Becoming a Sage with Dr. Jann Freed
36 episodes - English - Latest episode: 11 days ago - ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsDr. Jann discusses living, aging, and retiring the word "retirement" with interesting guests from diverse backgrounds and walks of life.
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Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Barbara Waxman
April 23, 2024 23:40 - 22 minutes - 51.4 MBBarbara Waxman, founder of The Odyssey Group, is passionate about building leaders’ personal and professional skills so they can thrive while increasing their ability to manage complexity and maximize their effectiveness. With over two decades of experience coaching CEOs, C-suite leaders, and entrepreneurs, Barbara utilizes a holistic approach to help clients lead and communicate authentically, sustain high performance, and expand their influence and impact. Barbara is a highly sought-after...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Meg Wheatley
March 27, 2024 01:01 - 30 minutes - 69.4 MBMargaret Wheatley, also known as Meg, embarked on her journey of caring for humanity in 1966 as a Peace Corps volunteer in post-war Korea. Her current endeavors are concentrated on cultivating and empowering leaders globally, advocating for them to become Warriors for the Human Spirit. These leaders prioritize service over self, exhibit unwavering resilience amidst challenges and setbacks, and effect positive change for the communities and causes close to their hearts. Meg, the author of t...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Laura Rotter
February 28, 2024 20:47 - 28 minutes - 64.9 MBLaura Rotter, CFA, CFP, is the owner of True Abundance Advisors, a heart-centered, values-based financial planning firm based in New York. After a successful career managing money for institutional investors including Citicorp and Para Advisors, Laura discovered mindfulness practices and was drawn to guide professionals facing a big life change to achieve both financial security and life satisfaction. Since making her shift, she has been featured in CNBC, the Wall Street Journal, The New Y...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Pam Maxson, PhD
February 14, 2024 18:18 - 19 minutes - 45.7 MBDr. Pamela Maxson, an executive and leadership coach, mentor coach, trainer/facilitator, and author of "Finding Your Inner Bitch: How to live an authentic and wholehearted life," assists readers in tapping into and expressing their core selves. Alongside her book, she has developed two related courses: "Develop Your Life" and "Mastering Midlife." With over 25 years of teaching experience at Duke University, Pam is the founder and principal of Periscope Coaching.
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Susan Latremoille
January 23, 2024 23:41 - 20 minutes - 47.1 MBSusan Latremoille enjoyed a stellar 38-year career as a wealth advisor. During those years, she watched many of her clients move into retirement with high hopes and plenty of money, only to become disillusioned and depressed. She was frustrated because there was no place for her to turn to help them. After selling her wealth practice at the end of 2019, Susan was determined to do something about the problem. That led her to co-found Next Chapter Lifestyle Advisors, which supports financial a...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Douglas Tsoi
January 10, 2024 00:18 - 24 minutes - 55.8 MBBy living simply, Douglas Tsoi retired at the age of 42 to do what he wanted with his life, which is to help people participate in grace. He runs a platform called The Appreciation Effect, holds events called the Gratitude Dojo, and runs experiments in reparative economic justice. He also teaches personal finance with a spiritual lens in a class called Financial Freedom. Douglas is a trained Franciscan spiritual director and writes about the intersection of capitalism and spirituality on t...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Ali Schultz
December 20, 2023 03:15 - 27 minutes - 62.9 MBAli Schultz is a coach and the co-founder of Reboot.io. She weaves her business acumen with the innate wisdom of the body, the philosophies of the world’s wisdom traditions, and the“way of the horse” to help clients find their voice in service of finding themselves. Ali earned her Master’s degree in Religious Studies from the University of Colorado at Boulder, studied Transformational NLP at NLP Marin, and completed the facilitator program at the Center for Collaborative Awareness. An avid ...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Dr. Michael S. Lewis, M.D.
