Ever since the pandemic, the winds of change have been getting stronger and stronger. As a consultant, you would need even more resilience to get through these times of uncertainty. Your clients could be away from your home, so you need the resilience to push forward. Today's guest is Larry Hitchcock. He is a Partner, Principal, and Transportation Sector Leader of Deloitte. Larry is a man that thrives in uncertainty, as he has been serving Fortune 50 clients for over twenty years. Join Adam Markel as he talks to Larry Hitchcock about what it means to be resilient, especially as a consultant. If you're new to consulting, you definitely want to listen to what you can do when you're faced with adversity. Build up your resilience today!

Show Notes:

0:44 - Larry's Bio

5:34 - The Meaning Of Resilience

9:45 - What We Learned During The Pandemic

18:12 - Measurements & Outcomes

22:45 - Thriving In Uncertainty

29:38 - Tips On Overcoming Challenges

36:25 - Go-To Reset Rituals

Continually feeling drained, worn out, and mentally exhausted despite the amount of workload? Fatigue is not an uncommon term, but it is among the body signs that humans just don't see and acknowledge. To let you in a little secret: it's all hardwired into our heads. In this episode, Dr. Amy Mednick, a Board-Certified Adult Psychiatrist specializing in the compassionate treatment of a variety of conditions, shares the curious way the mind works, how to identify the causes of fatigue and learn how to address them, and how every basic human need—seen or unseen—is hardwired into our heads. Tune in now and enter the world of seeing the unseen! 

Show Notes: from RAW Audio

●       4:02 – Psychiatry: The Art Of Understanding People

●       7:50 – The Corporate Wellbeing

●       4:50 – Writing Stuff Down Helps Big Time

●       37:53 – Breaks Are Essential

●       39:52 – You Cannot Sustain The Grit Grind

●       46:27 – Natural Empathy Vs Cognitive Empathy

Today’s special guest is Rob Ashton: writer, former scientist, founder of global writing skills consultancy emphasis, and works at the intersection of the words and the mind. Together with our beloved host Adam Markel, this episode will be an in-depth discussion on understanding writing, how words we read affect our minds, how translating thoughts into text is now an undervalued skill in the digital age, and more! Tune in now and learn all about writing and how much it actually affects us.

Show Notes:

3:50 Writing is suboptimal.

11:57 The intersection of words and the mind.

29:31 The impact of words on the human psyche.

41:04 What organizations are doing wrong.

We’ve all heard about the different programs available to treat trauma, but what does going through trauma really mean? Is the real healing process really possible? How heavy is trauma really is, especially in terms of affecting the rest of this traumatized person’s life? In this episode, we’re going to have a candid and open conversation about what it really means to be a trauma survivor with Dr. Michiyo Ambrosius. Before she became a psychologist, transformational leader, coach, mentor, and a trainer of pioneering trauma and healing techniques, she lived under extremely restrictive Japanese culture, parental control, and gender inequality. Listen to her story and learn how you, too, still have hope in healing from your trauma and living a happy life.

Show Notes:

01:43 Dr. Michiyo’s background

06:42 Dr. Michiyo’s process for healing trauma

12:15 Building a trauma-informed workplace

When you have great pain in your life, you need a greater purpose. It is your job to find that purpose or that unstoppable mission and commit to it. Give what you can so that you can fulfill your purpose. Giving activates the law of receiving, not the other way around.

Listen to today's episode as Adam Markel talks to the CEO & Founder of the Unstoppable Foundation, Cynthia Kersey. Cynthia is also the bestselling author of Unstoppable and Unstoppable Women. She was also a featured guest on the Oprah Winfrey Show when Oprah launched the Angel Network. Find out how The Unstoppable Foundation has provided education to over 30,000 children in developing areas. Discover why education isn't enough as well. You need to give healthcare, clean water, training, and much more if you really want to make a difference. Listen to Cynthia's story and how she found her greater purpose in life. Learn how she puts the act of giving into everything she has done. Become unstoppable in your mission today!

Show Notes:

6:17 - What It Means To Be Unstoppable

8:05 - Our External World Is A Reflection Of Our Internal World

16:56 - Living Your Purpose

27:27 - Giving Is Receiving

43:24 - Giving Education & Running A Business

57:15 - The Power Of Reading

Join Adam Markel as he talks with natural-born feminist and author of On The Shoulders Of Mighty Women, Lesley Michaels about women empowerment. Discover that now is the time for women to come together and rise as a collective. It is time to put an end to the gender inequality that is happening all over the world. Remember that gender equity isn't the movement, it's the goal. 

