Podcasts by Working on Purpose
Do you want to help create a world where people are passionate about their work, inspirational leadership helps team members realize their greatness, and capitalism thrives while serving the highest causes? Me too. The working on purpose program is a thought leadership engine that enlightens and inspires listeners with insights from elite business leaders and novel subject matter experts. Together, we’re working on purpose to steward the future of work and business to elevate us all.
Further podcasts by Alise Cortez, PhD
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Fear: Redefining it from Debilitating to Transformative from 2022-04-27T07:00
Fear. A powerful and necessary human emotion. Yet, deadly once it seeps into the very DNA of an organization. Once there, it silently and insidiously drives dysfunction in every aspect of the organ...
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The New Frontier: Leading Virtual Teams to Success from 2022-04-20T07:00
Developing your ability to lead effectively in a remote or hybrid environment has become a whole new game. Learning to be an effective leader in this demanding environment requires you to be agile ...
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Leading in Today’s More Democratized Workplace from 2022-04-13T07:00
As close to 40 percent of employees returned to the office in March, the notion of “the workplace of the people” has become clearer than ever before – and it’s been quite a challenge for senior lea...
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Getting Real on Race at Work Like Your Business Depends on It from 2022-04-06T07:00
Let’s get real – it’s difficult and uncomfortable for almost everyone to talk about race and racism at work. And yet, doing so in a way that increases understanding and connection is essential to r...
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FIXED: Where Fine Art Meets Improving Solutions and Communication from 2022-03-30T07:00
In this conversation with the author of FIXED, she helps listeners to effectively articulate ideas and goals that encourage tangible and strategic development. Works of art are engaged to address b...
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Achieving You and Your Team’s Impossible Goals Through Flow from 2022-03-23T07:00
Many people set artificial limitations on themselves and their lives. They convince themselves they can’t reach their highest goals because they’re simply too far out of reach. What they need is so...
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The Great Resignation Forces a Developmental Boot Upstairs from 2022-03-16T07:00
Leading in today’s COVID times requires a whole new breed of competency. The workforce’s needs and wants have changed, and employees are voting their preferences in strong numbers by resigning from...
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Is Workplace Toxicity Killing Your Company? from 2022-03-09T08:00
Are you and your team willing to take personal risks for the sake of your company and its performance? No? Why not? Likely because there exists at least some element of workplace toxicity that is s...
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Today’s Workforce Seeks Well-Being from 2022-03-02T08:00
“Do you really care about me? Or, do you just need me to get the work done?” Such a common refrain among a frazzled workforce still weathering the COVID fallout after two years. People everywhere h...
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High-Performance Companies Operate from Deep Purpose from 2022-02-23T08:00
The term “purpose” has been deployed superficially by companies to appear virtuous without the benefit of using it as a core operational principle. Companies that treat purpose as an existential in...
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Confidence: The Essential Performance Tool from 2022-02-16T08:00
Confidence, or the lack of it, is the ultimate deal maker or breaker, and no one is immune from its tenuous presence. Whether just starting your career or leading a large organization, and everythi...
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Lead Brighter by Navigating Through the Unfolding Path from 2022-02-09T08:00
There is promise for a brighter future when we learn to lead by unlocking a new navigational system built on the Unfolding Path. By enacting the set of reinforcing commitments and practices that un...
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Crafting Your Purpose with John Coleman from 2022-02-02T08:00
Purpose is essential to a fulfilled life. Yet, it’s not necessarily about “finding” our purpose as much as it is building a concrete web of purpose that suits our goals visions, and desires. Crafti...
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Cultivating Your Flux Mindset to Empower Your Way Forward from 2022-01-26T08:00
What’s your relationship with change? Friend? Enemy? We seem to do better when we opt for change. But what about those foisted upon us? In this playful episode, we’ll learn about 8 counterintuitive...
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Encore Profitable and Beautiful: Elevating Business to Soulful Heights from 2022-01-19T08:00
Did you know your business could be so much more than an engine of profitability? That through it, you and your team can be much more impactful and exponentially more valuable? The way to do it? Sh...
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ConnectingRemote Teams through Virtual Reality Experiences from 2022-01-12T08:00
Want to unite your remote team and elevate them to a whole new level? How about incorporating Virtual Reality (VR) to blend exquisite human creativity with the extension and scale of technology? Yo...
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Christmas as an Everyday State of Mind, Even in COVID from 2022-01-05T08:00
What if we lived every day of the year as if it were Christmas – and as if we were Santa Claus? What if we let ourselves be called into a higher state of being that embodied love, gratitude, and gi...
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Short-Termism Be Gone: Investments for Total Shareholder Returns from 2021-12-29T08:00
Corporate “short-termism” is killing a robust, resilient and purpose-driven future. Companies are governed by the quarterly profit reporting system that encourages short-term, smaller value results...
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Profitable and Beautiful: Elevating Business to Soulful Heights from 2021-12-22T08:00
Did you know your business could be so much more than an engine of profitability? That through it, you and your team can be much more impactful and exponentially more valuable? The way to do it? Sh...
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Optimal Care and Feeding of Your Powerful Ambition from 2021-12-15T08:00
Ambition is a precious resource in life that can drive people to pursue all manner of initiatives important to them. But pursuit of ambition at the expense of growth and well-being has serious repe...
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Unleashing the Creative Power of System Choreographers from 2021-12-08T08:00
System Choreographers. These are the disruptive big picture generalists rule breakers that drive high impact system innovation. They comprise an emerging career breed that pushes innovation beyond ...
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The Defiant Power of the Human Spirit to Turn Darkness into Light from 2021-12-01T08:00
We can choose to respond to whatever life serves up to us, no matter how grim, heart-breaking, or devastating. We can and, arguably, must develop resilience to help us deal with and grow from those...
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Logotherapy in Nation Building in the Middle East and Beyond from 2021-11-24T08:00
With the vision and dream to make logotherapy available officially in the MENA region, Daliya Zgheib founded LOGOTHERAPY MENA, a Meaning Centered Institution, which primary cause is to help people ...
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The Imperative “Lead With WE” Business Revolution from 2021-11-17T08:00
What the world needs more than anything right now goes beyond a simple or even shared purpose. It needs to be a collective purpose, a single rocket ship we can all fuel, board, and navigate with, t...
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Feeling Lonely and Without Purpose? Increase Relational Energy from 2021-11-10T08:00
More than 60 percent of American adults report they feel isolated, with a similar trend in Europe. The consequences are dire for individuals and the businesses that employ them, manifesting in ment...
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Ethne: Empowering Vulnerable Women and Children from 2021-11-03T07:00
Meet Ethne, where passion meets purpose. With a focus on social injustice, this dynamic organization is out to eliminate the double jeopardy of poverty and its manifestations that hinder the empowe...
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Turnaround: The Art and Science of Stewarding Business Today from 2021-10-27T07:00
After nearly two years of havoc brought on by COVID-19 and blood, sweat, and tears of executives working to survive the ongoing pandemic, business owners are seeking guidance for reinvention and re...
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The “Colorful” Dr. Smith on Purpose, Power and Leadership from 2021-10-20T07:00
The field and inquiry of purpose is about to take a whole new leap into the possible. By taking what we know of the physical world through the science of color, we can understand more about our int...
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Aiming High to Enliven Stakeholders in Today's Business from 2021-10-13T07:00
Business can be such a force for good in the world, especially when it is consciously and purposefully crafted and executed. Building on a long career in technology, we learn in this inspiring and ...
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From Striving to Serenity: Navigating the Second Half of Life from 2021-10-06T07:00
After decades in pursuit of striving, working, competing, achieving, and accumulating, we can draw from wisdom and serenity in navigating our second half of life. In this deep and connecting conver...
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How Leaders Provoke the Future by Overcoming Fatal Human Flaws from 2021-09-29T07:00
At a time with ever increasing change and uncertainty, it is extremely challenging to set a course direction in business. As the pandemic has highlighted, successfully navigating this uncertainty c...
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SanityDesk: Behold the Possibility of a Better Digital World from 2021-09-22T07:00
Samuel Cook learned a thing or two about how precious and fleeting life is during his tours serving in the US Army and losing a brother early. Those experiences instilled a steadfast determination ...
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Planksip: A Bold New Venture in Digital Publishing from 2021-09-15T07:00
Behold a new frontier of organically grown thought leaders, courtesy of the philosophy and culture media outlet, Planksip. On this platform, emerging writers and thought leaders have the opportunit...
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Business Leadership for a Human-Centric Future from 2021-09-08T07:00
A call for human-centric organizations is in order, says Executive Advisor and Futurist Deborah Westphal. This new organization embraces the messiness and beauty of people, iterates policies and pr...
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Standing in Her Purpose to Lift and Empower Women from 2021-09-01T07:00
Natalie Benamou found her career of 29 years entirely altered when Covid hit. Her world came to a crashing halt when trade shows were cancelled right and left. Doors were swiftly closing everywhere...
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Bigotry is Everywhere: The Unspoken in Diversity and Inclusion from 2021-08-25T07:00
Much of what traditional diversity programs teach is wrong … and sometimes illegal. The EEOC said that our focus needs to be more on building skills so we can create an environment of workplace civ...
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Nature: The Perfect Antidote to Today’s Spiritual and Well-Being from 2021-08-18T07:00
In an age when people ache for meaning and purpose, there is a tremendous opportunity to connect with nature to let in its wonder. Doing so affords emotional and spiritual well-being and can awaken...
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The Trumanitarian on Bringing Agency and Non-Hierarchy to Orgs from 2021-08-11T07:00
Lars Peter Niessen has managed to find a special niche most of us like to avoid – he’s got a knack for working productively in “messes” and has done so all over the world. His mission through the o...
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Instead of You Laboring, Why Not Put Your Purpose to Work? from 2021-08-04T07:00
Most people lack the clarity of who they really are and seem to be in an endless search for a better job. And this is the problem; people are looking for a good job, the ideal job, instead of first...
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Passionately Striving in “Why” Authors Gather from 2021-07-28T07:00
People are yearning to tune in to their unique reason for being, desperately seeking ways to matter. Purpose is available to anyone, anywhere in the world, and when we discover and serve from it, w...
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Wild Alive Scratching for Meaning and Purpose from 2021-07-21T07:00
The ache for meaning and purpose can quite literally drive us to insane ends. Ask Ken Banks. His pursuit of meaningful work that makes an impact took him to do volunteer development work Zambia and...
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B Corps: Business as a Force for Profit and Purpose from 2021-07-14T07:00
It’s hard to remember the times when people began a business, in order to make a “boat load of money.” Of course, that still happens. But more and more people are looking for ways to balance profit...
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Purpose and Profit: Today’s Business Imperative from 2021-07-07T07:00
Today’s business climate calls forth the best leaders and companies can offer. No longer is it sufficient to simply offer a well-positioned product or service to remain viable in today’s ever-evolv...
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Circles: Women Creating Sanctuaries of Care from 2021-06-30T07:00
Come along with us in this conversation as we discover the new consciousness weaving its way through communities of women, connecting, caring, and uplifting each other. Activated through the power ...
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Namaste Direct: Lifting Guatemalan Business Women to Thrive from 2021-06-23T07:00
After committing to 50/50 of his time equally between work and a service project, Bob Graham found himself enjoying a golden age of personal transformation. He founded Namaste Direct in 2004 as a p...
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The Distinguishing Value of Upstanding Company Character from 2021-06-16T07:00
Who could have predicted the recent trifecta of a global pandemic, recession, and level of social unrest around such matters as the George Floyd murder? An unprecedented level of sensibility toward...
