All Personal

In this episode, I talk to Britt Skrabanek, who is the self-published fiction author of four novels: 'Beneath the Satin Gloves', 'Everything’s Not Bigger', 'Nola Fran Evie', and 'Virasana'. 

She is a content strategist and the co-founder of Superneat Marketing, a long-time blogger, and the host of Love Your Enthusiasm, a self-empowerment podcast that inspires women to pursue their greatest passion. She is also a yogi, ballet dancer, cat mom, and life enthusiast.

Britt is taking us on a story of becoming, and also of overcoming obstacles, time after time, and transforming them into opportunities! Find out:

A few golden nuggets that Britt shares in this amazing story she's taking us on:

Where to find Britt Skrabanek:

https://loveyourenthusiasm.com/

https://brittskrabanek.com/

https://www.amazon.com/Britt-Skrabanek/e/B008P09DKA/

https://superneatmarketing.com/

Instagram – @loveyourenthusiasm/ @bskrabanek

Facebook – @loveyourenthusiasm/ @brittskrabanek

LinkedIn – @love-your-enthusiasm/ @brittskrabanek

Twitter – @ly_enthusiasm / @brittskrabanek

My guest on this episode is Emanuel Petrescu. 

He is a digital marketing specialist from Toronto, helping business enhance their online footprint through Search Engine Optimization (SEO), email marketing, paid ads, and social media. 

Emanuel is a Business Administration alumni and before coming to Canada in 2017, he has worked in different fields, from government administration, media research, accounting, and some entrepreneurial endeavors. 

He spends his time mostly working on digital marketing stuff, watching (too many) movies and series, reads, and, sometimes, writes. 

Recently, he authored a chapter in the "Grow Together" book anthology published by the Immigrant Writer's Association, where he is the marketing manager.

Snippets of our conversation:

Here are all the links to the videos and resources that Emanuel mentioned during our chat:

To connect with Emanuel you can visit his website, follow him on Twitter, and connect with him on LinkedIn.

You can also check his website at: www.emanuelp.com.  

This is a super special episode, the first one of Season 3! Starting 2021 with a topic that's so close to my heart: we talk about professional development – the revolutionary kind!

My guest on this episode is Dennett Edwards, the Founder of the Corona Daze Professional Development (CDPD) Group. 

After twenty years of working in local and international community development and education, she decided to use her skills and abilities to respond to record unemployment rates stemming from the COVID-19 pandemic. 

She is passionate about increasing professional access and representation of people of color, people from the LGBTQIA community, and other marginalized groups in all industries and employment spaces.

Her passion and journey are absolutely inspiring! We talk about how she founded a professional development group due to the pandemic, how she nurtured and nourished it, and we also talk about her way of creating a development revolution.

Tune in and check this out, it will definitely inspire you on so many levels! Some snippets of our conversation:

Here's where you can connect with Dennett and her amazing group:

This episode is part of the All Personal Podcast Limited Series ‘Home/Work Unlocked’ where we  discuss what work (from home) will look like as we get out of lock-down.

In  this episode, I talk to Sam Miller, a Registered Psychotherapist M.A.  R.P. and President of Sam Miller Consulting, as he shares his view on  building a healthy 'future of work'.

Sam is a resourceful Psychotherapist with extensive experience in Trauma Response and Treatment and Wellness Initiatives.

He  has demonstrated strengths in leadership, coaching and communication.  Sam has worked with many organizations and corporations in creating  healthy, respectful, workplace environments as well as managing  work-related traumatic events.

An experienced facilitator, Sam has  worked with a variety of organizations and corporations developing and  presenting seminars and workshops that cover a wide spectrum of Wellness  topics.

In his psychotherapy practice, Sam has worked with a  variety of clients both privately and within many different workplace  settings. He has dealt with many different clinical issues ranging from  anxiety and stress to workplace change, conflict resolution and  management-employee relations.

Sam holds an undergraduate degree in Psychology and a Masters of Arts in Educational Psychology from McGill University.

Connect with Sam here: https://workplacetraumawellness.com/about-sam-miller/

This episode is part of the All Personal Podcast Limited Series ‘Home/Work Unlocked’ where we  discuss what work (from home) will look like as we get out of lock-down.

In  this video interview, I talk to Diana Medrea-Mogensen, Growth Mindset  and Life Management Coach, Founder of 'We Are Entrepreneurs DK'.

