Disrupt Yourself Podcast with Whitney Johnson
386 episodes - English - Latest episode: 6 days ago - ★★★★★ - 428 ratingsBest-selling author Whitney Johnson (“Disrupt Yourself”) explores her passion for personal disruption through engaging conversations with disruptors. Each episode of this podcast reveals new insights about how we work, learn, and live.
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369 Ruth McKeaney: To Make A House A Home, Tailor Your Family Systems With Intention
April 19, 2024 09:00 - 53 minutes - 73.8 MBAsk a thousand people how to make a house a home, and you might get a thousand different answers. Some will say it’s family; others say it’s all in the interior decor – neighborhood pride, or a furry friend, maybe. Regardless of how you answer the question, you can’t just sit back and wait for it to become a home – everyone agrees that something needs to be done. Our guest today is an expert on making that transition from house to home. Moving every 18 months or so, Ruth McKeaney raise...
368 Cal Newport: Why The Factory Model Of Work Doesn’t Work In The Modern Age
April 12, 2024 09:00 - 50 minutes - 68.8 MBHow many of us have mastered the skill of looking busy, at some point in our professional lives? It’s an art, really – moving from one tab to another with lightspeed, peering at the screen and making that face that you think communicates determination, drive, intent. Our guest today says that it’s nothing to feel bad about. When a portion of the population moved from factories to cubicles, they still brought that factory-floor mentality with them. Look good in front of the boss, keep ...
367 Chris Dixon: (Re)learning The Streets And Signs Of Our Virtual City
April 05, 2024 09:00 - 52 minutes - 72.7 MBMany of us feel comfortable navigating a city. Whether it’s New York or Kyoto, the rules remain mostly the same. Count the amount of blocks you’ve walked, remember that the E train runs express to Manhattan, if you see the Duane Reade, you’ve gone too far. We can get lost, for sure, but there’s a joy in knowing that you have the freedom to get lost. A wrong turn could mean your new favorite Chinese spot, or a new friend. Now think about how you navigate the internet. We don’t explore and g...
366 Brooke Romney: Falling Into The Comparison Trap (And How To Get Out)
March 29, 2024 09:00 - 52 minutes - 72.1 MBIn this episode, we wanted to bring you a redux of a conversation I had back in 2022. As a new mom, Brooke Romney left behind her roots on Capitol Hill to move to a new community, new friend –– a new S Curve. But instead of making new connections, a normally extroverted person, Brooke found herself withdrawing from the community. Why? Well, she was surrounded by successful people, and Brooke fell into one of the most human traps there is – comparing yourself to others, and feeling ...
365 Donald Miller: How To Write Your Own Story With Intention
March 22, 2024 09:00 - 46 minutes - 63.7 MBWhat makes a good story? Characters, plot, setting, sure – you can boil it down to those elements – but what makes a good story? Is it the moment where you’re up all night burning the midnight oil, because you’re dying to find out how it ends? Is a good story one you believe in? Our guest today believes in the power of stories. Donald Miller is the CEO of StoryBrand, a creative firm that specializes in clarifying a company’s message. In other words, taking a good story and figuring out how...
364 Jerry Colonna: It’s Not Enough To Be An Ally – You Have To Be A Co-Conspirator
March 15, 2024 13:31 - 49 minutes - 68.3 MB“True transformation, begins with a broken heart.” It’s something you’ll hear our guest today say a couple of times, this idea that a real crucible moment begins when something inside you breaks. When a force fundamental to you and your soul says – no more. Jerry Colonna has taken that message and run with it throughout his entire career, from the hallways of venture capital to his current venture in coaching. Today, he’s out with a new book on healing that break, titled Reunion: Leaders...
