Today's guest is Justin Buonomo, founder of Journey to Financial Freedom, a company specialized in personal financial education.

During our conversation Justin had a very honest discussion on the trauma that he went through in his youth and then talked about some of the key experiences that shape his mindset from being a Division One college athlete and learning how to play hurt to bringing the right mindset to his first job interviews and to finding the right mentors and support and then capitalizing on the opportunities that he was presenting.

At the end of the conversation Justin shared a number of steps and ideas that people can take to start getting their finances in the right shape and build a solid and safe financial future for themselves.

Contact Dino at: [email protected]

Websites:

al4ep.com

 journeytofinancialfreedom.co

Additional Guest Links:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/justin-buonomo-a4bb56185/

Facebook: facebook.com/journeytofinancialfreedom.co

Instagram: @justin_buonomo

YouTube: youtube.com/@justinbuonomo

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We celebrate the end of the year by sharing some of the NFL conversations we had in the 2024 season.

First, my analysis of the leadership lessons from the fall of Bill Belichick.

Then my conversation with Greg Bedard, founder of the online sport magazine Boston Sports Journal, where I asked him a few hypothetical questions.

And finally, from my recent conversation with former NFL player Marques Ogden, his predictions for the end of this season.

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Website:

al4ep.com

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In this episode Dino Cattaneo presents a selection from his previous interviews with Lily Zheng and Claudia Scott on the topic of Equity and Inclusion.

Today's guest is

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al4ep.com

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Today's guest is Marques Ogden, host of the Get Authentic With Marques podcast and inspirational keynote speaker, coach and consultant. In our conversation he shared the leadership lessons he got from a life in football: Marques played Division I football at Howard University, and was then drafted in the NFL where he played as an offensive lineman for the Titans, Bills, Ravens and Jaguars.

This episode is a podcasting collaboration: it is part 2 of a conversation that I had with Marcqurs on his podcast Get Authentic with Marques, which was recorded on the same day.

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Websites:

al4ep.com

marquesogden.com

Additional Guest Links:

Contact at:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/marquesogden

Instagram: @marquesogden

Twitter: @Marques_Ogden

Facebook: facebook.com/MarquesOgdenSpeaker/

YouTube: @marquesogden695

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Susan Cattaneo: susancattaneo.bandcamp.com

Kathryn Valentine is the Founder of Worthmore Strategies, a research based firm aimed at advancing women in the workplace by partnering with companies to deliver negotiation training to women. Kathryn developed her approach to leadership in the years she spent at McKinsey and at a couple of apparel companies.

In this conversation we discuss her journey, her leadership style, and she shares a number of actions that women can use to improve their negotiation skills.

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Websites:

al4ep.com

worthmorestrategies.com

Additional Guest Links:

List of 76 things to ask for in negotiations: www.76things.com

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/kval/

Instagram (corporate): @worthmorestrategies

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Music

Susan Cattaneo: susancattaneo.bandcamp.com

Christian Muntean is a strategic coach and consultant based in Anchorage, Alaska, who specializes in leadership transitions and business exits. Christian came into this work from a very nontraditional path. He started his career in the NGO world and specifically doing work supporting medical efforts in Africa and Kosovo. Through this work he became interested in mediation and that is what ultimately led him down his current path.

In our conversation we spent a lot of time discussing his experiences in Africa and how that informed his overall approach to leadership. A key point that he made is that in his experience the success of projects often is affected more by how it is organized and run than by the amount of resources availailable.

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Websites:

al4ep.com

christianmuntean.com

Additional Guest Links:

Dowload the Train To Lead Self-Assessment HERE

Leadership resources: christianmuntean.com/resources/

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/christianmuntean/

Book: Train To Lead

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Music

Susan Cattaneo: susancattaneo.bandcamp.com

Lily ZHeng is a Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Strategist, Author and Practitioner. They take a very practical approach, deeply grounded in data and in creating long-term measurable results for the companies they partner with.

