Culture-Hacking with Daniella Mestyanek Young

Episode 15_ “Success and Neuro-Diversity in the Workplace”

We talk about the following:

John’s life journey and his thoughts on success and neuro diversity in the workplace -

John struggled in school, turning to drugs and alcohol and spending high school graduation in rehab

After college, John had learned to function successfully on the outside, while still covering up internal dysfunction and internal angst and anxiety and a pattern of destructive behaviors.

Found a fit at a corporation that was hard-charging, high-stakes and disruptive.

After being diagnosed with clinical depression and bipolar disorder, John took a break to work on himself, get sober and medicated.

Began to change his management style, became a certified Clifton’s strengths coach, and began to try to help people on his team become their best selves.

At work, he’s become open and outspoken about neuro-diversity, and the culture has changed around him to support this.

Through his journey, John has become a much better listener, leader, father and more.

Great Quotes: “We need to change the way we talk about mental health in the workplace”

“There’s no end to self-awareness, it’s a constant journey”

John’s #1 Culture-Hack: Hack 1  is keep track every day of how many times you hear somebody say, “Yeah, but” or “Yes, but”, or “However”. Keep track of those, write it down, just make a note. Because when people use those words it gives the listener the impression that you weren’t listening the whole time they were speaking. Hack 2 is keep track of how many times a day you hear people interrupt each other because interruptions beget interruptions.

About Our Guest:

John Birrell-Levine is a tinkerer, a sociologist, an ally for all and spends his life tirelessly working on human evolution. In corporate environments, as a Gallup certified strengths coach and accredited insights discovery practitioner, he uses common language and instruments as a base upon which to build. John also focuses on daily tweaks and hacks people in teams can leverage to shift cultural direction.

John’s Social Media

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

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 14_ The Good Person Defense

We talk about the following:

Childhood sexual abuse

Incest

Trauma

Risk-seeking behavior

Childhood sexual abuse victims usually have to tell someone 7 times before they are believed

How the anger of not being believed affects children into adulthood

The harmfulness of the “good person defense” & the ‘good vs. bad’ dichotomy that we so love as humans

Discovering your voice after it’s been taken from you

Kelly’s #1 Culture-Hack: Take opportunities, because you never know where life will lead

About Our Guest:

Kelly Wallace is a career consultant who helps people with disabilities find jobs in Portland, Oregon. She is at work on a memoir about her experience testifying against her paternal grandpa as a young child. In her free time, she enjoys traveling to foreign countries and playing with her two fur-kids, Star boy and Moonboy, three-year-old tuxedo and silver tabby cats.

Kelly’s Social Media

https://www.facebook.com/kelly.wallace.50

www.bootcamp4writers.com

Twitter: kellythewriter1

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 13_Nobody Cares About What You’ve Done: Identity and Transition after Military Service

We talk about the following:

Having to change your mindset to join the military, and then again to leave

The impact of 9/11 on those who served

Leadership training in the military

Indoctrination and becoming part of a group

How hard it is to adjust to less stress AND less adrenaline when you leave the military

Loss of identity and purpose

Developing emotional intelligence and understanding that there is a lot you don’t know

Great Quotes:

“you have to understand that the way you talk to people, the way you carry yourself the way that you interact with others, the way that you may give instructions, if you're like in a management position, it's much different than how you how you did that stuff in the army.”

“I really think one of the most important question that any veteran can ask themselves when they're getting ready to leave the military is, you know, what do I really want? If you’re waiting till you got out, you waited too long.”

Jeff’s #1 Culture-Hack: You set your own conditions, so own it, Own your conditions. And you're going to find that the loyalty that you drive from the folks that you're leading is going to be much is going to be much better then, and your product is going to be a lot better.

About Our Guest:

Jeff Schultz is currently an active duty Army soldier who's in the later stages of retirement. His career started in 1996 as an infantry man with these 82nd Airborne Division and spanned 24 years ending as the Joint Base Lewis McChord, enlisted military police advisor to the Joint Base Lewis McCord chief of police.

Jeff’s Social Media

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jeffrey-t-schultz/

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 12_ The Lies You Want to Hear

We talk about the following:

Illness (especially invisible illnesses) and motherhood

Society’s obsession with women’s weight

How sometimes ‘self-harming’ behavior appears as ‘good traits’ in our society

The isolation and loneliness of motherhood

How society can use children to control parents

Feeling pressured and judged by the decisions we make—expected to meet society’s expectations and the pressure that can cause

Judy’s Book: The Lies You Want to Hear

Judy’s #1 Culture-Hack: For writing (or anything big you want to do in life), do a little every day.

About Our Guest:

Judy Walters is a seven-time author of women's fiction novels that focus on strong women dealing with complicated medical or family situations. Her eighth title, The Lies You Want to Hear is out now, and focuses on a 36-year-old mother who is fighting an eating disorder.

