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If you want to be better at leading people, meetings, and conversations, ignore the business advice about saying the right thing. (There are no magic words.) Instead, focus on being a better guide: how to direct a connected conversation and what to do when a conversation or meeting gets derailed. 

Being a better conversation guide doesn’t require you to be the leader or owner of the agenda of the meeting. Being a better conversation guide means spotting the red basketball in the room and keeping it moving around the court. 

Join me, Stephen Moegling, as we go down the rabbit hole of human communication: so you have the best chance at having Connected Conversations in business.

Connected Conversations are conversations when you’re connected with your audience: they’re not distracted, disgruntled, or disengaged, and neither are you. And when you and your audience are connected, the sky’s the limit. 

Connected Conversations are what we need more of in business today. Less friction. Less gridlock. Less fear that you won’t be heard or respected. 

If you’re a leader, Connected Conversations are what your team asks of you. And if you’re on the path to leadership (which we all are), learning the ancient art and science of connecting with people is perhaps your greatest asset for having the life you want. 

Connected Conversations Mini-Series

Available on The Business of Being Podcast

About The Business of Being Podcast

Business success isn’t just about doing more. It’s about being more. Every week, host Stephen Moegling and his guests explore the inner work of success.   

About Band of Misfits®

Band of Misfits® produces the show. We help leaders win in business without running themselves into the ground in two ways:

Business Growth Consulting: our clients have lean teams and are maxed out. We bring fresh ideas and strategies to solve their marketing, branding, and sales challenges. We also take on the heavy lifting of executing strategy. 

Leadership Coaching: we work with leaders to help them reduce stress at the desk, expand their leadership influence, and elevate their perspective to spot—and leverage—new opportunities.

Host: Stephen Moegling

Executive Producer:  Sir Isaac Smith

If you only pay attention to what people are saying in conversations or meetings, you will miss vital information. Because what we say isn’t necessarily what we think or believe.

Especially with passive-aggressive people. Their lips may say one thing, but their actions often communicate a different story. 

In this episode, I teach you how to use the red basketball visualization technique to know who you’re doing with and how to keep passive-aggressive people in check. 

Join me, Stephen Moegling, as we go down the rabbit hole of human communication: so you have the best chance at having Connected Conversations in business.

Connected Conversations are conversations when you’re connected with your audience: they’re not distracted, disgruntled, or disengaged, and neither are you. And when you and your audience are connected, the sky’s the limit. 

Connected Conversations are what we need more of in business today. Less friction. Less gridlock. Less fear that you won’t be heard or respected. 

If you’re a leader, Connected Conversations are what your team asks of you. And if you’re on the path to leadership (which we all are), learning the ancient art and science of connecting with people is perhaps your greatest asset for having the life you want. 

Connected Conversations Mini-Series

Available on The Business of Being Podcast

About The Business of Being Podcast

Business success isn’t just about doing more. It’s about being more. Every week, host Stephen Moegling and his guests explore the inner work of success.   

About Band of Misfits®

Band of Misfits® produces the show. We help leaders win in business without running themselves into the ground in two ways:

Business Growth Consulting: our clients have lean teams and are maxed out. We bring fresh ideas and strategies to solve their marketing, branding, and sales challenges. We also take on the heavy lifting of executing strategy. 

Leadership Coaching: we work with leaders to help them reduce stress at the desk, expand their leadership influence, and elevate their perspective to spot—and leverage—new opportunities.

Host: Stephen Moegling

Executive Producer:  Sir Isaac Smith

I want you to spot the invisible dynamics happening in every meeting or business conversation, so you:

• Represent yourself best
• Broach tender topics with confidence 
• Deal with difficult people in ways that are kind yet firm
• Make better connections with your audience for better outcomes

The solution is simple: learn how to spot the red basketball in the room. 

In this episode, I’ll teach you how to spot the red basketball in your next business conversation or meeting. That way, you see the invisible human dynamics in the room—and can change the dynamics. 

Join me, Stephen Moegling, as we go down the rabbit hole of human communication: so you have the best chance at having Connected Conversations in business.

Connected Conversations are conversations when you’re connected with your audience: they’re not distracted, disgruntled, or disengaged, and neither are you. And when you and your audience are connected, the sky’s the limit. 

Connected Conversations are what we need more of in business today. Less friction. Less gridlock. Less fear that you won’t be heard or respected. 

If you’re a leader, Connected Conversations are what your team asks of you. And if you’re on the path to leadership (which we all are), learning the ancient art and science of connecting with people is perhaps your greatest asset for having the life you want. 

Connected Conversations Mini-Series

Available on The Business of Being Podcast

About The Business of Being Podcast

Business success isn’t just about doing more. It’s about being more. Every week, host Stephen Moegling and his guests explore the inner work of success.   

About Band of Misfits®

Band of Misfits® produces the show. We help leaders win in business without running themselves into the ground in two ways:

Business Growth Consulting: our clients have lean teams and are maxed out. We bring fresh ideas and strategies to solve their marketing, branding, and sales challenges. We also take on the heavy lifting of executing strategy. 

