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Sports and athletics require hard work, sacrifice and a focused mindset. These are the same things that you need to grab on to business success, and former Top 10 in Women’s Racquetball, Dr. Jo Shattuck has these in spades. In this episode, Stephen Jaye and Dr. Shattuck share insights on how the qualities necessary for sports also translate to business. Dr. Shattuck talks about getting her late start in racquetball and bucking that to climb up to a top 10 rank in the sport in the US. We also hear of the creation of PantherTec and the Kinesthetic Awareness Training system based on her experiences as an athlete. Listen in and be inspired by Dr. Jo Shattuck’s journey.

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Athletics, Sacrifice And Mindset: Setting Up For Business Success With Jo Shattuck

Pursuing and realizing our passions takes some hard work and sacrifice. The things that are important in life, bring satisfaction, actualization and all the like are going to take a little bit more effort and even some sacrifice. Some people in some pursuits naturally lend themselves to understanding that sacrifice. One community that I've found that understands the idea of sacrificing for something is the athletic community.

I trained and completed Ride The Rockies, which here in Colorado was a 6-day, 400-plus bike ride up and down the mountains in different places. It's one of those experiences that you work hard for and get a certain feeling of that reward for that hard work. My guest, Jo Shattuck, understands that particular aspect of working hard and training for a passion as she is a former racquetball champion and has started a business called PantherTec, which helps people with techniques as well as some other things about their athletic pursuits and everything.

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Jo, welcome to the show.

Thanks for having me, Stephen. This is great.

 

First of all, I'm going to start by talking about your racquetball days because not everyone is an athlete or has an athletic pursuit. Athletic pursuits do have that whole air of you're following a passion and working hard for it. What brought you to racquetball? What was the process of training to become a racquetball champion like?

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I don't know how far back you want me to go but I had a lot of energy as a kid. In the ninth grade, my mom saw the writing on the wall. I was getting in some trouble, staying out past curfew and stuff. She signed me up for 100 different things, Girl Scouts some basket weaving and whatever else. At the local club, I went, played it and lost every game, 21 to 1 or 21 to 0. That was way back in the day. I went on to undergraduate at Louisiana Tech. They had thirteen beautiful glass back quarters. In those days, being a teenager, you could drink, study or play racquetball.

I did the 1st and 3rd. I decided I wanted to be good. I remember the exact moment I decided. I was hitting the ball and it went where I wanted it. I went out to the hallway and asked the fellows. I was like, “This could be something that I might get into. Are there racquetball contests?” They laughed at me because they're not called contests. They're called tournaments. I went to my first tournament with my glove. I won a Ladies B tournament in the middle of Louisiana by myself and all that. I was probably still smoking cigarettes at that time and doing all the things that teenagers do. I did not take the normal path to elite athleticism like some of my other colleagues did.

You tried hundreds of different things. Do you feel like that's a common story as far as people finding that thing that they're truly passionate about? You've tried a bunch of things. Maybe some things didn't work out at all and maybe som...

It’s no secret that the corporate world is becoming more and more suffocating. That is why people are finding ways to exit gracefully and break free from that structure. This is true for both Dmitry Smirnov and Dana McGlone who Stephen Jaye knows from his previous life as a meteorologist. Dmitry and Dana worked for the engineering sector and water resources sector. They join Stephen on today’s show to share how they went out on their own and built their own consulting business that allows them to choose the projects to work with in order to serve their clients better. Also, they talk about their possible partnership with a former employer on a fairly sizable project. Find out how that’s working out.

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Exiting Gracefully: How Dmitry Smirnov And Dana McGlone Started A Business And Partnering With A Former Employer To Serve Clients Better

Welcome to the show. I originally was a meteorologist. I studied Meteorology and was fascinated with the weather from a young age. A lot of meteorology jobs go in a lot of different directions, and a surprising number of them are all about coding or about writing code, or sometimes even manual data entry.

My guests are people I know from my previous life as a meteorologist who, in their pursuits, have found a way to break free from the corporate structure. As you know, the corporate structure is suffocating a lot of people. We have these old-school ideas, and I won’t go off too much on a tangent about it. I’ll let my guests do the talking. This episode’s guests are Dmitry Smirnov and Dana McGlone, who are the Cofounders of HydroMet Consulting.

