Finding Brave
291 episodes - English - Latest episode: 27 days ago - ★★★★★ - 71 ratingsFinding Brave with Kathy Caprino helps listeners access the courage they need to honor their true passions, talents, and values in life and work, and leverage them for more success and happiness. Listen in as Kathy and her inspiring, top-level guests share a wealth of strategies and tips for building a braver, more rewarding life and career.
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41: The New Definition of Leadership, with Karen Kimsey-House
October 11, 2018 08:30 - 32 minutes - 30.4 MB“I think that organizations have been waking up for some time now to the fact that leadership isn’t just transactional. It’s not just about getting people to do something; it’s really relational. Yet a lot of people in relationship roles inside organizations don’t really have the training or the support to establish those dynamic, productive and empowering relationships.” - Karen Kimsey-House “Leadership” is a word that gets used often in the coaching and personal development industries, a...
40: Key Steps to Make Your Business Run Itself, with Mike Michalowicz
October 04, 2018 08:30 - 30 minutes - 28.6 MB“I think what we do need is something that gives us a degree of comfort in our lives, however we define that financially, and a degree of comfort in our lives timewise. A business is meant to serve us, not the other way around.” - Mike Michalowicz If you’re an entrepreneur working long hours and exhausting yourself to achieve the goals you’ve set for you and your business, this week’s episode is for you. Today, our Finding Brave guest shares his deep expertise on how you can design your bu...
39: How To Leverage Technology to Increase Your Happiness, with Amy Blankson
September 27, 2018 08:30 - 42 minutes - 39.6 MB“There has been a cycle of overuse of new information sources that we have to relearn in terms of how to interact in a healthy way, and positive psychology gives us some clues that say these are things that human beings have struggled with since the beginning of time. It’s just that the medium has changed for us and we have to reapply what we already know to be our best selves and reach our potential.” - Amy Blankson We hear every day about how the technology available to us today erodes o...
38: Embracing Your Age and Wisdom - The Making of a Modern Elder, with Chip Conley
September 20, 2018 08:30 - 39 minutes - 36.7 MB“When you create an environment where you have a mixture of ages, just like a mixture of genders and a mixture of races, you create a better workplace and more effective teams.” - Chip Conley In our increasingly accelerated world that venerates the young, many in mid-career sense that the ground is shifting beneath their feet, leaving them feeling invisible, undervalued, and threatened by the digital natives nipping at their heels. However, today’s guest on Finding Brave argues that experi...
37: What Is Heaven On Earth To You and Can You Have It?, with Martin Rutte
September 13, 2018 08:30 - 36 minutes - 34.3 MB“If I can help you discover what Heaven on Earth is within you and get you on the path simply and easily toward that, we’ve begun a massive transformation of the world.” - Martin Rutte If I were to ask you what you thought “Heaven on Earth” is, would you be able to say? Today’s guest on Finding Brave has literally written the book on this topic, and he’s here to explore how we can understand the concept of Heaven on Earth as we each personally define it, and why that’s a critical endeavor ...
36: Navigating the Dark Nights of the Entrepreneurial Soul, with Jason Miller
September 06, 2018 08:30 - 59 minutes - 55 MB“There are no words for it. We don’t know how to describe it to our partners or our friends, or even ourselves. It just feels like this swirling chaos inside of our bodies and inside of our lives.” - Jason Miller On today’s episode of Finding Brave, you’ll hear a conversation that’s not often shared openly. Tough times, or “dark nights” happen to everyone, but especially to business owners riding the highs and lows of entrepreneurship. To help us navigate the dark nights is someone who kno...
35: 2018 Listener Favorites: Sharing The Real You: How To Work Your Quirks, with William Arruda
August 30, 2018 08:30 - 30 minutes - 29 MBWelcome to my “2018 Listener Favorites” Series! This August, I’m delighted to bring you the top four, most downloaded episodes of the 31 shows we’ve published since the start of the podcast (January 4, 2018). “And now people realize that it doesn’t matter if you work inside a company, you have your own job or you’re a solopreneur. You need to offer something that’s unique and valuable, and that is based in who you are.” - William Arruda Personal branding is something we hear about ofte...
34: 2018 Listener Favorites: Expanding Your Introvert Power and Leadership, with Jennifer Kahnweiler
August 23, 2018 08:30 - 38 minutes - 36.2 MBWelcome to my “2018 Listener Favorites” Series! This August, I’m delighted to bring you the top four, most downloaded episodes of the 31 shows we’ve published since the start of the podcast (January 4, 2018). “It’s very important that we not try to continually adapt to extroverts. It is the time for introverts. Let me just say, each one of us has that within us, so it’s in all of our best interests to tap into some of those strengths.” - Jennifer Kahnweiler On today’s Finding Brave, we’ll be...