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Bringing Compassion to Cultures of Masculinity from 2021-06-09T07:00
People are hungry for meaning and purpose. People want to know the work they are important and the work they do matters. Consciousness is evolving as education and interdependence across the world ...
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Doctor’s Orders: A Prescription for Empathy to Reunite the US from 2021-06-02T07:00
Nutritionists tell us that we are what we eat. As a clinical psychologist, Dr. Arthur Ciaramicoli believes that we are what we perceive. We are in a dark time and in need of enhanced empathy to all...
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Cultivating Essential Energy for Thriving in Life from 2021-05-26T07:00
East meets West in this mindset as we discover how moving from surviving to thriving starts with moving from a destination to journey mindset. Getting access to powerful tools along the journey, li...
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Giving Employees Voice, Keeping Cultures Safe, Removing Liability from 2021-05-19T07:00
Work and the people with whom we do it can be such a source of connection and fulfillment. Yet, it often presents frustration, misunderstandings, and grievances. Part of the problem is that compani...
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Awakening Men to Purpose from 2021-05-12T07:00
Men are in crisis - a crisis of roles, expectations and conflicting signals. An opportunity exists to look to the wisdom traditions that can offer spiritual guidance along the journey to heightened...
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Elevate Your Team’s Performance with Holacracy from 2021-05-05T07:00
Through a social technology for governing and operating a team, holacracy takes the best from Getting Things Done and Agile approaches to yield a dynamic approach to collaboration and productivity....
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Meet the Shineologists from the House of Shine from 2021-04-28T07:00
What would the world look like if we began teaching children about their unique talents and ways of being that can better the world? How would helping people discover their purpose at a very young ...
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Encore Employee Recognition to Drive Fulfillment and Engagement from 2021-04-21T07:00
The power of a sincere “thank you”: Priceless. Everyone wants to know they matter and the work they do makes a difference. What if all your leaders could show they care for their team members? And ...
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Purpose and the Science of Changing Behavior for a Better Life from 2021-04-14T07:00
In this conversation with the ever insatiably curious Professor Wright, we take a deep empirical dive into purpose and how people experience it. How people gain access to their purpose and apply it...
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Elevating the Workplace Through Engagement and Well-Being from 2021-04-07T07:00
Soliciting and listening deeply to understand the perspectives and experiences of your employees, and taking action on the feedback, is a business imperative that cannot be overlooked in today’s bu...
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Corporate Social Responsibility: Aiming High for Greater Impact from 2021-03-31T07:00
Aiming to make a difference in the world beyond earning healthy profits is good for the health and vitality of all shareholders in a company. The world has so many problems and opportunities awaiti...
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Grit, Grace and Gravitas – Finding Balance in Your Leadership from 2021-03-24T07:00
Effective leadership starts with defining your internal bearings through deep personal exploration. Your highest leadership aspirations are the result of reflection that helps you define your highe...
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Do Work that Delights - Practice Simple Acts of Social Purpose from 2021-03-17T07:00
How’s this for good news? If you don’t like your job, you have the power to instantly improve it today by simply sprinkling in a social purpose contribution. What does that mean, you ask? You can s...
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What is the Ingredient Mix in Your Leadership CAKE? from 2021-03-10T08:00
Host of the Leadership Hacker podcast and author of the Leadership Cake likens the fundamentals of leadership to the essential ingredients of a delicious cake. Every leader needs to find the right ...
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Building Your Extraordinary Life from 2021-03-03T08:00
Want to live an extraordinary life? Or, are you content with one that is flat, repetitive and run by fear? Purpose, vision, and values go a long way in creating a life of fulfillment and impact. We...
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What Will You Do with Your One Precious Life to Create a Legacy? from 2021-02-24T08:00
Most people ache to matter, to make a meaningful contribution during their time on earth. Others would also like to be remembered long past their lifetimes through their achievements and contributi...
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The Science of Purpose, Its Expression Potentials, and Our Cosmos from 2021-02-17T08:00
Many people understand purpose existing for people as an on/off switch – either you’ve discovered it for yourself or you haven’t. Yet, there is so much more to purpose, which has been described as ...
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For the Love of Learning: Continuing Education as a Way of Life from 2021-02-10T08:00
It is hard to argue in today’s fluid workplace against the need for ongoing learning and development, constantly gaining new skills and stoking the ability to innovate and handle change. Some organ...
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CEO View: Practicing Servant Leadership and Extreme Communication from 2021-02-03T08:00
Effective leaders know the value of ongoing learning and receiving mentorship and support from others. In this episode, we learn from the CEO of NAFCU about why emotional intelligence is critical a...
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Never Stop Growing and Learning from 2021-01-27T08:00
Two of the biggest aspects that hold people back from pursuing their biggest, best life are their self-confidence and fear. The question is, will you learn to develop and harness those concerns in ...
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Unleashing the Desire to Learn from 2021-01-20T08:00
When John Baker was considering what to do for work, he asked himself, what’s the most important problem in the world I can help solve. The answer was how people learn, which led to founding D2L 20...
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Employee Recognition to Drive Fulfillment and Engagement from 2021-01-13T08:00
The power of a sincere “thank you”: Priceless. Everyone wants to know they matter and the work they do makes a difference. What if all your leaders could show they care for their team members? And ...
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Practicing Creativity for Collective Purpose from 2021-01-06T08:00
We can learn surprising things about ourselves when we practice creativity. We learn about our own biases, limitations, and fantasies, among many other useful aspects. Organizations can also solve ...
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Are You a Leader Worth Following? from 2020-12-30T08:00
Whether you’re a seasoned leader or just getting started in the role, there’s a good bet there are aspects of your leadership that can be strengthened when you do the hard work on yourself. After a...
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Josh Spodek: Bringing Your Passions to Life from 2020-12-23T08:00
Where have all the entrepreneurs gone? We seem to be producing less of them each year. Josh Spodek says this is due in part our educational system that teaches compliance at the expense of pursuing...
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Archetypes: For Unleashing Individuals, Companies and Cultures from 2020-12-16T08:00
Archetypes provide individuals and companies a powerful way to access their own story, symbols, patterns and passions. When we know who we are at our core and have language to articulate it, our ow...
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The Pull to Matter: Dasra’s Ripple Across India from 2020-12-09T08:00
A couple of years into his first job at Morgan Stanley in New York, Deval Sanghavi realized he wanted to be in India, to focus on the lives of the many millions that live without dignity and equity...
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Activating Purpose Through the Life Stages from 2020-12-02T08:00
Part one of a meaningful life is to become acquainted with one’s purpose; Part two is to put it into action through its helpful expression and service to others. Pursuing purpose is our ultimate li...
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COVID-19: Cascading Change in Life and Work from 2020-11-25T08:00
The COVID-19 pandemic has proven to be the great shake-up force in companies across the world. Pivoting as a company operating in these times and supporting employees in a virtual environment has e...
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Serviam Investors: Powering Conscious and Purpose-Driven Business from 2020-11-18T08:00
A conscious purpose-driven business deserves an investor that is here to liberate it to fulfill its purpose. Traditional financial services, capital markets, and investors are not aligned and thus...
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Teaching Business Owners to Play to be Different, Not to Win from 2020-11-11T08:00
Howard Shore is on a mission to impact 500,000 people. And he wants to do so by helping business owners create businesses that are not “about me,” but rather out to change the world. He revels in h...
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The Renaissance Woman Helping People Work from Purpose from 2020-11-04T08:00
What would it take for you to step out of your comfort and into the challenge of transforming to your best and highest self? The journey is well worth the work, and along the way you just might dis...
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The Innovation Ultimatum that is Reshaping Business from 2020-10-28T07:00
Business will experience more change in the next 10 years than it has in the last 40. Every business will become a technology company, and every business will become a data company. Investments in ...
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Essence Mining Alise Cortez’s Path to Purpose from 2020-10-21T07:00
The tables are turned in this episode as Alise Cortez, Host of Working on Purpose radio, is interviewed through the “essence mining” method by Danny Gutknecht. He teases out what matters most to he...
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Caring for Your Living Organization from 2020-10-14T07:00
A paradigm shift in business is urgently needed, especially on the heels of the pandemic that has served as a major wakeup call and has helped us understand the inextricability of environmental con...
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Developing an Elite Mindset - Go All In from 2020-10-07T07:00
Living to our fullest potential takes energy and effort, along with a strong and focused mindset. You’ll need to summon passion, perseverance and then, just get TO it. When you “Go All In” you give...
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Beyond Money: Selling with Noble Purpose from 2020-09-30T07:00
Don’t let anyone tell you that you have to choose between making money and making a difference. Salespeople who genuinely understand how they can make a difference to customers outsell those who o...
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Addressing the Leadership Crisis with Bob Chapman from 2020-09-23T07:00
Bob Chapman has had a series of arresting insights that have completely changed the way he builds his businesses and his approach to leadership. He’s come to realize there is a leadership crisis in...
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LeaderQuips: Bite-Sized Lessons for Impact from 2020-09-16T07:00
Having studied and practiced leadership for 30 years, Jeff Lovejoy is on a mission to package and share everything he’s learned. And he’s doing so in digestible “bite-sized” or “jellybean-sized” ch...
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Level Up in Life through Strengths and Competencies to Reach Your Goals from 2020-09-09T07:00
Michael Oster has discovered a way to help high achievers “level up” in life. He’s created a framework that teaches people to harness competency-strengths combinations as “weapons of construction” ...
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Winning in the Age of Meaningful Connection with the Corporate Alumni Network from 2020-09-02T07:00
Companies spend a lot of time and budget recruiting new talent into their organization, adding headcount to grow and replacing that which moves on or retires. Often overlooked as a strategy to sour...
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The Greater Encourager: Champion for Living Life Fully from 2020-08-26T07:00
Living life fully takes energy and a choice toward a path to purpose. It also takes being authentically true to yourself, listening carefully to your own calling, despite what well-intentioned peop...
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Purpose-Based Management in Education Post COVID-19 from 2020-08-19T07:00
Coronavirus has presented so many unique challenges to education. Moving education online at the drop of a hat, then figuring out how to continue to support students, how to support parents becomin...
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Hospice Biographers: Memorializing Lives from 2020-08-12T07:00
Imagine someone you love is standing at the precipice of their own death. They’re about to leave behind those they hold dear, and their passing will leave a hole in your life. How can you ease thei...
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Zensual Gal: From Surviving to Thriving from 2020-08-05T07:00
Many of us will spend a good portion of our lives getting over and recovering from the events of our childhood. It’s the steps we take, the work we do, and the grace we grant ourselves that can mak...
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Individuating: Its Path Through Meaning to Actualization from 2020-07-29T07:00
There is a growing urgency, a hunger to experience more meaning and purpose in life and at work. Danny Gutknecht further asserts that the need to actualize is becoming a cultural phenomenon. Throug...
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Transforming Non-Profit and Church Leadership from 2020-07-22T07:00
Transformational leadership casts a vision and empowers the team to realize it through inspired performance. Hugh Ballou works with non-profit and church leaders because he knows they often must wo...
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Innovation and Wealth: Forces for Good from 2020-07-15T07:00
Entrepreneurs and innovators are a powerful force that have contributed tremendous value to the business world and communities they serve. Often fueled from great passion and emboldened by a team i...
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Motivation: Fortifying the Precious Resource that Powers Results from 2020-07-08T07:00
): Motivation is the driving force behind any action or lack thereof. And yet it is little understood beyond simple extrinsic and intrinsic types, and thus often lacking in opportunity to leverage ...
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Creating Transformative Encounters in the Workplace from 2020-07-01T07:00
Confronting change. Intentional growth and development. Gearing up for the next promotion. Transforming through crisis and the everyday. These are just some of the reasons people and organizations ...
