INSPINAR

1. What might bring an educator back to teaching from retirement?

2. What were some of the salient changes that you noticed in the middle school student?

3. Is it COVID or screens or both or neither?

4. Middle school student is struggling with learning, grammar, math, spelling, etc. Why?

5. What are some strategies that you employ as a teacher to overcome these challenges?

6. Do you allow cellphones in your classroom?

7. How have smartphones impacted your parenting?

About Rhonda Sillesky

Marketing Director, HGI (Hegemon Group International) and Educator

"This is my 28th year in education. Four years ago, I retired to go into business for myself in financial services, which I still do on the side. I received a call in March 2023 asking me to come back into the classroom and it absolutely felt right, so I jumped back in. After all, it is my passion and I certainly feel it is what I was called to do! In the few months I have been back in the classroom, I have some fascinating observations about some of the changes I have seen in the middle school child in a short four years.

I am the proud mother of two beautiful daughters, 22 and 24 years old. They have always been a big part of my "why" as an educator!"

1. It is innate to humans to want to be a contribution. What are the challenges and what leads the light?

2. How to overcome the self-doubts that are natural in the journey?

3. How does our own unwillingness to acknowledge other's humanity gets in the way?

4. Sometimes not doing anything is the greatest gift to humanity. Wait..what?

5. How has the mindset evolved over generations?

About Saurel Quettan (MBA, PMP)

Human Behavior and Transformation Expert, Creator of "Launching You" – Access to Being The Leader You Most Respect.

Saurel has helped entrepreneurs, CEOs, founders, and owners of small to medium-sized businesses improve their effectiveness, grow their businesses, and enhance their lives. As a leadership coach, with 20+ years in the field of human growth and development, Saurel doesn't teach leadership! Instead, he helps clients focus on the distinction between achievement and success, assisting as they create and embrace something bigger than themselves. In the process, they become The Leader They Most Respect. Leaders who make the very best decisions possible when facing big challenges such as

- Paralyzed by the complexity of developing and executing business growth strategies

- Fear of change and uncertainty in their industry

- Struggling to build a unified culture with a shared vision

- Blind to the barriers to high performance in business and in life

- Consistently playing small instead of taking steps to realize a bold,

new future

- Yearning to make a greater impact for their families, companies, and

communities

1. How would you describe fear?

2. Are there different faces of fear?

3. Can we live through life avoiding fear?

4. Some anecodates where you had to deal with your fears?

5. How can one overcome their fear?

About Rhea Kinnard

Rhea W. Kinnard currently serves as president and chief executive officer of Kinnard & Associates a marketing communications company with an emphasis on diversity and inclusion.

She founded the company in 1997 and recently celebrated a milestone of 25 years in entrepreneurship.

Her success with the company also includes The African American Guide To Nashville and CULTURE Magazines, both the first of their kind in the city, established to help diversity voids in corporate and tourism. In addition, she is founder of the Dorothy Marie Kinnard Foundation, established in 2012 to raise awareness on the escalating rise of diabetes particularly among African Americans.

The 1990 Tennessee State University graduate has worked with a plethora of Fortune 100 companies, developing and overseeing programs to help level the playing field for minority and women-owned businesses. In addition to running her for profit company for the last 25 years, her work beyond the walls of corporate America has involved sitting on numerous boards. Today, she continues her nonprofit work spreading education and awareness with diabetes through the Dorothy Marie Kinnard Foundation.

She currently resides in Nashville, TN and has two adult children Gregory 36 and Destiny 27.

1. How did pleasure make its way into the food industry?

2. Is there shame in craving for pleasure?

3. How can the need for pleasure be minimized?

4. Are cellphones fulfilling our need for pleasure?

5. Dopamine and Serotonin are good for us. But they are also addictive. What happens next?

6. Keto dieting and pleasure: what's the connection?

7. What are some ways to elevate joy and minimize the need for pleasure?

About Tara Heaton

Tara is the founder of En Pointe Communication, a consulting business backed by her years of neuroscience research, 23 years in sales, and personal challenges. Tara is devoted to the art and sport of communication, and creator of the renowned Talk To The Brain platform.

ReConnect Nashville was a transformative 3 hour workshop held at Vu Studio in Nashville in September 2023. The mission of the workshop was to explore the phenomenon of smartphone addiction, differentiate the use of technology as a tool vs. distraction, and learn the magic of life-technology balance. Dr. Nidhi Gupta and Tara Heaton led the workshop.

1. What is the key take-home point from ReConnect Nashville?

2. How were minds and lives touched at ReConnect Nashville?

3. Are there benefits to recording and monitoring personal screentime? Or is there more to it than just the time spent on the screens?

4. Why might it be a good idea to not reach for your smartphone first thing in the morning?

About Dr. Nidhi Gupta

Dr. Nidhi Gupta is a physician, TEDx speaker, and a digital wellness coach in Nashville, TN. She is an award-winning researcher and author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and essays.

Dr. Nidhi Gupta completed her medical school at Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India; pediatric residency at Children's Hospital of Michigan, USA and pediatric endocrinology fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA. Upon graduating, she was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for 4 years. She is now the founder and CEO of her pediatric endocrinology practice, KAP Pediatric Endocrinology, which is rooted in patient education and personalized healthcare.

Dr. Gupta has created a robust digital wellness program, ReConnect, that empowers professionals, healthcare providers, and teams with a deep understanding of wireless mobile device (smartdevice) addiction. She shares practical tools to prevent and/or mitigate this behavior, improve mindfulness, and boost productivity.

In her research, she has found that without having teams trained on the impact of tech on the brain, they are underperforming in an environment where they have all the tools they need to grow.