363 Peter Sims: A Practical Guide To Sparking Your Humanity “In An Inhuman Time”
March 08, 2024 10:00 - 49 minutes - 68.2 MBWhen’s the last time you felt out of place? I’m sure a lot of us have sat with that feeling, whether that’s professionally or personally. It can hit you just as easily in a boardroom meeting as when you’re out with friends. So now that you feel like an alien that’s crash-landed, what do you do? Our guest today has built his career around finding community for these so-called “black sheep.” Peter Sims is a former corporate investor who became disillusioned with the high-powered world of fin...
362 Carol Fishman Cohen: Disrupting Yourself When You’ve Been Disrupted
March 01, 2024 10:00 - 50 minutes - 69.7 MBAt DA, we’re all about discovering and harnessing disruption, but sometimes, disruption finds you. It’s a fact of life – our car skids on ice we didn’t see on the road up ahead. Your boat hits a reef at night. A business deal falls through out of nowhere, and there’s nothing you can or could have done. Now that your car’s in a snowbank, what’s next? Our guest today has been there and back. After the company she worked for collapsed while she was on maternity leave, Carol Fishman Cohen de...
361 Paul Allen: How AI Can Supplement Our Humanity Instead Of Supplanting It
February 23, 2024 10:00 - 51 minutes - 71.4 MBWhen we talk about robots, machines, artificial intelligence, it’s usually within the context of something theorists call the singularity. That’s the moment when AI figures out how to upgrade itself, and leaves us in the dust. After all, it can learn a library in an instant – the AI doesn’t need to stop for a snack and a nap. In the world of the Terminator, it took Skynet a single day to become self-aware, destroy most of human life, and then send Arnold back in time to make sure no one c...
360 Sam Cooprider: Leave Behind Your Ego And Pave Your Own Path
February 16, 2024 10:00 - 49 minutes - 67.5 MB“If you put water into a cup, it becomes the cup. You put water into a bottle and it becomes the bottle. You put it in a teapot, it becomes the teapot. Now, water can flow or it can crash. Be water, my friend.” Famous words by Bruce Lee, sure, but when we’ve felt like a stone our whole lives, what does becoming water actually look like? How do we learn to be more malleable in difficult situations? And how can we be confident we’re flowing in the right direction? Samantha Cooprider is the...
359 Dr. Michael Gervais: Why We Betray Ourselves For The Approval Of Others
February 09, 2024 10:00 - 52 minutes - 72.4 MBAfter 49 days fasting under the Bodhi tree, Siddhartha Guatama was struck by an idea. We suffer because we are attached to things, to people, to desires. When we can’t have it, we feel an emptiness. But what if we never wanted it in the first place? Guatama taught his philosophy for the next few decades, and centuries after that his followers would give him a new name – the Buddha. Total, complete elimination of your yearnings was called Nirvana. In our networked world, where we broadcas...
358 Robert Sutton: How To Spot Bad Friction And Create Good Friction In Your Workplace
January 30, 2024 10:00 - 44 minutes - 61.5 MBWhen’s the last time a customer service phone menu left you… genuinely angry? We build these systems to make things easier, layer systems on top of other systems, but who’s doing the gardening and pruning – the upkeep? Our guest today calls this phenomenon friction. Robert Sutton has taught at Stanford since 1983, in that time covering everything from psychology to business management. Now he’s out with his 8th book, The Friction Project. Bob and his co-writer Huggy Rao took on this idea...
357 Gov. Spencer Cox: Lessons On Inclusive Leadership, From The Farm To The Governor’s Mansion
January 23, 2024 10:00 - 48 minutes - 66.6 MBWhat does it take, day in and day out, to lead a group of people effectively? It’s not easy, that’s for sure. On a very granular level, leading is balancing a thousand decisions, huge and small, every day. So what guides your hand? Republican Governor of Utah Spencer Cox is an anomaly in a time of waning bipartisanship. His vice chair in the National Governor’s Association is a Democrat – and a close friend at that. He’s also been a bit of an anomaly in how he’s charted his life, too, turn...
