Impactful Authenticity

Today you’ll hear about 4 different books. From our last four guests on the podcast : Kelly J Mendenhall, Derek Newborn, Sean BW Parker and Cynthia Corsetti

You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :) 

What you’ll hear about:

• The Alchemist by Paulo Coelho
• A heartbreaking work of staggering genius by Dave Eggers
• The down and out in Paris and London by George Orwell
• The universe has your back by Gaby Bernstein

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This week I share an insightful conversation I had with Genevieve Piturro. Genevieve is all about Purpose and The Human Connection. She was a successful television marketing executive until a sudden inner voice challenged her direction and she dramatically altered the path of her life.  She found her true purpose when a simple question from a six-year-old girl in an emergency shelter changed  everything. In 2001, she jumped off the corporate ladder and founded the hugely successful national non-profit,  Pajama Program. 

This year, the Program celebrates its 22nd anniversary, having delivered more than 7  MILLION magical gifts of new pajamas and new books to children through its 42 chapters across the U.S.  

Genevieve is now an inspirational speaker and purpose consultant inspiring individuals, groups, and companies to find their purpose & embrace the human connection for success. 

Her first book, sharing life and leadership lessons she learned through her Pajama Program journey, is an Amazon best seller and the winner of five awards. 

What you’ll hear about:

• Asking the question is this enough?
• Finding your purpose
• Taking a big leap in life around your purpose
• Building a legacy
• Gaining confidence to tell people about a change
• Gather your cheerleaders
• Do what you can handle, keep it simple
• Embracing joy
• Relax, trying to live up to others expectations

Weekly Challenge : 90 minute purpose challenge 

Power of Music : Don’t Stop Believing by Journey

Links:

90 minute Purpose Challenge

Genevieve Piturro website

The Pajama Program

Genevieve’s LinkedIN

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This week I share an insightful conversation I had with Michael Ostland. Michael has led large statistics functions, he’s also led large matrix teams driving the R&D and commercial side of a number of drugs and now is the Head of development in Europe for Denali therapeutics.

I’ve had the pleasure of working with Michael for many years and watching the interesting and diverse career he’s had. I was extremely curious to know more about Michaels motivations and how authenticity had played into some of the big decisions he’s made so I was over the moon when he agreed to come on the show.  

What you’ll hear about:

• Authenticity changes as you grow and as experiences shape you
• The importance of finding places that can accelerate your growth and learning
• Keeping options open, exploring, keep learning about yourself, and evolve
• The evolution of work
• Curiosity - understanding who you work with to be effective
• Going beyond the baseline of curiosity to really understand the why about others and their functions/teams 
• Broaden experience in your early career 
• The need for good functional management is still needed
• Choosing the right next career step for you
• That’s different …. What do you choose to do next?
• Business culture differences between the US and Switzerland
• Building a support network
• Being constructively difficult

Weekly Challenge : Calendar stealth audit : Spend some time assessing where you’re spending your time

Power of Music : All of You - Keith Jarrett Trio

Michael’s LinkedIN

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This week I share a wonderful conversation I had with Kelly J Mendheall. Kelly describes herself as a disabled author, artist, speaker, and advocate. Kelly has been raising awareness about and fighting against medical gaslighting since 2017. When she had a sudden medical disability.

Kelly made a name for herself as a medical journalist and blogger, writing the websites BlastingNews.com, SpineNation.com, and her own blog, Nerdzilla Lives! 

In  2019, Kelly published her first book, Skin in the Game: The Stories My Tattoos Tell, receiving rave reviews. Most recently Kelly launched the #affordableartrevolution in December 2022, and this year served as keynote speaker at Disability Awareness Day in Grand Rapids, Michigan.

What you’ll hear about:

• A drive to do and know better
• Learning to be an expert
• Medical gaslighting
• New perspectives on where to spend energy
• You drown from staying in the water
• Choosing laughter over tears
• The power of creativity
• Mental, physical and spiritual health
• Refinding your childhood dreams
• Breaking free of self doubt 
• Knowing your value

Weekly Challenge : Dream like a kid again

Power of Music : Beautiful Disaster by 311

Links:

https://kellyjmendenhall.com/

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This week I share an insightful conversation I had with Derek Newborn. Derek has been a teenage father, a construction worker, a personal trainer, a fitness model, and a business owner.  He describes himself as having been a liar, a cheater, a back stabber, and a narcissist. Through his trials, tribulations, and downfalls he has learned that it’s never too late to turn your life around. 

 He now dedicates his time to helping victims of narcissists gain back control in their own lives through the Newborn blueprint. 

What you’ll hear about:

• The more success he had on the outside the more self sabotage he was doing on the inside
• Living two lives
• Self-reflection
• The common denominator in all my problems was myself
• Needing someone to meet you at rock bottom
• Recognising you have the opportunity to change everything from today!
• Asking for help
• Taking extreme ownership
• The impact of social media
• Removing the things which aren’t serving young
• Being my most authentic allows me to be my most vulnerable

Weekly Challenge : Write down everything that you tell yourself when things go wrong in your life. On the opposite side, write down the positive alternate statement. 

