Culture-Hacking with Daniella Mestyanek Young

Episode 25 “Inclusion IS the multiplier”

We talk about the following:

Intersectionalities of persona that are created by a different-than-usual-life

How Bobby as a black man is trying to focus on how he can work towards racial justice in the work place

How being forgiven for mistakes when you are young is crucial to young people being able to bounce back and create a better life

How to work towards giving everyone the same chance—teach children that they can do anything, bosses that forgive mistakes, teaching everyone to take more chances, hold our mid-level managers accountable for developing their people’s future careers and where they will go.

 We have to think critically about what gaps we have in our teams, but I think that if a company hasn’t realized that, and only focus on how people look different from each other, they are missing the boat.

We should be honest with ourselves and what kinds of people are likely to disagree with us, and then figure out how we will use those disagreements as a multiplier.

Leaders, make it comfortable for people to disagree with you.

“We have to structure our teams so that inclusion IS the multiplier, inclusion becomes the way we scale.”

“The soundbite culture that we have nationally means that we don’t really have robust conversations.”

Daniella asks: How can we white people make the world as safe and wonderful for your 5 black sons as it would be for my son (if I had one).

Bobby says: When you see our kids, be nice to them. The world is a stage, but it’s also a classroom, so use that. Get to know us, get to know our kids. Be excited for them, the way that you would be for your kids. Don’t be surprised that my son wants to be an astronaut.

“Make it safe for my sons to wear a hoody, when they are cold, just like you can.”

“It takes a village to raise a child, so let’s be that village.”

“Don’t be afraid of our children.”

About Our Guest:

Bobby Humes currently serves as the Director of the Seattle Department of Human Resources. In this role, Bobby and his team support over 10,000 employees across 36 City departments in the greater Seattle area. Prior to this role, Bobby served as Director of the Human Resource Division for Seattle Parks and Recreation, Director of Human Resources for the Kent School District, and Director of Talent Acquisition for the Washington State Department of Revenue.

Bobby is passionate about people and providing high quality HR supports to public sector employees and managers. Bobby is an HR strategist and organizational change leader with extensive training and experience in HR project management, employee and labor relations, full life-cycle talent management, employee training, and leadership development and coaching.

Bobby values inclusion and equity and believes that it is the work of all people to remove institutional and structural racism from the workplace. He believes that when we focus on removing racial injustice, the workplace becomes better for all people and organizations truly live out their missions and values. He is always seeking opportunities to learn, grow and share in this work.

Bobby is originally from Long Beach, California. Bobby is a member of Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity, Incorporated, he holds a Master of Science degree in Human Resources from Brandman University and is a US Army Combat Veteran. He is married to his best friend, Merissa, and is the proud father of five boys.

Bobby’s Social Media

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oginga-carr-61686612/

About Our Host:

Daniella Mestyanek (Mest-aa-neck) Young is an author, TEDx speaker and Organizational Culture-Hacker with fascinating life story and important insights into culture, socialization and group behavior. Daniella is the President of DMY Enterprises and the co-founder of cavnessHR.

Daniella was born and raised a third-generation member of the infamous religious cult the Children of God, known for promoting religious prostitution, pedophilia for God, and the end of the world. At 15, she escaped that life, moving to America and eventually becoming a US ARMY Captain.

During her journey, she was college valedictorian, served as part of the first group of women to conduct deliberate ground combat operations with all-male troops, deployed twice to Afghanistan where she also competed in, and won, a marathon, received the Presidential Volunteer Service Medal from President Obama personally, married an Army helicopter pilot, is raising a trilingual little girl in Seattle, WA and is hard at work on her forthcoming memoir, Uncultured.

Daniella’s Social Media:

https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

[email protected]

Twitter: https://twitter.com/daniellamyoung

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellamyoung_/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniella-young/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniellamestyanekyoung

Sign up to join the waitlist for my memoir, UNCULTURED at https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

About Our Sponsor

cavnessHR understands that time feels like the most limited resource in business. Small business leaders spend 25% of their time on HR and compliance matters, instead of directly increasing the bottom line with business growth. With cavnessHR, for a small monthly fee you can forego hiring an in-house HR team, and stop worrying about potential HR and compliance issues. With cavnessHR you have 24/7 access to real, live experts to handle everything from onboarding employees in a one-stop shop portal, advising you on HR laws, and even leadership and workplace culture seminars and workshops. In a constantly shifting corporate culture landscape, keep laser focus on your business with those cavnessHR Hours Recovered, while we take care of your HR.

https://www.cavnessHR.com

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Episode 22_ “Cult Cultures: Do They Work?”

