OneSharpSword
241 episodes - English - Latest episode: 10 days ago - ★★★★★ - 58 ratingsMost people live their lives using a dull blade, hoping to make it through to another day. Even a thousand dull blades would be no match for One Sharp Sword!
One Sharp Sword is about breaking free and cutting through the veil that holds us back from living fully into our own truth. Who would you be if you weren't listening to someone else's voice? What job or career path would you be on? Where might you be living? Who would you surround yourself with? What would you eat? What music would you listen to? Better still, what music would you play?
Dr. Pernell (also known as "Dr. P") brings you his insights and interviews guests who have had their own significant breakthroughs. Here, you're certain to come away inspired, ready to sharpen your sword. Be sure to get your weekly breakthrough with Dr. P, every Tuesday right here! One Sharp Sword!
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Interview with Emily Sander
April 16, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes - 71.9 MBFrom the c-suite to executive leadership coach and author, Emily Sander was a pleasure to have join me on One Sharp Sword. Superman is Emily’s favorite Superhero. As with Clark Kent, Emily is adopted. She also uses - and encourages others to use - the superpowers for good and to never give up. She enjoyed business and leadership and especially loves 1:1 interactions where small points of leverage make a huge difference. Emily notes that the #1 skill someone can have i...
Interview with Alain Hunkins
April 09, 2024 07:00 - 40 minutes - 65.7 MBGREAT conversation with Alain today. From the culture he grew up with to how he guides leaders today, you’ll get a lot out of listening. His three Cs are key to leadership, whether at home or in your organization: Connection Communication Collaboration And he spoke of Consistency, which I’d call a 4th C in his model. Alain’s book Cracking the Leadership Code is worth picking up! We connect as human beings. Our world demands people who can think and co-create within ...
Interview with Aaron Trahan
April 02, 2024 07:00 - 48 minutes - 77.8 MBA performance coach coming from the corporate sector who, after reflecting on what he wished he had been taught, Aaron Trahan set out on his path as a coach. He now helps others in leadership roles. He notes that complacency must be met head on. Current success could block your future success if you allow yourself to get too comfortable. While it’s easy to get comfortable, he also knows that no one says that they don’t want to get better results. The remedy: Get a bit u...
Interview with Hugh Ballou
March 26, 2024 07:00 - 44 minutes - 70.6 MBWhat does a musician and conductor know about leadership? My guest, Hugh Ballou, sees his work at conducting transformations. He defines what leadership is and isn’t and what components go into great leadership. His company, SynerVision is a crossover between synergy and vision. Here are some key points. Listen in for more! Leadership isn’t dictatorship - the leader is an influencer! In an orchestra, the leader knows the score and everyone playing knows their part Infrastruc...
Interview with Hesha Abrams
March 19, 2024 07:00 - 53 minutes - 85.4 MBCan you get excited about conflict? There’s an old movie from 1950 that caught my attention. It predates me, but still enchanted me. The play-turned-movie is Harvey. The main character, Elmer P. Dowd, finds people in an uproar talking about what he believes in. Elmer’s response, “Oh an element of conflict in any discussion is a very good thing. It shows everybody is taking part and nobody is left out. I like that.” Hesha Abrams is an attorney-turned-mediator, something she’s ...
Interview with Kevin Gazzara
March 12, 2024 07:00 - 53 minutes - 85.3 MBHaving grown up in PA, Dr. Kevin Gazzara had a propensity for taking things apart and putting them back together, it was a natural curiosity that drove him. He found himself organizing events for his friends. And what do you get when you have a curious kid who likes to organize? A focus on business and engineering. After decades with Intel and other organizations, Kevin took to entrepreneurship. He became an executive coach, putting his experience to great use. His focus: produc...
Interview with Roy Osing
March 05, 2024 07:00 - 45 minutes - 73.4 MBWhat’s the ONLY thing you need to know about my guest this episode? Roy Osing is the ONLY author, entrepreneur, and executive leader who delivers practical and proven “audacious and unheard-of ways” to produce high-performing businesses and successful careers. His focus is on helping build what he calls The ONLY Statement, identifying what makes each individual or business stand out above everyone else. The key here is that if you claim to be The Only one doing something, you’ve...
