Leadership Junkies Podcast

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On the Leadership Junkies Podcast, we explore leadership, business, and personal growth to help you grow your business and live a richer life. One thing we know about leadership - You can’t grow your ... more

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August 03, 2021132. Jae Hermann | Telling Your Story: A Bad Ass Guide to Book Writing
Are you ever considering writing a book? Are you already in the process of writing a book? Do you wonder if your story is worth telling?
Our special guest Jae Herman answers these and other questions about storytelling, book writing and sharing your story through a book.
Jae Hermann is a storyteller, badassery advocate and CEO of Jae Hermann Storytelling Studio and Badassery Lab. She empowers women, retirees (reinvention misters and mavens), authors and career bloggers to overcome fear and self-doubt to reclaim a greater sense of self. Using a holistic approach to build confidence and make positive mind shifts, Jae guides clients to break through negative self-talk, find clarity and purpose to become badass creative professionals and storytellers. Jae is passionate about storytelling because our stories have the power to change lives.
Jae is also a sci-fi junkie, avid Latin dancer, breast implant illness survivor, midlife reinvention supporter, and healthy food connoisseur.
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Show Notes
Episode highlights…
Unleashing your creative essence
What it means to be a badass advocate
Assessing whether your story needs to be told
Key questions to ask and answer when you’re considering writing a book
Understanding the role of your creative intuition in writing a book
What it takes inside you to write and publish a book
Important issues to consider when deciding whether to write a book
Understanding the marketing realities in writing and publishing a book
The healing power of writing and publishing a book
Different ways the imposter syndrome impacts authors and tools for navigating past it
A process of getting past your fears in writing a book and sharing your story
Realities of book writing and publishing
The importance of your social media platform in marketing your book
Knowing the truest why for your book
The importance of getting clear on your purpose and goals in writing a book
The value of using a writing process when writing your book
Questions to consider when engaging people to help you write, publish and market your book
If you want to write a book, are you already regularly writing
The writing realities of using a ghostwriter
Collaboration essentials in working with a coach and editor
Resources:
Jae Hermann
Jae Hermann Website
Bad Ass Storyteller Intensive Workshop
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July 29, 2021131. Diana Lowe | Emotional Intelligence and Leadership in Today’s Workforce Realities
Are you struggling with leading in the new reality of hybrid and remote workplaces? Do you want new tools and ways to lead with today’s workforce? Do you want to better understand the role and value of emotional intelligence, especially with remote teams?
Our special guest Diana Lowe answers these and other questions about leadership, emotional intelligence and remote teams.
Diana Lowe is a Certified Executive Coach and the Founder of Blue Light Leadership, and she helps remote leaders develop their emotional intelligence and communication skills to inspire their teams to higher performance levels, creatively solve problems, and positively impact their bottom line. Diana works with Directors and Senior Executives in Fortune 500 companies to transform their team spirit and communication, turning low-performing teams to highly productive and engaged teams. Her practice focuses on using evidence-based research in Positive Psychology for coaching, which allows her a whole person wellness approach in coaching.
Diana recently moved to Phoenix, AZ and, when she’s not playing with her two little girls or hanging with her hubby, you can see her on stage doing stand-up comedy . . .and if you are wondering … no she’s not that funny.
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Show Notes
Episode highlights…
The state of leadership and hybrid workforces today
The impact and meaning of the Great Resignation in April 2021
Necessary leadership paradigms in the hybrid work world
Defining emotional intelligence and making better decisions based upon that intelligence
Understanding communication energy as part of emotional intelligence
Value of emotional intelligence’s value to teams, organizations and leaders
The critical role of empathy in leadership and culture
Ways to learn from your emotions and reactions
The intersection of emotional awareness and impact awareness
Ways the Buddhist foundations intersect with emotional intelligence and leadership
Reframing the concept of alpha leaders
Work hard, play hard philosophies in the context of emotional intelligence
Leading amidst a shift to more balance in work and life
Mental health realities in our new workforce and burnout
Unique elements of emotional intelligence with remote workers (learning a new way)
Emotional bandwidth in leadership
Value of giving people planned breaks from meetings and calls
A simple communication strategy when things aren’t working
Resources:
Diana Lowe
Diana Lowe Website
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July 27, 2021130. Punit Dhillon | Catapulting Your Leadership Through Resilience and Personal Drive
Are you a tough leader or a resilience leader? Do you want to build more resilience and drive into your leadership and impact? Are you ready to accelerate your leadership?
