Business as UNusual

Business As Unusual, is a series produced by BiCurean Consulting. We present Entrepreneurs, Innovators, CEOs, & Founders who are innovating the way we do business. This week we are learning about SaaS-y Systems with Hilary Castro.

Hilary Castro, owner and founder of Castro & Co. Has been helping organizations save time and money by streamlining and optimizing systems for over 12 years. Her passion is making your tech and systems tools work for you - so you can get back to doing the work you love.

Email [email protected]

Social Media Links/Handles

https://www.linkedin.com/company/76256436/admin/ https://www.linkedin.com/in/hilary-engelhart/

Website www.castroco.net

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Business As Unusual, is a series produced by BiCurean Consulting. We present Entrepreneurs, Innovators, CEOs, & Founders who are innovating the way we do business. This episode we are chatting with Kelcie Ottoes about Sustainability Copywriting. 

As a long-form conversation strategist for sustainable B2Bs, she’s on a mission to make the planet a better place by using her greatest skill to drive change — her ability to tell a story. With long form copy like case studies, blogs, and white papers, I make sure the work you do gets the credit, attention, love, and money it deserves.

She specializes in long form content writing with a call to action. She’s not your average content creator. Long-form copy drives long-term results when done right. Together, we can do more for your business and more for the planet.

Website: 

https://kelcieottoescopywriting.com

Contact: 

[email protected]

Links:

https://shoutoutcolorado.com/meet-kelcie-ottoes-copywriter-content-strategist-for-sustainable-businesses/

https://bestwriting.com/blog/how-to-become-a-sustainability-copywriter

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kea7QaLrQxk

Show specific references:

https://noahkahan.com/

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Business As Unusual, is a series produced by BiCurean Consulting. We present Entrepreneurs, Innovators, CEOs, & Founders who are innovating the way we do business. This episode features Nancy Trigg, Founder of Trigg Performance Collective.

Nancy is Conscious Executive Leader and Coach with a passion for optimizing business and human performance. 

She is a seasoned executive and people focused business leader with over 20 years of experience building and leading consistently successful and engaged teams. With a passion for bringing out the best in her teams, she has an eye for performance metrics and encourages all team members to bring their best selves to work each day. 

Best Contact for Listeners to find you or connect with you:

[email protected]

LinkedIN Page:

https://www.linkedin.com/company/trigg-collective/about/?viewAsMember=true

Social Media Links/Handles

linkedin.com/in/nancytrigg/

Website: triggcollective.com

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Business As Unusual, is a series produced by BiCurean Consulting. We present Entrepreneurs, Innovators, CEOs, & Founders who are innovating the way we do business. This episode we are chatting with Deenah, founder of Words to Live By. 

Words to Live By was born out of the need to serve and activate business owners to tell their stories, with a strong support system along the way. I wholeheartedly believe that holistic strategy combined with human-centered, soul-led copy can only magnify the greatness that is already inside of you (and has been all along). 

Best Contact for Listeners to find you or connect with you:

www.wordstolivebywriting.com

Email: [email protected]

Links: https://snipfeed.co/wordstolivebywriting

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Social Media Links/Handles

@wordstolivebywriting

Website www.wordstolivebywriting.com

Referenced in the show:

https://www.instagram.com/stricklyakilah/

https://www.mayaangelou.com/

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Business As Unusual, is a series produced by BiCurean Consulting. We present Entrepreneurs, Innovators, CEOs, & Founders who are innovating the way we do business. This episode we speak with Anastasia Greenmore Founder of Reclaiming Us. 

Reclaiming Us was founded as an anti-oppression healing space for people leading equity in the workplace.

Anastasia Greenmore is a communicator and relationship builder through and through. She has more than a decade of experience building diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging programs from the ground up in both nonprofit and corporate spaces. She approaches the work with the mindset of helping people understand and move through complex ideas and behavior changes

As a People leader, she developed and implemented global diversity, equity, inclusion and belonging programs from recruiting to HR systems, learning and development to data analysis and more. Anastasia has worked with employee resources groups at many stages to build strong communities, especially for people from backgrounds that have been historically marginalized. She prides herself on doing the hard work to create psychologically safe spaces for learning and growth. She holds a Masters in Business Administration and a Bachelors in Strategic Communications and Spanish.

When she's not working, you can find her on the Peloton or with her family camping and hiking around Washington.