Show Notes:

4:41 - On the Shoulders Of Mighty Women 

7:36 - Gender Equity Is The Goal

12:52 - Women's Empowerment In Iran

Resilience. What does it really mean in organizations or in the real estate world? Why is it always mentioned? Why is it so important? In today’s episode, Marc Miller discloses the current state of the marketplace, the crucial factor in operationalizing resilience in organizations, and the perspective of the tenant’s side in the real estate business. Marc is a strategic commercial real estate leader, business and workplace solutions advisor, trusted global C-Suite consultant, and tenant representation expert. Join us and learn all about resilience from the tenant’s side of the story!

It doesn’t matter what kind of organization you put a conscious leader in. It’s guaranteed to succeed. But what exactly is conscious leadership and what does it entail? Award-winning thought leader, author, and seasoned entrepreneur Jeffrey Deckman talks about this in his book, Developing the Conscious Leadership Mindset for the 21st Century. In this episode, he joins Adam Markel in a conversation about driving performance in organizations, the importance of personal and organizational resilience, embodying the conscious leadership mindset, and creating tapping into the collective genius of your team. Jeffrey teaches us how leading with AIR – authority, integrity and respect – is the key to unlocking top team performance. He also shares his thoughts on the recent trend of “quietly quitting” and how leaders can better support their younger employees who have a different mindset around work and performance. Join in for some valuable insight that will help us make the modern workplace better for everyone!

Show Notes:

02:30 The dinosaur mentality and managing your decline

11:45 Organizations as tribes, not machines

23:29 What drives performance behind the org chart

26:12 Sustainability vs. resilience vs. stubbornness

31:05 The conscious leadership mindset

35:10 Maximizing human capital by tapping into the collective genius of teams

38:00 Thoughts on quiet quitting and leading with AIR

45:52 Take it from the source

50:52 You plus multiple brains are a lot smarter than just you

Managers are at the frontline of a business. It’s crucial that you develop them to become exceptional leaders so they can make good decisions and avoid mistakes that could ruin the business. They also need to be resilient to change and be prepared to adapt. Join Adam Markel as he talks to an expert in developing new managers, retired Marine Janet Polach. Janet wrote The Seven Mistakes New Managers Make. Discover how she uses techniques she learned in the military to help shape up-and-coming managers. Learn some of the mistakes these brand-new managers make and how to fix them. Also, find out some of her rituals that help build resilience. Tune in and start training the next generation of leaders today!

Show Notes: [raw audio]

0:02 - Janet's introduction

3:34 - Joining the marine corps as a woman

11:20 - Adapting to change in the military

16:47 - The phrase "In order to"

19:57 - Resilience training

22:30 - Lessons learned

24:56 - Making decisions as a team

30:48 - Teaching brand new managers

35:23 - Brand new manager mistakes

38:29 - Building resilience

44:05 - Resilience rituals

47:28 - Final words

Resilience isn't an inability to stay standing. It is the ability to get back up when you fall and learn from that. One way to cultivate resilience is through mindset reform. Going through crises and building resilience is going to be difficult if you have a fixed mindset. Start having a growth mindset instead as you join Adam Markel in discussing how to cultivate resilience through mindset reform with cutting-edge mindset author, researcher, and consultant, Dr. Ryan Gottfredson. Dr. Ryan Gottfredson is the author of Success Mindsets: The Keys to Unlocking Greater Success in Your Life, Work, and Leadership. He also works with organizations to develop their leaders and improve their culture. Listen in so you can get more resilient with a little bit of a mindset shift. Learn how your mindset drives your unconscious automatic processing. And discover why you need to be even more conscious of your mindset, especially right now.

Show Notes:

·   0:48 - Introduction

·   5:10 - Getting Through Crisis

·   12:02 - Cultivating Resilience

·   15:48 - Fixed Vs. Growth Mindset

·   21:38 - Changing Mindsets

·   26:53 - Mental Maturity & Complexity

·   34:46 - Resilience Rituals

·   40:54 - Learning Through Your Losses