Interview with Noah St. John
February 27, 2024 07:00 - 35 minutes - 56.5 MBI often have guests with a similar focus to mine as a way to look at differing approaches. Noah St. John has a great message and has managed to distill it into multiple columns, maximizing how that message gets out. He’s a best selling author, a speaker, and an executive coach. And, his results are undeniable. He went from living literally dirt-poor while growing up to becoming a multi-millionaire by helping others become successful. He bounced from a suicide attempt to fin...
Interview with Eric Stone
February 20, 2024 07:00 - 49 minutes - 78.9 MBFrom an entry level position at Enterprise Rental Car spanning over two and a half decades when he left the company as the Regional Vice President, Eric Stone learned a thing or two about CULTURE. Through engagement and other key steps, you create Culture Carriers. Look at: Time Management and Eisenhower’s grid demarcations of Delegate, Do, Defer, or Delete Hiring Practices to include focusing on attitude, effort, and coachability Hold regular meetings to highlight desired ou...
Interview with Marco Torres
February 13, 2024 07:00 - 51 minutes - 83 MBMarco Torres grew up in the Caribbean as his father ran GE Credit Corp from Puerto Rico. He learned about adventure and entrepreneurship. At 12 y/o he was featured in the news for having the largest paper route in the area. 11 years later, with his brother and mother, he opened a series of restaurants. And a couple years after that opened a nightclub. His realization: he wanted to employ others more than be employed by others. While formal schooling was never his thing, as an entr...
Interview with Ravi Iyer
February 06, 2024 07:00 - 50 minutes - 80.3 MBSo an MD with ADHD walks into… actually, what happens is that the gentleman creates so much presence that time flies and people feel connected. How? Breathing into presence, breathing out ego. Dr Iyer is based in Virginia (via India). He’s writing a new book about neurodiversity, autism, and sensory processing disorders which he refers to as types of personality, not disorders. He also wrote a book called The Reaper’s Dance about how we found our humanity in the midst of the C...
Interview with Eric Holsapple
January 30, 2024 07:00 - 57 minutes - 91.7 MBEric Holsapple is an expert on mindful leadership. He shares his wisdom with us noting the importance of presence, especially as a leader. And that’s why I invited him to One Sharp Sword. It’s important work. When you can be mindful and truly present, especially in our distraction-based world, you make a difference in the people around you, your organization, and potentially the world. Eric invites us to reflect internally and think about the vision we have of ourselves and for ...
Interview with Sam Druschak
January 23, 2024 07:00 - 35 minutes - 57.3 MBAhhhhh Geek Out (he says he’s more of a nerd than a geek, so…) Process Mapping is a thing! It’s the efficient, distilled, visual representation of data, the structured capture of process data. And while that doesn’t sound like a riveting thing to talk about, I assure you, this episode was filled with nuggets you can use in your business and personal life. Key points to listen for: • Have a foundational start point • Communicate - and look for the multiple way...
Interview with John Rossman
January 16, 2024 07:00 - 45 minutes - 72.7 MBFrom Amazon Exec in the early, scrappy days to leadership and strategic consultant, John Rossman’s insights are of tremendous value for anyone in a place of looking at, and impacting their organization. He notes that dissatisfied customers are a gift. This prompted a conversation about curiosity and the need to be open enough to ask for further feedback. Step into customer obsession and really explore who you’re there to serve. Keys to success (among many) include: • P...
Interview with Amanda Kaufman
January 09, 2024 07:00 - 49 minutes - 78.9 MBHow does someone with social anxiety and body image issues do the work to become an entrepreneur with a business doing $2M in revenue? It’s quite a story, but the transformation happened pretty quickly! And yours can too. Having a degree in engineering, she managed to find a job in an adjacent line of work - purchasing and procurement. When it came time to get into sales on her own, she had a horrible fear of rejection. (Don’t we all?) In this episode, Amanda reveals her path ...
Interview with Beate Chelette
January 02, 2024 07:00 - 50 minutes - 81.3 MBBeate Chelette (pronounced Bay-ah-tay shal-Let) immigrated here from Munich, Germany. Having held a senior and highly coveted position at Elle magazine, she realized that she had gone down the path of becoming who she really didn’t want to be. Rebounding from a bad marriage, a massive recession, and a Southern California earthquake, Beate developed her Unapologetic Value Proposition. She’s an expert at helping people through the simple-but-not-so-easy process of growing a busine...