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The Purpose Factor, Courtesy of the Bosche Duo from 2020-06-24T07:00
The pursuit to purpose is the pursuit to matter. If you want to find out how to be motivated, ask why. If you want to find your purpose, ask who. Purpose is about solving a problem for someone, and...
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Riding Technology for Higher Humanity from 2020-06-17T07:00
Upon receiving a terminal diagnosis for his newborn daughter, Christian Kromme the technologist set out to learn everything he could about biology and nature to look for some way to save her. That ...
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Stoke Your Entrepreneurial Finesse with Patrick Bet-David from 2020-06-10T07:00
Whether you’re an established business owner or just starting out on the journey, Patrick Bet-David has some pearls of advice he’s learned as a very successful entrepreneur. An immigrant from Iran,...
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How Purpose Can Positively Impact the Mental Health Crisis from 2020-06-03T07:00
Mental health is in crisis in America. We are seeing double digit increases in anxiety, depression, and suicide. And yet available to us all is the opportunity for meaning and fulfillment through o...
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Navigating Our Emotions: The Path to Communication and Health from 2020-05-27T07:00
Emotions are “energy in motion” and much more of a potent force in our lives than most people understand. When we leave them unexpressed, stuffed, unacknowledged, or numb them out, emotions have to...
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From Ugly Universal Lies to Beautiful Individual Truths from 2020-05-20T07:00
Work is at least one-third of our lives, if not more. And yet, only 16 percent of the global workforce is fulfilled in the work they do. That figure is at least partly so because the leaders inside...
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JOYELY A Love Affair of Human Hearts from 2020-05-13T07:00
People ache to find their purpose. And often, it’s been with you your whole life – you just didn’t know how to recognize it as such. That persistent, niggling part of yourself that just won’t let y...
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UP to Something in Life? Reach for Your Inner Sisu from 2020-05-06T07:00
When you’re UP to something in life, you’re going to need a good dose of resilience to push through the inevitable hurdles that stand between the place you are today and where you strive to be tomo...
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Women Leading the Charge in the Pandemic Age from 2020-04-29T07:00
What does leadership in the COVID-19 pandemic look like? The answer greatly depends on the leader and has massive ramifications as life and business have been turned upside down. In this episode, L...
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Leading in Business for Sustainability in the 2020s from 2020-04-22T07:00
Doing business in today’s increasingly interdependent marketplace on one shared planet calls for conscientious and enlightened leadership. Adherence to sustainable business practices that are econo...
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The Future We Create The Silver Linings in COVID-19 from 2020-04-15T07:00
The coronavirus pandemic has provided a forced hard re-boot. Everything has now changed in the way we live, work, and do business. And in confronting COVID-19, we’ve finally realized that we are a ...
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Become a Moment Hunter Embracing Ichigo Ichie from 2020-04-08T07:00
Want to vastly improve the quality of your life, relationships, and work? In this technological age when gadgets handily separate people from meaningful connection, embracing the Japanese concept o...
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Thriving in Business: When Purpose Meets Execution from 2020-04-01T07:00
Turns out there’s a simple, yet powerful dynamic that enables business to thrive today: Purpose as the crucial foundation and execution as the catalyst to fulfill it. Striking the right balance is ...
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Embracing Diversity Invites Continuous Ideological Re-Evaluation from 2020-03-25T07:00
This episode offers an inspiring and compelling promise. If we want to live in our diverse world with ease and joy, we all must re-evaluate the ideas we accepted as naïve children observing biased ...
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DSM: A Shining Example of Enlightened Business from 2020-03-18T07:00
What would your company – and the world – look like if you as a business leader or owner managed to help each employee recognize that his or her individual contribution made a meaningful difference...
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Enlightened Leadership in Education from 2020-03-11T07:00
A leader is the person literally “out front,” which means being on display and in full view of an array of discerning parties affected by your decisions. It takes courage and conviction, but what a...
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Unleashing Business as the Force for Healing from 2020-03-04T08:00
Business and the system of capitalism can do so much better than narrowing the focus on profits over people and the environment. When governed by conscience and tapping into the collective magnifi...
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The Social Enterprise that Empowers Refugee Women from 2020-02-26T08:00
Social enterprise as a business structure is increasingly being chosen by conscientious people to do business while living key values. Capitalism can be such a force for good and when a business is...
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Her New Standard: Lifting Women in Leadership from 2020-02-19T08:00
The “broken rung” in companies, where 72 women are promoted to their first level management position, next to 100 men, is a problem Dr. Keithline Byrne and team are hard at work to help women overc...
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From Prostate Cancer to Passion and Purpose from 2020-02-12T08:00
Passion and purpose often come from the most surprising places. Tom Hulsey found his passion to help serve others combatting cancer after the winning mindset he’d leaned on to perform Ironman compe...
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Can You Hear the Call to Your Purpose? from 2020-02-05T08:00
What do you suppose could be possible if you learned to tune in and listen to that inner urging voice that so desperately is trying to guide you in life? And you stop “shushing” it going about your...
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A Dream Reclaimed by a Transformed Life from 2020-01-29T08:00
Life offers spectacular opportunities to achieve dreams, realize potential, and suffer through hardship. The attitude we adopt in response to what life serves up can be the difference between a ful...
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Stuck in your Career? Consider a Start-Up! from 2020-01-22T08:00
Tired of trying to distinguish yourself and navigate a career in a large corporation? Consider a tech start-up! Today’s tech start ups have big ideas, are well-funded, and they need people who can ...
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Choose Your Reader: Fueling Literacy, Language Acquisition and Meaningful Relationships from 2020-01-15T08:00
Mike Coles loved reading stories to his young son, but his frequent travel schedule and subsequent divorce introduced a dilemma that inspired a creative solution to maintain the cherished tradition...
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Mother Nature Calls her STEM Daughters from 2020-01-08T08:00
Mother Nature is calling her daughters, and Homeward Bound answers with a 10-year global leadership initiative, set against the backdrop of Antarctica. This initiative aims to heighten the influenc...
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Change a Life in a Single Conversation from 2020-01-01T08:00
Want to make a profound difference in this one, precious life you’ve been granted? Learn how to change someone’s life for the better in a single conversation. It will take a certain mindset, a clea...
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Christmas as an Everyday State of Mind from 2019-12-25T08:00
What if we lived every day of the year as if it were Christmas – and as if we were Santa Claus? What if we let ourselves be called into a higher state of being that embodied love, gratitude, and gi...
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Recruiting and Developing Talent to Champion Tomorrow's Vision from 2019-12-18T08:00
A company’s success is heavily determined by the quality and transforming potency of the talent it can attract. Companies that selectively hire for their culture and the vision they are growing int...
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Avoid Disaster: Say NO to Gut Decisions from 2019-12-11T08:00
“It just feels right” or “I go with my gut” are very common ways we have been encouraged to make decisions. Yet in today’s complex social and business environment, this emotional or instinctual app...
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Lynne Franks: Today's Renaissance Woman from 2019-12-04T08:00
Most of us ache to live a full life of contribution and impact, one we're proud of and leaves us fulfilled. At 71, having made large waves in the Public Relations and Fashion industries early in he...
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Unconscious Bias vs Consciously Dancing with Life from 2019-11-27T08:00
Unconscious bias is a short cut technique we all employ to try to deal with the constant onslaught of information we confront every day. Using it in the workplace often results in limited input to ...
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Finding Strength in Your Struggle from 2019-11-20T08:00
Anxiety and depression are the most common mental health diagnoses in the US, followed by substance abuse disorder. This is due in part to our tendency as an individualistic society to assume alone...
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Finding Your Lane and Key Lessons Learned from Business Leaders from 2019-11-13T08:00
Serve first. Never stop learning. These are just two of the key lessons shared from top business leaders that distinguish their careers of service and impact. In this fireside chat with Bruce Walle...
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GallantFew: Helping Veterans Find Hope and Purpose from 2019-11-06T08:00
Military men and women face an enormous challenge transitioning from active duty to the civilian world, often describe it as the hardest thing they’ve ever done. Leaving behind a life and mission g...
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What Are You Doing to Realize the Person You Ache to Become? from 2019-10-30T07:00
Is this you, the aspirational human, aching to realize your potential? Do you have a desire to grow and evolve, but are not acting on it? Do you live with a constant nagging feeling, a dissatisfac...
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Customers Choose Trust and Employees Own Their Engagement from 2019-10-23T07:00
Today’s business climate calls for a move away from a focus on shareholder primacy to one that includes serving all stakeholders – customers, employees, suppliers, communities, and shareholders. Do...
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Ending Human Trafficking: People are Never for Sale or Purchase from 2019-10-16T07:00
Human trafficking is modern-day slavery and victims, often sourced through their vulnerability, are subject to force, fraud or coercion for the purposes of forced labor and/or sexual exploitation. ...
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No More Excuses: Pivoting at Age 50 to Claim Your Authenticity from 2019-10-09T07:00
19 years as an award-winning corporate businesswoman was not the ticket to fulfillment … until Michele discovered comedy as her platform for freedom and a way to help others through their struggles...
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Vitally Aging: Retirement as the New Frontier from 2019-10-02T07:00
As advances in medicine extend the lifespan, baby boomers and traditionalists are finding they have more years to live and experience life, post careers. Perspectives and even definitions of retire...
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Preparing Girls for Business and Women for the Boardroom from 2019-09-25T07:00
According to the Boardroom Project, 51% of the population and almost half of the nation’s workforce are women, yet they are still significantly underrepresented in boardrooms across the country. Th...
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Ikigai: A Framework for Finding Meaning, Purpose, and Harmony from 2019-09-18T07:00
In a world where so many people are desperately seeking greater meaning in their lives, the Japanese concept of “ikigai” just might offer the holy grail. Ikigai can be thought of as a framework for...
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Encore: Catalyzing Success through Collaborative Advantage from 2019-09-11T07:00
As the world changes, so must our marketing and strategic orientation to it. Gone are the days of competitive advantage to best peers and emerge as number one in the marketplace. We are now in an e...
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Changing Everything to Avoid Catastrophe: Life Post Incarceration from 2019-09-04T07:00
How do you respond when life knocks you down? Way down? When one day you seem to be on top of the world, living the high life of running a successful business, playing golf at the country club, run...
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Conscious Capitalism Begins with Mindful Leadership from 2019-08-28T07:00
In our ever technology-fueled world, increasing our self-awareness and mindfulness is the order of the day. Doing so helps us cultivate creativity, compassion, and trust-based work, essential compo...
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Creating and Operating from an Intentionally Authentic Culture from 2019-08-21T07:00
Creating a workplace culture that governs a company is guiding principles and mission and keeping it alive and vibrant is essential to compete in today is competitive marketplace. Customers and emp...
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Beware: Retirement from Work Can Be Hazardous from 2019-08-14T07:00
We have been so conditioned to make a living and aim toward retirement from work so we can finally start enjoying life. Unfortunately as so many people have learned the hard way, it turns out this ...
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Turning Childhood Stories into Life Lessons that Distinguish Us from 2019-08-07T07:00
Every one of us has had a childhood that has provided memorable experiences and critical life lessons. It is entirely up to us to exercise our freedom to choose the attitude we take to this set of ...
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Defining Your Truth Through Personal Branding and Photography from 2019-07-31T07:00
Everyone deserves to have photos that are as impressive and beautiful as they are in real life. Capturing our “story” and who we really are as we live our purpose is incredibly compelling and usher...
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Lessons Our Animals Teach Us to Become Our Best Selves from 2019-07-24T07:00
Did you know your pet comes into your life to teach you specific lessons? And that he also has his own life mission? I didn’t either until I talked with Dr. Joanne Lefebvre. There is so much we can...