November 28, 2023 23:05 - 33 minutes - 76.6 MBDr. Michael S. Lewis, M.D., is a distinguished orthopedic surgeon and former consultant for the Chicago White Sox baseball team, Chicago Wolves hockey team, and the Chicago Bulls basketball team, with whom won two championship rings. Previously, he served as the chief of staff at NorthShore University HealthSystem’s Skokie Hospital and received a teaching award from Rush University Medical College. Dr. Lewis is an award-winning author who has published seven books, including One World: A V...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Mary van de Wiel
October 26, 2023 22:31 - 22 minutes - 52.6 MBHer exuberance as a non-linear thinker and visionary in the brand intelligence space has always taken center stage. But Mary van de Wiel, dubbed brand psychologist and master provocateur by her corporate clients, brings 35 years of multicultural experience redefining brands and bringing emboldened thinking to organizations. As Founder, CEO and Executive Creative Director of an independent branding & design agency with offices in New York and Sydney, she steered award-winning campaigns for ...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Susan Turnbull
September 26, 2023 20:24 - 39 minutes - 90.4 MBSusan Turnbull is the founder and Principal of Personal Legacy Advisors. She the author of The Wealth of Your Life: A Step-by-Step Guide for Creating Your Ethical Will, and creator of Life Legacy Cards and the Life Legacy Conversations Tool, all designed for those who agree that wealth transferred to future generations has both tangible and intangible dimensions. Susan is a member of the Boston Estate Planning Council, the Purposeful Planning Institute and the Personal Historians Network a...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Ayse Birsel
August 16, 2023 14:55 - 26 minutes - 61.4 MBAyse (pronounced Eye-Shay) Birsel is one of the world’s leading industrial designers. She has designed hundreds of products, from toilet seats to office systems to potato peelers to concept cars. You’ve probably held or sat on something she has designed for Herman Miller Knoll, Target or Toyota, among many others. Her work has earned her several nicknames—Queen of Toilets, Queen Bee (for office systems), and Design Evangelista (given to her by Mauro Porcini, Chief Design Officer, PepsiCo). ...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Christine Sperber
July 12, 2023 15:16 - 42 minutes - 98.2 MBHome is Baja and Breckenridge for this former pro snowboarder who's launched and operated hotels, produced events on beaches and glaciers, managed pro athletes, and worn the hats of writer, restaurateur, and more. The common thread? Christine is passionate about creating experiences that change people's lives—be it in our classroom, our community, or in our workplace. Christine cares deeply about the wellbeing and happiness of her amazing team and the broader El Pescadero community where she...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Gena Cox
June 14, 2023 13:26 - 21 minutes - 49.3 MBDr. Gena Cox, CEO of Feels Human, LLC, is an organizational psychologist, executive coach, and author of Leading Inclusion, an award-winning guidebook for corporate leaders who want to build inclusive organizations from the top down. Before this, at IBM and Perceptyx, Gena advised leaders in the Fortune 500 and other large global companies to build psychologically healthy and engaging organizational cultures that drive business outcomes. A noted voice on human-centered leadership, Gena hel...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Bruce Rosenstein
May 16, 2023 23:21 - 38 minutes - 89 MBBruce Rosenstein is Managing Editor of Leader to Leader, a publication of The Frances Hesselbein Leadership Forum and Wiley/Jossey-Bass. He is the author of Create Your Future the Peter Drucker Way, (McGraw-Hill and Brilliance Audio, 2013) and Living in More Than One World: How Peter Drucker's Wisdom Can Inspire and Transform Your Life (Berrett-Koehler, 2009). He worked for USA TODAY from 1987-2008, as a corporate librarian and during the final 12 years, also as a writer about business and...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Jacqueline Wales
April 19, 2023 12:42 - 21 minutes - 29.4 MBAt only sixteen years old, Jacqueline Wales fled from her childhood home in a desperate search for happiness. Looking in all the wrong places, she left a trail of abandoned children and a pattern of self abuse that threatened her life. But that’s just the beginning of her story. From Leith, Scotland, to London, England; from the California coast to Paris, Amsterdam, New York, and Bali, Jacqueline’s life has been a journey of self-discovery, awakening, and joy in the face of fear. Jacquelin...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Chana Dusksis
April 06, 2023 02:36 - 24 minutes - 55.1 MBClick here to register for Chana's workshop! Read from Chana herself: I am the youngest child of Reb Zalman Schachter Shalomi Z"L and his first wife Tziporah Faygl. I have 68 years of Life Experience. I am currently not retired but "Reinspired" and ready to share Sageing with you with special insights of having been raised by Reb Zalman as I was growing up in Winnipeg and decades of continuing to receive parental guidance and influence throughout my adult life. I hope to continue his le...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Jenn Lim
March 15, 2023 14:22 - 20 minutes - 28.7 MBJenn Lim is the bestselling author of Beyond Happiness, and the CEO of Delivering Happiness [DH], a company she and Tony Hsieh [the late CEO of Zappos.com] cofounded to create happier company cultures for a more profitable and sustainable approach to business. DH has worked with or spoken at more than 400 companies and organizations worldwide, including Starbucks, Sallie Mae, Lockheed Martin, Zoom, Northwell Health, and more. In 2020, DH was placed on the Inc. 5000 list, becoming one of the ...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Shelley Paxton
