Action's Antidotes

By Stephen JayeSociety & Culture Education Self-Improvement

Action's Antidotes episodes

March 30, 2022 Rebranding Corporate Culture: Importance of Creating a Positive and Efficient Workplace to Achieve Business Growth with Amanda HarNess
Positive work culture is an avenue for greatness. It attracts talent, drives engagement, and impacts happiness. Culture is as influential as your business strategy because it either builds up or undermines your objectives. A multitude of factors plays in developing workplace culture, including leadership, management, philosophies, people, work environment, communication, values, and so much more.
Most of us let our workplace culture form naturally, but what we don’t know is that there should be a system to follow. Not defining your workplace culture is a mistake, and we must end that. Today Amanda HarNess would shift some perspectives and swerve us in the right direction. Don’t miss this out because, in this session, she will talk about rebranding the company culture to create a unique business that harnesses the correct morals and mindsets. Now, let’s take a deep dive and discover more.
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Rebranding Corporate Culture: Importance of Creating a Positive and Efficient Workplace to Achieve Business Growth with Amanda HarNess
Welcome to Actions-Antidotes, your antidote to the mindset that keeps you settling for less. Right now, we're in a time where a lot of things are changing, a lot of our attitudes about work and everything are shifting. There comes times in all of our lives that we need to shift our own attitudes. A lot of people refer to this as a rebranding. We're shifting our focus, shifting our businesses. Today, my guest, Amanda HarNess, is an entrepreneur who recently rebranded her business. Her business was called Kinetic Spark and now is Business Excelerated.
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Amanda, welcome to the program.
Thank you so much for having me. I'm happy to be here.
Thank you so much for joining in. First of all, tell us a little bit about the nature of your business, because you address a lot of these issues with work culture that we've been observing for quite some time now.
I'm a business growth accelerator, and I'm a fractional COO. When you're in an operation seat, you're looking at a number of different things inside of a business. Not only are you looking at their day-to-day, how are their systems and processes, and how are they operating on a daily basis, but also, who is operating in the business.
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I do put a strong emphasis on how are we optimizing our people from a performance standpoint, engagement, how are we looking at things from a top-down approach when it comes to the trickle down effect of leadership, and taking a look at how we're communicating the long-term vision of the business, getting people engaged and invested in that, and carrying that over into the type of culture you're also building at the organization.
How long have you been at this business?
I have 11 years of experience in operations, but I've owned my own business for just under two years now.
You've encountered a lot of businesses that are trying to expand and trying to set up the right culture. My question is, are most of your clients, most of the people you've historically worked with, focused on the expansion or focused on the culture? Does it tend to be a little bit of both?
I think it tends to be a little bit of both. There is a little bit of a misconstrued perception of what it means to have a company culture. There is some reeducation that happens while we're working together or even just some adjustments and modifications. If we're making a number of changes in the business, oftentimes, that changes the culture. An example of culture that I like to use is not just we have ping pong tables and pajama Fridays. That might be part of culture, but that isn't culture in and of itself.
Rebranding Corporate Culture: Culture is the norms of the business, how you agree to interact together with your clients.
An example would be if a business is a hub-and-spoke type of model where you've got leadership in the middle,...
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February 28, 2022 Igniting Career Transformations: Aligning Employee And Organizational Values With Tonia Martinez
Why is it that a majority of employees find their work disengaging and unfulfilling? The ultimate answer to that is a lack of career introspection and the inability to place the right people at the right job. This process has gotten more frustrating over the years, both from the standpoint of the job seeker and the organizations trying to build a team. Tonia Martinez is the founder of Career Transformations and she has had her foot set on both sides. Tonia talks to Stephen Jaye about this continuous struggle of presenting opportunities to the right people. Learn more as Tonia shares how she manages to ignite career transformations across organizational hierarchies.
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Igniting Career Transformations: Aligning Employee And Organizational Values With Tonia Martinez
One way, a lot of people settle for less is in their jobs and careers. I have seen some conflicting numbers around what percentage of people are satisfied with their jobs but all of them have shown that the majority of people here are disengaged and dissatisfied in some way. It will be great to find a way to better place people at the right job and that involves a little bit of effort on both sides. The process has gotten a little bit frustrating both from the standpoint of the job seeker as well as from the organizations trying to build a team.
