Think Fast is a mini-episode featuring 10 rapid-fire questions.

What is one thing that everyone listening to this episode should go and do today?

They should go watch the Taylor Swift eras tour movie.

What is the lesson that you wish you learned earlier in life?

I wish I had learned that nothing is out of my reach and that if I just tried and moved forward every day, no matter what I'm tripping over that, that would be the best. That would have been the best for me.

If you could download one person, dead or alive, you could download their entire knowledge, wisdom, and memories to add to your own, and you can carry it with you for the rest of your life. Who would it be?

Daniel Pink. In his book Drive, he talks about autonomy, mastery, and purpose. And I'm really into that because he sees the future as well and sees where we're all confused in the workplace. And so reading his book was something that really changed me in my thinking. And he's writing more books. So there you have it.

What is a negative experience that happened to you that you are happy that it happened to you?

When I was working at a Fortune 100 company and I was trying to do adaptive change as an experiment I was taken into my boss's office and he told me that I was going to be put on a performance plan, even though the teams I was working with were outpacing the rest of the organization. And productivity, engagement, all the things we measure. And the reason I was put on a performance plan is because I was making human resources uncomfortable. And at that moment, I felt like my head was going to blow up. And he also said, and people are calling you a zealot now, that was a turning point for me because when I talked to the head of global innovation at the company and I said, they're calling me a zealot, he did like the happy dance in his office because more people trying to make real change are often called names and put in their place and all these things. So he knew I was onto something. And so even though it was a horrible experience, it ended up being validating to what I was trying to do.

If you could go, if you had to go back to the start of your entire career and do it all over again, what are the first five, the first three to five things that you would do first?

So when I started my career, I was in a fitness administration long way back when, you know, the fitness, whole fitness craze was starting. And I think that at that time I wasn't very tuned in to what was going to be financially feasible to train enough people, talk to enough people, you know, create a viable business. And so I think that I could have listened to people more, had people come in and talk to me about what I'm thinking, give me feedback. I think I just kind of was a lone wolf and I needed to connect better. So one, I don't know everything. I need to ask questions. Two, I need to connect better to people that can help me move forward. And three, is this really what I want to do?

If you had to pick one, which fictional character would you bring to life?

Bugs Bunny

If you could travel back to a single point in your life and say one single sentence to yourself, when would you travel back to, and what would you say?

I would travel back to when I was in college and I would tell myself, you're too young to get married. There's a lot more you should be doing first. That's what I would have told myself.

What will destroy humanity?

Humanity is going to destroy humanity.

What will save humanity?

I think about John Lennon when you're saying that, and I think about him saying, give peace a chance. You think there's something in the human? You know, I don't know if you call it the genome or whatever you call it that we're missing, and if we don't connect to that and look at the world as a place where we're all people, all trying to live our best lives, how can we all be part of that? It's kind of pie in the sky, but when you look.

The Infinity Gauntlet gives the holder the ability to snap their fingers and make anything their mind can imagine into reality. Here's the catch though: it generally costs the wearer who snaps their fingers their lives. I have this gauntlet, and I'm offering it to you. What would you want to happen?

We heal the planet. I snap my fingers, and our climate catastrophe is halted. And as a society, global society, we always care for the planet. And everything we do, is it helping the planet or not? And, boy, what innovations could come out of that?

Jody Thompson serves as the CEO and Founding Principal of CultureRx®, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For nearly twenty years she has worked with organizations to bring them to a state of sustainable high performance.

Leaders from multiple industries including: creative professional services, finance and accounting, information technology, publishing, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, government, education, and more have experienced numerous positive outcomes. Clients report:

What sets Jody Thompson apart from others is her vision, her ability to see beyond current norms, identify macro-level trends, and guide organizations along a path for success in the twenty-first century.

Jody Thompson’s work receives high praise from a number of business journals. She has been featured on the covers ofBusinessWeek, Workforce Management Magazine, HR Magazine, and HR Executive Magazine, as well as in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, TIME Magazine, USA Today, The New Yorker, and on Good Morning America, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, and MPR. She has co-authored two best-selling books on the modern workplace and contemporary management principles: Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It; and Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It.

Once you hear Jody speak, you will quickly understand why Daniel Pink recognized her as one of six business thinkers who gets it, who understands how to redesign work for the future to achieve outstanding results.

Drive by Daniel Pink

Lyndsay Dowd’s Heartbeat for Hire Podcast

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour (the movie)

According to a study published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Neurology in 2009, people who own cats have a decreased risk for death due to heart attack or stroke. The study looked at over 4000 people over 20 years.

Another study conducted by scientists from the University of Minnesota found that having a cat living in our homes can be of great benefit and can even make us live longer.

Jody Thompson serves as the CEO and Founding Principal of CultureRx®, headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota. For nearly twenty years she has worked with organizations to bring them to a state of sustainable high performance.

