Denise Quinlan blends wellbeing research with inspiring stories and practical ideas to build collective resilience. Learn how your team can sustain and support each other through challenge and uncertainty.
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Learn how others are overcoming or have overcome a variety of life happenings. Everyone has a story that someone needs to hear. Let those stories inspire you to, 1) know you are not alone in whatever life topic you are experiencing, 2) know there are multiple solutions all of life dilemmas, and, 3) learn about critical thinking skills to make informed life decisions.
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From the Breakfast Leadership Network. We interview global thought leaders, entrepreneurs, and marketing experts to show the audience the right steps (no shortcuts!) to grow your business and your life. Guests of the Breakfast Leadership Show may have sponsored their appearance on the show, as disclosed in compliance with Federal Trade Commission guidelines.
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Founder Friday: From Burnout to Breakthrough: Enock & Sue Denis’ Journey to Revolutionizing Homecare with AI Innovation
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Sue Denis, the co-founder of HomeCare Bosses United® and the visionary behind the groundbreaking CareGrowth AI™. Sue's incredible journey from an ICU nurse facing burnout and personal challenges to becoming a successful entrepreneur and AI innovator in the home care industry is a story of resilience, determination, and transformative leadership. He…
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Jeff Pierce – Recovering from Near Despair
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Jeff Pierce has experienced many devastating consequences in his life, including bankruptcy, loss of a business, his wife’s death from cancer, and recovering from a dysfunctional family. Jeff was born in Binghamton, NY, and, due to his father’s employment, attended twelve schools during his 13 years of formal education. Due to the extensive moving,…
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Thoughtful Thursdays: From PwC to $50M Impact Investing: Cole Shephard's Journey to Sustainable Coffee Empire
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Cole is the Founding Partner of Legacy Group, a leading alternative investment firm with over $50M in assets under management. They focus on profitable investment opportunities with high social and environmental impact in the US and Latin America. Their flagship portfolio company, Green Coffee Company (GCC), is Colombia's #1 largest coffee producer…
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Mary Barlow Episode 2 – Depression and its Potential Devastating Consequence
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Mary G. Barlow chronicles her early life dealing with her mom’s death when Mary was seven years old, as well as her adult life in finding peace and joy. Years after her mother died, Mary learned her mom had committed suicide, possibly manifested from postpartum depression following the birth of Mary’s younger brother. Based on her life experience a…
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Tailored to You: Discovering the Power of Personalized Fashion and Love Activism with Asta Jakubson
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- Are you getting stressed & frustrated trying to find the perfect dress for your mum[especially now when is not safe to drive around]?-Do you want to feel confident & look good in a perfectly tailored suit at your business conferences on Zoom video & make a powerful impact on your colleagues or potential customers? -Are you tired of hearing shop a…
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Motivation Monday: Revolutionizing Food Security: Marc Plinke on Sustainable Year-Round Greenhouse Solutions
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Marc is the Founder of Ceres Greenhouse Solutions, LLC®, an innovative design company that partners with residential and commercial food growers to help build extremely energy-efficient greenhouses with advanced climate-control technologies. Marc has a PhD in chemical engineering, giving him a unique perspective on food production and climate optim…
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Founder Friday: Creating Immersive Experiences: A Conversation with Geoff Thatcher, Founder of Creative Principals and Author of The CEO’s Time Machine
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Known by his peers for his infectious creativity and enthusiasm, Geoff Thatcher is an experienced creative leader who knows how to take a project from concept to reality. For most of his career, these projects have involved creating world-class experiences in theme parks, museums, visitor centers, brand experiences, and live events. Geoff’s eclecti…
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Paul Granger Episode 2 – Working Through Wrongful Job Termination
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Paul Granger describes his emotions and learning from his life experiences of enduring a job termination from a toxic ministry experience. Following the experience of stillborn childbirth, he experienced a job termination from a toxic ministry environment. Again, he and his wife are left with a “what now?” experience. Through these two life traumas…
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Paths to 2X to 10X Revenue: Embracing Change, Passion, and Creativity with Paul Lemberg