Interpersonal transformation journeys that we are all on or hopefully you are on, based on reading this, there are going to be some of you that are looking for a new job and some of you that are building an organization. Building an organization involves hiring and bringing in the right team. My guest, Tonia Martinez is the Founder of Career Transformations, and she has her foot in both sides of this. She helps both the organizations find the right people as well as people looking for a job and career transformation. She should have a lot of good insights to say about this whole process from both ends.
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Tonia, welcome to the show.
Thank you very much for having me, Stephen.
Thank you for joining us. Let's begin with the Career Transformations and your personal story. What prompted you to start this organization and what were your experiences, and all that?
My background is 22 years of HR. For most of those years, I primarily focused on the talent acquisition space. Recruiting for organizations here in Colorado. Also in HR, you wear a lot of hats. I have helped design onboarding and orientation programs, as well as help train managers on how do we interview, how do we bring the right talent, and having a consistent process has been a lot of focus throughout my career. My passion is helping people find jobs that they are happy and passionate about and will go back the next day, and also helping clients find the right fit for the organization, so they avoid turnover.
There's a concern in the hiring process on both ends the organization wanting to have the person that's going to love the job and the person wanted to have the organization that's going to love them back, whether the job was the right fit. What do you think is the factor now that is contributing to why we see so many people in the wrong job? I covered in a previous episode, this idea that our culture is based around people dreading to work. The whole, I have a case of the Mondays, Taco Tuesdays, Happy Hour on Fridays is all based on the idea on Monday something to be dreaded as opposed to something that's joyous or happier.
It's twofold and maybe threefold, there's a level of digging and finding out deep in your heart and your soul, what you want to do or want to be when you grow up. A lot of times people are pressed for finding a position because they are financially strapped, laid off on the fly or for whatever reason. There are lots of reasons that you would jump into another position and not do your homework sometimes and put a time to learn about the company, the culture, the leadership team,
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February 22, 2022 Build Your Business Vision And Culture With Management Insights Founder Todd Wheeler
When you start a business, you need two things: a vision and culture. So how do you build these two things? Stephen Jaye interviews the CEO of Management Insight, Todd Wheeler, on the role of leadership and communication. Todd also discusses the importance of community, learning to focus on the right things and understanding. Starting up a business? Or are you looking to improve an existing one? Then tune in and learn valuable lessons from Todd.
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Build Your Business Vision And Culture With Management Insights Founder Todd Wheeler
One important aspect of everybody's lives or most people's lives is work culture, organizational culture, the culture that we all spend a good part of our days in. These things are changing. The Great Resignation assertion of what a lot of people have been feeling for years, what they want out of their work culture, which is an organization that benefits, values them and is still pretty early into this whole transformation. We are going to take a little while before we see how this entire thing turns out.
However, there are a lot of interesting things going on in this field, hopefully leading us toward a better and more productive work culture in the future. My guest, Todd Wheeler, is the Founder and CEO and by CEO, he refers to as Chief Enthusiasm Officer of an organization called Management Insight, which helps high-level personnel, CEOs, etc., set the tone for the culture that their organizations are going to be employing.
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Todd, welcome to the show.
Thank you. It is great to be here.
Let us start with Management Insight is what you do with the organizations that you engage with.
Fundamentally, we like to create cultures of community and communication. We do this by basing things on acknowledgment and appreciation. If an organization does just those two things, it will be able to maintain and keep people. People need to be listened to. They need to be heard and appreciated. Oftentimes, I have gone into companies where they have an open-door policy. They have suggestion boxes throughout. Nobody ever reads the suggestions or does anything about them if they have read them. That is not an open culture. I have been working in and around culture for years and it comes from a space of trying to understand why things do not work in organizations.
The famous consultant says that culture relates to strategy anytime. If you don't have the right people to execute with the right attitude, it doesn't matter. Peter Drucker was who I was thinking of. Peter Drucker is the Founder of Organizational and Management Consulting. The whole idea behind it is you have got to have a lot of these things working in alignment. Culture, to me, is the foundation. I look at what I call the non-financial aspects of corporate performance, strategy, structure, and leadership style, all based on the organization's stage of development.
With the culture piece added to that as a foundation, that is what is going on. I have always said that soft skills are the hardest skills. My tagline for my organization is it is simple, but it is not easy. If you have to hack your way through a jungle and you have a guide who knows where you are going and where the crevasses and rivers are and what you are going to need to get to the other side, it's a lot easier than hacking your way through the jungle. Any organizations start without a clue about how to do what they need to do.