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Dima and Dana, welcome to the program.

Thanks so much for having us. It’s a pleasure to be here.

Thanks.

To begin, tell us a little bit about your overall job functions. HydroMet Consulting, I want to orient everyone to what that means. Hydro means water, but maybe not everyone is familiar with what hydrometeorology is.

I would caveat all of this by saying that we are one year into our startup. We are a very fluid company now in terms of our vision. We don’t have a niche that has its upsides, but also its downsides, but in terms of what we do individually, I would call myself the Scientist, which involves a lot of coding, but also a lot of brainstorming of ideas and throwing stuff on the wall and seeing what hits both in terms of day-to-day operations as well as pursuits for the future.

It has been a dream project of ours to go out on our own for a while. Our focus is around heavy rainfall both forecasting and doing a little bit of post-season analysis for our clients. Both of our backgrounds overlap with mostly the engineering sector and water resources sector, so we like to define solutions for our clients that are both satisfactory to the meteorological side of science and solve the problems they’re having.

One of the things that drew me to science originally when I selected a major many years ago was the idea of discovering things, being creative, and problem-solving in a way more about figuring things out. In the corporate structure, do you feel like a lot of scientists in general end up more in the realm of trying to figure out how to make a program work rather than the actual process of scientific discovery and the inquisitiveness and curious mindedness that go along with it?

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Yeah. I think you’ve hit on one of the key limitations of being in a larger engineering firm like Dana and I both worked for a number of years. It’s the reality of the projects involved. A lot of the projects that the company did were with the Federal Emergency Management Agency, so it was a lot of manual effort in terms of fixing shapefile lin...

The pandemic has accelerated change and amplified issues within organizations. As a leader, how do you bring in positive leadership moving forward into this new revolution? Today’s guest is Executive Coach Brent Mullins of Brent Mullins Coaching. Brent has over 25 years of experience in executive leadership and organizational complexity at Fortune 200 companies and multi-cultural organizations. He joins host Stephen Jaye to discuss what qualities are required of a leader in these volatile times. Brent underscores a learning mindset as one of the key factors in the evolution of a leader. Tune in for more insights and advice on leadership.

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Brent Mullins On Positive Leadership And The Importance Of A Growth Mindset

In this episode, I want to talk to you all about leadership in organizations and leadership in our lives. Leadership tends to set the stage for an entire organization, how people within the organization interact with one another, how they interact with the customers and how the organization ends up being presented to everybody. A leadership that's misprioritized and misguided can have an impact on the employees. It can lead to employees being disengaged, disinterested and dissatisfied with their job.

Given some of the statistics that we've seen about the percentage of employees that are indeed disengaged, it's easy to feel like we're in some multidecade-long leadership crisis at the moment. Here to help with this problem is our guest, an Executive Coach, Brent Mullins of Brent Mullins Coaching. Thank you very much for joining us on the show.

Thanks, Stephen. That was a great intro.

Every executive coach has their own niche or all coaching because coaching is a pretty broad category of people. Each particular person needs to establish a niche and we've covered this in some of our previous episodes about niching. To orient our readers, what is your niche in this executive coaching world?

While I do work across a number of industries, most of my work is working with executives and leaders who have executive aspirations somewhere in the life sciences field, biotech, healthcare technology, medical device, physicians or wherever they are in the life sciences space. In particular, I work one-on-one with leaders, especially those who are wanting to take on bigger strategic challenges, but they're somehow hamstrung or kept from getting to those challenges that they're after. That oftentimes leads into the other part of the work that I do, which is working with the leader and their teams to increase the effectiveness of the team overall.

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With these aspiring leaders, you talked about them being hamstrung. What are the most common challenges that people experience as they're trying to step into a leadership role or improve their leadership capabilities to create better teams?

Some of the big challenges from a strategy standpoint might have to do with going into new markets. If they're making something, they may be re-evaluating their industrial footprint. I've never met a CEO that doesn't think of more growth on their head every day, day in and day out. When you've got these challenges and you're living in a world like COVID and navigating the pandemic, there are so many issues and people challenges pulling on your time. It's quite remarkable. The question becomes, "How do I as a leader keep everything going and keep my hand on the wheel and still be able to attend to the strategic challenges that are often outside of the four walls of my business?"