Interview with Eric Nehrlich
December 26, 2023 07:00 - 56 minutes - 90.6 MBFrom physics to computer programming to paying attention to how money flows and how to maintain production and quality. That landed him a position at Google forecasting and handling economic and revenue questions. For some that’s exciting and challenging. For others, boring as heck. Eric pushed himself to be the best, to take on more and more. And his reward was to be given more, and more, and more. In the corporate world, it’s not unusual to be punished for doing a good job by ...
Interview with Paul Teasdale
December 19, 2023 07:00 - 39 minutes - 62.7 MBHere’s a guy who REALLY knows how the sausage is made! He also has lessons from Formula One McLaren Racing! From engineer to airplane repair process improvement to sausage making to shipping to working for a container company to consulting in food processing to dairy and banking to McLaren Racing for process improvement! Paul reminds us that it’s about Outcome First - Look at the processes in place. - Don’t make an inefficient process efficient. If yo...
Interview with Logan Lessar
December 12, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 91.6 MBWhat can a 19 year old “kid” teach us about living life? Plenty! It turns out that in the last 12 years, Logan has done more in his life than many of us ever even think about. He’s a motocross champ who not only knows his way around the track, he can teach us a thing or two about endurance and mindset. Coming from a racing family, he felt comfortable on a motocross bike from day one. Competitive by nature (apparently his little brother helps with that), Logan finds individual spor...
Interview with Chris Miller
December 05, 2023 07:00 - 53 minutes - 85.2 MBChris Miller had what he calls the Harvard Complex, suit and tie job. And, like so many of us that pursue a path for the sake of stability and “supposed to” - we move beyond the ego-based, “look at me; I landed a big-boy job.” And once there, we must question, what’s it all for? That’s where Chris and I connected on this podcast. I’ll likely do a blog about the idea of leaving your partner at home while you’re out on required business travel making the absurd claim, “I love you so...
Interview with Doug Noll
November 28, 2023 07:00 - 44 minutes - 71.2 MBWhat can an attorney tell us about peace-making? A lot! His big claim: In 90 seconds he can extinguish any argument (and teach you to do the same). What is leadership level listening? • Type One Listening is to get information that you can use and then close out the conversation • Type Two Listening is about validating the other person, making the other person feel heard. When you’re flooded with emotions, yours or someone else’s, try Affective Labeling. A...
Interview with Julie Pham
November 21, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes - 84.5 MBR-E-S-P-E-C-T (sing it) Dr Julie Pham brings us her story from joining her refugee parents at 2 months old to earning her PhD at Cambridge. She’s been in operations and has found that relationship building is a positive path to success. In this podcast, Dr Julie and I speak about resilience and how to thrive, being creative and resourceful, and using hope and optimism. We also discuss The Seven Forms of Respect Each of us has a preferred style where/how we desire and demonstrat...
Interview with Chad Hufford
November 14, 2023 07:00 - 55 minutes - 89.6 MBChad Hufford is in the financial world now. He was picked on as a kid, used adversity to drive him, went on a pre-med path in taking up biochemistry, became an athletic coach, and let all of that background simmer together to help people make changes and stay on a path toward financial success. He’s in Anchorage, Alaska, and that’s not a typical kind of culture that any of us would be used to. He’s learned a lot in being there and brings his insights. Some of the key points made...
Interview with Braith Bamkin
November 07, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes - 84.1 MBBraith Bamkin is an expert at making connections. On today’s episode we discuss Intention, Purpose, and Connection. He highlights a couple of key questions for growing your business: Who do you want to do business with, and why? We talked about so much on this quick hour, some of the key take-aways were: • Care enough to help others first ○ Doing so engages the law of reciprocity (but don’t do something in order to get back - that ...
Interview with Gregory Offner
October 31, 2023 07:00 - 58 minutes - 93.7 MBWhat can you learn about leadership and culture from a guy whose background is in music and dueling pianos? A LOT! Greg Offner talks about The Tip Jar culture coming from corporate HR and risk management, he noticed what really got people engaged at work and at the dueling piano bar. His lessons serve us all. Key points for leaders to ponder: • Work is a performance. We perform a task. We are in service to others. • Show up from a place of service pondering, ...