33: 2018 Listener Favorites: How To Speak Up Effectively When You Feel You Can’t
August 16, 2018 08:30 - 34 minutes - 32.3 MBWelcome to my “2018 Listener Favorites” Series! This August, I’m delighted to bring you the top four, most downloaded episodes of the 31 shows we’ve published since the start of the podcast (January 4, 2018). “People who come to me, who can’t speak up, or they’re being disrespected, or they can’t make decisions, or they can’t tell their boss ‘no this doesn’t work’, it comes from childhood. How we are trained in childhood, the culture of the ecosystem that we are raised in, and how we are...
32: 2018 Listener Favorites: Why We Need to “Find Brave” and 10 Ways To Start
August 09, 2018 08:30 - 39 minutes - 32.8 MBWelcome to my “2018 Listener Favorites” Series! This August, I’m delighted to bring you the top four, most downloaded episodes of the 31 shows we’ve published since the start of the podcast (January 4, 2018). Today’s show was the inaugural episode, and in it, I share my deeply personal story about how I embarked on “Finding Brave” in my own life, and why mustering more bravery and courage is a vital endeavor for men and women around the world who want to live the highest version of themsel...
31: How Imitating What You Admire Can Backfire and Get You Off Track, with Eric Termuende
August 02, 2018 08:30 - 41 minutes - 39.4 MB“Imitating these people, or trying to be these people, does not and should not equal being inspired by these people. Because if we can be inspired by these people and pull some of those qualities, characteristics and best practices that they’ve got, and apply them with a slight tweak to who we are and what we’re trying to do, that’s where the innovation starts.” - Eric Termuende Like many people, you may find yourself wanting the life that someone else may have, and look to imitate or emul...
30: How To Land Powerful Sponsors for Your Podcast or Passion Project, with John Lee Dumas
July 26, 2018 08:30 - 23 minutes - 22.3 MB“The reality is that we all struggle with confidence, just in different, varying levels. I mean, for me with my military experience, I think one thing that really helps is perspective. So I can step back and say, ‘you know what, let me get some legit perspective on where I’m at right now, and then look at where I have been.’” - John Lee Dumas Do you have a creative passion, podcast or show that you want to introduce to the world, but you’re struggling to find the confidence? Even if you ha...
29: How to Navigate Gender Bias And Lead Powerfully in Tech, with Angie Ruan
July 19, 2018 08:30 - 33 minutes - 31.3 MB“You need to not assume that things will happen to you. You have to say, ‘I want it, I need it and I love it.’” - Angie Ruan When you think of certain occupations such as engineer, is there an image of what you think that person should look like? Today’s inspiring and deeply talented female tech leader recognized her own immense gifts and had the confidence and belief in herself to identify supportive environments that would allow her to pursue her ultimate dreams in the male-dominated fie...
28: The Epidemic of Loneliness In the Workplace and How To Cure It, with Mike Stallard
July 12, 2018 08:30 - 37 minutes - 35.7 MB“It was really a life-changing experience, but it made me realize I’m hard wired to connect, as we all are. When we don’t have that connection in our lives we dysfunction,and that’s what’s happening today.” - Mike Stallard In this episode of Finding Brave, you’ll be hearing how there’s an epidemic of loneliness today in America and other democracies around the world that makes people less resilient in coping with stress. Why is this something we need to pay attention to? Our expert guest t...
27: Leading With Emotional Courage, with Peter Bregman
July 05, 2018 08:30 - 39 minutes - 37.1 MB“What I’m going to encourage listeners to do, and what I talk about in Leading with Emotional Courage, is to trust the emotions in a certain way and in a way that you don’t have to figure everything out with your head. Figuring it out with your head keeps the ego in control, and actually stops the emotion from moving on.” - Peter Bregman Being brave is about acting powerfully in the world, and emotional courage, or being brave on the inside, is what we’re talking about today. Our guest tod...
26: How To Build a Better World Through Better Work, with Kristen Aldridge and Seth Mattison
June 28, 2018 08:30 - 37 minutes - 35.6 MB“It’s all testing and all fighting through the limiting beliefs and the thought that your ideas aren’t good enough, and then realizing you can create anything that you want.” - Kristen Aldridge “If you want to be a leader today, it’s not about whether or not you like people. If you want to be a leader today, you have to LOVE people, period.” - Seth Mattison This episode of Finding Brave will undoubtedly inspire you to go out and find brave to do the amazing things you dream to do and be ...