When you say outside of the four walls to your business, do you mean challenges that arise from changes in markets, a new competitor emerging or consumer trends and things like that?

A new technology that has popped up, establishing brand-new markets like the Blue Ocean Strategy.

As an actively serving board member for the Special Olympics Colorado and Commission Chair for the Independent Ethics Commission, Liz Krupa has a lot on her plate. But with proper time management and prioritization, she gets it all done and more! Liz doesn’t just have a great work ethic, but her moral ethics as a lawyer is one that should be admired. Her advocacy for – bleeds through all the work she does. In this episode, Liz talks us through her many initiatives to drive positive change in the community and the justice system. She explains the importance of having policies to empower representation and hold the legal system to a higher standard. Listen in to learn more as she chats with host Stephen Jaye.

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Time Management Strategies To Be Proactive In Your Advocacy With Liz Krupa

In our past culture or the culture that we’re sunsetting, we’d often get the phrase that I’ve previously expressed that I hate, “What do you do?” One of the reasons I tend to hate it is because it encourages us to define ourselves pretty simply by our job titles. Most people are quite a bit more complicated than what you can get in a job title, a few bullet points or something like that, even more complicated than what you’d see in a resume. Oftentimes, people take on a lot of different types of pursuits but these pursuits are part of the same whole personal brand. Something that I’ve been hearing about quite a bit more is that we all have a personal brand that connects a lot of the things we do.

My guest, Liz Krupa, encapsulates this idea of having a personal brand that manifests in a number of different pursuits pretty much better than almost anyone else that I’ve encountered so far. Liz, I would like to welcome you to the program and quickly talk to you about all the pursuits that you are involved in toward the same goal of protecting the people, the unprotected, as well as the ethics in the legal profession.

I’m happy to be here.

Thank you so much. First of all, Liz, it’s an honor to have you on the program. Tell us about all these different endeavors because you’re in the trial advocacy, the Ethics Commission, Special Olympics. They’re all different places that you’ve got yourself involved with.

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By training and education, I’m a lawyer. I do mostly criminal defense but I also do some ethics and internal investigation type of work, white-collar work. I serve on several boards and commissions. Two of the boards that I serve are NITA, the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, which is a nationwide advocacy group that tries to help lawyers be better advocates and the Colorado Special Olympics, which is part of the larger National and International Special Olympics, which works with getting developmentally disabled people more recognition through sports and school, giving them the correct access to medical care and the importance of keeping your physical health up as well. Those are two of the nonprofit boards that I serve.

I am also the Chair of the Commission on Judicial Discipline for the State of Colorado, which is the only entity that looks at any rules of conduct for judges, whether those were violated, makes recommendations to the Supreme Court as far as discipline. I’m also the chair of the Independent Ethics Commission, which similarly looks at any violation of the rules of ethics for elected officials.

Numerous of those types of endeavors. I also mentor through law school. Yes We Can, which is a mentoring program that tries to bring interested young people of color through college into the LSAT program through law school and help them pass the bar. We stay with them through their first several years and hope they stay and mentor as w...

Life is all about making decisions. But are you making the right ones that will set you up for financial success? In this episode, Paul Luchau poses important questions to help you evaluate how you’re handling your finances. Paul is a speaker, educator, and financial adviser. Today he shares how he helps his clients get started on their path to financial freedom. He explains the importance of savings and the concept of lost opportunity costs. If you want to learn more about managing your money, then this is the episode for you. Join in to get more financial know-how from an expert!

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How To Make Decisions That Set You Up For Financial Success With Paul Luchau

We are going to talk a little bit about finances, something that we have yet to cover in this show. Some of us are idealists. Some of us are thinking about following our passion and dreams. What this means for humanity don't always want to think about money and finances. Finances are one of the things that prevent a lot of people from doing what they want to do in life. I have seen a lot of different estimates about the number of Americans that live paycheck to paycheck.

