Paradigm Shift with Christina Martini

In this episode, Christina Martini and Kass Thomas discuss:

• Kass’s newest book, Dancing with Riches. 
• Finding joy and happiness in our lives. 
• Generosity of spirit for yourself and others. 
• Being present in all things and all places. 

Key Takeaways:

• You do not have to do anything specific to achieve joy and happiness. It is about being yourself. 
• Recognize and acknowledge what it is in your life that is so vital that without it you wouldn’t be happy. Acknowledge what it is that brings you joy. 
• COVID is inviting flexibility, alterations, creative capacities, and risk taking, not to get sick, necessarily, but taking risks to see not how you might fail, but how you not only survive, but you can thrive.
• Don’t sweat the small stuff…and it’s all small stuff. This too shall pass. 

"If you're willing to acknowledge what your gifts are, then your relationship with yourself, with your body, with other people, with money, with business allows you to not seek a purpose in life to reach a goal until you live your life purposefully." —  Kass Thomas

About Kass Thomas: Kass Thomas is a successful business entrepreneur, motivational speaker and empowerment coach. The depth and range of her life and career experiences inspires people to explore more choices and find the changes they are looking for. It is her mission in life to strengthen the unity of choice and change. She inspires clients to discover their unique brand of magic.

A best-selling author, Kass Thomas has released her latest book, Dancing with Riches, as a self-empowerment manual, to encourage readers to change tracks if the journey they are on is not working for them. Within the pages of this book, readers will find a guide to transform negative into positive, and to come through a winner, even in limiting situations.

Lively, anecdotal, and many times satirical, Kass’ eclectic style of humor is evident. Her non-judgmental demeanor creates a safe space for many to express themselves with ease. She is a catalyst for multicultural inclusion. An unstoppable pioneer: when people say it cannot be done, she always finds a way. Kass believes there is so much more that unites us than separates us.

Connect with Kass Thomas:

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kassthomas 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeingKass 

Website: https://www.kassthomas.com/WP01/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kassthomascoaching/ 

Book: https://www.dancingwithriches.us/ & https://www.kassthomas.com/SevenStepsBook 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW8Cx33MI08eYnnw25bkydQ 

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In this episode, Christina Martini and Kass Thomas discuss:

• How Kass’s background has affected her personal and professional lives. 
• Access Consciousness to know that you know. 
• Kass’s Seven Steps to Flawless Communication (her book has been translated into 20 languages). 
• Authenticity, genuineness, and vulnerability. 

Key Takeaways:

• Be aware of what people are willing to hear and understand how to speak in a way that is not offensive to those people. 
• Allow space and time for repositioning and finding who you really are. 
• Each and every person in this world is vital to this planet. Don’t let your business run you. 
• You have to fill your own well before you can gift yourself to others and help to fill other people. 

"If you are really willing to honor yourself and to take care of you, fill your cup up with water, let your cup of water overflow, then you will always have more to give to other people." — Kass Thomas

About Kass Thomas: Kass Thomas is a successful business entrepreneur, motivational speaker and empowerment coach. The depth and range of her life and career experiences inspires people to explore more choices and find the changes they are looking for. It is her mission in life to strengthen the unity of choice and change. She inspires clients to discover their unique brand of magic.

A best-selling author, Kass Thomas has released her latest book, Dancing with Riches, as a self-empowerment manual, to encourage readers to change tracks if the journey they are on is not working for them. Within the pages of this book, readers will find a guide to transform negative into positive, and to come through a winner, even in limiting situations.

Lively, anecdotal, and many times satirical, Kass’ eclectic style of humor is evident. Her non-judgmental demeanor creates a safe space for many to express themselves with ease. She is a catalyst for multicultural inclusion. An unstoppable pioneer: when people say it cannot be done, she always finds a way. Kass believes there is so much more that unites us than separates us.

