Tiziana Casciaro is a Professor of Organizational Behavior and the Marcel Desautels in Integrative Thinking at the Rotman School of Management of the University of Toronto. Her research on organizational networks, professional networking, power dynamics, and change leadership has appeared in top academic journals in management, psychology, and sociology and has received scientific achievement awards from the Academy of Management. Thinkers 50 has recognized Tiziana as one of the thirty thinkers most likely to shape the future of how organizations are managed and led. Her research has been featured in the Economist, the Financial Times, the Washington Post, the New York Times, CNN, CBC, Fortune, and TIME magazine. She is the co-author of the book Power, for All: How it Really Works and Why It Is Everyone’s Business (Simon & Schuster, 2021) that received the 2022 George R. Terry Award, granted annually by the Academy of Management to the book judged to have made the most outstanding contribution to the global advancement of management knowledge during the previous two years. Originally from Italy, Tiziana received her B.A. in Business Administration from Bocconi University in Milan and her M.S. and Ph.D. in Organization Science and Sociology from Carnegie Mellon University. Before joining the University of Toronto, she served on the faculty of the Harvard Business School.

This is Part 1 of 2 of my conversation with Tiziana Casciaro. I decided to split this episode into two, so you can digest it easier.

This episode discusses:

1. The Book Power, for All: How It Really Works and Why It's Everyone's Business, you can find it in Apple Books, Barnes&Noble, or Amazon
2. Tiziana's path to academia and focus on organizational networks, power dynamics, and change leadership
3. The process behind writing the book
4. Definition of Power, what it is and what isn't power, why power for all, misconceptions about power
5.  Safety, Self-esteem, respect, societal and organizational structures, and power dynamics

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Natalie Novosel is a former college and professional basketball player.  She was born in Lexington, Kentucky, and played collegiately for the Fighting Irish of Notre Dame. Some of her best memories include helping Notre Dame to 2 National Championship Games, winning a gold medal with Team USA at the World University Games in Shenzhen, China, being selected 8th in the 2012 WNBA Draft, and five seasons playing professionally in the U.S. and overseas. 

Natalie works at Transamerica & World Financial Group, revolutionizing the financial industry. Natalie applies her basketball lessons to her entrepreneurship journey - the camaraderie and being part of a team, winning culture of never being satisfied, and surrounding herself with like-minded individuals who want more for their lives. What drives Natalie? "The constant self-improvement and quest for being the best version of ourselves, and the opportunity to change our family's legacy and others' lives forever."

We discuss: 

• Natalie's upbringing and journey to finding her passion - basketball
• College basketball career at Notre Dame University - why she picked the school, challenges she faced, top highlights of her basketball college career
• Struggles with finding and owning your voice, creating teamwork, believing in yourself, building confidence, creating authority
• Leadership by example vs. leadership by example with clear communication - stepping into your power
• Being drafted for WNBA Washington Mystics and adjusting to the culture, believing you belong and are good enough
• Playing basketball professionally in Romania and Australia and country and culture fit
• Natalie's transition from Basketball to Entrepreneurship, creating daily program and routine, and updating our belief system
• Creating a thriving team, inspiring, leading self & leading others, earning respect "Business is all about the people you meet"
• Tips on personal finance from Natalie's expertise

Get in touch with Natalie:
Instagram: @ifnatmethanwho
Twitter: @NatalieNovosel
Cell Phone: 859-519-8063
Email: [email protected]

Favorite quotes: "It doesn't matter what you look like,  you can play; people respect you."

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My today's guests are Dana Jaber and Anna Moonen. I met Dana and Anna when I worked at Ericsson, and we became friends over the years, sharing tips about how to grow our leadership in our careers and outside of our profession.

Dana Jaber Diab is an Information and Communications Technology Business Leader with an unquenchable curiosity for all things tech, entrepreneurship, and leadership.

Anna-Maria Moonen has had various leadership roles in the Information Technology and Telco services industry. She thrives in environments that enable innovative thinking and has always focused on growing the most important asset of the company – the people. Her passion lies in fostering a good character of leadership throughout the organization.

This episode talks about #goals and #goalsetting:

• Why set goals
• Tools and mechanisms we use to set goals
• The power of intentions and systems
• Achieving potential
• Staying flexible and adaptable
• Celebrating small wins

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This episode is a continuation of episode # 16, where I talked about power and the book Power for All by Julie Battilana & Tiziana Casciaro. This episode discusses chapter #4  and answers the importance of understanding  "Who controls access to what they value."

I also talk briefly about quitting and a new book that I'm listening to from Annie Duke, Quit: The power of knowing when to walk away.  This is a good podcast to listen to if you want to learn more about Annie and quitting.

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Coach Agustin Moreno is currently the Women's Tennis Head Coach at Loyola Marymount University (LMU) and the Head Coach of Mexico's Billie Jean King Cup Team.
Agustin Moreno LMU webpage
Email: [email protected]
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Agustin Moreno was named head coach of the women's tennis program on June 28, 2015. During this short time, he has created and coached the team to achieve LMU Tennis record results and conference placements. The 2015-16 season was Moreno's first with the Lions after coming off nine-plus seasons leading South Florida's program, guiding them to a pair of conference championships and six NCAA tournament appearances.

Morena has vast college coaching experience leading teams and players to National tournaments and appearances, winning conferences, and gaining honors. Moreno's extensive coaching resume includes a wealth of international experience guiding women's and men's programs:  Mexican Women's Federation Cup Team and the Billie Jean King Cup Team, Mexico's Women's Continental Cup Team, an 18-and-under squad, Women's Pan-American Team (2004), Mexican Davis Cup Team, and the Mexican 14-and-under World Youth Cup squad in Japan.

Moreno played one season (1985-86) at Pepperdine, earning a No. 4 national ranking in doubles and helping the Waves to the national indoor title and an appearance in the NCAA Championship title match. Moreno enjoyed a successful professional career on the ATP tour, achieving a 120 ranking in singles and 40 in doubles. Moreno owns career singles wins over Thomas Muster and Petr Korda.

We discuss: 

• Agustin's journey to tennis growing up in Guadalajara Mexico
• Junior's tennis and ATP tour professional tennis experience 
• College tennis at Pepperdine
• College Tennis Coaching - LMU, USF, University of Georgia, TCU
• Coaching Women's Tennis and the mental aspect of the game
• Developing teams and players, NCAA tournament appearances, Conference Wins
• College Recruiting, choosing the right college and coach to develop your tennis game
• How to navigate difficult life and tennis situations, adaptability, life transitions, happiness, regrets
• LMU's fantastic tennis season and some key wins, LMU defeating UCLA for the first time in history at their home courts
• Mexico Tennis Hall of Fame Award  “Salón de la Fama del Tennis Mexicano” as the best captain of a national squad, Billie Jean King Cup

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Sandy Farquharson is the Founder of The Padel School and the Host of The Padel School Podcast. He has over a decade of professional padel coaching experience. He is currently one of the LTA's lead coach educators and is responsible for designing and delivering the LTA's padel coach education program. To date, he has trained 100+ padel coaches across the world. Alongside his coaching experience and expertise, he plays on the GB national men's team and is also the team coach.
An entrepreneur at heart, Sandy is driven by his desire to grow the game of padel across the globe and to provide everyone with access to high-quality padel training advice.
Sandy is also my former tennis teammate. Sandy and I overlapped during my first year competing for a D1 tennis team at the University of Texas at Arlington.

Website: https://thepadelschool.com/
Apple Podcast: The Padel School Podcast
Instagram: The Padel School
Facebook: The Padel School
YouTube: @ThePadelSchool
LinkedIn: Sandy Farquharson
LindkedIn Company  The Padel School page, Twitter, Tiktok

We discuss: 

• Sandy's athletic background, his experience playing many different sports, and  reasons he focused on tennis
• Sandy's college selection and collegiate tennis journey, including the challenges he faced
• His attempt to continue playing on the ATP tour while gaining his education as a Master of Sports Science focusing on Human Performance
• What it takes to be a great tennis player and some differences between the ATP and WTA tour, including mindset and the support that a coach provides
• And then last but not least, we talk about padel. We discuss Sandy's transition to the sport and why he enjoys it, including some tips on how to transition from Tennis to Padel and why he believes it is a great sport that is rapidly expanding and will continue to grow at a fast speed.

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Some announcements, consistency, and my contemplation about Power as I reflect on my reading "Power for All" by Julie Battilana and Tiziana Casciaro.
Link to an article I wrote about consistency.
I would appreciate your feedback on how you enjoyed or didn't enjoy this episode. 
#powerforall #consistency #power

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Tracy Reifkind is the Author of "The Swing!" Lose the Fat and Get Fit with This Revolutionary Kettlebell Program. Tracy's book is inspired by her transformation journey and is a fantastic manual that is detailed yet simple to follow and can be easily personalized. At forty-one years of age, Tracy, after being overweight her entire life, made a fantastic transformation and lost 120 pounds by using kettlebells, cleaning up her diet, cooking her meals, and using her mindset to create a lasting change. Tracy is a sought-after personal trainer and motivation and nutrition coach featured in Tim Ferriss's The 4-Hour Body. In 2006, she became a certified Russian kettlebell instructor. Since then, she has developed a unique training program that works for everyone at any fitness level. 

