All Personal

In this episode, I’m speaking with Naphtali Hoff, President of Impactful Coaching & Consulting.

He is an accomplished executive coach, organizational consultant, and sought after trainer and lecturer.

He is the author of Becoming the  New Boss, a leadership book that helps new leaders hit the ground  running and enjoy sustained success.

More about Naphtali at: www.impactfulcoaching.com/

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Glain Roberts-McCabe is the founder and President of The Roundtable, a company where leaders cultivate their leadership, together. 

The Roundtable is best known for their group and team-based  coaching and mentoring systems that help organizations break down silos,  increase collaboration and accelerate business all while building  leadership capability. 

In 2014, The Roundtable was awarded a Gold Award  by the Canadian Awards for Training Excellence in partnership with PepsiCo Foods Canada for their Roundtable for Leaders peer coaching and  mentoring program and in 2016 they were named Best External Consulting  Advisory in Canada at the Canadian HR Awards. In 2018, Glain was named  one of Canada’s Women Entrepreneurs of the Year. All experiences were  kind of like winning an Oscar but without having to wear sequins. 

Glain  is the author of the Amazon best-selling book ‘Did I REALLY Sign Up for  This?!’, while her new book, 'The Grassroots Leadership Revolution',  will launch in April this year.

I  know I’ve said this so many times, and I’m happy Glain also liked the  analogy: our skills are just like muscles! So, know them, know what  muscles you’re counting on (maybe a bit too much?) and what muscles are  painful for you to use. And then, train them all, regularly, just like  at a skills gym. And just notice how you start to ‘think you are able’.

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More information about Glain and The Roundtable on their website, www.goroundtable.com.

Today I’m talking to Tim Alison about how his own skills muscles took  him where he is today, on his journey of defying conventional wisdom.  What do I mean by that? Well, Tim is a lifelong entrepreneur who advises  and mentors experienced leaders on how to create a Thought Leadership  business. 

Tim is also a public speaker, author, and host of the  Screw the Naysayers Podcast where he has interviewed thought leaders  such as Seth Godin, Heather Monahan, and Corey Poirier.

At the age of 31, Tim walked away from a six-figure job and moved, with his family, to  a tiny fishing village in Nova Scotia Canada. The naysayers laughed  when he started an educational software company. They stopped laughing  when his sales topped $10M. Thirty-one years later Tim still lives in  that same fishing village. His favorite saying is “Know the life you  want and have the courage to live it.”

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Today we’re talking about a lot of skills muscles with Oscar Cecena. 

Born and raised in Mexico City as the great-grandson of a Japanese immigrant, Oscar followed his ancestor’s example and migrated  to Toronto with his wife in 2013, pursuing their dream of living in Canada.

With an Engineering degree and over two decades of  international experience in software, he works as a Senior Director of  Client Onboarding for a Fintech company and hosts the Immigrants of  Toronto podcast every week.

Oscar started the podcast to create a  platform where immigrants could share their stories as he believes that  every journey that takes a person from one country to another is worth  telling. As you’ll hear him say in our interview: his goal ‘is to show  people that immigrants are basically normal people that just were born  miles away’.

When not working or speaking on a microphone, Oscar  spends his time writing as it’s his preferred way to channel his  creativity.

Listen  to his journey from software developer to entrepreneur, and then a new  immigrant to Canada who started a new life and discovered new skills.

‘I think every time that I'm missing a skill, or if my path is going to take me to do something, I just need to learn it.’

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For those of you looking for a job or making your next career move or  returning to the workforce, this will be a super episode to listen to!  Here’s why: Lisa Fenton is a Certified Supply Chain Management  Professional (CSCMP), Supply Chain Manager and an advocate of  championing women back to work with a focus on negotiating beyond  salary.

Lisa enjoyed twelve years with her three boys at home in Bowmanville before going back to work.

Passionate  about case studies, she took the challenge of getting back to work and  used the problem-solving formula and gap analysis to map her own journey  of getting back into the workforce.

When Lisa attended her first  supply chain professional event upon deciding to return to work, she  told herself, “You are just like them. The only difference is your pass  doesn’t have a company listed under your name. Now let’s go get a job to  add to your pass.” Did I mention her business is called ‘propelled by  possibility’? Exactly right, let’s see how we can propel ourselves to  possibility.

How  often do we ‘take life in our hands’ so pragmatically, logically and  fearlessly? Sometimes maybe we do, but most of the times I think we  could do better. Remember: ‘one day’ or ‘day 1’, you decide! So make  your own plan, for your own life. If not you, who? And yes, please, do  make it All Personal. Until next time!

Let me tell you right off the bat, you will love this  episode! 

Why? Because it’s about the power of your story! And I know  what I’m saying, hear me out. 