Connect with Kass Thomas: 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/kassthomas 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/BeingKass 

Website: https://www.kassthomas.com/WP01/ 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kassthomascoaching/ 

Book: https://www.dancingwithriches.us/ & https://www.kassthomas.com/SevenStepsBook 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCW8Cx33MI08eYnnw25bkydQ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/kass-thomas-7006982/ 

Connect with Christina Martini:

Twitter: @TinaMartini10

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In this episode, Christina Martini and Venus Castleberg discuss:

• Giving and receiving to your business. 
• The relationship between your business and your life. 
• Finding the right relationships in your life and business. 
• Regular rewards as momentum for creating the life you want to live. 

Key Takeaways:

• If you are considering a career change, first write down and understand what you want your life to be like. 
• Whatever brings you joy doesn’t have to be big. It starts with the little things that bring you happiness and joy. 
• Choose relationships (business or personal) who make you feel better when you leave their presence. 
• Give yourself 1 hour per day, and 1 day per week to do something that recharges you. 

—  Venus Castleberg

Connect with Venus Castleberg:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adventureswithvenus/  

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/venuscastleberg 

Website: https://venuscastleberg.com/ 

Book: https://venuscastleberg.com/here-forever/ 

Show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/being-naked/id1540604996 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClDEDcWlKQ-8puDA8wo91JA 

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cf_venus_castleberg 

Connect with Christina Martini:

Twitter: @TinaMartini10

Website: www.paradigmshiftshow.com

LinkedIn: Christina Martini

Email: [email protected]

In this episode, Christina Martini and Venus Castleberg discuss:

• Living with gratitude for everything, even the trials and the struggles. 
• Asking for what you want. 
• Trying without fear of failure to develop your why. 
• Getting out of our own way. 

Key Takeaways:

• Nobody wants to think they are broken, nobody wants to think they need help. 
• Judging kills, it stops what is possible, and it stops creation and growth. 
• Everything you are looking for is already within you, if you just look. 
• You choose what you want to create based on the thought patterns and beliefs in your brain. 

"What and why comes from living your life. It's not that you necessarily know everything that you want upfront, you start to discover that as you're living your life." —  Venus Castleberg

Connect with Venus Castleberg:

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/adventureswithvenus/  

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/venuscastleberg 

Website: https://venuscastleberg.com/ 

Book: https://venuscastleberg.com/here-forever/ 

Show: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/being-naked/id1540604996 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UClDEDcWlKQ-8puDA8wo91JA 

Linktree: https://linktr.ee/cf_venus_castleberg 

Connect with Christina Martini:

Twitter: @TinaMartini10

Website: www.paradigmshiftshow.com

LinkedIn: Christina Martini

Email:

In this episode, Christina Martini and Brendon Watt discuss:

• Choosing what is true to you. 
• Finding awareness of your thoughts and their correlation to your life. 
• Brendon’s journey in discovering and teaching. 
• Keep creating and keep wondering. 

Key Takeaways:

• Everything you are today is a result of the choices that you made in your past. 
• Things don’t happen to you, you always have a choice. 
• Add kindness to your life, not just toward others, but also toward yourself. 
• Don’t try to figure out your whole future. Be present in your life and enjoy it. 

"We have choice. We can either be unhappy and negative and judge ourselves, or we can choose to actually have more joy in our lives and create a different world, create a different space where we can actually thrive, and move forward to something we'll all be a lot more proud of." —  Brendon Watt

Connect with Brendon Watt:

Website: https://www.brendonwatt.com/ & https://www.accessconsciousness.com/ 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqUIwd0enUwbkFgE0yUkQEg 

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/brendonwatt 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accessbrendonwatt/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brendonwattcfmw/ 

Books: 

An Anonymous Guide to Parenting: https://www.brendonwatt.com/anonymous-guide 

Relationship. Are You Sure You Want One?: https://www.accessconsciousness.com/en/shop-catalog/book/relationship-are-you-sure-you-want-one2/ 

Connect with Christina Martini:

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In this episode, Christina Martini and Brendon Watt discuss:

• How Brendon was able to change his own life. 
• Why New Year’s Resolutions don’t tend to work for most people. 
• Understanding what is yours and what is not yours. 
• Honestly looking at yourself and the choices you make. 