We talk about the following:

Working with at risk youth—gangs as ‘culture and belonging’

Listening/Reading books—an education of thinking and growing and learning to question things

Books can be a powerful bonding tool, and ‘required reading’ can provide a shared rhetoric for common discussion and culture-creation

Famous Cult Cultures: The Marine Corp, Gangs, Zappos, The Children of God, etc. Why they 'work', when they don't, and how to plan for the tipping point.

Cult cultures work because they appeal to the basic needs of humans for connection, shared purpose, and community. Whether we set up the proper checkpoints and constant room for growth and learning can determine whether it goes right or wrong.

Dave’s #1 Culture-Hack: Books! Books are a blueprint for where a company can go—what companies do you want to model? Carry a good book around everywhere you go, it can be an amazing tool for conversation and discussion.

About Our Guest:

Dave Burlin is a Marine Corps Veteran, and he believes that influence is the core foundation for growth. His passion is to help people maximize their influence potential so that they can create and lead innovative organizations that make a positive impact on our world. He has worked closely with organizations like Zappos and Simon Sinek Inc., and is inspired by teams that are leading examples of the power of company culture. Dave encourages serial entrepreneurs to maximize their full potential of influence by helping them communicate their vision, and invest in their greatest resource; their people. Creating a culture built on trust and communication allows a team to work and communicate at the highest level, so they can serve more people, and in turn sell more stuff. With growth comes more opportunity for leaders to emerge, and the cycle of leadership and influence continues.

Dave has had the honor and privilege to be a TEDx Speaker in 2014, and he has been sharing the concept of #WHYNETWORKING for the last 2 years. He currently serves as a City Leader for Bunker Labs in Las Vegas, NV. Bunker Labs, is a non-profit organization with a focus to help equip, inspire, and connect Veterans and their spouses with resources to start and grow businesses.

Dave’s Social Media

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daveburlin/

Discharge to Incharge:

https://youtu.be/oLfozhW-JQ0

Zappos cover letter:

https://youtu.be/MS_dZikEW4M

#whynetworking

https://youtu.be/6_hXo6BweFU

TEDx Tulsa

https://youtu.be/0fdTEDcW7Xk

Disrupt HR - The Swayze Effect

https://disrupthr.co/vimeo-video/the-swayze-effect-when-violence-is-the-answer-dave-burlin-disrupthr-talks/

About Our Host:

Daniella Mestyanek (Mest-aa-neck) Young is an author, TEDx speaker and Organizational Culture-Hacker with fascinating life story and important insights into culture, socialization and group behavior. Daniella is the President of DMY Enterprises and the co-founder of cavnessHR.

Daniella was born and raised a third-generation member of the infamous religious cult the Children of God, known for promoting religious prostitution, pedophilia for God, and the end of the world. At 15, she escaped that life, moving to America and eventually becoming a US ARMY Captain.

During her journey, she was college valedictorian, served as part of the first group of women to conduct deliberate ground combat operations with all-male troops, deployed twice to Afghanistan where she also competed in, and won, a marathon, received the Presidential Volunteer Service Medal from President Obama personally, married an Army helicopter pilot, is raising a trilingual little girl in Seattle, WA and is hard at work on her forthcoming memoir, Uncultured.

Daniella’s Social Media:

https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

[email protected]

Twitter: https://twitter.com/daniellamyoung

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellamyoung_/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniella-young/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniellamestyanekyoung

Sign up to join the waitlist for my memoir, UNCULTURED at https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

About Our Sponsor

cavnessHR understands that time feels like the most limited resource in business. Small business leaders spend 25% of their time on HR and compliance matters, instead of directly increasing the bottom line with business growth. With cavnessHR, for a small monthly fee you can forego hiring an in-house HR team, and stop worrying about potential HR and compliance issues. With cavnessHR you have 24/7 access to real, live experts to handle everything from onboarding employees in a one-stop shop portal, advising you on HR laws, and even leadership and workplace culture seminars and workshops. In a constantly shifting corporate culture landscape, keep laser focus on your business with those cavnessHR Hours Recovered, while we take care of your HR.

https://www.cavnessHR.com

[email protected]

@cavnessHR across social media

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Episode 23 “Relationship Resonance”

We talk about the following:

As a pharmacist, Doug realized that almost 14% of the new prescriptions for stress come from job strain, and he wanted to do something about that.

