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How to Drink a Glass of Water

RIGHT-BRAINIACS! - November 21, 2023 00:01 - 31 minutes
We all know how to drink a glass of water. Or do we? We can all get lost in the busy-ness of life. The stress. The problems. The conflicts. So, it’s no surprise we sometimes lose track of what’s truly important: gratitude, mindfulness, and the simple things in life. Through accessible wisdom a...

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Geoffrey Kent Interview

Working From Home ... And Living To Tell About It! - August 22, 2023 10:00 - 36 minutes
Geoffrey is generously offering his Checklist to Scale Exponential Growth to listeners! The Checklist to Scale Exponential Growth: https://www.thinkbigwithgeoffreykent.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/The-Checklist-To-Scale-Exponential-Growth.pdf   In this episode, your host Marcel Brown interv...

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Melissa Smith Interview

Working From Home ... And Living To Tell About It! - August 15, 2023 10:00 - 38 minutes
Melissa has two valuable offers for listeners at no charge! The PVA Interactive Hiring Workbook: https://thepva.com/complimentary-hiring-workbook/ Become A Successful VA Workbook: https://thepva.com/complimentary-workbook/   In this episode your host Marcel Brown interviews Melissa Smith, th...

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Kandas Rodarte Interview

Working From Home ... And Living To Tell About It! - February 21, 2023 12:00 - 27 minutes
Kandas has created a 5-Day Gratitude Journal and is offering it free of charge at https://momgeek.com/gratitude-journal/ In this fun episode, your host Marcel Brown banters with Kandas Rodarte, digital marketing pioneer, award-winning speaker, metastatic breast cancer thriver, and a 25-year vet...

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Suzanne Overstreet Interview

Working From Home ... And Living To Tell About It! - October 11, 2022 10:00 - 23 minutes
In this episode, your host Marcel Brown interviews Suzanne Overstreet, an independent certified health coach who works from home and helps others who work from home create healthy habits around eating and hydration, sleep and energy, mindset, movement, and supportive surroundings. Suzanne and M...

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Corey Piper Interview

Working From Home ... And Living To Tell About It! - October 04, 2022 10:00 - 34 minutes
In this episode, your host Marcel Brown interviews Corey Piper of Piper Media Group, an award wining video production company based in St. Louis, MO. Corey tells the story of starting a working from home business during the pandemic, how he and his wife handled unexpectedly getting thrown togeth...

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Mary and Amadeus Nunaley Interview

Working From Home ... And Living To Tell About It! - September 27, 2022 10:00 - 29 minutes
In this episode, your host Marcel Brown does his first interview with two people: Mary and Amadeus Nunaley, online course creation experts who are the co-founders of The Lavender Dragon Team and also a mother and son business duo. Mary and Amadeus, who live by the motto that "home is where the ...

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Anja Riemer-Grobe Interview

Working From Home ... And Living To Tell About It! - September 20, 2022 10:00 - 30 minutes
In this episode, your host Marcel Brown interviews his first international guest: Anja Riemer-Grobe, Online Business Manager, CEO of Management Made Easy, and the creator of Delegation Nation! Anja and Marcel discuss her 7 plus years of working from home and the challenges of working with the e...

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Tiago Forte on Building a Second Brain

Converge: The Business of Creativity Podcast with Dane Sanders - August 10, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
If you consider yourself to be a creative type, you probably find that it’s easy to have great ideas for things you’d love to try or projects you want to do in the future, but you struggle to actually make things happen. Even if you organize yourself and your time pretty well, the fact is everyd...

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Makoto and Ty Fujimura on Navigating the Tension Between Creativity and Commerce

Converge: The Business of Creativity Podcast with Dane Sanders - August 03, 2022 11:00 - 1 hour ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Mako’s paintings have been described as a rebellion against the speed of the internet and an antidote to time. In fact, the New York Times refers to his work as a form of “Slow Art”. Rather than using conventional paint, Mako uses various pulverized minerals, applied layer by layer to create hug...