We discuss: 

• Tracy's transformation journey to becoming the athlete she always wanted to be
• Tracy's book and how it came to life
• Kettlebell training - why is it so effective
• The importance of progressions, looking at trendlines, gradual goal setting
• Mindset: Readiness zone, drive, inspiration, consistency, confidence, visualization
• Taking responsibility and getting rid of thoughts that don't serve us, such as being-a-victim
• The importance of self-love and being selfish, creating time for yourself

Purchase Tracy's book: "The Swing!" Lose the Fat and Get Fit with This Revolutionary Kettlebell Program.
Tracy's training program: https://swinglean.gumroad.com
Tracy's Youtube channel
My training session with Tracy on YouTube
Tracy in The 4-Hour Body video trailer by Tim Ferriss
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Facebook
Blogs:
Training, Food, and Thought
Girya Strength
SwingLean
My experience of working out with Tracy Reifkind

Favorite quotes:
"Kettlebell Swing: It's the biggest bang for your buck as far as exercise goes. If you want to do the littlest amount of work with the most potential for change - then kettlebell swing is it."

 "Always reflect and act from a place of pride about who you are today and who you will become in the future." 

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Zachary Green's experiences in the Marine Corps shaped his destiny. His time in the military, then as a firefighter, gave him the resourcefulness, integrity, and grit to become a highly successful entrepreneur. Taking risks, trusting himself, and never letting go of his dreams drove him to create, produce, market, and sell a product that saves lives. Zachary was named Entrepreneur of the Year by the Ohio Chamber of Commerce and has testified in front of the US House of Representatives Small Business Committee. Zachary's entrepreneurial journey has been featured on the front page of Yahoo.com and also covered by CNN, USA Today, CBS, and many other major news outlets.

Key topics discussed in this episode:

• We talk about Zachary's book, Warrior Entrepreneur: Lessons From The Battlefield To The Boardroom.
• Zachary claims that being a warrior and a successful entrepreneur is the same, and the skills that helped him succeed on the battlefield are the same skills that carried him forward as an entrepreneur. 
• Zachary talks about fundamental warrior principles: Teamwork, Purpose, Confidence, Tenacity, Adaptability, Never giving up, Grit, Sacrifice, Morals, and Serenity.
•  We dive into grit: the importance of prevailing through crucibles, learning to overcome challenges, and the critical lessons that overcoming challenges teach us - how they sharpen the warrior's character and skills.
• We also dive into purpose, adaptability, sacrifice, and the importance of creating your serenity practice and a support team

Resources:
Email: [email protected]
Zachary's LinkedIn
Zachary's website
Zachary is also a Co-host of the Warrior's Voice Podcast.
Purchase a signed copy of the book here.
Purchase the book on Amazon here.

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Amy Eliza Wong is the Founder of "Always On Purpose" and an author of an upcoming book "Living on Purpose."  Amy is a transformational coach and facilitator working with the biggest names in tech, organizations such as Salesforce, Facebook, LinkedIn, and more. Amy offers transformative leadership development and cutting-edge communication strategies to executives and corporate teams worldwide and in the halls of academia, with institutions such as Stanford University and the University of California at Berkeley. Amy pulls from various disciplines, studies, and practices to find a consilient approach to achieving genuine and lasting success - what she refers to as "the fundamentals of thriving." Amy has an intense passion for helping people experience meaningful joy and satisfaction in their daily lives, free of fear and false perception. In short, she thrives on assisting others to live and lead on purpose. For more than twenty years, Amy has devoted herself to the study and practice of transformation. As a certified Executive Coach using expertise in transpersonal psychology, design thinking, interpersonal neurobiology, and Conversational Intelligence, Amy has provided thousands of transformative experiences for individuals, executives, teams, and organizations. She graduated from UC Berkeley with a B.A. in mathematics and has an M.A. in transpersonal psychology from Sofia University. When she's not writing, researching, and speaking, Amy spends time in the Bay Area with her husband and two children.

Key topics discussed in this episode:

• We go through the five choices that Amy talks about in her book Living on Purpose
• The importance of having a mindfulness practice
• Side effects of Living on Purpose

You can pre-order Amy's book "Living on Purpose: Five Deliberate Choices to Realize Fulfillment and Joy" on Amazon today or through other ways, which you can find on Amy's website. 

All resources discussed in this podcast can be found on Amy's website. Here is a link to Amy's articles, related to the discussion in this episode where you can find information on how to strengthen your self-awareness. You can then register and use text reminders to harness your focus, live on purpose, and thrive. I registered yesterday and find this practice to be a great addition to my morning routine. Please check out Amy's website for more information and an opportunity to participate.
"Conversational Intelligence: Increase your Impact" Stanford Continuous Studies class we discuss in this episode.

You can reach Amy via her website or social media accounts: Instagram, LinkedIn, Facebook.

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