Judy’s Links

https://www.amazon.com/Lies-You-Want-Hear-ebook/dp/B0847S9T2T/ref=sr_1_1?crid=10SG6EBIF95QP&keywords=the+lies+you+want+to+hear&qid=1584723805&s=books&sprefix=The+Lies+You+Want%2Cstripbooks%2C172&sr=1-1 

 https://www.facebook.com/search/top/?q=judy%20mollen%20walters%20author&epa=SEARCH_BOX

https://www.judymollenwalters.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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Episode 11_ “Culture is What Happens Between All the Spaces”

We talk about the following:

Starting a business as a child

Teachable skills vs. desirable personality traits

Where the hiring process breaks down. Can we create a better system?

Creating an innovative video-interviewing platform that helps companies have a better idea who the candidate is before they walk in the door.

Biggest leadership mistake—trying to replicate yourself instead of tying other people into your team for their own talents and skills and personality.

Great Quotes: “Culture is what happens in between all the spaces”

“Life is a wide-open canvas and you can literally create whatever you want”

Matt’s #1 Culture-Hack: Find that open canvas and if you're a leader, help others create it. If you're somebody who's not sure if you're a leader yet, go create it yourself and you'll have other people who want to join and who love it.

About Our Guest:

Matt is the CEO and founder of Wedge, the podcast host of the Matt Baxter Show (Wedgecast), and an avid lover of his golden retriever. He's also a serial entrepreneur who got started at a very young age.

Matt’s Social Media

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-baxter-b211a690/

The Matt Baxter Show: https://www.stitcher.com/podcast/rob-kish/the-wedgecast

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 10_It’s Not About “Are They a Culture-Fit, but Are They a Culture-Add”

We talk about the following:

How you can do really good things for business through Culture

Comfort Research’s “Culture Experience”, tour that they take business leaders on

Culture is important in ANY organization, and HAS to come from the top-down

How even college students can have core values for a culture of one

Tactical tips on how to empower your people to own the values

Those are dream big, take action and make a difference—all three are necessary

The FAB awards! How to influence employees to take action!

Great Quotes:

“And I, we talked to them about what is a great set of core values look like? How does that tie into the strategic plan? And then once you've identified a great set of core values, how do you go about implementing them. And so I get a lot of different people at all different levels within the organization, you know, CEOs, managers, HR people, you know, even people on the manufacturing floor that want to have an impact on culture and want to see how we are doing it.”

“If I wanted people to just agree and say yes, I would get robots”

“A good culture is going to spit out the people that aren't a good add a good fit to that organization. And that's the way it should be. Our retention rate right now is around 96% 96%. People ask us, Hey, are you having a hard time? You know, hiring right now? No!”

Matt’s #1 Culture-Hack: My favorite culture hack is probably just the piece about taking action towards your culture goals. Right? Just do something that you know about it, do something about it every single day, every single week. No matter what, how are you moving towards improving your culture, clearly defining your core values, making it better?

About Our Guest:

Matt Jung is the co-founder and co-CEO of comfort research

Matt’s Social Media

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matt-jung-486a2810/

Website: http://comfortresearch.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/

Read my story here: https://narratively.com/i-escaped-the-cult-but-i-couldnt-escape-the-cult-mentality/

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 9_ Alcoholics Anonymous, Ironman and Values

We talk about the following:

Sobriety

How values and purpose in a company need to be done with intention

The connection between radical adventurism and relationships

How the values of Ironman teach you not to judge people on appearance

Good Quotes:

“Any day that's moving along, that I'm not on target to where I said I wanted to go. It's usually because I've let somebody break one of those boundaries and knock me off course a little bit.”

“And there's like 12 steps couldn't be any more simple than that. Don't drink and go to a meeting. And as simple KPI that I had to follow for a long time, don't drink and go to meeting. And if that doesn't work, don't drink and go to another meeting. And do that for 90 days. And if you're not completely satisfied will return your misery. That's what my sponsor told me. So it's funny that now I work with clients on 90 day rhythms. And you know, we set a three year plan, a one year plan, and then 90 days and at the end of our meetings, I'm like, here's your 90 day plan. Just like my sponsor gave me 30 years ago, and maybe that's a little coincidence. Maybe that's a little God's work, maybe. I don't know”

“If I'm clear with where I want to go, if I'm clear with what my values are the rules I'll play by, and I know my purpose in life, and I use those as the filters to making all the decisions, I'm moving forward today.”

Kris’ #1 Culture-Hack: Just remember, much like dating, you don't need to attract the whole world with your values. You only need to attract the right people.

About Our Guest:

Kris Kaplan is a 20-year entrepreneur, and an eight time Iron Man. He's been through 20 years of marriage and has two amazing kids.

Kris’ Social Media

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kris-kaplan-00b18a5/

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/

Read my story here: https://narratively.com/i-escaped-the-cult-but-i-couldnt-escape-the-cult-mentality/

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 7_ Blaze Your Own Trail with Special Guest Rebekah Bastian

We talk about the following:

Diversity and women’s experiences in Tech

Cultural Engagement—how employees can engage with each other and the community; to motivate and to solve social issues

Amplification of women’s voices

How to create a sense of solidarity in our life experiences through storytelling

Using positions of privilege to speak out when others are being harmed

Great Quotes:

“Blaze your own trail— life comes together and there is no one ‘right’ path”

 “Good intentions don’t make microagressions okay”

Rebekah’s #1 Culture-Hack: Pay attention to what you’re passionate about and where you get your energy from, combine that with you’re good at, and combine that with where you’re needed—you can end up in some really amazing places that you never could have predicted.