Our special guest Punit Dhillon answers these and other questions about leadership, resilience and personal drive.
Punit Dhillon was nine when he almost drowned in a swimming pool. Twenty years later, he became a competitive swimmer and completed his first of several Ironman Triathlons. Punit lives by the philosophy of using adversity as fuel to exceed all expectations.
At thirty, Punit was one of the youngest biotech CEOs in the life sciences industry, and just five years later, he became a NASDAQ CEO for a publicly traded biotech company.
Punit is currently the Chair and CEO of Skye Bioscience, a public pharmaceutical company. He’s also the Co-founder, former President, and CEO of OncoSec, a biotechnology company pioneering new technologies to fight cancer. Punit has been recognized as one of PharmaVOICE 100’s top CEOs and as a finalist for the EY Entrepreneur Of The Year™.
Punit is also the author of Catapult: How to Think Like a Corporate Athlete to Strengthen Your Resilience, an insider’s look at the lessons we learn by turning obstacles into opportunities. Taking you through his twenty years of global business experience, Punit shares ten principles for a purpose-driven life and career, linking together the athletic strengths that will help you succeed.
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Show Notes
Episode highlights…
Leadership, business and resilience lessons from being an ultra-athlete
Ways that adversity can help you grow if you’re intentional about the learning
Understanding resilience and building more of it in your life
Impact of family culture and upbringing in the foundations of resilience
Importance of doing post-mortems to better learn and grow from experiences
Resilience is not about deflecting the challenges that you that you have, it's about taking them on and absorbing them, and then rebounding as fast as you could
Beware Rocky style resilience (taking a beating and staying standing)
Resilience is not false armor or mental toughness
Learning about lessons from riptides
Shifting from confident decision making in leadership to a more mindful approach and supporting your people
What does it mean to serve the people on your team
The critical need of coaching in leadership
Differently understanding “high performer” and being clear on what it means (high performer must be holistic)
Taking time to step back and appreciate all we’ve already achieved
Role of visualization in achievement and resilience
Leadership lessons from the movie Spy Game
Resources:
Punit Dhillon ([email protected])
Punit Dhillon Website
Catapult: How to Think Like a Corporate Athlete to Strengthen Your Resilience Book
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July 22, 2021129. Laura Miller | Leading Through the New Reality of Remote Work
Are you trying to navigate the reality of remote workers and team members? Do you want to better understand what it takes to successfully build and lead a business with remote team members? Are you looking for insights and tools for leading a remote team, whether fully, hybrid or otherwise?
Our special guest Laura Miller answers these and other questions about leadership, culture and doing business in a remote worker world.
Laura Miller is the Founder and CEO of TempDev, a nationwide healthcare information technology consulting firm that specializes in NextGen EPM and EHR development. She combines an engineering background with business savvy to create holistic and sustainable solutions with positive financial and operational impacts.
Over the past fourteen years, Laura has led and built a business with an entire team that works from home, including herself. Laura knows well the keys to leading, building culture, collaborating, innovating, communicating, and serving clients in a remote work model.
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Show Notes
Episode highlights…
The basics of a remote workforce
The challenges of bringing people back to the office who don’t want to go back to the office
Financial realities of remote working in terms of compensation, cost of living, etc.
Key values to team members of working from home
Challenges of taking care of children while working remotely
Collaboration and innovation also happen with remote working
Pros and cons of remote working
Importance of boundaries and routines when working remotely
Overwork and burnout risks when working remotely
Leaders must pay attention to the impact of their personal choices around work and remote work
Productivity and remote work
Pros, cons, risks and rewards of using employee work tracking software with remote workers
Understanding the importance of and determining key performance indicators (KPI’s)
Shifting the focus from time productivity to outcome productivity
Role of existing trust levels in impacting employee response to monitoring programs
Killing your peoples’ productivity by over-meeting your remote workers
What’s the cost of your meetings?
Remote working requires great technology and different approaches to communication
Today’s workforce requires more empathetic leadership
What would you do if you could not fail?
