your leadership and impact by growing your spiritual intelligence as a leader? Our special guest Amy Lynn Durham answers these and other questions about leadership, emotional intelligence, spiritual intelligence and creating magic at work for your organization and team. Amy Lynn Durham is the CEO of an organization called Create Magic at Work. She's a UC Berkeley Certified Executive Coach. She's also certified to coach in 21 skills associated with Spiritual Intelligence (SQ). Amy has spent years in the corporate world managing hundreds of employees for all different types of companies. She created create magic at work with the intention to offer Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) and EQ tools to energize and transform the workplace. Amy not only believes in creating positive company cultures, but this is what she does in her passion and her work. Amy believes in leading differently, building cultures differently and creating magic at work. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Two key leadership questions: How do you want to leave your team feeling? Are you leaving your team in a better place than when you found them?
Understanding emotional intelligence (EQ) and spiritual intelligence (SQ)
Critical impacts from leading with emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence
The intelligences pyramid from the bottom up: Physical Intelligence (PQ); Cognitive Intelligence (IQ); Emotional Intelligence (EQ); Spiritual Intelligence (SQ)
Strategies for practicing emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence
One key spiritual intelligence skill is making wise and compassionate decisions
Exploring your breadth of time perception
The role of radical self-forgiveness in leadership
Understanding that spiritual intelligence is across a spectrum of skills (not just a single skill)
What it means to lead from your higher self and why it matters
Leadership work is the deep inside personal work
Importance of creating a safe place for vulnerable conversations at work
Exploring the scales of motivation and energy
The Great Resignation and the call for spiritual intelligence in leadership
Overcoming the challenges of all the roles required of middle managers and leaders
Importance of vulnerable conversations at work to create magic at work
Strategies for building spiritual intelligence skills in a virtual workplace
Foundations of spiritual intelligence – human connection, compassion, emotions, empathy, vulnerability and curiosity
Gifts of spiritual intelligence in leadership – innovation, productivity and profitability
What it means to be a selectively data driven executive and why it holds you back
One result of creating an environment that thrives with emotional intelligence and spiritual intelligence is a workplace that creates less ego induced drama
The important role of paradox (complexity of thought) in leading with spiritual intelligence (enhancing your polarity management skills)
Expanding your leadership to quantum leadership where you think about the effects that your business has on humanity, communities and the planet
Resources:
Amy Lynn Durham
Create Magic at Work Website
The Spiritual Intelligence Experience
Seven Spiritual Laws of Success Book by Deepak Chopra
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Do you wonder what the future holds for our children? Do you believe in empowering youth to live their dreams? Are you looking for ideas on helping young people live and lead different lives? Our special guest SF Banks answers these and other questions about youth motivational development, leadership and living your dreams. Shaun SF. Banks has been involved in the youth development industry for over 20 years. he's a captivating, humorous, and passionate communicator. Shaun excels at motivating and developing youths to go after their dreams. Shaun educates families on effective ways to support their youth and give them an edge in life. In 2007, Shaun opened the I AM Defense institute against profound disinterest in working with children. Since that time, SF. has developed a passion for creating personal development systems for youth. Shaun is the creator of Camp Warrior King, which helps thousands of youth gain exposure to amazingly fun activities, "You Can Have IT ALL!" Youth conferences, "You Can Have It ALL!" Youth motivational Development Magazine, The Team Hott SAWCE development characters, and other development tools for children. Shaun has also authored 3 books on the personal development topic. One of SF.'s big passions is the "You Can Have IT All!" orphanage in Bombo, Uganda, where he currently supports over 30 children with shelter, food, and school supplies. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Reality that most kids have baggage from their past and that youth from all circumstances need motivational development and empowerment
Working hard is important but it’s not the only thing
Tools for empowering and motivating youth to live their dreams
Vital role of character development to fuel motivation, empowerment and achievement
Value of experiential learning experiences
Importance of instilling the belief that someone is worthy of having and living their dreams
Overcoming the cultural and family messages that dreams aren’t real and that life is not about dreams
Changing the narrative of youth also involves shifting the parents’ narrative
Role of fun in growth, development and learning
Hurt people hurt people – happy people create more happiness
Importance of service as a tool for people and character growth and development
Relationship building through shared service experiences
Role of respect and respecting differences as character foundations – treat others the ways you want to be treated
Mindsets and strategies for addressing bullying
Education system challenges and opportunities for youth development
Value of personal development as part of an overall education approach and mindset
Dreams are not for kids only and must not be delayed
Parents must gas/fuel (support) their children’s dreams even in small ways
Resources:
Shaun “SF” Banks
SF Banks Instagram
You Can Have It All Website
You Can Have It All Magazine
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Are you an entrepreneurial creative? Do you want to grow your business and protect your valuable intellectual property? Is your lawyer truly your partner and helping to grow your business? Our special guest Rachel Brenke answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, business growth, intellectual property and ways the right lawyer can help you grow your business, especially for creative entrepreneurs. Rachel Brenke is a multi-faceted entrepreneur, business strategist and intellectual property attorney. She’s a very successful lawyer focusing on Intellectual Property while helping to protect small businesses along with several successful legal niche brands, including TheLawTog®, FitLegally, and BlogLegally. She’s also a mother of five, wife to an Army veteran, a practicing lawyer, an author (7 books), a cancer survivor, and a Team USA athlete (aquathon). Through her podcast, brands, and one-on-one services, Rachel helps creative entrepreneurs with business strategy and legal needs such as forming businesses, draft contracts, and business and intellectual property law. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Exploring the entrepreneurial mindset and building a business that gives you life you want
Importance of having a business growth strategy
Looking differently at business growth the role / value of the right legal advisor
Role of a full legal strategy for your creative business
Why having a lawyer is an essential part of your business strategy for your creative business
Risks and limitations of do-it-yourself law and online legal resources (i.e. Legal Zoom)
Value of flat rate legal fees for business owners and lawyers
Doing the math of why appropriate legal advice is an investment for your business (not a cost)
Demonstrating your value through your different questions
Questions as the key to developing your business growth strategy
Role of rocks and fear in limiting your business growth
Unique business challenges for creatives
Using questions to help your clients and team find their own answers (instead of giving them the answers)
Creating contracts that align with your work flow
Using the contract to help you be a better leader and business owner
Value of working with a lawyer who’s grown other (non-law) businesses
Importance of being confident in the value of what you create and sell
Risks of putting your money issues and beliefs on your clients and potential clients
Role of money blocks in limiting your business growth
Your mindset with your clients must align with your mindset with your vendors
Recognizing the season of life that you're in and evolving and pivoting based upon that season of life
Resources:
Rachel Brenke LinkedIn
Rachel Brenke Instragram
Rachel Brenke Twitter
Rachel Brenke Website
Influence: The Psychology of Persuasion and Pre-Suasion: A Revolutionary Way to Influence and Persuade Books by Dr. Robert Cialdini
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Do you lead or work with R&D, scientific or tech teams? Is collaboration one of your core values or objectives? Are you looking for strategies to enhance your communication, relationship building, collaboration and outcomes? Our special guest Dr. Nicole Tschierske (Hamburg Germany) answers these and other questions about leadership, collaboration, communication and work systems with R&D, science and teach teams. Dr. Tschierske is a coach and consultant who helps leaders and teams in R&D and tech do their best work. Nicole works with her clients to improve their collaboration and communication skills so their work gets the momentum and recognition it deserves. She also helps construct ways of working that reduce stress, increase motivation and engagement, and deliver results. In short, Nicole helps organizations and leaders build remarkable partnerships internally and externally. Nicole lives in Hamburg, Germany, holds a PhD in chemistry and is trained in coaching, positive psychology, change management, and advanced problem-solving. When she’s not buried in research papers and books you can find her taking long hikes in the German countryside or mesmerized by Mary Poppins on the screen. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Understanding and leading people who think, communicate, learn and collaborate differently
Importance of staying open and curious in interacting with and leading people
Leading teams of different people and communication styles
Building relationships among people of difference (it can all change with one person makes the effort)
Tools for leading and collaboration with R&D and tech teams
Improved communication creates better outcomes, greater innovation and increased speed to market
Importance of having a skilled facilitator in enhancing your communication, collaboration and relationships
Role of team and communication ground rules
Using systems to build and enhance communication and relationships
Exploring Dunbar’s number – the limit (150) to the number of people with whom we can maintain stable social relationships
Role of trust in communication, relationship building, collaboration and change management
Exploring vulnerability in the R&D, science and tech sector
Understanding collaboration and ways to achieve it
Exploring the creation and outcomes of remarkable partnerships
Collaboration as a culture and system (more than a process)
What it means to have a culture where every person takes 100% for the outcomes and experience, especially in conflict management
Core elements of building remarkable partnerships
Resources:
Nicole Tschierske
Nicole Tschierske Website
Positive Leadership in Action: Tools, Techniques & Best Practices Book by Markus Ebner
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Do you wonder if your alcohol use is really serving you? Are you curious about the impact that alcohol is having in your life? Are you aware of the deeper reasons that you consume alcohol? Are you willing to be curious about your alcohol use? Our special guest Karolina Rzadkowolska answers these and other questions about the impact of alcohol in our culture, society, businesses, leadership and lives. Karolina Rzadkowolska is a certified alcohol-free life coach who helps powerful women make alcohol insignificant in their lives. She’s worked with thousands of clients through her online courses and coaching to change their drinking habits and unleash a new level of health, happiness, and potential to go after their biggest dreams. Her book Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You (Harper Collins and featured in Target) will be out on bookshelves on January 4th. She’s the host of Euphoric the Podcast, founder of Euphoric Alcohol-Free, and her work has been featured in the Huffington Post, Popsugar, Authority Magazine, Greatist, and Elite Daily. Karolina’s passionate about helping you discover what really makes you happy outside of a beverage and design a life you love. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
There’s more to alcohol use than abstinence and abuse (normal drinker versus problem drinker)
The reality of the impact of alcohol of the millions of people in the middle of alcohol use
Understanding the prevalence of alcohol in our culture
New health realities of alcohol consumption
Health impacts of alcohol use
Conscious and unconscious beliefs around alcohol use
The role and challenges of the labels we use with alcohol use in our culture
Key social drivers for alcohol use
Obstacles to changes in our alcohol use (what we get from alcohol)
The role of comparativeness in alcohol use
The value of an alcohol break in your life
Key questions regarding your alcohol use: Is it making you happy? Is it aligned with your values? Is it helping you achieve your values every day? Is it helping you achieve my bigger dreams?
Moving beyond the social pressures around alcohol
You don’t have to solve all your questions about alcohol – just take a break
The benefits of reducing or eliminating alcohol use in your life
Resources:
Karolina Rzadkowolska
Karolina Rzadkowolska Instagram
Euphoric Alcohol Free Website
Euphoric: Ditch Alcohol and Gain a Happier, More Confident You Book by Karolina Rzadkowolska (Free Gift)
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Are you committed to building a people-first culture? Are you looking for actionable strategies to build such a culture? Do you want tools you can use to enhance your leadership and people development? Our special guest Boomer Brown answers these and other questions about leadership, people development and building cultures of high trust, better people and great impact. Dr. Boomer Brown, PhD serves as the Chief Encouragement Officer (CEO) and Visionary for Doing Good at Work, Inc. As a business owner & leader, educator, international conference speaker, author, executive coach, board member, and adviser, his leadership has garnered him the respect of business and community leaders across various industries and cities. Boomer believes work and business are good, profit is a must, and companies should invest in people, leaders and process to yield the greatest profitability. He is committed to connecting the heart and mind of business leaders to change world. He believes business is a key piece in creating Total Societal Impact. It all starts with people. His simple, positive, and authentic communication style appeals to a diverse audience. He is passionate about his family, his faith, and service to others. He is committed to caring for business leaders, redeeming business, and changing the world. Better people, better business, better world. We make people better! The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Putting people first may be something completely new
What it means to have healthy people in your organization
Origins of the concept of cultures of psychological safety
Seizing the opportunities today to take a more holistic approach to your people and your business
The troubles with creating solutions in a vacuum and without your peoples’ input
The importance of a well-informed and intentional people strategy
The impact of fear of losing control on our leadership and people strategies
The role of questions and listening in developing your people
Shortcoming of overly metricfying business (data is not the solution – it’s a tool for solutions)
Better people plus better process equals better profits
Value of Monday morning momentum meetings
Trust is the amniotic fluid of people first cultures
Critical obstacles to trust in today’s social cultures
Strategies for aligning your people with your strategy and values
Understanding yellow line companies (building new companies inside and existing company)
Trust keys – consistency and safety
Using carefrontation in your leadership
Critical need for appreciation in the feedback mix
The role of the five appreciation languages with teams, engagement and people development
Importance of seeing people as individuals
Value of employee care programs (safety net offering)
Resources:
Boomer Brown (boomer@doinggoodatwork.com)
Doing Good at Work Website
The 5 Languages of Appreciation in the Workplace: Empowering Organizations by Encouraging Peopleby Gary Chapman
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Are you committed to leading with a people first approach? Do you want to unleash your authentic leader? Are you ready to empower your own leadership? Our special guest Chris Rollins answers these and other questions about leadership, the LBGTQ+ community, leading people first and empowering your authentic and powerful leadership. Chris Rollins is a purpose-driven leadership and executive coach who works with leaders – especially in the LGBTQ+ community – to experience new levels of growth, success and fulfillment. Chris is passionate about working with leaders to find their own voice and style so they can lead with purpose and authenticity. He's particularly skilled at creating a safe space where his clients can experience meaningful transformation to drive positive business results. He's worked with clients across industries and functions and is particularly inspired by coaching leaders who adopt a "people-first" approach. Before working as a coach, Chris spent a decade in corporate America. He first honed his craft in sales before rising through the leadership ranks at a digital marketing research company in the customer success function. He then leveled up to an internally focused role as SVP of Organizational Development where he served on the executive team as a trusted partner to the CEO. When living and leading from his essence, Chris embodies compassion, intimacy, love, joy and peace. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
What it means to create safe spaces for people and why it matters
Unique challenges for the LBGTQ+ community as leaders
Understanding the multiple pursuits of safety in the LBGTQ+ community
Bridging differences through the authentic pursuit of connection
The role of intersectionality in understanding differences and building a strong DEI culture
Ways that survival mode (not feeling safe) keeps people from their full power, authenticity and impact
Importance of seeing critical leadership traits as anything but soft
The impact of being in your threat state in your leadership
The value of people first leadership and its impacts
The need for bringing more compassion, kindness, vulnerability and authenticity to the workplace
Understanding the intersection of empathy and compassion in leadership
Differently understanding being kind and being nice
Critical role of authentic conversations in leadership
The trouble with performance improvement plans (getting past the policy and process)
The difference between agreements and expectations (and why it matters)
Beware the huge blind spot of self-protection (often unconscious)
Ways that a people first mindset is becoming the norm in the workforce
Understanding and navigating the shifting workforce (e.g. the Great Resignation)
Get clear in who you are as a leader and be willing to authentically live and lead that way
Self-reflection is the foundation of leadership
Resources:
Chris Rollins
Chris Rollins Website
QueeHR Community
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Are you a creative struggling to unleash your creativity? Are you battling with your inner critic? Do you want to move past the “not enough” stories and doubts? Are you ready to claim your most creative and impactful self? Our special guest Cami Travis-Groves answers these and other questions about the inner work of life and leadership. As a transformational coach and an expert in inner work, Cami Travis-Groves helps creatives tame their inner critics for good and become their absolute best selves. As a 30-year veteran of the graphic design industry, she understands intimately the struggles of a creative career. Cami is also an international keynote speaker and an author based in the Kansas City area. She is probably best known for her good juju, spreading it wherever she goes. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
If you only work on your symptoms, the root cause will always bring back the issues
Unique challenges faced by creatives in business, career and life
The role of your inner critic in holding you back
Navigating a male dominated industry as a woman
Realities of using affirmations to create inner change
The role of trauma in birthing our inner critic
Understanding the ways that your limbic brain is holding you back
Getting access to the parts of your brain that serve you
Understanding and being aware of your emotions to shift from reaction to response
The importance of having a conversation with your inner critic
Overcoming the subtle limiting messages as a creative (i.e. “Don’t be a starving artist.”)
Why creatives often carry the deepest wounds
The need for trauma informed training in education
Life and leadership is about coloring outside the lines
The reality that little “t” trauma is everywhere and just as impactful
Being aware of the little “t” traumas you create for others every day
Understanding the importance of the Losado Ratio (people need a ratio of 3 to 1 positive feedback over constructive feedback)
Embracing reinforcing feedback as a leadership and growth tool
Transformation coaching is a healing journey
The inner work is uncomfortable and sometimes painful, but it’s the path to freedom
Resources:
Cami Travis-Groves
Cami Travis-Groves Website
100 Days of Creative High Growth Program
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Are you tired of coming up short in achieving your objectives? Do you want to live and lead differently? Are you ready to live and lead beyond your past experiences? Our special guest Michael Unbroken answers these and other questions about leadership, life transformation, healing trauma and having the success you desire. From homeless to hero, Michael Unbroken, is the Founder of Think Unbroken, best-selling author, award-winning speaker, podcast host, coach, and advocate for adult survivors of childhood trauma. Since 2016, Michael has empowered over 100,000 trauma survivors to get out of The Vortex, learn to love themselves, and become the hero of their own story. Michael has spoken in over 80 countries, won investments from Undercover Billionaire Grant Cardone, and is on a mission to end generational trauma in his lifetime. Think Unbroken’s mission is to empower trauma survivors with the tools and curriculum of Think Unbroken to get unstuck, learn to love themselves, get "Out of The Vortex" and reclaim their power. We believe that by creating palatable and practical tools that Trauma Warriors around the world can overcome their past, heal from trauma, and become the hero of their own story! The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Your circumstances and experiences don’t define your or your life, unless you let them
Overcoming the not enough messages from your life
What are you willing to do to have the life you want to have?
In order to get to where you want to go you have to know how you got to where you are
Realities and impact of childhood trauma
In order to move past your past, you have to address is
You must invest in yourself first in order to move past your old stories and experiences
The importance of getting clear on your values and what you stand for
The difference between success and failure is decision
The only way you create belief in yourself is you have to prove to yourself that you’re capable of trying (you must be willing to try and fail)
Trusting your intuition is essential
Ways your head keeps you from the life and outcomes you desire
The value of using binary language in your self-talk
Learning to trust and follow your gut instincts
Self-awareness in leadership is everything
Critical question: Am I trying to be right or seeking to achieve the mission?
The people who are most successful in life are the people who operate mission based
Realities of vulnerability in leadership Resources:
Michael Unbroken
Think Unbroken Website
Think Unbroken Podcast
Free copy of Think Unbroken book by Michael Unbroken
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Are you looking for the secret sauce for remote and hybrid work? Are you struggling with engaging and communicating with your remote team? Do you want tools to help you lead and manage a remote team? Our special guest Hoyin Cheung answers these and other questions about remote work, humanizing remote experiences and leading remote teams. Hoyin Cheung is an entrepreneurial visionary with a knack for being ahead of the curve. Accurately predicting the social and psychological harms associated with social media, he moved on from his successful digital marketing agency to pursue the future of humanized digital interactions. Today, Hoyin is the Founder and CEO of Remo, an interactive virtual event platform that humanizes the online event experience. He has pioneered technology and ground-breaking concepts in remote work and real-time virtual collaboration. In just over a year, Hoyin has grown Remo from 5 to over 100 members, all working globally. He’s currently passionate about creating authentic conversations that drive meaningful relationships in the most human way possible with the help of technology. Remo’s events bring communities together built upon purpose and common interests and provide opportunities to grow and facilitate trust. This leads to organic relationships in the virtual space, as well as offline. These common factors create comfortable networking settings, setting the stage for real human interaction and creating deep connections that can last a lifetime. Hoyin believes this process is the most humane way to bring people together. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Strategies and platforms for bringing people together online in the most human and humane way
The importance of video in building trust, connection and relationships
Humanizing online experiences
Thinking differently about the remote experience (not just the remote work technology)
Creating space for spontaneous conversations online
Moving beyond productivity as the focus of remote work experiences and events
Ways that technology platforms can deliver more engagement during meetings, gatherings and events
Enhancing your online and remote networking events and experience
Assessing and navigating the camera on / camera off realities of online gatherings
Unique challenges of remote and hybrid work
Impact of remote work on meetings quantity and quality
Role and importance of a communication charter in your business
Key tools for managing remote work forces
Challenges of boundaries with remote and hybrid work
Rethinking meetings and length of meetings
Remote works requires minimizing meetings (not expanding them)
Role of physical boundaries at home in holding work boundaries
Critical role of policies and processes when managing a remote team
Resources:
Hoyin Cheung
Remo Website
Who Book by Geoff Smart and Randy Street
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Are you clear about your business model and is it the right business model for your business and market? Are you looking to grow and scale your business? Are you committed to growing your leadership? Our special guest Kimberly Ofori (The Netherlands) answers these and other questions about leadership, scaling up, business models, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Kimberly Ofori is an entrepreneur, strategist and business consultant, and is currently the Managing Director at Ofori & Co. – A Strategy & Innovation Agency where she helps scaleups and corporations innovate their business models and overall strategic positioning in their respective markets. Thanks to her rather unconventional corporate and entrepreneurial career; from climbing up the career ladder starting at very young age, to working and living in the Middle East, Africa and Europe where she founded and sold two companies – she’s amassed a tremendous amount of knowledge and experience on what it takes to choose to be in the lead of your own life, in your career and on leading others. This is why Kimberly has been coaching leaders and leadership teams on personal leadership using The Lead method, a personal leadership methodology developed by Kimberly herself. Kimberly also functions as an advocate, advisor and initiator of many gender and racial equity projects worldwide and fulfills a number of Board advisory roles as well. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Understanding the importance and value of choosing the right business model for your business
The of value position in growing and scaling your business
Understanding different types of business models
Role of business models and strategy in scaling up your business
Seeing your product or service from the perspective of the person who’s going to be “buying” it
Strategies for learning to seeing your business, customers and business models differently
Leaders help people see things, situations and opportunities differently
The importance of learning from your failures (and a process for learning)
Understanding that scaling is not always fast
Role of reflection in learning and growth (Learning = Experience + Reflection)
What is personal leadership and why it matters
Importance of asking the question what you really want
Understanding key leadership myths about making mistakes, failures and learning
Risks of policies in limiting your growth, learning and innovation
Different ways to explore diversity as an organizational goal
Importance of understanding your values and goals in leadership
Critical questions and ideas for diversity, equity and inclusion
Being intentional in your leadership
Leadership Wisdom – Make a conscious decision to take charge of the decisions that you're making and keep asking yourself “Why?”
Resources:
Kimberly Ofori
Kimberly Ofori Website
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Are you looking to shift, enhance or accelerate your career? Do you sometimes lack the confidence you desire in your career and leadership? Is your emotional intelligence building your career or holding you back? Our special guest LaPora Lindsey answers these and other questions about leadership, confidence, emotional intelligence and impact. Anlecta "LaPora" Lindsey is a motivational speaker, life coach and author who helps her clients develop and grow their careers through career coaching and life skills management. She’s certified in emotional intelligence training, life skills coaching and professional resume writing. As an avid volunteer, LaPora dedicates her time as a Committee Mentor for #ICANHELP. A military spouse of thirteen years, LaPora and her husband have two children and have recently made their sixth—and last—military-ordered move to Colts Neck, NJ. LaPora’s articles have been featured in Military Spouse Magazine—a nationally syndicated magazine and blog that reaches 1.1 million readers—Kitsap Military Times and NAS Patuxent River installation paper. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Differently understanding confidence – what it is and how to achieve it
The critical role of mindset in your confidence and career
Understanding the difference between your self-confidence and the confidence others have in you
Four core areas of emotional intelligence: 1. Self-awareness; 2. Self-management; 3. Social awareness; and 4. Relationship management
Strategies for navigating past imposter syndrome
Self-awareness – What you know about yourself (not necessarily with aligned action)
Self-management – Action you take based upon your self-awareness
Social awareness – What you see in social situations and interpersonal interactions (including your impact on others)
Importance of empathy in your leadership and career
Why we’re often harder on ourselves than anyone else
Relationship management – The advanced skill that requires self-awareness, self-management and social awareness to differently navigate your relationships
Understanding and navigating your triggers
Trap of labeling emotions as either positive or negative (shifting to healthy versus unhealthy emotions)
Role and importance of discomfort in growth, change and development
Differently understanding and experiencing rejection and the fear of rejection (rejection as a tool of wisdom and patience)
Learning is a choice and you can have experiences without learning anything
Reframing your biases about potential employees relating to military partners
Pride as a key driver for engagement and culture (organizational impacts and values)
Resources:
LaPora Lindsey LinkedIn
LaPora Lindsey Instragram
LaPora Lindsey Website
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Are you feeling stuck in your old ways of thinking? Are you looking to grow your business and your leadership? Are you looking for tools to help you create, allow and receive more of everything in your life? Our special guest Deborah Peters answers these and other questions about leadership, self-awareness, mindsets and program repatterning. Deborah Peters is the Founder of the Neuro Engineering Institute and an international business coach and mind set expert. She’s provided training, coaching and keynote speeches to companies in 17 countries in a wide variety of industries for the past 20 years. Deborah was a single mother at 15 with a trauma-based background from a poverty stricken, alcoholic and abusive background. She has successfully outlived her past and created a thriving life and organization that is of service to humanity through business growth. they Guide Business Leaders Into Alignment With Their Highest Potential, Cultivating Mastery of Mind, Life & Business. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Repatterning any thought pattern or emotional program that’s keeping you from your greatness
The real mindset journey is taking it from your head to your heart
The difference between being it (in mindset) versus talking about it
The trap of self-validation
Embracing the pause in your leadership
Navigating the realities of fear in leadership
Realities of organizational mindsets and energies
Three key types of energies: Movers, ideas and connectors
Overcoming the need for external validation in order to allow results to occur
Seeing fear of failure and fear of success as the same thing (a mental programming)
Understanding repatterning – allowing it to happen to you versus being intentional with your repatterning
Resources:
Deborah Peters
Neuro Engineering Institute Website
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Are you looking to grow your leadership? Are you committed to building a people-centric culture? Are you ready to move past the checklists and build an authentic culture? Our special guest Katie McLaughlin answers these and other questions about engagement, leadership and culture building. Katie McLaughlin is the Founder, Chief Strategist and Transformation Artist at the McLaughlin Method, an organization that provides leadership and culture transformation for mature startups. They help leaders create inclusive cultures, build emotional intelligence, and work through their assumptions and biases so they can actually connect with and get the MOST out of their teams. Katie does this all through interactive, experiential, theatre-based exercises. Her bias for action is HIGH so attendees to her sessions always leave with at least one action item to immediately do to shift something in your behavior, relationships, and company. Working with Katie you benefit from the powerhouse combo of her theatre background and over 15 years in the heart of business strategy, organizational development, and change management. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Culture challenges and opportunities in the dynamics of start-ups
Good culture intention versus great culture execution
Organizations and cultures are ever changing, living, breathing things
Challenges of change management in growing organizations
Understanding two culture inflection points the past two years – COVID pandemic and rapid growth companies due to aggressive hiring or acquisitions
Acquisitions and mergers require inclusive integration conversations and strategies
Living your values versus simply having them posted on the wall
Different perspectives on the concept of out of the box thinking and innovation
Leaders must communicate more of what’s in their heads
The challenges and realities of assumptions and biases in our leadership, reactions, perspectives and decision-making
The intrinsic and insidious nature of assumptions and biases
Learning how to better deal with our emotions and the emotions of others in the workplace
Using theater in growing your leadership, communication, culture and engagement
What it means to really see your people as humans – moving beyond checklists to authentic culture
Culture is in the in-between moments
The critical role of intentionality in leadership and culture building
Role of biases in workplace communication and expectations
Emotional intelligence and leadership
Other people determine our emotional intelligence (not our own self-assessment)
You can’t control how someone feels (at best, you can only influence it)
Authentic leadership beyond leadership performance
Challenges and solutions for engaging a remote workforce
Leadership requires delegating things off of your plate
Resources:
Katie McLaughlin
McLaughlin Method Website
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Are you challenged by the world’s expectations of who you’re supposed to be? Do you struggle with worry, fear, stress and anxiety about what it means to be a man today? Are you looking for ways to reduce your stress, connect with other men and live more fully and authentically? Our special guest Clay Smeltzer answers these and other questions about manhood, imposter syndrome, personal leadership and living your life more authentically. Clay Smeltzer is the Founder of the Purpose Infused Brotherhood which helps driven men become the best version of themselves by Building, Battling and Bonding together. In short, getting men initiated into a family where they belong! Clay was 35 years old and living by what the world and everyone else told him he should be. He was the "responsible man," yet he was filled with worry, anxiety, anger, stress, negativity, shame, fear and the list went on. Then the shit hit the fan with a full-blown anxiety/panic attack over an episode of Game of Thrones and he decided to bring death to his old self. Out of those ashes came the new Purpose Infused Man. This change gave birth to the Purpose Infused Brotherhood and helping other men make those same changes and become the best version of themselves every single day! The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
A leader of one can be a leader of many – you can’t lead many until you can lead yourself
What man do you see in the mirror?
The two questions every man asks himself: 1. Am I good enough? 2. Do I have what it takes?
The realities of money beliefs and shadows, and their impacts in your life
Ways your subconscious programming creates the outcomes in your life
The vital journey of going into your own subconscious darkness to learn and grow
Becoming friends with pieces of yourself that you don’t like
Rising up from the ashes of your former self (living like a phoenix)
Unlearning your subconscious beliefs and reprogramming your beliefs to be more fulfilling
Finding your truth by going at least five levels deep in exploring your whys for your behaviors, fears, etc.
Understanding the ways our brain works and the ways it’s actually programmed
The value of a 45-day purposeful man journal
The impact on men of shoving things down
What it means to Build, Battle and Bond
Reprogramming our thinking regarding emotions
The reality of the strength in your emotions
The power of vulnerability in sharing your doubts, emotions and feelings
Being more thought reactive than emotionally reactive
Life formula: E + R = O … Event + Response = Outcome
What and why of the death of your old self
Resources:
Clay Smeltzer
Purpose Infused Brotherhood Website (Initiation Program)
Build Battle Bond Website
Purpose Infused Brotherhood Podcast
The Dark Side of the Light Chasers Book by Debbie Ford
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Are you consistently achieving your sales and growth goals and objectives? Do you want to improve your sales process and sales outcomes? Do you want to accelerate your sales culture and growth? Our special guest Bruce Fador answers these and other questions about leadership, sales management, sales and sales processes. Bruce Fador is the Founder and Managing Partner of Fador Global Consulting Group, a consulting and advisory firm helping companies develop and execute strategies that accelerate their next growth phase. Bruce leverages his 30 years of experience in leadership and senior operational positions in services-focused firms to deliver unmatched results for his clients. Before devoting complete focus and energy to FGCG, Bruce held several chief executive officer positions, including serving as CEO of Thomson First Call. Under his leadership and guidance, Thomson First Call’s core revenues soared from $18M to $120M. Bruce later built strategic alliances within other Thomson divisions, driving an additional $80M in revenue. Throughout his career, Bruce has served as a Board member, strategic advisor or consultant to numerous leading capital markets, research and FinTech firms. Bruce is a Boston College graduate and later participated in the Insead Executive Management program in Fontainebleau, France. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Sales and marketing must collaborate to succeed
Understanding the difference between marketing activity and lead generation
The difference between marketing and sales
Selling as a trusted advisor and based upon a relationship (the end of cold calls)
The impact of unrealistic organizational expectations in sales
Reasons to have sales leaders in your C-level conversations and strategy sessions
The trouble with micromanagement in sales and sales management
Why most sales people fail to meet goals (and why it’s acceptable)
The role of market size in setting sales goals and objectives
Role of trust issues with your sales disconnections and failures
Getting past the distrust of sales people inside an organization
Understanding the disconnection between a relationship approach in sales versus a desire for quick hits
Getting the right kind of sales person for your business and “product”
Pros and cons of using centers of influence in your sales efforts
Roles of culture and incentivized compensation in your sales and growth strategies
Realities and impacts of CEO compensation
What it takes to be a great CEO
Resources:
Bruce Fador (info@fadorglobal.com)
Fador Global Website
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Do you want to grow your team engagement? Are you looking for leadership strategies to leverage your strengths? Are you committed to transforming your leadership for more impact, engagement and productivity? Our special guest Brandon Miller answers these and other questions about leadership, engagement and personal development. Brandon Miller is one of the first 7 Certified Gallup Clifton StrengthsFinder Coaches in the world. Over 15 years ago, he was a very early practitioner of Clifton StrengthsFinder using it as the Executive Leader for a non-profit organization. He has since coached hundreds of leaders to find and leverage their strengths for themselves and their teams. Today, Brandon is the CEO of 34 Strong, a coaching and consulting firm dedicated to improving employee engagement. He has nearly 15 years of experience providing specialized leadership training, coaching, advising and facilitating. Brandon is also the Co-Founder of Incredible Family, a consultancy agency passionate about seeing families engage in a strengths-based parenting approach to parenting that lets parents unlock their best selves and raise strong, happy, children and teens. Brandon and his wife Analyn are successful business owners, the parents of seven children and authors of Play To Their Strengths and Incredible Parent. Incredible Parent gives you an innovative, strengths-based, intentional approach to child raising will make you more confident, aware and energized as a parent. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Using Clifton StrengthsFinder as a tool for personal, professional and team development
Understanding the Clifton StrengthsFinder assessment tool
Redefining people’s roles and responsibilities based upon their strengths
Understanding your grind time, greatness time and genius time and the impact on your energy
Using your strengths to enhance your productivity
Fixing our broken hiring processes
Reframing the obstacle of negativity bias (belief that I can improve your ability to do something good by solving where you're lacking competence or weakness)
Shifting from negativity bias to positive intent to grow trust
Understanding that engagement creates productivity creates profits
Value of authoritative leadership over authoritarian leadership
Impacts of leadership’s well-being and mindset on engagement
Engagement requires a ratio of giving team members five to one positive to negative feedback
Changing the employee review conversation to enhance improvement and engagement
Using the Q12 engagement assessment tool
Key engagement metric – Have you received recognition or praise in the past 7 days?
Looking for ways to commend the common things that may have been otherwise overlooked
Applying StrengthsFinder to children and parenting
Importance of creating cultures of safety for your team
Understanding the unique challenges faced by mothers in the workforce
Bringing your parental leadership into your business leadership
Unique elements of engagement in the public sector
Being an advocate as a leader
Resources:
Brandon Miller (brandon@34strong.com)
34 Strong Website
Incredible Family Website
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Do you want to empower yourself and your team to grow and achieve? Are you looking for strategies to enable you to overcome obstacles and transform your results? Are you willing to shift your mindset in order to shift your results? Our special guest Darrell Evans answers these and other questions about leadership, empowering your people and the power of mind shifts to transform your leadership and results. Darrell Evans is a serial entrepreneur, investor, and co-founder of Yokel Local Internet Marketing. He and his team have helped entrepreneurs and companies to generate over $300M in revenue online since 2011. He’s also personally started and / or operated 6 businesses since the age of 20. Darrell is the host of The MindShift Podcast which launched in 2019 and the founder of the MindShift Business Academy (MBA).
Darrell is passionate about entrepreneurship. When he appears on podcasts, he loves sharing the lessons, mistakes and breakthrough frameworks that have helped him and hundreds of other businesses market profitably, grow sales predictably and build superstar teams.
His goal is to help entrepreneurs grab “MindShifts” that will catapult them to their next level of success. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The role of a life plan in your life, business and leadership journey
The importance of vision in navigating your plan
Understanding digital marketing agencies (what they do to add value to your business)
The difference between getting impressions and getting results in your business
Transforming your leadership and business through mind shifts
Your next level of growth is your next level of decision to become somebody new
Four steps for learning and growth: 1. Make peace with the facts; 2. Make a new decision about who you’re going to become; 3. Make a plan; 4. Make changes in your behaviors in alignment with the new plan
African proverb … nobody can make you feel inferior without your consent
Embracing the power of choice in every situation, moment and experience
The four levels of conscious and unconscious incompetence and competence
Understanding the difference between empathizing and emphasizing other people’s challenges
The difference between the facts and the stories and judgments we make up about the facts
Leaders ask better questions to get better answers
Shifting your mind so you can change your results
When you change the way you look at things, you change the things you’re looking it
Strategies for growing your people to grow your business
The entrepreneur’s primary job is to create pathways for individuals to operate in their gift, such that it aligns with your vision
Creating a culture where your people can make mistakes / fail in order to learn and grow
The power of shifting your conversations from people’s skills to people’s gifts
Empowering your people to produce results rather than record hours
You're never stuck where you are, so long as you're willing to shift your mind in route to shifting your results
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The MindShift Podcast Website
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Are you waiting for someone else to lead? Do you wish you were in a position of leadership so you could change things? Wrong questions! Listen in as Craig Mathews and Jeff Nischwitz talk about the reality that leadership is a choice and you (all of you) can lead wherever you are (whether or not you have a leadership position). Craig and Jeff will share an empowering and challenging message about the leadership choices you can make every day. Get ready to take an honest look at your leadership choices and to answer the question, What are you modeling as a leader? The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes In this episode…
The many ways that leadership is a choice
Realities of risks in leadership including the risks of choosing not to lead
What it means to create followers by being a person worthy of being followed
Ways that you disempower your leadership by waiting for others to lead
Leadership is an act of vulnerability … stepping out and being seen, judged and making mistakes
Leadership comes with a target but you choose whether the target goes on your back (inauthentic leadership) or on your chest (vulnerable leadership)
What are the real (not perceived) risks of choosing to lead
Embracing the leadership moments and opportunities
Leadership is a 24/7 mindset and awareness (not a 24/7 job)
Leadership often involves speaking up
Stop waiting for positional leaders to lead – choose to lead
Ways to empower your entire team to lead
Leadership is not about permission – it’s a choice
Empowering your life and leadership – you always have a choice
Are you foxhole worthy as a leader and who do you want in your leadership foxhole?
Beware of the trap of blaming others for failing to lead / change things
What do you want for your children as leaders?
Ways to lead without a position including modeling and mentoring (What are you modeling as a leader?)
The importance of leading by listening
Resources:
Mankind Project International
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Do you want to better understand ways to create diverse, equitable, inclusive and anti-racist cultures and organizations? Are you looking for practical tools to achieve this objective? Are you ready to take on the challenges of diversity, equity and inclusion in your organization? Our special guest Dr. Shannon Prince answers these and other questions about leadership, diversity, equity and inclusion, world crafting, and creating anti-racist cultures and organizations. Shannon Prince is an attorney, legal commentator, and speaker. She earned her doctorate in African and African American Studies and her master’s degree in English from Harvard University Graduate School of Arts and Sciences, her law degree from Yale Law School, and her bachelor’s degree magna cum laude from Dartmouth College. She drafted best practice language on policing policies for the National Initiative for Building Community Trust and Justice, represented plaintiffs in CCJEF v. Rell, a high-profile landmark education adequacy lawsuit, and is currently representing the Cherokee Nation in their lawsuit against pharmaceutical distributors and pharmacies for their role in the opioid crisis that the tribe is suffering. She is a member of her firm’s Firm Diversity Council and is a Legal Council on Legal Diversity Pathfinder.
Her writing has been published in The Hill, Transition Magazine, Science, and Jezebel among other venues, and she’s the author of Tactics for Racial Justice due out in January 2022. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Moving beyond words and getting into diversity, equity and inclusion action
Differently understanding systemic racism (getting beyond the idea that racism is about bad people)
Understanding the realities of racism in business today
Using metrics to track disparities in impact
Making changes in diversity, equity and inclusion requires a focus on practices more than intentions
Understanding intersectionality in biases
Fundamentals of DEI training
Training doesn’t work in the absence of other diversity initiatives
Navigating the “we hire the best people” concept in light of diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives (understanding the role of unconscious biases)
The reality that more diverse companies outperform less diverse companies
Different practices you can use to increase your diversity, equity and inclusion
The importance of hiring for diversity, equity and inclusion mindsets
The of recruitment changes to build a more diverse, equitable and inclusive organization
Understanding the role of bias interrupting in creating more diverse and inclusive organizations
The importance of being more aware of your biases and assumptions (cultural metacognition)
Exploring ways that bias has an unintended impact on the lack of diversity
Ways that anti-racism initiatives are needed beyond diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
Ways to amplify your communication and conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion issues
What you can do to create a safe place for your team to have open conversations about diversity, equity and inclusion
The role of vulnerability in diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives and conversations
Practicing world crafting by thinking like an ancestor … what future will you help create
Resources:
Shannon Prince
Boies Schiller Flexner Law Firm Website
Tactics for Racial Justice: Building and Anti-Racist Organizations and Community book by Dr. Shannon Prince (due out in January 2022) (LEADERSHIP JUNKIES DISCOUNT CODE: FLY21)
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Do you want to better understand ways to lead with a growth mindset? Are you committed to building a culture of not only physical safety but psychological safety? Are you looking for ways to lead differently in the construction and engineering industries?