Doug and Maryanne realized that focusing on relationships was a winning formula, and both have fought in their lives to build the tools to do that.

The Hackings built a company to focus on relationships within the workplace that can make the workplace less stressful.

Must focus on relationships if you want to escape the socialization and programming that you grew up with.

Learning to question everything is a muscle that you have to build, before you can begin building your own way of thinking and making decisions.

Not everything is ‘good’ or ‘bad’, it just is.

Feelings are not negative or positive—we must allow ourselves to feel feelings. Sadness, and other negative feelings, need to be acknowledged, but not necessarily fixed.

We shouldn’t be thinking of running around with a label gun labeling things ‘bad’ so that we can fix them.

The hidden conceit behind the idea of ‘doing everything yourself’

In order to get trust in a relationship, you have to be seen as competent and warm. Many people spend time flexing their competence, but not developing their warmth.

System includes identifying things that are connection-killers and learning how we get rid of them.

Processes and Systems.

The Hacking’s #1 Culture-Hack: All about leading with your heart, the heart is the multiplier. Without the heart, you can’t get to trust and admiration. Lead with the Heart!

About Our Guest:

Doug and Maryanne are married and run a company that does ‘Relationship Resonance’

Hacking’s Social Media

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/doug-hacking-pharmd-mba-a23918102/

https://relationshipresonance.com/

About Our Host:

Daniella Mestyanek (Mest-aa-neck) Young is an author, TEDx speaker and Organizational Culture-Hacker with fascinating life story and important insights into culture, socialization and group behavior. Daniella is the President of DMY Enterprises and the co-founder of cavnessHR.

Daniella was born and raised a third-generation member of the infamous religious cult the Children of God, known for promoting religious prostitution, pedophilia for God, and the end of the world. At 15, she escaped that life, moving to America and eventually becoming a US ARMY Captain.

During her journey, she was college valedictorian, served as part of the first group of women to conduct deliberate ground combat operations with all-male troops, deployed twice to Afghanistan where she also competed in, and won, a marathon, received the Presidential Volunteer Service Medal from President Obama personally, married an Army helicopter pilot, is raising a trilingual little girl in Seattle, WA and is hard at work on her forthcoming memoir, Uncultured.

Daniella’s Social Media:

https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

[email protected]

Twitter: https://twitter.com/daniellamyoung

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellamyoung_/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniella-young/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniellamestyanekyoung

Sign up to join the waitlist for my memoir, UNCULTURED at https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

About Our Sponsor

cavnessHR understands that time feels like the most limited resource in business. Small business leaders spend 25% of their time on HR and compliance matters, instead of directly increasing the bottom line with business growth. With cavnessHR, for a small monthly fee you can forego hiring an in-house HR team, and stop worrying about potential HR and compliance issues. With cavnessHR you have 24/7 access to real, live experts to handle everything from onboarding employees in a one-stop shop portal, advising you on HR laws, and even leadership and workplace culture seminars and workshops. In a constantly shifting corporate culture landscape, keep laser focus on your business with those cavnessHR Hours Recovered, while we take care of your HR.

https://www.cavnessHR.com

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@cavnessHR across social media

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Episode 22_ “The Dynamic of Change”

We talk about the following:

Losing a sports career and spiraling into depression, obesity & diabeties

Clarity—we need to be clear about what we want in life

Content—something you can do, learn or elevate

Consistency—how are you pursuing it every day?

Motivation—a team has to have a shared purpose

The importance of setting individual and team motivation and purposes that are planned far in advance for major goals

Great Quotes—“Business problems are just a manifestation of personal problems.”

“What is your ‘ness’, your Daniella-ness, your Oginga-ness? What are the three words that describe you?”

Listener Gift—“How to Create Your Limitless Goals”

Oginga’s #1 Culture-Hack: 4/20; First thing in the morning: drink 20 ounces of water, 20 minutes of body activation, 20 minutes of reading from a real book, 20 minutes of visualization of how I’d like my day to go.

About Our Guest:

Oginga is an author, international workshop leader, organizational structure expert and HR consultant. He brings 20 years of experience in Sales, Management, and Human Resources. His passion is in the dynamic of change; dealing with it, working through it, and preparing for it. Oginga focuses on productivity through structure and human capital development. He is the author of the book, Your Limitless Life.

Oginga’s Social Media

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/oginga-carr-61686612/

http://www.ogingacarr.com

Oginga Carr 501.318.8138

About Our Host:

Daniella Mestyanek (Mest-aa-neck) Young is an author, TEDx speaker and Organizational Culture-Hacker with fascinating life story and important insights into culture, socialization and group behavior. Daniella is the President of DMY Enterprises and the co-founder of cavnessHR.

