Level Up Academy by Dr. Leyland

Scott is a certified leadership coach with over 30 years of professional experience as a coach, teacher, and facilitator. He has taught people to skydive, trained volunteers at a tiger rescue sanctuary, and helped students gain admission to top law schools. In addition to his learning & development experience, He has extensive experience leading teams of highly skilled professionals performing critical functions in demanding environments. In our interview in this episode of level up, we talked about his approach to life through his journey and how he helps his clients with managing their time. One of his advice is to be a professional toddler and be genuinely curious and work hard. Ultimately, we decided to end our conversation with, it is okay not to have a purpose in life and just be happy with your journey as it is an adventure. Listen up!

Meet my next guest, Shane Thrapp. In this episode we talked about how his journey from a Program Manager to becoming an adult ADHD Life and Career coach happened. First we went through his journey of being homeless, then he got addicted to drugs, then he found out that he has ADHD as an adult but not before going through an abusive marriage. The life choices he made got him to where he is today. He wants to help his fellow human beings cope with ADHD to be able to function and embrace their neurodivergent unique abilities. I love where we talked about life, being an authentic leader, what are some of the ways to lead others as he has done this with Cisco. Curious of what else we talked about? Listen up.

For over 15 years, Denise has helped hundreds of clients expand their brilliance and discover what they are destined to be. Her message, teachings, experience, knowledge and coaching have eliminated the safety-value approach to living and transformed into an inner candle flame that won’t flicker even when the worst situations befall you. She is a catalyst for choice, commitment and community. She is not about finding yourself, she is about creating yourself! Her inner mojo shifts your heart to look within and debunk limited beliefs.

This conversation she went over the 5 skill sets to level up yourself. We talked about how leaders can help their team. What are you waiting for? Listen up!

In this episode with Level Up Academy, I have talked to Francis about leadership and tools to add value to our community. Her bio speaks for itself.

From being an active student leader to now, national corporate leader, Francis is an inspiring millennial in the Philippines. She has 10 years of experience in the fields of recruitment, training, management, marketing, and communications.

With the goal of using her voice and life story to help fellow millennials and younger generations in navigating the young adult life, she and her friends recently published the book, The Millennial Black Box.

Francis holds a master’s degree in management and was accepted to the Harvard Project for Asian and International Relations Conference last 2021.

Eduardo grew up and went to school in the Philippines. He has now migrated to the U.S. and teach several subjects but his passion lies in architecture. He has high hopes for the future of his students. His take on how to engage his students is super smart using what is trending today and get his students interest piqued. Do you want to listen more about what our childhood was like? We also talk about how he uses music and movies to teach architecture students. What are you waiting for? I also have a new intro and outro. Check it out.

Urmi has a passion for the Finance Industry. But it didn't start that way. She took some business classes and didn't really like it. But she had loved at first class when she took a class for finance. From there, she excelled and hope to move forward within this industry. She has a book on Amazon, she has a Youtube channel where she talks about finance. Her ideal community is to be the leader within this industry and encourage women to have a passion for finance and their future. We talked about the beginning of her leadership, career and how she thinks business leaders should think about when it comes leading others. Are you curious yet? Listen up!

Heidi started as a college professor. After her son was born, she needed a consistent work schedule from 9-5. Instead she ended up working retail. Then she went back to school to get her PhD in Instructional Design. An amazing thing happened, she got an ID job while still going to school . This didn't really ignited her passion, instead she found a job as a leader leading other ID's where she makes the most impact. In this podcast, she talks about learning about human consulting and performance, tips on how to get an ID job, what skills transferred from being a professor to becoming an ID. She provided tips on what she looks for when hiring ID's. She even went as to tell us what skills she prefers when looking at hiring ID's. If you don't have an experience as an ID, how do you get one? Heidi talked about the how. She also talks about the hustle culture and how to keep it real. Do you want to know more tips on how to be an ID? Listen up.

At a young age of 9, Dr. Page has had 3 jobs and at age 13, he had an accident that put him in the burn unit for awhile. While there, he had dream big and believed in himself of creating a living through music. At a young age, he understood that by giving 1 hour of practice time over and over can create opportunities for him to become skilled. Today, Dr. Page is creating opportunities as a leader in education and learned his life skills and lesson through his own adversity. Take a listen on his strategies and how he shows grit.

I want you all to know that I had a great time recording this interview with Zavahir, Jospeh, and Jason. We did our first LinkedIn LIVE discussing the four elements that we all hear all the time toss around on conversations and written in journals and blogs. I asked them for their input on what these four elements look like to them and provided added value conversations. This is an unedited version to get our raw recording. Human Centric Leadership, grit, failure, and self-awareness are part of a leadership skill cabinet that should be pulled out all the time. Listen up to this recording.

For all my young listeners out there and for those who are transitioning or thinking of transitioning your careers out there, here is an inspiring leader who went from being a wall street journalist into curriculum design because of her passion. We don't always get what we want sometimes, but always work on what you are passionate about. This podcast gave me a lot to reflect and made me realize that making a difference as a leader isn't that hard, but you have to be intentional on your efforts to help others. Randi also mentioned about honesty and transparency with a clear objective are a leader's most valuable character trait.

We also had a conversation about how American women can either be a mentor or tormentor's and that as women, we should help each other do better by being aware of the choices of words we use, showing confidence and watching our non-verbal cues. Want to hear more about what else in our conversation you can take away from? Listen up!