Our special guest Michael Fisher (UK) answers these and other questions about leadership, people development and culture building in the construction industry and beyond. Michael Fisher is a civil engineer is with an organization called RPS Europe and the host of a podcast called Leadership in Construction. Michael is a self-described leadership entrepreneur, as well as being dyslexic and a father of four. Michael not only works in designing and building structures, including airport facilities, but he’s dedicated to redefining leadership in the construction industry. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com.
Show Notes Episode highlights…
Technical skills don’t equal leadership skills
Creating a safe place for people to speak up
Defining what is great leadership
Leadership is creating environments where people can feel psychologically and physically safe … and bring their best selves to the to the work
Trust is yours to lose
Correlations between leadership and parenting
Important role of empathy and humility in leadership
The more you talk about difficulties, the more you can collaborate
Unique leadership challenges in the construction industry
Importance of diversity, equity and inclusion in business and the construction industry
Impacts of a lack of psychological safety at work
Psychological safety requires active listening and a coaching style of leadership
Defining a fixed versus a growth mindset
Importance of understanding your peoples’ values and what’s important to them
Getting outside your comfort zone in order to grow your resilience
The power and empowerment of “not yet” thinking
Leaders must create a sense of purpose and belonging in their organization
Resources:
Michael Fisher
Leadership in Construction Podcast
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Do you want to better understand and navigate past your blind spots? Do you want to accelerate the performance of your people, team and organization? Are you committed to growing your leadership and organization performance? Our special guest Vinay Raman answers these and other questions about leadership, engagement and maximizing your organization’s and team’s performance. Vinay Raman (Raleigh NC) is the CEO of CAARMO, which helps businesses and employees unlock their hidden potential, maximize their opportunities and mitigate risks using their Performance Intelligence software tool. Vinay’s decision-making tool helps you more deeply understand your people and your company, as well as showing you how you’re performing so you can optimize the behaviors of your employees and managers to align employees with the business outcomes you want. Vinay mantra: “I love to pay it forward and I’ve made lives easier for thousands of owners, senior leaders and employees across the United States.” His mission is to help business leaders improve employee retention, engagement, and productivity using data. Vinay helps leaders see their blind spot and punch through them with the help of CAARMO’s Business Blind Spots Exposed podcast which helps Vinay and his team reach audiences about how teams can provide solutions to their needs. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Importance of integrating data and stories in decision making and messaging
Applying scientific thinking and processes to leadership and business decisions
Assessing your failure velocity for growth and improvement (failing faster to the right answer)
True mark of leadership is ability to be resilient and shift in order to respond, not react, to external stimulus
The power of storytelling supported by data
Using data to drive behavior and better decisions
Importance of getting clear on what great performance means
Leaders are aware that they’re often the biggest obstacle to their objectives
What it means to empathize data in leadership
Understanding the ways that employee self-performance drives engagement
Understanding the great resignation driven by the great disengagement
The people closest to issues have the best perspectives of the issues
Using data helps you discover issues quicker and with greater clarity (including coachable moments for team members)
Understanding empathetic leadership
If profit is the prime directive, it's very short sighted. But if empathy is your prime directive, prophet comes along for the ride
The big win of data – providing coaching for exactly what people need to improve performance, which leads to greater profitability for the company
Resources:
Vinay Raman (vinayr@caarmo.com)
Caarmo Website
Business Blind Spots Exposed podcast
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Do you want to build a culture that enriches the lives of your people? Are you committed to building a business that’s truly people first? Do you want to grow your leadership to have more impact in your business and the world? Our special guest Mark Peters answers these and other questions about leadership, culture, people-first leadership and building a business that goes beyond products and profits. Mark Peters is the Chief Executive Officer of Butterball Farms, Inc., which was nationally recognized as one of The Best and Brightest Companies to Work For® from 2015 to 2021. The second-generation family business, based in Grand Rapids, Michigan, is America’s leading producer of culinary butter and margarine and creates custom butter flavors for some of America’s biggest brands. Peters began as a factory worker in his father’s company at the age of 12: an experience that taught him first-hand about the challenges that frontline workers face. At 30, he took over the company determined to lead a financially successful business that would also enrich the lives of its workers. In 2003, he organized a pioneering group of CEOs and community leaders to found The Source, a not-for-profit organization that has helped hundreds of workers navigate personal challenges that were interfering with their jobs and delivered an average annual return on investment of 200 percent to its partner organizations. In 2020, Peters published his first book The SOURCE: Using the Power of Collaboration to Stabilize Your Workforce and Impact Your Community highlighting his journey from concept to creation of The Source. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Leading with a holistic approach to supporting your peoples’ needs
The importance of having a mission, vision and values that are meaningful (more than just words)
What it means to live a mission of enriching lives
Aligning rewards with mission and values
Focus on your people first (not only when it’s the right time to put people first)
The importance of understanding finance in leading a business
Understanding the roles, lives and needs of your team (including frontline workers)
Importance of empathy and understanding others in leadership
Treating people well and taking care of them is the right thing to do
Beware of policies that don’t support the mission and be willing to change them
Value of localized decision making (by the people closest to the issues and opportunities)
The role of flexibility in leadership and policies today
Leaders must understand the complexity of the lives of their people
Using collaboration to provide support to your team members
Exponential returns on investments in supporting your people
Understanding The Source as a model for providing support services and solutions for your people
People engage when they feel supported and cared about
When you take responsibility you empower yourself with choices and solutions
Resources:
Mark Peters (markpeters@butterballfarms.com)
I-3 Leadership Website
The Source Website
The Source book by Mark Peters
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Do you want to think and be more creative and innovative? Do you find yourself hesitating to take risks for fear of failing? Are you looking for strategies and shifts to enhance your innovation, impact and outcomes? Are you ready to accelerate your growth and results? Our special guest Colin Hunter answers these and other questions about leadership, the importance of learning and growing through mistakes, and disrupting your thinking, innovation and organization. Colin Hunter is an Author, Mentor, Coach and the Founder and CEO of PotentialSquared, an international business that specializes in creating playgrounds to disrupt the way people are led. Colin works with leaders and their teams around the globe in the area of leadership impact – helping them to create an engaged, capable group of followers and bringing fresh ideas and stories to their teams and clients alike. With the use of actors, cutting-edge virtual realities, and a new leadership framework, clients have shown an award-winning difference in how they have transformed their leaders. Colin prides himself by practicing what he preaches with being wrong more and learning fast from it The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Embracing more play in your leadership, team and organization
The power of failure in growing your leadership and impact
Why being wrong is the path to leadership and personal growth
Be willing to experiment as a leader and organization
The risks of playing in safe in business and leadership
Fail small and learn big
Do you empower your people to own their roles or only rent them
Using leading indicators at guard rails while allowing people to learn by making mistakes
Understanding design thinking and the role of experimentation
Empowering your people to create memorable experiences for clients and customers
Embracing disruption and experimentation in interviews for team members
Allowing your people to bring their quirkiness to work
Challenges and opportunities to recruit and hire differently
Wisdom of growing your own leaders rather than seeking to find them outside the organization
The trouble with the word failure
Using small experiments to change things
The difference between trying things out and failing versus messing up or making mistakes
Small changes deliver big impacts
Embrace testing small to learn, grow and innovate in big ways
Resources:
Colin Hunter (https://www.instagram.com/bemorewrong)
Be More Wrong Website
Be More Wrong: How Failure Makes You an Outstanding Leader book by Colin Hunter
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Are you struggling to find your true path in your career? Do you want to craft a career that you love? Are you looking for ways to live a more conscious, intentional and fulfilling career? Our special guest Dr. Benjamin Ritter answers these and other questions about leadership, career design and crafting a job you love from a job you have. Dr. Benjamin Ritter, founder of Live for Yourself (LFY) Consulting is a leadership and career coach, L&D director, values geek, international speaker, podcaster, author, mentor, and passionate about guiding others in finding, creating, and sustaining a career they love. With over 10 years of experience coaching working with clients from companies such as Amazon, Coursera, Doordash, Google, Fiserv, Northwestern, Pinterest, Segment, Twilio, and Yelp, Ben understands how to navigate any career path you decide you want to travel. During his time as a healthcare executive and side hustling entrepreneur he was overworked and under-utilized, and despite his professional success didn’t feel successful. After much introspection he pivoted professionally and launched himself into the field of leadership development and personal empowerment. Since launching his coaching practice he has guided hundreds of professionals toward creating the career they love and has impacted thousands through his events and media content. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com.
Show Notes Episode highlights…
Embracing curiosity in exploring your career path
Leaders must ask their people what they want their career path to look like
Career growth is not always about finding a new job, but recrafting your job where you are
Workforce realities around career desires, career paths and key questions to ask your people
Redefining career growth and what constitutes a normal career
Changes in the ways people see work and career
What it means to craft a job from the job you have
Understanding the three C’s of self-leadership: 1. Clarity; 2. Confidence; 3. Control
Role of corporate culture and values in career decisions
Getting clear on your dream companies
Importance of integrating your work life and your personal life relative to your career
Rethinking your career by rethinking your life and priorities
Natural curiosity and passion will naturally create opportunities
Strategies for interviewing the companies you want to work for
Exploring entrepreneurship and intrapreneurship
The value of building reflection into your day
Strategies to advance your career
Importance of diversity, equity and inclusion in organizations and with team members
Understanding humanistic leadership – people are people and they’re not their work
The reality that everyone has a story and we don’t know it (empathy)
“The most important leader is the one that's inside you.”
Resources:
Benjamin Ritter
Live for Yourself Website
Coach the Person, Not the Problem: A Guide to Using Reflective Inquiry book by Marcia Reynolds
Reframing: Neuro-Linguistic Programming and the Transformation of Meaning book by Richard Bandler and John Grinder
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Are you committed to personal and business growth? Are you ready to identify your blind spots and stop tripping over them? Do you want tools and strategies to grow yourself and your business?
Our special guest Carl Gould answers these and other questions about leadership, entrepreneurship, coaching, business growth and peak performance.
Carl Gould is a worldwide leading authority on business and entrepreneurship, a keynote speaker and best-selling author. His company, 7 Stage Advisors, helps organizations grow to the next level. He’s an entrepreneur who built three multi-million dollar businesses by age 40, and 7 Stage Advisors has mentored the launch of over five thousand businesses. Some of the companies Carl’s helped are Allstate, American Idol, USA Olympic Track, IBM, McGraw-Hill and the US Army.
Carl created the farthest-reaching business mentoring organization in the world, and his methodologies are in practice in 35 countries. He’s trained, certified or accredited over 7,000 business coaches and mentors since 2002.
Carl has written multiple books and articles on the subject of business strategy, leadership and sustainable growth. He co-authored Blueprint for Success with Stephen R. Covey and Ken Blanchard, and his best-selling book, The 7 Stages of Small Business Success, lays out the formula for HyperGrowth.
Carl’s dynamic and energetic presentation style has made him a sought after keynote speaker internationally. He combines practical and impactful content with real-world experience…no theory here! Carl engages his audiences and keeps them on the edge of their seat. Gould’s content is original, profound and battle-tested. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Using assessments and peak performance science to accelerate and grow your leadership and business
Skills for getting to your blind spots in two questions or less
Strategies for growing the professional side of your life
Understanding the ways your personality type impacts your leadership style
Understanding the 7 Stages of Business Growth
Strategic planning stage
Specialty stage
Synergy stage
Systems stage
Sustainability stage
Saleability stage
Legacy stage
Understanding the difference between growing a business and scaling a business
The difference between producer team members and manager team members
Building great teams is about understanding the skills and mindsets for roles and finding the right fits for the roles (even if it’s not the typical fit)
Focusing on core competencies versus prior experience with your people
The four quandrants for business leaders – Direction / strategy, Income (sales / marketing), Systems; Controls
Questions help people see things differently and help people find their blind spots
Coach’s key role is to help clients understand the limit of their defined identity and expand that identity
The importance of understanding the natural state of your comfort zone
Leaders have a range of mismanagement, and the team knows it as well
Behaviors follow incentives
Resources:
Carl Gould
Carl Gould Website
7 Stage Advisors Website (Free Business Analysis)
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Are you confused about artificial intelligence and ways you can us AI to add value to your business? Would you like to more easily and consistently amplify your brand voice in sales, marketing and social media? Would you like to experience a 98% sales conversion in your business? Are you looking for ways to transform your fans into evangelists? Our special guest Kate Bradley Chernis answers these and other questions about leadership, artificial intelligence, social media, sales and marketing leadership, and embracing more magic in your business and life. Kate Bradley Chernis is the Founder & CEO of Lately, which uses AI to learn your brand voice and turn blogs, videos and podcasts into dozens of social posts. As a former marketing agency owner, Kate initially created the idea for Lately out of spreadsheets for then-client, Walmart, and got them a 130% ROI, year-over-year for three years. Prior to founding Lately, Kate served 20 million listeners as Music Director and on-air host at Sirius/XM. She’s also an award-winning radio producer, engineer and voice talent with 25 years of national broadcast communications, brand-building, sales and marketing expertise. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Understanding AI relative to your brand, brand message and social media
The role of magic in your sales, marketing, business and life
Ideas for transforming your fans into evangelists
Living and leading with a child-like sense of wonder
Embracing the impact of curiosity and synchronicity
Claiming the power of your choices every day
What you choose to believe changes your experiences of life
The path to more magic is to believe in magic
Even your superpowers have a corresponding weakness
Leaders must be willing to call out the bullshit
The importance of taking time to reflect on your moments and experiences every day
The culture pressure for women leaders to always be on it, always be solving, always be fixing problems
Navigating the daily pressures of the “mirror” (meeting self-expectations and expectations from others) for women in leadership
The importance of being willing to move beyond your original idea and pivot in your business
Beware losing your identity in your job, career or business
Navigating your insecurities as a leader
Wisdom for woman entrepreneur – listen to your gut!
Resources:
Kate Bradley Chernis
Lately Website
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Is your culture values based and are those values in action every day? Do you believe in the idea of business being a force for good? Are you looking for ways to build a truly people first organization and culture? Our special guest David Baldwin answers these and other questions about people first leadership, values based leadership and what it means to build a business to be used as a force for good. David Baldwin plays lead guitar for Baldwin&, the advertising agency he founded in Raleigh, NC. Baldwin& was named Small Agency of the Year twice in its first five years by Ad Age and the 4A’s, and David is one of the most awarded copywriters and creative directors working in the advertising business today. The former Chairman of the One Club in NYC, David was also an executive producer for the Emmy winning film, Art & Copy, and an associate producer for the Emmy and Peabody Award winning film “The Loving Story”. David also co-founded the Ponysaurus Brewing Co. in Durham, NC, and is the author of the Amazon Best Seller, The Belief Economy, How to Give a Damn, Stop Selling, and Create Buy-in. Last year, in the wake of the George Floyd tragedy, David co-founded Take Your Seat, a company dedicated to get more Black representation into boardrooms. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
When it comes to DEI, no one cares what you have to say – they want to see what you’re doing
Creating board opportunities for black leaders (Take Your Seat)
If you want to support change for people of difference, ask them how you can help and listen
A power phrase for DEI conversations – “I might be helping wrong, and I would like you to help me figure out how to not help wrong”
Leadership means meeting every moment with an open heart
The critical importance of getting clear on the purpose and why for your business and then make decisions based upon that why
What it means to use business as a force for good and why it matters
Companies with a meaningful culture, values lead, and based on purpose outperform the market significantly
Growing a business by focusing on your people, not growth
A unique definition of work life balance (presence)
Leaders listen with an open heart and seek to understand their impact
Leaders let go of the need to be right
If you build a strong culture, the culture will filter out the wrong people
A different approach to performance improvement plans
What’s the people first always solution? (putting your values in action)
A value’s not a value until it costs you in the marketplace
Leadership lessons from the movie Twelve Angry Men (ask questions and listen)
Resources:
David Baldwin (dbaldwin@baldwinand.com)
David Baldwin Instagram (https://www.instagram.com/davidlbaldwin)
Baldwin& Website
Ponysaurus Brewery Website
Take Your Seat Website
Art of Possibility: Transforming Professional and Personal Life book by Rosamund Stone Zander and Benjamin Zander
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Does fear hold you back? Is fear keeping you from your goals and dreams? Do you want to differently navigate your fears to achieve your dreams? Our special guest Jacqueline Wales answers these and other questions about living and leading as a “fearless” leader and person. Jacqueline is the founder, creator and curator of The Fearless Factor. An astute observer of behavior, she’s endlessly fascinated by the messiness of being human, and finds people who are vulnerable and honest about their struggles to be incredibly interesting and courageous. She believes that being fearless is not the absence of fear but the courage to take the next step. As the author of When The Crow Sings, The Fearless Factor, The Fearless Factor @ Work, and soon to be published Fearless Women Leading The Way, Jacqueline’s explored human behavior and asked tough questions to discover hard truths for more than 35 years. While observing and talking with thousands of people over several decades, Jacqueline has come to understand that the challenges we all confront are not much different—no matter who you are or what you’re doing in life. Jacqueline’s a writer, singer, and global nomad who’s lived and traveled on three continents, developed a passion for martial arts earning a black belt in karate, and now an avid CrossFit athlete. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Being fearless is not the absence of fear but the courage to take the next step
Nothing changes if you’re not uncomfortable
Asking yourself and honestly answering self-questions are keys to moving past fears
Fear is an emotion driven by a thought
The importance of taking a deep and honest dive into your fears and the fear drivers
Gender differences around fear (women versus men)
Leadership challenges for women in the workplace
Importance of vulnerability in leadership and addressing your fears
Impacts of the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves
Value and impact to organizations of having more women and women in leadership
Reality that people leave managers and the underlying values of the organization that allow the manager to lead (or fail to lead) a certain way
Need for more compassion in the workplace
Importance of bringing more humanity to work
Value of assessment in building your people, culture and leadership
Challenges to being more human at work
Different ways to discuss and address feelings at work
Vulnerability in leadership is not just about emotions (the key role of modeling in bringing more vulnerability in your workplace)
What’s your fearless factor?
Resources:
Jacqueline Wales (jacqueline@jacquelinewales.com)
Jacqueline Wales Website
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Insight: Why We're Not as Self-Aware as We Think, and How Seeing Ourselves Clearly Helps Us Succeed at Work and in Life book by Tasha Eurich
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Do you want to be more innovative and creative in your business and leadership? Do you doubt your own creativity? Do you want to expand your own creativity in thinking, designing and strategizing? Do you want to grow your creative confidence? Our special guest Nora Herting answers these and other questions about visual leadership, creativity and strategy. A pioneer of visual strategy, Nora Herting is passionate about expanding peoples’ definition of creativity and believes the best way to meet the demands of business today is to take a visual approach that blends strategic thinking and creative expression. Nora’s skill and impact with businesses, and her own entrepreneurial prowess founding ImageThink, has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, Forbes, Fox Business, Entrepreneur and INC. She leads a compelling conversation around the power of visual thinking as a catalyst for personal and organizational change. As a sought-after speaker and thought leader, Nora has inspired global audiences with her creative keynotes at Cannes Lions, SXSW Interactive, WBENC. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The intersection of creativity, strategy and leadership
Visualizing your ideas for greater innovation
Role of visual tools in storytelling and brainstorming
The importance of expanding people’s definitions of creativity
Understanding the life cycle of an idea
Using visual activation for creativity, innovation and strategy
Our hard wiring to find meaning in pictures
Overcoming obstacles to explore visual creativity experiences
Tools for using visuals for your brainstorming, strategy sessions and problem solving
The vulnerability in using visuals in your business leadership
Visual tools as a strategy to surface and discuss difficult issues
Integrating visual tools and humor to enhance business conversations and creativity
Growing your creative confidence
Visual tools enhance the experience, engagement, enjoyment and creativity
Understanding visual tools for socialization within an organization
Role of visual tools with mission, vision, purpose, values and strategic plan
Understanding and implementing visual leadership
Resources:
Nora Herting
ImageThink Website
Draw Your Big Idea: The Ultimate Creativity Tool for Turning Thoughts Into Action and Dreams Into Reality Book by Nora Herting
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Do you want to be an intentional leader? Do you want to have more influence as a leader? Are you committed to putting your people first and to leading with a focus on humanizing your people? Are you looking for tools to lead in the new workforce realities? Our special guest Dr. Ian Brooks answers these and other questions about leadership, intention and what he calls amplifying your return on heartbeats. Dr. Ian D. Brooks is the CEO and founder of Rhodes Smith Consulting, a personal and professional development firm specializing In behavioral transformations. He’s also the author of Intention: Building Capabilities to Transform Your Story. For over 24 years, Dr. Brooks' career has taken him from working in a clinical ward to working with organizations and people with the goal of helping individuals build skills toward achieving new heights. His clients include Netflix, Shondaland, Bank of America, Guitar Center, Nike Inc. Sony, and Warner Brothers. His passion for working with individuals seeking expansion and leaders within organizations to develop key skills and working with their teams is built on the mastery of intentions and consistency of capabilities. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The difference between creating the plan versus trying to control the path
The role of impact and influence in leadership
Leadership is defined by actions and outputs (not by title and outcomes)
When people feel heard and engaged, you have a true people impact
Understanding the difference between engaging with your people versus getting engagement from your people
Leaders must constantly assess what you’re willing to DO (and be clear in prioritizing your do’s)
The value of making time for celebrating your people and successes
Leadership is a verb – what are you prepared to DO in your leadership
Beware the trap of over thinking as a leader
The role of unconscious bias and unconscious decisions in your leadership
Moving beyond thinking about your leadership to doing about your leadership
Leaders respond rather than react
Risk is a part of leadership (leaders are experts at assessing the risks)
Assessing what’s the worst that can happen (and its likelihood)
Leaders ask great questions and listen
Role of vulnerability in leadership including the leader’s pause
Leadership requires allowing the quiet and listen
Leadership and new workplace realities (the Great Resignation)
Replacing ROI thinking with Return on Heartbeats leadership
Leadership with an empowered workforce
Role of intentionality in leading and managing remote or hybrid workforces
Leadership lessons from the movie To Sir With Love
Resources:
Ian Brooks (https://www.instagram.com/drb_intention; https://twitter.com/DrB_Intention)
Rhodes Smith Consulting Website
Intention: Building Capabilities to Transform Your StoryBook by Dr. Ian Brooks
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Are you looking to have more fulfillment, purpose, joy and sense of contribution in your life? Do you want to find your way past your perceived limitations and achieve your fullest potential? Are you looking for tools to exponentially expand your impact and outcomes? Our special guest Michele Graglia answers these and other questions about leadership, purpose and achieving your fullest potential. After growing up in Italy and working in his family’s floral business, Michele Graglia “stumbled” into a career as a top international model. He then discovered that the modeling world was taking a toll on his life, which led to a life changing moment of truth that caused him to leave the modeling profession. In the midst of his personal crisis, Michele learned about the concept of ultra-running, and today he’s one of the world's top ultra-runners. Since 2011, he has competed in over thirty ultramarathons all over the world, often winning and setting course records. He has set Guinness World Records for his runs across the Atacama and Gobi deserts. His wins in the Yukon Arctic Ultra, with temperatures below -40ºF, and the Badwater 135 in Death Valley, with highs above 130ºF, made him the first person in history to win both the hottest and coldest foot races on Earth. His motivational speaking has inspired thousands around the world. Michele also studied yoga and meditation in Rishikesh, India, and is an RYT-certified yoga instructor as well as a USATF-certified Running Coach and Sport Nutritionist. From 2016 to 2020 he was a Yoga and Mindfulness coach at the high-end Malibu retreat, The Ashram. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Understanding the role of presence is achieving beyond your perceived limitations
Transcending the idea of human limitations to embracing your full human potential
The power of the present moment
Separating your thoughts in the present moment
Mindfulness is not thinking about being here – it’s simply being here
The moment you start thinking, you're already holding yourself back
The ways our need for protection breeds resistance
Strategies for living a life of abundance and contribution
The importance of having a clear why in pursuing your dreams and objectives
The limits of material success in achieving a life of fulfillment and contribution
Change only happens in moments of difficulty
The reality that we control nothing
Resources:
Michele Graglia (https://www.instagram.com/mickeygraglia)
Michele Graglia Website
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Book by Eckhart Tolle
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Are you looking to have more fulfillment, purpose, joy and sense of contribution in your life? Do you want to live a life worth living? Do you want to find your way past your perceived limitations and achieve your fullest potential? Our special guest Michele Graglia answers these and other questions about leadership, purpose and achieving your fullest potential. After growing up in Italy and working in his family’s floral business, Michele Graglia “stumbled” into a career as a top international model. He then discovered that the modeling world was taking a toll on his life, which led to a life changing moment of truth that caused him to leave the modeling profession. In the midst of his personal crisis, Michele learned about the concept of ultra-running, and today he’s one of the world's top ultra-runners. Since 2011, he has competed in over thirty ultramarathons all over the world, often winning and setting course records. He has set Guinness World Records for his runs across the Atacama and Gobi deserts. His wins in the Yukon Arctic Ultra, with temperatures below -40ºF, and the Badwater 135 in Death Valley, with highs above 130ºF, made him the first person in history to win both the hottest and coldest foot races on Earth. His motivational speaking has inspired thousands around the world. Michele also studied yoga and meditation in Rishikesh, India, and is an RYT-certified yoga instructor as well as a USATF-certified Running Coach and Sport Nutritionist. From 2016 to 2020 he was a Yoga and Mindfulness coach at the high-end Malibu retreat, The Ashram. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Ways that “success” can be unfulfilling
The importance of living a life of fulfillment, purpose, joy and contribution
The keys to living a life of fulfillment, purpose, joy and contribution
The trap of money, fame and success
Transcending the idea of human limitations to embracing your full human potential
When you live in your mind / head, you’re always on the path of resistance
Transcending physical and mental limitations to access your inner self and an infinite amount of energy
Reality that your mind always takes the easy way out
Understanding that your mind is a great servant and terrible master
You must be driven by something deeper or your mind will always hold you back
Living beyond the limiting beliefs and stories you’ve heard in your life
Going beyond your perceived human potential
The only growth possible happens in isolation
Ways other people hold you back despite best intentions
The life changing power of inspiration
Change only happens in moments of difficulty
Understanding the power of meditation
Resources:
Michele Graglia (https://www.instagram.com/mickeygraglia)
Michele Graglia Website
The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment Book by Eckhart Tolle
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Are you committed to building a great team? Do you want to enhance your team chemistry? Are you looking for tools to accelerate your leadership impact? Do you have head trash that’s getting in the way of your leadership? Our special guest Tish Squillaro answers these and other questions about leadership, team chemistry, emotional intelligence, and the head trash that gets in the way of your leadership. Tish Squillaro is the Founder and CEO of CANDOR. Since 2007, CANDOR has partnered with organizations around the world from early-stage growth companies to global Fortune 500s of various industries ranging from Tech to Media. Her most recent clients include AT&T, AppNexus, Datorama, Salesforce, Teva and IBM. Tish empowers leaders and teams to make the right decisions for the health and success of their business. As an award-winning author (the Head Trash series), Smart CEO Philadelphia BRAVA award winner, University of Pennsylvania grad, and a guest-speaker on radio, TV, webinars, and workshops, Tish is dedicated to delivering action-oriented strategies that drive long-term results. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Why the health of your business and people matters
Business and leadership opportunities to support your people through emotional challenges
The role of emotions and a healthy mindset in your leadership
The importance of better understanding and managing your emotions as a leader
The role of resilience in leadership
Using the DISC assessment to enhance your self-awareness and leadership
Understanding modern time management as a leader
Reality that people management today requires more intention
Keys to more effective meetings
Importance of team chemistry
Learning through the Tupperware versus China cabinets when it comes to control and delegation
The reality that you can’t argue over other people’s feeling when it comes to your impact
Critical role of emotional intelligence in leadership
Understanding the seven emotions of Head Trash and navigating them differently
Embracing the three R’s of leadership … resilience, respect and reflection
Resources
Tish Squillaro (tish@candor-consulting.com)
Candor Consulting Website
Head Trash Website
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Are you confused about what it means to have a brand? Are you looking to clarify your personal or business brand? Do you want to better understand branding, strategic marketing and putting your brand into action? Our special guest Davaughnu Banks answers these and other questions about brand, strategic marketing and leadership. Davaughnu Banks is the Founder and Chief Marketing Consultant of Envision Brand Marketing, the business model of which is DREAM.PURPOSE.ACTION.® He brings over 20 years of experience as an accomplished strategic marketing and advertising professional. He also has a passion and collaborative hands-on servant-leadership style that has enabled him to plan and execute award-winning marketing solutions for small, medium-sized, and Fortune 500 companies. Davaughnu's enjoyed working with a lot of great brand partners such as Ford, Hilton Worldwide, White Castle, Bosch, Great Lakes Coffee, The Shops @ Rockvale, General Motors, Compuware, Warrior Sports, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and many more. Originally born in Toronto, Canada and then raised in Windsor, Canada, Davaughnu now lives in the Metro-Detroit area with his wife Liz and their two teenage sons. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Understanding brand and brand strategy
What it means to dream relative to your brand
The role of purpose in your brand
The critical need to turn your brand strategy into action
Aligning your execution with your strategy and brand
Brand and marketing strategy is about your long-term business strategy (not your short-term sales desires)
Connecting brand perception with value
The importance of staying in your brand lane
Staying within your mission, values, pillars, and evolve with your customer as their needs change
Branding and marketing strategy processes apply to any size business (only the scale changes)
Where to start with your brand and marketing strategy
Importance of educating your team around the brand
Understanding the difference between your brand versus your visuals and taglines
A brand hot seat and case study
Where to start when considering your brand
Role of perception in branding and marketing
Critical role of stories and storytelling in branding and marketing
Targeting your brand and message to people’s wants
Leadership lessons from the movie Remember the Titans
Resources:
Davaughnu Banks
Envision Brand Marketing Website
Davaughnu Banks
Envision Brand Marketing Website
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Are you committed to being a humble leader? Do you want to build a culture in your organization that will help you grow and scale? Are you looking to enhance and accelerate your leadership and impact? Our special guest Tim Toterhi answers these and other questions about leadership, culture and business growth. Tim Toterhi is an HR consultant specializing in talent and performance management. He’s also a fractional CHRO, career advisor, author (non-fiction and fiction), and the Founder of Plotline Leadership. Over his impactful career, Tim has helped grow and scale a wide range of businesses and knows well the vital role of culture in growth and scaling. Ever the contrarian, Tim approaches his practice with a playful smile and an eyebrow up. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The truth that HR leaders have a seat at the leadership table
HR leaders need to approach their role differently
Navigating the HR reality that you can’t do tactics and strategy at the same time (being ruthless with your time and responsibilities)
People impact takes much less time than you think (feedback doesn’t have to take lots of time)
Scheduling feedback takes more time than in the moment feedback
The three forms of leadership: 1. Ordained a leader; 2. Step up to lead in the moment (opportunistic); 3. Earned leadership role
The role of and path to humble leadership (learn on the job, develop workarounds, trust your team)
Authenticity alone is not enough in leadership
The fallacies of faking it until you make it in leadership
Leadership lessons from the martial arts
Humble leaders continue to earn the right to lead
Leaders must avoid the illusion of completeness (the belief that you’re done with learning and growing)
Leaders must be experts at workarounds (navigating unique challenges and developing unique / different solutions)
Humble leadership is belts off leadership (always be open to learning from anyone, everyone and everywhere … no matter position or experience)
Leaders must model what they want to create
Implementing belts off leadership in your organization
The truth that cultural change can happen on a dime (making sure that your culture trailer matches your culture movie)
Incongruence as a culture killer
Clarity of mission, vision and values must integrate with consistently living them
The importance of aligning culture with performance and compensation
Leaders must learn to listen differently
Role of culture in growing and scaling
Using role profiles over job descriptions
If you want to scale your business, scale your people
Billy Joel wisdom … “Don’t take no shit from nobody”
Resources:
Tim Toterhi
Tim Toterhi Website
Plotline Leadership Website
The Twenty Guiding Principles of Karate: The Spiritual Legacy of the Master Book
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Are you looking to build community in your business? Do you want to create a psychologically safe work environment for your team? Are you committed to building a culture of curiosity? Our special guest Lauren Yee answers these and other questions about leadership, curiosity and building cultures of psychological safety. Lauren Yee is known as the Cultivator of Curiosity and is a Founder of This Us Now, a professional education company that empowers people and organizations to work with better information and more joy. Lauren is a process-driven problem solver, who believes that curiosity, consistency and connections are the greatest drivers of great things. Before becoming a facilitator and speaker, she helped build and grow the largest LEGO-inspired STEM company in the United States. She’s worked with the Golden State Warriors, Google, Southwest Airlines and Workday helping them to build community, establish inclusivity and create psychologically safe work environments where staff can play, thrive, and "adult like a kid.” The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
What does it mean to adult like a kid (adulting like a kid)
Understanding Lego-inspired learning experiences
The power of curiosity in leadership, innovation and life
Ways and reasons we’ve lost our sense of curiosity
The many layers of curiosity
Changing team realities after COVID
The importance and impact of cultures of psychological safety in the workplace
Changing perspectives and conversations about mistakes and failure
The importance of living your values
Making it okay to not be okay in the workplace
Getting beyond the conversation where everyone is “fine”
Changing our questions to elicit more vulnerable answers
Leadership modeling by answering questions first
Putting curiosity and fun into action through your questions
Creating cultures of psychological safety is not about caretaking your people
Leadership lessons from the movie Sister Act II
Resources:
Lauren Yee
Cultivator of Curiosity Website
This Us Now Website
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What are your innate gifts? Are you fully using them in your business and life leadership? Are you integrating your head, heart and gut brains for more impact and influence? Our special guest Traci Philips answers these and other questions about leadership, unleashing your innate gifts and enhancing your impact. Traci Philips is the Founder of The Innate Coach. As an executive leadership and performance strategist, Traci supports visionary business owners and corporate executives to learn and practice better communication, resolution strategies, decision-making and leading during times of change and when the stakes are high. She teaches her clients how to create a more cohesive, cooperative experience and environment within their workplace culture. Her ultimate goal is to support her clients to live authentically and lead powerfully by creating more awareness about who they are, how they want to be seen and what legacy they want to leave behind. Traci’s first book, Looking In: Discover, Define & Align the True Value of Your Life, Leadership and Legacy will be coming out in September 2021 and can be ordered through Amazon. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Understanding and unleashing your greatest gifts
Finding your greatest gifts in your greatest challenges
Ways other people can help you find your gifts
Leading with your three brains (head, heart and gut brains)
The Three Brains book by Karen Jensen
Understanding your three brains and the information that comes from each
Exploring fear in the context of your three brains
The role of stories in framing your reality, your fears and your leadership
Understanding your often natural instincts for protection
Ways that trauma and fear is passed down through family generations
Developing your leadership gifts, skills and potentials (and the stories that get in the way)
Leadership vulnerability and empathy in the context of your three brains
Exploring and unleashing your innate identity as a person and leader
Deconditioning our stories and beliefs
Ways that authentic praise creates intrinsic motivation
Helping yourself and other find your right spot in the puzzle of life
Developing your sense of self as a person and leader
Redefining winning
Resources:
Traci Philips
The Innate Coach Website
Yes, You Can Change the World book by Aman Motwane
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Do you struggle with speaking in front of groups? Are you the effective communicator you want to be as a leader? Do you want to be more effective and impactful with your communication, presentations and persuasion? Our special guest Jess Todtfeld answers these and other questions about leadership, business speaking, presentations and impactful communication. Jess Todtfeld is a Guinness World Record holder in a communications category for interviewing the most times in 24 hours on radio ... 112 different radio stations. So Jess knows a thing or two about communication. What was he talking about? "Business Speaking" ... not public speaking but "Business Speaking." This is something every leader needs to master. Jess is the Founder of Media Ambassadors, a group of vetted experts that the media go to for interviews. He also helps leaders with speaker training, media training and access to their Lead Generation Mastermind. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Realities and solutions for the fear of public speaking
Taking advantage of the daily opportunities to grow your communication skills and confidence (stand up to speak up)
Important role of preparing for you speaking / presentation opportunities
Challenges of winging it in business speaking
Beware of underpreparing for presentations
Embrace the value of saying it out loud and using video to learn and improve
The standard formula for all business speaking
Perils of Power Point
Be a storyteller in your business speaking
Empower your business speaking by using questions to allow your audience to have their own aha moments
Power of afformations
Parenting as a leadership role
Leadership development in the Scouts
Leadership includes trying things different ways to learn, grow and develop
Embracing the natural storyteller in your
Four levels of business speaking impact: 1. Understand; 2. Memorable; 3. Action; 4. Pass on to others
Overcoming your fears with business speaking
Don’t fake it until you make it – act it and become it
Embrace mistakes as a great learning tool
Ideas to prepare your children to overcome fears of public speaking
Lessons from Grandma – Always Be Learning
Amplify your growth by amplifying your book reading
Resources:
Jess Todtfeld
Success in Media Website
Media Ambassadors Website
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Are you looking to better understand DEI and ways to build a more inclusive culture? Do you want to be an inclusive leader? Are you looking for tools to activate your inclusive leadership? Our special guest Vivian Acquah answers these and other questions about leadership, diversity, equity, inclusion, and workplace wellness. Vivian Acquah is the Founder of Viva la Vive, which helps leaders and managers keep their team members engaged, energized, and safe in a sustainable manner. As a multicultural and multi-passionate human being, she inspires and empowers people to be their best selves. Becoming a mother inspired Vivian to shift from being a Finance/ IT consultant to becoming a workplace wellness & Amplify DEI (diversity, equity and inclusion) advocate. She made a promise to her son Orlando (2013) to help make the world a better place by creating thriving workplaces for EVERYONE. This is a promise not only to him and his generation but also for future generations. As an inclusive Workplace Wellness Advocate, Vivian Acquah is making topics related to workplace wellness and DEI accessible to everyone. She provides people with the right tools, at the right time, to embrace inclusive changes. Vivian motivates people to think consciously and inspires them to take action. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The realities of toxic, bullying workplaces and strategies to transform these cultures
Understanding the connection between workplace wellness and DEI
Realities of raising a bi-racial child in a racist world
Integrating the social justice conversation in your workplace
DEI needs to be a conversation for everyone in an organization (not just certain departments)
What it means to amplify DEI in your organization
DEI must be activated with leadership action
Understanding DEI in your organization through the lense of a carrot cake
Failure to embrace DEI will cost you people, business, revenue and profits
Redefining what it means to get the “best people” with a DEI foundation
Different approaches to recruiting and interviewing people with a DEI mindset
What it means to sponsor people of difference to the next level and to bring them into new places
What it means to build a culture of inclusive humanization in the workplace
Ways that external stakeholders are driving DEI change in organizations
DEI is a movement, not a PR campaign
The many ways that diversity wins in the workplace
Ways that focusing on all diversity (e.g. diversity of thought) can get in the way of building a diverse and inclusive workplace
The role of intersectionality in DEI and real change
The importance of nurturing a culture of psychological safety
Key things we need to unlearn in order to move DEI forward
Role of self-leadership (self education) with inclusive leadership
What it means to activate your inclusive leadership
Essential role of leadership vulnerability and empathy in DEI change
Everyday tools for building a more inclusive culture
Resources:
Vivian Acquah
Viva la Vive Website
AMPLIFY DEI Summit
The Memo: What Women of Color Need to Know to Secure a Seat at the Table book
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Are you ever considering writing a book? Are you already in the process of writing a book? Do you wonder if your story is worth telling? Our special guest Jae Herman answers these and other questions about storytelling, book writing and sharing your story through a book. Jae Hermann is a storyteller, badassery advocate and CEO of Jae Hermann Storytelling Studio and Badassery Lab. She empowers women, retirees (reinvention misters and mavens), authors and career bloggers to overcome fear and self-doubt to reclaim a greater sense of self. Using a holistic approach to build confidence and make positive mind shifts, Jae guides clients to break through negative self-talk, find clarity and purpose to become badass creative professionals and storytellers. Jae is passionate about storytelling because our stories have the power to change lives. Jae is also a sci-fi junkie, avid Latin dancer, breast implant illness survivor, midlife reinvention supporter, and healthy food connoisseur. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Unleashing your creative essence
What it means to be a badass advocate
Assessing whether your story needs to be told
Key questions to ask and answer when you’re considering writing a book
Understanding the role of your creative intuition in writing a book
What it takes inside you to write and publish a book
Important issues to consider when deciding whether to write a book
Understanding the marketing realities in writing and publishing a book
The healing power of writing and publishing a book
Different ways the imposter syndrome impacts authors and tools for navigating past it
A process of getting past your fears in writing a book and sharing your story
Realities of book writing and publishing
The importance of your social media platform in marketing your book
Knowing the truest why for your book
The importance of getting clear on your purpose and goals in writing a book
The value of using a writing process when writing your book
Questions to consider when engaging people to help you write, publish and market your book
If you want to write a book, are you already regularly writing
The writing realities of using a ghostwriter
Collaboration essentials in working with a coach and editor
Resources:
Jae Hermann
Jae Hermann Website
Bad Ass Storyteller Intensive Workshop
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Are you struggling with leading in the new reality of hybrid and remote workplaces? Do you want new tools and ways to lead with today’s workforce? Do you want to better understand the role and value of emotional intelligence, especially with remote teams? Our special guest Diana Lowe answers these and other questions about leadership, emotional intelligence and remote teams. Diana Lowe is a Certified Executive Coach and the Founder of Blue Light Leadership, and she helps remote leaders develop their emotional intelligence and communication skills to inspire their teams to higher performance levels, creatively solve problems, and positively impact their bottom line. Diana works with Directors and Senior Executives in Fortune 500 companies to transform their team spirit and communication, turning low-performing teams to highly productive and engaged teams. Her practice focuses on using evidence-based research in Positive Psychology for coaching, which allows her a whole person wellness approach in coaching. Diana recently moved to Phoenix, AZ and, when she’s not playing with her two little girls or hanging with her hubby, you can see her on stage doing stand-up comedy . . .and if you are wondering … no she’s not that funny. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The state of leadership and hybrid workforces today
The impact and meaning of the Great Resignation in April 2021
Necessary leadership paradigms in the hybrid work world
Defining emotional intelligence and making better decisions based upon that intelligence
Understanding communication energy as part of emotional intelligence
Value of emotional intelligence’s value to teams, organizations and leaders
The critical role of empathy in leadership and culture
Ways to learn from your emotions and reactions
The intersection of emotional awareness and impact awareness
Ways the Buddhist foundations intersect with emotional intelligence and leadership
Reframing the concept of alpha leaders
Work hard, play hard philosophies in the context of emotional intelligence
Leading amidst a shift to more balance in work and life
Mental health realities in our new workforce and burnout
Unique elements of emotional intelligence with remote workers (learning a new way)
Emotional bandwidth in leadership
Value of giving people planned breaks from meetings and calls
A simple communication strategy when things aren’t working
Resources:
Diana Lowe
Diana Lowe Website
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Are you a tough leader or a resilience leader? Do you want to build more resilience and drive into your leadership and impact? Are you ready to accelerate your leadership? Our special guest Punit Dhillon answers these and other questions about leadership, resilience and personal drive. Punit Dhillon was nine when he almost drowned in a swimming pool. Twenty years later, he became a competitive swimmer and completed his first of several Ironman Triathlons. Punit lives by the philosophy of using adversity as fuel to exceed all expectations. At thirty, Punit was one of the youngest biotech CEOs in the life sciences industry, and just five years later, he became a NASDAQ CEO for a publicly traded biotech company. Punit is currently the Chair and CEO of Skye Bioscience, a public pharmaceutical company. He’s also the Co-founder, former President, and CEO of OncoSec, a biotechnology company pioneering new technologies to fight cancer. Punit has been recognized as one of PharmaVOICE 100’s top CEOs and as a finalist for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™. Punit is also the author of Catapult: How to Think Like a Corporate Athlete to Strengthen Your Resilience, an insider’s look at the lessons we learn by turning obstacles into opportunities. Taking you through his twenty years of global business experience, Punit shares ten principles for a purpose-driven life and career, linking together the athletic strengths that will help you succeed. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com.
