Talk, Unleashed
127 episodes - English - Latest episode: 5 days ago - ★★★★★ - 11 ratingsWhat motivates people? Why do they do what they do? What does leadership actually mean in today’s world? Good questions, right? That’s what Cathy Brooks, thought. And it’s why she created Talk, Unleashed – a podcast of candid conversation. Sometimes as commentary. Sometimes as discussions with fascinating people doing remarkable things. Topics range widely and all of them have one thing in common. Dogs.
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Katia Ravé
February 16, 2022 17:25 - 47 minutes - 43.6 MBBeing present. You’d think that it was a no-brainer in terms of the world, right? Thing is, today’s world is saturated by disconnection. The faux perception is that just because there are myriad digital links that somehow that means connection and presence. Not so. Being present, truly present, is something that takes effort and is a lesson that today’s guest, Katia Ravé, learned as a child. When she was 20 years old, Katia had the opportunity to pull the ripcord on her life as she knew it a...
Jeffrey Hayzlet
February 09, 2022 17:30 - 48 minutes - 44.4 MBHow comfortable are you being uncomfortable? Really uncomfortable. The answer to that for most people is that they’re not. We live today in a world of instant gratification, immediate release, placating, and soothing. None of these things are good for leadership and as far as Jeffrey Hayzlett is concerned, that gets to change. He knows a little about leadership having held the Chief Marketing Officer position with Kodak. He’s presently the CEO of the C-Suite Network, a frequent keynote speak...
Darren Lee Cole
February 02, 2022 17:16 - 48 minutes - 45.2 MBAll the world’s a stage. If only that actually were true. It might just be a more respectful place. The truth is that the medium of theater is a very particular thing. It’s an art form woefully underserved when shown via other media. The theater is about history. It’s about context. It’s about a very truly ancient understanding of how things will go. People show up to a space. The lights go down. And then, for whatever length of time, there is an agreement. There is a decorum. The audience h...
Sloane Davidson
January 26, 2022 17:00 - 49 minutes - 45.5 MBSelflessness. It’s not about ignoring yourself. In fact, true acts of selflessness, true acts of altruism require that the individual doing the work be utterly saturated in self-care. Think of it this way. If my life is a cup and I’m pouring into others from my cup, eventually that cup is empty. That serves no one. As one of my leadership coaches, Judith Rich, suggests – instead my cup gets to be full and then overflow and it is from that overflow, from abundance, where my giving can begin. ...
Kate Schutt
January 19, 2022 17:38 - 46 minutes - 43.1 MBKate Schutt is powerful singer-songwriter whose narratives tell stories of relationships and life. When she delivered a TEDx talk on grief she became something of an accidental expert on the topic. Not a surprise, really. Her storytelling is masterful and her music always has wended its way through meaningful topics. She’s the kind of person whose quiet countenance is supercharged by a direct and intense gaze that is equal parts power and compassion. So if anyone is going to tackle grief, it...
Catherine Connors
January 12, 2022 17:00 - 37 minutes - 34.7 MBStorytelling is a critical element of who we are as a species. It’s how we relate to the world – to our place in it, to our worth and value, and to others. Good storytelling is a marrow of the bones sort of thing, and Catherine Connors is a master storyteller. She also is uniquely positioned to understand the true craft of story and specifically how that relates to the role of story in leadership. She was a career academic whose path wended its way into media by way of getting hired as Edito...
Messy
December 30, 2021 17:00 - 16 minutes - 38 MBWhat do you do when you drop the ball? What do you do when an important commitment just gets … forgotten? If you’re truly in the heart of your leadership, the leadership of your life – you shift. It’s that simple. Really. No fault. No blame. No guilt. No shame. Just shift. Acknowledge, recognize, commit to address it. Move forward. These last weeks have been pretty heavy on that front, struggling to push through change to the other side. Then this week – this episode almost didn’t happen. Bu...
Melissa Moats
December 22, 2021 17:00 - 40 minutes - 93 MBIn a world beset with cynicism and darkness, meeting someone who’s touted as “quite possibly the happiest person on earth” may give rise to skepticism. It would be unfounded. The truth is that Melissa Moats is every bit as joyous as she appears and it’s not an act. It’s not that she hasn’t faced hardship. She has. It’s not that she hasn’t experienced tough times. She has. It’s that she spends her life focused on what she can bring to it rather than what she can take. She spends her timing sh...
Brian Solis
December 15, 2021 16:54 - 24 minutes - 56.9 MBResponsibility. Today’s world has most folks talking about it as though it were something outside of themselves. Few places exemplify that more than Silicon Valley – a place where brilliant ideas from brilliant people often take on lives of their own since the creators didn’t play the tape all the way forward. What does that mean? It means the “unintended” consequences wrought by technology are still that – consequences. Enter people like Brian Solis. Someone whose career is saturated in the...