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Gerald Leonard on High Performance Workplace Cultures

Converge: The Business of Creativity Podcast with Dane Sanders - July 20, 2022 11:00 - 37 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Gerald Leonard has had a diverse career filled with creative pursuits and technical education. The magic happened when Gerald was able to draw a throughline from the success of small jazz ensembles to the success of tech teams and businesses. It all came down to knowing how and when to lead. Wh...

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Tim Arnold on Leading with AND

Converge: The Business of Creativity Podcast with Dane Sanders - July 06, 2022 11:00 - 25 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Today’s conversation with Tim Arnold explores the gray areas that organization leaders encounter when faced with questions that don’t have black and white answers. We seem to be conditioned from an early age to see life in terms of either/or, right and wrong, good and evil, especially when it co...

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Amit Gupta on Optimism in a Pessimist's World

Converge: The Business of Creativity Podcast with Dane Sanders - June 23, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Amit Gupta is an entrepreneur, writer, and serial optimist. He’s also a personal friend of Dane’s, and in this episode, Dane and Amit discuss the past, the present, and - with Amit’s own brand of optimistic clarity - the future.  Amit is, in his own words a “relatively successful entrepreneur”,...

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Jennie Bellinger Interview

Working From Home ... And Living To Tell About It! - June 20, 2022 19:00 - 38 minutes
In this episode, your host Marcel Brown interviews Jennie Bellinger, Certified Professional Coach and host of the award winning Badass Direct Sales Mastery Podcast - which was recently featured in Podcast Magazine! Those of us who work from home still need to network professionally. However, th...

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Jaz Ampaw-Farr on Belonging

Converge: The Business of Creativity Podcast with Dane Sanders - June 08, 2022 11:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Jaz Ampaw-Farr is no stranger to feeling like an outsider. In this podcast, Jaz shares her personal story from her earliest days as a girl who seemingly had no name, to where she is now as a wife and mother, successful businesswoman, and survivor.  Jaz’s keystone message is that you need to bel...

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The Data Juggle: Why Data Integrations Are So Important

Dragonproof Ecommerce - June 06, 2022 16:00 - 47 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Your data is worth obsessing over. This week, Rick is joined by Keifer Hunniford, Miva’s Senior Director of Product Integrations, to discuss the inherent challenges of integrating sophisticated software for complex businesses. Why is the dialogue between the many software systems which drive a b...

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Focusmate Founder Taylor Jacobson on Distraction Free Productivity

Converge: The Business of Creativity Podcast with Dane Sanders - May 25, 2022 11:00 - 35 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Focusmate is all about distraction-free productivity. As a creative entrepreneur, you often get pulled away from your work because of the other things you need to do to keep your business running.  Taylor founded the company on the principle that working with others and being “held accountable”...

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Why Every Business Needs More “Downtime”

Dragonproof Ecommerce - May 17, 2022 14:47 - 10 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Can you run your business in 225 work days per year or less? Study after study show the emotional, mental, and physical benefits of taking “downtime” from work life, but for many entrepreneurs, slowing down feels like failure. In fact, downtime is a wellspring for creative inspiration, innovatio...

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Kirsten Moorefield on Patterns for Thriving

Converge: The Business of Creativity Podcast with Dane Sanders - May 11, 2022 11:00 - 43 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Cloverleaf uses popular assessments to create a slow drip of insights that can significantly change how you approach your career. No one thinks and communicates the same way. By understanding your audience and team members on a deeper level, you can be a better manager, enterprise leader, and co...

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The Aligned Business Model - How a company’s history shapes its future

Dragonproof Ecommerce - May 03, 2022 15:53 - 26 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Take a peek inside an internal business development talk exploring how Miva’s product, employee, and ownership history set the stage for the perfect customer relationship. Rick connects the dots between major milestones of the company’s development and the process of developing bullseye products...