Show Notes Episode highlights…
Leadership, business and resilience lessons from being an ultra-athlete
Ways that adversity can help you grow if you’re intentional about the learning
Understanding resilience and building more of it in your life
Impact of family culture and upbringing in the foundations of resilience
Importance of doing post-mortems to better learn and grow from experiences
Resilience is not about deflecting the challenges that you that you have, it's about taking them on and absorbing them, and then rebounding as fast as you could
Beware Rocky style resilience (taking a beating and staying standing)
Resilience is not false armor or mental toughness
Learning about lessons from riptides
Shifting from confident decision making in leadership to a more mindful approach and supporting your people
What does it mean to serve the people on your team
The critical need of coaching in leadership
Differently understanding “high performer” and being clear on what it means (high performer must be holistic)
Taking time to step back and appreciate all we’ve already achieved
Role of visualization in achievement and resilience
Leadership lessons from the movie Spy Game
Resources:
Punit Dhillon (hello@punitdhillon.com)
Punit Dhillon Website
Catapult: How to Think Like a Corporate Athlete to Strengthen Your Resilience Book
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Are you trying to navigate the reality of remote workers and team members? Do you want to better understand what it takes to successfully build and lead a business with remote team members? Are you looking for insights and tools for leading a remote team, whether fully, hybrid or otherwise? Our special guest Laura Miller answers these and other questions about leadership, culture and doing business in a remote worker world. Laura Miller is the Founder and CEO of TempDev, a nationwide healthcare information technology consulting firm that specializes in NextGen EPM and EHR development. She combines an engineering background with business savvy to create holistic and sustainable solutions with positive financial and operational impacts. Over the past fourteen years, Laura has led and built a business with an entire team that works from home, including herself. Laura knows well the keys to leading, building culture, collaborating, innovating, communicating, and serving clients in a remote work model. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The basics of a remote workforce
The challenges of bringing people back to the office who don’t want to go back to the office
Financial realities of remote working in terms of compensation, cost of living, etc.
Key values to team members of working from home
Challenges of taking care of children while working remotely
Collaboration and innovation also happen with remote working
Pros and cons of remote working
Importance of boundaries and routines when working remotely
Overwork and burnout risks when working remotely
Leaders must pay attention to the impact of their personal choices around work and remote work
Productivity and remote work
Pros, cons, risks and rewards of using employee work tracking software with remote workers
Understanding the importance of and determining key performance indicators (KPI’s)
Shifting the focus from time productivity to outcome productivity
Role of existing trust levels in impacting employee response to monitoring programs
Killing your peoples’ productivity by over-meeting your remote workers
What’s the cost of your meetings?
Remote working requires great technology and different approaches to communication
Today’s workforce requires more empathetic leadership
What would you do if you could not fail?
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Laura Miller
Temp Dev Website
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Do you struggle with challenging conversations? Do you want to learn more mindsets and tools for enhancing your crucial conversations? Are you ready to amplify your leadership and impact through conversations? Our special guest Andrea Newton (England) answers these and other questions about leadership and management in the context of conversations and communication. Andrea Newton is the Founder of Confident Conversations and a woman on a mission to get leaders comfortable with the uncomfortable and believes there are 7 Significant Conversations that all good leaders ought to be able to have if they are truly to get the best out of their team and their business. Andrea has spent the last 21 years working with a wide range of organizations across all industry sectors, helping literally thousands of managers and leaders at all levels to have conversations that matter. Andrea believes that conversations change organizations, develop relationships, improve standards, increase results – in fact, conversations even save lives and having had her own experience of rooting around at rock bottom and peering over the edge, Andrea believe that unless leaders create the climate that encourages honest, open, frank dialogue then they will never achieve their full potential. As a trainer, keynote speaker, author and soon to be podcast host, Andrea is based in the northwest of England and offers a whole range of online and remote training services to her clients – from television production to the NHS – she wants to use her past to improve others futures. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The importance of crucial conversations and different approaches to having them
Understanding the blind spots about crucial conversations
Confident leaders are willing to admit their weaknesses
Going into crucial conversations with an attitude of curiosity
Beware the words you use to label your crucial conversations
Understanding the differences between feedback and opinions
Leadership is not a popularity contest (do you want to be liked or respected as a leader)
The impact of avoiding one-on-one conversations and instead relying on group conversations
Importance of learning and teaching skills for crucial conversations
Keys for leading and managing today’s workforce
Understanding and navigating the Seven (7) Significant Conversations
Crucial conversations are more impactful that processes and procedures
The Four (4) F words in conversations: 1. Feelings; 2. Fears; 3. Family; and 4. Future
Vulnerability and psychological safety in leadership
Understanding the difference between empathy and sympathy in leadership
Using the E.E.C. Model for crucial conversations (Example – Effect – Change)
Leaders must get comfortable with the uncomfortable when it comes to crucial conversations
The leadership of Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter series
Resources:
Andrea Newton
Really Useful Conversations Podcast
Confident Conversations Website
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Are you feeling burnout or overwhelmed? Are you looking for unconventional strategies for navigating your life and business? Do you want to be more purposeful, productive and present in every part of your life and leadership? Our special guest Imogen Roy (Bordeaux France) answers these and other questions about burnout, purpose, productivity and personal energy. Imogen Roy is a Business Mentor who helps unconventional people to be more purposeful, productive and present in their life and business. After experiencing burnout whilst doing what she loved, Imogen realized she'd have to take a much more proactive approach to protect her most valuable business asset: her own energy. Despite doing what she loved, Imogen experienced a profound burnout experience that helped her to differently understand burnout, self-care and the importance of protecting your energy. Today Imogen is the accomplice of founders, artists, consultants and visionaries who want to create unstoppable success in work and life without burnout or compromise. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Burnout is more a product of what happens when we care too much and too long for others without caring for ourselves
The process and importance of finding and living your genius
Understanding and overcoming the challenges of finding and living your genius
Living an unconventional life by choosing not to fit in
Keys to understanding the role of energy in leadership, productivity and life
Navigating the land mines of false boxes in our lives
Energy as your most important asset
The reality that not all time is equal and controllable, but your energy can be managed
What it means to be a time bender
The role of presence in productivity
Presence is essential when it comes to leadership
Three kinds of attention / presence: 1. Outward facing attention; 2. Submissive state of attention (receiving); 3. Meditation
Understanding what presence is and isn’t
What happens to time when you’re not present
Understanding our attachment to multi-tasking and its connection to lack of self-trust
The myth of multi-tasking
The flow of energy when you’re present (for yourself and others)
Find a small way to honor what you feel like doing throughout the day (versus what you believe you have to do)
Asking and answering the question of where you’re finding resistance
Getting curious with your resistance
Self-shaming or pushing through your resistance uses more energy and exhausts us
The ways that language / words shape our culture and reality
Understanding the different experiences of time (quantum and gestational)
Examining the ways that your own language is serving you and not serving you
Foundations for integrated leadership and living
Embracing your resistance in order to learn from it
Resources:
Imogen Roy
Imogen Roy Instagram
Imogen Roy Website
A Year of Magical Living Podcast
Unbound: A Guide to Women’s Power book by Kasia Urbaniak
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Are you confused about what to do to build a more diverse, equitable and inclusive culture? Are you looking to better understand the differences that are part of organizations today? Are you committed to creating a safer and more diverse, equitable and inclusive culture and organization? Our special guest Marcia Alvarado answers these and other questions about diversity, equity, inclusion and leadership. Marcia Alvarado has been a licensed professional engineer for the past 16 years and works as a Structural Market Leader for WGI in Tampa, Florida. She graduated from Florida Institute of Technology with a degree in Civil Engineering in 2004, where she played collegiate basketball. Marcia then pursued a career in structural engineering starting in New York City, and received her Master’s from the University of South Florida in 2009. Marcia enjoys designing buildings and has always had a passion for helping others through the ACE Mentor Program, a mentoring program for high school student to learn about the industry. Marcia also has ventured in the fashion world by way of modeling and provides custom suiting for Sharpe Suiting, an LGBTQ+ owned and operated luxury custom suiting brand. In 2020, she Founded The Alvarado Experience, a consultancy focused on diversity, equity and inclusion. Marcia knew her path was in design and construction at the age of four as she was standing on the London Bridge, barely tall enough to reach the glass, and told her mother “I want to build buildings when I grow up.” The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Navigating the engineering, construction and business world as an other
Critical interpersonal skills and mindsets for supporting more diversity, equity and inclusion in the world
Understanding the difference between gender identity, gender role and gender expression
Understanding gender identity and expression in the trans community
The role of sexual expression in diversity, equity and inclusion (understanding the LBGTQ+ and queer community)
Ongoing challenges for the LBGTQ+ community in the workplace
Leaders and organizations must do more than talk the DEI talk
The role of intersectionality with diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
Keys to bringing values around diversity, equity and inclusion alive in your organization
The role of vulnerability in diversity, equity and inclusion leadership
The leadership essential of knowing thyself especially when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion
The power of publicly using your pronouns to build a safe and more belonging culture
Resources:
Marcia Alvarado
The Alvarado Experience Website
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Are you committed to leading with more humanness? Are you ready to lead with more people impact? Do you want to learn the tools and power of stories? Our special guest Arthur Jones answers these and other questions about stories, leadership and humanizing your brand. Arthur Jones is the founder of two companies – The Art of Standing Out (a leadership development firm) and The Art of Inbound Marketing (a marketing agency). Arthur has been described as a people centric, growth focused business strategy architect, as well as a brand story architect. Arthur helps businesses and their customer-facing teams employ tools, strategies, and hybrid work models enabling collaboration and co-creation with the customers they serve. He’s also developed a concept called R.O.A.R – Return On Authentic Relationships. His mission – to make meaning by enriching the lives of the business professionals they work with, and ultimately creating a more just and caring world. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
What is a brand story architect?
The power of stories and storytelling
The source of the loss of the art of storytelling
Understanding what it means to R.O.A.R. as a leader (return on authentic relationships)
Being a humanologist (seek first to understand)
The Big 3 of stories: 1. Story listening; 2. Story building; 3. Storytelling
Obstacles to bringing more humanness into your leadership
Leadership shifts for a remote and hybrid workforce
Leadership top three … Integrity, Emotional Intelligence and Communication
Leadership requires the courage to do the right thing
Humanizing your brand
Resources:
Arthur Jones
Art of Standing Out Website
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Are you struggling with what your culture will look like in the post-COVID workforce? Are you committed to being a learning organization? Do you want to build a culture that will engage and inspire your team? Our special guest Dr. Troy Hall answers these and other questions about culture, talent, leadership, engagement and performance. Dr. Troy Hall is the author of the best-selling title, Cohesion Culture: Proven Principles to Retain Your Top Talent, and the #1 title for Business and Professional Humor, FANNY RULES: A Mother’s Leadership Lessons That Never Grow Old. He was once told he did not have the talent to write. His mom, Fanny, reminded him, “It’s not the successes or failures that shape your life, it’s how you handle them.” Dr. Troy is an author, radio host, global speaker, talent retention strategist and consultant who’s been featured on the Today Show, ABC, Beyond the Business Radio Show, and CEO World. His doctorate in Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship has sent him across the globe to help leaders create cultures of cohesion and retain top talent in their organizations. With more than 40 years of practical leadership experience and a Ph.D. in Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Dr. Troy's consulting and executive coaching sessions have positively impacted organizational leaders around the globe on how to create cultures of cohesion to retain their top talent. His mantra, "You don’t have to know everything, you just need to be teachable." The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Mother’s leadership lessons
Mistakes are not failures – they’re learning experiences
Five elements of a learning organization: 1. Being generative; 2. Adaptive; 3. Experimentation; 4. Diversity of thought; 5. Good stewards of the resources
Knowledge isn’t power … it’s using that knowledge and turning it into wisdom
Role of cultural relatively in sustaining a learning culture
Importance of emotional intelligence and self-awareness in leadership
Vulnerability and authenticity in leadership
Charismatic leadership is no longer enough
The importance of creating a culture to allow a collaborative voice among the team
Four primary characteristics that cross all generations in the workplace
Understanding the elements of a cohesion culture: 1. Belonging; 2. Value; 3. Shared mutual commitment
Leadership shifts in the age of growing remote workforces
Managing your people by time versus productivity / performance
Differently managing remote team members
Challenges of retaining team members in a post-COVID work world
Being thoughtful about reboarding your team after COVID
People don’t follow accidental leaders – the importance of being purposeful as a leader Resources:
Troy Hall
Troy Hall Website
Troy Hall Social Media (@drtroyhall)
Cohesion Culture: Proven Principles to Retain Your Top Talent Book
Fanny Rules: A Mother's Leadership Lessons that Never Grow Book
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Are you looking for ways to grow and scale your business? Are you struggling with the many challenges of entrepreneurship? Do you want new ideas and mindsets for your entrepreneurial journey? Our special guest Jan Cavelle answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, business growth, and scaling your business. Jan Cavelle is an entrepreneur of entrepreneurs from the UK who has a few decades of running micro and small businesses behind her. She is very familiar with all the challenges that go with that, having started one from the kitchen table when her children were small and she was a single mother, to go on to build that into a multi-million business. Jan has put her entrepreneurial experiences together with her passion for writing into a book aimed at helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses during the big leap from $1 to $10 million. Jan’s book is called Scale for Success and is currently available in the UK, with an early July publication in the United States and Australia. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Understanding what it means to scale a business
Start your business being clear on your why and where you want the business to go
The vital role of systems early in your business
The difference between growing your business and scaling your business
Key questions to answer early in your business: 1. Why am I getting into this business? 2. What do I want out of this business? 3. What kind of business do I want? 4. What kind of life do I want with this business?
The importance of getting clear on your market early in your business
Beware the sales and marketing gap in your business
Understanding the time realities in entrepreneurship
Using a book for authority and rapport building
The difference between your goals and knowing where you’re going
The critical role mindset in business growth and success
Mental health challenges in entrepreneurship
Understanding resilience and its role in business leadership
Key entrepreneur’s question: What are you willing to give up in order to build and scale your business?
Avoiding burnout as entrepreneurs and business owners
Don't do anything because other people are doing it – do what's right for you
Resources:
Jan Cavelle
Jan Cavelle Website
Scale for Success: Expert Insights Into Growing Your Business book by Jan Cavelle
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Are you an entrepreneur looking to grow and scale your business? Are you thinking about starting a business? Are you committed to growing your leadership and your business? Our special guest Bryan Clayton answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, small business growth and scaling businesses for exit. Bryan Clayton is CEO and cofounder of GreenPal an online marketplace that connects homeowners with Local lawn care professionals. GreenPal has been called the “Uber for lawn care” by Entrepreneur magazine and has over 200,000 active users completing thousands of transactions per day. Before starting GreenPal Bryan Clayton founded Peachtree Inc., one of the largest landscaping companies in the state of Tennessee growing it to over $10 million a year in annual revenue before it was acquired by Lusa holdings in 2013. Bryan‘s interest and expertise are related to entrepreneurialism, small business growth, marketing and bootstrapping businesses from zero revenue to profitability and exit. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Challenges of starting and growing a start-up business
Unique challenges for starting and growing a technology business
The three phases of business: 1. Start up; 2. Grow up; 3. Scale up
Leadership and business lessons from Mario Kart
Business growth requires leadership growth
Transitioning from being a do-it-yourself business owner to building a business
All elements of your business must be integrated and aligned
The importance of having a clear sales process to grow your business (and you must do the process yourself first)
Hiring the right people versus people with experience and industry experience
Keys to measuring leading indicators in sales (activities); not just trailing indicators (outputs)
Retention is a key indicator of your value and its alignment with your customer’s needs
Business success requires failures (and learning) and time
The critical role of listening to your customers
Strategically using fractional experts to build your business (engage the top talent instead of settling for lesser / cheaper talent)
The shift from full time, on-site employees to fractional, remote team members
Debunking the myth of overnight successes in business
Entrepreneurship as a full contact sport
Understanding the difference between self-employment, business ownership and entrepreneurship
Leveling up your leadership in order to grow and scale your business
Understanding what comes first in your business (the chicken or the egg)
The challenge of entrepreneurial leadership in being ahead of your team in vision and effort
The need to slow yourself down in order to manage and bring your people along with you
Business ownership is lonely (the importance of surrounding yourself with coaches, mentors and advisors)
Resources:
Bryan Clayton
Greenpal Website
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Are you a woman looking to grow your leadership and expand your impact? Are you an organization committed to empowering your women and their leadership? Do you to better understand what it means and what it takes to empower your women leaders? Our special guest Jane Finette answers these and other questions about leadership, women in leadership and growing yourself in order to grow your leadership. Jane Finette is a passionate advocate for women and girls, a non-profit leader, and author. In 2014 Jane founded The Coaching Fellowship (TCFS), a non-profit organization that helps advance young women social change leaders and their work throughout the world. Under her leadership, TCFS grew from helping a handful of women to now serving more than 300 young women of impact every year. More than 1,000 women have graduated from the TCFS program to date from over 70 countries, and now form the Women of Impact Alliance (the largest body of young women social change leaders. Jane is the author of the upcoming book Unlocked: How Empowered Women Empower Women (August 2021), which is filled with inspirational and real-world impactful stories of women working to advance women and girls around the world. The book also contains ten easy and practical keys for how every woman, can every day help every sister rise and thrive. Jane has spent her career pushing the boundaries of community building and human potential, and she’s obsessed with accelerating social change, magnifying participation and advancing a fairer and more equitable world. In 2020 Jane was awarded the Women Forward Gold Award from the Business Council of Peace for her work and commitment to advancing women. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Power and empowerment that comes from coaching
Impact of the glass ceiling and the systemic biases holding back women
Importance of getting beyond defining yourself based upon your job
Leadership starts with you and inside of you
Understanding and embracing whole person coaching
Understanding the broken ladder of systemic bias towards women
Unique challenges and solutions for women of color
Leadership development is an inside-out growth journey
Understanding empathy in leadership (empathy versus sympathy)
Moving beyond tactics to ways of being in leadership
Business is all about people (humanizing leadership)
Importance of holding the paradox of people in leadership
The giant blind spot of confirmation bias in leadership
Balancing the role of assessments against turning them into boxes
Evidence is in … putting bold women in leadership positions, increases impact, increases bottom line, increased innovation
Non-profit boards must also commit to diversity, equity and inclusion for the board
Resources:
Jane Finette
The Coaching Fellowship Website
Nightingale Fellowship Application
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Are you looking for different ways to build your business? Are you committed to growing yourself and your leadership? Do you want to be the most effective and impactful leader you can be? Our special guest Karen Weinstock answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, leadership, innovation and even dating. Karen Weinstock was born in Israel, served in military intelligence in the Israeli Army and then went on to law school at The Hebrew University. After practicing corporate law for a brief time, Karen moved into immigration law in part due to the challenges she faced when she came to the United States (she couldn't get a job without a visa and she couldn't get a visa without a job). Karen eventually founded her own entrepreneurial law firm, Weinstock Immigration Lawyers that helps immigrants achieve their American dreams. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Understanding key elements of immigration laws and its impact on business
Entrepreneurial mindsets to solve problems and add value
Building a law firm as a business, not just a practice
Leadership and business lessons from dating
Using business thinking, strategies, principles and processes to enhance your dating experience and personal relationships
The critical role of authenticity in dating, relationships and leadership
Keys to building authentic relationships
Entrepreneurship essentials
Understanding the differences between building a practice and building a business
Ways that working on yourself is a game changer as a leader and business owner
Understanding emotional mastery for your leadership and relationships
The positive impacts of building a culture of personal growth and development in your business
The power of being honest and direct in your communication
Resources:
Karen Weinstock
Weinstock Immigration Lawyers website
Matched: From Dating Disasters to Dream Relationships book by Karen Weinstock
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Are you looking for ways to enhance your team’s experience? Are you committed to integrating diversity, equity and inclusion into your culture? Do you want tools to help you build psychological safety into your workplace experience? Our special guest Khong Xiong answers these and other questions about leadership, team engagement, and diversity, equity and inclusion. Khong serves as a thought partner, business advisor, and consultant working closely with business executives and HR leaders at Fortune 500 companies on how to engage their people, unlock potential, and translate their strategy into something they can operationalize to achieve growth. Khong brings over 10 years of experience in leadership development and management consulting. He’s worked at some of the world’s top leadership development companies where he successfully helped his clients drive superior performance by developing their leaders and aligning their people, structure, and process. Khong offers creative insight and inclusive solutions to tackle some of human resources’ biggest challenges, such as diversity, equity and inclusion, employee engagement, strategy execution, culture transformation and organizational effectiveness. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The gap between intention and execution when it comes to people in organizations
Self-awareness is vital in leadership
Effective leaders create psychological safety in the organization and team
Courage in asking for feedback
Vulnerability in leadership includes admitting mistakes
The importance of empathy in building a strong diversity, equity and inclusion culture
Key obstacles to building a strong diversity, equity and inclusion culture
Building your diversity, equity and inclusion team
Importance of being present when it comes to building strong people first cultures
Using check-ins to enhance your people experience at work
Importance of flexible work options for team members
Understanding psychological safety in the workplace
Leadership is an inside out mindset and issue
Impact of building and nurturing a culture of authenticity
Resources:
Khong Xiong
The Purpose Tune Podcast
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Are you looking to grow and build your business? Are you wondering what’s getting in the way of your success? Are you ready to accelerate your business growth? Our special guest Maini Homer (Australia) answers these and other questions about keys to growing yourself and your business. Maini Homer is known as the Queen of Content Creation and has been in business for herself for over 23 years. In that time, Maini has built 13 successful businesses from scratch and usually with no money down. She’s also the author of Lockdown Took My Income, a #1 International Best-Selling book in three countries and three categories. Maini wrote her book in under 24 hours at the start of the pandemic. It’s a 9-step blueprint to create your own income stream from scratch. Maini’s latest venture, Copywriters International, was born in October 2020 after recording the video series Creating an Income From Scratch. She did this to prove that the steps in her book really did work if you follow them. The rest is history. Seven months later, Maini has 16 staff working for her and she’s staring down at total financial and time freedom … and deciding what her next adventure will be. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Keys to business success especially as a start-up
The power of outsourcing and letting go
Importance of setting clear and high expectations for your team members
Social media consistency allows you to be seen and heard by your ideal target market
Effective social media is about trust and relationship building
You must be willing to put yourself out there to be heard above the noise
Secrets for growing an online business
Only your thoughts and feelings hold you back
Mindsets and beliefs are the only obstacle to your success
Self-development requires more than “shelf development”
Get clear on what you’re passionate about and get clear on who you want to serve (clear target markets)
When something doesn’t work, you must focus on “What’s next”
Discerning between quitting and adjusting / shifting
You must become aware of your self-limiting beliefs and brokenness (and then work on you)
Your only glass ceiling is in your mind
Resources:
Maini Homer
Copywriters International Website
The Four Agreements book by Don Miguel Ruiz
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Are you confused by technology? Are you trying to figure out digital marketing for your business? Are you looking for ideas to help your business and operations run more smoothly and effectively? Do you want to amp up your impact? Our special guest Jen McFarland answers these and other questions about technology, AI and digital marketing. Jen McFarland is the Founder of Women Conquer Business, and she also has a podcast by the same name. Women Conquer Business is a digital marketing operations consultancy to help entrepreneurs and small businesses solve their marketing technology challenges, streamline processes, and amplify impact. Jen describes herself as an accidental entrepreneur, who’s committed to helping businesses enhance their businesses and impact by understanding how technology can help you grow a business, systematize the business, and change the overall imprint of the business through technology. A former Peace Corps volunteer and operations analyst, Jen brings a wealth of experience in helping organizations streamline their operations and systems. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Why businesses and business owners struggle with technology and software
Assessing your business operations and goals before developing your marketing and technology strategy
The importance of alignment between your business and your marketing / digital imprint
Ways that technology helps you and your business work better
Using technology and automation to allow your business to be more human
You must know where you are today with technology and marketing before developing strategies for getting where you want to be
Social media strategy must be built around your customer’s needs and interests, not your own
Marketing must focus on the emotions you want to elicit in people
If you want to understand your customers, ask them
The role of AI in your business, technology and marketing strategies
AI tools for your marketing toolbox
Getting past your technology fears
You must understand what you need before you decide what technology you need
The importance of mentorship in your business and leadership journey
Resources:
Jen McFarland
Women Conquer Business Website
Women Conquer Business Podcast
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Are you looking for ways to improve your mental health and the mental health of your team members? Do you want ideas on ways to lead effectively after COVID? Our special guest Ian Adair answers these and other questions about leadership, mental health and workplace mental health. Ian Adair is a nonprofit industry influencer, TEDx speaker, and recognized expert in leadership, fundraising, and nonprofit management. Ian is a speaker, author and advocate concerning mental health awareness and addressing mental health in the workplace. He’s the author of Stronger Than Stigma. A Call to Action: Stories of Grief, Loss and Inspiration! Ian Adair is the Executive Director of the Gracepoint Foundation, the philanthropic arm of Gracepoint – one of the largest mental health organizations in Florida. Gracepoint impacts the lives of more than 30,000 individuals (children and adults) each year seeking mental health, medical, and addiction services in the Tampa Bay area. In 2016, Ian was chosen as one of the Top 100 Must-Follow Giving Influencers on Twitter by Give Local America. In 2019, Ian was named of the Top 100 Charity Industry Influencers on Social Media in the world by Onalytica, an influencer relationship software company in London. In 2020, Ian was recognized as one of the 30 Nonprofit Founders that will impact the World by Causeartist, a global community and social enterprise platform. Show NotesEpisode highlights…
Understanding the state of mental health in the United States including its financial impact
The role of stigma in limiting people from seeking support
The trouble with self-diagnosing mental health conditions and challenges
The interrelationships between mental health and physical health
People take an average of 8-10 years to seek help for mental health issues
Understanding the two types of stigmas – social stigma and self-perceived stigma
Gender differences and mental health conditions (and impacts)
Being high functioning doesn’t mean you aren’t suffering with mental health conditions
The importance of opening up the conversation around suicide (data we can’t ignore)
Relationship impacts of suicide
Reasons we avoid conversations about mental health, suicide, etc.
The bottom-line impacts of mental health on your organization and business (No. 1 reason for loss of productivity and absenteeism)
Understanding the changes in our workforce and the impact of these changes on mental health and what employees desire in support
The reality and mental health impact of toxic work cultures
Leaders as culture caretakers in organizations
Mental health and remote working
Leadership and team challenges in transitioning out of COVID
It’s vital to understand what your people want
The human and financial impact of normalizing conversations about mental health in the workplace
The importance of creating a safe work environment for your people including emotional and psychological safety
The best mental health support you can offer is to just listen
Resources: Ian Adair Twitter
Ian Adair Instagram
Stronger Than Stigma Book (Ian Adair)
Oh Great One Book by David Novak
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Are you missing passion in your business and life journey? Are you looking for strategies to help you increase your passion and outcomes? Do you want to have a clear vision for your business? Our special guest John Miles answers these and other questions about passion, purpose and impact. John Miles is the Founder of Passion Struck™ and the host of Passion Struck Podcast. Passion Struck™ exists to ignite the next generation of game-changing companies and future leaders to make a real and lasting impact on the world. Becoming Passion Struck is for those of us who the box can’t contain — for game-changers, shapers, innovators, record makers, empire builders, career reinventors, and visionaries of all kinds. John is passionate about being the catalyst who helps individuals and businesses take action on their ideas. He is a combat veteran, multi-industry CEO, successful entrepreneur, top podcast host, and author who is making passion go viral. Although best known as the President and CEO of Genius Central Systems and CIO of Dell, John’s career as a servant leader spans more than two decades. He's founded or co-founded more than half a dozen successful start-ups, mentored rising entrepreneurs, and invested in successful tech ventures. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The power of saying “yes”
Choose to seek out discomfort and challenge yourself
Three key challenges in business and leadership today – “contagion of the human mind, human spirit and ego” (comfort, apathy and showmanship)
Ways that vulnerability is essential is leadership and relationships
Taking the governor off your mind
Passion follows purpose
It’s vital for leaders to have a coach and keys to picking a coach
Self-honesty is critical in leadership
The importance of facing and dealing with your self-limiting beliefs
Leaders are judged by their actions, not their words
Stop helping other people achieve their dreams and start achieving their own dreams
Prioritize what matters in your life
Applying the mosquito principle and audit in your life – suffocator, blood sucker and pain in the ass
Getting past the bull shit answers and getting to the real answer
The number one thing that people aren't doing is being present in their own life
Resources:
John Miles Instagram
John Miles Website
Passion Struck Website
Passion Struck Podcast
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Are you confused by marketing and social media? Do you want to better understand what it takes to market and grow your business? Are you overwhelmed by all the “experts” ready to sell you their get rich quick strategies? Our special guest Ellen Yin answers these and other questions about digital marketing, client attraction and essential marketing mindsets. Ellen Yin is the founder of Cubicle to CEO, an online membership helping entrepreneurs who sell services make their first $10K month, without a large audience or posting every day. She has been featured on the TODAY show with Hoda & Jenna and in publications like Authority Magazine, Databird Business Journal, The Penny Hoarder, HerMoney, and BlogHer. Notably, Ellen quit her job, decided she’d never work for someone else again and starting with a $300 project, quickly built at seven figure business. Through her results-driven online courses + agency services, Ellen has worked with over 7,000 entrepreneurs and brands ranging from startups to Fortune 500 companies. Ellen is also the host of the award-winning Cubicle to CEO Podcast, which peaked in multiple countries' Top 50 business podcast charts and has been downloaded in over 100 countries worldwide. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
You don’t have to invest all your time in attracting clients (use simple systems to attract clients)
Mindset and implementation must work together to grow your business
Selling done right is a collaboration, not a coercion
Three elements of a successful marketing system are a traffic generator, a lead generator and a sales generator (they must all work well together)
Strategy is vital in marketing and social media (not just activity)
Consistency needs to be applied on connecting and getting in front of your ideal clients online and driving traffic to your existing best quality content
There are no magic pills, but you can shortcut other people’s mistakes
Choose data over drama (every outcome is a learning opportunity)
Sales funnels alone are not the solution
There are many ways to niche including the transformation results (not just demographics or psychographics)
Business and sales are not like the movie Field of Dreams (if you build it, they will NOT come)
Online courses are meant to be a vehicle that takes someone from point A to point B, using a framework, a guide or a system that has been proven to work not just with one person, but with multiple people (it’s a proven recipe)
Not everyone needs digital products
What is going to create the best results for your dream clients
Creating lucrative income streams as a referral partner (you don’t have to create everything anew)
Understand the language that your ideal clients are speaking (not the language of your solutions) … Get crystal clear on your ideal clients’ language and problems
Beware the ways you approach pricing
Key mindsets and questions to assess your products and services pricing
Resources:
Ellen Yin
Ellen Yin Instagram
Ellen Yin Website
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Are you tired of playing the numbers game in sales? Do you want to accelerate your sales results? Are you open to a radical shift in the ways you build trust, solve problems and engage with clients? Our special guest Ari Galper (Australia) answers these and other questions about true trust-based selling. He also debunks many of our long-held sales myths. Ari Galper is the World’s #1 Authority on trust-based selling and creator of Unlock the Game®, a new sales mindset and results-oriented approach that has revolutionized the world of selling. With a Masters in Instructional Design, which strongly analyzes the way people learn, and supplying nearly two decades of experience in direct selling in a variety of industries, Ari has pioneered a breakthrough sales system – Unlock the Game. Built on the concept of authentic communication and trust, his visionary approach to selling relieves the pressure for both the seller and buyer, producing profound results. Ari has been featured in a multitude of leading sales and business books for his unique and special trust-based sales approach. Interviewed on networks such as CNN Money and Sky News, he has become the foremost authority on selling around the globe. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
True foundations of trust-based selling
Sales are lost at the beginning, not the end
Understanding how to unlock the game – shifting your mindset, letting go of the end goal of the sale, focus only on being present with people, and build deep trust so that people will always tell you the truth
Debunking these sales myths: 1. Sales is a numbers game; 2. Sales are lost at the end of the process; 3. Rejection is part of the sales game
Ways you trigger rejection with sales opportunities
Understanding the words and language that triggers rejection
Instead of moving people towards the sale, let people decide which direction things go
Goal is to get to the truth, not the outcome you want
Using language that reduces pressure (never use the phrase “follow up” again – instead use “do you have any feedback on what’s already happened)
Learn the words and phrases to never use again in sales
Trust building and relationship building are mutually exclusive (focus on trust at the beginning and save the relationship building until later)
You can’t offer your solution until someone tells you their problem and asks you for help
Goal is not a sale – it’s to get the truth
Beware being addicted to the “drug” hopium
Potential clients ask one question: “Do I trust them?”
Fall out of love with your solution and in love with their problem
You must slow down the process including the pace of your speaking
You must care about the person and their problems until they say, “How can you help me?”
Be a truth teller in sales – You must tell people what their real problem and impact is
Differentiate based upon your approach (not your solution)
Resources:
Ari Galper
Unlock the Game Website
Unlock the Sales Game book (Ari Galper)
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Are you looking for strategies to grow your business and your people? Are you committed to being a leader and organization focused on putting your people first? Do you want tools to achieve your business goals by putting your people first? Our special guest Lori Kaiser answers these and other questions about people first leadership, culture and business growth. Lori Kaiser is the Founder and CEO of Kaiser Consulting, which she founded in 1992. Lori is a chief executive, corporate leader, and business strategist with a proven track record in assessing risk and creating solutions for Fortune 500 Company C-Level Executives and Boards. Kaiser Consulting is an international professional services firm specializing in accounting, finance and IT consulting with 80 finance and accounting professionals. Most important, Lori and Kaiser Consulting have grown the business on the simple premise of putting their people first. In fact, Lori and Kaiser Consulting have built and grown a business based upon what you may think a crazy approach – ask your people what kind of career and practice they want and then deliver it. In 2015, 2016, 2018, 2019 and 2020 Kaiser Consulting was named a Columbus “Best Places to Work”. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Building, growing and running a business based upon your people’s optimal schedule
The death of the 40-hour work week and the benefits of having flexible schedules for your people
You can run a people first business and still deliver high value to all clients (including large corporations)
Building and nurturing an attraction model for building your team
The importance of cultural fit with your team members
Creating and using a success factor grid for your business and team
Interview questions to help you assess cultural and success factor fit
The importance of training and developing your people
The value of providing a training and development allowance for your people (in addition to in house training)
The challenge in offering flexible schedules is worth the returns
Get clear on the skills that are needed for your people to advance their career (and support them in growing those skills)
Using internal processes to continually evaluate your people’s time and schedules (avoiding overwork)
Keys for growing and advancing your people based upon the skills needed for the next level (not just their current level)
Every person is different which requires enhanced listening skills to understand each person
The clearer you are about what kind of people you want, the clearer it will be who’s not a good fit
When you put your people first, they will serve your clients well
Be willing to fire clients that don’t treat your people well
Be willing to say no to potential clients that don’t fit your people first model
It’s essential to understand and use your key performance indicators
Ask your people and make it safe for them to tell the truth and even say “no”
Resources:
Lori Kaiser
Kaiser Consulting Website
Brag!: The Art of Tooting Your Own Horn without Blowing It Book (Peggy Klaus)
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Are you looking for strategies to achieve balance in your life? Are you struggling with the challenges of growing a business while maintaining your life priorities? Are you feeling handcuffed to your business? Do you want tools for scaling your business without burning out and getting out of balance in your life? Is your relationship with money keeping you from your goals? Our special guest Cassidy Arbeli answers these and other questions about leadership, business building and life integration especially for women. Cassidy is a serial entrepreneur who owns several businesses. She now works with businesses, especially female entrepreneurs, to help them grow their businesses, scale their businesses and get the life they want out of their businesses, including multiple streams of income. She also started her first business while beginning her journey as a mother – in essence, navigating the journey of business, marriage and motherhood all at the same time. Her foundation and podcast are called Unburden Your Business, and helps women build their businesses despite the unique challenges and burdens faced by women. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Focusing on life integration (not balance)
Assessing priorities based upon either a “Heck yes” or a “Heck no”
The benefits of theming your days
Asking and answering the question, “What would you do if you only had two hours a week to work on your business?”
It’s essential to put your team first and help them not only perform, but achieve their dreams
The importance of having a clear vision for what you want your business to achieve for you and in your life
It’s critical to processize your business and your team’s activities in the business
The biggest challenge in business is execution and the role of a strategic execution plan
Minimize the resistance to execution
Understanding your money (not just growing revenue)
Understanding the different ways the women function and lead in business (feminine energy versus masculine energy)
Leading your business in alignment with your feminine cycles
Acting and leading like men is NOT the answer for women (although it may deliver short term results)
The reality of ongoing challenges for women (and the reality that men are often unaware of these ongoing challenges)
It’s vital for women to show up as their authentic selves in business and leadership
Clients care about relationships and value
Let your people be themselves in their networking activities, dress code and sales methods
You can create a profitable business that aligns with who you are
Doing business with a persona requires that you work harder
People follow authentic people (not personas)
The difference between living an integrated life versus a balanced life
The power of pause in your business and life
Breaking the cycles that keep you handcuffed to your business
Embrace the data to run your business
Understanding your relationship with money and the ways that relationship impacts your business and financial performance
Power Question: Where do you see yourself in 12 months?