25: Top Leadership Lessons From Omega Institute's Pioneering Programs, with Carla Goldstein
June 21, 2018 08:30 - 36 minutes - 34.6 MB“I think in the middle of that storm, in the eye of that storm, is a new emerging consciousness of interconnection, and of a desire to bring hope and healing forward, and people are doing that in a lot of creative and different ways.” - Carla Goldstein Even with all the polarizing points of view and differences of opinions in the world today, there is an inner connectedness between all of us. Today’s guest on Finding Brave, Carla Goldstein, has made it her mission to help people build a de...
24: 7 Damaging Ways Parents Keep Their Children From Growing Up
June 14, 2018 08:30 - 37 minutes - 35.3 MB“Unless you have consciously addressed it, you’re probably reliving many patterns from childhood that you actually aren’t aware of and wouldn’t choose.”- Kathy Caprino In January 2014, I had the opportunity to talk with leadership expert Dr. Tim Elmore and learn more about how we as parents are failing our children today -- coddling and crippling them -- and keeping them from becoming leaders they are destined to be. The resulting Forbes article went viral, with 7.8 million views to date, ...
23: How To Take the High Road And Not Feed Hate
June 07, 2018 08:30 - 31 minutes - 29.7 MB“How am I going to do to deal with these hard challenges in a way that will add positivity? We don’t need any more negativity,, hate, blame and vitriolic tearing down of human beings. What we need is positive, effective, balanced, reasoned ways of dealing with the challenges.” - Kathy Caprino What’s happening in our world today that’s unleashed so much vitriol, rage and hatred? Everywhere we turn, whether it’s from public figures in the spotlight or people on social media, we’re seeing mil...
22: How To Teach What You Know, With Confidence and Success, with David Siteman Garland
May 31, 2018 08:30 - 37 minutes - 35 MB“Basically a lot of people...end up teaching the course they wish they had taken.” - David Siteman Garland With the huge popularity of online courses today, you may be wondering if it’s time that you offered a course to your core audience or community, to help them in some meaningful way. If so, what would you choose to teach, who would you desire to help most, and how would you get started developing in? Today’s expert guest on Finding Brave shares insider tips and strategies to help yo...
21: How To Deal With Sexual Harassment At Work, and Protect Yourself, with Tom Spiggle
May 24, 2018 08:30 - 35 minutes - 33.6 MB“If you are facing retaliation at work, report it. Report it, report it, report it. By reporting it, not only do you potential have a claim for sexual harassment, you also have a claim for retaliation if they fire you afterwards.” - Tom Spiggle Sexual harassment is something we all need to have greater awareness of around us, but what should we do it’s happened to us? How has the #MeToo movement changed how we’re experiencing this issue, particularly in today’s corporate world? Your career...
20: How To Achieve Your Potential By Embracing Your Passion and Purpose, with Lilian Ajayi-Ore
May 17, 2018 08:30 - 37 minutes - 35.4 MB“I force my students to really challenge their minds to ignite both the right side of their brain and the left side of their brain. So they bring in critical and creativeness, and when those two things mix together, it’s just beautiful.” - Lilian Ajayi-Ore Today’s Finding Brave features not only a disruptive leader who is realizing her own tremendous potential, but someone who has created a global movement showing others how to do the same in their own lives. Lilian Ajayi-Ore is the Foun...
19: How To Speak Up Effectively When You Feel You Can’t, with Kathy Caprino
May 10, 2018 08:30 - 34 minutes - 32.3 MBSpeaking up for ourselves and standing up for what’s right is a deep challenge that I hear about from people literally every day of the week. Why do we struggle so deeply with speaking up? And what steps can we take today to begin to empower ourselves to say what needs to be said, effectively and authoritatively, even when we feel we can’t? In today’s episode of Finding Brave, you’ll hear my own personal story of challenge and trauma from my childhood that carried through to my corporate...
18: Entrepreneurial You: How an Entrepreneurial Approach Catapults Your Success In Any Role, with Dorie Clark
May 03, 2018 08:30 - 31 minutes - 30.1 MB“So many employees are just waiting for something to happen. They’re waiting to be promoted, they’re waiting for the next thing, and it’s not necessarily as clear as it used to be. So we want the employees to say, ‘Hey, here’s where I’m aiming, here’s where I want to go, what are the skills that I need to develop to get there?’” - Dorie Clark The ability to think more entrepreneurially is essential for all leaders, even those who work within companies. In this timely conversation, Dorie Cl...