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Resilience: Building a Life After Devastating Hardship from 2019-07-17T07:00
Life can serve up some powerful punches that can seem incredibly cruel and unfair while in the throes of wrestling with them. Often, hardship is a tremendous opportunity in disguise to discover jus...
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MEANINGology: A Cure for Todays Modern Day Crisis of Meaning from 2019-07-10T07:00
There is a meaning crisis on a global scale that is draining the life out of people and the organizations that employ them. People hunger for meaningful connection with others, a life and work of p...
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Integrating Passion with Purpose: A Recipe to Live Your 2.0 from 2019-07-03T07:00
Have you ever felt an irresistible nudge encouraging you to step outside of your comfort zone? According to Wei-Li Shao, more often than not, this nudge isn’t a question, but rather an answer. Afte...
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Catalyzing Success through Collaborative Advantage from 2019-06-26T07:00
As the world changes, so must our marketing and strategic orientation to it. Gone are the days of competitive advantage to best peers and emerge as number one in the marketplace. We are now in an e...
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Hack Your Career to one of Passion and Purpose from 2019-06-19T07:00
It’s never too late to “hack your career” and create the life you ache for. Of course, you’ll need a system that engages your heart, head, and body and keeps you in “kinetic action” toward working ...
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Empowering Girls to Change the World from 2019-06-12T07:00
Young girls and women across the world can do so much when educated and inspired to live and work to their fullest full potential. What’s needed for girls and women of all ages is a community that ...
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Intrinsic Motivation: The Drive Beyond Employee Engagement from 2019-06-05T07:00
Companies increasingly need a high-performing workforce contributing their full talents in order to remain competitive, especially at a time when unemployment is at the unprecedented rate of 3.8 pe...
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Life Intensely Tasted in Search of Meaning from 2019-05-29T07:00
Most of us will wrestle with some existential angst over the course of our lives, pondering the essence of our existence and our place in the world. We may dive deeply into a spiritual quest, deter...
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Lead from Any Position - Through Influence from 2019-05-22T07:00
Everyone wants to matter, to make a difference in the time they are walking across the planet. One potent way to matter is to be a leader. And whether your leadership is based on position, expertis...
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The Legacy and Gift of Teaching Philanthropy from 2019-05-15T07:00
Never doubt the impact of living your purpose and speaking that truth can have. Bob Hopkins is a Dallas philanthropist who has been teaching elementary school children across the world how to volun...
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Reverse Engineer Your Life: The Path to Legacy from 2019-05-08T07:00
Starting with the end in mind is a powerful way to steward our lives. All of us hunger to know we matter, that our existence makes a difference in the world somehow. Yet, creating a life of meaning...
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Purpose Knocks and the Grateful Recovering Alcoholic Answers from 2019-05-01T07:00
For some, the path to purpose is about healing what is broken in us. It’s a call to finally embrace and lean into treating that which has ailed us often for decades. There is a tendency to be reluc...
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Women on Purpose Thought Leadership Summit from 2019-04-24T07:00
Forward-thinking companies serious about remaining vibrant and competitive recognize the need and benefit to develop women as strong contributing, fulfilled professionals and thought leaders. Women...
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Purpose Quest: Hug Your Ego to Get to Your Essence from 2019-04-17T07:00
Becoming present to your purpose and then opting in can be seen as your life’s evolutionary opportunity. What if you consider that your job in life is to become conscious and present to your purpos...
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Growth Through Scale, Culture, and Leadership from 2019-04-10T07:00
Staying relevant today in business often requires scaling and growing the operation. In addition to addressing the critical processes and procedures to support growth, leaders can powerfully levera...
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Logotherapy: A Way of Life to Meaning from 2019-04-03T07:00
In the crazy hustle of today’s busy life, people crave meaning and purpose. Meaning is literally everywhere, though up to each of us to uniquely find and embrace it. Logotherapy is not just a theor...
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Tell Your Story: Anxiety and Depression in Teens from 2019-03-27T07:00
Growing up and graduating high school comes with a lot of stress and pressure in today’s exceedingly competitive times. And in a world so connected by technology, it is ironic that so many of us do...
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Soulful Leadership Creates Connection and Competitive Advantage from 2019-03-20T07:00
According to Dr. Ciaramicoli, a “soulful leader” is a leader who leads with authenticity, integrity, and empathy. And we can all tell on a visceral level when we’re in the presence of such a leade...
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Purpose: Putting Your Money with Your Why from 2019-03-13T07:00
In this episode we talk about the relationship between money and purpose. It’s a new world out there today. With more people choosing to put off marriage for longer and more marriages ending in div...
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Need Help Activating Your Own Greatness? from 2019-03-06T08:00
In this conversation, we drink from the inspirational firehouse of a woman on a mission to uplift people, help them find their purpose, and change their lives for the better. We talk about how she ...
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Emotional Intelligence and Restorative Juvenile Justice from 2019-02-27T08:00
In a world of merciless change as a constant, it can be perplexing that so many of us resist it and find ourselves stuck in mindsets that simply don’t serve us well. At the same time, there is much...
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Yes, You CAN Create the Life You Want! from 2019-02-20T08:00
Everything in life is energy, and that energy is connected through our thoughts, beliefs, emotions, and actions into the cosmic consciousness. Raana Zia shares her own journey toward understanding ...
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Nick Craig on Leading From Purpose from 2019-02-13T08:00
Purpose: It’s worth digging for, and something no one can ever take away from us once we discover it. It gives us courage, clarity, and focus to act in the face of uncertainty, something every lead...
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Y Scouts, The Purpose-Based Leadership Search Firm from 2019-02-06T08:00
Y Scouts is on a mission to connect 10 million people with work that matters. They’re doing it in a way that completely revamps the way hiring inside companies is done. With candidates, they begin ...
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Building the Purpose Movement from 2019-01-30T08:00
Paul Ratoff is inspired by the magnificent contribution non profit and for profit organizations make to the world. And they can make an even bigger impact when they are led from purpose and all the...
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Uncovering Passion by Overcoming Pain from 2019-01-23T08:00
Humans are amazingly good at hanging onto old misgivings and pain from the past. A life-long accumulation of hurt can completely derail the pursuit of a passionate and purposeful life, unless we ca...
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Breaking Free to Chase Your Dreams from 2019-01-16T08:00
Life is full of an enormous array of experiences ranging from ecstatically beautiful and profoundly moving to devastatingly painful and debilitating. It’s the way we frame and respond to these expe...
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Whats Your Next? And How Will You Make It Happen? from 2019-01-09T08:00
What will you do with your one, precious life? Full of “nexts,” you get to decide daily just what comprises this life of yours. It’s easy to get pulled down by the sheer momentum of everyday life. ...
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Celebrating Christmas and Hanukah in a Life and Work of Joy from 2019-01-02T08:00
It’s the holidays, and there is joy everywhere! At least, that’s so with guest Sherri Schwartz, who celebrates both Christmas and Hanukah each year and decorates with an uncommon zeal. She throws h...
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Progress Leadership in the World of Constant Change from 2018-12-26T08:00
Dean Lindsay is a keynote speaker with a humorous and engaging approach. He is an expert and award-winning author on influence, connection, goal setting, sales, and customer service. Dean shares h...
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Great Leaders Can Bring Back Humanity and Connection at Work from 2018-12-19T08:00
In the age of artificial intelligence and robotics pressing for more productivity and efficiency in the workplace, people across the globe are increasingly feeling more disconnected and depressed a...
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The Epic Call to Men to Support Women in Leadership from 2018-12-12T08:00
As the world turns on the axis of change with technology and artificial intelligence, huge shifts coincide in what it means to participate in the workforce as human beings. One area that is lagging...
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Protecting and Monetizing Entrepreneurial Ideas from 2018-12-05T08:00
Got a great idea? Does it need protecting and if so, how? Do you know how to monetize the idea and turn it into a business or some kind of offering? In this exciting episode, we talk with intellect...
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Surety of Death Fires Urgent Purpose in Life from 2018-11-28T08:00
If there’s one thing we can all count on, it’s that our lives will come to an end. And it’s that finality that we can summon to harness a tremendous sense of purpose across our lives. We get just o...
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Creating the New Workplace Through Purpose from 2018-11-21T08:00
People are hungry today for meaning, passion, and inspiration. Finding purpose in our lives and work can not only generate those critical elements but also provide a certain integrity across their ...
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The AIM Project: Putting a Real Face on Global Issues from 2018-11-14T08:00
Sharon DeMattia found herself stuck in a life of external achievement, but lacking purpose. She observed the trends of disconnection—depression, anxiety, school shootings, suicide, war, and decide...
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Growing Your Business Through a MasterMind Group from 2018-11-07T08:00
There’s a lot of talk about mindset these days. We all know that being around hungry, driven people inspires us to improve. But what almost no one understands about mindset is that it’s hard to cha...
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On a Mission to Develop head, Heart, and Empathy in Police from 2018-10-31T07:00
Police officers place themselves in harm’s way daily, have a duty to serve, and confront the difficult position of being with people often in their worst moments. How that police officer shows up o...
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Reviving Passion in Corporate America from 2018-10-24T07:00
A small percentage of the world’s population actually wants to go to work on Monday morning. Something has gone terribly wrong in the corporate world and how the workforce is led today. But how did...
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On Finding and Living from Purpose from 2018-10-17T07:00
At a fundamental level, people across the world over crave connection to others and to a meaning and sphere larger than themselves often manifested in their spirituality. A significant number of t...
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Lumina Learning: A Foundation for Growth and Development from 2018-10-10T07:00
Individuals and leaders in organizations are well-served when they embrace curious life-long learning, both in their work and their own self-awareness. Using a suite of assessment tools appropriate...
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Aaron Hurst on The Purpose Economy from 2018-10-03T07:00
Meaning and purpose are serious words in today’s juxtaposed world of technology, artificial intelligence, and robotics. It seems impossible to go a day without hearing something about purpose; I ev...
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DSM: Purpose-Led, Performance-Driven from 2018-09-26T07:00
At a time when people crave meaning and purpose across their lives, companies have a real opportunity to make the difference and impact that truly sets them apart as employers and providers of good...
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Igniting Entrepreneurship, Philanthropy and Storytelling in Women from 2018-09-19T07:00
Cheryl Polote-Williamson is on a tear to empower women across the globe to embrace their own leader and entrepreneur from within and unleash themselves powerfully into the world. Helping women to b...
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Cynthia Brian the Empowerment Architect from 2018-09-12T07:00
At a time when we are constantly bombarded with messages that the world has innumerable problems, from disease to hunger to terrorism, here stands a counter voice. From her simple but purpose-empow...
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Preparing for a Career in Global Broadcast Journalism from 2018-09-05T07:00
Generation Z youth graduating from high school today literally can enjoy a beautiful, open canvas of endless possibility in their lives. They can study anything they want, pursue any career of inte...
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The Diagnosis that Fuels Purpose and Legacy from 2018-08-29T07:00
What would you do with your life if you knew you had a sooner-rather-than-later expiration date? How would facing that finality alter the direction of your life? Or would it at all? Gwen Rich knows...
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Want to be the Gutsy Girl Who GOES for It and GETS It? from 2018-08-22T07:00
Though women have made strides in business and leadership, there is still much room for growth and improvement. Women need other successful women who inspire and show them the way. Good news, ladie...
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Thrive by Cultivating Your Intuition from 2018-08-15T07:00
Intuition has been ascribed by Steve Jobs as the highest form of intelligence. Yet, many people across the world have yet to fully understand its power to dramatically unleash creativity, desired r...