Leaders from multiple industries including: creative professional services, finance and accounting, information technology, publishing, manufacturing, retail, healthcare, government, education, and more have experienced numerous positive outcomes. Clients report:

What sets Jody Thompson apart from others is her vision, her ability to see beyond current norms, identify macro-level trends, and guide organizations along a path for success in the twenty-first century.

Jody Thompson’s work receives high praise from a number of business journals. She has been featured on the covers ofBusinessWeek, Workforce Management Magazine, HR Magazine, and HR Executive Magazine, as well as in the New York Times, Harvard Business Review, TIME Magazine, USA Today, The New Yorker, and on Good Morning America, CNBC, MSNBC, CNN, and MPR. She has co-authored two best-selling books on the modern workplace and contemporary management principles: Why Work Sucks and How to Fix It; and Why Managing Sucks and How to Fix It.

Once you hear Jody speak, you will quickly understand why Daniel Pink recognized her as one of six business thinkers who gets it, who understands how to redesign work for the future to achieve outstanding results.

Drive by Daniel Pink

Lyndsay Dowd’s Heartbeat for Hire Podcast

Taylor Swift’s Eras Tour (the movie)

According to a study published in the Journal of Vascular and Interventional Neurology in 2009, people who own cats have a decreased risk for death due to heart attack or stroke. The study looked at over 4000 people over 20 years.

Another study conducted by scientists from the University of Minnesota found that having a cat living in our homes can be of great benefit and can even make us live longer.

Steve Woodruff is known as the King of Clarity. Thirty-seven years in the front lines of sales, marketing, consulting, and entrepreneurship has uniquely equipped Steve to guide others in the principles and practices of clear and effective communication.

He has deep experience in corporate training and workshop facilitation for a wide variety of companies, from startups to Top Five pharma.

Steve is the author of the business book Clarity Wins (2018), and the ground-breaking new book The Point (October 2023). He is the father of 5 grown men and lives in Franklin TN with his wife of 42 years.

It is mission-critical that every communicator get to the point quickly – or the opportunity for engagement is lost.

Soundtracks: The Surprising Solution to Overthinking (Overcome Toxic Thought Patterns and Take Control of Your Mindset) by Jon Acuff

Your Brain: Perception Deception – Season 50 Episode 9

The fact that the human brain processes 11 million bits of information PER SECOND (from all 5 senses). This is the “competition” every communicator is up against.

Think Fast is a mini-episode featuring 10 rapid-fire questions.

What is your favorite podcast?

The Mel Robbins Podcast

Bring one fictional character to life.

Judy Jetson from The Jetsons

If you could download one person’s (dead or alive) entire knowledge, wisdom, and memories to add to your own, whose would it be?

Shawn Achor

If you had a superhero name, what would it be?

Jubilee or Joy Drift

What advice would you give to someone who is feeling stuck or unsure about their career path?

First, give yourself grace. Everybody feels stuck or unsure at some point. Second, I would say start to redefine what success looks like for you right now. It changes constantly. And often we’re trying to go with a version of success that is outdated. Like we’re trying to live in chapter eight as if it’s still chapter one.

And so I think it’s redefining what does this look like and mean to me right now and craft around that. And sometimes when we’re stuck, it’s because we need to redefine and recalibrate.

What is a lesson that you wish that you’d learned earlier in your life?

To really listen to your intuition. I think sometimes our intuition screams at us and we do, what we should, what we think we should. And a lot of us are ruled by shoulds, right? And I call it, we should all over ourselves. And I think there’s this idea of really tuning into your intuition because I feel like when you really tune in, it’s always right and really check in with that.

What negative experience in your life are you most happy happened to you?

When my very serious high school boyfriend cheated on me. It allowed me to open myself up to what a, a real beautiful loving relationship would look like, and I have that in my marriage.

What is your definition of success, and has it changed over time?

I think my definition of success now is still has a lot to do with achievement. I think that’s always going to be ingrained in who I am, but I think the infusion of joy is a huge part of it now, that feeling joyful and fulfilled and community.

And success, I think, is a really key part that has shifted over time. And success also means to me how I’m showing up for my kids just as much as how I’m showing up for my clients. And that’s a part where I’ve recalibrated success in my home life and at me as a human, not just me at work.

What’s one thing everybody listening to this episode should go do today?

I think what everybody should start today is we didn’t, we’ve never talked about this, but flipping from the golden rule to the platinum rule, golden rule is treat others the way we wish to be treated.

Platinum rule treat others the way they wish to be treated. And I think what everybody can start doing today is figuring out somebody you care about platinum, which means. Asking them questions to find out how they want to be treated. How do you want to feel valued? How can I best support you? How can I best give you feedback in a way that lands for you?

What does help look like to you? What does happiness feel like to you? Just starting to ask these questions of people you love. So you can be more meaningful in that relationship.

