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Vic Verchereau welcomes Greg Kampe, who is the men's basketball head coach at Oakland University.

Greg Kampe enters his 39th season at the helm of Oakland's men's basketball program. In the 2020-21 season, Kampe led the Golden Grizzlies to the No. 3 seed in the Horizon League tournament and their first-ever trip to the championship game since joining the conference in 2014. Under Kampe's tutelage, junior point guard Jalen Moore became the seventh Golden Grizzly since 2009 to lead the nation in a statistical category with 8.4 assists per game. Oakland came away with 10 League victories in an unprecedented year of collegiate sports due to the COVID-19 pandemic, which marked the 13th time in the last 15 seasons with double-digit wins in conference play, the best among Michigan Division I schools.

It was a milestone year for Kampe in 2017-18 as he was inducted into the Michigan Sports Hall of Fame on Sept. 15, 2017. Among the 2017 class included Jalen Rose, Jim Leyland, Dennis Rodman and Andre Rison. He also earned his 600th career win, becoming the 15th active Division I coach to reach the milestone.

That kind of success and longevity demands that the Leadership Lowdown gets Coach Kampe to share his thoughts on his legendary career and all that he has learned along the way (even his steps down the yellow brick road!). Listen in and catch a little of NCAA history!

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Jeffrey Mosher welcomes back Mark Ostach - Digital Wellness Expert from Metro Detroit - Beverly Hills, MI. who works with Fortune 500 companies, entrepreneurs, and nonprofit organizations across the state and US

Lack of Social Connection Puts Our Health at Risk

Connection & Belonging is More Important than We Thought According to National Digital Wellness Expert

Social connection took a backseat during the pandemic. Two and a half years later, we’re still dealing with the fallout.

More employees are disengaged not only in the workplace but also on the home front. Gallup reports the ratio of engaged to actively disengaged workers is at the lowest level in a decade and that half of the U.S. workforce is allegedly Quiet Quitting — that is, doing only what they are required to do and no more.

Research shows disengaged employees not only perform poorly but are more likely to struggle with health issues such as anxiety, depression, substance abuse, complacency, and stress.

“By neglecting our need for social connection, we put our health at risk,” said Mark Ostach, a national digital wellness & human connection expert. “Social connection is a critical area as we advance the hybrid workplace and our understanding of what makes us healthy.”

In 2022, the World Health Organization changed its definition of health? by the addition of social well-being to “ health is a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being and not merely the absence of disease”.

“We found employees during the pandemic lockdowns felt isolated, disengaged and depressed,” said Ostach. “Social connection has shown to lower anxiety and depression and actually improve our immune systems.”

Tell us about the New Book and your three-part series:

Through, a variety of outlets, including his new book “If You Really Knew Me, The Secret to creating a culture of Connection & Belonging” and a three-part series on how to find freedom in your digital day, Ostach’s goal is to restore energy and focus to organizations battling modern life’s non-stop pace and growing sense of disconnection.

Ostach suggests using the BELL method, an acronym representing Belonging, Empathy, Listening and Love, as a framework to foster connection and belonging at work and home, and within our communities

Ostach’s book features a range of people who courageously open their hearts, all of which are intended to highlight our need for social connection and belonging. Using the prompt, “If you really knew me.. . ” each person reminds us that we have more in common than our LinkedIn profiles and the zip codes we live in.

Osach said “If You Really Knew Me’ is an icebreaker on steroids.

“It will take time for employees to be connected beyond the surface. The exercise sparks vulnerability and gets people to foster a better sense of social connectedness right out of the gate. Finding ways to foster a culture of social connection will help people better handle stress in improving their overall health. “

Ostach Can Discuss the following Potential Topics:

Digital Wellness

● Find freedom in your digital day

● Setting boundaries with your social media

● How to unplug for a day

Wellbeing

● How to deal with Daylights Saving Time

● Tips to Prevent the Winter Blues

● Easing Anxiety for back to office return

● Importance of Gratitude

Work Culture

● Ways to foster mental wellness at work

● Two Simple Questions to help curb Quiet Quitting

● Tips to keep employees engaged in virtual meeting

● Offering Grace to Stop the Workplace Revolving Door

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Vic Verchereau welcomes Julie Winkle Giulioni, who is the co-author of the book Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive and co-founder and principal of DesignArounds.

Julie Winkle Giulioni is a champion for workplace growth and development and helps executives and leaders optimize talent and potential within their organizations. One of Inc. Magazine’s Top 100

speakers, she’s the author of Promotions Are So Yesterday: Redefine Career Development. Help Employees Thrive and the co-author of the international bestseller, Help Them Grow or Watch

Them Go: Career Conversations Organizations Need and Employees Want, translated into seven languages.

Julie is a regular columnist for Training Industry Magazine and SmartBrief and contributes articles on leadership, career development, and workplace trends to numerous publications including The Economist. Vic welcomes Julie to the Leadership Lowdown for a fun and meaningful Conversation about leadership, careers and personal growth! Listen in!