February 14, 2023 22:59 - 40 minutes - 55.8 MBThink Brené Brown meets Biker Babe, with a dash of Liz Gilbert. As former Chief Marketing Officer of Harley-Davidson, Shelley Paxton found herself at the top of the proverbial mountain feeling success-EMPTY instead of success-FULL. That awakening led her on a profound Soulbbatical journey that became her mission, business, and bestselling book, Soulbbatical: A Corporate Rebel's Guide to Finding Your Best Life. She’s leading a REBELution to rewrite the script of success – in life, business, a...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Kay Scorah
January 24, 2023 02:01 - 35 minutes - 49.1 MBA short history of Kay: "After graduating in Biochemistry from King’s College, London I spent a year in the Max Planck Institut fur Biophysik in Frankfurt, and with 2 published papers in learned scientific journals under my belt, I made the rather unexpected move into market research and advertising (where I stayed for far too long!). By the age of 32 I had been on the board of directors of 2 London ad agencies and a contributor and assistant producer on the BBCTV social history series on ...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Paul Loper
January 11, 2023 21:09 - 34 minutes - 79.8 MBPaul Loper is a deep-rooted dancer, collaborative inquirer, feeling thinker, group facilitator, and committed learner. Paul has worked in 21 countries over 4+ decades, the first two of which were onstage (a few highlights: dancing with Twyla Tharp, and in two Olympic Games Opening Ceremonies; creating one-man shows in Seattle, Paris, San Francisco, and a two-person show in London). Paul earned a Ph.D. in Learning and Change in Human Systems. He’s now a senior facilitator for Stanford’s ren...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Robert E. Quinn
December 07, 2022 03:15 - 30 minutes - 41.4 MBRobert E. Quinn is the Margaret Elliot Tracy Collegiate Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, Ross School of Business. His research and writing focus on purpose, leadership, culture and change. He is one of the co-founders of the field of Positive Organizational Scholarship and a co-founder of the Ross Center for Positive Organizations. In terms of research, he is in the top 1% of professors cited in organizational behavior textbooks. He has published 18 books. As a te...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Dorie Clark
November 16, 2022 04:07 - 23 minutes - 32.9 MBDorie Clark helps individuals and companies get their best ideas heard in a crowded, noisy world. She has been named one of the Top 50 business thinkers in the world by Thinkers50. She was honored as the #1 Communication Coach by the Marshall Goldsmith Leading Global Coaches Awards and one of the Top 5 Communication Professionals in the World by Global Gurus. She is a keynote speaker and teaches for Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and Columbia Business School. She is the Wall Str...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Pat Whitty
October 12, 2022 00:29 - 27 minutes - 38.4 MBPat Whitty calls himself a Modern Elder Whisperer. The “whisperer” phrase was made popular by the Horse Whisperer who is a person who has a unique understanding of the emotional and psychological needs of horses. Through his own study of health, aging, and his own transition to a Modern Elder, Pat has a unique understanding of the emotional and psychological needs of elders. He recently completed a week retreat at the Modern Elder Academy in Baja, a place and a school with its own unique cu...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Megan Gerhardt, Ph.D.
September 06, 2022 23:35 - 36 minutes - 50 MBMegan W. Gerhardt, Ph.D. is a Professor of Management and Leadership at the Farmer School of Business at Miami University, where she also serves as Director of Leadership Development for the Farmer School and the Robert D. Johnson Co-Director of the Isaac & Oxley Center for Business Leadership. Megan has published widely on generational differences in the workplace and is author of the book Gentelligence: A Revolutionary Approach to Leading an Intergenerational Workforce. Her Gentelligence...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Marcus Buckingham
August 10, 2022 02:43 - 33 minutes - 46 MBMarcus Buckingham is a global researcher and New York Times best-selling author focused on unlocking strengths, increasing performance, and pioneering the future of how people work. He is the author of two of the best-selling business books of all time, First, Break All the Rules, and Now, Discover Your Strengths, and his tenth book, Love + Work (Harvard Business Review Press) is a WSJ bestseller and has been heralded by Forbes as one of the ten must-reads for career and leadership in 2022...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Kristi Nelson
July 13, 2022 01:03 - 30 minutes - 41.3 MBBeing a long-term stage IV cancer survivor moves Kristi Nelson every day to support others in living and loving with great fullness of heart. Kristi is the Executive Director of A Network for Grateful Living. Her work in the non-profit sector over the last four decades has focused on leading, inspiring, and strengthening organizations committed to progressive social and spiritual change. In this spirit, she has held many roles including Executive Director of a regional Women’s Foundation, f...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Paul Long
June 15, 2022 03:09 - 40 minutes - 55.1 MBPaul Long is an award-winning major market television news reporter, anchor, weatherman and special projects producer. He is an Emmy award winning Content Creator for www.paullongproductions.com. Paul won an Emmy for Best Documentary for A Passing of the Torch. New Way Forward is Paul’s new way forward. Bringing to bear all his experience, skill and talent as well as what he has learned himself and from thought leaders over the past 15 years on what it takes to live a life with joy, purpos...