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Catalyzing Purpose-Driven Leadership and Culture from 2018-08-08T07:00
In today’s fast and furious workplace where artificial intelligence and robotics reign strong and information is everywhere, more people crave meaning, significance, and purpose. Not just in their ...
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The Game of Life: Practical, Purposeful Selling from 2018-08-01T07:00
Selling for many people might register on the fear scale just one rung below public speaking. But why, when selling well gives us so much access to meeting amazing people and making the impact in t...
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Playing at Work to Invent from 2018-07-25T07:00
Roland Haertl has been playing at work his whole life. After several decades of founding and running companies, when most of his peers are spending quiet years in retirement, Roland is enjoying his...
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Encore: Kimberly Davis on Brave Leadership from 2018-07-18T07:00
There’s much talk about the importance of leadership to set a clear vision, engage the hearts and minds of individuals within an organization, and drive critical business results. And we hear about...
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Where are the Hidden Profits in Your Business? from 2018-07-11T07:00
The profits in your business come from ongoing decisions made. Some of those decisions happen daily; some are the strategic ones made for the longer term. Lauren shares the seven key areas that i...
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You CAN: Make the Most of Adversity from 2018-07-03T07:00
Speaker, consultant, author Steve Gavatorta takes on this highly relevant topic in his book, In Defense of Adversity: Turning Your Toughest Challenges into Your Greatest Success. The purpose of thi...
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Making the Most of Work Throughout Our Lives from 2018-06-27T07:00
Work – we do it all our lives. From landing our very first job, to transitioning in and out of the workforce to raise children, to completely reinventing ourselves past 50, we cover it in this epis...
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Say YES to Beautiful Business Proposals from 2018-06-20T07:00
Do you have a business idea you ache to see to fruition in the form of an offering or a business? Are you wondering if you have the stuff to make it as an entrepreneur? Or do you desperately need t...
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The Cognition of Innovation from 2018-06-13T07:00
“We are innovative!”, “We never look back!”, “Recession? What about it?” In this episode, Dr. Erika Jacobi shares the findings of her truly remarkable research study that explored the cognition and...
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Why Apologize? Just Succeed! from 2018-06-06T07:00
Rachael Melot is on a tear to evangelize mentorship, entrepreneurship, and success for women. Women tend to apologize for what they want and the success they achieve. Join us in this episode as we ...
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The Story Behind the Storyteller from 2018-05-30T07:00
What do you ache to be and accomplish in life? And do you have the sheer ambition, persistence, and work ethic to achieve it? I recently had the profound pleasure to cross paths with and be touched...
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Marketing, Managing, and Motivating Millennials from 2018-05-23T07:00
Millennials will comprise 50 percent of the workforce by 2020. Do you have an effective strategy in place to market to them and attract them to your employment brand? Then once they’re in the door ...
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Digital Transformation - Putting People First from 2018-05-16T07:00
Is your head spinning from the rapid changes in technology? And how do we stay in real dialogue when life encourages us to live at 140 characters or less? In this episode, we talk about the tumultu...
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How Understanding Neuroscience Can Improve Our Lives from 2018-05-08T07:00
In this episode, we venture into a warm and personal exchange between Abhijit and Alise that explores how understanding neuroscience can help our relationships across all of life. We talk about how...
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Dr. Bob Nelson on Motivating, Engaging and Recognizing Employees from 2018-04-25T07:00
People are the engine that companies run on. Yet, many companies struggle with their human capital practices as they are first established or as they grow over time. Creating an environment and job...
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Feedback that Empowers and Facilitates Engagement from 2018-04-18T07:00
Amazing the power of a simple piece of feedback. It can mean the world to us on that day, or it can crush us for eternity. But maybe, when requested and received over the lifetime of a career, it c...
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Can Choice and Courage Help You Live the Live You Want? from 2018-04-11T07:00
Change. It’s everywhere. Whether we actively seek it, or it’s foisted on us at work or in our personal lives. Downsized or just asked to move on? With a dose of courage and choice, we can entirely...
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The Culture Architect on Employee Engagement from 2018-04-04T07:00
According to the Gallup Organization, the employee engagement rate at the average U.S. company is 29 percent. That is dismal by most any standard. As an owner, shareholder, or leader in a company, ...
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Gary Alan - Open Mic on Interviews with Extraordinary News Makers from 2018-03-28T07:00
Gary Alan has made a life as American talk show host and journalist. He is an ardent researcher who exchanges ideas on current events and looking into the lives of guests with national eminence. In...
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Motivating, Engaging and Recognizing Employees from 2018-03-21T07:00
People are the engine that companies run on. Yet, many companies struggle with their human capital practices as they are first established or as they grow over time. Creating an environment and job...
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Alpha Females Living with Passion, Working on Purpose from 2018-03-14T07:00
Society and the workplace are undergoing transformation as gender dynamics shift in initiative taken and roles assumed. More women are graduating college today than men. Men in committed relationsh...
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Driver-Less Cars and Smart Cities Change the Way We Work from 2018-03-07T08:00
Advances in technology are constantly changing the way we live and work. Think back not that long ago when we physically went to the library to check out books or sent a courier to ferry a document...
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Andrea Zintz on Shaping, Stimulating and Supporting Innovation from 2018-02-28T08:00
What does it take for leaders to encourage or even cause innovation in their organizations today? It takes a strategic focus and a rigorously applied set of ongoing actions across and through the o...
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Life Takes Grit - And Gives Much When We Rise to Challenge from 2018-02-21T08:00
What we do with life’s challenges makes us the people we ultimately are – it’s how we respond to life’s curve balls especially that determines our character and what we achieve. It’s truly astoundi...
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Marketing and Sales No Longer Sell - Customers Sell to Customers from 2018-02-14T08:00
Customers, especially successful ones, are the lifeblood of any business. Creating successful customers—with a memorable customer experience—is increasingly the differentiator in a competitive mark...
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Performance: Building and Leading Effective Teams from 2018-02-07T08:00
Getting people in organizations to perform at extraordinary levels may be at the very heart of outstanding leadership. And building a solid team that executes on a leader’s vision and strategy is k...
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Do You Know Your Leader Types from 2018-01-31T08:00
Do you know your LeaderType(s)? And did you know that you just might have more in common with great leaders, even those who have occupied the United States Oval Office? In this episode, we talk wit...
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Highlights in Learning and Development from 2018-01-24T08:00
Where the workforce is going in the future is anchored in lessons learned from the past, and also rapidly evolving to meet the ever-changing and competitive global marketplace. Most people embrace ...
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What Achievers Teach Us About Motivation from 2018-01-17T08:00
Have you ever really considered, “Am I made of the stuff to achieve really great things? Are my dreams realistic?” It turns out, there is quite a difference between how famous, quite accomplished p...
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Want Desperately to Recreate Yourself in the New Year? from 2018-01-10T08:00
Each time a New Year clicks past, many of us are overtaken with an extreme resolve to finally go after the goals we believe will fulfill our lives. We achingly pledge, “new year, new me.” But how m...
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Healing Leadership That Creates Vision and Strategy from 2018-01-03T08:00
In this episode, we hear from one of the most approachable yet talented business strategists, with a long tenure in teaching business people to be more effective at their practice. Ed Kless shares ...
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Encore: Gathering 'Round the Author - Readings and Christmas Memory Celebrations with Brandi Dougherty from 2017-12-27T08:00
What childhood memories does Christmas conjure for you? Is it making cookies with Grandma, singing Christmas carols with neighbors, or fighting with your sibling over who gets to open the first pre...
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Existentially Speaking: A Comedian's Take on Engagement from 2017-12-20T08:00
Ready for the twist in this episode? We’ll be talking in depth about the importance of finding meaning at work through engagement, even on an existential level. And we’ll dive into how sport, art, ...
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Addressing Food Deserts in South Dallas from 2017-12-13T08:00
The food we eat is often chosen by what is nearby and affordable. But for an increasing number of city dwellers, this availability-affordability measure means buying processed foods from a nearby c...
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Kirk Bowman on the Art of Value from 2017-12-06T08:00
The purpose and why of our work must also be carried over to our customers and how we interact with them, specifically how we charge them. Charging by the hour for our work is actually a conflict o...
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Manifesting the Life and Work We Desire from 2017-11-29T08:00
By manifesting, we mean to bring into existence that which we clearly intend for ourselves. Though it can sound overly simplistic and perhaps unrealistic to the untrained ear, manifesting that whic...
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The Power of Gratitude - Giving Thanks in Life, Work, and Leaders from 2017-11-22T08:00
The Thanksgiving holiday is a great time to remind ourselves of the importance of practicing gratitude across our lives including in business and leadership. Living and working from a place of grat...
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MomPowerment: Women Working Part-Time to Balance Career and Family from 2017-11-15T08:00
Almost half of mothers would prefer part-time work, yet only 25 percent of them do. Though there are many benefits to working professionally in a part-time capacity for both the woman and her emplo...
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TriggerGive: Putting Your Money to Your Hashtag from 2017-11-08T08:00
Founder Isaac Alfton came up with the TriggerGive idea while attending the IE Business School in Madrid, Spain for his MBA. After one too many annoying political posts showing up on his social med...
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Lucian Fogoros on IIOT - the Industrial Internet of Things from 2017-11-01T07:00
IIOT, or the internet of things, is all over our news space. But what does it really mean? And what does it mean for various industries? In this episode, we’ll talk with one of the two founders fro...
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Building Your Business Through Structured Socialization Networking from 2017-10-25T07:00
As human beings, we’re wired to connect socially. It’s how we’ve survived through the ages. And it’s no different when we’re in business, as we need others to teach, inspire, help us grow, and gain...
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Tahar Ali: Fail Your Way to Success from 2017-10-18T07:00
Born in Scotland into a family with very little means, and having lost his parents in his teens, Tahar could have made every excuse in the book to avoid achieving his dreams. His road to success wa...
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The Akola Project: Transforming Lives of Impoverished Women from 2017-10-11T07:00
Brittany Merrill Underwood has made an extraordinary impact through her dedication over the past 14 years to transform the lives of impoverished women and families through Akola, a non-profit socia...
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Kimberly Davis on Brave Leadership from 2017-10-04T07:00
There’s much talk about the importance of leadership to set a clear vision, engage the hearts and minds of individuals within an organization, and drive critical business results. And we hear about...
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Would You Like to Live Your Best Life? from 2017-09-27T07:00
Are you living your best life? Of course, none of us aspire to live a mediocre life, but still, why do so many end up working at jobs they hate or choose relationships that are unedifying and unsup...
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driversselect: Building a Culture to Drive Business Performance from 2017-09-20T07:00
Out to intentionally create and live a company culture that customer satisfaction and business results, driversselect executives are passionate about their mission. Their governing mindset is that ...
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The Accidental and Delightful Career of a Zestful Biology Teacher from 2017-09-13T07:00
Many people accidentally find themselves in careers they did not intend for themselves. But not all of them find their joy in having landed there. This guest is an exception, which should delight a...
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Kim Olson: Running to Fuel Texans from 2017-09-06T07:00
We eat every day. But what we put in our bodies makes all the difference in the world to our health. Starting off early in life by learning to choose a nutritional diet is the foundation of a vibra...
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Create a Successful Business Without Compromising Your Lifestyle from 2017-08-30T07:00
As the state of the workplace dynamically changes to meet technological disruptions and competitive demands, a segment of the working population begins to consider striking out on their own. Doing ...
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Women at Work: The Business Advantage of Selling in a Skirt from 2017-08-23T07:00
Men and women approach work and sales differently. And both genders can learn something from the other. This episode with a gender expert focuses on how to empower and enlighten women in sales and...
