James Cluskey brings his expertise from the world of professional sports and his passion for high performance to help companies win and retain their best talent. Join him as he shares his inspiring journey and valuable insights on connecting people, achieving goals, and creating successful teams.

In this episode, James dives deep into the secrets of his success and discusses a range of intriguing topics with his guest, including:

• what fuels James’s unwavering positivity
• how you can tap into your own source of inspiration
• how to focus on what you can control in both sports and business
• James’s journey founding Give Learn, an e-learning company that connects learning with social good
• the secret to coaching Richard Branson – hear the fascinating story of how James became Richard Branson's private tennis coach and the valuable lessons he learned from working closely with one of the world's most iconic entrepreneurs
• how to curate a winning team
• fundamental elements that contribute to a thriving team dynamic
• strategies for fostering collaboration, communication, and achieving collective goals

Don't miss this incredible opportunity to unlock the secrets to achieving your own success.

For more information about James Cluskey and Give Learn, visit the links below:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/james-cluskey-5bb8376a
• Website: https://givelearn.net
• Book: https://www.amazon.com/Advantage-Lessons-Sport-Business-Achieve/dp/1784529133

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• Executive Business Coach
• Deliberate Directions + Executive Business Coaching + Training Center
• 3003 W Main Street, Suite 110, Boise ID 83702
• (208) 350-6551
• Website https://www.deliberatedirections.com
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• Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deliberate-leaders-podcast-with-allison-dunn/id1500464675

Ed Thompson is the founder and CEO of Uptimize, the leader in corporate neurodiversity training. He’s an expert in how organizations can embrace the talents of employees with autism, AHDH, dyslexia, and other forms of neurodivergence to improve their cultures and bottom lines.

Ed's new book, A Hidden Force, makes a timely, apt, and critical contribution to today’s business world. Written for business leaders, talent management professionals, and neurodivergent employees, the book shows why and how creating a work environment that welcomes the full spectrum of talent benefits everyone.

During the interview, we discuss…

• neuroinclusivity movement's growth and impact
• data insights on neurodiversity prevalence
• embracing diverse ways of thinking
• leveraging neurodiverse teams for innovation
• defining neurodiversity and its significance
• reasons for overlooking neurodiversity
• integrating neurodiversity in diversity initiatives

Connect after the interview…

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ed-thompson-84b1182
• Website: ahiddenforce.com

After the interview, check out Ed’s new book, A Hidden Force: Unlocking the Potential of Neurodiversity at Work https://www.amazon.com/Hidden-Force-Unlocking-Potential-Neurodiversity/dp/1639080589

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• Executive Business Coach
• Deliberate Directions + Executive Business Coaching + Training Center
• 3003 W Main Street, Suite 110, Boise ID 83702
• (208) 350-6551
• Website https://www.deliberatedirections.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisondunn
• Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deliberate-leaders-podcast-with-allison-dunn/id1500464675

Why do we react to some situations in ways that cause us pain, anxiety, and fear? Why is it so hard to quiet our minds so we can fully enjoy the present moment? And is there anything we can do to change any of this?

These are the kinds of questions that author Thomas M. Sterner answers in this inspiring interview as he offers a practical approach for or mastering our thoughts by rewriting our internal programming.

Thomas Sterner is the author of The Practicing Mind, Fully Engaged, and most recently It’s Just a Thought: Emotional Freedom through Deliberate Thinking.

The CEO of the Practicing Mind Institute, Sterner is an in-demand speaker and coach working with high-performance industry groups and individuals, including athletes, to help them operate effectively in high-stress situations and experience new levels of mastery.

Prior to writing the bestselling The Practicing Mind, Sterner studied Eastern and Western philosophy and modern sports psychology and trained as a jazz pianist. He lives in Wilmington, Delaware.

