Speaking and Communicating Podcast

How can young professionals be adequately prepared for the workplace?

Meet Curtis Butler!

Curtis spent 30 years in finance as an investor and client-facing executive at industry-leading firms including J.P. Morgan, Jennison Associates, and an affiliate of Legg Mason. He has a keen understanding of what moves a resume to the top of the pile and what soft skills are required to stand out in an interview. 

Throughout his career, Curtis always made time for mentoring and has provided individualized coaching to scores of college and graduate students at his Alma maters, Union College and Johns Hopkins University. 

Curtis has also stepped in to help children of friends and colleagues escape the frustration of a job search and embark on successful careers. His passion for coaching students and young professionals led Curtis to launch Guided Ascent Career Coaching in 2024.

Key Points:
- the professionals gaps identified by employers
- the struggles of young professionals when they enter the workforce
- why prepare yourself while in college
- how to identify the right mentor for yourself
- soft skills necessary to develop
- why communication skills are crucial in addition to your technical

...and so much more!

Connect with Curtis:
Website: https://www.jobreadygrads.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/curtisbutler/
Instagram: @curtisabutler

Listen to the Podcast, subscribe, leave a rating and a review:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/career-guidance-for-young-professionals-w-curtis-butler/id1614151066?i=1000669920244
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/23voILxkr8y3LKMDayhsL8
YouTube: https://youtu.be/eNGvjCsCowo

What can you personally do to curb the problem of racism?

Meet Seth Myles Randall!

Seth is a White South African who grew up under the apartheid system, now living in the US.

In Part I of this series, he shared his profound eye-opening experiences, how oblivious he was to how the system affected the majority and what exactly happens to both the powerful and powerless when systems of superiority and inferiority are at play.

On this episode, listen as Seth provides 3 practical tips on what each one of us can do in order to curb racism.

Key Points:
- how to rethink your perspective
- how often you stereotype other "groups"
- how to challenge different viewpoints
- what to do in your circle of influence
- the parallels between abuse and racism
- how to notice racist behavior patterns
- what if none of this affects you
- why listen to the survivor and not the perpetrator
- why listen to different media sources
- how to renegotiate your belief system about the oppressed

...and so much more!

Connect with Seth:
LinkedIn:
Instagram: @sethmylesrandall

Listen to the Podcast, subscribe, leave a rating and a review:
Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/are-you-racist-w-seth-myles-randall-part-ii/id1614151066?i=1000669701761
Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/episode/0gU88YjR5yiMDqtfKTryur
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zYj46BqRPUg

How do we manage and understand our emotions enough to better understand ourselves?

Meet Kim Korte!

Kim is an Author,  Business Consultant, Podcast Host, Perception & Emotion Strategist and Speaker. She is on a mission to provide a relatable and effective way to understand and manage emotions.

She uses food and cooking as a powerful tool for emotional empowerment. We can transform our emotional landscape by taking ownership of how we feel.

Kim became passionate about understanding her own emotions after some painful life experiences––the last one was the tipping point. In the recovery process, she learned some very interesting things about the way we construct our emotions. She realized developing her curiosity muscle would help her through the healing process.
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Kim authored "Yucky Yummy Savory Sweet: Understanding The Flavors Of Our Emotions" in order to give you a new way to create a connection to your emotions by using something familiar to you, like food and the recipes we use for cooking.

Connect with Kim:
Website: https://www.kimkorte.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/thekimkorte/
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/thekimkorte/
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC2q5onR3UaDe95YJRt_D2zA
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/thekimkorte/

Additional Resources:
"Yucky Yummy Savory Sweet: Understanding the Flavors of Emotions" by Kim Korte on Amazon
Podcast: Flavors of Emotions with Kim Korte Podcast

Listen to the Podcast, subscribe, leave a rating and a review:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-control-your-emotions-w-kim-korte/id1614151066?i=1000668330692
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0vISzVYNDyTBRfQ7p8bKNV
YouTube: https://youtu.be/q_O5x4ULIEk

How does understanding your personality type help you succeed?

Meet Eric Gee!

Eric is an Author, Writing and Life Coach, Founder of YouTopia who has 20+ years of experience administering personality-based life coaching. He built ETS Educational & Tutorial Services, a company that bettered the lives of more than 20,000 students, parents, and teachers.
 
Eric is on a mission to help people become the best version of themselves by shutting out the noise, figuring out what they really want and tapping into your inherent strengths to get it.
 
Eric also help teams learn how to effectively collaborate to reach their collective goals, utilize strengths, accept weaknesses, and move forward as one.