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Exploring Seismic Shifts in the Workforce Today from 2017-08-16T07:00
Every morning we wake up to the news that some seismic shift has occurred in the world of work or international marketplace, like when Amazon announced its intended purchase of Whole Foods. Or, we ...
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Stress, Pressure, and Over Reliance on Cell Phones: What They All Add Up to for Young People Now Entering the Workforce from 2017-08-09T07:00
Have you noticed there’s a lot of talk today about the importance of developing a resilient, “growth” mindset? There’s good reason for it as mounting research indicates the potency and efficacy of ...
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Want to Crack the Code to Adopt a Winning Mindset in Life and Business? from 2017-08-02T07:00
Sometimes our very best opportunities for learning come from our most devastating life experiences, which is exactly the case for this episode. As an 8th grader, Jaret was only 90 pounds, won only ...
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Cultivating Excellence in Supporting Roles from 2017-07-26T07:00
In our fast-pasted, competition-driven world, glory goes to the ladder-climbers, the highly ambitious, the “movers & shakers” while those who are satisfied with their supporting roles are seen as l...
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Cooking and Leading from Faith at Soulman's Bar-B-Que from 2017-07-19T07:00
After falling into the restaurant business, Brett Randle found a career that allows him to live his purpose through his faith. Now with 16 locations across the North Texas area, he revels in feedin...
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Moving the Gender Conversation Forward to Improve Work Life for Men and Women from 2017-07-12T07:00
The workplace is comprised of women who excel at empathy and communication and men who bring the “hard skills” like critical thinking and problem solving… right? Uh no, not so much. But that type o...
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Conscious Communication and the Choice to Cleanse or Clog Our Lives from 2017-07-05T07:00
Did you know that there is an actual neuroscience in communication that explains why words have a certain impact on us? And that we can consciously choose language to have an intentional impact on ...
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Anticipating and Overcoming Adversity - A Way of Life Toward Purpose in Service to Others from 2017-06-28T07:00
Staff Sergeant Jason Morgan served in the United States Air Force as a member of an elite unit that provided meteorological and combat support for special operations missions. In 1999, with only a ...
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Preparing the Next Generation of Our Workforce: A Middle School Principal's Passion to Activate, Inspire, and Lead Youngsters into Their Careers from 2017-06-21T07:00
Developing the next generation of the workforce is a formidable endeavor, and one the guest of this episode does not take lightly. Rather, Principal Evan Robb believes students need to develop a gr...
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Ergonomics at Work: The Science Between Product and Science Design and People from 2017-06-14T07:00
Corporate wellness programs today are common conversation fodder, and on this program we’ve featured many kinds of professionals who specialize in various corporate offerings. But consider the envi...
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Navigating Though Fear and Higher Levels of Confidence to Produce Remarkable Results from 2017-06-07T07:00
Today’s workplace can register as incredibly stressful and yet also allow for magnificent opportunities for personal self-expression and the registration of meaningful impact for the employees who ...
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Life After Prison - A Man on a Mission to Right Wrongful Conviction from 2017-05-31T07:00
During his young teen years, Christopher Scott was given a prophecy by a priest who had occasion to meet him – that he would live a remarkable life – but would have to endure some horrific things a...
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A Leg Up: The Fine Art and Necessary Practice of Effective Communication at Work from 2017-05-24T07:00
What is it we do every day at work? We communicate. At its simplest, that’s speaking, writing, and listening. Since we do these things every day and often all day long, you might think we’d be pret...
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Bring Your Black Belt to the Game: Mastering the Art of Sales from 2017-05-17T07:00
At the heart of business transformation is often the kernel of individual, personal transformation – as this episode’s guest can attest. Anna Scheller’s passion in her work is fueled by experiencin...
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What's in Your Company's Wellness Program - Got Yoga? from 2017-05-10T07:00
With a focus on long-term health and longevity, it is important that we stay strong and healthy to contribute to our families, our society, and certainly in our workplaces. It used to be the case t...
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A Hand Up From a CEO Who Has Achieved Unlikely Success from 2017-05-03T07:00
What’s in a life? What are all the important twists and turns that help make up a person and turn him into a success? And what critical lessons are learned along the way? In this episode, we speak...
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Crossing the Line: Where Acceptance and Commitment Psychological Therapy Meets Mindfulness, Productivity, and Innovation at Work from 2017-04-26T07:00
How can breaking out of our comfort zone help us become better leaders? Why does being mindful matter to productivity? And what’s this business about acceptance and commitment therapy helping innov...
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The Hunt Institute and EVIE: Empowering Purposeful Careers in College Students Through Meaningful Applied Community Work for Earth Day from 2017-04-19T07:00
The Hunt Institute will unveil its wonderfully ambitious EVIE project for Earth Day 2017.
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Building a Business with Intention and a Firm Openness to Meaningful Chance from 2017-04-12T07:00
Surviving and thriving in today’s business world requires passion, focus, and a healthy supply of determination. It’s not enough simply to have a good idea; rather, executives today must continuall...
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Pioneering Female Entrepreneurship and Business Success Against the Odds from 2017-04-05T07:00
At a time when few women were in leadership roles, let alone starting their own companies, Sheila Liberman pioneered an entirely new industry. Founding her pharmacist staffing company in 1980, peop...
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Amazech Solutions: Born from a Dream, Run to Matter from 2017-03-29T07:00
Entrepreneurs come in many varieties: some are natural born it seems, while others emerge over the course of their working careers. Assuredly, once the enterprise is founded, it reflects the person...
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Combatting Workplace Stress and Trauma with an Integrative Health Approach from 2017-03-22T07:00
We all know that work can be and often is … stressful. The demands placed on each of us to perform at our best and achieve the impossible are every day demands that will likely only continue to esc...
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'Working Fathers': A New Phrase Whose Time Has Come? from 2017-03-15T07:00
Many of today’s fathers in their 20s, 30s, and 40s are doing about half (and sometimes more) of what mothers once did: driving children; assembling their breakfasts, lunches, and dinners; handling ...
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Going the Extra Mile Can Get Us Closer to Our Purpose at Work from 2017-03-08T08:00
Do you often feel defeated in your never-ending list of things to do in a day and wonder how you can possibly push through another day, let alone a week or month? Do you wish you could find some ma...
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Unleashing the Power of Empathy to Reduce Stress and Drive Great Leadership from 2017-03-01T08:00
“We work too much, sleep too little, love with half a heart, and wonder why we are unhappy and unhealthy,” says Dr. Arthur Ciaramicoli. Is this modern day’s inevitable life dilemma? The good news ...
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Working Past 55 and in Need of a Career Reinvention? Let's DO It! from 2017-02-22T08:00
The baby boomer generation (born 1946-1964) is in a financial crisis. Most boomers do not have enough money saved for retirement, and want to continue working in any event. In his new book, BOOMER ...
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Is Fake Talk Holding Back Your Success and Depriving You of the Results You Really Want? from 2017-02-15T08:00
Most of us spend a good part of the day talking – but are we really holding meaningful conversations that yield the results we want? Probably not. Why no? In part, everyone has a variable level of ...
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Putting Workplace Wellness to Work at Your Company from 2017-02-08T08:00
For many, finding the time and energy needed to successfully maintain our well-being can prove to be a real challenge, especially for those that must capitulate to America’s fast-paced work culture...
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Accepting the Call to Leadership: Cultivate Your Brand from 2017-02-01T08:00
Navigating one’s career and ever learning is part and parcel of today’s competitive work place. No one can afford to stay idle. You are constantly challenged to create value for your organization w...
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Got a Book in You? Consider The Disruptive Trend Toward Relationship Publishing from 2017-01-25T08:00
Founding and developing a successful business over the last 22 years in publishing is admirable in and of itself. But Milli Brown has done something beyond what many other publishers have managed. ...
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Developing Emotional Intelligence that Powers Effective Results at Home and Work from 2017-01-18T08:00
The 3 Dimensions of Emotions is a new way to understand emotional intelligence and find your relational “sweet spot”– the dynamic intersection of power, love, and mindfulness. Human reactivity is t...
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Amazing the Lessons We Can Learn When Life and Work Don't Quite Go Our Way from 2017-01-11T08:00
What can we learn when life serves up enormous challenges that bring us to our knees? How we respond to extraordinary circumstances is often the difference between being overtaken by the event or r...
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Finding the Overlap in Medicine and Space: A Conversation About Today's Scientific Designs and the Promise of Tomorrow from 2017-01-04T08:00
Following a youthful fascination with outer space and what lies beyond the stars launched Robert (Bob) Benkowski into his first career as a senior engineer working for McDonnell Douglas in the Spac...
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John Sumser on the Current State of Human Resource Technology and What It Means to the Experience of Work from 2016-12-28T08:00
Helping startup companies and new executives for existing companies to make sense of the Human Resource technology terrain is John Sumser’s specialty. And he’s been at it for years. John travels re...
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Spreading Christmas Cheer One Child and Hug at a Time from 2016-12-21T08:00
The holiday season is a special time to celebrate what we appreciate about our lives and the people in them, show grace and humility in whatever way our spirituality guides us, and allow ourselves ...
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Kevin Wheeler on Envisioning the Workforce in 2025 from 2016-12-14T08:00
With the ever-changing landscape of the global marketplace and how business gets done, we are hard-pressed to look into a crystal ball and try to predict the future. Yet doing so is a useful exerci...
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Organizational Innovation and Transformation: A CXO's Leadership Journey to Remarkable Results from 2016-12-07T08:00
Executives today are constantly challenged to promote innovation within their organizations while entirely transforming them to higher levels of operation, often in tumultuous times and in highly s...
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Starting Your Career Off Right: Work with a Youth Career Coach from 2016-11-30T08:00
College students and their families often spend a small fortune investing in education, with the intention of giving the loved one a good start and base on which to launch a successful career. Yet,...
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Acting Out: Dalton Craft's Young Rise to the Stage from 2016-11-23T08:00
Many young and more seasoned pepole seek a field of work that has a convenient path to entry. That is, they had limited exposure to options, or a family member or friend were employed in a particul...
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Building and Leading from Brazil and the US: A Perspective of a Man Who's Been on the Court of Business from Both Sides of the Equator from 2016-11-16T08:00
Today’s commerce takes place in an international marketplace, and many executives leading the largest Fortune 500 companies have lived and worked across the globe. Their business acumen is informed...
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Life and Work at the Speed of the App: Where is Technology Taking Us? from 2016-11-09T08:00
We live in an “app-driven” world, fueled by brimming creativity and innovation. Technology is everywhere, the world continues its march toward increased digitization, and as a global society we are...
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Flow-Based Leadership to Fire Your Organization's Employees to Higher Performance and Innovation from 2016-11-02T07:00
In today’s bustling times, we face personal, business, and cultural challenges that are volatile, uncertain, complex, and ambiguous, also known as VUCA. These challenges require situationally aware...
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Making a Life in Education: Preparing Young Minds for Launch into the Workforce from 2016-10-26T07:00
The business of higher education is a challenging yet rewarding place to make a career and have tremendous impact on thousands of lives. Preparing young minds to successfully enter the workforce an...
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Making the Right Impression to Get the Business Results You Want from 2016-10-19T07:00
You are never perceived in a neutral way. You are always making an impression to yourself or to others on your ability to influence others. When meeting someone for the first time your appearance...
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Corporate Philanthropy: The Case for Giving for Growth to Increase Employee Engagement and Strengthen Communities from 2016-10-12T07:00
Companies across the Western world are finding competitive advantage in embracing a culture of “giving for growth.” Whether of the millennial generation, or among the increasing number of adults ex...
