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Show Notes I think today’s show will be fun. I plan to talk about “The Adventure Called Life” because that is how our special guest today lives his life… as an ongoing adventure. As a personal development coach, Nate Johnson genuinely “lives” life. Check it out. He is an American city guy turned white water rafting guide in New Zealand, a rancher the Australian outback, Manager at Inc. Magazine, and an SEO business executive. I think he was also in the carnival business… we’ll see. I am truly excited to have Nate Johnson on the show today. In spite of the more than 30-year difference in our age, Nate and I are indeed kindred spirits that believe “life is for living, not watching.” Nate is a Mindset & Personal Development Coach. He is the Co-Author of the book, The Successful Mind, a speaker, adventurer, and a self-proclaimed… I love this… the "Imperfect stoic". To which I want to ask, is there any other kind of stoic? His primary goal is to help clients, "live, not merely exist". Visit Nate Johnson at linkedin.com/in/nate-johnson or at his website: https://natejohnson.coach Or, you can email Nate at [email protected]   For more with Charlie Hedges please visit www.thenextchapter.life  

Jim Ferry, long time industry veteran, discusses his legacy, career and gives meaningful mentorship advice to rising leaders.  Jim encourages us to "lose battles to win wars" as we make strategic decisions to keep moving forward. "You don't grow unless you fail," said Jim. Jim shares about his family and his wife's sacrifices for his career, and how it is important to ultimately not look back once you make an educated decision. Jim expresses the importance of making a life and career plan and adds, "You can't sit back and let the future happen. You have to make your future happen."  Listen in to all the golden mentorship nuggets from an industry leader with a proven track record for integrity and success.Support the show (http://www.womeninelectronics.com)

Joining me at the Business Growth Cafe is Tony Penn, CEO of Penn Consulting.  Tony is a business owner, executive consultant & coach and is here today to talk leadership, and what and how leaders need to focus during these crazy times.

Tony also has a specialty working with leaders in the restaurant industry.

To find out more visit: https://pennultimateconsulting.com/

Show Notes  Today we are honored to once again have a recent guest who was on the show only a couple weeks ago. In our previous show Linda Olsen and I focused on the “value of creating a personal story.” But according to listeners, we neglected to explain the tactics or procedures of actually creating Your Own Story. Today Linda and I will dedicate the majority of our time together with an emphasis on discovering precisely what the listener can do to create a compelling story. Our guest and friend today, Linda Olsen, is a highly accomplished expert at helping others master their own story and then teaching them how to tell that story to other people. The primary focus of her business is all about storytelling. Just a bit about our guest today. Linda Olsen is a bestselling author, TEDx speaker and Founder of Wealth Through Stories. As former college dean, and marriage and family therapist Linda brings us deep knowledge of personal transformation through telling your own story. In her book, Your Story Matters Linda offers a step-by-step process how can and why you should create your own true story—one than reveals a very personal and informing light for the world. SPECIAL OFFER Linda has graciously offered a FREE PDF of her book Your Story Matters. Just click the link to receive your copy of the masterful book. For more on Linda Olsen check out the following links: Website Tedx For more with Charlie Hedges please visit www.thenextchapter.life

Never in my lifetime has politics felt so contentious. I know as a preacher I am given to hyperbole, but not this time. This is an ugly, visceral, palpable, and vomit-producing level. It can even make family gatherings stressful, divide generations, and kill any notion of a wonderful community. If I know anything about history, it can certainly kill a country, and not a few are suspecting that is at stake.If that isn’t a difficult enough beginning let us add church into it. I wonder how many people would put politics on the list of things that attributed to them moving away from the church, not going to church, or being stressed by the church. This certainly was true for my father.One of my mentors, Steve Brown, used to often say before a sermon: “I have a lot of political views and they are a lot better than yours are, but you aren’t going to hear them from the pulpit because this is a place for God’s word and we have come here to see Jesus and Him only.” I loved that for a lot of reasons, not the least of which was the humor inserted into something that could otherwise be quite divisive. I followed his lead and was always careful not to get political from the pulpit. I wonder how successful I’d be now if I preached every week. Everything seems to have been thrown into the political basket.On the other side, I had a preacher friend of mine come out publicly about his political views right down to for whom he was going to vote. Now he’s retired and I’m glad, but I was embarrassed for him. He waxed eloquently about the why’s, but I knew he was alienating people right and left, mostly only to get stroked by those who agreed with him. I prayed for his serenity.Who can help us here? Our guest today is uniquely qualified to speak on this subject. He’s one of those Reverend Doctors, which means he has a doctoral degree and is ordained and I will let his job title suffice to let us know he is bringing more than personal opinion to this discussion. The Vice President of Theological Initiatives for the Institute for Faith, Work & Economics, Dr. Art Lindsley. 