Key Takeaways:

• Get present with yourself. Understand what you are choosing at every moment. 
• Question, question, question with everything. Don’t just go to judgment, ask what is possible. 
• You cannot change anything that is not yours. 
• Your point of view is what is creating your reality. 

"As soon as you acknowledge something, you can change it...You are the driver of your life." —  Brendon Watt

Connect with Brendon Watt:

Website: https://www.brendonwatt.com/ & https://www.accessconsciousness.com/ 

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCqUIwd0enUwbkFgE0yUkQEg 

SoundCloud: https://soundcloud.com/brendonwatt 

Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/accessbrendonwatt/ 

Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/brendonwattcfmw/ 

Books: 

An Anonymous Guide to Parenting: https://www.brendonwatt.com/anonymous-guide 

Relationship. Are You Sure You Want One?: https://www.accessconsciousness.com/en/shop-catalog/book/relationship-are-you-sure-you-want-one2/ 

Connect with Christina Martini:

Twitter: @TinaMartini10

Website:

In this episode, Christina Martini, Octavian Pantis, and Captain Emil Dobrovolschi discuss:

• Managing risk and dealing with uncertainty. 
• What we can learn from aviation when things don’t go as planned. 
• Learning from industry specific websites, not just social media.
• Wrestling with ethical issues.

Key Takeaways:

• Don’t postpone things, they only gather and the weight gets too heavy and overwhelming. 
• When something goes wrong, it is never the fault of just one thing. There are always multiple factors. 
• Do the right thing, at the right moment. Don’t do everything at the last moment, even if you can usually accomplish it.
• The right thing is always the right thing to do, even when it is difficult. 

"If you can do it today, do it today. Don’t leave it until the last minute." — Octavian Pantis

Connect with Octavian Pantis:

Website: https://octavianpantis.com/ 

Book: https://darkcockpitbook.com/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/octavianpantis/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OctavianPantis 

Connect with Captain Emil Dobrovolschi:

Book: https://darkcockpitbook.com/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emil-g-dobrovolschi-a61b2b105/ 

Connect with Christina Martini:

Twitter: @TinaMartini10

Website: www.paradigmshiftshow.com

LinkedIn: Christina Martini

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

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In this episode, Christina Martini, Octavian Pantis, and Captain Emil Dobrovolschi discuss:

• How Emil and Octavian’s backgrounds prepared them for and translate into a career focused on writing about and consulting on leadership.
• The bedrock of communication. 
• Utilizing technology properly for the best outcome. 
• Moving from copilot to captain. 

Key Takeaways:

• In times of change, people are looking for ideas and inspiration. 
• As a professional, try to be prepared all the time, for every flight, not just for the exam. 
• Just because we have the technology to do so, we should not try to be in 2, 3, or even 4 places at once. 
• If you want your flight to be good, you need your crew to be with you - the same thing in business. If you want your product or service to be good, you need your team to be with you. 

"If you want to be a communicator, you need to be present in that conversation, whether it's on the phone or live and in person, whether you're on the sending side or on the receiving side." — Captain Emil Dobrovolschi

Connect with Octavian Pantis:

Website: https://octavianpantis.com/ 

Book: https://darkcockpitbook.com/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/octavianpantis/ 

Twitter: https://twitter.com/OctavianPantis 

Connect with Captain Emil Dobrovolschi:

Book: https://darkcockpitbook.com/ 

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/emil-g-dobrovolschi-a61b2b105/ 

Connect with Christina Martini:

Twitter: @TinaMartini10

Website: www.paradigmshiftshow.com

LinkedIn: Christina Martini

Email: [email protected]

Show notes by Podcastologist: Chelsea Taylor-Sturkie

In this episode, Christina Martini and Amii Barnard-Bahn discuss:

• Managing vs mentoring vs leadership.
• What it means to be a true leader. 
• When to consider working with a coach. 
• Tips to consider approaching your manager for a promotion.