She aspires to bring life-technology balance to each home and workplace, thereby relieving the looming health crisis of mental health disorders and loneliness in the world.

Dr. Gupta lives in Nashville with her family. She enjoys yoga and spending time with her children.

In this episode, Dr. Nidhi Gupta explores the idea of who might benefit from learning more about digital wellness. While this idea is typically thought to be applicable to teenagers, she dares to question the status quo.

Dr. Gupta presents compelling testimonials from professionals, teachers and students who have transformed their lives after attending ReConnect, a 3-hour seminar curated and led by Dr. Nidhi Gupta.

1. How is digital wellbeing linked to professional efficiency?

2. Are teenagers to be blamed for their excessive phone use; or are they modelling their parents' behavior?

3. Students are resistant to this messaging…only until they hear it at least once.

About Dr. Nidhi Gupta

Dr. Nidhi Gupta is a physician, TEDx speaker, and a digital wellness coach in Nashville, TN. She is an award-winning researcher and author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and essays.

Dr. Nidhi Gupta completed her medical school at Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India; pediatric residency at Children's Hospital of Michigan, USA and pediatric endocrinology fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA. Upon graduating, she was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for 4 years. She is now the founder and CEO of her pediatric endocrinology practice, KAP Pediatric Endocrinology, which is rooted in patient education and personalized healthcare.

Dr. Gupta has created a robust digital wellness program, ReConnect, that empowers professionals, healthcare providers, and teams with a deep understanding of wireless mobile device (smartdevice) addiction. She shares practical tools to prevent and/or mitigate this behavior, improve mindfulness, and boost productivity.

In her research, she has found that without having teams trained on the impact of tech on the brain, they are underperforming in an environment where they have all the tools they need to grow.

She aspires to bring life-technology balance to each home and workplace, thereby relieving the looming health crisis of mental health disorders and loneliness in the world.

Dr. Gupta lives in Nashville with her family. She enjoys yoga and spending time with her children.

1. How important it is to have a leadership coach in your life? What do they add to your life and career? Why?

2. How to navigate out of your comfort zone?

3. Humble beginnings to a fulfilling present...an inspiring story.

4. Raise your hand if you are stressed. How is that consuming you?

About Giovanni Gonzalez

Bestselling author and an Authority on Leadership Development and an Expert in creating high performing teams.

Born in Colombia, lived in Belize and currently resides in Atlanta, GA, USA. As an immigrant, Giovanni sold newspapers at traffic lights, washed dishes in restaurants, was a driver, and now he is the founder and CEO of Mindful Performance Blueprint (MPB) and the creator of the 3-day leadership course Access the Leader Within.

For over 12 years, Giovanni has been mentoring business leaders, community leaders, & entrepreneurs to elevate their capacity to positively influence others and create high-performing teams around them.

His work has ranged from working with companies that have over 20,000 employees on how to create a high-performing culture to working with companies that have a team of 5 individuals committed to making a difference and leaving a legacy.

He has helped dozens of entrepreneurs and business leaders grow from 5 figures to 6 figures and from 6 figures to 7 figures and many businesses double and triple their revenues by accessing and leveraging the pool of talent that they already have within their teams.

His specialty is to align teams to create an environment for breakthrough thinking and deliver breakthrough results.

Full details: https://coachgio360.com

This episode is the story of Coach Kristin Petrony's journey from sweet, quiet-ish elementary education major in northeast Ohio to a coming-into-her-own elementary school teacher and mom in Las Vegas to a health/fitness entrepreneur, world record holding powerlifter, and a loud advocate for women's rights in Nashville.

"I am small, but that doesn't mean I am not strong. I am a women, but that doesn't mean I don't have opinions. I am a mother, but that doesn't mean I don't have my own goals." - Kristin Petrony

1. What does it take to leave a secure job for a passionate career?

2. How old is too old to make risky decisions?

3. What does it mean to be a woman who dares to break the status quo?

Do we use our devices as tools or as 24/7 source of entertainment and distraction? Do our devices serve as time-fillers and baby-sitters? Have devices made parenting easier or harder?

Dr. Nidhi Gupta opens the first episode of Inspinar with an in-depth look at a looming health crisis and offers practical solutions. Tune in and find out how to practice life-technology balance without giving up your smartphones!

About Dr. Nidhi Gupta

Dr. Nidhi Gupta is a physician, TEDx speaker, and a digital wellness coach in Nashville, TN. She is an award-winning researcher and author of over 100 peer-reviewed articles, book chapters and essays.

Dr. Nidhi Gupta completed her medical school at Maulana Azad Medical College, New Delhi, India; pediatric residency at Children's Hospital of Michigan, USA and pediatric endocrinology fellowship at Mayo Clinic, Rochester MN, USA. Upon graduating, she was an Assistant Professor of Pediatrics at Vanderbilt University Medical Center for 4 years. She is now the founder and CEO of her pediatric endocrinology practice, KAP Pediatric Endocrinology, which is rooted in patient education and personalized healthcare.

Dr. Gupta has created a robust digital wellness program, ReConnect, that empowers professionals, healthcare providers, and teams with a deep understanding of wireless mobile device (smartdevice) addiction. She shares practical tools to prevent and/or mitigate this behavior, improve mindfulness, and boost productivity.

In her research, she has found that without having teams trained on the impact of tech on the brain, they are underperforming in an environment where they have all the tools they need to grow.

She aspires to bring life-technology balance to each home and workplace, thereby relieving the looming health crisis of mental health disorders and loneliness in the world.

Dr. Gupta lives in Nashville with her family. She enjoys yoga and spending time with her children.