Resources:
Cassidy Arbeli
Unburden Your Business Website (FREE business quiz)
Unburden Your Business Podcast
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Are you frustrated with the current state of leadership? Are you wondering about the future of leadership? Are you willing to make a fundamental shift in your leadership to help enhance engagement, trust, followership and performance? Our special guest Paul McCarthy answers these and other questions about leadership, leadership development, and a fundamental shift in leadership for the future. Paul McCarthy is the Founder of a movement called FIRED Leadership. He's working on his first book that's called The FIRED Leader: Reinventing the Future of Leadership, challenging CEOs to rethink who they are firing, because they're getting rid of the wrong talents and skills. Despite being a global multibillion-dollar industry, studies show that the more companies spend on leadership development, the less leaders are ready for today's changing marketplace. Driven by the quest to discover what motivates people to do what they do, Paul thinks big, questions deeply, and strives to create the conditions for leaders of all levels to have courageous and honest conversations that build strong and healthy organizations. Having worked within big firms in the UK and Canada, he brings global perspective to his work as well as real-world experience and straightforward guidance that informs and supports leaders and leadership teams to navigate opportunities and challenges presented by transformation. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Leadership and leadership development is a broken model that requires foundational disruption
Exploring the fundamental defects in today’s model of and approach to leadership development
The trouble with performance review processes and performance improvement plans
The importance of dropping your ego in order to explore solutions to leadership and leadership development
Creating conditions for an honest discussion of what’s working and what’s not working in leadership, management and business
Beware the guruizing of leadership and leadership development
Understanding the profound cost of disengagement in business
The performance impact of clarity and alignment around purpose
Key drivers of team disengagement
The role of fear in staying stuck personally, professionally and organizationally
The connection between leadership, culture and mental health
The foundations of FIRED leadership as a mindset and practice
Fresh thinking
Inquisitive nature
Real and accountable
Expressive and challenging
Direct and transparent
The power and impact of treating people like humans
The many ways we’re failing in our meetings
Resources:
Paul McCarthy LinkedIn
Fired Leadership Twitter
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Are you looking to grow your leadership, impact and engagement? Are you curious about the ways that understanding and using your soul intelligence will enhance your leadership and impact? Are you committed to enhancing your team’s impact and performance? Our special guest Kristine Glein answers these and other questions about performance, team engagement and soul intelligence. Kristine Glein is a conscious leadership coach committed to bringing the power of Spiritual Intelligence (SQ) into the mainstream. She is dedicated to helping executive and senior leadership transform their managers into game changing leaders resulting in increased performance, consistency and alignment with the best version of themselves so they can make a greater impact on their individual teams and the organization as a whole. When it comes to motivating others to meet and exceed expectations, Kristine knows you must have your purpose and passion aligned, as that’s when you are able to fully stand in your power and embody your potential. It’s this fundamental transformational change that allows you to access the flow of energy within you by tapping into your Soul Intelligence. It drives your actions, enabling you to leverage your talents and gifts and share with others to influence and inspire. There is no doubt that we need more soulful leaders in this world. A native New Yorker, she is tenacious and singularly focused making Soul Intelligence not just a concept, but a sweeping movement across the country. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Using the Game Changer Index to grow yourself and your team
The role of intelligence quotient (IQ), emotional quotient (EQ) and soul quotient (SQ)
IQ only uses 5% of the brain – your subconscious mind is the other 95%
Understanding the DSCO coaching model (Drama – Solution – Choice – Opportunity)
It’s vital to get clear on identifying and living mission, vision, values and purpose
People (especially millennials) want to be motivated by the work
Trust and transparency are vital in managers and leaders
Focus your people development on your mid-performers (not your poor performers)
Understanding inside out problem solving
Understanding and solving our engagement issues and opportunities
The ROI of investing in your people
Understanding the Game Changing Index and ways to use it in your business
The power and impact of soul intelligence
Resources:
Kristine Glein LinkedIn
Kristine Glein Facebook
Game Changing Impact Website
Free Master Class (email Kristine at kglein@gcimpactgroup.com)
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Are you seeking to achieve peak performance? Are you looking to achieve alignment between your priorities and your actions? Do you want tools and strategies to enhance and accelerate your balanced performance in life and business? Our special guest Katie Stoddart (Sweden) answers these and other questions about peak performance, balance and removing the obstacles that get in our way. Katie Stoddart is the Founder of ‘The Focus Bee’ and an award-winning, international, high-performance coach. Katie supports founders and executives on sustaining peak performance in their business. Katie started her career as an engineer, working offshore, mapping the seafloor. From her time at sea, she gained the experience of managing teams under stressful circumstances and this led her towards coaching. She has coached in English, French, Spanish and German. For her weekly podcast ‘The Focus Bee Show’, Katie interviews leading experts in high performance. She’s passionate about leadership, performance and resilience. Katie challenges every person she works with to re-focus on what matters most. Katie works primarily with entrepreneurs & executives through one-on-one coaching and workshops on focus, leadership and performance. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Peak performance is overall balance while pursuing excellence (striving and thriving)
Balance is adjusting areas that you’ve underprioritized
Self-leadership requires doing your identity work and creating healthier habits
The ego challenge to making identity shifts
The importance of identifying and acknowledging the “wins” of the behaviors you want to change
Our subconscious defaults to certainty and comfort zone unless we’re aware and willing to shift
Ways that not “knowing” what to do is a form of resistance to change and pursuing what you desire
Ways we get stuck in the doing
Naming your internal saboteurs as a strategy to be more aware of them and avoid them
Not enough is the foundation for all internal saboteurs
The role of emotions in personal change and transformation
We hesitate to acknowledge the truth of choices because then we can’t blame or be the victim (blame doesn’t exist)
Strategies for inviting others to take responsibility and change themselves (versus demanding that they take responsibility and change)
The critical role of why and purpose in change (including taking the focus off themselves and onto others)
The vital role of energy in leadership and performance
Paying attention to the energy of your space
Beware energy thieves including unfinished tasks
Beware the words you use to enhance or diminish your energy
The “busy excuse” is an excuse for not making something a priority
Alignment of values, priorities and actions is essential
The reality of conflicts between long term vision and short-term gains (dopamine hits)
Regularly assess your time allocation based upon priorities
Important role of focus in managing energy and time, and a lens through which we choose to see things through
Strategies for enhancing their focus
Clarity is essential for peak performance and achieving your goals and objectives
Resources:
Katie Stoddart
The Focus Bee website
Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience Book by Mihaly Csikszentmihaly
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Are you struggling to lose weight and improve your physical health? Are you falling victim to the “I don’t have time” excuse for not exercising? Are you looking for practical ways to achieve your health and weight loss goals? Our special guest Gav Gillibrand will answer these and other questions about exercise, weight loss and your physical health. Gav Gillibrand is a fitness and nutrition expert who specializes in helping busy men and women lose 20 pounds or more in 12 weeks or less without cutting out carbs and other fun stuff from their lives. From a TV appearance on “Blind Date” in 1993 to a distinguished career as a male revue artist (aka a male stripper) traveling all over the UK and Europe, Gav went on to become one of the UK’s most successful online health & fitness coaches having helped hundreds of clients in the last 15 years to health & weight loss success. His techniques have helped people lose body fat with ease, increase their energy, improve their health, and give them the weight loss goals that they have always wanted. Finally, Gav’s unique take on fat loss has led to him building a community of 33,000+ followers on LinkedIn where he inspires them each day with content that is fun, informative, and unique. Gav is the author of The GHG Method: A No “Bullshit” Approach to Losing Body Fat, Upgrading Your Mind Set & Radically Changing Your Life. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The journey from global male stripper to health and exercise guru
What you need to know about exercise and carbs myths
Weight loss is all about the math (calorie deficits)
Understanding your obstacles to weight loss and improved physical health
Key mindset shifts to achieve your weight loss, exercise and physical health goals
The critical role that your friend and relationships play in achieving (or not achieving) your weight loss and health goals
The psychological aspects of losing weight and improving your health
The importance of attaching emotion to your health and weight goals
The challenge of portion size differences in the United States
Overcoming the mental barriers of weight loss and physical health
The vital role of sleep for your overall health including weight loss
Why We Sleep book
Losing weight is not a magic bullet (the answer is to control your calories and move your body 3 or 4 times a week)
When choosing exercise do something you like (you can exercise and lose weight your way)
Understanding N.E.A.T. (non-exercise activity thermogenesis) and its role in weight loss
Ways to ignore the outside voices of “expertise” on what you “should” do
Ignore the noise about weight loss and exercise
Resources:
Gav Gillibrand
Gav Gillibrand Website
The GHG Method: A No “Bullshit” Approach to Losing Body Fat, Upgrading Your Mind Set & Radically Changing Your Life book
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Are you often focused on doing in your leadership? Have you ever felt stuck in your business or career journey? Are you looking for tools to enhance your leadership effectiveness and impact? Do you want to learn to be more resourceful as a leader? Our special guest Noa Ronen is back to answer these and other questions about leadership, change management and Being the leader you desire to BE. Noa Ronen is a speaker, certified executive coach, author, disruptor, and coffee lover with more than 20 years of experience in change management, human resources, project management, and coaching. Noa encourages founders, executives, social leaders and their teams to challenge the norms so they can create the change they desire. As part of her want to do things differently she founded the Walking Mastermind™ a unique networking system for leaders that allows people and communities to network outdoors. Noa’s personal relocation experience from Israel to the United States resulted in a refreshing view of the world that invites you to hold a new mindset of what she calls BEyond leadership where you hold your leadership BEyond yourself, your vision and values to engage and grow others to BE their best selves. Noa’s the author of the book BEyond: Leadership from AwareLess to AwareNess: Dare to BE the Leader You Can Be. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
What is BEyond leadership
You can BE anything (even if you can’t do everything)
The fears we have of Being
Understanding the BEing of the system especially with your team
The importance of having conversations with your people in order to understand them
The risks of only doing in leadership (and failing to be)
The critical role of why and purpose in achieving your objectives
Getting honest about what’s important and not important
Courage is moving ahead even when you feel uncertain and even weak
Redefining courage
The importance of learning the systems inside your team and organization that don’t align with your values
Learn about a change formula: D (doing) x BE3 (emotions, expectations, energy)
Leaders lean back rather than lean in
Resources:
Noa Ronen
Noa Ronen Website
BEyond: Leadership from AwareLess to AwareNess: Dare to BE the Leader You Can Be Book
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Are you often focused on doing in your leadership? Have you ever felt stuck in your business or career journey? Are you looking for tools to enhance your leadership effectiveness and impact? Do you want to learn to be more resourceful as a leader? Our special guest Noa Ronen answers these and other questions about leadership, change management and Being the leader you desire to BE. Noa Ronen is a speaker, certified executive coach, author, disruptor, and coffee lover with more than 20 years of experience in change management, human resources, project management, and coaching. Noa encourages founders, executives, social leaders and their teams to challenge the norms so they can create the change they desire. As part of her want to do things differently she founded the Walking Mastermind™ a unique networking system for leaders that allows people and communities to network outdoors. Noa’s personal relocation experience from Israel to the United States resulted in a refreshing view of the world that invites you to hold a new mindset of what she calls BEyond leadership where you hold your leadership BEyond yourself, your vision and values to engage and grow others to BE their best selves. Noa’s the author of the book BEyond: Leadership from AwareLess to AwareNess: Dare to BE the Leader You Can Be. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Understanding the key leadership blind spots and roadblocks
Strategies for navigating transition points in life and business
What it means to move from awareless, to awaremess, to awareness
The critical role of Being when it comes to leadership
The challenges of navigating change and challenges on your own (and limiting yourself to your own thoughts)
The many challenges of being instead of doing
Ways we’re all taught to focus on doing for success, acceptance and worthiness
The importance of having a resourceful mindset
The critical need to understand your tendencies and their impact
What it means to allow your being energy and your doing energy to complete with each other (not complete with each other)
Awareness of your thoughts (especially those that don’t serve you) allows you to shift and pivot your thoughts
The importance of making time for reflection (and being)
The fears we have of being (versus doing)
Being often feels uncomfortable so we resist it
Understanding the role of surrender on the journey from awareless, to awaremess, to awareness
Resources:
Noa Ronen
Noa Ronen Website
BEyond: Leadership from AwareLess to AwareNess: Dare to BE the Leader You Can Be Book
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Are you looking for ways to enhance your people leadership mindsets and tools? Do you want strategies to enhance your people culture and leadership impact? Are you ready to lead and manage differently to meet the leadership needs of today? Our special guest Denise Cooper answers these and other questions about leadership, tools for HR leaders, and strategies for creating cultures of psychological safety and belonging. Denise Cooper, MBA, is a Certified Conversational Intelligence Trainer with 25 + years as a human resources leader who brings a practical approach to improving both soft and hard leadership skills. According to Denise, The majority of corporate “transformations” fail to meet their objectives. We know it is usually not because of a flawed business strategy, but due to poor people management or approaches that have not changed, despite the very different business model evolution. Better leaders and managers simply hit or exceed their goals more reliably. Denise’s also the author of Remarkable Leadership Lessons. As an accomplished HR executive turned owner of a boutique leadership and coach to human resource professionals, her work is focused on advising executives and HR professionals on how to create a responsive people strategy that creates a more motivated and talented workforce than your competition. Denise is a business coach for people who hate people issues but love getting things done. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The difference between having a great strategy and implementing that strategy (all people issues)
The myth and fundamental failing of our leadership thinking
What we’re missing in assessing leaders and their leadership
The need for change in HR and leadership
The struggles of creating workplaces where people feel like they belong
The bell curve truth of mediocre leaders and managers
The importance of value in the culture and leadership conversation
People have a core desire to be seen, heard and relevant
If you can’t see a way, then what you see is in the way
People need to learn to be adaptable but few of us are being taught adaptability
The importance of allowing your people to bring their full selves to work
What are you attached to as a leader and manager?
Leadership is like learning to ride – eventually you have to actually ride the bike and you actually have to lead (and learn to recover when you fail or fall)
Understanding the boundaries in allowing measured risk
The role and importance of psychological safety in the workplace
Compassion is understanding empathy and still hold people accountable
The power of asking who’s the best people developer versus asking who’s the best performer
What is the true meaning of being an alpha leader
Resources:
Denise Cooper
Remarkable Leadership Website
Remarkable Leadership Master Class
Remarkable Leadership Lessons Book
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Are you ready to be more brave in your life and leadership? Are you ready to face your fears and lead with greater purpose, alignment and intentionality? Do you want tool to enhance your bravery in leadership? Our special guest Nicole Bianchi answers these and other questions about overcoming resistance, bravery and leadership … and what it means to lead as your bravest self. Nicole Bianchi is a founding partner at Bravium HD, where she’s a professional speaker, facilitator and ICF executive coach leading leadership, team alignment and culture-building workshops. Before Bravium, she was a human resources and organizational development executive, leading transformation within Conagra Brands and Markel Insurance. She is the author of “Small Brave Moves” by New Degree Press in April, 2021. Her passion? Inspiring Bravery. Her focus? Enabling leaders to stretch into their bravest selves. She decided to write this book when she saw the common missing element in leaders was bravery, everyday bravery. Immediately she thought, how can I help? Giving back to her community is important; Nicole and her family have partnered to bring the Butterfly Effect Movement, a national movement to Papillion, NE. The Social Butterfly Installations are an art project mural designed to promote positive community change. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Understanding the concept of bravership and the power of this daily question, “What’s the bravest thing I did today?”
What it means to stand up for who you are, and the purpose and values you bring to the table
The reality that we’re discouraging from being brave inside and organization and rewarded for it outside an organization
Understanding the fears that hold you back in your leadership
The truth that bravery often comes in small steps
The three most common fears: 1. Fear of loss; 2. Fear of change; and 3. Fear of not getting it right
Did you know that 62% of people prefer the status quo
The power of giving yourself permission to experiment
The impact of asking yourself what’s the worst thing that could happen
The importance of transparency and vulnerability in leadership
The importance of bringing your authentic self to your leadership
Have you done your deep work on your own values and self
Experiential exploration of intentionality
Key differences between high performance and impactful leadership
Ways your resistance is an obstacle to change
What it means to make small brave moves in leadership and life
Key questions to ask yourself regarding your fears
Don’t trust your first answers to the difficult questions to yourself
Understanding the role of resistance in change efforts
Better and differently understanding your fears
Reframing bravery
Resources:
Nicole Bianchi
Bravium HD Website
Small Brave Moves Book
The Leadership Junkies Podcast
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Listen as Jeff Nischwitz and Craig Mathews explore the concept of tolerance. No, not the idea of being more tolerant of people and differences, but the many ways that we tolerate things and people to the detriment of our businesses, teams, outcomes, relationships and life experiences. Jeff and Craig will explore the many layers of this life truth: “Your leadership, culture and impact is not defined by what you preach, but by what and who you tolerate.” Listen in as Jeff and Craig share many examples of the ways that tolerance limits our outcomes and bring more awareness to the depth and range of the impacts of our tolerance. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Differentiating tolerance of differences from tolerance of behaviors
The truth that your tolerance factor is the key element in the ways that people experience your values and priorities
We not only tolerate behavior, situations and people, but we also tolerate things within ourselves (self-tolerance)
The many faces of excuses (“reasons”) we use to justify our tolerances
The relationship between empathy and reducing tolerance
Real business examples of tolerance and its impact
Every day relationship examples of tolerance and its impact
The may whys of our tolerances
The importance of getting clear on what and who you’re tolerating
The reality of tolerance blind spots
The Tolerance Assessment process and its role in helping you to make more conscious tolerance decisions
A power question to use in communicating with people who are benefitting from tolerance (e.g. “Do you think it’s fair that ….?”)
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Are you leading through adversity? Are you struggling to find ways to navigate the leadership reality of differing perceptions? Are you looking for tools and strategies to enhance your leadership impact? Our special guest Jesus Campa answers these and other questions about leading through adversity, navigating the unique leadership challenges in the public sector, and leading in the midst of social unrest and divided communities. Jesus Campa is the owner of America's Best Strategic Security Group and Leading Through Adversity. Born and raised in El Paso, Texas, Jesus served in law enforcement for 27 year, including serving as a Chief Deputy and Chief of Police on two different occasions. He then retired from public service and transitioned his experience and expertise to the private sector as a mentor, consultant and leadership development trainer. As a result of his last tour as Chief of Police in a city impacted by racial divisions, Jesus created and implemented the innovative No Colors No Labels Initiative designed to remove the preconceived notion that the police were racially motivated. In 2017 Jesus was named Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Humanitarian of the Year by the NAACP. He is a leader who believes in diversity and that a workforce should mirror the community they serve. Jesus holds a Master's in Criminal Justice and Security Administration and is currently working on a PH.D. in Public Service Leadership. He is a strong supporter of leadership development, strategic planning, customer service, crisis communication, 21st Century Policing, and Procedural Justice.. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Leadership inside and outside of law enforcement
Leadership challenges when you’re under the microscope of culture and social media
Keys for leading through adversity
Understanding your leadership mission
Navigating leadership challenges when followers are heavily focused on what benefits them
Challenges of leading through the maze of varying stakeholders
It’s okay to make mistakes as a leader and you must be prepared to handle the consequences when you do
Challenges of changing the culture in law enforcement especially with respect to diverse communities
Unique challenges of navigating people issues in the public sector
Keys to leading through adversity
Critical role of getting support (mentors) to lead through adversity
Leadership in adversity requires resilience
Self-awareness is vital to leading through adversity
Unique challenges of leading in the public sector, including the impact on family
The role of individual perceptions and wants in engaging your team
Unique challenges of leading with a long game mindset in the public sector
Leadership strategies for navigating your own differences amongst those you lead
It’s okay for people to be pissed off when you do the right thing
Challenges of leading people who are primarily focused on ways that decisions benefit them (or not)
Resources:
Jesus Campa
Jesus Eddie Campa Website
Leading Through Adversity Website
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Are you confused about diversity, inclusion and what it means in business? Are you looking to better understand the role of diversity and inclusion in your life and business? Are you looking to better understand the path to more diverse and inclusive organizations, teams, communities and lives? Our special guest Dr. Helen Turnbull answers these and other questions about diversity, equity, inclusion and leadership. Dr. Helen Turnbull, CSP and Global Speaking Fellow, is a world recognized thought leader in global inclusion and diversity. Her extensive research focuses on unconscious bias and its impact on all aspects of inclusion. She has unparalleled knowledge on the complexity of inclusion; and a deep understanding of the patterns and mental models contributing to exclusion. Her “Inclusion Complexity Model” identifies 3 Immutable Forces and 4 Permeable Forces that play a key role in Inclusion and she knows what it takes to create an inclusive work environment. Dr. Turnbull is the author of three online psycho-metric assessment tools on Unconscious Bias and Inclusion – namely, Cognizant, the ISM profile and The Gender Gap Assessment. She also has an E-Learning program on Unconscious Bias and Inclusion. In May 2013 she spoke at TEDx on “The Illusion of Inclusion”. She keynotes on these topics globally and has spoken to senior executives in Australia, Asia, Europe, UK, Canada, Latin America and the USA. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Ways that diversity, equity and inclusion has changed (or not) over the past 40 years
One unconscious bias – we hire for diversity but still manage for similarity
Everyone has unconscious biases and they don’t go away (awareness brings them into your vision but you still must pay attention to them and catch them)
Unconscious bias as a mental virus
Defining and understanding unconscious biases and their impact
The unchallenged brain is not worth trusting
Strategies for creating diverse and inclusive workplaces
The complexities of diversity and inclusion – The Inclusion Complexity Model
The role of dominance as an immutable force
Unconscious bias as an immutable force
Degrees of difference as an immutable force
Understanding intersectionality and its impact on diversity and inclusion (individuals and groups)
The role of the lived experience as a foundation of understanding diversity, equity and inclusion
The four permeable forces around diversity and inclusion (affinity bias, assimilation, political correctness (redefined as polite consideration) and internalized oppression)
Using the Inclusion Complexity Model to address diversity, equity and inclusion in your business
People of difference can tell the difference between genuine interest and lip service
The power of listening to your people without interrupting
Being intentional about opening space for others to speak
Resources:
Helen Turnbull (drhelenturnbull@humanfacets.com)
Human Facets Website
Privilege, Power and Difference Book by Allan Johnson
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Are you looking to grow your leadership? Do you want to amp up your leadership and influence? Are you ready to be open enough to feedback to grow your leadership? Our special guest Sara Canaday answers these and other questions about leadership, feedback and high performance. Sara Canaday is a keynote speaker, award-winning author, and former corporate executive who helps arm professionals with the strategies and practices they need to make the critical shift from informed to influential, from doer to driver, and from manager to leader. Sara works with Fortune 500 companies who are committed to helping their managers strengthen their leadership skills, improve business relationships, and enhance their performance. Sara is the author of two books: Leadership Unchained and You – According to Them. When she’s not speaking or working with her clients, Sara’s cheering on her son’s football team, hiding new shoe purchases from her husband and 17-year old daughter, and ordering a double cappuccino at Starbucks. Her secret fantasy … Cupcake Wars judge. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Focus on behaviors to achieve your goals
What leadership role models are you still emulating and is it serving your leadership
Keys for shifting from individual contributor to manager and manager to leader
Before you shift your role into management and leadership, assess your fit and desires for the new role
It’s critical that you assess people’s fit for a new role before you promote them
Beware the disconnects between your stated values and your stated expectations
Understanding applied self-awareness
Beware the assumptions you make about unstated expectations
Other people decide the quality of your leadership (the people you serve)
The conflict between our desire for feedback and our desire to be accepted as we are
If you want more feedback then demand it
If you want better feedback, ask better questions in requesting feedback
High quality feedback is specific feedback
What does strategy mean in leadership
The Modern Leader Index survey
Gift yourself and others with presence
Resources:
Sara Canaday
Sara Canaday Website
Books by Sara Canaday
Modern Leader Index
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Are you looking for ideas on building your people and culture? Are you committed to enhancing your leadership and people development skills? Are you looking for strategies and tools to enhance your people development impact? Our special guest Alicia Parr answers these and other questions about leadership, the role of human resources, and building high engagement and performance cultures. Alicia Parr is Alicia is the founder of Performentor, which offers fractional full-stack HR for scale-change businesses. With deep experience in HR, she delivers a behavior science-informed and small-business approach. An entrepreneur at heart, Alicia has 20 years of HR experience in small businesses spanning multiple industries. Her expertise is co-authoring learning cultures, amplifying innovative environments, and building high-performing teams of HR experts. She frequently serves executives as an executive coach and advisor. Perhaps most important, Alicia is endlessly curious. Alicia is endlessly curious about how people work and perform as individuals and in groups. Applying the people science of human performance, she knows theory only matters when it works in practice. With a Bachelors in Marketing, a Masters in Mass Communication, and post-graduate work in Clinical Psychology, Alicia also has deep experience as an endurance athlete. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The state of HR (moving from cost center HR to strategic, value adding HR leader)
A new understanding of business – the conversion of people's energy and converting that into sustainable economic value
HR leaders need to be able to speak the language of business (solve problems)
HR’s job is to make it easier for operational leaders to achieve their objectives
You must bring value to earn a seat at the leadership table
The algorithm of responsibilities, authorities, capabilities and accountabilities
The impact when the scope of a role changes (on the person, team and the business)
It’s important to focus on the behaviors that aren’t working and to be clear on what the behavior expectations are
Intersectionality with people issues requires a more integrated solution
The role of generational differences in culture, leadership and change
Clarity is vital throughout the organization
Understanding network based (versus hierarchical) organizations
The importance of understanding the competencies required for each role (especially when someone is potentially advancing)
A process of best assuring the right fit between a role and a person
Building the skill of empathy for leaders and managers
Differently understanding empathy
Vulnerability and empathy in leadership
Getting it right with your people is not just for big companies
You can change and be more than you imagine … it only takes small steps
Resources:
Alicia Parr
Performentor Website
The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion Book by Jonathan Haidt
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Are you looking for ways to enhance your leadership? Do you want to exponentially grow your leadership? Are you ready to be the most impactful leader you can be? Our special guest Jonathan Bowman-Perks answers these and other questions about leadership, teams and personal growth. Jonathan is a Master Certified Coach (MCC), virtual team facilitator, motivational speaker, philanthropist, pragmatic philosopher and author. As a top 2% globally ranked podcaster and Key Person of Influence (KPI) he focuses on current and aspiring CEOs, senior executives and their teams in every possible sector. No challenge is too hard. Jonathan thrives supporting early growth businesses and tech companies, focusing on personal behavior and future business results. His vocation has been shaped by his Father’s heroic leadership role modeling and his untimely death, as a British Royal Navy fast jet pilot. Jonathan’s life calling is to inspire you and your team to: find and live your “True North,” unlock your potential and make a difference via your business. Jonathan recently graduated from one of Harvard's top leadership programs, and he’s a visiting Professor in Leadership and Executive MBA lecturer at Cass Business School in London. He still holds the unbroken world record for the Cyprus double Mountain Marathon. He’s also a leadership authority and author of both Top Tips for Inspiring Leaders; The Little Book of Wisdom (2017), plus Inspiring Leadership: Leadership Lessons from My Life (2010). The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Leadership is about HIT – honesty, integrity and transparency (Steve Kuhn)
The tragic story of Jonathan’s father and the inspiration it created
The power and impact of choice in life and leadership
Leadership requires courage, humility and discipline
Honesty is about self-honesty (being honest with yourself)
Integrity is about integration of your whole person
Transparency means sharing everything except those few things that you can’t
Trust is the foundation of everything
The importance of learning to trust your gut
Leadership successes and failures during COVID
Using check-ins to enhance your leadership, uplift your people and build a culture of safety
Leaders must care about the heart and soul of the organization … the people
The role of a “psychological contract” with your people (providing psychological safety)
The difference between care-taking your people and caring about your people
What do your people really care about at work
The role of love in leadership
Take time to get to know your people
The difference between know how and show how in leadership
It takes courage to lead differently than you were led
The role and importance of treating people with dignity in leadership
Leadership is not about being friends with your people (it’s about showing that you deeply and genuinely care about them)
Resources:
Jonathan Bowman-Perks
Jonathan Perks Website
The Promise That Changes Everything Book (Nancy Kline)
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Do you want to sharpen your habits and practices for peak performance? Do you have rhythm you want in your life, business and leadership? Are you ready to climb to the heights of your personal and professional performance? Our special guest Jon Tsourakis answers these and other questions about leadership, culture, performance and productivity. Jon is a longtime serial and currently owns or has a part of at least three businesses. He's a co-owner and President and Chief Revenue Officer of a company called a Oyova, a national marketing and application development agency, where they help helps the firm identify and capitalize on opportunities. He’s also an owner of two other businesses – one that’s healthcare based (CentralComp) and one for people looking to work in sports related businesses (Jobs In Sports). Jon also facilitates the Digital Mastermind, which is a collection of some of the top digital marketing agencies. He also has a podcast called The Climb. Jon is a huge proponent of experiencing different countries, cultures and cuisines, which makes Jon an adventurer. He also has a love of people that drives him every day, and he's very involved in giving his time and mentoring. He also has a unique ability to organize chaos, simplify the complex and build a team to overcome obstacles and challenges. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Finding the right partners is more important than deciding on the right business
Keys for starting and owning multiple businesses (structure and priorities)
Strategies for maintaining your priorities in the midst of constant change and chaos
Strategies for more intentional and effective communication
Energy management matters more than time management
A company is a collection of people including their hearts and minds
Simple routines to improve your energy, focus and output
The impact of sleep and what you eat on your focus and productivity
Using daily tracking to assess your habits, practices and energy
Assessing your performance patterns to enhance your performance
The power and impact of rhythm in your eating, sleep, habits and the people around you
The role of trust in building personal rhythm and team rhythm
Find every opportunity to give and share praise with your team
Leadership lessons from drumming
The importance of listening to the red flags you experience in business
The importance of having conditions of satisfaction with your clients and customers (ideal client profile)
Key questions to ask potential clients (e.g. On a scale of 1-10 how needy are you?)
Keys to sales – authenticity, loving people and making people feel special
Navigating challenging times – be creative, optimistic, honest and adaptive
Leadership ideas for COVID and all times
Power of a mastermind
If you want to grow, get uncomfortable being uncomfortable
Resources:
Jon Tsourakis (jon@digitalmastermind.com)
Oyova Website
Digital MasterMind Website
The Climb Podcast
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Do you want to empower and accelerate your sales results? Are you looking to get past the self-limiting beliefs that are holding back your results? Are you ready to embrace you most empowered and authentic self? Our guest Elyse Archer answers these and other questions about sales, leadership and overcoming the inside stories that get in the way of our results and fulfillment. Elyse Archer is the founder of She Sells, a coaching program and community for women in sales who are breaking through six figures and revolutionizing the way sales is done. A thought leader whose insights have been featured in major media including Forbes and Inc, Elyse is passionate about empowering women to sell in a way that leverages their natural gifts and help them build wealth along the way. She is an international keynote speaker and host of She Sells Radio, where she shares best practices from female entrepreneurs and sales professionals who have accomplished extraordinary goals. Prior to founding She Sells, Elyse served as a Partner in an 8-figure international sales coaching organization, where she helped sales professionals achieve their goals. Outside of She Sells Elyse is also a founding team member of Brand Builders Group, a personal branding strategy firm. Her client list includes New York Times bestselling authors, top 100 podcast hosts, and 8 figure entrepreneurs, as well as leaders who are earlier in their journey and committed to scaling their influence, impact and income. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Overcoming challenging life experiences and letting go of your old stories
The of choice in empowering your life
The importance of learning to trust yourself and instincts, especially in sales
Sales is more than high quantity activities
Strategies to overcome the unique challenges for women in sales
The power of integrating your female and male energies
The importance of having more self-worth in sales and leadership
Exploring one of the massive self-limiting beliefs of women in sales and leadership
The critical role of boundaries to empower your efforts and outcomes
The role of healing in enhancing and empowering your sales efforts
Ways that enoughness gets in the way of sales and leadership
The role of vulnerability in self-empowerment and sales success
Why family history must be exploring as part of the sales and leadership coaching process
Learn about the five dream lives exercise
Why a big purpose is vital
The importance of exploring and changing your self-limiting beliefs (and why they are lies)
The challenge when your experience is in conflict with what you believe about yourself
The importance of learning to accept and receive compliments
More sales doesn’t change how you feel … how you feel (about yourself) changes your sales results
The quantum physics and science behind how your self-beliefs drive your outcomes
Strategies for selling differently when your sales manager is resisting your way of selling
Self-worth and risk have an inverse relationship … the higher your self-worth the lower risk you’ll experience
Resources:
Elyse Archer
Elyse Archer Website
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Do you have many ideas but far fewer that become reality? Do you find yourself stuck and not moving towards your dreams? Are you ready to turn your dreams into reality? Our special guest Berta Medina-Garcia answers these and other questions about what it takes to achieve your goals and dreams. Berta Medina is an eternal optimist who believes in the power of generosity and is passionate about sharing her message that dreamers truly succeed! After years of building, operating and growing her own successful business, she’s taken her experience and love for philanthropy to travel to Africa on a harrowing climb to Mt. Kilimanjaro’s peak as part of a mission trip to change the world for Maasai children Since she reached the peak at 19,341 feet, she has re-envisioned the importance of goals and the power of generosity. Berta now helps businesses and individuals connect genuinely, give generously, and reach a level of success and fulfillment that means more to her clients than just the bottom line. Berta is a keynote speaker, professional Certified Coach with the International Coaching Federation, author, a certified Go-Giver Speaker, Thrive Through Accountability Expert and host of The Dreamers Succeed Podcast. As the founder of Dreamers Succeed, Berta believes that once the seed of a dream has been planted in a person’s heart, they already possess all they need in order to achieve it. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The journey from successful business owner to creator of a new life vision and business helping people achieve their dreams (inspired by a trek to Mt. Kilimanjaro)
What it takes to coach coaches
What is adventure coaching and the ways it can transform your life
The importance of self-accountability in achieving your dreams
The importance of continually leveling up yourself and having your own coach
Great ideas are not enough – it’s about the accountability and follow through to turn your ideas into reality
Mindset is the foundation to change, impact and dreams
The magic (real change) only happens when you’re willing to get vulnerable
Generosity as a catalyst for change, goals and dreams
What it takes to turn your vision board into a reality board
The role of gratitude in achieving your dreams
Pursuing experiences over things (breaking the habit of material things)
Pursuing dreams includes connecting with the giving part of yourself
What it means to find love in what you do (and strategies to get there)
If you want to enhance your life experience, turn off the news
Stop watching other people’s lives (entertainment) and start living your life
The ways that relationships are everything in our businesses and lives
What it means to plant seeds of generosity
The illusion of money as the path to happiness
It’s critical to focus on an impact driven bottom line (not just money or similar objectives)
Exploring our relationships with and beliefs about money
Embracing the potential to show up for each other
Resources:
Berta Medina-Garcia
Berta Medina Coaching
The Go-Giver Book by Bob Burg and John David Mann
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Do you want to better understand the power of stories? Do you want to be part of the solution when it comes to divisiveness and change? Are you ready to let go of your attachment to your old stories and be open to the possibility of new stories? Our special guest Gareth Higgins answers these and other questions about leadership, change and reconciliation. Gareth Higgins was born in Belfast in 1975, grew up during the northern Ireland Troubles, and now lives in the US. He writes and speaks about the power of storytelling to shape our lives and world, peace and making justice, and how to take life seriously without believing your own propaganda. He has been involved in peace-building and violence reduction in northern Ireland and helping address the legacy of conflict, received a Ph.D. in Sociology from Queen’s University Belfast, and helped teach the world’s first graduate course in Reconciliation Studies at Trinity College Dublin. He also helped found the Wild Goose, New Story and Movies & Meaning festivals. Gareth leads retreats in North America and Ireland; and he edits The Porch Magazine. He’s happy to be a work in progress. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Lessons from growing up in a divided and sometimes violent society (Northern Ireland)
The vital role of mentoring especially during challenging times
The risks of believing you know other people’s motivations
The power and risks of stories
Two key questions with stories:
Is it true?
If it is true, am I telling the most helpful way?
The critical role that context plays in evaluating stories and information
The importance of asking questions to understand
There’s no value in taking the position that someone else doesn’t have a point
Suffering is suffering no matter who caused it
Lessons to learn from the peace initiatives in Northern Ireland
The importance of understanding individual’s stories and needs (versus always looking at the needs of large groups)
Problems seem less daunting when you address one need at a time
The role of media in divisiveness and missing the great things happening in the world
The expanding circle of sympathy (more people caring about more people)
The importance of asking yourself, How important is it for me to believe something is true and why do I believe it to be true?
A leadership truth … something is either true and we can’t do anything about it (lead with love), something is true and you can do something about it (lead with love), or something is not true (lead with love)
What does it mean to simply show up as a human being
The gifts of serving others and the common good
Love is essential in life and leadership
Beware the stories you make up about people you meet and interact with
Instead of complaining, identify the better
Resources:
Gareth Higgins
The Porch Magazine
How Not to Be Afraid Book by Gareth Higgins
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Are you struggling to achieve the results and life you desire? Are you feeling stuck? Are you looking for ways to get past your fears, limiting beliefs and doubts? Are you ready to level up your life and your outcomes? Our special guest Akhtar Khan answers these and other questions about fear, self-sabotage and personal transformation. Akhtar Khan (UK) is the Founder of Reaching Excellence, and is a renowned and respected high performance, property and business success coach. As a successful business investor, property entrepreneur and authority on mindset, Akhtar’s ongoing mission and commitment are in supporting others in building wealth through property and business so that they can live life on their terms. Having had a challenging start in life, growing up in a dysfunctional single-parent family with minimal financial resources, Akhtar discovered that a lack of resources was less important than an attitude of resourcefulness, coupled with a healthy mindset of possibility and good old hard work. With no personal funds, no experience, and no track record from a standing start, Akhtar built a multi-million-pound portfolio that generated him a 6 figure income that allowed him to retire at the ripe age of 37. Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The realities of self-sabotage and strategies to overcome it
If you want to change your outcomes you have to change your thinking
It’s more important to change your thinking than to figure out what to do
The importance of understanding the drivers for the behavior you want to change
The vital role that your peer group plays in supporting or sabotaging what you want to achieve
The value of having a mastermind group
The ways that life traumas, your core wounds, your unconscious and your resulting thinking can determine your results
Resistance is fear in action based upon your belief systems (often unconscious)
Understanding the four phases of change and implementation
Getting past the obstacle of being unconscious (awareness)
The importance of being willing to be uncomfortable
The importance of community on your transformational journey
Change requires that you get down to the root of your beliefs and thoughts
Vulnerability is essential to transformation
The search for unconditional love and the ways this search gets in your way of your success
If you want to transform your results, you must do the work and take off the masks
The biggest thing holding you back from what you desire is YOU (and your thoughts and beliefs)
Change can be painful, but it’s often necessary and temporary
The importance of having support for your transformation journey
Resources:
Akhtar Khan
Reaching Excellence Website (book, Academy, courses)
The Code of Reaching Excellence Book
The Leadership Junkies Podcast
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Are you looking to amplify your leadership and influence? Are you looking for impactful leadership tools for these uncertain times? Are you wondering what it means to lead with an agile leadership mindset? Our special guest Rikki Schwartz answers these and other questions about agile leadership, the power of influence and building a culture of performance. Rikki Schwartz is the President, trainer and coach at the Center for Agile Leadership®, a company that teaches leaders how to integrate the principles and tenets of Agile philosophy into their leadership styles. Rikki joined The Center For Agile Leadership® in 2018 after spending nearly 20 years in leadership training and development at a multi-billion waste management company. Rikki is also a Certified Life Coach and founder of My Turn Life Coaching, which has served as a perfect extension to her existing passion to help folks be better leaders of their own lives (personal and professional). Rikki also hosts her radio show – “My Turn Life Coaching-Reclaim Your Life” – interviewing life transformation experts on Transformation Talk Radio. Show NotesEpisode highlights…
What does it mean to be an agile leader and to have an agile mindset as a leader?
Differences between leadership and management, especially with respect to projects
Positional leaders should steer away from managing people or projects (instead empower your managers)
Leadership means being the one who influences people (differences between positional power and the power of influence) .. the best leaders use the power of influence, because influence is about persuading, it's not about forcing
Influence requires trust, transparency, authenticity, and relationship
One key shift for agile leadership is from command and control to servant leadership
Agile leadership is not about methodology and tools (it’s about being agile more than doing agile)
The importance of failing forward in agile leadership including celebrating failures and learning
The importance of vulnerability and transparency in agile leadership
Influence requires personal connection, which requires being a human being and being willing to show people what that human being is
Vulnerability is the most important thing to being an effective influencer and agile leader (and what it means to be vulnerable as a leader)
Leaders don’t change a culture, they influence it (what it takes to influence cultural change)
What it takes to have self-organized and self-managing teams as part of agile leadership (and the role of team empowerment)
The role of the upside down organization chart in an agile leadership culture
Let your people closest to the issues make the decisions
Hiring as an agile leader is about fit more than experience
Beware focusing your time and energy on your poorest performers
If you put someone on a personal improvement plan (PIP) you must follow up, check in and assess their performance and improvement
The trouble with annual performance reviews
Resources:
Rikki Schwartz (schwartz@centerforagileleadership.com)
Center for Agile Leadership Website
My Turn Life Coaching (free first session)
Brain Trust Group Website
My Turn Life Coaching with Rikki Schwartz – Reclaim Your Life Radio Show
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Are you interested in enhancing your leadership and people solving skills? Are you looking for tangible tools to build trust in your organization? Do you want to better understand yourself as a leader in order to better lead your team? Our special guests Brett Cooper and Evans Kerrigan answer these and other questions about vulnerable leadership and strategies for enhancing your team engagement, building trust and improving your efficiency and execution. Brett M. Cooper and Evans Kerrigan help professionals like you build work relationships that really work. Over the last twenty years, they’ve influenced thousands of people in government, non-profits, and corporate America to work together in more productive, more effective, and more human ways. Through Integris Performance Advisors—the firm they co-founded—Brett and Evans have helped clients increase employee engagement, improve efficiency, and generate hundreds of millions in financial benefit. They are widely recognized thought leaders and popular speakers on team dynamics, leadership, and operational excellence. Their keynotes always leave audiences inspired and ready to make a real impact. They’re co-authors of Solving the People Problem: Essential Skills You Need to Lead and Succeed in Today’s Workplace, which was published in September 2020. Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Leadership is relationships
Understanding vulnerability based trust (not predictability)
What does it mean to honor the differences between us (not just understand them)
Understanding the true nature of “people problems” based upon our differences
Training alone will not solve your “people problems”
How others experience your leadership is more important than how you see yourself
If you have a “people problem,” it means there's a problem with process, a problem with leadership, a problem with communication
Improving your leadership means starting with yourself
The importance of understanding your biases and your triggers
Emotional intelligence: 1. Know your style 2. Choose your actions based upon that knowing; 3. Know and honor other styles 4. Adapt your behavior for mutual benefit
The benefits of seeing improvement as part of an ongoing performance discussion (not a moment in time such as annual reviews)
Leaders must be willing to explore the outcomes that their actions are creating
Sixty percent (60%) of people’s professional success is based upon their emotional intelligence
Improved leadership is good for your people and good for the organization’s bottom line
Why emotional intelligence is the foundation of solving your “people problems”
Leadership is not about you (it’s about others)
Resources:
Brett Cooper
Evans Kerrigan
Integris Performance Advisors Website
Solving the People Problem Field Guide
Disc EQ Assessment (Access Code: Cardivera)
The Leadership Challenge: How to Make Extraordinary Things Happen in Organizations Book
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Are you burned out by today’s work realities? Are you looking for strategies and tactics to reduce burnout and enhance wellbeing? Are you ready to lead and live differently in order to have a more productive work life and a more fulfilled personal life? Our special guest Becky Jacobs answers these and other questions about leadership, wellbeing and empowering high performing teams. Becky Jacobs is the founder and Chief Engagement Officer of Simple Change, an organization dedicated to improving engagement and productivity by building healthy, high-performing teams. She has dedicated her career to the study and practice of personal and workplace productivity, successfully leading teams to greater efficiency, wellbeing and overall impact. Becky spent more than twenty years in senior leadership roles at various multinational companies, including Bank of America, Red Hat and Rise Against Hunger. She graduated from Old Dominion University with a degree in Business Management and completed her MBA at UNC Chapel Hill. Show NotesEpisode highlights…
What is well being in the workplace and why it matters so much today
The concept of the juggling balls of life
The reality that we bring our whole selves to work and organizations must support the whole self
Wellness and cultures are not marketing bumper stickers in organizations
What do your organizational and leadership behaviors saying about your culture and values?