Daniella was born and raised a third-generation member of the infamous religious cult the Children of God, known for promoting religious prostitution, pedophilia for God, and the end of the world. At 15, she escaped that life, moving to America and eventually becoming a US ARMY Captain.

During her journey, she was college valedictorian, served as part of the first group of women to conduct deliberate ground combat operations with all-male troops, deployed twice to Afghanistan where she also competed in, and won, a marathon, received the Presidential Volunteer Service Medal from President Obama personally, married an Army helicopter pilot, is raising a trilingual little girl in Seattle, WA and is hard at work on her forthcoming memoir, Uncultured.

Daniella’s Social Media:

https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

[email protected]

Twitter: https://twitter.com/daniellamyoung

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellamyoung_/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniella-young/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniellamestyanekyoung

Sign up to join the waitlist for my memoir, UNCULTURED at https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

About Our Sponsor

cavnessHR understands that time feels like the most limited resource in business. Small business leaders spend 25% of their time on HR and compliance matters, instead of directly increasing the bottom line with business growth. With cavnessHR, for a small monthly fee you can forego hiring an in-house HR team, and stop worrying about potential HR and compliance issues. With cavnessHR you have 24/7 access to real, live experts to handle everything from onboarding employees in a one-stop shop portal, advising you on HR laws, and even leadership and workplace culture seminars and workshops. In a constantly shifting corporate culture landscape, keep laser focus on your business with those cavnessHR Hours Recovered, while we take care of your HR.

https://www.cavnessHR.com

[email protected]

@cavnessHR across social media

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Episode 21_ "What Now? Establishing Clarity and Purpose in a Time of Crisis"

We talk about the following:

Leadership Training—Quitters, Campers, Climbers

The Man-Machine interface

Voice of the customer—responding to a crisis from the needs of the customer

Infinite game= infinite horizons

Kind environment—rules, boundaries, immediate feedback, finite, ie. Chess

Wicked environments—infinite, no rules of the game

“Life is wicked and exists in an infinite environment”

“Transition is the fifth season that we don’t have the language for.”

“Bruitiful—the brutality that comes before beauty”

“Ego is identity’s bodyguard”

“If you avoid change it hurts your soul”

Ben’s #1 Culture-Hack: 1. Recognize (what’s Important) 2. Recover 3. Reinvent

About Our Guest: Ben Morley is an Air Force veteran, serving as a pilot for over 27 years producing awardwinning leadership in both the domestic and international realms. Originally from Friday Harbor on San Juan Island, WA he became the first student in his county to attend a military service academy where he graduated from the Air Force Academy. He has logged over 4,000 hours of flying to include combat time in the C-17, C-141, T-38 and T-37 aircraft. Flying everything from premature babies to classified cargo, he has flown missions to all seven continents. Achievements include serving as Mission Commander airlifting French troops and cargo to Mali for counter-terrorism efforts at the request of the President of France, a member of a sixperson initial cadre standing up a classified airlift program, key support for a hostage rescue in Colombia, creating and executing a humanitarian mission to the South Pacific, becoming the first US military aircraft mission to this region since World War II, and leading a team that helped broker the sale of aircraft to Australia. Ben is also a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and a Lean Practitioner, becoming the first pilot on his Air Force base to achieve this certification. Achievements in this discipline include saving a client over $60,000 in one hour, reducing a building project cost by $1.8M, and streamlining project lead times from days to minutes. His applications in process improvement for the Air Force continue to be used today. He now teaches businesses how to establish clarity and purpose in a time of crisis. Ben has a B.S. in Human Factors Engineering from the U.S. Air Force Academy.

Ben’s Social Media

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ben-morley-b768b46a/

Email: [email protected]

About Our Host:

Daniella Mestyanek (Mest-aa-neck) Young is an author, TEDx speaker and Organizational Culture-Hacker with fascinating life story and important insights into culture, socialization and group behavior. Daniella is the President of DMY Enterprises and the co-founder of cavnessHR.

Daniella was born and raised a third-generation member of the infamous religious cult the Children of God, known for promoting religious prostitution, pedophilia for God, and the end of the world. At 15, she escaped that life, moving to America and eventually becoming a US ARMY Captain.

