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This week, I had the privilege of sitting down to talk with a true thought leader and cultural intelligence master, Loren Rosario-Maldonado. With over 25 years of experience in HR and leadership coaching under her belt, Lauren's latest book "Becoming the Change: The Power of Cultural Intelligence" is a must-read.

In this episode, Lauren sheds light on the concept of cultural intelligence — a framework that helps individuals adapt and work effectively across cultural differences. She shares her own stories and practical strategies for cultivating empathy, humility, and curiosity when navigating cultural nuances in the workplace and beyond.

Get ready to be inspired as Lauren showcases the profound impact cultural intelligence can have on productivity, personal growth, and building inclusive environments. Her wisdom will leave you feeling empowered to embrace your own cultural influences and consider how that influences your thoughts and behaviors, especially when it comes to achievement.

So sit back, open your mind, and get ready for an enlightening ride — this episode is a true eye-opening cultural celebration.

Key Topics:

1. How reading fed Loren's adventurous curiosity growing up
2. Tuning in to what you're naturally good at
3. Making the switch to corporate HR from retail and child psychology
4. What is cultural intelligence?
5. Personal values vs. familial values in cultural upbringing
6. Loren's "aha moment" and wake-up call to serve people better at work
7. Examining how different cultures view achievement
8. The 4 capabilities of cultural intelligence
9. What Emily in Paris can teach us about cultural intelligence and humility

Connect with Loren online:

Book: https://www.amazon.com/Becoming-Change-Power-Cultural-Intelligence/dp/B0CPDBJV66

Website: https://www.lorenrosario.com/

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

Find more from Courtney Page:

Instagram: @courtneyaustinpage

Website: https://www.glowstatecoach.com/

Interested in 1:1 Coaching or Hiring Courtney for a Speaking Engagement or Workshop? Email her at: [email protected]

In this week's solo episode, I discuss the concept of mindful leadership and how to incorporate mindfulness principles into your leadership approach. As both an executive coach and yoga teacher, I love blending the wisdom of Eastern philosophies like yoga and Buddhism into the corporate world.

I define what mindfulness means — being fully present and aware in the current moment without judgment, and explore practical ways to apply mindfulness to leadership. You'll learn the importance of self-awareness through practices like meditation to recognize how your emotions and energy impact your team.

It doesn't matter if you're currently in a leadership position or seeking one out for your future, this episode will give you some tangible tips and tricks for starting to incorporate mindful leadership into your career journey.

Key Topics:

1. What does it mean to be mindful?
2. Recognizing how your emotions and thoughts impact your team
3. Tapping into the energy and awareness of your impact
4. How being a better listener builds trust
5. Creating a culture of presence on your team
6. Putting your ego aside to show up with empathy
7. Modeling mindfulness behavior for your team
8. Open communication and regular check-ins
9. Promoting a healthy work-life balance

Find more from Courtney Page:

Instagram: @courtneyaustinpage

Website: https://www.glowstatecoach.com/

Interested in 1:1 Coaching or Hiring Courtney for a Speaking Engagement or Workshop? Email her at: [email protected]

Did you ever wish you had a coach to help get you through your internships back when you were in college? This week, we're getting the inside scoop from Toom Willems about what it's like to work with young adults looking for help preparing for their professional careers to begin.

Toom brings a refreshing spin on maximizing those crucial internship months. Forget trying too hard to prove yourself. Toom emphasizes the importance of making an internship feel like "home" by learning everyone's names, being genuinely curious about the work and people, and enthusiastically taking on tasks (even unglamorous ones).

Whether you're on your way to college, about to start your first job, or transitioning to a new industry, Toom's advice can be applied to all stages of career development. So join us to hear his story and get some tips and tricks about how to manage your professional life with ease.

Key Topics:

1. Starting a two-fold career path in soccer and teaching
2. Searching for status in a career path
3. Embrace who you are and your desires, but do it with humility
4. From an airforce pilot, to a breakdancer, to sports scientist
5. Dealing with disappointment
6. The importance of having a plan B
7. We're bound to have more than one passion in life
8. Transitioning from sports to teaching and coaching
9. Making your new job feel like home
10. Getting curious about discomfort and learning to coexist
11. Cultivating an open mindset
12. The biggest misconception about internships
13. Don't ask for too much too soon
14. The Clown Costume Guarantee

Connect with Toom online: Website: https://www.kickassintern.com/

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/toom-willems/?locale=nl_NL

Find more from Courtney Page:

Instagram: @courtneyaustinpage

Website: https://www.glowstatecoach.com/

Interested in 1:1 Coaching or Hiring Courtney for a Speaking Engagement or Workshop? Email her at: [email protected]

This week, I had the pleasure of speaking with Melissa Gray, an attorney whose passion is guiding entrepreneurs through the legal side of building a business.