Resources:
Laura Miller
Temp Dev Website
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July 15, 2021128. Andrea Newton | Seven Significant Conversation: Empowering Your Leadership Through Crucial Conversations
Do you struggle with challenging conversations? Do you want to learn more mindsets and tools for enhancing your crucial conversations? Are you ready to amplify your leadership and impact through conversations?
Our special guest Andrea Newton (England) answers these and other questions about leadership and management in the context of conversations and communication.
Andrea Newton is the Founder of Confident Conversations and a woman on a mission to get leaders comfortable with the uncomfortable and believes there are 7 Significant Conversations that all good leaders ought to be able to have if they are truly to get the best out of their team and their business.
Andrea has spent the last 21 years working with a wide range of organizations across all industry sectors, helping literally thousands of managers and leaders at all levels to have conversations that matter.
Andrea believes that conversations change organizations, develop relationships, improve standards, increase results – in fact, conversations even save lives and having had her own experience of rooting around at rock bottom and peering over the edge, Andrea believe that unless leaders create the climate that encourages honest, open, frank dialogue then they will never achieve their full potential.
As a trainer, keynote speaker, author and soon to be podcast host, Andrea is based in the northwest of England and offers a whole range of online and remote training services to her clients – from television production to the NHS – she wants to use her past to improve others futures.
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Show Notes
Episode highlights…
The importance of crucial conversations and different approaches to having them
Understanding the blind spots about crucial conversations
Confident leaders are willing to admit their weaknesses
Going into crucial conversations with an attitude of curiosity
Beware the words you use to label your crucial conversations
Understanding the differences between feedback and opinions
Leadership is not a popularity contest (do you want to be liked or respected as a leader)
The impact of avoiding one-on-one conversations and instead relying on group conversations
Importance of learning and teaching skills for crucial conversations
Keys for leading and managing today’s workforce
Understanding and navigating the Seven (7) Significant Conversations
Crucial conversations are more impactful that processes and procedures
The Four (4) F words in conversations: 1. Feelings; 2. Fears; 3. Family; and 4. Future
Vulnerability and psychological safety in leadership
Understanding the difference between empathy and sympathy in leadership
Using the E.E.C. Model for crucial conversations (Example – Effect – Change)
Leaders must get comfortable with the uncomfortable when it comes to crucial conversations
The leadership of Professor McGonagall in the Harry Potter series
Resources:
Andrea Newton
Really Useful Conversations Podcast
Confident Conversations Website
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July 13, 2021127. Imogen Roy | Finding Your Genius: The Journey to More Energy, More Productivity and More Presence
Are you feeling burnout or overwhelmed? Are you looking for unconventional strategies for navigating your life and business? Do you want to be more purposeful, productive and present in every part of your life and leadership?
Our special guest Imogen Roy (Bordeaux France) answers these and other questions about burnout, purpose, productivity and personal energy.
Imogen Roy is a Business Mentor who helps unconventional people to be more purposeful, productive and present in their life and business. After experiencing burnout whilst doing what she loved, Imogen realized she'd have to take a much more proactive approach to protect her most valuable business asset: her own energy.
Despite doing what she loved, Imogen experienced a profound burnout experience that helped her to differently understand burnout, self-care and the importance of protecting your energy.
Today Imogen is the accomplice of founders, artists, consultants and visionaries who want to create unstoppable success in work and life without burnout or compromise.
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Show Notes
Episode highlights…
Burnout is more a product of what happens when we care too much and too long for others without caring for ourselves
The process and importance of finding and living your genius
Understanding and overcoming the challenges of finding and living your genius
Living an unconventional life by choosing not to fit in
Keys to understanding the role of energy in leadership, productivity and life
Navigating the land mines of false boxes in our lives
Energy as your most important asset
The reality that not all time is equal and controllable, but your energy can be managed
What it means to be a time bender
The role of presence in productivity
Presence is essential when it comes to leadership
Three kinds of attention / presence: 1. Outward facing attention; 2. Submissive state of attention (receiving); 3. Meditation
Understanding what presence is and isn’t
What happens to time when you’re not present
Understanding our attachment to multi-tasking and its connection to lack of self-trust
The myth of multi-tasking
The flow of energy when you’re present (for yourself and others)
Find a small way to honor what you feel like doing throughout the day (versus what you believe you have to do)
Asking and answering the question of where you’re finding resistance
Getting curious with your resistance
Self-shaming or pushing through your resistance uses more energy and exhausts us
The ways that language / words shape our culture and reality
Understanding the different experiences of time (quantum and gestational)
Examining the ways that your own language is serving you and not serving you
Foundations for integrated leadership and living
Embracing your resistance in order to learn from it
Resources:
Imogen Roy
Imogen Roy Instagram
Imogen Roy Website
A Year of Magical Living Podcast
Unbound: A Guide to Women’s Power book by Kasia Urbaniak
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July 08, 2021126. Marcia Alvarado | How To Be An Inclusive Leader!