Website www.reclaimingus.co

LinkedIN: Reclaimingusco

Best Contact for Listeners to find you or connect with you:

https://calendly.com/reclaimingus/30-minute-meeting

Articles

https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/lets-get-real-diversity-inclusion-anastasia-greenmore/

https://www.linkedin.com/posts/anastasiagreenmore_how-gopro-makes-a-social-impact-through-diversity-activity-6996159450722025472-6WI0?utm_source=share&utm_medium=member_desktop

Social Media Links/Handles

https://www.linkedin.com/in/anastasiagreenmore/

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Business As Unusual, is a series produced by BiCurean Consulting. We present Entrepreneurs, Innovators, CEOs, & Founders who are innovating the way we do business. 

What is the place for art in a profit-driven entertainment landscape? There exists inherent value of creativity and self-expression apart from its commercial worth. Dylan Brody shares his experience and perspective as an artist who is also interested in paying his bills. 

Active Voices Productions is his answer to this question. He is creating, producing and supporting museum quality art for mainstream entertainment industry audiences.

With an ever-expanding repertoire of witty and profound tales of his journey through life that are unique, yet utterly recognizable to everyone, Dylan has earned a reputation as one of America’s great raccanteurs. 

Currently Executive Producing his unexpectedly successful web-series, The Corona Dialogues - a dylan brody project with producing partner Bonnie Hunt, Mr Brody is currently touring his brand new comfortingly hilarious headlining set for a post-pandemic world.

For three years running, best-selling author and humorist David Sedaris invited Mr. Brody to share his stages when touring the West Coast. Brodys work has garnered praise and professional boosts over the years from comedic legends such as wide-ranging as David Sedaris, Robin Williams, Jenny Lawson and Richard Lewis, and the Carl Reiner. Frankly, your interest in him indicates an exquisite refinement of taste. 

Check out his website to learn more about his upcoming shows, performances, book releases, and workshops!

Best Contact for Listeners to find you or connect with you:

[email protected]

Social Media Links/Handles

@dylanbrody @activevoiceprod (twitter)

Website activevoiceproductions.com

https://www.dylanbrody.com/bio

Links

Mountain Goats

https://www.mountain-goats.com/

Taylor Swift

https://youtu.be/nJr_8l0AEWE

Demi Lovato

https://g.co/kgs/Vbxvvg

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Business As Unusual, is a series produced by BiCurean Consulting. We present Entrepreneurs, Innovators, CEOs, & Founders who are innovating the way we do business. 

Jodi Fischer, Development Director of the Adelante Foundation, joins us to talk about microfinance. It provides underserved women with a hand up to start and grow enterprises. With a 97% repayment rate, microfinance also is one of the best sustainable economic development tool.

Adelante Foundation is a nonprofit organization with a 22 year history of success that believes in the power of opportunity. Our work is based on the assumption that Hondurans living in poverty have the talent, the ingenuity, and the strength to transform their lives and their nation — all that many of them need is a little capital to be able to get started.

Contact

[email protected]

Links to things mentioned in Show

Bitter Sweet by Susan Cain

https://bookshop.org/a/90423/9780451499783

Empowering Women Is Smart Economics

https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2012/03/revenga.htm

Social Media Links/Handles

https://www.linkedin.com/in/jodifischer/

Website

www.adelantefoundation.org

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Business As Unusual, is a series produced by BiCurean Consulting. We present Entrepreneurs, Innovators, CEOs, & Founders who are innovating the way we do business. 

This episode we spoke with Jeff Leitner about his lifetime of working to create better options for us all. For 20 years, he’s helped companies, governments, institutions, and nonprofits identify and realize new opportunities — to expand their reach, increase their share, and change their worlds. Together, we’ve created disruptive new products, services, programs, and approaches.

His clients and collaborators include the U.S. Department of State, Starbucks, Walter Reed National Military Medical Center, University of Southern California, TED, Clear Channel, UBS, Allsteel, National Endowment for the Arts, NASA, Harvard Medical School, Panera, Jim Joseph Foundation, The GRAMMY Foundation, and the Dalai Lama Center for Peace and Education.

He led the invention of the first doctorate in social innovation, a new model for supporting emerging democracies, a monthly forum on business ethics, and a groundbreaking approach to achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals. He launched a graduate school of nursing and the now-standard model for taxi advertising. He hatched new tools for supporting musicians and making sense of office culture.