Are your behaviors expecting your people to choose between work and their family / relationships?
It’s essential to provide clarity for your people on distinguishing urgency
Don’t assess your culture unless you’re committed to making changes
The exhausting and burnout impact of remote working (and the truth that work more hours doesn’t make you more innovative or impactful)
Redefining and focusing on productivity versus hours worked
Beware leading people today (and having work expectations) based upon the way you were lead (and the work expectations on you) decades in the past
Are you paying your people for their time or for what they produce / create?
Leaders don’t have to solve everything (you only have to listen and empower your team in solving it)
The more you engage your employees in coming up with solutions and ideas, the more you're going to empower them, retain them and enhance their performance
Ask your people what’s working, what’s not working and what they’d like to see different
Psychological safety at work is essential to get high quality feedback from your team
Strategies for measuring well being
Beware the cultural messages that work sucks (e.g. Thank God it’s Friday)
Millennials are generally more willing to speak up, provide feedback and ask for what they want (but will you listen and change?)
The impact of COVID on our teams and the different leadership it requires
Leadership requires balancing productivity and compassion
What messages are you giving your children about work and life?
Why pivoting emotionally and vulnerability are essential in leadership
Leaders must model wellbeing for their team
You can’t pour from an empty cup
Pick one simple change, make that normal and then pick another simple change
Resources:
Becky Jacobs
Simple Change Website
Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters MostBook
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Are you hungry for more and deeper relationships in your life? Are you committed to living a life as a go giver? Are you looking for strategies to accelerate and grow your relationships, sales and business? Our special guest Bob Burg answers these and other questions about what it means to live a life of giving and the magic of giving in building impactful relationships. Bob Burg is a sought-after speaker at company leadership and sales conferences sharing the platform with everyone from today’s business leaders and broadcast personalities to even a former U.S. President. Bob is the author of a number of books on sales, marketing and influence, with total book sales of well over a million copies. His book, The Go-Giver, coauthored with John David Mann, itself has sold over 975,000 copies and it has been translated into 29 languages. Bob and John’s newest parable in the Go-Giver Series is The Go-Giver Influencer. Bob is an advocate, supporter and defender of the Free Enterprise system, believing that the amount of money one makes is directly proportional to how many people they serve. He is also an unapologetic animal fanatic and is past member of the Board of Directors of Furry Friends Adoption, Clinic & Ranch in his town of Jupiter, Florida. Listen as Bob shares his wisdom and experience on servant leadership, sales and building impactful relationships. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
What it means to be a go-giver in business and life – focusing on delivering immense value to others
Navigating the perceived challenges of being a go-giver when you have personal and professional goals to achieve
Nobody is going to buy from you because you have a quota – they’ll buy from you because they’ll be better off because of buying from you
What it means to give 100% in a relationship, versus only your 50%
The critical paradox – that giving to build relationships helps you more quickly and consistently achieve your objectives
The go-giver mindset is about living a good life, not just a good living
Living and selling as a go-giver is not about denying your self-interest, but putting on pause or to the side while you focus solely on the other person
The go-giver mindset and approach is the most profitable way to do business
Clarifying the misunderstandings of the go-giver mindset and approach
The go-giver mindset is not about giving things / value away for free
The go-giver way is the high value way of selling and doing business
Business and sales reality – people will do business with and refer business to those people they know, like, and trust
Being a go-giver is based upon the power and value of relationships
The go-giver way is more about reframing self-interest versus suspending self-interest
The essence of influence is pull (not push)
What it means to apply the go-giver way to your leadership
Resources:
Bob Burg
The Go-Giver Network
Books by Bob Burg
The Secret of Selling Anything Book by Harry Brown
The Leadership Junkies Podcast
Cardivera
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Are you a mindful leader? Are you a resilient leader? Are you investing in knowing yourself as a leader? Are you looking for mindsets, tools and strategies to enhance your leadership and impact? Our special guest Libby Robinson answers these and other questions about what it means to be an impactful, resilient and mindful leader. Libby Robinson is the Managing Partner, Chief Heretic and CXO Whisperer of Integral, an award-winning leadership, executive coaching and advisory company working with Fortune 1000 companies globally. A former wall street banker, aerospace engineer and national champion equestrian, Libby has worked for 26 years with senior leaders globally, helping to bring more mindfulness, resilience and greater capacity to brilliant and ambitious leaders. Integral uses a multi-disciplinary approach to foster deep personal change in leaders and to evoke “conscious leadership” cultures for their clients. Libby’s latest venture has been to launch BackFeed+, a new app that helps individuals and organizations get better, faster feedback using a method backed by the latest neuroscience data about how individuals receive feedback with less stress. Listen as Libby shares her wisdom and experience on conscious leadership, mindfulness and resilience. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Relationship precedes results – accomplishments always follow some form of relationship
The key role of mindfulness in leadership (What does it mean to be a human being versus a human doing in leadership?)
Understanding your triggers and navigating them differently
The importance of mindfulness and resilience in leadership and rich living
Foundations of ontological coaching
Deepening our emotional intelligence, awareness and range
The importance of being clear about the standards by which your team works (expectations)
Pace is a leadership choice
Leaders don’t run (slow down, see more, connect more)
Mindfulness is the one core way of being for leaders
Winning in business at the expense of the health of your team and people is a loss
The secret Jedi mind tricks of leadership
The key role of and need for compassion in leadership
Leadership essentials in creating a place where your people feel safe, secure and vulnerable
Key elements of resilience
What does it mean to root your leadership
Leaders must allow others to support them
The role of imposter syndrome in leadership
Resources:
Libby Robinson (libby@integralcoaches.com)
Integral Website
Advanced Coaching Practicum
BackFeed+ App
The Leadership Junkies Podcast
Cardivera
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Are you feeling stuck or lacking passion in your life? Are you wondering what it takes to live the life of your dreams? Do you want new ideas to enhance your wellness, wisdom and wealth? Our special guest Rochel Marie Lawson answers these and other questions about getting past your fears and living the life of your dreams.. Get ready for this … Rochel Marie Lawson is a registered nurse, an Ayurvedic health practitioner, a holistic health and wellness consultant, an international best-selling author, a speaker and a radio show hostess. She’s also the Founder and President of Blissful Living 4 U, which exists to improve wellness, wisdom and wealth by utilizing ancient holistic principles that only lead to success. Rochel Marie’s energy, guidance, wisdom, and enthusiasm have helped thousands of people to improve their wellbeing. Not only a successful entrepreneur, she’s the author of Intro to Holistic Health, Ayurveda Style. She also has her own blog (www.ayurvedahealing.org), and for 8 years Rochel Marie has had her own weekly podcast, Blissful Living. On top of all of this, Rochel Marie founded and is the CEO of All Day Cable, which she founded over 30 years ago. Simply put, Rochel Marie is a badass. Listen as Rochel Marie shares her wisdom and experience on leadership, wellbeing and balance. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The power of setting a clear intention for your future
Understanding our leadership gifts and what it means to be a natural born leader
What’s getting in the way of your leadership and impact
Building a family culture and embracing your team members
The ways that women veterans are often missed and lacking support after their service
Understanding Ayurveda health, healing and balance
The three pillars of healthy living – wellness, wisdom and wealth
What it means to live fearless versus being fearless
Simple foundations and actions for your wellbeing journey
One key to change in your life and habits is having support (not doing it alone)
The importance of being willing to ask for help or support
Strategies for not letting your fears run your life
Simple truths about fear
Changing your questions to differently navigate your fears
Resources:
Rochel Marie Lawson (info@blissfulliving4u.com)
Blissful Living 4 U Website
Unstoppable Women’s Summit (February 20, 2021)
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Are you feeling stuck, drowning in the day-to-day and being micromanaged? Are you feeling lost and confused about your direction (or lack of direction) in life? Are you looking for ways to have more peace of mind, keep your integrity, spend more time with your family, and still be successful? Our special guest Corey Jahnke (the Zen Pharmacist) answers these and other questions about achieving your definition of success with more joy by living in this moment. Corey is a full time pharmacist, a John Maxwell certified coach, and a certified Go Giver coach. Twelve years ago, Corey found himself facing fatigue and burnout at life threatening levels, and I know many of you have felt that as well. And Corey found his way out of that. Corey also has an organization called Successful Thinker Magazine and Successful Thinker Podcast. He’s also the author of the book The Successful Thinker. Listen as Corey shares her wisdom and experience on different ways to live and experience life with more joy, better relationships and greater success. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Here’s an idea – ask people questions and listen
The importance of getting clear on what you want, why you want it and what price you’re willing to pay to get it
You can have mutual love with the people you serve
The role of personal pride in serving others and loving your work and life\
The profound truth that all we have is this moment and the gifts of living in the moment
You are 100% responsible for your life
Understanding the obstacles to living life with gratitude and in the moment
The vital importance of saying “no” to more things so you can have more time for the things you want to say “yes” to
You are so much more than what you do for a living
Nothing exists except this moment (everything else is made up by you)
We typically worry about things that never happen
“What is the best use of your time right now?”
Moments are not good or bad – they’re what you decide they are
If no one told you who you are, who would you be
Strategies for living relationally in a transactional world
How you treat others will determine the experience you have with others
Slow down, live in the moment and “see” the people around you
The Law of the Heart – the more people you care about, the more people you will have in your life to care about (it’s as simple as letting people know that you care about them)
The importance of being intentional to interact with people who are different and who think differently from me
The stories we make up about our lives and experiences
Your experience of life is based upon how you choose to see it and experience it
You can choose your own pace of your life (not what everyone else tells you it should be)
If you realized how little people think about you, you’d probably be offended
Resources:
Corey Jahnke
Successful Thinker Website
Corey Jahnke on Facebook
Corey Jahnke on Instagram
The Successful Thinker book by Corey Jahnke
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Are you confused about diversity, inclusion and what it means in business? Are you looking to better understand the role of diversity and inclusion in building more robust teams and cultures? Are you looking to better understand the path to more diverse and inclusive organizations, teams, communities and lives? Our special guest Jina Etienne answers these and other questions about diversity, inclusion and creating a culture of belonging. Jina is a consultant and speaker on diversity, inclusion, culture and belonging. She creates training programs and workshops to help clients move forward in their D&I journey. She is a story-teller and speaks candidly about her experiences, hard lessons and ‘aha’ moments that helped her understand the importance of individuality, the value of curiosity and the courage it takes to “just” be yourself. Jina is the Founder of Etienne Consulting, a boutique consulting firm that offers unique strategy development, workshops & coaching to leaders, executives and entrepreneurs. Jina is an accountant, had her own accounting firm, and has had leadership roles in various organizations including Director of Diversity and Inclusion for Grant Thornton, a national CPA firm. Show NotesEpisode highlights…
Why we should separate the concepts of diversity and inclusion
What does equity and belonging mean in organizations and teams
Diversity and inclusion statements are important but not the solution
Why “We’re hiring the best people” is not an adequate solution to creating more diversity and inclusion
Diversity and inclusion is NOT about blaming and shaming (it’s about moving forward)
The importance of hiring for thinking skills more than technical skills
Diversity and inclusion is essential to have a culture that is dynamic, innovative and creative
Diversity and inclusion changes often start with simply noticing
The key is to make your organization safe for people of difference
Before you diversity your business diversify your life
Basic mindsets that are essential to enhance diversity and inclusion in your business and life
Unconscious bias is the auto-pilot of our lives until we’re willing to address the biases
The key role of intention in diversity and inclusion efforts
Leaders must be able to effectively lead the entire team, not just certain people or types of people on the team
The problem with asking target group team members to lead the diversity and inclusion efforts
Diversity and inclusion initiatives often require an external voice and an internal champion
The role of self-awareness in diversity and inclusion (and taking ownership of your impact)
The vocabulary of diversity and inclusion (and its role in change)
The role of grace and curiosity in diversity and inclusion conversations
Change happens when we know better AND do better
Millennials different view of diversity and inclusion
The importance of being intentional with your efforts to diversity your business and life
Diversity requires exercising and building new muscles
The importance to learning ways to navigate your fumbles and triggers around diversity and inclusion
Resources:
Jina Etienne
Jina on Twitter
Etienne Consulting Website
Jina’s Blog – Fearlessly Me
The Impact Leadership Podcast
Cardivera
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Are you wondering what it means to be a courageous leader for change? Do you want to be a professional advisor that adds value rather than just deliver services? Do you want to sharpen your leadership skills and impact? Our special guest Deana Labriola answers these and other questions about leadership, adding value and making a difference in the business of law. Deana Labriola is a partner is the Raleigh, NC office of the law firm of Fox Rothschild and has been practicing law for twenty years. More important, Deana is unique as a lawyer in that she’s deeply and fully committed to being more than a lawyer for her clients – she’s committed to adding value to them and their businesses. She’s also a connector of people, business advisor, relationship builder, “consigliere” and a courageous leader. As Deana puts it, she’s a mom, a wife, a lawyer, an athlete and a leader, and in that order of importance. Deana has a dynamic transactional practice that spans a range of business matters, including mergers, acquisitions, and debt/equity financing deals. She also assists a wide variety of businesses with corporate governance structuring, development initiatives and expansion opportunities. Deana serves as outside general counsel to a number of closely held companies. Listen as Deana shares her wisdom and experience on courageous leadership, diversity and inclusion, and change. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera.com. Show Notes Episode highlights…
What it means to craft and plan your law career by design and based upon priorities
What it means to lead courageously by speaking up for yourself and for others
Leadership as a woman in a male-dominated industry
Real life examples of diversity and inclusion leadership in the legal industry
Every day strategies to enhance your diversity and inclusion efforts and results
Understanding the business case for diversity and inclusion – lead with the business case to create change
The importance of putting yourself in a position to speak up (and be heard) for change
Leaders genuinely and deeply care about their people (and take action to support them)
The importance of courageous conversations
Truths about trust – losing it and building it in leadership
Stepping up as a woman in leadership
Career paths require choosing wisely including surrounding yourself with champions / mentors
Grit, scrappiness and resilience are essential for succession in law and any profession
What it means to be a true business advisor for your clients in the law
Lawyers must be willing to share their opinions (not just assess risk)
Lawyers must understand the psychology of advising clients and decision making (you also must get to know and understand your clients and their businesses, including their risk tolerances)
Leaders are constantly asking themselves “In what ways can I add value” to this situation, circumstance, client, culture, etc.
Connecting people and helping others build relationships is a great way to add value
Women need to lead like themselves rather than learning to lead like men (lead authentically)
Resources:
Deana Labriola (Fox Rothschild)
Raleigh Chamber of Commerce – Women in Leadership – January 29th at 10:00 AM
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Are you looking to build a high performing team? Do you know the 7 deadly sins of leadership? Are you curious about what and want to better understand the concept of conversational intelligence? Do you want to be more strategic with your talent and talent development strategies? Our special guest Jen Thornton answers these and other questions about leadership and building great teams. Jen Thornton is the Founder, Talent Strategist and leadership development consultant with her rapidly growing consulting firm, 304 Coaching. She’s led international teams across Greater China, Mexico, the U.K., and the U.S. to expand into new markets, managing franchise retailers, and developing key strategic partnerships – all while exceeding business objectives and financial results. This growth has been largely due to Jen’s unconventional approach to building innovative workforce development solutions for companies who are facing breakthrough growth and accelerated hiring patterns. She’s a sought-after business strategist, specializing in start- ups and large value-based organizations. She assists her clients in building talent strategies that complement their business strategies to ensure exponential growth. Listen in as Jen shares her wisdom and experience on talent development, conversational intelligence and team development. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Obstacles to leadership
Key elements of innovation leadership
Leadership requires trust and trust requires curiosity
The value of being open to failure
Key obstacles to living a culture that embraces failure as a tool for creativity, growth and innovation
Breaking down, understanding and moving past fear as leaders
Understanding conversational intelligence as a leader – “words create worlds”
The power of the question “What’s one thing I can do”
We only learn from failure when we’re intentional about the learning
The impact of nurturing a culture of curiosity in your business
Ways leaders build and destruct a culture of ideas, creativity and innovation
Things that get in the way of leadership, team, culture and organizational change and transformation
The role of overwhelm in preventing change
Exploring the 7 Deadly Sins of Leadership
The science of always wanting to be right
Leaders must continually humanize themselves
The unequal impact of COVID on women in the workforce
Resources:
Jen Thornton
304 Coaching
Cardivera
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Are you looking to accelerate your team’s performance and impact? Are you looking for actionable ideas to enhance your own leadership and the leadership of your team members? Would you like to better understand the genetics of leadership and what it takes to build systems of leadership? Our special guest Dan Edds answers these and other questions about leadership, systems of leadership and building sustainable high impact teams. Dan Edds is Founder of Praxis Solutions, a management consulting and leadership development firm. Dan has 25 plus years as a practicing management consultant in a wide range of industries, including public sector, health care, K- 12 education, higher ed, and non-profits. He's written two books, the most recent of which is Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership: Cracking the Code of Sustainable Team Performance. Most important, Dan is someone who understands, studies and is constantly evolving when it comes to leadership. Listen in as Dan shares his wisdom and experience on leadership, systematic change and high performing teams. Show NotesEpisode highlights…
Leadership is getting work done with and through other people
Leadership is a relational enterprise – get to know your people as human beings
Start by designing a series of routines to build your leadership
A team of great individual performers are not enough
High performing organizations have a very systematic approach to leadership
While leadership is a relational enterprise, those relationships can be achieved with a systematic approach
Companies often succeed despite themselves and this gets in the way building great cultures and teams that achieve high impact (missing enormous opportunities)
Beware losing out on the best parts of people (their humanness, creativity, innovation, etc.) when you ask them to only bring their technical skills
It’s essential to include the whole human side of every person on your team
Beware elevating your top performers bases upon performance and not focusing enough on character
Your reward systems will determine your leadership – leaders often won’t take care of their people until they’re rewarded for taking care of their people
Being a people centric organization is not the same as being a person centric organization (great teams flow from people centric organizations)
When you’re clear with expectations, then people who choose not to meet the expectations are taking themselves off the team
Organizationally, the leadership system is always focused on the experience of the workforce (a relationship experience)
Learn from the US Army’s approach to leadership – servant leadership and love
Organizations and leaders must lead from a common set of values and experience priorities
Get clear that team experience is your top priority – then decide what you want that experience to be – and then decide what behaviors will feed the intended experience outcome
If team members are coming to you to solve problems, you have a leadership and management problem
High impact organizations develop the whole person / human being – not just the professional
Resources:
Dan Edds (425-269-8854)
Dan Edds Website
Leveraging the Genetics of Leadership: Cracking the Code of Sustainable Team Performance book by Dan Edds
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Are you struggling with growing your coaching business? Are you confused about coaching and when / if you should engage a coach? Are you curious about coaching and wondering about the who, what, why and how of engaging a coach? Are you wondering what to expect when you engage a coach? Our special guest Nichole Lowe answers these and other questions about coaching and the business of coaching. Nichole Lowe is the Founder of Sole Life, an organization that helps coaches grow their businesses and enhance their experience with their coaching business. Nichole has a background in leadership, sales and advertising, but most importantly, she has a long history as a coach. What she learned as a coach is that coaches actually struggle with the business of coaching. From her experience as a coach and in coaching over 500 coaches, Nichole decided to create Sole Life to help coaches with the many challenges of a coaching business, including getting clients, and to allow them to more fully live their passions and make a difference. Listen in as Nichole shares her wisdom and experience on the power of having a coach and tools for coaches to grow their business and enhance their impact. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Cutting through the noise in the coaching world
The critical role of setting mutual expectations in a coaching relationship
The importance of interviewing coaches to understand their styles, philosophies, approaches and alignment with your goals
Key questions to ask potential coaches
Trust is vital in any coaching relationship
Understanding the difference between therapy, coaching and consulting
Getting clear on what race you’re running and understanding that your obstacles are a key factor in whether you achieve your goals
A coach is only as effective as two things: 1. Trust and 2. Ability to support clients with their emotional needs
Coaches must be able to trust themselves in order to fully serve their clients
The art of great coaching is the art of great questions
Coaches must be on their own personal growth and development path in order to serve their clients
Coaching is not for people who are failing or who have something wrong with them – coaching is for people
Coaching is not for the successful, rich and famous
Leadership requires vulnerability – vulnerability creates transformation
Coaches offer a safe place for their clients to be vulnerable (coaches must be able to hold space for their clients emotions)
Good coaches want to make sure that they’re the best fit / match for people
The rich tools that Sole Life offers to coaches and people looking for a coach
Leadership Wisdom – It’s not about you … it’s about serving others
Leader must be willing to be authentic and to stand up and speak out (gives others permission to do the same)
Jesus as a leader
Resources:
Nichole Lowe (nichole@solelife.com)
Sole Life Website
Early access for coaches (beta testing)
Free coaching session
The Impact Leadership Podcast
Cardivera
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Are you struggling with diversity and inclusion in your business or life? Are you committed to building an inclusive culture in your business and life? Are you looking for leadership strategies to help you grow your trust, engagement and sense of belonging? Our special guest Dr. Steve Yacovelli answers these and other questions about leadership, inclusion and culture building. Dr. Steve Yacovelli (aka “The Gay Leadership Dude”) is Principal of TopDog Learning Group, a leadership, change management, and diversity and inclusion consulting firm based in Orlando but with affiliates (“TopDoggers”) around the globe. Steve and TopDog provide guidance and solutions in leadership and organizational development, change management, diversity and inclusion consulting, instructional design, and custom e-learning creation. Steve is passionate about workplace equality, and specifically how leaders can be more “consciously inclusive” to foster a feeling of inclusion and belonging for all team members. His most recent, award-winning and critically acclaimed book is Pride Leadership: Strategies for LGBTQ+ Professionals to be the King or Queen of their Jungle. Listen in as Dr. Steve shares his wisdom and experience on being a “consciously inclusive” leader. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The three (3) key opportunities for leaders: 1. Better listening and teaching; 2. Empathy; 3. Authenticity
The importance of spending time with people who are different from you
Leadership is not industry or role specific – you don’t have to know the industry or the job if you’re a strong leader
Smart leaders are like gardeners
The risk of clarity in hiring desires becoming hiring only people like you (non-diverse)
The role of unconscious bias for all leaders
You can’t create a more inclusive workplace unless you’re willing to acknowledge that you’ve played a role in creating the lack of inclusion and diversity
A simple approach for becoming more consciously inclusive: Think In … Speak Up … Act Out
Think In – Assess your own thinking and unconscious bias
Speak Up – Choosing to speak up when things happen that are inconsistent with your desired inclusive culture
Act Up – Assess and modify your processes and approaches that are impacting inclusion and diversity
The key role of creating a culture of belonging for everyone and especially people of difference
Different ways to think about and achieve diversity and inclusion
Strategies for creating a culture of belonging
Keys to creating feedback processes to address diversity and inclusion issues
Understanding the difference between intention and impact
Part of leadership is speaking up (acts of leadership versus roles of leadership)
Learn Dr. Steve’s MOP+SAM strategy for addressing issues related to diversity, inclusion and difference
The key role of emotional intelligence and self-awareness when leading in a diverse and inclusive way
What are you doing to influence the workplace culture in your business or organization?
Resources:
Steve Yacovelli
TopDog Learning Website
Coupon Code (75% off) the online “Resilience” Masterclass: IMPACT2021
Direct link to the “MOP+SAM” Free Training
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Are you struggling with diversity and inclusion in your business or life? Are you wondering what it means to be an ally? Are you looking for strategies to help you be a more inclusive person and leader? Our special guest Julie Kratz answers these and other questions about diversity, inclusion and allyship. Julie Kratz is a highly-acclaimed TEDx speaker, a certified unconscious bias trainer, and inclusive leadership trainer who led teams and produced results in corporate America. After experiencing many career “pivot points” of her own, she started her own speaking business focused on helping leaders be more inclusive. Promoting diversity and inclusion in the workplace, Julie is a frequent keynote speaker, podcast host, and executive coach. Julie’s books include Pivot Point: How to Build a Winning Career Game Plan, ONE: How Male Allies Support Women for Gender Equality and Lead Like an Ally: A Journey Through Corporate America with Strategies to Facilitate Inclusion. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The importance of those in power speaking up to create more diversity and inclusion
Why collaboration and allyship are essential for change
Diversity requires a different approach to attraction, recruiting and hiring – if you look for people where you always have, you’ll get people like you’ve always go
Avoiding being the rescuer of people of difference
Differently navigating the “privilege” conversation and understanding
Allyship starts at home and in your personal life – you can’t just do it at work
Understanding affinity bias as an unconscious bias that limits the diversity and inclusiveness in our lives
The pros and cons of diversity targets (but make sure to measure it even without goals)
Overcoming the reality that our communities are designed to keep people separate
Balancing hiring quotas against a diverse applicant pool
Pursuing the goal of having a critical mass of people of difference so that they don’t feel isolated and unsafe
Walking the gender tightrope as a women in the business world
Using the flip it to test it when it comes to our biases
The ways that our language and differing expectations of men versus women support gender bias
Using inclusive language signals to let others know that you’re safe to be open with
Getting clear on how you want other people to feel being around you and under your leadership
What will be your diversity and inclusion intention for 2021?
Resources:
Julie Kratz
Next Pivot Point Website
Next Pivot Point Podcast
Books by Julie Kratz
Pivot Point: How to Build a Winning Career Game Plan
ONE: How Male Allies Support Women for Gender Equality
Lead Like an Ally: A Journey Through Corporate America with Strategies to Facilitate Inclusion
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Are you a trauma survivor? Have you experienced trauma in your life that you wondered if you could ever overcome? Are you still carrying around the emotional impacts of your life trauma? Are you looking for tools to help you navigate through your trauma and perhaps shame? Our special guest Eunice Nuna is a rape survivor and she’s here to answer these and many other questions about thriving and healing from trauma. Eunice is an intuitive Psychosocial Counselor and empathetic storyteller, speaker, mentor and life coach. Eunice graduated with a degree in counseling Psychology from Africa Nazarene University and is currently pursuing a Masters in Peace and Development. Most important, Eunice is a thriving survivor of rape and sexual violence, which led her to found and now lead Wounded Healer of Kenya. Eunice was raped by a police officer in Kenya who is now a high ranking public official. The rape also left Eunice pregnant with her son and cast out by her family. Living on the streets and struggling to survive, Eunice found a way to continue her education and get her degree. Due to threats in Kenya, she has come to the United States seeking asylum. She’s not safe in Kenya because she’s speaking out against the culture of sexual violence and the man who raped her. Eunice now shares stories of women survivors of sexual violence, who are thriving, liberated and passionate to end the cycle of sexual violence. She also equips survivors to grow in self-dependency, leadership and healing through her gift of counseling. Eunice is dedicated to giving all children and women the ability to protect themselves against all types of violence including gender-based and sexual violence. Listen in as Eunice shares her story and her wisdom and experience on overcoming, healing and resilience. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes: Episode highlights…
Eunice’s story of overcoming the trauma of rape and shame
Leading by sharing your story (without position or permission)
Starting a non-profit without resources or support
What is means to live with a passion for helping others
Eunice’s experience of raising a child while living on the streets and later getting her college degree
Resilience is a muscle that must be strengthened
The importance of self-awareness and believing in yourself
Self-care is vital
Fun (intentional fun) is an important part of resilience
Resilience includes having relationships with positive people
The importance of setting and holding boundaries
Serving others is a key to resilience
It’s important to let air out of your beach balls of life to relieve the pressure
You can’t avoid or push down the pain of trauma for very long – you must be intentional in feeling the pain
The ways we hide behind masks in the United States
Resilience is not about being tough (you can only be tough so long)
Overcoming discouragement even from your own family
Purpose is critical to resilience (clear vision for your future)
Ask yourself, “How do I live my purpose today?” or “How did I live my purpose today?”
Resilience + purpose creates resourcefulness
Resources:
Eunice Nuna
Wounded Healer
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Do you struggle with your old messages and beliefs about your value? Are you looking for ways to get past your old self and tap into your more authentic self? Are you looking for strategies to allow you to live and lead as your most powerful self? Our special guest Michelle Yu is here to answer these and many other questions about writing your own authentic story of who you are and what you can achieve. Michelle Yu is a former HR executive turned coach, trainer and human capital consultant. After spending a decade working in tech, including companies like LivingSocial, Google and SoftBank, Michelle left the corporate world to pursue entrepreneurship to do what she is most passionate about – helping others reach their goals and become the best version of themselves. In her career working in fast paced, global environments, Michelle learned about the importance of mental health and workplace wellbeing, especially in how that has a direct effect on one's overall productivity and performance. Now she’s on a mission to help bring about more awareness and drive change to these topics in the workplace. Michelle also brings a unique perspective navigating the corporate world as a young, Asian-American woman. Listen in as Michelle shares her wisdom and experience on getting past your old messages to tap into your authentic and powerful you. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The trap of pursuing stable in your career
Shifting from what your conditioned to do to what you want to do
The challenges faced by children of tiger parents
Ways that colleges set expectations that may not serve you in your life journey
The importance of re-writing your own self-story
It’s vital to understand the subconscious messages you acquire during your lifetime
Ways we take on messages from our life experiences
Getting past the stigma in the corporate world that coaching is for people who are failing
The challenges with our internal chatter – we’re harder on ourselves than anyone else (i.e. imposter syndrome)
The trap of seeking high achievement in order to feel like you belong and are worthy enough
It’s okay to get keep your expectations high but your attachment to the outcome low
Ways we self-sabotage ourselves
Navigating the corporate world as a young, Asian-American woman
The importance of practicing self-compassion
Resources:
Michelle Yu
Michelle Yu Instagram
Michelle Yu Website
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Do you care about your people and do they know it? Are you looking for strategies and tactics to build trust with your team? Are you committed to being a servant and people first leader? Our special guest Robert “Bo” Brabo is here to answer these and many other questions about values-based leadership and being a leader that people want to follow. Today, Bo Brabo is an inspirational keynote speaker, career / leadership / executive coach, and business consultant. Throughout his life and career, Bo has always focused on the people, helping them tackle their problems as if they were his own. An acclaimed leader, Bo has a storied career – from his years on the military battlefield, to a decade in the White House as a Presidential Communications Officer for President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama, and to his experiences as a corporate executive and a small business owner. Bob offers real, raw, front-row stories about values-based leadership and how to be, know, and DO better. Listen in as Bo shares his wisdom and experience on values-based and people first leadership. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The most important thing in leadership – care about your people
Caring about your people means knowing about your people (and not just at work)
The opportunity for HR leaders to help grow a business
Bringing humanity into the workplace and leadership
The confidence crisis in leadership
What it means to be a values-based leader
Values-based interviewing strategies
The importance of being clear on what it takes to be a high performer
Strategies for developing your people and team members
The importance of providing feedback based upon values
People focused leadership from military leadership
The vital role of trust (and trust building) in leadership and teams
Simple strategies and tactics to build a strong team, trust and engagement
The little things of great leadership including self-awareness
The important role of after action discussions and review in business
Shifting the focus of feedback to what can be better next time (more than what went wrong)
Leadership perspectives inside the White House
High performing teams are based upon trust
Foundational core values from the Army for any organization
The importance of being clear on what values represent in action
Resources:
Robert “Bo” Brabo (bo@robertbrabo.com)
Robert Brabo Website
From the Battlefield to the White House to the Boardroom: Leading Organizations to Values-Based Results book by Robert “Bo” Brabo
The Bo and Luke Show Podcast
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Do you wonder what it means to stand out in the crowd? Are you looking to better understand your true brand? Are you looking to accelerate your marketing and difference? Our special guest Lesley Jean Almonte is here to answer these and many other questions about what it means to create, live, market and sell your unique brand. Lesley Jean Almonte is a creative branding strategist, marketing consultant strategist and CEO of Moonshine Creative Group. Over the past 17+ years Lesley has been a part of building and branding multi-million dollar businesses and six figure businesses for her clients and herself alike…in other words, she’s seen a lot of “stuff” go down in the digital marketing world. Through her speaking, online courses, workshops and agency services Lesley Jean simplifies branding and marketing strategies for struggling business owners and guides them through launching a successful brand that will allow them to work in alignment with their passion and purpose. Listen in as Lesley Jean shares her wisdom and experience on everything marketing, branding, content marketing and digital marketing. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Lesley Jean’s entrepreneurial journey
Using high quality content to connect with your customers and potential customers
The right way to use bots with digital marketing
How smaller businesses can look at their marketing initiatives and the critical need to be creative
Focusing on the experience as part of your marketing and brand
Ideas for virtual events and parties
Ways to look at marketing budgets in a small business
Marketing and branding ideas for speakers, coaches and consultants
Ways to make yourself memorable as a business, provider and brand
Your brand is the foundation of all of your marketing, sales, communication and your entire business operation
Ways to build and scale your business, create products and develop additional revenue streams
Using backdoor marketing strategies to enhance your effectiveness
What it means to engage in authentic marketing strategies
The value of embracing a strategic approach to marketing, branding and creative
The importance of having a brand handoff package
Key things to know when it comes to your website
The importance of asking potential marketing and branding firms about their process
The most important thing you need to know when it comes to branding
Resources:
Lesley Jean Almonte
Contact Lesley: Lesley@MoonshineCreativeGroup.com
Moonshine Creative Group
Brand Illumination Workshop
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Do you struggle with your habits? Are you clear in who you are and your personal life vision and values? Do you want to build habits that will empower your life and your leadership? Our special guest Tamsin Astor is here to answer these and many other questions about the power of habits to transform your life experience and impact. Tamsin Astor, PhD is the founder and Chief Habit Scientist of Yoga Brained Coaching. She is known for giving her clients the tools to shift their mindset, organize their vision, and improve their habits to create an efficient, productive business. In addition to her coaching and consulting practice, Tamsin is an avid traveler and foodie taking her three kids to Brazil, France, England, Amsterdam, Japan, Costa Rica and beyond because she believes travel helps breed tolerance and cultivates gratitude and reflection as you observe how other cultures operate and make choices. Tamsin Astor holds a PhD in neuroscience and psychology and a post-doctorate in education. She also has certifications in yoga (RYT500, Yoga Ed.), mindset & Ayurveda (Living Ayurveda, Yoga Health Coach). She is an executive coach and author of the book Force of Habit: Unleash Your Power by Developing Great Habits. Listen in as Tamsin shares her wisdom and experience on healthy living and empowering your life through habits. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The importance of rituals and habits in creating your day and life
The role of a chief habit scientist
The essentials of Ayurveda and daily choices based upon it
Key elements and impacts of sleep
The importance of vulnerability in leadership
Failure as a vital part of a success path
The importance of being clear on your personal vision and values
Empowerment through disruption
The role of your three selves in your life journey
What’s the big juicy vision you have for your life?
Understanding the psycho cybernetic loop
Words have power – using words to empower yourself
Differently understanding habits and their power to change your experiences and outcomes
Three parts of habits: 1. Cue (triggers the habit); 2. Behavior (action); 3. Reward
Understanding habits versus willpower
Five key cues for habits
Tools for creating healthy habits
The process of creating new habits (and how long it takes to create them)
The habit of busyness
Three different kinds of isolation
Change is often driven by enough pain
Resources:
Tamsin Astor
Tamsin Astor Website
Call to Clarity 2021 Program (contact Tamsin: tamsin@tamsinastor.com)
Force of Habit: Unleash Your Power by Developing Great Habits book by Tamsin Astor
The Buddha and the Badass: The Secret Spiritual Art of Succeeding at Workby Vishen Lakhiani
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Are you struggling with navigating work with a distributed or remote workforce? Are you looking for insights on different ways to lead and manage a remote workforce? Do you want to know what the future of work looks like with more remote workers? Our special guest Kaleem Clarkson is here to answer these and many other questions about leading and managing in the realm of remote workforces. Kaleem is a husband, father, employee experience professional, remote work advocate and speaker. Originally from Bangor, Maine (home of Stephen King) and now from Atlanta, Kaleem is the Chief Operating Officer of Blend Me, Inc. which he co-founded in 2013. Blend Me is a consultancy that helps organizations improve the remote employee experience, from onboarding to offboarding. With nearly 20 years of event planning and strategic operations experience, Kaleem’s passions revolve around helping others create a plan that inspires and motivates their employees to make connections and build meaningful relationships. Kaleem is also the COO of Remotely One, a members-only community for remote work professionals. Remotely One is committed to ending remote work isolation by connecting people with other location-independent professionals. Kaleem was also recently named one of the Top 15 Remote Work Advocates and Leaders by All-American Speakers Bureau. Episode highlights…
The difference between a remote workforce and a distributed workforce
Truths about remote working before and after the COVID pandemic
Remote working statistics and data (pre and post COVID)
Beware of judging the remote work experience based solely upon COVID (which is a unique situation / experience)
The pros and cons of remote working and the unique leadership issues based upon people’s unique situations (e.g. people who want to keep working remotely and people who want to get back to working at an office)
Culture is not an adequate reason to require people to work in the office
Market and business shifts regarding the reduced need for office space
Three different types of telework (remote work): 1. Fully distributed / all remote (no centralizes work space); 2. Centralized office with people working remotely (aka hybrid); or 3. Telecommuting (work wherever).
In the future nearly every company will have a telecommuting option
The changing nature of work, teams and offices with distributed workers
Hybrid working is the future of work and business
What it means to focus on the remote employee experience
Team engagement with a remote workforce
Leaders must be intentional about information interactions and social connection
Different approaches to delegation with remote workers
Understanding the importance of building your return on safety with and for your team
Resources:
Kaleem Clarkson
Blend Me, Inc.
Remote Employee Experience Assessment (FREE)
Remotely One Community
Emotional Intelligence: Why It Can Matter More Than IQBook by Daniel Goldman
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Do you struggle to live and lead in alignment with your priorities? Are you looking for clarity on who you are as a leader? Are you committed to living and leading an integrated life? Our special guest Nathan Crankfield is here to answer these and many other questions about what it takes to live and lead an integrated life. Nathan Crankfield was baptized Lutheran, but entered the Catholic Church at age 13, becoming the first Catholic in his family. He graduated from Mount St. Mary's University. After graduation, Nathan was commissioned and trained as an Infantry officer, where he completed U.S. Army Airborne School, Ranger School and then served in the 82nd Airborne Division. After a deployment to Afghanistan, Nathan knew it was time to pursue his love for evangelization. Throughout his life, Nathan has cultivated a deep passion for encouraging others to fulfill their potential and purpose. After the Army he served with the Dynamic Catholic Institute, where he helped parish priests and leaders grow their leadership. Nathan now serves as a Resident Director at Benedictine College. Most important, during COVID Nathan launched his passion organization, Seeking Excellence, which was created to live this mission: “We want to inspire you to take responsibility for every area of your life. We want to push you to reach your full potential as the person you were created to be. … Our commitment is to get you to move in the direction that leads to your fulfilled potential. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Breakdowns in leadership when leaders fail to walk their talk
The importance of assessing where you are and strategically plotting a course to your desired objectives
Impactful leadership and culture lessons from R.O.T.C.