Sarah Lacy
December 08, 2021 16:58 - 44 minutes - 103 MBUnedited. Unvarnished. Unabashedly herself. That’s Sarah Lacy to a T. After a successful career as a Journalist in Silicon Valley – largely doing in-depth, investigative work – she decided to walk away. Why? Misogyny and the bullies who fostered it. That may be something of an oversimplification but in the end, her walking away from the grind of covering the news of the tech industry led her to launch and grow a powerful network that is creating a space where people who seek to change the wo...
Jen Consalvo and Frank Gruber
December 01, 2021 17:20 - 52 minutes - 120 MBJen Consalvo and Frank Gruber are what I like to think of as Master Entrepreneurs. Not only are the entrepreneurs in their own right having launched and successfully sold their own ventures, they also spend their time identifying and getting visibility for tech startups all across the US. They’re very much the yin to each other’s yang – and which of them is which, shifts. It’s one of the truly amazing and powerful things about their partnership. It’s an ethos that carries into their personal...
Intro/OutroMonologue – Jen Consalvo and Frank Gruber
December 01, 2021 17:20 - 52 minutes - 120 MBINTRO IF YOU LOOK UP THE WORD STARTUP IN THE DICTIONARY I’M PRETTY SURE THE FACES OF TODAYS GUESTS WOULD BE POSTED THERE. OKAY SO THAT’S PROBABLY NOT TRUE. FIRST OF ALL, START UP IS TWO WORDS. AND BESIDES DO PEOPLE EVEN USE DICTIONARIES ANY MORE? I MEAN I DO, BUT … WELL … OKAY … DIGRESSION. THE POINT IS THAT IN THE WORLD OF START-UPS – MEANING START-UP TECH COMPANIES - JEN CONSALVO AND FRANK GRUBER STAND AS PRETTY SOLID REPRESENTATIONS OF … WELL … ALL THAT IS GOOD. CURIOSITY, DIVERSITY, ENG...
Jeffrey Hayzlett/TechFailMonologue
November 25, 2021 04:15 - 20 minutes - 47.3 MBAhhhhhh. Technology. The sheer magic unleashed by the various and sundry technological marvels in today’s world have transformed our society. The very fact you’re listening to this week’s episode is one of those marvels. It used to be that communicating on anything other than a one to one or one to small group level was relegated to the select few. Elite access to mass communication. Today’s world rips that down and enables anyone to be a content creator. It also has, without question, clove...
Tiffany Shlain
November 17, 2021 17:13 - 47 minutes - 109 MBWe live in a world more hyper-connected than ever, courtesy of any number of digital leashes, but is that really a good thing? Many studies show that the incessant connectivity, exposure to light, messes with humans in more ways than one. Which is what makes this episode so interesting. A conversation with someone who advocates disconnecting – regularly – and has been doing so for 12 years. What’s interesting about that? The person, Tiffany Shlain, is one of the most influential voices from ...
Nikki Fargas
November 10, 2021 17:13 - 40 minutes - 93.6 MBWhat would the world look like if everyone operated truly on the concept of a win/win? Impossible, right? I mean, at some point someone has to lose. Like in sports. One team wins. The other doesn’t. But if you ask Las Vegas Aces President Nikki Fargas about that, she says that winning isn’t just about the team on which you play, it’s about the bigger team. You may think that a former NCAA basketball star and coach – a woman who has many championship titles to her name can talk easily about “...
Faith James
November 03, 2021 16:07 - 47 minutes - 108 MBI’m going to go out on a limb and maybe tick some folks off. So buckle up. In my experience, there are few people more judgmental in the world than those who are so deeply saturated in their beliefs that no other beliefs are valid. What I refer to, mostly, are people of “faith”. This applies to pretty much any religious dogma I’ve ever encountered – including the Jewish faith of my own upbringing. When I met Faith James and she began to share the deep faith-based view of her world, my perspe...
Shirin Etessam
October 27, 2021 15:47 - 1 hour - 145 MBToday’s world is one of silos and divided communities. A place where selecting a single article or topic online can pre-determine any and all information then served to you by one algorithm or another. We are, as a species, designed to live in groups (tribes) and unfortunately as with so many things, taken to an extreme it becomes a bad thing. It all comes back to identity. Who are we? Where do we fit? What is our purpose? In sitting down to speak with Shirin Etessam, the place we begin is w...