He’s enlisted and led this work with hundreds of remarkable experts, practitioners, and guest thinkers. He’s been part of tackling an A-to-Z of challenges — from the arts, board development, and casual dining to unwritten rules, voting, workplace design, and Zen. His work has been featured in Fast Company, Forbes, Harvard Business Review, and Inc. It’s been highlighted on podcasts and public radio. It’s been recorded for posterity in books on business, politics, leadership, innovation, and stopping human trafficking. And it’s won a few awards.

Along the way, he’s served as innovator-in-residence at a major university, fellow at a DC think tank, and senior fellow at a prominent foundation. I have launched a philanthropic lab, an international design initiative, a hit podcast, and a streetwear brand. I have given talks around the world and lectures at a number of universities, including at Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and Stanford’s d. school. He co-wrote a book on my original approach to social change.

My wife and I live in suburban Chicago, about an hour from where our daughter goes to graduate school.

If you’re interested in talking to me about a project, connect with him!

Show Links

Leitnerproject.com

https://www.stevenholl.com/

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Business as Unusual, a podcast series by BiCurean Consulting, features people saying yes to the opportunity to create new ways of doing business. This week we are speaking with Dr. Dora Wolfe about her work as a Mental Health Mentor.

Hello! After spending 25 years working directly with patients Dr. Wolfe decided to make the transition to become your “mental health mentor” in an attempt to reach as many people as possible. Her goal is to motivate, educate, empower, and inspire people to make their mental health a priority ❤️

As an integrative provider with specialization in trauma and attachment she strongly believes that everything from early brain development, to diet, exercise, stress management, connection and countless other modalities serve to make us or break us when it comes to our overall well-being.

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https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-dora-wolfe-690a464b/

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Business as Unusual, a podcast series by BiCurean Consulting. features people saying yes to the opportunity to create new ways of doing business. This episode we are speaking with Dr. Janine Stitcher and Scott Schutte of the Healthy Behavior Institute.

The Healthy Behavior Institute is actually born of a need we’ve learned from over 18 years of providing top-tier personal training services to thousands of clients. Yes, it comes from being coaches ourselves.

See, we (Scott and Nate) started off like many coaches. Deciding that we loved fitness and helping people, we set out to be fitness professionals. We took every course we could. We wanted to be the best and do right by our clients.

During the years that followed of working and consistently furthering our education, we continued to be frustrated with some clients' lack of progress. We could get them to work hard in the gym, but they were still so inconsistent with what they needed to do outside of the gym. We knew what our clients needed to do to lose the weight and get in the shape they wanted to, but saw them seemingly unable to consistently execute even the simplest of strategies. We knew what principles they needed to implement. And what's more, is that they knew we were right. They would agree with the assessment of their nutrition and their lifestyle, but they still stumbled and failed.

Sure, there were exceptions to this rule. Some clients were compliant that we could point to that showed what was possible. But it wasn't the majority. We knew it wasn't right to just blame them and their supposed lack of willpower. They were hiring us to guide them to their goals and we were missing some tools to do it. Our quest was to discover or create a way for more of our clients to predictably achieve their goals.

Then fate stepped in.

Dr. Janine Stichter (Dr. J) started training at our gym. It just so happened that she had a Ph.D. in behavior change. After some inter-workout conversations, it was blatantly evident that her experience and understanding of the underpinnings of behavior was the missing link in the fitness industry.

It wasn't long before she became part of our team. And with our respective expertise, we combined the world of psychology with the world of fitness, and our clients benefited. Our client retention (which was already good) got better. Clients commented that the customized paths we provided for them to reach their goals were easier to follow. Our impact on our clients increased and so did our income.

We realized in talking with other coaches and business owners that they also wanted to realize these changes with clients and also wanted to create greater value for their clients and increase their revenue.

That’s why we created scalable systems that didn't require coaches to be Dr. J but have the core education and processes to execute in their fitness facilities with their clients. The Healthy Behavior Institute was created to share this information and these systems.

Website: https://healthybehaviorinstitute.com/

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Dr. Janine Stichter

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Insta - drjaninestichter

Scott Schutte

FB - Scott Schutte scott.schutte.12

Insta - scott.schutte

YouTube - Becoming The Ultimate Coach with the Jock and the Doc

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