356 Keith Allred: Meeting Folks Halfway Is A Virtue, Not A Weakness
January 16, 2024 10:00 - 48 minutes - 66.9 MBWe find ourselves compromising every day – it’s how things get done in a society where we all want something else. But what’s the root of compromise? Isn’t it this idea that solving the issue, whatever it is, is more important than checking off everything we want? It can seem that those ideals have been left by the roadside in the past couple years, but the issue of honest compromise has crept into our boardrooms, too. Our guest today is working to instill that idea of meeting folks half...
355 Ashley Smith: The Hidden River Of Energy Flowing Through All We Do
January 09, 2024 14:06 - 47 minutes - 65.4 MBIn middle school physics, we learned that an object at rest has potential energy – an amount of currency it has to spend, if it wants to move. When you pull back an arrow, the potential energy flows from your muscles, to the bow, to the string, and then the string pays all that money in one go to propel the arrow – turning potential into kinetic energy in a single motion. Our lives are organized around those same flows of energy, too. We dream, we store energy, and then we trade in potent...
354 Chip Conley: On Finding Your Love Of Life, Even In Midlife
January 02, 2024 10:00 - 52 minutes - 72.1 MBDo you know that feeling when you’re cooking, and you’ve got all your ingredients chopped and ready to go, spices measured, oven pre-heated? All that’s left is for you to spin your magic as a cook. In the kitchen, the French call it mise en place, everything in its place. In that same vein, to disrupt yourself, your strategy and support need to be in place. You need to give yourself the room to roam, so to speak, to realize your full potential. Our guest today is all about creating spac...
353 ENCORE Tara Swart: Your Neurons Are Much More Nimble Than You Realize
December 26, 2023 10:00 - 49 minutes - 68.1 MBIsn’t it frustrating when we feel like a passenger to our own thoughts and actions? In Buddhist thought, we’re supposed to watch our thoughts pass by like clouds in the sky… but that’s the ideal, after all. It’s a hard truth to swallow, that the human mind is much more mysterious than we’d hope it to be. So for today’s episode, we wanted to bring back a conversation I had back in 2020 with the neuroscientist and author Dr. Tara Swart. She’s spent her career tinkering with our brains, as bo...
352 Ken Woolley: Saving Space In Your Career For Trust And Love
December 19, 2023 10:00 - 41 minutes - 56.7 MBWhat does it mean to have a friend? What does it mean to be a friend? Someone you can rely on. Someone who understands you, not just the “you” that you project into the world. A friend is someone who knows they can rely on you, too. How many times a week, a day, do you lean on your friends when you feel like you can’t stand on your own? Our guest today has built his career on the power of those friends – and being a friend, too. Ken Woolley is the founder of Extra Space Storage, those...
351 Jennifer McCollum: How Can Women In The Workplace Find Their Own Voice?
December 12, 2023 10:00 - 47 minutes - 65.6 MBWhen’s the last time you got caught in the expectations others had for you? One person wants one thing, one version of you – another needs you to be someone else entirely… And who do you want to be? Do you even have time to think about that? The things people expect from us has a profound effect on how we act – we are social beings, after all. We aim, to please. Our guest today says that the burden of those expectations in the workplace fall unfairly onto women. Jennifer McCollum is th...
350 Scott K. Edinger: Ask Yourself, 'Would You Pay For Your Own Sales Call?'
December 05, 2023 10:00 - 46 minutes - 64.3 MBThere’s an allure around the idea of sales. It’s the same allure they packaged so neatly in the show Mad Men, all confidence and charisma. But take it from the other perspective – have you ever had such a pushy car salesman, that you just left the lot? Our guest today says that’s because charisma isn’t a sales strategy. There’s no room for building trust in your solution when you’re focused on the close. Scott K. Edinger is a sales consultant to Fortune 50 companies, including AT&T, and he...
349 Alex Osterwalder: Finding The Beauty In Your Company's Organizational Chart
November 28, 2023 10:00 - 51 minutes - 70 MBGrowing your people to grow your organization – it makes sense, right? But what about approaching the problem from the other direction – growing your organization, to grow your people? When’s the last time you looked at the state of your org chart? And how willing are you to experiment with it? Today, I want to bring back an old episode. In 2020, we spoke with Alex Osterwalder about his idea of an invincible company – one that is constantly reinventing itself to stay on the bleeding edge...