About Our Guest:

Rebekah Bastian is Vice President of Community & Culture at Zillow Group, leading efforts around Equity & Belonging, Social Impact Products and Cultural Engagement. Rebekah was one of Zillow’s first employees, coming over from Microsoft in 2005, and spent her first 12 years leading product development across many areas of the company.

Rebekah’s first book, Blaze Your Own Trail, will be coming out in February 2020 with Berrett-Koehler Publishers.

Rebekah serves on the Board of Directors of Bellwether Housing and the Advisory Board for the University of Washington School of Mechanical Engineering. She is also an advisor to technology startups, a respected thought leader and community partner. She writes articles in multiple publications including Forbes.com, and is a frequent speaker at conferences and community events. She has been recognized in the Puget Sound Business Journal 40 Under 40, the Inman 33 People Changing the Real Estate Industry and the Female Founders Alliance Champion Awards.

Rebekah earned her Masters of Mechanical Engineering from UC Berkeley and Bachelors of Mechanical Engineering from the University of Washington. She is also a mentor, a mother to two boys and an aerial acrobat.

Rebekah’s Social Media

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

Website: https://rebekahbastian.com/writing/

Rebekah’s Book: Blaze Your Own Trail

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/

Read my story here: https://narratively.com/i-escaped-the-cult-but-i-couldnt-escape-the-cult-mentality/

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 6_ The Stories We Choose Not to Tell with Special Guest Lori Silverman

We talk about the following:

Technology, Age, Energy and Culture

The importance of people & processes

Storytelling for business—and how the stories we choose not to tell are just as telling as those we choose to tell

Data—it’s importance and it’s misuse

Decision scientists vs. data-scientists & decision intelligence vs. data science .

Lori’s #1 Culture-Hack: Sit back and ask yourself: why am I here, what am I meant to do, and then find work that makes that fulfilling.

About Our Guest:

When radio and TV hosts interviewed Lori Silverman about her book, Stories Trainers Tell, every single one asked: “Can story be used for more than training?” This motivated her to spend the next three years uncovering a variety of business applications, which are in her book, Wake Me Up When the Data Is Over. When her third bestseller, Business Storytelling for Dummies, came out in 2013, it solidified her thought leadership in the field. One chapter developed into a unique framework for transforming data into insight and action, which she speaks about worldwide. As the Shift Strategist, and CEO of Partners for Progress, Lori has helped organizations in 25 different industries strategize about their future and navigate large, messy, complex changes. She is also an adjunct professor at Golden Gate University, teaching the only graduate course in the world on Strategic Thinking in the Industrial and Organizational Psychology field.

Lori’s Social Media

Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lori-silverman-700963/

Linked In Live Host: Level Up with Lori

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/

Read my story here: https://narratively.com/i-escaped-the-cult-but-i-couldnt-escape-the-cult-mentality/

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 5_Practically Perfect in Every Way

Culture-Hacking with Daniella Mestyanek Young, a podcast series where I chat with guests who’ve been through interesting and unique life journeys that have led them to deeply engage with thoughts about what is culture, how is it created, how is it led, and, most importantly, how can we change it? I’m your host, Daniella Mestyanek Young, author, TEDx Speaker and Organizational Culture-Hacker. You will hear incredible stories, amazing insights and at the end of every, single episode you will walk away with one tactical ‘culture-hack’ that you can implement in your world today. Subscribe today wherever you get your podcasts and never miss a hack.

On Episode 5, we talk about the following:

Knowing your purpose

Conversion Therapy and warring with your true self

Becoming your authentic self

Knowing your true strengths and energies and using that to drive what you will do and be

Research has shown that happy employees help the organization

Jonathan’s #1 Culture-Hack: Be Yourself

About Our Guest:

Jonathan Davey is the organizational Mary Poppins. He is most at home working with teams and organizations in distress and dysfunction. He provides understanding, clarity, and a new mindset which allows individuals to not only recognize but realize their full potential and to appreciate the differences in others in order to establish cohesion and a sustainable plan for success. And then he’s off to the next team or organization that needs him.

Jonathan, Founder and CEO of Intellego (a workplace culture consulting firm), improves the health of organizations by establishing a strengths-based culture. He is dedicated to creating inclusive workplaces that allow people to bring their full authentic selves to work and do what they do best every day. And although he doesn’t claim to be “practically perfect in every way,'' his use and value of the growth mindset model helps him and his clients achieve greatness.

When he's not flying from one workplace to the other, Jonathan enjoys attending community events, trying new restaurants, and traveling.

Jonathan’s Links:

LinkedIN: https://www.linkedin.com/in/declaremedavey/

Website: https://www.teamintellego.com/

Instagram @teamintellego

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 on boarding 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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