Melissa walks us through her career journey — from serving as general counsel at a billion-dollar company to starting her own law firm. Her firm is dedicated to educating entrepreneurs and getting them set up properly with things like contracts, trademarks, and business formations from the get-go.

One piece of advice Melissa emphasized? Don't just operate on handshake deals with partners or clients. She's seen too many entrepreneurs come to her after issues arise because they didn't have proper documentation in place. Getting the right agreements drafted upfront can save you major headaches down the road.

As a mom of three young kids, Melissa also shares her experience with entrepreneurship with a family. She emphasizes that to be successful, you need to be willing to ask for help, whether that's hiring someone or leaning on family and friends to give you a helping hand if possible.

Melissa brings a wealth of knowledge not just on the legal nuances entrepreneurs should know, but also the importance of taking a proactive approach and finding balance as a parent.

Key Topics:

1. Making the decision to go to law school
2. Finding a career that balances the left and right brain
3. What happens after law school?
4. What is the bar?
5. Lifting the curtain in independently running your own law firm
6. Bridging the gap between DIY and large law firms
7. The biggest challenges Melissa helps her clients face
8. Learning to lean on your network when starting a business
9. Delegating what you don't have time for as a parent
10. Work hard while your kids are young to free up your time later
11. The highs and lows of parenthood

Connect with Melissa online: Website: https://thelawspot.com/

Instagram: @thelawspot_

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/melissa-gray-72335947/

Find more from Courtney Page:

Instagram: @courtneyaustinpage

Website: https://www.glowstatecoach.com/

Interested in 1:1 Coaching or Hiring Courtney for a Speaking Engagement or Workshop? Email her at: [email protected]

This week, Mustafa Ammar is giving us a crash course in career pivots. An expert in the art himself, he's gone from a career in pharmaceuticals, pivoting to international diplomacy, then switching to investment banking, and now running his own business as a career coach.

Along the way, he developed incredible skills in areas like negotiations, cultural intelligence, and even mastering multiple languages. He opens up about how he took those transferable skills and reskilled himself to become an investment banker focused on infrastructure projects. We discuss his philosophy about continually upskilling and reskilling yourself by getting clear on your core passions, values, and vision for your ideal lifestyle.

Even now that he's teaching others to follow their passions and switch careers with ease, he's still finding other ways to nurture other passions and give back to others in his spare time. His latest passion is launching a non-profit aiming to help 1 million orphans not just dream big about potential careers but to provide resources to actually make those dreams a reality.

Join us in this inspiring discussion about taking ownership of your career path and not letting burnout get the best of you.

Key Topics:

1. Being a career shapeshifter throughout life
2. The inner struggle of picking just one career
3. How choosing diplomacy as a career changed his journey completely
4. What is a diplomat and what do they do?
5. The skills and abilities that make a great diplomat
6. What to study if you're interested in diplomacy
7. Looking for a new challenge in investment banking
8. Tapping into your strengths and bringing them to new careers
9. Creating your own job role with the specialized skills you already have
10. Reskilling vs. Upskilling
11. Differentiating a work funk from knowing it's time for a change
12. Taking a "road trip" to define your passions
13. Helping 1 million orphans dream bigger and achieve their dreams

Connect with Mustafa online: Website: https://mustafaammar.com/

Books: Time to Move On, The Passion Project

Find more from Courtney Page:

Instagram: @courtneyaustinpage

Website: https://www.glowstatecoach.com/

Interested in 1:1 Coaching or Hiring Courtney for a Speaking Engagement or Workshop? Email her at: [email protected]

Everyone loves a good personality test. Maybe you used to scour Buzzfeed for new quizzes to learn what your favorite cheese says about you or perhaps took an online IQ test one too many times, there's a quiz out there for everyone wanting to learn more about themselves.

