The world of business is experiencing a powerful shift towards a more empathetic and emotionally intelligent approach to leadership. CEOs are increasingly recognizing the importance of supporting their employees' well-being and emotional needs, and many are learning to embrace their own vulnerability in the process.

Our guest on this episode is Adiasha Richards-Thornhill.  She is a proud Trinidadian. She is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor, and the owner of Growth and Transitions Counseling located in Queens NY.

Her career spans a decade, and she is passionate about therapy that is deep, and aimed at healing the wounds beneath the surface. She works primarily with women to help them work through their trauma, heal from past wounds, and grow the skills needed to move out of surviving and into a life of full living.

She states "Everyone is talking about doing the work, finding inner peace, posting positive quotes, but What the Hell is that? How do you do the work?"

She is not just a therapist but also the Director of her private practice which has a team of licensed therapists that serve a wide demographic of people. She supervises interns, coaches aspiring clinicians, speaks at engagements and creates workshops.

Being from the Caribbean, she is also passionate about connecting with the community, reducing stigma and increasing the understanding and practice of mental wellness in the Caribbean community.

In this episode Adiasha discusses her motivation for choosing her field, some of the lessons she learnt along the way and her hope for how mental wellness issues are viewed especially in the Caribbean.

Our guest in this episode is Donna Every. Donna is the author of three inspirational books "What Do You Have in Your House? Surviving in Times of Financial Crisis", "The Promise Keeper" and "Arise and Shine" as well as an entrepreneurship book "The ABCs of Entrepreneurship - Tessa Takes the Challenge". Her articles have been published in numerous online newsletters and business websites. She was featured on the cover of Personal Excellence magazine for her article "Beating the Economy" based on her first book.

While her background is in business and finance, she discovered a love for writing a few years ago and enjoys the challenge of creating page turning books combining business and romance and now history and romance.

She has written eight novels "The Merger Mogul", "The High Road" , the page turning historical romance, "The Price of Freedom", her sweet rock star romance, "What Now?", "Free in the City", the exciting sequel to "The Price of Freedom", the third book in the Acreage Series "Free At Last", "Vaucluse" her new venture into fictionalized history and now her fourth book in The Acreage Series "Return to The Acreage".

Donna talks about her journey to becoming and author, the challenges that women in leadership sometimes face and her plans to for broadening what she is offering to the public.

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Julie Turney is a heart centric and people-focused HR Professional with over 15 years of experience in the field. She is the brainchild of HR@Heart Consulting Inc. a coaching firm she created after her second bout of HR burnout to help HR professionals to build their resilience agility while providing a safe place to recharge.

She is also the Lead Organizer of DisruptHR Caribbean for Barbados, Jamaica & Trinidad. She is the Host of the HR Sound Off Podcast Show and author of the book “Confessions of an HR Pro: Stories of Defeat and Triumph.”

She describes herself as being on a mission to connect with every member of the #HRCommunity and she is determined to clear up the many misconceptions that people have about the HR profession.

In this episode Julie talks about what it took for her to make the transition from being burnt out to being empowered and fulfilled. She offers some great advice and lessons from her journey.

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Christal P. Austin, Pg. Dip., BSc. is a trusted public relations advisor with over 18 years of experience in the tourism, finance, agriculture and international development sectors.  She is presently employed as a Senior Public Affairs Officer - Media Relations in the Ministry of Home Affairs, Information and Public Affairs.

An avid creative, she won the Richard Stoute Teen Talent contest in 2001, copped the UNESCO award for prose during NIFCA 2004 and is the self-published author of the poetic anthology, Lyrical Lava - Igniting the Fire Within (2005).  She was top scorer in the Honey Jam all-female artiste showcase in 2011 and a semi-finalist in the NCF's Sweet Soca Competition in 2013.  2021 marked her 22nd year as a singer on the local hotel circuit.

She holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Public Sector Management (Honours) from the University of the West Indies (UWI), a Post-Graduate Diploma in Business Administration (Merit) from the University of Surrey and is currently pursuing a Master of Philosophy in Governance and Public Policy at the Sir Arthur Lewis Institute of Social and Economic Studies of the UWI.

This episode looks at the way that we see our talents and the value we place on what we can contribute to our organizations and the world around us. It draws on a blog post in Showcasing the Success Journey and suggests steps that you can take to shift the way you see your own capabilities.

Most people are stressed out by uncertainty. The challenge also seems to be that many people seem to think that it is only happening to them. It is not. It happens and it is perfectly natural.

In this episode I discuss three suggestions that can help you to cope better as you keep moving forward.

This feeling may never go away but the more you confront it. the easier it becomes for you to recognize it and over time you become more accustomed to dealing with it. In the end, that is progress too.

There is a very appropriate saying in marketing. Find your tribe and love them hard.

For organizations managers need to be clear about who your customers are and you need to fully understand what they are seeking to achieve by purchasing your product or service.  Developing this level of awareness allows you to provide a level of service that elevates the customer's experience with the organization. This puts them in a position where they are more likely to want to repeat their experience and/or recommend it to others.

Marketing is a holistic concept. To be successful an organization needs to think beyond advertising and promotion. Think also about the systems, structures and process. Two concepts to consider:

Marketing Tip #3

Sell without selling. Public Relations has an amazing return on investment for organizations which choose to employ it. There are easy options for any budget when it comes to PR. You can practice Corporate Social Responsibility at any scale.