During her journey, she was college valedictorian, served as part of the first group of women to conduct deliberate ground combat operations with all-male troops, deployed twice to Afghanistan where she also competed in, and won, a marathon, received the Presidential Volunteer Service Medal from President Obama personally, married an Army helicopter pilot, is raising a trilingual little girl in Seattle, WA and is hard at work on her forthcoming memoir, Uncultured.

Daniella’s Social Media:

https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

[email protected]

Twitter: https://twitter.com/daniellamyoung

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellamyoung_/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniella-young/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniellamestyanekyoung

Sign up to join the waitlist for my memoir, UNCULTURED at https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

About Our Sponsor

cavnessHR understands that time feels like the most limited resource in business. Small business leaders spend 25% of their time on HR and compliance matters, instead of directly increasing the bottom line with business growth. With cavnessHR, for a small monthly fee you can forego hiring an in-house HR team, and stop worrying about potential HR and compliance issues. With cavnessHR you have 24/7 access to real, live experts to handle everything from onboarding employees in a one-stop shop portal, advising you on HR laws, and even leadership and workplace culture seminars and workshops. In a constantly shifting corporate culture landscape, keep laser focus on your business with those cavnessHR Hours Recovered, while we take care of your HR.

https://www.cavnessHR.com

[email protected]

@cavnessHR across social media

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Episode 20_ “The Mad Hatter Principle”

We talk about the following:

Unspoken Conversations—the fastest way to torpedo the success of teams

The Mad Hatter Principle—everyone has things going on under the surface

Remembering that when there’s a communication breakdown—it’s not about you. Dig deeper.

Culture-Types: Chaos-tolerant vs. Order-tolerant people

Meg’s Leadership book: iX Leadership

Meg’s #1 Culture-Hack: Leaders, say the words, “tell me more”, to get others to really share with you.

About Our Guest:

Meg has years of experience in leading through transition. From major changes in highly-regulated industries to managing through $100M acquisition, Meg has refined skills in understanding people through change. Her studies in organizational psychology and mastery in leadership concepts ensure that your people are taken care of. Period. Meg has a passion for helping others realize their full potential - breaking down social and personal barriers - changing their story. Her innate ability to recognize opportunity in weakness and present a strategic solution is unprecedented in today's business world. Meg is a ranch kid from western South Dakota, where she still puts in a hard day's work on the family place. Ranch life gave her sticktoittiveness, passion for family and outdoors, and maybe a touch of stubbornness. Meg is an avid runner, an advocate of the well-rounded education of youth, and a major supporter of finding humor in all things. Partnering with Dr. Rachel MK Headley at the Rose Group Int'l, they developed the critical, new (and practical) iX leadership framework which allows you to actually solve problems in your team, address generational issues, guide people through big changes, and accomplish your most ambitious goals.

Meg’s Social Media

iX Leadership Book

Culture Type Assessment

iX Leadership Facebook Community

Rose Group Int'l YouTube Channel

Meg's article in Forbes on Toxic Teams

Meg's Disrupt HR Brookings presentation

Twitter: https://twitter.com/meg_manke

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/megmanke/

About Our Host:

Daniella Mestyanek (Mest-aa-neck) Young is an author, TEDx speaker and Organizational Culture-Hacker with fascinating life story and important insights into culture, socialization and group behavior. Daniella is the President of DMY Enterprises and the co-founder of cavnessHR.

Daniella was born and raised a third-generation member of the infamous religious cult the Children of God, known for promoting religious prostitution, pedophilia for God, and the end of the world. At 15, she escaped that life, moving to America and eventually becoming a US ARMY Captain.

During her journey, she was college valedictorian, served as part of the first group of women to conduct deliberate ground combat operations with all-male troops, deployed twice to Afghanistan where she also competed in, and won, a marathon, received the Presidential Volunteer Service Medal from President Obama personally, married an Army helicopter pilot, is raising a trilingual little girl in Seattle, WA and is hard at work on her forthcoming memoir, Uncultured.