During the interview we discuss…

• why we are often victims of “automated thinking” rather than the master creator of our thoughts
• discipline as the skill of shifting our attention into the present moment
• deliberate thinking
• how interpretation creates experience
• when we find ourselves in a situation that creates a sense of struggle

Connect after the interview…

• Twitter: https://twitter.com/practicingmind
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/tommsterner
• Website: http://www.tomsterner.com

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• Executive Business Coach
• Deliberate Directions + Executive Business Coaching + Training Center
• 3003 W Main Street, Suite 110, Boise ID 83702
• (208) 350-6551
• Website https://www.deliberatedirections.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisondunn
• Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deliberate-leaders-podcast-with-allison-dunn/id1500464675

Eric Ressler is the Founder and Creative Director of Cosmic — a Social Impact Creative Agency. He believes that the social impact sector must change in order to take advantage of the benefits of the information era.

Today’s digital tools and platforms make it easier for social impact organizations to quickly and efficiently create a platform, communicate ideas, and reach people aligned with their mission across the globe. Yet, many of the strategies and approaches in the social impact space are still based on what worked well in the pre-digital era. This leaves many organizations under-resourced, siloed, and struggling to reach their full impact potential.

Today’s social impact organizations have strong missions and inspiring visions. In order to accomplish their goals, they need to update their communications philosophies, focus their digital strategy, and learn how a well-thought-out brand strategy can help them rise above the noise, connect with supporters and advocates, and win in the attention economy.

Cosmic is always looking to help social impact leaders. We empower social impact organizations to catalyze real world change by helping them nail their impact story, build brand awareness, and inspire action.

Connect after the interview…

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cosmiceric
• Website: https://designbycosmic.com

During the interview we discuss…

• Challenges in funding for social impact organizations
• The starvation cycle and breaking free from it
• Future of social impact fundraising
• Importance of digital strategy for impact organizations
• Coherent branding and its benefits
• Branding's relevance amid other priorities
• Philanthropists' role in supporting impact organizations
• Overhead percentage as a flawed effectiveness metric

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• Executive Business Coach
• Deliberate Directions + Executive Business Coaching + Training Center
• 3003 W Main Street, Suite 110, Boise ID 83702
• (208) 350-6551
• Website https://www.deliberatedirections.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisondunn
• Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deliberate-leaders-podcast-with-allison-dunn/id1500464675

With a strong, passionate attitude towards bringing people together, Shaara is teaching business leaders to focus on one employee at a time by helping them align their personal goals with their professional development within their organization. Her primary goal is to deliver hands-on, sustainable steps giving leaders of every industry the chance to build intentional cultures of their own. The Conscious Workplace is the ultimate guide to help business professionals develop workable, immediate skills to thrive in any crisis.

Shaara Roman is the founder and CEO of The Silverene Group, a culture consulting firm that aligns people, strategy, and culture to optimize organizational performance. As an award-winning entrepreneur, board member, speaker, author, and former chief human resources officer, Shaara and her team consult with leaders to create healthy workplaces by helping them build inclusive workplace cultures, design effective organizations, and align their company values and people programs to achieve business goals.

During the interview, we discuss…

• why you are only as happy as your least happy employee
• how to avoid the “quiet quitter”
• how to cultivate an inclusive culture for different generations
• why diversity, equity, and inclusion aren’t enough until they’re paired with belonging and empowerment
• how to tell if your employees are in the early stages of quiet quitting

Connect after the interview…

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/shaara
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/silverenegroup
• Shaara’s website: https://shaararoman.com
• The Silverene Group: https://www.silverenegroup.com

Read Shaara’s book, “The Conscious Workplace: Fortify Your Culture to Thrive in Any Crisis” https://www.amazon.com/Conscious-Workplace-Fortify-Culture-Thrive/dp/B0BCP54QN8

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• Executive Business Coach
• Deliberate Directions + Executive Business Coaching + Training Center
• 3003 W Main Street, Suite 110, Boise ID 83702
• (208) 350-6551
• Website https://www.deliberatedirections.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisondunn
• Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deliberate-leaders-podcast-with-allison-dunn/id1500464675

Drawing on nearly two decades years of experience working with organizations like Microsoft, PepsiCo, and the US Navy Seals, Sara shares how to solve the problem of work-life blur.