17: Expanding Your Introvert Power and Leadership, with Jennifer Kahnweiler
April 26, 2018 08:30 - 38 minutes - 36.2 MB“It’s very important that we not try to continually adapt to extroverts. It is the time for introverts. Let me just say, each one of us has that within us, so it’s in all of our best interests to tap into some of those strengths.” - Jennifer Kahnweiler On today’s Finding Brave, we’ll be discussing the powerful leadership qualities of introverts, and the challenges they undoubtedly face -- and can overcome successfully -- in their organizations. Our guest today is a unique expert in the fie...
16: Sharing The Real You: How To Work Your Quirks, with William Arruda
April 19, 2018 08:30 - 30 minutes - 29 MB“And now people realize that it doesn’t matter if you work inside a company, you have your own job or you’re a solopreneur. You need to offer something that’s unique and valuable, and that is based in who you are.” - William Arruda Personal branding is something we hear about often when it applies to entrepreneurs and online business owners, but it’s also something that employees in the corporate world, as well as job seekers, should be aware of and hone consciously and powerfully. Often p...
15: How To Achieve Phenomenal Success and Impact The World Before Age 30, with Jared Kleinert
April 12, 2018 08:30 - 46 minutes - 43.2 MB“You know these are people that are writing New York Times bestselling books [and] they’re building successful businesses. They’re producing feature films, and you would think that most people need an entire career to accomplish this, or need an entire lifetime to accomplish this. That was certainly true for past generations, but now we live in a world where this can happen in a matter of years, or even months for the craziest of the examples I’ve studied.” - Jared Kleinert The story of to...
14: How To Support Our Children to Navigate A Brand New World, with Tim Elmore
April 05, 2018 08:30 - 33 minutes - 31.6 MB"We've got to find a way to help parents. If parents were just sitting down at the table [with their kids] on a regular basis -- food, games, whatever -- but were processing "What are we going through?" we could help at least half the issues." - Tim Elmore In today’s world, when it comes to parenting and supporting our children and young adults to grow into real leaders -- of their own lives and in organizations and beyond -- we’re in a whole new world. We’re “marching off the map,” withou...
13: How Spirituality Supports Success In Your Heart-Centered Business, with Polly McGee
March 29, 2018 08:30 - 43 minutes - 40.4 MBIn today’s Finding Brave episode, I’m thrilled to highlight the powerful wisdom and insights of Dr. Polly McGee whose work is focused intensively on the integration of spirituality and business success. Dr. McGee is an author, entrepreneur educator, digital strategist and yogi. As co-founder of Start-up Tasmania, she was voted one of the most influential people in Australian start-ups. She has worked with hundreds of start-ups to help them refine their business ideas and connect with their...
12: This is How We Rise - As Positive Change Agents In The World, with Claudia Chan
March 22, 2018 08:30 - 35 minutes - 33.8 MBMany people deeply long to make a positive impact and a difference in their lives and in the world around them. They want to leave the world a better place for both women and men, and leave a legacy behind that lasts well beyond their physical existence. But how, exactly, can we do that? Today, Claudia Chan joins Finding Brave to share her personal experiences, strategies and insights on how we rise above our current situation and become a positive change agent in our lives and work. Cla...
11: How Dramatic Change Will Reveal Who You Really Are (and How To Grow From It)
March 15, 2018 08:30 - 31 minutes - 22.7 MBDramatic change -- whether we hoped and worked for that change or didn’t see it coming and it blindsides us -- happens to each of us at one point or another in our lives. The question is, “Are we growing stronger, happier and more of who we really are through this big change, or are we breaking ourselves against it?” In today’s episode, Kathy shares her deeply personal experiences with dramatic change in her life and career, and explores dramatic change from two perspectives: 1) What dra...
10: What Keeps People From Experiencing True Compassion and How We Can Heal, with Lynn Carroll
March 08, 2018 09:30 - 53 minutes - 37.7 MBIs our culture becoming less compassionate? If so, are there ways that we can develop more compassion in our daily lives so we can experience more joy, love, fulfillment, and connection? In this episode of Finding Brave, special guest therapist Lynn Carroll addresses these probing questions and shares her in-depth expertise on compassion and healing. Lynn Carroll is a psychotherapist who specializes in the mind/body connection. In private practice for 25 years and also a consultant for s...
09: How Living With Less Leads To So Much More, with Courtney Carver
March 01, 2018 09:30 - 33 minutes - 28 MBOn today’s Finding Brave, Courtney Carver shares how she realized she needed to make huge changes to her high-stress life after a devastating diagnosis in 2006. Through her process of simplifying, decluttering and letting go, she was able to reverse her debilitating symptoms of multiple sclerosis and dramatically improve her life, work and relationships in truly amazing ways. And she teaches us how we can do the same. The founder of bemorewithless.com and of the minimalist fashion challeng...
