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Are you ready to do more, be your best, and live as big as you can?

Get ready to embrace challenges, get uncomfortable, and enter into the unknown. We’re exploring how a single mother with a vision, ambition, and strategy fueled her career, investments, and education to quit her job and travel the world fulltime (with her daughter!). She has now traveled to more than 70 cities in 15 countries across 4 continents. 

Latisha Springer is an authentic leader worth following who has flipped the script on her story. She has been on her own since she was 16 and had to flee an unhealthy home as a teenager to begin challenging and unlearning the limiting beliefs that shaped her early life experiences. 

After giving birth to her beautiful daughter at a young age, she was determined to live beyond the confinements of our own boundaries, literally. 

We’ll Explore: 

• How Latisha leveraged her career challenges and successes to align her moves with her vision to one day leave the corporate world and travel the world fulltime. 
• How she saved approximately $55,000 cash, and bought a foreclosed house and earned an MBA with honors debt-free from a top-ranked program. 
• How overcoming a difficult background made her strive not to be a statistic and obtain the "American Dream," but after climbing the ladder, she realized it wasn't what fulfilled her, and she was now part of another statistic. 
• Within two weeks she quit her job, graduated from grad school, and landed in Santiago, Chile with her daughter. What happened next? 

You’ll Discover: 

• How frugal and intentional living can fuel your dreams if you're patient.
• Her experiences across foreign lands that changed her perspectives 
• How to gain new experiences to stretch yourself beyond what you know to be your normal (no passport required). 
• How to embrace the excitement of the unknown, unpredictability of the foreign, and the challenges required to challenge it. 

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• "You owe to yourselves to do more than merely survive. None of us know how much time we have to make our dreams happen, but we can be sure that we're running out of time." - Latisha Springer

• "Force yourself to have new experiences to stretch yourself beyond what you know to be your normal." - Latisha Springer

• “The hardest part is getting free of the fearful assumptions of our conventional thinking, but courage is created through action.” - Latisha Springer 

Interview Links:

• Business website: www.DesignedByL.com
• Email: [email protected]
• Instagram: @DesignedByL 

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Gustavo Salazar is a GA Tech Graduate, Mechanical Engineer, and dedicated mentor who is invested in seeing the next generation succeed. 

Gustavo came to the US from Columbia when he was only 8 years old as his family sought a better future. 

Years later, Gustavo not only graduated from one of the top schools in the nation but he is on a mission to help the next generation of high school students succeed through mentorship, education, and leadership. 

We’ll Explore: 

• How to challenge your setbacks by harnessing your leadership abilities 
• The networking phases 
• The impact of mentoring the next generation of leaders

You’ll Discover: 

• Why your story matters to your leadership and how sharing it evolves your authenticity
• How networking and taking a calculated risk can propel your career 
• The importance of being intentional about work and life
• How to create your leadership role through strategic moves that refine your leadership skills

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• What you know will get you to who you know and who you know will get you to the next career step. - Gustavo Salazar 

Links from Interview:

• Connect with Gustavo Salazar on Linkedin 
• Gustavo's Recommended Colombian Restaurant in Atlanta 
• The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership By John Maxwell

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When it comes to helping women and men succeed we've all heard that we need to have diversity in the workplace, however, are we missing the bigger picture on how to create inclusive workplaces that can promote the strengths of both men and women? 

Facilitator, author, subject matter expert, and CEO of The Heim group is here to give us insight into the playbook that will help change how women (and men) win at the game of business.

We’ll explore:

The fact is that business has been run overwhelmingly by men until only recently. Is there gamesmanship that causes conflict between genders and creates a less engaged workforce for organizations? 

• How do we help more women and organizations win in the game of business?
• Do men and women approach business differently?
• What is the playing field for women, and what are the strategies to win?
• We're promoting women to the top but now what? How can we equip them to thrive with both men and women? 

Interview with Tammy Hughes:

You’ll discover: 

• Based on global research, you'll learn more about the invisible gender playbook in business that hinders most women and organizations from reaching their full success. 
• Men operate on a hierarchy structure vs. the flat structure that women use. 
• Each gender is a culture unto itself, raised with basic rules of conduct "instinctively" known to all adult members of that gender. Consequently, what seems natural to one gender culture can seem mysterious and baffling to the other.
•  Learn how to improve workplace communication between men and women instead of placing the blame on either gender.
• Why women typically are the least supportive of other women in a position of power?
• And so much more! 

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• You cannot manage what you do not see, and you cannot manage what you do not understand. Tammy Hughes

• When you create awareness opportunities like we do its critical that it be balanced and that it's about helping men understand the female culture and women understand the male culture without trying to promote or change a culture at the expense of another one. Tammy Hughes

• It has to start at the top, the only way to shift an organization the only way to move a needle is for leaders to embrace gender differences and unconscious biases that then models it for the entire organization.

• Companies are great at hiring diversity mixes but mixes don't organically work well together you have to help them mix. Tammy Hughes

Interview Links:

• Hardball for Women in Business with the CEO of The Heim Group, Tammy Hughes  
• Contact The Heim Group 
• Take the Gender IQ Test 
• Purchase Hardball for Women In Business for you and your team
• Follow The Heim Group on Linkedin 
• Follow The Heim Group on Twitter 
• Follow The Heim Group on Facebook 

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We’re exploring the transformational story behind Jerry Acuff, who is rated as the top 10 sales experts in the world and founder of an award-winning international pharmaceutical sales consulting firm and devoted mentor. 

Jerry's journey looked a little something like this - his parents were married 9x, his mother was an alcoholic for 30 years, his stepfather pulled a gun on him 2x, his father went bankrupt 3x, and he was fired 2x in 18 months from his sales job. 

How did he flip the script on his story and lead not only his success but the success of everyone around him as a leading expert on sales and human potential? 

We’ll Explore: 

• What and who shaped the leadership of the top 10 rated sales gurus in the world? 
• The relationships that give us an edge not just in business but in our personal lives and how it’s ripple effects impact future generations. 

You’ll Discover: 

• Why we need people that believe in us and want to see us succeed. 
• Why the leading sales expert in the world was fired from his job because he was so shy and how this setback help him discover his business that would go on to produce millions of dollars but even more results for his clients. 

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• Life is a plural experience; the only time its singular is when you're born and when you die. - Jerry Acuff 
• Chances are you'll be the same person five years from today that you are today with the expectation of two things the books you read and the people you meet.

Connect with Jerry Acuff: 

• FREE Goal Setting Course: https://jerryacuff.com/jerry-acuff-online-training/#bonus 
• Website: https: //www.jerryacuff.com
• Jerry’s Book: https://www.amazon.com/Acting-Seller-Start-Thinking-Buyer/dp/0470068345 

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Welcome to the launch of Flipping the Script - Leadership Behind the Scenes!

This podcast is for purpose-driven leaders and organizations who are seeking to challenge and evolve their leadership to create an impact in the lives of people all around them.

In this episode, you will learn:

• My leadership journey overcoming some of the most challenging moments of my life.
• Why leadership is personal to me.
• What you can expect from this podcast and why we’re ready to challenge your leadership beyond your career and into every critical part of your life.

Let’s continue the conversation on Facebook @goflipthescript. 

I can’t wait to hear from you soon!

Cha'Lea Stafford