Eric has built a successful education company that used his personality typing method to better the lives of more than 20,000 students, parents, and teachers. As creator of youtopiaproject.com and the Youtopia 16 assessment, more than 500,000 users have benefited from his teachings since the website’s creation in 2016.

Eric's book, The Power of Personality, is the culmination of decades of research and application. He has personality-typed over 50,000 people during his career, which is no small sample size.

The main takeaway? Our relationship to others will only be as healthy as our relationship to ourselves.

Eric is also a classically-trained pianist, backyard-trained BBQ dilettante, three time fantasy football champion, professional mentor, amateur magician, and infinite Pez dispenser of saccharine bits of 80s and 90s pop culture.

Key Points:
- how knowing yourself influences your career path
- the quality of relationships you build when understanding personalities
- personality-typing and its benefit to your emotional well-being
- growing more confidently through understanding your personality
- how parents can use personality-typing to guide their children
- discovering the work you truly love through personality-typing

...and so much more!

Connect with Eric:
Website: https://www.projectyoutopia.com
Website: https://youtopiaproject.com

Additional Resources:
"The Power of Personality" by Eric Gee on Amazon
Take the Quiz: https://youtopiaproject.com/author/eric-gee/

Listen to the Podcast, subscribe, leave a rating and a review:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/personality-typing-for-professional-and-personal/id1614151066?i=1000668058934
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/4G6YQSpbyiMf3KC3bsKJqs
YouTube: https://youtu.be/E5BO4L5cOJc

Do you know who you truly are?

Meet David Ask!

David is on a mission to introduce you to yourself.

Listen as David shares:
- are you a human doing or a human being?
- how to ask the right questions
- why so many still don't know their identity
- what "authentic" truly means
- how to find the love you seek

...and so much more!

Connect with David:
Website: https://www.davidask.com

Additional Resources:

Listen to the Podcast, subscribe, leave a rating and a review:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/who-are-you-w-david-ask/id1614151066?i=1000666896651
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/170CFKBCUG06Cy5DLCZ2qi
YouTube: https://youtu.be/SaIh0NQ-LMY

How do you manage difficult people?

Meet Brenda Neckvatal!

Brenda is an HR Pro who helps leaders master people problems and build high-performing teams. She is a 3X Best Selling Author and Transformational Speaker. 

In 2022 Brenda became a contributor to Entrepreneur.com and has been featured in Forbes, Fast Company, Inc, US News and World Reports, as well as countless podcasts.

Listen as Brenda shares:
- Lessons learned over 30 years in HR
- How to navigate conflict as a leader
- Practicing active listening 
- Detecting the behaviour of prospective talent
- How to manage employee explosive emotions
- 3 Strategies for conflict resolution
- High-performing teams and what they do differently

...and so much more!

Connect with Brenda:
Website: https://yobrenda.com

Additional Resources:
FREE Gift: https://yobrenda.com
"Mission Ready: Building High-Performing Teams from the Battlefield to the Boardroom" by Brenda Neckvatal & William Branum

Listen to the Podcast, subscribe, leave a rating and a review:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-manage-difficult-people-w-brenda-neckvatal/id1614151066?i=1000666645764
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/30tULgpHB8zYZmUhyFiWwL?si=ZG6U0hv0T7mmGUUa9CB8kg
YouTube: https://youtu.be/VKcBd53m3Ro

How do you network effectively at social events?

Meet Rob Giardinelli.

Rob helps client-facing professionals to overcome anxiety and awkwardness at business, social, and networking events to improve confidence, grow sales, and develop deeper customer relationships.

Listen as Rob shares:
- Overcoming social anxiety at business, social, and networking events
- How introverts can navigate and have fun at social or networking events
- Effectively preparing for business, industry, and networking events
- What to talk about with other people at business and networking events
- What to wear to business, social, and networking events
- How to interact with celebrities at social events
- Key things you need to do for an event you are hosting
- How to end a conversation with someone at an event

...and so much more!

Connect with Rob:
Website: https://eventmindset.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/robgiardinelli/

Additional Resources:
FREE Conversation Cheat Sheet: https://eventmindset.com/exit-any-conversation/

Listen to the Podcast, subscribe, leave a rating and a review:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-to-network-at-social-events-w-rob-giardinelli/id1614151066?i=1000666116477
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5BbuCDkqKOBB4fDzZnyVoc
YouTube: https://youtu.be/VD1UuMr8SYs

Why are soft skills so crucial for tech professionals?

Meet Evgeniy Kharam!

