Best Yael Schonbrun Podcasts (2024)

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Miri Rodriguez, "Brand Storytelling: Put Customers at the Heart of Your Brand Story" (Kogan Page, 2023) 27:40

1y ago27:40

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Miri Rodriguez about her book Brand Storytelling: Put Customers at the Heart of Your Brand Story (Kogan Page, 2023). Miri Rodriguez began her career at Microsoft by leading social media support channels. That assignment made it obvious to Rodriguez that customers tell their own (often very emotional) stories about their brand experiences, making it…

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Jennifer Moss, "The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It" (HBRP, 2021) 29:06

1y ago29:06

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Today I talked to Jennifer Moss about her new book The Burnout Epidemic: The Rise of Chronic Stress and How We Can Fix It (HBRP, 2021). Workplace burnout is such an urgent issue that up to 700,000 people are believed to have died primarily due to workload stress – and yet many company leaders remain in denial. Their stance is that self-care will pr…

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Yael Schonbrun, "Work, Parent, Thrive: 12 Science-Backed Strategies to Ditch Guilt, Manage Overwhelm, and Grow Connection" (Shambhala, 2022) 27:43

1y ago27:43

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Today I talked to Yael Schonbrun about her book Work, Parent, Thrive: 12 Science-Backed Strategies to Ditch Guilt, Manage Overwhelm, and Grow Connection (Shambhala, 2022). The positive psychology movement and Buddhism have more than a little in common, as confirmed by Yael Schonbrun during this discussion of how to find synergy and richness in what…

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Nancy Harhut, "Using Behavioral Science in Marketing: Drive Customer Action and Loyalty by Prompting Instinctive Responses" (Kogan Page, 2022) 26:33

1y ago26:33

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Behavioral science recognizes that human beings aren’t so much pro-active decision-makers as they are people seeking to take short-cuts and operate in default mode to save mental energy. This book covers a range of behavioral science principles and biases, applied in this case in terms of six emotional markets: a desire for Self-Expression, Explora…

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Charlotte Fox Weber, "Tell Me What You Want: A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires" (Atria Book, 2023) 27:00

1y ago27:00

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Today I talked to Charlotte Fox Weber about her book Tell Me What You Want: A Therapist and Her Clients Explore Our 12 Deepest Desires (Atria Book, 2023). What we often want most is what we shouldn’t want or at least don’t dare admit to wanting. That’s but one point Charlotte Fox Weber is keen on exploring. Aren’t we always (especially in therapy, …

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Rose Hackman, "Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power" (Flatiron Books, 2023) 23:45

1y ago23:45

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In some ways, Hackman’s Emotional Labor: The Invisible Work Shaping Our Lives and How to Claim Our Power (Flatiron Books, 2023) serves as a natural update to Arlie Hochschild’s classic, The Managed Heart. After all, in public life it’s most often the women members of the service economy—in retail, in nursing, teaching, and elsewhere—who are asked t…

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Mark Staff Brandl, "A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art" (Bloomsbury, 2023) 32:05

1+ y ago32:05

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Today I talked to Mark Staff Brandl about his new book A Philosophy of Visual Metaphor in Contemporary Art (Bloomsbury, 2023). Brandl is an artist and art historian with a PhD from the University of Zurich. He is an Associate Professor of Art History Emeritus at the Art Academy of Liechtenstein and Higher Professional College for Art in St. Gallen,…

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Adam Kingl, "Sparking Success: Why Every Leader Needs to Develop a Creative Mindset" (Kogan Page, 2023) 24:46

1+ y ago24:46

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Today I talked to Adam Kingl about his new book Sparking Success: Why Every Leader Needs to Develop a Creative Mindset (Kogan Page, 2023). Most or, indeed, basically all of us start out being highly creative kids filled with wonderment, only to often have that spark “knocked out” of us by the straight jacket of the status quo. This guest aims to ch…

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Find Out Who You Are Meant To Be Veronica Anderson 35:10

1+ y ago35:10

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Veronica Anderson was an Ophthalmologist who was married and taught Sunday school to the outside world she had the perfect but she was unhappy. In fact, she was clinically depressed and she had the idea that being a doctor was not her calling. She always knew she was naturally psychic when she started coaching people she realized she could use her …