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Pablo's Journey to Business CoachingPablo shared how he invented the term "business coaching" in 1996 after a significant career change. He had been working as a consultant for large tech companies, but left his job to pursue his life's work after a voice in his head urged him to get busy. His friends suggested he become a coach, which initially di…
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Wednesday Wisdom: Leadership Strategies for Thriving Organizations with Oddi Aasheim from 1st Human
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About Oddi: Partner - Performance Interventions I feel privileged getting to spend my days working with people that are up for making our world a truly exciting and fulfilling place. I partner with leaders and executives committed to transforming their organisations, develop groundbreaking strategic solutions, mobilising executive teams and organis…
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Jacques Delorme is a science educator, public speaker, life coach, and author of Driving Out of Darkness: Self-care Strategies for Trauma Recovery. He has dedicated the past 12 years to personal development, including multiple training courses. His deep interest in public speaking programs using the concepts in his book will help anyone recovering …
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Tuesday Tips: The V-Formula: Building Multi-Million Dollar Businesses with Christopher Volk
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Christopher is the author of the highly rated book The Value Equation, which teaches entrepreneurs how to create profitable businesses that generate multi-million dollar wealth for them and their investors using a simple formula he made in 1999. Using his V-Formula, entrepreneurs can determine their companies' pre-tax return on equity and wealth cr…
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Motivation Monday: Addressing Healthcare Burnout: Resilience, Leadership & Creating Positive Work Cultures with Nurse Entrepreneur Phyllis Quinlan
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President of MFW Consultants & a successful nurse entrepreneur, Phyllis is a healthcare consultant and has been a Legal Nurse Consultant specializing in defense since 2004. During her nursing career, Phyllis has practiced in clinical, educational & administrative positions in various venues, including critical care/emergency trauma, professional de…
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Founder Fridays: Thriving in Change: Ryan Kugler's Journey of Diversification and Adaptation in Business
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SummaryIntroductions and business overview @ 0:00 Ryan introduced his layered business model of running three companies with shared staff and discussed how it allows for diversification and flexibility. He described his event production, marketing materials, and wholesale liquidation businesses. Pivoting businesses during the pandemic @ 3:51 Ryan d…
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Philip Blackett – Resolve Without Being Dogmatic
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Philip Blackett is an author, consultant, and entrepreneur with a rich background spanning prestigious roles at FedEx, Goldman Sachs, Bank of America, and Chick-fil-A. He earned a Master of Divinity from The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, an MBA from Harvard Business School, and a bachelor’s degree in political science and economics from th…
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Thoughtful Thursdays: Julie Cropp Gareleck’s Journey from Corner Booth to Corner Office | ‘Dare to Become’ Book Insights & Entrepreneurial Success
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Julie is a CEO, Author, and entrepreneur. Julie is a respected and trusted leader in business communities that extend from the Northeast (Philadelphia, New York City, and D.C.) to the Southeast (including the Greater Atlanta region and Charleston, South Carolina.), and that includes CEOs and entrepreneurs of small to midsize businesses as well as t…
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Thoughtful Thursdays: Harmonizing Family and Business: Insights from Avadhi Dhruv, Bestselling Author of The Family Business Guru
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Avadhi is an International Bestselling Author, YouTuber, and Business Guru. She helps leaders of family legacy businesses run their companies in a way that fosters healthy family relationships. Avadhi is also the Chief Transformation Officer at Prabhat Industries, a three-generational family business involved in rubber product manufacturing and dis…
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Wisdom Wednesdays: Develop Multiple Streams of Passive Income: A conversation with Allen Lomax
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I inspire professionals to escape the tyranny of exchanging time, energy, expertise, and talent for money by empowering them to develop multiple streams of passive income. Time and economic freedom are core liberating forces that allow us to passionately engage in our calling and significantly impact humanity and the planet. My Story: I'm a seventh…
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Tuesday Tips: Bruce Piasecki: Unveiling the Intersection of Climate Change and Conflict, and the Rise of Social Response Capitalism