348 Scott Osman and Jacquelyn Lane: Learning To Make The Most Of The Hard Truths
November 21, 2023 10:00 - 56 minutes - 77.4 MBCoaching often involves speaking a truth the other person doesn’t really want to hear. Even when we’re lost for direction, being pointed in the right way can feel like this indictment on being lost in the first place. But a lot of clients will describe this idea of the unlock – the a-ha – when that self-doubting voice fades, and the voice of the coach comes into focus. How can we prime ourselves to receive these messages? Our guests today have a new book out on exactly that question. Ja...
347 Austin Hillam: Lessons From A 22-Year-Old Garage Entrepreneur
November 14, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutes - 50.7 MBIt’s just the nature of our show that we often talk to folks in the mastery part of their professional S-Curve. It’s easy to talk to a CEO about leadership. It’s also another fact that our guests tend to be older – at least, out of college. But it is rare that we come across an entrepreneur in that very first launch point of their career. A person that put college on hold to pursue an idea, a person willing to put their dreams on hold for an hour to talk to us. Austin Hillam is the co-fo...
346 Dr. Bill Kapp: So You Want To Become A Leader In Your Health. How Do You Start?
November 07, 2023 10:00 - 47 minutes - 65.3 MBIf we’re being honest, we’ve all felt the toll of going into a meeting on a couple hours sleep and a double espresso. The work can often come first, and the body comes second. But as leaders, we can’t do our job effectively if we’re jittery and wiped. We can’t do our job if we’ve got the worry of heart disease lurking the back of your mind. What if we could take charge of our health before any of these things happen? Not just waiting for the symptoms, but… intecepting them? Dr. Bill Ka...
345 Melissa Werneck: It's Not Just Strength In Numbers, It's Growth Too
October 31, 2023 09:00 - 43 minutes - 59.3 MBThe last time you had to navigate change – real, structural change – who did you turn to? When we’re working from a place of ambiguity, when we’re stuck inside our own head, another person can make all the difference. But let’s be honest, sometimes, painfully… that person is no one at all. We can have this instinct, as leaders, that reaching out is weakness. We can see it as this flashing neon sign that, hey, I have no idea what I’m doing. Someone, please help. Melissa Werneck’s spent he...
344 Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove: How Do We Think About Top Thinkers?
October 24, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes - 68.6 MBWe throw around this term a lot in the management profession, in the coaching profession, really everywhere in business – top thinker. But how often do we really interrogate that title? Because, really, wouldn’t we all like to think of ourselves as top thinkers? In politics, it’s the journalists that hold politicians to account. In the world of management, there are two former journalists who are holding these top thinkers to account as well. Stuart Crainer and Des Dearlove used to writ...
343 James E. Dixon: Finding 'Absolute Motivation' By Showing Your Scars
October 17, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes - 58 MBFor all the credit Superman gets, for being the Man of Steel, do you think he ever cries? When he’s Clark Kent, working at the paper, do you think Superman’s ever broken down in a bathroom stall? When he’s flying folks out of a burning building, it’s easy to forget that his parents are dead, his home is dust and the only family he has wants him dead. All we see is the Man of Steel. For 45 years, James Dixon only showed others what they wanted to see. What they didn’t see, was his prosthe...
342 Lori Winkler: There Is No Work You Or Home You, Only The Real You
October 10, 2023 09:00 - 45 minutes - 62.9 MBWhen you’re making decisions, professional or personal, what’s your north star? How many people know your north star? How many of your colleagues know what you’ve built your life around? There’s this idea, of leaving home at home and only bringing into work your work self. Can you really leave at home what fuels you and drives you? When Lori Winkler at the top of Johnson and Johnson’s HR department, she was a high achiever, sure – but as you’ll hear her say, no one really know who Lori Win...
