Natural Tendencies

Natural Tendencies

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Natural Tendencies episodes

  • Guiding Gumby
    In this episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick speaks to a highly driven creative engineer about his key behavioral attributes and shows how these traits can be both strengths and growth areas in his life. Rick guides you through using our behavioral assessment in this coaching session and gives advice to facilitate your own.
    38 min
  • Digging Deeper
    In this episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick speaks with Deepak Kumar, a successful Director of Business Operations, about his strengths and growth areas using the results of our behavioral assessment, The BE Success Survey. 
    43 min
  • Taming the Monkey Mind
    Feeling stressed and unsettled? In this special episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick shares his thoughts on meditation and the benefits of establishing your own meditation practice. He provides simple meditation ideas that are accessible to everybody and guides you through the process of establishing awareness through mind-body connection.
    23 min
  • Pixel Perfect
    In Episode 8 of Natural Tendencies, Rick talks with a Graphic Designer about her need to always feel in control and how she has realized that she defines her whole identity by the things she does and what other people think of her.
    27 min
  • Mentor Casting: Eric Loyall
    In this special episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick talks with Eric Loyall, COO of SSA, a well-established company that operates visitor services at cultural attractions across the United States, about the importance of mentorship for personal growth and how his company invested in its own formal mentorship program to encourage understanding, connection and diversity.
    24 min
  • Like a Bridge over Troubled Water
    In this heart wrenching (and warming) episode of Natural Tendencies, Rick speaks with artist & musician, Shawn Rinehart, about his most tragic and impactful life event and how he leaned on his own strengths and the love of community to process his loss and grief.  Despite the chaos that his family was thrust into after the […]
    50 min
  • Combatting Kali
    In Episode 5 of Natural Tendencies, Rick speaks with Yogi and Entrepreneur, “Kali” Necrason about the importance of names and how their spiritual significance has informed her perception of herself.  She talks about how she is constantly combatting her innate and intense forward energy and aggression because she sees it as the antithesis of her core […]
    41 min
  • Chucking Kale at your Husband with Meredith Cochie Ross
    In Episode 4 of Natural Tendencies Rick talks to a passionate creative who struggles with dealing with the "spongey" stuff that occupies her mind and the dissatisfaction inherent in being creative...sometimes manifesting into throwing kale at her husband. (Featuring a guest appearance by an epic thunderstorm... )
    54 min
  • Unraveling the “Human Doing”
    In Episode 3 of Natural Tendencies, Rick talks with our senior consultant, Chu Shin, about his severe childhood trauma and how it has informed his need to prove himself and always do more. Through this exploration, Rick questions the idea of getting over trauma and suggests starting to deal with it by integrating the experience as part of your […]
    48 min
  • Comic Relief
    In Episode 2 of Natural Tendencies, Rick leads a "verbal acupuncture" session where he talks to one of his closest friends about having the rug pulled out from under his life after his parent's divorce and early childhood losses, the insecurity and loneliness that resulted from that, and how he resorted to comedy as a means to make connections.
    38 min

About Natural Tendencies

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After thirty years as a psychotherapist, entrepreneur and business consultant, Rick Breden, CEO of Behavioral Essentials, realized that many of the issues that impact work performance aren't related…