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Connecting Your Life Story to Your Life Purpose from 2016-10-05T07:00
Brian Williams may be an unlikely success – or perhaps a graceful illustration of responding to life’s early challenges with grit and resilience. He had a hard start in life, having growing up with...
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Workforce Trends - How Organizations Must Respond to Keep Pace in Today's International Marketplace from 2016-09-28T07:00
Recent surveys of global CEOs and board chairmen conclude that human capital is the top challenge they face. Managing change, and finding and keeping staff with the right skills are among the most ...
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The Solidary Project of Senorita in Peru: A Ticket Out of Poverty, Early Motherhood, and Domestic Violence from 2016-09-21T07:00
When access to education and work opportunity are abundant, it can be easy to take them for granted. Yet, much of the world is still working to improve access to education and economic development....
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HELPS International: How Volunteer Service Can Create Powerful Work-Life Integration and Meaning in Work from 2016-09-14T07:00
Everyone wants to know they matter, and there is so much need in the world and thus opportunity to make a difference. The question is how to connect willing and able volunteers hungry to make a dif...
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Ryan Estis on Passion as a Purpose and Creating a Purpose-Driven Culture Within Organizations from 2016-09-07T07:00
In today’s ultra-competitive, hyper-connected business environment, many companies are finding their leaders must stay informed of and on top of workforce trends that shape how human capital is acq...
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So You Think You Want to Be an Entrepreneur? from 2016-08-31T07:00
It’s not for everyone but many people will at some point ask themselves, shouldn’t I just be off working for myself? The feeling of self-sufficiency and charting one’s own course in life seems to b...
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In Search of Passion and Purpose in Your Life? from 2016-08-24T07:00
Most everyone wants to lead a happy and abundant life and feel they’ve had an impact that made a difference to others. They want to feel productive and meaningfully engaged in their lives. But not ...
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MPACT Project: Crowdfunding Empowerment from 2016-08-17T07:00
Our connected lives have made us more aware of the problems facing humanity than ever before, and yet few people feel empowered to be a part of an authentic solution. Dissatisfaction with old mode...
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Exploring Galaxies in Outer Space and Academic Leadership Through the Journey of a Leading Female Astronomer from 2016-08-10T07:00
Outer space - does it allure and call out to you? Does it fascinate you to ponder how the universe and galaxies come into being? How do galaxies grow over time and change dramatically across differ...
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Swallowing the Swill: The Unexpected Journey of a Serial Entrepreneur Into Wine from 2016-08-03T07:00
Governed by a continuous curiosity for commerce since the age of 10, Mark Phillips has made a life of finding ways to spot opportunities in the marketplace that position him for success. His is a u...
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A New Chapter: Offering Words of Hope and Gratitude for Those in Grieving from 2016-07-27T07:00
If we’re fortunate in life, we find and develop strong and lasting connections with important people who really matter to us. They add a beautiful zest that touches us and brings an impossible to d...
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What's Your Leadership Image - And Does It Need Any Polishing? from 2016-07-20T07:00
Do you know how you are perceived as a leader? What exactly is your leadership image? There are at least 10 key elements of leadership we can develop in ourselves, according to Sharon Burstein, and...
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Making the Most of Your Money and Living the Life You Really Want from 2016-07-13T07:00
Money, and the way we make good use of it, can mean all the difference to whether we get to live the life we most ardently desire for ourselves and our loved ones. Good financial planning depends o...
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Stephanie Zelaya: Inspiring Us Through Song to Follow Our Dreams from 2016-07-06T07:00
Imagine your job is to make beautiful music and move and inspire people across the world with the beauty of your song. And consider you discovered this talent and have been cultivating it from the ...
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Boomers Don't Despair: Your Career Reimagined and Reinvented from 2016-06-29T07:00
Considering retirement after a long career in corporate America, but just aren’t sure if you have saved enough money? Or maybe you one of the “working worried,” sure you’ll be the next one at work ...
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Leading and Engaging Talent Across the Generations from 2016-06-22T07:00
Being a leader in today’s generationally diverse workplace is more complicated than ever before. Managers and leaders are being required to increase greater employee engagement using new tools to c...
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Meaning at Work, Why Employees Care, and Why They 'Just Aren't Into You' from 2016-06-15T07:00
Are you wondering how to ignite engagement in your workforce? Or perhaps you’re curious about the various ways people experience meaning in their work? In this episode, two long-time colleagues enj...
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Life's Daunting Questions: What Do I Study in College, What to Pursue For a Career, and How to Pay For It All? from 2016-06-08T07:00
The biggest problem today in education is determining what you want to do. Once this is done, the next challenge is to determine the correct path to get the career you want, and ultimately, how to ...
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A Quest to Improve the Lives of People Who Have Experienced Psychological or Spiritual Abuse from 2016-06-01T07:00
Let’s face it – relationships of all types can really be difficult. That’s especially true when we find ourselves living, associating or working with individuals who use psychological or spiritual ...
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Reverse Mentoring as a Way to Power Individual and Organizational Performance and Engagement from 2016-05-25T07:00
How can organizations catalyze the exchange of completely different talents while productively connecting the generations in today’s workplace? Consider the benefits of reverse mentoring, which all...
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How Eight Southern Methodist University Students and Alumnae Are Using Their Voice to Change Our World from 2016-05-18T07:00
As an Adjunct Faculty at Southern Methodist University teaching communication and career preparation courses, I enjoy a unique window on the world of hopeful and anxious students preparing to trans...
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Accounting For Your Big Why: Getting To the Heart of the Matter from 2016-05-11T07:00
Some people seem to intuitively know how to choose a suitable career. It all just seems to fit – personality, aptitude, talent, pace of work, how we relate to people. When we choose a career that j...
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Igniting Passion in Education - Four Decades in with No Plans to Retire from 2016-05-04T07:00
Are you an educator ready to strengthen your professional potential or increase your impact in the classroom? Or, did you struggle as a child to navigate the educational system and believe that you...
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The Homes We Live In - How They Create the Chapters in Our Life Stories from 2016-04-27T07:00
Think about the pivotal moments in your life and where you were living. What was happening in your career and your relationships? Notice any significant events or patterns? In this episode, we talk...
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Celebrating 25 Years: Finding Hope and Inspiration by Helping One Abused, Abandoned, or Neglected Child at a Time from 2016-04-20T07:00
What if every day you knew you were making a life-changing difference to at least one child through the work you do? What if you knew that without the organization you led the children who came thr...
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Life Post Corporate America - The Reinvented Photographer from 2016-04-13T07:00
Have you been considering leaving your current job to pursue your heart-felt passion? But maybe you’re worried about the loss of stable income and the prospect of an uncertain future? After a long ...
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HorsePower! Generating Momentum to Energize Cultures, Embrace Change and Master the Power of Communication from 2016-04-06T07:00
Somewhere in the middle of a corporate career spanning over 30 years with a Fortune 500 company, Betti took a trip. She signed up for a cattle drive in south Texas, and riding a horse for the first...
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Driven by Purpose to Reform Education in the Dallas Independent School District from 2016-03-30T07:00
Running for any office takes enormous amounts of time, energy, and a passion for the cause. Winning the position of Dallas Independent School District Trustee for District 2 is the hope for Dustin ...
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A Hand Up and Shout Out to All Female Business Owners from 2016-03-23T07:00
Do you love what you do and enjoy working for yourself but feel stretched too thin? Maybe you’re working entirely too many hours without achieving the results you want or deserve? Or, perhaps you a...
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Cultivating Meaningful Connection in Men: Facilitating Transformation From the Inside Out from 2016-03-16T07:00
The 1960s women’s movement was of monumental importance to advance the conscious development of women. But what response did it evoke in men? Where do men derive their sense of connection and mean...
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Considering a Career that Requires Security Clearance - Get Advice from a Retired Special Agent from 2016-03-09T08:00
If you are considering a career that requires obtaining federal security clearance, or you’ve just been curious about what it’s like to work for the Department of Defense, this episode is for you. ...
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Igniting Passion and Purpose in Children Across the Globe Via Volunteerism in Education from 2016-03-02T08:00
When work is fulfilling and fun, why would you ever want to quit? That’s Bob Hopkins’ philosophy, and with it he has joyously cultivated a long life and career full of profound enrichment while mak...
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Is This Your Life - It's 6 am and I'm Already Behind? from 2016-02-24T08:00
Do you constantly feel behind schedule, ever pedaling on the hamster wheel toward an impossible schedule or crazy goals? Are you getting the results you really want – at work, at home, and in life?...
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Looking for a Mission on Which to Build Your Career? Check Your Own Back Yard from 2016-02-17T08:00
People often hunger to find purpose in their work. They wonder, where do others get that sense of mission? And how do I find it for myself? Well, sometimes it appears right in one’s own back yard a...
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Dare to Dream - Define Your Version of Success from 2016-02-10T08:00
Climbing the corporate ladder. Success. Making money. Isn’t that what many of us have been taught comprise the good life? I mean, we live comfortably and can afford a nice lifestyle with lovely vac...
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Surviving and Thriving After Near Death by Electrocution - Brandon Cumby's Story from 2016-02-03T08:00
There are distinct moments when life serves up seemingly impossible challenges, predicaments that should completely break us, almost as if to see just what we’re made of. Fresh off a divorce, in ca...
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Waking Up From Your Worst Nightmare: A Purposeful Life After Prison from 2016-01-27T08:00
If you are at all intrigued with the TV mini-series Making a Murderer, you’ll have to catch this episode. Imagine being arrested, then imprisoned, for a murder you did not commit and spending 13 ye...
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From Single Teenage Mom Living on Food Stamps to CEO of a Multi-Million-Dollar Healthcare Agency from 2016-01-20T08:00
Pregnant and alone at 18, her life should have turned out much differently than it has. But she made a promise to God that she would care for her son with the help of His guidance. With few options...
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Painting with Panache: Building a Multi-Million-Dollar Business with a Broad Brush Stroke and Deft Website Optimization and Analytics from 2016-01-13T08:00
With purportedly 90 percent of all established businesses failing within five years, it’s a wonder many companies ever make it in today’s ultra-competitive marketplace. Ever wonder how these entrep...
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Get on the Estrogen Express - Plaid For Women is Leaving the Station! from 2016-01-06T08:00
Women and girls are surging forward at an unprecedented rate in many parts of the world. Girls outnumber boys in university enrollment, and women are increasingly seen in leadership roles at work i...
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Musings on Three Key 2015 Trends Affecting Our Experience of Work from 2015-12-30T08:00
Work. It touches so many parts of our lives – our ability to achieve important goals, whether the impact we hope to have on others is registered, our ability to enjoy the lifestyle we want, and eve...
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Gathering 'Round the Author - Readings and Christmas Memory Celebrations with Brandi Dougherty from 2015-12-23T08:00
What childhood memories does Christmas conjure for you? Is it making cookies with Grandma, singing Christmas carols with neighbors, or fighting with your sibling over who gets to open the first pre...
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Edo Popken: Life is Short - Dress Up 4 It from 2015-12-16T08:00
A chance encounter. A room full of interesting people. A serendipitously assigned dinner seat. All culminated at the Dallas Opera opening night in October to allow my meeting with Edo Popken. Immed...
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Think It's Too Late to Change Careers? From Writer to Rabbi and Onto Sageing from 2015-12-09T08:00
Are you one of the many people who would like to pursue another line of work but feel you’ve either invested too much time in your current role, or are maybe just too old to change course? Well, th...
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Step 1 - Learn, Step 2 - Act, Step 3 - Succeed: Accountability Systems for Entrepreneurs from 2015-12-02T08:00
Jim Rohn once said: Don't let your learning lead to knowledge - let your learning lead to action. Entrepreneurs are sponges when it comes to learning, but the ones who succeed are the ones who take...