341 Chris Rainey: What Do We Really Mean When We Say 'Human Resources?'
October 03, 2023 09:00 - 58 minutes - 80.7 MBHuman resources can be a funny term. What kind of resources do we rely on as humans? Food, water, shelter – but what about emotional resources? What about the resources to become a good person, not just a healthy person? In a company, human resources are always comprised of other humans, and Chris Rainey’s made it his mission to cast a light on the wonders of this profession. We can forget that HR has a hand in just about everything a company does, and Chris’s podcast HR Leaders is out to...
340 Diana Kander: The Magic In Going Big (And Refusing To Go Home)
September 26, 2023 14:22 - 40 minutes - 55.5 MBThere’s a saying that curiosity killed the cat. Have you ever seen a cat investigate a glass you left on the countertop? Or knock over a shelf of books while they try to perch on top? There’s something to admire in that attitude, that kind of pure, unabashed curiosity. You’ll find Diana Kander to be that same kind of curious. A self-described serial entrepreneur, she played and continues to play a vital role in building up the Kansas City economic area. Today, she’s packaged what she’s ...
339 Hal Hershfield: Learning To Love The Person You'll Become
September 19, 2023 09:00 - 41 minutes - 56.5 MBWho were you ten years ago? How did that person think? How did they see the world? And what about today? How have those things changed? How would you feel if you passed that person on the street tomorrow? Would you recognize them? Now instead of who you were, ten years ago, what if it’s who you want to be ten years from now? Hal Hershfield understands that connecting with our future selves can feel like a vague, unfulfilling endeavor. But to hear him say it, it’s one of the most valua...
338 Matt Abrahams: What To Say When You’re Put On The Spot
September 12, 2023 18:26 - 43 minutes - 60 MBIsn’t it frustrating when you just can’t say what you want to say? You have all the words ready in your head, you’ve practiced what you’re going to say, but you… just… can’t? It’s frustrating in part because it seems like we’re failing at the basics. Communication? Saying words out loud? Didn’t we figure that out around the same time we figured out farming, and the wheel? So why are we sweating and stuttering in a conference room in 2023? Matt Abrahams has an idea. His new book, Think Fa...
337 Gail Miller: Phi·lan·thro·py, Noun
September 05, 2023 09:00 - 44 minutes - 61.2 MBTo give to another is to give up something you have. It’s the basis of the world philanthropy, “phila,” meaning love for one another. Two episodes ago we talked with Alan Mulally, about how that kind of love isn’t wired anywhere in our brains. We are not that far from our hunter-gatherer ancestors – why would we ever give up our food to strangers? Aren’t we hungry too? Our guest today is a philanthropist, to no surprise. Gail Miller is the wealthiest person in the state of Utah, having t...
336 Chris Duffey: Augmented Intelligence
August 29, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes - 58.7 MBWith ChatGPT now released in a usable format, the world’s been abuzz with the potentials – and pitfalls – of artificial intelligence. Our guest today says that the word – artificial intelligence – is misleading. Artificial anything, artificial turf, sweeteners, they all try to get as close to the real thing as possible. Chris Duffey, strategic development manager for Adobe, says that isn’t the goal. This tech revolution isn’t so much about replacing us, as amplifying the magical powers ...
335 Jayshree Seth: Active Advocacy, Or, Say Yes To The S!
August 22, 2023 09:00 - 46 minutes - 64.5 MBWhat does it mean to advocate for something? We all know what it’s like to give a nervous presentation. But to adjust the question a bit – what does it mean to advocate for someONE? Specifically, yourself? Joining us today is Jayshree Seth, Chief Science Advocate at 3M. Her role today involves clearing away the brush and undergrowth of misinformation to show the world that science is not a scary monolith. She's also coming up with new ways to show us that we’re all scientists in our own ...