Key Takeaways:

• “Before you're a leader, success is all about growing yourself. When you become a leader, success is all about growing others.” - Jack Welch
• If you are valued at your organization, go to HR or your boss and ask if they will sponsor you for executive coaching. Everyone can benefit from a coach.
• Have promotion and compensation discussions as two different discussions.
• Show your best self when you are interviewing, whether with your own leadership or with a new company. 

"Don’t grade yourself on the feedback you get, grade yourself on your response." —  Amii Barnard-Bahn

About Amii Barnard-Bahn: Amii is an executive coach, strategic advisor and keynote speaker who specializes in accelerating the success of compliance and legal executives. A former Fortune Global 50 exec, her clients include Adobe, Gap, Chegg, Lyft, Bank of the West, Boehringer Ingelheim, and The Nature Conservancy.

Amii previously shaped company culture and strategic initiatives as an executive (CAO, Chief Compliance Officer, CHRO) at companies such as McKesson and Allianz.

She has been described by Forbes as “one of the top coaches for legal and compliance executives.”

Amii earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and her BA in English from Tufts and is an active member of the California State Bar. A leadership columnist for Compliance Week and Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Coaching, she is a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the University of San Diego School of Business; has spoken to the alumni associations of Georgetown and Tufts University, and presents frequently to associations such as The Conference Board and SHRM affiliates. She has been quoted in publications such as The San Francisco Chronicle, NBC's KCRA-TV, and various other regional and national business publications. 

A lifelong diversity advocate, Amii testified in multiple legislative committees on the successful passage of California's SB826, the first law in the U.S. requiring corporate boards to include women. 

Connect with Amii Barnard-Bahn:

Website: https://www.barnardbahn.com/

Book:

In this episode, Christina Martini and Amii Barnard-Bahn discuss:

• How Amii’s Promotability Index can help you in your workplace as well as individually. 
• The five key elements of promotability (and what you can do at any stage of your career).
• Creating a culture of consistent promotability within your company. 
• The importance of mentors and allyship. 

Key Takeaways:

• There is a way to give feedback that is effective, and where people can hear you. 
• Good presentation skills can be learned by anyone, you just have to practice. 
• It is important to invest in relationships and understand how you are perceived and your impact on those in your team and in the leadership.
• If you don’t have a good boss that is giving you the feedback you need, you can try and get it from the other people. 

"Companies, especially if they want to be diverse and inclusive, need to be able to articulate to employees who are promoted or not promoted, how to get there, and what they're missing." — Amii Barnard-Bahn

About Amii Barnard-Bahn: Amii is an executive coach, strategic advisor and keynote speaker who specializes in accelerating the success of compliance and legal executives. A former Fortune Global 50 exec, her clients include Adobe, Gap, Chegg, Lyft, Bank of the West, Boehringer Ingelheim, and The Nature Conservancy.

Amii previously shaped company culture and strategic initiatives as an executive (CAO, Chief Compliance Officer, CHRO) at companies such as McKesson and Allianz.

She has been described by Forbes as “one of the top coaches for legal and compliance executives.”

Amii earned her law degree from Georgetown University Law Center and her BA in English from Tufts and is an active member of the California State Bar. A leadership columnist for Compliance Week and Fellow at the Harvard Institute of Coaching, she is a guest lecturer at UC Berkeley’s Haas School of Business and the University of San Diego School of Business; has spoken to the alumni associations of Georgetown and Tufts University, and presents frequently to associations such as The Conference Board and SHRM affiliates. She has been quoted in publications such as The San Francisco Chronicle, NBC's KCRA-TV, and various other regional and national business publications. 

A lifelong diversity advocate, Amii testified in multiple legislative committees on the successful passage of California's SB826, the first law in the U.S. requiring corporate boards to include women. 

Connect with Amii Barnard-Bahn:

Website: