Crossing the Line: Recent Episodes
Cheryl Mitchell
In “Crossing the Line”, Cheryl Mitchell, a 50-something and Noah Benedict, a 20-something, talk candidly about the lines that life draws for us and the expectation not to cross them. Actually, it’s just Cheryl, with her wisdom and savviness informing Noah, a clueless, recent college grad on LIFE. Entertaining, unconventional and blunt with real-life application. We cannot promise that we won’t cross a line or two; in fact, we might encourage it!
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Have you ever asked the question: What's this all for in life? Purpose? Why does it matter?
This is Belonging Part II, I think!
Simon Sinek: Performance Versus Mastery with Mike Gervais
I spend time talking about this word belonging. It's an innate desire in all of us. In fact, it's a primal need. As the most isolated generation is growing up, how and what do we need to do to change that and help them BELONG to good and positive places and people?
"Seek first to understand and then to be understood" says Stephen Covey. That's what I'm asking you to do today as you listen to information about Gen Z.
Competitive, Civic and Open-minded, achievement-oriented
Shaped by Columbine, 9/11, The Internet
Beau Anne Graves, a 16 year old from Missouri is my guest. She is part of the Hereford Family and well, quite an impressive young lady.
MJ Rogers
Paralympic Archery Coach:
A fascinating and heartfelt conversation with a beautiful guest! A man you want to know!
Generations by Jean Twenge
New Kind of Diversity by Tim Elmore
Article I referenced by Raconteur
This guy is something else. Immigrant parents fled the Civil War in Sudan and he was born in the US, one month prior to 9/11 His parents don't know their ages, really (imagine that) and that's just the beginning of this skinny kid's story!
Chairman of NJHA this year.
Article about Tar: Here's his story!
A person you want to meet AND spend time with if you get the chance. This is why I am SO HOPEFUL about the young people of this country.
Shaped by The Great Depression, WWII, Radio and movies, this generation in our oldest in the workforce; about 2-3% still working. They have wisdom and experience from which we can learn!
A New Kind of Diversity
Jean W. Twenge, Ph.D Book:
Karrington is an immensely wise young woman at the age of 26. She is running for Miss Kentucky and her platform is First Responders, which is near and dear to my heart.
Supporting Heroes:
You can find her here: IG
@missheartofcentralky24
@missamericaky
Blake is from a small Illinois community of Staunton. He is a senior in high school, with a hope for the future and a believe that we need to be careful not to stay in our echo chambers. He believes a renaissance is coming and the future is bright!
Multigenerational Workplace
Generational Differences Chart
Cheryl B. Mitchell Homepage
Professional Pathfinders
Guest Karen Butcher
Register for May 31 at Professional Pathfinders
BRIGHT Program, Kentucky
ELEVATE Program, Kentucky
Cheryl Mitchell Homepage
YouTube Channel
Professional Pathfinders:
Contact information:
cheryl@cherylbmitchell.com
217-369-0637
Cheryl and Noah put an exclamation point on the season as they talk about reputation, bringing all the topics together.
Have you ever said, "If only I could have an extra hour a day?" Well, today is that day! LEAP DAY: How will you spend it, the extra "ordinary" day you have been given?
It all goes back in the box.
Does it really matter?
Ordinary day adjustments.
Do you know how to life live in between the holidays, highs and lows and events? Really live in the ordinary time? I think we've lost that ability, and I want to challenge us to learn how to do that this year, 2024.
Referenced in the podcast:
Silence Kills by Scott Harvey
https://simonsinek.com/books/the-infinite-game/ by Simon Sinek
Message Cheryl to work with her.
How are you showing up in the world, every day, when no one is watching? THAT'S integrity.
Kurt Vonnegut
Atomic Habits
You know when it's there. You know when it's not there. Difficult to describe/define. Friction, tension, signs to watch for as you are living in your life/job.
Enneagram Assessment: Get to Know Yourself at your core
Authors who write about character:
Jon Gordon
Mel Robbins
Patrick Lencioni
Happy New Year! 5 Million podcasts; 70 million episodes, how do you choose what you listen to?
Cheryl's Word of 2024 and much more!
Jon Gordon: One Word
IcePod: My first one - 43 SECONDS!
Do you know people who say they'll do it and you know they will? Do you know people who say they'll do it and you know they won't? Which person are you? Do you need to improve on this? Listen in; we talked boldly and candidly about how to get shit done!
Mel Robbins: She's got good stuff!
Atomic Habits by James Clear
Ruthless Elimination of Hurry by John Mark Comer
Getting Unstuck
Contact me about Personal Retreat!
