Systematic Leader

In this interview, you’ll learn about how you can do a better job of setting yourself up for success. Tony Martoignetti is a writer and coach who shares his wisdom about leadership. One of my favorite parts of this interview is how he uses Sundays to find little sparks to improve his life.

Highlights from the interview:

• When he was a kid, he used to draw based on emotion instead of typical stick figures.
• Why you need this ingredient before you can inspire others.
• The difference between motivation and inspiration.
• Finding moments that spark us and how they are clues to our lives.
• Why learning how others perceived him helped guide his career choices.
• The value of journaling.
• How he journals to help his career.
• How do you say “Yes” to the right things and “No” to the wrong things.
• The weekly spark.
• How an hour every Sunday changed his life.
• Developing journal prompts to help him grow.
• Preparing yourself for success.
• Redesign your weekly processes so you reduce the issues that you struggle with.
• Take control of your calendar so you fill your bucket.
• Noticing your energy levels around your tasks and projects.
• How our ego gets in the way of improving our learning speed.
• Finding professional leverage to help you grow your career.
• Maximizing your daily processes.
• Doing more with less.
• How can we push outside our comfort zone to grow in areas that will help us make big strides on our lives.
• Understanding the “why” behind your need to improve a habit.

You can learn more about Tony Martignetti over at Inspired Purpose Partners. You can also connect with him on Linked.

As always, if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing, just reach out to me on the Dig to Fly website, and I’ll do my best to get them on. If you enjoy the interview, please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

In this interview, you’ll learn how leaders often struggle with their processes or the relationship side of work. Glain Roberts-McCabe is the CEO of Roundtable a Leadership Training business. One of my favorite parts of the interview is when she talks about understanding the “what” and the “how” of leadership.

Highlights from the interview:

• Why she was leading as a young kid.
• She knew what she wanted to do at a young age.
• Why you shouldn’t alway listen to your mentors.
• Why she looked at her career as a giant pie in her twenties.
• How she found opportunities in her career.
• Understanding what gives you energy as a leader.
• How she leveraged her personality to grow her career.
• Creating curriculum for businesses and how it led to her starting her business.
• Why leaders need to work on their empathy skills to help their employees succeed.
• Two sides to the balance sheet.
• The smarter leaders are, the better they are at the “what” stuff.
• The “how” is harder for smart people.
• How to balance the “what” and the “how” as a leader.
• Building awareness in leaders so they can hack their system.
• The question that helps leaders unlock their empathetic side.
• The beauty of leadership is that we have a lot of levers to use.
• Keeping our ego in check as a leader.
• What she struggles with in her business.
• Getting clearer on the vision on the company’s purpose.
• Picking a niche and being the “go to person” in that area.
• What a leader can practice to become a better leader.
• Why leadership is an inside out game.
• Make sure you are developing your culture so people understand where the company is headed.
• Understanding where you are weird and how to leverage this trait in your career.

You can learn more about Glain Roberts-McCabe over at Roundtable. You can also connect with her on LinkedIn. 

As always, if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing, just reach out to me on the Dig to Fly website, and I’ll do my best to get them on. If you enjoy the interview, please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

In this interview, you’ll learn about how you can grow your self-awareness so you can become a better leader at work and at home. Somer Baburek is the CEO of Hera Biotech and shares stories about the frameworks that she uses to grow her skills. One of my favorite stories in this episode is why she practices connecting to her feelings to become a better leader and mother to her young girls.

Highlights from the interview:

• The story that captures her origin story.
• She developed a thick hide so she was able to let things roll off her back.
• She was involved in rodeo and won national contests.
• Learning the patterns in her life has helped her understand better.
• Choosing difficult work vs making life difficult for yourself.
• Understanding the hard things help us grow.
• Why raising money for her biotech start-up is so hard for her.
• Why it’s important to count your wins and your losses.
• The importance of growing your self-awareness.
• Why she has a practice of connecting with her feelings.
• How she connects to her feelings.
• The subtle nuances of inner emotional language.
• Improving her communication as a CEO.
• Being the change that we want to see in the world.
• Why she was afraid to ask her doctor about a term that he used.
• Why making up answers when we feel like we should know the answer can hurt us.
• What the “Long Pause” is and how to use it.
• Why she named her business after a Goddess.
• The importance of creating a culture that encourages thoughtful communication.

You can learn more about Somer Baburek over at Hera Biotech. You can also connect with her on LinkedIn.

As always, if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing, just reach out to me on the Dig to Fly website, and I’ll do my best to get them on. If you enjoy the interview, please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

In this interview, you’ll learn about how you can make small choices that will pay off big dividends in your business and life. Lloyed Lobo is an author and entrepreneur who shares his wisdom from over 20 years of struggle and hard work. One of my favorite parts of this interview is why he wasn’t afraid to start a company with his friend even though startups are a risky endeavor. 