Becoming a Sage: A Conversation with Paula Harris
May 11, 2022 12:48 - 27 minutes - 25.2 MBPaula Harris is co-founder at WH Cornerstone Investments, a part-financial-advisor and part-dream-architect. She takes great pride in helping her clients, particularly widowed women, obtain financial peace of mind while they get back on their feet, rise up and navigate their path forward. Paula is the author of “Rise Up: A Widow’s Journal.”
Becoming a Sage: Ann Latham
April 13, 2022 00:33 - 28 minutes - 51.6 MBAnn Latham is the author of The Power of Clarity: Unleash the True Potential of Workplace Productivity, Confidence, and Empowerment. By combining the rigor of her background in mathematics (Tufts University) with her experience advising corporate leaders from organizations as diverse as Boeing, Hitachi, PBS, United Way, and colleges and universities, Ann made the leap from solving technical problems to solving the broader problems that involve people and organizations. She has created a ne...
Becoming a Sage: Liz Brunner
February 16, 2022 03:09 - 21 minutes - 38.5 MBLiz Brunner is a best-selling author, Executive Communications Coach, Motivational Speaker, Podcast Host, and Emmy award-winning journalist. She is the author of Dare to Own You: Taking Your Authenticity and Dreams into Your Next Chapter. Mixing memoir, both personal and professional, with practical, implementable transformational tools, the book weaves her story about determination, perseverance, resilience, faith, and trust. Liz is also the host of the Live Your Best Life with Liz Brun...
Becoming a Sage: Brant Huddleston
January 12, 2022 03:04 - 42 minutes - 59 MBBrant Huddleston is the author of three books, scads of short stories and other mad musings, and the host of a podcast on how death taught him to thrive in the second half of life. A former rock & roll guitarist, classic car restoration mechanic, tropical fish tank cleaner, inventive engineer, and business professional with IBM, he now lives with a pirate lady on Turkey's turquoise coast. You can find him at www.dancepastsunset.com
Becoming a Sage: Erica Keswin
November 24, 2021 14:00 - 25 minutes - 23 MBErica Keswin is a highly sought-after workplace strategist and coach with 25 years of hands-on experience and two Wall Street Journal bestselling books. She is a trusted guide for companies around the world looking for ways to connect their teams, increase engagement, and create a human workplace.
Becoming a Sage: Ayse Birsel
October 27, 2021 13:10 - 43 minutes - 39.6 MBAyse (pronounced Eye-Shay) Birsel is one of Fast Company’s Most Creative People 2017 and is on the Thinkers50 Radar List of the 30 management thinkers most likely to shape the future of organizations. She is the author of Design the Life You Love and gives lectures on Design the Work You Love to corporations. Ayse is the co-founder of Birsel + Seck, the award-winning design and innovation studio, and consults to Amazon, Colgate-Palmolive, Herman Miller, GE, IKEA, The Scan Foundation, Stapl...
Becoming a Sage: Carol Orsborn, Ph.D.
October 13, 2021 12:35 - 58 minutes - 54 MBCarol Orsborn, Ph.D. is a recognized thought leader in the field of conscious aging and author of over 30 books translated into 15 languages including her forthcoming The Making of an Old Soul: Aging as the Fulfillment of Life’s Promise and Older, Wiser, Fiercer: The Wisdom Collection. Dr. Orsborn received her Master of Theological Studies and Doctorate in History and Critical Theory of Religion from Vanderbilt University with specialization in the fields of adult and spiritual development....
Becoming a Sage: John Baldoni
September 27, 2021 01:59 - 28 minutes - 38.7 MBJohn Baldoni is a globally recognized leadership educator, certified Master Corporate Executive Coach, and author of 15 books that have been translated into ten languages. John is also a member of the renowned Marshall Goldsmith 100 coaches, a group of executive coaches and thought leaders from the worlds of business, academia and social service. In 2021, the International Federation of Learning and Development named John a World-Class Mentor and named him to its Hall of Fame. John has auth...
Becoming a Sage: Rob Walker
August 26, 2021 14:11 - 19 minutes - 36.5 MBRob Walker is a journalist covering design, technology, business, the arts, and other subjects. He has contributed to The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, The Atlantic, NewYorker.Com, Design Observer, The Organist, and many others. His latest book is The Art of Noticing (Knopf). He is on the faculty of the Products of Design MFA program at the School of Visual Arts. Find his Art of Noticing newsletter at robwalker.substack.com