Searching through all these estimates, it's consistently over half, which means that finances in a lot of situations are preventing you from fulfilling your mission in life and going for it. To further discuss this topic, we bring on Paul Luchau from The Momentous Group, who has some great ideas about how we can manage our finances a little bit better and free up that time, as well as free up that slack in our cashflow so that we can go out and pursue what we want to pursue. Paul, thank you for joining us.

Thank you for having me.

Tell us a little bit about The Momentous Group and what you do. There are a lot of financial plannings out there I believe anyone can instantly find if you hit the networking circuit, a ton of financial planners. What does The Momentous Group do that's so different from your standard financial planning?

I have done this for a long time. I was fortunate when I’ve got into the business in 2000. I spent fifteen years in mortgage banking from ‘85 to 2000 and then leaped over into what I do now. It's interesting to talk to people over that many years about their money, what they earn, spend it on, save, what their debts are, and so on. We will talk about this, the Law of the Masses and whatnot. I noticed trends. What I noticed were all those years I could count on about one hand the people that I thought had it together financially. The paycheck to paycheck, the numbers of people are high.

I started to realize that most people were doing the same things with their money like everybody else, yet they were expecting a different result. We all know that's the definition of. It became evident to me. I started this study and tried to understand what those trends were and how to combat them. That's an aggressive word. How to look at what everybody is doing, go the other way, and get on a journey that the people were emulating were on versus the ones that everybody was doing.

If you do the same thing as everyone else is doing, you should expect the same results that everyone else is getting. When you think of what everyone else is doing, we know it's more than half living paycheck to paycheck. Even more than that is the number of people that feel like they can't pursue their passions because they have to keep that paycheck going. They can't even take a job that may be more meaningful to them but it has a slightly lower salary because of that you are seeing that cause people end up in that situation.

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The people that I work with, I teach them principles. I like that word because the principle is foundational. How do you live your life? What are the principles you live your life by?

Social equity and equality are a purpose and mission that we still work for. With the number of people of mixed-race communities growing, perspectives are also changing. In this episode, Stephen Jaye sits down for an insightful talk with entrepreneur and founder of Hispanics and Technology, James Foy, about diversity and community. James talks about his experiences as an American of mixed race and learning to see through the eyes of others. We also hear about James and his work in promoting diversity in the tech community. Tune in and get more insights and hear what action you can take to change the world.

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Diversity And Equity: The Perspective Of Mixed Race Communities With James Foy

We've had some previous episodes and discussions about issues of some divisions and inequities amongst different groups of people within the US. These apply to other places. The common phrase used is diversity, equity and inclusion. However, as we've learned from some of our previous guests some people prefer to leave off the word diversity. Others prefer to add a word belonging or something of a similar context. Either way, it's on a lot of people's minds.

People want to genuinely feel they belong and have the opportunity to go for the passions that they have. I don't know all the answers to the questions but two things are apparent from the conversations I've had, as well as the observations I see is that one, the way we've been approaching the subject for the past several years has not been working. We are still grappling with a lot of the same issues we had at the beginning of these pursuits and a lot of people are grumpier about it now. Two, it seems apparent to me that one of the answers to these issues is that we need to talk, listen, communicate and get to know one another.

It's hard to hate a group of people when you have several quality contacts, good relationships and good friends among them. It's a good idea to get as many perspectives as we possibly can. Here to provide another perspective on the issue, my guest James Foy is the Hispanics and Tech Founder as well as an advocate for the Hispanic entrepreneurial community. James, welcome to the show.

Thank you. It's fantastic to be here.

Let's begin with a little background information for those that may not be aware of it. First of all, within Colorado, as well as within the US as a whole, what percentage of the population is Hispanic?

Colorado is fairly close to being a mirror, Colorado statewide I saw was 22% but there's always because of our immigrant community that's under-reported. The country also mirrors that. Let me also bring up a point, here in Denver, where we met, were 30%. Anywhere from 40% to 60% needed to get the DPS school children.

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The younger generation is pretty much half Hispanic. There have been more people of mixed race as intermarriage has happened a lot more frequently. Does that include a lot of these mixed-race communities as well?