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Eugene Lipov and Jamie Mustard, "The Invisible Machine: The Startling Truth About Trauma and the Scientific Breakthrough That Can Transform Your Life" (BenBella Books, 2023) 41:52

1+ y ago41:52

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Today I talked to Eugene Lipov about his new book (co-authored with Jamie Mustard), The Invisible Machine: The Startling Truth About Trauma and the Scientific Breakthrough That Can Transform Your Life (BenBella Books, 2023) Human beings aren’t biologically build to endure sustained stress. A 30-second blast of anxiety in dealing with a threat isn’t…

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Captain Charlie Plumb Never Quit 45:02

1+ y ago45:02

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Charlie Plumb always wanted to fly planes. As a little boy growing up on a farm in Kansas, he wasn't sure how he would be able to. The United States Naval Academy provided him with the opportunity. He reported to Miramar Naval Air Station in San Diego where he flew the first adversarial flights in the development of what would be called The Navy Fi…

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Andrew Small, "No Limits: The Inside Story of China's War with the West" (Melville House, 2022) 27:01

1+ y ago27:01

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Today I talked to Andrew Small about his book No Limits: The Inside Story of China's War with the West (Melville House, 2022). Winston Churchill famously described Russia in 1939 as “a riddle, wrapped in a mystery, inside an enigma.” But as Andrew Small correctly argues here, China’s path forward has often been laid out quite explicitly by its auth…

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Jen Crowe Tap Into Your Soul 38:14

1+ y ago38:14

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Jen Crowe business Grow With Crowe is about succeeding at success through tapping into your soul purpose. Jen Crowe has had to deal without a lot of bricks from dealing with abuse as child abuse at the hands of her father, an abusive relationship, and being a single mom. Along the way she was very successful at business building her own dealership,…

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M. Johnson and T. Misiaszek, "Branding That Means Business: How to Build Enduring Bonds Between Brands, Consumers & Markets" (PublicAffairs, 2022) 29:40

1+ y ago29:40

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Today I talked to Matt Johnson about his book (co-authored with Tessa Misiaszek) Branding That Means Business: How to Build Enduring Bonds Between Brands, Consumers & Markets (PublicAffairs, 2022) Too often companies look down the road, trying to future-proof their business when it fact they should be clueing-in on the fundamentals of human nature …

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Tessa West, "Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to Do About Them" (Portfolio, 2022) 23:14

1+ y ago23:14

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Today I talked to Tessa West about her book Jerks at Work: Toxic Coworkers and What to Do About Them (Portfolio, 2022). This conversation explores the seven types of jerks that West has diagnosed: the kiss-up / kiss downer, the credit stealer, the bulldozer, the free rider, the micromanager, the neglectful (boss) and the gaslighter. The last type i…

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Lois Hollis Shame And Guilt Are Two Sides Of The Same Coin 24:39

1+ y ago24:39

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Lois Hollis is a helper she has always wanted to help people At 12 she started working as nursing aide and has a successful career in healthcare. When turned 50 she was hit with a brick her body was breaking down and doctors told her that she didn't have long to live. She had been through a lot of trauma and abuse as a child that she didn't realize…

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Sarah L. Kaufman, "The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life" (Norton, 2015) 24:55

1+ y ago24:55

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Today I talked to Sarah L Kaufman about her book The Art of Grace: On Moving Well Through Life (Norton, 2016). Grace as a word comes from Greek, conveying a sense of giving a favor as a gift or act or kindness. It’s related to Hebrew and Muslim words for compassion, and is something today’s society could use more of notes today’s guest. Instead, we…

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Kelly Hopkins If You Don't Act Nothing Will Change 24:52

1+ y ago24:52

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Kelly Hopkins is a happiness coach using art to help others figure out what in their past is keeping them from being happy but she had to overcome many bricks early in her life to get there. From living in the projects to being raped at a young age, to dealing with her step-father who had a drug addiction, to running a daycare as a teenager. As an …

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Yael Trusch You Can Have Wealth Without Compromising Your Values 34:30