Leadership Coaching: we work with leaders to help them reduce stress at the desk, expand their leadership influence, and elevate their perspective to spot—and leverage—new opportunities.

Host: Stephen Moegling

Executive Producer:  Sir Isaac Smith

A great business conversation can change your destiny—or at the very least, can make your day. 

Yet most of us sit through meetings that suck the life out of us. We meet with people who are gifted at pressing our buttons and causing us to feel bad and act in ways we regret. And there are some conversations we need to have or get better at having, but we don’t because we think it’s impossible or we’re not capable enough. 

Most business advice on having better conversations focuses on what to say. But that’s a mistake. Scientists agree that 90 to 95% of communication is NON-VERBAL.

There are invisible human dynamics at work in every conversation that influences the outcome and has nothing to do with what is being said.  

I want to teach you what’s really happening in every conversation and meeting so you:

• Represent yourself best
• Broach tender topics with confidence 
• Deal with difficult people in ways that are kind yet firm
• Make better connections with your audience for better outcomes

Join me, Stephen Moegling, as we go down the rabbit hole of human communication: so you have the best chance at having Connected Conversations in business.

Connected Conversations are conversations when you’re connected with your audience: they’re not distracted, disgruntled, or disengaged, and neither are you. And when you and your audience are connected, the sky’s the limit. 

Connected Conversations are what we need more of in business today. Less friction. Less gridlock. Less fear that you won’t be heard or respected. 

If you’re a leader, Connected Conversations are what your team asks of you. And if you’re on the path to leadership (which we all are), learning the ancient art and science of connecting with people is perhaps your greatest asset for having the life you want. 

Connected Conversations Mini-Series

First episode premieres 1/17/23

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About The Business of Being Podcast

Business success isn’t just about doing more. It’s about being more. Every week, host Stephen Moegling and his guests explore the inner work of success.   

About Band of Misfits®

Band of Misfits® produces the show. We help leaders win in business without running themselves into the ground in two ways:

Business Growth Consulting: our clients have lean teams and are maxed out. We bring fresh ideas and strategies to solve their marketing, branding, and sales challenges. We also take on the heavy lifting of executing strategy. 

Leadership Coaching: we work with leaders to help them reduce stress at the desk, expand their leadership influence, and elevate their perspective to spot—and leverage—new opportunities.

Host: Stephen Moegling

Executive Producer:  Sir Isaac Smith

How to stop imposter syndrome in its tracks. 

Imposter Syndrome. We have all felt it. That sense we’re a fraud, and somebody soon enough will realize we are a fraud and call us out. We doubt our skills. We doubt ourselves. How on earth will we ever succeed and feel successful when cloaked in imposter syndrome? 

My guest is here to say we’re all wrong about imposter syndrome. Starting with the name itself. Let’s get to the bottom of imposter syndrome. So we can get on to the business of being.  

Connect with Sarah-Tyler Moore

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About the Business of Being Podcast

Business success isn’t just about doing more. It’s about being more. Every week, host Stephen Moegling and his guests explore the inner work of success.   

About Band of Misfits®

Band of Misfits® produces the show. We help leaders win in business without running themselves into the ground. Come say hello at WelcomeMisfit.com. 

Host: Stephen Moegling

Executive Producer:  Sir Isaac Smith

Don’t fear fear. 

I love and hate this line by Jack Canfield: “Most everything you want is just outside of your comfort zone.” I love the line because it’s true. I hate the line … because it’s true. Stepping outside of your comfort zone means stepping into fear. Fear of the unknown. Fear of ridicule. Fear of failure. (And even fear of success.) 

In this episode, I talk to my friend and entrepreneur Brian Muka about how to build a better relationship with fear. If we want to enrich and grow our lives, we need to get more comfortable with our fears and learn new skills to de-escalate the fear response. Brian is known as the “Fear Sherpa.” Join us as we discuss how to make friends with our fears. 

About the Business of Being Podcast

Business success isn’t just about doing more. It’s about being more. Every week, host Stephen Moegling and his guests explore the inner work of success.   

About Band of Misfits®

Band of Misfits® produces the show. We help leaders win in business without running themselves into the ground. Come say hello at WelcomeMisfit.com. 

Host: Stephen Moegling

Executive Producer:  Sir Isaac Smith

Business 101: failure is guaranteed when you aim at a worthy target. At some point, things don’t go according to plan. Falling is inevitable. And that fall can leave us bruised and shake our confidence and faith that better days are coming. So how do we rise again and keep going? And not just come back—but come back better than before. 

In this episode, I discuss how to rise again with Jeannette. She’s one of the strongest people I know. (And the funniest.) Jeannette has had her share of setbacks in her business life. Yet she has the ability to turn sorrow into strength and misfortune into fortune. Join us as we discuss how to rise again and come back even better. 