Strategies and leadership for building great teams
Understanding that having and creating fun is an important leadership skill
What it means to lead by going first for others to follow
Leaders must constantly assess how well they’re living their own talk and stay aligned with their talk
Leadership is not about perfection but a deeply held conviction and commitment to excellence
The vital role of vulnerability in all forms of leadership
The reality that people will judge you either way – whether you’re vulnerable or not (let them judge you for your most authentic self)
Vulnerability builds credibility and followership
The importance of getting clear on your priorities and then living and leading in alignment with those priorities
What is means to live a prioritized life focused on what and who you serve
Living and leading an integrated life (living as a renaissance man)
The Seven Pillars of Excellence – mental, physical, emotional, spiritual, financial, professional and social
Plan your day and week (and assess your day and week) in alignment with your Seven Pillars of Excellence
Life leadership lessons from family challenges
Leaders face the danger or chaos by running towards God and themselves
Resources:
Nathan Crankfield
nathan@thosewhoseek.org
Seeking Excellence Ministry Website
Seeking Excellence Instagram
Seeking Excellence Facebook
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Have you witnesses or been the target of workplace bullying? Do you want to create a safe and healthy environment for your team? Are you committed to addressing and removing any toxic behavior in your organization? Our special guest Leslie Levy August is here to answer these and many other questions about workplace bullying, healthy workplaces and team engagement. For 35 years, Leslie Levy August held progressively senior management roles in international insurance agencies in addition to being an entrepreneur. In that time she saw the stark comparison between toxic vs. healthy workplaces and how toxic workplaces resulted in employee disengagement, distraction, illness, and loss of productivity and profitability. Leslie brings a unique perspective on workplace bullying, and toxic work environments. And not only is she going to share on the ideas on how to solve these issues, and the impact of these issues, but she has lived it. Leslie is the Founder of The Leslie August Corporation and she’s part of The Workplace Bullying University. Leslie has a real passion for changing things after having witnessed and being the target of workplace bullying as a business owner, manager, bystander, and target. This experience changed the direction of her life and was the genesis for her business. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Definitions of workplace bullying
Examples of workplace bullying that might surprise you
Awareness of workplace bullying that’s perpetrated in writing (e.g. email, texts)
The biggest challenges for people who are targeted for workplace bullying
Understanding what separates workplace bullying from poor management
Differentiating discrimination from workplace bullying (discrimination is illegal while bullying is not)
The importance of creating psychological safety in the workplace
Strategies for people who are the target of workplace bullying
Workplace bullies often work the organizational system well by building relationships with superiors
Tools to assess whether you’re being bullied in the workplace
The importance of having an anti-bullying policy and procedure in your organization
Strategies for minimizing the costs of workplace bullying and strategies for addressing it before it becomes a bigger issue
Communication strategies for addressing workplace bullying
Increased risks of workplace bullying during COVID
Workplace bullying and power differentials
Important statistics on workplace bullying
The enhanced rate of women bullying women
The role of millennials in ending workplace bullying by not tolerating it
The high and wide ranging costs of workplace bullying and toxic work environments
The role of trust and the impact of workplace bullying and toxic work environments on trust
The benefits of a safe and healthy workplace environment
The higher percentage of organizations that are NOT responding to bullying complaints (72%)
Solutions for eliminating workplace bullying
Many workplace bullies are perceived as high performers
Resources:
Leslie Levy August
Leslie August Website
Free resources on workplace bullying
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Do you live your life intentionally? In what ways would your life experience and outcomes be different if you were more intentional and prioritized? Are you looking of practical and actionable tools to help you enhance your leadership, relationships and life? Our special guest Sean Rosensteel is here to answer these and many other questions about intentional living as the path to learning, growth and meaning. Sean Rosensteel is the author of The School of Intentional Living: A Real-World Approach to Living Life on Your Terms and founder of The Intentional Living Academy. With a passion for helping others, Sean’s journey began when he found himself bankrupt at the age of 28 after following conventional wisdom all his life. This eye-opening moment taught him that attaining true happiness and fulfillment means breaking free from conventional living and creating your own path. Now, he inspires and empowers people to achieve their dreams and live the lives they truly deserve. Listen in as Sean shares his wisdom and experience on intentionally creating transformational change throughout your life, career, business and relationships.. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Dangers of wrapping up your identity in the conventional definition of success
The importance of discovering learning and living a life as a life-long learner
Beware of people in your life who advise you from their own biases (it’s critical to surround yourself with people and advisors who are unbiased)
Beware of living a life of victimhood without realizing it
Using weekly progress reports to check-in on how you’re doing on your choices and priorities
Using a school-like grading system for every area of your life and changes
Sometimes you have to go out of balance for a period of time in order to balance things
Awareness means nothing without new action
The difference between an intellectual knowing and an experiential knowing (taking the action)
Real clarity is earned through action
Living and growing with a full measure attitude
The importance of getting feedback from others for your priorities and change progress reports
Calculating the GPA of your life is not an outcome but an awareness – better understanding your priorities and deciding what you want your life to look like
Resources:
Sean Rosensteel (LinkedIn)
Sean Rosensteel (Facebook)
Sean Rosensteel Website
Work / Life Balance 5-Day Challenge
The School of Intentional Living: A Real-World Approach to Living Life on Your Terms Book by Sean Rosensteel (free copy)
The School of Intentional Living: A Real-World Approach to Living Life on Your Terms Book by Sean Rosensteel (Amazon)
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Do you want to get clear on who you are and what you want? Do you want more happiness in your life while continuing to achieve and succeed? Are you ready to get clear on what you want to be happy and the tools for high performance and happiness together? Our special guest Becky Morrison is here to answer these and many other questions about ways to shift your life and leadership experience for more happiness while continuing to have great impact. Becky Morrison is a UC Berkeley Certified Executive Coach, consultant, connector and author. She works with people to help them accelerate leadership, improve communication, and hone their people time and project management skills. Most important, Becky shows people how to live an easier and happier life. Becky is a recovering lawyer, worked on the business side of a law firm and ran an entrepreneurial investment firm. She’s the Founder of Grantley Coaching which helps people uncover their authentic style of leadership and help them live priority aligned lives. She also highlights that she’s a mom, business owner and wife. Listen in as Becky shares her wisdom and experience on practical ways to see their lives and choices differently in order to live with more happiness. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Avoiding the trap of a “what’s next” world in order get clear on who you are and what you want (versus what you can or should do)
Debunking the myth that happiness is achieve by adding more
Understanding the power of subtracting as a tool for enhancing your performance and your happiness
Building your life and leadership means being honest with yourself about what makes your happy
Don’t confuse your confidence comfort zone with happiness
Be aware of confusing safety with happiness
Most of our fears are based upon our underlying doubts about whether we’re good enough
The importance of boundaries in your success and happiness
A different way to look at the idea of getting out of the box
The key happiness gaps: 1. Authenticity gap; 2. Physical energy gap; 3. Emotional energy gap
Happiness is a now achievement, not something that follows from your achievements
Practical ways to see their lives and choices differently in order to live with more happiness
Living a happier life doesn’t mean feeling good all the time – it means living a life of feeling all of your feelings
Leadership lessons from Gene Hackman in Hoosiers
Resources:
Becky Morrison
The Happiness Recipe: A Powerful Guide for Living What Matters Book by Becky Morrison (Spring 2020)
Grantly Coaching Website (access to resources)
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Do you want to get clear on your higher purpose and mission? Are you clear on your root system and foundations in every part of your life? Do you want to deeply understand what nurtures and nourishes you? Our special guest Chandra Lynn (San Francisco) is here to answer these and many other questions about the path to clarity when it comes to your career and life journey. Chandra Lynn is an entrepreneur and owner of two successful businesses. Glow Marketing, which provides services that support executives in business and career goals, all aligned with a philosophy based in human needs psychology. She is also the founder and host of Glow Living (GlowLiving.com), a lifestyle brand and platform for personal growth and healthy living. Listen in as Chandra Lynn shares her wisdom and experience on what it takes to get unstuck and understand your foundational roots for living a life of your dreams. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
How transforming your life can happen in one second
The importance of having and living in alignment with a personal mission
You choose your purpose (instead of waiting for it to come to you)
It’s vital to get clear on the root systems (foundations) for every part of your life (e.g. values, health / fitness, career, family, relationships)
Career pivots are essential on your life journey
The meanings you put on experiences matter more than the experiences themselves
When you change the lens through which you see your life and experiences you transform your life and life experience
Human emotions have a huge spectrum and the same experiences impact different people it differently when it comes to emotions
Transformation requires that you get to the root of your beliefs and issues, as well as the cost of those root beliefs and actions
Transformation follows when you make a true decision
You have to ask what you’re willing to do to get what you say you want
It’s vital that you regularly that the sacred pause to assess, reflect and make new decisions
It’s important that you regularly shake up your thinking (or you will be shaken)
Snow globes as the metaphor of life, leadership and transformation
Doing the work on your roots can be mucky and messy
When you understand your needs you will better understand of why you make decisions (and then change those decisions and your future)
Your typical need for safety, security and certainty will often keep your stuck
Balancing your roots is essential
Resources:
Chandra Lynn LinkedIn
chandra@glowliving.com
Glow Marketing
Glow Living
Free Root-to-Rise Course
Driving Needs Quiz
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Are you looking for specific tools to enhance your performance? Do you want to become a meaningful leader? Are you looking for a proven process to become a high performing leader? Our special guest Jayson Krause (Calgary) is here to answer these and many other questions about meaningful leadership and the science of high performance. Jayson Krause is the Managing Director of Level 52, which offers executive coaching and customized leader development that delivers results through a blend of innovative, science-based and high-performance methods. Jayson and Level 52 have developed the Science Behind Success,™ an award winning framework that activates a unique mindset and gives you the tools and skills to deliver meaningful results. Jayson is also the author of the soon to be published book, The Science Behind Success – What Every Leader Needs to Know About Mindset, Influence, Culture & Performance. Notably, Jayson was also the pilot on the Canadian national bobsled team. Listen in as Jayson shares his wisdom and experience on meaningful leadership, high performance and intentional and process-driven growth. What virus of meaning and impact are you intentionally spreading? The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Bobsled piloting and leadership both require small adjustments, learning from failures and pushing your edge
The Four Pillars of Performance (The Science Behind Success)
Hypertrophy – No pain, no gain
Mimetics – Behavioral contagion / viral influence
Epigenetics – Factors that influence genetic expression in leadership and culture
Myelin – Process of skill acquisition
Hypertrophy – Muscles subjected to stress or resistance will adapt by growing (leaders engage in meaningful masochism)
CSP Assessment – Complains, Stressors, Pains – Get clear on which ones are most valuable for you to dive into
It’s critical to get clear on your own personal definition of leadership
Growing awareness is vital and requires 360 feedback and input
Transactional leadership (what you do and achieve) versus transformational leadership (trust, relationships, development)
Two qualities of great leaders – hunger (to be better) and humility
Presence is critical as a bobsled pilot and a leader
High performance is obsessing over the simple things that make a difference
Everything is a virus – everything you do, say, etc.
Be clear what impact you want to create with your viral actions
Leaders take 100% responsible for all impacts and outcomes you create (or fail to create)
Epigenetics – the science that explains why culture eats strategy for breakfast
A simple tool for getting clear on mutual agreed expectations and outcomes – bookends of excitement / success and disappointment
Three keys to building myelin – Struggle, repetition and practice
Awareness is the entry point to everything in high performance – intention follows awareness – reflection follows intention and action / impact assessment
We learn from experiences with intention (not just the experience itself)
High performance does not allow space for blame Resources:
Jayson Krause
Level 52 Website
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Are you in the events or festivals business and want to learn the secrets from a master? Do you want to understand what it means to innovate especially during disruptive times? Are you interested in learning what it means to be an ecosystem leader? Our special guest Billie Jo Aasen is here to answer these and many other questions about business ecosystems, leadership and the twists and turns of entrepreneurship. Billie Joe Aasen (Vancouver, British Columbia) grew up around started her life festivals, and she’s now a master at creating events and experiences. Her industry has certainly taken a hit during COVID, and you’ll hear about some of the ways she’s adapted and pivoted. She now owns and runs several businesses, as well as a non-profit. Billie Jo is the President and CEO of 542 Entertainment, Billie’s List and Extreme Mudfest. During her career Billie Jo’s had a professional music career and started performing at large venue music events when she was only 18. 542 Entertainment is where she grew her business legs, responsible for booking talent and producing for over 20 Music festivals both in Canada and the US. In 2015 she created Extreme Mudfest, Canada’s largest mud and music festival – which is solely ran by females. In 2017, Aasen expanded into the management section of the music business. That same year, Billie Jo was part of launching Billie’s List, an online music community and booking platform for artists, musicians and promoters to connect. Listen in as Billie Jo shares her wisdom and experience on collaborative leadership and what it takes to thrive on the entrepreneurial journey. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Taking risks and learning lessons
The business world of music events and festivals
The reality of burnout for entrepreneurs and rethinking your business and life
The process of innovation through COVID in the events business
The idea and mindset of ecosystem leadership – looking out for the whole rather than your own individual success
Mindset shifts are essential during difficult and disruptive times
The importance of having a clear marketing and social media content strategy
What it means to embrace a collaborative, ecosystem mind shift
Beware your egos when navigating disruptive economic times
Get clear on the why behind your what – making money as a goal is not what business is about
The many emotions of entrepreneurship
Resources:
Billie Jo Aasen LinkedIn
Billie Jo Aasen Instagram
Billie Jo Aasen Website
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Are you looking to achieve and impact more? Do you want strategies to enhance your day-to-day effectiveness? Do you want to know the keys to being a great leader? Our special guest Cameron Campbell (Coach Cam) is here to answer these and many other questions about entrepreneurship, leadership, success and failure. Cameron Campbell is a sports enthusiast and a serial and social entrepreneur. He's spoken more than 1000 times to many sports and philanthropic organizations, including the NFL, the NBA, and Major League Baseball. He played Division I football at the University of Houston, and he's turned his passion for sports into a career serving students as an athletic director and head coach. He now empowers others as a business consultant and owns an organization called Texas Athletics Construction. He's got a new book coming out this year called Win the First Quarter of Your Day: Playbook for Wealth, Health and Success. Here’s what we love – Cameron is affectionately known as Coach Cam and is often described as a servant. Listen in as Coach Cam shares his wisdom and experience in connecting sports leadership to business success. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Key business, leadership and entrepreneurship lessons from sports
The importance of learning to fail (not just quit)
Learn to celebrate the failures as well as the successes
The importance of getting outside of your comfort zone
When selecting team members focus more on people who’ve overcome challenges than people who’ve only had success
The importance of having the gifts and the grit
You must learn to overcome adversity in business and leadership
The growth mindset is not something you say – it’s something you live (a lifelong journey … playing the forever game)
Finding a new deficiency should excite you because you have something to work on
Character is built in losses and failures (not the wins)
Humility is an essential leadership trait
Humility doesn’t come from failure -- humility comes from taking responsibility for that failure and fully owning it, and committing to learn from it
Financial success is not a zero sum game
Success in business comes in levels and stages, and your leadership needs to change with each level
The risk of labels and instead focus on what traits you want for each of your team members
The importance of getting clear about what we want, where we are and what we want things to be
The importance of winning the first quarter every day
Resources:
Cameron Campbell (Coach Cam)
Coach Cam Cares (Instagram)
Win the First Quarter of Your Day E-Course
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Are you tired of grinding life out with little or no joy and pleasure? Are you looking for tools to help you experience more joy in your life while you achieve success? Do you want to know the path to living the life of your dreams? Our special guest Laura DeBenedetto is here to answer these and many other questions about what it takes to create true success and happiness. Laura DiBenedetto (Hawaii) is the No. 1 Bestselling Author of The Six Habits and a Life Mastery coach who teaches people how to create the life of your dreams without sacrificing what you love. She also is the Founder and CEO of a company called Vision Advertising, which she started when she was 19. Vision Advertising has helped hundreds of entrepreneurs build and grow profitable enterprises entirely on their terms. Listen in as Laura shares her wisdom and experience on six habits that will transform your experience of life, enhance your success and help you move past the self-beliefs that have held you back in the past. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps you grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The Six Habits that will allow you to live happiness rather than pursuing happiness
Habit 1 – Kindness (the way we treat ourselves in action, thoughts and deeds)
Habit 2 – Acceptance (unconditional love for ourselves, respect and appreciation)
Habit 3 – Gratitude (the lenses through which we view the world)
Habit 4 – Presence (living in the present moment to experience massive pleasure)
Habit 5 – Goodness (the habit of good energy self-management)
Habit 6 – Intention (getting ultra-clear with purpose)
You have to work on yourself in order to receive joy
It’s important to understand the origins of your self-beliefs or beliefs about the world and how it works
Working on yourself is not always easy or pretty – it’s often hard and messy
Even mastering the Six Habits doesn’t prevent getting punched in the face, but you can more quickly bounce back
Presence is about enjoyment, pleasure and growth
Choosing presence means allowing ourselves to fully feel our emotions (e.g. choose to feel the pain or the grief)
Dump the labels of good and bad (and similar labels and value judgments)
Ways you rob yourself of energy that’s not available for the things you desire
Self-care is often about setting boundaries
Beware the many ways we’ve been socialized
The root cause of joy is in your mental habits and you have to be willing to do the work to transform your habits and beliefs
Resources:
Laura DiBenedetto
The Six Habits
The Six Habits: Practical Tools for Bringing Your Dreams to Life book by Laura DeBenedetto (with extra chapter)
The Six Habits: Practical Tools for Bringing Your Dreams to Life book (Amazon)
90-Day Habit Mastery Course
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Are you looking to discover your true career calling? Are you looking for ways to uncover and pursue your truest career path? Do you want to get past your fears of claiming your calling in your career? Are you ready to get clear and pursue what you’re meant to do? Our special guest Kris McGuigan is here to answer these and many other questions about career development, career advancement and getting clear on your path. Kris McGuigan is the Founder and President of Professional Courage, and she helps people empower themselves in their career. She shows them the path to see career advancement as not just a transaction, but as a way of being and living in their life. She’s had her own journey of career transition by what she calls a proactive and self-directed career search. After putting her business dream in a box for ten years and following the “safe” corporate carrot, but later jumped into entrepreneurship built around her passions. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Fear is the biggest obstacle to proactively self-directing your career path
Most people know what they want to do, but they’re terrified to go after it for fear of failure and even fear of success
One way to overcome fear is through clarity about what you enjoy externally and what you value internally
Fear of failure is one of the biggest obstacles to pursuing the career or business that best fits you
Money is only one measure of career success, but it’s easy to get trapped into only seeing the career ladder that you’re already climbing
It’s important to learn to think and see outside the standard box of what jobs and careers are a good / right fit for you
Strategies for getting out of and thinking outside of the box, including getting clear on your values (e.g. using assessment tools is critical to evaluating and mapping out your career path)
Everyone needs to create their own Values Vault as part of their career and business advancement path
You must get far out of your own box to find the career or business path that best fits you
It’s essential to get clear on your fears and resistance factors in order to assess their reality and degree
The most important fear to talk about and assess is the risks of staying where you are (not changing)
Ways to create advancement opportunities in your own organization
Differences between career advancement and career transition
It’s critical that you be able to clearly articulate the value you bring to a team, organization, role, etc.
When you’re afraid, don’t step back … step into it
Resources:
Kris McGuigan
Professional Courage
Career Courage Career Advancement Strategies, Blog and Videos
Atomic Habits: An Easy & Proven Way to Build Good Habits & Break Bad Ones book by James Clear
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Are you wondering what it takes to build and scale a business? Are you looking for ways to expand your business? Do you want to build a business that’s scalable and sellable? Do you wonder if it’s possible to combine your passions into a business? Our special guest David Wolff is here to answer these and many other questions about leadership, business growth and scaling a business. David Wolff is currently the executive director of an organization called Ocean Habitats. They design, build and install artificial reefs under boat docks, and they've got thousands of units in the water. As he's going to share, he's been able by his own choices to turn his passion and his desire for environmental impact into a business. He has degree was in marine biology and biological oceanography, but his journey to his passion has had many twists and turns. Along the he helped to build a massive real estate enterprise across the country (doing over $10 billion in sales the year he left) where he learned about leadership, entrepreneurship, scaling, buying businesses for growth and many other ways to grow a business. Listen in as David shares his wisdom and experience on what it takes to build, grow and lead a great business by seeing the opportunities in front of you. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Turning the 2008-2010 market crash into a growth and expansion opportunity
You must run towards the fire
The importance of finding balance amidst your business success (e.g. personal health, family, relationships)
The environmental impact of artificial reefs and ecosystems created by Ocean Habitats
Finding success along the path of failure
Sometimes you have to survive before you can scale and grow
Finding acquisition opportunities for growth in the midst of economic chaos
To grow you must have some repeatable system
The importance of planning for succession and sale early in the venture
You must learn to focus on what’s important (only 5% of the business) and remove yourself from everything else
What it takes to build a business that’s not dependent on you
The role of the leader as a coach
Leaders must be willing to own and share their own failures in order to help grow others
Leader who only share their successes fail
You don’t have to be successful in one business in order to pursue your passion
If you’re solving a problem for people, the money will follow (including your passion business)
Focus is critical – focus on the key things that move the needle in your business and given your role
Fear is a constant in business and you have to overcome it – if it’s not scary it’s not big enough and you’re wasting your time
Even if you’re going in the wrong direction, you’re still moving – you don’t want to stand still
Resources:
David Wolff (david@davidjwolff.com)
Ocean Habitats
David Wolff Coaching (www.davidjwolff.com)
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Are you wondering what it takes to persevere as an entrepreneur? Do you want to learn ways to build and tell your story to customers and potential customers? Are you wondering how to use video in building your business? Our special guest Kinard Robinson is here to answer these and many other questions about marketing, entrepreneurship and using videos for storytelling. Kinard Robinson is an entrepreneur, college athlete, business strategist, video production expert and now marketing guru who started his first business in 2015 and started his current business, Empowering Creative, in January 2020 right before the COVID pandemic. He started his career working for big companies in business strategy and management, and then pursued his dream of owning his own business. Kinard comes from a family of many generations of black entrepreneurs and people who broke barriers in education and business. Listen in as Kinard shares his wisdom and experience on what it takes to build, grow and lead a great business by building relationships through storytelling. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
The role and impact of family legacy and growing up in a family of educators and barrier breakers
The important of resilience and perseverance to get through rough patches as an entrepreneur
Navigating the COVID pandemic as a start-up entrepreneur
The importance of building a strategy for your business even in the early strategies
The importance of innovating in the midst of chaos
Using the COVID pandemic to build relationships (playing the long game of relationships)
The importance of building the right team mix by acknowledging your strengths and weaknesses
Entrepreneurs must learn how to communicate their strategy and vision
Serving your customers and clients by giving them the information they need to make the best decisions for themselves
Living the philosophy of getting better every day
Sports lessons for entrepreneurs – mental toughness, working with others on a team, building interpersonal relationships
The role of stories as businesses tell their stories to customers and potential customers
The heightened importance of telling your story in the digital age to differentiate and build relationships
The vital role of video in business storytelling
Questions to consider when it comes to using video in your business
The importance of getting clear on your target audience before you develop your marketing and video strategy
Using video to give them an inside look at what you do and what you deliver to them
Leadership and relationship wisdom from The Godfather
Resources:
Kinard Robinson
Empowering Creative
Building Your Brand E-Book
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Are you struggling in your leadership? Are you a young leader looking for ideas on ways to enhance your leadership? Do you want to build a business with a great team and culture? Our special guest Sean Si (Manila, Philippines) answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, leadership and culture. Sean Si is the author and editor-in-chief of SEO Hacker and the SEO Hacker Blog is all about providing the world with the latest information in the SEO industry. Sean is a blogger, entrepreneur, SEO specialist, public speaker and an inbound marketing expert. Notably, Sean started his business at the age of 22 with just $22, and now leads an organization at age 32 with 50 team members (all younger than him). He’s also the host of LeadershipStack, a podcast focused on entrepreneurship, leadership and management. He’s also the founder of QERYZ, a software as a service venture Listen in as Sean shares his wisdom and experience on what it takes to build, grow and lead a great business. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life. Show Notes Episode highlights…
Ethics matter even in the midst of business challenges
Leadership lessons from the Avengers
The importance of relationships in business (relationships come first)
The importance of taking care of your people especially during uncertain times
The importance of being empathetic with clients and customers
The importance of being authentic and vulnerable with clients, customers and team members
People leave companies because of bad leadership (and turnover is expensive)
The importance of using assessments with your team (i.e. Reiss Motivational Profile)
Culture and core values is vital for any business
Value of using a values survey in the hiring process
Leaders are intentional about their people, culture and values
The role of humility in leadership
Leaders must have people around them who will be honest with them and point out blind spots
Leadership lessons learned from parents and their career and business choices
The importance of hiring people that compliment your strengths and supplement your weaknesses
What to look for when hiring people and the importance of having a rich hiring experience
Building a culture where you can make mistakes if you learn from them
The top three things to look for in people: 1. Humble 2. Hungry 3. People Smart
Unique ideas for living your culture and values
Keys to leading and managing millennials
Two powerful and difference making interview questions
The importance of making it about the team (not yourself) as a leader
Leadership is about sacrifice
Resources:
Sean Si
SEO Hacker
Leadership Stack Podcast with Sean Si
50x Your Business: How to Grow your Business, People, and Revenue the Right Way book by Sean Si
CEO at 22: The Risks, Challenges, Success and Failures of Starting up Young book by Sean Si
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Are you thinking about launching a podcast? Are you wondering whether a podcast is right for you? Are you hosting a podcast and looking for ways to enhance the quality, reach and impact of your podcast? Our special guest Elzie Flenard (known as The Mayor of Podcast Town) answers these and other questions about podcasts and podcasting.
Elzie Flenard is our first guest to talk about podcast and he's been described as creative, entrepreneur, family man and “no box fits him.” Elzie is known as a storyteller and he helps businesses find their voice. An electrical engineer by training, he’s launched a record label, owned a minor league basketball team, started a music production company, and wrote his first song when he was five.
Listen in as Elzie shares his wisdom and experience on the who, what and why of podcasts and podcasting, including some of the keys to podcast success in a crowded world of podcasting.
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Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
Podcasts are a great way to add value and build relationships, as well as a way to find your voice and get your message out to the masses
If you want to start a podcast, hire a podcast coach to avoid mistakes and enhance your efforts
It’s vital to have a podcast strategy
If you’re a business or in business, you need to be “in the podcast space in some form” (e.g. host, sponsor, advertise, etc.)
Start with your why when it comes to a podcast with two or three key KPI’s (measurables) and goals
Ways to differentiate and stand out in the sea of podcasts (niching is always a good idea)
Your goals need to define your key measures
Podcast titles are important but not the most important thing
Key podcast stumbles – not planning, poor quality, planning for pre-production, production and post-production, not paying attention to the marketing aspects of their podcast
Key podcast marketing and promotion strategies (your email list is gold and must be an exclusive podcast list)
You must answer the question, “Why do you want to do this podcast?”
Podcasts can be a lead generator, but we careful to do it the right way
Beware the podfade (when you get overwhelmed with a podcast)
It’s never too early to outsource your podcast needs (especially if it’s outside your likes and skillsets)
Essential to have a long-term goal and strategy for your podcast (podcasts are typically a long game)
Questions to ask when considering whether to join a podcast network
Resources:
Elzie Flendard (mayor@podcasttown.net / 262-278-0535)
Podcast Town
E-Myth Revisited: Why Most Small Businesses Don't Work and What to Do About It book by Michael Gerber
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Are you a speaker or coach who thrived on in person events prior to COVID? Are you wondering what’s the state of in person and virtual events? Are you looking for ideas on ways to thrive with online and virtual events? Our special guest Wendi Freeman answers these and other questions about events and virtual events.
Wendi Freeman is an event planner, a virtual event strategist and a conference coordinator. She’s the Founder of Be Bright Events that helps purpose-driven entrepreneurs create live and virtual events that spark engagement, inspire, change, and enrich lives, communities and organizations. In short, Wendi is an expert on all things events.
Listen in as Wendi shares her perspectives on the current of events, the future of events and specific ways that you can use virtual events to continue to have an impact, grow your business and create fabulous experiences for your association members and attendees.
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Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
In person events are not gone, but they’re dramatically limited
Virtual / online events are the reality of today including hybrid events
It’s essential to approach your events differently
Understanding the realities of the financial model for online events, including pricing strategies (when free events and when paid events)
Virtual events require that you be more intentional and creative to achieve attendee engagement, interaction and a great experience
Value of engaging someone to help you create, market and deliver your event
Importance of preparing your attendees for the online event and experience (“Know Before You Go”)
Creative icebreakers ideas
Unique challenges of online events and solutions to those challenges
Benefits of online events when it comes to additional offers and simplifying the “buy” process
Why it’s important to charge for your online events and pricing strategies
Ideas for online event tools and resources
Ideas for ways to add value to online events especially for higher price tickets
Ways to approach speakers and fees for online events
The incredible values available today to book and contract for in person events
Resources:
Wendi Freeman
Be Bright Events Website
Epic Online Experiences Virtual Event (special offer: Promo Code IMPACT)
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Do you wonder how government works and what gets in the way of it working? Are you frustrated with governmental leadership? Do you want to know ways that governments and leaders can be more effective? Our special guest John Bernard is here to answer these and many other questions about the ways government works and doesn’t work.
Our special guest is John Bernard, a consultant and author who works with state governments and their agencies to help them create results. As John says, he “sells hope” to governments and their leaders to make a difference.
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Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
States on average create 300 new laws annually
Results are often not the measure in state government
The current reality is that most state laws are written by lobbyists
The key shift is to focus on and measure results
Brookings Institute Study – Basis for federal lawmakers’ decisions … the facts constituted 3% of the decision
One big problem is we don’t learn from each other – virtually every social issue has been solved by someone, but we don’t learn from and adopt what we know works.
Three Phases of Government Maturation – 1. Reaction Driven (vast majority today); 2. Results Driven (change the decision-making mechanism to make things better); 3. Social Good Driven (focus attention, policies and dollars where we know it works – addressing root causes to transform society)
One solution is to have a common set of measures across all the states with resulting accountability
What’s required to be a transformational leader in governmental leadership
Key problem – when programs save money, the government takes it away
In government, operations and process inefficiencies and waste are close to 60% (this the capacity to do whatever you want to do)
Leadership and management matters in government
Measurements and dashboards are essential, but not for punishment … they must be used to incite exploration, to inspire understanding and dig into the truth to find out what's going on
Trust is built, not granted
Key change is to impress across the broad spectrum of government of the value of results – it's an organizing mechanism
Focus on what actually works versus what we think works
Most states have scorecards which are really valuable to assess a state’s performance (and governments must manage with these scorecards)
Essential to assess whether the scorecards and dashboards are measuring the right things (e.g. Ford Motor Company – all the dashboards are in green but we reported a $5B loss)
There’s a difference between measures and results (measures must align with desired results)
Resources:
John Bernard
Results-Driven Manager Master Class for State Managers
Government That Works: The Results Revolution in the States book by John Bernard
Business at the Speed of Now: Fire Up Your People, Thrill Your Customers, and Crush Your Competitors book by John Bernard
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Do you struggle with having the difficult conversations of today? Are conflict conversations a challenge in your business or relationships? Are you looking for tools to enhance communication even through the difficult issues? Are you looking for a path through these turbulent elections and political times?
Our special guest Andrea Molberg, PhD delivers practical tools to help us all differently navigate our disagreements and to have the conversations that need to be had while lowering defensiveness, repairing relationships, and managing conflict and stress.
A national trainer and speaker, Dr. Molberg designs and leads numerous train-the-trainer, leadership, and employee development programs. She’s the author of several books including her most recent, Emergency Kit for Finding Common Ground: Helping Americans Get Along (2020), which is stuffed with field-tested techniques for bridging the divide and helping people disagree without being disagreeable.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
One of the most important things leaders can do is listen
Leaders don’t listen because they’re passionate and want others to hear it – the problem is the more we push; the more people resist; we’re lazy (listening takes more efforts); we don’t know how to listen; they’ve been rewarded in the past for talking
Beware of your quick judgments of others and how hard you hold onto those judgments
The best ways to improve listening and reduced judgments of others is my reducing fear
We listen better when we’re curious and we’re not curious when we’re afraid
People are craving safe places for conversations and work … we create safety through vulnerability
The difference between issues conversations and values conversations
Understanding the different styles of approaching difficult conversations
Leaders must be aware of the power differential impacts of their opinions in the workplace
The prevalent role of fear that impacts our conversations and judgments of others
The important role of respect in difficult conversations and relationships
We learn to only see things through our own perspective when we are children, which is part of what’s called unconscious bias
The role of language use in our differences and conflicts (the many ways that words can trigger)
When we’re angry we look to blame and pick fights including with our words
Behaviors often don’t match intentions, but behaviors matters more
The importance of magic words and phrases – “because” (the why behind what you believe, seek, share or ask) and “How am I doing?”
The importance of being vulnerable and saying “I’m sorry”
Predictability is more impactful on trust than positive intention
Every day do something to show respect for someone
Resources:
Andrea Molberg
Andrea Molberg Website
Emergency Kit for Finding Common Ground: Helping Americans Get Along (2020) book by Andrea Molberg
Making Live Training Lively: 50 Tips for Engaging Your Audience (2004) book by Andrea Molberg
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Are you struggling to lead through crisis? Are you wondering what it takes to lead in ways that builds great culture and teams? Are you looking for the secret sauce for people and team leadership? Our special guest Walt Rakowich delivers mindsets and tools you can use today to help you amply your leadership through transparency and vulnerability.
Walt Rakowich is a leadership speaker and former executive of Prologis, a global real estate company that was near collapse when he took over as CEO in 2008. During the economic downturn, the Prologis stock had dropped from over $70 per share to approximately $2 per share in 10 months, making it the third-worst performing company in the S&P 500. After Walt joined as CEO, he quickly implemented a change in culture through transparency, orchestrating a dramatic turnaround and restoring its position in the industry.
In addition to speaking to audiences on a range of leadership topics, Walt also serves on a number of corporate and philanthropic boards. Walt attended Penn State where he received his BS in accounting, and then earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Listen in as Walt shares his ideas on vulnerable leadership, building culture and empowering teams.
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Show Notes Episode highlights…
Leadership wisdom works across nations and cultures
Organizational culture starts at the top and flows down through the company
Essential to have a core set of values as to how you’re going to treat people
You must measure the results of your culture
Leaders have to slow down to connect with people
Leaders don’t run … if you’re running, you’re probably not leading (slowing down is an act of leadership vulnerability)
The important role of transparency in leadership
Leaders bring attention to the elephant in the room (what you don’t say is just as important as what you do say)
Fear is the greatest leadership gap
Leaders don’t tell their team everything, but you tell them 97% (leaders who fail to share often don’t trust their team)
Leaders are conductors, not soloists
Best leaders in the world are humble, honest and have a sense of humor (3 H’s)
Jesus Christ as a great leader – Humble, brutally honest and human
Three H Core of leadership – Humility (how you see yourself), Honesty (action that connects the two) and Heart (how you see others)
Leadership is more about the journey than the results – if you’re too fixed on the results, we miss the influence we have on others during the journey
Leadership is about trial and error, making mistakes and learning from those mistakes
Resources:
Walt Rakowich
Walt Rakowich Website
Twitter: @WaltRakowich
Transfluence: How to Lead with Transformative Influence in Today's Climates of Change book by Walt Rakowich
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Are you struggling to lead through crisis? Are you wondering what it takes to lead in ways that builds great culture and teams? Are you looking for the secret sauce for people and team leadership? Our special guest Walt Rakowich delivers mindsets and tools you can use today to help you amply your leadership through transparency and vulnerability.
Walt Rakowich is a leadership speaker and former executive of Prologis, a global real estate company that was near collapse when he took over as CEO in 2008. During the economic downturn, the Prologis stock had dropped from over $70 per share to approximately $2 per share in 10 months, making it the third-worst performing company in the S&P 500. After Walt joined as CEO, he quickly implemented a change in culture through transparency, orchestrating a dramatic turnaround and restoring its position in the industry.
In addition to speaking to audiences on a range of leadership topics, Walt also serves on a number of corporate and philanthropic boards. Walt attended Penn State where he received his BS in accounting, and then earned his MBA from Harvard Business School.
Listen in as Walt shares his ideas on vulnerable leadership, building culture and empowering teams.
The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
Lessons from parents – Appreciate people for who they are
Poor leadership causes people to work in silos, close off, stop sharing ideas
Leadership: With trust you have everything … without trust you have nothing
Transfluence – The path to creating transformative influence by focusing outside of yourself and focusing on the people around you.
The key to leadership is transforming your peoples’ lives by focusing on them (this is transformative influence)
Two biggest obstacles for leaders are fear and pride – leaders’ greatest fear is incompetence and the number two fear is vulnerability
The antidote to fear is faith and facing it head on (acknowledging it)
Leaders must create time alone for thought and contemplation
Vulnerability is an act of faith in action especially during crisis and difficult times
Leaders job is NOT to always have all the answers – your job is to support the team in developing the answers (they’re closest to the issues)
During COVID business leaders must be more empathetic and flexible since teams are struggling more now than ever in their personal lives
Leaders need to listen more and talk less, especially now
Resources:
Walt Rakowich
Walt Rakowich Website
Twitter: @WaltRakowich
Transfluence: How to Lead with Transformative Influence in Today's Climates of Change book by Walt Rakowich
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Do you struggle with achieving goals? Are you looking for strategies to help you achieve more and succeed more? Our special guest Ryan Bennett delivers mindsets and tools you can use today to help you more consistently achieve your goals and reach your full potential.
Ryan Bennett is a high-performance coach, author and speaker who guides people to reach their full potential in their lives, businesses, and teams through his proven method of intentional growth. A former ESPN Academic All-American, Ryan decided to channel his competitiveness from baseball to business by founding a Silicon Valley startup. After a few years, Ryan had to shut down the company and it took a failed business to figure out the secret sauce. From this failure Ryan developed a formula for growth called the Intentional Growth Model™️, which became his first book, The Intentional Day.
Listen in as Ryan shares his ideas on goals, discipline, achievement and strategies for intentional growth.
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Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
The difference between learning from past failures and being distracted and held back by them
The role of emotional intelligence when it comes to learning from failures
Business lessons from baseball – the vital role of teamwork, navigating conflict, always have each other’s backs, competitiveness
The impact of a lack of safety on the team, their performance and their teamwork
The ways that individual performance is a way to protect yourself when employees don’t feel safe in the business
Overcoming failures and getting past the self-label of “failure”
The elements of the Intentional Growth Model™️ … Knowledge plus discipline = growth
The importance of shifting your perspective on what is failure and to stop seeing it as something painful versus something pleasurable (learning)
The vital role of discipline and habits in personal and professional growth
The neuroscience how and why of habit formation
Only 8% of people who set goals achieve them because they’re primarily outcome focused – if you set a goal and share it with someone success goes to 65% -- if you set the goal and have recurring conversations with a partner, success goes to 95%
Four Stages of Intentional Growth: 1. Dreaming; 2. Goal Setting; 3. Create Daily Disciplines Around Goals; 4. Growth Partner
The importance of savoring our successes (even small wins) and having people in your life where it’s safe to share your wins
The importance of achieving short term gratification from the discipline and habits on the journey to the long term goals
Resources:
Ryan Bennett LinkedIn
Ryan Bennett Instagram (Ryan.performancecoach)
The Intentional Day website
The Intentional Day book
Wooden on Leadership book by John Wooden
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Do you own a creative or content focused business? Are you looking for strategies to grow your business? Are you looking for ideas to help you build your leadership and your business? Our special guest Remy Blumenfeld delivers tools and perspectives to help any business owner grow their business.
Remy Blumenfeld is an international entrepreneur, one of the world’s leading business coaching and advisors, and a regular contributor to Forbes and other publications. He’s also been recognized as one of the 20 most influential LGBTQ people in the United Kingdom.
He started his first business in one of the most crime-ridden areas of London and eight years later sold the business for a high multiple to the world’s largest production company. Remy has learned what works (and what doesn’t work) and he now helps business owners avoid the mistakes that he’s learned from.
Remy now works with founders and owners of creative agencies and content focused businesses such as film, television, music, advertising, publishing and gaming, with a special focus on owners who want to grow their businesses for sale.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
The leader’s role is to coach their people
The importance of taking risks in business by being who you are (start with something you love) … Differentiate!
If you start with something you love, it may lead to recognition and success – if you start in pursuit of recognition and success, it will rarely bring you something you love and joy
The role of vulnerability in leadership … “In the end, leaders are first and foremost human”
Without vulnerability, you can’t inspire … people follow leaders who are human and relatable
Transformational leaders are relatable and people feel like they know them
One of the biggest jobs of leaders in growing organizations is to be themselves and grow the people around them
The importance of a holistic definition of success and defining success for yourself
The many ways that our beliefs about ourselves and success inform and impact our leadership and life (imagine yourself in the future and ask yourself for advice)
Beware the currency of and focus on “busy”
The role of quality relationships in leadership, business success and life success
Strategies for building, growing and nurturing relationships
Remy really hopes that you enjoyed what he shared in this episode! If you’re interested in learning more from him, you can register onto a FREE webinar with him here (or at remyblumenfeld.com).