08: 5 Things Small Businesses Need to Do Better to Generate More Profit, with Trivinia Barber
February 22, 2018 09:30 - 34 minutes - 28.6 MBAre you a business owner who’s is feeling overwhelmed with all the tasks you are doing on your own, but you aren’t sure if it’s the right time to ask for help? Even if it were the right time for assistance, would you know where to turn to get it? On today’s episode, Kathy Caprino welcomes Trivinia Barber, the founder of Priority VA, to explore the things that small businesses can do now to start generating more profit, while reducing overwhelm. Priority VA is a boutique Virtual Assistant A...
07: Overcoming Your Biggest Blocks to Courage, with Bill Treasurer
February 15, 2018 09:30 - 36 minutes - 30.1 MBOn today’s powerful episode of Finding Brave, Kathy Caprino is joined by the inspiring author, leadership consultant and advisor Bill Treasurer, the founder of Giant Leap Consulting, a “courage-building” company, and author of five books, including Courage Goes to Work, Leaders Open Doors, and Right Risk. For over two decades, Bill has worked with thousands of leaders across the globe, strengthening their leadership impact, and building their courage. Among others, Bill’s clients include NAS...
06: Busting 5 Damaging Myths of Entrepreneurship, with Marc Mawhinney
February 08, 2018 09:30 - 41 minutes - 34.2 MBMarc Mawhinney joins Kathy Caprino in today’s episode of Finding Brave to explore 5 damaging myths that new coaches and entrepreneurs suffer from. Known as the coach for coaches, Marc is a lifelong entrepreneur who’s on a mission to help coaches build successful businesses. He achieves this with his coaching programs, his podcast, Natural Born Coaches; his Facebook group The Coaching Jungle, and his exclusive print newsletter – Secret Coach Club. In this eye-opening, straight-talking conve...
05: How To Land a Dream Job at the Salary You Deserve, with Austin Belcak
February 01, 2018 09:30 - 34 minutes - 28.3 MBToday’s guest for Finding Brave is Austin Belcak, the founder of Cultivated Culture. Through his work, Austin helps people land amazing jobs that they love - at the salaries they deserve. Austin shares his powerful personal story of pursuing a degree that in the end, didn’t help him land work he would enjoy (or work at all!). After applying to approximately 200 jobs online in the space of a couple of months and hearing nothing but one letter of rejection, he decided he needed to take a com...
04: Gender, Power and Relationships: The Crushing Effects of Patriarchy, with Terry Real
January 25, 2018 09:30 - 40 minutes - 33.7 MBBestselling author and nationally renowned couple’s and family therapist Terry Real joins Finding Brave to explore the critical and complex issues at the heart of Gender, Power, and Relationships. A lecturer for over twenty years, Terry is a member of the senior faculty at the Family Institute of Cambridge and Director of the Gender Relations program at the Meadows Institute in Arizona. His work shares a rigorous yet commonsense approach, and speaks to both men and women powerfully. His ...
03: How To Birth Your BIG Creative Idea Into the World, with Avril McDonald
January 18, 2018 09:30 - 29 minutes - 24.8 MBAvril McDonald, award-winning author of the Feel Brave book series and founder of Feel Brave, joins Kathy to discuss how we can move forward to launch our big creative idea into the world with tremendous success. From the early age of 8, Avril experienced anxiety and panic attacks, and felt very alone in understanding what it was and how to deal with it. Later in life, after becoming a teacher and witnessing the pervasiveness of anxiety in young children, Avril developed a heartfelt vision t...
02: Transforming Crisis Into Positive Power, with Cheryl Hunter
January 11, 2018 09:30 - 33 minutes - 27.7 MBCheryl Hunter, bestselling author, speaker and resilience expert, joins Kathy to share her moving and powerful story of surviving -- and finding brave -- after experiencing a traumatic crisis as a teenager. Cheryl offers powerful, inspiring strategies for overcoming and moving beyond deep crisis and challenge and transforming it - to bring out the best, most impactful and authentic version of ourselves, so we can live the life we're destined for. To learn more about today's guest, visit ht...
01: Why We Need to “Find Brave” and 10 Ways To Start, with Kathy Caprino
December 29, 2017 01:36 - 39 minutes - 32.8 MBIn this inaugural episode, Kathy shares her deeply personal story about how she embarked on “Finding Brave” in her own life, and why mustering more bravery and courage is a vital endeavor for men and women around the world who want to live the highest version of themselves and reach their highest, most joyful potential. She defines #FINDINGBRAVE as this: Recognizing — and courageously leveraging — what you’re made of as a human and spiritual being, and mustering the commitment, passion and c...