She  lives in Denmark, one of the first countries to lock down and then  unlock.Diana shares her experience, emotions and thoughts on getting  down to work as things started to re-open, getting out of the house and  sending her kids back to kindergarten.

You can find Diana here: https://www.linkedin.com/in/diana-medrea-mogensen/ 

This episode is part of the All Personal Podcast Limited Series ‘Home/Work Unlocked’ where we  discuss what work (from home) will look like as we get out of lock-down.

In  this first episode, I am talking to two virtual work visionaries:  Brittany Bairos and Joncarlo Bairos at Forge Recruitment, a boutique recruitment agency specializing in the search and placement of legal and accounting professionals into firms and companies across British Columbia and Ontario.

I like to call them visionaries because they were already working virtually way before the crisis made us all remote workers.

A  confession: we’ve worked together on forming and norming their team as they were scaling, and it’s a privilege for me to have clients like them: leaders who know that building a great team starts with building yourself as a great leader!

And yet, I am not subjective when I call them visionaries. Listen in and see why, sharing a few nuggets here:

You can find Brittany and Joncarlo at www.forgerecruitment.com and on LinkedIn.

If you have questions related to home / work after crisis, please send them my way at [email protected], as I will keep interviewing people on this topic.

This is an almost unedited episode of the All Personal  podcast. It’s one of my absolute favourites so far, a ray of sunshine  that brings pure genius, joy, enthusiasm, passion, unconditional love,  power of connection and a super strong sense of community.

I'm  talking to Catherine Chen, the founder of a tech startup called  MyShoperon. She spent her 20s in Washington DC, where she worked on some  high-profile international trade cases. Then she worked at one of the  largest global law firm in Toronto, and eventually became the first  non-lawyer leading a practice.

In 2018, Catherine decided to leave  the corporate world to pursue her own dreams: being her own boss. She  believes that 'everyone lives a hundred lives, but only one is a life to  remember'.

Catherine is a hustler, and nothing can stop her from  pursuing her dreams. Her favourite quote is from Michelle Obama, “For  me, becoming isn’t about arriving somewhere or achieving a certain aim. I  see it instead as forward motion, a means of evolving, a way to reach  continuously toward a better self. The journey doesn’t end.“

Give yourself the gift (and uplift) of listening to Catherine as she speaks about:

Find out more about Catherine and her community-building start-up: myshoperon.com/

In this episode, I talk to Jason Cutter, CEO of Cutter Consulting Group, about selling with empathy.

Now, these are two words that we don’t hear next to each  other too often. Jason’s approach to sales is so human-centered and so  much needed from the perspective of building a future we’re proud of!

Some snippets of our conversation:

• When you work in sales, ‘your job is to be a consultant, almost like a  doctor: ask questions, figure out what they need, figure out how you can  help them and then present them with one or two solutions that have  been customized for their situations’.

Jason's Inspirational Quote:

‘It’s all personal, it’s not just business’. This time, I wasn’t the one saying that, it was my guest!

Jason’s Links:

In this episode of the All Personal podcast, my guest  and I are taking you on a journey, in a land far-far away (both  metaphorically and literally): the land of storytelling all the way from  Melbourne, Australia!

Because I’m talking to Luke Buesnel, Content Director and Founder of Story League!

His  story, in short, is that he started his media career as a commercial  radio broadcaster before returning to study journalism (and politics).  For more than 15 years Luke worked within journalism and media  communications. This is where he learnt the power of telling a good  story and the impact it can have. 

In that time, he was a radio  broadcaster throughout New South Wales, produced many 774 ABC radio  programs, wrote feature stories for The Age and held media roles with corporates, the federal government and not-for-profits.

Story League was created out of a passion for storytelling and a genuine desire to improve the way we communicate.

You can find Luke on LinkedIn at www.linkedin.com/in/luke-buesnel-46590250/ and at storyleague.com.au.

Resources on the hero's journey:

My guest in this episode is Daniel Tanase, the first  fellow Romanian living in Romania I’m interviewing since this I started  this podcast. 

Having worked in the corporate world for 10 years, in  banking & finance more specifically, Daniel was always interested in  new challenges, in continuously learning and training his skills, and  in helping others. 

He left the corporate world to become an  entrepreneur, had a number of business initiatives and is now a  consultant, finance educator, writer, blogger and vlogger, podcaster and  public speaker, with an incredible personal and professional  transformation journey. 

Listen in to hear Daniel talk about:

Find Daniel at danieltanase.com/ or