334 Alan Mulally: Love Them Up
August 15, 2023 09:00 - 50 minutes - 69.5 MBToday, we’ve got a special episode, one of my personal heroes––Alan Mulally. You’ve probably sat in a Boeing 777 before. He was the chief engineer on that plane. You might have a Ford sitting out in your driveway. He’s the reason Ford was the only major American car company that didn’t take a bailout in 2008. Alan Mulally has sat in many seats — President and CEO of Boeing Commercial Airplanes, President and CEO of Ford — but you have to hear it from him personally, how you put together ...
333 Sam Horn: Ask A Librarian
August 08, 2023 09:00 - 51 minutes - 71.1 MBAttention is the real currency of all advertising. It’s how many seconds they can keep your eyes glued on whatever billboard or TV ad is in front of you at that moment. And then there’s the science of why exactly it caught your attention, in the first place. Advertisers represent this fascinating intersection of business and psychology, so today we want to find out what we can glean from this unique industry. Today we're joined by Sam Horn, CEO and founder of the Intrigue Agency, where ...
332 Jaime Leverton: Cryptography in Action
August 01, 2023 17:43 - 56 minutes - 77.8 MBFor almost as long as humans have been using coins and dollars to trade and grow, we’ve also been using them as weapons. It’s almost a magical thing, one thing that can be traded for anything you want. And the people in charge of that currency control the magic. The idea of a common currency is intertwined in just about every facet of our lives, up to the very top on Capitol Hill. It seems natural that someone should be in charge of this huge power. But this is where a cryptocurrency bu...
331 David Burkus: Trust, Risk and Respect
July 25, 2023 09:38 - 51 minutes - 70.2 MBWe form teams every day. Boarding a plane, figuring out the best place for overhead bags. On the highway, we form impromptu caravans to squeeze through traffic. There are the more formal teams, too, the ones we occupy at work or at home. We’re all teammates. So how can we be better? David Burkus has the answer. The best-selling author of Leading From Anywhere and Friend of a Friend is out with a new book – Best Team Ever, The Surprising Science of High-Performing Teams. NASA, Adobe, ever...
330 Shade Zahrai: Your Opinion Of Yourself
July 18, 2023 10:05 - 57 minutes - 78.8 MBWere we born with our instincts, or were they imprinted on us as at an early age? How do turtles know to lay their eggs in the exact spot they themselves were hatched? It's part of a field called evolutionary psychology -- evolving in ways that influence our behaviors as much as whether or not we walk on two legs. Shade Zahrai is a master of unpacking that hindbrain thinking. Shade is a behavioral strategist and leadership coach, and the founder of Influenceo Global Inc, where she works to...
329 Listener Roundtable: The Building Block Of That Growth Is You
July 11, 2023 09:00 - 49 minutes - 68.4 MBWe start every episode of this show with those words -- the building block of that growth is you. Today, we want to bring our focus back to that philosophy, that change begins with the individual. Every question for our guests, and every show itself, is structured around that core idea. So we’ve got a special episode – a roundtable discussion of business leaders from around the world, as well as big fans of the podcast. We want to turn the mic back to the individuals listening to us, to...
328 Ed Catmull: Zen And The Art Of Making Movies
July 04, 2023 09:00 - 1 hour - 91.5 MBA rat learns to cook. A trash compactor learns to love. Two office workers -- who are the monsters under your bed, mind you -- discover a new source of renewable energy. The possibilities at Pixar are infinite. But how do you shoot a movie entirely on computers? And who’s going to make the software for all of this? Ed Catmull took on those questions in the early 70s, inventing many of the early computer techniques that got a 3D image on the big screen. With funding from fellow visionary St...
327 Sudha Ranganathan: A True Practitioner
June 27, 2023 10:13 - 48 minutes - 66.2 MBIf this show was about medicine, we do a lot of classroom learning. But today we’re going to hear from the equivalent of a front-line Army medic, hitting the ground to get an idea of how all these theories about leadership actually get used. Sudha Ranganathan is the Director of Product Marketing at LinkedIn. In that role, ecosystems are at the heart of what she does. She creates the conditions that allow these ideas like the s-curve thrive in the ecosystems she builds. From the Universit...