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Faces of Manufacturing is a new show to Michigan Business Network. Cindy Kangas, Executive Director, CAMC, Capital Area Manufacturing Council, Lansing, Michigan, co-hosts with Joy Wagner, HR Manager of Granger Waste Services, also Lansing.

Cindy and Joy strive to share the corporate culture, personal stories, and unique personalities of those making a living in manufacturing today, in Michigan. With that in mind, this month they connected with some members from Eckhart. For 60 years Eckhart has transformed industry. Their turnkey manufacturing solutions have been enhancing the safety of operators, improving the reliability of production lines, and achieving the highest quality standards since 1958. Cindy and Joy chat with Jeff Chu - Director, Factory of the Future Services; Travis Turner - Applications Director, and Scout Sparks, Senior Human Resources Manager.

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Jeffrey Mosher welcomes back Trevor Keyes, Bay Future Inc. Bay City, MI. Bay Future, Inc. to the Michigan Business Beat

Highlights from the summer and what to look forward to this fall with Bay Future.

· Bay Future worked to put together a $2 million proposal of American Rescue Plan Act Funds that was approved earlier this year by the Bay County Board of Commissioners. You mentioned this proposal when we spoke in the Spring, can you give us an update on that proposal and the initiatives a part of it?

· Since we last spoke in the Spring, were there any events that happened over the Summer that we might have missed?

· Speaking of development, is anything new going on in Bay County?

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Tony Conley welcomes Andy Balaskovitz, who works as a Managing Editor at MiBiz, which is a Media & Internet company with an estimated 14 employees; and founded in 1988., their management level is Manager.

In this discussion, they review MiBiz and then review the energy sector.

Andy graduated from Michigan State University in 2009 and is currently based in Grand Rapids, United States. They used to work at Energy News Network and Michigan State University and have used the following emails: @mibiz.com, @lansingcitypulse.com, @msu.edu.

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Tony Conley welcomes back James David Dickson Managing Editor of Michigan Capitol Confidential.

Their discussion covered the Michigan Governor's race in its final month, and some concerning big spending occurring around Michigan and how that happens.

James David Dickson is the managing editor of Michigan Capitol Confidential, a daily news site of the Mackinac Center for Public Policy. Dickson grew up in Inkster and now hails from Ferndale. After starting his career in 2007-2008 with a one-year fellowship at The American Spectator, Dickson then had stops at The Detroit News and two newspapers in Ann Arbor. He returned to the Detroit News in 2012, and stayed for a decade.

While attending the University of Michigan, Dickson was editor-in-chief of The Michigan Review, a columnist for the Michigan Daily, and an Angell Scholar. He can be reached at [email protected].

James David Dickson may be reached at [email protected].

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Vic Verchereau welcomes Matthew ‘Mojo’ Lersch, who is a radio host on Townsquare Media Classic Rock 94.9 WMMQ.

After three years out of radio, Matthew ‘Mojo’ Lersch has returned to Lansing MI radio as afternoon host on Townsquare Media Classic Rock 94.9 WMMQ. Lersch previously spent twenty three years at the Rubber City Radio Group turned Midwest Communications cluster first at Alternative “92.1 The Edge” WWDX as evening and morning host followed by sixteen years at Rock “Q106” WJXQ where he would rise to Program Director until his exit in 2019.

Mojo's journey on the air is filled with great success, but his personal journey is a story of triumph and lifting himself from some of his darkest days! Tune in to this interview where we celebrate Mojo's fantastic return from the most difficult valleys he could ever have imagined. He shares these emotional stories to help others....Believe in themselves!

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Tony welcomes Kara E. Beer, President, Battle Creek Area Chamber of Commerce, Battle Creek, MI

Serving as President of the Battle Creek Area Chamber of Commerce and the Battle Creek Area Chamber Foundation since June 2011. In this position, she is responsible for the overall administration, vision, and leadership of this 600 + membership organization and staff of 5.

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Tony Conley welcomes back Patrick De Haan, who started with GasBuddy in 2009.

Patrick is welcomed back for another interview, in light of the recent continued hikes in gas prices at the pump, They had gone down below $4 per gallon in Michigan, but are now back up, WHY?

Patrick shares with Tony what perceptions are right, wrong, and where things are going.

Patrick has analyzed and tracked oil markets and fuel prices for nearly two decades. A graduate of DePaul University, Patrick has a degree in Business Economics and has concentrated on downstream oil markets, including crude oil, gasoline, diesel, and jet fuel since 2005, when Patrick and a professor at Grand Valley State University launched a blog in that shared oil market insights and predicted gas price movements.

With a solid foundation, Patrick went to work with GasBuddy, a fuel-price tracking service, providing expertise for millions of users. Since then, he has provided regular commentary to U.S. News and World Report and is often quoted during gas price gyrations and fuel disruptions by almost all U.S. and international media outlets.

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