'I have seen an incredible shift in cultural appreciation and the importance of it. I was laughed out of boardrooms in the 90s, bringing up the importance of culture and how people feel and how you treat them.'Share on X
You start with a discovery. I have got this great idea. My generation and generations before and after what we were always told were put a plan together. My belief is that it is 100% wrong. If you come up with an idea and put a plan together,
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February 15, 2022 Steering A Business Through A Pandemic Setback With Aaron Uhl
Many businesses felt the shock of COVID19, and more of these couldn’t survive. So what does it take for a business to survive and thrive past a pandemic setback? Stephen Jaye answers these questions and more as he talks to Aaron Uhl, founder and owner of Uhl’s Brewing Company in Boulder, Colorado. Aaron walks us through how he got into brewing, what he learned, and how he helped pilot his business through the COVID19 crisis. Learn more about Aaron and his experiences by tuning in.
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Steering A Business Through A Pandemic Setback With Aaron Uhl
Colorado has been my home for years. For anyone who knows what it's like here, it is longer than most people. There are a lot more new entries and a lot of people are moving here. The area of Colorado, especially the Front Range, Denver, Boulder, and Fort Collins, is known for the craft brewing scene. We have a pretty robust scene in that particular sense of one of 5 or 6 places where there is a lot of people doing a lot of experimenting with different types of beer and formulas. My guest is Aaron Uhl, who started his own brewery. He is the owner and head brewer along with 6 or 7 other roles. We talked a little bit about the idea of wearing many hats with Uhl’s Brewing, for anyone interested is located near the corner of Arapahoe and 55th on the East end of Boulder.--Aaron, welcome to the show.
Thank you for having me.
Tell me a little bit about Uhl's Brewing, your story, and what you are all about.
It all started with a passion for homebrewing, competitions, and loving craft beer, in general. When I first started brewing, it was simply because I couldn't get a certain beer from beer trading because beer trading was a big thing back in early 2010 and on. With that, I whined a little bit. My girlfriend bought me the book that everyone gets, The Complete Joy of Homebrewing by Charlie Papazian. That nudged me along to do my first brew with a friend who had an all-grain system. He showed me the ropes on the first brew. After that, I was at home homebrewing.
There was a tile in the kitchen that was available on my side of the table. There was going to be a fermenter there. By the end of the first year, I had the beer that I couldn't trade for a mimic of it, an Imperial stout aging in a five-gallon bourbon barrel in my basement. That was in 2012 or so. Fast forward to 2018, I won a lot of awards at different competitions across the state and region. I ended up winning regional gold medals for an Imperial stout and Imperial IPA with AHA competition that gets run annually. That's the best of the show for me of all things, also a trip to the Great American Beer Festival with Jeff Griffith from FATE Brewing at the time, who is now at Twisted Pine.
The eventful night led me to sign a contract with another brewery to start the brand in 2018 of February at the Fresh Hop Competition. I ended up winning about 5 or 6 awards and then took best to show. The funny thing was people that I would assume to talk with dropped a tank into their system and started brewing. They showed up to the brewery where the competition was having its final rounds of judging and award ceremony. They were like, “What are you doing here? We are honestly not to ask you. You own a brewery.” They live in the area and wanted to check it out. I told them that I had about eight different beers in the competition and they should sit down at the pro-am table, hang out for the award ceremony, and try the brewery’s beers that they were at.
They sat down and their eyes were raising every single time I won an award because when I talked to them, that's what I wanted to start doing, brewing one and done recipes and easy IPAs. They are like, “Everyone thinks they can do that, but can you brew anything else other than that?” It landed in their head that, “If this guy is winning medals across broad spectrums from lager to British bitters to smash American sours,
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February 01, 2022 Actionable Steps To Take To Live Your Dreams With Luana Bossetti
Everyone has a dream. It could be small or big and vary from person to person. And everyone is looking for ways to possibly achieve those. The question is, what are you doing right now to take a step closer to them? Luana Bossetti, host of A Life Up to Your Dreams podcast, knew what she liked to do even at a young age. Luana is a multi-passionate entrepreneur with big dreams and vision. She wants to travel and see different places. She believes that you can do anything you put your mind and heart into. Knowing what you want will enable you to take one step at a time. Listen and find out more to turn your dreams into reality!