About Jannett Erving

Growing up in rural Mississippi, Jannett witnessed firsthand the devastating effects of obesity and the lack of healthy food options for minorities and at-risk families. After losing her mother at just 46 years old to hypertension and other disease comorbidities, Jeannette told herself, Enough is enough. This doesn’t have to be my life story. Jeannette founded the non-profit Faces of HOPE and its partner organization, HOPE for Obesity, to help kids and families end childhood obesity.  

Jannett is also a Realtor, and her purpose is to help her clients “come out on top”: whether that means getting the best price, getting the best offer, or crossing the threshold of your new home as a proud and happy owner. 

Connect with Jannett Erving

Website

Facebook

About the Business of Being Podcast

Business success isn’t just about doing more. It’s about being more. Every week, host Stephen Moegling and his guests explore the inner work of success.   

About Band of Misfits®

Band of Misfits® produces the show. We help leaders win in business without running themselves into the ground. Come say hello at WelcomeMisfit.com. 

Host: Stephen Moegling

Executive Producer:  Sir Isaac Smith

What is that saying about best-laid plans? In business, things fail: projects go sideways, investments nosedive into the red, relationships dissolve, and we’re often left holding the bag, wondering, What the hell do I do now?

In this episode, I speak with my friend and design futurist, Zane Gibbs. Zane holds a Ph.D. in Quantum Field Theory, and his innovation firm helps clients to reimagine products, grow brands, and maximize human performance. Zane and his partner also run F*ckup Nights RVA, part of a global movement to share stories of professional failure. 

Join us as we discuss failure in our business lives so you can emerge whole, complete, and ready for what’s next.  

About Zane Gibbs

Zane’s life experiences have profoundly impacted his life. From growing up in a single-parent household in the projects to failing high-school geometry, to completing a Ph.D. with a specialty in Quantum Field Theory, Zane understands that life is filled with many ups and downs.

Over the course of a 20+ corporate career, Zane has had the unique opportunity to touch almost every facet of product innovation and development, corporate strategy, brand management, packaging, consumer insights, and strategic planning and futures.

Today, Zane is CEO of ZADA Strategy, a Richmond-based management consulting firm focused on the intersection of innovation, strategy, and the human experience to help clients grow brands, reimagine products, and transform business operations.

Connect with Zane Gibbs

Website

Email

The Business of Being is a podcast about the inner work of success. 

Business success isn’t just about doing more. It’s about being more. Every week, host Stephen Moegling and his guests explore the inner work of success.   

Band of Misfits® produces the show. We help leaders grow their companies without running themselves—or their teams—into the ground. Come say hello at WelcomeMisfit.com. 

Host: Stephen Moegling

Executive Producer:  Sir Isaac Smith

Band of Misfits® Spirit Guide: Lafayette the Owl

Not long ago, being a great leader meant leaving your desk and talking with your employees face-to-face, ensuring they’re seen and heard. Their purpose and value in showing up each day were honored and magnified. But today, even if your team is in the same zip code, you often spend more time on Zoom than in the same room. How do you cultivate trust and shared purpose on a digital screen?

In this episode, Stephen talks to his friend and business rockstar, Kim Thies. Kim leads an international team in her role at PayPal. She is Stephen’s kind of leader: clear, kind, and committed to improving the lives of everyone on her team. Join us as we discuss how to be a long-distance leader, an indispensable skill in this new era of distributed workforces. 

About Kim Thies

Over the course of her career, Kim Thies has had a unique career path that has led her from startups to Fortune 500 firms, grassroots advocacy to international nonprofit leadership. This journey brought her to her current role at PayPal as the Director of Intelligence Automation for the risk organization. In this role, Kim leads a team of product, delivery, data, and engineering professionals across the globe to provide innovative data platforms, tools, and services. Kim’s passion is creating empowered, purpose-driven teams that deliver transformational business solutions and enduring social impact.

Connect with Kim Thies

LinkedIn

The Business of Being is a podcast about the intersection of life and business. 

Band of Misfits® produces the show. We are the coaching company for leaders and impact-makers who want to thrive and flourish at work and in life. Come say hello at WelcomeMisfit.com. 

Host: Stephen Moegling

Executive Producer:  Sir Isaac Smith

Band of Misfits Spirit Guide: Lafayette the Owl

Our business lives are full of noise and distractions. Text, email, Slack threads, social media: the distractions are endless. It’s easy to lose focus and sight of what’s most important to get done and done well. 

In this episode, we discuss clarity with Christopher R. Jones. Chris works with tech leaders to build high-performing teams. But Chris’s first principle is to know how to lead yourself. And that starts with clarity on what you want.   

Connect with Christopher Jones:

Website

LinkedIn

Podcast

YouTube

The Business of Being is a podcast about the intersection of life and business. 

Band of Misfits® produces the show. We are the coaching company for leaders and impact-makers who want to thrive and flourish at work and in life. Come say hello at WelcomeMisfit.com. 

Host: Stephen Moegling

Executive Producer:  Sir Isaac Smith

Band of Misfits Spirit Guide: Lafayette the Owl