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SummaryIntersection of war and climate change @ 1:51 Bruce Piasecki discusses research showing that the top two global concerns are now war/conflict and climate change. He believes these issues are deeply interconnected, with climate change contributing to resource scarcity and instability that can lead to military conflicts. He emphasizes the need…
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Denise Dielwart – Dealing with Grief through FLOW
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Denise Dielwart experienced death with the very sudden passing of her husband. Finding a path forward can seem like an impossible challenge in the aftermath of loss. Her journey began in the shadow of profound grief after the loss of her husband in 2009. It was a journey that led her to create the FLOW Grief Release Method (Feel, Let go, Overcome, …
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Tuesday Tips: The Fit CEO Mindset: Boundaries, Balance and Peak Performance with Rebecca Macieira-Kaufmann
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Quick recapSummaryCEO Fit Book and Boundaries DiscussionMichael and Rebecca discussed the importance of the CEO Fit book, with a particular focus on the concept of boundaries. Rebecca shared her extensive career experience in financial services and her recent shift to advising startup CEOs. She also highlighted her passion for small businesses. Mic…
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Motivation Mondays: Dance with Your Dragons: A chat with Brad Axelrad
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My name is Brad Axelrad, and for over a decade now, I’ve worked with coaches, consultants, and business owners to transform struggle into strength. By helping them face their fears and dance with their dragons, I help leaders like you step into their power and create a thriving coaching business in the process. I’ve produced over 200 live events, s…
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Founder Fridays: Streamlining Consulting Operations: Bizinta's Integrated System with Real-Time Reporting and Staffing Tools with Matt Lentzner
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Matt is a 20-year expert in Business Management of Professional Services Companies. He has the rare ability to understand both the technical and business sides, mapping one to the other. He took that expertise and built Bizinta (www.bizinta.com) so the system and the business became one. https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-lentzner/ Bizinta's Integrat…
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Tracy Slepcevic Episode 1 – The Warrior Mom
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Tracy Slepcevic is an author, Certified Integrative Health Coach, keynote speaker, U.S. Air Force Veteran, and Pur Health, LLC founder, an integrative health and wellness business based out of San Diego that educates individuals on the incredible effects that nutrition and lifestyle choices have on your happiness and ability to lead the life you de…
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Thoughtful Thursdays: Leadership Lessons from Fiction: Melanie Bell's Journey in Fostering Growth and Empathy
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Melanie is the Founder of Leaders Who Fiction, an online book club and community that offers a unique way for people to acquire and develop leadership qualities through reading and discussing novels. On this fast-growing platform, leaders meet on the last Wednesday of each month for intellectual, business-oriented conversations centered around a se…
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Wisdom Wednesdays: Leading Through Turbulence: Strategies for CEO Success with Katy Trost
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Katy coaches and advises CEOs and founders at Series B and beyond. She helps them become more effective leaders and navigate the challenges of scaling people and operations. Her clients include some of the fastest-growing companies in the US and UK tech ecosystem, backed by leading investors, including SoftBank, First Round, Felix, Octopus, Inflexi…
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Joan Quinlan Episode 2 – Overcoming Substance Use Disorder
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Joan Quinlan has overcome multiple life traumas brought about by her early lifestyle. Her family culture was one of working beyond any life adversities rather than finding anyone who could empathize with her. That culture caused her to repress many of her early life anxieties, which led her to excessive alcohol consumption. The term for this was fo…
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Tuesday Tips: Designing Workplaces for Boosting Productivity and Culture. A Conversation with Rebecca Swanner
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Rebecca is the Workplace Sector Leader of HED, one of the largest architectural and engineering design firms in the US, serving clients nationally in a broad range of market sectors including Healthcare, Higher Education, Mission Critical, Housing and Mixed-Use, Pre-K 12, Science, Manufacturing and Product Development, Workplace, Community and Gove…
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Motivation Mondays: Design Your Career Success Blueprint: A Chat with Tammy Alvarez
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Tammy Alvarez, CEO and Founder of the Career Winners Circle, a world-class coaching organization. Tammy has an unwavering commitment to advancing ambitious business leaders so they can grow their careers as far as their drive will take them. She is the creator of the Career Success Blueprint – the ultimate executive career strategy framework, Own Y…
