The Blank Slate Podcast

On today's episode* we talk to Stacy, Cara and Alana Kahan, Owner & President, CEO and VP of Sales & Operations (as well as mother and daughters) respectively at Lang Financial Group about setting boundaries, succession planning, building trust, preparation, ego, work-life balance, generational clashes, parenting as coaching (and coaching as parenting) and not talking business on Sundays.

*Please excuse the occasional bubble-related fan noise.

On today's episode we talk to Alicia Del Real, President, The Center for Advanced Emotional Intelligence about creating space for reflection, and creating space between stimulus and response, helping leaders reach their potential, making conscious choices about our behavior instead of just reacting to things and how higher performing teams experience higher levels of psychological safety.

On today's episode we talk to Ferdinand Dimailig, Principal, BOX Studios about designing work, live and play spaces for a productive life, focusing on your strengths, the magic to finding solutions, not waiting for something to happen and the office of the future.

On today's episode we talk to Joe Martin, CEO of Martin Creative, about not letting work overrun us, finding someone to pay you for doing what you do best, temporal landmarks, living in a world of opposites, 6-Week Cycles and time travel.

On today's episode we talk to Colin Hosten and David LeGere, Co-Founders (along with Christopher Madden) of Woodhall Press, about having a five-year plan (and being prepared to throw it out the door), putting beautiful products out in the world, how no one does it all alone, making opportunities where they don't exist and why they exult in storytelling.

On today's episode we talk to Matt Sullivan, President/CEO, BES Cleaning, about creating a positive experience for your employees, being the best version of yourself, going so fast you create your own prison, not letting the business you currently own define you, how everything is connected and yes, robots too.

On today's episode we talk to Kellee M. Johnson, M.A., Principle, The Ballast Group LLC and Melissa Costello, Founder, MELISSACOSTELLO.COM, about the joy of limitations, why any kind of story that sticks with us moves us in some way, the need to quantify what you do, connecting the dots and how clients don't care where you work as long as you're accountable and get work done.

On today's episode we talk to G. Riley Mills, Co-founder and COO, Pinnacle Performance Company, about the benefits of being your own boss; crucible stories, failure and pushing through it; The Pin Drop Principle, Phil Davison and The Pinnacle Three-Step Process for Influential Communications and creating psychological safety for your company and team members.

On today's episode we talk to Leah Jones, Founder, of Natiiv Facilitation, about Adaptive Leadership skills, I Fight Dragons, when your skills don't match your taste, The E-Myth Revisited, Jones' new podcast Finding Favorites and never saying no without a number.

On today's episode we talk to Calvin Jackson, President/Creative Director, and Vanessa Jackson-Lopez, Vice President of Marketing & Communications, of The Lemon Ad Stand (who are both professional and personal partners), about balance and agility, working with people you love working with, having faith, knowing how to build and authenticity.