Highlights from the interview:

• Lloyed shares what really matters as you build a business and career.
• Why he chased the wrong things.
• Living from non-negotiables.
• Understanding what you can live without.
• What question do you need to ask yourself to get to the heart of what you want.
• The importance of living your values.
• When you write you manifest.
• Community is your currency.
• How to put yourself in a good environment.
• What core things should you be doing every single day.
• Why we are taking on too much and what to do instead.
• What job he took because he struggled in a particular area of life.
• Why you need to surround yourself with people that help you grow.
• How to leverage environmental triggers to help you build good habits.
• Why a nanny was more helpful to his marriage than taking a vacation.
• Short-term thinking vs long-term thinking.
• What it was like riding a bus on the highway of death.
• Four C’s that you need to be successful.

You can learn more about Lloyed Lobo over at his personal website. Check out his book From Grassroots to Greatness on Amazon. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn.

As always, if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing, just reach out to me on the Dig to Fly website, and I’ll do my best to get them on. If you enjoy the interview, please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

In this interview, you’ll learn about how to navigate your motivation and find ways to thrive in your career and your side projects. This interview features author Jesse Anderson. If you struggle with focus, then this episode is for you.

Highlights from the interview:

• Jesse did not get diagnosed with ADHD until later in life.
• When he was younger, he struggled with doing math as a kid even when he was good at it.
• Why his parents didn’t understand how his brain worked.
• Understanding how his brain worked and what motivated him.
• Getting tested for ADHD.
• Researching ADHD and what he discovered.
• What came out of his research.
• The 4 Cs system that he uses to help him complete a project.
• How he leverages novelty to help him get started and finish a task.
• Finding motivational leverage points that helped him finish his book.
• Malcolm in the Middle story about Did who struggles with ADHD.
• Finding the trigger that helps you focus back on what matters so you can complete your goal.
• How labeling his emotional regulation issue helped him be more conscious of his choices instead of letting anger take over.
• Using the “history reflection” framework to help him regulate his emotions.
• Getting back in the drivers seat with our emotions.
• Why so many people struggle with emotional literacy.
• Our body’s physical prediction model.
• Capturing the learnings from a project to one day share with others.

You can learn more about Jesse Anderson over at ADHD Jesse. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn. Check out his new book Extra Focus: The Quick Start Guide to Adult ADHD on Amazon.

As always, if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing, just reach out to me on the Dig to Fly website, and I’ll do my best to get them on. If you enjoy the interview, please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

In this interview, you’ll learn about the framework that can help you step back and make better decisions in your career. Jonathan Marion is a Transformational Life Coach. One of my favorite parts of this interview is how his struggles with a spinal injury helped him step back from his career and evaluate where he wanted to go in his career.

Highlights from the interview:

• Why the accomplishments in his current career weren’t something he wanted to chase any longer.
• What spurred him to make a huge career change.
• Why he resigned from his tenured professor position.
• How his sadness played a role in making a career shift.
• Riding the burst of excitement in our careers.
• What is anticipatory grief?
• How a major spine injury forced him to shift his life drastically.
• Why he wouldn’t give the spinal injury experience back because of how much it taught him.
• How can we adjust our intentions so they are more powerful?
• Focusing on creating ROI (Ripples of Impact) in our careers.
• Creating a more caring and connected world.
• Seeing the opportunities in our struggles.
• Example: The downfall of hunting promotions.
• Digging deeper in why you want what you want.
• Getting clear on the outcomes that you want.
• BEING framework to help you make better decisions.
• Understanding what you value.
• How to notice disempowering beliefs so you can shift this outlook.
• Being more intentional with the language that we use so we empower ourselves.
• Why we don’t put enough time into the things that truly matter to us.
• Most shared book and favorite speaker.

You can learn more about Jonathan Marion over at Steps Along the Way. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn. 

As always, if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing, just reach out to me on the Dig to Fly website, and I’ll do my best to get them on. If you enjoy the interview, please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

In this interview, you’ll learn why taking a career break can be the best thing for your career. Katrina McGhee is a career break coach who helps people slow down and plan a life-changing break. One of my favorite parts of the interview was when she talked about using her whole body to make decisions aligned with her heart.

Highlights from the interview:

• Why she always valued her inner truth.
• What happened when she got a job offer that didn’t align with her career vision.
• How she stays true to the vision of her career.
• How she feels when she has to make an important decision.
• Finding peace in your difficult decisions.
• How she tunes into her subconscious to help guide her.
• Finding truth in tough decisions.
• Understanding the direction you need to take and actually doing it are two separate things.
• Understanding the calm truth.
• Assessing what you’ll miss if you don’t take the risk.
• How to go after what you truly want.
• Understanding your life’s mission.
• Asking yourself, “How do I want to show up today?”
• Replenish your energy when you feel drained.
• The importance of doing small routines to help replenish your energy levels.
• Improving her processes so she can focus on her essential work.
• Create space to do the digging.
• The practice of understanding yourself takes time and regular routines.
• Turning off auto-pilot so we make conscious choices.
• Breaking out of your old way of being.
• Dealing with career burnout.
• What is a joy immersion?
• The four pillars that guide her life.
• Understanding the numbers that you need to take a career break.
• Most shared book and favorite podcast.