326 Zeynep Ton: Figure It Out
June 20, 2023 09:00 - 42 minutes - 58.5 MBWhen sales are down and overhead costs are skyrocketing, what’s the instinct? Cut costs, maybe? Fire some folks? Trim down, get leaner? Zeynep Ton says that instinct is shortsighted. It’s outdated. More than just old, it’s a deadly cycle, because cutting costs continues to come at the expense of the foundational unit – the employee. Zeynep is a professor at MIT’s Sloan School of Business, and her new book – The Case for Good Jobs – is out next month. By turning almost 40 years of Jack Welc...
325 HRH Ambassador Reema Bandar: Architects Should Be Forgotten
June 13, 2023 09:00 - 50 minutes - 69.8 MBRepresentation is the basis of our political system. We can’t get everyone’s vote on every issue – folks are busy, and that would take way too much time. So we pick someone we trust. Have you ever represented someone else? It's terrifying. You have to make decisions on behalf of all those people, and those decisions could impact their home, their business, their politics, their whole way of life. But in that way, representation can be one of the highest callings a human can achieve. Our ...
324 Kelly Richmond Pope: Predator, Prey and Whistleblowers
June 06, 2023 09:00 - 50 minutes - 69.7 MBWhat does it mean to be the only one in the room who knows something is wrong? You're the only one in your company who sees the number they missed. What do you do? Do you speak up? Try this on -- is anything really that bad going to happen if you keep it to yourself? All those little decisions, to sit on some information, or fudge a number, they add up to the tune of about one trillion dollars of fraud a year. Kelly Richmond Pope is a forensic accountant, a professor at DePaul Univers...
323 Shirzad Chamine: Look At The Palm Of Your Hand
May 30, 2023 09:00 - 47 minutes - 65.1 MBIt’s said that cliches become cliches for a reason. There’s at least a bit of truth to them. So try this one on - you are your own worst enemy. There’s a reason it gets repeated. Everyone finds a moment where you just can't get out of your own way, no matter how good your intentions are and how strong your will is. So how does the founder and CEO of Positive Intelligence fight back against his own saboteurs? Shirzad Chamine is the mind behind democratizing Positive Intelligence, sometime...
322 Vanessa Patrick: Marigolds and Black Walnuts
May 23, 2023 10:07 - 44 minutes - 61.3 MBHave you ever had trouble saying something simple, like "no?" No, I can’t do that. What about all the times you might have said yes, when in your heart all you wanted to say was, no? Vanessa Patrick is an award-winning consumer psychologist, she's currently the associate dean at the Bauer School of Business, and now she’s out with her new book, “The Power of Saying No.” Have you ever said no, and it felt like you discovered a superpower you didn’t know you even had? You have to learn ho...
321 Magdalena Mook: Don't Be Mediocre
May 16, 2023 09:47 - 50 minutes - 68.8 MBThe temptation to compromise on our values is always there. Compromising could make things easier for us. Not only can it get you out of a hole, compromising could even make the number on your paycheck bigger. Sometimes we have to. Sometimes those expectations were ridiculous to begin with. But when it comes to compromising on the core of who we are, why would you ever meet yourself in the middle? Magdalena Mook, CEO and executive director of the International Coaching Federation, joins...
320 Robert Pasin: Memories That Last A Lifetime
May 09, 2023 09:18 - 37 minutes - 51.2 MBYou know that little bright red wagon, with the long front handle? Maybe, you might have even sat in one, careening down a hill. The wagon, and the company that makes them, is called Radio Flyer. Over a hundred years since that first stamped metal wagon, that same company now makes a Radio Flyer Tesla S for Kids, in that same bright red. Right next to the classic wagon on their website, you can now buy Radio Flyer e-bikes, Radio Flyer go-karts, even a Radio Flyer trampoline. Behind the ...