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Actionable Steps To Take To Live Your Dreams With Luana Bossetti
Over the course of weeks, months, especially when it's winter, when it's cold and things get stressful for a lot of people, not to exclude anyone in the tropics or Southern hemisphere, they are not experiencing that, but we all get bogged down in the day-to-day. Sometimes we forget about those intentions we made at the very beginning of the year. Intentions, resolutions, goals or whatever you want to call them.
I want to encourage you to go back and revisit them. Think about what you thought about the holiday break when you were reflecting on 2021 and thinking forward to 2022 and say, "Is this still what I want? How am I doing? Did I let other things bog me down? Am I making some progress toward these goals?" In this episode, I'd like to talk to you about some aspects of our mindset that can sometimes limit us. I have had the pleasure of meeting a lot of great people through this show and a lot of great people that have a similar idea and mission. The mission is to help more people live their authentic lives. Live the lives that they want as opposed to the ones that were laid out for you. The cookie-cutter scripted life, as I sometimes like to refer to it.
One of the things that I like to call the traditional mentality that we all oftentimes have is when we see someone doing something similar to ourselves. There's an instinct to say that person's a competitor or a threat. However, this particular mission of ours requires a slightly different way of thinking. I have had one previous episode where I've interviewed other podcasters with a very similar mission.
This particular show that I discovered is called A Life Up To Your Dreams. The host here with me is Luana Bossetti. Her podcast has a very similar mission to mine. I'm here trying to figure out how we can collaborate on the mission because getting through this old limiting culture is going to take as much alliance as opposed to us competing with one another. Luana, welcome to the show.
Thank you for having me here.
You are joining us from Majorca, Spain. Tell us a little bit about your place of residence because most of my guests have been other Coloradans thus far. I love exploring other places, cultures and stuff like that.
Majorca is a beautiful island in Spain, not far from Barcelona. It's a beautiful place for people that want to connect with nature. You have everything from the sea to the mountains, waterfalls, and all you like. It's a beautiful island that has a lot to offer. Unfortunately, most of the time, it is viewed, at least here in Europe, as the place to go only in the summer, but it's so much more than that. It's so rich in culture and there are different places to go hiking in nature. It's a beautiful place for everybody if you want to visit Europe.
You mentioned hiking in nature, which is a big thing where I live in Colorado. It's practically like a state religion that people do some hiking, backpacking and outdoor activity. Is that a major part of the culture? I'm thinking right now how Majorca would compare to a couple of nearby places. A lot of people know about Ibiza, which is known as a party place. Also, when you talk about Barcelona, I can't help but think about the Catalonian and all the separati...
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January 25, 2022 Using Frequency And Motivation To Make Better Connections With Jaqui McCarthy Of Frequency Coders
Life is all about making the right connections. The people who you want to work with aren't necessarily going to be your best friends. Join your host Stephen Jaye as he talks to the CEO of TealHouse and the creator of Frequency Coder, Jaqui McCarthy. Jaqui explains the frequency coder as an onion with many layers. There are people inside and the distance between them will determine their compatibility. There are also all the layers that you have to keep in mind. Listen in if you want to understand the frequency coder and how it's different from a Myers Briggs test. Start understanding yourself today!
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Using Frequency And Motivation To Make Better Connections With Jaqui McCarthy Of Frequency Coders
Sometimes, a part of the journey needs to be understanding ourselves, others, who we are and how we interact with one another. This is where behavioral science comes in. My guest is Jaqui McCarthy. She is a behavioral scientist and serial entrepreneur, which I know a lot of you readers out there will be pursuing entrepreneurship eventually as a path. She has some interesting ideas about understanding our behaviors. We are all familiar with at least one of the personality tests, whether it's the Myers-Briggs or Big Five. Her idea is to measure this personality measure or motivations to understand ourselves on multiple dimensions.
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Jaqui, welcome to the program.
Thank you for having me.
Thank you for joining. First of all, what would you describe behavioral science to really mean if you were to explain it in a minute or two?
Behavioral science understands how humans interact with others, the technology and then themselves within the technological platforms. You have these algorithms that are trying to understand humans. It's studying that and gathering actual measurable data to determine how these people behave.
It's not just how people think. It's how people are going to behave. A lot of the algorithms might think about what you said. Technology is trying to predict purchasing and shopping behavior. Do you see technology being used to understand behavior on a deeper level about things that matter beyond what you are going to buy?