One of the most popular in the mix is Myers-Briggs, or MBTI (Myers-Briggs Type Indicator). This test has been around for a while now, with many people retaking it over the years to see how their personality types have changed (if at all).

But one major advantage to this particular personality test is that it can teach us a lot about our passions, goals, and even careers. Maybe you're an ISFJ who is more introverted, but also warm and kindhearted with a desire to help others. This says a lot about the careers you not only gravitate to, but about the ones you could potentially pursue for ultimate happiness.

So this week, we're doing a little deep dive into the Myers-Briggs world to see what types of careers your personality type could unlock for you. If you don't know your personality type and want to follow along, be sure to take the test and then come back to find out what career path might be best for you.

Key Topics:

1. What is MBTI?
2. The 4 dichotomies of the MBTI
3. Extrovert vs. Introvert
4. Sensing vs. Intuition
5. Judging vs. Perceiving
6. The most common personality types and the careers they excel in
7. The rarest, most contradictory personality type
8. The highest and lowest earners by personality type
9. The earnings potential throughout life, based on personality

Take the Myers-Briggs Personality test here: https://www.16personalities.com/

Find more from Courtney Page:

Instagram: @courtneyaustinpage

Website: https://www.glowstatecoach.com/

Interested in 1:1 Coaching or Hiring Courtney for a Speaking Engagement or Workshop? Email her at: [email protected]

In the sales community, you'll hear the phrase, "You can't teach sales" a lot. Many believe that sales is something that you either have, or you don't, and it's a matter of innate talent rather than a practiced skill.

But according to Ron Earley, that's just not true. Instead, he's built his business around teaching and mentoring others to sell confidently, even if it doesn't come naturally. Now, he has a six-figure business and the nickname "The Sales God" to prove that sales can, in fact, be taught.

In this episode, we take a deeper look into Ron's life from his rocky introduction to sales and entrepreneurship, the risky investment that changed everything for him, some of his top sales tips and strategies, and what he's up to now with Grey Wolfe Investing.

If you're an aspiring entrepreneur but the idea of sales intimidates you, this episode will give you the confidence to adopt a different mindset and jumpstart your own success story today.

Key Topics:

1. Starting out in the fitness industry
2. Ron's first hit-and-miss with entrepreneurship
3. The risky investment that changed his career trajectory forever
4. Deciding to mentor others to learn how to be successful in sales
5. Finding the sales sweet spot within a niche
6. Serotonin stories, dopamine stories, and endorphin stories
7. What is FBA?
8. How Grey Wolfe Investing got its name
9. How parenthood has changed his outlook on legacy and entrepreneurship

Connect with Ron online:

Website: https://www.greywolfeinvesting.com/

Instagram: @salesgod, @greywolfeinvesting

Linkedin (Personal): https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethprobst/

Linkedin (Business): https://www.linkedin.com/company/greywolfe-investingllc/

3 Lessons Blog: https://www.greywolfeinvesting.com/blog/3-lessons

Find more from Courtney Page:

Instagram: @courtneyaustinpage

Website: https://www.glowstatecoach.com/

Interested in 1:1 Coaching or Hiring Courtney for a Speaking Engagement or Workshop? Email her at: [email protected]

Choosing a career can be complicated. When we're young, we have our whole lives ahead of us, but that can often feel suffocating or intimidating for students who aren't sure what they want, but are being pressured to make important decisions before they're ready.

That's why our guest this week, Beth Probst, set out to change the course of career prep for teenagers for good. She saw that kids as early as middle school needed comprehensive guidance to figure out what really makes them tick and wanted to give them the tools they need to explore on their own.

In this episode, we talk about what career development tactics are actually helpful to teenagers, what kids can do to prepare for college, and how Beth's company has developed tools that actually help kids set themselves up for career success all the way through college.

If you're still in school, or a parent of a child who is starting to think about what their future will look like, this episode will give you the guidance to start preparing for the future now.