Interview with Adam Hart
October 24, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 92.3 MBFrom ADD and Sugar Addiction to Rock Climbing, Parenting, and Holistic Wellness, today we welcome Adam Hart who addresses Nervous System Regulation. Nothing in this podcast is intended as medical or other professional advice. Please see a medical professional for your specific situation and symptom management. In this episode you’ll hear about anxiety that developed from an emotionally absent father. The question of worthiness crops up (as it does for most people) and Adam offer...
Interview with Tim Shurr
October 17, 2023 07:00 - 55 minutes - 89.3 MBTim Shurr helps uplevel people from their old ways of thinking to a higher quality of life by noting that you’re just One Belief Away from having the life that you want. Tactical Strategies for changing your life are truly just One Belief Away. (By the way, that’s the name of the book he co-authored with Joe Vitale. I just ordered it myself.) We discussed Tim’s upbringing and how that affected him. His response, “yes, we turn our messes into our message.” Big T and little t tr...
Interview with Keagen Hadley
October 10, 2023 07:00 - 39 minutes - 63.7 MBKeagen Hadley is a doctor of Occupational Therapy and psychiatric clinical researcher specializing in acceptance and commitment therapy and the holistic care of joint injuries. Keagen notes that his role is to bridge the gap between the physical and psychological, as most people only focus on one or the other. He follows a path that’s similar to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT). His is Acceptance And Commitment Therapy, the basics of which are to use your experience as basis for...
Interview with Liss Kirby
October 03, 2023 07:00 - 56 minutes - 90.9 MBMelissa “Liss” Kirby has been changing lives as a management consultant for the past thirteen years. Based in Melbourne, she consults internationally and is tied to Q5Partners, located in the UK. With a background in business, psychology, and political science, Liss began paid internships at some major organizations. Now, several years later, she runs the Melbourne extension of q5partners. Trust and Being Entrusted were key threads of our conversation. As a management consultant...
Interview with Tim Adams
September 26, 2023 07:00 - 54 minutes - 86.8 MBJust imagine what you can learn from an elite coach for professional NFL and NHL players! Here’s Coach Tim Adams (search all the socials for him as @CoachTimAdams) and in this episode of OneSharpSword, we reveal something that our respective teams didn’t even know we were dreaming up. Starting as many do, with meager means in a small town then moving and growing up in Colorado, joining the AirForce, and then blowing out his knee twice, Tim found that he could help others elevate t...
Interview with Victoria Pelletier
September 19, 2023 07:00 - 34 minutes - 54.8 MBWe covered A LOT in this brief episode! Born to an abusive, drug addicted mother, Victoria didn’t have the easiest start. But resilience is her theme and she notes that “growth comes from sitting in discomfort.” From studying psychology with the intention to go into law to actually getting into the corporate world and recruited to oversee operations, she’s only grown and given since! Calling herself a Multi-Potentialite, she says she has her hands in many buckets. And that she ...
Interview with Manuj Aggarwal
September 12, 2023 07:00 - 49 minutes - 80.1 MBManuj Aggarwal has a scary topic: Artificial Intelligence. Well, it seems scary until you get into it and he addresses some key fears right away. • No, AI won’t take away jobs. • Yes, it’s here to stay. • Yes, as with calculators, microwaves, and computers, you’ll need to learn to work with it. • You need to learn to ask better and better questions A.I. reflects your world of bias, based on the questions you as an individual pose to it. That sai...
Interview with Darryl Stickel
September 05, 2023 07:00 - 55 minutes - 88.2 MBWhat is THE key ingredient to making anything happen in a relationship, at home, at work, or in the world? That ingredient is TRUST. We are so fortunate to have Dr Darryl Stickel, the world’s foremost expert on the topic of TRUST join us for this podcast. This one ranks among the top 1% of my personal favorites, by the way. Why? Because the information offered here permeates EVERYTHING we do. Like so many, Darryl didn’t have an easy start. Coming from a rough and rugged town in ...