Sara Ross is an international keynote speaker, founder, and chief vitality officer at the leadership research firm BrainAMPED. Sara Ross is on a mission to redefine success by helping leaders and their people reignite a sense of aliveness in their work and lives. Her clients include Microsoft, Cisco, PepsiCo, Bayer, Wells Fargo, T-Mobile, and the US Navy SEALS. Sara lives in Toronto, Canada, with her husband, Mike.

During the interview, we discuss…

• how to tell whether your career needs to change or you need to change
• 3 questions leaders can ask to help their team avoid burnout
• how we accidentally create cultures of helplessness at work
• how to respond to difficult situations skillfully and with more empathy
• why leaders are bad at relaxing during off hours
• how leaders can get their life back

Get in touch after the interview…

• Website: https://www.saraross.com
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sarajeanross
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/SaraJRoss
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/sara_j_ross/?hl=en

Get Sara’s new book, “Dear Work: Something Has to Change” https://www.amazon.com/Dear-Work-Something-Has-Change/dp/1774582457

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• Executive Business Coach
• Deliberate Directions + Executive Business Coaching + Training Center
• 3003 W Main Street, Suite 110, Boise ID 83702
• (208) 350-6551
• Website https://www.deliberatedirections.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisondunn
• Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deliberate-leaders-podcast-with-allison-dunn/id1500464675

Kelly Markey is an international best-selling author, motivational speaker, philanthropist, wife, successful corporate professional, and global inspiration. Her new book Don’t Just Fly, Soar, chronicles her turbulent, yet inspirational journey through life. Her focus is to help others that are on a journey of self-discovery, perhaps looking for personal development tools and resources to overcome painful early life experiences. We may even experience trauma as adults, such as divorce, addiction, and abuse.  

From small beginnings in South Africa to being now settled in Australia, Kelly is empowering other women of the next generation to find their path to success.

During the interview, we discuss…

• how to uncover truths from people’s experiences
• the difference between change and progress
• how our beliefs and behaviors influence how we show up
• reasons that keep people from achieving their goals
• the power in the stories we tell ourselves

Get in touch after the interview…

• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/kellymarkeyauthor
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/author_kelly_markey_
• Website: https://kellymarkey.com

Read Kelly’s book, “Don’t Just Fly, Soar” https://www.amazon.com/Dont-Just-Fly-SOAR-Inspiration/dp/0645196800

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• Executive Business Coach
• Deliberate Directions + Executive Business Coaching + Training Center
• 3003 W Main Street, Suite 110, Boise ID 83702
• (208) 350-6551
• Website https://www.deliberatedirections.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisondunn
• Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deliberate-leaders-podcast-with-allison-dunn/id1500464675

Colleen Doyle Bryant is the author of five books and more than 50 learning resources about character and values. Her latest book, Rooted in Decency, looks at the decline in common decency in society and ways that we can build more trust and cooperation. Colleen’s Talking with Trees series for elementary students and Truth Be Told Quotes series for teens are used in curriculums around the world with more than 100,000 of her good values resources downloaded each year. Colleen has a bachelor’s degree in sociology from Duke University.

During the interview, we discuss…

• 3 ways to understand your workplace moral compass
• tools to assess whether your personal and workplace values are aligned
• employee retention and the cost of losing common decency at work
• how to assess whether a company’s values align with your values
• how your values can help you navigate difficult workplace situations
• corporate values are not optional
• why personal values are secondary in any setting you enter
• morals and workplace hierarchies
• why managers and leaders need to hold themselves accountable

Get in touch after the interview…

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/colleen-doyle-bryant-8154042
• Website: https://colleendoylebryant.com
• Podcast Agent Email: [email protected]

