Circle Up & Get REAL Podcast

Have you ever considered why you are here? What it is you - and only you - can actually contribute? How all the choices you've made in your life might provide clues to those big questions?

Today Jodee shares reflections she's had with her friend Mark J. Lindquist, who is following his own calling all the way from Fargo to Ukraine to offer humanitarian aid.

What could each of us do in our lives if we knew our big why?

Mark is a living example.

This podcast was born in the spring of 2020 thanks to the inspiration of Chris Angell, who helped develop the Get REAL platform. There's no better way to kick off Season 3 than with Chris!

In this conversation I catch up with Chris and we talk about his new platform he called Business Church (officially called Groundswell University). His mission is to support coaches and others who are doing work to grow their memberships. His ultimate goal is to reach and support One Million Messengers.

You can see more about Chris and his wisdom at www.mygroundswell.com.

Mariah is a badass. She's the president and owner of MPX Fitness, a Reiki II practitioner, a fitness model, a single mother of 2 boys, North Dakota's 2020 Mother of the Year, and is the subject of a documentary that bears her name: PRUSSIA.

In this interview you'll learn more about why Mariah's platform "Define the Fight" is crucial today and every day.

Find out more about Mariah at her website MariahPrussia.com.

This one is too good to keep in the archives. Enjoy this conversation originally published on August 27, 2020.

Sally Helgesen is the world's premier expert on women's leadership. The author of seven books including the one that blew me away, How Women Rise, Sally was recently named the #6 Top Leadership Thinkers in the world by Global Gurus.

In this conversation Sally tells us about her 30-year career and how she came to be the go-to authority on women in leadership.

You can find more about Sally at her website, www.sallyhelgesen.com or on LinkedIn.

I firmly believed throughout my childhood and well into my adult life that other people/situations/rules/laws "made" me do or believe something that I either just accepted or didn't question.   But this embedded belief has stifled my own learning and exploring and creativity and I didn't even realize it.   If I allow someone else to "make" me mad, sad, or even glad, I've been had.   Whoa. Listen in as I dissect some of these lessons I didn't even know ... until I did.  

What if all the time you've felt like a square peg in a round hole, trying to fit in, and shaving off the square corners that make you unique, you've been avoiding the things that would attract to you everything you need to be the best you?

In this episode I talk about that concept, and announce my new consulting business Square Corners Consulting!

Back in 2000, Jim Collins wrote the business classic Good To Great where he learned that one of the elements of business that moves in that direction is leadership. He categorized 5 levels of leadership, of which Level 5 is the pinnacle. Those leaders make a point to look out the window when things go well, but also take a good, hard look in the mirror when they don't. Might there be a correlation between leadership and The Great Resignation?

I think I suffer from a little bit of PTSD around the whole concept of selling. If any of our experience is based on something from our past, it's more often than not colored by a less-than-positive encounter.

Might there be a different way to think about selling than trying to convince someone to buy your product or service?

Join me as I explore some of the thoughts circling my brain about how imposed and enforced learning might be coloring our experience with selling.

Arianna Huffington says that The Great Resignation is really a great Re-Evaluation. People are longing for a new definition of success and are longing for a different way of working and living.

Today I talk with Mental Performance Coach and former pastor Rick Holmberg about this concept, and what he's seeing with his leadership clients about their cultures.

Find more about Rick on LinkedIn.