1+ y ago34:30

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Yael Trusch called the Jewish Oprah is a coach for Jewish women helping women build careers that support their faith and values. She also hosts a very popular podcast called Jewish Money Matters. Yael describes her journey to embracing her faith and not even letting the demands of an MBA program get in the way. Not letting anything compromise her v…

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Susan Brown God Never Gives You More Than You Can Handle 30:50

1+ y ago30:50

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Susan Brown is a coach, author, mother, and entrepreneur. While life is going well for now she has to overcome many bricks. She was bullied as a child, was homeless for six months lived in her car, attempted suicide, had to care for her mother who became paralyzed after an accident, suffered 3 miscarriages, and had depression. Through it, all her f…

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Mike Schlappi Find Your Bullet 22:48

1+ y ago22:48

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Mike Schlappi had an ordinary childhood until at the age of 14 he and his friend were playing with his friend's dad's police gun and his friend accidentally shot him. That moment changed and shaped his life forever. He was paralyzed from the waist down but he did not let that hold him back. Always an athlete he joined a wheelchair basketball team, …

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Bee Bloeser On A Misson To Save Lives 35:16

1+ y ago35:16

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Bae Bloeser as a minister's daughter had seen her father help people all her life and went to several countries to help people. She dreamed of going to Africa when she was 10 years old. She got her to wish when she followed her husband to help eradicate smallpox in Nigeria during a civil war. She had two small children who moved to Africa with them…

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Ayelet Fishbach, "Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation" (Little, Brown Spark, 2022) 24:37

1+ y ago24:37

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Today I talked to Ayelet Fishbach about her book Get It Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation (Little, Brown Spark, 2022) The key to motivating yourself is to change your circumstances. You can do so by the goals you set, how you accept feedback in pursuing them, the flexibility you show in making progress, and how well you levera…

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Michelle Kuei: Don't Let Your Size Determine Your Impact 32:14

1+ y ago32:14

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Michelle Keui faced a major brick as a child she was hit by a taxi which caused her to have to go through several surgeries. They did not work and Michelle had to use crutches to get around her growth was stunted at 4 feet. This brought a lot of challenges with it and affected her self-esteem. She had a hard time finding her place in the world. Ano…

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Candace Mae Faith Guided Her Through The Bricks 25:59

1+ y ago25:59

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Candace Mae is a coach, speaker, author, mother, and grandmother. She has faced many bricks in her life one of them being her family. At the age of 7 she learned her father was a member of the Klu Klux Klan. Her mother on the hand valued education and taught her to love all races and religions. It was hard for her to deal with. She faced other bric…

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Jerry Pannone, "Survive: Why We Do What We Do" (John Hunt, 2022) 24:26

1+ y ago24:26

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Today I talked to Jerry Pannone about his new book Survive: Why We Do What We Do (John Hunt, 2022) Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs model is famous, but more so the 5-layer model than the 8-layer model he eventually arrived at. Why the later addition of knowledge and understanding, aesthetics and transcendence as needs in Maslow’s model? The ans…

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Carolyn Colleen Take Life 5 Minutes At A Time 27:41

1+ y ago27:41

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Carolyn is a successful businesswoman, a best-selling author, pursuing a PhD, a wife, and a mother of three. Life was not always great for her she faced many bricks in her childhood and life as a young adult. Her mother suffered from an undiagnosed mental illness making Carolyn's childhood chaotic, They moved every year, her mother was a hoarder so…

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Max Bazerman, "Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop" (Princeton UP, 2022) 26:57

1+ y ago26:57

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Today I talked to Max Bazerman about his book Complicit: How We Enable the Unethical and How to Stop (Princeton UP, 2022). Remember Saturday Night Live’s satirical TV spot for Ivanka Trump’s perfume, Complicit? Talk about a timely topic. In what is Bazerman’s third book on ethics, the focus is on the people who surround an “evil” doer and enable or…

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Josh Shea Recognizing You Have A Problem Is The Start Of Overcoming It 34:59

1+ y ago34:59

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in 2014, Joshua was a prominent magazine publisher, award-winning journalist, film festival founder, and politician in central Maine. He had a secret he was suffering from addiction to alcohol and porn. His job and family were suffering he finally admitted he had a problem and went to rehab. At the time he didn't realize he had an addiction to porn…

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Dan Hedgerich 6 Time Cancer Survivor 28:37