In this conversation, Lily explains what it means to take a data driven approach to DEI. They share their focus on fostering long-term partnerships with clients truly committed to change, ensuring that DEI efforts are impactful and sustainable.

They also give us insights for corporate leaders on what makes an effective DEI practitioner, and some of the steps that a senior executive who wants to embrace a data-driven approach to DEI can take.

Contact Dino at: [email protected]

Websites:

al4ep.com

lilyzheng.co

Additional Guest Links:

Contact at:

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/lilyzheng308

Instagram: @lilyzheng308

Books:

Reconstructing DEI amazon link: Reconstructing DEI

DEI Deconstructed amazon link: DEI Deconstructed

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Susan Cattaneo: susancattaneo.bandcamp.com

Jim Schleckser is founder & CEO of The CEO Project, a company that serves CEOs and high-revenue entrepreneurs. Their offering combines peer group meetings and discussions with personalized one-on-one coaching sessions led by former CEOs.

We start with Jim's path to his first CEO role, and how coming up from the sales side shaped his approach. And in this context he shared some of his early mistakes and lessons. We then talked about what drove him to choose a more entrepreneurial path.

We continue with a deep dive into what makes a CEO successful: how to balance organizational culture and leadership, the importance of building complementary teams, the need to know from the beginning how a business is going to be sustainable from a financial standpoint, when and how to think about raising capital. We finish with some thoughts on how the CEO role has changed over the past 20 years and what are the key traits to be effective.

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Websites:

al4ep.com

theceoproject.com

Additional Guest Links:

Corporate:

The CEO Project Podcast (aka The Lazy CEO podcast): theceoproject.com/the-podcast

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/theceoproject/

Facebook: facebook.com/IncCEOproject

YouTube: @CEOProject

Personal

jimschleckser.com/

LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/jimschleckser/

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Neta Weiner is an artist and social activist based in Jaffa. He is the founder and lead singer of the Jewish-Arab hip-hop band System Ali and the artistic director of the Beit System Ali social educational movement. And right now, he is also teaching a Tufts University.

System Ali is musical collective of artists of many nationalities and ethnicities, that blends music genres and languages. As we discussed Neta’s journey from the organic birth of System Ali through its evolution into a structured performing group and an educational movement, we touched on a number of points: the challenges of maintaining unity within such a diverse group,the process of making art under conflict, the importance of disagreement within the creation of art, and changing his role from being a pure creator to also being the business leader of the group.

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Websites:

al4ep.com

Additional Guest Links:

Instagram: @netaweiner

Facebook: facebook.com/neta.weiner

YouTube: youtube.com/user/TheNetaji

Music links:

Linktree

Spotify

Bandcamp

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Podcast Instagram – @al4edp 

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Susan Cattaneo: susancattaneo.bandcamp.com

Today's guest is Patrick Heron - Managing Partner of Frazier Life Sciences, a healthcare investment firm focusing on companies developing novel therapeutics.

In our conversation we covered his career, but then we dove into the hard questions: how do you build a successful partnership with a founder? As a VC, how do you balance protecting the interest of your investors with ensuring the business success of the companies you invested in? How do you navigate the hard trade offs when they show up? And then, in his dual role as investor and managing partner of Frazier, how do you build a successful VC firm? How do you manage that type of work force and how do you make sure all the incentives are lined up correctly?

Throughout the episode, Patrick was very transparent and direct. If you are either a VC or aspiring VC or an entrepreneur, you will find a lot of deep insights.

Contact Dino at: [email protected]

Websites:

al4ep.com

frazierls.com

frazierhealthcare.com

Additional Guest Links:

LinkedIn Corporate: linkedin.com/company/frazier-life-sciences/

LinkedIn Personal: linkedin.com/in/patrick-heron-b4b72913/

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Dino on LinkedIn: linkedin.com/in/dinocattaneo

Podcast Instagram – @al4edp 

Podcast Twitter – @al4edp 

Podcast Facebook: facebook.com/al4edp

Music

Susan Cattaneo: susancattaneo.bandcamp.com