My guest for this episode is Steffi  Black, who is a powerhouse storyteller and kindness teacher. Her story,  in short, is this: she is a former television personality, and featured  Author in ‘Ready, Aim, Thrive’ – an Amazon best seller on ‘Discovering  How To Flourish and Prosper from Today’s top experts’. 

Steffi is a life  and career transitions coach and founder of women’s virtual networking  group, ‘Connection Corner’. As founder of ‘Spread the Kindness’, she  aims to share the importance and implement a plan for more kindness in  today’s workplace. 

Her Keynote Presentation, ‘Why Kindness Matters  Today: How planning to incorporate kindness in the workplace creates  powerful and positive change’, includes a monthly curriculum outline and  concrete tools to create lasting change in the workplace. She aims to  share #spreadthekindness workplaces in Canada and abroad, and currently organizes  ‘spreadthekindness’ action plans during the International Random Acts of  Kindness Week.

She is a prolific spokesperson and her kindness  program has been featured on CanWest Global Systems and many radio and  television outlets across the globe.

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Welcome back to the All Personal podcast, where we turn  the good old saying ‘nothing personal, just business’ upside down, and  prove how, in fact, it’s all personal, nothing is just business.

And this episode is THE proof that hey, it IS all personal, nothing is just business!!

Her  short bio says this: Candyce is a Digital Marketing and Social Media  Strategist and the founder of Digital Business Women, an e-Magazine for  promoting, inspiring and motivating digital and tech women around the  globe. Her 15 years’ experience in management, sales and marketing has  helped the likes of X-Box, Microsoft, Cisco, Xerox and more recently the  International Conference and Exhibition sector. She creates strategies  where Sales and Marketing would work together to become a very powerful  tools not only to generate new business opportunities and growth but  also to establish brands, create strong business relationships and  social media influence.’

And I’m telling you this: listen in to  discover an amazing story of an amazing ‘citizen of the World’, as  Candyce thinks about herself!

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Today, right in this episode, we go to prove that learning is not an event, but a habit.

Because  I’m talking to Catalina Catana, a powerhouse professional and  entrepreneur, passionate about learning design, the future of work and  social entrepreneurship. Catalina wants to unlock people’s creative  potential, empower them to engage in a lifelong learning experience and  find their inner change-maker. 

She has recently started her journey  at Taikonauten, in Berlin, Germany, as a creative strategist, focusing  on human-centered design, conceptualisation, workshop design &  delivery, and validation of UX solutions. 

As a side project, she is  interviewing inspiring change makers around the world to share their  journeys, stories and learning along the way.

Tune-in to find out:

Find Catalina on a mission to inspire life long learning.

Today, we talk about change. I don’t think we will ever  be able to speak enough about this topic, mainly because it’s all around  us! So, when you’re in doubt, ask an expert! And I did: I’ve had the  pleasure of having Jessica Everitt as a guest, and she is a change  expert specializing in personal and organizational transformations.  Jessica is known for adapting formal change management techniques for  personal success. You can definitely learn more about her on her  website, www.jessicaeveritt.com or find her on LinkedIn: www.linkedin.com/in/jessicaeveritt

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Inspirational resources Jessica shared in this episode:

My guest today is Flo Zurkinden, who, for nearly a decade, has been a  health and wellness professional, endurance athlete, certified personal  trainer and nutrition specialist. During this time, not only has she  learned the importance of taking care of others around you, but more  importantly taking care of one's own self. 

She now wakes up each day  with a growing passion to teach, mentor and coach all those around her  the power of self care and emotional fitness. She specializes in showing  anyone who is ready for a real change, how easy it is to shift their  mindset and take the time to replenish their spirit so they can serve  others from the overflow and create the outcomes that they truly  deserve. 

It’s a story of becoming, from stay at home mom to a  professional athlete, of how running can mean freedom, of how you  decide, in the blink of an eye, who you want to become, and how you get  to serve the same purpose in life you imagined as a kid, only a little  bit differently. 

Find out about the definition of ‘emotional fitness’  and the top 3 emotional fitness skills that Flo discovered for herself  and which she believes in wholeheartedly.

I found the discussion  today inspirational from beginning to end. This is, after all, a god  example of why it’s all personal, and nothing is just business. What I’m  taking with me is that yes, it’s possible to sit on a porch and decide  what you want to do with your life; that the roads we imagine as  children intersect, at some point, with the roads we travel on as  adults; that if, as a little child, you imagine yourself helping others  as a grown up, you don’t have to become a doctor… necessarily. 

Life can offer alternatives, and it’s all about the choices that we make; that  failure is just a stepping stone to your success and yes, that sometimes  it does take an overwhelming breakdown to create a breakthrough.  Wishing you fantastic breakthroughs – All Personal, of course. Until next time.

Connect with Flo on her LinkedIn account: www.linkedin.com/in/flo-zurkinden/