The biggest soon will be Hispanic. Statewide, the nearest group is Asians. I know African-Americans are about 4% statewide. Asians are right around but nobody else comes close to Hispanics. If you're looking at the rate of change, the fastest-growing by percentage are people like me, who are mixed and one or more. We can go into the anecdotal stories. I could go back 100 years from one of my grandmothers who moved from New Mexico to here. One place, she was White, here she was Hispanic too. The term is nebulous. It also comes from the ‘70s and ‘80s when Hispanics were being reported. To your point is people have mixed, they're experiencing the highest rate of change. Chances are 5 to 10 years from now, you're more likely to run into a Joe Smith that might be White and Hispanic or White and Asian or White and Black. You'll never know it at times.

What do redox molecules do to your body? What are the benefits of these molecules? In this episode, Stephen Jaye talks with Jackie Wetzler and her mother Debbie Wetzler about these redox molecules, which technically is a term wherein they combine the word reductions and oxidants. Their product, called ASEA, is a cellular regenerative technology that helps us replenish these lost molecules to stay healthy and have a better future ahead of us. They want to spread awareness and make this product known to the world to help more people and have a more meaningful purpose in their life.

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Medical Science, Redox Signaling Molecules, And The Health Breakthrough Product To Change Your Life With Jackie Wetzler And Debbie Wetzler

This show is all about re-thinking and being open to new possibilities in a wide range of areas of life, from how we set up work, our careers, community, relationships and health. One of the big transitions we have seen over the past decade is a transition that I have been observing from reactive to more proactive health. Reactive health is something we can think about along the lines of you get sick.

The crassest way of putting it is that people get sick and go to the doctor to buy back their health. More people are coming up with solutions that are geared not toward buying back their health but being more proactive. Whether it's diet or exercise or whether it's other new technologies and other new products.

Here, with me are Jackie Wetzler and her mom, Debbie Wetzler, who are involved in selling a product called ASEA, which is a cellular regenerative technology. We have heard people talk about cellular regeneration, cellular aging and how that process impacts our health. As well as how that process and some of these technologies have the potential to help people with some of these other diseases, whether it be cardiovascular disease, cancer and everything else. Welcome to the show, Jackie and Debbie.

Thank you for having us.

Let's start by talking a little bit about this cellular regenerative technology and ASEA, the product itself and how this breakthrough has the potential to change the way we look at our health.

I was introduced to this technology many years ago. I looked at what it was and they were called redox signaling molecules, which I have never heard of. I found that they were made in almost every cell of your body. They are the molecules that literally go and find damaged cells anywhere, send a very clear signal to the immune system with the address of where to go, so the immune system can then go find that damaged cell because our body is a cellular communication network and the body, has to be told what to do, the cells communicate for that reason. The immune system can then come in and find the damaged cells, and either repair or replace them. I had never heard of them and we wanted validation. The friend who told me about this that it had saved three of her best friend's lives.

I trusted her completely but I also wanted to know more about it. I think as humans, we all want to know for sure ourselves that this is real. I happened to have a very smart girlfriend. She was a Molecular Biologist that had graduated from Johns Hopkins. She had done years of research at the National Institutes of Health.

I called her up. I drove to her house that night. I put the information down. I said, "I need to know, is this real? Have you ever heard of this?" She looked at me and almost fell off her chair. She said, "Debbie, I have been studying molecules for many years. We have had scientists from around the world come to NIH to try to do this. Are you telling me that somebody was finally able to stabilize these molecules outside the human body in a bioactive form?"

I looked at her and said, "Yes," like it was no big deal. She said, "You have no idea how massive this is. This will change the health field as you know it.

Have you ever wondered what the future holds like for everyone? Have you assessed the past to understand your present to eventually predict what’s going to happen? In this episode, Stephen Jaye talks with Chet Sisk about the future of humanity and taking another direction. Chet Sisk is a futurist, entrepreneur, author, consultant, speaker and workshop developer. He helps organizations see through the crisis of the moment in order to create plans for the immediate future. Do something different. Make an impact. Tune into this episode! Let’s pull things together, talk about innovation, empowerment, explore your options, and dive deep into the future.

