Built for Impact

Is working with your spouse rainbows and butterflies everyday? 

The special Q & A edition with Adam Bocik is here! In this first part (of a two-part series), Adam and I answer a lot of your questions about what it is like working with each other - the myths, the dangers, and the rewards. If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to work with your spouse, this episode gives you a peek behind the scenes. 

It’s the beginning of a new year and the topic of goal-setting is fresh on our minds. Ben and Brian are Managing Partners for Strategic Talent Solutions. They advise leaders on how to lead their teams, use processes that get results, and help them fully engage their employees to be passionate about their business goals. 

Today we talk about the challenges they have faced in learning how to lead and build a consulting firm together, as well as what practices and philosophies they feel are important in goal-setting and planning for your year. To them - caring is planning and planning is caring. 

What if instead of the topic of race only creating intensely heated or shamefully hushed conversations, there was an environment where those conversations could become catalysts for the kind of growth that bridges racial divides? UNDIVIDED is the manifestation of that hope. In today’s episode, Chuck Mingo, founder of UNDIVIDED, explains what racism looks like today and how it hurts everyone. We talk about things from second hand smoke, to prison, to monks, and Babylon...and how all of these things relate to race. 

Imagine being told that you would never be able to have children naturally. You make the decision to grow your family through adoption and over several years you learn how to embrace the unexpected because of how your family has grown. 

That’s what happened for Heather and Josh Avis. They have 3 adopted children and two have Down Syndrome. Their experience led them to create a social awareness brand on a mission to create a more inclusive world with an emphasis on shifting the Down Syndrome narrative from negative to positive. 

Are you laughing through 2020? Or crying through 2020? John Branyan believes that humor is a weapon to destroy pain and suffering. In any situation he chooses to ‘laugh anyway.’ 

He has spent 30 years building his career in comedy. He is an author, speaker, podcaster, and inventor of the Comedy-Writing System, "Active Notebook."  John's Shakespeare-inspired version of The Three Little Pigs has been turned into multiple viral videos. But he tells us that his success is simply a mountain of failures and how he has learned to poke fun at his fear and failures. 

Natalea Watkins spent decades building her career in television news. She was actually the very first female anchor in Oklahoma and also served as the Assistant News Director at WJZ in Baltimore when Oprah was a news anchor and talk show host there. One life changing day in 2000, a terrible car accident left Natalea paralyzed. She fractured her spine in 10 places, broke six ribs and her collarbone, collapsed a lung and received a brain concussion. 'But I only broke one nail!' Natalea jokes. That single sentence illustrates her infectious attitude perfectly. In a split second her entire life was changed, but instead of allowing this to stop her she has continued to impact her community. 

She took up Therapeutic Riding as a “third career” after her car accident put her on what she likes to refer to as an “electric horse” and became the first tv reporter in a wheelchair in Baltimore. She has a prestigious award named after her, is a Special Olympics coach and a PATH certified therapeutic horsemanship instructor to name just a few of her many accomplishments. Natalea is full of grit and determination. She lives her life by focusing forward and paying it forward.

Early in the morning on June 15th, everything changed for LeAnne and Derek. LeAnne received a call from a man named David who explained that Derek had been in a terrible motorcycle accident. She will never forget the moment she was told of his injuries. She remembers the neurosurgeon handing her Derek's helmet and a tooth fell out of the head mask. Derek suffered a complete T6 spinal cord injury, leaving him paralyzed from his armpits down. Derek would never walk again. LeAnne graciously shares about their journey of grief and how they have found gratitude in today. 

Imagine being told that you would never be able to have children naturally. You make the decision to grow your family through adoption and over several years you learn how to embrace the unexpected because of how your family has grown. 

That’s what happened for Heather and Josh Avis. They have 3 adopted children and two have Down Syndrome. Their experience led them to create a social awareness brand on a mission to create a more inclusive world with an emphasis on shifting the Down Syndrome narrative from negative to positive. 

Heather is an author, speaker, shouter of worth, and narrative shifter. In our conversation today she shares about learning how to let go of control and embrace the unexpected in order to experience the fullness of the gifts available to you. And since it is Thanksgiving, as well as National Adoption Awareness Month, we could not think of a better conversation to share with you. 

Nora A'Bell is passionate about helping small business owners step into their full potential and make the positive impact that they were created for!  After starting and running 2 small businesses and later working with business owners to create goals and strategic plans that seemed to continually fall short of what they knew was possible, she was determined to understand what was stopping them from reaching their goals and full potential! 

Nora is now the owner and founder of RevenueTribe, which provides a structured and proven process for business owners to get clarity on what's truly possible for their lives and their business and identify the root of what is stopping them, remove the barriers that are keeping from walking in the fullness of that, so they can maximize their impact and live the life they love. This is a story about learning from the past and stepping into who you were made to be. 

Does racism really exist today? And if it does, why should we care? In today’s episode, Chuck Mingo, founder of UNDIVIDED, explains what racism looks like today and how it hurts everyone. We talk about things from second-hand smoke, to prison, to monks, and Babylon...and how all of these things relate to race.