Power of Music : Fighting by Tyler Joe Miller

Links:

the Newborn blueprint

@dnewborn on Instagram

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This week I share an insightful conversation I had with Sean BW Parker. Sean is a British writer, artist and academic in art, cultural theory and justice reform. He lived in Istanbul for ten years until 2014 where he lectured at Istanbul University, and gave a TEDx talk 'Stammering and Creativity'. 

He has published or contributed to a number of books, won six Koestler Arts awards (including a platinum for his play The Wolfstadt-Wire) and a Perrie Lectures essay award in 2019. 

Sean is Editor of False Allegations Watch, for the Empower the Innocent organisation.  

What you’ll hear about:

• The enigma of stammering
• Stammering Pride
• Accepting your disfluency
• Taking control and being open to talk about your speech impediment
• Turning internal language processing into creativity
• Balancing a state of aspiration and integrity
• Being pragmatic through changing a name
• R is the hardest letter to pronounce in the English language
• Finding community while in prison
• Keeping strong to maintain your innocence 
• Not letting things define you and putting it down as another chapter in your life

Weekly Challenge : Reach out with curiosity to someone you know with a speech impediment to learn more.

Power of Music : Don’t believe the hype by Public Enemy

Links:

Sean’s LinkedIN

Sean’s Youtube

TED X Sean BW Parker Stammering and Creativity

Stamma Org

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This week I spoke to Cynthia Corsetti. Cynthia is an executive coach and author of the upcoming book "Dark Drivers". With more than 20 years of corporate leadership roles and over 11 years of executive coaching experience, she works with high-performing executives, startups, and Fortune 500 companies.

What you’ll hear about:

• What are dark drivers
• The goal of coaching is not therapy, but making connections
• Understanding your brief systems that are driving behaviours
• Choosing which version of you is driving the bus
• Understanding your memories may not be accurate
• Leaders need to understand that people come with so much history
• The importance of empathetic leaders
• Learning to really understand yourself and not others beliefs
• CARE to lead philosophy

Weekly Challenge : Look for patterns in your own behaviour

Power of Music : El-Shaddai by Amy Grant

Links: 

https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynthiacorsetti/

https://www.cynthiacorsetti.com/
https://www.instagram.com/cynthiacorsetti/

Book pre-lauch acess : https://darkdrivers.presale.manuscripts.com/registration/select

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Today you’ll hear about 5 different books. From our last five guests on the podcast : Jenn Fenwick, Kyle Dufford, Louise Coughlan, Danny Covey and Natalie Mullin 

You’ll have to listen to match the book to the person :) 

What you’ll hear about:

• Atomic Habits by James Clear  
• Walking the Amazon: 860 days one step at a time by Ed Stafford
• The Culture Code: The Secrets of Highly Successful Groups by Daniel Coyle
• How to be a Human by Ruby Wax a neuroscientist and a Monk
• When the body says no by Gabor Mate 

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This week I share an insightful conversation I had with Natalie Mullin. Natalie is a Certified Wellness Educator, Speaker, Facilitator, and Life Coach. As the host of "From a Full Cup," a mental wellness podcast, Natalie inspires women to dream big and take action. She draws from her own struggles during a mental health breakdown. She has now emerged as a thought leader on Disruptive Wellness. 

Through focusing on her holistic wellbeing, conducting a thorough life gap audit and crafting a strategic life roadmap to fill the gaps, she regained her footing, proving to others that it's possible to carve a life path aligned with one's values, goals, and future vision.  

What you’ll hear about:

• Disruptive wellness
• The 12 elements of wellness
• Slowing down 
• Really understanding who you are
• Breaking free of the hustle
• Marriage separation & reconciliation
• Finding inspiration and confidence through others stories

Weekly Challenge : Spend some time with yourself. Check-in on how you’re feeling? And how do you feel about that? 

Power of Music : Joy by for King and Country

Links:

https://www.linkedin.com/in/natalie-mullin/

https://www.nataliemullin.com/

https://www.instagram.com/nataliemullin/

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This week I share a wonderful conversation I had Danny Covey on the show. Danny has faced many battles in his life. He underwent eight heart surgeries. He has nearly died on the operating table three times, and was repeatedly told he would never physically excel. And yet, after much blood, sweat, tears, and prayer, he fulfilled an unimaginable childhood dream. 

The fact that he is alive and well, and has achieved what many believed to be impossible, is a miraculous story that I’m excited for him to share with us about and for us all to learn from. 

What you’ll hear about:

• Finding what gives you inspiration
• Accepting you’ll never know why some things happen
• Accepting what you can learn from an experience
• Don’t take No for an answer
• Risk responsibly
• Building resilience as a parent
• What can I do today that I couldn’t do yesterday 
• Be grateful for what you have
• Embrace what scares you
• Life is unpredictable …. Face it!

Weekly Challenge : Do something that scares you this week and write down what you’re grateful for

Power of Music : Hope by NF 

Links:

https://www.facebook.com/danny.covey

https://www.instagram.com/covetastic/

https://twitter.com/DannyCovey

https://www.linkedin.com/in/danny-covey-m-a-50181453/

www.dannycovey.com

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