Last Extra Episode for 2023. Cheryl shares her family's tradition of a Year in Review and tells you what she does and how she spent her year.
Generations: The Real Difference Between Gen Z, Millennials, Gen X, Boomers and Silents and What They mean for America's Future by Jean M. Twenge
Can you motivate another person? Can you be motivated? What gets you up in the morning? All questions we talk about in this episode on Motivations. Listen to the end, where Cheryl talks about how she motivated her 15 year old son!
Cheryl's Homepage
Motivation Self Talk Video: Mel Robbins
Working Genius
Last time we talked about Knowledge (What you know). This week we talk about Skills (What can you do). In the younger years of our lives, we are collecting knowledge and skill and refining those as we age. Can we get better? Yes. Are there essential skills? Yes. Are we prepared for the workplace? Uhhh, no.
Homepage
11 Skills Employers Want
Sinek/Bartlett: Buckets (Podcast)
Laws of Communication
First episode of Season 2 starts with knowledge, the first step in building your reputation. How do you know what you know? From whom did you learn it? Can you admit when you don't know? (Yes, I struggle with that.)
We even make sense of knowledge through the use of a PUNNETT Square!
Website:
Sweating the Small Stuff (Sinek & Bartlett): 24 minutes in
PUNNETT Square: about Knowledge:
Pt 1: I know what I know.
Pt 2: I know what I don't know.
Pt 3: I don't know what I (think) I know
Pt 4: I don't know what I don't know
Where are you in this square?
Cheeseburgers for breakfast? Why do we shake with the right hand? Who made lunch dinner and dinner supper but lunch can't be supper?
My second "old person guest" - a German - answers the questions: What do you think of old people? and "What do you think of young people?"
Don't miss it - all the way till the end.
Have you ever thought about the difference between confidence and courage or confidence and arrogance? Is confidence automatic? Can confidence grow and get stronger? If so, how. And then there's the topic of arrogance and how we determine the difference.
Listen in, quite the lively conversation with a lot of laughter!
Oh and if you could provide an alternative to the phrase "Pick your brain", that would be wonderful.
Barefoot in the Grass
How are you really? Have you checked in with yourself recently? Do you see emotions as signs, symptoms for insight into you? In this episode Cheryl talks about loneliness. It's really and we need to be paying attention!
Insights on Teen Loneliness
Kiera Colson
John Delany Book: Building a Non Anxious Life
Career Fairs. What comes to mind when you hear those words?
Clint Hill: Five Presidents
Madison Mitchell, Recruiter
The end of 2023 is three months away. Then what? What were your Q3 highlights or lowlights, joys, moments of belly laughing, ugly cries. Without looking back, we don't know if we're on course or off course or if there's even a course we like. Reflection is how/where/when we really learn and internalize our life. I encourage you to take a hour to stop and breathe about Q3 and think about how you want to get 2023 across the finish line.
Other Side of the Table Coaching
Simon Sinek: Happier-ness
Atomic Habits: James Clear
Macoupin CEO (Entrepreneurial Class)
Boy, this was an interesting conversation. What do you stand for? Is that different than standing up for something or someone. Might be the first conversation that we don't resolve the topic. BUT we sure ask questions to hopefully get you to think!
Aaron Tippin: You've Got to Stand for Something
On today's episode I talk with a young Gen Z, Lexi Murray who has those words as her senior quote. She is a woman of action, a truly remarkable young lady who is a 7th generation farmer. She is one of those young people that will energize you and leave you so positive about our future! WOW!
Gen Z guest and now a Silent Generation (Traditionalist) guest. Today's episode is an interview with an 83-year old man, full of wisdom and spunk and a lot of insight you well want to hear. I interview my dad, Joe Bierman. What a privilege and honor! And yes, he tells a bit too much about me.
Part of the reason we don't like endings is because we are scared of new beginnings. There's beauty in both. We talk about Beginnings today!
Katie is a young woman, age 20! We have a wonderful conversation about professional life, lessons learned in an internship and well, we laugh! Join us.
Labels have been around since the dawn of time. Noah gets to the heart of the matter by asking one question. Do we label for description or judgment? You don't want to miss this!
A new month; a brave podcast to tell you who I am and what I do so YOU can impact others around you and utilize my services.
What is Coaching?
What's for dinner...asks every human being at least once a week. If you're on the receiving end of having to make that decision, you cringe. Yes, it's a decision that is not a big one, yet it wears people out every day. Do you know how many decisions people make, on average, every day? A LOT! Decision fatigue is REAL. We have solutions - listen in.
Time and land are two things you can't make or get more of in life. Does time control you or do you control (maximize) your time. Noah sums it up well; prepare and prioritize.