Elizabeth Blau
October 20, 2021 16:05 - 44 minutes - 102 MBElizabeth Blau’s sense of leadership is one steeped deeply in responsibility. It’s the sense that being responsible for a business, for a team, is an all-encompassing, 24-hour thing. It’s an ethic instilled in her early – as is so often the case for those whose roots come from New York and New England. From her very first taste of leadership – managing a team of high school kids at a candy store that made its own chocolates and buttercreams – all the way to helming major restaurant developme...
De Ann Letourneau
October 13, 2021 15:52 - 52 minutes - 120 MBMost people spend their lives trying to figure out their path. Some people, like De Ann Letourneau, land on that path early and then spend the rest of their lives navigating how to make that journey bigger … better. Growing up in the Midwest, De Ann was indoctrinated to music young, first playing the piano by ear picking up sonatas that her mother would play. It was the violin, though, that captured her attention in 3rd grade and has captivated her ever since. Something of a child prodigy, m...
Donato Cabrera
October 06, 2021 15:34 - 48 minutes - 112 MBFor someone like me who grew up on classical music it’s always been super approachable. That is not, however, the experience for many. For most folks, classical music carries an air of something elite, unapproachable and, let’s be honest, stuffy. Donato Cabrera – the Music Director of the California Symphony and Las Vegas Philharmonic – busts up these myths and expectations in many ways. For starters, he’s about as down to earth a guy as you could meet, and he also takes the literal translat...
Dr Kiki Sanford
September 29, 2021 15:38 - 43 minutes - 101 MBDr. Kiki Sanford had a choice. Continue with what felt like an increasingly frustrating path in academia, or pivot and turn her passion into power. She chose the latter. With a degree in Conservation Biology and a Ph.D in Molecular, Cellular and Integrative Physiology, she’d spent her undergraduate and graduate studies exploring learning and memory – specifically through research on birds. She loved the learning. She loved the science. So she opted to spend her time getting other people just...
Al Mancini
September 24, 2021 04:50 - 47 minutes - 110 MBIn a world beset on all sides with tribalism and “othering” more people than not desperately seek fitting in. The idea of standing out, being conspicuously unique, it’s harder and harder to come by. Al Mancini has never been someone who just goes along, who just fits in. In fact, he’s spent his whole life doing exactly the opposite. Most of the time when someone is the sort who proactively drives towards standing out from the crowd, you don’t think of them as the same people who bring others...
Myron Martin
September 15, 2021 15:00 - 45 minutes - 103 MBIt all began with a fourth grade field trip. Traveling to Jones Hall in Houston, TX, Myron Martin was exposed to the world of performing arts, and his world changed. Moving to Las Vegas to work with the Liberace Museum, Myron’s journey would wend through a number of Las Vegas institutions, ending up with his being part of the team spearheading the effort to build a world-class, state-of-the-art performing arts center in downtown Las Vegas. In 2012, The Smith Center opened and over the first ...
Julie Wainwright
September 15, 2021 15:00 - 32 minutes - 73.6 MBJulie Wainwright is one of the most influential and successful players in the world of on-line commerce. She was the face of the colossal growth of this space in 1998 and became the poster child for the industry crash when Pets.com tanked less than a year after its IPO. Seizing this failure and flipping it around, Julie came back with a vengeance in 2011 with The Real Real and now sits on top of the space again – stronger, more successful and with a sense of internal calm and peace that you ...
Genevieve Bell
September 15, 2021 15:00 - 41 minutes - 95.2 MBAccidental influencer – that might be one way to think about Genevieve Bell a one-time professor of Anthropology at Stanford University turned futurist and technology soothsayer for Intel Corporation. While still a “blue badge” employee at Intel, Genevive is now back in her native Australia and back in academia. She operates from a simple and very powerful place – that we all have a deep responsibility to leave the world better than we found it; and she believes that is not about legacy when...
Michael Shikashio
September 15, 2021 15:00 - 40 minutes - 92.5 MBIn the world of dog training, there are some who have opted to do the really hard work – focusing entirely on the dogs that everyone else rejects. For many dogs, these dedicated individuals are the last house on the block. If their work doesn’t “take” these are the dogs that end up being euthanized. Going in to this work is not for the faint of heart. In fact, it requires a kind of heart and empathy that goes above and beyond just regular dog education. Enter Michael Shikashio – who came to ...
Talk Unleashed Trailer
September 13, 2021 17:05 - 2 minutes - 5.3 MBWhat motivates people? Why do they do what they do? What does leadership actually mean in today’s world? Good questions, right? That’s what Cathy Brooks, thought. And it’s why she created Talk, Unleashed – a new podcast of entirely candid conversations with fascinating people doing remarkable things. This weekly podcast will feature guests from arts and entertainment to business to technology to food to activism to politics (well, we’ll see on that last one). Talk Unleashed invites these inf...