In a positive light, we are very much struggling with that. Hopefully, we will be seeing a new generation of entrepreneurs coming out and creating more ethical algorithms. A lot of attention is, "How can we better understand consumers so we can sell them a bunch of crap they don't need?" In a few of the projects that I have taken on in the past, what we did is dove into trying to understand the human factor behind interacting with each other on platforms and how to optimize those connections between people.
We live in an era of loneliness and some of the negative consequences of loneliness. We are very disconnected. People are turning to violence, drugs, suicide and all these terrible things because we need human connection. Do you see hope in people understanding human behavior on this level and then designing algorithms to help us make better connections with one another? Do you see that as barely treading water and not making a difference?
It's going to depend a lot on where investors are going to put their money. Where is the return on ethical algorithms? Is there going to be a monetary return? It's not most likely a lot of the time. In the case of WiGo Trips, which was a platform that we developed, it's connecting random strangers to each other but understanding who they are so that when they do connect, their experiences are optimized. We had a way to monetize it by booking travel. It's going to be up to the entrepreneurs to find those monetization strategies or up to the investors to invest in things that aren't necessarily going to return the money but will make the world a better place.
One place I naturally go is some wealthy philanthropy. It's things like the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. In their case,
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January 18, 2022 Maintaining Good Mental Health And Conditioning Your Brain For Positivity With Kelli Hansen
We all feel different emotions depending on the circumstances we face every day. In this episode, Kelli Hansen shares her expertise on mental health. She founded the BCC Evolution, a mental health and suicide awareness nonprofit, in 2018 after losing her middle sister to a completed suicide in 2017. She wanted to break the stigma of associating mental health with negative and degrading things. We all need to focus on our mental health. How can we practice positive thinking in our daily lives? It all comes down to conditioning and practicing your mind for positivity. Stay tuned and find out more and maintain good mental health!
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Maintaining Good Mental Health And Conditioning Your Brain For Positivity With Kelli Hansen
We're going to talk about mental health. I know I talk about mental health quite a bit but I think it's a topic that deserves a lot of discussion because it's integral to a lot of different aspects of our lives and a very important component of our life's outcome. It's an umbrella term that encompasses many different situations, fears, tragedies as well as states of mind.
One of the things that are interesting is as we become more aware of mental health, its presence and its importance to our life's outcomes, more and more people are taking on mental health as their cause and idea of what they want to do with their lives. My guest Kelli Hansen is the Founder of a mental health organization called BCC Evolution.
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Kelli, welcome to the program.
Thank you so much, Steven. I appreciate you having me here.
I appreciate you coming on and taking the time to join us in the show. The first thing I want to do is get our audience oriented to BCC Evolution. What is your approach to mental health? What aspect of the mental health challenge because it's so broad that you are solving? What inspired you to get started on it?
It’s absolutely my favorite subject. I founded BCC Evolution in 2018 after I lost my middle sister to a completed suicide in 2017. I knew that I didn't want to sit around and do nothing. At that time, I was working with another organization that focused on the adolescent aspect. I was hyper-focused on suicide prevention.
Over the years, as I've gained more knowledge and had more collaborations, I've found that mental health is the root cause of what leads people to the complete act of suicide whether it be a moment or a lifetime of some mental health challenge is why people complete the act. If we can get to that root cause, start doing the education, bring more awareness, start having these hard conversations like you and I are having and breaking down that stigma, that's how we're going to start saving lives.
BCC Evolution fits in the pre-crisis space, more of the education, learning how to identify signs, knowing the symptoms. How do we talk to somebody when they come to me and they're like, "I'm suicidal. I'm having this mental health challenge." Instead of locking up like a deer in headlights, you have some tangible ways that you can talk or communicate, ultimately and potentially save their lives. That's what BCC Evolution is all about. It’s the awareness, the conversation and the education.
One thing I love about it is that suicide hotlines at the moment of crisis prevention have been around for a while. I know it was 2017 when the rapper, Logic, wrote that song with the title of the suicide prevention hotline number but with education and with tackling these underlying longer-term issues. Not only it seems like at least to me, do you have a chance to save the person's life but you also have a chance to make that person's life better because it's not that we kept you alive but we're also addressing this underlying root problem that's deeper within.
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January 11, 2022 How To Make Work Meaningful And Joyous With Nigel Clayton
The culture of capitalism and consumption often makes us lose sight of why we work in the first place. In this episode, we’ll attempt to uncover what you really want to make work meaningful and joyous. Nigel Clayton is an entrepreneurial business coach/mentor and the owner of Ultrapreneur Success. His method is helping people pull out that leadership part of them without telling them what to do, when to do it, and how to do it, underscoring the importance of figuring out what you really want in life and in business. Join him and host Stephen Jaye as they dive deep into today’s culture and the issues being brought to the surface by the recent pandemic and the changes that will come with it. Stay tuned!
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How To Make Work Meaningful And Joyous With Nigel Clayton
Welcome to the show. In this program, we’re all about opening up to more possibilities, getting you out of what I call the scripted life, and getting you into the life that you really want. That’s going to mean different things for different people. I’m not here to tell you what that thing is, what it means for you, or what your path is going to be. That’s for you to figure out, but for a lot of us, that path is going to involve some form of entrepreneurship. Even if you’re not specifically starting your own practice or starting your own business, there are aspects of the entrepreneurial mindset that can benefit you in any of these pursuits. I bring to you my guest, Nigel Clayton, who is an Entrepreneurial Coach and Mentor and has been for a few decades.
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Nigel, welcome to the program.
Thank you. I appreciate it.
Thank you so much for joining us. Having been an entrepreneurial coach for so many years, you have so many insights into what makes certain entrepreneurs succeed and fail. My first question for you is, what is the mindset that anyone needs to adapt before going into any entrepreneurial pursuit?
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I think that’s a hard thing to do in a way because the majority of our lives have been trained to be followers, whether it’s in school or working for somebody else. Somebody has been there telling us what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. People then get this bright idea of, “I’m going to be an entrepreneur. Everything is going to be great. I got this plan of selling this product or service.” They’re all jumping up and down like Tony Robbins and saying, “I’m going to rule the world,” and then they realize after a while what they’ve gotten themselves into. Part of it is there isn’t somebody telling them what to do, when to do it, and how to do it, so a lot of them are not prepared to be in that situation.
They either react to it positively and they’re able to make the decisions they need to make quickly, or they don’t, and if they don’t, then they try to find somebody that will help them. Much of the time, that person is going to end up being the next trainer that’s going to make them stay being a follower. They need to go from being a follower to being a leader, but you can’t train leadership in the entrepreneurial world. Training somebody means they’re still following somebody.
In Corporate America, since it’s a completed structure and there are little pockets of leadership in there, they can be trained within that little pocket. In the entrepreneurial world, everything is their responsibility. They’re like on stage. All the lights are on them, everybody can see them, and they got to make all the decisions. That’s the biggest problem they have.
What I do is help them pull that leadership part of them out of them without telling them what to do, when to do it, and how to do it. I don’t tell people what to do. I don’t keep them accountable. I don’t say, “Did you do this?” It’s all of those kinds of things that a lot of people do to try and get peo...
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December 28, 2021 Jamie Dandar McKinney On Building Confidence Through Curiosity And Openness
Success in every line of work or situation can only be achieved by facing every challenge head-on without doubts or fear. Therefore, building confidence is key in establishing a strong character and mindset in whatever you do. Stephen Jaye sits down with Jamie Dandar McKinney to discuss how confidence starts with embracing a burning desire to learn and grow. She explains the power of eliminating negative self-talk and knowing when to shift confidence gears depending on the situation. Jamie also shares her work as the Founder of JMD Consulting, helping women leaders discover their confidence to reach the top of the corporate ladder.
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Jamie Dandar McKinney On Building Confidence Through Curiosity And Openness
One thing that keeps a lot of people settling for less is a lack of confidence. The inability to speak up, say what you want or even within yourself, believe that you are capable of and deserving what you want. This is a topic that inflicts a lot of people and is affected by this. It's something that people are even sometimes ashamed to admit and how often this is something that impedes us from getting the life that we truly want. My guest, Jamie McKinney, specializes in helping people find that confidence. She is the Founder and President of JMD Consulting. Jamie, welcome to the program.
Thank you, Stephen. I'm so excited to be here with you.
A lot of people are thinking about self-confidence and do have issues with self-confidence. What made you feel like it was going to be the thing that you brought into the world with the business you started? What service do you want to provide for humanity?
This started very early in my career. The confidence I figured out was my survival skill initially. Once I started to figure out some of the nuances of it, it graduated to my thriving skill and that was important. I started my career in the automotive industry so it was very heavily male-dominated. That was my first job out of college.
I was the third female to join a team of 400. I was the youngest, on average, by about twenty years. I hadn't grown up in the automotive industry so I didn't have stories to regale with them. The one thing I did have that some of my comrades did not was a college degree. You remember the game, which one of these things is not like the others. That was me in a variety of categories.
There were shenanigans and resistance. I was also learning and new. I figured out though, early on that I didn't have to be the smartest person in the room, the most experienced and certainly the most male as long as I carried myself and with confidence and lead with that confidence. It started out being my secret sauce and my way of having an advantage in an industry and a company in a place where my advantages were limited as I was gaining experience.
A lot of people would struggle with the idea of finding that confidence, whether it be survival or a thriving skill. One of the things that happen with a lot of people who lack self-confidence is doing whatever the boss says, not setting boundaries. “The boss told me I need to work over the weekend. I'm not going to say, ‘I'm sorry. My other parts of my life matter too.’” What gave you the courage to develop and show that self-confidence in this automotive industry where you were the one that's not like the other for several different reasons?
One, I wanted to be there, be successful in business and learn. I was in an environment and a place that I saw as a challenge. I like challenges. Part of it, I was innately ready to learn and do something that I hadn't done yet. To break it down to a smaller piece and this is something in my book I talk about is figuring out your “hit it to me” skill. The “hit it to me” skill is a reference to a baseball interview that Derek Jeter was on in early 2000.
I was listening to this interview while sitting on the couch in my apartment when I was fresh out of college.
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December 21, 2021 How Brain Mapping Is Changing The Game For Mental Health With Angie Noack and Rachel Ragsdale
Discussions on mental health are increasingly becoming more open and destigmatized. With this, people’s knowledge of what they can do for their mental wellbeing increases. Here to talk about a more direct and biological solution for mental health issues are Angie Noack, VP of Business Development, and Rachel Ragsdale, founder of BrainCode Centers. In this episode, they sit down with host Stephen Jaye to walk us through their neurological methods that involve brain mapping, neurofeedback, qEEG, and more. They talk about attacking the root cause and giving you a chance to treat the underlying issues directly in the brain. Take this time to learn more about this novel approach by tuning in.
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How Brain Mapping Is Changing The Game For Mental Health With Angie Noack and Rachel Ragsdale
Those of you who have been reading some of my previous episodes know that I like to talk quite frequently about mental health. It is a major part of the human experience that tragically until relatively has largely been ignored. I think the attitude used to be suck-it-up and do your job and not deal with whatever is bugging you on the inside or whatever's going on with whatever's wrong.
That may lead to an existence that gets the job done. Sucking it up does not lead to a very happy existence. I love to hear stories about people who are taking new approaches and trying to help people out with mental health. My guests are Rachel Ragsdale and Angie Noack from Braincode Centers. Welcome to the program.
Thanks for having us.
Thank you so much. We're excited to be here.
Thank you so much for coming onto this show. The first thing I want to know is Braincoad Centers use a technology called Braincode Mapping. Can you explain to our audience who may be curious about different aspects of mental health and how we can go about improving our mental health? How does this Braincode Mapping process work?
I'll start us off here. I love that question, and I know Angie also loves that question because that is truly what our company thrives on is looking at the root cause of what's going on. Very much so classically and mental health, the two main things that people seek out when they're not feeling well are prescription medications or counseling. Both of those two are good things that you can get involved in. There are no problems with either of them, but we do believe firmly that misses the why, and it misses the root of what's going on.
We look at the organ that we're treating, and we do that through that qEEG Brain Map that you were referring to. It tells us where there are areas of under or overactivity, which we know clinically are going to produce symptoms for people. That is where we start. That is the baseline that gives us the direction to everything that we do from a treatment standpoint.
I apologized when I introduced you. I forgot to introduce your specific roles. Rachel, I know you're the cofounder of the organization and Angie, I know you're the Vice President of Business Development. Please feel free to answer whatever questions I follow up with, whatever pertains accurately to your specific roles with this organization.
This Braincode Map you're saying can explain some of the things that a lot of people observe. What I mean is everything from the obvious schizophrenia, the ones that are diagnosed, to the people who more generically say, “I have anxiety, I have trouble focusing sometimes.” All types of ailments that people talk about.
We treat anything from anxiety, depression, ABB, bipolar, trauma, PTSD, brain injuries and sleep issues. I would say more common. Some of the top things that we treat are the things that I mentioned but what Rachel was saying, rather than treating these mental health issues with synthetic substances, medication and things like that or even talk therapy, which we believe in.
Rachel and I both have licenses in clinical mental health.
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