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Founder Friday: Global Insights and Trust in Research: Navigating Change with Anne Brown of Gazelle Global
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Anne is a founding partner of Gazelle Global Research and has over 30 years of experience leading a team of global research experts with international data collection, processing, and fieldwork management. She is a PRC-certified member of the Insights Association. She has been a longtime member of WIRe, AMA, PMRG, WBENC, WBE, and ESOMAR—where she w…
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Joan Quinlan Episode 1 – Overcoming Substance Use Disorder
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Joan Quinlan has overcome multiple life traumas brought about by her early lifestyle. Her family culture was one of working beyond any life adversities rather than finding anyone who could empathize with her. That culture caused her to repress many of her early life anxieties, which led her to excessive alcohol consumption. The term for this was fo…
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Thoughtful Thursdays: Interview A Top 50 Powerful Woman in Technology Jeanine Charlton
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Jeanine Charlton serves as Senior Vice President & Chief Technology & Digital Officer at Merchant's Fleet. A leader in her field she has was recently named one of the Top 50 Most Powerful Women in Technology by the National Diversity Council and has even been featured in a book focusing on Women Executives. She joined Merchant’s Fleet in 2018 and p…
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Wisdom Wednesdays: Evolving Leadership through Wellbeing and Spirituality: Insights from Renee Moorefield
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Leadership Development and Workplace Well-Being FocusRenee discussed her company's focus on supporting leaders and creating workplaces that foster growth and well-being, mentioning that they have trained around 250 guides worldwide. Michael commended Renee and her team for their 25-year milestone and highlighted the significant changes in work prac…
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Kevin Mensah – Grieving but Gaining Strength Through My Mom’s Legacy
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Kevin Mensah’s mom passed away very unexpectedly when he was a high school senior (2024). It is very irregular for a parent to pass away before their children. All parents hope to see their children become what God created them to be. Kevin is working through his grief because of his mom’s legacy of loving the God of the Bible. Kevin draws strength…
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Motivational Mondays: Improving High Performance Teams with Kendall Wallace
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Quick recapMichael and Kendall discussed the complexities of the current work environment, emphasizing the importance of creating unique team building experiences, fostering open communication, and prioritizing personal well-being for a high-performing team. They also shared their experiences and observations about team dynamics in both hybrid and …
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Fitness Fridays: Compound Gains: Nick Shaw on Fitness, Mental Health, and YouTube Success
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Nick Shaw is the Co-Founder and CEO of RP Strength. RP is a fitness technology company that has helped millions of clients worldwide. They are the world leaders in Hypertrophy Training, and their YouTube channel helps tens of millions every month. Nick has helped transform RP from a bootstrapped company to over $100M in revenue over the last decade…
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Felix Poyel is a Consciousness Coach who brings a unique and personalized perspective through his transformative life story of overcoming addiction, dealing with Tourette Syndrome and ADHD, bullying in school, his dad’s death when he was young, and other challenges to spiritual awakening while pursuing his dream life. Formerly, he worked five years…
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Thoughtful Thursdays: Cybersecurity with Darren Gallop
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Darren is the Co-Founder and CEO of Carbide. This cyber security firm provides businesses of all sizes with the tools they need to adopt a robust cybersecurity and privacy posture, enabling them to protect their data from cybercriminals, transform security from a potential liability to a competitive advantage, and accelerate their growth. A TechSta…
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Wisdom Wednesdays: Maximizing Book Sales: Unveiling Post-Launch Marketing Strategies with Chris Benetti
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Book Marketing Agency's Expertise and FocusChris Benetti, the owner of Smart Author Media, a book marketing agency, discussed his expertise and the agency's focus on helping business owners sell books. Chris has been in the marketing field for about eight years, and his agency's main objective is to assist clients in generating leads and clients th…
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Bronwyn Schweigerdt – Overcoming Panic and Anxiety Attacks
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Bronwyn Schweigerdt is a psychotherapist who knows that even though feelings are invisible, they don’t evaporate. Instead, they are stored in our subconscious mind and body when they’re disowned. These feelings haunt us and cause mental illness and health issues until we externalize them into words with someone who can hear and validate them. She e…