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Resources:
Remy Blumenfeld Website
vitality.guru
Five Regrets of the Dying book by Bronnie Ware
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Are you struggling with leading your association through the COVID pandemic? Are you struggling with ways to navigate multi-culturalism, diversity and inclusion? Are you looking for ways to add value to your association members? Our special guest Tendai White delivers tools and perspectives to help you be more effective and impactful in your leadership and your association leadership.
Tendai White works with INPACT (an international association of accounting firms) and serves at the Executive Director of INPACT Asia Pacific, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Central and South America. INPACT exists to provide support and community to accounting firms across the world. Tendai’s father was a freedom fighter in Zimbabwe, her mother was a nurse and she brings a unique perspective on multi-cultural leadership and organizations. She’s also intentionally built a diverse team.
Listen in as Tendai shares her many ideas on leadership, association leadership and life, as well as leadership lessons from a freedom fighter.
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Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
Everyone has a voice – you must be intentional about understanding differences and ways to communicate with them
The importance of understanding the people you serve in order to deliver relevant resources
The vital role of being open and transparent with your association members
The importance of member outreach and communication especially during crises
Leaders must be willing to acknowledge uncertainty (embrace our own humanity)
Leadership requires that we model more humanity and vulnerability
It’s okay to struggle as a leader … it doesn’t stop you from being brilliant
Create a space for your members to be honest and vulnerable
Know your strengths and build a team with complementary strengths
Leadership lessons from a freedom fighting father – always have time for people, helping others, servant leadership, never giving up, different priorities, gratitude, etc.
Leadership starts with you – being open and brave enough to look at yourself and work on yourself
Invest in yourself in the midst of the storm, not when the seas are calm
Tomorrow is not promised – we only have today
Add value to your members’ clients and you add value to your members
Resources:
Tendai White (tendai@inpactint.com)
INPACT Global
THUD book by Terry Pratchett (leadership and cultural intelligence)
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Do you struggle with getting things done? Are you easily distracted from your tasks and projects? Would you like better strategies to help you be more effective and consistent in executing and achieving? Our special guest Julie Johnson answers all of these questions and more about keys for effectiveness and achievement.
Julie Johnson is an entrepreneur and the President of Heart and Solutions, a strength based counseling agency. She’s also the Founder of Stories from the Heart which publishes children’s books focused on mental health and therapeutics. Most important, Julie has developed great skills and approaches to help you be more productive and effective in getting the right and most important things done.
Listen in as Julie shares her many ideas on what it takes to consistently achieve your objectives.
Episode Highlights:
“The biggest trap in life is a good job”
Ways to empower your children in learning and entrepreneurship
Understanding the EMDR healing process – reprogramming your beliefs and stories to help you achieve your desired goals and life
Challenges of moving from doer / individual contributor to leader
Ways that leaders add different value to the business than an individual contributor
The impact of self-worth and value on transitioning from doer / contributor to leader
The importance of time blocking in getting things done and achieving short and long term goals
The role of setting self-boundaries to be effective
Time blocking strategies and rules
Understanding that any deviation from your time blocks must come from time for yourself or your family (what’s important to you)
The importance of scheduling time blocks for thinking
Getting clear on your priorities in advance in order to protect your time blocks
The strategy of getting bad ideas out in order to be more open-minded and creative
Strategies for prioritizing your ideas
Asking “in what ways” instead of “how” to open up your ideas, creativity and innovation
David Allen’s “natural planning model”
It’s critical to pay attention to your own self-integrity when it comes to getting your own priorities done … honoring and keeping your promises to yourself (to avoid losing trust in yourself, self-confidence and self-worth)
We need to have trust in ourselves before we can have the trust of others
We can’t hold others accountable if we don’t hold ourselves accountable
The importance for leaders to acknowledge their failures and share them
Resources:
Julie Johnson
Heart and Solutions Counseling Agency website
Twitter and Instagram – @iHeartSolutions
Heart and Solutions Counseling Agency Facebook
Stories From the Heart children’s books
Breathing Through the Year YouTube
Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity book by David Allen
Failing Forward: Turning Mistakes Into Stepping Stones for Success book by John Maxwell
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Are you confused about what it means to innovate? Are you curious about what it means to have a culture of innovation? Are you looking for ways to innovate in your business? Would you like to get past your innovation obstacles? Our special guest Michelle Royal answers these questions and more about innovation.
Michelle Royal is an innovation speaker, entrepreneur and consultant, and the Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Royal Innovation Design Group (RIDG). Michelle has a Masters in Business Innovation from the Deusto Business School in Bilbao, Spain and a Master of Arts from the University of Chicago, and she’s was the first innovation coach to the European Union.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
“Innovation is people making money by turning failure into ideas that work”
Innovation is a deep journey where you face how much you don’t know, acknowledge your personal limitations and together overcome obstacles and solve problems
Business innovation and leadership development must be integrated
One challenge to innovation is the internal culture of rejection (more than the failure rate) – leaders must be aware of the many ways they reject and stifle ideas and innovation
One entrepreneurial challenge is diving into ideas and a business without testing it – fall in love with your customers, not your ideas (products)
Big innovation often starts with small steps and failures
Embracing failure in the innovation journey
Change management maxim – people don’t want to be changed unless it’s them that want to be changed
Designing the employee experience is just as important (or even more important) than the customer experience
Innovation is about, by and for people
Beware the religiosity of the entrepreneur doer (innovation requires inspiring and engaging entire teams of people)
Innovation readiness for an organization, team or leader is vital to assess before you embark on an innovation journey
Every company is being disrupted by COVID
Innovation is a process more than an event
Innovation prioritization is an important factor in innovation readiness
Your innovation priorities are framed by your north star and mission / vision
Innovation is more about testing than picking winners including integration in the business and across the business
Don’t pay for ideas
Feedback doesn’t require testing with hundreds (test and asses with your ideal six)
Innovation won’t work without an environment of trust and respect
Innovation during COVID is essential including designing virtual experiences
The role of adaptation and evolution in innovation
“Innovation is not rocket science” – by understanding your unique value you already have all the ingredients for innovation (you just might need a different formula to be successful)
Innovation is an internal desire for people to be the best they can be
“Anyvation” – Innovation anywhere, anytime with anyone any day of the week
Resources:
Michelle Royal (michelle@ridg.com)
Royal Innovation Design Group
Business Innovation + Leadership Design (BILD)
Joi Ito TedTalk (Nowist)
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Are you looking to add revenue streams for your business? Would you like to know ways to monetize services that you’re already delivering to your customers? Have you struggled with designing and managing new offerings within your business? Curious about what it means to innovate and design regarding services? Our special guest Patrick McGowan answers all of these questions and more about the concept of innovation and design in the context of services.
Patrick McGowan is an entrepreneur and the Managing Principal and a Founder of Service Design Group, an organization that helps organizations and leaders innovate, design and manage service offerings. Patrick and Service Design Group are experts at creating revenue-generating service opportunities for business-to-business enterprises and creators of Service Path, the world's only business-to-business platform for Service Innovation and Portfolio Management.
Listen in as Patrick helps you better understand service innovation and design, including the ways it can differentiate your business and add value to your business.
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Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
What types of business and market issues call for service innovation and design
Services as a key market differentiator and revenue stream
Strategies for monetizing services that you’re already delivering
The roles of consistency and scaling when it comes to service design and innovation
Turning individual magic into a consistent and scalable service
Service offerings must guarantee an outcome (differentiate)
Different ways to “package” and sell services
Understanding the difference between delivering a service experience versus a monetized service offering
Understanding the difference between a service and a product
Services must continue to add value over time to your customers
Amazon as a prime example of service innovation and design
The risk factors with service design and delivery
Understanding the margins impact on the front end of service offerings (service innovation often has a longer tail on profitability and margins)
Ways that service innovation drives enterprise values
Building customer relationships and loyalty through service innovation and design
The importance of being consistent and systematic with service design and implementation
Start small with service design and implementation (test and learn) before you scale
Service innovation and design is often simpler and faster than product innovation and design
The importance of aligning customer incentives with service offerings
Channel dynamics are a reality with service innovation
Resources:
Patrick McGowan
Service Design Group
Service Path Program
Take Us Home: Leeds United Documentary
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Do you wonder what history has to teach us about leadership? Have you heard about the Gettysburg battle during the Civil War, but want to know more? Have you ever wondered about the role of leadership during the Civil War and Gettysburg? Do you want more tangible leadership tools for the 21st Century? Our special guest Jack Carroll will answer all of these questions and more, and he’s here to remind us that history is not only more than memorized dates and facts, but it’s a rich source of leadership lessons to lead with today.
Jack Carroll was a CEO for more than 25 years in the marketing and advertising field, specializing in brand development. Today, Jack is the Founder of Battle Ready Leadership and works with high-level executives, mid-level managers and corporate teams on leadership initiatives, strategic thinking and communications programs to help them position themselves for success. Battle Ready Leadership delivers on-site training and presentations combining proven business strategies with military tactics for a truly unique and memorable experience. They also deliver training and team building Leadership Summits in Gettysburg where attendees have an opportunity to walk in the footsteps of some of the nation’s legendary leaders.
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Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
The historical story, context and significance of Gettysburg
The importance of adaptive leadership, including recognizing and adjusting for your different leaders and team members
Understanding when your leadership and communication can be discretionary and when they need to be more directive
The dichotomy of leadership successes and failures at Gettysburg
The many Gettysburg leadership lessons that are still relevant today
Understanding the difference between discretionary directives and non-discretionary directives (and why the difference matters)
The role of trust in determining the ways you lead (and communicate with) different team members
Ways that leaders build followership Lead from the front Willingness to do what you’re asking others to do
The endearing leadership lessons from Gettysburg
Why Robert E. Lee was beloved as a leader – honesty and empathy Lee had unwavering confidence in his troops Lee proactively staying connected to his troops (spent time around and with them … he was not separated from them) People want to be inspired and Lee inspired his troops through his actions and presence
The leadership of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (“Soul of the Lion, Heart of the Woman”) Great communicator Built great trust despite critical situations Calm during crisis Mindset of getting things done and overcoming obstacles (“do it”) Chamberlain’s humility and empathy at the surrender of Lee’s Confederate Army
Leadership is about empathy, vulnerability, honesty and trust even during the Civil War
Leadership lessons from the movie Patton (loving and believing in your team and the team believing in their leader)
Resources:
Jack Carroll
Battle Ready Leadership
Battle Ready Leadership Handbook: Leadership Lessons From Gettysburg For Your Business book by Jack Carroll
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Do you want to be more effective as a leader? Do you want to build a strong foundation of trust with your team? Do you want the secret sauce for leadership influence and impact? Our special guest Dr. Kevin Basik is here to give you tools for all of these and to help you accelerate your leadership and impact.
Kevin is the President of Basik Insight, a company dedicated to energizing, enlightening and equipping organizations to lead with character. He’s also an internationally-recognized speaker, a published scholar, an award-winning instructor, a recognized developmental expert, and most importantly – a proven leader. He’s spent over 23 years studying and applying values-based leadership development.
A graduate of the United States Air Force Academy, Kevin earned his Master’s in Industrial and Organizational Psychology from Virginia Tech, and his PhD in Organizational Behavior from Florida State University’s College of Business, studying the concept of “behavioral integrity” as a driver of trust, accountability and performance. He’s also a 23-year officer veteran of the US Air Force, retiring as a Lt. Colonel and serving as one of the top advisors to Pentagon senior leaders on issues of Professionalism and values-based leadership.
Show Notes Episode highlights…
What does it mean to be a values-based leader
The importance of getting clear on your leader identity and values
Even in the military, character and heart are core leadership elements
Vulnerability is not a sign of weakness, but a source of trust building and power
Trust evolves and someone has to go first in vulnerability (this is the leadership opportunity)
The importance of being clear on your values and paying attention when you drift away
Behavioral integrity – when your actions align with who you say you are (and you do what you say you’re going to do)
People look up to their leaders focused on character, but leaders often look to their team focused on technical skills and performance – this often leads to high performers (technically) erroneously being promoted into leadership
Toxic leaders kiss up to people above them and kick down on the people below them
Team members look to their leaders and ask two questions: Am I safe and are we safe? Unsafe team members hoard ideas, collaboration, support, engagement, communications, resources, etc.
There’s no perfect integrity … what matters is that you care when you’re out of integrity and take action to correct it (your integrity recovery moment usually makes your relationships and organization better)
Declare your identity and share it with others (so they can help you live it)
Identify your key stakeholders in your life for the next few years and declare your identity to them
Regularly evaluate your integrity and make necessary adjustments for greater alignment of words / values and actions
Ask your people what they want from you in order to follow you (No. 1 lever for influencing people is to lead by example)
People always listen more to your video (actions) than to your audio (words)
Your example is a powerful tool to move forward your relationships, teams and organizations
Regularly write a letter to your key life and business stakeholders to clearly communicate who you intend to be with them
Life and leadership is all about relationships
Resources:
Kevin Basik
Basik Insight
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Are you wondering if you’re worthy of having dreams? Have you experienced setbacks and wonder if you can still achieve success? Are you ready to find your passion and purpose? Our special guest Dr. Kevin Snyder will answer these and many other questions as we explore the path to leading and living with more passion and purpose.
Dr. Kevin Snyder is an inspirational keynote speaker, the author of multiple books and has spoken around the world on topics like culture, team empowerment, inspiration and workforce generations. He also started a business helping speakers build their speaking businesses. Kevin started his career in higher education after struggling on his education journey, but later chose to follow his calling as a professional speaker.
Kevin is with us today to share his ideas and wisdom on leadership, inspiration, overcoming obstacles and living a more empowered and fulfilled life. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes Episode highlights …
The importance of understanding who you really are
The ways that our passions can be cyclical
The many things you can learn when you give up something that you love
Having your own business is the hardest work there is, but it’s not work if you love what you do and it’s your purpose
What it means to have and pursue a dream
The importance of burning the boat when you pursue your dreams – being all in
You can achieve your dreams despite financial setbacks and challenges
Understanding what gets in the way of you pursuing your dreams
Overcoming the doubts of worthiness and pursuing your calling
The importance of scheduling joy every day
Being happy is not being an absence of adversity but choosing happiness in the midst of adversity
Ways to turn drama in the purpose
How can use your challenges, adversity and story to help others
Leadership is about connection and connection is about vulnerability
Leadership is not about always having it together – leader ship is about being willing to share openly and authentically in order to build connection and trust
“People doubt their believes and believe their doubts“
Even if the story is true it doesn’t always mean that it’s the truth
Humanize your business and your team by sharing your story and being vulnerable
The role of your self-beliefs in achieving your objectives
Greatness begins by believing that you deserve it
Just say yes – when you say no you’re often saying no to new opportunity
Resources:
Kevin Snyder
Kevin Snyder Website (free copy of his book and newsletter)
Think Differently to Achieve Amazing Success! book by Dr. Kevin Snyder
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Have you ever wondered if your business can shift from services to products? Are you looking for ways to innovate your business to better address market shifts? Would like to learn ways to enhance your revenues with less effort? Our special guest Claire Whittaker (London UK) will be answering these and many other questions as we explore artificial intelligence and ways to productize services.
Claire is a coach, consultant and the Founder of Artificially Intelligent Consulting. Claire will be sharing her unique insights, perspectives and ideas on ways to grow your business with products and systems. After working in AI at Amazon UK, Claire now works with businesses to help them productize their business to double revenue while working less. Claire is an expert on using processes and systems to enhance your effectiveness, efficiency and profits. Claire will be sharing the keys to effectively productizing your services into online products and programs.
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Show Notes Episode highlights …
Artificial intelligence is here and its value applies to many businesses
Productizing services is much more than putting your services online
It’s essential that you deeply understand what you deliver and what your clients get from your services before you shift them into products
Essentials for creating online courses
You don’t have to lose the magic of your services when you take them on online
Online courses often enhance your clients’ learning experience and understanding
Productization requires careful consideration and understanding of all the steps that go into what you now deliver as a service
Many online programs have to be cut into smaller slices of time and learning (you can’t deliver a live program into an online program with the same time slots)
The importance of considering and designing the client journey and experience when it comes to productized services and programs
The value of being intentional in designing your courses and programs (and often engaging a design expert)
Services that require a high level of technical knowledge will be more difficult to productize
Effective productization requires that you continue to reassess your process, “product” and client experience … and then continuously improve your online product
The reality that productization takes a great deal of time and work
You also must address the question of how people will find your online product / course
It’s important to take a 360 degree look at your entire design, offering, product, process, launch, etc. in order to get it right
The productization golden nugget – it’s ALL about the customer journey!
Leadership wisdom … less is more
Resources:
Claire Whittaker
Artificially Intelligent Consulting
Facebook Group
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Do you want more joy in your life and leadership? Are you spending your days just focused on getting things done? Are you having fun along the way of your journey? Do you regularly celebrate (really celebrate) for yourself and others? Our special guest Sebastien Roger de Nunez (Lisbon, Portugal) will be offering you ideas, perspective shifts and tools to accelerate your life, leadership and joy.
Sebastien is a transformational speaker, coach and trainer, and the Founder of The Thought Leader Academy, which focuses on helping leaders scale income, impact and fun. Notably, he speaks 12 languages. He’s also given several TEDX talks and coaches people on securing and giving TEDX talks. Sebastien will be sharing many tangible ways to enhance your leadership and achieve what you desire from life.
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Show Notes Episode highlights:
The vital role of motivation in achieving your goals and desired outcomes
The Anglo-Saxon influence (U.S., UK, Australia, etc.) on leadership around the world which is highly individualistic (i.e. “you can do it” or “I can do it”)
The ways that money is often seen as “bad” if you have too much
Money is not the destination – it’s the fuel for the journey
Beware of the trap of “once I get there” I’ll have the money, the impact, the fun, etc.
The empowerment that comes from shifting from “I have to” to “I want to” – take the “I have to” items off your list
The ways that “I have to” actually lessen the chance that you’ll actually do it
The important role that perspectives play in your leadership and life experience
Stop talking about how much you want to do something and do it … and stop suffering if you think or talk about it
The powerless that comes when you talk about what you want to do without taking action towards it
The culturization of negative motivation – if I feel bad enough about something I’ll be motivated to take action to make myself feel better (which is more suffering than fun)
The importance of embracing celebration in our lives – not just results but who you are
The importance of regularly looking back to see and celebrate what you’ve already achieved
Finding more joy while on the journey (not just at the destination) – joy is a practice and a choice (not a result)
Joy is an emotional volcano and it’s contagious
It’s important to slow down enough to take the time to really celebrate
The importance of integrating and balancing the old sage, the adult and the child – Wisdom of the old sage – Adult makes sure things get done – Child lives fully, celebrates and lives in joy and fun
The ways that our desire for control limits celebration, joy and fun (and kill the child in us)
Resources:
Sebastien Roger de Nunez
Thought Leadership Academy Facebook Group
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Do you struggle with communication? Is conflict communication one of your leadership and life challenges? Are you committed to enhancing your leadership through communication? Our special guest Jonathan Miller will be offering you ideas, perspective shifts and tools to achieve all of your communication enhancement goals.
Jonathan is the Founder of Mindful Communication, and he’s a conflict transformation coach and expert. A former trainer with Landmark and certified professional coach, Jonathan is an expert on communication, conflict and non-violent communication. Jonathan will be sharing many tangible ways to enhance your communication, leadership and impact.
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Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
Shifting from avoiding conflict as a goal to embracing conflict as a learning experience and a path to enhanced relationships and better outcomes
The ways that avoiding conflict damage relationships, break trust and limit the solutions and innovation
Understanding the silence or violence approach to conflict
The impact of shifting your default conflict to collaboration over avoidance
Conflict is often a precursor to positive change in our lives
Conflict is a normal and natural occurrence
Conflict cannot be avoided (only pushed off into the future) – the impact of conflict ultimately surfaces
The ways that avoiding or ignoring conflict and emotions is unhealthy
Embracing the “partnership mindset” when it comes to communication and conflicts
Knowing when it’s best to not have the conflict conversation in the heat and emotions of the conflict.
Feelings and emotions are not the issue with conflict – the issue is addressing the conflict when you’re still deeply feeling the emotions
Communication is more a way of being than a way of communicating
Assume that everyone on earth is rational and seek to understand the rationale behind their behavior and communication
Being aware that most conflict is based upon a collision of each person’s truth in that moment … the questions is not if they’re right or wrong, but the ways their truth collides with your truth (perceptions)
Many conflicts are based upon unconscious behaviors and beliefs
The importance of forgiveness in resolving interpersonal conflicts
Effective conflict communication is directly connected to the growth mindset (everything is an opportunity to grow)
Seeing people in our lives and even conflicts as a gift in our lives and leadership
Non-violent communication is really about more compassion and vulnerable communication
Resources:
Jonathan Miller LinkedIN
Mindful Communication (Promo Code Impact50 for tool)
Mindful Communication Podcast
Non-Violent Communication: A Language of Life Book by Marshall Rosenberg
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Do you have a passion for the environment? Do you have some mission that you want to pursue but it feels overwhelming to achieve yourself? Do you want to empower your impact by building great teams? Our special guest Joan Gregerson has been an eco-activist for her entire career, a community organizer and a leader in the environmental transformation movement. Joan is the author of the recently published book Climate Action Challenge and the Founder of the Green Team Academy, which has a mission to partner with 1,000 eco-initiatives over 90 days. Most important, Joan is a proven expert in building partnerships and teams after learning for herself that doing it herself didn’t serve her or her mission. Today, Joan helps people who want to get together, make a difference and feel better.
Joan is a self-proclaimed Eco-Nut with a heart for the environment and a calling to make a difference. Joan will be sharing practical ideas on the importance of building your team, as well as her eco-wisdom on the importance of taking action now to preserve our environment. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
The urgency to take collaborative action to address the environmental issues in the world
The importance of making it clear what you want (and asking for what you want) when you’re pursuing a mission
The power of leading where you are no matter what your age
The “sweet spot” for being effective for the planet
Beware of limiting your activism to “clicktivism” (i.e. click here to support a cause)
The key to change is to form a team
The high impact strategy of assembling your list of 100 “partners”
Working on a project with a team provides critical support through the challenges
That small action alone is not always the best approach to change
The connection between addictive behaviors and personal / business habits that are harming the environment (and the similar challenges when you seek to change those habits and behaviors)
The ways that a negative message often promotes inaction – if you want people to act, you have to make it a positive message (“You can’t scare people into taking care of the planet”)
The impact concept of “2% for life” (3 hours a week) … give 3 hours a week to environmental initiatives
“There’s no waste … only a lack of creativity”
All the benefits of forming and working as a team, including emotional support, which helps create sustainable change
Leadership and growth lessons from nature (nature’s return on investment is much greater than are typical sought after business returns)
Teams create ripples of impact
The important role of enlisting mentors and other support for your initiatives
The critical role of community organizing to effect change (not projects)
Resources:
Joan Gregerson
Green Team Academy
Participate in the Climate Action Channel
Work of Dolores Huerta
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Do you struggle with maintaining your own mental health and overall health at work and in life? Are you confused about what it means to increase your team’s wellbeing and the ways to do it? Are you ready to commit with action to improving your wellbeing and the wellbeing of your team? Our special guest Lee Chambers (UK) answers these questions and many others as we explore all things workplace wellbeing. Lee is an environmental psychologist, a wellbeing consultant and coach, a speaker, and the Founder of Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing. Most important, Lee is a self-proclaimed renegade and he’ll be sharing tangible ways to enhance your organizational and personal wellbeing by integrating work, life and leadership.
The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
That we grow through most through challenges
It’s vital to lead yourself first including your own wellbeing
The impact and path to authentic leadership as a vital wellbeing tool
That people follow the message, not the messenger
Why leader vulnerability is essential to improve your culture and environment
The importance of leaders creating a clear vision and enrolling the team members in that vision
That wellbeing relates to environment, physical health (including sleep, nutrition, exercise, etc.) and leadership dynamics such as trust, communication and engagement
The future of work and life will heavily depend on the wellbeing of people and teams
That leadership today and in the future demands a more human approach
The truth that everybody is a leader … “To lead is to be human”
That wellbeing in the workplaces creates wellbeing in the world
The importance of creating a culture where everyone feels empowered to lead
A lack of humanity from leaders creates a lack of trust and safety
When it comes to positional leaders, people buy you (or don’t)
That people want a leader that’s present (not one with charisma)
That people want leaders who are willing to vulnerably and genuinely listen (so they feel heard) which is the foundation of wellbeing in an organization
The ways that humanity skills will always beat leadership skills
That leaders are a conduit for others to evolve
That if you empower your people to create and innovate, they’ll amaze you
That if you’re the leader driving the organization bus, they want to make sure that you’re taking care of your wellbeing
A vital leadership way of being is self-awareness and the willingness to ask and answer the hard self-focused questions
That position and title don’t make you a leader (leadership is the ways you show up in position and title)
It’s critical to explore and solve your leadership gaps and blind spots
Resources:
Lee Chambers
Essentialise Workplace Wellbeing
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Do you want to grow your people but you struggle with some of the hows? Are you uncertain about what it takes to lead with a people first mindset? Are you ready to amp up your people impact and leadership? Our special guest Liza Marie Garcia covers these questions and many others as we explore all things about people first leadership. Liza is the COO of Now Publishing, a unique book publishing and marketing business that helps authors write their books and, most important, market and sell their books.
A former tech CEO, Liza founded one of the first telecommunications professional services firms in the United States when she was twenty-seven years old. She sold this business and then moved into publishing in 2014. Liza’s also an author of several books, a devoted Mom to two teenage daughters and a follower of Jesus. Listen in as we share ideas on growing, inspiring and empowering your team members. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn …
The importance of hiring great people who know more than you
What it means to put people first in your business
The critical role of really listening to your people
The value of thoughtfulness and pausing when making key decisions
The CEO’s role must include developing your people and setting the vision for the organization
That sometimes the best answer is to do nothing
The important leadership skill of allowing the silence to linger to allow people to learn, grow and reveal themselves
That one size does not fit all when it comes to your people
That growing your people requires time and energy (it just does)
That you empower your people when you set an expectation of new ideas
That risk is a leadership reality, including the risk of staying the same
The reality that change can be uncomfortable and leadership is about supporting your people through the discomfort
To respect and rely upon the experience / knowledge of our team
The importance of asking your people what they want for their career
The reality that your people will rarely see things the way you (the owner / CEO) does … recognize that everyone is different
Resources:
Liza Marie Garcia
Now Publishing
Never Drink Coffee During a Business Meeting: Insider Advice from a Top Female CEO book by Liza Marie Garcia
The Purpose Driven Life: What On Earth Am I Here For? book by Rick Warren
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Do you feel like your career and career path is stuck in neutral? Are you uncertain about what’s next for you and the best strategies to find the answers? Are you willing to ask yourself the challenging questions and ask for what you want? Our special guest Travis Wright covers these questions and many others as we explore all things career growth and transition. Travis’s journey began in aviation as a helicopter pilot in the U.S. Army, later as an airline pilot before becoming a military staff officer and eventually a management consultant. This included a role as a liaison to the White House from the Drug Policy office. Travis is currently the Director of Growth at 3GIMBALS, a services firm supporting the intelligence community. He also spends his time writing, speaking and consulting to help people with their career progression and transition. Listen in as we share ideas on growing yourself and your career. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
What flying a helicopter can teach you about the importance of always moving forward
The importance of periodically assessing your growth and career
The things that often get in the way of thriving in your career
That delegation doesn’t require that the other person do things as well as you first (only 80% as well)
The importance of focusing on your strengths and surrounding yourself with people to support your weaknesses
The discernments leaders need to make and what type of leadership to use in different situations
The difference between career progression and career transition
The importance of regularly asking yourself what you’re learning, what you need to learn and the ways you need to grow
The vital need to regularly ask yourself the question, “What’s next?”
Leadership and growth require ongoing learning and curiosity
The important role that leaders play by encouraging their team members to grow, stretch and seek out growth opportunities
That growing your career requires that you personally own that progression
To get clear on what you need to learn and grow into on your growth and career paths
The generational differences on career growth and advancement and the differing hungers for each (requiring different leadership approaches)
The importance of knowing yourself on your career progression journey, including having a group of personal / career advisors
A simple approach to getting important feedback from others
It comes down to know yourself in order to grow yourself
Resources:
Travis Wright
Making New Mistakes: Leading Through Disruption With a Minimum of Chaos book by Travis Wright
Super Thinking: The Big Book of Mental Models book by Gabrielle Weinberg and Lauren McCann
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Do you wonder what it takes to build greater followership as a leader? Do you struggle with the people connection of leadership especially with all the demands to get things done? Are you committed to being a leader that people want to follow? Our special guest Alan Samuel Cohen covers these questions and many others as we explore the keys to leading and connecting with others in order to achieve your objectives. Alan started his career in marketing and public relations, including an amazing experience with Scholastic Publishing and lead the launch of the Harry Potter series. He then pivoted to human resources and is now a coach, speaker and trainer in the areas of leadership and emotional intelligence. Alan helps leaders identify and most past their blind spots, especially male leaders in the areas of emotional intelligence and human connection. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
The ways that lower emotional intelligence is often a leader’s most critical blind spot
The vital role that emotional intelligence and people / soft skills play in leadership effectiveness
The importance of listening as a leader
That research proves that soft skills are the most important leadership skill (80-85% of leadership success comes from interpersonal and people skills
The many ways that people skills overwhelm business acumen when it comes to leadership success
The critical role of outsider feedback to help leaders understand their blind spots and the impacts of those blind spots
Practical tools for enhancing the feedback you receive as a leader
The importance of trust and vulnerability for leaders, teams and organizations
The role that empathy plays in receiving feedback and assuring that the people providing feedback feel heard
That trust is at the heart of all the issues in your business and the importance that leaders are intentional to work on trust building in their teams and organizations
The ways that are eye’s go where we’re looking … in other words, you see what you’re looking for as a leader
The leadership imperative of overcoming the crisis (lack of) empathy in our culture
Paying attention to the energy from which you lead, especially in the small moments
That leaders make a position to get feedback from and listen to the people that are closest to the issues, problems and opportunities
The power of a shared purpose within a team and organization
That everything in leadership is about connection and relationships
Resources:
Alan Samuel Cohen
Get Alan’s tool for leading during times of uncertainty
Work of Daniel Goleman
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Do you feel out of alignment or like you’re not living up to your highest potential? Do you struggle with understanding the role of emotional intelligence in your leadership? Are you hungry to live and lead as your best self? Our special guest Kerrian Fournier cover these questions and many others as we explore the path to achieving your great potential. Kerrian is the Founder and CEO of Vybrante Ventures, a coaching and consulting business that works with leaders and organizations in the areas of human capital, the future of work and leading innovation. Starting her life as an classical actress and violinist, Kerrian now helps people and organizations unlock their highest level of performance. Kerrian will be sharing her secret sauce for helping people to achieve their most impactful self. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
The importance of stripping yourself down before building yourself up
Ways to utilize assessment tools to achieve your highest level of performance
What it means to engage in quantum living or being by integrating all of yourself in your leadership (head, heart and gut)
The role of your natural brain functions in growing yourself as a leader and performer
The importance of first knowing yourself as a leader
The value of the Energy Leadership Index in growing yourself and your leadership
The vital role of energy in your leadership and performance
That personal transformation can happen through small shifts
Ways to navigate difficult situations without becoming a victim by owning your emotions
They key roles of the two most natural energetic states – victim or aggressor
The benefits of doing a judgment journal (and studying the patterns) to enhance your self-awareness and shift your judgmental mind (replacing judgment with curiosity)
The importance of embracing a mindset of curiosity and wonder, especially when it comes to people
The ways that listening and holding space for others builds relationships and trust
What you can learn by paying attention to your feelings, behaviors and triggers and understanding the ways that they’re situational
The truth that feelings and intuition are a vital part of your leadership and decision making
The key to unlocking your highest potential is becoming self-aware, know yourself and shift your way to your greatest potential and impact
Resources:
Kerrian Fournier Email
Kerrian Fournier LinkedIn
Vybrante Ventures
Laser Coaching Sessions with Kerrian Fournier
Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Leadbook by Brene Brown
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Are you stuck in your old story? Do you doubt whether your story matters? Do you struggle asking for help and you’re always trying to do everything yourself? Are you tired of doing it yourself and ready to achieve your desired goals? Our special guest Maxwell Ivey answers these questions and many others as we explore ways to move past your old stories and stop pursuing your objectives alone. Max last his sign at age 12, grew up in a family of carnival owners, lost over 250 pounds and is now a prolific blogger (The Blind Blogger), speaker and author that helps people move past their old stories and share their new stories. Max is also an expert on helping people expand their reach through podcasts and other media. Max will be sharing some of his insights and experiences of overcoming much with the help of many. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
The importance of asking for help and receiving help to achieve your objectives and change your life
The importance and power of sharing your authentic story
That asking for help is difficult but accepting help (before you ask) is often even more difficult … and why
That asking for help is not a sign of weakness or failure
The culture in the United States is often focused on how you “appear” online versus what’s really happening
That achieving your objectives and doing so more quickly requires that you invite others along
The ways your ego will keep you from asking for or accepting help
The reasons we struggle asking for and receiving help
There are many ways we ask for help
Strategies to get past your obstacles in order to achieve your goals
The importance of starting small when it comes to asking for help
The impact of creating your own personal or professional communities / tribes to support each other in pursuing their goals
The role of vulnerability in asking for and accepting help
The importance of being present (and not time traveling) to achieve your goals
Resources:
Maxwell Ivey
Blind Blogger
Blind Blogger book by Maxell Ivey
The Adversity Advantage: Turning Everyday Struggles Into Everyday Greatness book by Erik Weihenmayer and Paul Stoltz
The Hobbit book by J.R.R. Tolkien
Leading Out of the Darkness and Into the Light book by Maxwell Ivey
Seeing Lessons: 14 Life Secrets I've Learned Along the Waybook by Tom Sullivan
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Are you naïve enough to believe that others think and communicate the same way you do? Are you struggling to understand and navigate communication gaps with your team? Do you want some practical tools to help you lead better, grow revenue and build better team relationships? Our special guest Carol Linden answers these questions and many others as we explore what Carol calls teaching adults to play well together. Carol is a trainer, coach, speaker and Founder of Effective With People, which helps leaders, managers and team members understand personality differences and enhance their communications, build trust and improve every-day effectiveness. Carol will be sharing some of her unique insights, perspectives and tools for understanding differences in order to transform your team and your business. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
The ways that valuing differences will create and enhance success
That when leaders, managers and team members understand personality differences, their communications are more effective and result in fewer misunderstandings
Three tenants of emotional intelligence
The four basic Interaction StylesTM
That understanding different communication and interaction styles builds trust and every-day effectiveness throughout an organization
Ways to avoid misunderstandings that hurt the bottom line
Strategies for navigating different communication and interaction styles
The importance of self-awareness and impact awareness in leadership and management
Every day examples of ways that interaction style differences impact your team and organization effectiveness and relationships
90% of leadership failures are based upon emotional intelligence
Resources:
Carol Linden LinkedIn
Carol Linden carol@effectivewithpeople.com
Carol Linden Twitter: @CarolALinden
Effective With People
The Stress Effect: Why Smart Leaders Make Dumb Decisions--And What to Do About It book by Dr. Henry Thompson
Seven Habits of Highly Effective People: Powerful Lessons in Personal Change book by Stephen Covey
The Job Seekers Guide for Extroverts and Introverts book by Carol Linden
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Are you paying attention to your impact? Are you intentional about your impact? Do you take ownership of and responsibility for your impacts, intended and unintended? What’s your level of impact awareness? Listen in as Craig Mathews and Jeff Nischwitz explore these and other questions as they dig into impact and impact awareness. Craig and Jeff will be sharing with some of their unique insights and perspectives on the vital role that impact awareness and ownership play in leadership, teams and organizations. Most important, Craig and Jeff will give you insights and strategies to help you embrace the power of impact awareness in leadership, trust, culture and team engagement. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
We judge ourselves by our intention, but others judge us by our impacts
That good intentions are not an excuse for your impacts
The importance of being more intentional about your impact and taking full ownership of and responsibility for your unintended impact
The ways that we make excuses when it comes to our impacts, especially unintended impacts
Strategies for understanding and addressing our unintended impacts
The role of leader vulnerability in navigating unintended impacts
The importance of building a culture where impact is part of your everyday communication and feedback
Tools to open the door to impact conversations across your organization and at all levels
To enhance your impact awareness by identifying your blind spots
That the cost of your unintended impacts is a loss of trust
Leaders don’t apologize … they change
Ways to take responsibility for your impact and communication
Leadership seek to maximize their intended impact and minimize their unintended impact
Leaders take OWNERSHIP of Impact
The four powerful impact questions as tools for impact awareness, feedback, coaching and mentoring What was the intended impact? What was the intended message? What may be the unintended impact? What may be the unintended message?
Specific examples of and ways to differently navigate unintended impacts
The high ROI on enhanced impact awareness and ownership
Resources:
The Impact Leadership Podcast, Episode 14 … The Accountability Blind Spot: Moving From Holding Others Accountable to Empowering Others Into Self-Accountability
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Are your team members growing in their leadership? Do you an intentional leadership development path for your future leaders? Are you clear on the core competencies your team members need in order to lead? Our special guest Beth Armknecht Miller answers these questions and many others as we explore the path to building a leadership development pipeline in your organization. Beth is a Leadership Development Advisor and Executive Coach (and former long-time Vistage Chair) that helps leaders and organizations grow their talent and outcomes. Beth will be sharing with some of her unique insights and perspectives on being intentional in building leadership development pipelines for your team members. Most important, Beth will give you insights and strategies to help you grow your leaders and your business. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
The difference between high performers and high potentials when it comes to leadership
The what and how of building a leadership pipeline in your organization
Key traits of high potential leaders
The vital role of emotional intelligence with leaders and leadership
The importance of having regular career conversations with everyone on your team to enhanced productivity, engagement and culture
The critical difference between a business plan and a leadership succession plan
The high demand for career and leadership growth plans for millennials
The benefits of having a personal growth plan for every team members
The role of introversion versus extroversion in leadership
Differences between emotional intelligence and emotional awareness
That listening is one of the most underrated leadership skills
The reality that some average performers have high potential as leaders
The responsibility of leaders is to grow future leaders
The importance of creating a profile of ideal leaders for your organization
Three core leadership competencies for building your leadership development pipeline – values competencies, leadership competencies and skills competencies
The importance of incorporating your core competencies and expectations into your hiring process
The impact on your team of using your gut in your hiring process (without a systematic and logical approach)
Resources:
Beth Armknecht Miller
Executive Velocity
Business DNA Assessment
Are You Talent Obsessed? Unlocking the Secrets to a Work-Place Team of Raving High-Performers book by Beth Armknecht Miller
Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life book by Nir Eyal
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Do you want to have a diverse and inclusive team and culture? Have you struggled with creating a diverse culture despite your best intentions? Are you looking for ways to achieve your diversity and inclusion objectives? Our special guest Justin Jones-Fosu answers this question and many others as we explore the path to building diverse and inclusive teams, cultures and lives. Justin is an amazing speaker, author, serial entrepreneur, social entrepreneur and inspirer of people and organizations. Make sure to listen to Justin’s closing analogy about the different roles you can play on the moving walkway of life and leadership. Justin will be sharing with some unique insights and perspectives on difference and achieving diversity in our organizations and lives. Most important, Justin will give you insights and strategies to help you move past the obstacles to diversity and inclusion. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
How important it is to assess the diversity (or lack thereof) in your personal life
About Justin’s six month challenge to explore a perspective that’s different than your own
The importance of intention and approach when exploring conversations around diversity and difference
To approach conversations around diversity and difference with vulnerability and humility
The importance of taking an inventory: Where are you / we now Where you want to be What are the barriers to getting there How can those barriers be removed
To ask questions of those who are underrepresented and just listen
To focus on a just a few areas for improvement (i.e. don’t try to address too many things at once)
The role that relationship plays in approach the issues of diversity and inclusion
That sustainable change often requires external pressure
The important role that peer-to-peer input and feedback in driving change especially around diversity and inclusion
To avoid rushing to action without enough listening and understanding
The importance of listening first and then taking purposeful action for change (not just reactionary statements)
That one of the biggest obstacles to change is failing to listen and therefore failing to understand the experience of others
The metaphor of left-handedness when applied to other people of difference
What it means to be an ally by understanding the different experiences of others
The one thing leaders need to know in order to be a part of the change when it comes to racism (the moving walkway analogy) What it means to be a conscious racist on the moving walkway What it means to be conscious non-racist on the moving walkway What it means to be an unconscious non-racist on the moving walking What it means to be an anti-racist on the moving walkway
Resources:
Justin Jones-Fosu, 704.750.5574, justin@workmeaningful.com
Work. Meaningful.