Are you confused about what to do to build a more diverse, equitable and inclusive culture? Are you looking to better understand the differences that are part of organizations today? Are you committed to creating a safer and more diverse, equitable and inclusive culture and organization?
Our special guest Marcia Alvarado answers these and other questions about diversity, equity, inclusion and leadership.
Marcia Alvarado has been a licensed professional engineer for the past 16 years and works as a Structural Market Leader for WGI in Tampa, Florida. She graduated from Florida Institute of Technology with a degree in Civil Engineering in 2004, where she played collegiate basketball. Marcia then pursued a career in structural engineering starting in New York City, and received her Master’s from the University of South Florida in 2009. Marcia enjoys designing buildings and has always had a passion for helping others through the ACE Mentor Program, a mentoring program for high school student to learn about the industry.
Marcia also has ventured in the fashion world by way of modeling and provides custom suiting for Sharpe Suiting, an LGBTQ+ owned and operated luxury custom suiting brand. In 2020, she Founded The Alvarado Experience, a consultancy focused on diversity, equity and inclusion.
Marcia knew her path was in design and construction at the age of four as she was standing on the London Bridge, barely tall enough to reach the glass, and told her mother “I want to build buildings when I grow up.”
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Show Notes
Episode highlights…
Navigating the engineering, construction and business world as an other
Critical interpersonal skills and mindsets for supporting more diversity, equity and inclusion in the world
Understanding the difference between gender identity, gender role and gender expression
Understanding gender identity and expression in the trans community
The role of sexual expression in diversity, equity and inclusion (understanding the LBGTQ+ and queer community)
Ongoing challenges for the LBGTQ+ community in the workplace
Leaders and organizations must do more than talk the DEI talk
The role of intersectionality with diversity, equity and inclusion initiatives
Keys to bringing values around diversity, equity and inclusion alive in your organization
The role of vulnerability in diversity, equity and inclusion leadership
The leadership essential of knowing thyself especially when it comes to diversity, equity and inclusion
The power of publicly using your pronouns to build a safe and more belonging culture
Resources:
Marcia Alvarado
The Alvarado Experience Website
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July 06, 2021125 - Arthur Jones | Embracing the Power of Story in Your Brand and Leadership
Are you committed to leading with more humanness? Are you ready to lead with more people impact? Do you want to learn the tools and power of stories?
Our special guest Arthur Jones answers these and other questions about stories, leadership and humanizing your brand.
Arthur Jones is the founder of two companies – The Art of Standing Out (a leadership development firm) and The Art of Inbound Marketing (a marketing agency). Arthur has been described as a people centric, growth focused business strategy architect, as well as a brand story architect.
Arthur helps businesses and their customer-facing teams employ tools, strategies, and hybrid work models enabling collaboration and co-creation with the customers they serve. He’s also developed a concept called R.O.A.R – Return On Authentic Relationships.
His mission – to make meaning by enriching the lives of the business professionals they work with, and ultimately creating a more just and caring world.
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Show Notes
Episode highlights…
What is a brand story architect?
The power of stories and storytelling
The source of the loss of the art of storytelling
Understanding what it means to R.O.A.R. as a leader (return on authentic relationships)
Being a humanologist (seek first to understand)
The Big 3 of stories: 1. Story listening; 2. Story building; 3. Storytelling
Obstacles to bringing more humanness into your leadership
Leadership shifts for a remote and hybrid workforce
Leadership top three … Integrity, Emotional Intelligence and Communication
Leadership requires the courage to do the right thing
Humanizing your brand
Resources:
Arthur Jones
Art of Standing Out Website
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July 01, 2021124. Dr. Troy Hall | Building a Cohesion Culture: Strategies to Empower Your Team and Enhance Your Performance
Are you struggling with what your culture will look like in the post-COVID workforce? Are you committed to being a learning organization? Do you want to build a culture that will engage and inspire your team?