Interview with April Moss
August 29, 2023 07:00 - 36 minutes - 58.6 MBYou might think the topic of Project Management would be boring. Ordinarily, you might be right. And yet, the people behind this disruptive technology are anything but boring! What can you learn from a woman who’s a partner in the development and distribution of a start-up app that’s project-management based? A LOT. Her journey is something as she doesn’t have a college degree, but she was playing in the big-kids’ sandbox at Proctor and Gamble and Starbucks. Her app is somethin...
Interview with Sandra Gonzalez
August 22, 2023 07:00 - 36 minutes - 57.9 MBWhat does a retired Marine Chief Warrant Officer know about having tough, sexy confidence? Well, Sandra Gonzalez lives it, speaks about it, and teaches it. During our interview, Sandra shared how her father influenced her to go into the military and how she fell in love with the Marines. As a woman, she had to prove herself over and over. That got her to be tough, internally. During this interview, you wouldn’t be able to tell that she’s as much of a badass as she is. Through some...
Interview with Byron Athene
August 15, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 92.1 MBByron Athene is a psychotherapist and a bit of a philosopher who believes we have some concepts wrong when it comes to emotions. He backs into his theory by explaining that a lot of people think that we need to have bad to explain (or enjoy) the good and that if something good happens, something bad is likely to happen. Personally, I’m more a fan of the law of polarity which says that both exist at the same time, so what is it we’re actually focusing on. Byron says that some peop...
Interview with Eli Halpern
August 08, 2023 07:00 - 54 minutes - 87.2 MBEli Halpern is a comedian rapper ninja entrepreneur who started www.GoldenCricket.com. Really, he’s a stand up comedian, a rap artist with two albums on Spotify, a take-no-sh** martial artist, and an entrepreneur who founded a company making protein bars that are gluten free, lactose free, and full of flavor with 19 grams of protein. On today’s podcast, we spoke about Eli’s climb in the entrepreneurial world and we looked at where his struggles or decision points became leadership ...
Interview with Blair Kaplan Venables
August 01, 2023 07:00 - 44 minutes - 71.8 MBBlair is all about Resilience. Most people would find a cave to hide in if they experienced the sequential losses of family members that Blair endured. But her story is not one of retreat. Quite the opposite, in fact. Hers is one in which “bouncing forward” defines resilience. For someone who says that she lives with depression and anxiety, this interview is filled with energy and genuine smiles. TheGlobalResilienceProject.com is both the name of her book and her passion project. ...
Interview with Drake Phillip
July 28, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 109 MBI’ve never done anything political on my show. But this is One Sharp Sword - cutting through to what matters most. So when I was introduced to a man who has been a U.S. Gov’t contractor (which he admits is a euphemism for spy) who found his moral compass wouldn’t let him act on the president’s orders, I wanted to learn more. With Phillip Drake, there IS more. He’s also directly involved in rescuing girls and women from the sex trafficking industry. This is a huge issue, because it...
Interview with David Achata
July 25, 2023 07:00 - 47 minutes - 76.8 MBDavid Achata is a leadership coach and management consultant. He’s a soft-spoken, reflective extrovert who loves hiking and mountain biking. Rather than traditional college, David pursued the path of spending a decade in pastoral ministry. He found that saying YES to opportunities paved the way for him. As he’s opened to authenticity, he’s learning about and leading others in showing the True Self vs. The False Self (sometimes the one that’s more public if alignment and maturity a...
Interview with Axel Meierhoefer
July 18, 2023 07:00 - 54 minutes - 87.7 MBAxel Meierhoefer still carries his accent with him, having come from a port town in Germany. He became fascinated with flying because of his Grandfather and Uncle’s involvement with the airlines. He passed the pilot’s test for Lufthansa just as they stopped hiring. Instead, he found the U.S. Airforce and moved up the ranks to become an instructor. Following the path of learning what makes for success, looking for clues both within and outside of the military, especially focused on ...
Interview with Tyler Horsley
July 11, 2023 07:00 - 52 minutes - 84.2 MBTyler moved through being in federal law enforcement to founding NuclearNetworking, a business growth company. In this podcast you’ll get his insight and wisdom on what it takes to really own, and grow an organization. And you don’t have to be a business owner to learn something here. Key takeaways and concepts worthy of consideration: Uncover and get clear about your USP - Unique Selling Proposition. It’s the “why you” out of the thousands of other people who have a thing. What...