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Motivational Mondays: Unlocking Digital Transformation: A Deep Dive into the Success of Big Drop Inc. with Managing Director James Weiss
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Biography: James Weiss is Managing Director of Big Drop Inc., an award-winning full-service digital agency with offices in New York City, Los Angeles, and Europe. At 32, he leads the Big Drop team in transforming brands through innovative digital solutions. He’s worked with top companies of various industries and sizes and their executives to reach…
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Faithful Fridays: Transform Your Life Through Faith, Fitness, and Wellness: A Conversation with Pastor and Public Speaker Jared Haley
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Jared Haley is a follower of Jesus, a pastor, and a public speaker who believes God created the design for solid faith and healthy families. Serving in professional ministry for over 20 years with his Master’s Degree in Transformational Leadership and Spiritual Formation, Jared is passionate about investing in people and helping them understand how…
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Sarah Westbrook has turned an early life of complex trauma into a profession as a Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC). Sarah is passionate about mental wellness. She considers herself an eternal learner and is excited to share her knowledge and experience with her audience. As a trauma survivor, she understands the work that goes into healing. He…
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Thoughtful Thursdays: Unlocking Human-Centered Connected Worker Ecosystems: A Conversation with International Consultant and Keynote Speaker Brent Kedzierski
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Brent is a sought-after keynote speaker and a leader of connected-worker ecosystems at Hexagon ($HXGBY), an international data company working in many industries — from oil and gas to AI and manufacturing — to improve the human condition at work, amplify skills, and create a seamless collaboration between humans and machines. His work at Hexagon in…
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John Brink: Attitude – Passion – Work Ethic
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John A. Brink was born in 1940 in Nazi-occupied Holland during WWII. From the time he could walk, his days often consisted of foraging for food with his brother and sister during harsh warlike conditions, surrounded by death and hardship, especially during the hungry winter of 1944/45. John’s mother was left to raise her three kids alone when their…
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Tuesday Tips: Maximizing Your Potential and Achieving Tremendous Success: A Conversation with Dr. Peter Rios
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Dr. Peter Rios is the Founder of Peter Rios Consulting and the author of Untold Stories: The Latinx Leadership Experience in Higher Education. He has served diverse organizations, including businesses, religious institutions/churches, government, higher education, and non-profits, in organizational diversity, equity and inclusion, leadership develo…
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Motivational Mondays: Learn How To Overcome Extreme Adversity with CEO Victoria Pelletier
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I am a corporate executive (COO at age 24, President by 35, CEO at 41) after overcoming extreme adversity (I was born to a drug-addicted teenage mother who abused me severely - I was removed from her care and later adopted). I have also built, bought, and invested in businesses. I sit on multiple boards and am an author and professional public spea…
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Faithful Fridays: Overcoming Long COVID and Leaving a Meaningful Legacy: A Conversation with Holly Porter
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Holly Porter is a beacon of resilience, a 13-time best-selling author, a seasoned philanthropist, and a true survivor. Her incredible journey includes a 70-day battle with COVID-19, from which she emerged with unwavering determination. She is passionate about wellness and leads a non-profit dedicated to aiding the extended COVID community. Holly's …
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Dana Diaz Episode 3 – Stress and the Effects of Cortisol
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Dana Diaz was born to a teenage mother out of wedlock who didn't want her but was forced to keep her. Reduced to nothing, she left home during her first year of college and immediately fell for a covert narcissist who promised her the love I never had. Dana married him, who soon verbally and physically abused her, much as her father did. She ignore…
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Thoughtful Thursdays: Taking a Booze Vacation with Clifford Stephan
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Your Bio and Social Media links: https://www.tiktok.com/@cliffordstephan1 https://www.linkedin.com/in/cliffordstephan/ https://www.instagram.com/boozevacation/ https://www.facebook.com/BoozeVacation/ Clifford Stephan founded Booze Vacation, a health and wellness company for high-performing guys seeking to advance their jobs and lives by leveraging …
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