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Predictions On The Future Of Humanity With Futurist Chet Sisk

I'd like to talk to you about the future, planning for the future, imagining what trends are going, what possible worlds could have emerged in the future is an important part of any endeavor. Whatever endeavor you're looking to take on or are currently taking on, this is an important aspect of it. It's an aspect that I had been thinking about for quite some time. I had always been interested in speculating about possible future scenarios.

However, I'm relatively new to the field of futurism, which contrary to popular belief is not about predicting specific events. It's more about imagining some possible future scenarios and also figuring out what we all need to do to be prepared to live in this world that is emerging. My guest, Chet Sisk, is a futurist as well as the Founder of Universal Basic Resources. Chet, welcome to the show.

Thank you, Stephen, for having me. It is my pleasure and honor to be here, absolutely.

Thank you for joining us. Just so that we hear it straight from you and get my readers oriented, in your own words, what is futurism? What does it mean to be a futurist?

A futurist is at least my interpretation is that you're a glorified journalist. I came from a journalism background and what journalists tend to do is follow a story in a usual 24-to-48-hour news cycle. Talk about what it means and the characters involved. Futurism does the same process, except it carries that particular story outside of the usual news cycle into decades, maybe even centuries so that you still look for the impact, and how it affects society and all of those things. It's just a bigger version as far as I'm concerned of journalism. I have to say that I use four elements that work for me when I'm doing a prediction. I shouldn't even say use the word prediction because that's not quite accurate.

It's more about making an assessment as to what's happening and then saying, “This is what's happening. This is how this happening will probably affect your immediate world.” I use my journalism skills in order to follow the story, to dig down and say, "Where did this come from? What does it mean?" Two, if it's a really important story, I'll go to the tip of the spear to talk to the people on the front end of whatever that story is and ask them, "What's going on? What's happening?" and they’ll tell you.

Three, You use historical context. Like, "Have we ever seen this before? Where does this come from?" The fourth thing is that you use your intuitive self to try to wrap your arms around what's happening and say, "Have I seen this before intuitively in my own experience? What do I think it will mean?" You put all those things together and then you come back and you say, "This is what I'm thinking is going to happen." Not a guarantee. It's just an assessment.

I never thought of it as being as connected to journalism as you had mentioned but there's definitely an aspect especially the whole looking back into the past. Futurism is about a story that's unfolding and things have already happened or similar events had happened in the past and imagining what's going to continue onward.

The great challenge of our time is being able to create this kind of introspection.

Sustainable living isn't just about the materials and products we choose to use. It's about lifestyle and how we navigate and live life every day. Joining Stephen Jaye on this episode are guests from Simply Tiny Development, Founder/CEO Dr. Sean Dixon and Sustainability Coordinator Megan Blythe. They define sustainability and what inspired their mission and work in helping individuals convert to tiny living. Housing is a big part of creating a sustainable future, and knowing how to discern between short-term versus long-term sustainability is critical. Sean and Megan also share how they inject sustainability not only in their products but also in their culture. Listen in and learn more about how you can start living for the future!

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Simply Tiny Homes: How Innovative Sustainable Housing Impacts Our Lives With Dr. Sean Dixon And Megan Blythe

One of the things that keeps us sequestered and stuck in lifestyles that we don't want is this idea of a one size fits all solution that is supposed to be applied to everyone. I think that this solution, in my view, as the traditional solution of you get your job, you get your paycheck every two weeks and you buy a big house and you fill it with lots of stuff that may or may not be bringing people happiness. I'm not here to rag on any particular lifestyle. My object here is to open people up to more possibilities that there are other options and other ways in which we can orient our lives. One other way is this movement toward tiny homes. My guests here are Dr. Sean Dixon and Megan Blythe from the company Simply Tiny Development. Welcome to the show.

Thanks, Stephen. Thanks for having us.

Thank you very much. Dr. Dixon you are the one who started this company. Can you tell me a little bit about what prompted you, what inspired you to decide to start developing more tiny homes and also camper vans?