Evgeniy is an Author, Cybersecurity Architect and Podcaster who's latest bestselling book, "Architecting Success: The Art of Soft Skills in Technical Sales".

Evgeniy ascended from a firewall deployment engineer to the Vice President of Architecture at the Herjavec Group.

His professional experiences over the last 2 decades, made him realize how important soft skills are, in addition to technical brilliance. 

Evgeniy is the co-founded of two influential podcasts—one that delves into technical security architecture and another that offers cyber inspiration for business leaders.

Evgeniy also serves as a board advisor to the Canadian Cybersecurity Network, the largest technology group in Canada. 

Listen as Evgeniy discusses:
- the critical role of soft skills in technical sales
- how to get started in improving your soft skills
- sales engineers and technical sales communication
- problem-solving in the tech field
- bridging the divide between technical teams and sales
- fostering collaboration and reducing attrition. 

A key feature is the Soft Skills Development Plan (SSDP) in the appendix, providing readers with actionable steps and tools for personal and professional growth. This work serves as a comprehensive call to action for embracing and enhancing soft skills to achieve success in technical sales.

Connect with Evgeniy:
Website: https://www.softskillstech.ca
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ekharam/

Additional Resources:
"Architecting Success: The Art of Soft Skills in Technical Sales" by Evgeniy Kharam

Listen to the Podcast, subscribe, leave a rating and a review:
Apple:  https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/soft-skills-for-tech-professionals-w-evgeniy-kharam/id1614151066?i=1000665880787
Spotify:  https://open.spotify.com/episode/5E9wIxdAHzF0GoKJNxyXQ3
YouTube: https://youtu.be/QCxLRbrOx7Y

How do you bridge the communication gap between you and your pre-teen?

Meet Marcus Aurelius Higgs!

Marcus is a Communication Coach for Parents of Preteens (10-14 y.o.). He supports caregivers to connect with their distancing adolescence without fear or frustration.

Marcus works with Certain Future to support parents of preteens (10-14 y.o.) so they can show up and maintain a meaningful relationship with their child during these natural 'identity breaking' years.

He works with parents who know the value of doing hard things and want to be present with their son/daughter before it's too late to bridge the gap.

Listen as Marcus shares the following:
- The SHOW Up Framework to benefit parents
- building parents' confidence in their communication when their tween starts having big emotions
- how parents can be present when their preteen starts to withdraw
- how parents can build trust to open up difficult conversations
- how to support your pre-teen to develop self-belief and resilience

...and so much more!

Connect with Marcus:
Website: https://marcushiggs.com
LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/marcushiggs/

Additional Resources:
" Inspire Life Through Words of Well-Being: Personal Meditations in Poetry to Find Balance and Inner Peace" by Marcus Aurelius Higgs on Amazon

Listen to the Podcast, subscribe, leave a rating and a review:
Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/communicating-with-your-pre-teen-w-marcus-a-higgs/id1614151066?i=1000665255024
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/79Xou1Jr0yUVcOX1lghTvN
YouTube: https://youtu.be/-E80qrWHL-A

How do you make sales magical?

Meet Craig Andrews!

Craig helps high-ticket B2B service businesses close MORE deals FASTER at HIGHER PRICES using First-Time Offers that will break your cash register. He is also a Podcast host and Bestselling Author!

Craig's latest bestselling book, Make Sales Magical: Close More Deals Faster and at Higher Prices, draws on psychology, neuroscience, and principles of courtship to reveal his proven method for closing more high-ticket sales faster, at higher prices, without sleazy tactics.

In his book, Craig helps you to craft irresistible offers, reduce customer anxiety, trigger reciprocity, and guide prospects to eagerly commit. Discover techniques to optimize customer lifetime value, attract ideal buyers, and repel non-ideal clients automatically. Whether you suck at sales or you're a seasoned pro, Andrews' masterclass in ethical influence will transform the way you build relationships, deliver value, and turn prospects into delighted customers.

Make Sales Magical provides the roadmap to master the "magical" art of sales the right way.

Connect with Craig:
Website: https://allies4me.com/

Additional Resources:
FREE Gift:
"Make Sales Magical" by Craig Andrews on Amazon
"Hope That Won't Die: A Survivor's Story" by Craig and Karen Andrews on Amazon

Listen to the Podcast, subscribe, leave a rating and a review:
Apple: https://open.spotify.com/episode/5wmAYW9jup2Y9ZnxqT1wOq
Spotify: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/make-sales-magical-w-craig-andrews/id1614151066?i=1000664596576
YouTube: https://youtu.be/CqbOwuidVvI