The Growth League

Andrea Waltz is a professional speaker, trainer, and author. She calls herself a "Failure Philosopher" and "Reject-ologist" and she's an expert on achieving breakthrough performance through increasing failure rates.

Andrea is the co-author of Go For No! A brilliant, tiny book outlining a new way to think about failure and rejection. The book has sold nearly 1 million copies and has 1,500 five star reviews on Amazon.

This conversation is action packed with tips!

Thanks for listening and be sure to find me online to tell me what you thought of the episode!

• @DianaKander on Instagram and Twitter
• Professional AF Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/943925015810362/
• Diana online: www.DianaKander.com
• Go for No!: https://www.goforno.com/
• Andrea online: https://twitter.com/GoforNo?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor and https://www.instagram.com/goforno/?hl=en

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Whatever you think you know about the story of Kodak not capitalizing on their own invention of the digital camera, the actual story is so much better.

This After Action Review is with Steve Sasson, the original inventor of the digital camera and 35 year employee of Eastman Kodak.

Steve will break down the two pivotal moments in Kodak's past when they had the technology and opportunity to get into the digital camera business and chose not to. And you'll learn for the first time that their big mistake came in 1989 rather than 1975, as most people assume.

Specifically, we'll cover:

• What he did wrong when he presented the digital camera idea to management,
• What he did right,
• Advice from Steve to innovators pitching today, and
• The story of a completely different product Steve worked on that almost met the exact same fate.

A little more about Steve:

• He spent his entire career at Eastman Kodak.
• On November 17, 2009, U.S. President Barack Obama awarded Steve the National Medal of Technology and Innovation at a White House ceremony. This is the highest honor awarded by the US government to scientists, engineers, and inventors.
• He was inducted into the National Inventors Hall of Fame in 2011.

Thanks for listening and be sure to find me online to tell me what you thought of the episode!

• @DianaKander on Instagram and Twitter
• Professional AF Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/943925015810362/
• Diana online: www.DianaKander.com

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Kristen Ulmer is a fear/anxiety expert. Her education on this subject comes from practical, real- world experience, starting with being a mogul specialist on the US Ski Team. Kristen then became more recognized as being the best female big mountain extreme skier in the world, a status she kept for 12 years.

Known for big cliff jumps and you-fall-you die descents, she became sponsored by the likes of Red Bull, Ralph Lauren, and Nikon, and was inducted into the Hall of Fame September of 2019. Her mastery of other danger sports including paragliding, ice and rock climbing, kiteboarding, adventure mountain biking, and flying trapeze also gained her the outdoor industry vote as most extreme “fearless” woman athlete in North America,

Today we're discussing Kristen's book, the Art of Fear which beautifully explains that Fear is not the problem in our lives, it’s our avoidance/resistance of Fear that is the problem. If you become unwilling to feel or even acknowledge it, and put Fear in the basement –a habit that is almost universally supported by society– that emotion then starts to sabotage your life in either obvious or covert ways. Kristen is going to argue that today almost every problem we now have is tied in some way to our avoidance/resistance of Fear.

Specifically, we're going to cover:

• The many unhealthy ways we avoid fear in our lives
• Why you shouldn't try to overcome fear – but actually create an even stronger relationship with it
• How we pass on our unhealthy relationship with fear to our children
• Why your relationship with fear is the most important relationship in your life

For more, please find me online:

• @DianaKander on Instagram and Twitter
• Professional AF Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/943925015810362/
• Diana online: www.DianaKander.com

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Hello and welcome to the Season Finale of Professional AF.

Today, my husband Jason and I are discussing The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F^*K. First published in 2016, the book has sold over 6 million copies and topped every best seller list. The book's premise is that we spend way too much time worrying about things that don't really matter and learning how to let that go is the secret to happiness and personal growth. There are so many great pieces of advice woven throughout the book that Jason and I both wanted to share our favorites while discussing the journey that we've both been on over the last 18 months.

Specifically, Jason and I are going to cover:

• How to stop being a slave to what other people think of you
• Why trying to be happy all the time will make you very unhappy
• Why things are not your fault but they might be your responsibility
• How to stop giving an F about the things that don't really matter

Important Links for the Show:

• The ultimate fitness tracker that optimizes your life: https://www.whoop.com/ and use code DIANA at checkout for 15% off!
• A bank that prides itself on how it treats both it's employees and it's customers: http://nbkc.com/diana - get a box of awesome Professional AF stuff for signing up, including a book that we discuss on the show!
• Get a better nights sleep with the Purple mattress. To get the Purple pillow I covet for FREE with the purchase of your mattress, just text the code "DIANA" to 84-888. And you can combine this offer with what they have on the site!
• The Subtle Art book we discussed: https://www.amazon.com/Subtle-Art-Not-Giving-Counterintuitive/dp/0062457713
• How to Suffer Like a Pro by Pete Holmes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=glY-K5jbLF8
• Professional AF Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/943925015810362/
• Diana online: www.DianaKander.com

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Today I'm discussing the book Rising Strong by Brené Brown with my therapist Candy Smith.

Candy was my guest earlier this season when we talked about shame and vulnerability. Candy has been a licensed therapist for several decades. She specializes in working with adults, and children with trauma, that's how I met her. And every time we talk, I learn so much about the world, about people, and about myself.

In Rising Strong, Brené shares a simple truth. If we apply her previous lessons and are brave enough, often enough, we will fall. Rising Strong is a book about what it takes to get back up and how owning our stories of struggle gives us the power to write a daring new ending.

Candy and I are going to discuss:

• Why you should encourage yourself to make 3 mistakes a day
• How to properly mourn a failure
• Why our expectations (even if we aren't aware of them) are a pathway to disaster
• How to build your shame resilience

Important Links for the Show:

• The ultimate fitness tracker that optimizes your life: https://www.whoop.com/ and use code DIANA at checkout for 15% off!
• A bank that prides itself on how it treats both it's employees and it's customers: http://nbkc.com/diana - get a box of awesome Professional AF stuff for signing up, including a book that we discuss on the show!
• Get a better nights sleep with the Purple mattress. To get the Purple pillow I covet for FREE with the purchase of your mattress, just text the code "DIANA" to 84-888. And you can combine this offer with what they have on the site!
• Get 1/2 of your daily fruits and vegetables in a convenient shot!: https://superfoodshot.co and use code DIANA at checkout for 30% off!
• The Rising Strong book we discussed: https://www.amazon.com/Rising-Strong-Ability-Transforms-Parent-ebook/dp/B00P5557G2
• Candy Smith online: https://www.candysmithcounseling.com/
• Professional AF Facebook Group: https://www.facebook.com/groups/943925015810362/
• Diana online: www.DianaKander.com

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