CEO Action for Diversity and Inclusion (CEO Action)
Your Why Matters Now: How Some Achieve More and Others Don’t book by Justin Jones-Fosu
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Have you ever felt overwhelmed by stress and self-doubt? Have you felt like you were the only one? Are you looking for new strategies to help you reduce stress and differently manage your anxiety? Our special guest Dr. Amelia Case answers this question and many others as we explore the reality of high functioning people dealing anxiety. Amelia is a chiropractor, coach, integrative health expert and health futurist. Amelia will be sharing with us her method for working with trauma and anxiety. Most important, Amelia will give you insights and strategies to help you better understand your anxiety and the sources of that anxiety in order to reduce it. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn …
Strategies for dealing with anxiety (especially for people living with high functioning anxiety)
Amelia’s method for treating trauma and other causes of anxiety
The seven beasts in our brain that feed our anxiety and uncertainty
To better understand your triggers in order to find different solutions
What it means to “sooth the beasts” in your brain in order to reduce stress and anxiety
Ways to understand the triggers for your pain and anxiety
The difference between a trigger and a threat and the impact of this difference on your reactions
Tools for better understanding your triggers, reaction and solutions
Resources:
Dr. Amelia Case (www.donewithanxiety.com)
Anxious Using the Brain to Understand and Treat Fear and Anxiety book by Joseph LeDoux
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Have you wanted to have more meaning in your work? Have you wanted a team of people who worked meaningful every day? Our special guest Justin Jones-Fosu answers this question and many others as we explore what it means to bring meaning to your work. Justin is an amazing speaker, author, serial entrepreneur, social entrepreneur and inspirer of people and organizations. Justin will be sharing with us the secret to finding meaning in your work for more joy and satisfaction at work. Most important, Justin will give you insights and strategies to help you transform your team’s work experience for more meaning and engagement. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn …
Ways to shift from searching for meaningful work to bringing meaning into your work
That meaning at work is an internal job (not an external search)
You only control yourself which empowers you to create meaning in your work
To find your own rhythm of meaning in your work (creating your own drum beat)
That creating meaning at work is not limited to certain jobs, levels or income
That helping your team members connect their work with more meaning building engagement and loyalty
That hiring for character, passion and a growth mindset helps build high performing and highly engaged teams
The four types of people when it comes to finding and living (or not living) their why
Leadership includes helping your people find and connect with their why (personally and professionally)
The importance of building a memory making culture for your team and your customers
There is no work life balance – the goal is to create a work life blend
Three tangible ways to bring more meaning to your work: Perspective Rhythm – Shift the ways you see your work and what you do Task Rhythm – Add more meaningful tasks or take away less meaningful tasks (which requires leadership support) Relationship Rhythm – Choosing which relationships to deeply invest in (and which ones not to)
The importance of embracing and living extravagant appreciation of others
Resources:
Justin Jones-Fosu 704.750.5574 justin@workmeaningful.com
Work. Meaningful.
Your Why Matters Now: How Some Achieve More and Others Don’t book by Justin Jones-Fosu
Man’s Search for Meaning book by Viktor Frankl
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Are you waiting for someone else to lead? Do you wish you were in a position of leadership so you could change things? Wrong questions! Listen in as Craig Mathews and Jeff Nischwitz talk about the reality that leadership is a choice and you (all of you) can lead wherever you are (whether or not you have a leadership position). Craig and Jeff will share an empowering and challenging message about the leadership choices you can make every day. Get ready to take an honest look at your leadership choices and to answer the question, What are you modeling as a leader? The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode…
The many ways that leadership is a choice
Realities of risks in leadership including the risks of choosing not to lead
What it means to create followers by being a person worthy of being followed
Ways that you disempower your leadership by waiting for others to lead
Leadership is an act of vulnerability … stepping out and being seen, judged and making mistakes
Leadership comes with a target but you choose whether the target goes on your back (inauthentic leadership) or on your chest (vulnerable leadership)
What are the real (not perceived) risks of choosing to lead
Embracing the leadership moments and opportunities
Leadership is a 24/7 mindset and awareness (not a 24/7 job)
Leadership often involves speaking up
Stop waiting for positional leaders to lead – choose to lead
Ways to empower your entire team to lead
Leadership is not about permission – it’s a choice
Empowering your life and leadership – you always have a choice
Are you foxhole worthy as a leader and who do you want in your leadership foxhole?
Beware of the trap of blaming others for failing to lead / change things
What do you want for your children as leaders?
Ways to lead without a position including modeling and mentoring (What are you modeling as a leader?)
The importance of leading by listening
Resources:
Mankind Project International
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Have you ever wondered what to do about your weaknesses and the things that make you weird? Our special guest Dave Rendall answers this question with a simple invitation – embrace your weird and actually exaggerate it. Dave is an amazing speaker, author of four books, former professor and comedian and is well known as The Freak Factor. Dave will be sharing with us the magic that we all possess when we choose to leverage our weaknesses. Most important, Dave will give you insights and strategies to help you innovate, create and disrupt. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn that…
Your greatest weakness is your greatest strength
Focusing on fixing your weaknesses is a good intention, but it often misses the opportunities in those weaknesses
Every weakness has a strength and opportunity
It’s important to look differently for people based upon your unique needs that often are the best fit for some people’s weaknesses
Leaders must seek to find a different spot for people with so-called “weaknesses” (instead of changing people’s behaviors, change his position)
The focus should also be on situational change and not just on personal change
The use of assessments of strengths AND weaknesses are an important part of developing yourself and your people
Amplifying your weaknesses is a key to being the best of you and attracting more of the customers and clients you want
You must resist the pressures to be normal and to conform
Divergence from normal is critical for innovation and getting people excited about their work
"Normal" employees suck
Excellence happens when you deviate from the norm
Embracing deviance as your objective (over normal) is the path to impact
Diversity and difference are essential for rich experiences and businesses
The pursuit or normal is deeply engrained in our culture and must be resisted
Great leaders help others see the value that’s deep inside them (inviting others into their greatness)
Resources:
Dave Rendall
davidrendall.store (Freak Factor products)
The Freak Factor: Discovering Uniqueness by Flaunting Weakness book by Dave Rendall
Now, Discover Your Strengths book by Gallup
The End of Average: How We Succeed in a World That Values Sameness book by Todd Rose
Normal Sucks: How to Live, Learn and Thrive Outside the Lines book by Jonathan Mooney
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It’s the topic and issue of the day … not only in our personal lives and communities … but within our teams and organizations. It’s a topic that’s currently divisive and often incendiary, and this episode is an invitation to a more open conversation about racism and difference. Craig and Jeff will be sharing their own personal journeys of opening and understanding, as well as some ideas on ways to open your heads and hearts about difference. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll hear …
Perspectives on racism and difference from two white men
Impacts of inclusion (or lack of inclusion) with our teams and in our organizations
The leadership implications around race and difference
Perspectives on the context of racism
Ways that systemic racism shows up in leadership and business
About shifting from a focus on personal bias to exploring systemic racism
What it means to claim your racism in order to be a part of the solution
Questions to ask about your attachment to rejecting the existence of racism in this country
The benefits of intentional inclusion in your business and with your team (the gifts of difference)
The role of unconscious racism in our nation and businesses
Ideas on ways to build diverse and inclusive teams and organizations
About enhancing awareness of the past while taking ownership of your role in creating a different future
About historic perspectives around racism in the United States
That inclusive leadership founded on dignity and respect
The team and financial benefits in business from building and nurturing diverse and inclusive organizations
About asking yourself whether you’re willing to be in the uncertainty (the struggle) to learn, grow and open up without knowing exactly what to do
About owning your choice to speak up or to stay silent
That defensiveness is an obstacle to learning (learners listen and are open)
Resources:
White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism book by Robin DeAngelo
Between the World and Me book by Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Have you ever wondered how to increase your productivity, employee satisfaction and engagement by 36% or more in your business? Our special guest Rafael Cortez answers this and many more questions. Rafael is CEO of CEO Pulse, a serial entrepreneur, a former firefighter (one of the youngest in Yuma County, AZ), an industrial organizational psychologist, a podcaster, and real estate broker/investor. Rafael shares the path to intentionally building a business with a culture that integrates people and systems. Most important, Rafael will give you tools to help you better align your people, systems and roles. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps leaders lead where they are with more influence and impact.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn …
Ways that Rafael has borrowed the processes and systems approach as a firefighter to his businesses
Using behavioral analysis assessment with teams and cultures
Aligning your team’s strengths with their roles and responsibilities
Working at the intersection of systems / processes and people (to integrate them rather than treating them as separate)
When your people, roles and strengths are aligned, you have a 36% increase in productivity, employee satisfaction and engagement
Revenue comes first when you launch a business and shifts to people focus once you have established the revenue model
Use a daily Top 3 strategy to stay purposeful and focused
Businesses need visionaries and integrators / operators (importance of building a well-rounded team)
Vital role of operating systems in your business
Chaos drives innovation and change
Servant leadership is the key to impact and influence
Resources:
Rafael Cortez (Instagram @rafael.ceopulse)
CEO Pulse
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Have you ever wondered how to get more leads and sales using LinkedIn? Our special guest Monte Clark answers this and many more questions. Monte is a LinkedIn guru, author and founder of Relevant Marketing Solutions, which helps people and companies use LinkedIn to generate high quality relationships and B2B business leads. Monte will be sharing with us the reality that LinkedIn is a powerful tool for building relationships and turning those relationships into business. Most important, Monte will give you specific and actionable LinkedIn tactics to help you grow you leads, your sales and your business. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn …
LinkedIn is a powerful tool for building relationships and turning those relationships into business
You can build any B2B business on LinkedIn
The secret sauce of LinkedIn is relationships
Ways to approach LinkedIn like a live networking event
Vital need to engage on LinkedIn from a they perspective (not a me perspective)
LinkedIn success depends more on creating conversations than adding content
Learn ways to move from being a high content provider to a high impact conversation starter on LinkedIn
Strategies for leveraging the LinkedIn algorithms (more engagement means more LinkedIn exposure)
Ways to build more “lurkers” (prospects) on LinkedIn
The power of the sales navigator / professional version of LinkedIn
“A confused mind always says no”
If LinkedIn is not serving your business, then you’re not solving problems
A simple LinkedIn path … Hook, Story, Call to Action.
A process for creating six months of content in three hours
Ways that only ten LinkedIn engagements a week will accelerate your business leads and sales
The first 30 minutes of engagement on a LinkedIn post is most important
Strategies for creating “active relationship conversations” on LinkedIn
Resources:
Monte Clark and his LinkedIn Master Class
Relevant Marketing Solutions
Mastering LinkedIn: For Professional Lead Generation by Monte Clark
As A Man Thinketh by James Allen
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Our special guest is serial entrepreneur, pilot, kite surfer and skiing powder hound Scott Diggs. Scott has started and grown numerous businesses, led an organization of nearly 2,000 people and built a life of balance and spiritual growth. Listen in as Scott shares some of his secrets to building a great team and culture, as well as his conviction that consistently doing the right thing will lead you to financial success and legacy. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn …
Life balance requires that you prioritize your life in advance to assure space and time for the things you love
The importance of starting your day with your spiritual practices
Leadership involves focusing on influence, impact and culture
Hiring is often more successful when you hire like-minded people instead of hiring people with industry or job experience
Before you empower your people you need to invest in teaching your people
Hire people who are visionary, high energy, self-confident, tolerance for failure, creative, integrity and strong internal controls = equally yoked
You don’t always need the best decisions … you need to allow your people’s ideas to be good enough
It’s vital to give your team members ownership of their work and outcomes
Work life balance requires letting go to your team members and giving up control
Building a strong culture includes allowing yourself to have relationships with your team members
Leaders do the right thing even when it’s hard and expensive (and teach your team, your family, your partners etc. to all do the right thing)
Leadership requires transparency and trust
Vital role of trust in building your team and organization
Leaders must earn the trust (it’s not given)
Resources:
Scott Diggs
Evidence That Demands a Verdict by Josh McDowell
Raising a Modern-Day Knight by Robert Lewis
The Heart Led Leader by Tommy Spaulding
Rich Dad, Poor Dad by Robert Kiyosaki
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Our special guest is international speaker, coach, author and leadership thought leader, Tommy Spaulding. Tommy is the author of two New York Times best-selling books (It’s Not Just Who You Know and Heart-Led Leadership), and he shares with us the secrets to achieving unprecedented results through servant leadership. Listen in as Tommy shares the key role of vulnerability and sharing our stories in order to build powerful cultures. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn …
Love and service is required in business and leadership
Every leader has to make a decision about what kind of leader you want to be (self-serving or servant)
90% of leaders are self-serving and most don’t realize it
Servant leaders achieve unprecedented business results and friendships
Self-serving leadership is the biggest blind spot in leadership
Others decide if you’re a servant leader or a self-serving leader
Ego gets in the way of servant leadership and that your ego is a cover for your insecurities
The most important quality of leadership is humility (not thinking less of yourself, but thinking about yourself less often)
Confidence plus humility always wins
Heart-led leaders know who they are (strengths and weaknesses)
Heart-led leaders seek out mentors to help you grow
The biggest conundrum in business today is vulnerability
Vulnerability in leadership is when you share your stories with others and then hear their stories
Vulnerability is one of the only leadership trait that’s contagious
Heart-led leaders build followership based upon love (over respect)
Heart-led leaders let their people know they’re human
Vulnerability is the key to building trust
Resources:
Tommy Spaulding
It’s Not Just Who You Know: Transform Your Life (and Your Organization) by Turning Colleagues and Contacts into Lasting, Genuine Relationships by Tommy Spaulding
The Heart-Led Leader: How Living and Leading from the Heart Will Change Your Organization and Your Life by Tommy Spaulding
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Our special guest is serial entrepreneur Bilal Akram. Bilal is a former Cleveland firefighter and the Founder of Platinum Transportation, Code M (which includes Code M Magazine, a digital publication focused on African American men), a line of cigars and the list goes on and on. Listen in as Bilal talks about the ways that he’s turned conversations into opportunities by being open to the possibilities. He also shares the ways that he’s navigated his life and entrepreneurial journey as a man of color. Most important, Bilal shares the ways that his entrepreneurial eye has allowed him to have a lifelong adventure of travel, learning and creating new enterprises around the world. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes
In this episode you’ll learn…
The ways that he had to overcome additional challenges throughout his life as an African-American man
The important role of resolve in a life’s journey
The realities and issues of life that uniquely impact men and men of color
The ways you can turn obstacles into opportunities
The ways that having a vision allows you to overcome adversity and create opportunities
The impact of the people you surround yourself with and the importance of having the support and challenge of mentors in your life
That when you’re open and engage in conversations you’ll find opportunities at every turn
The importance of asking for a conversation to share your story and vision with others
That entrepreneurs do whatever it takes to pursue opportunities
The hard truth and blessing that you can’t achieve your full vision alone
That it’s vital to have a team to work together on and support your vision
What it means to create a legacy for your life and family
The critical role of purposely building an incredible team
How to stay open to opportunities in every conversation
How leaders must be authentic and clearly articulate their vision
To let your people have their own ideas and the spotlight
The essential role of passion with your team in driving action and outcomes
Resources
Bilal Akram (bilal.akram@codemediagroupllc.com)
Code M Magazine
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Our special guest is Cindy Anderson, CEO, President and Founder of Thinc Strategy, a business consulting company that helps companies grow and transition. Listen in as Cindy shares the secret sauce for building trust and a great culture. Cindy also shares her ideas on ways that culture growth leads to business growth. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes
In this episode you’ll learn the …
Role that culture plays in business value growth
Critical connection between culture and financial performance
Role of vulnerability in building an impactful growth culture
Leaders must be honest about what they do and don’t do well
Impactful leadership requires modeling vulnerability
Importance of giving people permission to not be perfect
Path to building foundations of trust (trust is earned) and the little ways we destroy trust
Vital role of leadership trust when building a great culture
Key connection between transparency / vulnerability and trust
Using simple safety words to invite feedback
Great cultures are teams of performers, not pleasers
Leaders take the time to support their team members in the moments
Resources
Cindy Anderson (919) 512-1420 / cindy.anderson@thincstrategy.com
Thinc Strategy
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Jeff Nischwitz and Craig Mathews take a deep dive into what it takes to building authentic and impactful relationships. They’ll be focusing on the relationship funnel (not the sales funnel) and highlighting what it takes to build relationships that will grow your business and your life. Learn the five C’s of relational business development, as well as the three power questions to ask in every one-on-one interaction. Discover some simple shifts in intention and action that will immediately enhance your relationship building Most important, learn to embrace a relationship intention and strategies for high impact relationship building. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes
In this episode you’ll learn …
The difference between your relationship funnel and your sales funnel … and why it matters
Explore the five C’s of relational business development – Creativity, Compassion, Consistency, Curiosity and Connection
The three (3) power questions to use in every one-on-one interaction
The ways that the 10 x 10 approach to networking and relationship building will help accelerate the quantity and the quality of your relationships
Essential shifts to move from transactional networking to relational interacting
Resources
It’s Not Just Who You Know: Transform Your Life (and Your Organization) by Turning Colleagues and Contacts into Lasting, Genuine Relationships, by Tommy Spaulding
Never Eat Alone: And the Other Secrets to Success, One Relationship at a Time, by Keith Ferrazzi
The Impact Leadership Podcast, Episode 6 (Stop Networking: Simple Shifts to Transition from Transactional Networking to Relational Connecting for More Impact)
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Episode 17 - Put Down the Stick: Self-Accountability and the Foundation of Trust
In this episode Craig Mathews and Jeff Nischwitz share the foundation and formula for building a culture of self-accountability with your team and organization. Jeff and Craig discuss key accountability blind spots and realities, the impact of embracing clear commitments and the ways we’re often slippery when it comes to accountability. Most important, listen in for proven tools to build trust and consistent and predictable outcomes with a culture of self-accountability. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn…
The key accountability blind spots and the ways they diminish accountability
Ways that poor accountability leads to low trust
Accountability is the secret sauce to consistent, predictable and impactful leadership, productivity and outcomes
Vital role that “commitments” play in building a culture of self-accountability
Great teams are built when they’re empowered into self-accountability
Getting people’s accountability attention by using the word “commitment”
Accountability is a matter of personal integrity when you make and ask others to make commitments
The role of leader vulnerability in building a culture of self-accountability
Self-accountability is about integrity, commitments, choices and impact awareness
The Stickless Accountability formula
Resources ILP Episode 14 – The Accountability Blind Spot
The Go-Getter: A Story That Tells You How To Be One - Book by Peter B. Kyne
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization - Book by Lisa Laskow Lahey and Robert Kegan
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Our special guest is Amy Sullivan Hicks from Charlotte (Gastonia), NC. Amy is a master business development professional across a wide range of industries, and she’ll be sharing her secrets on business development, relationship building and networking. Amy is one of the few business development pros who walks the talk of building relationships by connecting and serving others. Listen in as Amy shares her simple and profound tactics and mindsets for building relationships that matter. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes
In this episode you’ll learn …
Authenticity is the secret sauce in building relationships for the long term and that will follow you everywhere
Secrets to attracting people who want to connect with you including the impact of your energy on connecting with others (the Attraction Factor of business development)
Business development is about giving to others even when you’re facing your own challenges (focus on helping others)
What it means to be the giver when it comes to relationship building?
Building your relationships by being the connector to help others get what they need
Relationship building requires time together, authentic conversations and shared experiences
Relationships are personal (business opportunities follow the relationship)
Building trust requires that you share first (modeling vulnerability and authenticity)
Business development and relationship building is a long game (not a short game)
Being yourself as the key to building authentic relationships
Critical do’s and NOT do’s when it comes to sales management
Intimidation is not a winning strategy in sales and business
Encourage the people around you
Give credit instead of taking credit
Connect people simply for the sake of connecting (not to get what you need)
It’s vital to get support during challenging times (even if you struggle asking for help)
The ONE thing in building genuine relationships – Ask questions, listen to their needs and find ways to connect people to help them get what they want or need
Resources
Amy Sullivan Hicks (amysullivan68@gmail.com)
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Our special guest is Larry English, President and founder of Centric Consulting, a business and technology consulting company with 12 offices (plus India), 1,000 employees and a company culture that’s second to none. Larry’s also the author of his soon to be published book, Office Optional: How to Build a Connected Culture with Virtual Teams (May 2020). Listen in as Larry shares the secret sauce for building trust and a great culture with a virtual team, starting with relationships and vulnerable leadership. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes:
In this episode you’ll learn …
Remote teams require extra layers of intention and action to build a great culture
Building relationships virtually is vital to a great culture (different skill set with remote teams)
You must model and teach vulnerability – the “shortcut to trust”
It’s essential to invite your team to bring their whole selves to work, including regular check-ins around their personal lives (builds likeability and trust)
Remote work models allow team to have more life balance
Overwhelming evidence that remote teams are more productive and people are happier
The vital role of leadership trust when building a great culture with a virtual team
The importance of making sure that your team members don’t overwork at home
Leaders must consistently model the culture including life balance
Training for virtual leadership, management, collaboration and communication is essential
Impactful leadership requires modeling vulnerability for greater trust and connection
Resources:
Larry English
Centric Consulting
Churchill: A Life, by Martin Gilbert
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In this episode Craig Mathews and Jeff Nischwitz share ideas on the vital role that self-accountability plays in leadership, effectiveness, trust building and consistent performance. Jeff and Craig discuss the reality that accountability is an inside job, not an external motivator. Most important, listen in for proven strategies on building a culture of self-accountability. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn …
Why accountability is the biggest blind spot in leadership and the ways this blind spot is holding leaders and organizations back
Accountability myths and truths
Ways that poor accountability leads to low trust (“Trust is the river that runs through accountability”)
Accountability is the secret sauce to consistent, predictable and impactful leadership, productivity and outcomes
Vital role that “commitments” play in building a culture of self-accountability
Great teams are built when they’re empowered into self-accountability (holding people accountable is disempowering)
Why we overestimate our level of self-accountability and struggle to be more self-accountable
Getting people’s accountability attention by using the word “commitment”
Accountability is a matter of personal integrity when you make and ask others to make commitments
The important difference between accountability versus personal ownership / responsibility
The role of leader vulnerability in building a culture of self-accountability
Holding others accountable doesn’t work … it’s the excuse for abuse
Shaming “accountability” is failing leadership
Cultures of self-accountability are built on questions, not statements
Holding others accountability is leading through fear
Self-accountability is about integrity, commitments, choices and impact awareness
Accountability as a key leverage for leadership and performance
Commitments are the key to unleashing the power of whatever it takes with yourself and your team
Resources
The Impact Leadership Podcast
Cardivera
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COV Special Edition - Viral Thriving: Staying Grounded in Difficult Times
Listen as Jeff Nischwitz and Craig Mathews share ideas on different ways to navigate the coronavirus pandemic. Specifically, an emphasis on minimizing the impact on us personally and professionally. It’s easy to feel like everything around you is out of control, but you’ll hear ideas on ways to feel more in control, how to shift your perspectives and change the reality around you. You’ll also hear about the secret sauce of presence to minimize or even eliminate stress and learn ways to not only survive, but to thrive through these unprecedented times. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn …
The unconscious ways that fear drives your decisions
The reality that you don’t control much (and only control yourself) and tools for reducing stress
The question shift from “can I do this” to “should I do this” (Is it the right thing?)
Why asking for help is critical to navigating challenging times
The best way to feel in control is to get into action (focus on what you can do versus what you can’t do)
Reframing what’s “true” to reduce stress
The secret sauce of presence in navigating uncertain times and chaos, including tools for getting and staying present
Ways to minimize time travel in your thoughts and emotions
What it means to live life as an ITist
Ways to live with minimal stress despite being surrounded by uncertainties and “I don’t knows”
That believing is seeing … you get to “see” what you choose
Resources
Miracle Morning: The Not-So-Obvious Secret Guaranteed to Transform Your Life (Before 8AM) by Hal Elrod
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Our special guest is Joe Smucny. Joe has been a consultant, COO of a successful start-up, CIO of a large community college and now the leader of the Centric Consulting business unit in Cleveland, OH. Centric is a business and technology consulting company with 12 offices (plus India), 1,000 employees and a company culture that’s second to none. Most important, Joe is a highly committed father and husband who’s been intentionally growing as his family leader for decades. Joe will be sharing the secret sauce that creates a magical experience for Centric’s clients and team members. Learn the foundations of what it takes to build a culture of family and caring. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes:
In this episode you’ll learn …
What it takes to build a culture of family, caring and excellence
The vital role of seeking out and being open to feedback as a leader
The role of vulnerability in building trust and your leadership
Don’t wait until you have a big issue – trust your instincts and take action even when things are a little off
Building an amazing team requires that you fully invest in the process even when you think you don’t have the time
Collaboration requires strong relationships and objective only focused leaders don’t last (because they run over people)
PeopleFirst culture requires an investment and that investment pays off in market differentiation, growth and profits
The role of internal storytelling to build, enhance and sustain a PeopleFirst culture
You CAN have close, personal relationships with your team members (it takes both to build a great team)
Loving your team members and caring about their futures is required for great cultures
Leader must listen with their heart, not just their ears
Leaders are committed to personal growth and always being the best you you can be
If you want to lead on purpose, you have to also live on purpose
One piece of wisdom … trust your gut and pick your partners wisely
Resources:
Joe Smucny at Centric Consulting
Joe Smucny on LinkedIN
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Description:
In this episode Craig Mathews and Jeff Nischwitz share ideas on the important role of a personal growth plan for anyone who wants to have more impact. Craig and Jeff will be talking about a formula for personal growth, including the foundational need for a meaningful why behind your desired outcomes. They also talk about a process for personal growth and support that assures success. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes:
In this episode you’ll learn …
The vital importance of starting with a meaningful why
The critical need to always stay in gear – consistent action beats commitment every day
To embrace celebration as part of your growth efforts (including even small steps)
First get clear on who you want to be as a person and leader
To think big and act small to achieve desired change
Building your personal growth muscles through the pain of change
Embracing failure and setbacks as part of the journey to growth
The reality that growth and change always happens in small steps
Personal growth is a team sport and requires support along the way
The importance of prioritizing (and periodically re-prioritizing) your personal growth plans
Meaningful personal growth requires inside motivation (not external stimulation)
Resources:
Craig’s Planning Tool (Email Craig at craig@cardivera.com)
Jim Fortin Podcast
Impact Leadership Podcast Episode 11 (Michelle Villalobos)
Living with a SEAL: 31 Days Training with the Toughest Man on the Planet (book by Jesse Itzler)
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Our special guest is national speaker, author, trainer, retreat guide and superstar activator Michelle Villalobos. Michelle will share her many ideas on aligning who you truly are with your business and personal goals. Michelle shares from the heart about her own journey of moving through her pain and doubts to find and unleash her truest self into the world. She also shares some ideas on what it takes to push past the old stories to unleash your true self for more impact personally and professionally. Prepare yourself to be uncomfortable in order to be unstoppable. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development ecosystem that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn …
The ways the life and cultural messages get in the way of our fullest potential in the world
What it takes to most past the stories and self-limiting beliefs
Ways to move through a mid-life awakening to find your empowering truth
The questions you need to ask and answer to help you find your way to your most empowered self
Where to start when it comes to your personal growth journey
The steps to take become your best and most impactful you in business and life
What it means to lead more consciously and from the soul
What is your leadership in the world and how do you amplify it
Resources:
Michelle Villalobos
Michelle’s Podcast – Awaken Your Inner Superstar
Already Free: Buddhism Meets Psychotherapy on the Path of Liberation Book
An End to Upside Down Thinking: Dispelling the Myth That the Brain Produces Consciousness, and the Implications for Everyday Life Book
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Episode 10 - Embracing a Growth Mindset: The Vital Role that Personal Growth Plays in Business Growth
In this episode Craig Mathews and Jeff Nischwitz share ideas on the important role of a personal growth plan for anyone who wants to have more impact. Craig and Jeff will be talking about different ways to approach personal growth, the need for personal commitments and the truth that personal growth is about inside change (not just different behaviors). You’ll also hear the ways that your personal growth is deeply connected to your business growth. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn …
Why everyone in your organization should have a personal growth plan
Key obstacles to personal growth efforts and outcomes and ways to overcome them
The truth that personal growth is never done (it’s an ongoing process)
Personal growth is more about inside work (and change) than acquiring new work skills
The importance of getting clear on who you want to be in your leadership, personally and professionally
How vital it is to avoid the many set ups that will keep you from achieving your personal growth goals
How critical it is to set boundaries if you want to achieve personal growth (every yes to one thing is a no to something else)
Why it’s important to ask for support and outside perspectives around your personal growth plan
The reality that change and growth require vulnerability and risk
The leader’s role in helping people create a personal growth plan and supporting them in their growth
Resources
Impact Leadership Podcast 4 (David Akers)
Impact Leadership Podcast with Joe Smucny (coming soon)
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Episode 9 - Purpose and Passion Pays: Impact Ideas to Ignite Your Business Purpose to Outperform Your Competition with Stan Phelps
Our special guest is national speaker, trainer, serial author and thought leader Stan Phelps, who’s here to share the reality that companies that are built and operated on or for purpose outperform their competition by multiplies of up to ten to twelve times. Stan is the author of Red Goldfish: Motivating Sales and Loyalty Through Shared Passion and Purpose, and he’ll be sharing the eight archetypes for purpose. Stan will also share the new business realty that doing good in business is just plain good business. Get ready to learn the ways that you can accelerate the purpose in your business. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes:
In this episode you’ll learn …
The ways that doing little things are the key to differentiation and having a big impact
Why passion and purpose are critical to differentiating your business from your competition
The essence of the 4.0 strategy for thriving in business today
Why the future of business will be focused on doing business with a purpose
The eight (8) purpose archetypes for businesses
The best way to embrace doing business on purpose in your business
Resources:
Stan Phelps
Red Goldfish: Motivating Sales and Loyalty Through Shared Passion and Purpose Book
The Human Brand: How We Relate to People, Products, and Companies Book
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Episode 8 - Amp Up: Impactful Ways to Energize Your Leadership and Your Life
One truth about life and leadership is that your energy levels matter. Leaders must be diligent in managing their energy so that they can serve and lead at their best. Whether it’s physical, intellectual, emotional or other energy, it’s vital to take good care of your energy and to be aware when your energy is low. We’ll be talking about the ways that high energy propels us towards and low energy blocks us from our peak performance and impact. It’s time to treat our energy levels as an important part of our leadership and impact tool kit. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes: In this episode you’ll learn …
Ways to maintain your energy to access your highest performance level and to minimize the negative impacts of low energy
The many ways your energy levels impact your leadership, communication, decisions and relationships
Ways that you lose energy and ways to protect your energy
Key ways to enhance your energy
Importance of integrating energy building activities and support into your daily activities and routines
The boomerang energizer effect of gratitude, service and blessing others
The vital role that boundaries play with our energy and stress levels
Resources:
Nido Qubein
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Episode 7 - What’s Your Weird: Standing Out in the Crowd as a Sales Professional
We’re excited to have Phil Gerbyshak as our special guest to share some of her many years of sales and sales management experience with us. Described by many as bold, Phil is a national speaker, sales trainer, author of five books and thought leader who will be sharing key elements for success in sales. How do you stand out in a messy business world? How do you stand out in a sales role? How do you differentiate yourself in an authentic way? What does it mean to serve and teach in a sales role? These and more questions will be answered by Phil during this rich and impactful conversation. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes:
In this episode you’ll learn …
The role of service and teaching in business and sales
The reality that nothing sells like confidence and what it takes to show up with confidence
Why real information adds value which trust (“add value before you add volume”)
The key to personal branding is figuring out “what’s your weird” and authentically living that brand
It’s essential for you to own your personal brand
The necessity of rejection to achieve success and impact
To embrace the principle of Be More You
Resources:
Phil Gerbyshak or Phil Gerbyshak LinkedIn
Jai Jaing and Rejection Proof Book
Influence by Robert Cialdini
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Episode 6 - Stop Networking: Simple Shifts to Transition from Transactional Networking to Relational Connecting for More Impact
Listen as Jeff Nischwitz and Craig Mathews explore the age old topic of networking and they say, Stop Networking … at least the ways many of us are doing it. Why do we network and what’s the best way to approach networking to achieve the results we really desire? Learn about the giver’s mindset, the three “knows” of networking and ways to be a resource. Most important, learn how vitality is to build your network BEFORE you need it. Instead of being transactional, embrace a relationship intention and strategies for high impact relationship building. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes: In this episode you’ll learn …
Ways the relationship shift requires long term thinking, investing in others, focusing on the us, asking more questions and listening more, and genuinely caring about others.
Why are you networking? Focus on building relationships versus getting what you want (transactional).
Build your network to grow your tool kit to serve others
The three most powerful networking questions
The Core Networking Why – To serve others and learn and enrich your life through people
The Three “Knows” of Networking – moving from a lukewarm referral to a compelling introduction and recommendation
The Secret Sauce for building relationships and impact
Resources:
Harvey Mackay, Swim with the Sharks Without Being Eaten Alive
The Impact Leadership Podcast, Episode 3 (Presence)
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Episode 5 - Strengthening Your Core
Listen as Jeff Nischwitz and Craig Mathews explore the Core 4 – purpose, mission, vision and values – to help organizations be more impactful. We’ll answer these questions:
What can you do to make your business faster, more effective and have a bigger impact?
How do you make sure you get the right people on your team?
How do you assure that everyone on your team is pulling in the same direction?
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Show Notes In this episode you’ll learn …
Why the Core 4 create acceleration and alignment in their teams and business (and minimizes friction). Why even small misalignments require your urgent attention to remove the friction and increase your acceleration
Purpose – Essential to inspire and engage your team and integrating it through your business. The guiding light for the team and business must be brought alive in the business. Did we live our purpose today? It’s about the goosebumps.
Mission – Without a mission, you can’t know where you’re going and whether you’re on or off course.
Vision – Key in attracting, hiring and retaining the right people (not the best people). Essential to bring the vision alive every day and connect it with every person in the organization.
Values – What will you stand for in the most difficult times and decisions (Core 4 and values have to be a “no tolerance zone.”)? Ways to bring your values to life in your day-to-day business. Why values must be clearly defined including what they look like in action.
Resources:
EOS People Analyzer
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It’s time to throw out the idea of annual reviews and look for ways to grow your people every day. Our special guest is serial entrepreneur and thought leader, David Akers, who will be sharing many ideas on ways to implement team growth strategies to help you grow your people. This includes making a personal commitment that every team member will be a better person because they worked at your organization. Listen in as we talk with David Akers about tangible ways to make people growth a core of your business values and strategy. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes:
In this episode you’ll learn …
The importance of hiring outside your industry for fresh eyes and new ideas
Ways to flip questions for better ideas and outcomes
David’s on do and one don’t when it comes to your people
The why behind making a personal commitment to your people – when you leave here no matter what the circumstances, you’ll be a better person personally and professionally than when you started.
Strategies for taking a quarterly approach to personal growth expectations and the process for implementing it, including five (5) questions you can use in every quarterly discussion to help everyone and the team grow.
Actionable ways to build a culture that people love working in.
David’s thoughts on the single most important leadership skill … facilitation.
Resources:
The Sourcing Alliance
David Akers (216.280.5801)
Scaling Up and The Rockefeller Habits by Verne Harnish
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Stay at Home, Work at Home: What You Need to Know to Navigate This Unique Workplace Environment
We’re excited to have Marcey Rader with us as our special guest to share some of her 18 years of experience not only working remotely, but training others to do it and manage remote teams. Marcey is a national speaker, coach, author of three books, fitness guru and trainer who will be sharing her unique remote working experience. She’s also the founder of Work Well, Play More, a business that helps people be more productive and have more fun with play. Marcey is going to be talking with us about the unique challenges now due to the coronavirus, the importance of boundaries, a different way to look at schedules and what a great time this is to build your people up with training and professional development. We rarely have time for training and now people have that time. She’ll also be talking with you about a new word she’s developed … infobesity. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes:
In this episode you’ll learn …
Why the objective of work / life balance is a mistake, why work hard, play hard doesn’t work and why the objective needs to be being more productive and playing more.
To embrace play as a fundamental part of your life
To beware of infobesity – everyone is now an “expert” on working from home, but they likely haven’t done it for years and don’t have experience in developing and teaching the tools for a great remote work experience.
Using daily check-ins to keep your team connected
The importance of boundaries when working from home especially regarding communication and work schedules.
The importance of making your remote work policies be relevant
Ways to keep your team healthy and playing when working from home (Spoiler Alert: Take a screen free lunch)
Resources:
Marcey Rader or
Work Well, Play More Business
Work Well, Play MoreBook
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What if you could live and lead with less stress and more joy? What if you could live most of every day in the present with deeper relationships, better connections, a more engaged team, a more high performing team, a more profitable team, and accelerated team, simply by living more in the present every day. We’ll answer these questions today. What presence is and what it isn’t? What are ways to live more present every day? Most important, we’ll show the path to living and leading unstoppable every day through the gift of presence. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes
In this episode you’ll learn …
Why presence is the secret sauce for more effective leadership and better teams and relationships.
Ways the being more present will build your team and help them feel seen, heard and safe.
Why presence is the path to being unstoppable, personally and professionally.
The obstacles to and myths about presence (and ways to overcome them).
Why being present with someone is the greatest gift you can gift to another person.
Guaranteed strategies and tools for getting present and living there.
Resources
Jeff Nischwitz’s newest book, Just One Step: Walking Backwards to the Present on the Camino Trail
Jesse Itzler
Amy Cuddy’s book, Presence: Bringing Your Boldest Self to Your Biggest Challenges
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We’re excited about our special guest, Mark LeBlanc, who’s here today to share his approach, mindset and tactics about staying in gear despite the coronavirus pandemic. Mark is a national speaker, coach, author and three-time Camino de Santiago pilgrim who has over 38 years of business development experience to share with us. Starting when he was inspired by the words “You’re Fired” at age 21, Mark has now been selling and succeeding in second gear for his entire life. Mark will be sharing with us the details of how he does it and simple ways that all of you can stay in gear and achieve great outcomes, especially during the coronavirus challenge. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development ecosystem that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes
In this episode you’ll learn …
Why there’s never been a better time to be on your own, even now with the coronavirus.
Why consistency beats commitment and is the key to success.
Why the secret to sales success is staying in gear (even if only second gear).
The three tracks of every business and why they matter.
Specific strategies to help you not only survive, but thrive through the coronavirus pandemic.
Mark’s vital business and life lesson from his most recent 500 mile journey on the Camino de Santiago … RESOLVE!
Resources
The Lean Start Up by Eric Ries
2010 IBM Global CEO Study
Mastering the Complex Sale by Jeff Thull
Selling the Dream by Guy Kawasaki
Mark LeBlanc
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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We’re excited to have Mark LeBlanc back as our special guest for another coronavirus special episode. Mark is a national speaker, coach, author and three-time Camino de Santiago pilgrim who has over 38 years of business development experience to share with us. Today, Mark is sharing with us more ideas on staying in gear despite the coronavirus pandemic. Mark will be answering the question of what’s the best strategy to navigate through these difficult times. Mark will be sharing with us the details of how he does it and simple ways that all of you can stay in gear and achieve great outcomes, especially during the coronavirus challenge. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes
In this episode you’ll learn …
Mark’s best practices and mindsets for approaching uncertain
Ways to be creative by asking Mark’s million dollar question
The ways that Mark not only financially survived 9/11 and the 2008 financial meltdown, had two of his best six month periods ever during those times.
The secret sauce for Mark’s long running anti-boot camp business retreat (he’s facilitating his 150th retreat in April 2020.
Simple shifts in sales thinking and action to make the next twelve months your best ever.
Resources
Mark LeBlanc or mark@growingyourbusiness.com
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Are you really walking your talk of putting your people first, and what's the impact on your business when you truly walk that talk? Most organizations talk about putting their people first, but often reality is different than what they say. What would your people say if we were to ask them? In this episode we discuss different priorities that organizations establish and how those priorities can affect the outcomes of the business. The Impact Leadership Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes
In this episode you’ll learn …
What it means to truly put your people first and the positive impact that living a People First culture has on your team, performance and outcomes.
The potential priorities that businesses can choose from and the ways each affects your team and outcomes.
The danger zones for different priority choices in your business.
What does a People First culture look like in action every day.
Avoiding bark face in your leadership and business.
The many ways that People First will grow your people, your business and your profits.
Resources
The Impact Leadership Podcast
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Please note: We originally aired this podcast as the Impact Leadership Podcast in March of 2020, and changed the name to Leadership Junkies in February 2021. There are still references to the Impact Leadership Podcast in the audio of the episodes through episode 86, which is the last episode released under the old title.
The Leadership Junkies Podcast
We’re excited to announce the first ever episode of The Leadership Junkies Podcast. In this episode, we’ll share what this podcast is all about and a bit about your hosts, Jeff Nischwitz and Craig Mathews. What do they believe are the foundations of effective and impactful leadership. What’s their WHY behind The Leadership Junkies Podcast and Cardivera. What can you except to hear and learn on The Leadership Junkies Podcast. Whatever challenges your organization, team or you are struggling with, leadership is the answer and The Leadership Junkies Podcast is committed to sharing ideas to help everyone lead differently and with more impact. The Leadership Junkies Podcast is brought to you by Cardivera, the leadership development eco-system that helps your grow your people, grow your business and grow your life.
Show Notes
In this episode you’ll learn …
The impact that life and business lessons (including failures) has had for Jeff Nischwitz and Craig Mathews.
The ways that personal growth is essential to leadership growth
The Four Growth Pillars – growing yourself, your people, your business and your revenues.
The important role of vulnerability in building a strong and empowered team.
Resources
Jeff Nischwitz
Craig Mathews
The Leadership Junkies Podcast
Cardivera
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