Interview with Peter Anthony
July 04, 2023 07:00 - 1 hour - 96.6 MBPeter Anthony helps us understand how to sell more without pushing a sale, but rather by simply being authentic. Recognizing that sales isn’t about foisting something on someone, but actually helping the other person by solving a problem for them, we enter the magical world of collaboration. Collabradabra! When Peter joined IBM and was sent to sales training, he found that his curiosity overrode what he was taught. While his supervisors weren’t pleased with his style of selling by ...
Interview with Stacey Marmolejo
June 27, 2023 07:00 - 49 minutes - 78.6 MBTalking about owning a franchise isn’t sexy. In fact, it made me, as the podcast host, wonder why I should have someone who does franchise stuff on the program. And then, I thought about what I teach - and I got curious. I went to a place of judgment, so I knew I must be missing something. What was it about franchises that I was missing? Stacey Marmolejo grew up being guided to stick to things that were safe and more secure. The military was a secure career route, but she didn’t ...
Interview with Mike Montague
June 20, 2023 07:00 - 54 minutes - 87.7 MBLet’s PLAY!!! You know that I’m all about Exponential Success. Leveraging success happens when you actively promote (and leave room for) creativity. And the best way to get creative? PLAY!!! Mike Montague is a master. He grew up with Creative Nerdery - a term from his family about the play they engaged in. Along Mike’s path, he was a DJ, a computer geek, and a radio host. These days, he’s a corporate speaker and occasional Karaoke DJ. Here are some of the key insights from today’s...
Interview with Gary Garth
June 13, 2023 07:00 - 55 minutes - 88.6 MBEvery so often you meet people that are just darned impressive. Gary Garth is one of those people. He thinks I’m impressive. Perspective is everything I suppose. He started a business in Denmark when he was 19 years old. He claims to have done everything wrong, but in talking with him, it turns out that he learned and pivoted. And that’s the real lesson here. Don’t set out to fail, just know that you’ll run into obstacles. Learn and move forward. Gary reminds us that “you’re alwa...
Interview with Brian Gorman
June 06, 2023 07:00 - 47 minutes - 75.9 MBEvery so often, I’ll have coaches or consultants on the One Sharp Sword podcast who parallel the work that I’m into. The reason I choose to bring them on is to amplify a particular message. We can get to the same place and take different paths to get there. And that’s part of the message I want to bring as I introduce you to Brian Gorman. In doing work with leaders and organizations, he’s quick to point out that “it isn’t the organization that changes. It’s people.” In the same wa...
Interview with Mike Kaeding
May 30, 2023 07:00 - 57 minutes - 91.4 MBNever, ever judge the contents of a package by its wrapper. Mike Kaeding, an unassuming guy who looks like he’s a coder for a gaming company, is a real life superhero out to change the world. The CEO of a $200M+ company with over 250 employees, Mike runs a residential real-estate development company. Mike’s company is based on and in solid values. He focuses on making housing affordable and he’s created a fully in-house model to do so. Rather than spend a bit on a developer, and m...
Interview with Mark Ashby
May 23, 2023 07:00 - 51 minutes - 82.8 MBMeet a super under-stated bad-ass! Mark Ashby is an Australian who was in the special forces and did some exceptionally covert ops. He did numerous tours in Iraq and he helped ensure the completion of some high-end projects. This is vague, on purpose. With all of that said, when we spoke after this recording, he teared-up a bit talking about the 911 monument in New York. There’s a gentle humanity that comes through and you would never suspect that his background was one of special...
Interview with Bryan Gillette
May 16, 2023 07:00 - 54 minutes - 87.7 MBBryan Gillette uses his experience as an ultra-distance athlete as a foundation for his work in leadership development. The lessons are simple, but not always easy. Build Communication (but what kind, and how?) Humanize (should be easy enough, so why isn’t it happening?) Engage cross-functional teams Stay curious This, of course, is a favorite topic of mine. After the show, I showed Bryan the Curious George monkey that I’ll bring to events. The little stuffed guy sparks conver...