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Jerzy Gregorek on Hard Choices for an Easy Life

Converge: The Business of Creativity Podcast with Dane Sanders - April 27, 2022 11:00 - 48 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Jerzy lives by his own philosophy, and that is “Hard choices, easy life. Easy choices, hard life.” It’s a simple, easily applicable mantra to for all of us to live by. As somewhat of a Renaissance Man in his post Olympic life, Jerzy dabbles in a lot of different areas to truly embrace his philos...

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Is Customer Service Broken? How remote-first systems are performing under pressure - Rich Rauscher, PhD

Dragonproof Ecommerce - April 19, 2022 21:55 - 32 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Is there an overall breakdown in the quality of customer service? With millions of workers leaving the labor pool, consumer demand surging, and a rise in abusive customers, many customer support systems are strained to the breaking point. As we move towards a permanently hybrid workforce, what i...

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Corbett Barr on Creating a Career for Your Lifestyle

Converge: The Business of Creativity Podcast with Dane Sanders - April 13, 2022 11:00 - 36 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Corbett Barr’s career spanned from helping Fortune 500 companies to becoming an entrepreneur in Silicon Valley to life-changing events in Mexico that changed his life. For Barr, pursuing a new career in the internet world is about audience-first, genuine connection, and creation. From blogging,...

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Report from ShopTalk: What’s important for retailers in 2022… and what isn’t

Dragonproof Ecommerce - April 04, 2022 18:00 - 11 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
In-person industry trade shows are back, led by the retail extravaganza ShopTalk. What trends are dominating the room in 2022? Rick identifies the hot topics being discussed at this year’s event, but suggests the real value of trade shows lies in the ability to leverage time and evaluate potenti...

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Type less, talk more

Remote Voices - March 29, 2022 21:54 - 53 minutes
The ways we can communicate at work are endless. Daily we exchange information with others using text, video, voice, and audiovisual cues to get our points across, give feedback, and make decisions.  However, because communication also entails maintaining social relationships, which ar...

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Doing the Right Thing

Dragonproof Ecommerce - March 21, 2022 18:32 - 21 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
Human-centric decision-making can create incredible tailwinds for a business - and the opposite is also true. Rick examines the downstream effects of values-based leadership decisions, and how to harness them for the best results.

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Is the 4 Day Work Week here to stay?

Remote Voices - March 16, 2022 04:20 - 54 minutes
The 4 day work week has become a thing over the last few months with many companies trialing it for the first time. The benefits are real with 78% of employees with 4 day work weeks are happier and less stressed. But will it last? Join us as we explain how Yac adopted a 4 day work wee...

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Ukraine and The Test of Leadership

Dragonproof Ecommerce - March 07, 2022 18:17 - 18 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
The invasion of Ukraine is a global crisis with far-reaching geopolitical consequences, including unknown impacts upon the U.S. economy. For business leaders just emerging from the challenges of the Covid era, this event will require a recommitment to values and work modalities which inspire con...

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What Is The Nature Of Happiness? Emotional Health In The Workplace & Beyond - Richard Otey

Dragonproof Ecommerce - February 22, 2022 19:48 - 41 minutes ★★★★★ - 9 ratings
What is the nature of happiness? A rapidly shifting digital economy and once-in-a-generation stresses demand that employers support an emotionally balanced workplace - starting with themselves. This week, Rick and Rich unpack the factors that drive happiness, how personal joy can ripple through ...

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Greg McKeown on Essentialism

Converge: The Business of Creativity Podcast with Dane Sanders - February 22, 2022 12:00 - 39 minutes ★★★★★ - 37 ratings
Greg McKeown joins to discuss the idea that pursuing less actually produces more– or put simply, “Essentialism”. He outlines the framework of this philosophy with the tenets, “Explore, Eliminate, Execute”, and dives into how they can positively affect your personal, spiritual, and vocational lif...