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The Road Less Traveled: Living a Happy and Productive Transgender Life from 2015-11-25T08:00
Knowing who we are as a person and being able to express ourselves in life and at work is a profoundly important part of the human experience. But what if something seemingly as given as your gende...
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Before the Best Companies Ever Hire: Creating Healthy Company Culture and Other Best Practices to Drive Engagement and Performance from 2015-11-18T08:00
What motivates people to give their very best each day at work? What best practices guide human capital to ensure employees are empowered, motivated, and growing? And what can we learn about how to...
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Freedom is Not Free - A Tribute to All Veterans Who Served Their Nation from 2015-11-11T08:00
On this Veteran’s Day, almost a century after President Wilson began the tradition to commemorate those who had served their country, this special episode features a 25-year Air Force veteran who c...
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What's Behind Your Brand? Learn How These Entrepreneurial Women Set Themselves Apart from the Pack through Their Authenticity and Expertise from 2015-11-04T08:00
Captured live at the Behind Her Brand book launch at Noah’s Event Center in Plano, Texas, this episode celebrates the 11 contributing authors and provides a sneak peek at some of their most fervent...
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Are YOU Building Peace? An Anthropologist's Journey to Addressing Masculinity and Femininity Issues and Opportunities in Global Conflict Resolution from 2015-10-28T07:00
Serendipitous interventions in our chosen career path can yield surprisingly satisfying results. Dr. Kathleen Kuehnast set out for an academic career in anthropology but found herself in the middle...
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The Wind Beneath Their Wings: Zoologist Gives a Voice to Birds and Other Creatures Which Can't Speak for Themselves from 2015-10-21T07:00
Did you as a child, or perhaps even today as an adult, absolutely love animals – and maybe even sometimes prefer their company over humans? Do you want to ensure they’re loved, rescued and well car...
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The Doctor Will See You Now: Bringing Old-Fashioned House Calls Back to Medicine from 2015-10-14T07:00
In this episode, we learn the story of how technology and convenience meet the personal touch of old-fashioned medical care delivered straight to the home. Taking a cue from Uber and Lyft, the idea...
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My Life's Dream and Beyond: Build a Social Enterprise Engine That Connects Cultures and Unifies the Planet from 2015-10-07T07:00
After many successful ventures in his career, James Archer finally found his true calling at age 52. He’d had a strong inkling early in his life that languages and the humanities were the direction...
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Treating Mental Health and Improving the Human Condition - One Patient at a Time from 2015-09-30T07:00
What can we learn about the human condition by working with people who exhibit impulsive behavior patterns and emotional dysregulation? And how do we know we’re the right person who can actually ma...
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Choosing a Life of Public Service: An Ongoing Legacy Combatting Disease and Violence across the Globe from 2015-09-23T07:00
Upon first hearing Dr. Rosenberg speak at a conference, I was struck by the extremely impressive career he has built combatting disease and violence across the world and the modest manner in which ...
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What Are You Doing to Nurture the Leader in YOU? from 2015-09-16T07:00
Becoming all we can be. Leaving a lasting legacy. Making a difference in our communities. Many of us yearn to experience our lives and the work we do within it on this profound level. We want to kn...
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Gavin Doyle: Touched By a Serious Dose of Disney from 2015-09-09T07:00
See if you can follow this recipe, will you? Start with one part loving, supportive, and encouraging family who knows how to have fun. Add in one joyful, vivacious kid. Stir in another part tremend...
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Prove Them Wrong and Make Your Dreams Come True from 2015-09-02T07:00
Everyone can expect to encounter a series of challenges throughout the course of their lives and careers. Some are small, short-term impediments that test our persistence or creativity to overcome ...
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The Perfect Match: When Individual Talents and Values Meet Organizational Mission from 2015-08-26T07:00
Today many people hunger for meaningful work that feels satisfying, facilitates engagement, and allows them to make a difference. Steve Taylor has found his perfect match in a company that celebrat...
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What Career Dreams Do You Ache to Achieve? One Young Man's Ambition to One Day Make It on His Own in Wine from 2015-08-19T07:00
With so many possible careers available to us today, how do we ever choose which one to pursue? Whether we are transitioning from one field to another or just starting out, how do we notice when on...
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Does the Tooth Fairy Still Visit Your House? Doing Business That Delights Children and Parents Alike from 2015-08-12T07:00
Does the Tooth Fairy still visit your house? We hope so! All the magic and wonder that alleviates the pain of losing a tooth comes with the promise of money – or perhaps something even more fun – ...
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The Importance of Ongoing Learning in the International Economy: Secrets from a Professional Leadership Trainer in Asia Pacific from 2015-08-05T07:00
Is it really true that if we do not keep learning in today’s fast-paced international marketplace, we’ll fall behind? Everyone benefits from having a set of technical skills that ground them into t...
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Searching for a Job - Trends in Today's Workplace and Why They Matter to You from 2015-07-29T07:00
The workplace has radically been altered in the last 15-20 years and will continue to morph and change with technology and market trends. The manner in which people seek and apply for work, engage ...
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Do You Love Your City and Want Others to Enjoy It Too? Start a Tourism Business from 2015-07-22T07:00
Croatia Dream is a tourism business in the city of Split in the country of Croatia, nestled along the Adriatic Sea. Founded four years ago as an agency for villas and apartments in Croatia, the nim...
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Celebrating Innovators and Entrepreneurs: How About You? from 2015-07-15T07:00
Today’s dynamic international marketplace is driven by innovation. And that innovation often comes to us at the hands of entrepreneurs who somehow see an opportunity in the marketplace most of us s...
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What's Cookin' in Texas? Confessions from the Queen of Texas Cuisine from 2015-07-08T07:00
What’s cookin’ in Texas? Ask Dotty Griffith. Her humorous insights and instruction reveal what makes Texas cuisine so big, bold, and beautiful. This is a woman who not only knows her way around th...
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Galloping Full Speed to the Race Track: One Mans Resolve to Stay True to His Passion from 2015-07-01T07:00
Are you one of the lucky people out there who literally grew up in the business you’d ultimately spend your life as an adult? Blaine Wright, a professional horse trainer with his own racing stable ...
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Do You Have What it Takes to Make Your Dreams Come True? from 2015-06-24T07:00
What would you do to make your dreams come true and live your life’s purpose? It’s certainly not an easy path for most. Would you restructure an incredibly well established and successful business?...
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Living the Good Life: A Conversation with Author Edward Fischer from 2015-06-17T07:00
Initially unsure of what to study or pursue for work, Dr. Edward Fischer tended bar for a while and then his parents sent him on a trip to Guatemala for a little rest and redirection. And that fort...
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Heeding the Internal Compass: One Woman's Path to Becoming a Medical Doctor from 2015-06-10T07:00
The path of least resistance in a career is not always the best long-term fit, nor the most fulfilling. And worst still is when we ignore the persistent voice in our heads telling us exactly the ca...
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When Letting Go Can Mean Finding it All from 2015-06-03T07:00
Once you get to the top, how do you know when it’s time to let go? At a time when women were rarely decision makers in business or agriculture, Susan Sokol Blosser, a pioneer in the Oregon wine ind...
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Connecting Your Career with Your Calling and Your Profession with Your Purpose from 2015-05-27T07:00
After careful consideration of a college major, you navigate a thoughtful and successful career. Years go by and you learn a ton along the way and enjoy knowing you’re making a valuable contributio...
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A Passion for the Suds: How the Sloans Turned a Curiosity into a Brewing Obsession from 2015-05-20T07:00
Wouldn’t it be great if you could stumble onto an unexpected hobby and manage to turn it into a business? And what better if that something involves the curious complexities and full-palette flavo...
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Donald Thompson - The Unlikely CEO? from 2015-05-13T07:00
What can drive, focus on continuous improvement, and a good mentor do to catapult your career? A lot, says Donald Thompson who refers to himself as The Unlikely CEO and is in fact writing a book of...
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Priorities and Delayed Gratification: Ali Mindfully Puts Family First and Then Pursues College and Career from 2015-05-06T07:00
Ali Tiegs took the 20 year plan to complete her education and delayed her career gratification, never losing sight of goals in life but aware of what it would ultimately take to obtain them. Prior...
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A Conversation with Dan Schawbel: Workplace Trends, Gen Y, and the Importance of Self Promotion in Your Career from 2015-04-29T07:00
The importance of finding a niche to serve in today’s marketplace cannot be overstated. In fact, entrepreneur and author Dan Schawbel recommends everyone be known for one big thing. In his case, Da...
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From Corporate Executive to Spiritual Teacher: The Story of Annette's Calling from 2015-04-22T07:00
What you want out of life can change drastically as the decades of life course by. Many people have a burning desire as college graduates to enter a chosen profession, climb the ladder of success, ...
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Bringing our True and Best Selves to Work: Cultivating Authentic Leadership from 2015-04-15T07:00
Have you ever felt like you couldn’t be your real self at work? Or, do you knowingly hold back or stifle important parts of yourself because you somehow feel pressure or uncertainty? Many people h...
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Accessing the Unconscious: Michael Harris on Hypnotherapy from 2015-04-08T07:00
Many of us go through life unaware of the unique lens through which we experience and interpret the world. We aren’t cognizant of the ways our perspective, attitudes, and values inform the way we n...
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Your Money or Your Life: How an Attorney Strayed from the Path More Traveled and Found Wealth in Radiant Health from 2015-04-01T07:00
What if your job is making you sick? How can you transition out of a career you spent countless hours and dollars to attain? Once upon a time, an attorney had a successful and rising career, winn...
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The Magic of Human Capital in Organizations and Beyond: A Perspective from a 20 year Veteran from 2015-03-25T07:00
After purposely choosing a career in the Human Resource field immediately out of college, Mark Mitford spent the last 20 years gaining a global perspective and expertise on how organizations handle...
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Bringing out the Best in Students: A Piano Teacher’s Surprising Inspiration from 2015-03-18T07:00
Most adults these days have had at least a couple careers over the course of their working lives. And many people go on to try as many as seven or more different careers over their 50 year work lif...
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What Did You Want to be When You Grew Up? from 2015-03-11T07:00
What did you want to be when you were a kid? Did you dream of being an astronaut or a police officer? Where did you get the idea and why did you want to pursue this kind of a career, and did you ac...
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What if You Could Make a Difference One Kid or Volunteer at a Time, Every Day? from 2015-03-04T08:00
What would your world look like if you managed to find work and develop a career that allowed you to authentically express your personality, draw on your best talents, and feel like you’re making a...
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Are You Stuck at a Crossroads and Don’t Know Which Road to Choose in Your Work or Personal Life? from 2015-02-25T08:00
Considering most people will spend a minimum of 40 years in their lives working, chances are if you have not already, you will soon find yourself at a crossroads in your career or personal life. Pe...
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Psychotherapist Turns Business Consultant to Help Companies Serve the Disability Community from 2015-02-18T08:00
Having spent 25 years as a child and adolescent psychotherapist focused on disadvantaged youth and the special needs population, Dr. Patricia Ruiz sees a completely new target for her clinical serv...
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Living and Working His Purpose: Marty’s Journey to Service in Song from 2015-02-11T08:00
It seems simple enough, doesn’t it? You’ve known forever that you were born an artist. Over a lifetime, you work in the jewelry business, paint paintings, and create greeting cards. Producing beaut...
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Cooking up Substance: A Chef’s Journey to Entrepreneurship from 2015-02-04T08:00
What we do to earn a living can have a profound influence on the meaningfulness of our overall lives. Our careers can be a terrific source of joy, or can manifest tremendous disappointment or angst...
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