1+ y ago28:37

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Dan Hedgerich has survived many bricks being diagnosed with multiple times, divorce, and thoughts of suicide and what helped him through was his mindset. Dan has a strong faith and also taught himself to change his behaviors that were not serving. He now has a coaching business to not only help people dealing with cancer but other diseases as well.…

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Valerie Carter Don't Let Anything Get You Down 26:57

1+ y ago26:57

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Valerie is a very strong woman, wife, mother, and grandmother though she has been through many bricks she doesn't let anything hold her down. She doesn't let her bricks define her. She is a business owns a non-profit and helps people every day. She reminds us to take time to care for ourselves when we go through bricks but to keep going. Don't let …

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Batja Mesquita, "Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions" (Norton, 2022) 30:53

1+ y ago30:53

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Today I talked to Batja Mesquita about her book Between Us: How Cultures Create Emotions (Norton, 2022). To a degree sometimes not realized, we discuss emotions through the lens of what have been called WEIRD cultures, i.e. Western, Educated, Industrialized, Rich and Democratic. As a result, the perspective taken tends to be inside/out, privileging…

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Barbara Legere Coping With A Mother's Grief 25:18

1+ y ago25:18

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Barbara Legeere faced one of the greatest tragedies any parent can go through the loss of a child. After a long of battle with drug addiction, he ended his life. After falling into the wrong crowd in high school who introduced him to drugs and then he was introduced to harder drugs like heroin. Barbara tried to help him as much as possible through …

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Heidi K. Gardner and Ivan A. Matviak, "Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work" (HBR Press, 2022) 29:40

1+ y ago29:40

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Today I talked to Dr. Heidi K. Gardner about her new book (co-authored with Ivan A. Matviak) Smarter Collaboration: A New Approach to Breaking Down Barriers and Transforming Work (HBR Press, 2022) Diversity doesn’t mean much if a range of people are in the room but not really a part of the conversation taking place there. To counter that all-togeth…

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Jeanne-Mari Retief A Place With No Judgment 21:41

1+ y ago21:41

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Jeanne-Mari Retief is very ambitious she is BA, MBA, Ph.D., a law degree, and a very prestigious career. At the age of 35 she felt depressed she realized her painful past was something she had to deal with. From the trauma, she suffered when her family moved to South Africa to being sexually assaulted by her grandfather at a young age she had to de…

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Deborah Driggs You Can't Run Away From Your Pain 42:17

1+ y ago42:17

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Deborah Driggs career was skyrocketing and she was featured in Playboy, she was in movies and television. All that success was masking her addiction to alcohol, addiction to fame, and trouble with relationships, which hid the trauma and neglect she experienced as a child. Growing up with a father that was addicted to alcohol and a mother that showe…

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Julie Cober You Are Meant To Thrive! 22:36

1+ y ago22:36

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Julie Cober had a successful career in HR but in 2019 she started to feel a shift in the industry more layoffs and more harassment issues. What she had always loved about her job helping other people have a job that they enjoyed she no longer had the time to do. She wanted to make a change. She thought about what she really liked about her job whic…

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Roger D. Blackwell and Roger A. Bailey, "Objective Prosperity: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Outcomes for You, Your Business, and Your Nation (Rothstein Publishing, 2022) 35:30

1+ y ago35:30

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Today I talked to Roger Blackwell about his new book Objective Prosperity: How Behavioral Economics Can Improve Outcomes for You, Your Business, and Your Nation (Rothstein Publishing, 2022) Contrary to conventional wisdom, about 90% of billionaires are self-made as opposed to people who inherited their wealth. Why did they succeed? That’s the quest…

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James Hurman, "Future Demand: Why Building Your Brand among Tomorrow’s Customers Is the Key to Start-Up Success" (Previously Unavailable, 2022) 32:55

1+ y ago32:55

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Today I talked to James Hurman about his new book Future Demand: Why Building Your Brand among Tomorrow’s Customers Is the Key to Start-Up Success (Previously Unavailable, 2022). Marketers aren’t always very good at marketing, ironically enough, as today’s guest candidly admits. Among the most amorphous terms tends to be branding, for which James H…

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Anthony Pierre Change Your Mindset Can Change Everything 40:41