Host Bart Zandbergen was joined in the virtual studio by entrepreneur Valentina Khan. Valentina is the Managing Director for Investors Philanthropic. As an OC native who grew up in North Tustin, she was inspired early on by the compassionate community. She is a graduate of the University of Southern California Bachelor of Arts, has received her Juris Doctorate at Taft Law School and continued her education with a Masters of Arts degree from Claremont School of Theology. She is the visionary and Co-Founder of I Am Jerusalem and was a contributing member to the Interfaith Youth Council of Orange County. Both of which are non-profit organizations that focus on building bridges of understanding and friendship within the interfaith communities.

Valentina is the Host for The Joy of Giving Series on YouTube, which highlights various business leaders and nonprofit organizations. She is passionate about "bringing the joy of giving to millions", through education, collaboration and creating opportunities for Donors to fulfill their philanthropic missions. As part of Investors Philanthropic, Valentina combines her love of community with her efforts to build impactful relationships from one generation to the next. She is also the creator of and teacher for Dance Barre - a fun ballet barre fitness method.

We are experiencing a significant worldwide health crisis, the coronavirus which has killed over 200,000 people in the US at the time of this recording.  We now wear masks to protect ourselves from this virus, work at home, not socializing, and living more in isolation than ever before.

This takes a toll, even on the healthiest individuals.  But, it’s not just the current state we are in that is impacting mental health.  It existed long before the pandemic and will exit after.

Today a please to have Sally Spencer-Thomas here with us to discuss mental health in the workplace and home.  This is a timely topic as September is also Suicide Prevention Month.

Sally is a Psychologist and International Mental Health & Suicide Prevention Impact Entrepreneur and Keynote Speaker.

 

To learn more, visit https://www.sallyspencerthomas.com/

Show Notes  Hey Paul. I am especially interested in our show today, as we will discuss, at least in part, how each of us contains a Zone of Genius hungering to make an impact. This show if filled with insight and tangible steps to becoming the kind of person you really want to be. Kamin Samuel is one of my most respected people. Her intelligence and wisdom are worthy of paying heed. Her official bio reads: Kamin Samuel is an International Rapid Transformation Business Coach, author and speaker. She has the distinction of being the U.S. Navy's first female African-American helicopter pilot. She has a background in information technology, web development and online merchandising and served as the Vice President of Global Website Operations at a billion-dollar company. Kamin specializes in transforming stuck beliefs and behaviors to accelerate growth and high performance. I’m so impressed with Kamin that I have set a date for personal coaching regarding my future at 71 years old—yes 71, by birthday was yesterday. So without further introduction, let’s bring author, speaker, Business and Persona coach Kamin Samuel on the show.   For coaching with Kamin Samuel you can contact her at www.KaminSamuel.com For more with Charlie Hedges please visit www.thenextchapter.life

WE President and Founder, Jackie Mattox, chats with Meenal Sethna, EVP & CFO of Littelfuse. Meenal talks about transferrable skills coming into a new industry and enlisting help from her team, channel partners, customers, and other CFO colleagues. Meenal discusses diversity and inclusion initiatives as a strategy to support the company's biggest asset, their employees. Meenal also stresses the importance of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs) as being a part of the company's advancement to improve the bottom line, providing a good line of two-way communication between employees and management, and giving a sense of belonging to their employees. Meenal also tells us about WIN — Women's Initiative Network, which started as an employee grassroots effort (now global), that operates based on goals (educate, engage, empower, and elevate) that align with the Littelfuse corporate vision. Meenal talks about the importance of “listening sessions" and forming a Diversity & Inclusion Council as a channel for other potential ERGs with the ultimate vision to further unite the team at Littelfuse across the globe while increasing the bottom line.Support the show (http://www.womeninelectronics.com)

If you’re a runner or any type of athlete, you may have heard others express the terms “runner’s high” or in “the zone” when athletes exponentially outperform their competition, or even themselves. These terms describe a neurochemically induced state of consciousness known as “flow.”

Today at the Business Growth Café I’m joined by Chris King, President & CEO of Status Flow, who says that by disrupting your flow, you can get five days’ work done in one day, all while working fewer hours, dropping your stress levels to absolutely zero.

Listen in to the conversation to hear how you can improve your life and work by enhancing your flow!

To learn more, visit: https://statusflow.net/