Highlights in the interview:

• Tim’s passion for creativity.
• Understanding the challenges that you need to overcome to reach your goals.
• Setting the standards for our work.
• The power of the lean startup framework.
• The importance of experimentation in our business.
• Utilizing your natural skills so you grow your career with purpose.
• Leveraging persistence in your career.
• How to work with your inner voice so you tackle the hard projects that grow your business.
• Understanding what a business's problems are.
• The framework that he teaches people to solve problems.
• How Tim co-designs a project for a client.
• Utilizing strategic suggestions.
• Taking an active leadership role as a freelancer.
• The exercise he used to figure out his strengths and passions so he could do work he was good at and he loved.
• What routines that help him keep moving forward when he feels stuck.
• Using Pareto’s 80/20 rule to help you focus on the projects that move the needle.
• How to build a better relationship with employees and contractors by creating clear expectations of what you expect and why you expect it.
• How to deal with perfectionism.

You can learn more about Tim over at FreelanceGPS. You can also connect with him on LinkedIn.

In this interview, you’ll learn about building a business that fits your unique skillset. Josh Spector is an entrepreneur who teaches experts how to use writing to grow their businesses. One of my favorite parts of this interview was when he talked about finding his niche by looking at his past.

Highlights in the interview:

• Josh ability to keep his focus on what matters.
• How to create content that provides maximum value.
• Why paying someone by the hour is bath for employers and employees.
• Keeping your messages as concise as possible.
• How to narrow down your business offerings.
• Focusing on who you want to work with, not what you want to do.
• Attracting your ideal people.
• We break down my niche.
• How to speak directly to the people you help in your business.
• Figuring out what you are good at and creating leverage in your career.
• How he looks at his past to help him understand himself better.
• Why it’s important to just do things so you can learn about your strengths and how to utilize them out in the business world.
• Taking action unlocks part of you that you wouldn’t have expected.
• Why it’s important to crossing things off your list that you don’t want to do in your business and career.
• The framework that helps you figure out how to do the things you love.
• Why assuming success is a framework
• Building confidence in yourself.
• Struggles are a part of business and why you should look at struggles as a puzzle.
• Iterating and improving the things that we work on.
• Working on not taking failures personally.
• Book he most shares “Tribes” by Seth Godin, podcast “Social Media Marketing Podcast”

You can learn more about Josh over at his website Josh Spector. Check out his amazing newsletter For the Interested. Here are his Skill Sessions if you want to check them out. 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 meditation helps you clear your inner noise so that you can make better decisions. Dal Balcauski is the founder of Product Tranquility. You’ll enjoy his story about asking specific questions to get to the heart of a product and how to price it.

Highlights from the interview:

• How Dan got into software at a young age.
• How he dealt with undiagnosed ADHD in his career.
• The balance of perfection and good enough.
• How he looks at ADHD differently than most people.
• Adjusting his career to better utilize his strengths.
• How he got into meditation.
• How meditation and exercise helps him reduce stress and improve his mental state.
• Creating space to process your thoughts and emotions.
• Not getting caught up in our emotions so we make better decisions.
• Doing a better job of choosing our actions.
• Building awareness when making decisions.
• How meta meditation and prayer have a lot in common.
• Getting out of his own way and clearing out the inner noise.
• How our distractions can hold us back and what to do it.
• What we say “yes” to and “no” to on a daily, weekly, monthly basis and how we can learn from these decisions to make better future decisions.
• Framework to help with pricing a product.
• Understanding our relationship with money and how it helps us understand the value of products.
• Using frameworks that actually work in business.
• Clear views of product fit.
• Aligning the value we are creating with the customer.
• The value of different customer segments.
• Any process should be in service of a goal.
• Most recommended books for life, AI, and pricing.

You can learn more about Dan over at Product Tranquility. 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 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.