The Infinity Gauntlet gives the holder the ability to snap their fingers and make anything their mind can imagine into reality. Here’s the catch though: it generally costs the wearer who snaps their fingers their lives. I have this gauntlet, and I’m offering it to you. What would you want to happen?

Yes. I guess I would put it on and I would cure cancer. All cancers. All cancers.

Think Fast is a mini-episode featuring 10 rapid-fire questions.

What is your favorite podcast?

The Mel Robbins Podcast

Bring one fictional character to life.

Judy Jetson from The Jetsons

If you could download one person’s (dead or alive) entire knowledge, wisdom, and memories to add to your own, whose would it be?

Shawn Achor

If you had a superhero name, what would it be?

Jubilee or Joy Drift

What advice would you give to someone who is feeling stuck or unsure about their career path?

First, give yourself grace. Everybody feels stuck or unsure at some point. Second, I would say start to redefine what success looks like for you right now. It changes constantly. And often we’re trying to go with a version of success that is outdated. Like we’re trying to live in chapter eight as if it’s still chapter one.

And so I think it’s redefining what does this look like and mean to me right now and craft around that. And sometimes when we’re stuck, it’s because we need to redefine and recalibrate.

What is a lesson that you wish that you’d learned earlier in your life?

To really listen to your intuition. I think sometimes our intuition screams at us and we do, what we should, what we think we should. And a lot of us are ruled by shoulds, right? And I call it, we should all over ourselves. And I think there’s this idea of really tuning into your intuition because I feel like when you really tune in, it’s always right and really check in with that.

What negative experience in your life are you most happy happened to you?

When my very serious high school boyfriend cheated on me. It allowed me to open myself up to what a, a real beautiful loving relationship would look like, and I have that in my marriage.

What is your definition of success, and has it changed over time?

I think my definition of success now is still has a lot to do with achievement. I think that’s always going to be ingrained in who I am, but I think the infusion of joy is a huge part of it now, that feeling joyful and fulfilled and community.

And success, I think, is a really key part that has shifted over time. And success also means to me how I’m showing up for my kids just as much as how I’m showing up for my clients. And that’s a part where I’ve recalibrated success in my home life and at me as a human, not just me at work.

What’s one thing everybody listening to this episode should go do today?

I think what everybody should start today is we didn’t, we’ve never talked about this, but flipping from the golden rule to the platinum rule, golden rule is treat others the way we wish to be treated.

Platinum rule treat others the way they wish to be treated. And I think what everybody can start doing today is figuring out somebody you care about platinum, which means. Asking them questions to find out how they want to be treated. How do you want to feel valued? How can I best support you? How can I best give you feedback in a way that lands for you?

What does help look like to you? What does happiness feel like to you? Just starting to ask these questions of people you love. So you can be more meaningful in that relationship.

The Infinity Gauntlet gives the holder the ability to snap their fingers and make anything their mind can imagine into reality. Here’s the catch though: it generally costs the wearer who snaps their fingers their lives. I have this gauntlet, and I’m offering it to you. What would you want to happen?

Yes. I guess I would put it on and I would cure cancer. All cancers. All cancers.

About Mic Swap

The Mic Swap is an original Shareable idea where the guest becomes the host of the show, and Jeff becomes the guest. This gives my guest the opportunity to ask questions from their domain of expertise and gives my audience the chance to learn about me from a variety of angles.

Jackie has an exceptional track record of sparking brilliant leaders and turning soft skills into hard results. Combining relatability and humor with her data-driven, results-focused approach, Jackie will captivate any audience and inspire immediate action.

For two decades she has focused on her life mission of developing Spark Brilliance, a revolutionary approach to leadership and team dynamics that will transform your team’s performance, results, and fulfillment.

She leverages the latest research in neuroscience and positive psychology to design simple, actionable strategies that individuals can use right away to spark their team’s brilliance.

With degrees from Duke and Harvard, and a certification in Neuroscience for Business from MIT, Jackie’s ideas have been a game-changer for thousands of people and businesses worldwide. She has coached leaders from companies such as Nestle, Microsoft, San Francisco 49ers, and Etsy. Her new book, Spark Brilliance, hit #1 on eight national bestseller lists and was featured in Forbes, Inc., CEO World, and Fast Company. Entrepreneur Magazine named it as one of the Top 8 Leadership Books for Entrepreneurs.

However, these accomplishments pale in comparison to her greatest life’s achievement….

Growing up in Miami, Jackie won the breakdance championship for her 4th grade breakdance team.

The Happiness Advantage: The Seven Principles of Positive Psychology That Fuel Success and Performance at Work by Shawn Achor

Ted Lasso

We believe happiness is on the other side of success …. “I will be happy when I achieve _____” and the opposite is true. Happiness creates success. So, let’s be happy first! The happier we are the more successful we will be.

Also, the number one predictor of a long and happy life is the quality of our relationships. Proven by over 80+ years of research.