Key Topics:

1. Using joyful exploration to help kids figure out what makes them tick
2. Starting a career in tech as a sales engineer and moving up the corporate ladder
3. Preparation + opportunity = luck
4. Failure is feedback
5. Transitioning from the safety of a stable job to entrepreneurship
6. Getting to the core of teenagers' needs, skills, strengths, and values
7. Hiring others to help with the work vs. doing all the work yourself
8. The benefits of the test and learn mentality
9. Filling the need for educational path planning for kids
10. Kids are extremely skeptical of the value of higher education
11. How to leave college with marketable skills that get you hired
12. Combating career illiteracy
13. Getting kids to be willing and open to receive guidance on career planning
14. Internships vs. co-ops
15. Easing the transition from college to career

Connect with Beth online:

Website: https://www.gettingatthecore.com/

Instagram: @gettingatthecore

Linkedin (Personal): https://www.linkedin.com/in/bethprobst/

Linkedin (Business): https://www.linkedin.com/company/at-the-core-llc/

Find more from Courtney Page:

Instagram: @courtneyaustinpage

Website: https://www.glowstatecoach.com/

Interested in 1:1 Coaching or Hiring Courtney for a Speaking Engagement or Workshop? Email her at: [email protected]

Life is full of noise from external sources — social media, friends, parents, society. It's a stressful world we live in, and one that's even harder to navigate if you're a young girl.

This week's guest, Dr. Tim Jordan, uses his pediatric medicine expertise to help girls cut through that noise to learn how to build self-trust, self-worth, and a strong intuition to guide them through life. From growing up with 5 younger sisters, he knows the expectations and struggles girls face from a very young age and has the utmost empathy for their experiences. With his wife, they run retreats for girls and families to come together and overcome the struggles that kids and families face together.

In this episode, we discuss how Dr. Tim landed in pediatric medicine, later moved to developmental and behavioral pediatrics, and finally decided to work more directly with young girls to help them make sense of their inner and outer worlds. If you're a parent, a young woman or girl, or know anybody who falls into those categories, this episode may teach you something about what it's like for girls growing up in an increasingly noisy world.

Key Topics:

1. Growing up helping raise 5 younger sisters
2. Knowing that working with kids was the right place for Dr. Tim
3. Burning out in general pediatrics
4. Focusing on helping kids to get to the root of issues that resurface in adulthood
5. Why he decided to focus his work on young girls vs. young boys
6. Getting to the root of emotional and familial issues
7. How built-up feelings with no outlet cause overwhelm
8. Emotional overwhelm is happening at younger and younger ages
9. Childhood has become a race to the top full of parental and societal pressures
10. Teaching parents to be better listeners
11. Broadening the narrow mindset of which career paths lead to success
12. You have your whole life to evolve into a lot of different things
13. Lack of trust and self-trust in girls
14. Establishing self-worth at a young age by quieting the outer noise
15. Looking back at your identity capital

Connect with Dr. Tim online:

Website: https://drtimjordan.com/

Podcast: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/raising-daughters/id1159034515

Books: https://drtimjordan.com/books/

Instagram: @drtimjordan

Find more from Courtney Page:

Instagram: @courtneyaustinpage

Website: https://www.glowstatecoach.com/

Interested in 1:1 Coaching or Hiring Courtney for a Speaking Engagement or Workshop? Email her at: [email protected]

What gets you out of bed in the morning? I'm not just talking about the little things like getting to say good morning to your kids or having that first cup of coffee when you first start your day. What really motivates you to get your butt out of bed and do something that means something to you?

In this week's solo episode, I'm starting a 10-part series where we explore topics like these through the lens of personality tests and tools that aid in career development. The first topic I'm covering is lesser known in the Western world, but is just as important to consider if you're at a turning point in your life and want to discover your passion and purpose.

The concept this week is called Ikigai (ee-key-gahy), a Japanese principle that is your reason for living. Everyone has one, and with a simple exercise that we go over in the episode, everyone can easily discover at least one thing that is their Ikigai.

Come along for this series to get practical tools and tips for finding your purpose and getting on the path to career fulfillment.

Key Topics:

1. What is Ikigai?
2. The 4 pillars of Ikigai and how to visualize it
3. Digging deeper beyond the surface
4. The 9 Ikigai verbs according to Tim Tamashiro
5. Ikigai is a journey you can come back to over and over again

Tim Tamashiro's Ikigai TEDx Talk: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pk-PcJS2QaU&ab_channel=TEDxTalks

Find more from Courtney Page:

Instagram: @courtneyaustinpage

Website: https://www.glowstatecoach.com/

Interested in 1:1 Coaching or Hiring Courtney for a Speaking Engagement or Workshop? Email her at: [email protected]