It all started in my doctoral studies and looking at the ways of the world and where we're going globally. I finished up my studies in Organization Development and Leadership with a concentration in Change Management. A lot of that was looking at large-scale patterns and where we're going especially in the workforce and burnout. Those types of management paradigms are prevalent under those types of studies. I'm also very passionate about the environment. I live in Colorado, Megan formerly lived in Colorado, she's from North Carolina, with very outdoorsy style people.

I looked at some things and said, "How can we make a large-scale impact on what we want to do especially with pressing global paradigms, like climate change and things like that?" I looked at real estate, had a little bit of a background in that and then said, "Here's an opportunity that we can start changing some larger scale things that could have major impacts." Construction is wasteful. Everything we're seeing with the population increases and the way that the housing market is going, the up-and-coming generations are starting to think differently about what is important.

One of his major topics is housing. Providing some alternative solutions that can help the planet and saw a large-scale social problem the exact same time was the way I took this angle for the company, Simply Tiny Development. Launched and brought Meg on as a full-time sustainability coordinator. That is the center of the business model and how everything's guided. Her focus is just to look at all things from a very unique perspective and see how we can be more efficient. How can we use less? How can we do more with better materials? How do we sustain ourselves as people and the environment and then our communities?

That's a broader way of looking at sustainability. When a lot of people think of sustainability, they tend to think of environmental sustainability but the word has a broader definition. It means anything that a system that you can sustain over time.

Are you confident about what you want to achieve in life with the nine-to-five job you have right now? It’s time for you to explore life’s possibilities. Upgrade your lifestyle! Stephen Jaye sits down for a conversation with Emily Drost on the future of networking. Emily discusses the corporate world and why it’s crucial to consider contract employment because it provides more flexibility. Emily is the founder of eNTWKS, and she believes in the power of networks and connections between people for an exceptional business. Learn how you could establish a network of power partners, enrich your life more, and be happy while earning money. Set yourself up for success and tune into this episode!

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The World Of Corporate Work, Mindset Shift, And The Future Of Networking With Emily Drost

One of the most frustrating processes I've ever been in is finding jobs in general. I've also witnessed a lot of other people in the same process. It confuses and frustrates me how we can still have such an archaic process. It seems logical that we'll be looking to upgrade this but also, the nature of work is changing quite a bit. Not everyone's necessarily looking for the standard full-time job and getting your business, livelihood or career intact requires networking with people, meeting a lot of people and being connected. It’s essentially connecting your service or product to the person or people that need it the most. I've discovered where the answer is going to come from.

My guest, Emily Drost, is in the process of building a networking platform that is going to make that connection between the product and service you're offering and the people who need it in a way more seamless fashion than what we do which is so much stress. I would like to welcome you to the show, Emily Drost.

Thank you for having me.

Thank you so much. How are you doing?

I'm doing splendidly. Thank you.

Thank you so much for joining and for being willing to come on and talk about this because I'm a futurist at heart. Imagining a future where things are better than certain frustrating experiences nowadays is one of the best ways a lot of people can cope with some things that they're going through. In eNTWKS, I see a little bit of this possibility coming forward. Tell me a little bit about your process. What got you interested in designing this and what you're trying to do with eNTWKS?

My background is in Psychology. I studied Industrial-Organizational Psychology. Primarily what that means is we were studying the motivation of employees and people in the workplace. I did that for quite a bit of time, and then I parlayed that experience into an advertising career where I was still continuing to study motivations for people and consumers.

Over time, what I started to find was that we're in the middle of this shift and people are starting to get frustrated with this idea of the 9:00 to 5:00 work. What's happening is they're starting to seek and figure out how to apply their expertise to the workforce but being able to focus on their expertise. My expertise happens to be understanding how employees are motivated and what they like to do. Also, my expertise happens to be in understanding consumer motivation. Those two come together and I said, "I'm seeing this shift in the marketplace. I'm seeing this shift in the workplace, and I want to be able to support that." I happen to have the technology, experience and background, so I can build that.

The idea started coming together in 2019 for this workplace platform that is based on business networking at its most basic. The idea is that we all have a certain sphere of influence. We all have a network or a tree of people that we know. We all know people that have certain expertise in certain fields. When I say expertise, I don't mean a lawyer. I mean a very specific business litigation lawyer or bankruptcy lawyer.

When I say marketer,