Read “Rooted in Decency: Finding Inner Peace in a World Gone Sideways” https://www.amazon.com/Rooted-Decency-Finding-inner-sideways/dp/0984905669

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• Executive Business Coach
• Deliberate Directions + Executive Business Coaching + Training Center
• 3003 W Main Street, Suite 110, Boise ID 83702
• (208) 350-6551
• Website https://www.deliberatedirections.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisondunn
• Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deliberate-leaders-podcast-with-allison-dunn/id1500464675

Doug Noll is an award-winning author, teacher, trainer, and highly experienced mediator. His work carries him from international work to helping people resolve deep interpersonal and ideological conflicts to training life inmates to be peacemakers and mediators in maximum-security prisons. His fourth book, De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less was published by Beyond Word Publishing in September 2017. De-Escalate is now in four languages and in its second printing. He is the co-founder of Prison of Peace, and creator of the De-Escalate Emotional People (DEEP) skills.

During the episode, we discuss:

• attributes of an emotionally competent person
• the difference between emotional intelligence and emotional competence
• de-escalating an angry person in 90 seconds
• why we are 98% emotional and only 2% rational
• why emotional invalidation is the first deadly sin

Get in touch after the interview:

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dougnoll/
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/DouglasNoll/
• Twitter: https://twitter.com/dougnoll
• YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/douglasnoll
• Website: https://dougnoll.com/
• Podcast Agent Email: [email protected]

Get Doug’s book on Amazon today: “De-Escalate: How to Calm an Angry Person in 90 Seconds or Less” https://www.amazon.com/Escalate-Calm-Angry-Person-Seconds/dp/1582706557

Doug is also offering a free one-hour spot on his new project called Difficult Conversations With Doug which will be live-streamed on YouTube. This will be made available to any two of your listeners who may be avoiding difficult, yet crucial, conversations. You can find out more about this freebie here 👉 https://dougnoll.com/lp/difficult-conversations.

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• Executive Business Coach
• Deliberate Directions + Executive Business Coaching + Training Center
• 3003 W Main Street, Suite 110, Boise ID 83702
• (208) 350-6551
• Website https://www.deliberatedirections.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisondunn
• Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deliberate-leaders-podcast-with-allison-dunn/id1500464675

Welcome to the latest episode where we dive into the topic of "Quiet Quitting" - a phenomenon that's been on the rise in recent years. Many employees are silently disengaging from their work and quietly quitting their jobs without giving any indication to their employers.

In this episode, we'll explore why quiet quitting is becoming more prevalent, the impact it can have on both employees and employers, and most importantly, how to prevent it.

We'll also share some practical tips on how to avoid job burnout and discuss an alternative to quiet quitting that could lead to a better outcome.

Sonja "Dynamo" Price is a Top Career Strategist, Salary Advisor, and Leadership Coach. Her mission is to support professionals to have greater meaning, better work-life balance, and significantly higher pay.

She has worked directly with Tony Robbins, trained with Al Gore to become a Climate Reality Leader, and won an Honorable Award from the Women’s Economic Forum.

She has helped many clients land their dream job with prestigious organizations such as Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft, Meta, Starbucks, T-Mobile, and many other large and small organizations.

During the interview, we discuss:

• quiet quitting
• why quiet quitting is increasing
• how to prevent quiet quitting
• examples of good and bad stress
• quick tips to avoid job burnout
• an alternative to quiet quitting
• when it’s the right time to find a new job

Connect after the interview…

• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sonjaprice
• Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/groups/dynamocareers
• Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dynamocareers
• Website: https://dynamocareers.com

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Allison Dunn

• Executive Business Coach
• Deliberate Directions + Executive Business Coaching + Training Center
• 3003 W Main Street, Suite 110, Boise ID 83702
• (208) 350-6551
• Website https://www.deliberatedirections.com
• LinkedIn https://www.linkedin.com/in/allisondunn
• Podcast https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/deliberate-leaders-podcast-with-allison-dunn/id1500464675