Ignite Creativity with Marysia Czarski

Living with the surname Bragg, Lisa has wittingly leveraged ways to use it in the context of her life’s work! I talk with Lisa Bragg about mastering the art and science of authentic self-promotion and when she’s seen being too humble cost people international deals and when bragging right has unlocked opportunities leading to untold fortunes.

Jealousy is a lagging indicator of desire.

Have you ever felt a pang of jealousy when you heard about someone else’s accomplishments or success? Consider that your internal smoke detector letting you know that you are seeking an opportunity! I talk with Lisa Bragg, the author of Bragging Rights, How to Talk about Your Work Using Purposeful Self Promotion, about her insights from her extensive research study on bragging and self-promotion conducted with professionals internationally.

Listen in to learn:

• It takes time and energy to get traction on your idea, so grab your megaphone and promote your good work
• It’s common that an overnight success has actually been twenty years in the making
• Why having your success story ready to roll is important!  Don’t expect someone to keep digging it out of you
• Invisibility is corrosive.  It is important to stand out, not fit in
• 85% of us want to hear about your success
• Go forward together, partner, and cause the change you want to see

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Have you ever felt unacknowledged for your work or contributions? What did that do to your motivation, engagement, and commitment to producing results?  I talk with Michele Bailey about the necessary and sometimes forgotten role of offering gratitude to others and the transformative impact it can have.  While you may be familiar with the practice of acknowledging what we are grateful for in the form of a Gratitude Journal, this is about turning the attention onto others and how small gestures of gratitude go a long way.  As you acknowledge the efforts of others, you will feel the benefits too!

Here is what we discussed:

• Always, reflection is powerful and necessary
• How do you make people sticky?  Because sticky people stay!
• The interconnection between personal goals, work goals and engagement
• Push gratitude outwards to build deep relationships with those around you
• Look for and acknowledge the creative acts of others
• The pathway to filling up others ‘fuel tank’ for creativity

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In this episode, we introduce you to the world of scenario planning and its role in making your organization more resilient in the future.  Find out how this work will help you better manage the next disruption coming your way! 

In this conversation with Maggie, we discuss the following: 

• The limits of traditional strategic planning
• Today’s complex, fast-paced world demands Scenario Thinking. 
• Scenario Planning will help you make sense of everything coming at you.
• Unknow, doesn’t mean unknowable. 
• Creating and using scenarios gets easier and faster with practice (and fun if you let it be)
• Ways to become a trend nerd!  Because you don’t have to be a futurist to be a competent trend watcher
• How design thinking and creative problem-solving capabilities complement being a Scenario Planner

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Why Unconscious Bias Also Impacts Creativity & Innovation

What is holding back your creative potential and, ultimately, your Human potential? This is the question I delve into with my guest on Igniting Creativity. Genein Letford is energized by this question and passionately engaged in helping people discover the answers.  

Here is what else we discussed:

• The best way to get novelty into your thinking and strategy (should include people who you don’t usually include)
• The importance of problem-finding in the creative process
• What you pay attention to is very important
• Go out and discover!
• The importance of keeping divergent and convergent thinking separate from each other
• What you are being ‘spoon-fed’ without your knowledge

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25 years of experience at IBM leading transformational projects have provided Michael Ackerbauer with a unique perspective on the role of technology, creativity, and innovation.  Listen in to hear ‘Macker’s’ sage advice to boost your creativity.

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How the collision of artistic creativity and law school produced an award-winning entrepreneur. 

In this episode, Andrea Robinson shares her journey that shaped her scaling a business that in the very early days earned her the reaction, ‘you must be crazy’! The company she founded, Robinson Global Management, advances innovative, ethical, sustainable & complex procurements globally.  She shares how people reacted to the concept of ethical and sustainable procurement in the early days and how she continues to spark creativity in her team and herself.

Andrea is the Founder, President & CEO, Principal Consultant of Robinson Global Management, a Women Business Enterprise Council Canada (WBE Canada), and Canadian Aboriginal and Minority Supplier Council (CAMSC) Certified company.  She received a 2020 WBE Canada Leader Award for exemplary leadership and community contribution and received the 2019 WBE Canada Rising Star Award for economic, business, and innovative impact in the diverse supplier community.  She is a well-known practitioner in the Canadian public sector procurement area. Her projects include, affordable housing, water and wastewater treatment plant upgrades, solid waste management redevelopment, renewable energy planning and diversification, transit and roads, healthcare systems, and hospitals, educational, recreational, and international competition facilities, military, and secure asset redevelopment.

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In this episode, Nadia Hamilton of Magnusmode talks with such energy about what it takes to recover, learn and iterate from those moments of failure and utter breakdown in a way that will translate to any kind of business. Her company's mission is to create practical tools that improve everyday experiences and enable people with cognitive disabilities to participate in the world in ways that are meaningful to them. 

Nadia Hamilton is a passionate entrepreneur who was inspired by her autistic brother Troy to build MagnusCards: an innovative app that provides digital, step-by-step guides to support home and community living. Each guide is powered by global brands, including Trader Joe's, CIBC, Kraft Heinz, M&T Bank, New York City Transit, Colgate-Palmolive, San Francisco International Airport, A&W, WestJet, and many more, all of which have partnered with Magnusmode to build inclusive experiences for an accessible world.

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Social Entrepreneurship and the Everyday Entrepreneur

Madeleine Shaw is a multiple award-winning social entrepreneur and author based on unceded Coast Salish territory (Vancouver BC). She is best known as the co-founder of Aisle (formerly Lunapads), one of the first groundbreaking ventures in the world to commercialize reusable menstrual products, today a thriving industry. In 2014, she founded G Day, a national event series for tween girls and their supporters, and in 2017 she founded Nestworks, a family-friendly coworking community. In her upcoming first book, The Greater Good: Social Entrepreneurship for Everyday People Who Want to Change the World, she offers encouraging tips and reflections for aspiring impact-based entrepreneurs.

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We are in the age that every single entrepreneur needs a social media plan integrated into their marketing strategy. If this feels like a daunting thought, stay with me, you are in the right place!

In this week's Create Velocity Podcast, I talk with Lisa Pedersen about finding your comfort zone with social media, why your ideal client needs to see you being 'social' and the importance of authentic engagement. Lisa also points out some watch-outs for how you engage.

Lisa Pedersen is a social media mentor and digital strategist who empowers business owners to embrace their digital presence and show up in a way that's authentic and engaging, while teaching the skills to do it themselves. She has been featured on podcasts, written for the inaugural issue of Mama Brain Magazine and is currently working on her first social media course for business owners.

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A human resources strategy is so much more than how much you pay your team members.

No matter what size your company is, you need an HR (Human Resources) strategy. And whether you have employees or a bench of contractors, this strategy is a very important foundation for business growth. 

In this episode, I chat with Doreen Harvey who is a seasoned HR strategist. Doreen shares many important considerations regarding how you manage people in your business and then she zeros in on the two most important areas to go to work on first.

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