2y ago40:41

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Anthony Pierre's life was going well he had a successful real estate business, a beautiful wife and child, and life was good. His business was expanding when he was hit with a brick divorce and then the recession hit and his business started struggling. In the midst of all this, an old childhood friend asked for help he didn't realize he was gettin…

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Mike Konrad A True David and Goliath Story 39:43

2y ago39:43

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Mike Konrad has a very successful business now but it wasn't always that way he had to overcome several times of adversity. His story teaches us that an entrepreneur or anyone that is following a dream must preserve, evolve, and keep going. It reminds us that you must all be willing to pivot and evolve your skills. That even when you are up against…

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Chris De Santis, "Why I Find You Irritating: Navigating Generational Friction at Work" (Ampify, 2022) 28:52

2y ago28:52

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Today I talked to Chris De Santis about his new book Why I Find You Irritating: Navigating Generational Friction at Work (Ampify, 2022). Soon, those who qualify as Millennials or part of Gen Z will constitute 70% of the workplace in America. What kinds of work environments and interactive styles will appeal or repel them most? Among the suggestions…

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Kathryn Burmeister Overcoming Addiction To The Status Quo 23:34

2y ago23:34

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Kathryn an accomplished attorney, animal lover, and author of Addiction To The Status Quo. She shares her inspiring journey . Kathryn discusses the many bricks she has faced and how she overcame them. She outlines how she overcame the addiction to the status quo and why it is so important for everyone but especially professionals.…

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Dr. Pat Boulogne Health Is Wealth 31:18

2y ago31:18

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Pat had an unconventional medical career but she has always been focused on one thing making sure she can help people live healthier lives. She found her purpose by accident. She was finishing up her residency and realized that so many patients were not getting better and doctors were not happy. She decided she did not want to become a doctor. Late…

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Tracey Livingston Howard Co-Founder Of Liv.Lit! Overcoming An Eating Disorder To Help Others 32:05

2y ago32:05

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Tracey Livingston shares her journey of overcoming an eating disorder. She was the first in her family to graduate from college and she didn't have a lot of money. Facing so many bricks she developed bulimia and struggled in her classes. It took one of her professors noticing she was struggling for her to realize she needed to make a change. She st…

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Jen Lee Surviving A Robbery Abduction To Help Other Survivors Share Their Story 32:27

2y ago32:27

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Jen Lee has an amazingly positive attitude she lets few things bother her but she has faced many bricks. A major brick was being the victim of a robbery and abduction. She was at her job as a manager of the store and a man held her, her co-workers, and customers at gunpoint. She details her harrowing experience and how she saved the other people in…

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Victoria Grady and Patrick McCreesh, "Stuck: How to WIN at Work by Understanding LOSS" (Productivity Press, 2022) 29:53

2y ago29:53

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Today I talked to Victoria Grady about her book (co-authored with Patrick McCreesh) Stuck: How to WIN at Work by Understanding LOSS (Productivity Press, 2022) The attachment styles we form by eight months of age can endure our entire lives, with an appreciable impact on how we relate to both our boss and the physical environment at work. A case in …

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Ros McMaster Embrace Gratitude 35:22

2y ago35:22

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Ros McMaster shares the many bricks that she faced in her life that led to her hearing the whispers. The whispers led her to not only a life that she loves but one where she is able to help so many people. She was in a toxic marriage for 30 years when her father was diagnosed with cancer this started her on her spiritual journey which gave her the …

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Mark Herschberg How Bullying Affected My Whole Life 28:14

2y ago28:14

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Mark Herschberg could definitely be called an overachiever. He is the author of Career Toolkit and the creator of the app Brain Bump. He received a degree in electrical engineering, computer science, and a physics degree from MIT and a master's degree from MIT in electrical engineering and computer science. To go on to Harvard Business School. He h…

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Peter Wright God Stepped In And Saved Me From Suicide 25:51

2y ago25:51

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Peter Wright had a great childhood in Rhodesia. As an adult, he had a thriving business but political turmoil in the country caused him to have to give up his home and move to South Africa. This wouldn't be the last time he would have to start a new business, give up his home, and move. He reached a low point after being hit with all of these brick…

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