If I have to hear one more conversation where people are complaining about the young people of this world...
Seriously it's time to be a contributor, not a contaminator to conversations about the future, particularly around th topic of the younger generation.
You'll be inspired enough, okay really just uncomfortable enough to want to shift your perspective!
WSJ Article: New Grads Have No Idea How to Behave in the Office
Random musings...about Q2, summer, sights and sounds, airplanes on the side of hills, dogs hanging out windows and live podcasts from the road.
How many participation trophies or medals are hanging in closets or laying in drawers? In this episode we talk about the power of participating for the purpose of going beyond yourself. Engage with organizations and entities outside of your job, in your community in arenas that have impact and grow others.
The relationship between independence, dependence and interdependence is delicate and nuanced for sure. To strive to be one over the other, in our opinion is to be striving in the wrong direction. No once can be in this life completely independent, nor should we be. Dependence has its boundaries as well. We contend the importance of the relationship between the three is like a three cord rope, the strength of the rope come from the strength of each combine together.
Welcome to the team; you made it and you're still a rookie! Welcome to the other side of the table! When young people enter the workforce for the first time, that's what happens; they join us on the inside of the table...and have no idea how it works!
I have a solution: Strategic Coaching Groups.
Take a look: Strategic Coaching
Reach out to me to sign up for a group that begins in September 2023: Cheryl Mitchell
For more information contact me: 217-369-0637
The beginning starts at the end. Ending are an every day part of life, are positive and negative, and can catch us off guard. Do we really think about endings in that way or at all? How do we do them well, the planned, unplanned and routine endings? We talk about all of that on this episode.
We contend, at least Cheryl does, that we don't learn from our mistakes. Do mistakes define you? Do they scare you? How do you avoid making them or can you? What do you do when you make a mistake? And is there anything good about your mistakes. All topics that Noah and Cheryl discuss on this episode.
Throughout our lives we will have, most likely, dozens of mentors, those people, who walk along side us to guide. What is the value of having a mentor? How do you go about getting one? Noah and Cheryl spar back and forth about all things (well most likely not all) mentors!
Everyone is thinking it and no one is talking about it. How are we prepared for entering the work force, a culture of which we had not participated or had any experience? How are new graduates or those entering the workforce for the first time supposed to know the ins and outs? By experience right? Yes, but until they don't know and we assume they know. Hmmm, interesting predicament I have a solution!
Noah and Cheryl steps big and bold into the topic of Internships for college students. There is much pressure to get just the right internship. What happens when you don't; is it the end of the world? We talk about the benefits of internships as well as the pitfalls. We give practical alternatives, but basically we tell you to chill out about internships! It's really about experience.
The end of the first quarter has arrived. Have you prepared? Do you stop and reflect on the prior quarter in an effort to anticipate the next one? Bonus episode
in which Cheryl encourages you to pause before rushing into the next quarter.
There are more books and podcasts and discussions had about leadership than followership. As we discuss, both are critical and honestly, not enough emphasis put on becoming a follower. 1. Be a student. 2. Be open to new ways of thinking. 3. Ask for and accept feedback - Noah's three starting steps for becoming a really good follower!
Are you a big fish in a small pond? Are you a small fish in a big pond? Or do you even know what that means (yeah, me too)? In a bonus episode, Cheryl talks about staying small and how that's a good idea, not a bad, contrary to what the world might say.
When you enter a room, situation, or place with other people, how do you do that? Have you ever been taught these skills? What if you're a natural in that space? What if it's not natural and easy to do? Noah and Cheryl talk strategies and real-life application to a skill that we all need throughout life.
Can you tell when someone is listening TO you? How often do you feel spoken AT? What's the difference? How many of us really know how to listen to another human. Noah and Cheryl have quite the conversation about this very topic.
Did you know there are "rules" to this game of life? How do you know what they are and which ones to break? What's important to know about this game and how to strategize to "win at life".
Consider this a Social Media Part 2 episode where Cheryl talks about a unique social situation - the Midwest Ag Expo and what she observed in her curiosity.
Social Media, a necessary evil? Is it good? How do you use it? Why should we use it? What impact does it have on our lives? These are all questions we talked about in this episode. Cheryl quizzes Noah about the generations and social media. For the record, he flunks!
In “Crossing the Line”, Cheryl Mitchell, a 50-something and Noah Benedict, a 20-something, talk candidly about the lines that life draws for us and the expectation not to cross them. Actually, it’s just Cheryl, with her wisdom and savviness informing Noah, a clueless, recent college grad on LIFE. Entertaining, unconventional and blunt with real-life application. We cannot promise that we won’t cross a line or two; in fact, we might encourage it!