You can learn more about Katrina McGhee over at coaching website. You can also check out her 45 epic things you can do to take an epic break. You can also connect with her on LinkedIn.

In this interview, you’ll learn why proactive planning is so important. Julee Yokoyama is a Succession Planner for business owners. One of my favorite parts of the interview she explains why people are afraid to plan for what happens if they die or get sick and what people need to do in their absence.

Highlights from the interview:

• How she dealt with the passing of her grandfather and how it encouraged to go into succession planning.
• Why she become such a keen observer of the world around her.
• Her family’s lack of planning shaped how she viewed her career.
• How she avoided the negative patterns that she grew up witnessing.
• Breaking things down so you take action.
• Identifying what is in the shadows that is holding us back from taking action.
• Probability and impact matrix.
• Letting go of the tasks and projects that aren’t going to help us build our businesses.
• Making things actionable so you do them instead of procrastinating.
• The practice of ranking projects and tasks so we have a clear priority list.
• Avoidance is not a strategy. It is a crisis in waiting.
• Proactive planning in your business.
• Why aren’t we more proactive about your succession plan in our business?
• Why we are afraid to dream big.
• She discusses the fears we have around succession planning.
• She has had a lot of losses in her life and how it’s influenced her work in succession planning.
• Why she had the thought, “What if I died on this plane?” and how it changed her life.
• How Yoga helped her process her feelings.
• What it’s like to sit down with someone and talk about death.
• How a client dealt with a major fall from a horse and the mental health issues she had.
• The importance of being rooted in your why.
• Most shared book and favorite podcast. 

You can learn more about Julee Yokoyama over at Project C.Y.A. You can also connect with her on LinkedIn and Instagram. 

As always, if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing, just reach out to me on the Dig to Fly website, and I’ll do my best to get them on. If you enjoy the interview, please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

In this interview, you’ll learn why proactive planning is so important. Julee Yokoyama is a Succession Planner for business owners. One of my favorite parts of the interview is that she explains why people are afraid to plan for what happens if they die or get sick and what people need to support their loved ones.

Highlights from the interview:

• How she dealt with the passing of her grandfather and how it encouraged to go into succession planning.
• Why she become such a keen observer of the world around her.
• Her family’s lack of planning shaped how she viewed her career.
• How she avoided the negative patterns that she grew up witnessing.
• Breaking things down so you take action.
• Identifying what is in the shadows that is holding us back from taking action.
• Probability and impact matrix.
• Letting go of the tasks and projects that aren’t going to help us build our businesses.
• Making things actionable so you do them instead of procrastinating.
• The practice of ranking projects and tasks so we have a clear priority list.
• Avoidance is not a strategy. It is a crisis in waiting.
• Proactive planning in your business.
• Why aren’t we more proactive about your succession plan in our business?
• Why we are afraid to dream big.
• She discusses the fears we have around succession planning.
• She has had a lot of losses in her life and how it’s influenced her work in succession planning.
• Why she had the thought, “What if I died on this plane?” and how it changed her life.
• How Yoga helped her process her feelings.
• What it’s like to sit down with someone and talk about death.
• How a client dealt with a major fall from a horse and the mental health issues she had.
• The importance of being rooted in your why.
• Most shared book and favorite podcast. 

You can learn more about Julee Yokoyama over at Project C.Y.A. You can also connect with her on LinkedIn and Instagram. 

As always, if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing, just reach out to me on the Dig to Fly website, and I’ll do my best to get them on. If you enjoy the interview, please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!

In this interview, you’ll learn about how you can build a business that helps people grow and become leaders in their own way. Matthew Gartland is the CEO of Smart Passive Income. One of my favorite stories is how he brought structure to the growing company to make sure everyone was onboard with the direction of the company.

Highlights from the interview:

• What has helped him make hard decisions.
• Having a core set of principles to filter all your decisions through.
• Tightening feedback loops.
• Making more educated bets so you have a better chance of success.
• Working in a fast paced environment.
• Developing a front-line mindset to understand your customer.
• Fundamentally changing a successful business.
• Creating a test in a business to see if it would work.
• Learning from customer feedback to iterate on an idea in your business.
• Using SOPs in your business.
• Developing a vision for your business so you can make better decisions.
• Helping employees understanding the shift that Matthew and Pat were making in the company.
• Reinvesting back in the business.
• How to measure success in business.
• OKR framework.
• How to figure out what to focus on in business.
• Building a strong partnership in business.
• Why most entrepreneurs should pursue a partner.
• Making expectations clear between partners.

You can learn more about Matthew Gartland over at Smart Passive Income. You can also connect with him over at LinkedIn. 

As always, if you have any questions or want to submit a guest for the podcast that you think would be amazing, just reach out to me on the Dig to Fly website, and I’ll do my best to get them on. If you enjoy the interview, please take 30 seconds to rate the Dig to Fly podcast on your favorite platform. Thanks!