Our special guest Dr. Troy Hall answers these and other questions about culture, talent, leadership, engagement and performance.
Dr. Troy Hall is the author of the best-selling title, Cohesion Culture: Proven Principles to Retain Your Top Talent, and the #1 title for Business and Professional Humor, FANNY RULES: A Mother’s Leadership Lessons That Never Grow Old. He was once told he did not have the talent to write. His mom, Fanny, reminded him, “It’s not the successes or failures that shape your life, it’s how you handle them.”
Dr. Troy is an author, radio host, global speaker, talent retention strategist and consultant who’s been featured on the Today Show, ABC, Beyond the Business Radio Show, and CEO World.
His doctorate in Global Leadership and Entrepreneurship has sent him across the globe to help leaders create cultures of cohesion and retain top talent in their organizations. With more than 40 years of practical leadership experience and a Ph.D. in Global Leadership & Entrepreneurship, Dr. Troy's consulting and executive coaching sessions have positively impacted organizational leaders around the globe on how to create cultures of cohesion to retain their top talent.
His mantra, "You don’t have to know everything, you just need to be teachable."
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Show Notes
Episode highlights…
Mother’s leadership lessons
Mistakes are not failures – they’re learning experiences
Five elements of a learning organization: 1. Being generative; 2. Adaptive; 3. Experimentation; 4. Diversity of thought; 5. Good stewards of the resources
Knowledge isn’t power … it’s using that knowledge and turning it into wisdom
Role of cultural relatively in sustaining a learning culture
Importance of emotional intelligence and self-awareness in leadership
Vulnerability and authenticity in leadership
Charismatic leadership is no longer enough
The importance of creating a culture to allow a collaborative voice among the team
Four primary characteristics that cross all generations in the workplace
Understanding the elements of a cohesion culture: 1. Belonging; 2. Value; 3. Shared mutual commitment
Leadership shifts in the age of growing remote workforces
Managing your people by time versus productivity / performance
Differently managing remote team members
Challenges of retaining team members in a post-COVID work world
Being thoughtful about reboarding your team after COVID
People don’t follow accidental leaders – the importance of being purposeful as a leader
Resources:
Troy Hall
Troy Hall Website
Troy Hall Social Media (@drtroyhall)
Cohesion Culture: Proven Principles to Retain Your Top Talent Book
Fanny Rules: A Mother's Leadership Lessons that Never Grow Book
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June 29, 2021123. Jan Cavelle | Get Ready to Scale! Growing Your Leadership and Your Business
Are you looking for ways to grow and scale your business? Are you struggling with the many challenges of entrepreneurship? Do you want new ideas and mindsets for your entrepreneurial journey?
Our special guest Jan Cavelle answers these and other questions about entrepreneurship, business growth, and scaling your business.
Jan Cavelle is an entrepreneur of entrepreneurs from the UK who has a few decades of running micro and small businesses behind her. She is very familiar with all the challenges that go with that, having started one from the kitchen table when her children were small and she was a single mother, to go on to build that into a multi-million business.
Jan has put her entrepreneurial experiences together with her passion for writing into a book aimed at helping entrepreneurs grow their businesses during the big leap from $1 to $10 million. Jan’s book is called Scale for Success and is currently available in the UK, with an early July publication in the United States and Australia.
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Show Notes
Episode highlights…
Understanding what it means to scale a business
Start your business being clear on your why and where you want the business to go
The vital role of systems early in your business
The difference between growing your business and scaling your business
Key questions to answer early in your business: 1. Why am I getting into this business? 2. What do I want out of this business? 3. What kind of business do I want? 4. What kind of life do I want with this business?
The importance of getting clear on your market early in your business
Beware the sales and marketing gap in your business
Understanding the time realities in entrepreneurship
Using a book for authority and rapport building
The difference between your goals and knowing where you’re going
The critical role mindset in business growth and success
Mental health challenges in entrepreneurship
Understanding resilience and its role in business leadership
Key entrepreneur’s question: What are you willing to give up in order to build and scale your business?
Avoiding burnout as entrepreneurs and business owners
Don't do anything because other people are doing it – do what's right for you
Resources:
Jan Cavelle
Jan Cavelle Website
Scale for Success: Expert Insights Into Growing Your Business book by Jan Cavelle
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