Daniella’s Social Media:

https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

[email protected]

Twitter: https://twitter.com/daniellamyoung

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellamyoung_/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniella-young/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniellamestyanekyoung

Sign up to join the waitlist for my memoir, UNCULTURED at https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

About Our Sponsor

cavnessHR understands that time feels like the most limited resource in business. Small business leaders spend 25% of their time on HR and compliance matters, instead of directly increasing the bottom line with business growth. With cavnessHR, for a small monthly fee you can forego hiring an in-house HR team, and stop worrying about potential HR and compliance issues. With cavnessHR you have 24/7 access to real, live experts to handle everything from onboarding employees in a one-stop shop portal, advising you on HR laws, and even leadership and workplace culture seminars and workshops. In a constantly shifting corporate culture landscape, keep laser focus on your business with those cavnessHR Hours Recovered, while we take care of your HR.

https://www.cavnessHR.com

[email protected]

@cavnessHR across social media

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Episode 19_ “Shut up and Color: Creating Culture Catalysts in the Workplace”

We talk about the following:

How pain points and friction get you to think about culture

What are “Culture-Catalysts” and how can you use them in the workplace

Sharing your vision and inviting other people to take part

What gets measured gets managed

We have to trust that investing in culture will produce positive change AND profit

Valerie’s #1 Culture-Hack: Make sure you know why you’re doing what you’re doing, and make sure that your people know why too.

About Our Guest:

Valerie is on a mission to help organizations create workplace cultures where people thrive. Above all, she loves the thrill of seeing people come to life at work – with renewed purpose, engagement, and initiative. Valerie incorporates best practices in organizational behavior, design thinking, and coaching for change that sticks, and partners with clients to develop practical strategies tailored to their needs.

Previously, she served in the United States Air Force where she instigated a culture change movement that transformed a bureaucratic unit into a powerhouse of creativity and innovation, leading to intelligence breakthroughs. She didn’t stop there, though – a variety of game-changing programs adopted by the Air Force and the National Security Agency can trace their origins to her fearless willingness to challenge the status quo. Valerie holds an MBA from Stanford and a BS in Diplomacy and Military Studies from Hawaii Pacific University.

Valerie’s Social Media

+1.808.226.9381 

[email protected]

https://takebackwork.com

http://us.linkedin.com/in/valeriebrivera

http://twitter.com/takebackwork

http://facebook.com/takebackwork

http://instagram.com/takebackwork

About Our Host:

Daniella Mestyanek (Mest-aa-neck) Young is an author, TEDx speaker and Organizational Culture-Hacker with fascinating life story and important insights into culture, socialization and group behavior. Daniella is the President of DMY Enterprises and the co-founder of cavnessHR.

Daniella was born and raised a third-generation member of the infamous religious cult the Children of God, known for promoting religious prostitution, pedophilia for God, and the end of the world. At 15, she escaped that life, moving to America and eventually becoming a US ARMY Captain.

During her journey, she was college valedictorian, served as part of the first group of women to conduct deliberate ground combat operations with all-male troops, deployed twice to Afghanistan where she also competed in, and won, a marathon, received the Presidential Volunteer Service Medal from President Obama personally, married an Army helicopter pilot, is raising a trilingual little girl in Seattle, WA and is hard at work on her forthcoming memoir, Uncultured.

Daniella’s Social Media:

https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

[email protected]

Twitter: https://twitter.com/daniellamyoung

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellamyoung_/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniella-young/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniellamestyanekyoung

Sign up to join the waitlist for my memoir, UNCULTURED at https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

About Our Sponsor

cavnessHR understands that time feels like the most limited resource in business. Small business leaders spend 25% of their time on HR and compliance matters, instead of directly increasing the bottom line with business growth. With cavnessHR, for a small monthly fee you can forego hiring an in-house HR team, and stop worrying about potential HR and compliance issues. With cavnessHR you have 24/7 access to real, live experts to handle everything from onboarding employees in a one-stop shop portal, advising you on HR laws, and even leadership and workplace culture seminars and workshops. In a constantly shifting corporate culture landscape, keep laser focus on your business with those cavnessHR Hours Recovered, while we take care of your HR.

https://www.cavnessHR.com

[email protected]

@cavnessHR across social media

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Episode 18_ “What’s Your Chaos Tolerance?”

How different individuals have different levels of tolerance for chaos and moving through change

How a PhD in geography—A story-telling discipline—relates directly to studying corporate culture, another story telling discipline

Team-driven people vs. self-driven people.

Different culture-types and how leaders can use them to become more skilled at how they handle their people and even larger groups.

Dr. Rachel’s book,: iX Leadership Book

We talk about the following:

Dr. Rachel’s #1 Culture-Hack: Create more structure, especially right now during COVID-19. It will help to ground everyone on your team.

About Our Guest:

Dr. Rachel Headley knows how to get things done. She has been in the trenches, dealing with unspoken conversations, barriers to team goals and success, and figuring out how to achieve seemingly impossible goals demanded by executive leadership. As she rose through the ranks at a global satellite mission (from intern to satellite scientist to Operational Science Officer), she managed big projects, united diverse stakeholders, guided teams through change, and led complex and ground-breaking achievements. She believes the internal experience (iX) of an organization is a leadership choice. Whether a leader dials it in or actively designed and supports it, the iX of a company is critical to nearly all measures of success - profit, employee retention, customer satisfaction, and on and on. The hallmark of business today is constant change, which is highly uncomfortable to a large number of our people. Partnering with Meg Manke at the Rose Group Int'l, they developed the critical, new (and practical) iX leadership framework which allows you to actually solve problems in your team, address generational issues, guide people through big changes, and accomplish your most ambitious goals. Rachel is a TEDx speaker and has spoken on stage in front of over 12,000 people (https://youtu.be/dEe4dQcwuCQ). She is also a Forbes Coaches Council contributor, and serves on the Council of Trustees for South Dakota State University. She is a Mensa PhD scientist, a certified Project Management Professional, a global citizen, a choral singer, and an art patroness.

Rachel’s Social Media

iX Leadership Book

Rachel's article in Forbes on Culture Types

Culture Type Assessment

iX Leadership Facebook Community

Rachel's Disrupt HR presentation

Rose Group Int'l YouTube Channel

Twitter: https://twitter.com/sprfsh_rachel

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dr-rachel-mk-headley/

About Our Host:

Daniella Mestyanek (Mest-aa-neck) Young is an author, TEDx speaker and Organizational Culture-Hacker with fascinating life story and important insights into culture, socialization and group behavior. Daniella is the President of DMY Enterprises and the co-founder of cavnessHR.

Daniella was born and raised a third-generation member of the infamous religious cult the Children of God, known for promoting religious prostitution, pedophilia for God, and the end of the world. At 15, she escaped that life, moving to America and eventually becoming a US ARMY Captain.

During her journey, she was college valedictorian, served as part of the first group of women to conduct deliberate ground combat operations with all-male troops, deployed twice to Afghanistan where she also competed in, and won, a marathon, received the Presidential Volunteer Service Medal from President Obama personally, married an Army helicopter pilot, is raising a trilingual little girl in Seattle, WA and is hard at work on her forthcoming memoir, Uncultured.

Daniella’s Social Media:

https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

[email protected]

Twitter: https://twitter.com/daniellamyoung

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellamyoung_/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniella-young/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniellamestyanekyoung

Sign up to join the waitlist for my memoir, UNCULTURED at https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

About Our Sponsor

cavnessHR understands that time feels like the most limited resource in business. Small business leaders spend 25% of their time on HR and compliance matters, instead of directly increasing the bottom line with business growth. With cavnessHR, for a small monthly fee you can forego hiring an in-house HR team, and stop worrying about potential HR and compliance issues. With cavnessHR you have 24/7 access to real, live experts to handle everything from onboarding employees in a one-stop shop portal, advising you on HR laws, and even leadership and workplace culture seminars and workshops. In a constantly shifting corporate culture landscape, keep laser focus on your business with those cavnessHR Hours Recovered, while we take care of your HR.

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Episode 17_ “Go Easy on Yourself, Kiddo”

We talk about the following:

Suzanne’s Book, Bad Tourist, how much has changed in the world, and publishing a travel memoir during a global shutdown.

Thinking intentionally not only about where we’d like to travel next, but how we are going to do it.

If you’re a travelling, you’re a bad tourist—we all have misadventures and make mistakes

The importance of examining your actions with intentionality.

Suzanne’s #1 Culture-Hack: Go easy on yourself, Kiddo

About Our Guest:

Suzanne Roberts is the author of the travel essay collection Bad Tourist: Misadventures in Love and Travel (University of Nebraska Press, October 2020) and the memoir Almost Somewhere: Twenty-Eight Days on the John Muir Trail (winner of the National Outdoor Book Award), as well as four books of poems. Named "The Next Great Travel Writer" by National Geographic's Traveler, Suzanne's work has been listed as notable in Best American Essays and included in The Best Women's Travel Writing. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, CNN, Creative Nonfiction, Brevity, The Rumpus, Hippocampus, The Normal School, River Teeth, and elsewhere. She holds a doctorate in literature and the environment from the University of Nevada-Reno and teaches for the low residency MFA program in Creative Writing at Sierra Nevada University. She served as the 2018-2020 El Dorado County Poet Laureate and currently lives in South Lake Tahoe, California. 

Suzanne’s Social Media

Website: https://www.suzanneroberts.net/

Book: https://www.nebraskapress.unl.edu/nebraska/9781496222848/ Use code 6AS20 for 40 % off!!!! 

About Our Host:

Daniella Mestyanek (Mest-aa-neck) Young is an author, TEDx speaker and Organizational Culture-Hacker with fascinating life story and important insights into culture, socialization and group behavior. Daniella is the President of DMY Enterprises and the co-founder of cavnessHR.

Daniella was born and raised a third-generation member of the infamous religious cult the Children of God, known for promoting religious prostitution, pedophilia for God, and the end of the world. At 15, she escaped that life, moving to America and eventually becoming a US ARMY Captain.

During her journey, she was college valedictorian, served as part of the first group of women to conduct deliberate ground combat operations with all-male troops, deployed twice to Afghanistan where she also competed in, and won, a marathon, received the Presidential Volunteer Service Medal from President Obama personally, married an Army helicopter pilot, is raising a trilingual little girl in Seattle, WA and is hard at work on her forthcoming memoir, Uncultured.

Daniella’s Social Media:

https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

[email protected]

Twitter: https://twitter.com/daniellamyoung

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellamyoung_/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniella-young/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniellamestyanekyoung

Sign up to join the waitlist for my memoir, UNCULTURED at https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

About Our Sponsor

cavnessHR understands that time feels like the most limited resource in business. Small business leaders spend 25% of their time on HR and compliance matters, instead of directly increasing the bottom line with business growth. With cavnessHR, for a small monthly fee you can forego hiring an in-house HR team, and stop worrying about potential HR and compliance issues. With cavnessHR you have 24/7 access to real, live experts to handle everything from onboarding employees in a one-stop shop portal, advising you on HR laws, and even leadership and workplace culture seminars and workshops. In a constantly shifting corporate culture landscape, keep laser focus on your business with those cavnessHR Hours Recovered, while we take care of your HR.

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Episode 16: Everyone Has a Story

We talk about the following:

Folklore and storytelling as an important way to look at culture

Third-culture-kids; learning to relate to people different from you

Growing up outside of America, with no real idea what it means to be an ‘american’.

Travel at a young age and developing an expanded world view

Great Quotes: ” I was constantly put into situations where I had to find out people's stories, you know, to kind of get to know them better”

Lauren’s #1 Culture-Hack: Practice being a good listener—everyone has got a story.

About Our Guest:

Lauren is an award-winning writer and member of the American Society of journalists and authors. When she's not writing for businesses, Lauren crafts essays about her child As a military brat in cold war Europe, in an effort to promote a greater understanding of the unique aspects of military culture

Lauren’s Twitter: @Laurenbstevens

About Our Host:

Daniella Mestyanek (Mest-aa-neck) Young is an author, TEDx speaker and Organizational Culture-Hacker with fascinating life story and important insights into culture, socialization and group behavior. Daniella is the President of DMY Enterprises and the co-founder of cavnessHR.

Daniella was born and raised a third-generation member of the infamous religious cult the Children of God, known for promoting religious prostitution, pedophilia for God, and the end of the world. At 15, she escaped that life, moving to America and eventually becoming a US ARMY Captain.

During her journey, she was college valedictorian, served as part of the first group of women to conduct deliberate ground combat operations with all-male troops, deployed twice to Afghanistan where she also competed in, and won, a marathon, received the Presidential Volunteer Service Medal from President Obama personally, married an Army helicopter pilot, is raising a trilingual little girl in Seattle, WA and is hard at work on her forthcoming memoir, Uncultured.

Daniella’s Social Media:

https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

[email protected]

Twitter: https://twitter.com/daniellamyoung

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/daniellamyoung_/

Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/daniella-young/

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/daniellamestyanekyoung

Sign up to join the waitlist for my memoir, UNCULTURED at https://daniellamestyanekyoung.com/

About Our Sponsor

cavnessHR understands that time feels like the most limited resource in business. Small business leaders spend 25% of their time on HR and compliance matters, instead of directly increasing the bottom line with business growth. With cavnessHR, for a small monthly fee you can forego hiring an in-house HR team, and stop worrying about potential HR and compliance issues. With cavnessHR you have 24/7 access to real, live experts to handle everything from onboarding employees in a one-stop shop portal, advising you on HR laws, and even leadership and workplace culture seminars and workshops. In a constantly shifting corporate culture landscape, keep laser focus on your business with those cavnessHR Hours Recovered, while we take care of your HR.

https://www.cavnessHR.com

[email protected]

@cavnessHR across social media

See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.